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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
First and foremost, we want to be clear that what we
are sharing with you arestrategies and concepts that can
be implemented by individualswho understand the logistics of
how these techniques work.
We are not giving you specifictasks or financial advice.
We are simply giving you thethree key elements of how to

(00:23):
approach such platforms as faras the literal, the mental, and
spiritual format needed to besuccessful with your
inspirations.

SPEAKER_02 (01:05):
Anton Lefwich.

SPEAKER_01 (01:07):
And this is Michael Dupot, the other half.
The other half.
With Finance for the Unknown.
We are honored to be here withyou, our present and future
wealthians, as usual.
Welcome, welcome.
Yes, indeed, yes indeed.

SPEAKER_02 (01:23):
Mike, man, we got some heat for our people today.
Got some knowledge.
Yeah, we definitely got someheat for our.
Hey, look, Mike is fit to dropsome real serious gems on y'all,
okay?
So I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be,I'm gonna be a supporting cast.
I'm gonna definitely add somegolden nuggets to my own.
But Mike's been breaking downsome stuff to me about this
topic for a minute.

(01:45):
So I'm really excited that he'sgonna dive deeper into it, give
y'all, you know, of course, whatwe do with the fundamentals and
stuff.
We'll break that down a littlebit.
But uh, we're excited aboutthis, Mike.
I'm excited, I'm excited for usto bring this.

SPEAKER_01 (01:56):
Yeah, you know how I do it.
Yeah, you know, I gotta I gottabring our UPI, our wealthians to
get to to be wealthy, to havethat privileged status.
So I'm thinking this particularepisode is gonna either brother
in your horizons, if you uh ifyou didn't know, you know, uh,
and if you did know, maybe it'llencourage you to move forward in

(02:21):
this part of the finance world.

SPEAKER_02 (02:23):
Yeah, absolutely, brother.
And look, I'm you because gottadrop them with the title, right?
So look, and look, make makesure, make sure y'all remember
this.
We're gonna be streaming on thevideo, but we're also gonna
bring the same content to ourpodcast.
So remember, whatever you'rehearing on the vodcast here at
HHN TV, you're gonna be hearingon the podcast as well.
And you already know where youcan find us, anywhere you find

(02:44):
podcasts, our Heart Radio,Spotify, Apple Podcasts, all
that stuff.
So make sure y'all make sure youwrite that down whenever we
drop, you know, usually drop onWednesdays.

SPEAKER_01 (02:53):
Yeah, we drop on Wednesdays, but remember the
podcast is five days later.
It's it's a contractual thing.
So yeah, so so the vodka, if youwant it right away, usually on
Wednesday we drop, so just socheck it.
Um, you know, just sporadicallycheck it or or set it set
yourself up on DMs and stufflike that when we post, because
what we do is we post our likesocial media stuff that we're

(03:17):
going to drop.
Right.
So if you got us, if yousubscribe to snippet of it,
yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
And if you subscribe to oursocial media, Instagram,
Facebook, whatever, you'll it'llhit your your your for you page,
and then you'll know, oh,they're about to drop an
episode.
So we try to we try to put uhthe our social media stuff for

(03:38):
the episode like a few daysbefore.
So that way you know to go toHHN TV, and usually on it on
it's usually on a Wednesday wedrop that episode.

SPEAKER_02 (03:48):
Yeah, there you go.
So y'all know how to follow us,okay?
Right.
So check this out.
The episode today is ready ornot, here it comes.
Digital currency.

SPEAKER_01 (03:59):
Digital currency, ready or not, here it comes.
And you know, we gotta throw thehip hop into it.
Okay, everybody should know.
If y'all, if y'all are aconstituent, they don't know if
you don't do it, if you don'tknow this, you done hip hop.
All right, and for those whodon't know, ready or not, here
come food.

SPEAKER_02 (04:35):
Hey bro, I I I really love how we've been
meshing with money because it'scatchy, it's something we can
definitely relate to, kind ofsets the mood.
Right, right.
So so I love that, man.
That's obviously that's one ofmy all-time favorites.

SPEAKER_01 (04:51):
Of course, of course.
And you know, and it it makes itfun.
It makes it fun, bro.
Because, you know, just justtalking about finance, like I've
always advocated that, you know,nothing against them, but I'm
not the big Caucasian fat guystanding here.
This is one plus one, two plustrue, you must minus this,
da-da-da-da.
Over here and over here, thepopulation, you calculate this

(05:12):
or this, like you won't watchme, right?
You won't, you definitelywouldn't watch me.
It's like, oh damn, here you go.
Can we get to the nitty-gritty?
I don't even understand what hewas saying.
So that so that's why we bringyou this show, the Finance Bros
Network show, in a capacity thatyou enjoy, that you understand,

(05:34):
and that you can take and runwith it because we're speaking
your language, we're speakingyour ideals on how to make
things work.
And I hope everyone out there,all the wealthians out there, is
embracing it and then just justtaking these nuggets that we
give you to kind of make adecision on how you're gonna

(05:56):
maneuver with your finance.
Because we look out for you andand we we take real scenarios.
We ain't talking about, oh, ifyou make 300,000, you make a
half a million a year.
Yeah, we know that ain't gonnahappen.
That's a you know, that's aperson who uh, you know,
unfortunately, if they don'tknow how to budget, it don't
mean nothing.
But if they're budgeting,they're living their life,

(06:16):
they're living a pretty decentlife.

SPEAKER_02 (06:18):
That's why we gotta, we gotta, we all gotta start
somewhere, right?
So we want to make sure we cantake everybody from any area
that they might be at at thattime in their journey and
hopefully get them to the waythey want to go.

SPEAKER_01 (06:30):
Right, right.
So let's get into it.
Our last episode, we spoke aboutthe way the way you move.
Like, I like the way you move.
So we talked about the way, andif you didn't see it, can you go
back and watch it?
Can you watch it?
Can you finish watching thefirst finish watching this one,
please?
Everything kind of rolls intoeach other.

SPEAKER_02 (06:51):
So when you miss one, you you kind of you kind of
miss the building blocks tobuild off of to get the next
one.
So so make sure y'all go backand keep up.
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (06:59):
So in the last episode, yeah, we'll do a little
quick recap with it, but one ofthe things I wanted to emphasize
is savings, and this is wherethe digital currency comes in.
And Anton, why don't you justremind them what was the three
most important things on thatlast episode?

SPEAKER_02 (07:15):
Yeah, and I'm gonna I'm gonna just go straight, I'm
gonna go straight from thephone, okay?
Because I don't want to missnone of these very critical
details.
All right.
So we did give our audiencethree basically key core core
concepts, all right.
So we talked about survival,which is typically 70%.
You know, you got your rent,your food, gotta pay your bills,
specifically utility bills,stuff like that, right?
Right.
And then you have growth, allright.

(07:37):
Growth has to do with you knowyour debt management, paying off
credit cards, getting getting uhgetting to a place where you can
start to leverage because we dohave to have a nice solid
foundation in order to leverage,which you know, we know the
wealthy do all the time, right?
Which includes savings, right?
Which includes savings,absolutely, all right.
And then everybody got a dream,okay?

(07:58):
Right.
We talk about paying ourselves10%, and if we could pay
ourselves that 10% first, mostcertainly do that.
And if if if you know if ifyou're spiritual and you know,
us Christians out there who wantto, you know, give 10% to you
know the church or whatever,however we tithe, you can do
that too.
You could tithe with your time,you could tithe with your money,
you can tithe however you feellike you want to do that, but

(08:19):
also remember to pay yourself,all right.
And typically rule of thumbwould be 10%.
Right, right.
All right, so just rememberthat.
Have have that because if wecan't make space for ourselves,
right?
How are we supposed to makespace for the the other people
that we want to maybe that wewant to help?
That's right.
Whether that's family or or oror you know, uh spouse or or
whatever that person might be,our kids, whatever, right?

(08:41):
So remember set that time asidebecause when we pour into us and
pour into us first, then we haveto we have something to give to
other people.
Right.
But even after even if, okay,say say you look, look, Anton, I
don't Anton Mike, you know thatI ain't even got 10%.
Okay, then we'll start 10% ofyour time then.
Start taking the first 10% ofyour day and start reading a

(09:04):
book.
Right.
Do something, yeah.
Educate yourself then.
All right, because you can Idon't care how broke you are,
you can always take 10 minutesof your time or an hour of your
time or the first 10 minutes ofyour day or the first half hour
of your day, get up 30 minutesearlier, sacrifice sleep, and
get started on putting somethinginto ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 (09:23):
There you go.
All right, you go and that's thetotal recall.
Remember the movie?
But Anton, thank you for therecap.
But basically, what I want tofocus on is the dream aspect.
And and I say dream, and when wespoke about it on our last
episode, dream meeting, youknow, finding opportunities,
finding something that you caninvest in or doing something

(09:45):
like that.
So we want to focus that littlebit of money.
And with digital currency, youcan do that, you can figure out
how you're gonna invest or or oror find an opportunity in it.
And that's what we want to talkabout today.
Because I understand with theyou know, being in the UPI
status, you know, things are noteasy, and you know, you got to

(10:08):
get ready for what's coming, youknow, because digital currency,
real talk, ladies and gentlemen,when you start to dive in to
what is digital currency, it'sgonna blow your mind.
And here's the thing a lot ofpeople, the way our system is
set up, it is set up that wedon't know anything about it,

(10:30):
the UPI, um, the UPI industry,well, industry, the UPI
community, until it's too latefor you to benefit from it.
And that's why I'm here today.
Because I've been reading on it,and this is I this is my
passion.
I love going to anythingfinance.
I want to know how it works.

(10:51):
Because you know what?
There's a billionaire there,there's a billionaire there, and
it's like, yeah, I did it withcrypto.
Okay.
All right, let me find out howyou did it with crypto because
you know they ain't reallytelling you how.

SPEAKER_02 (11:03):
Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 (11:04):
They're not telling you how.
And that's what we want to dohere at FBN.
You know, we want to make surethat we tell you how.
What is what what you usuallysay, Anton?

SPEAKER_02 (11:16):
So we always provide fundamentals to create
curiosity, to then motivateothers to go out, do their own
due diligence so you can figureout what's best, what's the best
fit for you.
And why, why, why does thatmatter, Mike?
Okay.
Because if we tell you what yourdream is, or if we tell you what

(11:36):
to think, or if we tell you whatto do, it doesn't mean anything.

SPEAKER_01 (11:39):
Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 (11:39):
All right, I I've always, you know, we've always
lived by this creed.
Go out and get what we gotta getso we can develop our own
belief.
And when we go out and get thatbelief for ourselves, no one
ever has to hand us our beliefever, ever, ever, ever again.
And that's a power position.

(12:01):
Right?
Right.
Who wants to who wants to liveoff someone else's belief every
day?
And how often does that work?
Come on, man.
It doesn't.
And people can tell, by the way,when you don't have it for
yourself.
Right.
So yeah, that's what's up.
So provide fundamentals, createcuriosity, give people the
motivation to go out and dotheir own due diligence so they
can have their belief, so theycan have that belief for

(12:23):
themselves.

SPEAKER_01 (12:23):
So we're we're we're here giving you guys that.
And that's what I want to giveyou.
So if you never heard aboutdigital currency or you heard it
in passing, you say, ah, what isthat?
Oh, that stuff doesn't meannothing.
Oh, it doesn't affect me.
So just FYI, it's creatingtrillions and trillions of
dollars a day.
And you may not care aboutfinance, look at finance, but

(12:46):
you need to look at this.
I am telling you, yeah, you needto go look at this.

SPEAKER_02 (12:50):
Enough is happening where we we should at least
start to pay attention.
Exactly.
At least, right.

SPEAKER_01 (12:56):
So I our UPI community and our wealthiest
should should know that this isan evolution, you know, how we
exchange one thing for another.
So I uh so I'm gonna show youand I'm gonna give you the
rundown on how this worksbecause this is an evolution on
how currency or how we getthings, how we've evolved to

(13:22):
this.
And with me explaining this toyou, I hope it gives you that
encouragement to go find outabout digital currency, because
it's gonna affect you just likethis.

So let me start it this way (13:34):
do you guys remember the barter
system?
No, you don't, because you weretoo damn.
We all went too damn for thebarter system.
The bottom system actually endedin 1993.
You know why it ended in 1993?
Because our society decided tocreate a fiat.

(13:56):
You're like, what the world?
What is fiat?
What the what?
What is a fiat?
Guess what?
It means cash.
Fiat means money, it meanstangible money.
So, what our government decidedto do, instead of bartering back
and forth, hey Johnny, you cookall these corn or you grew all

(14:16):
these corns, I'll trade you thepotatoes for the corn, I'll
trade you uh, you make theseclothes, I'll trade you the
corns for the clothes.
It's like the government's like,how are we gonna make money on
this?
If everybody's just trading, howdo we make money on it?
Yeah, yeah.
Well, how about we create apiece of paper or coins and say,

(14:39):
if you go to the uh to thefarmer, the farmer's gonna put a
price on this and you give himthe coin, and vice versa.
If he wants to buy your clothesand you're uh uh a tailor, he's
gonna buy your clothes withthese papers with numbers on it.
And everybody was like, Oh, thegovernment's like, and then
guess what?

(15:00):
We can tax them when they dothat.
So if you're collecting acertain amount of money to help
the government grow, we'll taxthose paper money.
I need some of that.
Yep.
And that started in 1993, whenthey, you know, our founding
fathers said, you know what, weneed to do this, but we can't

(15:21):
just aimlessly put numbers onpapers and say that's that's the
way like we we will lose ourvalue.
So what year was that?
1993.
Okay, okay.
Oh, sorry, my bad.
You're right.
I kept saying 1993.
People are like, for real?
No, my bad, retraction 1933.

(15:43):
1933.
You see, good catch, Anton.
Good catch on that.
I'm listening.
1933.
That's when they introduced thefiat system, aka money, backed
by gold.
So, what happened during thoseyears?
They were finding gold, and theyfound it's hard to find this

(16:03):
piece of metal, and they said,Well, let's stack up this metal,
and we'll create the equivalenton money that we distribute to
people that this is the value ofit, and this is the money that
corresponds with it, which isfair.
Now you got something tangible,and at one point, people were
able to trade gold for fiat.

(16:26):
We're able to trade gold forcash.
You know, we're in California,so we, you know, the gold rush,
the gold rush, that's whatpeople were doing.
Going to uh uh sifting um dirtand through the waters and
rivers, finding gold nuggets andchips.
One of my favorite shows, by theway.
I love that show.
It's a good show, and and andbringing it to uh to a pawn

(16:48):
shop, and then the pawn shopwould give them cash or bringing
it to the bank, the bank wouldgive them cash.
Now imagine all that gold wascollected.
So now they're saying, okay,cash for gold.
Cash for gold, cash for gold.
And then now if you want totrade somebody else, you give me
a dollar, I give you aquarterback, you know, you your
your stuff was 75 cents, you didthis.

(17:09):
Okay, now we got a system.
There go the money system.
There go the money system.
And then the government said,Well, you know, if you buy this,
yeah, you gotta pay taxes onthat, you gotta pay taxes on
that.
Now, because now they'recollecting money.
That's so that's now guess what?
Money is moving, money ismoving.
You see that?
See that evolution, how it'sevolving, yeah, and then at one

(17:32):
point they said, you know what?
This fiat money, you know, ismoving and everything like that.
But hold on.
Before we do that, before westop the goal backing, let's add
another type of currency, so tospeak.
It's about 20 years later,around 1950, they introduced

(17:56):
credit cards.
Wow.
It's like, wow, okay, the banksaid, I will give you this
amount of credit.
You can go pick up the corn, paythe credit, but you gotta pay me
back with interest.
See?
Now, these days, there are someplaces that will not accept

(18:17):
cash.
Credit cards owning.
It's credit card owning, andevery one of you guys has
experience that you go there,and believe it, especially in
the underprivileged in uh incomecommunity, there are some shops
for protection.
I I know uh I'm out here in inNorthern California, where um in
Oakland, everybody might knowOakland, like Brooklyn.

SPEAKER_02 (18:38):
Oakland is a very popular we don't take no cash.

SPEAKER_01 (18:41):
I go to that Kentucky, I was like, oh, here's
my money.
Nah, we don't take cash here.
Why?
Nah, it's only credit, it's toodangerous.
Nobody can stick me up for forswiping the car.
That's real.
So so in some of some of theunderprivileged neighborhoods,
they're doing that for safety.
But some other areas are doingit because it's more convenient.

(19:01):
Yeah.
And it's it's less costlybecause these days it costs
money to move around, to movemoney around.
I.e., if you go to a place,you're giving them cash, giving
them cash, they gotta pay for asecurity service to pick it up.
That's costing them money.
They gotta pay for people tocount the money, that's costing

(19:21):
them money.
So if they just use card, all ofthat is eliminated.
Yeah, and now they could uhcreate revenue where the net is
subtracted by that operation ofhaving to deal with money.
Nobody has to go to the bank,nobody has to count any money,
all they do is look up, all thecredit card payments are in,

(19:44):
boom.
And it to be honest, it's alsoeasy easier counting too.
So if I only accept credit card,it's easier counting.
Okay, so that was in the 1950s,but then something different
happened.
Now the fiat system is like,man, we don't have enough money
because we have this much moneythat's backed by this much, and

(20:07):
and and it's kind of tapped out,it reached its capacity.
It's like we need to figure outhow to make our money stretch.
And that's when assets became abacking for our fiat, for our
cash.
And you're like, Mike, what doesthat mean?
When you buy a house, it's anasset, right?
And when that asset grows, yourmoney grows.

(20:30):
You have equity in it, yeah.
Oh, God loves America, andeverybody follows suit.
So, and believe it or not, yousee, now I'm gonna tell my age.
This happened in 1971.

SPEAKER_03 (20:44):
Can you believe that?

SPEAKER_01 (20:46):
When I was born.
They said, hey, Mike, you'reborn?
Guess what?
We're cutting the go.
Now we everything for you, everymoney that you have is gonna be
asset backing.
It's gonna be backed by assets.
So your car, so that's how welike we put prices on stuff.
So things that are assets, whichmean aka a house where there's

(21:09):
value in it, you can trade thatfor the fiat.
And that's how asset backingstuff's starting to grow.
You have a business as an asset,you have um, you know, you uh
you have a business as an asset,you have a home as an asset, and
you know, there are other thingsuh that could be considered

(21:29):
asset.
You could invest in in otherbusinesses or in stock that's
considered an asset.
You have other things that becan that can be considered an
asset that you put your fiat in,and now you have that asset.
Whenever somebody wants topurchase it, they have to give
you the value of it, and you getthat fiat back for it or money

(21:50):
back for it.
All right.
And now I hope I didn't losethem.

SPEAKER_02 (21:53):
No, no, hey, and I I really hope everybody, hey,
well, you gotta get a pen orpencil or a pen or or a big
whiteboard or whatever and writestuff down, do that because
understanding these, these arethese are these are very core
fundamentals and understandinghistory and how it repeats
itself can be very critical, allright, and educational.

SPEAKER_01 (22:13):
So now suddenly 1971, and then boom, what came
next?
The internet.
You're like, all right, Mike,how the internet has anything to
do with currency?
I'm coming to you.
So the internet started, so nowyou could see stuff on the
internet.
Oh, that looks nice, all that.
It's like, how do I buy it?
You in Kansas, I'm in Detroit, Ilike that.

(22:35):
I want that.
What I'm gonna wire the money toyou?
Maybe that's what startedhappening.
It's like, hey, I saw your thingon the internet.
How do how do I get that?
All right, I wire you the money,and then that's called the Swift
system.
And we'll we'll talk about thatlater.
That's another thing aboutfinancial we ain't gonna get
into.
But just know the system that weuse now to uh transfer money

(23:00):
from one area all over the worldto another area in the world is
called Swift.
It's a system that says, I'mgonna take the money and then
I'm gonna call.
We're gonna verify that themoney was taken, and then we're
gonna verify, okay, the otherarea of the world has that
money.
Okay, yeah, I have that money.
Who's the one that's picking itup?
This person be picking it up.

(23:21):
Okay, yeah, that's the personthey said on the paperwork
that's gonna pick up the money.
Okay, yeah, we're gonna givethem that money.
That process takes three, uh,that process takes two to three
hours to three days.
Yeah, yeah, that's how thatworks.
And that's coming soon tochange, especially with what we
are about to talk about.
So then somebody's like, nah, wegotta do something different.

(23:41):
And believe it or not, based onresearch, I didn't even know
this was a company, but therewas a company called Digicash
that started that with theinternet, but it didn't pan out.
So guess who you wouldn'tbelieve this, and everybody
knows this person, the richestman in the world started a pay

(24:01):
through digital.
PayPal.
I knew that was coming.
Anybody knows about PayPal?
And who's the richest man in theworld?
Elon Musk.

SPEAKER_02 (24:12):
I have to read the notes to know that was coming.

SPEAKER_01 (24:13):
Him and another guy named Perry T something, but
they both started PayPal.
Now, here's how PayPal work.
PayPal, you put money into it,and then now you have an
account.
Now, in that account, the personsays, Hey, I want to buy this,
and then it's like, all right,you have this much in their
account.
I'm gonna transfer that.

(24:35):
You open up a PayPal account,and I'll transfer that amount to
your PayPal account, and thenyou could transfer back to
another PayPal account, and thenyou could transfer the PayPal,
it's a credit, and then theywould put that money in your
account.
Cool.
That that makes sense to me.
So now I don't have to go anduse Swift or the wiring system

(24:57):
to wire money to anywhere in thecountry.
It's on the internet.
I pull up the processing withPayPal, and it says it's gonna
cost$50, and it credits thataccount with the$50.
And now, if you want to take outthe money, PayPal will then take
that money out and put it intouh your bank account, which

(25:18):
creates a fee.
So this is kind of the beginningof digital currency because it's
it this is happening digitally.
So PayPal actually came up in1998 and it was a circle.

SPEAKER_02 (25:31):
So what is money doing this whole time?
Circulating.
It's moving, circling.

SPEAKER_01 (25:35):
I like the way you move.

SPEAKER_02 (25:39):
And we said a long time ago, money is not making
money unless it's moving.

SPEAKER_01 (25:44):
So that's right.
But now we get into thenitty-gritty.
I hope I didn't lose you guys.
So now we at 1998.
Now we go into digital currency,Bitcoin.
Now, if you don't know whatBitcoin is, you're not on this
planet.
But guess when Bitcoin started?
Now, most of you who arelistening to me, it started when

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you were around, you were born,you were aware, you you knew
something.

SPEAKER_02 (26:10):
By the way, how much could you buy Bitcoin for when
it first came out?

SPEAKER_01 (26:13):
About a penny.
Wow.
You know how much you know whatwas the peak of Bitcoin?
What's that?
For one coin, how much one coin.
How much?
$150,000 of fiat.
That's a lot of dollars.
That's a lot of dollars.

SPEAKER_02 (26:29):
For one coin?
For one coin.
Are you sure it's one?
One coin.
It wasn't two or three.

SPEAKER_00 (26:33):
Nope.
One coin.
It started in 2009, ladies andgentlemen.
Wealthians.
Bitcoin started in 2009.

SPEAKER_02 (26:43):
Do you mean to tell me if I had invested one dollar
in 2009 in Bitcoin at its peak?
Yep.
My investment would have beenworth uh$15 million.
$15 million today.
I did the math twice, so I knowthat's right.

SPEAKER_01 (26:56):
And how long ago was that?
Let's see.
Where are we?
2025, 2009, 2010.

SPEAKER_02 (27:03):
So call it 16 years.

SPEAKER_01 (27:04):
What you were doing 16 years ago, bro.

SPEAKER_02 (27:06):
Man, bruh.

SPEAKER_01 (27:07):
You were working somewhere collecting a paycheck,
weren't you?
For real, bro.
Weren't you?
That's what you were doing too,right?

SPEAKER_02 (27:13):
You looking at me like I'll tell you what else I
know I had.
I had I know I had a hundreddollars.
I know I had a dollar.

SPEAKER_01 (27:23):
Look, look, it wasn't a hundred dollars.
Remember, it was a penny.

SPEAKER_02 (27:27):
I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_01 (27:28):
So you had a dollar.

SPEAKER_02 (27:29):
If you had a dollar, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (27:31):
In 2009, every one of you watching me had a dollar.

SPEAKER_02 (27:35):
You're right.

SPEAKER_01 (27:36):
And 15 years later, you would have been a
multi-millionaire if he didn'ttouch.
I definitely had a dollar.
You had a dollar in 2009.

SPEAKER_02 (27:47):
Man, bro, if you just scraped together a dollar.
But so, but he's a dollar in adream.
That's all you needed.
Like literally a dollar in adream.

SPEAKER_01 (27:55):
A dollar in a dream.
And it was created by thisJapanese or Asian guy who still
to this day remain unknown.
Can you believe that?
Because he created this digitalcurrency that was foolproof.
Till this day, nobody hascracked the code.
He made it where the money orthe currency, the digital

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currency, could get exchangedand nobody could come and claim
it if you're not that person.
It's foolproof.
100%.
Till this day, not one personhas able to be able to crack
that code.
And you want to know why?
Because the way he set it upwith the computer, it's it's

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being verified by hundreds ofpeople before it goes to you.
That's how he set it up.
So he said, okay, I'm putting adollar in Bitcoin.
Okay, a hundred computers isgonna verify it, which is called
the blockchain.
And that's that's sort of aledger.
It's like everybody's writingout, yeah.
Did you see that dollar?

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Yeah, check it off.
Yeah, did you see that dollar?
Yeah, check it off.
Yeah, did you see a hundredpeople are doing that?

SPEAKER_02 (29:02):
Man, bro.
I'm all over the world throughthe internet.
Hey, whoever ain't getting thisright now, this is gonna be the
blueprint.
They're gonna go back and watchit, they're gonna have to just
have to watch this.
However many times you gottawatch it.

SPEAKER_01 (29:16):
Right.
But why wouldn't people, somepeople jump onto this, Anton?
And our system, especially forthe UPI community, is set up
that you should be scared ofsomething like that.
Matter of fact, they categorizedit as illegal.
They call it decentralizeddigital, where the currency that

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you're using, the fiat, thecash, is controlled.
You know, you can't go to a bankwithout taking$10,000 without
filling out a form.
What are you using for?
What is going on?
What's happening?
You can't you can't do certainthings without letting the
government know why you're doingit.
That's called centralized uhcurrency.

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They're they're Able to know howthe money is moving in and out.
And that's why you havescenarios where they have
embezzlement, they havedifferent types of things.
People go to jail for thisstuff.
Counterfeit money, people go tojail for this stuff.
Because it's centralized, thegovernment knows where it's
coming, where it's going, andwho's doing it, because why?

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They want to collect their moneyon it.
You can't make the money withoutthem collecting the money on it.
That's why nobody wanted totouch Bitcoin.
Everybody said, but guess what?
There are people out there thatsaid, nah, nah, bump that.
Yo, I'm gonna buy some of this.
And you mean I could trade itwith my friend for this much?

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And then it just it just blewup.
It just went crazy because thereason why they were able to
jump into it with security isthere was no way of cracking the
code.
If I say I'm sending it to XYZ,and XYZ opens it up with their
code, it's it's legit.

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So they said, I don't care ifnobody else believes in it.
People with money inside, Idon't care if nobody else
believes it.
I'm gonna do this.
And which raised the currency,it raised it up.
All of a sudden it's nowbecoming an asset.
So that one Bitcoin went fromone penny to almost$150,000 a

(31:24):
couple of days ago.

SPEAKER_02 (31:26):
Isn't that crazy?
Man, I could see the people, Ican see the people with control
and power kind of looking atthis, be like, it is the dude,
where the dude this would be aperfect quote from the dude from
if everybody seen Belly where hewas on the street and he saw the
dudes making money, and he saysto eat the banana, he's like, I
don't like that.
I don't like it.
I'm about to drop Domo.
I don't like that.

SPEAKER_01 (31:46):
I'm gonna try to find that clip.
Maybe I'll put it in the J weekfor real.
I'll be perfect.
Like, I don't like that.
Yeah, we'll we'll make a memeout of it for you guys.

SPEAKER_03 (31:55):
For real, man.

SPEAKER_01 (31:57):
No, man, it's crazy.
Wow.
So that's mind-blowing.
So now we're talking about 15,ladies and gentlemen.
15.
If you have a 15-year-old,you're looking at them, and then
you're like, gosh, if I had putone dollar into Bitcoin, where
would I be right now?

SPEAKER_02 (32:14):
Yeah, if you got a 15-year-old kid.

SPEAKER_01 (32:16):
15-year-old, okay?
And you're like, oh, so we'rewe're giving you this
information for you tounderstand.
We're giving the foundation.
Nobody's telling you this.
You know, you know, God forbidwe we big enough.
We if the government we we keepwe see blocking SUVs out from be
like, whoa.

(32:38):
Uh maybe we shouldn't have beentelling our UPI community.
What did you do?
What did you do?
Anyway.
So now you're like, yeah, thatsounds great, Mike.
It's all good.
What you're saying, I get it.
It makes sense.
I see how the evolution of moneyfrom bartering system now to

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digital currency with Bitcoinbeing high and all these other
currencies now.
Because they took the templatefrom Bitcoin and they started
creating other currencies.
Currencies that are backed byasset.
Believe it or not, Bitcoin isnot even backed by an asset.
Wow.
Now imagine I created a digitalcoin that's backed by an asset.

(33:24):
YouTube, bro.
Oh, wait a minute.
You mean to tell me this digitalcoin that you have is backed by
this?
Yeah.
It's backed by this business,yeah.
And as the business grows, thedigital currency gets more and
more, it becomes more valuable.
Man.

(33:44):
So if you let's say, let's say,and we're gonna put it out
there, we might make it happen.
Let's say FBN creates a digitalcurrency or a coin or me.
And for what we're doing, let'ssay we start going around the
country, we start getting bookedby different people.
Everybody wants coin.
What?
Bro coin.
Bro coin.

(34:04):
Build Rise own.
Build Rise Own coin.
Bro coin.
It might be taken, but we can.

SPEAKER_03 (34:10):
Oh man, I like that.

SPEAKER_01 (34:12):
But we could create our coin and then our
constituents out here, I keepsaying constituent, but our UPI
status, people out here say, yo,I really love what big uh uh
Finance Bro Network is doing,let's invest in it.
I'm gonna buy their tokenbecause that helps us because we
can convert that to fiat cash,and the people decide what it's
worth, right?

(34:33):
There's no governmentregulation.
Man, the government can't tellyou what you can do.
Now, if you need to go buystock, and that might be
another, I might make that thenext episode.
But if you go buy stock, thegovernment is regulating how
much stock did you buy, how muchmoney did you make, when did you
take out the money?
With currency, there's noregulation, nobody's telling you

(34:53):
nothing.

SPEAKER_02 (34:54):
Wow.
So nothing.
But once again, the people aredeciding what things are worth
based on what they're willing topay for these things.
Exactly.
So the power definitely notgonna like that.

SPEAKER_01 (35:05):
The power is brought back to the people.
And that's why you hear ohdigital when it when when
Bitcoin came out, it's a scam,it's a fraud.
Yo, they're taking your money,they're doing it, but there's
not one evidence that thisprocess of making money showed
that somebody was able to getripped off.
Now, I'm gonna go a little bitoff.

(35:28):
Some people put it, there's acouple of things, and we'll go
into that.
There's a uh a cold wallet, orthere's a warm wallet and a cold
wallet.
Well, I call it warm wallet, butthere's a a platform when you
can put your Bitcoin when youtrade it for fiat, or there's a
something uh a card or a harddrive you could put it in, and
then it saves the informationthat you are the solidified

(35:51):
owner, and you can't lose thatcard.
Lose that car, you're losingmillions of dollars.
I mean, I heard stories.
Yeah, I think I heard one ortwo.
I heard a story.
They had some people was tryingto be so secured, they bought a
car that they gotta remember asequence of codes.
They done forgot the code, theybought 10 bitcoins and forgot

(36:12):
the code.
Wow, and they were they wereliterally paying people millions
of dollars to try to figure outwhat that code is.

SPEAKER_02 (36:20):
Man, but they forgot the code.
How do you forget your code?

SPEAKER_01 (36:26):
So man, they forgot the code.
So now they're trying to figureout, oh, how do we how do we
make this work?
But that's the that's thesecurity of digital currency.

SPEAKER_02 (36:40):
Okay, so now look, man, like it or not, this is
what's happening right now.
So this is this is happeningtoday.
We equip ourselves with tools togo in and have the knowledge we
need to have to understandwhat's moving and how it's
moving.
Exactly.
All right, so that when we wantto go out here, we have some we

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have some play, right?
So and and so what what you'resaying, Mike, to me, it sounds
like the the I'm I said historyrepeats itself.
Every 20 years or so, yes,there's a cycle, there's a shift
that's right on whatnot thathappens, right?
That's right.
So I say we about just about do.

SPEAKER_01 (37:19):
I would say, this is my prediction, call it a finance
bros necro prediction.
2030, you're gonna be yo, yo,yo, finance bros, what's up with
this?
Can you can you hit us up againwith about this currency?
Because now I walk into a place,they say I gotta have currency
in order to buy something.
Tesla, you could buy withBitcoin.
Wow.
Or different type of currency.

(37:41):
Wow.
There's a country, you knowwhat?
I didn't look it up, but I willget back to you guys.
There's a country where thepresident of the country said
the primary currency of thiscountry is gonna be Bitcoin.
So anybody come here, they gottaconvert their money to Bitcoin
in order to buy stuff.
And they got and the country isnot even modernized, they got
huts and everything.
But you know what?
They gave everybody processinglittle pads with charge up,

(38:03):
batty, charge it up.
This is how you're gonna do yourtransactions, and this is how
you're gonna get paid.

SPEAKER_02 (38:09):
Real talk.
Bitcoin ATM on the side of theroad right there.
Bitcoin ATM supermarket, it'sall over.

SPEAKER_01 (38:15):
Wow.
So, guys, you think, or ladiesand gentlemen, you think this is
not real, it's real.
And they don't really want youto know it.
They only want you to know whenthey're ready to know it.
As a matter of fact, thegovernment already set it up.
It's called FedNow.
Go look it up, fednow.gov.

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That is their platform thatthey're preparing.
So when they hit the switch andsay, just like they did with a
credit card, you can't pay withcash, they're gonna hit the
script.
Now you could only pay withdigital currency.
They say, Oh, we got a platformfor it.
Because now they can regulate itand make the money off of it.
They can collect taxes on it.
You see how that works?

(38:56):
Because at first they said itwas illegal, they didn't accept
it, but now all of a sudden, itit's it, I don't want to say
it's out of control, but it isnot in their control, they want
to bring it back where they cancontrol it.
Because there's not stopping it.
It's decentralized.
So there's no stopping it.

SPEAKER_02 (39:17):
So look, man, see, this is bro, this is without me.
I have so many things I want toask you, but I know you
dropping, you have so manynuggets to drop.
I want to make sure you get allthe get through all the
material.
But man, brother, I I we mighthave to do an interview segment
of this this topic right here.
Because I could, I got so I gotquestions.

(39:38):
Like everything you're saying, Igot kind of a question about,
but I don't want to start.
I don't want to drive you offthe course.
Right.
So and and I think our ourwealthians out here are gonna
have some some questions too,man.
So DM us for real.
Yeah, hey, send your questionsbecause I'll make sure that I
get them logged so that when wedo this interview segment that I
ask Mike these questions, and wego, we go, we, we, we go in a

(39:59):
little bit deeper on this foryou.
Right.
Because I mean you see thisman's passion right here, and
Mike, I see you.
When we talk about this, youalways come alive, brother.
Right, your passion comes out,and I I I respect that.

SPEAKER_01 (40:10):
Because I I know we're not getting this
information.
I know no one is sitting down,is willing to say, hey, A, B,
and C, because it's like, ah,you don't understand this,
you're not ready for it.
That's not fair to you.
Right.
Where you could benefit fromthis.

SPEAKER_02 (40:27):
They're definitely not giving it to us, we can
understand.

SPEAKER_01 (40:29):
Oh, right.
Imagine in school in 2009, theytaught us about Bitcoin.
How much billionaires do youthink it'd be out there today?
If it wasn't school, they taughtus this.
Everybody give me a dollar rightnow right now.
We have multimillionaires allover the place.
So let me let me get this out.

(40:50):
So I understand as a UPIsituation, you're like, Mike, so
so for me, what does this meanfor me as uh to become a
wealthier in all this?
The writing is all the wall.
Digital currency is coming,ladies and gentlemen.
But first of all, you have tolearn it, then see if it's an
opportunity for you.
This is why we're talking aboutthis today.

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And remember, we're keeping ourheads down in the Trump era, so
we have to look foropportunities.
This is an opportunity,especially in the Trump era.
Because guess what?
Trump is backing it up.
Go look up how how Trump isinvesting in cryptocurrency.
I want to go off the deep end,but let me tell you, it almost
feels illegal what he's doingwith criminal currency.

(41:32):
Real talk.
But he he's he's getting it,he's getting money, he's getting
money from it.
He'll stake his claim, make surethat it that's the truth.
So we have to to look at thisopportunity.
So for some of you, this mightbe an opportunity to help you be
become a wealthier.
So where you're going, so we'rewhat we're trying to do is give

(41:56):
you a jump start.
FBN is trying to give you a jumpstart, but you know, we know you
have to do your due diligence,right?

SPEAKER_02 (42:03):
Exactly.
And everybody's gonna make theirown moves.
We know that.
If you're gonna go in, have havehave knowledge, have some
foundation, all right.
So use again, like we said,provide fundamentals, right?
Encourage curiosity, see,motivate you to go out and do
your own due diligence, allright.
Remember that, don't forgetthat.

SPEAKER_01 (42:21):
That's right, it's very foundational, very
important.
We want you to go out there andlearn this and figure it out.
Me here child telling you, watchall the YouTube videos you can
watch on it, read all thearticles you can read on it, go
find books, look up books, goread from Amazon, audiobooks,
whatever you could find to yourpoint, Anton.

(42:42):
You don't have the money, butmaybe you could take 10% of your
time to educate yourself on thisso you could benefit.
So when you do have that littlemoney, you know, like I said,
yeah, we're underprivileged.
10% for some people that mightbe 20, 30, 40 bucks.
That's it, that's all they have.
But imagine you educateyourself.

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Remember, Bitcoin was a penny,yeah.
And then you take that 10, 20bucks.
Imagine I said today Bitcoin isa penny.
What are you gonna do?
You're gonna run and put that 20in there.

SPEAKER_02 (43:14):
Yeah.
And people put price on time allthe time, but guess what?
How much is finding your ownbelief worth?
Right.
How much is finding your ownbelief worth?
So it's priceless, bro.

SPEAKER_01 (43:25):
So what I'm gonna do is jumpstart you dice.
You know, we're gonna keep itsimple.
I I wanted to show you thepassion and understanding and
give you the rundown, somelegitimate um facts about
digital currency so youunderstand where I'm coming
from.
So now you got the foundation.
So I'm gonna give you a littlebit on how you can either

(43:46):
maximize this opportunity,leverage, or or go out there and
learn more about it.
So here's a couple of thingsthat you need to know.
So, just like any other thing,if it has some longevity, you
know, okay, it's been around forfive, six years, ten years.
Maybe, maybe there's somevalidity to it, and a lot of
people are benefiting from it.

(44:07):
So, I'm gonna give you the fivetop coins that you would look
into if you decide to take yourdream money and put it in there,
your 10%, and put it in there.
Um, Bitcoin, obviously, numberone, uh, which is and I'm gonna
put it, uh, you'll see you'llsee me put up the logos or the
symbols right up here.

(44:28):
So I'm gonna I'm gonna make sureso that way you know, okay, this
is the logo or symbol I need tolook for that particular
currency if I want to purchaseit.
So Bitcoin, there you go, poppedup right here.
This is what it's gonna looklike.
Usually with these coins, theyhave logos, all of them have
logos.
They did that on purpose, so youknow that that's what you want

(44:48):
to buy.
So you got Bitcoin, you gotEthereum, you got USDT, which is
feather, which is a UnitedStates um a company who says
this is the United StatesBitcoin.
This is the United not Bitcoin,this is the United States coin,
but it's it's just anotherentity that created it.
So they say, oh, United Stateshas a coin, let me buy it.

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And then guess what?
People were buying it.
Uh um Binance Coin, which isanother company is uh that that
offers a coin and they dosomething else, they have a
platform and every and everybodywants to go on there because
they're proven that they werethey're here to make sure the
integrity of coins works.
So it's B and B.

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That's the initial.
So there it is up here, and thenyou have XRP, ladies and
gentlemen.
And just a quick synopsis onXRP.
XRP right now is at maybe twodollars and thirty cents, two
dollars and fifty cents.
I'm gonna just give you thisgolden nugget.

(45:52):
XRP is slated or ripple thecompany, and ripple the company
has a bunch of different typesof coins under it, like XLM,
XLC.
So it has a bunch of differentcoins on it.
I'm gonna I'm gonna try to goslow with you guys with this,
and so you can reallyunderstand.
This is what made me sopassionate.

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They are setting up so that theSwift system.
Remember, we spoke about howwhen you transfer money from one
place of the world to anotherplace, and then it'll take two,
three hours, sometimes threedays for a verification of the
money to happen.
Well, they decided well, we'regonna create XRP, we're gonna

(46:35):
ripple the company, it's gonnamake it with digital currency.
Now, when you go, let's say yougo to Western Union and you say,
Hey, I want to pay this withXRP, they convert your fiat,
your money to XRP, and this isthe value, let's say it's a
hundred dollars, and you want tosend it to um Bahamas.

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And and you want to send it tothis person in Bahamas.
So now this person in Bahamasknows that they you sent it to
them, they say, Hey, I'm here tocollect this XRP, or they could
be on their computer, right?
I'm here to download this.
It says, Yeah, it pops up.
This person sent you a hundreddollars and it gets downloaded

(47:18):
in seconds.
Do you think that's gonna be agood investment to put your
money into?
Truly the fastest way to sendmoney, and it's slated to happen
around November 22nd or Novembersomething.
It's gonna start.
Doesn't mean it's gonna grow,but it's gonna start.
Do you think that might make alittle bit of money?

SPEAKER_02 (47:39):
Y'all do your homework, man.

SPEAKER_01 (47:40):
Do your homework.
I'm just saying, I'm not tellingyou to buy this, I'm just
telling you, do you think thatmight make you some money?
Do you think if you invest alittle bit of money into this
particular currency that it'sgonna blow up?

(48:03):
Just think about it.
So, so moving forward, so nowyou know the currencies.
You got the five currency.
Hopefully, you write it down,pause, rewind, write it down.
And these are suggestions.
I'm not telling you to buynothing.
Again, what we say, do your duediligence.
Do your due diligence.
We're not here to tell you whatto do, we're just giving you the

(48:24):
information.

SPEAKER_02 (48:25):
We're here to provide fundamentals, yep,
encourage curiosity, so getcurious and motivate you to do
your own due diligence so youcould find the best fit for you.
Exactly.
We'd have told them about 10, 20times, Mike.
Okay, and I and I'm gonna keeptelling for us, man.
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (48:45):
So there are several platforms where you could trade
your fiat for currency.
So you're like, Mike, what areyou talking about?
Just like if you were to go inthe bank, you put in your credit
card number, you put in yourdebit card, or you put in your
account number, you say, I wantthis for this.
The biggest one is Bitcoin.

(49:06):
Bitcoin is the biggest one, andthen you got Binance, which is
another one.
Then you got uh Karkin, and thenyou got Gemini.
So these are platforms.
If you go, and I'm uh I'mputting them up here so you can
see what the websites look like.
So if you choose to go again,read which one is the best.
But everybody's using Coinbasebecause it's is it's simple,

(49:28):
it's easy, is it's easy tounderstand.
Some of these other platformsthey they go into other type of
current um type of digitalcurrency.
This is converting, right?
Right, converting.
Right, they'll convert.
You put you take your accountnumber, you put in there, you
transfer the money into theirplatform, and you say which coin

(49:50):
you want to buy, like the coinsI mentioned: the Bitcoin, XRP,
Ethereum, USDT, all thosedifferent coins you can probably
buy on Bitcoin for sure.
I know for sure, and all theother platforms.
You can buy it by connectingyour account to those platforms,
and then you just switch, andthen you just say, I want to buy

(50:11):
this.
It says, Okay, they're gonnaverify you have the fiat money
in your account.
They say, Okay, we're gonna takethis money out, just like a
credit card transaction.
We take the money, okay.
Now on the platform, wheneveryou pulled it up, you like
because you got a login, it'slike creating a bank account
online.
Whenever you pull it up, you'llsee that digital currency.
And for whatever value it's at.

(50:32):
So imagine let's say you buy XRPat$2.50, and let's say after
this whole thing for them to dothe Swift, it goes up to$5.
How much did you make?
If you bought a hundred, you got$200 now.
At$5 each.
So you went in$250, but now itdoubled.

(50:53):
Now you what do you have?
Follow the money.
You have$500.
Isn't that a good investment?
Double it up that quick.

SPEAKER_03 (51:02):
Double it up.

SPEAKER_01 (51:03):
Yeah, that's nice.
So just think about that.
Think about this is the process.
Again, I I put those logos upthere so you guys could see what
they look like, so you knowexactly where you're going.
I want to make sure that youknow what to look for.
Yeah, what to look for.
Uh, so that way, you know,again, you got to verify, verify
for yourself, and so on and soforth.
So here are some of the otherthings that you can consider

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when you decided to go intodigital currency.
Again, this is though the thatwas the basic I just gave you.
Remember now, there aretrillions of dollars in digital
currency, trillions of dollarsin chicks digital currency, and
it kind of works like the stockmarket.
You put into it, it goes up, andyou can take it out, and you

(51:46):
made money.
That's how it works.
That's how simple I could keepit, but it's the risk, and
people are afraid of the risk.
And then there's other thingsyou could think about that you
can make money with.
Blockchain, you can make moneywith stacking.
You're like, what is that?
Go look it up.
I ain't gonna, I got I ain't gottime to tell you guys what
stacking is.

SPEAKER_02 (52:05):
NFTs, do your homework, do your homework, NFT.

SPEAKER_01 (52:08):
Another thing.
At one point, it was crazy withNFTs, like people were crazy
with NFTs.
Again, go look it up.
Meme coins.
Uh, meme coins is something thateverybody every day could do,
create something, and then if ithas legitimacy, people will buy
it.
Um, and uh and the the lastthing I know for sure is mining.
Now, if you look up miningcryptocurrency, it's gonna blow

(52:32):
your mind.
And a matter of fact, they havehardware now that you could just
buy, plug it to your computer,let it go, and you can make
money doing that.
Can you believe that?

SPEAKER_02 (52:42):
Wow.

SPEAKER_01 (52:43):
Oh my god, there's so many opportunities, but
again, do your due diligence.

SPEAKER_02 (52:50):
There's some fire right here, man.
Well, I'd say it's gonna be theblue, this is the blueprint
right here.
Right, right, right.
So, so Anton did Hey, hey, look,man.
I again, I hope your pencil'sout.
Luckily, we're recording this.
Right, right.
Video and audio, right?
They driving in their car orsitting down at the house or
whatever.

(53:10):
Got some free time.
They could be sitting heretaking notes if they miss
anything and keep rewindingbecause this is some fire right
here, brother.
Listen, man.
And look, I told you, I toldy'all gonna be a supporting
cast.
I drop in with a nugget here andthere, but I I I love the fact
that we got together and thisstuff that's been on your heart,
these private, this is we firstdid this in the first place,

(53:30):
Mike.
Right.
We're saying these privateconversations that we have,
where we where we was like, man,what if there was a fly on the
wall?
Would love to have been a fly onthe wall.
Right.
These are now we have these infront of the world, man.
Right.
And that's when I and bro, thankyou for bringing it like you
brought it because and I knowyou got a lot more to give.
Right.
I know you got a lot more togive.
Right, right.
You know what I'm saying?
But uh, we'd be on the phone,I'd be like, bruh, I was like,

(53:51):
man, save something for theshow, man.
And he's like, he didn'tdisappoint.
He's like, he's like, and sodon't worry, I got it.
I got it, I got it, I got it.

SPEAKER_01 (53:58):
And I hope we didn't run a little too long, but I
hope the information was goodenough.

SPEAKER_02 (54:02):
We oh brother.

SPEAKER_01 (54:03):
That that you you okay with the extra time that
you're listening to this.

SPEAKER_02 (54:07):
We we we we we hope we definitely hope for that.
I mean, for for me, I'm sittinghere and I'm glued to it.
So I know for somebody whodoesn't because and I know a
little bit, right?
But for somebody who's doesn'tknow anything or really or or
really is encouraged becausethey want to know, I would
imagine again, this should be anice blueprint, right?
Right, and definitely want tospawn off of this to do some

(54:31):
more.
Uh we gotta do that QA, man.
We'll do the QA.
So we're gonna give it to y'all.
Just make sure y'all are comingwith some questions.
DM us, whether you all know howto get a hold of us by now, but
DM us, make sure you give mesome questions so I can throw
them over here to Mike and wecan get those answered for you.
And we, you know, we'll we youcould be that fly on the wall,
right?
But there you go.
Uh but man, I think we could wecan we go into the breakdown?
You ready?

(54:51):
You wanna give a little bitmore.

SPEAKER_01 (54:52):
You know, there was one thing that you had mentioned
to me about the uh purpose overprofit.

SPEAKER_02 (54:57):
Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 (54:59):
And I think you wrote it down.
I wanted you to let them knowabout that.

SPEAKER_02 (55:02):
I don't want to forget this, okay?
Because yeah, yeah.
I want to make sure I give it tothem.
Okay, so look.
So look, we were going intowe're going into this segment,
right?
We definitely wanted people tounderstand, because we're giving
you a lot, Mike's giving you alot of information, okay?
All right, so want ourwealthians to think of this,

(55:23):
okay.
This is this is our firstt-shirt, by the way.
Yeah, dude.
When I first saw it, it's like,did we put that on t-shirts?
Yeah.
We averaging three t-shirts anepisode.
So probably we we we had acouple already out there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I didn't say nothing aboutbecause I don't want to stop
Mike's flow.
But this definitely gonna be thefirst one right here, okay?
So we we want our wealthians tothink of this purpose over

(55:46):
profit.
Okay.
If your goal is just quickmoney, you know, we'll you we'll
all we'll burn out, we'll lose.
Okay.
It's gotta be the long it's insome instances, yeah, have your
short game, your mid-game, andyour long game, all right?

But think of this (56:00):
some things have to be the long play, all
right?
If your goal is to if your goalincludes community, generational
legacy, or serving others, allright?
Crypto becomes a tool, not justspeculation.

SPEAKER_01 (56:15):
There you go.

SPEAKER_02 (56:15):
So remember that, y'all.
Purpose over profit.
And I love that.
There you go.
There you go.
That's strong, man.
And I'll wear that today.

SPEAKER_01 (56:25):
And I'm glad you said that, Antony.

SPEAKER_02 (56:26):
Man, I'm putting that on my FBN jacket, bro.

SPEAKER_01 (56:28):
There you go.
I'm putting that on my FBNjacket.
There you go.
Purpose over profit.
Look, he he just got up andwalked.
He's gonna do it.
He's gonna do it right now.
Make sure there's purpose overprofit.
So, and that and that, you know,guys, that reminds me of
something you know, of our lastepisode where we talk about um
survival, growth, and dreams.

(56:52):
So we and what we want to focuson is the opportunity and
dreams.
Just remember, you know, purposeover profit.

SPEAKER_02 (57:00):
Start up with that one.

SPEAKER_01 (57:02):
So uh that reminds me of our last episode when we
spoke about survival, growth,and dreams, right?
So just remember the dream part,all right?
It's an opportunity.
We don't want what you have foryour income for survival to do
this.
Please don't.
You don't want for your growthfor you to get out of whatever

(57:22):
situation you're in, or you'retrying to save some money to
utilize this for this.
But the dream part, that 10%,instead of uh going to the
movies, maybe, because I hadmentioned that I used to save up
my 10% to go to the movies, butgoing to the movies and say, all
right, let me try this.
And then it, you know, it's only10%, but you're trying
something, and who knows?

(57:44):
It might be something that youcan leverage, you could it could
help you out of your UPIsituation into a privileged
status in your journey andbecoming a wealthy end.
And that's what we're talkingabout.

SPEAKER_02 (57:57):
I love it, brother.
All right, that's that's thegoods right there, man.
Man, classic episode.
We're gonna put this one in thein the in the in the in the
vault.
There you go.
We're gonna give it to y'all, ofcourse.
We're gonna put the vault forreal.
So here goes the breakdown.
All right, so Mike, you want togive them the the literal and
the mental.
Of course.

SPEAKER_01 (58:14):
As we always do, as we always do.
So here we go.
The literal.
Start very small.
Remember what we just spokeabout.
Start very small, diversifyamong top coins.
So the top coins have beenaround for a while.
Start putting your little coinsinto there, your little money
into there, and see what itdoes.
See if it's something that youwould want to do or maybe

(58:35):
leverage, and after you'vetaught yourself, you've gotten
all the education, and then youcan move forward and then do big
things with it.
The mental.
So, so you're starting.
This is actual money, that'sliteral.
You're putting it in there.
So that's literal.
Now, the mental, financialliteracy.
There we go.
We just said that.
Continue learning.
Just said that.

(58:56):
So mentally, always learn.
Don't just put your money inthere.
Mentally, you gotta know whatyou're doing.
Know what you're a part of,right?
Don't just do it to do it, to doit.
Know what you're doing, learnabout it before you put your
money in there.
Make sure that you understandwhy you're putting your money in
whatever you decided to do.

SPEAKER_02 (59:16):
In the spiritual and brother, hey, the spiritual
faith in growth and alignmentwith values.
Trust that your efforts are notin vain.
There you go.
Anytime we're putting time intosomething, it starts to become
if we're putting enough time insomething and we start to
develop a belief for it, itbecomes our it becomes our

(59:37):
belief system.
Right.
In in in anything, relationshipsor or or a business.
You put enough time into it andwe develop a love for it, it
becomes this, it becomes thisfaith.
Even if there's results that wewe we that we want that we can't
see yet.

SPEAKER_03 (59:50):
Right.

SPEAKER_02 (59:51):
All right.
We gotta we gotta know thatwe're we're going towards
something.
We're we're working towards agoal or a dream that we're
trying to accomplish.
And for what whatever strategy.
Strategy that might be, but ifthat if that's crypto for you,
know that we're going towardssomething.
So the belief will build.
That half hour we get up early,her in the morning, every day,

(01:00:11):
it will add up to something atsome point.

SPEAKER_01 (01:00:14):
That's true.

SPEAKER_02 (01:00:14):
And so we'll sleep in a half hour later.
Right.
So everything adds up tosomething.
Something.
Know that.
Everything.
For the good or bad.
There you go.
All right.

SPEAKER_01 (01:00:23):
So so we we got a t-shirt for this.
We got a t-shirt in thatepisode.
So the t-shirt for this episode,oh my goodness, it says, Don't
let Bitcoin make you a brokechain, a broke coin.
All right?
Don't let blockchain don't putit with it.

(01:00:45):
But the t-shirt that you'regonna wear to ensure that you're
not messing up, and people willdefinitely say, What the hell?
Yes, don't let Bitcoin make youa broke coin.
How about that?

SPEAKER_02 (01:00:56):
I love that.
Hey, hey, I and I'll go withmine.
Don't let not knowing about theblockchain put you on the broke
train.
That's the third third threecircle three.
Oh man, I love it.
All right.
Of course, we got best.
So man, I want to say I love howthese add up and add up and add

(01:01:18):
up.
But we just said everything addssomething.
Right.
And right at the end of ourseason, this always becomes a
nice uh docerata.

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:25):
Right, right.
And we and we and we spoke aboutthis.
These best practices, we want toput it on a vision board so that
way every episode, it kind ofall connects.
Right?

SPEAKER_02 (01:01:34):
Buildup.

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:35):
So it's a build-up.
So remember, so I'm uh here'shere's the best practices uh uh
up to now.
Whether it's Trump or anyoneelse in office, you are the
president of your pocket.
Of your pocket.
Man, say that one more.
I gotta say that one word.
You are the president of yourpocket.
Yes, the wealthier policy iswhat matters most for your

(01:01:59):
future, and don't forget it,wealthy inside.
The way you move today is howyou will slay tomorrow.
And maybe with digital currency,because ready or not, here it
comes so you learn it andembrace it because it is the

(01:02:19):
future of our finance.

SPEAKER_02 (01:02:22):
That's some sweet science right there, bro.
That is some sweet financescience.
There you go, bro.
There you go.
Gotta give it to them.
Hey, I'm not gonna add nothing.
Let's crap it with that.
Hey, we're wrapping this up, youguys.
Hey, come back.
We hope y'all come back andwatch this as a blueprint a
hundred times.
Well, we said you make sure weDM us with questions so we can

(01:02:42):
come back and do a part two.
Interview the big homie here.
Make sure y'all get it straightfrom the straight from the
source.
We're gonna do our homework, sowe definitely hope y'all do
yours.
Don't forget to check us out onall your social media podcast
platforms.
Remember, uh Apple Podcasts,iHeartRadio, Spotify, obviously
right here on HHN TV.

(01:03:04):
And y'all remember, Mike.
I appreciate ya.
And you already know we'll seeyou at the bank.
Peace, y'all.
Take care, world.
Later.
Later, you know, you can seethat.