December 2, 2025 • 36 mins
In today's digital age, the internet is flooded with an endless stream of content waiting to be consumed. However, not everything you come across online serves your well-being or personal growth. This eye-opening episode delves into the detrimental effects that certain online content can have on your life, mental health, and overall productivity. From mindlessly scrolling through social media to watching negative news or being hooked to toxic drama, the digital realm can significantly sway your mood, outlook, and even your daily choices. We'll also explore healthier alternatives and share tips on how to curate a positive online experience that contributes to your life rather than detracts from it. Taking control of your online consumption is a step towards a more focused, positive, and purpose-driven life. Join us in unveiling the hidden impacts of online content on your life, and learn how to navigate the digital world wisely. Your journey towards a healthier online experience begins here. Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe to stay updated with more insightful content. Together, let's foster a more mindful and enriching digital community. #OnlineConsumption #DigitalWellbeing #MindfulBrowsing #PositiveOnlineExperience
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So this just made me think about something because he
put a post up yesterday. So you have the top
eighty one billionaires in the world have more wealth than
fifty percent of the world's population. Combind, that's four point
six billion people. So eighty one people have more wealth
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than four point six billion people. We already know that
Elon Musk is planning civilization on Mars. We just covered
that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife planning to eradicate all
human diseases by the year two thousand and one hundred
by using artificial intelligence, and we talked about potential technology
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to make humans immortal. So it's pretty amazing and discouraging
when I go on social media and what I see
is debates about fantasy football, said rapper having beef with
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said rappers husband, food debates, fashion debates, and a bunch
of other random nonsense that has no real significance in life.
And this is happening in real time right in front
of you, and you're being consumed with so much nonsense
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that you don't even even have any concerns or cares
about it at all. And it's like robbing a bank
right in front of you. You don't even have to
actually hide things. It's done in plain sight when you're
looking at that. This is things that are changing the
way that the world will operate and directly affect every
single human being that's living on planet Earth. And the
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vast majority of people are concerned with such unimportant things.
They wouldn't even register on any of these things that
I just talked about levels. So when you're looking at
your life and you're not where you want to be, well,
that's the reason. Because you're making conscious decisions to consume
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things that are taking you away from any level of productivity,
and you're staying there, and it's being done on purpose,
And everybody should be embarrassed, the people that are doing
it on the media side, the people that are actually
producing the content should be embarrassed, and the people that's
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consuming the content should be embarrassed. It's like going back
to say, Okay, well there's so much alcohol in the hood,
Well who made you drink alcohol? You're still making a
conscious decision. We already know that the cards are stacked
against us. So when you make a decision to consume
this content, that's a decision that you're making because there
are alternatives. You're watching an alternative right now. But unfortunately,
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we're never going to have the same level of viewership
or interest as any of those things that I just mentioned.
So at some point you have to take self accountability
and realize that as the world changes, and as we
enter a new world you can call it a new world,
orthough you could just call it a new world, you
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will you will be a digital slave, and this time
your slavery will be voluntary. You signed up for it,
and you gave no fight, and you will continue to
stay at the same level that you're at, potentially even worse.
Your children also, And that's the decision that you have
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to make. Are you comfortable with this or do you
want better.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Choice?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
The choices you choices.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Let me piggyback off that Tesla doesn't talk with Saudi
Arabia to open a new factory in their country. Shout
out to Jamie Dimond. JP Morgan CEO says that it
is a huge mistake to think the economy would boom
anytime soon. This is probably one of the greatest bankers
since James Pierpont Morgan, who the firm is named after,
is telling you the truth. National debt is study three
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trillion the US government spending that represents about twenty five
percent of GDP. Credit card losses are rising at the
fastest rate since two thousand and eight, and there have
been one hundred and sixteen IPOs on a US stock
market in twenty twenty three, twenty seven percent less than
the same time in twenty twenty two, and most of
them are trash. The trash part was my audition. We
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have to focus on the parts that really matter.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Arm Greate.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Kudos to Rashan for being involved in instacart. Instacart and
Walmart expects sixty five percent of their stores to be
automated by twenty twenty six. I don't care what Sexy
said back to even you.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Know, I don't care what you got to watch from
Like who's sing?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Even another leather jacket. Let's talk about the rant era
all that I hate. I had it had to even
do that to get y'all to watch this information. People
like he don't know Crypto. I know I've been financially
free since twenty fifteen. You can ask my mom dad
when I was broke. I'll tell you I was broke
when I was up. I'm gonna tell you I'm up.
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But I'm free as my baby mama will be good
or will be bad. You can see it in Xander's face. Right,
we have to stop. And I keep pointing us out
to every shop at the math hop I'm going on
this week. I ask every podcaster, and I asked every
week how many podcasts making million dollars a year more?
And retravershot always laugh because they don't want to say
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most of them it's broke. But I keep asking that
question to tell you that having beef in the media
does not pay you. Mister Beech just said that five
hundred million view No, No, one hundred million view video
he did, he got five hundred grand I said, thank god,
I'm not in that business. That's a lot of other
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ways to get five hundred k real quick. That takes two.
If I got one hundred million views, I want three
hundred million. But watch how YouTube after the strike is
fixed with the writers, YouTube ends up being the biggest
movie producer in the next ten years. You got a
monitor pick from Hey, bring me a movie fully produced,
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fully edit it, or we'll pay for the movie in advance.
Which one you think of? When I'm gonna go with
Google a for two hundred focus on the things that matter.
That's why I put up the other day. Too many opinions,
not enough assets. And if I've had helped you increase
how many assets you have on the management in your
personal household, please put yes the chat. But we gotta
stop focusing on the BS. Drake and Charlomane. Kudos to
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charlom Mane for not feeding back into the BS. You
can't even give an opinion. No more people attacking the
yield on a tenure Treasury Scott Rocker to unparalleled heights
from two thousand and six. The bob market is now
booming after it collapsed since twenty twenty. Even with us,
how much fluff conversation do we have? Shout out to
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the Houston Rockets and New Doku in everybody. We don't
have no fluff. Hey, hey, we want to talk about diversification.
I ain't said too much. Shout out Dylan Brooks. You
know what I mean talking my behaviors, boy boy a
hit different. Well you wow for that? I mean not
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but it's mean you know, it's like wow for that.
It's like said.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
When Jay was like, yo, we ain't get due to
you yet. Yeah, you're going to keep. Yeah, yet attention
is the most valuable commodity. This is why it's so
sought after. So it can never compete with sports, to coignefic,
compete with entertainment or celebrity gossip.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It's just it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's amazing that you know, he even was able to
reach this level and still going. But you know, at
some point in time, you gotta take self accountability. Like
I said, we we can blame other people, and other
people are responsible for a variety of different things historically
and currently, but ultimately self accountability has to be had,
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has to And it's like, if you are in a
position where you're an adult and you're indulging in these
type of mindless entertainment over and over again, it's going
to have an effect on your life. It's impossible for
it not to. Like, it's impossible for you to know
every single thing that's happening on Shape Room, on Academics,
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on Hollywood and lock and shout out to all of
those people teams. But I'm just saying, it's just impossible
for you to know every single thing that's happening and.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Still be at a highly productive level.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's impossible because I know billionaires, and I don't know
any billion and that knows any of this stuff that's happening.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So you can't, you can't.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You can't negative on it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It is I've never I've never heard Mark Cuban talk
about Cardi b and Nicki Minaja's beef. I never heard
Robert Smith talk about his fantasy football pick.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I've never heard Michael nova.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Grats talk about my terry cloth choice of outfits. On
investments stage. Here as certain things that I've never I've
never heard. I have heard them talk about artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency,
investing in companies, habits, behaviors. Those these are conversations that
I've actually heard. So I just say, you don't have
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to have the aspiration of being a billionaire, but these
are have They're not done by accident. I'm saying that
these type of habits are are not caused by accident.
So you it's a certain level of self evaluation mm
hmm that we all have to do, even us, like
you know, sometimes you gotta look at like like them.
I'm focusing too much on this is this isn't. I
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gotta get back to what's really important, right, But you're
on YouTube and going through the whole rabbit hole of
gangland in America. And you know about the blood set
in stocked in Californi. It's not you live in you
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live in Tampa, Florida. Why are you fascinated with gangster
disciples in Chicago, Illinois. It's it's not beneficial to your life.
But they programmed us to look at somebody else's struggle
as entertainment and even even like even like this rat
beef and different than that's somebody else's that's a real
life conflict. That's a struggle that somebody has, whether they
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haven't gotten emotionally atchured enough to know how to handle
themselves else publicly, or know how to actually deal with
their emotional intelligence. But regardless, these are real problems, and
we look at problems as entertainment. Blue facing his baby
mom and the kid like this, keeping problems have become
our entertainment.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
That was kind of the premise of the mental health conversation,
and it's it is that you're talking about because they
were saying we capitalize on struggle, but nobody talks about solutions.
In fact, when solutions are made and solutions are highlighted,
everybody does them. Down or push them to the side.
We're not really trying to hear that. And so when
you talk about the mental effect that that has on you,
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consistently imagine if you're born into that. And a lot
of us are like those things that you're speaking of,
like going down the rabbit hole on YouTube. But like
I can say, we're guilty of it, everybody, right, Like
this is the culture that we But there comes a
point in time and I guess a growth inside of
somebody that you realize that what am I doing, how
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is this beneficial?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And what can I do with my time other than
in this And once you.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Figure that part out, then these things become more entertainment
for you, like market money becomes more entertainment. Leader these
type of things that provide information that can actually change
your daily life, that becomes more entertain But everybody doesn't
get there, and everybody's not gonna get there at the
same time, and some people may never get there, but
the people who do, we got to make sure that
they get the information.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
At the highest level.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
People have PhDs in gossip.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
That's a fact that's funny as hell, but true.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
An abundance of street credibility will only leave you bankrupt financially.
I've never met anybody that was able to cash in
any level of street credibility. So it's like, it's not transferable.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
That's a good quote.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Any financial institution. It's not transferable. It's just not nowhere.
It's really not. It's not it's only going.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
To leave you bankrupt. They might get you a section
in the club.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
That's going to leave you bankrupt. So it's just, you know,
once again, I just think that.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Okay, I'm going to cut you off, but I'm learning
to guess what they're gonna say so we can respond
to it in advance. What do you say to all
the people? But when you guys entertained rappers who promote
this culture, and YadA YadA, and that's why, and that's why,
thank you. We have to have to, we have to.
This is only the Wu Tang has one of the
best line.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I think it was the he said mostly the dumb
are intrigued by the drum. So what he's saying by that,
you know, people always say like nas got bad beats.
I never listened to rap music.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
For beats the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I only listen for lyrics. But I understand what he
was saying. At least that's why he said, mostly the
dumb is intrigued by the drum. So once we started
getting to the era of beats, that's when hip hop
really changed. So now I'm just saying as far as
like when you go, I'm gonna when the beat overpowered
the lyrics. Beat is important part of the song, for sure,
but the lyrics was always the most important part. When
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the beat became the most important part, this is when
mumble rap comes.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You don't have to rap. You could just say anything.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You just ride the beat or to be So what
I'm saying is that now we're in a situation where yeah,
we can't fight against a fire with a water gun.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It's it's it's just a certain level of intelligence. We
have to we have to provide the entertainment for you
because if not, you're not gonna listen.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Then it's education inside of the entertainment. And that's why
it's called editate entertainment. Yeah, that was crazy. Master Kila
on Triumphs he said that that's the first time you
can't quote it them.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You can't feed a baby steak, can't feed the baby
steak either. It's you actually end up killing the baby.
This is this is wisdom and understanding that there's growth
and maturation. So we're still immature as people. We have
we have, we have a long way to growing to
being mature. So when when a baby is born, you
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you don't feed it solid foods.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You have to feed it apple sauce. You have to
feed it, you know, milk.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They're gonna be like, no, you can't feed that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I'm just saying an infant. I know that over the
course of time. Now this is just serious conversation us. I mean,
you got to have a certain level of maturity to
even understand, like, you got to be able. If you're
immature enough to do that, then you shouldn't be listening.
So you have to have a certain around of maturity
to even understand what I'm saying. So, it takes time
for a baby to grow into a toddler. It takes
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time for the toddler to grow into a child. It
takes time for the child to grow into a teenager,
and it takes time for the teenagers to grow into
a young adult. It takes time for the young adult
to grow into an adult, and it takes time for
the adult to grow into a wise person. If you
try to force that growth too early, then you'll end
up pertingal. You're in the personal. If you try to
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feed a baby stack, you gonna in the pertenalm if
you're if you try to make a five year old
drive a car, you're gonna end up pertnalm. If you
try to make a twelve year old go out in
the world and fin for himself, you're gonna end up
pertn them. So as you're as a leader, it's your
responsibility to make sure that you're guiding people in the
right direction over the course of time in ways that
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they can understand, in the language that they can understand,
and the speed that they can actually keep up with,
if not in what we're doing it for.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, but the thing is that we don't have time.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Well all we have. Only thing that we have is time.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Because if you look at it, it's like we had
the conversation with Diddy and he's like, Yo, we gotta
make rapid change and give them different things. And he's like, yo,
that's not that's not quick enough. Well we got in
this situation. This is this isn't even four hundred years slavery.
They said four hundred Yet This is actually even longer
than that. When you look at the fall of Africa
from him all the way to Mali. These is thousands
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of a year. This white supremacy has been in rule
for thousands of years. Yeah, right, So this is something
that unfortunately you can't You can't reverse something like that
in one year for five years. This is why when
Mark Zuckerberg has one hundred year plan, this is important.
When CEOs of Japan looking at three or five hundred
year plans for that company, that's important. Unfortunately, we are
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always only thinking about tomorrow and our long term planning
is next year.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Like Friday, that's our long term planning. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But that's not that's not a formula that's sustainable. That
might be, that might be beneficial for individual person, but
when you look at a collective, we have some we
can't even agree on one particular issue, Like there's not
one issue that as a collective Black people really agree
even even reparations people can't even agree on that.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
And that analogy this is important.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
So in that analogy, where would you say that we're
at Are we still in the infancy stage or are
we looking at our compartmental lives. And what we're saying,
this financial revolution is at the infancy stage or as
I shouldn't say Black.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Culture, but our community. Where would you say that we're at.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I guess that over the last decade that would be
fair honestly, Yeah, where we are.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
What you gotta do think we got to be in
the infancy stage. We just had the rights to vote
sixty years ago. Like we technically wasn't even as equal
human beings in this country until recently. So we are
just now learning about this financial literacy information that we're providing.
It's so revolutionary because the vast majority of people have
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never even they don't even know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
You never knew about stocks or real estate or let
alone private equity, venture capital, so.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
You know what, you know what's interesting. I'm just going
to add to this point of what you're saying is
very important. The higher we go and the more people
that we meet, let's say up stature and of certain
levels of financial freedom, the less knowledge. There's something at
the top that have the knowledge. But as we go
with meeting people, and I never knew what that was.
I never knew what that was. I had no idea
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Thank you guys. That's why you guys are so important.
So it's even interesting as we come because I know
that's something Even in the financial planning world. I would
meet people of a certain level intelligence, you would think, oh,
they should know that, but their discipline is not in finance.
Their discipline is in health or it's in medicine, and
they didn't have the discipline to know what finances. And
so the higher we climb, we're starting to see like
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this thing is really something that's been absent from a
lot of different disciplines.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So I've got that I want to.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Be fifty year plan They gotta be at least a
fifty year planning. This is why it's like, are you
start with education? Like you got to understand too. I
think Frederick Douglass said it's a lot easier to train
I'm paraphrasing it's a lot easier to build strong boys
than to rebuild program men. So and that goes for
men or women, but I'm just that's what he said.
So it's you got to start all right now if
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we implement this program and it starts with somebody that's
five years old now, because even the problem with the
five year role is that even if their parents are
going to be negative influences. So you got to really
it's a whole generation that has to of negativity that
has to be replaced before our next generation can even
get in a position to teach their children.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
So this is this becomes the new compounded interests. Right
where we look at the time the information is now
the rate that we got to look at, Right, they
get it at five, at ten, they but then there's
a generation that they're going to learn even faster. Yeah,
in a sense, that is the compounded interest of the future.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
But in the investment, you gotta look to threats. Like
if she wouldn't have came on, most people wouldn't even
known that they're actively fighting. So even when when I
bring up the rants and stuff, like I tell people
all the time, like there's a reason for AI to
get your attention, but there's a message I'm trying to
also sneak in even when they have to the conversation
about diversity inclusion. And that's why I'll shout out to
the cole I to been with JP Morgan next month.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I believe.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
There's a lot of interest in US post George Floyd.
But now that that has been eradicated. I've had a
couple of talks with some companies and they're like, hey,
that was the first thing that got cut, especially with
Marcus turnaround, the marketing budget and diversity inclusion. Well, let's
do the hell with that. The only part that troubles
me is that while we are slow to get off
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the blocks, those that don't want us to have this information,
they're moving really, really really fast to make sure that
we don't have it really fast. Gotta move faster, And
this is always my point. I never have to tell
a guy get the courage to go talk to a girl,
go By balenci yaka go By. I never have to
push that Nike shit company right now. Infiflation goes up
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and consumers have less suspend, it won't be a great stock.
I don't want to keep talking about the same seven
eight companies, but there is a reason why. So I'm
gonna be honest and say we have to move faster.
Because when I woke up and saw that Charlemagne and
Drake post, I saw thousands of comments of commentary and
people are right think pieces. And you're not monetizing and
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making no money.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You're obsessed with me, bro.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I mean, but once again, that's their personal thing that
they have going on.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
But why, but why is everybody commenting so much headline?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Why is that a headline of trending topic?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
And what can you do? And it's going to court tomorrow,
Let's talk about that. Yes, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I mean, we could just it's human species. Is it
always meant for a select group of people to have knowledge,
wisn'm to understanding and then the masses of people just
to be ignorant. That's how That's how it always has
been throughout human civilization. So I think that you might
get frustrated when you're trying to uplift the masses and
make them enlightened. They don't want to be enlightened. If
the vast majority of people, if one hundred thousand people
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watch market mondays, those are one hundred thousand people that
want to get and like if a million, if a
three million people is gonna watch academics talking about Chicago
Drill and Drake and whoever beef whatever, Charlomagne, then it's
hard to really advocate for those three million people because
they're making conscious decisions.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Mhmm.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
You could say now they're not educated enough to even
make a decision. But at a certain point, it's hard
to it's getting increasingly hard hard to make that argument
because there's so much access to information. There wasn't always
access to information. Back previously it was it was illegal
to read. Previously, information was hidden. You didn't even have
an opportunity to be educated, so you you were purposely
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left ignorant. Now it's it's becoming increasingly difficult to have
that same level of empathy for adults because at some
point you see something on social media and you decide
not to watch it. You see something you it's somebody's
giving you some level of information at some point, everybody
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at this point, and you're you're making a decision to
be like, nah, that's not for me.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
The access to information, the barriers a solo at this
point that it is a conscious decision that you're making
to not be educated straight up there. I don't know
how many entrepreneurs that we've spoken to who have become
successful who haven't said, I watched you to TV, but
prior to earn your leisure right, I watched you.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I did this. I was for free, for free, just
to learn. I just happened to watch it, or I
could watch Bad.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Buddies video shout out to beneath a shout out.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I'm knocking.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Got a bunch of billion viewge videos. But like, these
are choices, we're making them.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, well, at what point, what age do you think
we should make the cut off from being entertained to
learning to make our lives better.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It's difficult.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
What would you tell your son, Let's say that.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I mean, you got to understand certain level.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It's hard to for me personally, I was I never
I was always on that my whole entire life.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I always was on I was I always obviously listen
to music. I listen.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I'm in the culture, so I'm not like a you know,
a monk, but I was always I always had a
more serious demeanor since I was young.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I always was on that type of time.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Like I read Rich Da Boy Dad when I was seventeen,
eighteen years old, Like that was like a whole you know,
Bible for me. As far as education is concerned, that's
probably like what a lot of fifty year old don't know.
But even before that, I was always interested. I was
interested in stocks, I was interested in business, you know,
it's you know that somebody's making money. That's how I
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always look at like somebody's making money, so I'm interested
to know who's making money, and then how can I
make money? So to answer your question, it's difficult, I think,
you know, because you can't have those same level of
expectations for kids.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, but I think there's an intersection.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I think what makes us unique, and I think it's
what's made us unique since we were younger, was that
we were able to find information inside of the entertainment.
I think we got this. Yeah, I think we would
have the ability to decode some of the messages. I
think we were able to break down and have, you know,
a common understanding when it came to music, especially when
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it came to sports, it was yes, this is entertainment,
but yes this is business.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Why do you get this contract? Who's who's his advisor?
Who's his age?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Like?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Those are the kind of conversations that we were having,
on top of having the ones that obviously in the barbershop,
you know when you're in school, so you can't alienate
them from it because there's lessons to be learned inside
of it. We had the conversation with Lauren, and she
was talking about roadblocks and like, there's an intersection there,
and we've said just plenty of times, yes, kids enjoyed,
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let's meet the winner at let's tell them that this
is a publicly traded company.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So it's just about finding the intersections.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
I don't think we can cut off the age and say,
you know what at thirteen, you know longer watching this.
Can you put time restrictions on some of it?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Can you incorporate education inside of some of it, of course,
and then you're going to have the real world experiences
that you can provide for them as well.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
So I think it's a mixture.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I don't think it's a cutoff because had that been
cut off for me and I can maybe I could
speak for him as well.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I don't know where we would be without music. I
don't know where we would be without sports.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I mean, I just said it's the last thing I'll
say about this. I just don't understand how you don't
want to just take your life serious. And like I said,
even for me, it wasn't like I was in business
my whole life. When I was playing basketball, like that's
what I was doing all day. I was going to
I was trying to better myself because I felt like
that was a pathway to me. Never I never was
a gamer. Not not to knock that, but I'm just
saying that's not what I was doing. I was never
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a gamer. I was never somebody that was just smoking
weed like I. Of course you get introduced to that
and that's a decision that's easy to make. But I
was always serious, Like I always was serious about my life,
like I want to do something I want I want
to just be a regular person. I want to be
a special person. So I don't understand how you can
just have so much complacency. It's just it's difficult for
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me to comprehend because it's just so much serious stuff
that's going on. Like I said, no matter what you
want to do, like whatever you want to do with
your life, you only get one shot at it. So
why would you not take it serious? Like why would
you get an opportunity to breathe every single day?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It's a blessing?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Is that the defense mechanism that kicks in? Right?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
If I pretend that does not happening, If ignor that's
what it is, that's not happening because my life is
there's so much real happening in my life that I
need to be distracted by the realness of it.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Now you feel like it's a mechanism.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I don't know if it's a defense mechanism.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You think that it's just a it's a thing where
people don't have that same level of urgency. Like I said,
if you look at it from a standpoint of like
it's a blessing. You're actually blessed to be able to walk,
stand up and breathe. That's a blessing. There's a lot
of people that are incarcerated, there's a lot of people
that's dead. There's a lot of people that aren't physically
able to even operate or mentally able to operate. So
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if you have a sound mind and a sound body,
that's that's a blessing. I think it's disrespectful to just
take that blessing and just do nothing with your life
or do minimum amount.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Everybody has the ability to be great in certain areas.
So you could be the best carpenter, you could be
the best investor. Like they said, the master investor, what
is he gonna say? The average investor? Like, why would
you say? Why would you why would you strive for mediocrity?
Like we say we're the biggest, what we're supposed to
say with the smallest, Like people get offended at or
(29:02):
they say they arrogant. They saying he's arrogant. He's saying
he's a master investor, Like well, what are you saying
you're you're your best thing?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Because why weren't you putting out the information before I
did it? They drugged me on. I didn't even want
to be show my face on camera. They're like, no,
you gotta like if you're gona do a YouTube show,
you gotta put up a camera. You should have made
two tech and that never show your face killing last year.
(29:29):
But it's like even when I put up that post,
shout out to my Guyso I was like, yo, stand
aside for two years. That's a small sacrifice. Like when
I asked Kyrie like how long were you playing to
get to the league, He's like, bro, what you mean
every day since age? That's what I dreamed about When
I met Kyrie. He was doing Trooper thread in front
of me and I'm like, I ain't playing, I ain't
not sold from a butter friend. You got me, I
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can hur you what It shows the level of passion.
And the thing that we're really trying to convey is
like you have to have passion for something every day,
you have to get after it. Even when we were
traveling around, these are still our talks. Yeah, your one life,
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you choose, And this is what I will say for
everybody who goes outside all the time, who parties a lot,
and y'all, like, I'm seeing a bunch of people looking
like they're happy when they're out. When I see you
in real life, you look miserable. It's better to have
the real life that you're really happy about when you
don't got a post, than to pretend like you're posting
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for somebody else's media. And I'm telling you like this,
the media that you're posting on don't make that much
money for the people who own the media.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
The last thing I want to say about this because
you brought up a good point and I've been meaning
to talk about this for a while because we spend
a lot of time in Atlanta and we go out
all the time. But I think a celebration is meant
to celebrate something. So when Drake said, drink it every night,
because we drink some my accomplishments. There's some truth to that,
right he actually has he can actually celebrate every single
night because he's worked hard enough to put himself in
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a position and financially where it's not hurting them. And
then also he's earned his leisure on that certain level.
How many black businesses do we need for night clubs
and we're not even owning the nightclubs or bars or
hookah lounges, And how many parties can we have?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
How many? Like it's every single day. It's a variety
of different options to celebrate. And this is globally. When
we went to Lagos, Nigeria, when we went to Jamaica,
black people party at unprecedented levels. This might go back
to a thing of like suppressing the pain because you
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know that financially globally, we're in the last place globally,
so everybody's not rich. Everybody that's buying these bottles can't
afford these bottles. So is it a thing of just saying, like,
I'm just gonna just have fun in this moment, because I.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Know when I wake up tomorrow is back to you know, pain.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
At some point we got it like and like I said,
I have fun I'll go to clubs all the time.
But I'm just a pattern with this where this has
become an industry once again, going back, we don't even
own the clubs. It wouldn't even be that bad if
we actually had real ownership. We don't even own these
night clubs. We're just promoters. We're party promoters. And where
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the people that's really getting rich off of this are
the liquor companies which we have no ownership in. We
heard did he talk about that? And the owners of
the night clubs which ninety percent of the people that
own these physical buildings and structures are not black people. Yes,
and even the people that rent the clubs are not
black people. Only the black people in this equation are
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the customers, the bottle service girls and security, and the promoters.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
That's that's the ecosystem of this.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Strip clubs, lounges, hookah lounges, bars, it's consuming, it's consuming
a decaded lifestyle at an extremely high level. That's extremely unproductive.
Champagne for the pain, and it's every it's everywhere that
we go. Like I said, this is not track. We
went to legos. That's all we did was party and
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they told me forty percent of the nightclubs were owned
by people from bay Root.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
M hm, was it Lebanon?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I think I think bay Root is in Lebanon.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Oh yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
So the Lebanese owned the nightclub industry, in the hospitality industry.
And Lego, you can't even control your own industry in
a black country.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
We're not doing a city.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I keep saying our music culture when we stream all
that for the culture ship, not our culture either. Name
me nine black music executives that run anything tough, even
with yo Adam of Vulture, of Ladi Vulture, how they
volture in their own culture. Most of the people who
do the negative responses to stuff are not what champagne for,
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the pains
Speaker 2 (33:59):
For the leave, for the low
So this just made me think about something because he
put a post up yesterday. So you have the top
eighty one billionaires in the world have more wealth than
fifty percent of the world's population. Combind, that's four point
six billion people. So eighty one people have more wealth
(00:21):
than four point six billion people. We already know that
Elon Musk is planning civilization on Mars. We just covered
that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife planning to eradicate all
human diseases by the year two thousand and one hundred
by using artificial intelligence, and we talked about potential technology
(00:47):
to make humans immortal. So it's pretty amazing and discouraging
when I go on social media and what I see
is debates about fantasy football, said rapper having beef with
(01:08):
said rappers husband, food debates, fashion debates, and a bunch
of other random nonsense that has no real significance in life.
And this is happening in real time right in front
of you, and you're being consumed with so much nonsense
(01:35):
that you don't even even have any concerns or cares
about it at all. And it's like robbing a bank
right in front of you. You don't even have to
actually hide things. It's done in plain sight when you're
looking at that. This is things that are changing the
way that the world will operate and directly affect every
single human being that's living on planet Earth. And the
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vast majority of people are concerned with such unimportant things.
They wouldn't even register on any of these things that
I just talked about levels. So when you're looking at
your life and you're not where you want to be, well,
that's the reason. Because you're making conscious decisions to consume
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things that are taking you away from any level of productivity,
and you're staying there, and it's being done on purpose,
And everybody should be embarrassed, the people that are doing
it on the media side, the people that are actually
producing the content should be embarrassed, and the people that's
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consuming the content should be embarrassed. It's like going back
to say, Okay, well there's so much alcohol in the hood,
Well who made you drink alcohol? You're still making a
conscious decision. We already know that the cards are stacked
against us. So when you make a decision to consume
this content, that's a decision that you're making because there
are alternatives. You're watching an alternative right now. But unfortunately,
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we're never going to have the same level of viewership
or interest as any of those things that I just mentioned.
So at some point you have to take self accountability
and realize that as the world changes, and as we
enter a new world you can call it a new world,
orthough you could just call it a new world, you
(03:27):
will you will be a digital slave, and this time
your slavery will be voluntary. You signed up for it,
and you gave no fight, and you will continue to
stay at the same level that you're at, potentially even worse.
Your children also, And that's the decision that you have
(03:52):
to make. Are you comfortable with this or do you
want better.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Choice?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
The choices you choices.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Let me piggyback off that Tesla doesn't talk with Saudi
Arabia to open a new factory in their country. Shout
out to Jamie Dimond. JP Morgan CEO says that it
is a huge mistake to think the economy would boom
anytime soon. This is probably one of the greatest bankers
since James Pierpont Morgan, who the firm is named after,
is telling you the truth. National debt is study three
(04:23):
trillion the US government spending that represents about twenty five
percent of GDP. Credit card losses are rising at the
fastest rate since two thousand and eight, and there have
been one hundred and sixteen IPOs on a US stock
market in twenty twenty three, twenty seven percent less than
the same time in twenty twenty two, and most of
them are trash. The trash part was my audition. We
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have to focus on the parts that really matter.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Arm Greate.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Kudos to Rashan for being involved in instacart. Instacart and
Walmart expects sixty five percent of their stores to be
automated by twenty twenty six. I don't care what Sexy
said back to even you.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Know, I don't care what you got to watch from
Like who's sing?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Even another leather jacket. Let's talk about the rant era
all that I hate. I had it had to even
do that to get y'all to watch this information. People
like he don't know Crypto. I know I've been financially
free since twenty fifteen. You can ask my mom dad
when I was broke. I'll tell you I was broke
when I was up. I'm gonna tell you I'm up.
(05:29):
But I'm free as my baby mama will be good
or will be bad. You can see it in Xander's face. Right,
we have to stop. And I keep pointing us out
to every shop at the math hop I'm going on
this week. I ask every podcaster, and I asked every
week how many podcasts making million dollars a year more?
And retravershot always laugh because they don't want to say
(05:51):
most of them it's broke. But I keep asking that
question to tell you that having beef in the media
does not pay you. Mister Beech just said that five
hundred million view No, No, one hundred million view video
he did, he got five hundred grand I said, thank god,
I'm not in that business. That's a lot of other
(06:12):
ways to get five hundred k real quick. That takes two.
If I got one hundred million views, I want three
hundred million. But watch how YouTube after the strike is
fixed with the writers, YouTube ends up being the biggest
movie producer in the next ten years. You got a
monitor pick from Hey, bring me a movie fully produced,
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fully edit it, or we'll pay for the movie in advance.
Which one you think of? When I'm gonna go with
Google a for two hundred focus on the things that matter.
That's why I put up the other day. Too many opinions,
not enough assets. And if I've had helped you increase
how many assets you have on the management in your
personal household, please put yes the chat. But we gotta
stop focusing on the BS. Drake and Charlomane. Kudos to
(06:57):
charlom Mane for not feeding back into the BS. You
can't even give an opinion. No more people attacking the
yield on a tenure Treasury Scott Rocker to unparalleled heights
from two thousand and six. The bob market is now
booming after it collapsed since twenty twenty. Even with us,
how much fluff conversation do we have? Shout out to
(07:18):
the Houston Rockets and New Doku in everybody. We don't
have no fluff. Hey, hey, we want to talk about diversification.
I ain't said too much. Shout out Dylan Brooks. You
know what I mean talking my behaviors, boy boy a
hit different. Well you wow for that? I mean not
(07:39):
but it's mean you know, it's like wow for that.
It's like said.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
When Jay was like, yo, we ain't get due to
you yet. Yeah, you're going to keep. Yeah, yet attention
is the most valuable commodity. This is why it's so
sought after. So it can never compete with sports, to coignefic,
compete with entertainment or celebrity gossip.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It's just it's impossible.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's amazing that you know, he even was able to
reach this level and still going. But you know, at
some point in time, you gotta take self accountability. Like
I said, we we can blame other people, and other
people are responsible for a variety of different things historically
and currently, but ultimately self accountability has to be had,
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has to And it's like, if you are in a
position where you're an adult and you're indulging in these
type of mindless entertainment over and over again, it's going
to have an effect on your life. It's impossible for
it not to. Like, it's impossible for you to know
every single thing that's happening on Shape Room, on Academics,
(08:52):
on Hollywood and lock and shout out to all of
those people teams. But I'm just saying, it's just impossible
for you to know every single thing that's happening and.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Still be at a highly productive level.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It's impossible because I know billionaires, and I don't know
any billion and that knows any of this stuff that's happening.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So you can't, you can't.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
You can't negative on it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
It is I've never I've never heard Mark Cuban talk
about Cardi b and Nicki Minaja's beef. I never heard
Robert Smith talk about his fantasy football pick.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I've never heard Michael nova.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Grats talk about my terry cloth choice of outfits. On
investments stage. Here as certain things that I've never I've
never heard. I have heard them talk about artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency,
investing in companies, habits, behaviors. Those these are conversations that
I've actually heard. So I just say, you don't have
(09:51):
to have the aspiration of being a billionaire, but these
are have They're not done by accident. I'm saying that
these type of habits are are not caused by accident.
So you it's a certain level of self evaluation mm
hmm that we all have to do, even us, like
you know, sometimes you gotta look at like like them.
I'm focusing too much on this is this isn't. I
(10:13):
gotta get back to what's really important, right, But you're
on YouTube and going through the whole rabbit hole of
gangland in America. And you know about the blood set
in stocked in Californi. It's not you live in you
(10:33):
live in Tampa, Florida. Why are you fascinated with gangster
disciples in Chicago, Illinois. It's it's not beneficial to your life.
But they programmed us to look at somebody else's struggle
as entertainment and even even like even like this rat
beef and different than that's somebody else's that's a real
life conflict. That's a struggle that somebody has, whether they
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haven't gotten emotionally atchured enough to know how to handle
themselves else publicly, or know how to actually deal with
their emotional intelligence. But regardless, these are real problems, and
we look at problems as entertainment. Blue facing his baby
mom and the kid like this, keeping problems have become
our entertainment.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
That was kind of the premise of the mental health conversation,
and it's it is that you're talking about because they
were saying we capitalize on struggle, but nobody talks about solutions.
In fact, when solutions are made and solutions are highlighted,
everybody does them. Down or push them to the side.
We're not really trying to hear that. And so when
you talk about the mental effect that that has on you,
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consistently imagine if you're born into that. And a lot
of us are like those things that you're speaking of,
like going down the rabbit hole on YouTube. But like
I can say, we're guilty of it, everybody, right, Like
this is the culture that we But there comes a
point in time and I guess a growth inside of
somebody that you realize that what am I doing, how
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is this beneficial?
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And what can I do with my time other than
in this And once you.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Figure that part out, then these things become more entertainment
for you, like market money becomes more entertainment. Leader these
type of things that provide information that can actually change
your daily life, that becomes more entertain But everybody doesn't
get there, and everybody's not gonna get there at the
same time, and some people may never get there, but
the people who do, we got to make sure that
they get the information.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
At the highest level.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
People have PhDs in gossip.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
That's a fact that's funny as hell, but true.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
An abundance of street credibility will only leave you bankrupt financially.
I've never met anybody that was able to cash in
any level of street credibility. So it's like, it's not transferable.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
That's a good quote.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Any financial institution. It's not transferable. It's just not nowhere.
It's really not. It's not it's only going.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
To leave you bankrupt. They might get you a section
in the club.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
That's going to leave you bankrupt. So it's just, you know,
once again, I just think that.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Okay, I'm going to cut you off, but I'm learning
to guess what they're gonna say so we can respond
to it in advance. What do you say to all
the people? But when you guys entertained rappers who promote
this culture, and YadA YadA, and that's why, and that's why,
thank you. We have to have to, we have to.
This is only the Wu Tang has one of the
best line.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I think it was the he said mostly the dumb
are intrigued by the drum. So what he's saying by that,
you know, people always say like nas got bad beats.
I never listened to rap music.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
For beats the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
I only listen for lyrics. But I understand what he
was saying. At least that's why he said, mostly the
dumb is intrigued by the drum. So once we started
getting to the era of beats, that's when hip hop
really changed. So now I'm just saying as far as
like when you go, I'm gonna when the beat overpowered
the lyrics. Beat is important part of the song, for sure,
but the lyrics was always the most important part. When
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the beat became the most important part, this is when
mumble rap comes.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
You don't have to rap. You could just say anything.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
You just ride the beat or to be So what
I'm saying is that now we're in a situation where yeah,
we can't fight against a fire with a water gun.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It's it's it's just a certain level of intelligence. We
have to we have to provide the entertainment for you
because if not, you're not gonna listen.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Then it's education inside of the entertainment. And that's why
it's called editate entertainment. Yeah, that was crazy. Master Kila
on Triumphs he said that that's the first time you
can't quote it them.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
You can't feed a baby steak, can't feed the baby
steak either. It's you actually end up killing the baby.
This is this is wisdom and understanding that there's growth
and maturation. So we're still immature as people. We have
we have, we have a long way to growing to
being mature. So when when a baby is born, you
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you don't feed it solid foods.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You have to feed it apple sauce. You have to
feed it, you know, milk.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
They're gonna be like, no, you can't feed that.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I'm just saying an infant. I know that over the
course of time. Now this is just serious conversation us. I mean,
you got to have a certain level of maturity to
even understand, like, you got to be able. If you're
immature enough to do that, then you shouldn't be listening.
So you have to have a certain around of maturity
to even understand what I'm saying. So, it takes time
for a baby to grow into a toddler. It takes
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time for the toddler to grow into a child. It
takes time for the child to grow into a teenager,
and it takes time for the teenagers to grow into
a young adult. It takes time for the young adult
to grow into an adult, and it takes time for
the adult to grow into a wise person. If you
try to force that growth too early, then you'll end
up pertingal. You're in the personal. If you try to
(15:38):
feed a baby stack, you gonna in the pertenalm if
you're if you try to make a five year old
drive a car, you're gonna end up pertnalm. If you
try to make a twelve year old go out in
the world and fin for himself, you're gonna end up
pertn them. So as you're as a leader, it's your
responsibility to make sure that you're guiding people in the
right direction over the course of time in ways that
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they can understand, in the language that they can understand,
and the speed that they can actually keep up with,
if not in what we're doing it for.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, but the thing is that we don't have time.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Well all we have. Only thing that we have is time.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Because if you look at it, it's like we had
the conversation with Diddy and he's like, Yo, we gotta
make rapid change and give them different things. And he's like, yo,
that's not that's not quick enough. Well we got in
this situation. This is this isn't even four hundred years slavery.
They said four hundred Yet This is actually even longer
than that. When you look at the fall of Africa
from him all the way to Mali. These is thousands
(16:34):
of a year. This white supremacy has been in rule
for thousands of years. Yeah, right, So this is something
that unfortunately you can't You can't reverse something like that
in one year for five years. This is why when
Mark Zuckerberg has one hundred year plan, this is important.
When CEOs of Japan looking at three or five hundred
year plans for that company, that's important. Unfortunately, we are
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always only thinking about tomorrow and our long term planning
is next year.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Like Friday, that's our long term planning. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
But that's not that's not a formula that's sustainable. That
might be, that might be beneficial for individual person, but
when you look at a collective, we have some we
can't even agree on one particular issue, Like there's not
one issue that as a collective Black people really agree
even even reparations people can't even agree on that.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
And that analogy this is important.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
So in that analogy, where would you say that we're
at Are we still in the infancy stage or are
we looking at our compartmental lives. And what we're saying,
this financial revolution is at the infancy stage or as
I shouldn't say Black.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Culture, but our community. Where would you say that we're at.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
I guess that over the last decade that would be
fair honestly, Yeah, where we are.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
What you gotta do think we got to be in
the infancy stage. We just had the rights to vote
sixty years ago. Like we technically wasn't even as equal
human beings in this country until recently. So we are
just now learning about this financial literacy information that we're providing.
It's so revolutionary because the vast majority of people have
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never even they don't even know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
You never knew about stocks or real estate or let
alone private equity, venture capital, so.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
You know what, you know what's interesting. I'm just going
to add to this point of what you're saying is
very important. The higher we go and the more people
that we meet, let's say up stature and of certain
levels of financial freedom, the less knowledge. There's something at
the top that have the knowledge. But as we go
with meeting people, and I never knew what that was.
I never knew what that was. I had no idea
(18:41):
Thank you guys. That's why you guys are so important.
So it's even interesting as we come because I know
that's something Even in the financial planning world. I would
meet people of a certain level intelligence, you would think, oh,
they should know that, but their discipline is not in finance.
Their discipline is in health or it's in medicine, and
they didn't have the discipline to know what finances. And
so the higher we climb, we're starting to see like
(19:03):
this thing is really something that's been absent from a
lot of different disciplines.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So I've got that I want to.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Be fifty year plan They gotta be at least a
fifty year planning. This is why it's like, are you
start with education? Like you got to understand too. I
think Frederick Douglass said it's a lot easier to train
I'm paraphrasing it's a lot easier to build strong boys
than to rebuild program men. So and that goes for
men or women, but I'm just that's what he said.
So it's you got to start all right now if
(19:30):
we implement this program and it starts with somebody that's
five years old now, because even the problem with the
five year role is that even if their parents are
going to be negative influences. So you got to really
it's a whole generation that has to of negativity that
has to be replaced before our next generation can even
get in a position to teach their children.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
So this is this becomes the new compounded interests. Right
where we look at the time the information is now
the rate that we got to look at, Right, they
get it at five, at ten, they but then there's
a generation that they're going to learn even faster. Yeah,
in a sense, that is the compounded interest of the future.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
But in the investment, you gotta look to threats. Like
if she wouldn't have came on, most people wouldn't even
known that they're actively fighting. So even when when I
bring up the rants and stuff, like I tell people
all the time, like there's a reason for AI to
get your attention, but there's a message I'm trying to
also sneak in even when they have to the conversation
about diversity inclusion. And that's why I'll shout out to
the cole I to been with JP Morgan next month.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I believe.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
There's a lot of interest in US post George Floyd.
But now that that has been eradicated. I've had a
couple of talks with some companies and they're like, hey,
that was the first thing that got cut, especially with
Marcus turnaround, the marketing budget and diversity inclusion. Well, let's
do the hell with that. The only part that troubles
me is that while we are slow to get off
(20:55):
the blocks, those that don't want us to have this information,
they're moving really, really really fast to make sure that
we don't have it really fast. Gotta move faster, And
this is always my point. I never have to tell
a guy get the courage to go talk to a girl,
go By balenci yaka go By. I never have to
push that Nike shit company right now. Infiflation goes up
(21:18):
and consumers have less suspend, it won't be a great stock.
I don't want to keep talking about the same seven
eight companies, but there is a reason why. So I'm
gonna be honest and say we have to move faster.
Because when I woke up and saw that Charlemagne and
Drake post, I saw thousands of comments of commentary and
people are right think pieces. And you're not monetizing and
(21:39):
making no money.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
You're obsessed with me, bro.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I mean, but once again, that's their personal thing that
they have going on.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
But why, but why is everybody commenting so much headline?
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Why is that a headline of trending topic?
Speaker 5 (22:00):
And what can you do? And it's going to court tomorrow,
Let's talk about that. Yes, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I mean, we could just it's human species. Is it
always meant for a select group of people to have knowledge,
wisn'm to understanding and then the masses of people just
to be ignorant. That's how That's how it always has
been throughout human civilization. So I think that you might
get frustrated when you're trying to uplift the masses and
make them enlightened. They don't want to be enlightened. If
the vast majority of people, if one hundred thousand people
(22:28):
watch market mondays, those are one hundred thousand people that
want to get and like if a million, if a
three million people is gonna watch academics talking about Chicago
Drill and Drake and whoever beef whatever, Charlomagne, then it's
hard to really advocate for those three million people because
they're making conscious decisions.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Mhmm.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
You could say now they're not educated enough to even
make a decision. But at a certain point, it's hard
to it's getting increasingly hard hard to make that argument
because there's so much access to information. There wasn't always
access to information. Back previously it was it was illegal
to read. Previously, information was hidden. You didn't even have
an opportunity to be educated, so you you were purposely
(23:14):
left ignorant. Now it's it's becoming increasingly difficult to have
that same level of empathy for adults because at some
point you see something on social media and you decide
not to watch it. You see something you it's somebody's
giving you some level of information at some point, everybody
(23:36):
at this point, and you're you're making a decision to
be like, nah, that's not for me.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
The access to information, the barriers a solo at this
point that it is a conscious decision that you're making
to not be educated straight up there. I don't know
how many entrepreneurs that we've spoken to who have become
successful who haven't said, I watched you to TV, but
prior to earn your leisure right, I watched you.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I did this. I was for free, for free, just
to learn. I just happened to watch it, or I
could watch Bad.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Buddies video shout out to beneath a shout out.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I'm knocking.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Got a bunch of billion viewge videos. But like, these
are choices, we're making them.
Speaker 4 (24:15):
Yeah, well, at what point, what age do you think
we should make the cut off from being entertained to
learning to make our lives better.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
It's difficult.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
What would you tell your son, Let's say that.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I mean, you got to understand certain level.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
It's hard to for me personally, I was I never
I was always on that my whole entire life.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
I always was on I was I always obviously listen
to music. I listen.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
I'm in the culture, so I'm not like a you know,
a monk, but I was always I always had a
more serious demeanor since I was young.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I always was on that type of time.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Like I read Rich Da Boy Dad when I was seventeen,
eighteen years old, Like that was like a whole you know,
Bible for me. As far as education is concerned, that's
probably like what a lot of fifty year old don't know.
But even before that, I was always interested. I was
interested in stocks, I was interested in business, you know,
it's you know that somebody's making money. That's how I
(25:11):
always look at like somebody's making money, so I'm interested
to know who's making money, and then how can I
make money? So to answer your question, it's difficult, I think,
you know, because you can't have those same level of
expectations for kids.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Yeah, but I think there's an intersection.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
I think what makes us unique, and I think it's
what's made us unique since we were younger, was that
we were able to find information inside of the entertainment.
I think we got this. Yeah, I think we would
have the ability to decode some of the messages. I
think we were able to break down and have, you know,
a common understanding when it came to music, especially when
(25:51):
it came to sports, it was yes, this is entertainment,
but yes this is business.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Why do you get this contract? Who's who's his advisor?
Who's his age?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Like?
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Those are the kind of conversations that we were having,
on top of having the ones that obviously in the barbershop,
you know when you're in school, so you can't alienate
them from it because there's lessons to be learned inside
of it. We had the conversation with Lauren, and she
was talking about roadblocks and like, there's an intersection there,
and we've said just plenty of times, yes, kids enjoyed,
(26:21):
let's meet the winner at let's tell them that this
is a publicly traded company.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
So it's just about finding the intersections.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
I don't think we can cut off the age and say,
you know what at thirteen, you know longer watching this.
Can you put time restrictions on some of it?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Can you incorporate education inside of some of it, of course,
and then you're going to have the real world experiences
that you can provide for them as well.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
So I think it's a mixture.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
I don't think it's a cutoff because had that been
cut off for me and I can maybe I could
speak for him as well.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I don't know where we would be without music. I
don't know where we would be without sports.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
I mean, I just said it's the last thing I'll
say about this. I just don't understand how you don't
want to just take your life serious. And like I said,
even for me, it wasn't like I was in business
my whole life. When I was playing basketball, like that's
what I was doing all day. I was going to
I was trying to better myself because I felt like
that was a pathway to me. Never I never was
a gamer. Not not to knock that, but I'm just
saying that's not what I was doing. I was never
(27:11):
a gamer. I was never somebody that was just smoking
weed like I. Of course you get introduced to that
and that's a decision that's easy to make. But I
was always serious, Like I always was serious about my life,
like I want to do something I want I want
to just be a regular person. I want to be
a special person. So I don't understand how you can
just have so much complacency. It's just it's difficult for
(27:34):
me to comprehend because it's just so much serious stuff
that's going on. Like I said, no matter what you
want to do, like whatever you want to do with
your life, you only get one shot at it. So
why would you not take it serious? Like why would
you get an opportunity to breathe every single day?
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It's a blessing?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Is that the defense mechanism that kicks in? Right?
Speaker 5 (27:54):
If I pretend that does not happening, If ignor that's
what it is, that's not happening because my life is
there's so much real happening in my life that I
need to be distracted by the realness of it.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Now you feel like it's a mechanism.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I don't know if it's a defense mechanism.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You think that it's just a it's a thing where
people don't have that same level of urgency. Like I said,
if you look at it from a standpoint of like
it's a blessing. You're actually blessed to be able to walk,
stand up and breathe. That's a blessing. There's a lot
of people that are incarcerated, there's a lot of people
that's dead. There's a lot of people that aren't physically
able to even operate or mentally able to operate. So
(28:30):
if you have a sound mind and a sound body,
that's that's a blessing. I think it's disrespectful to just
take that blessing and just do nothing with your life
or do minimum amount.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Everybody.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Everybody has the ability to be great in certain areas.
So you could be the best carpenter, you could be
the best investor. Like they said, the master investor, what
is he gonna say? The average investor? Like, why would
you say? Why would you why would you strive for mediocrity?
Like we say we're the biggest, what we're supposed to
say with the smallest, Like people get offended at or
(29:02):
they say they arrogant. They saying he's arrogant. He's saying
he's a master investor, Like well, what are you saying
you're you're your best thing?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Because why weren't you putting out the information before I
did it? They drugged me on. I didn't even want
to be show my face on camera. They're like, no,
you gotta like if you're gona do a YouTube show,
you gotta put up a camera. You should have made
two tech and that never show your face killing last year.
(29:29):
But it's like even when I put up that post,
shout out to my Guyso I was like, yo, stand
aside for two years. That's a small sacrifice. Like when
I asked Kyrie like how long were you playing to
get to the league, He's like, bro, what you mean
every day since age? That's what I dreamed about When
I met Kyrie. He was doing Trooper thread in front
of me and I'm like, I ain't playing, I ain't
not sold from a butter friend. You got me, I
(29:51):
can hur you what It shows the level of passion.
And the thing that we're really trying to convey is
like you have to have passion for something every day,
you have to get after it. Even when we were
traveling around, these are still our talks. Yeah, your one life,
(30:12):
you choose, And this is what I will say for
everybody who goes outside all the time, who parties a lot,
and y'all, like, I'm seeing a bunch of people looking
like they're happy when they're out. When I see you
in real life, you look miserable. It's better to have
the real life that you're really happy about when you
don't got a post, than to pretend like you're posting
(30:32):
for somebody else's media. And I'm telling you like this,
the media that you're posting on don't make that much
money for the people who own the media.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
The last thing I want to say about this because
you brought up a good point and I've been meaning
to talk about this for a while because we spend
a lot of time in Atlanta and we go out
all the time. But I think a celebration is meant
to celebrate something. So when Drake said, drink it every night,
because we drink some my accomplishments. There's some truth to that,
right he actually has he can actually celebrate every single
night because he's worked hard enough to put himself in
(30:59):
a position and financially where it's not hurting them. And
then also he's earned his leisure on that certain level.
How many black businesses do we need for night clubs
and we're not even owning the nightclubs or bars or
hookah lounges, And how many parties can we have?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:14):
How many? Like it's every single day. It's a variety
of different options to celebrate. And this is globally. When
we went to Lagos, Nigeria, when we went to Jamaica,
black people party at unprecedented levels. This might go back
to a thing of like suppressing the pain because you
(31:36):
know that financially globally, we're in the last place globally,
so everybody's not rich. Everybody that's buying these bottles can't
afford these bottles. So is it a thing of just saying, like,
I'm just gonna just have fun in this moment, because I.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Know when I wake up tomorrow is back to you know, pain.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
At some point we got it like and like I said,
I have fun I'll go to clubs all the time.
But I'm just a pattern with this where this has
become an industry once again, going back, we don't even
own the clubs. It wouldn't even be that bad if
we actually had real ownership. We don't even own these
night clubs. We're just promoters. We're party promoters. And where
(32:15):
the people that's really getting rich off of this are
the liquor companies which we have no ownership in. We
heard did he talk about that? And the owners of
the night clubs which ninety percent of the people that
own these physical buildings and structures are not black people. Yes,
and even the people that rent the clubs are not
black people. Only the black people in this equation are
(32:36):
the customers, the bottle service girls and security, and the promoters.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
That's that's the ecosystem of this.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Strip clubs, lounges, hookah lounges, bars, it's consuming, it's consuming
a decaded lifestyle at an extremely high level. That's extremely unproductive.
Champagne for the pain, and it's every it's everywhere that
we go. Like I said, this is not track. We
went to legos. That's all we did was party and
(33:08):
they told me forty percent of the nightclubs were owned
by people from bay Root.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
M hm, was it Lebanon?
Speaker 3 (33:18):
I think I think bay Root is in Lebanon.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Oh yes, yes.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
So the Lebanese owned the nightclub industry, in the hospitality industry.
And Lego, you can't even control your own industry in
a black country.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
We're not doing a city.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I keep saying our music culture when we stream all
that for the culture ship, not our culture either. Name
me nine black music executives that run anything tough, even
with yo Adam of Vulture, of Ladi Vulture, how they
volture in their own culture. Most of the people who
do the negative responses to stuff are not what champagne for,
(33:58):
the pains
Speaker 2 (33:59):
For the leave, for the low
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