 I don't know about that one. I don't know about that one, bro. It's too many vulnerable spots in Texas. Let's make it go five out of Texas like the part of the U.S. Congress. You've been the winner. Cartel for the B&M motherfuckers. So motherfucking quick. Tejas. Tejas Patagina. Shit ain't Texas no more, baby. It's so obvious that they start they stole Texas, bro. We sitting there talking about it. They ain't really changed the name that much. Texas, Mexico, Texas. Come on. See? They got real flagrant with New Mexico. Imagine somebody taking your shit and then like... This is the new one. The new 85 something. I seen that. I seen the clip pop up. I was like, these niggas in the trap. In the two numbers. 13's out. I said 13's in the wrong way. All right, J.O.N. I think it's about that time for us to at least get ready to start getting ready. Everybody get in your places, please. This is the pre-show. Yeah, that part was. You see how we switched the whole move. That was just dope to just hear some black men talking about some world affairs and shit. Anything else we should discuss? Y'all ready for the recession? You gotta be ready. All right, think about it for a minute. I forgot this in your lane. Just wait, just hold that thought for me. Hold that thought for me. I forgot you know what you're talking about. You know exactly what you're talking about. What y'all spending money on these days, black people? Everybody took the same breath. Besides gas. Travel, that's what we spend money on. The experiences, right? It's not working. People think we live out here, come out here every other week. Why y'all don't live out here? I'm trying. I've been trying to get around you. You ain't gotta stay all the time. You can let me stay at your shit when you ain't. Turn this shit into Airbnb. They been getting ready to party. They cut back on those out here. Airbnb. They just died. He had a non-abandoned party at Airbnb. No party? They put it in the contract. And what they're gonna do is if you violate it, they take you off Airbnb. The person who was listening to the house. So it's your fault. If somebody throws a party here. You gotta enforce it now. How do you enforce it though? I guess the ring cameras. They got them at the front, they can see who's going in the house. What classifies a party? More than 10 people? That's a good question. We're having a kick back. That's a good question though. They might have to specify it. I dispute that shit. It wasn't a party, we had a little soiree. Come on now. We had a soiree, that was it. It was a rendezvous. It was a meet up. We had a meet and greet. I like that. I like that. We had a mixer. That's probably the best timing. You gotta get better with your words. Language is important. Language is very important. We just smoke a lot. Hey man, you miss teaching? I still teach. Just a different subject. Teaching kids? I really? You teaching grown people now? Kids too. Get that weed smoke off him. Tell him about your kids. Tell him about your kids. My kids gonna see this shit. They are. It's a filter. I need the fucking bubble boy over here. We're at 85 South. Obviously I know the highway. I call it 85 South. You ain't see what 85 South do? That shit there be running through the city. We right there. You know what I'm saying? Not just in Atlanta though. We right there in the middle of the world. You feel me? 85 South shit. We done took this shit all around the world. People who never even been on 85 South. I think it was that big when I first did it. It ain't even as big as I thought it was gonna get yet. Yeah, this motherfucker done it. This is crazy though. It's not as big as you thought it was gonna get yet. Because in my mind it's still... It's still... It's still bigger. I'm still seeing it how I saw it. You get what I'm saying? From the beginning though. Three dudes on the white table. Did the highway department ever reach out to y'all? What you mean? Like 85 South. What's the highway? I don't know yet. I didn't know the department of transportation. Where's the legal team? Had a social media. We would love to work with the department of transportation again. What state is 85 South coming from? A lot of them. You in logistics? From North Carolina. They take it all out. Like the top of North Carolina for sure. North Carolina all the way to Florida. Florida? Florida is 75 South. 85 South. Yeah, probably here. Alabama. It stops at like the top of North Carolina. In terms of the 77 I think. 95 North. It don't matter. 95 go from New York all the way. I know. I try to survive on 95. Hell yeah. It makes sense. When may y'all go with Earn Your Leash? You need the hashtag. Use that in his own social media campaign. What? I was trying to be a financial advisor. I needed a hashtag. I was like, I got one for you. I was like, Earn Your Leash. It was kind of like a synonymous of us being in the place and people think we didn't work hard for anything we had. Who thought that? A lot of people. I'm sure people think that what y'all do is easy. Until they try to do it. Until they try to do it. Then they realize how hard it is to do. They gonna try. But they don't realize how hard y'all work. I told them before. If nothing else fails, we know that y'all coming. Y'all gonna show up every single day. You've earned some of the freedoms that you had. Which is really the phrase, Earn Your Freedom. Earn your freedom. Leisure. This looked like leisure, but it's not. This was earned. Loki, that leisure is a freedom. You can do shit where you want to. Good. That's the ultimate freedom. If you can't move, how you want to move? You're not free. Yeah. That would be the perfect spot to tell them. Welcome back to the A-Bots House Show. So much since we started recording this show. You haven't grew back. Haven't grew back. Haven't been over. Damn, we done been through so much. The ups, the downs. You done been in two relationships since you started watching this. When you done fuck with it. But it's been two whole relationships. Some of y'all got pandemic babies that's walking, talking, going in the refrigerator right now. That's how we living over here. Did you know that the A-Bots House Show was voted the number one podcast amongst black men that prefer black women? We know our audience well. We know our audience well. And this is the number one show amongst black women who wear slides most of the time. They're important too. Stay season too. I see a few slides right now. Why would I lie to you? Ladies and gentlemen we got some very special guests in the house with us today. Bro, last time these dudes on the show they didn't made triple their net worth since they left. I know because I keep up with them. I know it's money in the building. I don't know what you've been doing or what you need to start doing. But if you don't have nobody in your life that's going to tell you to do some shit right, this who you need to link up with right here. Because they changing people's lives and breaking the game down and helping people do it along the way. None other than earn your leisure. They found to put me up on so much game. I need it. Baby. That's what I'm saying. Y'all don't even feel like guests. I feel like this is supposed to happen quarterly or whenever y'all in Atlanta y'all are supposed to stop through here game us up and make sure that we straight and we earn it. Come on man. We always bring guests with us from our man trap. I think we introduced you to trap. Yeah you did. Now look at him. Alex good energy. So today you put my man Alex good energy. I know you used to drive trucks right? Yeah. This is going to be legendary. I didn't know that. You used to drive trucks? Yeah. That's what you do? No. You bring that up for me. He got a company where he teaches people like on trucks. Oh. Not driving though. Not driving. And dispatch. You fuck with the dispatch? Yeah. Yeah that's easy. That's some good money if you know how to do that shit. Absolutely. Not good. You got to be efficient with it. You got 18 millions? Yeah. Wow. Like a good dispatcher if she know how to route you and you can make money going either direction. That's the key. It's not to be wasting you know like don't waste no troops. Yeah that's a fact. That's one of the things. You got to be efficient. You got to be real efficient. You know we got a truck. You know we got a truck? You ever seen it? Yeah. I seen it. Okay. I don't have one though. Did you know that we have a truck? Yeah. All right. We need the link. Yeah. We got the right job service. Because when we do our shows man we got a truck too. We just didn't put our logo on it. Car is the equipment. Yeah. You should put your logo on it. You think so? Yeah. It's a billboard. But I don't want nobody to steal it. No. Y'all love it. Y'all got love. I know. They're going to take pictures of it. They're going to take pictures of it. I got this truck out there. Take that shit man. God damn they got to show tonight bro. I got tickets to that shit tonight. That shit is dope bro. Every single day somebody tags us. We seen it in Mississippi. We seen it in Alabama Arkansas and New York. It's a moving billboard. It's like they know you coming to town. It's going to be perfect. Absolutely. 85% of us. See nine motherfuckers going to be in the comments like bro when you get it let me drive it. Pull it over. Get me a small book. That shit off the track. Take a picture. That's what's up. That truck industry. That's the hell of an industry man. Yeah. $800 billion a year. And it's crazy when even in the pandemic earlier everything shut down except the trucks have running. The truck got all the shit on them. You want to see a real pandemic let them truck stop. Then you'll see a pandemic for real. There ain't no food in the supermarket and stuff like that. That's why I got into it. I used to throw parties. All that cool stuff. It was cool. I was like I got to get into something that is going to be here forever. Yeah. That's what I used to deliver to Turkey parts to the fucking to the place that make the sandwich meat. What's that? Not like Louis Rich. I didn't want to say the name. What's my name? Louis Rich is going to be in the comments. No he didn't. Fuck up. I don't know. Fuck up. One day I had delivered some shit. I delivered some shit out there. And I've seen where they keep all the all the fucking burgers and shit. It's like these motherfuckers know they're about to be sandwiched meat. Because you would think it would be a lot of noise and squawking and feathers and shit everywhere. They'd just be shitting their life. Like in the cages and all that? That affected you? Do you want to eat it no more? Nah I fucked that. That's what they look like. That night. That night. That shit didn't affect me in no way. I was trying to figure out a way to get me some free meat out of that motherfucker. My heart don't work like that. I ain't never looked at that. Nothing felt bad for eating it. Except for later. A human. Few pieces I wish I wouldn't have ate. Just because I feel like she got something to hold against me. You feel her? Potentially. I just feel like she was like, yeah when you ate that shit you did it. You gotta be careful. Oh really? That's how you go at it. That ain't even hand sold no more. You wouldn't say that when you was eating my pussy? Neither were you. Alright. That's that DMX kid. Kendrick Lamar song. Fuck you. He got the movie out of the video. He got a video for that song? Like he was doing a screener for it. I ain't saying that. That's his function. What's been up man? Shit man. Working bro. Moving around the world. Trying to get like y'all. What you mean trying to get like that? You making big plays over here. We trying to do y'all shit. Y'all supposed to tell us how to navigate. Oh man. Hell yeah. The climate we in. It's a good time man. It's a good time. That's Steve on the show. Y'all ain't even telling my name. No clap. Who the fuck man see it? Man see it. 85 was one of him in the comments. I don't know who man see it. We still trying to figure out who man see it. When it happened. Apparently he's a Mexican comic that used to be real popular. There's no question who he is. You know who he is. There's nothing to do with this program. So he was giving them props. And he was giving like oh yeah. And he said everybody's name. And then he was like DC and Chico. And man see it. And I'm like well he ain't say love's name. So I thought it was an inside joke. Y'all had it between each other. You think me and Steve just keep it back man. I see you man see it. Yeah why he calling that. And then the comments was like who the fuck is that. I'm like oh. Man see it them boys. It's the one. It's the one. Nah it's my dog. Shout out to Steve Harvey. He might do a lot. He probably had the other. You know what I'm saying. He said the group name. So that counts. I'm not trying the only person that was clapping. Shout out to Steve. Shout out to Steve Harvey. Steve cool. I ain't mad at all. At least he knew it was three people. On the brighter note. Now what we gotta do to get this truck game jumping. Man you know what I like about trucking is so many ways to get into it. You know that's what I love about it. You can get in as a fleet owner. Some people ain't in the position to buy a truck right now. You know all the prices are inflated right now. So you know dispatching is like a game changer. I show people. I'm showing people how to like dispatch. You know it's like you know what a dispatch is. I would compare it to like air traffic control to an airplane. The people that you know negotiate the lows. The people that tell the driver what time to be there. The address to pick up and all that good stuff. So you know dispatching is a dope way that you can get in. To say he got a truck but he don't got time to be dispatching the truck. He ain't got time to deal with his driver. You know right. You as a dispatcher you can dispatch this truck for him and get 10% off whatever his truck make right. So if you ain't got the money to buy a truck you can literally just dispatch the truck. Get 10%. So if you make his truck $8,000 in a week right gross you get $800 off of that. But just imagine if he had like a fleet of trucks five trucks and you dispatching five trucks at $8,000 a week. 800 times five times four weeks. You know what I'm saying. So a lot of people are getting in the game who don't got the capital to buy a truck right now. And right now is not really a good time to buy a truck. Like I'm gonna just be real with you. Trucks that was $50,000 last year is like $80, $90 right now. Yeah well you better buy them before they beat $200. You waiting on the price to go down. You got shit fucked up. Ain't shit going down. Once Coke was a dollar that bitch was just a dollar and up. Ain't no going back down. It's it. You better get in where you fit in right now. So you know having contracts is good right now. You know what I'm saying. You get your good rate. Negotiate your good rate. Even though the fuel prices is high they got something called a fuel surcharge. Yeah but negotiate a little bit more money with the fuel being so high. But again prices is up. Fuel is up but it still ain't gonna stop. It still ain't gonna stop. So I'm gonna be doing it forever. I've been doing it for 10 years now. And I started off doing it just to get my people out the streets. I had so many cousins that was in the streets. They still out there. Yeah but I'm not. He ain't even trying to get my people out the streets. They ain't even ever left. How you doing your little thing with the truck huh? Man comes like whipping. Nah nah these streets need me. Nah for sure. Can't leave the streets alone, need you. That's just, that's ironic though. He started a trucking business to get his people out the streets. Trucks were out on streets. They was gonna be in the streets anyway. It won't get him out the streets on the road. But you know what's so crazy? That's a fact. You know what's so crazy though? Like that's why I love our platform. Cause like before I met him I never even thought about trucks as being a business. I just looked at trucks as just, it's on the road. Like you know what I'm saying? And that sold me different mobile homes. We did somebody with mobile homes. I never even thought about mobile homes. Vending machines. I've never seen anybody take money out of a vending machine. Ever in life. Think about it. Have you? Hell yeah. What type of life have you been living in? I've never seen somebody own a vending machine and take the money out of it. I think I know the way you talk about it. Not like that. You talk about like... Nah nah I'm talking about... I just never knew who owned it. I've seen people taking the money and I was like that's a lot of singles and then they go but you never know who owns it and so they collect it. I saw this shit when I was a kid, right? Yeah. I was at the laundromat. This fucking dude came in he had a key to all of them shit and he had a big ass bag or quarters. And these was the old vending machine so he had just one key for everything he opened that shit got some old quarters out then it was a stack of dollars and I was like he rich. I'm a kid though. Yeah but you was like like I said I never seen that but it's like that on purpose because you never... it's done so you can never think about that. You think about what they want you to think about but you don't think about business so now it's like now we can actually think about business because we got people like him every industry where they actually not only showing that they do this but they give you the game on how to do it so it's like unlocking a secret code like you know what I'm saying because it's like damn I always close my whole entire life I never knew the business behind Merch I never knew how you actually make Merch profit margins I just we just buy clothes even entertainment like we just watch entertainment we just listen to music we never understood the business behind it like damn so now it's like a whole new form of education where it's like a tidal wave every single thing is just getting like oh this is how you do that that's a business I can do this I can do that okay you know what I mean this is like the first time ever that this much information is out there you knew about trucks but what was you doing oh I was just fucking off no no no what was you doing though you was driving right so that's what they limited us to for so long when you think trucks you just think oh I gotta drive a truck that's that's that's what we was held to thinking that that's what trucking was they got a great pitch when you go to that fucking school right right but see I wasn't in a position to drive like I'm not good with driving low distances I fall asleep you have to three hours you know what I'm saying so yes but I ain't use that that's a fact and I know that so I was like look I wanted to get in the game but I gotta figure out a different avenue how you know it's three hours because I'll be driving to Charlotte since I was in right when I get to Charlotte I'm like oh that's it I can't do it that's all the beauty of it is like what Shai is talking about and what I was just talking about is like yeah you can watch him do it but people are watching y'all do it like we talked about that last time you're like nah I don't tell these people but they literally watching y'all do it right y'all got merch y'all have a show y'all have a show y'all doing live events and now you got a network of people that sign to you and so they're watching you create businesses when they thought like all these guys are just comedians nah they're actually businessmen that are building infrastructure in real time and so people that are coming to watch the events they see like the show the entertainment part but there's a business structure that's behind it so y'all doing it too you don't even try to expose shit oh shit nah it needs to be celebrated nah it's important it definitely needs to be talking about it I mean if they're gonna have slides and watch your show they need to know what they don't need to know the business of this shit just figure it out y'all people they're gonna be in there googling shit you know Carlos gets a thousand dollars every time he say bitch right you know that that's crazy they can sponsor by the bitch in there big bitch big bitch and this bitch like that brought to you by bitch.com you taking you out the group chat you telling everything y'all got a network of people saying to me who who who said in the different room shout out the poor minds what's up y'all it's your girl Lex P and it's your girl Joreanna Cole and the For Rich Our Poor tour is coming to Birmingham at the Lyric Theater on August 6th yes it's about to be solid and the door is gonna open at 7 p.m. I can't wait to see all y'all y'all need to make sure y'all get y'all tickets cause they selling out super fast super fast and y'all know we love us a small town cause we really gonna get down so make sure y'all get y'all tickets at www.poorminds.com and like Joreanna said the tickets is going fast y'all and I know they seen the clips cause we've kicked off this tour with a bang girl yeah the clip has been leaked y'all see what's going on yes so make sure y'all get y'all tickets and we'll see y'all August 6th we outside period what's up y'all it's your girl xp and it's your girl Joreanna Cole and we are bringing the for rich or for poor tour to Columbia South Carolina on August 5th at the Senate yes you know door is gonna open early and make sure that y'all put that each point yes cause y'all know we came dressed to impress I know y'all seen the clips from the other shows we outside yes stop playing make sure you get y'all tickets right now at www.poorminds.com cause they selling out so fast yes and we don't want to make sure you come period and we'll see y'all August 5th we outside period great show by the way shout out our brother 19 he's on the shout out to them yeah Ryan with the soul clap he holding it down yeah yeah yeah we you know we always try to expand the business part of it cause you know the entertainment part of it is there yeah so it's like why the fuck we be around all these great minded people who have great network who actually do business on the up front and not try to connect and network put pieces where they need to be and make it all make sense you give it I'm saying so that's it shout out to the whole team though everybody over here holding it down holding it down we're gonna super expand our empire too we just drop some onesies for the babies kids love this show we got some onesies for the newborns the kids love this show people send us videos each and every day of the babies sitting there just kicking the feet laughing I don't know if they understand the joke so it's the sound of our voice what do you think the sound of your voice they got a favorite character that they it's coming to the babies yeah yeah sure I'm gonna just come in here and sit on the couch and just talk for an hour just for the kids now he races we came now yeah nothing but another author we'll find some you can read anything yeah you're right fucking making sure kids like story so man you done really blew up you modeling this shit now back back back you wear like full outfits today now full outfits you know what man Troy didn't want to satan that way this year man I just felt like I just wanted to be a fashion icon what are some of your inspirations bro we're not gonna let you just be out here without supporting you and shit like that who are you who are you inspired by the 90s everybody like that 90s era New York Nas Rayquan like that drug dealer type of late 80s early 90s mid 90s that's that's my inspiration drug dealers yeah and rappers it was a fly's one cause you know it's so crazy though like I'm a beyond cause I feel like now we can flip it and we not selling drugs we positive we doing legal things but we still like the fly era so it's like you can get that you can get the girls you can do everything but you can do it without risking your life without risking your freedom so it's important for people to see it because it's like if we just wore suits everyday there's a people that might not be able to understand what we're talking about so now they seem like damn you look like somebody I aspire to be you look like the promoter the one they pay you when you get there what y'all doing tomorrow I got a date party now they moves without promoters yeah that's a fact that's a fact that's a fact come from that that's just accident sin but yeah so you know but it's too it's about having fun with it bro like you know what I'm saying like I feel like we had a point now where I was just talking to my god Toby you know him Toby and the wig way he ain't coming to the trap if he can't bring his kids I was like bro I was like bring all the kids bring everybody who'll be in your video with you we gonna change the color here he think we ain't gonna put the weed up if the kids here he don't even know everybody over here got kids you bring I bring mine yeah on time I get the smoke yeah that's why we shoot so many episodes Toby you bring the kids we gonna put the weed in the car relax shit so that's my dude man but now I was talking to him like I was trying to A&R a song I met some guys out in LA that I rock with he was like yo you crazy for doing this bro like this is what you doing with your time I respect it because this is for me just having fun like you know what I mean it's like we got a point now where we got so many relationships we got an audience it's like just go left when everybody going right so I'm like we talking about finance we talking about money but I wanna be a fashion icon so I just decided to be a fashion icon one day do it fashion icon that's the type of shit I'm talking about just be it just be it that's a fact a lot of shit you just gotta do yeah and say it and say it once you you say it enough Tom they gotta believe it one of them said he was the best rapper alive until everybody said he was the best rapper alive Jay-Z when he said Biggie Jay-Z and Nas nobody was putting him in that category he put himself in that category he even surpassed it he's like when you say some stuff enough and you really believe it people gotta Jay-Z do it too Jay-Z do it too he be like top 5 that are alive you know what I'm saying so you hear Jay-Z you're the back to think that my boy Rob Hayes shout out to Rob Hayes said all you need is for two people to say it as people he said so if I say it somebody else say it he want more as people how you build it but you gotta have the audacity to believe it right like you know what I'm saying it's like yo I really believe that I'm walking it I'm talking it and it's just the final one to come so when he says that it's like I bet he is why not who's to say he's not yeah basically fuck don't even get me started that's how we sitting right here today you gotta say some shit so unbelievable you gotta do something that nobody thinks can do welcome back to the 8 and 5 sound show we even keep this picture of Marvin Gaye here this long ain't nobody else doing that he's looking at us he's definitely looking at us Marvin's always looking that's the fact that's what I said you said the dream that you not even the dream the vision you had hasn't even been reached yet not yet but that's the belief in it this shit gonna be bigger than Harry Potter man believe it I do I know that I'm vision this shit so big I don't even I'm not even sure there's enough black people in America to fuck with this for it to be as big as I see it we might have to go to like South America and and Africa too you gotta go global you gotta go global I know what I'm saying like in a grand scale like in Africa we gotta be as big as WizKid in Africa we gotta be as big as WizKid but in Brazil we gotta be as big as that lady who be on the news with the fat ass twerking she don't even know her name but she one of the most popular people over there but she be over the everything you said that's why Steve Harvey went to Africa it's like we went to Nigeria and like in America I think there's 70 million black people in America that ain't enough so Nigeria is a country with 200 million people and they all black and 80% of the population is under 21 90% of the population is under 18 so it's like look at the opportunity like you know what I'm saying look at the opportunity out there and that's just what they all people are doing they all people they don't know they can have this but that's just one country that's just one country think about all those countries with people that look like us but we're not tapping in that's why I say it can't even be like we have to you're gonna do it not like we need to know we have to be there we gotta be there we gotta when they ask us what we think of the future we think world domination we don't think United States because financial literacy isn't a issue it's not an American issue it's a world issue and so if we spread we're gonna get this shit down and then we're gonna move on to something else I got this oh you got it nah y'all got this you know what I'm saying like we're gonna get the finances right yeah and then we're gonna move on to some real like some other real shit too yeah I bet I'm just saying I'm just making sure like it's the black community we got a plan and the thing is like if you think about how bad our people needed here right with the lack of education especially in the financial world think about other countries who have don't have the same form of education right they needed just as bad and we got a unifier the internet that can spread it they don't have to go to school anymore they can watch this on YouTube they can watch this on their phones and so the information is rarely available it's just that they don't have anybody speaking from their perspective from their respective countries so that's why it's important that like when I'm like we have to go to Africa we gotta go to Europe we gotta touch on we gotta go to these countries because they need it but we're not gonna go this is our message we're gonna find the people that have the message link with them and say like alright these people are stamped these are the people from your country that you should be checking in with because they have the gift because when we leave right when we go back to our respective homes wherever that's gonna be in the world they'll still be there to give the message out and I said 70 I don't really think that number is accurate I think it's less I think it's a lot less but bottom line is that it's not just black people either people all over they needed white people Asian people Spanish people like some we limit ourselves sometimes to just black but the whole world the whole world needs to get a message because they already they already listen to our music they already love our culture in Asia in Japan all of that like so why not export everything else why not export things that like they need us they need us to be leaders I got stopped in the parking lot at the gym so white dude pulled up on me and he was like Troy I'm like damn whose father is this and he was got out of his car and he was like look I just want to tell you I love what y'all doing I love what Ernie Lee's doing I learned so much and most people probably think I don't because I'm a white man who comes from privilege but I come from privilege I have no idea what to do with this money I'm watching y'all and y'all are giving us instructions so don't think that it's just like your community that's watching you there's people who are like me who are watching you they have no idea that was the agent they did a sign to you that was the agent that was the agent that's the one that scared the shit out of me I was like Troy hey we've been watching you for a while we've been watching you for a while I was looking through your phone I mean watching your shit damn you're right I got his plea I got his plea the men in black look at this light is that your car? nope no it's gotta be multicultural we got all kind of people watching this show Eskimos Native Americans few of the lost tribes of the Congo we touch bases man I believe it yeah man I want my shit to be international like worldwide like out of space and shit I want this shit to be like on one of them space launches I need somebody to just pull up the 85 South Shore how they going up? yeah yeah I can see it yeah I don't know bro you gotta dream big if your dreams don't sound crazy they ain't big enough yeah and if they don't scare you if they don't scare you it ain't big enough you you gotta see more moves I gotta be a little scared before I do them if it ain't a little scary what's the last scared move you made I just put 16 acres on the contract right there by turning hell more I'm about to do something that's never been done in my industry I'm about to do a truck parking lot with about 700 slides for trucks to park at cause right now it's a problem and it's a shortage of truck parking spaces so what I did was I identified a problem and you know I've been blessed I'm in position to bust some moves right now so I was like look when it's time for me to invest I gotta do something that solves a problem but you know I don't got nobody that I know that's done it before so I don't really got a blueprint it's like I'm doing it scared and I'm okay with that because I know everybody that's successful that's around me it's a little scary but it just worked cause you know my boy Neal see it all the time we always worried about what if it don't work but what if it do work it's gotta work boys and how to work what if it do work you know what I'm saying okay okay yeah that's another thing yeah man you know the future is coming like whether we the future is here right technology is getting better and better like it was a point where we didn't think that we'll be able to see somebody on the phone like you ever was young you was talking to your little girl like damn I wish I could see you right now and we didn't realize one day you'll be at the face time yo so I just believe that you know the technology is gonna get crazy and crazy and Tesla you know they're solving the problem right fuel right now even what was going on in the market right now with fuel diesel prices is the highest they've ever been in trucking ever so a lot of companies aren't positioned to be able to handle that a lot of them got too much overhead so now with the fuel prices going up it's putting a lot of people out of business so I did my research I'm like damn the Tesla truck you don't need no fuel right you can get 500 miles on one charge then everybody was like shoot how long is it gonna take to charge I did my research 30 minutes how long it take when you was driving them trucks how long it took for you to go to the truck stop and get fuel by the time you run inside pay for it get you some snacks use the restroom come back out wait in line and get the fuel how long that took like 30 then Elon was like look I'm putting a million mile guarantee that they ain't gonna break down for a million miles and I thought it was cap I'm like that's not possible so I'm like why would he say that truck ain't gonna break down for a million miles well he put an engine on each axle so it got four axles on the 18 wheeler he put an engine four engines one on each axle so three of them break down guess what that one engine is gonna allow that truck to keep going so it's $180,000 it ain't coming out probably for another year or two I said look I'm making they say I'm the face of trucking I gotta get it I gotta be the guinea pig so I said look I'm gonna be the guinea pig I'm gonna get it if it works cool I'll be able to share my testimony let everybody know look go get this truck and if it don't work I just turned into a learning lesson and use it as a teaching moment so again I gotta put $20,000 now pay $184 and hope that you know Elon do what he's supposed to do with it you know what I'm saying but again if it works then guess what I did it I'm doing this scared so a lot of y'all man like you know don't be afraid to you know do what's scared do what's scared do what's scared that's a fact I like that that's a fact that's gonna get you to meet Elon he's gonna be like I remember that guy he's right there he ain't gonna meet I mean he never yeah I don't know where I'm gonna watch it back don't take the jacket off I'll be worth trillions yeah he trolling I'm gonna look and say a million miles guarantee alright y'all see he say he got all them engines that bitch break down he better take each engine off oh that's gonna be interesting to see though man cause you know truck is a world of what if you know that's the fuckin it's a vehicle anything could fuckin this is the automated truck or somebody gotta drive nah this one somebody gotta drive but they see it now a fuckin truck it broke down you know what you know what I learned about from Elon is that successful people celebrate their wins and act like their losses never happen remember that armor truck he got that shit from Donald Trump though Donald Trump all of them remember the armor truck thing and they said the windows couldn't break and they threw a rock and it broke the window he never heard about it again he just act like it never happened like so many times we get caught up on losses and it brings down our spirit they act like it never happened but then when you win you gotta amplify that cause people only remember what you amplify just quiet act like it never happened and move on like that's a lesson because so many times we let the losses like just break our spirit we hard porn it we can't get over it just move on like it's part of the game America love a comeback story that's a fact I was thinking about raging with the glasses Shaw's a ranger he ain't what he say you can't break it so what exactly same mentality same mentality as long as you got more wins and losses that's it as long as you got more wins it's unbreakable yeah spirit's unbreakable Shaw's a ranger that's how I got to be a beast oh just with him out in LA broke him out again so it don't matter I'll make a scooter never happened Ray J is the culture man that's a fact this motherfuckers stay moving the culture he just dropped that shit at the verses battle that crazy ass dance the internet lives forever yeah one wish he said that they was I guarantee you used that little that little fucking thing about the end of the year that little clip everybody gonna be hitting when the check clears they already used it they already used it they already used it Ray J is smart man he's smart he's a soldier boy them dudes are geniuses they play that role then with the ramen noodles they're like eating ramen noodles you thinking that we're catching them off guard and it was a whole marketing thing I always played a role in a fool but a fool can never play a role in a wise man I went to see soldier boy we went he's classically playing a piano classically musical train like genius level there all that stuff that he understands what he's doing I'm like when you learn to play the piano like I'm talking about like Beethoven type shit so what was his reason for learning how to do it because when he got into music he realized that in order to be like a true musician he had to learn all of the aspects of it not just the rap so he produces everybody know he produces but I didn't know he actually played instruments but he was like playing the instruments he learned how to read music and learning how to read music actually made him a much better musician that's crazy that's the duality of it like he gonna play the classical piano and then next thing he gonna be telling you how he's gonna build a slide from his bedroom to his pool that's part of genius right he's just like he gonna keep staying relevant I'm gonna do I'm gonna skate with one sock on I'm gonna be the first person to do it like they know how to stay relevant even that saying he the first person it's a joke but it's real because now it's like he said it so much he's branded it so now it's like to 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she's a legend that'd be hard what is a cat yeah it's going good we did a couple of course we got the truck we got vending machines appreciate that you gotta get some weed in it nah we was actually yeah shout out to Al Harrington we interviewed Al Harrington yeah I don't sure heavy in stocks stocks yeah real estate with MG he sent us some weed up here Viola powerful Viola brand it was so good I forgot to tell him things shout out to Al Harrington man it was a good week appreciate it bro yeah so we did a couple like couple different things cause it's like what's the point of our relationship if you're not going to use them yeah it's crazy cause like when we sit down with people and they got an expertise our question then starts changing like I'll hear how he's asking questions cause I know we're about to have a conversation after like I think we can do this like when we did that episode I knew they was going to get the truck like I knew it just based too much dead sense why we not doing this the best thing is like yeah we get to learn on the spot but then we get to have the resource to hold our hand like all right listen we're going to do this it's going to help build our brand it's going to help build your brand and people get to watch it so it's going to inspire them like wait these dudes these dudes didn't know anything about it but they did it right they took action I would say like we jump off the porch cause it's like all right well fuck it we're going to learn people are going to learn through us and so it helps both parties you know what I'm saying so anytime you hear those type of questions coming from us it's like all right we can do it cause we know what people want to do and so like this generation especially this generation the amount of information that's being given cause we know in the past like people just hoarded it they didn't want you to win it was like I got it good luck figure it out on your own and now we coming through it like now here's the information and we got it you can have it too let's see how it's all built together man throw some resources out there that you want to lead the people to then I don't need you I don't need you first and foremost first and foremost yeah y'all should be watching market Mondays every Monday Shawty y'all should definitely be watching high level conversation Shawty my man 19 absolutely y'all should be watching EYL every episode that's a fact yeah rancin gems if you watch real estate real estate fashion show inside the vault yep we created a whole ecosystem in Elysia it's other people doing they thing too but it's like we took the same model for music it's like when you hot you got two choices when you hot you can just double down and focus on yourself or you can start helping others and grow and now it's like we can produce content we can have other shows so it's like we don't rap so we don't got a record label you should you should you'd be the best record label owner yeah cause you ain't got no interest there's talks about about that rap a song fuck it while I'm working on producing a song ain't a ain't a I can say you should rap rap not a rap not a rap not a rap rap is what they did they did their work shit yo that's crazy I swear to God Jimmy tell these niggas how I used to get down that's crazy I was just about to say that literally I was just about to say that cause damn my God I was just about to say if I'm doing anything I'm going to beat Dane Dash on a record just talk to him just talk to him wait till the read mix though do you show your hands on the read mix throwing champagne money earn your leisure shit you can never no big exception no big exception I like that keyword I like that don't forget that another resource they can tap in for anybody that want to you know learn about the truck game you know goodenergyworldwide.com alright and we talked about like speaking it right when I started my company ten years ago I was going to go with good energy I was like nah I'm going to do I'm going to be worldwide so I actually named my LLC as Good Energy Worldwide I spoke that you got to get into that Solar Power 2 play oh yeah for sure I mean you got to name Good Energy yeah you're right we're going to do Energy Drink though that's what we all do yeah we really got it all next week I can speak on it now breaking news Energy Drink coming but yeah goodenergyworldwide.com you know what I'm saying we got the complete truck important for people that want to learn how to be a fleet owner we got the dispatch mastery course for the people that's not ready to get a truck yet you want to learn the dispatching game and you know the Instagram I give a lot of game I give a lot of free content you know what I'm saying I've been giving game for ten years almost and people always be like look why you give away so much game like you give away so much and I tell them if you give away too much you don't know enough you know what I'm saying but Alex underscore good energy ALIX oh we didn't even talk about the upcoming recession recession this shit going to drop like an album I feel like we in a recession it's here it's officially here I feel like we in a recession right now they haven't officially announced it yet but they will a recession is two negative quarters of GDP so we just about to finish this quarter but the good thing about recessions is that there's a lot of people and I feel like a lot of people make their fortunes during recessions so it's like you know a lot of businesses fail but some businesses succeed and if you are the business that succeed that makes you an authority in the space so now it's like you know only the strong survive right so if you can survive during the rough times then when the good times come you already going to be ten steps ahead and it also gives you opportunity to invest because like now the stock market you know talk about that stock yeah yeah yeah everything about all the dough all the dough all the dough all the dough all the dough every one of them but yeah like we know stocks is down crypto is down people panic and they want to sell but it's like this is an opportunity to buy like I heard a crazy story Don Peebles you ever heard of him Don Peebles real estate developed he's black he's probably like a billionaire close to a billionaire but you can apply to everything it's like a clock he was like when the clock is at twelve o'clock that's the peak like you don't want to invest in he was like you want to you want to actually wait until it gets to like four o'clock and he was like from four o'clock all the way to like eight o'clock is when you should be buying and then from eight o'clock to eleven o'clock is when you should be selling and it's like if you think about like that that's like buy low sell high most people do the exact opposite most people buy high and they sell low like those right because of what's called FOMO fails missing out so what happens is psychologically you see Bitcoin and it's at ten thousand dollars and you're like alright then it goes to twenty thousand you're looking at thirty thousand forty thousand fifty thousand now by the time it gets to sixty thousand you feel like every single person in the world got it and you're the only person that don't have it and it's going to go to three hundred thousand so you put your whole life savings in then it goes there you're telling my whole life story I couldn't understand it all the way but then it goes from sixty to twenty then what happens psychologically you get so nervous and so rattled you see your money go from a hundred thousand down forty thousand you panic it so now you're thinking alright I rather lose sixty percent of my money than all of my money because it's going to zero and you sell and then what happens it goes back up that's the cycle you don't lose shit until you sell it exactly but there's some emotions there's so many emotions that come into investing that's why we always tell people you gotta invest long term most people want to trade they want to make money as fast as possible but the same person who hasn't invested when you see companies like Apple or you see an Amazon a hundred dollars or you see a Disney that's like ninety eight dollars that's the perfect time to get it because these companies aren't going anywhere we already know that if I have to ask you the top five companies over the next ten, fifteen years you're probably going to say Google, Amazon, Apple Tesla will probably be thrown in there it's a little more volatile but they're at a discounted price we're the only community that says alright stocks are discounted let's not buy them but when clothes are discounted it's like let's run to the mall we're so accustomed to being consumers that we don't realize that we can be owners so if we get that that's what this is about our whole movement is like to change that mindset let's shift from consumerism to ownership so this is the time if the market's down yeah this is something that's called the fair and greed index it tells you like when people aren't fair that's when you buy when people agree that's when you sell it's kind of like dissimilar to the clock analogy right now people aren't fair so we should be looking at it like alright this is a perfect time to go put money into companies that I think are going to be here long term and you only have to think about it like you probably already consuming them you probably got an iPhone you probably already shop on Amazon you probably use Microsoft you're like you're using all these products so you don't have to ever think about it you're the one that's making these companies have sustainable power over the long term then you're only supposed to invest what you not afraid to lose you know what I'm saying that's the oldest rule in the book you only invest what you ain't got a clock you ain't supposed to invest the money that you're going to need for rent next month period so that way you can just you don't got to be so emotional with your decisions fact and even in the recession like even now like people like I shouldn't invest in things but we know in times of inflation and recession people can invest in commodities this is something that we talked about like four months ago like commodities we know gold is a commodity you know silver is a commodity but there's a commodity that everybody's going to use every day that's never going to go anywhere that's food right and if they're raising prices on food and you can invest in food wouldn't you right that makes sense right so like if I could buy shares of corn or wheat or soy or sugar right and we know the prices of those things are going up it just makes perfect sense that I should be investing in those things especially if inflation is at its all time high like it is 41 year high and then even bigger than that because a lot of time people was like I don't have money to invest this is like you got you can't really invest without money right but that's why we big on business like business is very important to us because it's like now you get a successful business now you actually have money to invest so it's like this is an opportunity to start businesses but you got to start the right business like a lot of times in our community barbershops it's like restaurant we got to do all the work yeah that's it's a job really that's not you trade in one job for another you're an employee for yourself like I remember like I used to be a financial advisor so this Instagram she had a lot of followers on Instagram like a million two million followers she came to my office and she was talking to me and she was like yo I'm in a mall in Jersey but I'm about to go out of business I'm like why I got a clothing store and they was charging like $15,000 a month it was crazy and I'm like well why you got a physical store it doesn't even make any sense you worry about people stealing from you you can't pay your rent you got to pay your light bill you got to pay employees you got two million followers but geographically only a probably one percent of your followers live within a 10 mile radius of your store in Jersey now if you got an online boutique you could be selling stuff to people in China in Australia in New Mexico California wherever with no overhead right no store you can actually just drop ship it so you don't even got to have a physical warehouse so that's a lot more efficient that's a scalable model it's not a scalable model to have a physical location that you just struggle in just to pay the rent so it's like even the way that we look at business a lot of times we got to rethink it like this is a new day this is a new era make it make sense it got to be global if it can't be global at this point in time you got to rethink it you got to rethink the whole strategy and everybody got to be getting money on the internet somehow the internet is like mandatory you know and you know my mentor when I met him in 2018 shot the CJ I used to do one-on-one consultations every month I would do five to six people charging ten thousand dollars a client five to six people a month I'm like that I'm fifty to sixty thousand a month I'm good but when I met my mentor he changed my whole mindset he like look man you doing a good service but you only one person you can't scale yourself so the biggest piece of advice that I got that changed my whole life was yo put your information online package it up and sell it and now you can reach more people so I went from five to six clients a month I didn't want to take more than that because I didn't want to sacrifice the integrity of my my service we put it online and within three and a half years we then trained twenty seven thousand people yeah you know what I'm saying real talk so like we got to be online somehow you know that brick and mortar we got to like we got to get a part of that you know what I'm saying if you do it you got to make sure you're online too heavy yeah and I just want to say one thing too as far as you brought up the recession there's one word that comes in my mind you know what I'm saying preparation preparation a lot of people you know if you if you're feeling this recession if you're going if you're going to go through the motions right now is because you didn't prepare and it's so important that you know when you have opportunities you take advantage of those opportunities so much money got put into the system in twenty twenty mm-hmm right well we've seen everybody yet though we've seen them in the malls y'all didn't a lot of people didn't prepare and I ain't trying to beat nobody down but a lot of y'all didn't prepare you thought it was going to be a gravy train the whole time so now when the situation happens now you quote with your with your with your pants at your ankles where did money in grandma and my game like when your mommy is there but that's the great thing in life like that's just like on any level on any level whatever you prepare for bad times during good times you don't prepare for bad times during bad times like you know what I'm saying like you gotta prepare for bad times during good time cause you know it's going to come you gotta know you gotta know you gotta know you gotta know anticipation for precipitations that chips for any day right we've seen the highest rates in trucking in the last six months five six dollars a mile I've been in the game ten years I've never seen rates so high before but even during that time during that time when everybody's making 10, 15,000 hours a week with their truck, I was telling them, like, yo, chill. Like, make sure you stack your bread. Make sure you, make sure you create an escrow account and put it away because it ain't going to be like this forever. And the ones that listen, few prices went up, they chilling, they coasting because they, they got that stash. So again, how you prepare during the peak season will determine how you survive during the slow seasons. That's a fact. That boy's good. That's a fact. Game is changing, man. So this be a teacher lesson right here. You know what I'm saying? You're going through it. We're going to, we're going to get to the other side, but just remember how you feel right now with everything. If you, if you getting affected by it, know how you feel right now. And when, when that opportunity comes, stop playing man. The last time we was here, we was talking about investing and we, we gave you the stocks. But did you, did y'all pull the trigger on him? Yeah. He, he, he even texted to say, thanks guys. What you told him? What did you say, jump on him? He don't let me tell him. We'll talk after. All right. I don't, every time you don't post some shit, I go wash. No, I lost, lost, lost. I'm going to talk, man. That's all I have. What's the, what's the number one area that motherfuckers ain't looking in the stock market that they should be? I always ask that to anybody who knows what they're looking at. I just gave you the agriculture right now. Agriculture. Sure. Cause we're not, we're not really, we're not thinking of it, right? Most people look at tech, but like when tech has a, a fault like it has, right? A correction, a pullback, a recession is, is here 30% pulldowns. It's like, all right, well, where do we go now? We only know tech companies. Right. Because tech can be affected by, you know, product materials, all that type of stuff. Yeah. Interest rates go up, right? It's going to cost you more than out to have the labor. It's going to cost you more to do parts. The supply chain issue doesn't help, right? That's probably the number one issue right now. Obviously what's happening in Ukraine affects it, but all these things, like you need to know all the sectors, right? And so when we think about, uh, medicine and healthcare, right? We know that we just came out of a pandemic. We know who the people are trying to push this vaccine. Somebody's making it. Somebody's bowing it, right? All these other, there's so many, there's 11 sectors. Pick two or three, maybe four. And find the best two or three companies inside each sector. And you're going to have yourself a nice portfolio, right? So go with what you know. If you know tech companies, go with that. If you know industrials, go with that. If you know consumer discretionary, go with that, right? If you know healthcare companies, go with that. Look at the top two or three in that sector. All right. These are the leaders of the sector. All right. These are companies I probably should look into. I hope y'all don't let that go over your head. He just broke it down and made it so simple on how to make your decisions on what you buy. And you got to attack, like even Wall Street Trapper, at the beginning of the pandemic, I called him and I'm like, yo, whatever you're doing with content, double it. Do more. Do more content. Because it's like even like war, if you think you're talking about Russia, Ukraine, you're talking about war. Like general rules don't attack when armies are strong. You attack when they weak. So it's like when the economy is weak, that's when you should attack. Like that's when you should be going crazy. When the economy is strong, you still got to do work, but you don't have the same opportunity when everything is down. That's when you can actually go crazy. And that's what we did. Like at the beginning of the pandemic, we started to show market Mondays went crazy. Like we just, we just started doubling down on content because everybody was home and they had nothing to do. And not only did they have nothing to do, they didn't really have no money. And then they got money from the stimulus. So now it's like, you got money, you got nothing to do. You need to know what you to do with your money. And you got time. So now everybody started doubling down our content. So we didn't know that the pandemic was coming, but we was in prime position to capitalize from the pandemic. And people capitalize too. So like a lot of people listen to the information. They execute on it and they made money. And so now they're looking at it like, wait, I have more money than I've ever had in my life. And so that's what it goes back to that point when you become, when you take advantage of a crisis, you become the authority in the space because you're giving information. And now we don't even have to say it, right? People like, yo, I just listened to these dudes and I made this money. Yo, you got to listen to them too. And so the word of mouth becomes like, oh, mate, they become the authority in the space of how we should be invested. And you got to be able to flip your product multiple times. So it's like from, I look at business like a tree. It got a lot of different branches on it, right? So it's like, they always say you need seven streams of income. People get discouraged because they think you got to have seven different businesses or seven different jobs. And it's like, who has time to do that? But it's like, for us, we started Earn Your Leisure, right? So that's a media company. We produce podcasts and you look at podcasts, like podcasts is free. How do you even make money from that? But you know how you can get ad revenue from audio, but you can also get ad revenue from YouTube. But that's only the baseline beginning. So now it's like, all right, now we can actually sell merch because we got to wear something, like how y'all wear y'all clothes. We wear our clothes all the time. So like now we can sell merch. That's one way. And then it's like, the podcast is free, but that's still kind of like, I like to say it's like public school where we just saying information, right? So now what if we create a private school experience? So now we create EYL University. And that's a paid subscription, but that's a small Zoom class. And people get to ask questions and we do group activities. So now it's like, now we actually holding your hand. So now if you want the public school, we're going to teach you for free. But if you want a more higher level education with your hands held, now we can do EYL University. So now we got that, right? So then it's like, all right, people like this, let's take this show on the road. So now it's like, okay, now we can actually start doing events and start touring. So now we do shows. And we talk about investors, but now we got a festival, right? So now it's like that. So, and it's like, okay, now we got this good. We could produce content for other people. So now we start producing shows for other people. So it's like, that's a lot of different things that we're doing, but it all centers around one thing. So it's not like we reinventing the wheel, redoing, trying to create all these other different businesses. We just, once we mastered one business, we just do a branch, ranch hall. So now it's like EYL kids, EYL University, EYL trucking, EYL vending machine. Like they're saying this is all just branches, all for the mothership, which is EYL. I give you another example if you want. I started my trucking company. I got my trucks. I said, okay, cool. Let me create something else. It's called diversifying within your own industry first. I started a dispatch service. I started accepting trucks that we could dispatch for 10%, right? Then we dropped the course. Then I'm like, shoot, let me create something that my students can benefit from. We're doing the truck parking lot. Guess who's going to fill that parking lot up? My students. I got over 27,000 students at the clothing line. That's five different streams of income in one industry. You too short, you need one more? Yeah, I got one more. I got one more, it ain't. Come out with a, you got to come out with a hundred different things. Hot as hell man. Yeah, man. Can I put that for us a little bit, bro? Yeah, shut up. And like I said, it's not even just, you know, it's really just a form of education. And I feel like just even us having this conversation is education. It's not education like going to school and learn. They might be smoking, they might be drinking, they might be just be having fun. But in the course of them having fun being entertained, you might actually be able to learn something and you can actually implement it. Like that's how I learned from rap. So it's like when I'm listening to Nick and he's talking about integrated vertically, like he's talking about a lot of different things. But while he's saying that, and I'm like, okay, what does that mean? Then I'm looking at Apple. Like how does Apple integrate vertically? Then I see what he did with the marathon store. So he's dropping gyms, he's dropping business gyms inside of the lyrics. And it's like, it's decoded. Like, you know what I'm saying? So now it's a new form of education that's entertaining. Yeah, make you look at everything. Entertainment, yeah, exactly. That's what I said. That's what y'all are doing. You know what I'm saying? If you don't stop it. I think. Yeah, yeah, for sure. We went to London. You know, it's crazy because we do different events. And then it's like, you just got to keep pushing the limit. You got to keep pushing the limit. So it's like, all right, let's go overseas. And we know that London's like the second biggest market outside of America. Well, not Jerry's actually big. How'd you find that out though? Analytics. Studying analytics. You don't know about that. Yeah, I mean, studying analytics. So like, you know, when we do podcasts and disc charts, we got to study what we're charting in these places. I don't even know that people listen to it. We didn't even speak the language. And so I got to go look at who's listening, how long they're listening, studying analytics from a viewership standpoint, and studying from a listenership standpoint. It's two different things. And so once we get the analytics, it makes easy decisions. And so we treat it like, hip-hop is really our biggest influence. And so if you think about it, when an artist goes out to do pop-ups or instors, like what they used to do, they had to look at where they were selling. And so when they would, all right, well, we got some audience in Chicago. Let's do an instaurant in Chicago. Let's sign some autographs. Let's take pictures. And so we treated it the same way where we started rolling with the podcast. We're like, where are they listening to that? Oh, Atlanta. All right, well, we got to do something in Atlanta. LA, all right, well, we got to go see it. Everything was for free. We just wanted to spread the reach and see how far the people were listening to us. And so Chicago became a place, Houston became a place. And then internationally, like I said, it's a worldwide topic. So Jamaica became a place we had to go. My whole family from there, they were listening. We came number one in there. We were number one in DR. We were charting in Nigeria. We were charting in Kenya. So it was like, all right, the analytics are telling us where we need to be. It's also going to tell us where we can also grow, right? So it's like, all right, well, we're big in Nigeria, but are we big in Ghana, which is, you know, a neighboring country? All right, well, that might be a place we need to attack next. Once they see us come to Africa, it's like, oh, wait, they came to Africa. Wait, how come you want to come to Ghana? Okay, yeah, that'll be the next stop. And it's like, you know, from, like we spoke to like this big, big billion dollar company and they like, yo, let's do this for you. And I'm like, well, what can you do for us that we can't do for ourselves? And they're like, well, we can tell you like your major cities. I'm like, you can't tell me my major cities because we already went to all the major cities. We looked at the analytics. We paid for it ourselves. We did free events there. We tested the water. If we didn't get a good turnout, that means we need to double down. If we got a good turnout, that means we can do a paid event. We did this for three years before the pandemic, we was doing this. So it's like, you're trying to tell us that you can tell us our major cities, but we already know the major cities. So going to London, that was a test run where it was like on paper, it looks good. We see the numbers, but you never know, especially overseas, you never know. So it was like, all right, let's go out there and let's do a free event, free event, right? So we did a free event, networking event, spot held 300 people. It was like one of the biggest clubs in downtown London, like a vibe. And it was 2,500 people that showed up. So 2,200 people on the street. And it's in the winter. So it was freezing outside and they stayed the whole entire night. And it was crazy because it was like, the bouncer was telling us, like, yo, we've never seen nothing like this. And it was like, yo, they had secret service police because they're not used to that time. It was all black people in central London. That's like unheard of. Like, you know what I'm saying? So it was crazy. And from doing that, it caused such a frenzy and the word of mouth got so crazy that we got some, I can't announce it yet, but they offered us something out there. Why we with this? And then the crazy thing is like, you just got to take chances. Like even we went to Egypt and Troy, he told me, he was like, yo, I don't know if you know, but Nigeria is our second biggest market right now. I'm like, where? He's like, yeah, I'm like, all right, let's go out there. We didn't have no plan or nothing. Really? That's how the conversation went. Like we got to go. So we booked it. We booked it. We went out there. We met with, we interviewed David, though, one of the biggest artists in the world. David or David, though? David, though. We didn't call him David. Oh, whatever it is, David, though. Okay. We interviewed him. We did a networking event. We did so much stuff. And it's like, with no idea, just like, just go out there and we just going to figure it out when we go. So I feel like doing that pushing the boundaries, right? Like what started as a podcast turned into a worldwide media company, right? Exactly. And it's like, you got to go to different places because people want to see you. And you'd be surprised. Like how many, they like, damn, just for you to come out there, they're just appreciated. They appreciate it so much. Like you took the time to come out here. Man, say less. We're going international. Let's do it. Let's do it. Thank you for asking us. Thank you. You got to go. Y'all been to London? No. Oh, you got to go. You have to go. We got to just going to be crazy. Toronto. London. Toronto. Toronto. Toronto Fives. Yeah, London Fives percent is all over the world. Well, here we come, man. London should definitely be on your first stop. I'm telling you, I'm going to get so much love out there. I already know. It's going to be amazing. It's going to blow your mind being in another country, getting that love too. You know what I'm saying? I ain't been out the country in a little minute. Yeah. I'm two summers. Yeah. Y'all do it. Y'all go where you sunbathing. But the last time I went out the country, I was like, I'm staying in America for a little minute. I didn't ever say. I just, it was too much. When I got back to America, I was like, whoa. What country? Where did you go? That's the key question. What country you go to? I went to Kuwait. Who went to Kuwait? Really? Yeah, yeah. Like a cruise. Like with the military? Yeah. Oh, OK. That's why. I went to Kuwait. You want to go to Kuwait? I went to Kuwait. You want to go to Kuwait? I went to Kuwait. You want to go to the military thing? I had some shows out there. Did some shows? Yeah, I went to Kuwait. But that Dubai shit really made me say, I don't want to stay in America. Not Dubai, the best country in the world. You said Dubai made you want to come back? You couldn't smoke, because you couldn't smoke. It ain't the best country in the world. It's not. Why you ain't like it, because you couldn't smoke? Nah, because I'm motherfuckers. It's the only one over there. Too strict? Nah, it ain't too strict. I just, I didn't, I didn't fuck with the vibe. Really? Yeah. I ain't been out there yet. Oh, yeah, man. Everybody I spoke to said that they love it. You gonna love it. I was just saying, you gonna love it. You gonna love it. Bring them outfits with you here. Three months ago though, it was amazing. It's so much shit. You know what I noticed? So much shit that B. Wayne's gonna tell you that you're gonna see over there that's gonna fuck with your head. Like what though? Yeah, I'm curious. I was just there. I'm curious. You'll see. I don't want to, you know what I'm saying? You know what I noticed though? You don't want to discourage your opinion. You know what I noticed though? It's not about where you go. Sometimes it's who you with too. Always, always who you with. You know what I'm saying? So, I'm just saying that everybody has their own likes and preferences and shit. I prefer some other shit. What country did you go to where you was like, this is a VOP? Curacao. Okay. You get some random ass country? That shit was so fun. There wasn't nobody on there. Andrew Jones, right? Andrew Jones from Curacao. Yeah, Curacao. I loved it over there. That shit beautiful, man. But you never touched the carpet before. You went to this club that was on the side of a fucking mountain or some shit. It was like an outside club. But it was like, it was like a mountain or some shit. And then it was like, you go to the other side of the club. Like you walk through the mountain and shit. And then it's just like ocean, didn't you? Just like right there. You just fall off the cliff. And the water clear as far as you can see, man. Like all the fucking way out there. But you've never been to Africa? No. Not yet. Not yet. I'm going though. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely on my list. She makes something happen. Yeah. Yeah, let's do that shit. Y.O. 85 South tour. Man, that's what I'm saying. The international tour. Let's pick up the fucking 10 places and just go do that. That's a famed dead series. I don't want to do it like that. Earn your 85%. We're going to do some of this, man. That's what we're going to do. We can't get away with some shit, man. And take those guys. I got an idea. I got an idea. I'll tell you something about it. I got an idea. Get away. Because that's what it's about too. It's not just about finance with us. Like we started with finance and business, but it's about expanding a brand. So like we're about to do like a big basketball game in New York for like high school kids. Like sports, something that we really want to get into. Bring AAU back. Yeah. So like, you know what I'm saying? Like just doing different things to fashion. Doing different stuff where it's not just us drilling business. In your head all day. Like people heard it. They heard that. And if they want that, they can get it. You know what I'm saying? But we want to just have fun with it as well. And expand work with people like yourselves that's just killing the game and just, you know, see how we can help. So we got to do that drug dealer fashion show. Very important. Very important. Talk about that. Got something coming. We got something cooking. That's dope. Yeah, we got something cooking. That's a big market right there. Yeah. Anything else y'all want to drop on them before we got there? Yeah, I just want to, so we got, no, we in Atlanta. So we got InvestFest coming up. Okay. And what is that specifically? InvestFest. So it's August 5th through the 7th, man. The idea was like once again, just thinking outside the box. Like you always hear about music festivals. Coachella, Rolling Loud, Made in America, Roots Picnic, all these music festivals. But I had never heard of like a finance festival. Conferences. You hear conferences, a lot of things of that nature. But I haven't heard of like a finance festival. So I'm like, how can I take the best aspects of a festival, but then add the education in it? So last year was the first year. This year is going to be the second year. So it's like full trucks. It's game. We got a VIP night with musical performances. We're going to have T-Pain there. Like this is going to be a vibe. And it's like. Bend the marketplace. Yes. Bend the marketplace. Just like Essence Fest. So we like just looked at different people who was doing it and was like, I want to do this. I want to do that. So now we created what's called InvestFest. And it's like I said, it's August 5th through the 7th in Atlanta. And it's a three day of education, entertainment, fun. Roy's going to be there. T.I., Steve Harvey, Alex, his whole crew. And a shot to the circle of CEOs. Circle of CEOs will be there. Charlene. So yeah, it's always like where you can actually learn. But in a fun setting, me people, we're going to have after parties. And the idea is to like keep growing and growing and to the point where it becomes like as big as Essence Fest. Where it's like that weekend, it's just a bunch of unauthorized things happening. Like a bowling alley. Like this is happening. Like, you know what I'm saying? Where it's just so many people just coming into the city. And that's how we really build too. It's like, you know, think about how much money that can generate. So it's already generating a city of Atlanta, a lot of money. Like even last year, my barber, he was like, he flew from New York and the ticket prices was like $900. And he's like, what he called, like why? He's like, yo, a lot of people are flying down for some reason this weekend. So we actually inflated the ticket prices last year. So it's going to be bigger. Like this year, we're looking at 10,000 people in the Georgia World Congress center. So yeah. So go to infestfest.com, get your tickets. And it's a vibe, man. Like I said, that's what it's about, right? Just thinking outside the box, seeing how you can just expand, seeing how you can just keep growing, keep growing. And it's like everything that somebody is doing, it's nothing, it's too big. Because it's like, I look at Coachella and people will be like, people don't even think that that's possible, but somebody had to do that. Somebody had a vision, somebody put it together. So it's like, if somebody did Coachella, why can't we do something just as big as Coachella? You know what I mean? So if something is already done, that means it's possible. Somebody went to the moon, somebody went to Mars. That means that it's possible. And even if somebody didn't do it yet, somebody has to do something eventually. So if you're the first person to do it, it's like, you really can't lose because you just learn from your experiences. So that's what we did with infestfest, put up our own money, leveraged our relationships, got the talent. People looking at it like, it's crazy. How you do that? How you get all of these A-list celebrities, Steve Harvey, Tyler Perry. Like how you get these kind of people, Rick Ross, and it's like, it's through relationships. Yeah. It's just through like, you know what I mean? Being a good person, honoring your work, establishing relationships, and you can do something that Ticketmaster can do. Like you don't got to be this big billion dollar corporation to do that. A lot of times we minimize ourselves when we think that we just talent. And it's like, let them handle the business and we can just be the talent now. We can be the talent and the business. Yeah. And it's not about us, which is key, right? Like, yeah, we're organizing it, but it's not about us. Like somebody hit me the other day, they're like, why isn't your name first on your own flyer? I'm like, it's not about us. It's about the people we bring in, right? We don't know who the CEO of Coachella is. If you didn't, if I didn't tell you, you wouldn't know, right? You're Native America. I've never seen Jay-Z's face on Native America, but we know he through it. You see what I'm saying? So we've just taken that format where it's like, let's celebrate the people, let's bring all of the best in their space, and let's have them all come together to celebrate community. You know what I mean? So that's what it's about, man, lifting up everybody at the same time. Well, there you have it. Nah, man, we definitely appreciate y'all stopping through and dropping some game on us. Appreciate you having us, man. Appreciate y'all, man. Appreciate you coming through. Real quick, can I just say one thing? Because I saw you bring out the Capri Sun. And the last time we was here, we was here with Trouble. So I just want to say, rest in peace with Trouble. We shot our last episode with him. When was that 85th shot? That was the first episode. Yeah, so he shot his episode right before, so we got to watch him. And really, like, all right, this dude was funny. That was the first time that I ever... I didn't know who he was. That was the first time I saw him. And he was talking, and he was so country, I couldn't understand anything that he said. Chico was the translator. Chico was everything that he said. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh-oh. But, yeah, man, rest in peace with Trouble, man. And the crazy thing about that is that episode never came out. Yeah, because the audio... All episodes they come out either. Because the audio got messed up, yeah. But we was definitely here with him when we heard the news. We were like, damn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, rest in peace with him, man. Condolces to his family. Yeah, yeah, sure. Keep on truckin', man. Yeah, man. It ain't goin' nowhere. I'ma keep, you know. Man, I might jump back in there and throw some mouths on the road. Yeah, yeah. I'm just... My goal is just to show people how to do it the right way the first time. Yeah, it's definitely a lucrative... And when it's done right. When it's done right. You got your challenges. Like, you can get costly. Yeah, for sure. Once you get... Get the spendin' that bread on them trucks. Right. Yeah. I'm a kid. Tires kill you. Yeah. We got, like, five flat tires. And I'm like, what the hell are they puttin' in these tires? It's the 80,000 pounds that you holdin', you know what I'm sayin'? Pressure. But, you know, even with Tides, you gotta make sure that they air it up in the same PSI. All the way or whatever. You gotta be all equal, you know what I'm sayin'? And I just want to shout out to the Circular CEOs. My brothers have 500, misses two weeks out. New Wave CEO, Nio. We can already do something amazing for the city. Yeah. I want to... Not just. Huh? You ain't say nothing? I said New Wave CEO, yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, we fired CEOs. We were real friends in real life. We were all in five different industries. Yeah. Everybody doing well for themselves. And, you know, besides just helping the culture and teaching the people, we just know how important impact is. So we're doing something special. I don't know when this episode is dropping because we haven't released it yet, but it's coming soon. We're getting ready to do a restaurant. It's the Circular CEO feeds Atlanta. I appreciate that. But the twist on it is, it's a free restaurant. We're feedin' Atlanta. So basically this would be a restaurant that we're funding. That people can just literally go in there and eat for free. And it's gonna be some good food. That shit sound too good to be true. Yeah. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You're right. You know... You sound like Reynolds for real. It's definitely gonna help. No. No. No, it's not. It's not. It's not. No, but, you know... Anybody who wants it? Yeah, you know, obviously, you know, it's definitely gonna help the homeless, for sure. But anybody can go in there and eat free. Yeah. Yeah. So I just wanted to let everybody know we're getting ready to do that for the city. I'm excited about that right now. Let's do it, bro. Let's do it, bro. Congrats. That's dope. Oh, shit. Clayton, you ain't gonna feed the city? Hey, man, I feed them. Individually. Ha, ha, ha. One at a time. One at a time, man. You know what I'm saying? Y'all can't all come in here. But I'll bring you something out here. Got some Cheetos and water for you. But now that's what's up. Yeah, that's gonna be crazy. Yeah. Well, look, man, this is not your first time in the trap. Don't let it be your last. Anytime y'all in the city, man, just pull up. Just stop through here. And likewise, man, anytime y'all want to come on the platform, y'all got to announce me anything. You don't feel free. I'm coming on, man. Yeah, I'm not. I got some shit to say. Let me chat that episode. Yeah, we came through in there. You know what, I'm not. Put them up on game. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was a dope episode. Shout out to Chad. They're like, oh, that's what Chad looks like. Yeah. They always, they've heard his name before. They're like, oh, that's what he looks like. Nah, bruh. Shut up. We're at Chad. I told you he based on what's mine. Now he don't gotta come on to him. Yeah. Nah, man. That's hard. That's all bro, though. That's all bro. Shut up to the nigga, Chad. Oh, bruh. Shout out to the whole team. What's your way? Joe here? Hell, nah. See, they don't come. They burned their leisure. I get that. Nah, man, we appreciate y'all stopping through here, fucking with us, though, man. 85 South Show. We out here. We appreciate y'all, man. We gonna get it. Sit back down. You get it, my guy. Sit down. We appreciate that. They're gonna fix it down. Yeah, we're gonna get it. Now I can smoke. Yeah. I can smoke now. Smoked sounds. OK. Ready?