 Hey Tony Gaskins here, popping in. Lord was for a little bit wanted to touch on this, but see sometimes, so y'all got to forgive me. Let me let it load a second. Just got off the plane and had to pop in to Costco to get some gas. But when I was on the plane, I seen something that made me think about this. And so I wanted to pop in and shoot through the live video just to upload it. These lives sometimes save me some time. A lot of times the lives are saving some time so y'all got to forgive me. And hopefully my internet doesn't lag. I try to, I know it's Friday, everybody at work, but sometimes it's just easier for me to shoot a live video and then it's automatically uploaded when I'm done versus trying to shoot it, then trying to upload it. But wanting to pop on here and because I saw this, I saw an email, I got an email when I was on the plane and it was called, it said emancipation. Emancipation is coming to the theaters. And I think it's a Will Smith movie. Will Smith is in it. And I believe I read he's a slave that got out. And here's the thing, I want you to think about this and I want you to realize that a lot of us are suffering in our lives because we are putting our trauma in our face every day. And we're operating from a space of trauma instead of from a space of growth and healing. And we become a victim of it and we continue to operate from this trauma. And one of the things, and I know some people may, it was a time where I appreciated the slave movies. It was a time where I appreciated it. But now it's just getting a little played out. Me personally, I feel like it's getting a little played out to always be reminded on screen. And see the thing about it is the people who know it, the people who green light in the movie, they're very smart. You don't get to be the head of a studio and not be well read and very smart. And it's sad that what they keep green lighting to give to black people is traumatic films. And yet it gonna have a silver lining of overcoming but it's still taking you back. And it's reminding you of your trauma, reminding you of your pain. And what it's doing is it's hard to watch a slave movie and not get angry. The next day you gotta go to work with white people. You may have a white spouse. You may have biracial kids. You may have white family members. And after watching these slave movies and these civil rights movies, it angers you. You don't walk out of there feeling vindicated. Yes, made it out of slavery. Whoa, made it out of slavery. You walk out of there angry. You walk out of there upset across the board. I remember even going to see say the last dance with a white girlfriend. I'm gonna tell you the truth. At the end of the movie, and it was about a black guy and a white girl. Black boy and white girl. And I think it was in high school. At the end of the movie, I ain't gonna tell you no lie. I told him white girlfriend, I say, listen, sit right here. I'm finna get up and I'm gonna walk out. When I walk out, you count to 10, then you come out. I ain't even wanna walk out the movie with her. I'm like, man, I ain't know this what this was about. I'm say the last dance. I'm just thinking it's a little fun movie. This old, this, all right, what? You don't walk out of them slave movies and them civil rights movies feeling good about yourself. And that's the thing. When I want you to think about this is the podcast that's out today, the movies that's out today, the narrative that's being pushed, even the music that's being pushed, all it's doing is reminding you of your trauma. It's almost, when you really listen to it, a lot of the music, the rapper is saying they gay, they warming a pill, popping pills with the woman before sleeping with them. A lot of the music. So when you think about it, a lot of women who done went through that, the date are a lot of women who done gone through something with a man when they hear them lyrics, that's triggering. We don't even think about it though. The same thing with the movies, the same thing with the books. See, we're in a constant state. I don't know if that's a real word, but I'm just using it to where we're dealing with and being reminded of our pain. And so this what I'm saying, I think that every single black person need to, and I ain't worried about all y'all comments just flooded in. All y'all comments just flooded in out the blue and the viewers just went up, out the blue, that let me know YouTube lagging my video. They lagging the video to see if they need to flag it. So y'all forgive me because I'm servicing her and closing my other things. Just so my service ain't acting up. And let me see, and all them comments, it was just a million comments came in at one time. So they were holding everything. And then some people probably thought when I clicked off that the live went off. But listen to me and now I understand this. This is another thing, this is another thing we have to realize is that people, we are susceptible. When you come from poverty, not necessarily saying that your family was impoverished, but when you come from a group of people that at large experience poverty, you become more desperate. So here comes this slave movie. I think it was Nate, maybe his name was Nate, when he did Birth of a Nation. He needed so badly to be able to break out and to get him a movie. He needed to be a director. He needed that break. So he did Birth of a Nation. We already know the story. We could go in the library and see the story. We don't need to see it depicted. Now what we would love to see, oh, Nat Turner, what we would love to see is the movie about the great, great, great, great grandson of that slave who has started his tech company and raised millions of dollars. And his journey of dealing with systemic racism and raising that capital for his company. What we need to see is the power in the present and also where we going. We need to see the hope. We don't need to be taking back the slavery and got to be, while we sitting there watching these slave movies, we being called the N-word with the slave. We being bent over with the slave. We going through this visually. And see, you got to understand the power of your vision. You got to understand the power of your vision. So when you sitting there and you watching this, emancipation, ain't even seen it, but it's slave moving and he breaking out with strength and all of this, yeah, we been to have strength, but we got to get lashed on the back with them. We got to get shot at with them. We got to get chased through the woods with them. We got to get called the N-word with them. And that's traumatizing. That's draining. That's angering. It's like we need more movies like hidden figures. And although that was triumphant and it was a tear-jerker and we sat there crying, it's still hurt. It's still hurt to see what they had to go through. It's still put them through that. That didn't see they gift right off. That made them jump through that hoops. So you still come out of there with a little bit of pain and anger. And so this what I'm thinking. This what I think we need to do. We need to have all black people, boycott these movies. We need to have all black people boycott these movies. Tell all your friends and family, don't go see that movie. We need to stop reinforcing this profiting off trauma and pain. We need to stop reinforcing profiting off of black pain because let me ask you this. Let me ask you this. How many movies have you seen about? How many movies is they releasing right now? Cause this email came from CMX, the movie theater company who got Sena Bistro where they sell the food in there. You sit down and eat dinner with it. So the email wasn't even from the studio, it's from the movie theater. But where do you see a movie about what other nationalities and other races have gone through? See the thing in the way the world works is you can't even say, you can't even say their term. You can't even say the word that start with H that the Jays went through. You can't even say the word. You'll be shut down just for mentioning that the Jays went through the H. Y'all know what I'm talking about. But every single weekend, we got another slave movie. It's like, okay, can y'all make a movie about Jay-Z? At least he came from selling crack to be in a B now. I like to see a movie about Tyler Perry every month. It's gonna cause and create arrested development. And I don't even know what that means, but it sounds like it means you stuck. And then you go get on your job where you are likely employed by another race, unless you start your own company or you work for a company that's owned by your race. You going in there with your nose turned up, with your lip frown. You going in there mad because you just watch a emancipation, birth of a nation, Django, Harriet Tubman, Emmett Till, you going in there. How you doing Becky? Y'all know the C word in your head. You, oh nasty, get on my nerve. They're probably with your great granddad in that movie. I can't stand you. And then your bosses in the office, they saying, oh, oh, Brenda came in here with a attitude, she just so rude, that she just so stand off it. It's just cause you just got finished. It's gonna make me feel good by sitting down for two hours and being called the N word, being whipped on the back, being chased through the woods with dogs, being shot at, ain't nothing finna make me feel good and glorious about that. I'm finna walk out there mad. Every time I watch it, I walk out there mad. Don't even wanna talk to the staff of that saying and thank you for coming. And then this what you have to think about. That's pleasurable. That's pleasurable. Think about this. This is what I want you to think about. I gotta fire up last week, so I'm gonna be quiet. This is what I want you to think about. If you're a fan, let's say you a sports fan. Let's say you a bingos fan and a team. If there was a glorious time, a win, a pain, a subpoena, that's always forgetful slavery person. We got a little thing going to send it. They sitting in their mouth, can't take this. It's the strength of a lot of people, a lot. Here's the thing. Hey, some people say they're lagging. Y'all might not be lagging. Y'all might be behind on the video. Some people might be behind on the video. Oh yeah, now you know YouTube's gonna play the game now. You know they're gonna play the game. But y'all still in the chat, but y'all might be behind on the video. If y'all live, type y'all live. Type I'm live. Tell me if you live. Y'all know how they gonna do now. We talking about something real, cause this isn't a work hours. Okay, okay, y'all live then. Y'all been live. But see, what they see, they sitting out there in Palo Alto. They sitting out there in Palo Alto. Then y'all live then. How y'all hear me say I'm live and y'all talking about the video lagging. See, they sitting out there in Palo Alto. It ain't many people live right now. And what you gotta realize is when you go live, a lot of people just gonna have 10 people watching. So if you cross a hundred people, you're doing good. Especially at 140 on a Friday. So they sitting out there watching. They sitting out there watching, oh, okay, let's hit this little slow down button cause he might be starting revolution. Let's hit this little lag button. So they'll sit out there and mess up, mess with the video. So listen to me. If somebody got that feeling in them, that they was happy, that you was a slave, they going, and now you no longer a slave and you're doing good. They going to watch that movie just to get that feeling. And this what you have to realize. You got to think about the strength. You got to think about the strength of black people. So when you strong, when you strong, people who despise your strength like to see you in pain. They like to see you cringe. They like to see you sweat when you strong. So if somebody got a little bit of racism in them and they don't like where you're at in your life, they'll take, and they'll go to that movie just to see how you squirm when you get called in word. Just to see how you flinch when that slay again will. When that slay again attacked by that dog. When that slay again bent over, they'll be sitting in there and look out the corner of their eye. Then they'll go talk to their friend. Man, you should have seen them. Whoa! Man, that felt good. Just seeing them. Yeah, remember who you are. Remember who you are. And it's a group of people that's like that. And that's also the green like that. To green like that movie. Some of them people got that feeling in their heart. But see, this is the thing. This is how they do it. They don't go, notice we not seeing Denzel Washington in slay movies. Notice when Denzel Washington in slay movies. What Denzel say talked about this, his experience with CIA, I didn't even know that. Notice we ain't seeing Denzel Washington in slay movies because they're not gonna go to you when you up. They're gonna go to you when you down. So they're gonna go to Mr. Slap. Will Smith and give him the movie. He and all the drama with his wife and Augusta Ocena and they're living out there on Front Street. And he essentially career kind of fell off. So they're gonna go to him. They're gonna go to the hungry young man who made Birth of a Nation. They're gonna go to a no name director and say, hey, you make the movie about when this young man went through what he went through for whistling, allegedly whistling at somebody. That's when they gonna come to you. See, that's how reality TV exists in a lot of ways. They go to people who they feel like them fell off and need a check and then get them to do a Sambo dance for that check. You need a check. Oh, come on here, act of food. Got a little check for y'all. Hey, and write you a book before the show come on so you can make your little money. Have your little t-shirt for the show come on. Ooh, you need a check. Your career to fell off. Here go your little check. And so listen, I did reality TV, but I pull up on them. I pull up on them, let them know. Miss Gats, can we order your food? No, I got my own food. I'm order my own food. Miss Gats, can we do it? No, I got it. No, no, I ain't broken desperate. I'm not finna do everything. Nope, that scene right there ain't for me, partner. Can't do that, that's against my beliefs. Can't do that one. You see what I'm saying? But a lot of these other companies, and so my production company, they respected me. I said, I can't do that because of my religion. They respected me. But a lot of these other companies, they won't even deal with me because they know I got too much here. They know I got too much here. And so the company, they come, hey Tony, get on this here network, hey Tony, do this. I said, so y'all want me to get on this network, y'all want me to bring all of my supporters to y'all network, which y'all gonna market other stuff to them and make money off of them, but you ain't trying to offer me no check to come and get on your network. After I done spent 15 years building this, but you ain't, and you know eyeballs is worth money. The one thing about YouTube now, at least they gonna send you a check. At least they gonna send you a check. So this is what I want you to think about. What I want you to think about and realize is you get with all your family in a text message, everybody you talk to, let's say listen, I'm asking you, do not go watch another slay movie. We need to stop supporting slay movies. And Will Smith, if you upset by it, do you another movie like Pursuit of Happiness. Just do movies like Pursuit of Happiness. Do movies like Karate Kid. And stay out these slay movies. Stop being desperate for a check to have millions of people go through trauma and then to have other people who enjoy it sitting in there getting a good laugh off of it secretly. And we operating from this place. And that is why, why do you think? Why do you think? Who do they say got the most power? Who do they say got the most power in this hill country? They say the Jays got the most power. Okay, if the Jays got the most power, if they God's people and they got the most power and they got the most money, why do you think we don't see a movie every month about the H? See this over some people here, the Jays, the H. Listen, they ain't that deep now. But why don't you, why do you think we don't see a movie about the H every month? But why every month we got to see a movie about slavery? You know why? Because it keep you stuck. It keep you stuck because guess what you cannot do if you are angry. If you angry, you can't get, if you angry, you can't get wealthy. If you bitter, you can't get wealthy. If you upset and you mad with the other races and you operating from a place of anger and bitterness and trauma, you can't advance. You can't advance because you gonna be mad with your kids. You gonna be short with your kids. You gonna be short with your family. You gonna be short with your coworkers just because of what you keep reminding yourself. And I want to challenge y'all. Now some of them you ain't gonna get to see all of them because I block ignorance. I block ignorance. And I'm gonna tell y'all why I block ignorance. Some people say, oh, you can't handle criticism. You can't handle criticism. For one, you ain't criticizing me because I'm married and I'm faithful to my wife. So you ain't criticizing me because I ain't doing nothing to be criticized. But what you're doing is what people, some people wanna do is they wanna come and work for Satan and spew ignorance in the comments. And the reason why I block them, the reason why I block them is because it's people hanging in the balance. So if a woman come with a dissertation in the comments about how nasty, stupid, ugly and dumb and sorry, black men are, and another woman come to the comments and she just got hurt by a black man, but she is healing and she is growing. And because of the peace she about to step into, she's going to attract the man that she wants and she's gonna be happy with him and at peace with him. But when she read the comment of a woman who has not healed and who is bitter and broken and angry and operating from trauma, it's gonna trigger her trauma. And she's gonna say, oh, you know what? You write or remember that feeling? Oh, I'm married with a black man. Oh, and that's what the movie's doing. That's what the music doing. The same thing with the music. Almost every black person has lost a friend or a family member to gun violence or to the prison system. So if you listen to rap music, all it's doing is reminding you of that pain. That's all it's doing is reminding you of that pain. And it's keeping you arrested and you cannot develop. You cannot grow. You cannot move forward. And that is what the goal is. See, the artists don't realize what they're doing. See, the music artists, the filmmaker, a lot of times they don't realize what they're doing because they're making a living and they're talking about what's on their heart. But the people who green light it, they know exactly what they're doing. The people who green light it know exactly what they're doing. And so listen, this is what you gotta understand. And the same thing with the Deion Sander situation right now, same thing happened to me. That's why I can't judge Deion for leaving. So here I am, I'm sitting here, I'm sitting here, I'm doing my work, I'm working. I'm being a leader, I'm speaking on things. I'm speaking down on reality TV. I'm talking about how trashy it is, how worthless it is, and then guess what happened? A reality production company coming off of me a check. But on this show, it's real work actually being done. Now, do I agree with everything they did? No, and that's why I want a part of every scene. And, but they doing real work. It's not scripted, we don't have note cards to read off of, it's not scripted. But they offer me a check. And then they offer me a check. So now when you get in there, they expect that, see, the power that be expect, oh, well he gonna stop stealing 3.5 million viewers because he got 3.5 million supporters online and if he bashing reality TV, some of the old people gonna listen to him and so we might lose 100,000 viewers if he don't like reality TV. So let's get him in reality TV so that now he can't bash it. No, I'm still gonna bash it if it's trash. I'm still gonna talk bad about it if it's trash. But that's what the goal is. So here's the thing, what happened? I ain't mad at Dion because I get it. If I'm making 500,000 or 300,000, I saw 300,000 by a lot of people and I saw 500,000 by a lot of people. If I'm making 500,000 and you can offer me 5 million with the possibility of making 7 million and my son is my starting quarterback and now he could play in a big conference and be seen by the world. And if he do well, his success is legitimized because he's playing against real talent and I'm gonna have grandkids to take care of and great grandkids. Man, let's... HBC, you are a lawyer. Well, I might have to go. But at the same time, I still understand the people who mad. I understand it. You know why? Because the powers that be, see the powers that be could say, hey, this man or woman is leading a movement. This man or woman is leading a movement and this movement could gain so much traction if this man or woman stays in the movement and continues to do what they doing. Because what's gonna happen is if this man or woman stays in their position, then other men or women on that same level is gonna go get an equivalent position. And then if they are acquiring talent to their movement and if the number one recruit goes to this HBCU and then next year, the number one recruit goes to this HBCU and then next year, the number two, the number three, the number four, the number five go to different HBCUs, the fans want to see the talent. So if LeBron James go play for the Oklahoma City Thunder, then the Oklahoma City Thunder is gonna start getting the ESPN and the TNT time. But because LeBron is on the Lakers, then the Lakers gonna get the time. So the thing is, is when you got a movement that could shift things, they finna come give you a bag to divert the movement, to pause the movement. They finna come give you a bag. So they say, A, and see this is the thing, everything's strategic. Everything's strategic. And see it's high level, it's high level. People don't understand how high level stuff is. You got to understand that the adversary got wisdom too. The adversary come from heaven and were kicked out of heaven. The adversary ain't slow. The adversary ain't dumb. Watching some of these Marvel movies that got a real plot. The villain be plotting and the villain be having a plan. Hey, the villain be plotting. The villain be having a plan and the villain be having power. This is what you got to understand. Y'all got to forgive him a sound to change cause had to change the sound, I got to plug my phone in. The villain be having power and the villain be having a. So what you got to understand is it's high level. So the adversary, someone say why that movie and mouse page on my timeline now. So the adversary say, listen, this group of people is making too many forward advancements. Making too many forward leaps. So what we need to do is we need to reverse course. We need the trauma dog. We need the trauma dog. Do not green light another movie like hidden figures cause now we got thousands of little black girls think they can work for NASA. Come on. See the hot up conversation. We don't get to hear these conversations but we get the fruit of the conversation. The hot up conversation list saying you can green light hidden figures. We got too many black people now thinking they could be scientists. Thinking they could be, thinking they could be working for NASA. Come on now. No, we need the trauma dog. So what we need to do, remind them they'll slay. Remind them they'll slay. You remember the Willie Linsley out of their sales fictional remind them they'll slay. Send them down for two hours and we're going to call them the N word for two hours and we're going to walk them for two hours. We're going to chase them through the woods for two hours and we're going to let them get a little victory. But what we done did, arrested development. What we done did, we done set them back. What we done did, we don't remind them that you is worthless, that you are from slaves and you've been to look at your bank account and it's been to confirm your slave because you're counting the negative. Well, you got $10 to spare and you ain't got no hope because we just call you the N word for two hours. Listen, your children need to see one civil rights movie. And that's all they need to see. They need to see one civil rights movie and know where they come from and from their own they need to be affirmed about how smart they are, about how powerful they are, about how capable they are, about how this world is they oyster. They need to see one civil rights movie and I'm gonna be honest with you, I don't celebrate black history month because I'm celebrating black present month and black future month. Yeah, you only got to tell me one time that I was a slave. You only got to tell me one time. You ain't got to keep reminding me about that right now. Show me, in February, show me, in February, show me well, I'm supposed to be 50 years from now. Show me well, people who look like me on a whole apartment complex, on a whole block, show me well, y'all finna cut a check for Black Wall Street that was burnt down and that y'all finna give us another town that's ours. Show me that in February. That's what I want to see in February. Don't keep reminding me about all that. And see, listen, this the thing, a lot of people, like people keep talking about the savior complex, the savior complex. Let me tell you what, if you want somebody to stand for something, if you want somebody to stand for something, then you got to be the one that's going to stand. So this is what I want you to do. This is what I want you to do and we're in closer. I want you to stop looking left and stop looking right. And I want you to become excellent in every sense of the word. I want you to push yourself. I want you to stop being complacent, working for somebody else. And I want you, while you're working for somebody else, I want you to develop, discover and develop your natural gifts. I want you to start making money from your natural gifts, whatever it is. Start a YouTube channel, start editing, start copyrighting, start proofreading, start grocery delivery, start car service, start washing wonders, start sweeping flows, start cleaning house, start selling plates, start helping small businesses with their HR, start mentoring students who want to have the job that you have and you charge their parents to give their child a leg up. They're teenagers, they're young adults, a leg up. It was one mom who paid me $2,400 to mentor her daughter, to teach her daughter how to start a nonprofit organization. I want you to be the person that you want to see. Was it Gandhi or somebody that said be the change you want to see in the world? So a lot of people is mad when somebody they believe in, change course. But people gonna do what's best for them. People gonna do what's best for them because they feel like the people they trying to do for don't even care about them. They feel like the people they trying to do for taking them for granted. So that's why people do what's best for them. So understanding that you have to be the change. So if you have children, be excellent with your children. Stop passing down your pain and your trauma and your bitterness to your children. So talk to your children and be real with your children as far as discipline is concerned, but discipline your children in love. Don't take and do them dirty because you was done dirty. Affirm your children, speak life into your children, empower your children, break bread for your children, be willing to spend your last dollar for your children to put your children in position to be successful. Stop poor mouth in your children, stop being scarcity with your children, break your bike for your children because you got on your bike to have your children. So do what you have to do to provide for your children. Be there for them, children. And if all you could get them is quality time, then give them quality time. Because when you giving them quality time, you giving them love, you giving them strength, you giving them confidence, you giving them power. If you don't have the money to put them in any trainings, any courses, any nothing, find a foundation that got money for it. And if there's no foundation in your city that exists for that money, then start the foundation and sponsor your own family and other families. And you get the money from the doctors and the lawyers and the people in your city who bumping their gums and say they care. You go to them with a proposal that say you raising money for your dreamers initiative and your initiative is to help children who come from low income families, get into coding classes, get onto sports, get into clubs, robotics club, chess club and your foundation pays the fees, pays for their travel, pays for the tuition of the program, pays for their uniforms, start the company. Take your income tax check and instead of going and buying some new clothes, go and spend $1,000 and start your non-profit organization. Then get on Fiverr.com, put that in the chat for me, share or one of the blessed drop Fiverr, L-F-I-V-E-R-R dot com, Fiverr send me a check now. Send over there benefiting, send a check. Get on Fiverr.com and you type in business proposal and you pay $50 to have a proposal made for your non-profit organization and you take that proposal and you go to the doctor's office, your doctor that you spending money with that's charging your Medicare or your Medicaid or charging your insurance, dot. Thank you for this six month check up. Here go the proposal for the dreamers initiative. Let me see if you finna give me some of that money by that I can give you. Dot say, oh, unfortunately I'm tapped out. I'm not gonna be able to donate. Dot, you ain't gotta hunt? You ain't gotta hunt it over? Then you ain't gotta ask them that. Okay, thank you, no problem at all, doctor. I'm finding another doctor. Finding another doctor. I'm getting another doctor. I'm getting another dentist. I'm getting another insurance agent. I'm getting another whatever if you can't give to this initiative. Now that I'm spending all this money with you, I'm going to somebody else. And listen, every donation count, you get with your children, you go talk to the manager of the gas station and you stand out there with your bucket like the Salvation Army do and you get them dollars at a time. And now you pay for their clubs and their situations. Listen to me, you'll be the change. You'll be the change. Go and donate your time. You go up, you write the dean of students, you say I'm a life coach, I got certified and I want to be a mentor as a woman. I want to be a mentor for the young ladies. As a man, I want to be a mentor for the young men. I'ma donate my time. Y'all could tell me who needs some mentorship and I get these people on here. And I will talk to them. That's what I'm doing. I say I want to see more strong young men grow up and become real men. So what I'm doing is I'm going and I'm talking to these athletes, free of charge. I'm being the change. When they write me, they text me, I'm stressed, I'm down, I need somebody to talk to, I need some advice. I make the time and I get on the phone with them for free because that's the population that I want to see be better. I'm not finna get on the phone with a woman for free because that ain't the population that I need to sew into. That's a different type of relationship. So if I'm on the phone with a woman for free, that's favoritism and that's funny business because I'm a married man. But young men who don't have good role models because all they got is rappers and liars, I got to sew into their life. So where you want to see growth, you got to sew in that area. You got to sew in that area and you got to stop supporting what you don't want to see. Stop giving it your views, stop giving it your time. If you say you won't change. So if you say you want more voices, that's going to be positive and uplifting. But then you say, well, I'm watching the toxic channels just cause I like to see what they talking about. You making them money and you making them bigger. About the slavery movies. You only need to see it one time. If an idiot is on a podcast or on a YouTube, all you need to see is one time. That's all you need. You ain't got to watch every week, every day. You building the movement popular. I get offended when I'm on the plane and somebody watching Fox News. Cause when I watch Fox News, they always say some races. So when somebody watching Fox News, I'm like, oh, you old racist. Now they might have maintained their programming since I watched it two, three years ago. But every time I would watch it, they would say something discriminatory, racist. And it'd be underlying. And so when I'm on a plane and all these people watching Fox News, I'm like, Oh, okay. All right. Y'all are here with the funny business. But guess what? I know black people that watch it. Like, man, y'all don't hear what the people they're saying. People basically just say you dumb cause you come from low income neighborhood. It's like, my goodness. Yeah, they said it in big words, but that's what they meant by it. And so listen, we have to be the change. So with your children, be excellent with your children. Be the most amazing, attentive, present, sacrificing parent you have ever seen. Be better than your mama. Be better than your daddy. Be better than all your aunties and uncles person. The absolute best person that you could be in your body. Be excellent. Get in the absolute best shape you could get in. Get in the absolute best shape you could get in so that when you come and you represent your demographic, when people look at you, they say, man, boy, that's, whoa, I thought that demographic was obese. Uh, not, not this person I'm looking at right here. That person I'm looking at right here looking good. Let them see you on your job. Be excellent for as long as you got to be there, be excellent. Because when you get ready to walk away, you're going to be taking people with you. People are going to be coming to work with you. People are going to be coming to support you. People are going to become your clients. Get to work 15 minutes early. Get to work 15 minutes early because you need to be excellent. To be early is to be on time. To be on time is to be late. And to be late is to be fired. Is to be forgotten. Get them 15 minutes early. Let go of your spirit of lateness. Stop being late in the church. Stop being late to dinner. Stop having your kids late to school. Stop being late and lazy and start being excellent in every aspect of your life. Be excellent. And in your mind, feed your mind every day. Whether you're watching or something that's empowering, you're listening to something that's empowering, you're reading something that's empowering. Feed your mind every day. Increase your vocabulary. Increase your wisdom. Increase your knowledge. Increase it. Here I was. Me and my wife, we went on the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection. It was in business. So I started thinking about the Titanic. We get on the bus. We're sitting on the bus and refused to go to the back of the bus. So now, black people could get on this bus with white people. We're sitting there and we waiting. The lady come on, we in Barbados. The Bayesian lady come on and she say, well, we ready to go, but we waiting on one, we waiting on one couple. So y'all please forgive me, we waiting on one couple. I know we're late. Three white men, they sitting here and they like, listen, when this couple comes on, I'm gonna boo them. It's like, we're about to get on the Ritz-Carlton Yacht. And you got us late. Come on. Guess who walk on the bus? A black couple. I could have fell on it. Cause hear me and my wife feels on the bus early as a young black couple. We the youngest couple on the yacht. And we black and we represent excellence because everybody else on there was in their 50s, they 60s, they 70s and they got money T. They got way more money than us. I could look at it and tell, but he'll come this couple and they blank. If I could have jumped out my skin, if I could have hit a button and turn to a white man, I would have turned to a white man. If it was a white couple, I believe the white man would have booed because they know each other. But because of the black couple couldn't nobody say nothing. We couldn't even make a joke. But when that brother looked at me, I looked at him. I looked at him just like that. And then he had the nerve to have on a Cornell backpack. Brother, how you went to the Ivy League and you late? You got to be excellent. And then guess what? You got ready to do something else. And I seen him late. I said, Oh my goodness, we don't fault too hard to be treated equal. And you white people be early. They own the country. They run the country and they be early. Why? After we don't fault to get out of slavery, be late everywhere. Come on. Come on. Come on. We got to do better. I'm like, listen, it's 140 rooms on the yacht. Only four of the rooms is black people. And we late. Come on. Come on. Guess who else was on the on the yacht? It's a Ray and her husband. It's a Ray and her husband. I'm sorry for telling me. It's a Ray. It's a Ray and her husband. That let you know the caliber of this hill yacht. Now, it's a rain. We was on time. We was on time to our dinner reservations. Everything we was on time. The young black couple, the older black couple. Come on there late. And I'm like, listen, man, you don't win. You don't win the Ivy League. And you late and at least you don't win Ivy League. That let me know. You know how to talk. So come on the bus and say, hey, so sorry. Our plane was delayed. At least tell a lie. Get on and tell a lie. I say, boy, look here. Listen. A lot of people mad with Dionne Sanders. Because he made a lot of promises to the HBU. HBCU he delivered on a lot of them. But he left before his contract was up. He signed the four years. He leaving after 33 years. A lot of people upset. But this is what I'm going to challenge you to do. Instead of being upset with the black people. That changed course. With the black people that get a divorce. It's a lot of pastors getting divorces. Still to losing faith and hoping love. Still to being angry with the people that changed course. You be the person who stays the course. You be the person who stays the course. No, I ain't get a picture with SRA. Because I know what it's like to be mind of your business and with your family and get interrupted. I don't mind it because I'm not a celebrity. But sometimes I have my head down and I don't want to be bothered. Like today or three different people who recognize me. I was in a good mood today. I was all right with it. Before a picture I took the picture, no hesitation. Had a big smile and I took a picture on my phone. And I posted it on my Instagram story. Follow me on Instagram if you don't follow me on Instagram. And so now I ain't bothered. And my wife told me not to bother. But when I was by myself and I saw her hugging. I walked up to them and I talked to them. And I said, hey congratulations on your marriage. And I told the black man. I say congratulations. I say thank you for stepping up. It's been two minutes. Sorry, black man that's not stepping up. Thank you for getting married and for being faithful. And for doing it. He looked at me crazy. Because I think he of African descent. So African black men. It looked different than American black men. Because they pathway is different. They perspective is different. They not as jiked up. Some of them are. I know some African women. Listen. For the most part they doing better than black American men. Because you know the pathway is different. The perspective is different. You know it's different. So he looked at me like, huh? Like I was crazy. But that needed to be said. It probably hit him later. So listen. Hey you could bother me. No you could bother me if you see me. I ain't like that. I ain't like that. I don't want to speak to you. And take a picture with you. Chop it up with you for a little bit. Approach me please. Because that make me feel good. Because sometimes I be some places and I be like Man I hope somebody recognize me. Man I hope somebody recognize me. Just to let these people know. That I'm out here doing something with my life. And I might be around somebody. And the Lord always deliver. When I need somebody with me to see. That I got a little something going in the world. The Lord have somebody come up to me. Tony Gaskins I follow your life. I'm like yeah. I try to act humble. Oh hey how you doing? Try to act like I ain't happy. I'll be more happy to see y'all. Than y'all be to see me. Oh hey how you doing? Let me have you sign my plane ticket. And let's take a picture together. I'll be happy to get recognized. To be honest with you. Because I ain't no celebrity. So hey listen to me. We coming up on an hour. Remember if you miss anything. I said I want you to be the change. I want you to be the change. I want you to be different. Because listen. I'm fighting up against mediocrity. Is so many people. That's in the industry. That's mediocre. That's living a mediocre existence. That all they care about is money. All they care about is fame. And it sickens me. To where people can't have morals and values and ethics. People care about the wrong things. And to be honest with you. That's why you see me moving by myself so much. That's why when you go on Instagram. You don't see me in too many likes. Liking stuff. Because I don't want to be clicked up. And tied up. And lumped in. With people who are not. Focus on the real work that has to be done. It's too many fakes. It's too many frauds. A lady got blocked yesterday talking about. Oh a lady. Oh man. Tony you built your brand on a bike of black women. You lose. And I'm like what the wrong. I'm like am I asking for donations. Am I asking. Am I out here pandering. And just saying what people want to hear. And just telling women. Oh. You know what. You deserve. To be angry and to be mad and you deserve to hate the black man. No I'm asking women to be excellent. I'm asking women to suffer the wrong. Meaning be the bigger person. Even if you move on with your life. Don't move on with bitterness. Don't move on with hate. Don't move on with trauma. Don't move on with pain. But people got the nerve. To try to lump me in. And there was a young lady who lumped me in. She was a blogger. And she lumped me in with a bunch of fakes. And she took one of my joking tweets. Y'all know my sense of humor. She didn't follow me. She didn't know my sense of humor. And she took and tried to make it serious. She ended up. Getting like a TV deal or a book deal. And I wrote her one time and I said hey. I've been married. For X amount of years. I'm faithful to my wife. And I'm sharing the message with the people. And you wrote a blog. And you lumped me in with guys who not married. With guys who not living the right way. And you did not know me. And I'm asking you to remove that blog. Because it's showing up on my Google searches. When somebody searched my name. It's showing up. And she. And you know what. When she did that. When she made that tweet. Making fun of me. It was thousands of black people. That joined her. To tear me down. I ain't see a single white person. Asian person. Hispanic person. Jump in them. It was black people that. Grouped up. To tear me down. And it's what they used to call black Twitter. Hadn't even taken the time to see that I was doing the real work. And trying to help our people. And that is the same reason. Why you see people. Walk away from the movement. That's the same reason why you see people leave. Because a lot of times it be your own people. That'll tear you down. And we have to be the change. So we got to stop time people down. We got to stop being that person. That tear people down. We got to stop lumping up against each other. We got a seat to understand. Then be understood. So when D. R. Sanders. Took that Colorado job. I had just taught the D. R. Two days before he took the job. I ain't know he was taking the Colorado job. But I had just taught the D. R. Giving him his flowers. Because he represents something. That there is no other. Duplication of him. And I had just talked to him two days before. In the DM on Instagram. Giving him his flowers. And then when I saw he took the Colorado job. The first thing I felt. I ain't like it either. But what the Lord said to me is Tony don't judge. Tony don't judge. Because. You know what it feel like. To begin paying. $500,000. But to feel like you doing $5,000,000 worth of work. So if somebody come offer you $5,000,000. And a bigger platform. I need you to wait until you get that offer. Before you judge. And if you think you would do different. When you get the offer. Do different. And just be the difference. Be the example. If you think you will do different. But you don't know if you'll do different. Because you've never been proposed. With an offer like that. So I had to say a I respect. Because at the end of the day. You got to take care you. At the end of the day you got to do us best. For your ministry. For your lineage. For your family. For your legacy. At the end of the day. And not everybody. Is called. To suffer the wrong. And sacrifice. For everybody. But what the Lord told me is. And this what I had to do. When I start getting TV. Opportunities. Network came to me with TV opportunity. And I told them and they say how do you feel about this right here. Let me tell you what happened. They came to me for. Married at first sight. To be one of the hosts on there. The audition to be one of the hosts. They came to me and they said. To say he got but he got money. Listen. Listen. People they got what you think they got. Listen to. Listen to. Yeah. Yeah. He got money. But listen. He ain't got no money not to go broke. He ain't got no money not to go broke now. Because this man who'd have made way more money than Dion. And went broke. Hey. So understand that now. You never got enough money. I got money and go broke every day. Got money and go broke every day. I got to wake up and check my account every day. And got money. This them. Ain't that much money now. Ain't that much money being out to go broke. Let one let one pandemic happen to be there. Be broke. This them. Don't think it ain't always that sweet now. Because understand this right here. If he had all that motion and all that money he probably wouldn't allow. He probably wouldn't allow. If he felt like he was bigger now. To have a bigger platform to have bring his platform to JSU. And he need a bigger platform with more money. More opportunity. More resource. He would stay there. So that let you know he felt deficient in certain areas. And he need more to do what the vision he say he got. Can't judge people. Can't judge people. What I would. What I do it. I don't know. I'm gonna have to see. I'm gonna have to see. Somebody make me awful. But listen let me tell you married at first sight came to me. I've been bashing the idiocracy. Of these reality TV shows. And so what the adversary will do. The adversary will say oh. You got a lot of you got a lot of mouth. Let me put a check in front of you. Let me dangle the check and see what you're going to do. So I'm on the zoom interview. And the lady say. So how do you feel about married at first sight or love at first sight. I say I don't believe in it. If that's lost that first sight. Love has to be developed. Love got to be built. You can't love anybody at first sight other than your child. That come out of you. There's no such thing as love at first sight. That's lost that first sight. Married at first sight the reality TV show. Big show they were number one at one point I think. And then 90 day fiance production company with that come to me. Me and our matchmaker production company with that come to me. Another matchmaking show come to me. But it was the people who was talking to me was white people. And they come into a black man because they want to bring in the black audience. They want black people to watch the shows because anything black people join in on goes to number one. Because black people watch scandal scandal was number one. Black people made Shonda Rhimes number one on TV. Black people got Shonda Rhimes a whole thing. Black people got Barack Obama in office. Black people help get Trump in office. Black people got Joe Biden in office. Black people make Gucci or Louis the number one. Black people make Black Panther or Tyler Perry or Avatar the number one movie in it. Black people are the X factor. If you could get black people then you got something. And so the reality shows look on YouTube to see what black people got motion. And I'm going to always be on that short list because I'm working for the Lord. But they're going to come to me with Tom foolery. So all these shows come to me. And this was my opportunity to go get a bigger platform to go get more money to go promote my books. And what I told them when I answered a questions he ain't the fit. When I talk, I was talking to one of the white ladies and I'm answering her questions and I'm answering the question with confidence. The lady say, do people tend to like you? She was trying to be sarcastic because she liked me. Because as a person of another race, it bothered her to see a black man so sure of himself and so confident. But Proverbs 1 and 7 say with the knowledge of the Lord comes a strong confidence. He on Sunday saying he got this from me because he followed me on Twitter and I had this tweet rant about not letting my confidence offend your insecurity. I just charge it to the game when somebody get my quote because they get it subconsciously. But he invited that he represent that so we all we all say the same thing in different ways. But I had this tweet rant and I Googled it because I had to Google it to see. I feel like that's my quote. Let me Google it. And it came up from 2013 or 2016, probably 2016, 2018, something like that. Where I was talking about when you confident, your confidence will offend somebody else in security. And that's what happened on that show. So even rat now, when I go around, even black people, black men, black women, white men, like today. See, I told my wife, I wrote my wife and I said, baby, Costco. I forgot my car where they swipe my car. I'm in a foreign car. Okay, the MSRP for this car at the door is about $300,000. I didn't pay that for it. But I'm pulling up the Costco, which is discount gas. So I let down my one and I called a man over. Now, when I don't pull up in American car, I said, hey, I forgot my car. Can you swipe me in? No problem. No question asked. But a black man in a Bentley, I called a man over. He a minority, some kind of something. He won white. He won black. He was something. Excuse me. I left my car at home. Can you swipe me? He said, I don't, I don't think I could do that for you. Do you have the app? I said, no, I don't have an app. I ain't no Costco had it out. He said, yeah, you got to have the app and you got to log in and you got to show that. I said, well, I don't have the app. I said, you can't swipe me. I said, I got my license. And she said, I might not be able to pull it up by your license. I'm like, sir, this in my head. Sir, you think I'm going to be in a luxury car lying to you about a $60 membership at Costco? Now, and I told my wife when she told me, oh, they'll swipe you. No problem. I told her, I say, you cuter than me. Because see, she didn't understand that black male offends a successful black male is offensive. And the reason why it's offensive is because the country had his foot on our neck. The country bent us over and broke a buck. The country whipped us. The country hung us. And so a successful black man, especially under the age of 50, it's offensive to certain people who got a little bit of racism in their heart. It ain't offensive to everybody. So to more people who ain't racist, don't take offense. If it don't fit, you must acquit. If it don't apply, let it fly. But if you're getting in your feelings and you're telling me I'm a lie, you got some of that on you. Because you can't argue with me about my experience. I'm going to tell you another thing. I walk up the day to go into the Delta Sky Lounge. You got a light-skinned black man. He looked creole. He checking people in. You got two lines. You got a line for people that get in with a Delta car or whatever. And then you got a line for first class. If you fly in first class, I just finished filming the TV show, the green screen. So I'm flying first class. It's in my contract that they have to fly me first class. So I get in the first class line. In front of me is a Hispanic dad with his son. It's two people in the first class line. They separate the lines for the reed for a reason. They want to celebrate the people who spend more money to fly on Delta. So you check the first class in first, then you check in the economy class. He taking check in a line of all 50-age white people. He check in the whole line. And he leave me and Hispanic man standing up in first class and we post to go first. I said, sir, I said, sir, what's going on? I said, sir, what you doing? He said, what you mean what I'm doing? I don't know you. I'm running this hill line. I said, you running the line wrong because you posted that first class in first. I said, what you think I'm standing here for my health? I said, what you think I'm standing here for my health? I said, I'm first class. The thing is, first class, you put the check first class in first. I said, you the check dog. Let me in first. Oh, I'm running this hill line. I ain't being rude. I ain't being discriminatory. Listen, brother, do you have a platinum card or a Delta reserve card? I said, sir, what you think I'm standing here for my health? I said, sir, what you think I'm standing here for my health? A Delta reserve car? I said, yeah, I got the car. I got both of them. You said, I said, what you mean what I bought in dog? Well, you're gonna have to leave it at the front desk. I said, all right, I put it in my backpack because it was in the container in a bag and it was grits and eggs. I put it in my backpack and I went right on up though. I checked right on in. And when I checked in, the lady who was right there at the desk at the check in, she ran, she said, Tony Godkin, I'll follow him up. I said, I'm glad they want her downstairs. She would have saw me differently. She said, Tony Godkin, come on, let me take a picture. And that's who in my Instagram story. And I went right on in there and see not this while I was acting like a black person. And I took that food out the backpack from Pascal's and I tore it up. The eggs, the good swine, the grits. And I told her, hey, I had to break the rule, but I'm being honest with you. You wouldn't know I broke the rule if I ain't tell you. But see, listen, this is the stuff that we go through. And a lot of people don't believe it. A lot of people don't believe it. Let me tell you, it's time to get on the plane. They board first class first Delta do American do group one, but group one is first class and people that's not in first class, but Delta board first class. How about when I get up to walk to get the first class? Oh, everybody get up. Because they like, oh, if he running up there, they must be on group seven. So I get up to the line. I'm getting ready to check in. And somebody might jump in front of them or they standing on like, oh, yeah, excuse me, you first class. But I said, what group are you? I'm first class. Oh, I said, what group? Oh, I'm group seven. What you thought just because I got up in group seven. And then the workers who check you in when you get close and you about to get on first class. And it's sad. This is 2022. They have to double check. Uh, sir, first class. Uh, that's what, um, is at that time, I got to say the word wrong because I want to double offend them. I want to sound dumb and illiterate and sitting on first class. I ain't even put a proper voice on. Um, yes, I am first class that I am first class. No, I only want to sound like I went to Ivy League. I want to sound like I just hopped out the hood. That's what I'm else. Oh, oh, oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. But see, this is what is going on. And people don't believe it. And that's why I say we have to be excellent. Now on one side, you may say I'm cutting my nose despite my voice. I mean, despite my face, but this what I'm doing, what I'm taking and doing is I tilt 30% even when I ain't got it. The reason why I tilt 30% is because I want to represent black excellence. I was at a hotel the other night and it was a hotel in Beverly Hills. So for one, it's not a lot of black people that stay at that hotel in Beverly Hills, but I did that to shift their perspective because they don't see a lot of color. I can't. I ain't got it like that. But I say I'm going to stretch my mind. So I went in there and they treated me nice. They treated me like royalty. But when the bill came, my tip probably was supposed to be $50 if I tilt 20%, 75 if I tilt 30. Because it's my only night there, I tilt $100. My server was a tall white man with some long hair that he was OK energy. He had OK energy. And I was asking him illiterate questions about the lamb chop. I say, yeah, did the lamb chop have a little crisp to it? He's like, I wouldn't say that. And I'm a wife getting a little embarrassed because she's like, oh, what are you going? But listen, I'm finna be me now. Listen, I bust my behind. Don't be sitting over that shame. I said, does it have a little crisp to it? He said, what do you mean by that? I say like it's cooked, but then they seared it the way it got a little crisp around the edge. And he was like, it's tender. I wouldn't say that. So I'm like, sorry, you're looking at me in my head. I'm like, you're looking at me like I'm asking a dumb question. And so he bring my lamb chop and it got a crisp to it. It's blank around the edges where it looked burnt. But the inside, I get it done medium. And so that throw them off to now when a black person or the medium. He said, meet him. He sure not meet him. Well, not what not well done, butterfly, charcoal. And sometimes if I really need to throw them off, I ought to meet him around. I can't really eat it, but I ought to meet him around. So guess what? When it was time to tip. I took them a hundred dollars. I took my hundred dollars and the man was getting off. He was, he came up to me and he said, Hey, I got to be going, but my friend going to take care of you. He going to finish you up because I'm a young black man. He probably thought it was going to be a mediocre till. I said, well, I'm ready now. If you ready, he gave me the check. He came back. I said, he said, you going to try to say, yes, sir. I tried to the room. I gave him a hundred dollars till the man was getting off work. That man stopped and came back and said, sir, I want to come and thank you. And I want to say thank you for being so generous from that day forward. That white man has changed the narrative of blacks in America because he just sat in front of a young black man that not only paid two hundred and fifty dollars for dinner, but on top of that tip him a hundred dollars. And listen, I didn't have it to give. But what I said to myself is we got to have an abundant mindset because if this man is waiting tables that let me know he need that hundred dollars more than I needed to God and put me in a position to where I could bless him with this hundred dollars. And he was floored by that. So he came back to thank me. And that don't happen all the time, but everywhere I go, I tip 30%. The other day on takeout, I tip 20%. My driver told me I don't take out. People don't tip. He said he used to own a restaurant. He said nobody tips on takeout. I said, I know. I say, but I did it because I'm a young black man. And I did it because there's a stereotype that black people don't tip. So I did it because I want to shift the narrative. I did it so that when those two young Indian men go to their college and they at the party and they talking about black people and how black people are acting in a Indian restaurant. And when somebody say, who tips the best? What would you say? White people, Indian people, black people, black people don't tip, do they? I say them young Indian boys who run in that restaurant, they're going to say, well, actually that's not true. Because I just served a black guy who tip 20% on a takeout order. And I did the most. I did the most. And I ain't telling y'all to do the most. And they ain't bragging to you. But what I'm representing to you is that we got to represent excellence. So when people see my sons, they nails our clip. They nails clip. See how my nails clip? They see their nails clip. They hands and they feet. They see their clothes are iron. They see their shirt is tucked in. They see they got on nice shoes, clean socks, and they got on deodorant and they got on cologne. They see that they face is clear. They face is wash. They hair is done. People come up to my wife and say, your son smells so good. Your son is so clean. Your son is so well mannered. Your son say, yes, sir. No, sir. Yes, ma'am. No, ma'am. Your son is your son that in every area we have to represent excellence. We have to represent excellence. And this world is judgmental. So you got to have an abundant mindset to live on the level that God has allowed you to live on. Damian Lillard, rap name is Dala. And Dala stand for different on levels the Lord allows. You got to be different on the levels that the Lord allow because if you walk around here mediocre and you walk around here calling yourself being modest and humble and you walk around looking broke, busted and disgusted, you representing your family, your lineage and people looking at you like you broke, busted and disgusted and they're going to treat you like you broke, busted and disgusted. So when the Lord elevate you and he bless you to get a nicer shirt, get a nicer shirt, shift your mindset. Get a nicer shirt because when you read the good book, you're going to see that the Lord is about excellence. When you read the descriptions of how the robes need to be made for the priests in the Old Testament, man, that purple, that gold, that amethyst, that topaz, that turquoise, it's like, man, what y'all would drape up and drip that when you see how when you read how the how the temple had to be built. It's like, man, wait, I want to go to church. My goodness. But yet we walk around looking like who shot John and forgot to kill him. Walk around and that weed moving. You scratch your head, the weed doing the cha cha slide. I'm like, you can't keep up with the hell. And then all is so many black men not just looking raggedly, just looking struggle faced it. It's like, okay, you can grow your beard. Get some beer or get some beer conditioner, comb your beard. Walk around looking like you just got emancipated. How nappy. Like do something with the hell. What's on with the hell, man? Put some shampoo and conditioning in there and let the conditional sit. Let the conditional sit. Looking like you allergic to a comb. My goodness. And don't even understand the influence. My brother. You walking around with nappy how. Because you looking up to a NBA player who got nappy how and he got nappy how because his schedule don't allow him to go into the barbershop. Or he got nappy how because he look up to a nappy headed rapper who is on perc set and Molly and lean and is going through depression and do not get his hair cut. So now we emulate the hairstyles of depression. And then wondering why we getting profiled when we walk into the business. It's because you look like you bought the steal something because you're not taking care of yourself. You look like you just got off the street. So we have to go to a level of excellence. And we go to a level of excellence. We stop requiring other people to be excellent for us. We want other people to be our savior because we don't want to be. Excellent ourselves. No, I don't have an issue with locks or natural hair. But even with your locks and your natural hair, you still have to take care of your hair. So natural don't mean unkept. Natural hair is the most beautiful hair we got. Because when black people put a weave on, you're not lacing in African hell. The hell called Indian Remy. You're Indian. You're Indian. You're from Africa. And you got Indian people have your head. So natural hair is the most beautiful hair. But you still might want to touch up the edges. You still might want to get you some, some natural vegan moisturizer. You still might want to get a little calm to it. You see what I'm saying? So we need to be kept up. So when I get off this hill live, it ain't mean to be on this live this long, but the spirit went to moving. But when I get off this hill live, I'm finna go home. The soccer game on right now, I want to watch soccer game. But the Lord is working right now. So I'm out of Mr. Hour of the World Cup game. Because I'm doing the work of the Lord. But when I get off this live, I'm finna go home and I'm getting in the gym and I'm finna work out and I'm finna get up there and I'm finna bust my behind. And I'm finna start busting my behind every day until I get me 10 to 15 pounds off of me. And I'm gonna eat regular. I'm gonna eat the way that I'm gonna keep eating, but I'm finna bust my behind. Because you know why? When somebody look at me, I don't want to get out a nice car with no stomach on me. Because then I know it's stomach. I know it's stomach. But I said stomach for a reason. I don't want to get out no nice car with no stomach on me. Now see, here go this guy. All these parking spots out here now. All these parking spots out here now. He parking over there. I don't want to get out no nice car with no stomach on me. I don't want to, I be walking around by the pass I try to hold my breath in. I be walking, if I was white, I would be blue in the face. How I be walking around. I get taller sucking my stomach in all day. I'm finna get my stomach flat to where when I eat and it poking out it still look flat. No, no brother, come on now. It ain't no car over here. You walking over here. The parking lot. I'm about to have to watch my surroundings. Y'all forgive me. Y'all forgive me. The nature. When you've been in the streets for a little bit you're changing a couple of ways. And so now listen. I want you today to look yourself in the mirror. I want you to look yourself in the mirror and I want you to start busting your butt to be excellent. Busting your butt to be excellent. And when you bump into me in the airport or in the store I want to hear your praise report your testimony of what you have done to grow and understand that the growth is going to be painful and that is why it is called growing pains. The growth is not going to be comfortable. You're not going to feel like working out. You're not going to feel like eating right. You're not going to feel like sleeping right. You're not going to feel like stop gossiping, stop backbiting. You're not going to feel like crucifying that spirit of lateness and getting to work on early. Or on time. You're not going to feel like it. You're not going to feel like not being jealous and envious of other people you see that look like they're doing better than you. You're not going to feel like it. You're not going to feel like it. So understand this now. We have to be excellent. We have no other choice. We got to start putting all of the responsibility on Oprah and Jay-Z and Beyoncé and Tyler Perry and Dionne Sandler and Bob Johnson and we individually as people have to be excellent. Because listen to me, my daddy raised me to be better than average. And guess what? Today, my message can reach millions. So here's a man and woman, my mom and daddy who come from humble beginnings, both of them was the baby of 12. They never made more than 50 or 60,000 in a year individually. And they had the bus they bought to make that. And it probably really made about 35,040. And they had the bus they bought to make that. But yet they son is adding to the world. So I want you to understand that if you upset with a celebrity, your son or daughter could become that personal influence who do things the right way, who do things with integrity. And you know what I have learned? Yes, you can live on 30,000. You can live on 50,000. But I'll be honest with you. The Lord has blessed me and I had to create several businesses. I had to create several streams of income. I stopped counting at around 50 streams of income. I stopped counting. And that's not 50 different companies that 50 streams of income. Every book is a stream of income. I wrote 17 books. Every course is a stream of income. I got about 30 courses. T-shirts is a stream of income. One-on-one coaching is a stream of income. YouTube is a stream of income. Content engagements is a stream of income. All the different stuff is a stream of income. I stopped counting when I got about 52 streams of income. I stopped counting. So I had to create a lot of business and I had to be relentless and I had to believe in God and I had to believe in myself. And I got to dream stuff up when I'm sitting with the Lord and the Lord give me an idea. My driver is Indian and he connect me with a company that make apps. So I said, Lord, give me an idea for an app. And in five minutes, the Lord gave me an idea for the app on the plane. And I'm going to work with the Indian company to build this hill out. And I'm going to pay what it costs and I'm going to sacrifice and I'm going to put a lot into it and I'm going to invest in it and I'm going to bring stuff to it and I'm going to build it and I'm going to have something that can outlive me, could be bigger than me and that's how I'm thinking. I'm not thinking to be a 100,000 there. I'm not thinking to be a 500,000 there. I'm not thinking to be a millionaire. I'm thinking to be a billionaire. And in order to be a hundred million now, you got to say you want to be a billionaire. And in order to be a billionaire, you got to say you want to be a trillion now like Jeff Bezos was for a little bit. Listen to me. You got the one excellence in your life. You got to want to be better. You got to. And so I'm telling you to do this. I'm telling you to dream outside the box. I'm telling you to push yourself in every area of your life. I'm telling you to heal from your pain, heal from your trauma, stop being a pessimist, start being an eternal optimist and no matter what you see somebody else getting, no matter what you see somebody else going through, you pray for them, but you do not accept that for your life. You could be in a recession. I'm not thinking to be in no recession. I'm not claiming a recession. I'm claiming abundance. I'm claiming to see God bigger and greater and better in a recession than He'd been in the good times. I'm not claiming lack. I'm not claiming poverty. And what I'm going to tell you is you could live on any amount of money you want to live on, but I'm going to tell you what. I learned when I hit $500,000 a year that I could do anything I wanted to do. At $500,000 a year, I could drive any kind of car. I could go to any restaurant. I could fly on a private jet. I could get on a yacht at $500,000 a year. So a lot of time when people talk about when we see people that's selling out for money, when we see celebrities who won't speak on certain issues because they don't want to be counseled from their liquor deal, from their shoe deal, from their dissident deal, because they trying to get to the billion, the Lord that showed me, you don't need a billion. If the truth going to cost you from being a billion out, then don't worry about being a billion out. You don't need $500,000. You don't need $500,000. If you live in your purpose, if you're doing what God put you to here to do, because I sat and I thought the other day, I went into a store and I did some impulse shopping and I bought me some nice clothes. Immediately after I bought it, I felt remorse. My wife say, well, you feel bad till you put it on. And I'm like, three of the shirts was black shirts. I don't need three black shirts. I got on a black shirt right now. I got about three black shirts of the same brand just cause they slightly different. So guess what? When the order comes in, I'm sending it back. I'm sending it back because I don't feel good about it. Because what I'm asking myself right now is what do I need? What do I need? And when I sit and I ask myself, what do I need? The answer is, I need for nothing. God has supplied my needs. God has supplied my needs above and beyond. So the Lord now is saying to me, Tony, you don't have to chase a check because your needs are met. You pass needs. You now into won'ts. You now into the desires of your heart. The Bible say, God say, here give you the desires of your heart. The Lord say, Tony, you now into the desires of your heart. You pass your needs because what do you need? You need a roof over your head. Do you got a roof over your head? If you own this hill phone, you don't need nothing. Yes, you can have more money. Yes, you can make more money. But when you really look at it, you might say, well, I spent too much money out to eat. I spent too much money giving away to people who is background. I spent too much money sowing into the wrong ministries. I spent too much money on clothes. I spent too much money. I let stuff get past me. So actually God to met my needs and I squandered my needs in pursuit of my wants. And now I'm in need because I'm looking at something I got that I want. The Lord showed me, Tony, you don't need nothing but you want everything. Learn how to be content. Learn how to be content. And when you content, then you could be excellent. See, contentment does not mean you're not hungry but you need to be hungry for excellence, not hungry for things. And then what the Lord telling me, the Lord said, listen, you're afraid to let go of things to advance yourself, to advance your wealth, to create generational wealth. You're afraid to let go of things because you worried about what people gonna think because you think people gonna think you fell off. If you take and sell your house while the market is still up, even though it went down some, but before it don't bottom out, if you taking and sell your house and you go and you invest that money or you invest your profit into a business and you got a 12 to 24 month plan that your business gonna be profitable and you gonna hit six figures or seven figures in 12 to 36 months and you done got a hundred or $200,000 of profit at your house and that might be the move for you because you single or you by yourself and you ain't taking nothing from no kids and you okay being in an apartment but you afraid to sell your house cause somebody told you an asset. Somebody told you it's an asset and God say, listen, you passing through. That ain't no asset cause when you leave here, if the person you leave it to can't pay the property taxes, it's gonna be gone. But now you done foregone the genius business idea that you know how to build. If you don't know how to build it, God ain't give it to you. God ain't tell no to build no art and then didn't tell him how to build it. You can't build no art without the help of God. If God then gave you a arc, told you to build an arc, he gonna tell you how to build it and the arc is so when the flood come, everybody else gonna drown and you gonna be flowed. So you got to understand the reason and the purpose behind it. So you got to know what's for you but you worried about your neighbor saying, oh, I got the recession to help. Doing bad, got to sell that house. But sometimes you got to take two steps back so you can take 10 steps forward. When you're too close to the picture, you can't see the beauty of it. But when you step back from it, now you can see everything that the artist wants you to see. God got a big picture for you to see but you standing in the frame. Sometimes you got to step back to look at it to see, whoa, this gonna take trust. This gonna take faith. This gonna take me getting out my comfort zone. This gonna take me being obedient. This gonna take me sacrificing. This gonna take me going through a season of people laughing at me. And on the other side, there's a double portion. God say, I gave you everything you need but you squandered your needs for your wants. And so now you have lost even your needs. So now you got to liquidate your wants so you can replenish your needs. And when you liquidate your wants, you're gonna look like a failure. You're gonna look like you lost and they're gonna laugh at you. But when you replenish your needs and you show yourself faithful and you show yourself approved and you show that you're a good steward over what you've been given on the other side of that sacrifice. On the other side of that obedience, there will be a double portion for you. And the people who laughed at you is gonna choke on their tongue. Because see, here's the thing. A lot of times certain people say, God ain't about this, God ain't about that. God might not be about that for you because of where your mind said that so God came moving that area for you. But according to your faith, be it unto you. See, where people need to see God, that's what God gonna show up in your life when you representing God. So what you have to understand that a young black man told me, I need to see you in a Bentley. I need to know that you can afford the finer things of life doing the right things because all I see is the rappers winning and the athletes winning and I don't wanna rap and I can't play ball. So I wanna live for the Lord, but does living for the Lord mean that I gotta be wading in the water and climbing the rough side of the mountain and just overbroke, J-O-B broke, busted and disgusted or can I have the desires on my heart as the Bible say? Can I be obedient and be faithful and reap the benefits of that faithfulness? Can I do that? Tony, I needed to see you that way to know that you can live a righteous lifestyle and still be blessed, that you don't have to be struggling, that you can live a righteous lifestyle and not ask for handouts and not ask for donations, but work and based on your work, the sweat of your brow, your toiling, your sacrifice, that you can do that and God will honor your seed, that God will water your seed, that God will bless your seed. Tony, I needed to see that. See, people oftentimes forget that even the Son of God had to have signs and wonders in order for people to believe. So people say, oh, well, people say that, you're trying to say that if God is present, that mean I'm gonna be blessed with material wealth. No, I'm not saying that, but if you in a certain area, in a certain ministry, then yes, that might mean what it is. If you in a third world country, it's not gonna mean that you're gonna have a Bentley. It's gonna mean that you're gonna have peace with a smile in the midst of a famine and that's going to be the representation of the presence of God. But if you in a first world country with everything at your fingertips, the peace and the prosperity of God, the byproducts will be material things as well as in addition to your mental and emotional and spiritual peace. So understand that Jesus said, I'm doing these signs and wonders so that you may believe. But today, the signs and wonders that God do through you, it may not be you healing the blind. It may not be you raising the dead. It may be you being elevated in your business on your job, on your career. It may be you being happy and healthy and whole in your singleness without being desperate. It may be you being blessed going and coming. And when people look, they gonna say, how is that happening? Where is that coming from? How did they get that job? How did they get that promotion? How did they start that company? How are they smiling after I know what they just went through? How are they still optimistic after I know what they just suffered? How? And in that moment, that's when they see that the presence of God is with you, that it's on you, that it's in you. And that's what you got to understand. So listen to me, you got to do what you got to do. And that's the thing, we are judgmental people. Don't come to me and tell me that you wanna plan my finances if you have not created enough abundance in your mindset and in your wallet to drive a new car. Don't come telling me you driving a 10 year old car just because you wanna drive a 10 year old car? No, because if you know what you're doing with money, then you ought to be able to create enough room in your wallet that a new car is not breaking you. Because you spend a more money on that old car cause it's always in service. The new car don't need all the extra stuff, it just needs to all change every 5,000 miles. So the new car only cost you $500 to $1,000 a year. You paying $3,000, $4,000 every three months in that old clunker that you driving, but yet you telling me you're a financial planner? No, go on, not go on now. Don't come up here telling me that I need to be vegan and I need to be pescatarian and I need to do this kind of work out if your body don't look like the body I want to have now. So listen, I need you to get where you need to be at. That's why I'm trying to say, don't tell me how to make a relationship work if you single. Tell me what did not work, but don't tell me how to make it work if you ain't made it work. Now when you make it work and you been in it for a year, say, hey, this is how you make it for a year. I ain't telling you how to make it for eternity. I can only tell you how to make a marriage work for 16 years because that's all I got in the books. My parents got divorced at 25 years, so it ain't not the woods yet. It ain't not the woods yet, God forbid. God forbid. It's a lot of days, I'm just going to build a war. My goodness, Devon Franklin got a divorce. Kear Hennessen got a divorce. Torrey Robert got a divorce. I'm like, my goodness Lord, what's in the water? I'm like, am I dragging this divorce water to him? I'm like, man, was their wife that bad? I'm like, my goodness, like, what the world? I'm like, Lord, am I in my wife, in some role, my wife? I'm like, Lord, did the Christian Mary wrong? It's a lot of days. I'm like, what? So listen, I can tell you how to make a marriage work for 16 years because I'm still in the fight. I'm telling you, I can't tell you how to make it for 20. It ain't that yet. But when I get there, I'm gonna tell you how to make it for 20. So listen to me. You got to be what you want to see and you have to be excellent. And when you become excellent, then you bring people along with you. People say, oh, Tony, you think you know it all? I don't say nothing that I don't know. Everything I say is cause I know it. It's cause I don't see it over and over and over again. Everything I say, I ain't telling you nothing I ain't done. I ain't telling you nothing I ain't seen a thousand times. And I'm not an expert in an area that I ain't got no expertise in. But we live in a world of single matchmakers, single marriage coaches, broke financial advisors, out of shape trainers. We live in a world of hypocrisy. Parenting coaches with no kids. Somebody asked the question one time, they say, how is Oprah the authority on marriage and family and she's not married nor do she have kids? That's the way of the world. That's the irony of the devil. What does adversary do is the adversary don't want you to see any advancement. So what the adversary does is the adversary says, I'm gonna make a reality TV show and I'm gonna have the expert not be living what they teaching so that while you watching it, you're just wasting your time because you're not learning from somebody who done what they telling you to do. So how are you gonna be a coach on married at first sight? If you ain't get married at first sight, how are you gonna be a coach on 90 day fiancee? If you ain't had no 90 day fiancee, how are you gonna be a get in shape coach? If you really not in shape, that's just your genetics. How are you gonna be a financial coach? But you just overbroke. See, just the thing. How you gonna be a relationship coach and relationship failing? That what the Lord said to me. Lord say, Tony, you don't talk on relationship. You better make sure you're working on your relationship. You better make sure you stay on top of your relationship and I went through a season of not being on top of my relationship and almost lost my relationship. And that's exactly what the devil wanted. That's exactly what the devil wanted. But the Lord say, Tony, listen, it too much on the line. It too much on the line, son. I'm giving you time to get your mind right. I'm giving you grace. But if you take this grace from for granted, the rock gonna be pulled from up under you. The rock gonna be pulled from up under you. And in every time I'm down in my spirit, it go pretty hot tempting. What they call it pretty hot and tempting. P-H-A-T from the movie. It's gonna come old pretty hot and tempting. Go to DM me. Hey, yeah, Tony, I had a question for you. And the Lord say, uh-huh, you see that? You see what you see when the devil needed to get David? What he did? He sent Balsheba that'll have to take a bow. Sent Balsheba that'll take a bow. And just so happen to hell, David, right on over the looking. Not looking, not look. Entie man watching a woman been over in that water and got that water glistening down her shoulders and her back and that water running down that crack. Listen, see, we got to bring the Bible to life. Cause we'll sit there and judge David, but then we got to ask ourselves now. If you sit now watch somebody wet or now with that water, what's your body going to go through? If you sit under longing. So the Lord told me, listen, when you longing, the devil finna send you some bread. When you hungry, the devil gonna say, here go some bread to eat. But it got a hook in it. It got a hook in it. You better be careful. You better be careful. Cause you get too close. You're going to get hooked. See, and that's what we don't understand. It's in your weakness. See, this what you got to understand. The divesting movement. We just heard about this divesting movement. I just seen a black lady in the airport with a white man and they children that black lady. I ain't gonna lie to you. I ain't lying to you for my narrative. She looked fed up with that white man. I ain't lying to you. She looked and fed up Tom. I said, oh, I said, wait, y'all to divest it. She don't look too happy. She do not look too happy. But then on the train, I saw a sister. Unfortunately, unfortunately, she had on CVS eyelashes. Ladies, please. Later, please. Later, please. Stop. When? No CVS in the right. Hey, I'll ask you, please. I told you, we need to be excellent in every area. Go to the last lady who got at least 4.8 stars with 100 reviews and let her get you a one to one. Then let her get your one to one. Spend that $200. Go back every error on the every two, three weeks and spend the $50 and stop getting CVS in the right. Our last chance. I'll be looking at you with it. They just sitting there and when they're looking down at them phone is like this right here. They sniffing up lashes. Lashes falling. We sniffing last I was running behind a black lady today. I'm about to lie. Last but came I say and we got to do better. The last should be clumped together. They be looking like a former NFL player. Fingers. I'd be like, come on. We got to do better. Y'all, please save you some money. Save you some money and go get you a one to one on your eyelashes. But listen, I seen a black lady with a white man. She was she looked at she looked and frustrated. She looked like a divestment work dot for. But then I got on the train and I seen a black lady with a black man and she will get into his eyes. She said, oh, they messed off light up. Oh, they changed. I see. Oh, they changed. I see. Oh, I'm going down to the desk. I got to work. This is how he did this and she looking into his eyes and they just a happy. I could tell by that luggage from Marshall's that they stretch in their mind. They get on the airplane. They didn't know how to book their seats. They let the lady at the counter, give a seat and the people do not be happy with a job. So they always stick in the middle seat. Then I got stuck in the middle seat and later put they put the later on our eight put the man on our nine knowing the people traveling together. They just figured it out. So they fit them on a high five and on the plane and one by but they but they catch the flights not feelings. I can't be mad at them. They catch the flight not feelings. They didn't put a whole trip in that carry-on luggage because they didn't want to pay that $30 to check them bad on that basic economy for that $79 flight going across the country out the country to canker but listen can cool. I know it can cool. I said can come for a reason. But listen, I love what they doing. So listen in your lowness when you hurting when you broken that's when the devil finna hit you when you get your heart broke by a black man you finna get on YouTube and you finna see a divesting video and it finna be music to your ears because what the adversary want to do he want to weaken your race. He want to weaken your people. So what he want you to do is divest. Because what he because when you do too much divested it's okay to have certain people divest because certain people just fit better with another culture with another race certain people just fit better it you can't blame you can't blame them and it's like a lady come on here. I've never been attracted to black men. I've never dated a black man and all I did is white man. Okay, God bless you. What you want a cookie? Here you go. God bless you. Okay, we'll relate to you. We're like, okay, bye. Ain't nobody mad at you and vice versa. When a black man own on date like women cuz they too they too rude they too loud. I want me a Asian woman or a white woman. They know how to treat me and they know how to like listen, brother. Your toes is messed up. You don't brush your teeth right. You not when deodorant and you a lot of them want to be another race. Okay, bye. Bye. Go on about your business. Ain't nobody mad at you man. Ain't nobody mad at you. Go on about your business. But see here's the thing when you've been hurt when you down. That's when the message gonna hit you. The aid. Oh, you need to divest because you know what happens. I'm gonna tell you what happens when you divest and people don't want to talk about this. People don't want to talk about this and this is what the Asians understand. People don't want to talk about this. But when you divest you building on a foundation of seasoning and no seasoning. You got macaroni and cheese. They got the cheese across the top and you got macaroni and cheese that got hot dogs cut up in it. You got corn bean casserole. And then you got dirty rice. Now that is a metaphor. For your foundation. Because there is a pain. And there is a promise that black people have. There is trauma with being black. There's an experience with being black. There's a struggle with your health. Sometimes there's a struggle with all your weight going to your booty or your thighs or your foopa, which I don't even know what it means that somebody said it and there might be a struggle. So when you divest and you go to another race, whatever race it is now, guess what? At the foundation. They don't understand your struggle. They don't understand the trauma you heal. They don't understand why when y'all go in the store, why are you acting like this? And they and they like what's wrong with you? And they don't understand systemic racism. They don't understand discrimination. And then when they learn about it and they get it and they start to understand it. It's like, okay, thank you for the empathy. But now when you have kids. When you have kids as a black man with this woman who is not black, not a 10 times, she she don't understand a hair. She don't understand a hair. So she don't know how to do their hair. So it's a lot of kids that's being raised and not even about divesting. It's a lot of black kids that's being raised. They was adopted and I'm glad they got a home. I'm glad they got a home, but you see how they had be looking. They had be looking like they had has not been touched since they come out the womb. And the reason why is because somebody of another race adopted them and don't have a clue what to do with they have. Now we glad they got a home. But what I'm saying is is this is the stuff people don't talk about that you could divest and it's still going to be a fight. It's still going to be a struggle because you're going to go into a business and the person that got the power to sign your check, the person that got the power to overwrite this rule, the underwriter, the underwriter who got the power to not go by the letter of the law. When y'all trying to buy a house going to go by the letter of the law because he don't like interracial couples, but you ain't talking about that fight. They ain't talking about that fight. They ain't talking about it. It's a it's a couple that they didn't divest out of pain. They didn't divest out of hate. They didn't divest out of trauma. They didn't divest out of disdain for the own. They divested organically. They met somebody who was over another race and they hit it off. Okay, we get it. We respect it. We love it. We love it for you. We have you like we love it. We happy for you. But people who full of hate, who full of pain, who full of trauma is leading the movement of divesting because if you did it organically, you ain't got to preach about it. If you did it organically, you ain't got to bash nobody on your way out. If you did it organically, you ain't got to bash nobody, but if you did it out of pain, if you did it out of trauma, if you did it out of hate, then you got to bash a whole race, a whole gender, men doing it and women doing it today on people and is sickening, operating from the wrong place. You found somebody of another race. Congratulations. Here go a cookie. God bless you. Shut up. We don't need to hear the story. We do not care about it. God bless you. We glad you're happy. Shut up. Because if you're going to open your mouth, tell us about how you got discriminated in that restaurant and they had an open table, but they told you that they fool because they don't like interracial couples. Tell us about when you went to get that house and they make they made you jump through fiery hoops. Tell us about how your neighbors look at you crazy. Tell us about how your kids is at school getting called names and getting picked on because of a mixed race. Tell us about the struggle. Don't just paint it as peaches and cream. Tell us everything that come with it. Because I read the paper of a boy in the sixth grade who daddy was white and mama was black in his essay. He was my homeboy because he was the point guard on our varsity basketball team. So yes, them genetics do make heck of a heck of an athlete. Make very good people make very smart people and it show you that we probably stronger together, but it also everybody ain't ready for it. And this young black boy. He have black mama black daddy white his essay said I feel like a Oreo ain't black enough for the blacks ain't white enough for the blacks and I don't know who I am and at that point I had a white girlfriend and I broke up with her cause I said I don't care how nice your booty is. I don't care how pretty you is as a grown man. I can't put my child through that because my child this world ain't ready for that. So I got to find love with somebody who looked like me because I'm an adult. So I can't say Oh, I want me a white woman because white is right because white and been painted as better than black. I can't say I want me a white woman because this or that because I had a bad experience with a black woman and then have my child come in who is defenseless who can't take up for himself who can't articulate his feelings who don't understand why he being treated the way he being treated who don't understand why certain white people scratching under their arms and making monkey noises. I sat the other day and listen to white boys say the n-word to black boys and because the black boys live in the suburbs this a whole nother struggle they all the way black but because they live in the suburbs the white boys said I'm blacker than you they were sitting right across from me they in my son's soccer club they in the old age group the white boys say I'm blacker than you. You live in the suburb. You're a suburb baby and the little white Asian boy kept saying the n-word my in man and in this man and in that I was about to say something but my wife was sitting beside me and it would have been some smoke and who and my son would have got because it's my son soccer club. That black boy feelings was so hurt that black boy feelings was so hurt. And a lot of times what it be a lot of times it be us black people so shame of our rules so shame of our history so shame of our lineage that we try to emulate another race and we subconsciously teach our children that another race is superior and we teach our children that you can't have no twang in your voice like your grandma you can't have no twang in your voice like your granddaddy because they come from Mississippi. So you got to do all the way with that twang you can't you can't speak nothing every single word got to sound like you read a dictionary and sometimes when we do that for the wrong reasons our children pay a price my son came home to me because he in the private school and I experienced this and my son said daddy one of the white guy said Tony you're the whitest black boy I've ever met. I'm like wow wow that thing hurt me but I put him my wife wanted to be in a private school for the education and because he had real bad eggs man we knew the bullying in public school was going to be atrocious that he probably would have felt suicidal. So then I had to talk to the people about that and they had to start doing diversity training. They had to call the students in they had to talk to the students some of the kids got expelled some of the kids had to call their parents in one black boy came to the school and end up leaving the school and my son because he liked skin he get treated a little different he gets seen a little different but then guess what because he black the hardest teachers that's on him is the black teacher take out they pain and they front frustration they anger on him because he blight but then kiss the behind other white kids my wife had to call the teacher I teach start crying because she knows you felt guilty. I had to call the other teachers the white teachers that don't like his confidence as a young man of color. I had to call them out. He had a black soccer coach that used to go at them and and treat them different in the white players. I had to go off on him. I had to tell him you jealous because I'm a successful black man and you divorce and you struggling and you mad that my son lifestyle is better than even though white players and you taking it out on him. I know what self hate look like when I see that man go that is not true. It's all black man that is not true. I am not jealous that is not why I do that. I say I know what I'm seeing and listen. We see this stuff going on and we do not address it on play body on play by it. So the people around me know they better not have a racist bone in their body. They may not have a discriminant discriminatory bone in their body or Marie on top the bottom left the right. They're gonna heal by it. I got investors that I don't read to feel to let them know I don't kill how much money you put in if I hear something that is nasty in your voice. I'm finna check you. One of my investors friend sent a racist email like in the new millennium sent a racist email with a bunch of jokes about Martin Luther King Rosa Parks Frederick Douglass. I was like wow and my friend forwarded it to me thinking it was going to be funny. Little do he know you sent it to the wrong one. I wrote his friend and ripped him a new one told him everything he used from the time he get up to the time he leave his house was created by a black person and he better not never in his life. Boy he went to see he went to my friend and said hey did you know a Tony Gaskin my friend wrote me and say hey did you write such and such. I said I sure did. I sure did because I'm finna hold y'all accountable. Listen to me even today. That is why we need more unity than ever. We need more unity than ever and that's why I do not respect this divesting movement because we already weak enough as a people. And if it's that's what worked for you then God bless you gone by your business and shut up but don't try to paint that like it's all peaches and cream and like it's all beautiful because guess what if you think the divorce rate in same race marriages is bad then figure out and learn what the divorce rate is in biracial marriages in interracial marriages because when you marry interracially you going into a whole another fight and you dealing with all kind of discrimination and you also dealing with different foundations so one person gonna understand the conf and respect the Confederate flag and the other person gonna despise it. One person gonna love natural health and the other person gonna be like can you get some relaxer in there? One person gonna wanna listen to R&B and all of this and the other person gonna wanna listen to country music and guess what's gonna happen if one person don't assimilate and come all the way over and adopt the food the music and the mentality of the race that they married into that relationship gonna fail because you cannot build on two different foundations you can't build a mansion on the sand so unless you unified on your belief and that's why you see even interreligion relationships fail if the person is devout about their religion the reason why you see it fail is because you can't have a successful relationship if one person believes that Jesus Christ is the way the truth and the life and that he is the son of God and another person believes that Jesus was a good man but he is not the son of God that relationship will not last if one person believe in a whole another savior but yet they say we got the same God oh we got the same God but your God son don't got a son named Jesus Christ oh we don't have to say God because my God ain't got two sides my God ain't got one side where he got a son and then the other side of him he ain't got no son he ain't got no blended family my God son is Jesus and he sent him to die on the cross for my sin if your God does not have a son named Jesus we don't serve the same God let that be understood ain't no if as a bus about that the Bible is very clear so listen to me we got to understand that we have to be excellent that we have to be better that we have to be different and so from this day forward if you heard any part of this video you hear this right now I want you to bust your butt for excellence I want you to bust your butt for as I'm going to try to give me some albs and if I give me some albs I got to get the authorization for my wife to pose me one out picture now y'all have to forgive me now it ain't no thirst it ain't gonna be no thirst trap it's gonna be a testimony and and if I won't if I won't get out I leave me to have no flat stomach ain't post no flat stomach now I gotta have albs gotta have a six pack but that's the last area in my finances I Lord that's why I wouldn't close come in that I ordered that I bought from that store I'm sending them back because I don't need them I don't need them ain't got no room in my car the clothes too tight already I'm looking for a young man that well side nine and a half shoe that ain't ashamed to well gently worn shoe so I can see him some shoe certain shoe can't send them all because some of my shoes get on jumping beat up listen I'm looking I'm looking for a for a man who started his business who married and faithful to his wife who wear a large shirt and 34 in in pants who who want to look a little nice sometimes nicer than what he got to be a blessing to him listen we got to understand that our need met our needs is met and now we got to go to be an excellent now we got to go to the next level a God bless y'all two hours and forty minutes you know what I realized that sometimes I get on here and I see people talking about tech for five hours I see people talking about sports for three four hours so I say sometimes every now and then I got to get on here and talk about something that's actually gonna move the needle forward that's actually gonna help us grow help us change for some hours so that when you're on that long road trip when you at the job and you and you sit down and you can listen to some while you're working cuz you filing papers or you doing whatever that you got something that's gonna light a fire beneath your behind the hell you get up and get going and be better than you didn't been sometimes every now and then I got to do that so a God bless y'all I'm tired of listening to myself talk I pray you got something out of it if you don't find the time to listen to this even if you're going to sleep and you listen to that get in your subconscious that get in your subconscious I hope the wrong part of this don't get the subcontinent dream again what on the plantation looking at about she with that water running down that right but so hopefully the right part of the message getting a subcontinent while you sleep but God bless you and I'm gonna tell y'all something if you pray if you pray pray that God keep me just don't pray publicly pray that God keep me and for those of y'all who support me man look here man look here God is good God is good God have a group of people that support me and that support allows me to say what God got me to say that support allows me to say what God got me to say because I don't have to worry about being counselor and anything I lose I work with organizations I work with sports teams but I do it for free so if they say Tony your your take about white people and black people and the race relations it offended one of our boosters we're gonna have to we're not gonna be able to let you come in and speak no more all right by by I go speak to somebody else there because I was doing for free so he ain't taking them on my table and if anything give me some of my time back so I thank you to those who supported me without me asking I don't ask for donations you never see me post my cash out this sports pages that get on there to talk about sports that ain't got nothing to do with the world and how that cash out right there to entertain you by growing me in business and how that cash out right there and here I am trying to change the world with a message that's gonna uplift and inspire and you ain't never see me post a cash out my supporters are posted my supporter find out what it was and they post it and the Lord them bless me with a group of people and to those people who support and I'm not talking about hitting subscribe button. I think y'all too but that's free is people in the bless tribe is people on patreon is people who send me random cash out are it's certain people who every month they send me a cash out. It's a few people and it's a lady that just sent me a blessing on on Venmo. It's a lady in Saudi Arabia that I posted about that went away to send money through Western Union to buy three courses on Tony Gastrocata. It's those people that go to extra mile that allow me to say what I need to say and I'm gonna tell you something I'm gonna tell you something this YouTube been hating on me lately. You see how they've been lagging my videos. They've been marketing my videos. They've been marketing it as can't be monetized. It's they saying they trying to say my topics is not advertiser friendly and I have to go in request a manual review but whoever be watching it or the algorithm who be listening they've been striking my video or the haters probably be flagging but then they'll they'll prove it. Some of them they don't improve. So it may come a day. The way we get in the trenches and I have to do Tony to and I got to have a different server and I got that in the message has got to be separate and it got to be how someone else but I'm gonna tell you something we still don't own everything because if you send something somebody don't like go daddy Bluehost they'll shut your site down because they they got you hosted. If you really be independent you got to build a server. You got to be your own host. You got to be gold daddy or Bluehost to really have complete ownership. You can't go nowhere. I could put an app in the app store but if Apple say your messages is to this or that there's such an app by the app store. So I got an opportunity to do Tony to but you know what I ain't got I can't do it because they charge so much money. They charge 3040 thousand dollars a year and then they want a dollar for every subscriber that they not helping build. I'm like y'all need to be paying me. Y'all need to be letting me get the platform for free if you want a dollar per subscriber because I don't built the subscribers. So if I get a dollar subscribers y'all ain't go get them people but that's what they do. They want to charge you ever which way but see this is the thing that we don't know but this is what we know. This is the thing we don't know but this is what we know them same people. This is what I try to tell them same people. I got on the line when I said hey how y'all doing the white lady. It was a white lady in a white man. The white lady did not see her face but some people don't be mindful of her subconscious when she heard I sound ghetto when she heard I sound poor when she heard I sound urban her face said and then she called herself oh hi right then I knew ain't doing business with y'all Vimeo ain't getting on y'all Vimeo right then I knew it ain't doing business with y'all because you're already judging me and see the thing about it that we know that we don't know people say oh you put in a race card that's not true. If you know humans then you know this is true because we discriminate even black people we discriminate. If you come from a culture that is against a certain orientation this gender want to be with. If you come from a certain culture and you got a business and one of the people walking up and you could tell it and he walking up to put an application okay y'all and are you hurry you could be a minority but if your culture called that a batty boy called that a certain word and you will raise a certain way you let oh unfortunately we not heard that's humans. So we can't act like that when we talk into a white company and you are minority and they got these exorbitant prices these exorbitant prices that they know they can wave and they won't wave them we can't act like that it might be because we black we can't act like that because you don't know they could have a rule or they could without even saying it no we're not going to discount it for him because he has a large following you can tell he's making money is YouTube is 40,000 subscribers we know how YouTube pays he can afford to pay that 40,000 a year but then if if Mr. Beast if take Paul if they go to them to get on their system well what we will we had a meeting in house and what we decided to do we're going to wave the sign up be because we charge a dollar per subscriber and we just really believe in your ability to build subscribers so we're going to wave the sign up be and you know how I know it's true but one time I went into office and I sold a pipe dream and then people charge $50,000 to get this software and I told them man I want the software for $0 and instead of you getting 20% I'm gonna get you 30% the man said okay you got a deal but guess what because I'm not ashamed the Bible say you have not because you asked not I read the Bible because I'm not ashamed I asked for the deal that I want and if I don't get the deal that I want I get up from the table because I know who I am because I know who doesn't send so look at that you too don't treat the black content create a different don't prove my game already know to do already know to do because I be I'm gonna I'm on him and they send in our surveys now do we treat like you know you know and so this thing and they don't like when you're on here and they say you got free speech but until you talk about them I'm gonna hit the lag but I'm gonna hit the demonetized no free speech that people spread their opinion and so listen to them the man wave the fee $50,000 he told me it comes to sign up but because he money hungry he wave the fee so then I was sitting there and I got an email and somebody asked me you know how much it's gonna cost for you to be a part of this and I randomly threw it out there cuz we were just talking I say man this guy just asked me how much I want to charge to be a part of this such and such I say what y'all think I should charge the guy who just weighed a $50,000 fee said just give him a crazy number just say like 25 grand even though you'll do it for like two grand say like 25 grand because sometimes you say crazy numbers they'll just pay it I say this man just told me what he was trying to do to me he told me $50,000 when I do soft I don't work with software I know software don't cause no $50,000 for me to use it especially if you get the percentage of all my earnings and you not helping build the subscriber base so the software should be free if you get them if you getting a percentage of my earnings and sure enough he gave it to me for free but then guess what another black speaker who all of y'all know ain't gonna say no name came to me and when I asked them for a reference I said hey they name drop y'all and say y'all on this software do y'all use the software they said yo we use the software but um yo we use the software and it's nice it's good man we're making like two three hundred thousand a month from it so okay he said but T how you gonna do it it called $50,000 to sign up I say bro $50,000 I got $50,000 I ain't have $50,000 I say bro I got $50,000 like I'm broke I'm like what's what's your wife work at the bank and telling you my account balance like bro you just coming at me like you got inside of information means the follows online and been on Oprah got all these books and you assuming y'all got $50,000 I ain't got $50,000 guess what because of the pride because of them feeling like oh we done made it oh we somebody they went in and paid $50,000 I went in and got it for zero and then once I realized people money hungry I ain't push it I ain't push it like that I push a little bit and I said no I ain't finna push it because I'm not finna make somebody rich who really don't care about me and see this what you got to understand you got to be willing to walk away from the table you got to know who you are you got to know what you bring to the table and you got to do it with confidence sometimes you got to bite your tongue but then you could bite your tongue but then sometimes you got to say something on the way out of dope so the man over here in Costco I wanted to say to him when I was leaving sir next time don't assume somebody trying to get discounted gas because I'm not finna pull up in no car like this and lie by having a $60 membership when I could walk in the store and pay $60 for the membership if I needed a car thank you bye it's supposed to be a family company y'all supposed to have a good customer service bye and just leave it right there with them because he gonna try to get loud oh sir I wasn't discriminating I wasn't doing nothing but when the head hit the pillow he gonna realize he was discriminating because if I was a beautiful blonde woman with old settle cheetah chong on me absolutely because I know me I know men ain't no way in the world he would have told a beautiful woman she got the how to out she got the show proof of the out she got to do all of this he would have went right over that oh yeah absolutely I know me so that's why I call them out on so listen to me we going into a space to where the world starting to go backwards because we living in the last days but what you have to remember about the last days it don't mean Jesus coming back tomorrow because a thousand years is like one day until the Lord so says the Bible so the last days could be a thousand years because a thousand years is like one day unto the Lord so understand that we in the last days and in these last days you're going to see some things that's gonna make you feel like the world going backwards instead of fall and you got to be the righteous person that's living right and doing right and pursuing excellence and representing excellence in every aspect of your life and if you do that you're gonna see something if you do that you're gonna see a change and you're gonna change the narrative and one thing I'm gonna tell you and I speak proper when I need to so people can understand me and unfortunately if you speak proper people think you're talking white and I had to educate my sister on that and say teacher sometimes you got to speak proper because you speak it to different audiences and anybody talking white it's about being articulate and saying stuff in a way that people could understand you and so understand that because I say stuff in my normal voice and people excuse me excuse me sometimes even black people don't understand me because when you got an accent people don't understand you so when you're trying to get a message across sometimes you got to clean up your accent so you could get your message across and that don't mean you're talking white that mean you talking proper and so we got to understand that so I'm not saying to be ignorant or dumb or to be anything just to be at what I'm saying is don't forget your strength don't forget who you are don't forget where you come from somebody got blocked the other day talk when I said black men we need to be better we need to hold each other accountable because we make shady moves and then we'll hold each other accountable we just applaud each other for making shady moves when a man leave his wife and the wife didn't cheat on him and the man say he a Christian the man need to be sat down and say hold on brother hold on brother the Bible is against the voice unless there was infidelity you leave in your wife because she don't stroke your ego enough you leave in your wife because she don't praise you enough you leave in your wife because she disagreed with your service you leave in your wife because you don't like the way she dress you leave in your wife and you feel like you outgrown because you married in lust because you were thinking with your little head and now you're thinking with your big head so now you want to no that ain't that ain't that's not constituted so you need to pray for her and you need to work with her and the Bible say when you to marry somebody as unbelievable and y'all become believers don't leave them because you might become the person that lead them to salvation so no did your wife climb up under another man okay you could get a divorce but we just clap it up yeah pass here go some more times and out the red yeah glad you lot glad you left the level on up that's what our actions say even when our mouth don't say and that's why I say we got to hold each other accountable but we don't do that but when I said that here come a man all men not just black men and I said no I'm talking to black men because I don't see all the same issues in every other race of man I'm talking to black men so even to the black women I mean to the white women to the Asian women to the Hispanic women when you hear when you on your channel and you hear me talking to black people understand certain things is for certain people it's gonna be some message that I'm talking to white people it's gonna be some message I'm talking to his Spanish some message I'm talking to Asia I had a bunch of A's and get mad with me because I was talking about how some of them discriminate they come out we don't discriminate we this and we that and we this I ain't say everybody they say everybody I said y'all lips look like my lips y'all know look like my nose so how is the inner discrimination when a lot of your features look like a black person you just got lighter skin man when I tell you a Chinese got in my inbox you know I had Chinese people like so now that the message I read to you you and your feelings and you acting like y'all ain't got now racist person in your race come on now if I ain't talking to you then understand ain't talking to you but I'm still talking about a very real and true experience and so I and I do not look better than you you are I mean like you you are African and Asian does not look anything like a African I say you look at you cast the Asian person knows you cast a person look like guaranteed closer to a black person to a white person you hear me so listen the message gonna be to who is to and if it ain't for you then switch the shoes keep it moving and if it's to you then understand everybody gonna get it because the truth gonna sit on all our lap and the reason why I'm speaking the truth is because I'm speaking the truth to myself every day yesterday my mind said I was looking at things the wrong way I woke up today had to repent had to say whoa hold on I got to make sure my mind is optimistic got to make sure my energy is right got to make sure my attitude into me attitude some some of these Christians trying to be so spiritual oh people who say energy is so religious we talk about attitude we talk about attitude we talk about no other spirits and all of that we talk about attitude y'all need to understand the lingo and then what was it was a young white lady with like man hope like she taught make a big deal and talk about people who say energy and all of this they try to make it all over spiritual like we talk about another religion no we talk about your attitude talk about what you come in the room with your mindset and I had to check that so what I need you to understand and this one I need I this one I need everybody to understand when I do a video to women and it's holding women accountable is so many women they're getting their feelings talk to go for me and I'm holding the men accountable talk to the women guess it's already a video on the way for the women if I'm talking to black people when I'm talking to black people about us loving our about us not divesting out of trauma and pain and thinking another race is superior to us when I'm talking to black people I'm also talking to white people about their issues and how some of them treat us and see us so everybody being held accountable and that's what we have to understand is everybody at some point or another gonna get it God ran on the just and unjust and Lord checking me every day and I got to be a better person and grow every day and I have to sit on here and sacrifice and get his time to get the message out cuz I don't know when the Lord gonna call me home try to get the message out and I'll move in no way that God don't give me peace with so let me ask y'all this cuz I don't know if the message is working somebody wrote me and just to bless try to chat company wrote me and they got another video platform and they say just upload your video on keep the videos cuz I do it on my phone I deleted upload your video to this other platform and they gonna promote it you'll see if you could get some traction over them but then I'm thinking about it I'm like hold on now I don't built a brand so if I go here to this other platform I'm bringing validity to the brand cuz I ain't I'm not just anybody I'm coming over to the brand I'm coming over to this other platform and I'm and I got three and a half million supporters not supporters followers online it is some of y'all support like the best tribe and patreon and stuff subscribers on Instagram but I'm coming over with some supporters and y'all company y'all bringing this to me so you rubbing elbows with this other platform and you telling this platform yeah we finna bring you somebody who got three and a half million followers online who already solidified who already got a brand but I know how y'all do business so where to check in where to check in cuz y'all ain't doing enough for free so where to check in so if you don't tell these people y'all bringing me where to check in because if I go and provide content on this platform and my content is of substance then the people that rock with my content gonna rock with my content so now the people that's on this platform watching my content is watching ads as well and as they watch it adds money being made but how much money am I being paid because if I got a thousand people watching and I'm an influencer meaning I ain't showing my booty I'm dropping jewels online so the people that support me gonna support me so if they see a certain advertisement that speak to them and they need that it's a good possibility gonna buy that so if the product costs a hundred dollars y'all paying me 15 cent for a thousand views but a hundred people brought a hundred dollar product hold on I everybody making the money but I'm holding the attention hold on I hold on I so where to check at cuz somebody gonna check somebody gonna check now so who can check because if the platform one platform bringing another platform supporters I mean content creators this platform is bringing that platform some money so if y'all finna make them money that mean they got to be paying y'all some money because both of y'all in business and you need a business just to shake hands and do stuff for free so if y'all bringing me over there y'all getting paid for me coming over there so a if you're in a bless tribe I want you to write me talk to me about that and I know the thing freezing up cuz it ain't it ain't populating and I know the bless tribe ain't just sitting there without comment so they didn't froze me up cuz I'd have been on here too long they try they say boy you taking on too much bandwidth and if you a black man taking a bandwidth you need to be talking about boxing well you need to talk to me talking about an algorithm you don't need to be in power your people with their bandwidth okay I see y'all now this is not ain't no conspiracy theories not know how stuff be so I want y'all to think about it and tell me should I go to y'all tell me what you think should I go to the platform provide video content without being paid for bringing my brand to the platform but getting paid to get a percentage to get advertising but without knowing how much they pay for the advertising gotta find out how much they pay for the advertising let's see here's the thing is when you come from slavery and you come from segregation and you come from systemic racism and you come from poverty and you come from opportunity not to ask for opportunities I would do this if I were you as if you can't analyze the situation for yourself and they try to sell you sell you sell you and they sell you stuff that don't actually make any sense at all and that's why you're gonna shake stuff up on your job in your industry you gonna shake stuff up and that's why the adversary try to try to break you that's why the adversary send you through depression that's why the adversary put anxiety on you that's why the adversary have one of your your enemies try to hurt you try to take you out because when you starting to realize something and I'm gonna tell you even example like he you know he spoke about God I don't know if he rocked with Jesus but he spoke about God but you remember Nipsey hustle when the adversary took Nipsey hustle out he was on song and the adversary used a weak mind and because he was in an industry that didn't have a covering of God the Almighty God he was able to be touch because he was in the Wild Wild West and the adversary used a weak man to play man could have been paid to take this forward thing to redeem his name the weak man may never snitch again so see that's how I think and that take hands on her ships and won't and he got a weapon on because the message started getting too real and the brand started getting too big and we're not talking we're not talking motivation city motivational speakers that's talking about get your bag up and get up at three o'clock in the morning and go get some money and be motivated they move in a bag for ain't nobody gonna be offended by that but when I'm talking about we need to be healthy and we need to love ourselves and we need not to have toxic relationships that's gonna lead to some breakups of relationships that are broken and toxic because people want to be free and it's going to lead to some strong relationships of the people who want to grow but the devil gonna be in the mind of the people who were broken and needed to be separated from that 10-year dating career dating that 10 year engagement without no marriage and all the psychological and different forms of abuse they needed to be separated the devil gonna use the man from that to try to get to me and that's why I had to stop touring because I say I don't want to be too close to people because when things get real when that message get real you got to move differently and then my homeboy say man Tony ain't nobody that crazy I say yes they here because I'm seeing how they move it's me and every single day taking the life of a woman for he think she cheated some of the men don't even know if the woman cheating and they taking her life and it's all race of men but the ones they show the most is the black man but it's all race of men doing it they show the man the other day who will burn the flags and guess what when you're a grown person and you commit a crime they could show who the person was the man looked like a Caucasian man at the end of the news broadcast on the YouTube thing with Fox it was a Fox affiliate they didn't show the man face I say I guarantee you if that was a identifiably black man going to people house setting their flag that they got hanging out there on the house setting a flag on fire I guarantee you they would have showed his face and it turns out the police caught him it was Jamal Williams of Biloxi Mississippi and he has a record of arson whatever and they would have showed him but because what it looked like to me it looked like it was a Caucasian man then they not identified a man he's not a minor you so everybody else so the man who I help burning y'all flag the flag that you is loving and worshipping this man sitting on fire and he looked like he Caucasian to me now he could have been a black man so I'll be wrong if he was but to me he was not identifiably black from what they showed but they didn't go to show that and that's why I say by the narrative and so somebody the later time I that a black man is killing a black woman every five hours and I'm like abuses happening but that's that's genocide that that right now will be reported on a whole another level especially with us so sometimes you have to check them sources and you have to look and say okay out of my whole family if this happened every five hours out of my whole family I got 24 aunts and uncles and everybody got kids how many of the black women in my family have been killed by a black man and some of us made no one person my mom or the baby or 12 my daddy the baby or 12 I don't know one I don't know one but somebody came in the comments without with a divesting message saying that black women need to leave black man because black men is killing black women every five hours I'm like if that was true that will be on every news outlet every black woke person will be saying that on every blog and if that was true that will have impacted all of us all of us not just one or two of us yes it's some of us that could say yeah that happened to my sister yeah that happened to my auntie yeah that happiness of that because my family else it will have impacted me I don't know one and so that's why I say we have to check the narratives and we got to check what we believe about ourselves because I introduce to you is a painful narrative when you at your lowest so hey I'm made at home trying to go God bless y'all and I did my work probably for the weekend so y'all make sure y'all get the video in your spirit God bless you we'll be in touch