 Y'all think everything is a game, man. The black market is open. Sometimes it's people that we run into at the black market that be so important. They got this man in a competition. Come on, man. There ain't no show on my team. I don't even know them account. That's accolades. These are associations and affiliations. Oh, man. Affirmations. Degrees. Pedigrees. Come on, man. Come on, man. Look into any one of these cameras, man, and give them a brief introduction. I'm gonna tell them the rest. Kevin Gooch. I'm a partner at the law firm of Holland and Knight. Been practicing law about 18 years now. Media pass president of the 100 black men of Atlanta. And just here to help folks understand the value of having great lawyers on your team. Tell them about it. You gotta have a good one. I will say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound to cure. I'll say that again. That's what they say. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound to cure. Because if you have the lawyer on the front end, they're a lot cheaper than need them on the back end to fix something. So prepaid legal wasn't a scam. Nah, we don't do prepaid legal, man. That's not what we talking about. Did anybody ever go to trial with prepaid legal? I wanna know. They in jail, I'm sure. Wait a minute. Hey, man, hold on. I gotta email my lawyer. What's his name? I don't know. It's a group. What's up, man? Email address is AOL. Right, it's a little bit connected, too. When's your court date? Bounce that up right out. 100 black men of Atlanta. Tell the people who may not know what that is. So it's a 35-year organization of African-American men in the city of Atlanta that came together to make a difference in our community. Because if not us, then who? And we do a lot of mentoring young people. We are based out of Best Academy High School on the west side of Atlanta. And we do a lot of work across APS in general. And we do scholarships, mentoring over the two years that I was a chairman from 2019 to 2021. We gave a half a million dollars in scholarships to young people in the city of Atlanta. That's what's up. That's what's up, man. 35 years? Yeah, the organization's been around for 35 years. That's a long time, but I guess I always thought it was longer. But I guess it's been around since I've been around for the most part, so, yeah. Well, yeah. And I'm a corporate lawyer, so a lot of people ask me, do I have any cases? I don't really handle cases. Not case law. Correct. As a corporate lawyer, I do deals, transactions, provide advice to entrepreneurs, to business owners, to companies, to entertainers. Give me some advice. To try to keep them out of trouble. I'm through the things that you name. Give me some advice. What you got going on? What you need advice about? Just advice. Hire a good lawyer. All right. And talk to him before you do stuff. I don't do shit. That's going to require me to get a lawyer like that. Well, what I'm saying is deals. If you're doing deals when your homies come to ask you, hey, man, invest in this, let me talk to my lawyer first. I would use us to get out of it. You're right. Wow. I'd call the accountant. Good lawyers and good accounts. You need both of them on your team. I would put the lawyer on the accountant's ass. That's right. That's right. Let's just meet up. Let us check what other people do to make sure they're doing the right. How did you get in the law? I got into law through defiance. I was raised by my grandmother out in Covington, Georgia. And my parents were out in Cali. They were in my life, but she raised me. And so people would say someone raised by their grandmother in Covington, Georgia probably won't be a lawyer. And I just wanted to show them that I could be a lawyer. You got to be convincing. That's right. So it motivated me to go do what they told me I couldn't do. So that's how I got into practicing law. So like you said, tell the people the difference between case law and corporate law that you're doing. Yeah, so you have litigators that end up in court. They deal with cases, criminal cases or civil cases. Then you have other lawyers that are transactional lawyers and their job is to put deals together. So I feel like my job is to facilitate a transaction between two people. So if it's a bank wanting to loan money and a borrower wanting to borrow money, my job is to bring them together. If it's someone wanting to sell a business, someone wanting to buy a business, my job is to bring them together. Yeah, because you're going to have to go over the contract. That's right. That's right. Somebody wants content. Someone's creating content. My job is leading them together. Yeah, I'm going to lead them. That makes sure the money's right. See, we've seen this needed to happen because I feel like we might be able to make a few dollars. That's right. That's right. I'm in the business. And protect the dollars you make. Exactly. Right. Legally. That's right. Yeah. That's the plan. I'm all for that. Because everybody who knows me knows that I don't have any money. I am. Zero. But hey, legally, that's how it was supposed to be. I am. That's right. Fuck up right now. That's right. That's right. Hoping and praying that God's seek fit to just front me a little piece of a blessing until I can get on my feet. But I do think everyone needs to really value a good lawyer on your team. Yeah, it felt so much further. Yeah, I've seen so many situations where folks go online and pull documents off of the web and then have a successful business and they get into it with a business partner, or something, and the documents don't account for that. And that's how you end up owning a stupid business where you own the building and somebody else owns the parking lot. Stupid shit. Now you got to pay the park at your building. That is the dumbest shit. Like I've seen, like you said, the importance of having a good lawyer. That's what keeps you out of these shitty deals forever. And then you can't get your money back and you can't own nothing that you've done. You need a good lawyer that can go in there and act on your behalf and your interest to say, no, this is what my client said. Don't sign a deal if it ain't right. You can't add this. And then you go back and be like, look, they're not going for this tattoo shit. I don't know why you put that in there. Sometimes you just got those ridiculous demands in there just to see if they want attention to what you want. That's right. That's right. And then when they go for it, you're like, oh, shit. They went for that. Yeah. And I want $700 million. They were like, look, they can't do seven. They'll give you three. And they weren't about to give you shit. You see what I'm saying? Sometimes you have to ask for some shit to get some shit. Because you was about to not get shit. If you just went in there and because you thirsty and you happy and your lawyer you didn't want the lawyer to see it. Send it to the lawyer and be like, uh-uh, I don't like this shit right here. They want to pay me in November. I need to get paid today. Because they first offer is crazy. Stupid. It's going to be. It's going to offend people. So then I'll be like, hey man, your offer got to be crazy. Or the opposite is. So we get these motherfuckers right where the fuck we need to be. Even if the offer good, I'm still asking for something else. That's right. Make them say no. Yes. I need more for travel. I'm traveling different. I need more for travel. How do you plan on getting that? A camel. When I get to town, I'm going to have a man meet me. So ask for some shit, man. I will say don't be afraid to get a no. Like always ask for something. It makes them want to tell you no. A lot of times I see people that'll just take what's given to them. Because they be wanting deals. So man, just to say they got a deal. But the deal ain't even in your favor. Yup. So push them. I know. Get a better deal. Exactly. That's why I got the 85 self-show. I make my own deals. Even amongst my team. You can ask them. I ask them for ridiculous shit all the time. And y'all are doing some amazing stuff, man. I'd have to tip the cap to y'all. Thank you, man. Shout out to the team. Change the game. Yeah, man. Like you said, there's 100 black men over here. And women too. It's about three women. About three women. We had to hire just like a little bit of them. So they wouldn't have enough to have a boat or some shit. Come on. Visage me. Visage me. That's absolutely not true. It is absolutely not true. And it was just a joke. Now you have to say that legally. My lawyer's right here. Legal approval. He would have told me what to say. No, man. Legal approval. How can they get in touch with you, man? What can they reach out and, you know, start facilitating and get some deals done with you? So my firm is Holland and Knight. We're a top 30 law firm, a billion dollar law firm. So I'm on the West. A billion dollar law firm. A billion dollar law firm. What does that mean? That means the law firm makes a billion dollars a year. Y'all got there getting paper. What you thought it meant? I mean, like, I don't know how you made it to spend a billion dollars. I'm just saying I don't know how you, you know, evaluate a company like that. Like, we want to cut and we got these bitches for a billion. We're a billion dollar company. Oh, you love to hit it in one leg. Yeah. That's crazy. Like, this overtime, this accumulated. 17-year-old lawyers across the country. 30-plus offices. A billion dollar business. A year. A year. So I don't ever quit. And we handle anything anybody needs handled. So it's a full service law firm. So I'm on the website there. I'm also on LinkedIn. Kevin Gooch at LinkedIn. I'm getting on that, bro. You can connect me there. I'm getting on that. That's where all the money at. I'm going to look at the next year. I'm going to be a soloist. You got a few documents I want you to look over before you leave. I got you. I got you. I've handled deals as small as $2 million and deals as large as $3.2 billion. Yeah. It's a $3.2 billion joint. It ain't a lot of paperwork. No. We just bought this. I'm going to get you to double check and make sure we signed everything. I got you. I got some of this paperback. Going to the parking lot? Yeah. You know when you buy some shit, you start buying a bunch of shit you don't like. What? What? Oh, they ain't telling me that. They ain't saying nothing about it. No fucking way. No, they're going to come back up off some of that. I got to repaint all this shit, man. At least $15,000. You got to be mad. That's how I'm living though, man. I appreciate you stopping through the black market and letting us know what we can find. That's a good corporate lawyer who can handle this paperwork and these transactions and acquisitions. Absolutely. Because you know business got to grow. And investments. And investments. You speak on the investment game, right? Because then we got all these online gurus and everything. What I'm talking about is investing in sort of businesses, small businesses, your home, you got a car wash, a restaurant. I know people approach you about stuff like that. So making sure that the paper is right when you do that, right? Making sure that you actually get ownership of the business. Making sure that you have a say-so in the operations of the business. That's what a lot of people fall out at. Correct. You do the paperwork legally. All you're doing is getting somebody to mutually agree to what y'all both saying legally. So if somebody changes their mind, it's like nah, it ain't going to work like that. We got this paperwork. Come on, man. But see here's the thing. If someone says they're giving you equity in their business, they may give you a letter that says you get equity in the business. But you don't actually get equity until they issue equity through the LLC, through the corporation. So making sure all of those steps happen. Right. So you actually own it. And it's not just a promise to give you something. I know. That's why every time I do business, I make sure they give me the keys to what we're doing business at. Because I need some collateral. That's how we get down, man. Clayton, hey, you got your good corporate lawyer? Yeah. He make big moves over there. But I need one here. Yeah. Call me. I got you. Okay, man. We're both going to hit you. You already see what we got going on over here. And you've got to keep us in the loop of what's going on in the business world. Absolutely. Thank you all for having me today. I appreciate it. Appreciate it too, man. And hey, there you have it, folks. That's how you want it. Why don't...