Digital Social Hour - NYC is Gotham: The Shocking Truth About Crime Surge 🚨 | Bek Lover DSH #594

Episode Date: August 1, 2024

🚨 NYC is Gotham: The Shocking Truth About Crime Surge 🚨   Is New York City really turning into Gotham? Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour as he dives deep into the crime surge plaguing NYC! In this eye-opening episode, our special guest shares his personal experiences and the grim reality of living in a city that feels like it’s spiraling out of control. 🏙️ From bad leadership decisions to controversial laws, we uncover why NYC is facing this wave of violence and unrest.   But that's not all! We also explore how everyday citizens are impacted, the rise in taxes, and how the current state of the city compares to the vibrant NYC of the past. Can NYC recover, or is it doomed to stay in this dark state?   Don't miss out on these valuable insights! Tune in now and join the conversation. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀   #BettingApp #CryptoBetting #RealtimeBetting #BettingTechnology #NewYorkCityBetting #BekLover   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:50 - NYC Current State Insights 13:16 - Generation of Bastards Discussion 17:37 - Music as a Weapon in Society 18:35 - Struggles of Nightlife Industry 21:17 - Trust Issues with Cryptocurrency 23:59 - Social Media Censorship Analysis 27:50 - Experiences with Celebrities 32:20 - Personal 9/11 Experience 36:20 - Importance of Taking Action 38:48 - Value of Having a Mentor 42:18 - Good vs. Bad Envy Explained 42:55 - Mastering Emotional Control 44:00 - The Futility of Revenge 46:19 - Future Plans for Bek   APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail]   GUEST:  Bek Lover https://www.instagram.com/beklovernyc https://beklover.com/ https://m.youtube.com/@thebekloverpodcast https://open.spotify.com/show/7nlNU88u0OjfbcGsVbSD00   SPONSORS: Kalshi: https://kalshi.onelink.me/1r91/socialhour Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly   LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You see, the problem is it can't recover from stupidity. You can only make so many bad decisions as a leader. You seem to be doing nothing that's productive for the city. When you make laws that release criminals instantly right back into the streets, do you think crime might go up? And you see that we're having violence every day. This has literally turned into Gotham City. There's something wrong here.

And it's not us. It's the people that we trusted. Wherever you guys are watching this show, I would truly appreciate it if you follow or subscribe. It helps a lot with the algorithm. It helps us get bigger and better guests, and it helps us grow the team. Truly means a lot. Thank you guys for supporting, and here's the episode. right we got beck lover here today thanks for flying in man sean thanks for having me man absolutely good dude we both grew up in jersey so we got that jersey bond just found out yeah yeah you know but more you know ash cheek of new york city my family started in the bronx and i grew up along the hudson river you know facing the city so it was always there as a backdrop as an inspiration

the emerald city oz i always wondered what it was like i'd stare at the buildings you know and fantasize about what it would be like one day to be an adult in New York City. And now you manifested it. Yeah. Took a lot to get there, though. We're going to dive into that. It took a lot to get into that. And it's kind of sad where it is today.

We're trending right now as a city. I don't recognize the place anymore. It's disturbing. Did it not recover from COVID? Absolutely not. Wow. But it could have. You see, the problem is it can't recover the place anymore. It's disturbing. Did it not recover from COVID? Absolutely not. Wow. But it could have. You see, the problem is it can't recover from stupidity, massive stupidity.

And I don't find it to be, and when I say stupidity, it's not just the politicians. It's the people that can't see what the politicians are doing. You can only make so many bad decisions as a leader, and eventually you got to say, well, you seem to be doing nothing that's productive for the city. When you make laws that release criminals instantly right back into the streets, do you think crime might go up? And do you see that we're having violence every day?

People are scared to get on the subway. It's just day after day, it's just getting worse and worse and worse. It's literally turned into Gotham City. And when do you stop as a citizen of that city and say, okay, there's something wrong here and it's not us. It's the people that we trusted. So the stupidity really is on our part because we allow these people to continue to do what they do. You have congestion toll going in now. So

you're going to be charged within New York city that if you come from outside of New York city, you're already paying $16 to get across the GW or the Lincoln Tunnel. And now you're going to put another $16 to $17 to go between 42nd Street or whatever, that little zone they want to do. They knocked out four bike lanes on 8th Avenue. They put lanes where cars used to build up. They created the own. They made the congestion horrible, and now they want to tax us on it. We are being taxed beyond what is normal.

And statistically, when you look historically, when tax rates of citizens has gone close to 50% or higher, you've had revolutions throughout history. The average American, if you look at what you're paying, especially in blue states, between state income tax, all the other taxes, regressive taxes, such as tolls, right? Which are a big part of New York and Jersey, right, the New Jersey turnpike, and then you look at all these other fees and taxes we're paying, and then you're paying taxes on things that you already paid. You're buying something.

We're over 50%, brother. You have half your money is being taken from you unless you know how to maneuver and play all these games and let me set up shop in Vegas or Florida. That's why everyone's leaving California. So it's not just New York, but when does it get to a point where we say, hey, you're taking all of my money.

That's why the revolution happened in America, being taxed without no representation, taxation without representation, right? I don't feel represented by my elite. My elite, I go, my leaders, right? But that's how they are. They're an elite class. Where's our representation?

Billions of dollars. I have my friend shout out to eric patrick thomas okay paralyzed from the neck down sean okay from a tragic he was you know hit by a a stray bullet has no reason doesn't even know why he was shot in front of his own home paralyzed from the neck down one of the most positive you got to have him on your show bro yeah one of the most positive human beings in the world lives in Flint, Michigan. And this citizen of our country does not have clean water to take a bath. It's hard enough to survive the way he is.

And he has to buy water to fill up his bathtub. Oh my gosh. So when we can't even take care of our own, what are we doing, brother? Yeah, that's terrible. And as someone that lost his family in war, how many billions of dollars were just passed last week more additional do i feel for the people of ukraine but then you see all these viral videos of them dancing i mean when my people at war there was no one in night clubs dancing yeah they were either trying to get out of the country or they were on the front line it seems like life's normal in kiev so and i'm not knocking i you know i support the ukrainian

people's right to self-determination i will always support a nation's sovereign rights and freedom but it's like billions and billions of dollars and these people are partying something this doesn't make sense yeah that's we went from new york to ukraine in two minutes what do you want to talk about very strange no i want to talk about i'm excited to show you guys an app that i've been using for a while it's called calci it's the first legal exchange in which you could bet on events in real time. CalSheet has hundreds of markets to bet on ranging anywhere from the price of Bitcoin, interest rates, billboard top 100, video games, and even the weather. This is the only place to trade or bet on these events

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Ah, Sean. There you go, man. There we go. We're almost at the 50% just on the federal level. Yeah. This is insane. Plus, New York City has city tax, right? Puerto Rico's looking real good right now, man.

It is. Shout out to my Puerto Ricans. I don't know if I could give up quality of life here, but now the quality is going down here. Sean, I just cannot understand. When do people wake up, brother? There's something not right here. This is not the America we recognized 30, 40, 50 years ago. You know what's missing from New York City?

It's hard to really even admit it, but there was that optimism. I can do anything in this city. I can make anything happen. This is a place with unlimited potential. You never know who you're going to meet in a coffee shop. That optimism is completely gone. It's now like, I don't know why I'm i'm here i want to get out of here if i could only get out of here that's the mood yeah the buildings are the same that's when i realized new york city was never about the buildings it was the collective it was these amazing human

beings that charged those buildings were just like satellites almost that were broadcasting this beacon of hope and right now we're vibrating so low there it's like it doesn't matter that we human beings that charge. Those buildings were just like satellites almost that were broadcasting this beacon of hope. And right now we're vibrating so low there. It's like, it doesn't matter that we have all these beautiful buildings. The energy is just, it's, it's, Sean is nothing like it was. Agreed. Same with LA.

It makes me so sad. Yeah. And I heard LA used to be amazing. I didn't really have much time in LA until about seven, eight years ago I started going. But I heard like before it was like, you know, like you saw in the movies, like a place of happiness. And yeah, you used to get off a plane in LA or New York city and feel amazing. Now you get off, you're like kind of miserable. It's weird, dude. It's crazy. Yeah. They've sucked the energy out of these major cities. Now it's like Miami, Vegas, Puerto Rico, pretty much. It's all bland. Yeah. But Miami, see,

I feel like they have the positive energy. They do in Miami. You know, you go to Brickell, I swear to God, I felt more like I was in Manhattan they have the positive energy. They do in Miami. You know, you go to Brickell, I swear to God, I felt more like I was in Manhattan and Brickell lately than I do in New York before everything started happening four or five years ago. Like, you can feel the energy of optimism and we can do things and you never know who you're going to get. Like, you feel that energy in Miami right now.

You're not feeling it in New York City. No, you're not. I'm not self-hating. I'm simply saying this is, I love my city. My city was a place where anyone of any color, of any race, of any whatever, we coexisted. We got along. I may never feel safe enough to go to Afghanistan, but I could go to Mohammed's Afghani restaurant on 10th Avenue and experience his culture, experience his cuisine, hear the stories of how when the Soviets invaded, why his family came came here and what his opinions are of what happened over the last 20 30 years i get to experience that that was what's magical and what was always magical about places like new york

la this melting pot where we have why do we have amazing food because korean gets mixed in with with with uh spanish food mixed in with just amazing fusion of arts and food and culture. And how many times I've been to the park and I'll see the covered Middle Eastern woman next to the Hasidic Jewish women were overseas. They'd be blowing each other up right now, but over here, their kids are playing together where we were a place where ideas, thoughts.

I grew as a person in New York as As someone that lost his family in war, I'm not going to say I didn't have hatred in my heart when I lost 30 people in a single day, but I had to be forced to talk to people from that country that killed my family. And I did make friends from that part of the world, and it was very different. I was forced to grow as a New Yorker.

And I had every right. My heart was swollen. You get a phone call and find out your cousins are dead. They were all executed, right? During the Kosovo War. Right? I never wanted to be friends

with a Serbian. I would never even give them a chance. But New York City made me have no choice. And I grew as a person. I realized I can't put all people in one box. Just because the government

of the people does something doesn't mean all their people agree with it. I don't agree with anything my government's doing right now. I don't agree with the Iraq war. I never supported that war. And we saw it wasn't the truth what happened. Weapons of mass destruction.

A million Iraqis dead. They should love us. We're not making friends anywhere. All we're doing is making enemies. So if I don't agree with what my own government does, then how can I be mad at the citizens of another nation when I know that maybe not all of them supported what happened to my people, for example? And that's where the growth came from, Sean Kelly. You're seeing people wake

up that were serving in these wars, Afghanistan, Iraq, and they're questioning, was that even worth it? My cousin questions it. He served in Fallujah, lost half his platoon. Shout out to Brian in Dallas, okay? Marines, respect. Are they being used for corporate feudalism or are we protecting our country? Because I don't think we've ever been weaker. They want to ban TikTok. You want to ban TikTok, really?

Because we're all going, ah, ah, ah. This is a threat now, ah, ah, ah. Where were you guys when Bill Clinton was allowing them into the World Trade Organization? When they were allowing slave labor into the world labor pool how was the american worker ever going to compete that's why detroit became a ghetto that's why everything has gone to hell because we didn't protect what we had when i landed in germany for the first time in my life because there's no direct flight to albania yeah so i would usually go either through austria or germany and when i went to go

see one of my cousins in Germany, and I get out of the airport and everything was Mercedes. I'm like, dad, the taxis are Mercedes. He's like, yes, son, they make it very expensive. They make it more expensive to buy an American car than their German car. So everyone just buys Mercedes. I go, but why don't we do that at home? Well, because we didn't protect the American worker.

As a child, I grew up in this country and everything said made in Americaica i have not held many products in the last 20 years in my hands i say made in america how are we a superpower if we make nothing how when during the shutdown four or five years ago we didn't even have enough antibiotics we are in serious trouble we are in danger if something goes wrong we are in danger if a world war breaks out. We're not self-sustaining anymore, Sean Kelly. The American superpower is only superpower because of how big our bombs are, but tech can maybe outsmart that too. So we are in danger as a nation,

and I don't care if you're left, right? I'm neither. I'm not Republican or Democrat. I want someone who cares about our people. I don't care about what people do in their bedroom it's not my business and it's not their business what i do i have children leave me alone if you can't make children why are you worried about what i do with my children just what i say mind your own business live and let live this is the problem we have

today everybody wants to tell you how to live and that's what america was supposed to represent and we know that we have a dark history too but it was supposed to represent a place where you could live your life as long as you bother no one else. Yes, we have a dark past. Yes, many mistakes were made throughout American history, but many countries have dark pasts. The key is we started moving in the right direction finally, right, in a lot of different ways. Agreed. That brings us up to the next topic the bastard generation generation of bastards man if people think that you know and i tend to take things

from the spiritual side i do believe in god i know that there's i don't believe that i know there's a god i don't see how things this podcast is not being made randomly you had to hire an engineer set up the cameras and then just pop up. I mean, it's just common sense. It's intricate, right? I think we're pretty intricate as a species. I don't think anything happens by accident. Generation of bastards.

If people think that it's just having physical relations, it's no big deal. Well, if we look at it statistically, 90% of violent crime is committed by children from a single parent home. If you want to wonder why there's so much rage and why someone can just kick someone off a subway platform and it's happening every day in New York City and cities across the world. Because it is an oppression for children to not have both their parents. With the divorce rate being at where it is now, close in the 60% range, with many people opting to not even get married you know at least legally okay divorces to the roof this promiscuity has led to a generation of bastards and we are feeling their rage from the inception of the sexual revolution in the 60s

to where we are today if people think it's all it's just a joke and it's no big deal when arc when they made the show i I Dream of Jeannie, there was massive unrest at one point. People were protesting because she was showing her belly button. I'm not picking on women. I'm saying just to understand. People would say, well, we were old-fashioned back then. I say the kind of stuff we're seeing on television today, during my youth, would have been rated X.

No, it's serious. Rated X it would be. What was rated x back then today is normal you could put it on any kid can see it so we're in a generation of bastards meaning and that's not i'm not knocking these people that don't know half them don't even know who their father is because the act of creating human life that's what that really is right and it's not just a physical act there's a spiritual element to it. If it is conceived with no love,

then it will show no love to the world. That child will show no love. This is how a woman who gets pregnant can throw her baby in a dumpster happens every day. Jeez. Okay, if they don't get it removed, you find them. How many of you have heard these stories?

Yeah. They leave it on the steps because that child meant nothing because they take a sacred act. There's nothing more sacred you can give someone the entrance to your vessel the exchange of energy between two people the act of making love if it's conceived out of love then that child will be full of hate these children are full of rage because they felt no love they were conceived with no love they were shown no love the world didn't care about me my own parents didn't care about me why should i care about anyone especially some own parents didn't care about me.

Why should I care about anyone, especially some random person? It's easy for them to pull the trigger. This is all statistically proven. Go to heritage.org. You have the statistics there. Violent crimes, sexual crimes, 290% more likely to carry a weapon, children who don't have a father in their life. People think it's a joke. The Cardi B generation, shake your butt, fuck them and i get some money this is what we're teaching our music's

poison man i love hip-hop and this ain't the hip-hop i remember and it's powerful it's a weapon watch a movie without music see if you cry it could be the saddest movie you probably want i guarantee they play little Inception music. Even our clips, they go more viral when they write songs in the background. That is the power of that music. So many people, they just don't get it. You're under assault 24-7. Mentally, physically, spiritually.

That is why where we are. And I wish I had good news. It's only going to get worse. I think so too. There's theories the CIA took over the hip-hop industry i think it looks pretty pretty much that way there's a if you look at after the assassination of dr king may he rest in peace and malcolm x my one of my favorite heroes of all time went to praying his mask and everything the family structure of that community in my opinion was under immediate attack their statistics were not what they are today.

And then there was that introduction of that music. And when hip hop was first introduced, it was extremely positive. You got to, you know, all the older songs, you got to get, basically think before you do stuff. Read, study, learn. This is how they're playing you. And it was moving.

And I believe there was 100% infiltration to destroy that community. Wow. That is crazy. That's not talked about, dude. I mean, I don't knowration to destroy that community. Wow. That is crazy. That's not talked about, dude. I mean, I don't know if it was that agency per se. I 100% think that there was an agenda to use that music as a weapon to cause...

Brother, I... Listen, I've been in nightclubs my whole life. And I love 50 Cent. When it was bumping, I felt like I wanted to just fucking knock someone out because it gets you amped up. That's the power of music. So what's the message being broadcast through that music?

Same thing. It could be house music. They've used some dirty lyrics. You know, come and bang me. Whatever they put in the song, it affects the subconscious. A hundred percent. I used to listen to depressing music. XXXTentacion, you know him?

And I was depressed because of the music. I was putting it on repeat for a month straight. It really affects you. 100%. When I want to go and get pumped up, I like to play Shout Out Immortal Technique. The place that I'm from doesn't exist anymore. It's a very powerful. That's how I feel about America.

People should live that. You want to know how I feel about the world we live in? Immortal Technique, The Point of No Return. It's one of my favorite songs. Classic. How's the nightclub scene these days in New York truth of the matter is the New York City nightlife is nothing compared to what it was not even close the energy is very different it's become very commercial it's lacking the organic

artistic side of it that it used to have over the last 40 50. I would say it really just went down the hill after probably around 2010. Wow. As far as organic, you know? You had places like Sound Factory, Twilo, Bungalow 8, and all these amazing places where art and regular people and celebrities would get together and it was fun. It became very commercial, and I think the reason for that, it's not the club's fault. The rents became so crazy.

You're paying $150,000 in rent, and you have employees and workman's comp and all this stuff. You're not paying $400 for a bottle of vodka. $400 is cheap now. It's $800 for a $30 bottle. You're paying for that real estate, man, to sit down. They can't afford to not have these types of minimums for you to be able to take a seat because they've got to break. They got to pay their staff, right? It drinks 30 bucks, like literally paying for one drink, what a bottle costs. So what's happening is I'm noticing

a lot of the clubs are struggling. Some of the estimates I've heard on the streets, 20 to 40% down from two years ago. Wow. And the reason for it, I think the younger generation, the hipsters as they're known as, I think they're just getting those brewskis, getting that six pack, getting the bottle of vodka, going back to their house, getting drunk,

and they'd rather go spend their money on an experience or a festival. They don't care. My generation was all about, let's get to, but the bottles were cheap, man. 250 was a bottle. So it was easy to be a boss.

You could be a boss as a waiter if you worked in a good restaurant. You could go out every night and crack a bottle or two. They don't have that luxury, so I don't blame the hipsters for that as far as being able to afford that lifestyle so i think they'd rather go spend a hundred dollars go to the festival drunk already and that's why you see the big movement in brooklyn at the mirage and all these places where they'd rather just pay to get in and enjoy the music and you know with a 2 000

people 10 000 people than the individual clubs itself it's changing brother you either change to get in and enjoy the music with 2,000 people, 10,000 people, than the individual clubs itself. It's changing, brother. You either change with the times or you go out of business. So it's like a stalemate. It's similar with real estate then too. People aren't buying right now. People aren't selling.

They're not. I tried to sell one of my properties, and I don't want to let it go for less than that. People won't even forget making offers. Nobody was even coming. And I'm one of the, right? Bergen County, New Jersey. Yeah.

Not even an offer. Wow. Not even that. People weren was even coming. And I'm one of the, right? Bergen County, New Jersey. Yeah. Not even an offer. Wow. Not even that. People weren't even coming to look. Holy crap. And I wasn't that far overpriced. I even dropped it a little bit. And I said, OK, if I can't get at least that much, then it's not worth it.

I'd rather have the rental income. Yeah. Interest rates, man. And people don't even know what banks to trust these days. No. It's crazy. Scary times. And the dollar's going down.

I mean, there's a lot of different things happening right now i'm not a big fan of crypto not because you can't make money with it i've said this publicly many times yes if you know how to play the game and go do all do it milk it but i don't trust it for what i believe it's intended to do really bitcoin i believe see why is Bitcoin have the value it has? Yeah. Is why. When did it really start to... Because it's been out for a long time. When did it really start to take value?

It's had three major pumps. When? What happened? Certain companies started saying, we'll take Bitcoin, right? Yeah. That's really when you saw the large increase in value. Yes or no?

Yeah. Because it became more perceived to have true value. I can use this to buy a Tesla or whatever it was. Whatever companies started saying, we'll accept this coin, now it has real value, right? What happens if the government says, let's just use Ethereum, for example? This coin is no longer allowed to be accepted

by any corporation in the US. What do you think would happen to the value of that coin? It would go down. Dramatically, yes? Yeah. So I believe the end game is central banking digital currencies. They made up the story of a

Japanese wizard. He's a wizard. He's like the wizard of Oz. He's going to save us. Because if they told us the real agenda of crypto in the next 20 years, none of us would be using it right now. If I told you you're helping build your own prison right now, you wouldn't lift a brick.

If I said, those bricks, I want you to make this wall, but after that, you're going to be stuck inside that structure that you're building. Would you lift the bricks? No. Well, you guys are all doing it. You're building your own prisons, and you don't even realize it. This is going to age. Mark my words.

Not saying you can't make money, but the short-term gains that we're getting now are to get us used and conditioned to not using cash to believe in digital currency which has no true true value in that sense it's not tangible i know fiat currency is not backed by anything either which is why inflation is rampant but but the move is they will never allow something to prosper that they can't control period well that's why it's great because i can put it in my wallet yes but if none of these companies accept that coin let's see what it's worth let's see what these coins are worth if

these types of laws come out in the future and i believe they will i believe this is the real alternative motive who forever created that coin whether it was an agency it wasn't no japanese wizard i promise you that i can guarantee you yeah okay it would be would be social credit scores sean kelly you think that's happening 100 china has it 100 that's the future in the world we live in you will not escape the blockchain once i understood what blockchain was i was terrified so you think we're going communism i think we're going to a place where communism is going to look like Disney World, brother. I think we're going to a complete technocratic authoritarian. Can't even talk right now. A technocracy, a totalitarian technocracy.

There will be no escaping. Wow. You fart on a Friday and that's the law. You're going to have your social credit score deducted. That type of control. Jeez. Why are you so, I don't know the word. I don't know.

Why are all these companies that, there needs to be a real discussion in today's world with all these social platforms because I don't want to use names to strike us. Yeah, yeah. These are now the public squares. No one's really going out there and standing on a soapbox anymore. I understand that they're privately owned,

but there needs to be a real discussion for the ones that allow public discourse. There needs to be no censorship. Now, I'm not talking about showing graphic images and hate speech. I'm talking about if my opinion is different on you, especially for something medically related, if this is the new public square,

then there needs to be something that protects the First Amendment no matter what. Otherwise, is this America anymore? Well, it's a privately owned company. Yeah, that's great. That privately owned company, a lot of them were caught influencing the election. This is a fact.

A lot of them were censoring and downgrading things that had to do with public health issues. Why can't me and you have a debate? Why can't me and you discuss when you closed the whole world down? You destroyed millions of lives. I've spoke to many of my fans and followers who have lost everything because of what happened over the last four years. I was thrown off of Clubhouse hosting the biggest room at the time,

bigger than Mario on NoFile. If you see this, Mario, shout out. You forgot your friend who didn't turn his back on you when you got thrown off the platform. But shout out to Mario on Twitter. Hope he remembers his buddy Beck Lover. So I got thrown off for hosting a room. Is the next lockdown coming? While the lockdown is still going on.

Is it not fair to discuss what was affecting our life? But that platform got what it deserved. became a joke yeah they're a joke if you're watching this uh whatever your names are now they're on some other app called chat whatever air chat hi how you doing you should have took the bag for four billion when you had the chance clowns bro you destroy your own content creators why for hosting a fair room That's why Clubhouse could have been a miracle, and it was. When that thing was running in the beginning, one hour on Clubhouse was like 10 years in the real world for networking. You learned a lot.

My friend, that's how I met Bradley, this one, that one. Within seconds, I would have never met these people. It was literally one hour. I was on it day and night, day and night. My friend was like, what the hell are you doing? I said, you understand, I'm someone that's networked my whole life. I had to knock on doors, bang out phone calls, go to dinners, hope I'd

run into this person. When I wanted to meet a celebrity, I had to hope I could get there, try to get into the venue or whatever. What was going on at Clubhouse at that time, you were able to network one hour, 10 years, Sean Kelly. And it did change my life. So shame on the founders of that app.

It's terrible. Now the only one that's truly free speech is Twitter. For now. For now, yeah. For now. Because Big Food. It could be a big honey well too. I don't trust the guy.

You don't trust Elon? No. Why? One minute, AI is the worst thing in the world. Second minute, let me put a chip in your brain that's controlled by AI.

Make up your mind, brother. Controlled app. You really think the American government gave private control to the space program, to a corporation, just overnight? Yeah. At his level, he has to be influenced. I think he's a groomed perception of Tony Stark. I don't think he's on our side.

Or if he is, the best case scenario with him, he's like that black scientist in Terminator 2 who didn't realize when he was developing the arm for the Terminator that it was going to lead to the destruction of the world. Yeah, someone's definitely knocked on his door. I had the World Economic Forum trying to recruit me the other day. They came to my event. So I know I'm being watched too. Yeah. Don't go there, Chunko.

I know. Pretty scary, man. You will eat, you will own nothing and you will be happy. Klaus Schwab, if you're watching this, not all of us are falling for it. Feeding insects to people.

They got Robert Downey, man. He's in? You saw that? He was on a cricket diet for a bit. Yeah. Oh, they're puppet masters. Yeah, a lot of these celebrities are, and you've hung out with some of them.

So what's been your experience seeing that? So I'm not friends with all of them. But the ones that I'm friends with, from what I can tell, they're not impacted by that. Or maybe they haven't gone high enough. But I've seen some of the darkness of fame. More I've seen the personal habits of some of these people where they don't realize what they're doing. A lot of them get caught in lust.

Destroys them. But yeah, man. I met Diddy or Love or whatever. If you would have made it Lover, I would have sued him. There's only one Lover met Diddy or Lover or whatever. If he would have made it Lover, I would have sued him. There's only one Lover. That's Beck Lover. But 2001, it was like the first time I'd ever met a big celebrity. And it was We Invented the Remix was the name of the album.

So it was Busta Rhymes' birthday. We Invented the Remix. And it was hosted by Diddy and like every major rapper of that time. This girl I went to college with worked for Jacob DeJeweler, which by the way, Jacob, if you're seeing this, you owe me a watch. I indirectly launched your entire company. You owe me a watch.

You keep your seats. Victoria was her name. She went to Pace University. She begged me to get her into that party. I didn't even know who Jacob, no one knew who he was at that time. She's like, I work for DeJeweler. Can you help me get in? Because it's, you know, all the rappers are going to be there. I get to even know who Jacob did. No one knew who he was at that time. She's like, I work for this jeweler. Can you help me get in?

Because all the rappers are going to be there. I get to the front of Lot 61. That's the name of the venue that was there. It was owned by Amy Sacco. A thousand people outside, only 250 inside. Every major rapper in the world and the manager, shout out to Bin, Noka. These are the receipts.

He was the manager with Matias. Shout out to Matias. He owns a great restaurant in the city. I forgot the name. But make the story short. They get me in. I get her in. She's a good-looking girl. She goes around.

I see her give the card to Puffy. She hangs out with him all night. I hang out with Black Rob, God rest his soul. I didn't know who he was at first. There was no Google. There was no, this was 2001. And Diddy's dancing on the table, and he's like really angry.

I could barely afford it. I had a bottle of Moet. It was only $85 back then. So I charged my credit card. First time I went to credit card debt. I bought the Moet, and I'm drinking. I'm like, hey, you want a glass? And he's like, you see that?

That motherfucker. I'm like, I'm allowed to curse? Yeah. I was like, who? He's like, that motherfucker. He's pointing to Puffy. I said, yeah, man. I hate that motherfucker.

I said, why? I can't make no money because of him. I said, what do you mean? He's like, you know that song, Like Whoa? I said, yes. It was like one of the hottest songs of the time. He's like, that's my song, man. This motherfucker takes all the money, man.

Damn. God rest in peace, Black Rob. He just passed away. I wasn't friends with him, but I'll never forget that night. Two weeks later, Victoria comes back, running to me in front of Pace University. Oh my God, Beck, thank you. Oh my God, thank you.

I'm like, thank me for it. She's like, Puffy, he came to Jacob's store. He just bought his first piece. He's bringing the cameras from making the band. And next thing you know, you hear this guy's name all over every rap song. I was the Forrest Gump of that story. Wow.

He never met me. It's not that he really owes me something. But Jacob, I think out of courtesy, I got her in that night. I saw her give the card. She came and thanked me. Her name was Victoria. I think you could give me one nice watch and no Fugazi diamonds in it. I love it.

What's your take on Diddy right now? Because the media is attacking him. Very weird scenario, brother. Do you think it's orchestrated? I think he's the black Jeffrey Epstein, brother. So you think there is some truth to it? I think if they're rating him like that, it's either that or it's a massive distraction

for something else and nothing will happen. So my question is, how come nobody talks about Russell Simmons? My man left the country years ago. He's been hiding out in Bali and nobody seems to talk about him. Him, you know, it's weird, man. Supposedly he's biking around Miami.

I don't even think he's in the country anymore, man. I don't know. I mean, has he really been spotted? How do we know he's really been spotted? Right. You think he dipped? I think he dipped. Did he dip?

I think. Diddy, if you're out there, God help you, bro. There's some theories on cloning. Yeah? Yeah. Have you seen those? Certain celebrities get cloned like Kanye and stuff.

They've been saying, you know, there was some crazy guy on Alex Jones the other day, man. He was saying that we're seeing clones of these people. They were, he was one of those

conspiracy theorists with the letter, you know? Yeah. I think he was a little off his rocker, bro. Some people take it too far. I mean,

even Alex has taken it a little too far sometimes. Alex Jones. Yeah, I Yeah. Yeah. I think he was a little off his rocker, bro. Some people take it too far. I mean, even Alex has taken it a little too far sometimes. Alex Jones. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Now you were involved with nine 11. You were on site, right?

I was not involved. You're trying to get my door. I was unfortunately there. Uh, I was actually on the E train and anyone that knows before those, the last stop was the world trade center, literally beneath it. So I was going to patient diversity.

It was a beautiful day out. The semester just started. I'm a sophomore, and I'm excited to go to school. Subway doors open, and all I hear is screaming, yelling, crying. I'm like, what the hell is going on? And I'm looking at this guy next to me. He's like, do you know what's going on? I'm like, no.

I was like, I know we got to get upstairs, though, because I had a girlfriend at the time. I get up above the ground, and it's snowing outside. It's 80 degrees outside. And I look up. It was all the papers. And I don't know how long I was frozen there, brother. I just could not.

I went into the subway, and the world was normal. It was like I went into a different dimension on that subway ride. I come out, and the world has never been the same since that day. And I learned one of my greatest lessons that day, that there might not be a tomorrow. I walked in and out of the World Trade Center every single day for two years of my life.

I saw it my entire life in front of me from Edgewater, Hoboken area. You could see it my whole life. Never once pushed the button to go upstairs. All I had to do was touch the button and go up once people from all over the world bangladesh albania china they've come as tourists and they went to the bradley told me he's like you idiot you had it right there you didn't go people from all over the world went to the top of that building and here i was a young man that's why when we're, we take so much for granted.

We take our health, our time, the people in our lives that might not be here tomorrow. And after I walked out of that building, I found my girlfriend of the time and we headed to Brooklyn and I was halfway over the Brooklyn Bridge. The earth shook. Like we just had an earthquake the other day in New York. I turn around and I see the first tower coming down.

Whoa. And it was, I call it the bridge of tears, the entire Brooklyn Bridge. We were all just weeping, brother. And we thought we were going to get hit on the bridge too because nobody knew what was going on, man. Wow. Phones weren't working. And later on when I had time to reflect,

and that's the problem with today's world. People don't take serious time to reflect. And I see that that chance I had to go to the top, I would never get it again, right? It's gone. All I had to do was go. Ah, but it's just tomorrow because I live here. I can do it tomorrow.

I can go tomorrow. I live in New York. I can go whenever I want. Only an arrogant person would think they have tomorrow. Only God knows if you have tomorrow. Only God knows if you'll see your mom tomorrow. Oh, you're holding a grudge, but I'm waiting for my brother to apologize.

I've apologized many times to people I love. I swear to God, Sean, they didn't deserve the apology. Because I don't ever want to feel something that people don't understand. There are things you do in life that no matter how much money you make later, no matter what you do, you will not be able to erase from your soul,

from your mind, from your consciousness. To live with regret is to live imprisoned because there's some things that you just may not be able to forgive yourself for. So try to avoid things that will make that type of pain in your life. Now, that's also where our greatest lessons come from, right? But try to, it's almost impossible to not have things.

I'm talking about serious things. Like when it comes to people, man, you lose your mom, your dad, your brother, someone that you really love, you might not get that second chance. I try not to go to sleep without making peace with the people I love, even if they are fucking wrong.

A lot of times they are. And I'm no angel. I've made many mistakes in my life. But that's the difference between someone who grows and a narcissist. If you're blaming everyone else and never once blaming yourself, if you're watching this broadcast,

there's something wrong with you because I promise you everybody makes mistakes. Everybody does things that's wrong. Everybody's impolite to people and maybe you don't even realize you've hurt people. To say you don't make any errors or don't do anything wrong to people, we all do at times.

Even sometimes we do it by accident because we're just in a rush or other things are going on. We neglect what's important. Trying to have have because the older you get that regret man can become very painful oh yeah this is why people need to go out like i spoke about you like this industry we're in it's not easy there's millions of podcasts i'm very impressed with the work that you've done the amount of people the amount of content you've

produced in the last three months is absolutely ridiculous like crazy bro i can't believe how many i've been doing it for four years. You did more than I did in all four years put together, literally. So kudos to you. People think it's a joke. They think this is easy. It's not easy.

No. But I knew, and I think same thing as you do, I'd rather go out, I swear to God, and I say this to anyone that's young and scared out there, I swear I would rather go out and I swear to God, and I say this to anyone that's young and scared out there, I swear I would rather go out and look like an idiot and fail and feel stupid for a little bit

than later on in my life, having experienced it, saying, what would have happened? What could have happened if I just tried? I've seen things that if I just would have brought to life that other people brought to life, and not even as good as my vision was, that I didn't act upon because I asked everyone else, what do you think? People don't see what you see sometimes. That's why God gave you that vision and gave you that gift. Everyone has a gift, Sean Kelly. Some people don't realize that their liberation is that they make

the best apple pie. There's someone watching this show who makes the best apple pie in the world. They don't realize that that apple pie is what will make them a millionaire and change their life forever. They don't realize that God and the universe has given them the clues that everyone says, hey, genie, I really love your apple pie. Can you give me the recipe? Or can you make me one for my mom's birthday? And you keep hearing this over and over from people. D people dummy that's your opportunity that's the gift that god gave you go make that damn pie 100 it's the little thing it's the things that we neglect i always knew that i wanted to do this i wasted so many years of my life making everyone else happy my culture happy my family happy my this and neglecting my god-given talent

so many of us suppress the God-given talent that was given to us. We ignore the signs that are right in front of our face, and we're too busy asking everyone else about what we know that we're good at. You know what you're good at, because you've heard it from other people, whether you're a funny person.

I guess you should be a comedian. You're someone that likes to speak. Maybe you should be a speaker or a salesperson. You have the clues. It doesn't mean you're going to be a master at it, but you know and you feel the passion. People don't listen to these signals.

I did 15 years in the corporate world. I killed everything in me. I suppressed everything in me to make everyone else happy. This is what I'm supposed to do. I finished college. I'm supposed to do. I finished college. I'm supposed to go work for someone the rest of my life. No.

We suppress. We suppress these things in us and we die slow deaths. Yeah, people pleasing, man. So many people die with regrets. So many people die young with regrets. I mean, you've lost over 30 people that were all super young. In one day. There is someone that is further away there's

someone in this world today that was further away than you are right now to the same dream so if my dream was to own my own restaurant i guarantee you someone that's watching this your dreams to open a restaurant you might have finished school you have a education there's some guy that came off a boat no papers started as a bus boy in a dishwasher today owns a restaurant you might have finished school you have an education there's some guy that came off a boat no papers started as a bus boy in a dishwasher today owns a restaurant he wasn't even a citizen yep so there's someone further away from the goal right that you both want but they made it happen meaning if they could with worse odds than you, then what's stopping you? What's stopping you? My dad is my superhero. My father couldn't speak a lick of English.

Came to a country with no education, very little. Had nothing. Became a multimillionaire. Wow. Okay, in real estate. He bought tons of real estate. He worked like an animal. Still does.

The guy will not stop. Okay? And I feel like when you have that type of role model in your life your bar sets so high and my dad doesn't just like her son you want money like he doesn't play that game no one gave me go out there and make it happen you want to do this oh you want to open up a podcast studio something i'll give you a million dollars no you want it you believe you can do it go make it happen i got you this far in life. I helped you finish school. Go do what you got to do. You know what I'm saying?

So seeing him come here and do all that, it's like, shame on me if I can't do more. And I feel like that is like, and it might not always happen, but I feel like if you can't do better than your parents did, then you failed. Yeah, I love that mindset. I truly do.

I feel like if I can't do more for my kids, I'm a failure, man. But statistically, it's the opposite. 70% of people that come into money fail. 100%. So it's important to have that mentality, man. I mean, I don't know if you have kids yet, but... I have kids. Yes, I have three boys. And let me tell you, I agree. I would rather have been, and I'm not saying because I would want to give up my citizenship i was born and raised in america but i would have rather had the mindset of the albanian that was born in albania and came to america because they have this hunger in them they have this there's two types of jealousy okay or envy there's good envy and bad envy good envy is i see what sean kelly's doing i'm inspired by it i want to be like what sean you

know i want to be like him in that in that profession i want to work that's good at this there is good envy malicious envy is when someone just hates you because you're doing what you're doing and they don't have the courage or the charisma to even try so they just hate because you have the courage yeah listen you get comments all day i get comments all day some of them are great some of them are great. Some of them are, I laugh at those now. Anyway, the bad ones. The bad ones, yeah.

But I love trolling them right back. Oh, you respond? Oh, all day and all night. You want to get trolled, come on my wall. I'll troll you all day. I love the engagement, man. That's the New York in you. Let me say, it helps.

The algorithm too. So please, all you haters, I love you. I love you haters. Keep commenting. You're making my algorithm because then my army goes after them and they're going back and forth. And guess what? All of a sudden, I have another viral video. So I love you haters keep commenting you're making my algorithm because then my army goes after them and they're going back and forth and guess what all of a sudden i have another viral video so i love you haters but there's good envy and bad envy the bad envy is like if you hate on someone you don't

even know you never even met you might not agree with their viewpoint okay and i'm not talking like most people are not malicious right if you just hate on someone for for that just because you don't like what they're doing i mean mean, honestly, you're a loser. You're a loser. I've never felt jealous from anybody in my entire life. I've never, I swear to God, I've never looked at someone and said, man, he's got a Ferrari and a Lamborghini. I've just been like, wow, if they can do it, I can do it.

Same. Or how did you do it? Or can I learn from you? Or like people just, they're too stuck in their emotions and they're the wrong ones at times. People can't control their emotions. It's wild to me. I never had anger issues.

My greatest weakness is my emotion in the sense that when I feel something, it can either paralyze me or I have to use it to propel me. So emotion will destroy you if you can't control it. I've made many bad decisions with emotion. The Albanians have an expression. Zamen e frut, tahe krut. A ruptured heart will make you lose your head meaning like emotionally if your heart's exploding with anger yeah you'll lose your head meaning you will not think rationally so the key is to try to man i've really been focusing on that the last 10

years of my life learning how to control the emotion it's my greatest strength and weakness it's why i speak the way i do i speak with my heart yeah But there's times where you got to learn how to suppress, man, just because something bad happened or someone that's like, you just got to calm down, man. Breathe. Sleep on it. Let a day or two go by. And you do make a much better decision.

I do love that expression. When it's translated, it's true. With a swollen heart, you will lose your head. Breathe. Go somewhere. Reflect. Get out of the environment if you have to and reflect. Too many people, and this happens

with violent crimes, they just jump. Something happens, their girl cheats on them or whatever. They lose their minds and they destroy their lives. They get revenge. Crime's a passion. I don't know what got into me. Temporary insanity. No, breathe, man. No matter how bad it is, breathe. No matter how horrible it is. Breathe, get out of the environment, reflect,

because you're going to do something you regret, I promise you. Take the time. I've done it many times. I've made many mistakes in my life that way, being a hired. It's not worth it. I see a lot of my friends trying to seek revenge too, but they spend so much time on it. It's a waste.

It's not worth it. The opportunity presents itself and you can return the favor. But to dedicate all your energy on it, I agree. And that was the thing I used to live for that too when I was younger. I'm going to get them back now. I had so many people backstab me man people that i did nothing but help didn't even ask for anything in return just because they and that's when i start to understand sometimes there's no logic to this life you could literally help someone with everything and you're rooting for them and you actually fucking you love them and they ram a knife and they knife. I could respect there was money involved

and they were going to get, I could understand at least logically the greed God's in them. But when they do it for no other reason at all except to destroy you and you were doing everything in your power just to help them. That hurts.

That's a hard one to get over. The emotion there is like, you know what? Now that I'm older, thank God I got to see this. I went through a horrible time in my life personally at one point. And I started seeing people, even second cousins, third cousins, ramming knives in my back. There was no gain to them by doing that, except that they were going to lose their connection to me, right?

Which many of them begged me to come back in their lives, friends, family. Nah, I'm 42, man. Wow. I don't got time anymore for third, fourth, fifth chances. You know, family, you give a little slack to, but we're talking about like friends and associates. One time you show no loyalty, fucking gone. One and done. At this stage in my life, you want to keep playing roulette with people?

No. I'd rather go on the roulette table in Vegas. We got better odds. Yeah. Whatever they say, let people, they show you who they are, right? I used to give three strikes, but now I'm probably down to one or two, to be honest. I have no room in that department anymore.

The world we live in, my circle went from very big to the people that I trust is very tiny, Sean. I'm selling like two, three people. That's it. Wow. That's it.

I'll do business with people, but there's a lot of paperwork involved now. Fuck that. I feel that, man. Dude, anything you want to promote or close off with? Nothing much, brother. Just doing the podcasting thing. Going to have a lot of motivational stuff coming out soon.

Sales course. There's a lot we didn't get into, but I'm going to be doing the next level type stuff. Love to have you on the show sometime. But anyone who wants, they can check out can check out becklover.com also my instagram's popping at becklovernyc i talk about all kinds of crazy shit there from aliens and demons to stuff that we just talked about documentary coming out in the future about my life and i'm hosting a new show at the comic strip live the oldest comedy club where all the greatest legends were made. That one's going to be more fun.

Love it. And I'd love to have you on sometime, brother. And we'll go get a real sandwich in New York. Let's do it, man. Thanks for coming on. Thanks for watching, guys, as always. See you tomorrow.