Escaping the Drift with John Gafford - A Deep Dive into the Mind of Colt EP 44

Episode Date: March 31, 2022

The Power Move Episode 44Learn and burn Entrepreneurship from serial entrepreneur John Gafford and his band of mayhem makers. From stripper poles to the oval office, business lessons are everywhere. This Week:A deep dive into the mind of our own Colt Amidan, questions were answered, more questions remain. With Chris Connell and Colt Amidan

from the art of the deal to keeping it real live from the simply vegas studios it's the power move with john gafford back again back again back again you know what i don't know this is like episode 43. We had a guest scheduled for today. They had to reschedule, which is fine. It happens sometimes. So I'm thinking to myself, you know, what can we do?

Because when we have a guest, you know, I like to be prepared. Well, first of all, if it's your first time joining us, my name is John Gafford. I'm your host. Next to me is Colt the Bulgarian Mongoose Amadan. How are you, Colt? Doing well, thank you. And as always, the councilor. I just pulled that out. I just pulled that out.

I pretty much just added. I've seen a place in a random thing generator for your nickname. You've never seen a family guy? The Bulgarian mongoose. I like it. It's a strong move. It's a strong move. Yeah, there you go.

And Chris, the counselor. How are you, sir? How are you guys? Good. Good to see you. So again, I like to be And Chris, the counselor. How are you, sir? How are you guys? Good. Good to see you. So again, you know, I like to be prepared when we do this. I like to have as much stuff as I can. And we'll do our standard current events because I'm sure there was a couple of things happened

over the weekend. Maybe we can chat about. And then, yeah, then here's what we're going to do for today's show. Today is going to be a winding journey, a dark journey. Let me see if I have the right sound effects. Wrong one. We're going to take a winding road, a long trip, Connell, into the mind of Colt. Wow.

Of me? Of you, yes. So today, literally, we're just going to have, you know, you always say you could do this. You always say that it should be the power move with Cult Amidam. Yeah. Three minutes. I got three minute episodes. Yeah, so today we're going to see what you got.

We're going to take a journey into the mind of cult. And notice, this is normally the portion of the episode where I would talk about what we're really going to talk about. But let's face it, at this point, it could be anything. I have no idea. Did you bring the coins you need to cross the River Styx? Yes, pay the ferryman. Pay the ferryman through the River Styx?

Yes. Was it Hercules? Yeah, we're going deep. We're going to all in. It's Hercules. But first of all, probably the saddest news in rock for a long time that I've seen, man, is Taylor Hawkins. I thought you were going to say BTS sold out. No, not BTS sold out.

Taylor Hawkins passing away. Dude, legend, man, legend. And it's funny how people don't really get their due for how good they are until they're gone. And I've been playing drums since I was a kid since i was seven and i can tell you uh taylor hawkins always one of my favorite drummers when i would play with my little you know when i play with the guys that i would play with when we were playing music together always the foo fighter songs we played were always my favorite yeah because they're like the hardest hitting songs ever ever long was a band as a song my band plays and that drum that drum uh whole yeah so much you know layout yeah a lot more difficult than i think people realize yeah ever There's a song my band plays, and that drum whole...

Yeah, so much fun. You know, layout. Yeah. A lot more difficult than I think people realize. Yeah, we would play two songs by then. We'd play Everlong and Times Like These, and both of them not necessarily the easiest things to do because, you know, the times change.

And there's a couple... It's kind of intricate. But again, fun of songs. So I was horrible to see that happen. Yeah. A little so... O.D.? yeah a little so od yeah it came out well he came out he had a bunch of stuff in the system a silver lining though john personally to you you did tell a story here a couple months ago about how you took the boy yeah i did go see them and i mean think of all the legends you never got to see yeah no no no stevie ray vaughn yeah the fact the fact that he got to see them was

great it came out today i never saw this they canceled all their shows um i don't know i mean i don't know if you'll ever see that band play again just because for several reasons number one i think that you know when you saw interviews as much as pat smears is that man and the other guys of the band every interview i ever saw with foo fighters was dave and taylor it was those it was like beavis and budhead it was those two guys for 20 years it's been those guys and i just don't know you know if dave girl has it in him to continue that band without taylor think of the friends that guy's lost. Dude. I mean. I mean, just moment of silence for Dave Grohl. Yeah, man. I mean, it's nuts.

I mean, you saw all the people that came out. The most interesting thing I saw that I came out from this is you never really realize who hangs out with who and who's good friends with who or whatever it is, right? Perry Farrell yesterday, him and his wife were just crushed. And he's like, Taylor was my best friend. I mean, a lot of people said, you know, I knew him. I met him. He was a great drummer. We played music.

He was an inspiration. But Perry Farrell's like, dude, that was my best friend. And I never, I mean, who would have thought that? And gave a heartfelt statement about him and was showing some video of them hanging out and and and everything and it was just in played actually what potentially it was it was a voicemail they got from him the night he died wow before he went to bed it was nuts and just it was crazy so again dude i you want me to try to blow your mind on air no go ahead who who was the best friend what was the name of the guy you said perry farrell do you think that's his real name uh no i do not say that name very quickly peripheral peripheral yeah that's a point that was his like when he was all screwed up on drugs yeah he got this thing i read

a book it was uh talking about perry farrell back in the day it's like man it's like seeing from the sides like i'm i'm peripheral so he called himself perry farrell just random fact random little fact random fact of the day lighten it up a little bit no random fact that it didn't do a second hold down i mean again you know i i have a i have an idea and i want to know what you guys think about this this is what I think about this. I think anybody caught with enough to be considered distribution of any substance that has fentanyl in it should go for attempted murder. That's my personal belief. I think if you're caught with that substance, because here's my point. Here's my point. Ready?

If I shoot a gun at you, and I completely miss you, I'm responsible for the bullet, and yet it's attempted murder because I shot a bullet. Anybody that is slinging a substance or substances that may have fentanyl in them better damn sure know that you could, with a small amount of that, you could absolutely kill somebody. So my thought is this. Number one, make fentanyl testing kits, whatever they are free but from the u.s government as many places as you can put them for free distribution come get them whatever i mean put them everywhere there's no reason that anybody should ever take anything unknowingly with fentanyl on it huge can of worms you just

opened up and i 100 agree with you i think that American drug policy is highly regressive, right? A lot of these people in prison, we don't look at drugs in a very progressive way. We like to pretend that people don't get high or that people don't get turned on to legal drugs and then have to find the cheaper street ones, right? We don't view people as having medical issues when they have drug issues, right? So we criminalize people at the border which creates a black market and in that black market these companies don't care a lot of times this fentanyl is chinese right yeah so it comes over in these barrels it's cheap to make it's yeah it's it's not the new thing they're making in mexico right and so it kicks up right so you can step on your so much more and get more profit so there's a profit-laden industry you

want to blame anybody it's american drug policy and i'm not no i'm shitting on america i understand sorry see here we here we go on our drug wars you're gonna let him talk about america step in here wow so if you if you legalize drugs or you decriminalize them and treat them as a medical issue, right, you eliminate all of that incentive for all these drug wars, all these people in Mexico who die on our borders, right, all the drug crimes, all the cartels, they're all fueled by our high-priced black market drugs. Yeah, that's good.

I mean, it's a good point. But I think I don't think we're ever going to have legalized drugs in this country i just don't think it's ever going to be that progressive criminalized i don't think we're gonna have that but but also the point being is i think i think they should make the fentanyl testing kits available because fentanyl is the problem right now it is what it's killing i mean just people every day and it's always the same thing i lost a friend oh i i had mexican i had mexican xanax or something i had no idea i had fentanyl on it i just thought you know whatever it is so i think literally you should have those testing kits everywhere to make it you know so nobody can ever have plaza i didn't know i just bought it for this guy he told me it was clean

and i was trying to sell it no dude there's test kits for free everywhere if you've got it and you're trying to sell illegal drugs and they have fentanyl on them it's attempted murder and you're gone that's that's i don't think you can look at it either way here's the other problem though a lot of people that are mulling these drugs aren't the people who are supplying them right when you watch these things people that are mulling drugs oftentimes their families are being held at gunpoint back in their home country right if you don't get these drugs across will kill your family yeah i'm not i'm not talking about that guy i'm talking listen i'm talking about the guy that's on tiktok that's on tiktok advertising i'll deliver drugs to your house that guy that

guy needs to go down for a murder no no i'm sorry not tiktok but snapchat or whatever it is where they have literally like these drug menus go out on random text unsolicited black market that was all that that's that's what bitcoin was for, was selling people on the internet. I agree, but those people need to go down. I've never even seen those people. I haven't either, but whatever. All right, so moving on from that. Fentanyl's bad.

Fentanyl's bad. Those people, huh? No more fentanyl. Colt's like, those people. Those people. You're going to get control soon enough, Colt. You'll get control here in a moment. I don't know if I'm ready for it, guys.

It's been a crazy day. I wasn't mentally prepared for this. I was expecting you guys to carry me through this can we talk about and everybody's talking about will smith obviously and what he's done can we just i mean can we get him an intervention not so much about what happened but get away from that woman you're married to because if you watch that back dude it's like chris rock told the joke and he was laughing and she was pissed and then he cut back to chris rock and there's a solid eight seconds there where you don't really see what happened which is probably just long enough for her to lean over and say you're gonna let him talk to me like that and she has got him so spun i mean mean, if you've seen, I mean, the complete demasculation,

the complete humiliation, the complete, she owns that dude, and I don't get it. Like, I don't get it. So, Tupac, you don't think that that's his fault? Dude, I do. He was an intervention, bro. Okay, like you never dated somebody

that was awful for you in the past. You never dated somebody that was cryptically terrible. the past you never did something that was cryptically terrible oh i've dated some terrible people sure yeah but did they control me no i think you i think it's almost like stockholm syndrome man maybe he likes it i don't know dude he's again i don't basically conjecture other people's relationship but that whole thing and if you look he has skirted a lot of personal responsibility for that i get it but you you look at you look at what he said when he went on stage and he was all crying and bawling he's like you know well he's like no he's like i'm having i'm having a real time dealing with what people expect me to do i think he was talking about her bro talk about

a 10 out of 10 finale to that speech. Well, I remember what it was. I was just so. Somebody else had commented on it. I'm like, that's the number one thing I took away from it. At the end of it, aces. Absolute aces way to end any conversation you ever argument ever. What did he say? I'm a work in progress.

Yeah, that's it. Because that's. What are you supposed to say to that guy? Well, you should be better. He's like, I know I said that. I said that. What gonna do to somebody that says hey i said that hey colton i'm a work in progress buddy well he was bill maher came out today and spoke and what did bill maher say he said two great things first off he said that was exactly what's going on in the world it was haha wait i should be offended now let me go overreact yep yeah and he goes that's exactly

what happened is it was like you see on the twitter verse you see haha that's funny wait no i think i should be offended yep i should be offended let me go overreact right then i saw he said he was talking at the vanity fair or someone someone that a very, very well-known African-American in the Hollywood scene just said Chris Rock handled that perfectly. Oh, my God. He had the whole race on his shoulders. And I watched another guy, the guy on Today Show I just had the TV on, and he kind of reiterated the same thing right like thank god chris rock didn't react for but let's face it american male community let's face it how many okay you're chris rock you're laying in bed at midnight how many things that are hilarious

are going through your head that you wish you would have said immediately after that like like i like the most amount of sympathy for chris rock i'll do totally but but can you imagine if you've been like damn bro i'm not banging her i mean it would have been keep your wife out of my mouth you're like i'm like that dude like that dude your kids whatever your kid's son right like how what a piece of shit like i could go i could go on a tangent but think about what chris rock really did there oh he didn't press charges. No, he didn't.

Jim Carrey was on saying something going, I'd sue him for $200 million. What he did was absolutely inexcusable. He goes, and that's going to live on forever. What's every comedian's worst nightmare? Well, to be slapped for a joke, right, is there's kind of two ways to rub that, though. You're right, Col colt look at something

laugh be offended overreact but also we do live in a day and age where not enough people get smacked for what comes out of their mouth on the keyboard kind of a weird and i'm not saying i don't condone it but it is interesting to see if he would have gone at it but here's the here's the here's the thing it's like can you imagine imagine if Don Rickles would have said that? But she would have said way worse. Do you think he's going to go up and smack Don Rickles? I mean, dude, for as long as there have been celebrity, and as long as Don Rickles has been alive,

it's part of what goes in. And those jokes are not hateful. I don't think Chris Rock was being hateful to her. I think it was the fact that Chris Rock, if Chris Rock made a joke about me, I'd be like, oh my God, Chris Rock. Dude, think about how amazing. Chris Rock.

That was such low-hanging fruit, dude. Just made a joke. Well, hang on. There's one bald woman joke you could even make. Yeah, hang on. It's a G.I. James one. Well, no, no, no. See, I'm going to challenge that philosophy

because now, all right, I don't know if there's such a thing, but I hope that there is some sort of fraternal order of comedians, the FOC, let's call it. Right, that may go. And they are having a order of comedians, the fuck let's call it. And they are having a meeting right now saying, okay,

it's all in agreement. Motion four to five, that every single set of every single comedian from here, there from here forward to the end of time shall contain at least one Jada Pinkett Smith joke, which I think would be due process for that crime. And I think that would be a fitting punishment. Every single set. It was somebody else up there. He wouldn't have gone up and slapped them.

You know what their greatest punishment would be? What's that? That we never mentioned them ever again. That's a good point. But it's not. They should have kicked their ass out of there. The longer you stay relevant, the more, right? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what they say as long as they're talking about you. I know. It doesn't matter what they're talking about.

I can't stand him. So Colt, that's current events, man. What are we talking about? The floor is yours, my man. What are we going to talk about? What's been on your mind lately? What's been on my mind? Like, you know what?

Fuck, I thought I hated Tom Hanks really bad. No. Fuck Will Smith. Oh! I cannot stand this guy. We have a new contender. You know what? I never really thought about it because I don't like him at all.

So, he's just been off of my mind. But this guy is a horrible actor. Ali, really? I did not think you're Ali. One fit during that movie. You're horrible. Pursuit of happiness? Pursuit of happiness.

I know he's rich. No. Horrible. He's a horrible actor. I don't like Will smith jada pink is so you're saying that no rich actor can ever play a poor person because in real life you know they're rich that's cultural appropriation do you know what it is it's wealth appropriation okay no i don't know the guy's name you know peter from uh the the i don't want to say because i'll

probably say the wrong thing. The guy from Games of Thrones, Peter Dunn. Peter Dinklage. Dinklage. He did an interview once and said, you'll never see me on social media. You'll never see me do interviews, nothing. Because I don't want people to know who I am because then they can't visual me as an actor. Will Smith is out there too goddamn much.

All I see is he's a douchebag. Look, he had to leave Philadelphia because he almost got beat up by the Yankees. It's not his first rodeo. And then, to have the nerve to slap Chris Rock, come on, the guy's like 5'8". Just, Tom Hanks and

Will Smith can go live on an island together. Get the hell out of here. One of the funniest memes of all this came out. It's got The Rock saying it, and Will Smith going, Very funny joke, Mr. Rock. That's a funny joke, sir. If Chris Rock, if it was The Rock, he would not have done anything.

What a pansy. And Chris Rock, take this, learn from it. You have to assume the worst in life. Okay. You have to assume when someone's looking pissed off walking towards you, get ready to duck. I would have ducked and punched him in his throat. Will Smith would have been down. I mean, Chris Rock had no reason not to think he was coming to give him

like a hug, like, ah, you son of a bitch. Yeah, exactly. Whatever. You're not expecting that. Or acting like he's going to punch him in the back. Yeah, like ruffling his head or something. Is there anything worse you can do to another man than the open-hand slap? I love it.

I've gone to that well. Is that just – well, there's the open-hand slap, and then there's the mom slap where you catch, like, left eyebrow down to right – just right across the face. You catch, like, left eyebrow down to right lower lip. Smack. Get the whole face. I smacked a guy so hard one time that the whole, like, gym stopped playing basketball.

Yeah. The guy on my basketball team was elbowing me kept hitting me kept hitting me i said did you ever fucking touch me again like you're playing dirty you're trying to hurt me if you ever do that again i'm gonna fucking end you he said shut up and play the game you slapped him in the face you didn't shut up on the bottom of my hip slapped this man so hard i saw his soul start to leave him shadow and he was shadow routing and he just stared at me and all of a sudden the tear came down his eyes the fear it was just sort of like i was never shocked that that happened hit like that people

should get hit i i will say that not a comedian right no not somebody at the oscars yeah nobody should be slapped for what no no absolutely there are a lot of people that should be slapped sometimes people should a lot of people should be slapped i will i will you might joke about that i'm 100 no there's a bit of a bit where he goes on about that he goes really there's never a time to hit a woman he goes oh i saw he goes what if she's drowning your kids she's got two of them down already the third one's going in the water never that was funny no but yeah we don't hit girls but i didn't nobody hits girls don't hit girls will smith the guy he just thinks he's so cool i don't think he's cool he thinks he is and his wife's over there cheating on not just some random kid

on some kid that's 20 years old friend friend of the daughter or son, whatever. I mean, God, man, have some balls and go after that kid. Why would you go after that kid? That's his wife's problem. Okay, so why are you going after Chris Rock? It's his wife's problem. And you should have taken that in. Touché, counselor. I don't condone that either.

I think Colt just painted you into a corner. He should have gone in back and said, you know what? My wife's got a disease and she's offended by that. Apologize. If you don't apologize, then maybe I'll slap you. No, but that's right. Then you give him an opportunity to be like, you know, that's a medical condition, right? Right.

So then we can get the famous, you know, the John Gafford. Oh, no, I didn't know your grandma was so important to you. Wow. Okay. You know what we're going on? Okay. I'm out of this discussion. I have yet to read the text on this all right well yeah i know if you're aware of what happened here so at the risk of being uh

we'll get cole's notes on this so we had we had a situation where it was uh in a text chain i remember how it happened but chris was actively this was machiavellian genius and it was uh and that's what i'm talking about today how to deal with machiavellian geniuses right because you're gonna encounter them at some point in your life so i don't know on a text chain but i don't remember who was on it i don't know how this came up but but essentially chris's grandmother may have gotten wrapped up very similar to a joke like the aristocrats. If you don't know what that is, Google it. I'm not going to get into the exact specifics of how it was going, but it was getting worse and worse and

worse and worse and worse to the point where we were giggling like school children as we were doing this. Now, Chris was involved in this text chain. He saw this text chain. He was commenting. So I made a terrible choice. A terrible choice. When worlds collide. Which was try to move said conversation about Chris's nana over to another text chain that he is on with several of our other guy friends, at which

point Chris immediately acted like he had no clue what I was talking about. I was like, what is going on? To the point where people were like, is John okay? Is he done? What's going on with him? This is really creepy. I don't know what's going on with him, man. He's probably going through some things.

Yeah, it was, people are about to get in their car, drive to your house. It was bad. It was, it was Machiavellian genius. And I'm texting my side like,

Oh, you're such a dick. You're doing this to me. But I mean, at this point, you're faced with a choice. I think, I think you're faced with a choice,

which is you can backpedal and you can try to, uh, you know, you know you can try to try to explain this or you can do what i did and just stay all in and get worse and worse and worse yeah which is what essentially the exclamation point on it was creating the meme of the guy who's sweating on john has two choices take the bait for the trap i just laid you or exercise your own free will and not say a thing. And John's like, no, bam. I have no free will. I think you always have to double down. Is there ever a time in life you just don't double down?

Because not only... I made it existential. Not only was he acting all incredulous, like, oh my God, what's going on? He's baiting me like just the same thing like literally just hang it like yelling from the mound i'm gonna hang this curveball like here it comes right down the middle and uh and yeah i was just i smoked every no i didn't care i smoked every pitch well i had to uh i had to also make it philosophical and existential.

Be like, or exercise your free will. I'm not doing that. I never was the first person to claim I had free will. Do you know who doesn't? Me on pretzel bread. And I can tell you what. So I went to two restaurants this weekend. Let's talk about first off,

shitty service and shitty food. Top of the world. All right. My dad wanted to go there. He's like, I've never been really up to the top of Strat. One word, Stratosphere.

Strat. Strat now. It's not even Stratosphere. You're shocked? Well, it was expensive for shitty food and they couldn't get the pretzel bread right. That's when I knew this was starting off.

Pretzel bread was garbage. Salad was garbage. Everything. Everything was garbage. Went to the Wynn last night, SW Steakhouse, number one pretzel bread in Las Vegas by far. Even better than berries. You've been to the German American Club? The German American Club.

There's a German fetish club on my house. You get what you pay for. You go to the Stratus. Well, guess what? I paid about the same goddamn money for it. That's the sad part. Don't go. Go to SW over there.

What else? What's the best restaurant in Las Vegas, and what's the worst? Best, I would say SW for steak. I would say I love Sinatra's. say sw for steak i would say i love sinatras worst for steak um for sure top of world just it was horrible like horrible i've had bad steaks at bars but you expect that no i have a better question so forget if you had to put your finger on for not even just restaurants everything what's the worst customer experience customer service experience you've ever experienced I have a better question. So if you had to put your finger on, not even just restaurants, everything, what's the worst customer service experience you've ever experienced, Colton? Me?

Yeah. Because I already know what mine is off the top of my head. We haven't talked about it in a long time. You, Chili's. You. You think I forgot about you. I didn't forget about you. You served me six margaritas.

I leave my car being responsible, and then you tow it? You tow it, Chili's? Did we ever get anything from that? i don't know if we have or not i need to call you no we sent a demand letter and i don't know if we've ever heard back you know what we've had bad experience i can't even get like a cheeseburger queso like nothing for towing my car the the molten cakes are so good you know i was gonna say we're never gonna get sponsored. I'm going to say something else as we do this. For those of you that are listening to us on podcast services, I apologize for something. I clicked a box that I didn't realize I picked on our host service, and you were exposed to lots of random commercials for which I got paid $8. So sorry about that.

I just realized that was happening. He's holding out money on us. Yeah, no, no. He's holding out money. Yeah, somebody, no, no money. A lot of smaller people would do this for the $8. I do it strictly for the glory. We had bad customer service at the cigar lounge. Yes, we did. We've had two times. That was very bad. I've had a lot of bad customer service in Vegas recently. I'm shocked. Do you think it's just post

pandemic or do you think it's, so is it shortage of staff or is it attitude amongst the staff? I think it's attitude, right? I think shortage. You can walk around and still be happy and smile and say hi. SW had some of the

best and I forget how great that restaurant is. Everything of the win. I stayed at the win last night. It was just great. Like, everything was amazing. From the housekeeping, people were nice. Everybody was nice. But you go over, and it's a perfect example from one extreme to the other.

The Strat, oh, my God, everybody was so ignorant and rude. I mean, I'm telling you, Statton, Tom Hanks, and Will Smith can go fuck themselves. Isn't Stratton in Alphabet City? It's in Alphabet City. No, it's in Naked City. Naked City. Naked City, what a great part of town.

If you've never been to Naked City, Las Vegas, ooh, every time I go there, the crackheads, grannies. Is this where the steakhouse is? No, but I go out there. I sell some apartments over there, there They make me feel good about myself Little crackhead, no teeth, tell me I look good looking Maybe not known for their steaks

You saw a guy Not retired, but an off-duty cop From Washington got stabbed and killed On the trot bridge Between MGM and Cosmo By a homeless guy There is a lot of deaths on the strip that we just don't talk about.

People don't realize that. Well, they used to bury them. That was a thing in Vegas. They would bury the deaths. And they still do. Yeah, because there was a lot. They still bury a lot. There's been multiple suicides this year.

I mentioned that before. I know a girl whose grandfather had the contract to go clean them up, specifically the suicide. Yeah. How cool would that be? Not. No? Well, okay. No, no, no, no.

The worst place. Not to do it, but just have that as a job title. No, the worst jumper place. The worst jumper place. It hasn't happened in a long time, but the worst jumper place is for sure the Luxor. Yeah, because it's inside. Because they just land right in the food court.

No, jump into the middle of the damn food court, and it's happened. They land in the food court. It happens a lot. I had one outside the el cortez when i lived in the ogden oh did you yeah i had to like step over where the body was on the way to get there oh man girls with car too that next day how's that man no never mind dude i mean people come here and just i mean it's terrible it's terrible when they do that they come here and they, I mean, it's terrible. It's terrible when they do that. They come here and they just go on benders and lose too much. And we think there's nothing else. Can we get Will Smith to come on a bender? Oh, geez. That's a little much.

No, we can't say that. I'm sorry. I don't like Will Smith. His whole family. Obnoxious. Name a more obnoxious family than his. So you are kind of more online with the Eminem thing now, back with that old. Yeah, he didn't slap Eminem.

But Eminem doesn't need to. Will Smith doesn't need to curse his records. So fuck him. Fuck you too. Remember that? And he didn't say nothing. That's why I'm saying, Will Smith is such a pansy. Go fight a real person, a little comedian.

Chris Rock's got to be 5'6". Go back. Eminem's like Nostradamus, man. I'm telling you. He picks beef with the right people. Yeah, they turn out to be the terrible humans. Yeah, everybody he picks beef with, you're kind of going, yeah. Yeah, I get it now.

Yeah, I get it. He really wasn't too far off. He never goes after anybody who turned out to be awesome. No. He goes after like Benzino and stuff. He's out there with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. I know who Benzino is. The guy who owns Source magazine.

Oh. Oh, Source. Anyway, long story short, Eminem. It's always dialed in. I like Eminem. But Will Smith. Him. Tom.

I'm sure. Do you know what? Tom Hanks' whole family seems obnoxious. Saw something about his kid. Seems super annoying. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. His kid thinks he's like the Rapper Kid. The Rapper Kid.

Chet? Chet. Chet. Chet. That's okay. Perp and White. Perp and White. Okay, let's see. The rapper kid. Chet? Chet. Chet. Chet. That's okay. Perp and white. Perp and white. Okay, let's see.

No, I'll put it this way. There is nothing. No, why was it White Boy Summer was the name of his jam? Look, Colt, as much as you dislike Tom Hanks, trust me, there is nothing you will ever do to him that will shame him or hurt him more than that child does. There's just nothing worse. What do you do if you're his parent, right? You just beg him to stop telling people he's your baby.

You offer him money to shut up. Don't name your kid Chet. He named one kid Colin. Yeah. Look at that kid. Oh, that was a great movie. He looks like Colin. He's in movies.

And he named one kid Chet, and he gets Chet. Nah, but Chet. He literally got Chet. I know two other Chets, and they're great. Is there a better Chet movie character than Chet in Weird Science? Is there a Kyle that doesn't punch holes in drywall? No. You name your kid what they're going to do in life.

No. Oh, my gosh. Drink Red Bull and punch holes in walls. You named your kid Kyle and you're a shot. My son walked around the pool all day, blowing kisses at every girl. He's my troublemaker. Giovanni should name to my

Steve. Steve. Steve. Let that be a lesson. If you have a daughter named Candy, Summer, Bambi. I went to school with a charity, a Trinity.

I went to school with a lot of girls. Do they all smell like cigarettes? Terrible. Name your children the names you wish them to be when they grow up. I never thought of that. Yeah, you give a chance. John Davis. Colt.

Cornelius. Cornelius. Come on. What's a name that should be making its comeback? A name that should make its comeback? All those fight club names go Cornelius and Rupert. Rupert.

That's a strong name. I don't hate the Roo. So then I was starting to think the other day because Mel Gibson was, they kept showing his face, like his reaction to the slap. And it's like, you offended Mel Gibson. Is Mel short for something?

Like, is his name Melvin or something? I don't know. You just named somebody Mel? Mel short for something like is his name Melvin or something I don't know you just named somebody Mel Melvin Melbourne we're gonna take a break and when we come back

we're gonna continue talking about nonsense as we just you know what we're gonna yeah we're gonna come up with some stuff I'm gonna jump on

social media and get some questions to ask Colton real time that's what we're gonna do we'll be back in a minute I was thinking Mel right like

that just Melonious. Hi, John. Hey, it's John Gafford. If you want to catch up more and see what we're doing, you can always go to thejohngafford.com where we'll share any links that we've, things we talked about on the show,

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make sure you give us five stars every little bit. It helps. And if you're listening to us on YouTube, make sure you like and subscribe. Push that button there and do it now. So- Did we decide if it's five stars or four stars? I don't know, five or four,

whichever the highest rating is. So if I say five, because if I say five stars or four stars? I don't know, five or four, whichever the highest rating is. If I say five, because if I say five and there's only four, people would just give me four by default. But if you say four and there's five, they'll be like, eh, okay, I'll go 80%. No one wants four. I'll go 80%. My mom's texting me.

She's sent me like 30 pictures of outdoor furniture. Asked me which one I'd like. I tell her the second one. It doesn't go good on Dexter. I need the iPhone, but I'm telling you, the iPhone sucks. It's just overrated. Anybody want to? You know what I've been getting, John?

Oh, boy. I've been getting a lot of the fake tags on Instagram that you win something. You know what I've gotten three of the last eight days? What's that? I've won an iPhone. You've won an iPhone. Well, they just assume that, A, anybody – you know what it is?

They target Android users because they figure anybody dumb enough to have an Android would fall for that and be the lure of getting a chance to step up in society's view and own an iPhone is just too good of a thing to pass up. You know, I was at SW last night, and there was a guy across from me that had the Google phone. Where do you think the Google phone rates on the scale of iPhone and Android? Is it below both of them? No, but Google's an Android.

That's an Android phone. No, but it's like an actual Google phone. No, I'm saying, but it's an Android phone because Google makes Android. So is Samsung above the Google? No. I mean, that's like saying, who's valedictorian of summer school? It doesn't even matter. But let's, you know, Colt, let's dig into your mind here.

Let's dig into your, now that you're comfortable, are you feeling comfortable? When you turn the lights down, are you good? I should have got some scotch, but I'm okay with this. I'm trying to figure out why you are the way that you're comfortable are you feeling comfortable when you turn the lights down are you good are you comfortable because i'm trying to figure out i got some scotch but i'm okay with i'm trying to figure out why you are the way that you are and i'd like to spend the next 25 minutes or so trying to figure this out because because because let's face it a lot of the stuff that comes out of my mouth is clueless so at what point at what point no no no I'm clueless. I'm speechless is a better word. So at what age did you know that you were different? What did you say? Well, I remember when I was about 13 months old.

13 months old. What happened at 13 months old? No, you know what? Like, oh, man. You know what I did notice as a young kid? What's that? I hated not being at the house. I got, my mom would be in a bowling league.

Yeah? She would drop me off at the hilltop lanes, and they'd have this little area for the kids. Amazing grilled cheese. I think bowling alley's grilled cheese might be better than the hospital's. I'm just throwing it out there. Hospital grilled cheese, number two. Bowling alley grilled cheese.

Number one. Number one bowling alley. I'll tell you what. Both of them have better food than the top of the world. See, this is the funny thing. I spent $350. I could have gone to the hospital across the street and got better food for my dad's birthday.

That's where we're going next time. John, you're 50th. You want to go to the hospital? We're going right to the hospital. You know, St. Rose's here, I've often said, is like Sizzler with doctors. See? That is a perfect. That's better than Sizzler.

Do we even have Sizzler? I don't think we do. That's a great thing. No, you know what, John? I think just my parents named me Colt. That's what you get for naming me Colt. So this is your parents' fault is what you're saying. I feel like, feel like my grandparents.

Goes back. Goes back. All the way back. So it's a well-known fact that we talk about all the time, that at some point your wife is going to murder you. We talk about this all the time on the show. She almost murdered me last night. She did?

What happened last night? Well, no, she doesn't tell me anything, John. I sit there. You know what i did yesterday i wake up and she goes all right i'll see you at the hotel what hotel i'm like i got work to do no i got the wind for the night and she goes we've talked about this for two months i go no we didn't go to hotel when i push some appointments off till today. I wake up today and she goes, all right, tonight, where should we go for dinner? I'm like, what are you talking about?

She had the hotel for two nights. I went down and canceled it. She hates me. Let's not talk about that. Well, here's the question. What are the odds? And I forgot to put odds on it. What are the odds that she has been talking to you about it for two months and you just went in one ear and out the other?

Oh, no. Listen, it's her. She thinks she says stuff. Your wife doesn't think that she says stuff no no no no my wife says the problem that's why i'm saying that my wife does say stuff and it goes in one ear and out the other my wife will sit there and pretend like we had a conversation and then gets pissed off at me she got pissed off the whole family we had a little barbecue with their sisters. You think my wife's crazy? Sisters are nuts. Sisters are nuts.

You know what, though? That's going to bring me to an actual point we can make for today. Because I've been thinking about something a lot. And it's something I kind of feel bad about that I've said for years and years and years and years. And it's this. I have, you know, in speaking engagements, all kinds of stuff everywhere across the country, I've said this probably a hundred times. I've said, if you want to make more money in real estate, answer your phone when it rings. That's what I've said. I've probably said that a hundred

times. And I read something maybe a month ago and I thought it was, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm going to share it with you guys, which is this, which is the phone in your pocket is there for your convenience, not the convenience of others. Now, when I started thinking about this, you are, and you probably are, if you're watching this right now, going down social media, you probably are a little bit, you're probably addicted at some point to this thing, the bing bong boom of your phone. And when I am at work all day, when I'm gone all day, I come home at like five o'clock is when I normally get home around that time. And my kids go to bed at like 930. So I have four hours of the day, most of the days a week where I can focus in, spend time with my family. And much like you just said, when you

said, you know, my wife makes plans and, you know, I don't think she told me my wife does family. And much like you just said, when you said, you know, my wife makes plans and, you know, I don't think she told me my wife does that. And I just didn't notice because I was staring at my phone. So I realized how much of my kids growing up I missed because I was staring at my phone. And I felt really bad about that because I've given people those advice, that advice. Now now if you are in real estate isn't important that someone answers your calls yes get an answering service they're dirt cheap somebody you can pay to answer your phone it costs you nothing but if you have little kids remember you got them till they're 18 years old well here's another thing that woke me

up I thought that because we were at Delilah on Friday night and I thought that I had till 18 that's what i've always gone with i have till 18 i was having this conversation with my buddy kevin and he goes no man you got till 16 because when they get the driver's license in the car they're gone that's when the freedom kicks in i really have to tell your kids are the age right now for you yeah i'd start doing that you'll see starting now your kids will shut you down i'll go sit in their room, stuff like that. I noticed that I was at the park the other day, and some guy's like, you know, this is my only kid. Kid was probably about 18 months old, playing at the park. He was on his damn phone the whole time.

I'm like, dude, you have no idea how fast this goes. And it goes. Yeah, my mentor getting into real estate was from a small little bro i mean it was him and like three assistants that's it he did stupid amount of business and everybody said what's your go-to what's your go-to he goes answer your damn phone yeah so there's a difference the same thing you know you sit there and it's like okay well i can't be on my phone all the time no we're not saying about you can't be on your phone working. You're spending, I don't care who you are.

Everybody's on social media. Yeah, it's the bleed. It's an addictive thing. It is. It's designed to be that way. It's exactly designed by very smart people, smarter than us. You know, one of the goals I have is my 50th birthday approaches, and we're leaving to go to Cabo on Friday, so this will be the last show. I'm going to social media,

everything. Yeah, no, we will, of course. So it'll be interesting to watch social media because my birthday party should be fun. But you know, one of the goals for as you reach these milestone birthdays, you try to set better goals for yourself and as you go on the next thing. So one of those goals is to be the best version, obviously, as I can. And part of being the best version of myself is being the best man that I can is really giving focus to my wife and my kids. That's something that's really important because I don't, you know, if they're talking and I'm looking at my phone, I'm not focused on them. I'm focused at my phone.

So now what I've started doing just as a habit, and this is my new good habit, is when I walk in my house, if I sit down somewhere, I throw my phone at least six, eight feet away from me. So if I need it, I know where it is. If it should happen to ring, I have an option if I feel like getting up to answer to that minute or not. But I don't just compulsively pick it up to look at it every five minutes because my brain is programmed to need to be entertained. And I found since just doing that in the short amount of time that I've been doing it, the amount of focus that I have on my kids and the amount of focus I have on my wife has been dramatically increased, but not just that, but I find that we no longer are wasting Saturdays. We're no longer wasting those days off. It's like, okay, well, if I'm not entertained sitting here, let's go.

Where are we going to go? Let's go somewhere. Let's go do something. I did. I was at the park. I was at the pool this weekend. And it's just amazing. I'm in the pool playing with my kids and loving it.

And there's nothing more important than your family, right? And, like, I've always said this i've said it multiple times here but you know like when i almost lost my kid dude that was it yeah everything became a back burner work was always a front runner whatever making money i tell you everything went to a back burner like you said you have to tell 18 that comes quick whatever but yeah those the the phone and anybody that says they're not addicted, their phone's lying. Yeah, they're lying. They're lying.

Well, let's get back into the mind of Colt. What would you say of anything there is? What are your favorite things? Favorite things? Yes. You know what's a weird thing I was thinking on Sunday? I was at the pool. I love the sun. I love just being out in the

sun it tries to kill me skin cancer okay wait a second okay don't say let's stick into this i think i see a connection okay you love the sun but it's trying to kill you you love a vet she's trying to kill you makes life makes life interesting, right? Maybe I just was a boring kid. Did you put this together that maybe this is just where it's at for you? Let's see what else I like. Cheese on a stick. Okay, cheese on a stick.

Trying to kill me. Going to give me a heart attack. That's true. I did have heart problems. Never thought. Maybe it was because I was eating a lot of cheese on a stick. Maybe it was because the cheese on a stick. Are you so excited? Are you excited that after Cabo, we're going to go have cheese cheese on stick because we don't have to worry about our beach bodies?

No, dude, I'm rolling right from Cabo right to Newport. I go right from adult spring break to kid spring break that quick. See, I go to Utah. I was going to go Palm Springs, but then Utah. It's going to be cold. Dude, if you guys want to come, do come to the beach house if you want to come down. I got to go to Utah for Utah real estate. But, you know,

I love the sun. You know what I'm getting over? Pizza. I've had some shitty pizza lately. What's going on with everything? Where did you get bad pizza? Everywhere. Everywhere? I've had like five different places. Horrible. Grimaldi's, best pizza

in town. Yeah. You like Grimaldi's, best pizza in town. Yeah. You like Grimaldi's? I like it. It's okay. It's better. It's good. Customer service hasn't been the greatest.

Carmine's for me is the best pizza in town. Yeah, Carmine's is good. I don't know. There's a lot of stuff that I love. Probably a lot of stuff I shouldn't like. I love cigars. Again. Trying to kill you. So disappointed.

God. See, John? Yeah. Let's think of something i like that's yeah what is something you like that's not bad for you let's try to figure that out is there anything no i mean scotch is scotch good for you every i don't know scotch and coffee i would say those you know what here my wife is calling i'm gonna put her on speaker oh she we're recording the podcast right now you're on speaker colt is laying down

on the couch why because i'm giving him a psych session yes we are i'm doing i'm doing a deep dive into the mind of colt so here's the question is there any question that he's like an open book right now is there any question that you've wanted to extrapolate that makes colt the way he is that you've ever wanted to ask colt? What question would you ask him? I think you need to delve into the childhood a little bit and the mother figure. I'm a little concerned. I need to know more about the mother figure, yeah.

Well, we just had a breakthrough. My mom will be here Thursday. We just had a breakthrough. The breakthrough was he goes, you know what I love? I love the sun, but it's trying to kill me. And I go, you also love a vet vet and she's trying to kill you exactly so right now we're trying to think of anything that he actually loves that isn't trying to kill him that's the goal right now i'll tell you what it's a short list it's a short list so honey this is this is the first time

you've ever made it on the podcast i know it's the first time you've ever made it on the podcast i know it's the first thing you ever made it on so yeah what's the worst what's what's the worst thing that john does that pisses you off okay see now he's flipping the script on me now so go ahead and he's doing the reverse psychology on you yeah he is he is well you know you know what i just said you'll appreciate he leave uh dirty laundry laying around no we were we were just talking about, we were talking about the focus with the phone. Because he goes, you know, that's mad at me. He goes, because she booked a room at the Wynn, told me, she said she told me about it. She didn't tell me about it.

And he goes, has it ever happened to you, your wife thinks that she told you stuff? I go, no, no. The problem in my house is she does tell me stuff and I just don't hear it. I said, that's the problem. And I said, then we started talking about focus with the phone. So I'd be happy I said that. There you go. My favorite thing that you do is when you tell me I said, that's the problem. And I said, then we started talking about focus with the phone. So I'd be happy. I said that. There you go. No, no. My favorite thing that you do is when you tell me that something happened and I'm sure,

no, I'm sure I told you. No, no, no. No, I'm sure I told you. Oh, you're, you're sure you told me that you bought a plane. You don't think at any point I would have remembered that. Are you a consultant? No. Yeah.

No, I did. I did. I told you about the plane. Wow. No, the plane I didn't. After you bought the plane. That's right. did. I told you about the plane. Wow. No, the plane I didn't. You bought the plane after you bought the plane. That's right. I didn't tell you about the plane.

I don't even know if I would buy it. You didn't tell me about the plane, but you were sure that you mentioned it. I'm afraid to buy tennis shoes without consulting you that. God, John. That's what you should be. You bought a plane without talking to your wife? Maybe. No, but I thought I had.

I thought I had. I thought I had. Gidget, tell me that you took advantage of that. What did you go out and buy? You know what, Cole? I didn't go buy anything. And that's why he's hit the lotto. It really is. She could have gone out and anger purchased.

She could have. She doesn't. I could have bought a matching plane, Cole, but I which i would trust your plane let's go let's go do it i'll find you one even if it's a four seater okay it's a plan see now yeah now colt says he wants yeah so i'll remember this when you're trying to board the plane on friday colt i'll remember getting on gidget's plane. Go ahead. But, Colt, you must remember,

I'm always the one that's sticking up for you. You know this. She is. Well, because she's smart. I'm always saying that you guys are too hard on Colt. Because Yvette's not just going to kill one person. She's going to take at least three or four people down to make a point and stop John.

So are you saying I'm going to be first or last on that list no i think you're safe because you boys are nice and you and yvette could go go grab a bottle of uh champagne and go get on the jet and fly off to mexico together and we'll be good oh we'll be dead sounds good all right i'll let you get back to it all right i'll be home later all right talk to you later the nerve to go buy a plane and not talk to your wife about it i thought no i thought i had i thought we discussed it that's not like hey babe i uh i went and bought a new tv we talked about it or i don't even know about a car. What's the threshold of when you can do shit without telling your wife? For me, apparently it's plane. I don't know where else you go from that.

I don't know. Apparently it's plane. Honestly, I don't know. You know what? No, after plane, I got to tell you, because she was pretty hot about the plane. Not because we got it, just because literally we didn't talk about it. And ever since then, literally everything that I kind of do, I'm like, hey, I'm thinking about doing this, you know, like every little thing, you know. And yeah.

And she's damn tough. Here's the issue. That's the thing. You got to have a wife. Like my wife, as much as we joke around, my wife trusts me, you know, with everything. Like I wouldn't have to discuss stuff, but she's always on board with everything. That's one thing. I think we did both luck out and marry good people, but she might kill me, but.

Yeah. Well, dude, I got to tell you the one thing that the one deal my wife has had a bad feeling about the one deal where she was like, I don't know. I just doesn't, I don't feel right about this. And I pushed pushed through it anyway that's the one i lost seven figures on so now like and you know i can sold her gut on all of my wife met that guy once yeah and she's like who the fuck was this guy he's a piece of shit fucking blah blah blah and swear god isn't that funny dude she did a notary once for that guy and found out that you guys knew each

other and i've never my wife has never once said one bad thing about anybody in 20 years of loans and stuff except for him it's everything that wild yeah well you know he had it coming i dude you just never know sometimes the people and sometimes you go with a gut feeling that's how it is dude today somebody told me, I'm not going to mention their names because I don't know, but I found out that one of a guy I used to do business with like 12 years ago is now potentially wrapped up in that Ponzi scheme that's going on. Yeah, I heard that today.

And I was like, oh, God, thank God I'm clear of him. That's it. Good Lord. You got to be careful taking partnership. I think we've talked about this before but when you're taking a partner your name's now tied to them even if you're building a real estate team same thing anybody you bring on is now a byproduct of you right like they are they wrap if somebody goes on your team and screws up oh it's on you the gafford group oh no for sure it's not you know

craig or whoever that screwed up so i think the partnership's a big thing i think a lot of people are doing a lot of crazy partnerships and not having them sorted out or planned out i mean i was with a guy the other day he goes you have partnerships agreements i go yeah on anything i do he goes me and my partner don't have anything in writing and i go oh trust me and he goes yeah i got screwed once before still has nothing in writing yeah then how that's on you if you get screwed again you have it like i have in my stuff who owns the social yeah we separate everything yeah i have everything like it's like a prenup you have to down everything if this breaks up, who owns what?

Naming rights. Even the stupidest stuff. He was shocked that I have social media stuff in my stuff, my partnership agreements. How in-depth is yours go? Pretty good. I actually coach a lot of people when they're trying to put together real estate teams. And the truth about real estate teams is when they're trying to put together real estate teams. And the truth about real estate teams is sometimes they're good ideas. Sometimes they're bad ideas. It just depends. If

you have two people whose skill sets completely are opposite, then fine, that's a good idea. But what happens in most cases is you have two high functioning agents that just don't want to do it by themselves because it's boring to do it by yourself. And in those situations, it's probably better for each person to just have a team and have some people that work for you than have a equal partner with equal say, because you tend to have disputes over the dumbest crap, over just the dumbest things. And those partnerships tend to end in failure. Now, whenever two agents come together and they want to say, we want to form a team, I'm always like, okay, cool. If you guys split up, who's going to maintain the team? Who's

going to keep the website? Who owns the leads? Who does this? How are you doing a valuation of this? Are you doing a buy sell valuation, which is pretty standard for those of you don't know what it is. It means like one of the people has to write an offer that they're willing to take or pay. It's like, I'm going to make you an offer to buy me out. And you, they either have to be prepared to write a check or get a check for that amount Which is really a great way to do it Because it's fair because if the other person thinks it's too low they write the check if they think it's too big they get the

Check that's what it is. It's a really fair way to do it But having those things go but but in most cases I found that people that want to team up and do real estate teams It's better if they just do their own team with minions is a better idea especially on real estate or residential side yeah you get it's so much easier to teach stuff like i've been trying to create a team and you know it's really hard on that commercial side you got to get people that are truly truly invested in it and the problem is people you know it's it's slow money in the commercial game. Yeah. You know, and trying to build the team's a lot different, you know.

But, yeah, I always see that. I always see partners going into stuff and they're the same exact person. You bring nothing to the table at that point. One of you is not necessary. If you always agree with your partner, you're in a bad partnership. And I've always said that about you and gavin right you guys you guys are great like i've i've been in cars when you guys have had conversations or whatever you guys you guys are great partners and that's why look at this brand right like i was uh talking to a guy at the win he was a big developer and he's like oh you're

out here and we're just talking and he's like how long has your bit your your guys's company been around and i was like well you know i think they're 12 or 13 years how long has it been about 13 years yeah 13 years and he goes wow you guys own the market in 13 years i'm like these guys own the market in five years yeah for four or five years that's what i told him he's like that's crazy and i always say it goes back to your guys' partnerships. Because you guys bring such different – you guys are a lot alike, but you guys are two completely different people. Well, I think true. The key to having a good partnership is understanding how to disagree respectfully.

I think that's a good way to do it. No one can do that anymore. And you don't – sometimes you just got to concede a point. I'm constantly asking myself this question. How important is this to me? Like, well, I may be thinking about this in a month. And again, I've talked about this before in other episodes, and it's a great exercise. If you find yourself getting really upset about things or when you have to concede a deal point or something in your life or whatever it is, just put a reminder in your calendar 30 days from today.

Like 30 days ago, you were mad because the color of the font on the website wasn't what you wanted. And then in 30 days, you'll look at that and be like, who cares? Cause in the moment it's all consuming. Everything in the moment too. Yeah.

That goes back to Will Smith thing. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't think about it. It just was in the moment, made a huge. And now, I mean, I don't think he it. He just was in the moment, made it huge, and now I don't think he wrecked his career because he's a piece of shit anyway.

He didn't wreck his career. He'd have wrecked his career a lot of different ways that way, but if he was not somebody big like that, he could have ended his career. Going from winning an Oscar to ruining your career in the same night

well bro easily it's happened kanye is on his way to doing that with his may his absolute mayhem that you need to watch that documentary that shows you that persistence and speaking yourself into it like he was a true believer it was was the first, like, season, not season, episode of it was really motivating. Like, he was like, hey, I'm going to make it. I'm going to make it no matter what. But then he started doing some drugs, he said, and, you know, got depressed. And, I mean, he's literally lost his mind. And it's sad.

He's going to lose his family. You know he he suffers from depression who knows what comes out of this right like the end game for him is not not good and you know you it just shows you as quick as you can go to the top you can come down well no dude exactly right and i gotta tell you even with you know one of the things that i constantly try to do even with all the success that we've had, is I always try to stay grounded. Because when does, like, megalomania ever end well for anyone?

Never. It just never. And the megalomaniac lived happily ever after. It always ends very poorly. So if you have an inflated, you know, sense of yourself, it's not going to end well. Something bad is going to happen. The music industry, now it's really rapid about it,

but it is a perfect example of you're hot now, a new up-and-comer comes to age. The music industry does it great and the nightclub industry. You can be a hot 22-year-old girl and have an eight-year run, and bam, you're out, right? There's a new wave of it. It doesn't matter if you're an attorney. You can be the hot attorney right now, five, six years, somebody else might come up.

Real estate, you can own a market. There can be somebody younger, more motivated that's going to come in and can overtake a market. You cannot just rest and expect to succeed always. Like there are, I laugh. I mean, you were around 2006, these guys driving these crazy cars, partying like, you know, first of 2006. Everybody knew five or six major people, and those guys aren't even around

no they're all gone i've i've i'm shocked when i run into some of them i mean it's crazy well let's let's let's finish this episode in this quest into colt's mind with us if you could go back and talk to young colt and tell him some advice things that he should do what would those be what would you tell young colt travel i would travel younger um lose your ego sooner right like i had an ego in my 20s thought i knew everything i think if you would open your mind and go realize you're not so smart, you'll be more successful. I would say I should have invested in Bitcoin back in the day. Well, you can't be like, bet on the Yankees to win the World Series.

That's basically back to the future of the movie is what you're doing now. How awesome would that be? You know, I went to the win. Got no discount. Yeah. I'm an owner one share don't care they didn't they didn't give me a discount give me discount oh god i need to buy another company sorry guys they didn't give a discount i think that honestly just surround yourself with uh good people right like i have been fortunate enough i've surrounded myself with good people in life you know my first mentor taught

me a lot i feel like i learned a lot from you guys um just surround yourself don't lose the ego go surround yourself with good people make some money what about tom hanks movies would you recommend those i just wouldn't waste any i don't waste money on it even will smith you know like i've been to will smith Smith. I've been to Will Smith's movies. I've been to Tom Hanks' movies. I'm mad that I wasted that money. I mean, what's the stupidest thing you've ever bought in life? You can't beat paying to go see Tom Hanks.

That's the stupidest money I've ever wasted. Name a way you've wasted money. You know what? You haven't. In the small chance that Tom Hanks is one of the three people still watching this tom we're sorry about colts the thoughts and feelings what about chet chet you can suck it i don't care about will smith and he well i just i feel bad for will smith i feel like he's been i feel like he's stockholm syndrome man i really think he does then what be a man get out of that relationship i think i think that he's stockholm syndrome man i really think he does then what be a man get out that relationship i think that he's always i mean he's straight up said that the whole tupac thing in her

has always weighed in his mind i think at some point in life you either gotta get over shit or move on and i don't think a lot of people do that in their marriage and their business sometimes it's it's time to wipe away and kind of move on to a new venture. Yeah. Well, let's hope he takes your advice and moves on to a new venture, if you will. But if you're still watching this on YouTube, thank you. Hopefully, I feel like we should be talking quiet like you're probably asleep. And yeah, that's all I got for this week. We'll be on vacation next week. We will see you back real soon

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