Escaping the Drift with John Gafford - How Ari Gold went from Weed Dealer to Millionaire Entrepreneur | The Power Move Podcast EP 58

Episode Date: July 27, 2022

How Ari Gold went from Weed Dealer to Millionaire Entrepreneur | The Power Move Podcast EP 58This week: Ari GoldAri Gold started out as a weed dealer in high school. He quickly learned how to network and build relationships with the biggest names in the hip hop industry in Atlanta. He then used those relationships to become a middleman for legal paid sponsorships between massive brands and the entertainers he befriended. Gold became a millionaire entrepreneur and successful businessmen in the entertainment industry. Thanks to his street smarts and business acumen, Ari Gold is living the American dream.Learn 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. If that sounds interesting to you, make sure to subscribe to my channel and don't forget to hit the bell icon to never miss a Podcast!

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 back again colt what's up guys welcome back buddy thank you welcome back we missed you last week i know you guys had a cute girl on we did yeah we did we did we missed you another guy on yeah we did i'm not a cute girl we did have a cute girl last week but but you know we always miss you so for those of you home welcome to power move my name is john gafford i am your host to the left of me is the bulgarian mongoose called amadon back from his tour of the subcontinent and beyond that's what we're going with yep it's close enough close enough well yeah and with us as always is

chris the counselor connell how are you sir good how are you john and in the hot seat today you're gonna answer my question what was your question how are you john nobody ever asked you how are you doing you know yeah that's true how are you doing today you know i'm doing well that is excellent i'm doing well i'm doing well by the time you what about you i know you know i try to keep this as much as i can about you guys never so much about me but today like here's the thing man everybody's got that friend i like to say you got that friend right and uh and for me i have a couple of them which i'm lucky that way and uh i've got i've got a friend named hugh right and hugh lives in uh in new orleans and he's friends with our set there i've been friends with hugh for 20 some odd years hugh is always on vacation

with kenny chesney few is always all over he is uh you know he's house sitting for vince vaughn as we speak right now and uh i don't i've known hugh for 20 years he drives a range, he's house-sitting for Vince Vaughn as we speak right now. And I've known Hugh for 20 years. Hugh drives a Range Rover. He's always got money. I know he's not a drug dealer. I know that much. But other than that, I have no clue. How do you know when someone's not a drug dealer?

I don't know. But I have no clue what Hugh does to make money or earn a living. And I've acquired another one of those friends who seems to be kind of a jack-of-all-trades and that's ari gold because ari is the dude who was in the hot seat today and ari is uh man i i turn on the gram and i got ari playing beer pong with post malone i got ari uh in in the gentleman's club in atlanta wherever i he is just, every time I turn on, it's like, I'm in LA. Who's here? Plug in.

I'm in Atlanta. Plug in. I'm in Miami. And I don't think the guy's in the same seat three days a week, which is crazy. And obviously super successful. Also, go ahead and disclaimer, not a drug dealer. Let's go ahead and disclaimer that. Allegedly.

I know, because I tried to buy drugs off him. Allegedly. Allegedly. You tried. It didn't work out. But but nah but dude so uh so you know look man our our show what we always try to point out is we believe that success leaves clues and obviously man you're a guy with you got i know part of your story i know some of the cool stuff about some of the adversity you had to overcome and where that's led and i want to talk about how you got into what you do now i want to talk about whatever the hell it is you do now, because you do kind of everything. A jack of all things that make money, which I love.

I love that, man. You got to spread yourself, you know? You do. And then I want you to talk dirty to Colt for five minutes and see how quickly it takes to turn him down. We're not going to do that. Just kidding. Behind the scenes magic.

Colt was commenting on the attractiveness of Mr. Gold's voice. Yes, he was. A little behind the scenes magic colt was commenting on the attractiveness of mr gold's voice yes he was behind the scenes magic that'll be on the dvd on the director's cut don't worry on the director's cut don't worry so so first of all bro where did you grow up all right i'm actually born and raised in atlanta so i grew up right outside of atlanta georgia and a little little uh little spot called Gwinnett County. In Gwinnett? Yep. I went to Norcross High School, a pretty famous school for athletes and putting kids in the league.

And I wasn't one of them. Did you know that somebody in this room used to be the general manager of the Norcross Hooters? It was me. Not me. It was me. Yeah, I'm likeoters. It was me. It was me. No, it was me. My dad and I, you know, when he was on Funny, my dad and I, after Pee Wee or Pop Warner, you know, when you're like sixth grade, whatever,

he'd say, okay, son, today we're going to go to a men's place for dinner. We'd go to Hooters and he'd just sit around and be like, you're probably there. I'm just here for the curly fries. Like, yeah, tell him. Tell him.

And that was it. So you grew up there. My favorite thing about where you grew up, Gwinnett, is that intersection off of whatever interstate that is that goes up. I don't know which one it is anymore. 85. 85, where the mall is, right? Where there's literally a Waffle House on every corner of corner of that intersection well you want to know something crazy growing up in norcross

not a lot of people know this uh waffle house headquarters is actually in norcross oh yeah and so there's more waffle houses in that general populous of area you can go across the street and then across street again and go to three different ones oh bro no no question here's a little tip for you if you ever want to hire the hardest working people you'll ever find. Find a Waffle House chef. No, no, no, no. Find a Waffle House general manager because you know who he is?

He is the chef. He's everybody. He's the cook. No, no, he's the cook. The Waffle House chef is literally the guy running the register. Yeah, running the whole place.

The busker. Taking the phone, bussing tables. Dude, that guy works. I used to love to recruit Waffle House people. So you grew up in gwinnett you're there your whole life you know ironically you guys are talking about this stuff about drug

dealers i wasn't drug i was a drug dealer okay i'm not even gonna lie about it i mean i because look back then the times were very different on weed and i already knew growing up you know it it wasn't properly regulated let's put it like that right um and and and and for me you know i i got actually arrested when i was i think uh 17 or 18 for having um 0.3 grams of marijuana i swear to god the cop the cop they put you in jail over 0.3 the cop smelled weed in the car couldn't prove The cop smelled weed in the car, couldn't prove that there was weed in the car, so he dug. And what he did was, I'll never forget this,

he took a piece of tape, clear tape, I swear to God, took a piece of clear tape, folded it in half, then put another side of it and put it in between my seat like this and then did the other side and then sat there for 20 minutes picking out crumbs and stems of weed and had enough to weigh up that it was a a misdemeanor charge what would we call that counselor what would uh how would i have that hold on lack of probable cause i mean dude this is two we're talking 2008 2008 and this is georgia so it was but 99 problems had already come out people already by the way just a legal disclaimer uh a police can't search the trunk of your car whether it's

locked or not it's not a part of your fourth amendment yeah you have no reasonable expectation or privacy in a vehicle that is in public what about a locked glove box doesn't matter learn something new yeah live in Yeah, live in, see? I like that. People always think that about the Fourth Amendment. There's a whole thing about unreasonable searches and seizures and securing your own private property, but it only works within what's called your home,

your domicile, and the curtilage surrounding where there would be a reasonable expectation of privacy there. Yeah, so the thing you learned today from the Power Move, we can wrap it up, is if you're smuggling, write up the keister. That's the So if you're, so the thing you learned today from the power move, we can wrap it up. If you're smuggling right up the keister, that's all. That's the only place you're safe.

That's it. So I also heard from a friend of mine that if you're in a hotel room, you have that same courtesy because it is a domicile. Yeah. I mean, it's like I said, a car, you have no reasonable expectation because you're taking it on public roads,

you're driving it around, et cetera. Right now, a car in your garage is a different story. I'm not a attorney if an rv yeah well i mean like where's your rv is it on land that you've that's privately rented then yeah yeah what if i'm on a yacht ask me how i know Can I phone a friend? Can I phone a friend? You've been on the yacht with me. I'll drag us all back. I used to sell weed, too.

But after I got arrested, I realized, I was like, all right, Atlanta, Miami, that would be the place for me. And I was doing various odd jobs, working at a burger joint. I worked at a Smash Burger. I did a bunch of random shit that I hated. And it all kind of fell back to weed. Everybody needed weed. And I ironically loved weed and had really great connections to really good stuff.

And so the stuff that I had around that time was just very different than what most people were, were, you know, we're getting it. It was like indoor, really like a really boutique weed. Like now,

now it's really popular. But back then this, this wasn't, yeah, it was like from Mars. It was a indoor, really like a really boutique weed. Like now, now it's really popular. But back then this, this wasn't, yeah, it was like from Mars. It was unheard of for somebody to pay $300 for an ounce of weed. I think ludicrous was one back then. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not a Liberty to disclose our previous score. But did you make good connections through that? The best connection is my life. It actually put me. So what I did was I had a lot of friends in the music scene and a lot of the friends in the music industry that knew I had good weed. And the problem was that around that time,

artists were coming to Atlanta to record albums and to spend time in studios. And so, so deaf, all of these guys were locking themselves in the studio. And so, you know i was i was getting phone calls 1 30 to 4 a.m while i'm still in high school and and going and going and leaving sneaking out going to the studio hanging out with like some of the biggest names in the game selling them with smoke a weed and then i go back home and i go to high school and people like

what'd you do last night like you know they studied what'd you do all right i'm like i was in the studio with a ghostface killer and a thousand dollars uh you know titty boy and i were on some blueberry yeah like we'll be going to his birthday party this Sunday. Like, how? So that progressed over time. Like, I kind of fell out of weed, and I fell into lacrosse, ironically. I moved to Israel after high school. I wanted to get the hell out of Georgia. I just knew selling weed was, like, it was cool, but it wasn't the best. And that time, again, it was cool, but it wasn't the best. Um, and that time again, it was dangerous. So moved to Israel, uh, did a program where, you know, met a bunch of

people did like an IDF program where you get to like, you know, do basic training and all this shit. And I loved it. I loved being out there, but again, got in trouble for weed. So where were you playing lacrosse though? So got in trouble for having weed on the on on not even on the base but one of the kids at the hostel had weed in his bag and everybody in the room got you know in trouble so whatever kicked out of the program but i met some guys that were talking this crazy jazz like yeah but we're starting the first ever israeli national lacrosse team i laughed it's like a cool runnings dude I laughed I'm like lacrosse in Israel funny they invite me to uh a warm-up mixer at uh um at some big park and and and I see there's like 15 guys I'm like oh it's it's it's rough so I start throwing around with them they're dead serious

they're like dude why don't you come out for uh why don't you come out for exhibition game for the craft family and like i'm not really thinking about it as in like oh as in like own the patriots family bob yeah and the patriots and yeah so like come to find out robert craft has funded the entire IFL which is the Israeli Football League and we're going to and we're going to the Jerusalem Stadium to play a game in the halftime of their Champions League

so it's like it's like Maccabi Haifa versus like Jerusalem it's a big game and then halftime comes out and we bring out fucking nets and do an exhibition and you know everybody's hitting and stuff and we come off and uh robert craft's son uh i think it was bob or one of the not um i always forget which one it was but it was the older one not the nerdy looking one he had a he had his daughters there and and they were you know

spectating the whole thing and he comes out of the field starts throwing around with me and we start getting into a whole conversation about the patriots and i'm sitting here talking to the guy who owns part of the patriots about tom brady the guy who um like the greatest of all and dude i'm in love with tom yeah and this is and this is maybe right after they just lost to the giants in the super bowl so it was like greatest season ever. Don't worry. We're going to get this. We got this.

We got 2011. So whatever. Fast forward. Fucking New York. Anyways, fast forward. I come back to the States. I catch a couple random gigs coaching lacrosse for like little leagues. I was coaching youth. You know, like you. Did you start coaching lacrosse for little leagues. I was coaching youth, like U9, U11.

Did you start playing lacrosse in Israel? I started playing lacrosse in high school. I played a lot of different sports. I grew up playing soccer, baseball. I played football with the same group of guys from sixth grade all the way to high school. I love this because my son is a lacrosse player. And this weekend we had an exceptional experience. I don't think I told you about this,

but we went to San Jose for a tournament this weekend. He plays, he's 14 under, or 2026. Where do you buy gear out here? I haven't seen a single lacrosse league in the state of Nevada. Lacrosse monkey, lacrosse monkey. So we were playing a 2026 tournament in San Jose. And it was, now my son plays on a rec team. So his team is just, there's probably eight rec teams

playing 14 under in Vegas, right? Through all the areas. He's a rec team. So when we went to this tournament though, every team was an all-star team. So the all-star of them. So they're the club, they're the club, they're an all-star of the club teams.

So we had five games. No, no, no, club teams. So we had five games. I had to play in a couple of those. No, no, no, no. Right, we had five games, and we boathoused everybody. I love that. The first five. LA trounced them to the point where, like, you know lacrosse. For those of you who've never seen a game,

it's not like sports where you sit with your fans, they sit with their fans. If your kid plays defense, you're down there, and you're with the other team's parents who play offense. You're sitting right next to the dad talking shit. Yeah, you're down there, and you're with the other team's parents who play offense. You're sitting right next to the dad talking shit. Yeah, you're right there. So as we're watching this. Your kid sucks, buddy.

No, the L.A. dads were the worst because they could not believe they were getting beat. Sure. And they're like, so you guys are an all-star team, right? It's like, no, we're a rec team. The Clippers thought they were going to win too, John, didn't they? I know, but they're like. you're like lacrosse in the south it was it was so different because none of us played lacrosse and it was no it okay when i started someone from my high school came to me and was like hey man you play you play football

you pretty physical dude how about if i tell you i can give you a six foot pole and you can beat the out of people on field would you want to play all right yep what fucking sport is this sign me up that was literally how the conversation went and i was a sophomore and i said off season down yeah get some cardio fine i led the league that year in takeovers awesome and penalties yeah well that's what that's trying to take my stick off if you're a defense if you're a defenseman you should be doing that no no i didn't even know how to play the game were you a lot you were long you were a long pole defenseman and i was murdering kids i i was literally i had a stat that somebody showed me where i put 1.2 people out of the game

every game i'm like that's a real statistic like that's pretty cool dude if you if you got kids though get them in lacrosse because like i was saying man this tournament this tournament you know it came down to we ran through everybody we got in the finals against seattle the best kids in seattle right and with 18 seconds left we were tied 5-5 and it was the closest game we've been in the whole game and our best kid damon who just can rip it probably i mean at 13 he's got one kid he's got an 80 mile an hour shot at 13 yep and he just ripped it and you hear thong off the post and you're like son of a gun and then double over time we lose now the thing was all of our kids were just collapsed in tears and it's just in this day and age of video games and nonsense and bullshit and just

everything it was so great to see kids so invested in something i'll tell you something just for the sake of it something about that moment they will remember that forever yeah and i'll tell you one thing next season i'm praying for those kids yeah god help them i'm praying for no i'm praying for the kids that play seattle because. I'm praying for them. Because, listen, I coached a team like that, Johns Creek High School. I won't even name a bunch of the kids, but they all, I mean, I'm still friends with them.

I still talk to a lot of them, and one of them has actually gotten into coaching and coached a championship team like myself. And I love that. I love watching that. I love hearing experiences like that where I get somebody else to do something. They lost one close one uh the the season before to some kids and it was really just a lapse of you know just kind of whatever kind of it's like a dick around but they lost because of them not because of the other team. It wasn't, you know what I'm saying? When I say these guys came out, John, you know about lacrosse and scores.

22 to 3. Yeah, that's brutal. I have to. Oh, that's brutal. I had the kids that had never even hit the field playing. Play all the seniors, 45 seconds in. Dude, I mean. That's brutal.

But when I hear them and I see them come on the sides and then they all talk about that experience, that hurt, that pain, that hunger, it was like they weren't even going to think about taking a loss. So, dude, again, I'm sure you'd vouch for this. If you've got kids and you want to get them to let lacrosse, call me because it's the greatest thing ever. Thrill of victory, agony, defeat. It really is the best sport we've ever played.

Lacrosse took me down that path. I was coaching at a high school. I was coaching at a high school in Georgiaorgia and on my way to a practice one morning i i hit a patch of black ice oh that's right this is the story yeah so day after the day after my 21st birthday um on my way to work first day of work uh i remember texting the coach that morning it was like 4 4 15 i'm like hey you know it's pretty rough outside you want to do this like fuck yeah we got turf fuck them you know i love that mentality right on i'm on i'm in the car i i i remember trying to go to the chick-fil-a and and grabbing breakfast and it was too early

they weren't open so i got on the on 141 and uh right by uh petrie parkway and the forum my car just i remember it kind of just started going sideways and then hit sideways the other way, and then it just started whipping. I ended up in those trees off to the right, and my car had wrapped around on the driver's side at a 90-degree angle, so I was fully encased, pinned up against a tree. So if you look at my legs, actually, you can still see that they're kind of a little crooked, and then this one's all metal well i've never seen you

lay i'm the pictures you laying in that bed just looking like robocop it was tough it was tough they uh i had an 18 hour surgery two blood transfusions and made my parents sign a document saying hey you might not come out of this thing you know you're on your own and and when i woke up you know a couple days later i just remember having weird ass dreams and seeing things that i couldn't explain and and uh you know doctors told me you know it'd be it was grim they were they were they were they were expecting me to be kind of in a wheelchair or at least assisted walking for the rest of time and did you see an old man by a stream by chance because here we go because because because cold swears that god came to get him one time by a stream or like no i'm pretty sure that

was just a bum but i'll tell you i'll tell you a weird one i'll tell you the weirdest one very specific height you remember this guy when you were five oh it was six one two twenty i blocked it out i'm glad you remember. I got a weird one. The best one I remember is I was looking down into the hospital room at myself on the bed, but the ceiling was like glass. And I remember kind of trying to bang through the ceiling

to like get to my body. And my sister was sitting by my bedside and I can hear her, Ari, come on, wake up. you gotta just wake up dude like it's time you had some rest like get the up yeah and next thing I know I open my eyes and still gives me goosebumps think like that's so weird because I had a friend freaks me out he got an accident broke his back and died for a second. That's exactly what he said.

Yeah. He goes, I was just above the hospital bed. That is so. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You had a friend? Shocker. I'm sorry. He's a quaint guy. We got rid of him.

I thought he was a friend. I refused to believe it. I refused to believe it. That story is just not believable on any level. Because he said the same thing. He's like, I was just floating above. I've never experienced anything that was that. Listen, you go through a trauma like that,

and then I had to do like 18 different surgeries just to put my hand back together, my arm back together, my legs. And I mean, listen, it was a journey. But my sister and I still to this day kind of talk about how freaking weird. You know, like you just. And again, a sibling about how freaking weird, you know, like you just. And again, a sibling's bond, like, you know, sometimes I can feel if something's up and I'll call her, you know, something's up with me. She'll call me out of the random and I'll just, you know, we'll laugh and talk about it. But that moment for me kind of just put things in a crazy perspective because I really questioned everything.

I was like, you know, is there a God? Why would God do this? Like, I'm 21 years old. Like, I'm an athlete. I was like, is there a God? Why would God do this? I'm 21 years old. I'm an athlete. I play for a professional team. I was about to go to Israel next year to go play again with Team Israel. Now here we are.

Now I got fucking noodles for legs. It started a whole process of me really having to understand that the recovery process was more mental than physical. How long did that take? How long? long okay so let's talk about crazy so okay so you had to start you start out obviously with the why me why me why hath god forsaken me whatever that goes on for how long that went on for months that went on for the problem again a part of the problem was i was so doped up first first of all you got to understand i was on i was on oxycodone hydrocodone a picline injection of dilaudid and not to mention they had just ripped out a catheter that was fully inflated

but i was so doped up that they couldn't like or asott calls it tuesday night think about this imagine being locked down the hospital hold on imagine what happened imagine being locked in your own body you're you're you feel it coming in and you feel the dilaudid and you're just like cold and then all of a sudden you feel the most excruciating pain you've ever felt in your life and you go to scream, and it's... Nothing happens. You know a catheter, they inflate a balloon so it stays in your bladder. Okay.

I'm good. Pulled out. And it starts to actually... That's the size we're talking about? Oh, God. Out of the beeper. They got to use an extra big one on me but it's a cult uh what are you doing this weekend anything so that that added to the healing process too because i had i had a

catheter attached to to fix all that and i had to do surgery to get the like the the tunnel dude it was so so when you when you when you flip the switch decide okay fuck this i'm getting back so what happened was i got were you mad were you decide okay this i'm getting back so what happened were you mad were you mad first or are you just like okay what happened i had a really good friend at the time all circles back to weed um i had a great friend at the time that was just like dude you're not eating you're not drinking anything you don't want anybody to come see you i'd shut out the whole world i told everybody i'm dead like just fuck off i don't want to see and really i i had a lot of people that had been abandoned me in that time and i really you know started to question a lot of like the friendships and relationships and things that i had and it was just it was eye-opener like at one point i just realized nobody gives a fuck about you but you

and if you're not gonna get up off your ass to fix your situation tough you'll be there for as long as you're going to pity yourself nobody's coming to help you but at the same token you got the power to fight it it's it's not physical it's mental and so i had a buddy that again he he would come into he'd sneak into the end of the rehab. I was in a, because I couldn't be transported, my legs were both broken and my arm was in a full sling and my hand had a nub on it. The only way I was able to transfer in and out of a wheelchair was they'd have to back me up and then I'd have to use my- Yeah, kind of lift over.

To crawl. This elbow was my savior. It was the only thing in my body that didn't break. So you're like, I got one thing left. I got a chip and a chair. So I started getting a strong core. So I was at a rehab facility with old people who have fallen and can't get up. I started doing double the rehab.

I started pushing a lot harder. And the doctors were noticing. And the same token, I was trading in my pain pills and my sleeping pills, which were giving me crazy dreams. Yeah, I can imagine. When I say my mind was living, I swear to you guys, my mind was living a double life. When I went to bed, I was. A whole new, like the Sims. Kayaking and hiking and running marathons and doing this and doing that. And then every morning I'd wake up and try to get out of bed and my legs wouldn't move

and it would just be the worst pain ever. It's just, Oh my God, we're back. We're right back. Fuck. I, I can't go pee all by myself. Great. Okay. And, and every morning, like the matrix, like you literally go to sleep and be plugged into

the matrix for three to four months i was locked i was locked in and i i honestly was to the point where i was very debating suicide because it was just like this i'm a burden to my parents they can't even move me into the house i'm a burden to my friends who don't even want to see me because it's just like fucked and i'm a burden to everyone else because you don't have to sit around and take care of me like i like fucked and i'm a burden to everyone else because you don't have to sit around and take care of me like i'm i'm i'm a full-on potato and i'm 21 and i got a good heart i'm gonna be around for a while i'm gonna be a potato so my buddy was like dude like you know i'm gonna make you some pop brownies start taking them before you rehab start you know in the

mornings and start you know i'll i'll come in every night and i'll wheel you outside we'll smoke a joint and then you'll go to bed and just my whole mentality started to change man i just started looking at things differently i would go into rehab and i'd be laughing and joking around with everybody and like you know like like suddenly the doctors are like you got some life in you dude like you okay like you're back the will to win returns i i had a mental again it and it the mental debate was really all like was i worth it like can i do this am i supposed to do this or am i supposed to just lay down and take it and i wanted to fight and and and within that time you know i i cut down a two year they told me it would be at least two years for me to be doing anything six months i took my first step like the day of six months i i i had a doctor's

checkup and i i i told them i was like i just dropped the crutches and i was like i'm gonna stand i just remember wobbling there and everybody in the room was like freaking the fuck out like no no no no no i had no dude i had no acl mcl or pcl while i'm doing this my left leg had just been rebuilt but i couldn't get work done on my right leg because the trauma would be too severe for both so i had to just have this one literally this leg was a noodle yeah it was a just nothing to hold it no the tent so nothing so i had to deal with that and the that was the first three months and then the next three months were recovery on this leg and then once i got the balance back at nine months i started to like lightly jog very lightly brisk three four five miles but like we weren't maxing out okay by the end of the year i don't know if i could run five miles now it's kind of a brag i was i was a humble brag i was biking a minimum seven miles a day i was biking seven miles a day minimum i had a gold's

gym right next to my house 24 hours i would go sit in the movie theater smoke a bowl bike ride i'd ride like there's no tomorrow my legs would burn that's a great way that's a great way to rehab though because that was it that was the only that was the only low impacting that my body could handle and so here's a question based on that story what is your i mean that's a lot of adversity 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00, me about aches and pains yeah and i'll i'll do this i'll go aches and pains come here yeah for those of you who didn't see what's gonna be you're about to have emotional aches and pains after giving me a hand yeah that was that's it you feel that that clicking and i won't even let you feel this one it's the same thing but if you're an athlete if you grew up an athlete and you lived as an athlete and you know thank god athlete and, you know. Thank God, because had I not, I'd be a potato.

Your mentality, though, is one where you get used to playing through injury. You want to play through things. You have a mental toughness. The kids that don't do that have. And there's this weird thing that you see in our society where we attribute athleticism and physicality with being a dumb jock, which is the most interesting people I know have had physical adversity. I'm more of a nerd than anything. Yeah.

Honestly, I got to tell you, that's why I love lacrosse, because you know who plays lacrosse? The nerdy tough kids. Because they're all just. Because it's not mainstream, right? You're supposed to be a little touched and play lacrosse. You just got to be. Bro, you see lax bros walking around with the hockey hair.

I'm Canadian. So lax bros are crazy different hybrid versions of hockey bros. They're just a little more radical and more Hawaiian. One of the 13-year-olds on our team comes rolling out with a shirt that says, I heart lax moms. I was like, he's 13, and he's trying to run it up on lax moms. Me too. Him and Zach Wilson.

Which I thought was awesome. But, yeah, lacrosse, that whole – so I went through a whole thing where I was in a hospital bed in rehab for about a year, year and a half, and I was trying to figure out what to do with my life. And, ironically, I had a friend. And I was trying to figure out what to do with my life. And ironically, I had a friend of mine that originally got me in the music industry when I was in high school. He used to take me to all the late night spots and all the, you know, all the under underground

after hours places. And, and, uh, the, I think it was literally the first night I got out of the rehab facility. He was like, Oh, we're going out. Oh, we're going out. And this guy wheeled me. Where'd you go? And Atlanta,

where'd you go? Um, club cheetah. No amnesia. Um, what year was this? What year was this? It was like club primal.

Maybe it was cold. No, yeah. No. It was pink pony. Was that a buford highway? No. Okay.

If you, if you pull out of pink pony and you make a left and you go down the street or maybe it's icon lounge no there's some random bar out in the middle of nowhere no it's not a bar it's like a nightclub club club yeah this dude wheeled me into the fucking club and parked me right next to a little stripper pool basketball diary and he was like at the dj booth and i was just sitting there just rolling up a blunt, just smoking. Somebody came over like, are you crippled? I was like, not really, but yeah.

Not forever. Not the most flattering way to go. But I mean, he would start to, I mean, because he knew how miserable and depressed I was. He would start taking me out. And, you know, one thing led to another. I started, you know, going out to nightlife and getting back into this music industry getting back into the scene and getting around the same guys and got back into you know selling weed again because i didn't have a job i couldn't coach i couldn't do anything i had no way of making income and i could barely fucking walk i've

literally had walk around you remember in forrest gump where you had the oh yeah i had to walk i had to walk around with those for a year but here's but it's but at some point right you go from being the weed dude to convert those relationships into something else again you have to mature and progress relationships because obviously you're selling weed to somebody they're not going to fucking trust you for any reason i got this investment opportunity i want to talk about didn't cat bro didn't cat williams say that if you're selling weed last year and you ain't selling coke by this year, I don't mess with you. You've got to be moving. I got to a point where I had a flash and somebody, a close friend of mine, got busted and the house got raided.

And I was in California, luckily, because had I not been, I would have been there. And I would have got caught up with it. And that was the day where I was just like, all right, no more of this. We need to find something new. And I started going around and I caught a job. This is kind of crazy. I caught a job with an online marketing guy who was teaching people how to do like, you know, build your own business, build your own websites, this and this, that and that. I went to college for, you know, sports marketing consulting.

And I was like, all right, you know, this sounds kind of sounds kind of interesting you said hey i'll fly you out to to las vegas i'll i'll pay your first three months of rent you know if you don't like it you know you can go back to atlanta but what's what's what are you gonna lose what's stopping you everything's free like just come out yeah probably the worst job i ever had but but the best decision I ever made. Was to come out here. Get away from the hometown. Dude, I was fresh, early 20s, and I just realized I have so many connections out here that are all from Atlanta. Because a lot of guys were coming to town, and they didn't have connections. So really, for me, I was like, okay, let's find the niche here.

I started going out hitting up a lot of the hip-hop guys that were coming i'm like hey you guys need weed okay let me connect you with the dispensaries let's get you guys paid instead of paying for weed or let's get you marketing deals and let's do a little brand you know a little brand because now weed's legal so now become not becomes it had high commerce above the table. It had just hit rec, and I'm like, all right, bet. I think Reef was one of the first ones that we were talking to. And shout out Matt Morgan. I brought in a couple of celebrities and a couple of guys to do tours,

and we were getting people paid. And then it kind of progressed. Hardeen started to do a program where they bring in DJs, and bringing in one Atlanta DJ where they bring in DJs and, you know, bring in one Atlanta DJ, then two Atlanta DJs, and then everybody in Atlanta is like, yo, hit me up with that weed store. Like, what's up? I mean, but really things didn't actually pop off until I started seeing an issue with payment solutions in the dispensaries.

Everybody's paying cash. And nobody had a way to take cards. an issue with payment solutions in the dispensaries everybody's paying cash and nobody had a way to take cards so i i found this this guy just through you know the wii channels i was doing a bunch of like off-brand uh licensing deals and things like that and he was like hey man if you know any uh you know anybody that that needs payment solutions integrations let me know like i do know those like, can you handle cannabis? He's like, that's our number one specificity. I'm like, okay, perfect.

I start looking at the numbers. I tell him, yo, we're going to partner up. I'll start laying them up on a dish, and we just start cooking percentages. I won't even tell you how good it was, but there was a fat on the front and a fat on the back. Oh, I can imagine it was just sick. We're talking about the first time you could ever go in and swipe a friggin debit card people were more than happy

to pay an extra 30 40 bucks to do it yeah more than happy and they didn't even miss it yeah so that took off and that was my introduction into crypto because he was converting it into either bitcoin or i think at that time it was like Doge because it was just so cheap and it was so light. I really don't even remember what it was, but at that time, I just remember somebody like, hey, you need to get a Binance account,

buy a bunch of this Dogecoin, buy a bunch of XRP, buy a bunch of Ethereum, buy a bunch of Monero, buy a bunch of... Just sit on it. 1,000 a piece, 5,000 a piece and just sit on it.

I didn't do that. Now, what I did was I do like, no, fuck that. I did like 100 bucks, 200 bucks, and end up like ETH. I had Bitcoin on like a couple exchanges, like not Mt. Gox, what was the other one? BitConnect. I had been, I got scammed. I'd lost a lot of coins. And then like as things are running, I'm starting to do the other one bit connect. And I had been, I brought, I got scammed. I'd lost a lot of,

a lot of coins. And then like, as things are running, I'm starting to do the math in my head. I'm like, I could have been a fucking gazillionaire. What's happening here. What a good or shit.

Oh, my friend. So then I'm looking at the age, I'm looking at all my connections and then shit coins or, you know, they were called all coins then, but shit coins with no utility, no purpose they

started popping out and everybody needed somebody to help market and promote and who knows all the celebrities who has the contacts okay well give me a call i'll connect you with these guys you know i was just laying in contracts every other day some you need to okay cool one tweet and one post great yeah send the money. And I was just middlemanning deals day and night. And then it grew exponentially because I started getting added into private chats and whale chats. And I started building a name because a lot of these kids were scamming people left and right. I'm like, dude, you guys are literally kids.

I've done business before where you don't you know somebody's going somebody gonna show up at your house and it's not gonna be good you're not gonna need a car wreck that's how i do business so these internet kids really with my head because i just realized how much stuff these kids are getting away with and like a hundred thousand dollar projects and and then these guys are coming to me crying are you, help me. Ari, you've got to say, Ari. I'm like, dude, you should have given a 16-year-old kid that you've never met before 100 grand and then anticipated that he was going to change the world for you and make you 100 mil. Like, come on. So that's kind of where Gold Group started.

You know, I took it from artist hospitality, artist management, which I was doing for all the celebrities, into consulting and bringing them brand deals. And then, again, in the cannabis side, I was still doing all the celebrities into consulting and bringing them brand deals. And then again, in the cannabis side, I was still doing the same thing. I was bringing guys a bunch of cannabis deals and bringing them a bunch of different, you know, and then brands would start to hit me up. Hey, do you have access to this person? We need these influencers. We need family deals. We need this, that.

Dude, I started putting it around a team. And sooner than later, I think I had like seven or eight people working around me. And one kid was getting paid, you know, 10 grand a month. I'm like, dude, you're 20 years old getting paid 10 grand a month.

Like, you know what I was doing when I was 20 years old? Nothing. I was a bus boy at the hard rock. This isn't even, listen, this isn't even to include the fact that like, he's getting in on like early pres-sale deals on tokens and projects.

And the kid was rolling dough. I must have made him over a million dollars the first year he was working with me. But again, when you're building your teams and you're building people around you, you just have to be careful who you give the sauce to. It sucks. the sauce to yeah it sucks and it's unfortunate because now looking back you know i put a lot of people in great positions and gave them a lot of leeway when things didn't come back but now it's like i'll give you the connection of a lifetime you burn it once yeah you're not getting it back you're not coming back to me oh that's a character thing well let's you know i'm gonna talk about this because all of this is really based on everything man you're all of your success no

matter what it is it boils down to building relationships and building trust sure with people who you know it's one thing if you knock on a door on 123 main street and you're trying to sell them solar and you got five seconds to fucking try to build trust people you're talking about people you have people that have everybody trying to get at them everybody trying to get a piece everybody trying to get next to them everybody family members it's sick everybody so oh yeah so my question is if you had to boil that down to to ari's secret sauce for how you get in the inner circle of these people because honestly if you can get these people's trust you can get anybody's don't ask for shit just don't ask for don't ask for a single fucking thing don't ask for a single handout don't ask for shit just don't ask for don't ask for a single fucking thing don't

ask for a single handout don't ask for a favor don't ask for a fucking ticket don't ask for nothing ask them what you can do for them right ask them how you can make their life easier ask them what you can do to alleviate some of the stress some of the anything don't ever don't ever go to a person in position of power money wealth any of that don't ever go ask it for handouts because you know what you're gonna get that dude's fucking broke yeah well it's not even that it's broke it's like they want something for me and i you know it's like you want fewer people trying to bite from your apple that's the number one this guy um was greg fox or secrets of great rainmakers the people that get the contracts are the ones that come in and provide

the solutions right but not i'm not going to tell you what your solution is yeah i'm going to listen to you i'm going to ask you what you know what do you need i came in i came into a point where it was like i was just seeing a lot of leeches i'm seeing a lot of people hanging on i'm like yo i was asking the question nobody was willing to ask i'm like yo what does this guy do for you and they look at me like yo that's my cousin that's my little cousin okay and what does he do what the fuck does he do for you yeah he's on payroll what do you mean he's he's on payroll what's he do he's a he's on payroll in the free market he's wearing your brand. He's representing your label.

He's part of you and your entity. What percentage of professional athletes go broke? Oh, I'd say at least 70%. It's like 90%. 90-some percent. 90. 96 or whatever. Three years out of the league. Three years out of the league, broke.

I believe it. Because they got, mom wants a Range Rover. Everybody wants a piece of what you got, right? Well, we all came up together, so now we all got to get rich together. It's like, no, no, no, no, no. Like Ari was saying, think about him. When he was in the hospital, what's the number one thing you were thinking? I'm the one looking out for me.

I just want to walk. I'm the one. That's it. My friends are gone. I'm going to die alone. I hate to tell you this. I hate to be a Debbie Downer. Everyone dies alone.

Like, you will be your greatest asset and ally. You have to be able to protect that first I really believe that I think if you go up to people and you and they want something from you Did you did you see the thing burn bridges? You see what the rock and what's his name? Kevin Hart They were doing an interview on a show and that lady was like I talked to the rocks He's all I heard you just bought your mom a house and he was like, yeah, I did Billion dollars later like hang on mom we're almost there you gotta keep on the come up hang on mom he's like sure he's like do you wish we clap for this i mean no i i i

definitely went through my days of of of frivolous spending and and honestly during the bull market i was i was probably spending 10 20 grand a week on investments i'm just giving anybody and everybody a handout a dollar or something yeah let me ask you guys a question i've been thinking about this i saw something circling around on instagram the other day and i thought it's kind of a brutal perspective but i wonder how you guys think about it when one of your friends asks you for a favor in a professional capacity send them an invoice For what it would cost and then say discount 100% or whatever so that when people ask you for a favor You send them an invoice to let you let them know that this is what that cost

That's the most Jewish thing I've ever heard Because people ask me all the time hey said, do you got one of these documents? And send it. Be like, that would be $1,000. I'm not going to charge you for it, but I have to keep track of how I invoice in my business. I can't do that because I would take too many phone calls with friends and be like, hey, I'm sending you $1,000 a minute. Yeah, they'd feel bad.

They'd feel bad. Like, five grand? What did I do five grand? I wasted five minutes of my time. I can't do that. They'd feel bad. They'd feel bad. Like five grand? What did I do five grand? Like, no, no, no. I wasted five minutes of my time. Well, no, no. Yeah, people. I can't do that. That's too much.

Other professional. But I like it. This is what I think. I think if you're in a, I think if you're in a business where there is a cost of goods product that is changing hands, right? I think yes. Like, for example. Maybe he's a lawyer.

So if you're giving. It's my time. It's my inventory. You're giving your services up it's the same with me i understand you're asking me legal trouble i understand i understand that i understand that and i think i think it's easier said than done when there's actual you know because here's the thing if if you know you call me sometimes you ask me questions and i call you and ask you questions and that's fine but like i always look at Noel and his bars.

Whenever I go to Noel's bars, I always try to pay. Because he has to literally come out of his pocket to buy whatever it is that we're drinking. That's goods and services. That's definitely a different scenario. That's my point. I think if it's time, I think that's your option. What's the most valuable? I'd rather buy someone a drink sometimes than give them my time.

I would, too. I totally agree. I can't buy too i would too i totally agree i can't buy my time back i totally agree but then again i think that also is part of for people like you and i that sell time which is really what we do so i think you got to learn to say no right but we also sell relationships too and i don't mind colton i've called colton asked him questions because we we have friends who are experts in their field, right? I'm not talking about people that are within your own. But again, you have to think of it from a perspective of you're going to someone that provides value,

but you provide just the same value in a different sector. This isn't somebody that has zero value to provide to you other than sucking the information out of you. Amongst professionals, it feels more like a barter system. Right, right. I leverage my time for your time. That's right. I wouldn't come to you and say,

do a whole trial for me for free. Remember that thing that happened, though, that one guy that did that? He's like, hey, do you mind doing this deal and then putting my name on it so I can get paid? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely not. Well, this is what I love.

I had to look at my phone because I had to make sure i was right but i get i get this all the time and i get like from from flippers investors realtors whatever they always want me to value luxury properties for them just get these calls like hey man i i just i think i want to dump this property what's it worth i'm like a bpov no my response is my response is to do to answer that question properly, I would have to work, and I've been working all day. And then people normally are like, oh, okay, whatever. Like, dude, I'm not going to – if I'm sitting there and the MLS is open and I can run comps and I can kind of get a feel or it's a place where I know it really, really well and I can throw out a per-foot price based on what it is, then fine. But if it's something that's sort of obscure, I just say no because I used to say yes all the time, but people have to respect that. But here's the difference. The difference is I think you have to tell them that it's work. But I see, here's

like something I know off the top of my head. I just answer it. But if it's something I have to go work to figure out, then I think you're fine to decline based on the fact that it's work. Or I would just say that'd be about an hour of work. Yeah. Yeah. And it's work or i would just say that'd be about an hour of work yeah yeah and it's hard because some people say well i give you something okay you call me in an hour right it's like i give you something free it's like like i went on a um i had to go with the roofing company on a deal and they're like oh you know i'll give you free this and it's like okay your stuff's like five bucks my stuff isn't five bucks i can't do what you're giving me. I'm not trying to sound shitty or tip for tap,

but I just mean in general, there is a time where you start looking at your own bottom line. And if you start tracking your own hours, you go, I gave away $24,000 in free advice this week. Yeah. Yeah. No,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, with that and i love and attorneys honestly your field is the worst because people are always going to call you and say your attorney will bill you for literally one thousand percent every no what's even worse is no no i hate when you look at it and it's like i had an attorney it took it took

no it took 15 minutes to send a one-line email because that's quote-unquote industry standard for billing that pisses me well that's not accurate you could actually make a complaint about that yeah i know i have it's have. It's six-minute increments. I have, which is horseshit. Anyway, so yeah, you know, obviously so now, man, but you are back to you. So, I mean. No, no, no.

It's an interesting thing. No, no, no. He's 100% right. I'm not saying you hijack this show, Connell. That's Colt's job. No, no, I like that. Listen, at the end of the day, it's funny because I'm constantly put in that scenario where I have to balance my, not even crypto, dude.

Hey, I want to get my views up on my account. What do I do? And for me, you know, sometimes I'll just automatically just start telling them, hey, you can do this, this, this, and this. And then I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, fuck. I mean, you could just hire us and we'll do it for you. That's literally what I do. So what is it that you do? So if I'm somebody that is listening to this and I'm not Post Malone,

but I need some sort of goods and services from Ari Gold, what do you sell? Right now we have a couple different umbrella core set up. Which I dig. Like I said, I spread myself pretty thin, but not too thin, where it's unmanageable. My main focus right now, we do Web 2 to Web 3 integrations for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. In layman's terms, that is, we help people, we help big box brands and big companies transition into blockchain technology, NFTs, any type of Web3 presence or crypto integration.

We also specialize in marketing and consulting. So we help you curate that presence. We help you, you know, across all your different socials, set up your networks, websites, everything. Everything entailed A to Z. And then we also have, well, I have Gold Group X, which has just been acquired by the number one. I don't even know what they are. Are you subject to a nondisclosure? I don't know if I want to disclose their name.

Yeah, that's fine. You don't have to say that. Whatever. Anyways, we got. If you're subject to an undisclosure, Connell Law advises you. We sold one of our companies a couple months ago to the number one agency for OnlyFans and adult film stars.

So I was managing athletes, celebrities, influencers, and then that kind of spanned into doing mass OnlyFans management where we hire. Found my new manager. Found my new manager. Yes, you do, Colt. You have a new manager. There you go.

We have different types of integrations that we can do for chatters or growth or whatever it is, and certain girls will come to us and basically just have their numbers through the roof after working with us. So we sold, and now my partner is in control of basically that kind of Rolodex. I don't deal with any of the OnlyFans side. I don't deal with any of the – I just deal with connecting people at this point. So I've kind of based myself out. Do you know Bruce Springsteen's daughter by any chance?

Mm-mm. Okay. I don't even get the joke either. Yeah. I want to be in on it. You were deep for that one. That was like episode 17. John's sister one time called in pretending to be her.

Bruce Springsteen. Cole thought he could make the Olympics in equestrian. Cole's opinion was, and argued this, that he could. Even with your legs now and everything do you think you could be an olympian at any some equestrian no at any sport he says he could be in six months an olympian equestrian because the horse does most of the work that's like that that's not that's not what he said i'm also double the size of your average jockey so i don't know how that's going to work but uh i don't know i mean listen right now i'm i'm kind of going through a health thing where i'm i'm i'm going trying to go back to the five

to seven miles on the bike a day and good for you hitting the sauna but dude i don't know about an olympian that that's uh curling man colt you're not going to i'm made of glass now my whole body is literally just uh you blow a feather on me and i got a strong heart you. You know, I feel like we haven't had Colt here in several weeks, and I feel like it's time for some oddness for the show. So somebody sent me this. He hasn't said a lot today, Ari, but just for lack of a better phrase, Colt is the guy that says the things that you think and probably shouldn't say. He says them.

So we're the same person. Yeah, pretty much. Somebody sent me this. I'm getting yelled at for some of person. Yeah, pretty much. So somebody sent me this. I'm getting yelled at for saying things that I should not be saying. Somebody sent me this. It's pod decks, interview decks. Pod decks, interview decks. For all your podcast needs.

This is a great bit, by the way. We're keeping this. It is. Yeah. So basically, they sent me this. And there's just random questions that you can ask podcast guests. All right. Yes.

So I figure I'm going to ask Colt five questions. We're going to see what we get. You ready? Colt, these are random and no special order. What do you keep on your desk or workspace area that boosts your mood? Topo Chico. No, I will do Topo Chico. No, Scott always puts the honey bun on my thing i that's more of a taunt though

isn't it i'm a big texas roll guy myself but i yeah i respect that is that there to tell you the less established cousin let's like oh yeah he's with us but that's it he's not with us have you put that in the microwave threw some ice cream on it after going through high school going through high school i had a best friend of mine that we would go to the vending machines every morning and get two Texas rolls. One, we would peel all the icing off and put on the other and just eat it. Genius. Genius.

All right. Moving on. They call me Snack Daddy for a reason. They do call you the Snack Daddy. Don't let the skin physique fool you, Mike. I'm a fat ass at heart. I forgot that. Colt, what's the most creative excuse to get out of

doing something you didn't want to do? He's going to bust himself right now. Creative? Oh, man. I don't know. I'm pretty upfront. I just tell people I don't want to. No, I don't excuse. I do. I tell people I'm sorry. Man, I'm't know. I'm pretty upfront. I just tell people I don't want to. No, I don't excuse. I do.

I tell people I'm sorry. Nah, not busy. Just nah. I can see you telling people, I don't like you enough to spend time with you. I have an auto-text that I don't want to tell people what it is because then everybody's going to write it down. Oh, now you have to.

What's the auto-text? What is it? Come on. You probably have said he's like just read back through your text and look for the similarities right all right uh it says you know i feel like this says something but it should say something different it says what's the main thing on your bucket list but i feel like you say what's the man thing on your bucket list what's the man nothing manly on my bucket list?

Horseback riding? Even though I have horseback riding. Wait, wait, wait. Listen, listen. That's manly. I'm throwing down the gauntlet right now. I'm feeling like the snack daddy would be good for the adventure list with us. Hey, do you want to go trek down Silverback Gorillas in Rwanda next year? You said that. That doesn't sound too fun. Oh, that sounds fun. I don't know if I want to go trek down silverback gorillas in rwanda next year you said that that

doesn't sound too fun oh that's i don't know if i want to try kill anything no no we're not killing okay no no no we're not killing okay no no no no see see connell connell is the guy like connell goes on his adventures so eventually i was like i want to go on a venture too he's like fine you just can't say no next time i have something which Which led to literally us playing Indiana Jones at a live dig site in Saqqara in 60 feet under the ground with 60 mummies. See, I'd be down to do that in Petra or something. If you said that, I'd be like, we're out. I saw Petra.

You know what's funny? I was looking at Petra last night. Petra's honestly on my bucket list, and it's dangerous, though. Are you a citizen? I'm a citizen, but I'm also an Israeli dangerous. Are you a citizen? I'm a citizen, but I'm also an Israeli citizen. Are you an Israeli citizen, I was going to say?

So can you travel to Petra with your USA passport? No, it's not illegal to do that. Should I? Yes. I'm just saying. Do you have Israeli stamps in your US passport?

Here's how it works. Israel actually recently has gone away from the stamps and given you will they give you a piece of paper that is so that you don't love that yeah shout out israel second um shalom i could however if they found out that i was israel doesn't care it's it's not everyone we're talking about yeah they they wouldn't be uh as uh accepting it would make the trip that much more exciting though hey man i've been locked up abroad before that's not fun that's that's not i can imagine that's not a joke that'll be part two if you had no morals

don't you think it'd be fun to hunt somebody absolutely not no i save spiders when they're in my house welcome to the podcast colt there we go there's this person you don't like on this mountain go hunt he definitely just watched hunger games last night i've never seen hunger games you watch the most dangerous game? I went to Elvis. No one wanted to tell me fucking Tom Hanks was in it before I went. I don't want to murder anybody.

It's not about morals, Cole. Oh, God. I don't want to do it. If I didn't believe in the afterlife, I'd be hunting. Are you that one that they talk about the atheist myth of, well, if there's no God, then why don't people run around just murdering others? No, he's the guy that goes postal over like a box of milk duds. Or Tom Hanks.

Do you like Tom Hanks? No? Yeah, just leave it alone. Alright, next question. Colt, you ready? Here's your next question. I couldn't hear you on the headset. Here's your next question. What are most people afraid of that doesn't scare you him himself what are most people afraid of that doesn't scare you the unabounded nature of man um that doesn't scare me yes people don't scare me there's no one on this earth i called it yeah

yeah i mean and we're gonna finish up with this gem oh great ready if you can install one piece of advice in a baby's mind oh no what advice would you give this is cancel culture in a baby's mind a baby oh that's a deep so you can set up for its entire life right here what are you gonna put the baby's mind what piece of what piece of information to don't be afraid of anybody babies don't be don't be don't be persuaded by cuban cigar manufacturers nicaraguan hunters just as good like my nicaraguan i just say don't be fucking afraid of anybody i mean people grow up i think people honestly i think people until they get older they're afraid of people or they you know they get around people and shut down i mean sorry story's great right

like he gets around people and he just i don't know you at all but i know you get around people and just be friends with them where other people get around them and they get scared. Yeah, but they get scared. They change their – I was always this person that I look back at 18, I should not have been doing the deals I was doing, the commercial deals I was doing. But it's just because I didn't give a shit if he was worth $300 million, $400 million, or this.

I think you and I have a lot of things in common, and one of which is telling people of status or power that Position I want you to deny you ever said that listen I can't believe you have this one opportunity that to instill a deep hatred for Tom Cruise in an Innocent baby and an innocent baby. Why do you like Tom Hanks? And an innocent baby. And an innocent baby. Why do you like Tom Hanks? He started COVID. I like Castaway. He started COVID. You like Castaway? I like Castaway.

We're not friends anymore. We're not friends. That's it. We just became enemies. Also, I think that if Forrest Gump was made 10 years later, Tom Hanks would be the number one most canceled person alive. Probably. Forrest Gump is a story about coming through adversity.

Yeah, there's a lot of... No, Forrest Gump is a story about a poor retarded boy from Alabama. Sorry. And a best friend named Bubba. And a best friend named Bubba. Let's cut the shit. Well, let's face it. Let's cut the shit.

The movie's racist as a mother. That's like the least racist. What is the best movie made in the last 20 years that there's no way in hell they could make it now? What would you say? What is that? Let's answer that question. I know mine.

Tropic Thunder. Tropic Thunder all day. Tropic Thunder all day. Because, dude, Robert Downey Jr. Have you seen Tropic? I don't think it's that bad. Oh, my love it i think you think you can do it too but i don't think i don't think that's gonna make it you can make white no i think white shakes i think white shakes definitely beats tropic thunder yeah and i definitely think uh dude you couldn't make the office anymore yeah you couldn't make the show

the ben stiller goes full r-tired in there yeah remember going full r-tired you can't make the office anymore yeah you could make the show the event stiller goes full our time in there yeah remember going full our time you can't do that you can't even say that you know what i'll tell you i'll tell you a comedian that'd be completely canceled who oh every movie from the 90s jim carrey oh done yeah gone really gone why if you went back and watched it would you be because i haven't watched the jim carrey movie since then if you went back and watched it would you be because I don't watch the Jim Carrey movie since then if You go back and watch some of them now you'd be like Because he's like Like There you go. All right. He's trying to give you some liberal hand. Send in the hay bale.

I'm not PC. I'm sorry. Yeah, the thoughts and feelings are very good. Do not reflect those. Yeah, no. Cold armadillo. This guy's definitely going to lose the Gillette sponsorship at the end of this. The power move does not intend to hint human beings at any point in the future.

Robert Kraft. That would be the biggest rush. Don't worry. They got enough massage parlors trying to do that. Oh, wow. Oh, God. Well to do that. What if you gave the human like a knife? How did we get back here? How did we get back here?

Alright, this happens every single time he's in the room. Okay, hold on. Then I got a good question for him. What's your weapon of choice? Give me top three. Top three? Hand-to-hand combat. Top three. And then give me one long range. I'll just take an AR for long range. See, I think that's an AR for long range.

But I only need to be away 50 yards from you. That's long range. And if I'm 60 yards, you're done? I would love to go 30-06. I would love if it was law that if you challenge somebody that you had to get on

that was 100 years ago buddy how awesome would that be just fist fight I would love to fist fight people you live in a constant state of just chaos

it's not good I'd love to fist fight we live in the least violent most prosperous health hold on I got a real question when was the last time

you physically fought someone tell me right now this morning it was on no no no I'm talking about physical artication with a bloody nose I got a real question. When was the last time you physically fought someone? Tell me right now. This morning. It was on. No, no, no. I'm talking a physical artication with a bloody nose. He's married to a Latina. That's cool.

In front of the fountains at Bellagio, it was beautiful. Fountains were going off. It's on Worldstar. How long ago? 14, 13 years ago. Oh, yeah. He's got some built-up rage. He's ready to blow everybody out.

He's going to pop. Everybody out. I'm going to bring you to jujitsu. We've got to get some of that out. He's going to pop. Those guys will beat me up. But I might punch somebody in the face. Just go to a kid's class.

Yeah. You'll be fine. Stupid kid. We'll start chopping. We'll start chopping. We'll start chopping a big unit. Everybody that doesn't do jujitsu always wants to talk about what would happen in a fight people that get in fights all the time even recreationally don't want to ever get in any fights ever no no like ever i don't like getting invites because

i know how horrible i turn into i literally turn into a different human like i think i'm like half werewolf like somebody gets an altercation on me and i get pushed first i thought i thought i killed a guy it was like the worst night of my life i literally thought i killed the guy the last fist fight i was in like real real fist fight i've been in stuff in bars and stuff but that bounced the guys had off a payment i thought i was going to jail i had to like run away and get a cat i thought i killed the guy same thing happened to me yeah it's horrifying i mean you don't say listen especially because you understand how I feel being a bigger guy. And, John, you know, too, like being a big guy, you also have a low-key responsibility not to fuck somebody up. If you do, that's all.

Like, it doesn't matter, altercation, self-defense, none of that. Like, you're the bigger dude, and they're going to be like, nah, man. Like, were they a perceived threat? Yeah, like that guy was not a threat to you, buddy. That's what really scares me, especially in today and age. Like, okay, I bring a gun everywhere. I'm from Georgia. That's just how I am.

And especially in Las Vegas, I like that the laws are similar. I learned a law where if you step out of your car and someone has a gun in their car, you're dead. You know why? Because you're a perceived threat to them. Sure. I mean, if you can articulate. First did not i did not a cop explained that to me and i was mind blown did you get out of your car and you attack somebody and they're able to reasonably articulate that your behavior was aggressive you're allowed to defend yourself especially in your home whatever

it's like shoot a guy who's running away yeah well it's like florida has what the standard ground the standard ground in florida it's called castle doctoring you stay around georgia too dude yeah i love that georgia's really loose about it it's like hey man you got it you got it you got it you got a pistol you got a pistol okay you guys got licenses okay who shot who first yeah i don't know all right who got hit this guy all right, you get a ticket. Arizona has mutual combat laws. See, I'm just... He needs to move to Arizona. This is what I need.

You go outside and say, I want to fight you. And if the guy agrees to it, you can go out in the middle of the street and fight each other. And the cops won't come and you won't be arrested for it. See, I'm just looking for if somebody sends me an auto text telling me they're too busy for me, I should be able to shoot them. I think that's the law that I need to pass. That's what I need. That's a lot of grass.

On the auto text. Well, alright, man. Bro, thanks for coming in. It was awesome. I appreciate it. If somebody wants to find you, dude, how do they find you, man? My Twitter, my Instagram at Ari Gold, A-R-I-G-O-L-D ETH. And that's it, man. Check out our dude.

His Instagram is off the charts. If you want to see somebody that's living the life that you fucking wish you could, check that shit out. Connell, if they want to find you, how do they find you? Connell Law LV. Connell Law LV, three L's in Connell Law. And Colt, if they want to hide from you, where do they hide from you? Mountains. Mountains. Do you at least give your

underscore a head start? Do you give your prey a head start, Colt? Absolutely. You put them in like a three mile radius on a mountain. I want to end it on this. When the apocalypse starts or when this new monkeypox bullshit outbreaks or whatever happens, this guy is going to be up in

fucking Mount Charleston. The hills have eyes with a bush on his head. A piece of human flesh holding an arm in his mouth. You might not believe me. That was the superlatives used in his yearbook in high school. I was getting most likely to be chewing on a human arm. Five people were going top of the stratosphere.

One came down. Oh, my God. Most likely to have a human arm in his mouth in the next 15 years. All right, guys. It's been fun. We'll see you next time. Hey, it's Jon Gafford. If you want to catch up more and see what we're doing, you can always go to thejongafford.com.

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