Escaping the Drift with John Gafford - Tough Choices: Why It's So Hard To Make Tough Decisions? Ep 75

Episode Date: January 26, 2023

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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 for another fun filled fact filled yeah fact filled exciting episode of the power move this is the podcast where you know what it we do a lot of things but most importantly we try to make you better shit because what are you drinking yeah dude no this is like that looks horrible oh it's like a green drink man it's good for that does that does look like a nice is that a athletic greens no no it's some new greens i got i don't know it says watermelon you think that looks like an ice cream no athletic guys you're screwing up

the beginning of the show for everybody my name is john gafford i am your host to the left of me which you probably guessed is the one the only the bulgarian monk is called amadan colt i would like a little brighter green in my dream a little brighter green you have to be so little screen and across the way joining us as always for his insight is the counselor chris connell counselor how are you living the dream aka chat gbt chat gbt jesus yeah the real walking is that we're going for you chat gbt jesus what do you know what we're talking about not at all the thing that uh chat gbt is what he's talking about oh oh the ai yeah you're what we're talking about? Not at all. Oh, the thing that... Chat GBT is what he's talking about.

Oh, the AI. The open AI. You're the new AI. I went down the rabbit hole on the old AI this weekend. With the Marines that were fooling it by dressing up as cardboard boxes and doing somersaults. No, no, no, no. Did you not see that? I didn't see this.

AI can't detect humans that literally just wear cardboard boxes and giggled. What? Honestly, look it up. this isn't like a onion article or if you did somersaults because it was programmed to try to find like soldiers and like ferret out i think humans human forms but it didn't have a thing that said humans do cartwheels so somebody just cartwheeled across the whole way and they like the ai didn't detect them at all as like a security threat like they didn't get picked up see i i'm using it for pure entertainment right now i'm using it to help with a lot of my content creation obviously but i'm also primarily using it for my own stuff like what you saw was i was like draw you know i went on the uh the one that you can it'll do ai images and i was like give me uh the hulk riding with two strippers on a

mardi gras float uh in new orleans down saint charles avenue photorealistic and that's what i spit out it's pretty amazing and i also did one i'll show you it was uh because i just you run out of things to think of and just think of anything that's coming up and and obviously anything that comes no no no this was pretty cool this was pretty cool i thought because i was like oh i know i'm like right i'm like uh design me one where uh better and Ezra is in a guitar battle against the devil, and there's lots of lava. And this is what it spit out. And how dope are these?

That's pretty cool. I mean, that's a solid album cover. Tenacious D wants some credit for that. Exactly. I mean, it's bananas if you haven't played with it, do that. But I tell you what, everywhere you look, and what we're going to talk about today, boys, is everywhere it seems like we are surrounded by tough decisions. And you got to make hard decisions every day.

I mean, I had to make, me and my wife have anguished for the last three days of our decision. We had to make, and we'll get to that in a minute. But before we talk too much about that, there's a decision right now in the space of which we work that I think people are struggling with. And everything, you know, as a trained real estate professional, as I like to think that I am, Colt, would you agree with that? Yeah. Okay, cool. You know, I look at things like- That you are? Yeah, that I am. I think you are. I look at things like trends, math, the numbers, the stats, absorption rates. These are the things I look at things like trends math the numbers the stats absorption rates these are the things i look at to come up with with the when i pontificate a position it is based in reality if you guys

recall the macro if you recall over a year ago maybe a year and a half ago i came on here because i got sick of all the prognosticators saying that or the dime store prognosticators, or the dime store prognosticators, we'll call them, saying that the market was going to crash. So I said, I'll bet $10,000 to anybody that says the market will crash. Now, effectively, we also said, what constitutes a market crash? What is the percentage giveback? Because the market's going to fluctuate. It's going to go up. It's going to go down. Every market is cyclical. And I said, OK, what does a crash entail? And the overwhelming, the overwhelming amount of people said more than 25% would be a crash. More, the values have dropped more than 25%. That's pretty big. It's a big, it's a big drop. 15 to 18. That would have been like a 12.

Right, but hang on. No, that's an adjustment. I think it's 12. A crash is where it fundamentally changes a market. like what happened here Yeah, people do overuse that term. Yes. Oh, yeah, because it's it's a fun buzzy word that people like to use so I said All right Let's put $10,000 up not one taker at all all of the geniuses that were telling people Oh, it's gonna crack not one of them took my bet. You're so sure I'm giving you the easiest 10 grand I think you called open door to by the way. I. Not one of them was willing to take the bet. And here we are into the recession that slowed things down.

And it was all manufactured slowdown by the Fed who wanted to cool off housing, who deliberately raised the red to rate to cool off housing and attempt to slow down inflation, which they have. All of the gains that were gained in 2022 were given back. All of those gains were returned. And all of those gains were gotten because the U.S. government decided to print trillions of dollars to hand out. So that was artificial inflation anyway. That wasn't real.

It was real inflation. Right. But I'm saying, but we pumped them up and we pulled the- It took back. Yeah, when you- This was a wash. That's what people think about stock splits, too. If you you snap a pencil in half you don't have double the amount of pencils right okay unless you sharpen them both no but you don't have twice as much pencil

you have two pencils but yeah it's still the same pencil right okay just because you double it yeah just because you print all this money doesn't mean that it's going to be reflected not in something like the cost of some we printed 10 more money and eggs are 12 more expensive now right right that it didn't it didn't do anything outside of the ordinary but but back to housing yeah so you talk about housing and you look at all of these people who were a year and a half ago dying to buy a house and they were looking at 30 houses they were 25 offers, you were writing 10 15 20,000 overlist waving appraisal waving inspections and asking for no closing costs. I mean, going balls to the wall and couldn't get a house. Well, what this effectively did was all of the big

hedge funds pump the brakes on their buying all of the all of the big Wall Street firms and the big Wall Street money that are trying to commoditize the American dream, which is take single family homes and turn you from the American homeowner to the American renter. That is the goal. Because what people don't understand is when these big funds buy a house, you might as well burn it down because it is never coming back into the supply chain. It will never come back into the supply. If it gets traded, it'll be traded in a large tape of properties from one fund to another, from one REIT to another.

But it will strictly be an investment property for the rest of its existence. Yes. So everything kind of cools off. Everybody slows down. Well, this has opened a window for those buyers that were locked out, completely locked out of the market 12 months ago. And that window is right now where interest rates have adjusted down. They've slid down and trended down over the last several weeks. Inventory is a place where sellers are nervous. So now you can get, you don't have to waive appraisal. You don't have

to waive inspection. You can ask for closing costs. You can ask for money to buy your rate down. You can be aggressive with offers. And you can get a house. And they still have equity. And that window is open. But here's the problem. And here's the challenge where it becomes a tough decision.

And it's this. Good news doesn't generate clicks in the news cycle. Good news doesn't get anywhere selling ads for MSNBC or for anybody. You hear that, Dad? They don't have your best interest in mind. They don't have it. So the problem is

as the news reports on this on a macro level instead of a micro level because real estate markets are micro. It says, oh because real estate markets are micro, it says, oh, the real estate market's bad. And these people that have this opportunity right now to buy are holding off because of the headlines that they're seeing. When the reality is this, and this is my question.

So here is my question. My question is to you, to you, Mr. or Mrs. American future homeowner, is this, do you think that when the news starts to report that it's a good idea to buy a house, it will be too late? Because the answer to that question is absolutely yes. Well, it's like a whip, right? By the time it's coming back to you, it's already rollercoaster. Yeah, it's too late. So you look at what's happened. JPMorgan Chase is investing a billion dollars into buying single family assets. They've now said,

we want to get in that same business because Goldman's in it, because Blackstone's in it, BlackRock's in it. We want to be in that same business. So they're going to put a billion dollars in the market in Q1 and Q2. These hedge funds, everybody I know that works at them,

they are gearing up their departments to start acquisitions like crazy. And when they start again, because of the continued limited inventory, same thing's going to happen again if you want to buy a house you're going to be like man i should have bought one and i should have bought one in february i should have bought one then you know i just i still live with the regrets of not being independently as wealthy as i would have liked to have been in 20 oh god yeah you know but everybody everybody remembers that because it was such a crazy thing but there that was a perfect storm

it was like there was fraud there was just greed absolutely everything a perfect storm to to go to 2010 right and the what people don't realize is when 8 9 10 11 12 13 builders weren't building right people are still getting you know the population was still growing things were still going but they were not building so yeah there's been a ton of building but there was a good i'd say six seven years that they were not building what they should have been, which the inventory is done, right? Like I don't follow houses. My father-in-law continued to build. He's a builder in town.

And he continued to build but to own them as rentals for that very reason because it was at that time that when the world fell apart for everyone else, he looked at it as an opportunity to get build costs at a more attractive rate. Sure. So he built multiple homes, built neighborhoods, communities, that he just owned as rentals. Well, you could, I mean, they always say,

never go with the flow. You should, if everybody's buying, then you should be selling. When everybody's selling, you should be buying. Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy. Yeah. And I live by that.

You do. And I think everybody in this room understood that was coming. So when everybody was going nuts over everything, I was personally gearing up for going, you know what? I told my wife, let's sell our house and let's rent. And I said, this is going to come back to Hana because we're at a point where we would get a maximum tax appreciation

advantage from the two spouses. We would both max out our equity, very little capital gains to pay, right from where we got it a maximum tax appreciation advantage from the two spouses. We would both max out our equity, very little capital gains to pay, right from where we got at our tax basis because you get half a million dollars. It's 80, yeah. Half a million dollars. It's half a million on primary reasons.

Half a million dollars between both of us. So we would have got that cap gains free, just that alone. Yeah. Sell it, move into a rental, and I'm like, and when the world falls apart or if things smoke down and crash down and the world falls apart whatever pick up whatever we want kind of you know well you know i've already told my team you know 100 the goal is for me i'm gonna buy 100

doors this year that's the goal i'm gonna buy 100 homes this year um you know there's there's no reason why am i standing on the sidelines watching the hedge funds play that game when i could play the same game right and i can actually play it better and faster because i'm more in the market than they are they're local so yeah i mean that's the goal but look i'm buying a hundred of them so if you're thinking about buying one right now is a good or bad idea for you there's your answer for me i'm the guy buying a hundred right now or doing everything in my power to get a hundred them, which is how it works. That's definitely

on my to-do list. There are certain sectors I won't touch, right? We pick, but houses are different. You're worried about commercial. I tell people warehouse, same thing, where lack of inventory,

the third-party logistics, the way the economy's transformed in the last 12 years from retail to 3PLs, all this. You're not – that will not crash. These guys that have large office spaces, I wouldn't be touching nothing. These guys that have, you know, just recently in the last four years put in uh rent for retail you know these guys are paying 450 a square foot for something that doesn't cash out like they'd have to really rent it for 320 at best three dollars at best like those things i won't touch you know or why go buy a starbucks for 3.8 cap rate right now when you can go buy bonds. The ground leases and things like that.

You know what's interesting? I was talking to another person about some of those retail leases, though, up in the north, and we were looking for a client of ours to try to find some retail spaces, and it's very slim pickings because nobody was building any either. Yeah. So you have an inventory issue with a lot of that stuff, too. Yeah, I got to tell you, I went to my mastermind group last weekend,

not this week, not the one we just went through, but the weekend before. And every single big investor that was there that I know, they're all building the same two things. It's all storage and all mobile home parks. Because those are the two best performing asset classes in commercial right now. But they have been for a hundred years. but here's but here's the problem there was like i feel i feel like there was a handful of people that knew that they were building them and now everybody knows that which is why if you drive up and down like horizon ridge when they're building the most expensive homes on

on this side of vegas up on this hill and instead of building great entertainment complexes or places for these people to dine or go to dinner yeah you get another mini storage and they'll just jam them into every little slot you can get which is so stupid and whoever in this city whoever in henderson is approving all of this is an idiot you had you had a chance for horizon ridge right here in front of all of this to be rodeo drive yep and instead you turn it into storage you know light industrial is essentially what you've done there is zero land left now it's so stupid i know which shocks me because henderson's been one of the greatest cities as far as planning and stuff this was a super fed on this oh i mean honestly like where do you go there's nowhere to go water street they're

sticking something up well that's the problem. For whatever reason, the local folks, and for those of you listening to us in other parts of the city, we're broadcasting right now where I live, which is Henderson, which is a city in the southeast corner of the Las Vegas Valley. You would really not realize you left Las Vegas and went to the other. I mean, we're 15 minutes from the airport here. You don't know, but it's just a different city. And the biggest challenge we've always had in this city,

if you look, may live somewhere like this is for some reason, the elected officials of this particular city got this, have this absolute boner for downtown of this city, right? The problem with it is, is all that downtown area is surrounded with ultra low rent real estate the reason is is because they made that opportunity zone yeah and it's huge huge huge billion dollar privately ran billion dollar uh opportunity zone but nobody's okay nobody's gonna want to go out and hang out with your family or on a date when there is a 78% chance that a meth addict is going to roll up on you. Unless Black Acre was playing the gold mine. Yes, unless Connell's cover band is playing there.

I like the lake. I like Wall Street. The problem is, is are you going to drive 15 minutes ago there or 15 minutes ago to the world famous strip? What is the center of Henderson to you? What is it? Green Valley. Green Valley. Yeah.

Green Valley Ranch is the center of Henderson, whether they want to admit it or not. And why they don't lean into that, I don't understand. That is interesting because you have Lifetime Fitness there. Everything is there. And they've got all that. Now, they're sticking something up new. I don't know what's – there's something new going.

I think a lot of people don't see Green Valley as Henderson, though, because until you kind of get off the 215, but I think if you live here, that's the center of the universe for us Yeah, I think that that the district what like it or not What they're terrible shopping is the center of is the center of the universe got restaurants in there now, which is good You Henderson folk are a different breed though. You know you guys have to you know fancy So you guys, the toilet circles the other way, the toilets, the water goes down,

the Coriolis effect. Well, you know what? You know what? I look, I normally don't, I normally don't depend on the local government or any state government for anything.

But I gotta tell you, you know, what brought me up to this is, man, if I'm looking a little tired, it's because me and my wife, I've got all asleep lately. And for all the wrong reasons, not for the reason you might think

colt you dirty fuck no no not a netflix not a hail not one of those no no new season of georgian no no no so my son my son went to probably you know i don't know one of the best one of the most well-known uh private catholic high schools in the country well known because if you if you if you follow high school sports their their high school football team virtually is one or two in the entire country it's gonna make a statement about how colt can't go watch the volleyball no yeah colt can't get within 500 feet of the of the male volleyball team it's a long story story. I'm in front of another podcast. But yeah, anyway, so we started him at this school. And he just never kind of found his groove.

You know what I mean? He didn't find his tribe and was just kind of, never really got centered there. And was just, we noticed, we got a 4.21 GPA out of him for first semester. And he did honors and everything. And he was doing great. And over the break, man, he just never went anywhere. You know, the couple of friends and he did honors and everything and it was doing great and over the break man it was just he just never went anywhere you know the couple friends that he did

he just didn't do anything and i'm thinking man by the time i was in ninth grade you know not by comparison but i was keeping it real i mean i was out i was running around doing things i mean i was never at home by the time i was in ninth grade i was gone somewhere all the time and he just at home hanging out playing video games and you know what though john i don't think that's your kid i think that's all kids well no it's not and i'll tell you how i know that because his only outlet for social people really was like he would play video games with his friends that that he'd come up with in in younger school that were all at this other high school and then that's what they would do on the weekends that were all at this other high school. And then that's what they would do on the weekends.

They'd all get on FaceTime and play video games. And then that started to get fewer and farther between because they were going to football games, going to homecoming, going to basketball games, going to this. This kid's having people over that he doesn't know. And because he didn't go to that school, he wasn't getting included. So he was kind of getting left behind

by his main friend group from the other place and he wasn't really replacing them with the new one so long story boring he was uh you know i mean depressed is a big word but i mean i don't know i mean can we just all agree that ninth grade sucked for a lot of us i love ninth grade it sounds like you guys enjoyed you're still in junior high you had a good time we weren't in yeah i was in high school yeah i was in junior high i was running i was running school that's why you love ninth grade i was running it we didn't have that i didn't have junior high it was elementary then high school yeah no no we did yeah i was in ninth grade but still junior high so i was running it back then but anyway so so me and my wife had a conversation and made a very difficult decision uh that he was there to let

him move from the private high school to the public school where his friends were. And that transition was today. And we did not know how things were going to go. My wife went to register him, and I was getting the play-by-play from some of the things that happened, and she saw at said public high school.

And it is one of the better public high schools here in town. But I was getting the play-by-play, and by the time she left, she was freaking out. Like, have we made a terrible mistake? What are we going to do? What's that? Freaking out in a good or a bad way?

No, in a bad way. Like, what have we done? Do we just throw our child to the wolves? What's going to happen? It's all normal. What's going to happen? And luckily, everything going well. I mean, he had his first

practice last night with the new lacrosse team but a lot of the kids on that team were on his travel team from before so already more friends there and now he said he knew five or six kids in every class from middle school and just he knew a lot and he just knew a lot of people and it was just a better experience because he's gonna get the grades wherever he goes because he's that he's a bright kid but i what's the point of getting the grades if you're just moping all the time? Then you wind up a bitter lawyer that doesn't want to practice law. That's what you wind up. Not like me.

No, that's a good point. No, but what is all that stuff worth? I think about that a lot. One of my friends, he left Las Vegas. He had a practice here. He got an in-house gig, and he moved to Charleston. So he was in-house gig, and I was asking him yesterday, I said, so tell me, like,

do you like it? Don't bullshit. He's like, I would be lying to you if I didn't tell you that the changes are just completely present in my life. The things you lose when you leave here, people don't understand until they leave here. What, Las Vegas you mean?

Yeah, Las Vegas. We don't have to worry about swimming with crocodiles if we go into the lake you know whatever we don't have to mosquitoes humidity all this stuff and we're going through we're going through we're going through where did he move south charleston oh that's not croc oh is that crocodiles and chars alligators alligators there's no crocodiles i'm just throwing out monsters yeah but anyway he said this thing. It was really interesting. It's that Ram Dass quote. I don't know if you get into that kind of stuff, but Ram Dass is a kind of new age thinker.

Get ready for the Google check called Gertie. No, no, Ram Dass is very interesting. What did you spell Ram Dass? I don't know. R-A-M-D-A-S. Yeah, so Ram Dass is like a, he's a guy from here, but he's kind of an Eastern thinker. And you have to destroy yourself to be reborn again,

to build yourself back up. You have to get out of being comfortable sometimes to make that growth. Yeah. That looks like he's hiding on something. He looks like the bad guy from Poltergeist. Let me see the picture for you. Yeah, no, no, very, very, very wise.

Some of the wiser people I know really like what he has to say. Yeah. It's not, but yeah, interesting stuff when you talk about. But here's the thing too. Because he wasn't going to grow. He was in a comfortable thing. He's doing the thing he's supposed to do.

No, he was uncomfortable. But I also think the level of effort that he put forth was probably not what needed to be there because he is somewhat introverted. And I think some of that, he wasn't as a small small kid i think some of that was acquired through covid sure okay that's and going from going from the big school to the 28 kids in class john your kids and i your kid and i in mind share a parallel yeah my daughter was in private school switched to public you know so for us i'm not talking about necessarily the kids change, I'm talking about change us.

Us, our change. Because for you, you're checking the boxes as a parent. Private school, good grades, on a team. You're going through checking. Yeah, it was a challenge, yeah. Yeah, there was some of that. You're checking your list as a parent, what do I owe my kid?

Because I know better than he does. And also, that was part of, that was, and I'm not too proud to say this, that was part of that was and i'm not i'm not too proud to say this that was part of the thought process man it was like what are people gonna think you know what are people gonna you know what are people gonna think and of course you know hated dumbass first person he talks to i don't remember who it was he was talking to somebody he was like oh no i was telling one of my friends i'm like you know i mean i didn't really like it and for the amount of money they were paying it was crazy i'm like why did you even

say that because now they tell their parents to be like oh they must be you know are they doing okay what's going on over there but as a kid right he doesn't know what's happening there no i was like you can't don't talk about the money but i'm not but i'm not gonna lie as much as i try to not give a shit what people think about me and i walked over i don't do anything everybody else human nature still you're like you're like man is this you know it's a business to not give a shit what people think about me. And I walked out. Of course. I don't do anything for anybody else. Human nature. Still, you're like, man, is this, you know. It's a business. Yeah, but the last thing you want to do, right?

Like, last weekend or weekend before, I just was at a funeral for a 17-year-old who committed suicide, right? Like, from their school. It was just really sad. It was super sad. I mean, sometimes you got to look out for maybe not their education

and their personal yeah we had two uh judges commit suicide this last couple of the one was wanted for something was being investigated no it's kind of a complicated issue but she wasn't that big of a deal right it wasn't but you know but when you take something away from somebody she was one of the most well-liked people that we know. She was very well-liked. What she did is her daughter was working at a clothing shop that she thought was a front for prostitution. She, as a judge, said, hey. Her daughter was working there? Her daughter was working at this clothing store,

and there was concerns that it was being used as like a front for human trafficking. Oh, boy. So she, as a judge, said, hey, look into this. And they said, hey, you you as a position of a judge shouldn't be intervening and talking to the police or whatever this is my understanding of it if i'm wrong forgive me but you shouldn't be intervening you're intervening in a vice investigation so they were already it was already under investigation uh so it was this sort of so as a judge though

you're not supposed to, it's a judicial ethics thing and whatever. And for, you know, and I don't know the details of it. I haven't read, but you know, it sounded like she kind of got thrown to the wolves a little bit, but everybody who knew her liked her. And I have a lot of, you know, close friends that were very good friends with her and she's very well respected and liked. And, you know, sometimes you get in our profession and it defines who you are.

You know, dude. Yeah. and liked and you know sometimes you get in our profession and it defines who you are you know dude yeah and once something's defines who you are like oh john's got kids in private school we talked about that yeah we're talking about that's not becoming yeah and that's where that ramdas quote comes in yeah where in in order to grow you have to become uncomfortable again you have to lose all that stuff because you this conversation came up we were talking he's been here 20 years went to law school here got his degree at unlv you build up this network here that john if you and i needed to get something done colt if you needed something done you'd know how to get it done here in a fraction of a second if i moved you to el paso texas you would be lost yep right so you work all that all that energy effort to build up this idea of who you are,

these networks of people that know things that you need to know. And when you take that away, all of a sudden it's gone, right? And you get uncomfortable again. You don't realize what you had because you're so mired. See, here's the thing, though. I don't necessarily look at that as a loss, though, because for me, and this is what I was trying to explain to my son, I'm like, dude, even though you kind of have a background with these kids and you you know a lot of them

they haven't really been around you right for three years two and a half years so you can roll in there and be anybody you were because obviously the vibe you were putting out you know the the vibe you're putting out wasn't working for you. Sure. That wasn't working for you. So let's change that. Let's alter the vibe that you're putting out to the world because it's obvious that you're not getting it back. And here's a funny story. So we told him, he said, you're just so negative.

You keep putting out this negative energy. It's just so negative. That's what the universe is serving you up. So we made him watch this like 25 minutes the beginning of the secret which say whatever you want about the secret you know but i do believe in manifesting things i believe the universe will serve back up what you get out right so we made them watch this and then sunday we went to we go we were out and about running errands and my wife is like i gotta run by um uh i gotta run by costco holy, bad idea going there on a Sunday.

That's crazy. Bad idea going there on a Tuesday at 11.15. It's like traffic in Tokyo in that joint with the carts, right? But anyway, we go in. As we're pulling up, him goes, oh, man, Roma's going to be mad, and I don't care. And I go, what do you mean? And he just starts laughing.

He's like, whenever I bring Roma here, they have the best samples. It's like, oh, here's a brownie. Here's this, it's all the things that Romanos, because when I bring Hayden, it's like, here's sauerkraut and here's this city hates. And I said, okay. And I said, I said, okay. I said, I said, buddy, I said, what, what would your, what would

your perfect sample be? What would your perfect sample? Now? And he goes like some really good cheese. Cause he likes cheese. I said, okay, cool. I want you to picture you get the cheese. I want you imagine blah blah so he did he does i said do you imagine yeah how was it it was good i said then be grateful you got the cheese he goes okay i'm

grateful we walk in there i swear to god come around the corner first sample just put it out brand new cheese i start laughing so i'm like bro in a can there you no not in a can she's having samples but i'm like there you go right like, there you go, right? The cheese, there you go. Because you put out positive, you get positive back. Who moved my cheese? And so I think for us, for anything else, the move from the private school over to where he is now had to do with getting him positive.

Because I think if he's just more positive about his situation, then better things will happen to his life. And I did not see a route in his current situation where positivity was just going to start showing up you know i didn't see it mark schlereth stink the um he's a commentator on fox sports said uh luck has the distinctive smell of perspiration right that goes with all that stuff right you set yourself up for success whether you maintain a positive attitude you work if you do all those things everything's going to work out for you yeah well you're always that bad right you're always there always but if

you're focusing on that bad you're missing the good but the corollary is this you will never get anything for free this comes up to me so frequently and it comes back to what you were talking about. You were talking about earlier about the housing market and stocks and what I haven't sold shares. I haven't sold out. I haven't traded any stuff. I just leave it alone. Everybody that wants to go in and do this and this, this town is full of people in this country is full of young people and john you were talking about masterminds or whatever this is a psa right now oh here we go it's a psa do we have any low music no no no this is actually this is actually an important psa oh okay if anybody tells

you that they're an expert in something and that they're gonna to make you money, right? Really think about it. Say, okay, the smartest minds are crammed up in Goldman Sachs. They have quantitative analysts running the numbers. You think that your buddy with his trading platform is going to be XYZ? Right. You think that there's free money out there and that this guy and that guy that's selling you all the snake oil, that's the guy that's going to get you across the finish line that's the guy who's going to earn you all this free money did you ever think that maybe that's a guy that's just selling you the dream right and taking your money to do so this happened so much

and it was all the crypto i've just been reading about a lot of the crypto stuff and i've been reading about all these things if anybody has a dream to sell you for free it's it's 99 of the time absolutely full of shit you know there was um there was something that's going on i'm sorry i forgot i didn't mean to go just just no just just hear what they are again more times they're full of what full of shit psa the more you know you know no no no no but you know we're just talking about hard work and changing it and trying to grow and stuff like i said you know it's never easy right like it's never easy people sit there and think i can do this business i can do that yep you're looking at somebody people aren't showing their losses. First off on social media or at a meeting, like,

Oh, I just got my teeth kicked in. Right? Like things go bad. Oh dude. See, but that's the guys I want to hear from. That's the guys I want to talk to.

I agree. You learn way more than from them getting their ass kicked. And you're authentic. Yeah. You know, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to tell you,

I'm going to give, I'm going to give, I'm going to give, I'm going to give a shout out to this cat There's a guy named Bobby Castro who is a genius who is who runs? Honorary member of the Wu-Tang Clan. No, no, he's He's one of he's one of the head dudes like the hundred million hundred million mastermind Sure, and Bobby is you know a coach to many and he is an arm and he's he's a

fantastic guy follow him on social media and if you go follow him on social media i saw bobby last weekend in tampa and if you go follow him you'll notice something which is this bobby just had some sort of a hair thing done i don't know what he had done you know one of those things where they move some hair they move some follicles right they move some move some out. I'll be there. And I'm going to be very honest with you, right? If I had that done, I can almost bet you $1,000 there would be a hat on my head every single day for six months until it was grown up. And he was rocking it. And he could give a rat shit.

That is amazing. No, but you go on his social media right now. The videos he's making right now today could give a rat shit. Yeah, but good. Here it is. I agree. I agree. Dude, that's why you look at a guy like that.

I look at a guy like that, and I'm like. You truly don't give a fuck. But it's more than that. It's more than that. I look at him, and I think that's what a truly authentic mentor and coach looks like. Man, I'll show you my scabs. Man, I'll show you my scabs. Dude, I'll show you the open wounds. I'll show you the good and the bad.

I'll show you what I have to do to get to where I want to go, and I'm not ashamed of any of it. Do you know how hard that is? So hard. I'm doing a thing right now. No one does that anymore. Nobody. Last year, last couple years, I've been trying to get bigger so that I could cut.

So now I'm on the cut portion of it, which is the least fun part of it. Colt's still prepping for i'm on the cut portion of it which is the least fun part of it colt still he prepping for his before picture yeah no it's the least fun part of it i've been i've been on it very religiously since january like second so but every week i have to send my coach pictures yeah the side profile right in the front you don't do the back um i do all three i don't what are you wearing so i can visualize no and so you take those pictures and you're like you know what cold i need to have like 70s like no but you take the pictures and you send them because you want to see your own progress right yeah now it's not like and you're looking at it because usually when you go in the mirror you like flex as a man right and now you have to be like, Hey, no, take the most unflattered.

Cause I want to see what it is. It's worse. Not like, yeah. When I'm standing, when I'm standing at the bar, ordering that fifth strawberry daiquiri on the cruise, I want that angle. Someone took of me or whatever. Yeah. That's, that's it.

You, you've been enjoying yourself too much. Cause when you're happy and you're making money and things are good, you're not, you're not suffering. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta slow it down. Right. And right and uh you know gordon ryan i have to bring up jujitsu we haven't done it yet gordon ryan he's one of the best jujitsu players though i think he made it how long i did not bad not bad 33 minutes one of the best 35 arguably ever right arguably ever he put a post on january 1st he's like fuck this he lives in this you know millions of dollars sending videos,

and he's very successful and whatever. He goes, fuck that. I'm going back to how I was when I started. It's a picture. I mean, he bought like an old, shitty 94 Civic. I'm leaving the Lamborghini in the garage. I'm buying a Tiger, baby. I'm buying a 94 Civic.

I have a Tiger. He goes, I'm going to sleep on the floor, and so I want to wake up miserable, right? And he's a guy that jumps in the cold pool and all these bunch of psychos, right? Just they don't enjoy their life. You know the hardest part about the cold plunge, right? Yeah. Holding the camera, filming yourself for social media while you do it.

Oh, God, yeah. That's right. The only reason to do it, right? But I kind of thought it was funny when I go, this guy's trying to get the most uncomfortable sleep he can, so he's just miserable. Meanwhile, you should be optimal with a pillow cue. But I like that kind of mentality where it's like I remember suffering, and I was so much angrier and better when I was suffering than I was when I was, you know, content and successful and crossed the finish line.

Yeah. Well, dude, I'm here to tell you. I fell off. You know, I got between going out of town and doing this and being sick and some oral surgery. I mean, I kind of I got between going out of town and doing this and being sick and some oral surgery. I mean, I kind of fell off my workout thing. I did, you know, I was doing it, but I wasn't following the diet right.

And now I am, you know, I'm, I'm two days back on. So the moral of it is, is, I mean, yeah, it's still not like I reverted all the way back to where I was, but you know, but I wasn't doing what I was supposed to do. That's the hardest part. But I'm two days in. It doesn't matter. It's okay. Most people can be psychotic about something

if they're stuck to it the thing is moderation right like to be able to have a thing and then not just eat all the cookies in the box oh dude i got i got i got so i got the shit i got the sugar bug on me again though man i was eating that's a problem man it was sugar only one it was sugar and i saw a post it was like you know morning green drink afternoon kale smoothie you know dinner piece of chicken and some green beans. 11 o'clock, 24 cookies in a tub ice cream. That's what it was. Just a little shout out to our boys, Foodie Fit, that were here with Andrew.

Yeah, yeah. I got them. They're making all my meals for this stuff. So Craig Goliath's diet and the cut coach, they're making all of it. And I hired a separate diet coach from my personal trainer. Oh. Because I want there to be a separation of responsibilities. How many calories are you eating a day right now?

Probably about 2,600, 2,400. I would blow up if I ate that many. Got to put a lot of gas in the big rig, my friend. No, you know, actually probably closer to two now. Yeah, that's a lot of fuel. How many rig, my friend. No, you know. Actually, probably closer to two now. Yeah. That's a lot of fuel. How many calories a day do you eat, Colt? Probably.

2,000. Probably at best. 18 to 2. I don't eat breakfast. You got to remember, though, to cut, like as a proper cut, you can't go into deficit. Right. Yeah, because you'll start throwing out of.

Yeah. And so he looked at my diet and said I didn't eat enough. So I've actually increased the amount of food I'm eating. I ate horribly. I probably do like 18. Yeah, probably down 12 pounds. You're down 12 pounds? Yeah.

That's impressive. Wait till Mardi Gras, buddy. So, but I have a trip every month. So now I'm just trying to do that thing where I'm disciplined for the three weeks and full of shit one week. Yeah, when we go to New Orleans, it's going to be, it is an onslaught of calories. that's why i'm good right now yeah it's it's absolutely you know what here's the good here's the good you know what's killing me right now is hockey oh god go grab a couple

because you go you have a car pops you go to the vets yeah you know you sit at the bar you have laptop you get a little tuna tartar and just you know just like last raiders games i wasn't drinking at all i went and didn't drink i've been to hockey games where i didn't drink i'll go have a coffee or you know diet soda or whatever and just get the liquids in yeah i think i think i think i lose weight i think i'm gonna we talked about it i'm gonna do the math on it i think i'm gonna upgrade the hockey tickets next year to include the fmb at the under at the the elixir underneath because i think it pencils I mean dude oh you might be right it pencils now it is expect dude every I mean like red vines are like nine dollars it's it's ruthless yeah no it's um but

again when you're trying to not go to all these events just have blowout calories yeah and it's hard when you get to a certain age too so I I wouldn't have my blood work done. Like I'm taking all the steps. I'm forcing myself. I was a blood work. Um, perfect levels across the board, except what we talked about with the, got a,

can they do blood work on you? Colt? Is that something that they can do? They have to freeze them first to extract the blood. I've got like a log. So yeah, green stuff comes out of you. No, yeah, no, but it's, it's one of those things too i'm 42 years old right so you know when you talk about saying exactly

what kind of makes you nervous you go hi it's hard to lose weight now it's like yeah when you're in your 40s your testosterone is going to be lower so you got to jump on it yep yes you do so i'm like damn trying to avoid it forever yep I think that'd be my ideal weight if I lived anywhere other than Vegas. You'd be not a big guy. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm skinny fat. I would love to lose 10 pounds. I've seen you on a boat.

I never remember. I don't remember. Oh, I remember being repulsed. Really? Yeah, I was like, cool. John threw his shirt at me. Why do you think I'm in a hoodie? I just look at that.

I love it. Remember he said he always wears a hoodie. Oh, I get skin cancer. Yeah, okay. Oh, yeah. Sure you do. Sure you do. Love handles.

It's funny because just like John was sitting there talking about, you know, you're worried about what other people may say. When you really think about it, no one's thinking about you. Nobody is. No one. No one. That's the beauty of life. Once you've truly understood that nobody is thinking about you right now nobody's worried about your body no nobody's

worried about your appearance unless they're in competition with you because you're doing better than them but it's going to be on a specific thing and that's not somebody that's why i've always said my kids when it's presentation day i go pick number one because no one's thinking about when you're number one everybody's sitting there worried about themselves after, right? Go number one. No one's watching. No one's paying attention. You go last, everybody got it off their mind.

They're like, all right, let's judge this guy now. 100%. But number one, I tell them, go number one. Always. Colt, that could be the best piece of advice you've ever offered. That's a power move. Man, I've given up. He got the horn, Colt.

That was. Yeah. You know what else? Colt, let's hear some more colt advice about elementary school how to let's make elementary kid friendly okay kid friendly here it goes can we make an adult menu of kids the kids move it's like you want dino nuggies yeah like just who doesn't like dino nuggies I do judge a man when he orders chicken tenders, though, when you're out at dinner. At dinner. And a man orders chicken tenders. I agree. But how amazing.

There's times chicken tenders sounds better than a steak. Depends on where you are. You're 100% right. But you just can't. You can't. No, I agree. I love grape soda. I'd love to go to a restaurant and order grape soda.

It's like that Bill Burks skit. He's like, do you want a cookie? He's like, I wanted a cookie he's like i wanted a cookie i tell you but the problem but the problem is if they have grape soda on the menu i much much there's times when we go out it's like well we're drinking let's have sangria so good yeah you want it with four grown men sitting at a table you can say gria we would have enjoyed it though did we get some look do we get some looks all the time possibly yeah but who cares well A Wednesday sangria is amazing. We need to start that.

Is there a better drink on the planet than the Miami Vice frozen drink? Is there a better drink on the planet? That's pretty lovely. On a hot day? On a hot day, there's no better drink. I think that's infinitely more masculine in an adult than ordering. As a grown man in a restaurant, ordering chicken tenders. I agree, but can we normalize that?

Okay, so you think you can order a Miami Vice frozen drink as more manly than the chicken tenders? It's different. It's Major League Baseball and kiddie baseball. John, yes. 100% of people agree with me on this one. If you're watching this, you've got to comment, what is more manly? You've got to let me know what's more manly being a rush not not in a

basket with the paper and this is like the who's gonna win between nuggets that's not what i'm talking about why is it why can't we not do that right like that's my point is i didn't say we're right i want chicken tenders i know for dinner throw two things of ranch two ranch and fries all right who would you who would you rather have dinner with one six foot colt drinking a Miami vice or six one foot cold eating chicken tenders? Well, that's obvious. John, the six mini cold. Of course, I guess they're mad around my conversation.

It's one that conversation of bounce. Oh my God. The amazing six one fuck. I would have six one foot men that I could get to do my bidding. We they would slip under doors. We'd be so rich. Oh my God. It'd be amazing. Six, one foot. I would have six, one foot men that I could get to do my bidding. They would slip under doors. We'd be so rich. Oh my God. It'd be great.

It'd be great. If you had a superpower, it would be invisible, right? Invisibility, yeah. I'm 100%. Of course. I just think I want to be able to, you know what I would really want? I just want to be able to slap people without the fear of retribution. Just anybody.

So you want to be a woman? No, no. No. John Superpower. After watching Twitter, there's been a whole thing a woman. No, no, no. John, after watching Twitter, there's been a whole thing of guys. My Twitter got hacked today. Dude. Can we talk about that first? What is it with the onslaught of hacking social media shit years to get my Twitter where it is because I follow certain people and I don't know them. It's all just random follow Follow, follow, follow.

I get called. Some guys like, why are you tagging me in Bitcoin? I'm like, what? And then I'm like, I don't know. And then another guy texts me like,

Oh, you're tagging a lot of people in Bitcoin and other shit. And I'm like, what? Forex trading. Well, and then I go and it's like everything it's Bitcoin. It's like,

I don't even know if they're only fan. It was like four different. Just call your stack. That guy is still probably not any worse. it's like i don't even know if they're only fan it was like four different just tag tag tag that guy is still probably not any worse than the guys who are doing it say they're doing it no legitimately so just i sat there but i had to delete deactivate my twitter i'm like really what was the point of it why can't you can't you just change your password no but it's dude gidget straight lost her instagram last week i mean well yeah but it was only because i know a guy that spends 100 million dollars a year with

meta that was the reason i mean i called him and he called his rep and we gave him the handle and they were they immediately kind of shut it down from the top end held it up and then we got to reset i sent you their counsel too yeah yeah do you think just changing my password's good no you can't I don't if he's in his account right but you've got to use two step

if you can still get in your account and they're in there then yes then you need to set up two step authorization two step author authorization authentication

authentication no for sure that pisses me off because I get a lot like there's a if you can log back in that's not she was locked out I wasn't able to log in ites me off because i get a lot like there's a if you can log back in that's not she was locked out i wasn't able to log in it kicked me off but then i got in like a half hour

later and it's with two factor with uh resetting it yeah just do that and then set a stronger password yeah i'm so pissed off well man is chicken tenders no that's chicken tenders on a plate look i in a restaurant. We've talked about some serious tough decision-making today. Me, me and my son, you buying a house, chicken tenders are Miami vices. One six-foot colt, six one-foot colts. Our tough decisions are out there everywhere, man. Swirling around.

Every day is a new decision. Swirling around it is. And guys, can I give one more piece of advice just on what I'm seeing everywhere in the news If you do not have a six-month emergency fund that will cover all your bills Stop spending money on anything else if you'd get a paycheck if you or somebody that receives a paycheck from somebody you need to stop spending money on anything right now because If the wealthiest companies are out there I i.e. Apple, Microsoft, everybody, laying off thousands of people,

how much of that do you think is driven by some of the AI advancement? I don't think so. Well, they overhired. They did a big hiring two years ago. Here's my problem. I have issues with this. This is his problem. This is my only problem with it.

No, my problem is this i'm talking you're giving billions of dollars to charity stop laying off your fucking people that's a good point i'm sorry like all these guys they're you people who made you who you are take care of them first before you start and i love charity i gotta i love charity but i'm tired of seeing people lay off 12 15 20 000 people and giving billions a year away i put that towards the people that could post an argument on why you should not give to charity i'm not saying don't give it to charity but i'm just saying super unpopular and maybe we don't even play this what do you guys think i want to have we i feel like maybe we've talked about this

what do you how do you feel about gofundme oh we talked about it yeah they take way too big of a kick and then you can just put anything up and then it's a scam and go fund me there's a new company was it you somebody came to me somebody came to me we were we were at the uh that networking event at uh at aria yep and was it were they talking to both of us about what it is they have they have a new they have a new deal i was talking to the yeah you're talking to your your english story whatever it was with ari gold with ari no no one of the people that i met through snack daddy is, is built a platform very similar to go fund me with the exception of they manage the distribution for the cause, which means the money is escrowed with them. They verify the cause and they pay directly to vendors that support whatever

it is. So if it's like Nancy and Billy's house burned down, okay, cool. We're going to verify their house burned down. And if they want furniture, they go to the furniture store and then we cut a check to the furniture store to replace the furniture. We're not handing them a check for $87, cool. We're going to verify their house burned down. And if they want furniture, they go to the furniture store, and then we cut a check to the furniture store to replace the furniture.

We're not handing them a check for $87,000. That's not what we're doing. And it kind of creates another level of accountability that eliminates that Wild West feeling that they kind of have. I thought it was a good idea. It seems like a lot of management. What did we talk about last show? Controls.

Yeah. Let me ask you this. Buffalo Bills guy that died and came back, right? DeMar Hamlin. They gave him like $8 million for his GoFundMe, right? It was $3.4 million in his contract that they're going to fully pay. Yeah. And then his GoFundMe is worth.

So let's say he never comes back to football game. Would you guys have issues if he took that personally since he can't make it his career anymore? Yeah, because they're paying him $3.5 million. Yeah. He was paid to take that risk. He was paid to take that risk, and they're paying his full contract even though based on the NFLPA standards he doesn't have to.

He seems like a really good kid, though. Yeah. And that fund that he started, he was trying to give. I think that maybe he, if he was trying to give i think that maybe he you know if he doesn't play football again i hope he does i would love to see him i was watching that game sure and horrified um i would really like to see him come back just as a as a human interest story but if he takes that that money and starts kind of maybe spending some time in the offseason finding really good causes to distribute he has that right to say where it goes he started it

yeah you know there's one argument yeah i mean yeah yeah but i i if he was making 10 bucks an hour and it happened maybe because he wasn't getting oh i think you're not being 10 bucks an hour you're not being compensated in a way that puts your put your life at risk and if we have it jesus man it's like you talk about cops and firefighters that die in the job and teach a good shot and you know life is so unfair it's funny that we just find these things like eight million dollars for a multi-millionaire who had a heart attack and it's totally fine yeah you know it's just we have a funny way of like you can't this is where you have to stop eating animals right it goes It goes down the line, pig, and then you kind of start approaching dog,

and it's like, nope, that's a hard line. It's a personality. No, but it's a personality. I mean, you know, for some people it's rabbits. For some people it's delicious stew. It's just funny how our arbitrary, a lot of these things we do in our lives are. I agree.

So Chris Connell supports the eating of dogs. No, I said. Going the other way, John. You're going the other way. Anything that's cute, stop eating it. I love that. It was a, there's a comedian that was, comedian that was talking about how terrible the American public is.

And he told a story. He goes, look, I'm gonna tell you a story. It's how you know the American public is terrible. Yep, yep. I know what you're gonna do. My father passed away like four months ago. And my mother said, you know, he had a dog. My mother said, should we had a dog my mother said should

we tell the dog and i was like what you know yes she's like yeah because my dad's dog of like 12 years and so german shepherd so my mom went home and bent over to the dog and said you know pop pop's gone to heaven he's not coming home anymore so we just wanted you to know and he goes that night the dog crawled up in my dad's chair and died. And as soon as he said it, the whole audience goes, Oh, he goes, yep. See, not one of you fuckers. Sorry about my father dying. You guys care about my dad dying at all. You cared about the dog and that's it.

Would you rather see a pedophile get shot? God, we had such a good end point at the end of that story. Or a deer get shot. What do you, we had such a good end point at the end of that story. Or a deer gets shot. What do you mean? Which one would you rather see? Colt, literally nobody would rather see the deer get shot. I think people can't stomach seeing a person get shot. I think this is where he starts.

No, this is where he starts. What are you doing? He's starting to lobby. He's starting to lobby for his human hunting club is what this is. A lot of people can't take a human being shot. We've already told you there's measures against you being able to just go wantonly murder people. I know they've done horrible things, but it's not going to happen. Stop making fetch work.

Stop trying to make fetch work. Or deer. You can't do it. Oh, boy. Deer hunters are typically highly religious people, too too and they're very pro-death penalties so even that constituency would be like no i'd rather see the guy get shot yeah there's nobody cool i mean you're not gonna get that what about a guy that's just that was such a hard lawsuit talk about this one i had a guy just all all last week threatened lawsuits would rather him get shot

no i don't want just because he was threatening a lot yeah what a dude he's got friends and family and kids yeah that deer does too and he's not threatening lawsuits he's just over there eating grass he's just nibbling nibbling a cute little nibbler just nibbling a bit cute eating that grass not threatening oh and with that that's how you know that the show is coming to a close for this Being a cute little nibbler. Just nibbling. Nibbling, being cute, eating that grass. Not threatening the wilds. Oh, and with that, that's how you know that the show is coming to a close for this week. You know, I know Colt. I've known him for years. That caught me off guard.

That's where it do you off. Yeah, save it for when we have a guest, Colt, which I think we will have guests next week. I think we got guests coming into the studio next week, which are awesome dudes, and hopefully that will work that out. So, Connell well colt besides you know the world's most dangerous game where would they find you if they want to find you other than the remote island in the philippines yeah edstein's island starting in the human hunt where you buy the whole thing yeah with an elephant gun

so i'd be afraid to shoot an elephant gun. That thing kicks hard, man. That's a recoil. Where do they find you, Colt? Here in Henderson right now. Colt underscore Amity on Instagram. Cal, so how do they find you? Connellaw LV or 702 Connell 2666355.

I thought you were going to say 702 Roofing. I was like, thanks, buddy. 702 Roofing. Well, thanks for listening, everybody. Sorry about Colt going all pod. Well, no, I'm not because that's what makes the show great. Remember, if you're going to move, you might as well move forward. See you next time, everybody. Hey, it's John Gafford.

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