No Jumper - The Sharp Tank Episode 8 with AD’s Dad Rory Douglas

Episode Date: January 6, 2022

Sharp sits down with Rory Douglas aka AD's dad to talk about elevating the youth, financial literacy and more! https://www.instagram.com/tha_sharp_one/ https://www.instagram.com/rorykdouglas/ ----- NO JUMPER PATREON http://www.patreon.com/nojumper CHECK OUT OUR NEW SPOTIFY PLAYLIST https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5te... FOLLOW US ON SNAPCHAT FOR THE LATEST NEWS & UPDATES https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... CHECK OUT OUR ONLINE STORE!!! http://www.nojumper.com/ SUBSCRIBE for new interviews (and more) weekly: http://bit.ly/nastymondayz  Follow us on SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4ENxb4B... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Follow us on Social Media: https://www.snapchat.com/discover/No_... http://www.twitter.com/nojumper http://www.instagram.com/nojumper https://www.facebook.com/NOJUMPEROFFI... http://www.reddit.com/r/nojumper JOIN THE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/Q3XPfBm Follow Adam22: https://www.tiktok.com/@adam22 http://www.twitter.com/adam22 http://www.instagram.com/adam22 adam22hoe on Snapchat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sharp Tank, no jumper, sharpest coolest podcast in the world. And today, I have a gentleman, a scholar, an overall good guy in here. I got Mr. Rory. Mr. Rory, welcome. Well, thank you, man. Thanks for having me, brother. I want to just shake your hand. I can't wait.

Yeah, just shake your hand. Yes, sir. Now, you say that you were a financial educator. That sounds like something that, you know, something I like. like, you know, having money and knowing what to do with it pretty much. Is that what that entails to? Exactly. A financial educator man is somebody that help people pursue their purpose in areas of financial

education. Right now, before the pandemic, the average American was one to two paychecks away from being homeless. And one out of three Americans in debt, an average American family cannot even have a $400 emergency. So financial literacy is really, really needed. And that's what I'm all about. Yeah.

I like that. What do you think that they don't offer in financial, like, why do you think they don't offer financial education in public schools? Why do you think that is? Well, I would say this here. We go to school for about 14 years and we don't learn really about real estate. We don't learn anything about finance. I think that we say education and education is the key. They're everything.

But when you really look at it, today a school teacher. can barely make a living, but entertainers and other people make millions. You think that's why teachers be walking out like, fuck this shit. I'm done with this shit. They get frustrated. And I feel that. I think that teachers should be overpaid, not underpaid. Yeah.

See, when I went to school, you know, I used to watch teachers, man. They didn't really care about the kids like that, man, at all. Like, they just, for a paycheck, you even say something snarled, just go to the office. They don't even want to deal with you. Yeah. You know, instead of probably sitting there taking the time to, you know, help the child adapt. Exactly.

You know what I'm saying in situations. Right. And I'm actually a product of that. When I was in school, I got kicked out of every elementary school, every junior high school and every high school. I was labeled a troubled youth. And I got kicked out of all of those schools, not because I was really a bad student,

but I had suffered from something that was called dyslexia. I read things backwards, right? So I can listen to the teacher and pretty much articulate everything the teacher said, but when it came down to open book or test, I would create a distraction, do something, get thrown off the class. That's why I got kicked out of so many classes. Do you think that the teachers were more into,

and you know, I don't like to talk about race, but I feel like especially, you know, back in the day, you got to bring that up. Do you think that the teachers were more willing to help a Caucasian student or a foreign exchange student quicker than they would help a black African-American male or female? Well, I would say this here, man.

I've never seen a riot in the 700 credit score of neighborhood. They've ever seen the right. But I would say this also, too, that when you don't put funding short education, teachers are pretty much overworked, right? So a lot of things slipped by because there was one teacher pretty much with a full class,

where I come from in South Central Los Angeles. So a lot of the things that happened to me as a child, basically is because the teachers pretty much just had one class with a lot of people. So my disability didn't get handled or confronted properly. Right. So I want to know, like, where do you think the funding is going that could be going to these schools? Because I see us putting millions, billions we have for years, you know, towards wars and, you know, anything else.

You know, and I'm for that. American people, hey, man, we need to be protected. I'm not against that. Let's do what we need to do. Let's scrape up the resources. Let's do what we need to do to get things done with whoever has a problem with us. But when it comes to the problem at home and, you know, education and kids not getting the proper education, you know, there's kids over. another countries, man, that are graduating early and doing things early because they're getting the

right hands-on training. You're absolutely right. I would tell you this here, man, that it takes, the average person today in America makes about $13,000 a year, even if they're on welfare or whatever it may be, right? It takes about $70,000 to house one prisoner. So we got to look at how many times that 13 going to $70,000, right? So I believe instead of building prisons and jails, because the prisons are on the stock market. Right. A lot of us don't really know that. And then also, prisons are pretty much dictating how many jails they're going to have

according to third grade reading scores, right? So sometimes it's like a big business, like a pipeline. You know, it's like a lot of money in that system, but I don't believe it's going in the right places. Does that make sense? Yeah, it makes sense. And I've seen, no, and I have to agree with you about the prison systems and becoming and being a big business because I've been like, you know, down south and places

like that, those jails are individually funded. They're owned, they're private jails, their private facilities. That's correct. You know what I'm saying? So when you go into this jail, you have to think about it. There's a person that owns this jail. It's not really the state. Right. You know what I'm saying? It's not the state or anything like that. They're just kind of housing you for them. Exactly. And you just talked about, you know, the monies, right? When you go into elementary schools, they look like jails. You ever walk down the hallways and see all that metal? So pretty much, it's like a pipeline, right? I'm not talking to it's education. That's fascinating. by the way.

I didn't, you kind of dropped that one on me. That was good. I like that. So it's like a pipeline. But the main thing is, I think the young kids today, man,

are some of the best kids out there. They just need the right guidance, right? And that's what I'm all about, empowering people and especially getting to young people because I was one of those young kids in South Central Los Angeles that came up through all of that. And I'm like a walking miracle. I'm not even supposed to be here.

Yeah. Do you think, do you feel that by them not putting those type of programs in schools and public schools because I'm sure private schools have them, you know, financial mix. Do you feel like that's a way from keeping people from financial literacy?

Well, you know, I can talk on it because right now, you know, I just turned 58. I feel like I'm 20. But I would say this here. You know, thank you. I appreciate it. When I was in school, we had metal shop. We had home economics. We had a lot of programs

within school, right? So that helped a lot of people. But once the programs came out of the schools, then that's when all the crimes start to come in, crack and all of that stuff. You took the programs out, crime comes in. So that's what we see inside of inner cities, man. We see inside of inner cities, man,

we see that it's a lack, not only of financial literacy, it's a lack of resources. And then what happens, man? You got the gangs, you've got all these different things happening. And I just seen pretty much, I just seen a, they did a statistic, a test.

They had two mouse, mice's rather that was sitting inside of a cage. They put a big chunk of cheese in the middle of the cage, right? The mice was just chilling, just in harmony, right? So then they cut the cheese in half. Then the mouse just got a little more aggressive, right? Right. And then they cut it down a little lower.

Then the mice start fighting one another. And then eventually one of the mice killed the other mice. Wow. So a lot of things are pretty much already, it's a system, right? Right, right. And that's the reason why, you know, I'm happy to be able to talk to you today. and I'm happy you're asking these questions because we got to really, really speak and help the youth that's coming up, give them the right information, empower them.

So that's my whole thing, man, to be able to say some things for people who are listening right now, they'll be able to change your lives. That's what it's all about. Do you feel like they're targeting certain neighborhoods and schools? Do you feel like they're targeting them to kind of keep them away? Take all the shit out of there. They don't really need that much here. We'll put it over here to the private schools, and we'll take all.

all that, they need it more. They need it more than the public schools. Those kids are okay. You know, we don't need to give them too many programs. They want to fight amongst each other anyway. Get the fuck in there as adults. When do we become adults and really get our children back? Well, you know, you said something that makes a lot of sense.

The bottom line is that when you have, like, especially in the African-American community, right, the average household is ran by a single woman, right? But that goes way back. It goes way back. It was a time where, you know, in order for a person to help welfare, the man couldn't be in the house. But prior to that, prior to like the Vietnam War and everything like that, black men were pretty much taking care of their homes, right? Went off the war, came back, right? Recession took place, right?

And then in order for the woman to receive a check, the man couldn't be in the house. So they said they gave them welfare. I call it farewell. You said back. Fair well. So we have generations and generations of welfare recipients, the same stuff perpetuating. So it's really a big business.

And it's really not so much targeting. It's profiting. Well, back to like you even said with the prisons. And that's why I said even with the privately owned facilities. It's a big business. It's a cash cow, man. You're getting paid. The government is paying these people who have these facilities

who have invested their money into these cells, into the food, you know, into things like that. You, I think it was Bob Barker. Bob Barker, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Bob Barker's right. Yeah.

Okay, his son went to jail one time and he didn't like the way that they were treating his son in there because his son had to go do. I don't really know the details to it, but I know that his son had to go do a little bit of time or something like that. And he didn't like the way that they were treating his son. So what he did was, and I kind of commend him for this. I like this. What he did was he went and made his own product of shoes for the gills, soaps, shampoos, you know, all these different things with his name on it. You know what I'm saying?

And I really feel like he did it to, and it started just with his son, you know, and just seeing how fucked up the systems are, you know. So to get back to even financial movements, do you see how many roadblocks we talked about before we could actually talk about getting to some money? Think about it. How many roadblocks we just had to talk about. And there's many, many more that we had to talk about before we can even talk about somebody getting a dollar. Yeah, you're right.

You absolutely right. That's why knowledge is key. You know, knowledge is key. And I always tell people in the word community is the word unity. So you got to have unity if you want to have a solid community. So right now, I think that people are waking up. Even I have people from my old neighborhood who text me on the cell phone. You in jail, you can text now.

They got iPads. They got all this stuff. So things are changing. man, I just think that we have to push that change. Does that make sense? That makes very... Because the system is actually coming down as we speak. It's coming down because of people like you, you know, you are strong enough to be on this platform to talk about that.

You could be talking about a lot of other things, but you're talking about that. That shows that you really care. And that's what I'm all about, man. It's all about really empowering people no matter who it is, whether it's Hispanic, black, or Latino, Caucasian. It really doesn't matter, man. The bottom line is we've got to push positivity. Right.

Yeah. We do. Positivity is everything. I got to ask you this, you being, you know, in the financial game and just understanding the mixtures of it all, where would you, where do you see? Because you seem like a man that secretly got a crystal ball somewhere.

So where do you see cryptocurrency in the next 10 years? Cryptocurrency is actually here. It's the future. You know, it's funny because a lot of people, they're a little insecure about cryptocurrency, right? But we pretty much are conditioned to the dollar bill per se, because it's something physical that you can actually touch, right?

But when you really think about it, the dollar bill originally was backed by gold. So one dollar, U.S. dollar in gold, one dollar is one dollar in gold, right? Now the goal is gone. Then we had something called a silver certificate. That's when I was a kid. One U.S. dollar, one silver certificate. Now the silver is gone. So the gold is gone.

the silver is gone, now the dollar bill says note, like note, like house note, car note, it's borrowed. It has no value. So if a depression took place tomorrow, the dollars will be out there with no value. So the government is constantly printing up money as we speak, and it's creating a lot of inflation. That's why inflation right now is about 6.2% in America,

and the banks on average give us a negative 1%. But the bottom line is that the cryptocurrency is here to stay, but a lot of guys, you see them on the internet and put money to the ear, right? I think, you know, you better be careful that you don't get an ear infection, but the bottom line is, is that the cryptocurrency has value,

the dollar bill has no value, so I'm for cryptocurrency. I'm pretty much heavily vested in that also, too. You know, I think that we have forgotten as people that we are the value. We are the value. It's not paper. It's not.

It's not something they can take. They have to understand something with banks, with banks. I don't care how much money, people. You go put in there today, tomorrow. You know that money is gone as soon as you put it in there. You pretty much, they pretty much give you an I-O-U. You just see it on the screen because right seeing is believing.

So if they can show you that your money's in this account, try to go draw it out all of it today. I guarantee you it's going to be just a little bit of it. It's a little bit of things they got to go through. You might need to come back 24 hours. I mean, we can give you a little bit of this right now, you know, but we just can't give it all to you because it's a pyramid scheme. See? Well, I tell you what, man.

It's your show. Yeah. So I got to really drop some heat. Come on. Because it's your show. Come on. See, you have to really think about this. Talk to me.

The banks in America on average give us negative 1%. Right. Negative 1%. I just told you inflation is 6.2%. So we have to get at least 7% or greater just to even be the inflation right now. Right. So we go to the bank. We put our monies in the bank.

Right. The bank give us negative 1% on average. Right. The bank takes. Our money, they don't save it. They put it into the market, and they get all of the compounding interests. Right. And by the way, the banks don't give us compounding interest.

They give us simple interest, right? So always tell people, would you rather put monies in the bank and get negative 1% or would you rather put your money with the bank put their money? Right. So we're going to let it out, okay? When you go to the bank and you put monies in the bank, the banks, by law in America, it's called fractional banking. They're allowed.

They have to keep at least 10% of our deposit. So let's say if I had deposited $1,000 in the bank. The bank is going to keep 100, but invest the nine. What they invest the nine in, home loans, student loans, car loans, S&P 500, all of that, right? So you're paying for people's loans pretty much. When you go on, you put your money in the bank. And then also, the banks are heavily, heavily vested in life insurance.

This is going to trip you out. It's called B-O-L-I, Bank-owned life insurance. Bank-owned life insurance. Last year, during the pandemic, the banks in America purchased over $190 billion in life insurance. That's why the young people get some life insurance Because we have the wrong interpretation of life insurance See when you hit the word life when you hit the word insurance Sharp

You hear that's the operative word but it has to be attached to something So if I say insurance insurance insurance what? Automobile insurance car Homeowners insurance a home When we say life insurance is for your life It's not called death insurance Can I ask something? I'm so curious here

Why is it that they only start pushing the issue for life insurance when you start to get older? Why don't they ever try to show us that? Like in your 20s, like, hey man, go get you some life insurance, you know, start putting into that policy now, start getting your stuff going. I notice they only start pushing that narrative once you're kind of older and you're about 45, maybe 50, you know,

at a time to where they feel like your ass is going to get ready to get sent off to the upper room. That shit is scary to me. Yeah, well, see, that's the main thing. That's the reason why we have to empower the young people. That's why I'm glad I'm talking about it. Now I'm telling young people to make sure that they get some life insurance,

because life insurance is to transfer wealth. That's what it really, really means. It's to transfer wealth. You have to really think about it. When I opened up, I said the average American before the pandemic was one to two paychecks away from being homeless. One out of three Americans in debt. The average American family cannot even handle a $400 emergency.

The average college student gets out of college with about $25,000 debt. If they're pursuing to be a professional, they can be $100,000 to $200,000 debt. The average college student in America is still in student loan debt in a late 40s, right? So if that's the case, what is this generation going to transfer to the next generation? Debt.

That's why we have to transfer wealth and not dead. And I understand that life insurance means transferring wealth and final expenses to bury someone. So we need final expense to bury someone, which means we shouldn't be seeing in our communities, go fund meals, cook sales, bake sales. We just recently seen celebrities couldn't even bury themselves. Final expense is so inexpensive. And the insurance companies don't talk about final expense. adults can get covered for Lewis 50 cents a day kids 12 cents a month so we shouldn't be having any of that all of it boils down to a lack of education not a lack of money yeah see that's that's oh man that's deep right there see i like that and it's just even thinking about like how they it's all a pyramid scheme man it is it's all to make it's all to get a couple of people they can't have everybody having the knowledge see that's not how it was a pyramid scheme man it is it's all to make it's all to get a couple of people they can't have everybody having the knowledge see that's not how it works, you've got to have majority and minority.

Hey, are you touching on that? I'll say this to you, man. I'll say this to you. You know, when you think of terms of product, right? When you think in terms of product, people want to get the best price for their product, right? And people pay for that. Does that make sense? But here's

something that's really, really important. That in America, poverty starts at a family of four making $30,000 a year. Right. Poverty begins with a single American, male or female, making $15,000 a year. Yeah.

So think about this. Well, in order to get into the wealth column, you got to make above $150,000 a year. Back to when you said something about, you know, a kid going to college, right? And they end up getting out of school with at least $25,000, $30,000 worth of debt, correct? Right.

They go to school for, whether it's marketing, finance, business, you know, whatever, you know, to end up getting out and working a deadbeat job anyway. Makes no sense to me to go spend four or five years and something. If you don't love it, don't do it. I hate when people try to jump on the bandwagon to something because they hear, okay, they can make some money into it. It's not what you love.

It's not what you want to do. So that's why you end up getting out working a deadbeat job anyway because the government wants their money back now. They don't give a fuck how you do it, where you do it. We made sure you got the education that you wanted. Pay us. Right. But I'll tell you young kids today, man. They got a

a lot coming at at them with technology. social media, the whole nine yards. And most people spend more time outside of themselves, but very little time with themselves. Right. So I'm encouraging young people to spend more time with themselves because job to be just stands for just over broke, right? People don't care about what they think about their cells.

Care about what other people think of. Right. They don't care about what they think of themselves, so they don't care to spend time with themselves. Because it's a lot of things to take them outside of themselves. Right. And then most young kids who go to college, they pretty much are going to college,

going according to what their parents are telling them, right? So I encourage young people, man, to do the things that really, really that they have in their hearts. That's by spending some time with themselves because, you know, your job is what you get paid for, but your calling is what you were made for. What I mean by your calling? The thing that you was called to do, the gift that's inside of you. You can feel it. Yeah. So give young people the opportunity to live their calling versus just a job.

And it's nothing wrong with having a job. No, not at all. But the bottom line is, is that, you know, job is not going to really, really get a person to the next level, not at all. But when I was telling you about wealth starts at $150,000 a year, you have to really think about that because it's only about 5% of Americans that hit the wealth column. So a lot of people are falling behind because of a lack of knowledge. What do you think our percentage in that as black African-Americans?

What do you think our percentage falls in that percentage? Well, I'll tell you this is really crazy, man, because last year in America, African-American made enough money in one physical year to buy ABC, NBC, and CBS in one physical year. Now, in other communities, I'm not going to say certain names, but in other communities, the dollar bill turns about nine times. And some communities, the dollar bill turns about eight times.

I know exactly what. And if they're fast, they can catch it. That was a fast move you made. And I know who you're talking about. And in African-American community, the dollar bill doesn't turn not. one time yet we make that much money that's why i said that um it has to we have to have a collective effort it's education that's why i'm pushing financial education so therefore we can we can stop that vicious cycle of transferring debt and being ill-informed why aren't we all i don't give a fuck what um

what background i don't care what background where you come from doesn't matter why isn't it that we don't get a financial like just that loan like I've noticed people not gonna say who but they'll come over from other places and they already have a check waiting on them to go do whatever they want to do whether it's to go start a small business smoke shop or a bodega or you know supermarket or gas station you know they come over they already have these grants waiting on them I believe that all the American people you're at least due to one grant that you don't have to pay back go do what you want to do in life. Do not say that we never gave you a fair shake at it. We don't care if you went and burnt

the money. Just one fair shake at that. You know? Yeah. I really, I really believe in that, man, because you know what? You'd have a lot more, you'd have a lot less people running their mouth talking about they ain't never got nothing. Well, if you go back historically, you would see that most of the banks are pretty much, you know, it's pretty much slave labor, cotton field, slave labor, all of that. But like I said, what do you think Sunday best came from? You know, the meaning of Sunday's best? What that meant was all the house niggas used to go to church

with the owners. Black Friday. And they would all have, you know, it was the, it was the one they kept in the house. Yes. You know what I'm saying? So they would bring them, you know, and everybody would florn off the piece of jewelry that Master bought them. Or, well, you ain't get this new suit from him. Or, well, you ain't get these slides from them. Your master ain't get you these. Why do you think we boast on each other today as black folks? That's all we do. It's all, well, you ain't got this.

Oh, well, look at this. You ain't got this. you can't be on. Man, you open it up, you open up a can right now. You know, that's funny that you, that's funny that you just said that, man, because you know,

Sunday's best. You know, we had that. We had the house Negro, we had the field Negro. We had all of those different types of things. And we still are fighting with that to this very, very day.

But I always tell people, you know, we say united, we stand, divided we fall, but the same people that said that divided us. So it's important that we unite.

And the way we unite, It was game. Yeah, the way we unite is the way we're talking now so young people can hear this, right? So they can learn from this. That's what it's all about. All kids, not just black kids, but all kids, learn from this. Because I truly believe the work could be a better place, man, once we start educating one another, once we start duplicating, creating. Because right now in America, virtually nothing is really being made here.

You get my point? Yeah. So we got to really get back to the basics, man, and start spreading knowledge. We forgot about the Malcolm X's. We forgot about the Martin, Luther King's. We forgot about the, what's that, Nelson? Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela.

We forgot about these people. This is not what, when, see, I noticed today what we do is, and just a lot of people, it's just everybody. Like, what we do is we go run out. We go, if we have a problem with what the government's doing to us, or we have a problem with them not trying to give us the literacy that we need to move about in life, I noticed that we go and we riot through shit. We steal shit. We want to go and take shit. We feel like it belonged. But I noticed back in the day, you know, because I do a lot of research

on that, you know, just what Malcolm X was one of my favorites. I looked up to him, man, by any means necessary. I've carried that throughout my entire life. And these people honestly would be rolling in their grave to see what people do today. Back in the day, man, when people weren't listening, guess what we did, man, we sat in. We made our voices strong. We made our voices strong. We made them hear us. And it didn't come with stealing and looting. It didn't, man, to get your point across. I feel like people use that as an excuse to steal.

Yeah. You know, it's a lot of frustration out there, man. Yeah. It's a lot of frustration out there. But if we really went back, man, you know, speaking of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, you know, the main message was to do for self. There's nothing wrong with doing for self, right?

So I think that we got to get back to the basics and start doing for self. Because either we do for self or suffer the consequences. The consequences is what we're seeing right now. The consequences are not eating correctly. I want people to understand. That doesn't mean be selfish. He's just saying do for self. It's nothing wrong with that. Yeah, yeah, just do for self. That doesn't mean that you're selfish. Right. Just do for self. That's what it's all about. Just doing for self and empowering self. And that's what it's all about, man. Because right now, we see all the stuff that's happening in America, man, a lot of division, hate, all of that. stuff I strongly believe man it's all about empowerment educating one another

working one another and we can take it to the next level that's what it's all about you got to be positive 90% of winning is simple excitement you got to get excited people today are so frustrated so angry you got to get excited you can't wake up angry no you can't you know it's hard to say that when you when you come in when you're in a certain environment where you know you dodging bullets all day it's really hard to say that right well I say this you can't say that when that's what you grew up in exactly so anything thing outside of that is great.

It should pull you towards it. Exactly. It shouldn't be no problem because you were used to that already. Exactly. There's no hurt from that. Yeah. And then the thing that bothers me now is that even like the new guy, the rapper, Young Dolph, I believe, you know, going to his community and trying to bring things up. And he got killed there.

Same with Nipsey here in California, going into the community trying to help. He got killed. Mr. Rory, he got killed going in and getting some butter cookies. Yeah. That they sold in his neighborhood since he was a kid. They were butter cookies, man. He was just going to go get some butter cookies, known the owner since he was a young buck. And then the same with Nipsey in front of his store, right? Yeah. That was jealous. It's funny, man. Yeah. And I grew up in that

type of environment, man, coming up in South Central Los Angeles, you know, I do a lot of things, but I, you know, I send things and I help people, right? But you got to be very careful when you in those environments, man. You got to go in there and have security. Well, I think that was a place that you knew you did not want to be anymore. I'm sure you didn't sat out there. or even some nights. Like you just go driving by. You know what I'm saying that you're stopping, but you're a drive-by-nice suit.

I see your nice Mercedes-Benz and things like that outside, you know, so you might want to go take a drive and you ride through the streets and I'm sure that when you look around, you say to yourself, this is not a place I want to ever be again. It's funny, man.

I came up in that environment, I made it out of that environment. And what I do is, man, I like to stretch to young people's vision, right? So I bring a lot of young people up to my house. You know, house, show them how I live, bring them to my office.

Just motivating vision, man. You motivate them. Yeah, because seeing is believing. Exactly. If you can show it, my fucker's going to believe in that, you know. And I like how, because that's what I try to do, man. I try to mentally, I help homeless people. I help all types of people because I try to, if I can pull people over to, over the bridge

with me, as many as can grab onto my arms, my fingertips to my nails, I'm going to drag as much as I can, as many people as I can through to success and try to come back and grab a few more. Yes. Because that's what we're supposed to do, but we don't do that. Everybody wants to step on your shoulders to get there and then once you say, well, here, help me. Here goes my arms. Fuck you. I'm already over the wall.

Yeah. You know, it's funny because I don't know if you ever heard of this, it's a sane to talk about crabs in the bucket. You ever heard of that? Crabs in the bucket. I mentioned it a couple times in some interviews I've talked about. This is something that's really important. Yeah. Crabbs in the bucket, it's a myth, but here's the thing.

The reality is crabs never get out the bucket. Yeah, they never do. So one that's being pulled out of the bucket, and that one that got put out of the bucket don't want to get back into the bucket. Does that make sense? I've said about it in my, I said it in my very first interview that I ever did on Soft White Underbelly. Right. Okay, this was over a year ago that I said this documented.

I said, we're all like a bunch of crabs in a bucket just trying to get out. Right. Key word, trying. That means that you'll never get. trying never does. No. And see, I'll tell you this also too, man. All kids, all neighborhoods are hurting right now.

Yeah. You know, you have more rehabilitation centers in rich areas than you have in the inner cities. Yeah. So it's just, it's the same situation with different problems. Does that make sense? So we got to really, really push consciousness, man, toward black kids, white kids, Hispanic kids, the whole nine yards, push, love and help as many young people as possible. because I personally believe that this is the best group of young people.

They just need to be steered in the right direction. Does that make sense? Makes perfect sense. So we got to start educating them. And that's why you have a platform to talk to people. When you get a chance, man, say some things to the young people, which I'm sure you do, to elevate them, to motivate them. And if all the young people listen to me right now, I really want you to know that you got greatness inside of you.

Don't let anyone steal your dream, you know. You may not be where you want to be right now. not be in the certain situation that you want to be in. So don't look at your smartphone and see all of this luxury and all this lavish lifestyles and allow that to steal your value or your morals. You got to hold on to your belief. A lot of that should be a front. And if they can open their eye, a third eye to see that.

Their seventh, their eighth eye. They can open that to see that, hey, man, looks can be deceiving. I've heard a people, man, come around the quarterback shit. He's in a Bentley, but it's really not even his. He's just fronting on you making you feel like, Damn, if he's got one, I can get one. And in the black culture, that's how we look at it. We're no better than each other.

We look at it like, shit. If he can get one, I can get one. Because we've always been, we've always frowned on each other. Right, right, right. It's never just been no, hey, Mr. Rory, I am proud of you for what you're doing. Right. Keep thriving. And I think that's going to change once we start spreading that education.

Once we start empowering young people to pursue their purpose, that's going to change, man. Yeah. Yeah. I have to ask you this, man. Do you believe that crypto will be the only currency left, or do you think that gold will still play a major factor into what we do in the upcoming future? Gold will always pay a major factor, right?

But right now, you're trading gold. You're not really touching gold in most cases. You're just trading it. It'll always be a factor because it's a commodity like oil, salt, grain. Does that make sense? Land. It'll always be there. But cryptocurrency, man, is pretty much stepping up to technology.

Because right now, you know, you go into the bank, what do we see machines? We go into the airport. We see machines. We're going to the store we see machines. In the next five years, in America, 85 million jobs are going to be displaced due to artificial intelligence. A robot is about to take your job. They have done that in McDonald's. You order yourself now when you'll walk up in there.

You know, I saw this three years ago. When you walk in there, they don't even have a person take the order. They just have a person give you the order now. They don't even, you go up there, you order it on the menu, you put your card in. You pay for it. Walmart has changed. Right. I'm saying, hey, no cashiers.

Everything is by hand now. So if you got a big ass basket, the shit, you're scanning it yourself. Now, and check this out. Think about it. It goes back to what me and you have been talking about here. Talk to right?

Yeah. We've left from customer service now to convenience. So it's a lack of communication. Once again, right? So there's a scripture in the Bible that says my people are lost due to the lack of knowledge, not the lack of money.

So it's a lack of communication. That's why we can't allow technology to replace us thinking soberly. Does that make sense? Thanks, perfect. So technology is good, but you got to really know how to use technology to your benefit.

We used knowledge for greed. America, you know, just, and I got to say that we use it. We're pretty damn good at it, too. I ain't going to lie. We're pretty damn good at it. The entire U.S.A. We used it for,

it's not good, what we used it for, you know, because I remember when, well, I don't remember because I'm not that old, but from the stories I've heard, I remember you can go to White Castle or you can go get a burger for 50 cents or seven cents compared to, you know, you're going to pay eight, but like the dollar, the value has changed.

And it's not because the dollar changed, no, the people change the dollar. Yeah, exactly. It changed the value of the dollar. Exactly. Because you have to understand, man, you got, you have two languages out there. You got the language for the average common American and the language for the rich and the wealthy, right? Right. So once you learn the language of the rich and the wealthy,

the wealthy, you will have money for a lifetime, not a lunchtime. So it's just two languages. That's why financial literacy is so important, right, to teach financial literacy. So I'm pressing that because you'd be surprised how many people really don't understand financial education. Once you learn financial education, you'll learn the language of the rich and the wealthy. And we have to learn how to run our households. We have to learn how to run our businesses, just like America runs this country. It's a corporation. So you should have a corporation. You should have a separate entity. You should be building multiple streams of income. And I want, I want the, the black man to understand. That's who I care about. I care about

the black man. So I want them to understand something that trapping in the streets, we've done that. Okay, we've mastered that. We've been there, right? Let's get to trapping like some of these other folks, because they're trapping like a motherfucker. I'm watching them in these corporate buildings and a Fortune 500 businesses. We can have that. If we really come together, they're not going to hear your voice by yourself, Mr. Rory. We're not going to hear Mr. Sharp's voice by himself. It takes us all to stand together as one and really speak as one. Not the person in the back that's always got to say, well, I'm going to just do what I want to do.

No, let's do what we got to do. Definitely, definitely. You know what it's happening as we speak. Yeah. Just the near fact that we have in this conversation right now, the level of consciousness, is out there, totally. That's why we have to constantly push it. Does that make sense?

We have to constantly push it. And I believe that you got to be the change that you want to see. That's the reason why, you know, everybody's pretty much following one leader, right? But I think that what we have to do is learn individually and then it becomes collectively. That's why I'm saying push the knowledge, push the wisdom. And that's what it's all about. And then it's going to all come together. It's happening as we speak.

I just hope that I'm a, I'm a. I watch the news because I'm into this. I was watching the news this morning at 5 o'clock. I'm up doing notes. I'm up doing notes this morning. You know, I'm up, I'm working, I'm watching content, you know, and I watch CNN and I've just watched what we've become. I thought that, you know, being, doing the news.

Right. Right. And you know, because you seem like, man, watch the news as well. You know, you got to, you just always want to keep up in knowledge. And I've noticed how I'm not going to name names, but I've noticed like certain platforms who have influence. They're not doing an up and down structure of, okay, we're just here to push the race. No, they bash one person and they glorify the other.

If you're going to tell the news, tell the news, tell it from B, be unbiased. Don't be a person that's just, that's a fan of somebody. Because see, I think that's what it's turned into today. People turn into fans of things. And even though it's wrong, they'll still have that narrative get pushed. That makes any sense. Makes a lot of sense. They'll make that, they'll have that narrative still get pushed because they were a fan low-key.

of this person. Right. You know, and you don't understand that you're about to put this person in power of a lot of things over your likes. Not over the,

not over your second thought. Use your second thought. I was a man that's always been taught to use your second thought. Don't just make motion and don't just use energy to create emotion. Exactly.

Exactly. You know, I'll tell you this, man. See, when I was saying to you that there's like, two systems, right? You see that America got belt out, right, when Wall Street fell, right? So we see a lot of stuff happening, man.

That's the reason why we got to really, really push and empower. That's what it's all about, pushing in power. Take your platform, educate as many young people as possible. I take what I do, I educate as many young people as possible. And as long as we push toward the good and start helping people, and especially young people, because today, it's funny, I see today the young people walk their communities and I don't even see the older people talking to the young people.

That's a shame. So I think older people need to start talking to young people because I think the older people today are scared of the young people. I'll be honest with you. From some of the things that I've seen, I would be kind of afraid too. I see people beating up older people and spitting on them and throwing things at them.

And you know, I knew a kid, I knew a guy, man, I seen him online, right? I've seen him of. He also tries, he's just a funny guy, just like a comedian dude. Dude doesn't seem like he had it all there. I'm not even going to mention his name. But I remember him getting on line one day and crying. And he said, somebody came to his house and knocked his grandmama out off the porch. She's 80 years old, man.

Wow. She's 80 years old. And they came and knocked this woman and, like, beat her, like hit her hard. Lady had to go to the hospital. Right. She fell off the porch. Exactly. But they do it for laughing matters and for jokes.

sometimes, man, the internet isn't always used for greater good, my man, and it's ugly. People just want to cloud chase. That's the payment to them. I like money. It's got to make sense to me for what we're doing. Definitely. A lot of people don't have things to make sense of. Yeah.

You know, I'll tell you this too, man. I don't want to let the adults off the hook because it's just like a tree, man. If you don't like the fruit that a tree produce, you don't get mad at the tree. You got to get mad at the root, right? And I think that, you know, even when we're talking about incarceration jails and single homes, all of these things that buy products of all of that. And that's the reason why the adults, we got to really, really come together now and start talking to the young people, start empowering the young people.

We just got to push that change that we want to see. You can give them knowledge, but if they don't want to learn, they don't want to learn. And I'm being honest with you about that. Like, when it comes to like, yeah, okay, I'll put it on the adults somewhat. But when you're pushing that, when you push that narrative to them and they, some of these kids that do some of the shit that they do out in the streets, you didn't even grow up like that. No, not at all. No, not at all. No, you had real nice parents.

Man, if you didn't open up a door, you would get held knocked down. You had, you had real nice parents and they were stern with you. And they taught you, I think it turns into more of an embarrassment. Right. It's more of an embarrassment. But now if you educate your kids, you can end up in jail. You know that, right? Right.

So, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't even look at your kid like you want to lay a, a, So now it comes back to the system. So everything we've been talking about is the system, correct? Correct. So we need to change the system. Yeah. And the way you change the system, you have to become the change that you want to see as individuals. Right.

Did you, when you were coming up was, were you always into like, and I don't know what you did. I don't know if you sold drugs. I don't know what you did. Who gives a fuck? But because that doesn't matter. What matters is, when you were coming up does, was it always that? Was that, were you always into the numbers game of things? Were you always into the structure on how shit worked?

Didn't even care how bad. If we're going to fucking do it, at least let's do it with some structure. We're going to have a fucking, we're going to have a pyramid of this shit. We're going to figure out where everything aligns itself. It's funny, man, when I was coming up as a kid in South Central Los Angeles. Yes, sir. We did have things that we could do. For instance, I can go up to the store, right?

And I can put groceries in an old woman's car. Then think about that. Today, the elderly are afraid of the youth, right? When I was a kid, I can go to the store and make extra money by putting groceries in an old person's car. And they would love that, right? Yeah. But it's now it's different, okay? But the bottom line is, me coming up in South Central Los Angeles, I came up during the time, man, where it was the drug era, it was the crack era.

I've been through all of that, the crypts, the gangs. I mean, I know all of the original crypts. I've been through all of that, the streets. I went from the streets to corporate suites. I always tell people that I went from the streets to corporate suites. Right. You see? So I've seen both sides, right?

That's the reason why I know that if I can make it out of there, other individuals, other young kids can make it out of there also too. But we got to pretty much reach back and pulled and help young people today, right? I don't count them out, man, because I still believe that this generation of young people today are the greatest generation because they're creative, even a level of consciousness. You'd be surprised in the financial space. It's so many young people out there right now pushing financial literacy, real estate, the whole nine yards.

Their vision is much higher than before when I was a kid. When I was a kid, we wasn't even thinking on that level. I'm going to tell you this. Don't take from yourself. You have to understand something, Mr. Rory. It wasn't the same technology back in the day that there was to today. These kids, why do you think they say basketball ungrown soft?

Back in the day, there was all types of thousand. Barclay. There it is. There was no such thing as a foul. No, it wasn't. Today you can't even look like you're about to poke that man. Right. It's ejection immediately foul, technical foul. It's everything. But why you think is that? Because times, you know, I think that we have grown softer throughout times.

You know, the Bible says that we'll be wiser, right, but yet weaker. I agree with that 100%. But today, man, you know, it's funny because like even in the music industry, you only have so many music artists, right? because things are being corporate it's a corporate it's a corporation right right so they want to protect their asset does that make sense makes fair yeah perfect sense and your greatest asset is your mindset is your mindset but i just look at it like you know i mean being you know coming from coming from the streets man coming from you know i i did all that i rather i wouldn't take that away from myself for the knowledge me either gained from that like i don't want like today man like you said they already they got everything is

is help you everything is help you it's easy Fast, go, get gone. You don't have to learn it. You don't have to work for it. You don't have to do shit. You have to do nothing for it today, man. All you got to do is just show up and hit a button. You don't have to do anything anymore, man.

These kids don't even fucking trick-or-treat anymore. What are y'all doing? What? Virtual trick-or-treating? You're calling your friends? Tell your mom get on the phone. Hey, man, trick-or-treat? Yeah, we're going to send the candy over there tomorrow.

Right. Like, what goes on? It's gotten, we have gotten lazy, man. We need to get back to work. We need to get to work. get some structure, some balance going, because with laziness comes thinking about things that you shouldn't even be thinking about. If you were working and keeping on a positive level, half the bullshit that's going on in the world right now wouldn't even be going on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a society we live in. But I really feel like we got a lot of young people out there, man, that's open for that change. Yeah. And that will actually spread that. That's the next generation of leaders, right? But like I said, the young people today, man, and I still say they're the best generation. They are. They're fearless, right? The whole nine yards. They just need to be pointing in the right direction.

That's what it's all about. So me personally, I would encourage them. I mean, if somebody's listening right now, if you feel like you want to give up, don't give up. No. You got greatness in you. Don't be afraid to reach out. That's important also too.

Well, you know, I want people to also know that you got to reach out to the right people. Don't reach out to somebody that's going to shun you. And I understand that you might not know who that is. but if you feel any type of negativity from them, no. Everything in your world that comes into your world is supposed to build. It's supposed to be a building block to you. Exactly. A puzzle piece that you were missing in your back.

Do not let it shun you and whoop you. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. I like this right here, man. Rory Douglas, the power to get wealth. No money required. God never squeezes us.

He only stretches us to widen our territory. Corey. Tell me something about this. The power to get a wealth. Yeah. And no money required. Because like I said, the true meaning of wealth, man, is all needs met. That's the true meaning of wealth. So if you have what you need, got a roof over your head, right? You're wealthy. It's really about how you think. So the power to get wealth is about thinking wealthy. Does that make sense? Yeah. Not. You got to think rich to get rich. Yes, exactly. But not look at material things. That's not that's not wealth well that's what we glorify when every day a new temptation is created yeah but that's

not wealth it's not but there's new temptations that are created you have to understand something i'm be real with you when you went i'm gonna go back to when you said the the household doesn't have four hundred dollars to you know be able to take care of an emergency right it's because there are so many different temptations people do look at the materialistic things the cars to close the they want to keep up with the jones as to where they could have genuinely had that money. If they just made their, it's all priority. It's all about your priorities.

Your do-nows and your don't-nows. Exactly. That's the reason why I'm pushing true wealth. Right. See, true wealth man is knowing oneself and taking the gift that you have in oneself and using it to create generational wealth. Does that make sense? Makes perfect sense.

But see, today, like I said, we have so many people that are imitating and very little creators. Most people are duplicating, imitating, very little creators, right? So I want to empower people to really create. You may not have the stuff that you want right now, but you do have ideas that's inside of you that can create generational wealth. So don't, you know, don't, especially young women, don't lose your values or your morals because of stuff, right? Get with that young guy that's out there that's studying, that's really, really

trying to do something and build something. Get with that guy. The guy may not have a car. You still can get with that guy. You may see a guy in a Bentley or Rose Royce, but you don't know, you don't know exactly how he's living. You get my point. And not against none of that. She don't want to get with the man in the Honda because somebody might be recording that. She don't want to be seen doing that. And he could have been the realest guy in the world. Could have really, she could have really went off. Right. Or even if it could have been a woman, he could have, with a man with a woman. He could have really went off and they could have really started something beautiful. I don't always want to, I've never always wanted to deal with somebody with all of the puzzle pieces,

all the blocks. So I want to be able to come in and put some too because see, you're going to look at me funny in the end like, well, where's your blocks? Right. Well, there was never no room because all of yours is right there. Right. And even with the young people, I always tell them, like, especially the young guys, I talk to young guys. I tell them, hey, you know, before you get into a relationship, man, you know, start working on yourself, you know, get your, get your ducks in order, get your career, your trade. You get my point? I see people today, they live together and the woman is paying half of the rent. That's not a that's not your man. That's a roommate. Yeah. Well, I'm going to say this, man, you know, for somebody that's like that, if that's how

you live in your life, you've got to just be in position that. I like to call myself when, if I ever deal with a woman per se, I use myself an example. When I talk to a woman and I want to pursue that woman, I always let her know that in throughout the mix of all my seriousness and my passion, I am in position to have you. I'm in position. I'm in position to have you. I'm not just here just talking to be talking. I'm really in position to have you. It's a difference.

Ask your last three men that they was in position to really have you. No, they was just coming by just to see you. There it is. Bring a small bottle of liquor that you didn't even like. He's really just drinking it for himself. You know, he hoped you had a bag of weed. And if you don't, he's only going to be here briefly. He's going to leave and go to the next chick house.

You know, you got to deal with somebody who's in position. to have you mentally and just physically and just take you to the next level. Right. Because when you're dealing with somebody like that, you're going to want to get your shit together. Right. If you're with a man of that structure. Right. And I got two daughters. My daughter is sitting over there right now. I met one year. I tell my daughter, get your stuff together. I don't say get your shift together. Yeah. Shift. You know, shift the way you think. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want to depend on no man, right? Yeah. And that's why it's what it's all about. So I teach my daughters the same thing because I'm a father, right? I was the first guy to get my daughter, roses. I was the first guy to put my daughter in limousine. You get my point?

And we got a lot of young women out there today because they inbox me. They don't have fathers. You get my point? So I want to be the father for as many young people as possible just to encourage young women, right? Right. Because today, man, it's a sad situation when I see the relationship with this generation, male and female, no matter what color they are. Most definitely.

You know, and, you know, we reduce our women to bees and all this other kind of stuff that we say. And we got songs talking about the same thing. And how are we going to really, really create some unity if we don't take some of that back? I like that. I like that you brought that up just about, you know, women in general. And, you know, my outlook to it is this. We always, and I want women to understand something. I really want to give this game up.

And I hate giving up because I just hope y'all don't get big-headed. but we always, I'm for real. But we, I'm talking about back in the day, and as far as I can see, we always put y'all on a pedestal. There was things that y'all wouldn't do, that we would, that we didn't always get looked at in the, we was always dogs, don't matter, but they never were. They were always ladies. You know, I used to see a woman when she was upset with her man.

She might call her girlfriend. She might have a tub of ice cream. She might watch a movie. You know, now these days she get mad at her, man. what she'd do. She'd call her friend and she ready to go hit the club and go meet somebody new. You know, women don't really, you know, they became, you've become no better. You know what I'm saying? Like, it used to be a higher pedestal like, yeah, they didn't cheat. No, they were loyal. It was a loyalty to it. Yeah, even though you're fucked up, guess what?

I'm not. I respected that shit. But I'll tell you this. I respected that for a long time until I just start seeing women wanting to be the man in the situation. I'm like, damn, if that's how I'm acting, I don't want to be that ugly. You understand what I'm saying? If that's how I'm acting because I see women want to be the men. So I'm like, damn, this is a change in events. But once again, I'm looking at it like, well, if this is how I'm acting, this is very ugly. And I want to change the narrative to how I approach different situations.

That's why I've always said, man, I'm not, I've never looked for a woman. I've always looked for the woman. Right. But I'll tell you this. It's funny. I'll tell you this is funny. We were just talking about earlier. We was talking about systems, right? All of that, right? Yeah. But I tell you this, it's funny because the other day I was going in the store and the young lady was walking, I opened up the door for her, right? Yeah. Guess what she said? She said, thank you, sir. I don't believe, this is my personal opinion. I don't think there's no such thing as a no good woman. If you find a no good woman, a no good man made her that way. Yeah. Oh, most definitely. The bottom line is, most definitely. The bottom line is, the bottom line. is that when the

men start becoming men treating the women better I think the women will change. Does that make sense? It makes sense. Not not defending the women. This is not that the bottom line is that I didn't always think that way but I have daughters right? So I know for the fact I know for a fact my daughter over here she could tell you

she's never seen her daddy do anything disrespectful in front of her right she's never seen her daddy do nothing disrespectful in front of her so I want to be that example for her right? Right. And I think that once men become examples, I think the women will change. And she will treat her man as he needs to be treated because guess what? She's going to look for the traits of who her dad is. Okay, them the type of traits I'm supposed to be looking for because, but it's these days, man, you know, you used to look at marriages. Marriages used to people would get married right and they would be together for the rest of their lives. I don't care if they got married at 16 years old.

I don't care. And they'd be on for the rest of their life, man. You can't even get a person to be, married for two minutes anymore these days, man, people having three, four different marriages. We're living in a different day and age, Mr. Rory. Yeah. So that love and that, you know, even a dad wanting to be there, just say, for instance, I don't know if your daughter, if you grew up in the house with your dad, if you, was you there with them every day? Big difference, Mr. Rory.

Yeah. It's about the, and not taking from her, but it's about the girls that didn't get to grow up with their dads, man. How much was that, were they an influence on her life? Got you. Totally. And see, because I'm a man that I have daughters. beautiful ones, you know, and I got a beautiful,

blonde, blue-eyed baby, you know? And, like, I try to make sure that, okay, yeah, even though me and her mama, you know, we're not together, I always try to make sure I keep on her ass. And do it twice as much because I know that I'm not, I can't be

there, you know, always to be able to catch every moment. You know, it's kind of, it's, it's hard to do, but it's doable. You know, when you don't live in the household or, you know you're not always there. You know, it's it definitely is

a struggle. That's why I say, hey, man, I commend her. She was blessed enough to be able to grow up with her father in the house. That should show America and show us how meaningful that is to see a man just with child and them being in the same house every day. And I'll tell you this also too, man. Especially for young people that's listening, especially young

with young women. Keep in mind, you have a dating phase. a courting phase and then a relationship. Well, that's all got past Mr. Roy because these girls grow up as soon as they get ready, as they feel it going,

they're ready to fuck. So it's like it goes straight past the courting phase. It goes straight past. These girls, they see it on, hey, they're ready to go twerk. They're ready to be at somebody's party. They are feigning for attention

because they did not get the attention from their folks. What do you think we could do to stop it? Like what you feel we could do to stop it? Honestly, all we can do is what you had said earlier, man. All we can do is just try to really, in the young people, just try to keep staying on it, staying firm.

Because I said it first, you should do. Talk to me. You should get a bunch of young girls to come together, right? And then you take, you know, guys. I don't need that, Ms. Roy. I don't want to be around a whole bunch of, I don't even want that look on me. No, no, I'm saying, no, I just rather teach the people. I'm saying, let's say they don't, they don't necessarily have to come here specifically,

but get, you know, get the young girls together, right? And then the guys start giving them like some real gain in terms of what they should allow, what they should allow to build it up. But I'm talking about like, I'm talking about like a system. In other words, get them together and push that. Does that make sense? And it does because I try to do that all the time because I feel like this, man, before you can bring anybody together and this is back in the very beginning of our conversation, you have to be able to know thyself. You have to know what you want to do. who you want to be before you try to intertwine with anybody.

I'll say this, Mr. Rory, I can never help you if I cannot help myself. That's true. You're not even going to believe in me. I can't even come to you with a $50,000 idea and you're not even ready to throw $50 at it. Because you don't believe. You see, I'm not believing in myself. But Sharp, that's the reason why I'm saying that we need people like ourselves to push that. I'll give you an example.

Muhammad Ali was being interviewed along. time ago. Right. And one of the interviewers said, well, you got that Bentley, you got that this, you got that, why do you have all of that? You know what he said? He said, my people wouldn't listen to me if I didn't have these things. Does that make sense? Makes perfect sense. See, I have things, but they're just

things. Right. But I use those things to convey a positive message to young people. So you say you don't look at the materialistic things that you've gained as power. No, as power. There's no power. That's why the book is called the power to get wealth, no money required. You get my

point. Right. It's really about, like I said, people in the gym getting their bodies right. They're trying to eat right, but you got to get your mind right. I've heard people say that too, man. They talk about, well, my muscles, this and well, I'm just tall that. Get your mind right. Yeah. Where does your mind stand in all of this? You know? Because you got to really think about it. Marriage is breaking over finance. Yeah. Young men going to prison over money. Right. When I was in Africa, inside of the prisons, those young people are in there because they were fighting against a cause, injustice, or whatever it may be. Tell me what that was like. You come here

and you go into the prisons, day and there because they're trying to get things to impress women. Tell me what that was like going into Africa. You say he was in Africa, right? I went to Africa and went inside of the jails. Tell me what that was like. It was really like, I gotta say, a conscious center where they were in there preparing themselves to make

a change when they get out to create a movement to stop the oppression. So it was a serious, they were really trying to rehabilitate them there. But here, You know, young people are in jail, right? And you ask them why are you in jail? Because they was trying to get things. And it's really not about the things.

Yeah. It's not about the things, man. I see you would did, let me see this one right here. It says it's a number one Amazon international bestseller that you were a co-author on. It's called Cracking the Rich Code. Yep, with Tony Robbins, a number one financial man in America, motivational speaker. I think I saw him on Shark Tank, if I'm not mistaken. No comparison, no relations.

Yeah. Shark Tank, Kevin Harrington and Jim Britt is a currently international bestseller. And I'm coming from South Central, L.A. on this book. Like I said, I went from the streets of corporate suites. Those are my friends. Tell me a little bit before we get it. Tell me what you were talking about in this. Cracking the rich code.

The things that we're talking about right now, there's a language for the rich and the wealthy. Once you learn the language of the rich, then you'll have money for a lifetime and not lunchtime. So young people to learn finance 101. Finance 101. start learning about finance, right? That's what it's all about. Start learning finance. And that's what it's about pushing financial education.

Right. That's what that book is talking about. Cracking the Rich Code. Is there anything the people need to know about in financial literacy? Like if you didn't know anything else, this is what you should at least know today to get yourself started. Give somebody of, if you were walking past somebody right now and you know, you had five minutes to change their life.

What would you tell them? Not even five minutes. You had two minutes to tell them. Four steps. First thing you want to do is you want to have a solid foundation. Right. Get some life insurance. Second thing, go from that to debt management.

Two types of debt. Good debt and bad debt. Good debt. I'm paying for my education. Bad debt, credit cards, bills. Go from debt management to emergency fund. There's something that's called the 10-20 rule. We should have at least six to 10 months of our month

the expenses saved up just for emergencies. Right. And the 20 represents 20 times our annual salaries to retire. And then you go from that to debt management to investments. Sure. But today they do a polar opposite. They want to invest first, but they don't have a solid foundation. Because a lot of people out there saying, get involved with crypto, get involved with this, get involved with this. So now we're in real estate. We're in cryptocurrency with no education. We're just making money. So you really got to start making money. That's what

it's all about, you see? And for the guys upgrade your woman before you upgrade your weed. Well me, I'm into upgrading both, but that's another story. I wish you. That's it. Yeah. I say, I appreciate you, man, for coming down. I appreciate you, man.

Spending this time with me, you know, and just being able to just move forward and make progress because, you know, I'll take, I promise you, I will take even a half. a step forward versus having to take a half a step. I will, I will, I, I just want to move in life and I just love to see the black folks. And I like to, just anybody who has come from fucked up situations, man, and trying to come and see the light. I encourage them. I wish them well. I hope.

I wish them well in all their endeavors. And I'm going to do more interviews like this. And I hope, Mr. Rory, I can get you back in the future. and we can just, you know, hey man, I'm going to learn some cool shit along the way. You're going to go learn some cool shit along the way. Maybe we could come back together, man, and voila. Yeah, but let me give you some. Talk to me.

Let me give you some roses also, too, man. Talk to me, man. I looked at some of your videos, man. Yeah, yeah. And I really love the fact, man, that you have a strong presence, right? Yeah. Which means you speak strong. And a lot of young people are listening.

And they really need that. And then also, too, man, this book is a financial literacy book, Finance 101. I want to get this. get 50 of them to the listeners 50 free books. So whoever you choose, I'm going to get 50 free books to them. This is Finance 101. This is how they get started. Basic financial principles.

I will definitely make sure that. 50 books. You got my word on that. I will make sure. And I will make sure you send them to me. I will make sure that I get out 50 books. Right. I will make, man, I'm talking about I will go and drop them individual, man, to the mailbox.

Hey man, individually will people name every fit man. Exactly. The motherfuckers, man, because these need to get out here, man. The basic principles of building a financial foundation. We all need this, man. This ain't a joke. This is serious. Because I'm tired of watching people heard.

And I do understand that they really, everybody, they, well, you got to go to school. You got to go to school. Well, there's people out here giving knowledge. Sometimes all you have to do is just open your ears, man, and just listen. And all the answers are going to be there for you. Right. Mr. Rory, I appreciate you for coming up. Yeah, I appreciate you, man.

I appreciate you. And we are definitely going to do this. again you hear me sharp tank no jumper sharpest cruelest podcast in the world we out of here and he's sharp than a knife not a butter knife ha church