The 85 South Show with Karlous Miller, DC Young Fly and Chico Bean - Earn Your Leisure in the Trap!

Episode Date: July 29, 2022

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from Black Effect Podcast Network on the IHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast Now I wasn't going on with shit up man Everything good, everything blessed man Or yeah my birthday coming up next week What you're doing for? South of Spain

You're going to South of Spain You're going to South of Spain South of Spain It's called Barbaya You Google it did it We're gonna go to the Southside after this. What you're doing out there? You're gonna be on your tour as shit?

It's eight days, me and one of my friends of y'all going out there. Me and all you friends. You need to take the Maddie Johnson Trude. He's going to take the boat with all this, man. Hey, all right. Yeah, I definitely need the two. Y'all taking the Magic Johnson trip.

What the hell will you turn? Every year, he took a bunch of dudes out. He's a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are you at with it? He's right now? Yeah, yeah. How you feel about 40?

I can't wait. Is this here? I can't wait. No, that is. Shit. No, I just turned 39. Oh, when you were birthday? Get your life straight.

No, fucking. I ain't. No, it's just dope to see your motherfucking celebrating that 39. After 39 birthday, you're just like, leave me alone. What do you want to do for your birthday? Go to sleep. I don't want to do shit. I think that's the best birthday because you know exactly what the fuck you're proud of.

Yeah. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like this shit. South of Spain, that ain't no, they can't come up with that at 20. Yeah. Not that's a surprise. Eight days?

Yeah, yeah. It's like a 13-9 flight, so. We gotta make it work. Yeah. You take you something over there? Don't, don't, just chances. About 10 of us. I'm saying.

It's a girl. It's a girl. Oh, God. That's right. And then we're going to leave from there. We're going to stop in our parents. Because there's one thing they don't, they don't be advertising.

There's no insurance for that. No, international travel will be beautiful. But the women would be like, hey, man. Black man. Where the women are? Where the women? What you mean? Shit, they'd be lying, bro.

They'd be trying to make it seem like these ironies just got all type of beautiful, exotic women on them. They don't. They don't. You don't even see no women on the beach except the ones who were selling them Cuban cigars and shit, them bracelets. Then look chains, don't know. Don't buy. I hate that shit. Don't put that necklace on you.

It's yours. Like it? $15. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a thing. They start working their way down. Yeah. Five, seven.

Yeah. You don't have five? I'm not going to be bad about your situation, right? That's the one thing about that trap. You've got to take yourself with you. I mean, you just, like, hang out and sightseeing and shit. But. So you're saying bringing sand to the beach is a minute.

Take that shit to the beach. Biggie, you got a sandbox. Hey, don't know. Take you some sand to the beach. Take you. And you fucking rather be in the parking lot. You and eight grown men in one butt, they ain't gonna do it. In an island breeze.

You're all over there with two raw joints. That's it, the little ones too. I'm a mama. You know shit bad when you hear a nigga, when the liquor come out, the nigga be like, man, I don't even drink. Not like that. Not like that.

That's what's up, though. South of France. What did you say to you call again? Called my bag. Why the fuck did you even say friends? I would have never thought that. My bad. I didn't say friends?

Because everybody always say South of France. He's like, I'm just going to do some other shit. South of Spain. Never heard nobody play that before. Look up the world. Mediterranean. Then go to South Ukraine. He's not going to South Ukraine.

He's not going to convince you. Everything good. No, it's good. No, it's good. No, no. Not for you. Not for you. This is not for you.

They're not shooting. They're not shooting. Hey, these guys, these guys are gone. These guys asses. Don't say anything to them. These guys? Dickheads. Dickheads.

All of them. Ah. You're cream, bro. That shit's that going on? Yeah, yeah, that's it. I ain't think the shit was going to last this long. You don't even hear about it no more. They're trying to get rid of it.

Well, they're trying to end it by the winter. Remember, like, you heard 24 hours on the news now. Yeah, because it's not stopping. Yeah, because I think part of that shit is too, like, you know, the U.S. We be trying to act like we, we're the hands off. We don't have any hand that. Come on, man, man. We're the nigs that lead the guns.

And be like, man, you know the niggas was talking crazy. Supply. That's a fact. I don't know what you're going to do. But, now, so they didn't be trying to, I think, have... So you got Russian right here, and then Ukraine right here. And then the USA just sitting at the table like DMX on belly. What?

Wise and lucky. You're going to let that nigger talk you like that? What I told you when you're going to let this shit. That is. That's about it, now. I didn't think the shit was gonna last this long because, like, who you was rooting for? Tell the truth.

Now the shit been going on for a little bit. Everybody, who you, come on, we gotta do it. Who you thought was gonna win this shit? Who you got your money on Russia versus Ukraine? Who I was rooting for? Who were rooting for? Are we recorded? Right, don't show them, man.

We heard that music dump so we can't use something. We are all gonna be with Britney kids. Yeah. Right. We're gonna be sitting there with that man. He's like, y'all wanna run a game right quick. Check up

I didn't know it was going to last as long because I feel like Russia had like a real military And then they was just fighting people Just motherfuckers who was off work that day Like they didn't even have no guns motherfuckers was just throwing dishes out the kitchen and shit No but this is the thing though

This is the thing with Ukraine Ukraine used to be part of the USSR when they was Russia Right So they were the motherfuckers they had all the nukes So they were supposed to give their nukes up So they could be part of the NATO shit. Yeah. They say they gave them up, but them

them didn't all supposed to... And the deal with Putin was, the NATO wasn't supposed to come no further to the east. And they came to Ukraine. They're over there, not. So they got a whole motherfucker. They killed a bunch of people in Ukraine and put some Russian people there.

That's where I talk about Ukraine and Russia. It's crazy. And the funny thing about these two countries fighting each other is these motherfuckers ain't scared of each other, nigga. Like, they're doing old shit that you own to see in the movies. Like, motherfuckers run out of business.

They're just meeting up in the street having fistfight. Real shit. They do a petty shit. They own some Shirek shit. They call the nigger mama. Hand on FaceTime. They called the nigga mama, dog. They had a dude captured or whatever.

They called his mom. Like, got this nigga. Put your titty's on the phone. Are we going to kill them? Let me see them titties. Are we going to kill them? Titties on the phone. Yeah, man.

Who did you have? What was you rolling for? On the low? Yeah. Turn the music coming over. Yeah, it turned the music coming over. No, it was just one of them classic scenarios where I kind of wanted to see the people win.

Because they wasn't prepared at all. And they're going up against a whole, like, all this technology and drones and shit. Yeah. Yeah, and they just grabbing shit out the shit, like axes and shit. That was crazy. Yeah. You know what I got to poke with them. And I love to see the little videos coming out where they be stealing the tanks and shit. I was like this kind of ghetto

I'm fucking with you I like when they were like they brought all the guns and they were just handing them out to the civilians like yeah and just walking outside the dude was bringing his lunch

every day but I didn't like how they were treating the Africans out there that was trying to get out the country you've seen that but I fuck with Ukraine because they president

you just be a comedian hold up wait a minute why the fuck was the Africans in Ukraine anyway it was like a medical program like to so like they sent

like a bunch of African students out there for medical school. See? Yeah, they was killing. Some places black people are not supposed to be. Those things are all laid out,

yeah, it's a best up. Nah, fuck that. We're supposed to be here with. No, not in Ukraine. We came in Redwood. Yeah. I'm just saying, you kind of right,

but then it's like, it makes sense not to be there. It definitely makes sense not to be there. It sounds like a trick just imagine you are in Africa, you big chilling. And the white people show up and be like,

we got some for you in Russia. No, nigga. Too cold. Yeah. Nah. Africans ain't even built for Russia. Nah. That shit ain't too different from here, though. But I'm saying, nigger, that first snow gonna freeze the shit out them niggins.

Shit, when they have a nigger go from Florida or you... That's why they said they try to end this before the winter. That's what the plan is? They try it, that's what the president of Ukraine, because he's looking at it from a standpoint, like if it gets cold and we have no oil, we fuck. It's over. They're going to freeze it up. You're going to freeze it up.

And they're importing the oil from Russia's over. It's like, yo, all right, fuck. This has war work, though. They ain't going to stop importing the shit. They still going to sell it to him. Think about it. It's tricky. Nobody's not sending my ass overseas.

Who? Stop sending my ass overseas, nigga. I want some oil from right here, nigga. Some Texas oil. We get, we got oil here. We send our oil over there. They send their oil over here for what, my nigga? Give me the Texas shit.

Give me the Louisiana shit. Give me the shit they got in California that they make it look like building. Texas is a seat. I don't know about that one. I don't know about that one, bro. There's too many vulnerable spots in Texas. Let's Mexico find out Texas ain't a part of the U.S. You ever been to the worst?

Cartel for the B&M motherfucker so motherfucking quick. Tejas. It's Tejas Katagina. This shit ain't Texas, no more, do you? It's so obvious that they stole Texas, bro. Now they're sitting there talking about it, they need really change the name that much. Texas, Mexico, Texas, come on.

It's spelled without the EX. See? Right. Now, they got real flagging with New Mexico. I imagine somebody taking your shit and they're like, this is the new one. This is the new 85-7. Oh, I've seen that.

I see the clip pop up. I was like, these niggas in the trap. And you do know. 13 South, I said 13. All right, J-O-N, I think it's about that time for us to at least get ready to start getting ready. Everybody get in your places, please. This is the pre-show. Yeah, that part was.

Let's go. You see how we switch the whole mood? Yeah, well. That was just dope to just hear some black men talk. about some worldly affairs and shit. Anything else we should discuss? Y'all ready for the recession? You gotta be ready.

All right, think about it for a minute. I forgot, that's in your lane. Just wait, just hold that one for me. Hold that thought for me. I forgot you know what you're talking about. You know exactly what you're talking about. What y'all spending money on these days, black people? That's...

Hey, everybody took this same breath. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Besides gas. Travel, that's what we spend money on. We travel. Yeah, and work. We travel all the time. We've been in Atlanta.

People think we live out here. Come out here like every other week. Could have sworn y'all lived out here. Everybody. Why y'all don't live out here? I'm trying. I'm trying. Come on, be a brother.

I've been trying to get back. You ain't got to stay all the time? No. You can let me stay at your shit when you ain't. Turn that shit until Airbnb. They've been to get rid of the party with. They cut back on those out here. Airbnbs.

They're trying to. Yeah. Two per person? Yeah, they're not abandoned parties at Airbnb. No parties? Yeah, they're saying, yeah, they put it in the contract. And what they're going to do is if you violated, they take you off Airbnb. The person was listed in the house.

Oh, so it's your fault. Yeah, so now you got to enforce it now. It's one too far. How are you going to enforce it, though? It's tough. I guess the ring cameras. The ring cameras, they got them at the front. They get them going in the house.

What classifies as a party? Like more than 10 people? That's a good question. Three to five? I got a guess. make a flyer. Like, niggins, get together can get out of control. We're having to kickback.

That's a good question, though. They might have to specify it. What does... This is Bible study. I dispute that shit, be like, it wasn't a party. We had a little soiree. Look at a party. Come on now.

We had a swarrette. That was it. We had a function. It was a rendezvous. Oh, man, it was a meetup. We had a meet and greet. Meet and greet. I like that.

I like that. We had a mixer. Mixer. That's probably the best item. You got to get better with your words. Yeah, yeah. Language is important. It was a mixer.

Language is very important. No album, what served? We just smoke a lot. Hey, man, you miss teaching? I still teach. You mean teaching kids? You mean teaching kids? Uh, I really.

You're teaching grown people now? Kids too. The kids are watching. Same one of the adults is watching. Hey, get that weird. smoke off him while we're talking about the fucking kids man my kids go see this shit they are they are there's a filter I need a fucking bubble-boiled movie where the 85 South name came from obviously I know the highway but what I call

the 85 South you ain't see what 85 South do that shit just be running through the city yeah we right there it's the heart of the city that's what we you know what I'm saying Sure. Not just in Atlanta, though. Yeah. We're right there in the middle of the world. You feel me? Love it.

85 South shit. Love it. We then took this shit all around the world. People who've never even been on 85 South. Did you? I think it was going to get that big when I first did it? It ain't even as big as I thought it was going to get yet. Yeah, this motherfucker did it.

It's crazy, though. Love it. It's not as big as you thought it was going to get yet. Because in my mind, it's still. The vision, you already had a. It's still bigger. I'm still seeing it how I saw it

You get what I'm saying? From the beginning though You said it from the beginning of beginning To read Three dudes in over one table Did the highway department Never reach out to y'all? What you mean?

Like 85 South Like that's the highway They never hit you like yo I don't know yet I didn't know the department of transportation Where's the legal team Had a social media

We would love to work with The Department of Transportation I guess. What state is 85 South Cone? A lot, bro. Yeah, that's... Not a lot, really. You're in logistics?

From North Carolina. They take it all the way up to... Like the top of North Carolina, for sure. North Carolina all the way to fucking Florida. Florida? No, not Florida. No, not Florida. Yeah.

85 South. Like, George, here, probably here. Alabama. Alabama. I think it stops at like the top of North Carolina. In terms of the 77, I think. In 95 North. It don't mean.

It doesn't matter. 95 go from New York all the way. Five 95? Yeah, to Florida. Yeah. Yeah. Try to survive on 95. The 10, that's east or west, that's Texas.

Yeah. Louisiana and all this. Hell yeah. Any traffic. It makes sense. What made y'all go with Earn Your Leach? You needed a hashtag. He was that in his own.

social media campaign. Word. Yeah, he was trying to, like, be the financial advisor. You needed a hashtag. I was like, I got one for you. I was like, earn your leisure. It was kind of like, synonymous, like, of us being in a place and people think we didn't work hard

for anything we had. Who thought that? A lot of people. I'm sure people think that what y'all do is easy. Until they try to do it. Until they try to do it. Then they realize, like, how hard it is to do. They'll never try to do it.

They're going to try. They'll Monday morning. There's a sideline. Oh, I need. I would. I can do that shit in fact. But they don't realize how hard y'all work. Like, I told them before, like, if nothing else fails,

like, we know that y'all coming. Y'all gonna show up every single day. So you've earned some of the freedoms that you had, which is really the phrase, earn your freedom. Yeah, too. Because this looked like leisure, but it's not. This was earned. Loki, that leisure is some freedom.

You can do shit where you want to. Yeah. That's the ultimate freedom. That's the ultimate freedom. really matter. If you can't move how you want to move, you're not free. Yeah. That would be the perfect spot to tell them. Welcome back to the eight concept show. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh, I've been watched y'all have changed so much since we started recording this show. You had and grew back.

Hadn't grew back. Pandemic over. Damn, we didn't been through so much. The ups, the downs, the downs, You've been in two relationships since you started watching here. Not counting all the people you didn't fuck with, but it's been two whole relationships. Some of y'all got pandemic babies that's walking, talking, going in the refrigerator right now. That's how we live in over here. Did you know that the 85 South Show was voted the number one podcast amongst black men that prefer black women? We know our audience well. Outstanding.

We know our audience well. Outstanding. And this is the number one show amongst black women who wear slides most of the time. Most lead show. They're important too. That's important. It's their season, too. I see a few slides right now, actually.

Why would I lie to you? Oh, yeah. It makes sense. Why would I lie to you? Ladies and gentlemen, we got some very special guests in the house with us today. Brud, last time these dudes was on the show, they didn't have made triple their net worth since they left. I know because I keep up with them. I know there's money in the building.

I don't know what you've been doing or what you need to start doing. But if you don't have nobody in your life that's going to tell you to do some shit right, this is who you need to link up with right here. because they're changing people live and breaking the game down and helping people do it along the way. None other than earn your leisure in today.

Oh, this is going to be. I don't got to work hard today. I already know they're trying to put me up on so much game. I need it. Amen. Always good to be it. Welcome, man. That's what I'm saying.

Y'all don't even feel like guests, man. I feel like this is supposed to happen quarterly. It's family. Or whenever y'all in Atlanta, you're supposed to stop through here. Game must up and make sure that we're straight and we earn this. It's the beginning and the end of the physical. Come on, man. Right.

And we always bring guest with us last time he put my man a trap. I think we introduced you to trap. Yeah, you did. And now my man, Alex, good energy. Exactly. Look at him. Shout out on the Wall Street. I don't even know where he is, right?

He probably on Wall Street. Yeah, so today he put my man. Alex Good Energy. I know you used to drive trucks, right? Yeah. This is going to be legendary. I didn't know that. You used to drive trucks? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you do? Nah, nah, never drove a truck. The hell you bring that up for it. He got a company where he teaches people

how to, um, getting a truck, like own trucks. Oh. Not driving, though. Not driving, no. And dispatch, y'all. You fuck with the dispatch? Yeah. Yeah, that's easy. That's some good money if you know how to do that shir. Absolutely. Not good. You got to be efficient with it. You got a 18 wheelings? Yeah.

Like I'm a good dispatcher If you know how to route you And you can make money Going either direction That's the key It's not to be wasting You know like Don't waste no trips

Yeah, that's a fact That's one of the things Gotta be efficient Gotta be real efficient You know we got a truck You know we got a truck? Uh-uh You ever seen it?

Yeah I seen your, I seen it Oh okay Yeah, yeah I don't have one though No what I'm saying Did you know that we have a truck? Yeah

All right We need the link Yeah, yeah We got the right now service. Because when we do our shows, man, we got a truck, too. We just didn't put our logo on it. Kind of the equipment? Yeah. Okay. Should. You should put your logo on it.

You think so? Yeah. It's good. It's like a billboard. But I don't want nobody to steal it. Nah, no. Y'all. Y'all got love, man. I know. They're going to take pictures of it. Yeah. They're going to take pictures of it. Yeah, I got this truck out there.

Look, that shit, man. God damn, they got a show tonight, bro. That's this shit, man. I got tickets to that shit tonight. That shit is dope. Every single day somebody tags us, like, yo, we've seen it in Mississippi, we've seen it in Alabama, Arkansas, New York. Like, it's a moving billboard. It's like they know you're coming to town.

It's going to be perfect. Absolutely. 85% is. See, now motherfuckers going to be in the comments like, bro, when you get it, let me drive this man. You got to drive a driver, pull over. I got my son to buy this a mile, man. Get me up this motherfucker, man. Take a picture, damn.

Sure. That's what's up. That truck and industry. That's a hell of an industry, man. Yeah, $800 billion a year. Yeah. You know, and it's crazy, even when the pandemic happened,

we were talking about the pandemic earlier, everything shut down. Except the trucks hit running, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, the truck got all the shit on them. Yep. You want to see a real pandemic, like them truck stop, then you'll see a pandemic, for real.

And ain't no food in the supermarket and stuff like that, you know? For real. Yeah. That's why I got into it. I was like, man, I used to throw parties, all that cool stuff.

It was cool. I was like, I got to get to something that's going to be here forever, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I fucks with it, though. That's what I used to deliver, too. Turkey parts to the fucking, to the place that make the sandwich meat.

The boys head? Nah, like Lewis Rich. Oh. I ain't want to say the name. Oh. What's my name? Lewis Rich going to be in the comments. No, he didn't.

Fuck up. I don't know. The fuck up, though. Not that shit was good. Dead turkey head on the lawn, man. Not one day I had delivered some shit. I had delivered some shit. I delivered some shit out there, right?

And I've seen where they keep all the fucking birds and shit, right? It's like these motherfuckers know they're about to be sandwich meat. Because you would think it would be a lot of noise and squawk in and feathers and shit everywhere. They just be sitting there like. Like in the cages and all that? They know what's their turn. That affected you? Do you want to eat it no more?

No, I'm fuck that. I was like, dude, that's what they look like. That's what they're so delicious. That night. The way they was in peace. can't fake me in no way. I was trying to figure out a way to get me some free meat out that,

my heart don't work like that, man. I ain't never looked at nothing that felt bad for eating, except a lady. A human. A few pieces I wish I wouldn't ate. Just because I feel like she got something to hold against me, you feel? Potentially.

I just feel like, she was like, yeah, well, you ate my pussy. I did it. Gotta be careful. You're gonna be like that. You're ungrateful? Oh, really? That's how you go.

Hey. Stupid. That ain't even handsawed no more. You weren't saying that when you was eating my pussy? Yeah, it didn't. Neither were you. All right. That's the idea of Mexican.

Kendrig Lamar song. What? Yeah, yeah, that's dispensual. Fuck you. You got the movie or the video. I ain't seen it yet. You got a video for that song? I think his song.

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shit man working bro moving around the world trying to get like y'all what you mean trying to get like you're making big plays out here in these shoes you're trying to get

we're trying to do y'all shit y'all supposed to tell us how to navigate hell yeah climate we're in it's a good time man it's a good time I see y'all had Steve on the show

y'all ain't even tell him my name don't clap Nobody clap. Nobody can say that. Don't know who fuck Mancia is. Mancia. The 85 was one hand in the comic.

I don't know who Mancia. We're still trying to figure out. Who Mancia is. Carlos Mancia. When it happened? Apparently he's a Mexican comic that used to be real popular. Wow, there's no question. Who he is?

You know who he is. But he has nothing to do with this program. Yeah, when he said... What happened? He said... What happened? So he was giving them props. And he was giving...

Like, oh, yeah. And he said everybody's name. And then he was like, D.C. and... Chico and Mancina. And I'm like, well, he ain't say Los name. So I thought it was an inside joke because y'all had between each other.

You think me and Steve just kick you back making the size up. I see you, Man, see him. I ain't seen him. I'm like, damn, why are you calling that? And then the comments was like, who the fuck is that? I'm like, oh. Man, seeing them boys.

Oh, my dad. All right then, Stavon Hartford. Stefan. Yeah. That's my doubt. Shout out to Steve Harvey. Oh. He might get there.

There we go. Right. He do a lot. He got two out of three. He got two out of three. He do a lot. He probably had the other, you know what I'm saying? He said the group team.

Right. So that counts. Y'all did it. I'm not true. Ryan, the only person that was clapping. He said, shout to Steve. Shout to Steve. Shout to Steve.

Yeah, man. Steve, cool. He did, dude. I ain't mad at all. At least he knew it was three people. On the brighter note. Now, what we've got to do to get this truck game jumping? Man, you know, what I like about trucking is so many ways to get into it.

You know, that's what I love about it. You can get in as a fleet owner. Some people ain't in the position to buy a truck right now. You know, all the prices are inflated right now. So, you know, dispatching is like a game changer. I show people. I'm showing people how to, like, dispatch, you know, you know what the dispatch is, but for the people that don't know,

I would compare it to, like, air traffic control to an airplane, the people that, you know, negotiate the lows, the people that tell the driver with time to be there, the address, to pick up, and all that good stuff. So, you know, dispatching is a dope way that you can get in to say he got a truck, but he don't got time to be dispatching his truck. He didn't get with his driver. He knows. Right?

You as a dispatcher, you could dispatch his truck for him and get 10% of whatever his truck make, right? So if you ain't got the money to buy a truck, you can literally just dispatch the truck, get 10%. So if you make his truck $8,000 in a week, right? Gross, you get $800 off of that. But just imagine if he had like a fleet of trucks, five trucks and you dispatching five $8,000 a week, 800 times five times four weeks. You know what I'm saying? So a lot of people are getting in the game who don't got the capital to buy truck right now. And right now is not really a good time to buy a truck. Like I'm going to just be real with you. It's Trucks that was $50,000 last year, it's like $80.90 right now.

Yeah, well, you better buy them before they be $200. Yeah, ain't you waiting on the price to go down. You got shit fucked up. Ain't shit going down. Once Coke was a dollar, that bitch was just a dollaring up. There ain't no going back down. It's it. You got to get in where you fit in right now.

So, you know, having contracts is good right now. You know what I'm saying? You get you a good rate. Negotiate you a good rate. Even though the fuel prices is high, they got something called a fuel surcharge so you'll be able to negotiate a little bit more money with the fuel being so high

but, you know, again, you know, prices is up, fuel is up, but it still ain't going to stop, you know? It still ain't going to stop so I'm going to be doing it forever. I've been doing it for 10 years now and I started off doing it just to get my people a lot to streets. I had so many cousins that was in the streets. They still out there? Yeah, but a lot.

He didn't be the same. They're trying to get my people out of the street. The thing's never left. Are you doing your little thing with the truck, huh? Coole? Man, come along with me. Nah, nah, these streets need me, my name. Nah, for sure. Can't leave the streets alone, need you.

That's just, see, that's ironic, though. He started a trucking business to get his people at the streets. Trucks rad on streets. They was gonna be in the streets anyway. We won't get them off the streets on the road. But you know what's so crazy? That's a fact. You know what's so crazy, though, like, that's why I love our platform,

because, like, before I met him, I never even thought about trucks as being a business. I just looked at trucks as just, it's on the road, you know what I'm saying? And that's so many different mobile homes. We did somebody with mobile homes. I never even thought about mobile home. Vending machines. I've never seen anybody take money out of a vending machine

ever in life. Think about it. Have you? Hell yeah. What type of life you've been living? I've never seen somebody own the vending machine and take the money on it. I think I know the way you talk about. Not like that. You talk about You know what they got the wrong. Yeah, you're talking about that. He told it out.

I just never knew who owned it. I've seen people taking the money. And I was like, that's a lot of singles. And then they go. But you never know who owns it. And so they collect it. I saw that shit when I was a kid, right? Yeah.

I was at the laundromat. This fucking dude came in. He had a key to all of them shit. So he had a big-ass bag of quarters. And then these was the old vending machine. So he had just one key for everything. Open that shit. Got some more quarters out.

Then it was a stack of dollars. I was like, he rich. I'm a kid, though. Yeah, but you was, like I said, I've never seen that. But it's like that on purpose because you never, it's done so you can never think about that. You think about what they want you to think about. But you don't think about business.

So now it's like, now we can actually think about business because we got people like him, every industry, where they actually not only showing that they do this, but they give you the game or how to do it. So it's like unlocking a secret. code, like, you know what I'm saying? Because it's like, damn, I always bought clothes my whole entire life. I never knew the business behind merch. I never knew how you actually make merch, profit margins, how you, I just, we just buy clothes, you know what I'm saying? Even entertainment. Like,

we just watch entertainment. We just listen to music. We never understood the business behind it, like, damn. So now it's like a whole new form of education where it's like a title wave. Every single thing is just getting like, oh, this is how you do that. That's a business. I can do this. I can do that, okay. Like, this is like the first time ever that this much information is out there. You knew about trucks, but what was you doing? Oh, I was just fucking off.

No, no, no, what was you doing, though? He was driving, right? So that's what they limited this to for so long. When you think trucks, you just think, oh, I got to drive the truck. That's what we was held to thinking that that's what trucking was. Oh, they got a great pitch when you go to that fucking school. Right, right. But see, I wasn't in a position to drive.

Like, I'm not good with driving long distances. I fall asleep. you're after three hours, you know what I'm saying? So, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But I ain't used that. That's a fact. And I know that.

So I was like, look, I wanted to get in the game, but I got to figure out a different avenue. How do you know it's three hours? Because I'll be driving to Charlottes and Tyson, right? When I get to Charlotte, I'm like, yep, that's it. Can't do it. Cuts off. Yeah, that's it.

The beauty of is, like, what Shrike's talking about and what Alex is talking about is like, yeah, you can watch him do it, but people are watching y'all do it. Like, we talked about that last time. You're like, nah, I don't tell these people, but they're literally watching y'all do it right y'all got merch y'all have a show you're doing live events and now you got a network of people that signed to you

and so they're watching you create businesses when they thought like all these guys are just comedians now they're actually businessmen that are building infrastructure in real time and so people that are coming to watch the events they see like the show the entertainment part but there's a business structure that's behind it so y'all doing it too you're trying to expose shit why you always do it

I need to be celebrating. It's important. It definitely needs to be talking about. I mean, if they're going to have slides and watch your show, they need to know. Why? They don't need to know the business of this shit. Figure it out on your own.

They're going to be in there Googling shit. You know, Carlos get $1,000 every time he say bitch, right? That's crazy. That niggas sponsored by the dictionary. Big, bitch. And this bitch suck there. Brought you back.

Bitch.com. Oh, that shit. You're taking you out the group chat. You're telling everything. Then y'all got a network of people saying to me. Who? Who? Who's saying to death row? Shout to poor minds.

Great show, by the way. They had our brother 19 keys on me. Shout to them. Shout to him. Ryan with the soul clap. He's holding it down, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know, we always try to

expand the business part of it. Because, you know, the entertainment part of it is there. Yeah. So it's like, why the fuck will we be around all these great-minded people who have a great network who actually do business on the up front and not try to connect and network put pieces where they need to be and make it all make sense? You get what I'm saying?

So that's it. Shout out to the whole team, though. Everybody over here holding it down. Holding it down. We're gonna keep expanding our empire too. We just dropped some onesies for the babies. Yes, sir. Kids love this.

I'm talking about it. Yeah, yeah. Some ones for the newborns. The kids love this show. People send us videos each and every day of the babies sitting there just kicking the feet, laughing. I don't know if they understand the jokes or it's the sound about the voice. What do you think?

It's sound of your voice. Probably. They got a favorite character. It's common to the babies. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I'm gonna just come in here and sit on the couch and just talk for an hour, just for the kids, read some Dr. Seuss or something shit.

No, he races, we can't even. Oh yeah, damn. Nothing of another author. We'll find something. You read anything. Yeah, you're right. Fuck it. Make some shit.

Kids like story. So, man, you didn't really blew up. You're modeling this shit now. As I see you. You wear like four outfits a day now. Four outfits. You know what, man. Troy ain't want to say nothing.

I just felt like I just wanted to be a fashion icon. What are some of your inspirations, bro? We're not going to let you just be out here without supporting you and shit like that. Who are you inspired by? The 90s. Everybody, like that 90s era, New York, Nas, Rayquan, like, that drug dealer type of late 80s, early 90s, mid-90s. That's my inspiration. Drug dealers.

Yeah. And rappers. It was the fly's ones. Yeah. But you know what's so crazy, though, like, I'm going to be honest because that is a major inspiration. But I feel like now we can flip it and we're not selling drugs. We're positive. We're doing illegal things, but we still like the flyer.

So it's like you can get that. You can get the girls. You can do everything. But you can do it without risking your life. Without risking your freedom. So it's important for people to see it because it's like if we just wore suits every day, there's people that might not be able to understand what we're talking about. So now they seem like, damn.

He looked like somebody I aspired to be. Now, you look like the promoter, the one they pay you when you get there. That is important. What y'all doing tomorrow? I got a day party. Now it moves without promoters. That's a fact. That's a fact. That's a fact.

Come from that. Alex, the Alex. That's sincere. Shout out to A.G. Right. But, yeah, so, you know, but it's about having fun with it, bro. Yeah. Like, you know what I'm saying?

Like, I feel like we had a point now where I was just talking to, oh, my God. I told me, you know him, Toby in the Wigway? Mm-hmm. I'm trying to put the... He said he ain't coming to the trap if he can't bring his kids. I was like, bro. Bring all the kids.

Bring everybody who'll be in your video with you. We're going to change the color in here, too. He thinks we ain't going to put the weed up if the kid's here. He don't even know. Everybody over here got kids. You bring, I bring mine. This is the whole time I get the smoke. Yeah, that's why I've been shooting so many episodes.

Tom if you bring the kids, we're going to put the weed in the color. Relax. Shit. So that's my dude, man. But now I was telling him, like, I was trying to A&R song. I met some guys out in L.A. that I rock with. He was like, yo, you're crazy for doing this, bro.

Like, this is what you're doing with your time. I respect it. Because it's just for me just having fun. Like, you know what I mean? It's like we got a point now where we got so many relationships. We got an audience. It's like, just go left when everybody's going right. So I'm like, we talk about finance.

We're talking about money. But I want to be a fashion icon. So I just decided to be a fashion icon one day. That's the type of shit, I'm talking. Just be it. That's a fact. You can be a lot of shit you just got to do it. And say it, and say it.

And say it. Once you say it, you say it enough, Tiles? They got to believe it, why not. They said he was the best rapper alive until everybody said he was the best rapper a lot. Jay-Z, when he said Biggie Jay-Z and Nas, nobody was putting him in that category. He put himself in that category. He even surpassed it. He's like, best rapper.

When you say some stuff enough and you really believe it, people got to. Jayden do it too. Jada do it too. He'd be like top five dead or a lot. It don't matter. You know what I'm saying? So you hear Jada, you automatically think that. My boy, Rob Hayes, shut out to Rob Hayes said.

All you need is for two people to say it. That's people. That's a lot. So if I say it, somebody else say it. You want more. That's people. Right. Yeah.

That's how you build it. But you got to have the audacity to believe. it. Right? Like, you know what I'm saying? It's like, yo, I really believe that. I'm going to walk in it. I'm talking it. And it's just the following one will come. So when he says that, it's like, I bet. He is. Why not? Who's to say he's not? Yeah, basically. Fuck. Don't even get me started. That's how we're sitting right here today. Mm-hmm. You got to say some shit. So unbelievable. You got to do something that nobody thinks that you can do.

Welcome back to the 85th sound show. Who you ever thought that we would keep this picture of Marvin Gaye here this long? Ain't nobody else doing that. He's looking at us? He's definitely looking at us. Marvin's always looking. That's a fact. That's what I said.

You said the dream that you, not even the dream to vision you had, hasn't even been reached yet. Not yet. But that's the belief in it. This shit going to be bigger than Harry Potter, man. Believe it. I do. Yeah, I know that. I vision this shit so big.

I don't even, I'm not even sure there's enough black people in America to fuck with this for it to be as big as I see it. We might have to go to, like, South America and Africa, too. You gotta go global. You have to go global. I know what I'm saying, like, in a grand scale.

In Africa, we got to be as big as we as kids. In Africa, we got to be as big as whiz kid. But in Brazil, Brazil, we got to be as big as that lady who'd be on the news with the fat ass twerking. I don't know her name, but she wanted the most popular people over there. But she'd be over the... The news court, everything you're saying, that's why Steve Harvey went to Africa. It's like, we went to Nigeria.

And, like, in America, I think there's 70 million black people in America. That ain't enough. So, Nigeria is a country with 200 million people, and they're all black. And 80% of the population is under 21. 90% of the population is under 18. So it's like, look at the opportunity. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, look at the opportunity out there.

And that's just... When they're all people at? What are they doing? They're all people. They have babies. They have babies. But that's just one country. That's just one country. You know what I'm saying?

Think about all those countries with people that look like us, but we're not tapping in. That's why I say it can't even be like we have to. You're going to do it. Not like we need to know. We have to be there. We got to be there.

We got to school. When they ask us what we think of the future, we think world domination. We don't think the United States because financial literacy isn't a country issue it's not American issue it's a world issue

Yeah And so if we spread We're gonna get this shit down And then we're gonna move on to something else Y'all got this Oh you got it No y'all got this

No I'm saying like We're gonna get the finances right Yeah And then we're gonna move on to some real Like some other real shit too Yeah I bet I'm just saying

I'm just making sure Like it's the black community We got a plan Yeah And the thing is It's like, if you think about how bad our people need it here, right, with the lack of education, especially in the financial world, think about other countries who don't have the same form of education, right?

They need it just as bad. And we got a unified on the Internet that can spread it. They don't have to go to school anymore. They can watch us on YouTube. They can watch us on their phones. And so the information is rarely available. It's just that they don't have anybody speaking from their perspective, from their respective countries. So that's why it's important that, like, when I'm like, we have to go to Africa, we got to go to Europe, we got to touch our shit.

We've got to go to these countries because they need it. But we're not going to go just saying, like, this is our message. We're going to find the people that have the message. Link with them and say, like, all right, these people are stamped. These are the people from your country that you should be checking in with because they have the gift. Because when we leave, right, when we go back to our respective homes,

wherever that's going to be in the world, they'll still be there to give the message out. And I said 70, I don't really think that that number is that. I think it's less. I think it's a lot less. But the bottom line is that it's not just black people either. People all over They need it

White people Asian people Spanish people We limit ourselves Sometimes to just black But the whole world The whole world needs to hear the message Because they already

Listen to our music They already love our culture In Asia In Japan all of that So why not export everything else Why not export things that Like they need us They need us to be leaders

I got stopped in the parking line at the gym So white dude pulled up on me And he was like Troy? I'm like, damn, whose father is this? And he got out of his car and he was like, look, I just want to tell you, I love what y'all doing, I love what Ernie Lee's doing. I learn so much, and most people probably think I don't, because I'm a white man who comes from privilege.

But I come from privilege, I have no idea what to do with this money. I'm watching y'all, and y'all are giving us instructions. So don't think that it's just like your community that's watching you. There's people who are like me who are watching you because they have no idea. That was the agent. They did it assigned to you. Yeah, this is an agent. That was an agent. Thank you, Agent Smith.

That's the story scared the shit out of me. I was like, what are you? Troy? Hey, I've learned a lot watching. We've been watching you for a while. I was looking through your file. I mean, watching your show. Damn, you're right.

I got his plate. I got his plate. The men in black. Look at this light. Is that your car? Nope. No. It's got to be multicultural, though.

We got all kind of people watching this show. Eskimos, Native Americans. Few of the lost tribes of the Congo. We touch bases, man. I believe it. Yeah, man. I want my shit to be international, like, worldwide, like, out of space and shit. I want this shit to be, like, on one of them space launches.

I need somebody to just pull up the 85 South Shore. A lot of going up, yeah. A lot of it, especially. Yeah. I don't know, bro. You got to dream big. If your dreams don't sound crazy, they ain't big enough. Yeah.

And if they don't scare you, if they don't scare you, it ain't big enough people. For real? My moves, I got to be a little scared before I do them. If it ain't a little scary. What's the last scared move you made? I just put 16 acres under contract right there by turn to hell mom. You're scared in here. Yeah.

I'm about to do something that's never been done in my industry. I'm about to do a truck parking lot with about 700 slots for trucks to park at because right now it's the problem and it's a shortage of truck parking spaces. So what I did was I identified a problem and, you know, I've been blessed. I'm in position to, you know, bust some moves right now. So I was like, look, when it's not for me to invest, I've got to do something that solves a problem. But, you know, I don't got nobody that I know it that's done it before. So I don't really got a blueprint.

It's like I'm doing it scared and I'm okay with it. that. Because I know everybody that's successful that's around me, they didn't did something that was a little scary, but it just worked. Because, you know, my boy, Nio said it all the time, we always worried about what if it don't work. But what if it do work? It's got to work or is it not a work?

What if it do work? You know what I'm saying? Okay. Yeah, that's another thing. Yeah, man, you know, the future is coming. Like, whether we like it or not. Right? Technology is getting better and better. Like, we It was a point where we didn't think that we'd be able to see somebody on the phone.

Like, you ever was young, you were talking to your little girl, and you're like, damn, I wish I could see you right now. And we didn't realize. One day, we would be in the FaceTime, yo. So I just believe that, you know, the technology is going to get crazy and crazy. And Tesla, you know, they solving a problem, right? Fuel, right now, even what was going on in the market right now with fuel. Diesel prices is the highest they've ever been in trucking, ever. So a lot of companies aren't positioned to be able to handle that.

A lot of them got too much overhead So now with the fuel prices going up It's putting a lot of people out of business So when I did my research I'm like, damn, the tester truck, you don't need no fuel Right? You can get 500 miles on one charge Then everybody was like, shoot,

how long is it going to take the charge? I did my research 30 minutes How long it takes for you, when you was driving them trucks How long it took for you to go to the truck stop And get fuel? By the time you run inside, pay for it, get you some snacks, use the restroom, come back out Wait in line to get the fuel, how long that took like 30, at least 30 minutes, right?

So it takes 30 minutes to charge and get an extra 400 miles. Then Elon was like, look, I'm putting a million mile guarantee that they ain't going to break down for a million miles. And I thought it was cap. I'm like, that's not possible. So I'm like, why would he say that the truck ain't going to break down for a million miles? Well, he put an engine on each axle. So it got four axes on the 18 wheel. He put an engine, four engines, one on each axle.

So three of them break down. Guess what? That one engine is going to allow that truck to keep going. So it's $180,000. It ain't coming out probably for another year or two. I said, look, I'm making, you know, they're saying I'm the face of trucking. I got to get it. I got to be the guinea pig.

So I said, look, I'm going to be the guinea pig. I'm going to get it if it works. Cool. I'll be able to share my testimony, let everybody know. Look, go get this truck. And if it don't work, I just turn into a learning lesson. and use it as a teaching moment. So again, I got to put $20,000 down, pay $180 for it,

and hope that, you know, Elon do what he's supposed to do with it. You know what I'm saying? But again, if it works, then guess what? I did it. I'm doing this scared. So a lot of y'all, man, like, you know, don't be afraid to, you know, do it scared. Do it scared.

That's a fact. I like that. That's going to get you a meeting with Elon. You're going to be like, I remember that guy. Right? He's black. He ain't gonna, me. He never, I mean, he never, yeah.

No way. I'm not, no. I'm gonna. Turn it. March it back and take the jacket off. I'll be worth a trillion about that. Yeah, he'd be trolling. The motherfuck said, a million miles.

Guarty, all right. You all see. He said he got all them engines. That bitch break down. You better take each engine off. Oh, that's going to be interested in the seat, though, man, because, you know, truck is a world of what if. Yeah, that's a fucking, it's a vehicle.

Anything can fucking happen. This is the automated truck or somebody has to drive? No, this one, somebody got a job, but they, you know, they eventually... I can see it now. A fucking trucker broke down. That whole goddamn engine that came about that wheel. You know what you learned about from Elon is that people, successful people, celebrate their wins and act like their loss has never happened. Remember that armored truck? He got that shit from Donald Trump, though.

Donald Trump, all of them. Remember the armored truck thing? Yeah. And they said the windows couldn't break. And they threw a rock and it broke the window. He never heard about it again. He just acted like it never happened. Like, so many times we get caught up on.

losses and it brings down our spirit they act like it never happened move on but then when you win you got to amplify that yeah because people only remember what you amplify just quiet act like it never happened and move on like that's a lesson because so many times we let the losses like just break our spirit we harp on it we can't get over it just move on like it's part of the game America love a comeback story that's a fact I don't think about Ray Jain with the glasses shot to Ray Jets yeah yeah yeah like it never happened What are you saying?

So? You can't break it? So what? Exactly. Same mentality. Same mentality. As long as you got more wins and losses. That's it.

I don't care. As long as you got more wins. It's unbreakable. Yeah. Spirit's unbreakable. Shout to Ray J. Shout to that. That's how I got.

I was just with him out in L.A. Yeah. Good dude right. Broke them. I don't care. So? What? It don't matter.

Never happened. I'll make a scooter. Never happened. Ray J. is the culture, man. That's a fact. This motherfuckers stay moving the culture. He just dropped that shit at the versus battle, that crazy-ass dad. The internet lives forever.

He had one wish. He said that they was on. I guarantee you used that little, that little fucking thing about the end of the year. That little clip. Everybody's going to be hitting. When the check clears. They already use it. He's going to capitalize on them.

They already use it. He's smart, man. He's smart. You know what they don't. They play that role. They play that role. They want to do it. ramen noodles thing he did.

The next night, eating Rominole's. You're thinking that we catching them off guard and it was a whole marketing. It was a whole marketing thing. I always played a role in the fool, but a fool can never play the role of Wiseman. I went to see Soldier Boy, we went, he's classically playing, he's playing a piano. Classically musical trained, like, he's genius level. All that stuff that he understands what he's doing. I'm like, when you learn to play the piano?

Like, I'm talking about like Beethoven type of show. So what was his reason for learning how to do it? Because he loved music. When he got into music, he realized that in order to be like a true musician, he had to love He learned all of the aspects of and not just the rap. So he produces, everybody knows he produces, but I didn't know he actually played instruments. But he was like playing the instruments,

he learned how to read music. And learning how to read music actually made him a much better musician. Yeah, it's crazy. That's the duality of it. Like, he's going to play the classical piano, and the next thing he's going to be telling you how he's going to build a slide from his bedroom to his pool.

That's part of the genius, right? He's just like, he's going to keep staying relevant. I'm going to do, I'm going to skate with one sock on. Like, I'm going to be the first person to do it. They know how to stay relevant. Even that, saying he's the first person. It's a joke, but it's real, right? Because now it's like he said it so much, he's branded it.

So now it's like to say, now, Raid, uh, Soldier Boy was the first person to do this. So he's the way, that's the way to keep his name relevant. That's the fact. He's a genius. Marketing. Yeah, he's a genius. Marketing is that anything.

Nah. Oh, you gotta get him. Oh, you gotta get him. Big Drake off. Got to get him. It makes sense. It makes sense. That'd be hard.

Legend. That'd be hard. What is, a cat. It's going to we got a good. We did a couple. Of course, we got the truck. We got vending machines. Yeah, yeah.

We take that. Yeah, get some with some weed in it. No, we was actually, yeah. Shout to Al Harrington. We interviewed Al Harrington. Oh, what? Yeah. You know, sure. Not heavy in stocks?

Stocks, yeah. Real estate. With M.G. He sent us some weed up here. Viola? Yeah. Powerful. Viola brand. It was so good.

I forgot to tell him. Shout out to hell. Harrington, man. It's a good weed. Appreciate it, bro. Yeah, yeah. So we did a couple, like, a couple different things. Because it's like, what's the point of our relationships

if you're not going to use them? Yeah. Right. It's crazy because, like, when we sit down with people and they've got an expertise, like, our question starts changing. Like, I'll hear how he's asking questions. because I know we're about to have a conversation after like, yeah, I think we can do this.

Like, when we did our episode, I knew they was going to get a truck. I knew it. I'm like, yo, wait, this space too much dead sense. Why are we not doing this? And so the best thing is like, yeah, we get to learn on the spot, but then we get to have the resource to hold our hand. Like, all right, listen, we're going to do this. It's going to help build our brand.

It's going to help build your brand. And people get to watch it. So it's going to inspire them. Like, wait, these dudes didn't know anything about it, but they did it. Right? They took action. I always said, like, we jump off the porch because it's like, All right, well, fuck it.

We're going to learn. People are going to learn through us. And so it helps both parties, you know what I'm saying? So anytime you hear those type of questions coming from us, it's like, all right, we can do it. Because we know. We know what people want to do. They just need the information.

And so, like, this generation, especially this generation, the amount of information that's being given, because we know in the past, like, people just hoarded it. They didn't want you to win. It was like, I got it, good luck, figure it out on your own. And now we're coming through it like now. Here's information, we got it. You can have it, too.

Let's see that it's all built together. Man, throw some resources out there that you want to lead the people to then. I'm your leisure. First and foremost, yeah. Y'all should be watching Market Mondays every Monday, shout out to you. Yeah, yeah.

Chaldeen. Y'all should definitely be watching a high-level conversation. Shout out to my man, 19. Absolutely. Yeah. Y.L. Every episode, that's a fact.

Yeah. Rans and gems, if you watch real estate. Real estate, cash, fashion show, inside the vault. Yep. We created a whole ecosystem. So, in your leisure, it's other people doing their thing, too. But it's like, we feel like we took the same model for music. It's like when you're hot, you've got two choices when you're hot. You can just double down and focus on yourself or you can start helping others and grow up.

And we took that approach. So now it's like, all, we can produce content. We can have other shows. So it's like we don't rap, so we don't got a record label. You should. You should. Well, that could be the best fucking record label on them. Yeah.

Because you ain't got no interest. There's talks about that. Drop the song. Fuck it. Well, I'm working on producing a song. Ain't on. You say you should rap. No, no, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no, no. I was just about to say, I was just about to say, I was just like, if I can rap, I swear to God. Jimmy, tell these niggas how I used to get down. No, that's crazy. I was just about to say that. Literally, I was just about to say, because Dane, my God, I was just about to say,

if I'm doing anything, I'm going to beat Damed Dash on a record. Just talk to him. Wait till the remakes, though. You can show you that's probably Throwing champagne money Earn your leisure You're gonna never No bigger numbers

I like that Key word I like that Don't forget that Another resource they can tap it If anybody I want to You know learn about the truck game You know good energy

Worldwide.com And we talked about Like speaking it right Yeah When I started my company 10 years ago I was gonna go with good energy I was like

Nah I'm gonna be worldwide So I actually named my LLC is Good Energy Worldwide. Yeah. I spoke that. You got to get into that solar power, too, player. Oh, yeah, for sure. I was just fucking... I mean, you got to make good energy. Yeah, right. We're going to do energy drink, though.

That's what we all doing. So, yeah, we really got it. Oh, that's breaking news. I can speak on it now. Breaking news. Energy drink coming. But, yeah, good energy worldwide.com, you know what I'm saying? We got the complete truck and portal for people that want to learn how to be a fleet owner. We got the dispatch mastery course. For the people that's not ready to get a truck yet,

we want to learn the dispatching game. And, you know, the Instagram, I give a lot of game. I give a lot of free content. You know what I'm saying? I've been giving game for 10 years almost. And people always be like, look, why you give away so much, gang? Like, you give away so much. And I tell them if you feel like you're giving away too much, you don't know enough.

You know what I'm saying? But Alex underscore Good Energy, ALIX. Oh, we didn't even talk about the upcoming recession. A recession. This shit is going to drop like an album. Yeah, yeah. I feel like we're in a recession. It's here.

It's officially here. I feel like we're in a recession right now. I haven't officially announced it yet, but they will. A recession is two negative quarters of GDP, so we're just about to finish this quarter. But the good thing about recessions is that there's opportunities in every crisis. And I feel like a lot of people make their fortunes during recessions. So it's like, you know, a lot of businesses fail, but some businesses succeed. And if you are the business that succeed, that makes you an authority in the space.

So now it's like, you know, only the strong survive, right? So if you could survive during the rough times, then when the good times come, you're already going to be 10. steps ahead. And it also gives you an opportunity to invest. Because like now the stock market is down, crypto is down, everybody panicking. Yeah. Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah. That nigga brought him all the dough. He bought all the dough corn. He said, he's a dog. Every one of them. But yeah, like, we know it stocks is down, crypto is down. People panic and they want to sell, but it's like this is an opportunity to buy. Like, I heard a crazy story on Don Peebles.

You ever heard of him? He was real estate developer. He's black. He's probably like a billionaire, close to a billionaire. And we talked to him, and he said the illus, he said his theory would invest in real estate, but you can apply it to everything. It's like a clock.

He was like, when the clock is at 12 o'clock, that's the peak. Like, you don't want to invest in. He was like, you want to actually wait until it gets to like 4 o'clock. And he was like from 4 o'clock, all away to like 8 o'clock is when you should be buying. And then from 8 o'clock to 11 o'clock is when you should be selling.

And it's like, if you think about it like that, that's like buy low, sell high. Most people do the exact opposite. Most people buy high and they sell low, like those, right? Because of what's called Formo fares missing out. So what happens is psychologically you see Bitcoin and it's at $10,000 and you're like, all right. Then it goes to $20,000. You're looking at $30,000, $40,000, $50,000. Now by the time it gets to $60,000, you feel like every single person in the world got it.

And you're the only person that don't have it. And it's going to go to $300,000. So you put your whole life savings in. You're like, telling my whole life story. No, not me. Not me. I got a feeling. I couldn't understand it on.

Yeah, I couldn't understand it. But then it goes from 60 to 20. Then what happens psychologically, you get so nervous and so rattled. You see your money go from $100,000 down $40,000. You panicking. So now you're thinking, all right, I rather to lose 60% of my money than all of my money. my money because it's going to zero and you sell and then what happens it goes back up that's the cycle that's my little shit till you sell it exactly but it's emotions it's so many emotions that come into

investing that's why we always tell people you got to invest long term right most people want to trade they want to make money as fast as possible but the same person who hasn't invested right when you see companies like apple or you see an amazon or a hundred dollars or you see a disney that's like $98 that's a perfect time to get it right because these companies aren't going anywhere we already know that, right? If I have to ask you the top five companies over the next 10, 15 years, you're probably going to say Google, Amazon, Apple, Tesla probably be thrown in there, it's a little bit more volatile, but

like, they're at a discounted price. Like, we're the only community that says, like, all right, stocks are discounted, let's not buy them. But, like, when clothes are discounted, it's like, let's run to the mall. Right? We do it, right? We're so accustomed to being consumers that we don't realize that we can be owners.

And so if we get that, that's what this is about, right? Like, our whole movement is, like, to change that mindset. Like, let's shift from consumerism to ownership. So this is the time. Like, if the market's down, yeah, there's something that's called the Fair and Greed Index. It tells you, like, when people are in fair, that's when you buy. When people agree, that's when you sell. It's kind of

like, this is similar to that clock analogy. Right now, people are in fair. So we should be looking at it like, this is a perfect time to go put money into companies that I think are going to be here long term. And you don't even have to think about it. Like, you probably already consuming them. You probably got an iPhone.

You probably already shop on Amazon. You probably use Microsoft. You're like, you're using all these products. So you don't have to ever think about it. You're the one that's making these companies have sustainable power over the long term. And you're only supposed to invest with you not afraid to lose. You know what I'm saying? That's the oldest rule in the book. You only invests what you ain't got a clock. You know, you ain't supposed to invest the money that you're going to need for rent next month. Like, period. So that way you can just, you don't got to be so emotional with your decisions. Fact. And it, even in the recession, like even now, like people

like I shouldn't invest in things, but we know in times of inflation or recession, people can invest in commodities. It's something that we talked about like four months ago, like commodities. We know gold is a commodity. You know silver is a commodity. But there's a commodity that everybody's going to use every day that's never going to go anywhere. That's food. Right? And if they're raising prices on food

and you can invest in food, wouldn't you? Right? That makes sense, right? So if I could buy shares of corn or wheat or soy or sugar, right? And we know the prices of those things are going up, it just makes perfect sense that I should be putting my money in those things, especially

if inflation is at its all-time mile, like it is, 41-year-out. And then even bigger than that, because a lot of times people like, I don't have money to invest. This is our, like, you got to, you can't really invest without money, right? But that's why we big on business. Like, business is very important to us because it's like

now you get a successful business, now you actually have money to invest. So it's like, this is an opportunity to start businesses, but you got to start the right business. Like a lot of times in our community, we start businesses that's not scalable. So it's like barbershops, it's like restaurants. We got to do all the work.

Yeah, that's a job, really. That's not, you trade in one job for another. You're an employee for yourself. Like, I remember, like, I used to be a financial advisor. So this Instagram, she had a lot of followers on Instagram, like $2 million followers. She came to my office and she was talking to me and she was like, yo, I'm in a mall in Jersey, but I'm about to go out of business. I'm like, wow.

She's like, I got a clothing store. And they was charging like $15,000. $1,000 a month for a clothing store rent. It was crazy. And I'm like, well, why you got a physical store? It doesn't even make any sense. You worry about people stealing from you. You can't pay your rent. You got to pay your light bill. You got to pay employees. You got two million followers. But geographically, only probably 1% of your followers live within a 10-mile radius of your store in Jersey. Now, if you got an online boutique, you could be selling stuff to people in China, in Australia, in New Mexico, California, wherever, with no overhead, right? No store.

you can actually just drop ship it so you don't even got to have a physical warehouse. So that's a lot more efficient. That's a scalable model. It's not a scalable model to have a physical location that you're just struggling just to pay the rent. So it's like even the way that we look at business

a lot of times, we got to rethink it. Like this is a new day, this is a new error. Make it make sense. It got to be global. If it can't be global, at this point in time, you've got to rethink it. You got to rethink the whole strategy. And everybody got to be getting money on the internet somehow.

The internet is like mandatory, you know? And, you know, my mentor, when I met him in 2018, shout to CJ, I used to do one-on-one consultations. Every month, I would do five to six people, charging $10,000 a client, five to six people a month. I'm like, damn, $50,000 a month, I'm good. But when I met my mentor, he changed my whole mindset. He's like, look, man, yeah, you're doing a good service. But you're only one person. and you can't scale yourself.

So the biggest piece of advice that I got that changed my whole life was, yo, put your information online, package it up and sell it, and now you can reach more people. So I went from five, six clients a month. I didn't want to take more than that because I didn't want to sacrifice the integrity of my service.

We put it online, and within three and a half years, we've been trained 27,000 people. So, yeah, you know what I'm saying? Real talk. So, like, you've got to be on line somehow. You know, that brick and mortar, we got to, like, we got to get a part of that, you know what I'm saying? If you do it, you got to make sure you're on line too heavy.

Yeah. And I just want to say one one thing, too, as far as he brought up the recession, there's one word that comes to my mind. You know what I'm saying? Preparation. Preparation, a lot of people, you know, if you feel in this recession, If you're going to go through the motions right now is because you didn't prepare.

And it's so important that, you know, when you have opportunities, you take advantage of those opportunities, so much money got put into the system in 2020. Right? Well, we've seen everybody yet, though. We've seen them in the malls. Y'all didn't, a lot of people didn't prepare.

I ain't trying to beat nobody down, but a lot of y'all didn't prepare. You thought it was going to be a gravy train the whole time. So now when the situation happens now, you caught with your pants at your ankles. Where did that money your grandmama gave? Like when your mommy was dead, she did. But that's the crazy thing in life.

Like, that's just like, on any level, street level, whatever. You prepare for bad times during good times. You don't prepare for bad times during bad times. Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, you got to prepare for bad times during good times because you know it's going to come. Yeah. You got to know.

You got to know. You've got to anticipation for precipitation stack chips for any day. Right. We've seen the highest rates in trucking in the last six. six months, five, six dollars a mile. I've been to game ten years. I've never seen rates so high before. But even during that time when everybody's making $10,000

$15,000 a week with their truck, I was telling them like, yo, chill. Like, make sure you stack your bread. Make sure you create an escrow account and put it away. Because it ain't going to be like this forever. And the ones that listen, fuel prices went up. They're chilling. They coasting because they

got that stash. So again, how you prepared during the peak season will determine how you survive during the slow seasons. That's a fact. That boy good. That's a fact. Yeah.

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You're going through it. We're going to get to the other side. But just remember how you feel right now with everything. If you're getting effective, I know how you feel right now. And when that opportunity comes, stop playing, man. The last time we was here, we was talking about investing. And we gave you the stocks to invest. Did you, did you all pull the trigger on them?

He did. He didn't. He didn't even Texas to say, thanks, guys. What did you tell him? What did you say, jump on? He don't like me tell him. We'll talk after All right

Every time you don't pose some shit I can go watch this shit All the time That's all the time What's the What's the number one area That motherfuckers ain't looking In the stock market

That they should be I always ask that To anybody who know a little guy I just get you to agriculture Right now Sure because we're not really We're not thinking of it Right most people look at tech

But, like, when tech has a fall like it has, right, a correction, a pullback, a recession is here 30% pulldowns. It's like, all right, well, where do we go now? We only know tech companies. Right. Because tech can be affected by, you know, product, materials, all that type of shit. Yeah. Interest rates go up, right? It's going to cost you more than out to have the labor. It's going to cost you more to do parts.

The supply chain issue doesn't help, right? That's probably the number one issue right now. Obviously, what's happening in Ukraine affects it. But all these things, like, you need to note all the stuff. sectors, right? And so when we think about medicine and health care, right, we know that we just came out of a pandemic. We know people are trying to push this vaccine. Somebody's making it. Somebody's boweling it, right? All these, there's so many, there's 11 sectors. Pick two or three, maybe four, and find out the best two or three companies inside each sector, and you're going

have yourself a nice portfolio, right? So go with what you know. If you know tech companies, go with that. If you know industrials, go with that. If you know consumer discretionary, go with that. If you know health care companies, go with that. Look at the top two or three in that sector. All right, these are the leaders of the sector. All right, these are companies I probably should look into. I hope y'all let that go over your head. He just broke it down and made it so simple

on how to make your decisions on what you buy. And you got to attack, like, even Wall Street Trapper. At the beginning of the pandemic, I called him and I'm like, yo, whatever you're doing with content, double it. Do more. Do more content. Because it's like even like war, if you think, you're talking about Russia and Ukraine, you talk about war. Like, generals don't attack when armies are strong.

You attack when they're weak. So it's like when the economy is weak, that's when you should attack. Like, that's when you should be going crazy. When the economy is strong, you still got to do work, but you don't have the same opportunity. When everything is down, that's when you can actually go crazy. And that's what we did. Like, at the beginning of the pandemic, we started to show Market Mondays going crazy. Like, we just started doubling down on content because everybody was home.

And they had nothing to do. And not only did they have nothing to do, they didn't really have no money. And then they got money from the stimulus. So now it's like, you got money, you got nothing to do. You need to know what you to do with your money, and you got time. So now everybody started doubling down our content. So we didn't know that the pandemic was coming, but we was in prime position to capitalize from the pandemic. And people capitalize too.

So like a lot of people listen to the information, they execute on it, and they made money. And so now they're looking at it like, wait, I have more money than I've ever had in my life. And so that's what it goes back to that point when you become, when you take advantage of a crisis, you become the authority and space because you're giving the information and now we don't even have to say it right people like yo i just listen to these dudes and i made this money you got to listen to them too and so the word of mouth becomes like oh mate they become the authority in the space of how we should be investing and you got to be able to flip your product multiple times so it's like from from i look at business like like a tree it got a lot of different branches on it right so it's like they always say you need

seven streams of income people get discouraged but they think you got to have seven different businesses or seven different jobs and it's like who has time to do that but it's like For us, like, we started earn your leisure, right? So that's a media company, we reduced podcasts. And you look at podcasts, like, podcast is free. I even make money from that. But you know how you can get ad revenue from audio, but you can also get ad revenue from YouTube.

But that's only the baseline beginning. So now it's like, all right, now we can actually sell merch because we got to wear something, like how y'all wear your clothes. We wear our clothes all the time. So it's like, now we can sell merch. That's one way. And then it's like the podcast is free,

but that's still kind of like, I like to say it's like public school, where we just say in information, right? So now what if we create a private school experience? So now we create EYL University. And that's a paid subscription, but that's a small Zoom class and people get to ask questions

and we do group activities. So now it's like, now we're actually holding your hands. So now if you want the public school, we're going to teach you for free. But if you want a more higher level education with your hands held, now we can do EYL University. So now we got that, right? So then it's like, all right, people like this.

Let's take this show on the road. so now it's like okay now we can actually start doing events and start touring so now we do shows and we talk about invest fest but now we got a festival right so now it's like that so and it's like okay now we got this good we could produce content for other people so now we start producing shows for other people so it's like that's a lot of different things that we're doing

but it all centers around one thing so it's not like we reinventing the wheel redoing trying to create all these other different businesses we just once we mastered one business we just do branch, branch off. So now it's like EYO kids, EYO University, EYO trucking, EYO vending machine. You're saying, these are all just branches

off of the mothership, which is earning your leisure. I can give you another example if you want. I started my trucking company. I got my trucks. I said, okay, cool. Let me create something else. It's called diversifying within your own industry first. Started a dispatch service.

Started accepting trucks that we could dispatch for. 10%. Right? Then we dropped the course. Then I'm like, shoot, let me create something that my students can benefit from. We're doing the truck parking lot. Guess who's gonna fill that parking lot up? My students.

I got over 27,000 students. At the clothing line. That's five different streams of income in one industry. You too short? You need one more? Two more. Yeah, come out with something else. Come out with it.

You got to come out with a hundred Yeah, man But that's what it's about for what you And like I said, it's not even It's just, you know It's really just a form of education And I feel like just even us having this conversation It's education

It's not education like going to school and learn They might be smoking, they might be drinking They might just be having fun But in the course of them having fun Being entertained You might actually be able to learn something And you can actually implement it Like that's how I learn from rap

So it's like when I'm listening to Nip And he's talking about I'm integrated vertically. Like, he's talking about a lot of different things, but while he's saying that, and I'm like, okay, what does that mean? Then I'm looking at Apple. Like, how does Apple integrate vertically? Then I see what he did with the Marathon store. So he's dropping gyms, he's dropping business gyms inside of the lyrics, and it's like, it's decoded. Like, you know what's there. So now it's a new form of education that's entertaining. Yeah. So now it's like, make you look at everything.

Entertainment, yeah, exactly. That's what I said. That's what you're doing. You know, like, yo, can stop it. Yeah, yeah, for sure. We went to London. You know, it's crazy because we do different events, and then it's like you just got to keep pushing the limit. We've got to keep pushing the limit. So it's like, all right, let's go overseas.

And we know that London's like the second biggest market outside of America. Nigeria's actually bigger. How did you find that out, though? Analytics. Study analytics. Talk about that. You don't know about that. Yeah, man, studying analytics.

So, like, you know, when we do podcasts and this charts, We got to study with charting in these places. I didn't even know that people listen to it. They only speak the language. And so I got to go look at who's listening, how long they're listening, studying analytics from a viewership standpoint, and studying from a leadership standpoint, it's two different things. And so once we get to analytics, it makes easy decisions.

And so we treated, like, hip-pop is really our biggest influence. And so if you think about it, when a artist goes out to do pop-ups or in-stores, like what they used to do, they had to look at where they were selling. And so when they were, all right, well, we got some audience in Chicago, let's do an install in Chicago, let's sign some autographs, let's take pictures. And so we treated it the same way. When we started rolling with the podcast, we're like, where are they listening to? Oh, Atlanta?

All right, well, we got to do something in Atlanta. L.A.? All right, well, we got to go see everything was for free. We just wanted to spread the reach and see how far the people were listening to us. And so Chicago became a place, Houston became in place. And then internationally, like I said, it's a worldwide topic. So Jamaica became a place we had to go. My whole family's from there.

They were listening. We became number one in there. We were number one in DR. We were charting in Nigeria. with China, Kenya, so it was like, all right, the analytics are telling us where we need to be. It's also going to tell us where we can also grow, right? So it's like, all right, well, we're big in Nigeria, but are we big in Ghana, which is, you know, a neighboring country? All right, well, that might be a place we need to attack next.

Once they see us come to Africa, it's like, oh, wait, they came to Africa, wait, how come you out of come to Ghana? Okay, yeah, that would be the next stuff. And it's like, you know, from, like, we spoke to like this big, big, billion dollar company, And they're like, yo, let's do this for you. And I'm like, well, what can you do for us that we can't do for ourselves? And they're like, well, we can tell you, like, your major cities. I'm like, you can't tell me my major cities because we already went to all the major cities. We looked at the analytics.

We paid for it ourselves. We did free events there. We tested the water. If we didn't get a good turnout, that means we need to double down. If we got a good turnout, that means we can do a paid event. We did this for three years before the pandemic we was doing this. So it's like you're trying to tell us that you can tell us our major cities, but we already know the major cities. So going to London,

that was a test run where it was like on paper it looks good we see the numbers but you never know especially overseas you never know so it was like let's go out there and let's do a free event free event right so we did a free event networking event spot held 300 people it was like one of the the biggest clubs in downtown london like a vibe and it was 2,500 people that showed up so 2,200 people on the street and it's in the winter so it's freezing outside and they stayed the whole entire entire night. And it was crazy because it was like, the bouncer was telling us like, yo, we'd never seen nothing like this.

And it was like, yo, they had secret service police because they're not used to that time. It was all black people in central London. That's like unheard of. Like, you know what I'm saying? So it was crazy. And from doing that, it caused such a frenzy and the word of mouth got so crazy

that we got something. I can't announce it yet. Not yet. They often have something out there. Why are you with it? And then the crazy thing is like, you just got to take chances, like even we went to Egypt and Troy, he told me, he was like, yo, I don't know if you know, but Nigeria is our second biggest market right now. I'm like, where? He's like, yeah. I'm like,

all right, let's go out there. We didn't have no plan or nothing. Really, that's how the conversation. I'm like, we got to go. So we booked it, we went out there, we met with, we interviewed David O, one of the biggest artist in the world. Is it Davido or Davido? David O. They call him Davido. Oh, what is David O. Okay. We interviewed him. We did a

networking event. We did so much stuff. and it's like with no idea just like just go out there and we just gonna figure it out when we go so I feel like doing that pushing the boundaries right like what started as a podcast turned into a worldwide media company right

exactly and it's like you gotta go to different places because people want to see you and you'd be surprised like how many they're like damn just for you to come out there if they're just appreciated it they appreciate it so much like you took the time to come out here

nobody comes out of it. Man say less we're going international Let's do it. Let's do it. They keep asking us. Yeah. You got to go. You got to go.

You have to. That's going to be crazy. Toronto, London. Toronto. Toronto. Incredible. 85% is all over the world. Well, here we come, man.

London should definitely be on your first stop. I'm telling y'all going to get so much love out there. I already know. It's going to be amazing. It's going to blow your mind being in another country getting that love too. You know what I'm saying? I ain't been out of the country in a little minute. Yeah.

About two summers. Yeah. Got to do it. Y'all go where you sent over. I know, but the last time I went out to country, I was like, I'm going to stay in America for a little minute. I didn't ever say. I just, it was too much.

When I got back to America, I was like, whoo. What country? What you go? Shit. What country you go to? I went to Kuwait. I went to Kuwait? Yeah.

Like a cruise? Like with the military? Yeah. Oh, okay. That's why. I went to a military. I went to the country. You're a different.

You're a different. I had some shows out there. Did some shows? Yeah, I went to Kuwait. But that Dubai shit really made me say, I don't want to stay in America. Now, Dubai are the best country in the world. You said Dubai made you want to come back? You couldn't smoke.

Shut up. Because you couldn't smoke. It ain't the best country in the world. It's not. Why you ain't like you? Because you couldn't smoke? Nah, because the motherfuckers was his own one over there. Too strict? Nah, it ain't just too strict. I just, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't fuck with the vibe.

Really? Yeah. I ain't been out there yet. Yeah. I said that they love it. You're going to love it. I was just saying three months ago. You're going to love it.

Bring them outfits with you here. Three months ago ago. It was amazing. You know what I noticed? It's a lot of shit that people ain't even going to tell you that you're going to see over there that's going to fuck with your head. Like what, though? Yeah, I'm curious. I was just there.

I'm curious. You'll see. I don't want to use my platform. You know what I noticed. You know what I noticed. It's not about where you go to size or is who you went, too. It's always who you with. You know what I'm saying?

I'm just saying that everybody has their own likes and preferences and shit. I prefer some other shit. What country did you go to where he was like, this is a vibe? Curacao. Okay. You get some random-ass country. That shit. That shit was so fun.

There wasn't nobody on there. Nobody on the highway. He didn't. Only man. He just didn't smoke in myself. Andrew Jones. Andrew Jones from Carousel. Yeah, Carousel.

I loved it over there. That shit beautiful, man. But you never touched Africa. We went to this club that was on the side of a fucking mountain or some shit. It was like an outside club, but it was like, it was in like a mountain or something shit. And then it was like, you go to the other side of the club, like you walk through the mountain and shit. And then it's just like, ocean, nigga. Just like right there.

You just fall off the cliff. And the water cliff. As far as you can see, man. Like, all the fucking way out there. But you've never been to Africa? No. Not yet. I'm going, though.

Yeah, yeah. You're going on my list. We should make something happen. Yeah, let's do that shit. Y-Y-R. 85 South tour. Man, that's what I was. The international tour. Let's drop that shit.

Let's do it. Let's pick us fucking ten places and just go do that. I'm dead serious. I want to do it like to earn your 85. Let me do some events, man. That's what we're going to go. We can't getaway some shit, man, and take a dog guys cruise or some shit.

I got an idea. I got an idea. Because that's what it's about, too. It's not just about finance with us. We started with finance and business, but it's about expanding a brand. So, like, we about to do, like, a big basketball game in New York for high school kids, like sports.

It's something that we really want to get into. Bring AAU back. Yeah, yeah. So, like, you know what I'm saying? Like, just doing different things, the fashion, doing different stuff where it's not just us, drilling business in your head all day. Like, people heard it. They heard that, and if they want

that, they can get it, you know what I'm saying? But we want to just have fun with it as well. And expand, work with people like yourselves. That's just killing the game and just, you know, see how we can help. We've got to do that drug dealer fashion show. Very important. Very important. We'll talk about that.

We got something cooking. Yeah, we got something cooking. That's a big market right there. Anything else y'all want to drop on them before we got there? Yeah, I just want to talk, so we got, I know we in the So we got Invest Fest Coming up Okay

Now what is that specifically? InvestFest, so it was August 5th through the 7th The idea was like once again Just thinking outside the box Like you always hear about music festivals Coachella, Roland Loud Made in America Roots Picnic

All these music festivals But I had never heard of like a finance festival Conferences You had conferences a lot of things of that nature But I haven't heard like a finance festival So I'm like how can I take the best? aspects of a festival but then add the education in it.

So last year was the first year this year is going to be the second year. So it's like food trucks, it's game, we've got a VIP night with musical performances, you're going to have T-pane there, like, this is going to be a vibe. And it's like In the Marketplace? Yes, been the marketplace, it's like Essence Fest. So we're like

just looked at different people what's doing and was like I want to do this, I want to do that. So now we created what's called Invest Fest and it's like I said it's August 5th through the 7th in Atlanta and it's a three-day of education, entertainment, fun. Ross going to be there, T.I., Steve Harvey, Alex, his whole crew. Shot to the circular CEO.

The circle of CEO's be there, Charleston. So, yeah, so it's like where you can actually learn, but in a fun setting. Me, people, we're going to have after parties. And the idea is to, like, keep growing and growing into the point where it becomes, like, as big as Essence Fest, where it's, like, that weekend, it's just a bunch of unauthorized things happening, like, a bowling alley. Like, this has happened. Like, now what I'm saying?

Where it's just so many people just coming into the city and that's how we really build, too. It's like, you know, think about how much money that can generate. It's already generating the city of Atlanta a lot of money.

Like, even last year in my barbara, he was like, he flew from New York and the ticket prices was like $900. And he called, like, he was like, yo, a lot of people flying down for some reason this weekend.

So we actually inflated the ticket prices last year. So it's going to be bigger. Like this year, we're looking at 10,000 people and a Georgia World Congress Center. So. Yeah.

Yeah, so go to investfest.com, get your tickets. And it's a vibe, man. Like I said, that's what it's about, right? Just thinking outside the box, seeing how you can just expand, seeing how you can just keep growing, keep growing. And it's like everything that somebody is doing, nothing is too big. Because it's like, I look at Coachella and people would be like, people don't even think that that's possible, but somebody had to do that.

Somebody had a vision, somebody put it together. So it's like if somebody did Coachella, can't we do something just as big as Coachella? Like you know what I mean? So if something is already done, that means it's possible. Somebody went to the moon, somebody went to Mars. That means that it's possible. And even if somebody didn't do it yet,

somebody has to do something eventually. So if you're the first person to do it, it's like you really can't lose because you just learn from your experiences. So that's what we did with InvestFest, put up our own money, leveraged our relationships, got the talent. People looking at like, it's crazy. How do you do that? How do you get all of these A-list

celebrity, Steve Harvey, Tyler Perry, Like, how you get these kind of people, Rick Ross, and it's like, it's through relationships. Yeah. It's just through, like, you know what I mean? Being a good person, honoring your work, establishing relationships, and you can do something that ticket master can do. Like, you don't got to be this big billion-dollar corporation to do that. A lot of times, we minimize ourselves and we think that we just talent. And it's like, let them handle the business, and we can just be the talent now.

We can be the talent and the business. Yeah. And it's not about us, which is key, right? Like, yeah, we organizing it, but it's not about us. Like, somebody hit me the other day. They're like, why isn't your name first on your own flyer? I'm like, it's not about us. It's about the people we bring in, right?

We don't know who the CEO of Coachella is. If I didn't tell you, you want to know, right? Native America, I've never seen Jay Z's face on Native America, but we know he threw it. You see what I'm saying? So we're just taking that format where it's like, let's celebrate the people. Let's bring all the best in their space. Let's have them all come together to celebrate community.

You know what I mean? So that's what it's about, man, lifting up everybody at the same time. Well, there you're happening. Nah, man, we definitely appreciate y'all stopping through and dropping some game on us. Appreciate you having this, man. Appreciate you coming through. Real quick, can I just say one thing?

Because I saw you bring out the Capri Sun. And the last time we was here, we was here with Trouble. So I just want to say, rest and peace of trouble, we shot our last episode with him. That was the 85 shots. That was the first episode. Yeah, so he shot his episode right before. So we got to watch him and really like,

like, all right, this dude was funny. That's the first time that I ever, I didn't know who he was. That's the first time I saw him, and he was talking, and he was so country. I couldn't understand anything that he said. She goes through everything that he said. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, yeah, man, rest of the piece of that brother. And the crazy thing about that is that episode never came out.

Yeah, because the audio, that's all the episode didn't come out either because the audio got messed up. But we were definitely here with him. When we heard the news, we were like, damn. So, yeah, rest and peace to him and condoses to his family. Yeah, sure. Keep on trucking, man. Yeah, man. It ain't going nowhere.

I'm gonna jump back in there and throw some miles on the road. Yeah, yeah. My goal is just to show people how to do it the right way the first time. Yeah, it's definitely a lucrative. When it's done right, when it's done right. It got challenges. It can get costly once you get the spending that bread on them trucks. Tires, kill you.

We got like five flat tires, and I'm like, what the hell ain't putting these tires? It's that 80,000 pounds that you're holding. You know what I'm saying? But you know, even with Tides, you got to make sure to date aired up in the same PSI. All the way of right. You got to be all equal. You know what I'm saying? And I just want to shout out to the circle of CEOs.

My brothers, him 500 misses two weeks out, New A CEO, Neo. We're getting ready to do something amazing for the city. Yeah. Not just. Huh? You ain't say something? Ah, yeah. But, you know, we five CEOs.

We're real friends in real life. We are in five different industries. Yeah. Everybody doing well for themselves. And, you know, besides. just helping the coach and teaching the people. We just know how important impact is. So we're doing something special.

I don't know when this episode is dropping because we haven't released you yet, but it's coming soon. We're getting ready to do a restaurant. The Circle of the CEO feeds Atlanta. I appreciate that. But the twist on it is it's a free restaurant. We're feeding Atlanta.

So basically this would be a restaurant that we're funding that people can just literally go in there eat for free and it's going to be some good food that shit sounds too good to be true yeah yeah um you know it sounds like reynolds food it's definitely that's hard though nah but you know anybody who's hungry yeah you know obviously you know it's definitely going to help the homers for sure but anybody can uh go in there and eat for free um so i just wanted to let everybody know we we're getting ready to do that for the city i'm excited about that

right now let's go bro congrats so shit clay You're gonna feed the city? Hey man, I feed them individually. One of the time. You know what I'm saying? Y'all can't all come in here, but I'll bring you something out here. Got some two of those in water for you. But now that's what's gonna be crazy, yeah.

Well look, man, this is not your first time in the trip. Don't let it be your last. Anytime you're in the city, man, just pull up, just stop through here. And likewise, man, any time y'all want to come on the platform, y'all got to announce me anything, you don't feel free. I'm coming on me. Yeah, I got some shit to say Him and Chad that episode

Yeah, we came through and they You know what alumni Put him up on game Yeah, yeah Yeah, that was a dope episode Shout out to Chad They're like, oh, that's what Chad It looks like

Yeah Because they always They heard his name before They're like, oh, that's what he looks like Nah, bro, I Showed up, where's Chad? I told you, it made some much money Now he don't got to come on to him

Yeah, that's hard I'm not even coming He's working remote That's all bro though That's all bro, that's all bro Shut up, that they didn't Chad, Uber. Shout out to the whole team.

What Joe at? Joe here? Hell nothing. See, they don't come. They burned their leisure, I get there. Nah, man, we appreciate y'all stopping through here fucking with us, though, man. 85 South's show. We out of here.

I appreciate y'all, man. You're going to get it. You did it, my God. You're in a friend. I appreciate that. It's going to take sitting down. Yeah, we're going to get it. Now I can smoke.

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