The Iced Coffee Hour - "People Are LAZY!" Billionaire Exposes The BEST Ways To Make Money In 2026 (& Why 99% Will Fail)

Episode Date: August 27, 2026

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I'm a billionaire. A real one. What was your business? I own one of the largest law firms in North America. I hunt money. I fish for money. Income and wealth disparity in the U.S. are at all-time high levels. Nobody wants to say, look, here's the real reason.

I'm a lazy slug. What do most people get wrong about your business? I am the most authentic person you're ever going to meet, but I'm very, very street smart, and my social IQ is off the charts. So how did you become a liquid net worth billionaire? If work is work, you're fete. I love to work, because I don't lose. They lose. Sir, I'm sorry.

And when somebody f***ed with me, I f*** back. John Morgan, thank you so much for coming on the iced coffee hour. Well, it's good to be here and welcome. to the big O. Thank you. Thanks so much. You say you don't hunt deer, you hunt money. And now you're a confirmed billionaire. I'm curious, are you still hunting money? People who hunt deer are still hunting deer and people who fish are still fishing. So I'm still hunting and fishing, yes. So what's remarkable is that your firm did over $2 billion in revenue last year. What do most people get wrong about your business? What people get wrong about my business is that

you know, we're chasing frivolous cases. We probably take about 7 to 6% of the calls that come to us. We don't have the money to chase frivolous cases because the people we're going up against have unlimited money. So when people say, you know, jackpot justice and frivolous lawsuits and ambulance chasers, they say it because they're trying to have what's called tort reform and to scare the public. I don't have the money or the time to chase frivolous lawsuits.

So I think that's the number one thing. What I do for a living is righteous. What I do for a living is somebody has something taken from them due to no fault of their own, their health, their income, their education, their education, enjoyment of life, consortium, you name it. It's been taken from them due to no fault of their own. And my job is a great job because what I get to do is go back and get back as much as I can that has been taken from them. I think the people who get something that's something that's taken from you, you want it back.

Now, if you get your leg cut off, I can't put your leg back on, but we can get just, and compensation for that. So not only is what I do good, it's righteous and right. How common are frivolous lawsuits? Well, I don't think they're common because the insurance industry, these are smart people. And when they get a frivolous lawsuit and it goes to an insurance defense lawyer, they love frivolous lawsuits. You know why? Because they get to bill, bill, bill, bill. And they bill like crazy on frivolous lawsuits. Why? Because they know they're going to win. If somebody sues somebody with a frivolous lawsuit and the defense lawyer gets it, they're like, no, we're paying nothing. We're paying nothing because who gets to pay the money? The insurance company.

So why, the question is why, I'm starting to think about a new ad. You may give me a good new ad idea. I'll take my 10%. Three, three. Five. When we say frivolous lawsuits, for there to be frivolous, not lawsuits, frivolous cases, the insurance industry has to go, we're going to give you money for this frivolous lawsuit. For nothing. You think they're going to do that? No. And if they don't do that, then they go to a jury of our peers.

The same juries who get to put people in the electric share. we have the best civil and criminal justice system in the world. So that's what people get wrong. You've spent over a billion dollars on advertising. What do you understand about human attention that most people don't? It's a bit more, way more than a billion. I'll spend 600 million this year. 600? I heard 500 million this year. We've adjusted as we've gone because we've moved into some new cities and I got a new domain called injury.com. How much did you pay for that domain? Endry.com, I think I paid $4 million. $4 million to Ender.com.

It seems like a bargain. Yeah, that's actually not that. Believe it or not, here's what I said. When I bought to Injury.com, here's what I said. I want to buy, whenever I do an ad or do something in my space, I want to do something that my competitors literally up their back when they hear or see. So if I was a competitor and I saw a billboard that said, Injury.com, I would shut up my back because that's, that's, that, I mean, if you could have a name, what would you want for my business?

I'd run injury.com, personal injury.com, car accident. Not personal because, let me tell you, when I did my domains, I got down, this, I was doing this before anybody was thinking, I mean, nobody even had blackberries when I was doing my URL. I got down to two names that I was going to make, I wanted to be my branding statement. and my URL, my mission statement. The two choices I had was for the people. And the other one was justice for all. Now, let me tell you why I didn't do justice for all. The average reading age in America is about sixth or seventh grade.

A lot of these don't know how to spell justice. So what I don't like about personal, how do you spell it? How do you spell it, Graham? Go ahead. Jay. Wait, no, no, I got, I got this. Pneumonia. It's like, so I would, I don't like, I mean, there is a personal injury.com, but you got to think how they think and how they spell and how they read.

And they don't read or spell well. Four, that's like kindergarten. The, like, that's like the second word you learn. And people, that's the hard one. How much have you spent in total on advertising, do you think? Oh, I'd say billions and billions. Multiple billions. Multiple billions.

So what do you understand about attention that most people don't? I understand that the tension that people have is like a gnat. And it's not a long attention. And here's what I want to do with my ads. If I took you out in the field, there was a thousand brown cows, and I pointed to one, and I told you, look at that cow. because we're going to come back here in six months, and I want you to pick this cow out of the herd.

You'd look at the cow, okay, he's got a little scratch on the eye, you made a little sock on one leg, and you'd be looking at the cow. Okay, all right, get in the car, we're going to come back. And then we come back in six months, and I tell you, go find the cow. You might, you might not. Now, we went out to that same field, and there was a thousand cows,

but only one was purple. And I pointed to the purple cow. We can come back in 60 years and you're going to pick the purple cow. I want to be the purple cow. And so how do you become a purple cow? Look at all these insurance companies ads. Look at Progressive. Look at Guyco.

Look at State Farm. There's humor. A lot of humor. My director of marketing was with Geico before he came with me. But then there's other ways. You've got to be educational. You can't just be this big hand. going, if you've been injured, call me, you know, boom, boom, boom.

No. You have to have people watching. My goal with my commercials is that they're so good that the public rewinds them to go, wait a minute, wait, wait a minute. What did that say? Or the billboards. I did a billboard once was highly controversial. Size Matters, America's largest injury firm.

Well, a lot of people gave me a lot of for that. that's offensive. I don't know. Why? Well, you, we know what you're doing. Really? What am I doing? The fuck you think I'm doing? You get your head out of the filth.

You're a filthy person to be thinking like that. I'm saying size matters, the size of my firm matters. So when you say size of my size of matter, one thing I did before years ago, I take all my billboards and I defaced them myself. But I made it look like. Somebody crawled up, you know, put for the money and blacked my teeth out. Glasses. All this. In college towns, I had this thing went viral because guess what's happening?

Everybody's like taking pictures of the billboards and sending them out to their friends and post them on media. The news people were calling. Your boards have been defaced on Alephalia. What? Can we come by and do a story on it? I need to figure this out. They're doing stories on my defaced ads. Cars are stopped and they're outside of the thing taking pictures of my defaced ads,

which was really, you know, negative shit about me made up by me for me. That's a purple cow. So you came up with this idea yourself. Do you run these ideas by anybody else or you just decide on your own? That's great. If you're seeing Bill Cosby or Art Linkletter kids say the darndest thing, They're up in high chairs. So we're going to film this Sunday here in Orlando a bunch of kids,

and we're just going to be asking kids about Morgan and Morgan sitting on the chair. Kids say the darndest things. They were going to film them all. They were going to chop it up, and then we're going to run this ad called Kids Say the Darnest Things. Yeah, I came up with that. Who do you look to as inspiration for advertising, marketing? What do you think is the most effective advertisement of all time? Coke, it's the real thing.

I'd like to have the world to in perfect harmony. And I love the ending of Madman. Did you see Madman? No. Madman was a show, and Don Draper was this big executive, who was the king of Madison Avenue. And then he kind of, you know, after he's everybody in town and had a great time, he decides to drop out of life.

And he's sitting there at the end, the last episode, he's gone to find himself and he's in Hawaii and he's sitting out there, hmm, hmm, he's meditating. And all of a sudden, I like to teach the world to sing in perfect harm. And he's sitting there and the inference was he's coming up with the Coke ad. You got to watch it. It's fantastic. It gave me cold chills.

So your marketing, I have to say, is fantastic. Thank you. Why don't you sponsor the Super Bowl? Well, I might. It's so expensive. How much does it cost to sponsor the Super Bowl? Well, different things. I mean, it can be millions and millions. Did you get a price ever? I've run Super Bowl ads, not national ads, but in Super Regional. Regional. In DMAs.

Yeah, I've gotten, listen, they're pitching me all the time stuff. But the Super Bowl is one day. Here's what I don't like about that. the Super Bowl. If it's a blowout, are they going to watch the second half? Where are they going to place your in the, you know, I mean, if you're in the beginning or if you're the end, it's all about placement. So I wrestle with it. There's certain people that advertise just for their own ego. And then you look at the ads and we're so disappointed in some Super Bowl ads. But then there's, then there's the Budweiser ads and you're like, I want to, I want to rewind that. Yeah. And that gives you cold chills, those Clydesdales.

What's the most you've ever spent on an ad? I had some ads with Kyle Busch, and we haven't been able really run them because he passed away. You know, he died. We have an ad with John Daly and his son, because then you got talent. You're paying. I've sponsored the car. So part of my Kyle Bush deal was I sponsored the car. So I got the car, I got the rights to all that.

and I was in the races, and then I, so I spent millions on, you know, with NASCAR. Now, one thing I found really incredible is that I've heard you received about three million leads, which is equivalent last year to 1% of the entire United States. Have you ever had to sue a friend? Yes. How do you deal with that? Here's what I do. if it's if it's a well first of all there's friends and acquaintances everybody's your friend when

you're going to sue them right but a lot of times what I'll do is I'll call them I'll say listen I got this case I can do it or you can I can have somebody else do it you tell me what you want me to do and a lot of times they say I'd rather have you do it because sometimes people just want to be vicious to be vicious and you know almost turns into to extortion not a lawsuit. But if it's somebody, it's a good friend that I've given, you know, I give them diplomatic community. I don't need the money that bad to sue friends.

You know, I had a case one time where malpractice case and I called him up, a doctor, and, you know, me and him used to play basketball together in high school. And I said, listen, this is going to happen, but do you want me to do it? And he goes, I don't want you to do it. and they settled the case against him for $4 million. So I lost, you know, $1.6 million for my friendship. Funny thing about that, I never saw them again for the rest of my life. So I've been thinking about that 1.4.

What's the most you've ever won in a lawsuit? Well, we hit Google for $500 million last year in San Francisco. I settled black farmers was 1.2. billion, a lot of 100 million. These are verdicts. And I've been in big mass torts, the BP oil spill. I live in Hawaii in the wintertime. I was one of the lawyers that represented the fire victims. We settled that one last year for $4.7 billion. I'm on the opioid MDL. So, but it's, you know, it's from, you know, a little to a lot. So what's the most you've ever personally made from a loss? As many of you know, we moved into this warehouse, and it has been absolutely game-changing.

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But it's misleading because it could take 10 years. And then you divide 10 into that number to annualize it. And you go, was that worth it? I mean, yeah, yeah, you know, it's kind of. But the fees are nowhere near what the public thinks. I mean, if I, you know, a $100 million case, you know, I had a case in Miami, $100 million bucks, fees 40 million. Black Farmers was $90 million on the $1.2 billion. So when you see, when you hear $1.2 billion, it doesn't mean I got a third because there's all sorts of.

Because fees go to many different things. Fees are, doctors, they go to the partners. Well, fees go, and fees are different. Fees are not just a third. I mean, that's on a single, you know, single event cases are a third. And what you got to remember when you hear these verdicts in some of these states, they knocked the verdicts down. They said the verdicts aside.

They don't have insurance. There's not many people have $100 million to pay $100 million. What's the most surprisingly large settlement you've ever gotten? We, or verdict, we have a friend that settled something. He's a personal injury attorney in the Valley of Los Angeles. He settled $50 million for someone who spilled hot tea on their, groin going through the drive-thru. I just had a big hot coffee case.

We got a verdict for like $5 billion. $5 billion? Million. Oh, I heard billion. Yeah. It was probably that lettuce on my tooth, sliding down. The fees that I've had over the years is right at the beginning of this year was $35 billion for everything. But remember, I got 1,200 lawyers, you know.

So it's a big number, but I got a lot of people, you know, cracking out those cases. What is your annual overhead on the business? Like, what do you spend to keep this whole business alive? It all depends because the lawyers got bonuses tied to their production. So, and by the way, what I want to do is pay them a load of money. I want my lawyer's bonuses to be astronomical. But it's a, it's a, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a huge number. Now, when it comes to lawsuits, I'm curious, why don't the loser in the case?

Why don't they pay for the other person's legal fees? Like, if I sue Jack and he wins, why is called loser pays? Luser pays. Why not? I want it. You want it. Why isn't it like that? Because I win.

They don't want it against me. Listen, the first person to run once loser pays is me. Because I don't lose. They lose. Because I get to pick the case. I get to take, I get to pick what I want. Here's where I'm coming from is that in California, which is where we used to live really until 2020, I've seen so many frivolous lawsuits.

And how they always start is they say, I'm going to claim that. this and it's going to cost you $50,000 to fight this. And you're correct, but you're going to spend $50,000 to fight me. Or you give me $20,000. I'll go away. And that seems like a very common tactic. Well, but see, you're misinformed. There's all sorts of things like there's a thing called a demand for judgment. If they put a demand in, if they say, okay, we're going to pay you $10,000. And the verdict comes in 25% less than that, 75, 74, 9,000. 99. It's loser pays in Florida. And vice versa. If I put in and I get 25% more, they got to pay my fees too. So there are devices and motions and pleadings that you can have loser pays. And I get it all the time.

I do it. I do propose, it's called a proposal for settlement. Now they're different in different states, PFS. I do, I do a PFS. 95, 96% of my cases. And they have to pay my fees when they lose. But some of this also assumes that they're easy to track down. We have a personal friend who got sued, spent $400,000 fighting it, won the lawsuit. He was in the clear completely. And now he has to sue back, which he got his legal fees. But that cost hundreds of dollars.

But that's going to cost more money. And the guy who he's suing, cleverly. hid and moved assets around so that actually collecting from this guy is going to be almost there's also something called fraudulent conveyance and you know you tell your friend to hire me and I'll go get his money. But that's assuming the fraudulent conveyance was done during the lawsuit and not years before. No. As soon as they have knowledge of the lawsuit. So they know it's coming and they start moving money around as fraudulent conveyance. But let's say it was already moved. Well, then it's not.

But every story has a story that's not necessarily true. Like you thought there's no loser pays, but there is in many states. I have just personally seen so many people I know go through this and just settle, settle, settle. And they pay out of pocket because they don't want to file a claim with their insurance. I see this happen probably a few times a year and I'm in the real estate industry. I see landlords dealing with this. Well, listen, I'm in, I'm in the, I own attractions, I own hotels, I own shopping centers, I own billboard companies. I started banks. And I'm sued too. And when somebody with me, I fuck back. But part of this, I feel like is your name, is they see you as the owner. Like, no offense, I would never want to sue you. I would just knowing that it's like this is you.

You are your deterrent. You are your best insurance. Listen, a lot of people call me, say, hey, we have a case against you at one of your museums. You know, I don't, I say, suit me. Because if I f*** up, I want to pay. If I'm negligent, I want to pay. That's why I have insurance. So they'll say, well, are you going to be mad at me?

No. Go for it. And we pay sometimes. And sometimes it goes to court and we win. Like speaking of insurance, here's a good example, is that in my rental properties, insurance has more than tripled and they have gotten rid of habitability lawsuits in their coverage, which means if a tenant purely claims my unit's not habitable, my insurance is not going to cover that. Defending that is going to be $60,000.

Or a lot of people that I know just say, here's $20,000 go away. And they get out of the business entirely. Is that a California issue or? I'm in California. No, it's not. I mean, I think you're getting false information because I own all that, all those buildings across the street, those are mine. Those are all mine.

They are bars. They're all mine bars. And I don't have that problem. If you were to sue yourself, how would you defend yourself? How would you be able to move around your assets and money to best protect yourself? People are watching this right now and they want to protect themselves. What do you recommend they do? Hire a lawyer like I did.

But how could you prevent it? We're talking about what we see LLCs, irrevocable trusts, insurance policies, umbrella policies. I'm not really sure. My lawyer is down in Palm Beach named Andy Commeter. What I would tell them do is call Andy Commeter and protect your assets now so that you don't have fraudulent conveyance later. The second way, in most jurisdictions, predictions is put everything in husband and wife's name, joint tenants by the entirety. Because you can't, like, if I do something, they can't get my joint assets.

But I did another layer because my wife and I owned the firm together. So I had to go get Andy Commeter to get my documents put together that are way more sophisticated than me. I'm a trial lawyer, not a state's lawyer, a states and trust. I'd go get an estates and trust lawyer. I'd ask about the joint tenants by the entirety. and then I'd say what's the other layers I can do to protect my assets. And you better protect them before you're trying to hide them.

Because when you're starting to try to hide them, like we talked about earlier, it's called fraudulent convey as they can set it aside. What's the best insurance someone should get? The best insurance somebody should get, and it's the cheapest, is umbrella. Just buy a load of umbrella because the umbrella very rarely. You want to hear a statistic that I just Googled this other night, laying in bed, this will show you how bored I am. What percent of life insurance policies do you think are paid?

Probably more than 50 percent. One percent ever pay. How do they do that? People live. Oh. I'm saying at a certain point, my insurance, the term insurance starts to burn out. Also, term insurance. That's all you want is term.

You don't ever want to, if you start buying whole life or annuities or, you, you, Any kind of you're getting. Hmm. Where the insurance agents make the most money, whole life annuities. It's a racket. All you need is term insurance. The younger you are, you don't have a preexisting condition when you go in and I had a lesion here. Oh, you got to get it done early, early, and it's cheap.

And then when you do it for your liability insurance, you buy a load of umbrella. Because the more you buy of umbrella, the cheaper it is. it's the cheapest insurance. Those first layers are the most expensive. There's not many claims paid above the umbrella policy. Above the main policy. You very rarely get into the umbrella. What's the best way not to be a target?

Like, we've heard from people that if you're not searchable, and if they can't find your assets, it makes it less likely that a lawyer's going to see this and want to take your case. Well, I'll find your assets. How do you find assets? That's what I do for a living. I sued some doctors one time. They thought they hid their assets.

I took $6 million out of their bank account. The funny thing is he comes to me. He's like, you know, and I said, look, your insurance company, f***ed you. And he goes, how? I told him how. He goes, what should I do? I said, there's a lawyer over in Tampa named Dale Swope. He's a bad faith lawyer.

You need to go hire Dale Swope and sue your insurance company for bad faith, and I'll testify for you. He went hired Dale Swope. Dale Swope made the bad faith case. He got his $6 million back. And guess what happened? This guy now invest with me and my deals. The doctor that I took the $6 million from because I got his $6 million back.

But he got his insurance company. How could he have remained invisible to you? Well, some people could. I mean, I basically was like hunting and pecking. Like where did he go wrong? How could you find it when he thought you could? I just kept hitting banks and all of a sudden I hit one bank and there it was. In his name?

Or was it in an LLC that he had... I watched his wife drop off a deposit in the bank. And then I let it. This is another level. Well, it was $6 million. The wife was the office manager. I saw her make a deposit. I go, there's a bank.

Then I had the judgment and I served it on the bank. I already got the verdict. I already got the judgment. I got the judgment. He thinks I don't have the judgment. spent. Wasn't that his fault, though, for not disclosing? Because you're supposed to do a disclosure of assets. So wouldn't he disclose? He doesn't have to do that. Okay. I mean, we hadn't got to the point of in aid of execution. Then that's a different hold. You get the verdict and then you start deposing in aid of execution. Then they start moving shit around then. Got it. I had a guy one time that we hit for $22 million in a commercial case. And I drug his ass to, bankruptcy court, he wouldn't turn over his laptop to the judge, and the judge put him in jail. And as he was being taken off to jail, he's like, I will give you, the end of the guy, I will give you the laptop.

I will give you the laptop. And the judge's like, well, then you better get them the laptop, and then you get out of jail. And I got the laptop and I got the 22 million. Wow. What do you think about irrevocable trusts in terms of asset protection? The word is irrevocable because now you're locked and loaded and the person you've given it to turns out to be an asshole or a drug addict. Irrevocable trust are usually for your children. And what do you think about them for asset protection?

It's just your money's gone. You just know it's gone. Yeah, it's very good, but it's not yours anymore. If it's irrevocable. Correct. Yeah, then it's just not yours. Doesn't mean you can't draw on it, though. No.

It all depends. But again, this is getting above my pay level because, when I did mine, I hired a lawyer in Palm Beach, Andy Cometer, who represents the richest people in Palm Beach. And how does he set up your estate? Is it through land trust? It's hard to explain, except it's really, it's there, but I can get to my money, but it's harder for me to get to my money. It's not like I can just sell something to do it. I control it, but I don't control it.

But I control it. It's just another layer. Look, I'm also married with joint tennis by the entirety. Is that true throughout the entire United States? It all depends state by state. Okay. Everything's different. I mean, California is different, Florida's different, everything's different.

It's like divorce. You know, California, Florida is, you know, bad. You get divorced in California and Florida is bad news. You're getting divorced in Montana. That's good news. Is there any tort? reform that you would support or policy change that you would support that would make being a personal injury attorney less profitable, but would make the overall. Let me tell you something.

Tort reform is. State farm doled out $5 billion to their stakeholders. There's never been tort reform ever in the history of America that they say, we're going to have tort reform and we're going to have mandatory rollbacker rates. Never once. When you vote for tort reform, you're just making them richer and they're f*** you. Find one time where there's been tort reform

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I would say valid. And I think they're in the right. And some of them are. also not. And it's someone with a lot of money who's, I don't like what they say. I'm going to sue them for this. I'm just going to keep milking it. What you got to remember is these stories you hear take on a life of their own and a lie of their own. You hear stories that just aren't true. You heard the story about the McDonald's hot coffee and they got five million dollars and they just brought it in and it's just terrible. We need tour for them. Well, guess what? The true story is. The true story is before they got that verdict of $5 million, it had happened hundreds of times. And how did it happen?

They heated the coffee up at 140 degrees. Why do they heat it up at 140 degrees? So it would stay warm by the time you get back to the office. And it kept happening and happening and happening and happening. And by the time the case was finally resolved through everything, the person got like less than a million dollars. But the whole story was a lie. but hot coffee was like the poster child for tort reform because people heard a snippet of a lie and then spread the lie.

Remember how you'd whisper in kindergarten and then whisper, whisper, whisper, whisper, whisper, whisper and go around the hell. And when you get back to this final guy, what he says is not even close to what he started with. That's what happens. And guess what? We live in a conspiracy theory world. You know, Hillary Clinton's got, you know, underground. Not only, she eats babies. She eats babies.

Obama's a lizard person. Or a lesbian. Michelle's a man. Michelle's a man. I mean, all of it. That's the world we live in. And that's bad for my business because those distortions. In fairness, I just want to defend myself on this one.

I know a lot of these people personally. And so it's like me talking to Jack. And sometimes I know the other person involved as well. I know them both personally. And I could see. Well, in fairness, I would like to sit at the table and ask the questions and get the real facts. Because people that are, that feel like they've been over tend to tell their story a lot differently. Like if your wife is a, she doesn't think she thinks you're a.

That's what I tell them all the time. but you're her true now going back to the topic of your business and success Forbes estimates your net worth to be one and a half billion dollars how do they estimate something like that how do they know I don't know you don't know how they try to source that I think they try to source they go what how much the firm does he how much of the firm does he own what what would he be taken out of what would how much of the firm does he own

And by the way, net works all bull. I don't consider anybody a billionaire that doesn't have a real billion in the bank. Guess how many people have a real billion liquid? How many? Yeah, I don't know how many. Maybe 20. Papa John was one of them.

He doesn't have, no. No, no way. He said he put a billion dollars. He sold for one point two, and he said he put a billion in dividends. Dividendant stocks earning 5%. That's what he told us. I think it's on the record.

It's on video. Then tell him to show you his financial statement where he signed it. My financial statement's got every dollar, every brokerage account. Look, Kanye West was a billionaire. That wasn't a billionaire. They're like, hey, we're going to extrapolate. He's making $40 million a year. And that means it's a 25x and 25 times 40 is $1 billion.

You're a billionaire. It's this. They're just getting each other off. A billion for me is when a billion's in the bank. Do you have a billion in the bank? I'm a billionaire. It's a powerful statement. A real one.

One of ten. Twenty. Twenty. Give or take. Because most people have their net worth in their businesses. They have the, you know, and they say, okay, we're making 30, you know, what's the girl, Rihanna is a billionaire. She ain't a billionaire. You know, she's got some kind of makeup company that's making 30 or 40 million.

They're giving her like a 40x. And the company may not be around. Kanye had all this money because he had the Reebok deal or the deed, whatever deal until he's the bed. And then he was worth, you know, then he's dead. So billionaires, look, there's nothing to stop some music like the word billionaire. It gets clicks. It's why you're here. It gets clicks.

This is, I mean, I really appreciate the transparency. This is fascinating. This is like we're pulling the curtain back in the Wizard of Oz. It's not going to pull back. Listen, I am the most authentic person you're ever going to meet. Because when you start bull, you're just bullion yourself. And guess what? If my banks hear that, they're going to know if I'm bullion or not.

So when you say a billionaire, you mean you pop open your brokerage account or you pop open your business savings account. And it just, however many, I don't even know how many. I'm sure through foundations and trusts and. You're saying, you know, but I'm saying most people don't have it. They have it in real estate. So how did you become a liquid net worth billionaire? Where did the money come from? I have an attraction business that does $33 million a year in an EBITA.

I've made a fortune in real estate. I had a billboard company that I sold. I had an advertising agency that I sold. What are you selling all these companies for? Like, I'm curious how much these... I sold my billboard company to Lamar for 13x. And then your real estate portfolio. How did you make the money there? How much money do you have in real estate? The only thing I ever put on my financial statement is my basis. A lot of people bought themselves. They go, hey, I bought this house. for a million dollars, but it's really worth $3 million. Why? Because you could sell it. I would say the same as a stock. There's appreciation of equity. Maybe something is worth what somebody will pay. Correct. So on my financial statements, the only thing I put on my financial statements is my basis. And you don't account for appreciation? No.

Because I'm not going to myself off either. When I sell it, when I sell it and it goes liquid, it then it goes into my brokerage account, and that's real money then. And until it goes in my brokerage account, it's not real money. To me, the guy that, you know, the hero of mine is a guy that started Patagonia. Oh, yes, Yvonne Chonard. That's the guy you ought to go interview.

I would love to. I'll see him speak one time. He's the one I heard, I'm not a billionaire. They made him a billionaire. He said, I'm not a billionaire. I don't have a billion in the bank. It's so funny, even Jake Paul said, the same thing that he wouldn't consider himself a billionaire until he has a billion liquid

liquid net worth billionaire. It was recently. Liquid. And the main things that contribute. Well, don't forget, I'm also, I've got children. I'm making my money, but I got four children that I'm fanning out serious money to. And where do you think most of your net worth crossing that billion dollar mark came from? Was it appreciation of stock?

Was it the active income from your law firm? Was it the real estate? Law firm. You also have a lot of profitable businesses besides the law firm. What do you attribute these ideas to? And why do so many of them seem to hit? Well, some don't. I mean, I've had a few losers.

Look, Warren Buffet's only, his whole net worth and success is basically 11 or 12 stocks. It's not what you would think. It's not this bunch, it's like this. I feel like I have a pulse on what people want and what people like. I'm also risk adverse and debt adverse. Like when I do my businesses, if I don't have the money, I'll go get partners or I'll do a private placement memorandum. And when I started building the attractions, I raised the money. OPM.

People in real estate are much more risky than me because it can just take you down. And then what I do is I call it, I got the A side and the B side. The A side is my cash that I used to invest. The B side, once money goes over to the B side, it's never ever touched for the rest of my life. All it does is throw off, you know, 4% tax-free-ish. So if I got $100 million, I make $400,000. If I got $200 million, I make $8. I got a billion, I make $40.

And what are you making that with? Is that tax-free bonds, T-bills, and interest rates. Wow. Between 3 and 4%. Some of us tax-free, some of us not. What are the differences that you've seen between the type of people that make millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions? Is there a personality trait?

Is there a mindset that they have differently? Look, everything is different, but I would say that the people who really get filthy rich are patient. I didn't make a million dollars to us 41. because I was pouring everything back into my businesses. Some people pour it into boats and Ferraris and horrors. And I'm like, that's a non-performing asset as far as I'm concerned. So the mistake they make is they want to get rich quick. The biggest mistake they make is greed.

Greed is not good. greed is dangerous. And by the way, and I have been greedy and made mistakes, and it goes like this, how do you know if you're being greedy? If it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true. If you see somebody offering, hey, we're going to pay you 11% interest, run. It's a lie. If I could take everything I have and have only invested in a, an instrument that gave me 8% compounding, that's all I would want.

It's all I would need. But don't you think that you go from a place when you have less money of like trying to gain appreciation, rapid growth to the point of asset production and capital preservation? Like there is a kind of tipping point. Well, the book, the book I like is the tortoise and the hair. I'm the tortoise. And so what's the most amount of money you've lost due to greed? It really wasn't lost money.

It was I lost, I wasted my time. I went in with some people who kind of me, I mean, to put down what I lost, I lost so much time around with them. Were there red flags or something that you should have identified? Always. What are the red flags? Here's the red flag. Let me explain it to you in Kentucky terms.

You ever been walking in the woods and felt your foot slip like that? Loose ground, yeah. No? You're like, was that dog? Ah. And then you keep walking. And then you keep walking to your car. And you're like, as you're walking to the car, you're like, no, that's probably pine needles.

That's probably grass. That's probably wet leaves. Because we don't want it to be dogs. We don't want there to be dogs on our shoes. And then you walk to the car. You've been thinking about dogs the whole time. But by the time you get to the car, you convince yourself it was leaves or pine needles. And then you get in the car.

and then you shut the door. You all know that smell I'm thinking about right now? All three of you all know that smell I'm thinking about right now. And here's the lesson for everybody out there in Podcastville. If it smells like dogs, there's dogs in life and in love. And we can sense it, but the reason we don't is greed. We're so crypto. And I don't know if you all are a crypto people.

No. A little. I like Bitcoin. I mean, 8% is not worth in Bitcoin. I have like maybe one percent. And listen, when Lamar Odom is selling Bitcoin, I'm out. Everybody that sells Bitcoin, you know, got gold chains on medallions and a Russian hooker. I'm not. And maybe they're going to make money. I don't know. But to me, crypto's dog for me. Now, some people, Donald Trump is making billions. He makes it even when people lose. because he gets it, he gets, he gets, he's, he gets, he's, he's smart. So I look at Bitcoin and the, why do we do Bitcoin? The same reason they bought the tulip bulbs. You know the tulip bulb story? Boris. Okay.

So everybody out there listening, Google tulip bulbs in the 1600s. Everybody's buying tulip bulbs, tulip bulbs, tulip bulbs, tulip bulbs, tulip bulbs, tulip bulbs, tulip bulbs, Tulip bulbs are crypto today. To me, why were people buying tulip bulbs? I still can't figure it out. You ask somebody who's invested in crypto, how do you make money with it? What's the deal? How do you make? If I can't figure it out, then I just don't do it. To me, if it can't, if it can't be explained to me, and listen, I've investigated crypto because I'm greedy. But what happens is, it's called herd mentality. When I grew up on Kentucky,

I go down to my uncle's farm and I look up on this field. And all of a sudden, I'd see a bull start running up the hill. And then I'd see some other cows start to run up the hill. And then before I know, they're all stampeding up the hill. Hundreds of them.

And they get the top of the hill. And they're all looking at each other. And I was a little boy, and I was like, you know what they're saying? What the fuck are we running to? To me, that's crypto. To me, that's tulip bulbs. We're just following the bull.

But in terms of red flags of people, what do you look out for specifically? And when you first meet somebody, what do you look at? Tortoise shell glasses that invest in crypto. The 8% in a Bitcoin ETF. Well, look, it's gambling. It's gambling. You live in Vegas. It's gambling.

Not that, but the book I wrote called Life is Luck, Lessons from the Paperboy. Here's what life is. Life is a, since you're from Vegas, I'm going to speak your language. Please. Life is a casino. And you walk in and there's all sorts of games to play. And there's some lottery games over the church as well. Now, there are games to play and there's games you shouldn't play.

You should not play Keno. It's fun, though. It's fun. But never with a measurable amount of money. Yeah, it's an entertainment. To me, Keno's critical. If you're going to play a game, you probably should play blackjack. And then when you play those games, there's rules for those games.

There's the book. I'll give you a test to see if you're really from Vegas. You get two aces. What do you do? Split. You got 15 and they got 10. What do you do? Hit.

You got 15 and they got five. Stay. Those same rules in the casino are the rules. are the rules in life and business, location, location, location, undercapitalized. All the rules are there. But sometimes when you start drinking and when you get blinded by greed, you say, you know what? I'm going over to the keynote table. So you're saying that you need to look at this person's life pretty holistically and see how they're spending their time.

If there's anything, you kind of like investigate the entire car, like a pre-purchase inspection. You look at the car and if like one little thing is wrong, you're like, okay, well, maybe this person that maintained their car perfectly, actually, you know, they didn't. You look under the hood, you see one little thing wrong. You can assume that there's more problems. When I look at the people in the crypto industry, when I just look at who they are, what they're wearing, what they're drinking. Not you, not you. He's not enough. He's not, he's not.

I'm not in crypto. He's not. He just owns a Bitcoin ETA. No, I'm not looking at you. No, I'm talking about the sellers. I'm talking about the guys who are out there, you know, preaching it, preaching it, selling it. Lamar Odom. I saw a conference Lamar Odom walking out of a crypto convention. I'm like, I'm out.

But why do we do it because the same reason they bought the tulip bulbs? The same reason Bernie Madoff. I had a guy, I had a friend of mine one time he kept saying, hey, you need my aunt got in this deal with this guy in New York. And he's returning 12% interest. I go, he goes, year in and year out. I go, that's what? Yeah, it's hard to get in, but my, my, my aunt got in, so I got in with my aunt and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he kept always waving this thing is, you ought to put some money in with us.

I said, it's too good to be true, 12%. And I'm just telling you, 2008 comes, everything crashes. I said, Seth, how did you do this year? Well, 11%. How the fuck is that possible? He goes, he pulled out of the market and did some puts and some calls, and we got 11%. Are you in Madoff? No, no, I like selling options.

He tells me all the time, buy puts and sell. I never say buy puts. Okay. I say sell options. Okay. But listen, young people are reckless. You have to learn. You got to get burned enough to, you know, get old and fat like me, and you won't be doing that.

but so Seth called so that's so that's the deal set had everything in it 12 million dollars oh 12 that's all I had I get an email from him on the subject I said SOS call me I call him up what's wrong because you're not going to believe it I go what he goes you remember my aunt's fund that I was telling you about I said yeah the 12% I knew the number he goes yeah he goes it was Bernie Madoff. I repeat, if it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true. How does that apply to people? Not on crypto, but just in general in terms of who you do business with and who you want to partner with and who you want to keep in your life. As I'm sure you've seen, we're down to the last few weeks of summer, which means your schedule is about to get a lot

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and who you want to keep in your life. You can tell the most about a person by the people they surround themselves with. That's Machiavelli, the Prince, the book. I look at people and I look at who they surround themselves with. Character matters. Morals matter. Decency matters. You know, a liar is a liar. A cheat is a cheat. And they cheat and lie in different forms and fashion. So you can size them all up from from all of that, just their lifestyle. And we know bullitters and non-bullitters, but what overtakes us is our greed. And we just want that money. And we don't want to miss out. We just don't want to miss out. Look at my book, Life is Luck. The average person that plays a lottery, spends like 400, spends like 400 and something dollars a year.

40% of Americans don't have $400 in the bank today. But they're all out there trying to take this job and shove it. And they're all chasing something that's just not going to happen. It's just statistically not going to happen. Now, I'm in a business that I know was going to lose money. I own race horses. and I know that I am probably not going to make money in my lifetime with race horses. But I enjoy it.

But I also know that when I write that check, that money's gone. Now, I've had some luck because I had a great horse named Ultima D. Her father was scat daddy. And she lives with American Pharaoh. And once a year, me and Pharaoh match up. And then we get a colt or a Philly. And that horse is worth a million bucks. and I split the money with the, you know, my friends from Ireland that own a pharaoh and justify.

But by and large, you know, horse racing is gambling. So what's the best investment you've ever made outside of investing in your own business? Well, the attractions have been gigantic. So that was the best investment you've made? That was, but that was me. I built them. I invented it. The whole, the upside down houses and all that. Yeah, I invented that. I've had some good things. I had, you know, I had some land that got condemned for a school. Condemnation is great because you don't pay taxes when your land's taken from you. I had some land over here and they wanted to build a school on my land. They took my land. So I was so happy that they did take my land.

So what did you pay for and what did they buy it for? I forget exactly, but I didn't, I mean, it was like a, you know, 15, 20 X. because I bought it a long time ago and, you know, I had a little trailer parks on it. But look, I made my money on me. Now, how much of this can you teach somebody in terms of entrepreneurship, drive, motivation versus is just genetic? That you were born with this desire to build something,

to be good in business, to forge your own path. Well, the reason I called my book, Life is Luck, lessons from a paper boy, is because You all are too young to have been paper boys, but I guarantee you you and you, when you're 11 or 12, you were hustling something. I don't know what it is. I can just tell by looking at you and talking to you. For my generation, it was the paper route. You're 11 years old, you're 12 years old, you're 10 years old.

I had to buy my route. I had to go down to the Second National Bank election and get along with my grandmother's son. And then I had to buy my route. And I had to get up in the snow and the sleet and the rain. the heat every day. And when somebody didn't get a paper or miss the paper, I had to go back and give it to them. Then I had to collect the money. I think a lot, that's why I call the book Life is Luck. I think some of us are born with an entrepreneurial seed that's as powerful as Shaquille O'Neal being seven foot one and built like a Mack truck. There's no way I could be Shaquille

of Neal because I'm just, you know, physically. Hey, me too, man. Well, me and you, we're the point guards. But that just happens in life. And by the way, the reason I call the book Life is Luck, there's so many things that are out of our control. Just being born is trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions to want. The country you're born in.

We have no control over that. What's the country you want to be born in? the United States of America. We were born here. For a lot of us, being born white was, and we had no control over that. And as you keep going, good-looking people, this is going to do very good because good-looking, good-looking, good-to-good-looking people are usually the CEOs of companies. If you're tall, you have a better chance to be in president, you're short. Me and you are not going to be president.

He could be president. Height. It's out of our control. there's so many things out of our control that come back to us. And then you go, well, you got to work hard. If you work hard, that's true. But some people are not built to work. You know, of course they are.

No. In the jungle today, a lion will be born and a sloth will be born. The sloth is incapable physically of working. He wakes up like this. I mean, the only thing he can do is eat and go down once a day and go back up, go to sleep. The lion is born, and he's a king. that day. If that door opened over right now, a six-month line walked in his room,

me and you'd be jumping up on the table scared jealous. If a sloth wall, then we just kick it the fuck out of here. And everybody thinks it's all hard work. Oh, I'm successful. It's hard work. Let me tell you this about hard work. The hardest work in people in America are the ones who make the least. The least.

You ever dug a hole with a shovel? You ever tried that? As a kid, yeah. Could you do it? Not more than a foot or two. Yeah, and lay some frost on that ground. Sometimes I see these people with squeezes on this up there. Soctions.

Yeah. And, you know, you're looking at him. You're like, well, he's from Guatemala illegally because nobody's getting up there. And he ain't getting paid worth of shit to do it. He has to do it. So the people who want to pat themselves on the back for being successful, there's a lot of left turns, a lot of right turns, a lot of U-turns, and it can go good and go bad. I know this.

If I got started again and had to do all over again, I don't get to be who I am. Something would happen. If Bill Gates was born today, he's not Bill Gates. Somebody else would have been Bill Gates. What do you recommend to the people who feel like they've got dealt a bad hand? They're here in America. They want to be successful. They want to make a lot of money.

They just say, I don't have the resources. What I would say to them is this, you always have the resources. You always have there. If there's a will, there's a way. And in the book I wrote, life is luck. I lay at a roadmap to finding luck. Finding luck, improving luck, return on luck,

turning bad luck into good luck, making failure your friend. There's all sorts of ways to do it. And that's what the book's about. But the main way you do it is you are constantly, constantly, constantly looking for opportunities. It's never going to happen sitting at your house eating peanut butter and jelly. I got a chapter called Never Eat Alone.

There's a book called Never Eat Alone, which was very good for me. If you're sitting in your office, not going out and hustling, it's not going to happen. If you're not out giving a speech, it's not going to happen. If you're not out networking, it's not going to happen. And so in the book, I lay out all sorts of things. Now, when people say, I don't have the money, when I built Wonderworks, the first time I at Wonderworks, I did not have the money. My first real estate development was called Heritage Square down at Kissimmee.

I did not have the money. But there's something called OPM, other people's money. And what you do is you find a deal, you lock the deal up, you get a private placement memorandum, and you go out and you pitch your idea to your friends who have money. That first deal I did, I was raising $10,000 increments. And guess what? Harry Square was a success. Now I got these investors who will follow me.

Then I did when I built Wonderworks, Wonderworks was millions and millions and millions of dollars. I didn't have millions and millions of dollars. But I would tell the people listening, OPM. I wrote another book one time called You Can't Teach Vision. There are visionaries that we all know about. Steve Jobs is a visionary. Bill Gates is a visionary. You know, there's visionaries everywhere.

That's a wrong term. Because visionaries just have an idea. There's a big difference between a visionary and a vision maker. Big difference. Once upon a time after church, we'd go to Denny's and get crayons for the kids and the crayons would roll onto the floor. I'd be done picking up crayons. And I told my wife one time, I said, you know what I need to do? I need to invent a crayon that doesn't roll.

About six months later, we'd come in. There's a crayon made out of a triangle. I held it up my wife. I go, look, this is my f***ing idea. This is my fucking idea. And what she say? You should have done it. But I was a visionary, but I wasn't a vision maker.

And by the way, there's a big delta between vision. and vision makers and they're called vision blockers. You know, I'm going to go patent these crayons. With our money, no, you're not. Or your friends. Guess who doesn't want you to be successful? Most of your friends. Most of your family would rather have a total stranger win the lottery than you.

Because people are eating up with jealousy and envy. So you got these, what I tell these people, first of all, if there's a will, there's a way. And there's, the vision is not. not the deal. The vision is just the beginning. And you got to jump over these vision blockers to get to be the vision maker. And you know who the number one vision blocker is? You.

Fear. Fear of failure. I would tell them, listen, failure is not a problem. Because when you fail, you learn so much. You now know the next time what you're not going to do. and you know what you're going to do. And I've had failures. I opened up an attraction in D.C.

once called the National Museum of Crime and Punishment. It was just unbelievable. It was fantastic. But it was a bad location. It turned out I shouldn't ever have gone to D.C. Because shit was free. And I built this magnificent, magnificent attraction called the National Museum of Crime and Punishment. I didn't lose money, but I didn't make money.

I'm just paying the rent, get a little bit, you know, dribbles. So I closed it. Like, you know, it's not worth it. But you know what I did? I took that failure. I said, this was good. I took all the stuff, all the content from my attraction in D.C., and I went over to Pigeon Forge, Smoky Mountains, 13 million visitors a year.

I found a location. Instead of having no building or an office building, I built the thing that looks like a prison, 1,800 prison. Instead of calling it at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment, I called it Alcatraz East. When you finish up at Alcatraz East, the last three, four things you see John Bonnet. bicycle, you see the Murdoch golf cart, you see Ted Bundy's VW, you see John Dillinger's sedan, Bonnie and Clyde's death car from the movie, and OJ's Bronco. And this attraction is unbelievable. I'm printing money at Alcatraz East. Everything's the same. The Broncos there. Everything, I just moved it. Location, location, location. If I had let failure beat me,

but that thing makes about six, seven million bucks a year. And all I did is just move the stuff to a different location. Most people don't because when people get beat, they become defeated forever. When I get beat, I get back up. That's what I tell people. What impresses me is the volume of successful entrepreneurial things that you're doing from the upside down houses, the different hotels,

banks, the banks, you know, Alcatraz East. I'm curious, you don't have enough time yourself to be doing all of this. Like, how much of this is your vision and your plan and your decision making versus you just hiring out phenomenal operators? And like, what does that mean to be an executive and to find and manage talent?

Well, first of all, it's all me. All the ideas are mine. Wonderworks is me Alcatraziz is me Bank Do you have a council that you run these ideas by? Me

Who do you look to for advice? Do you ever go to someone else? I read books like crazy I devour books And I had a seminar in Vegas And I brought Dan Martel Dan Martel Yeah, we've had him on the podcast

He's a genius Yeah And I write about that I write about him a book Look you only have so much time in a day what I try to do is I try to find people around me that I call send delete. It's a person I know if I send something to, it's done. I can delete it.

I call them send delete. Then when I find a send delete person, then I give them a task. Because remember this, everybody's got to have a specific task and responsibility. If everybody is accountable, no one's accountable. So when there's a fuck up, we know who fucked up. You find a sin-delete person. They emerge out of nowhere. You can't tell when you first, who's going to be sin-delete and who's not.

And then once you get that send-delete person, then you delegate ruthlessly to execute your vision. You buy back your time. You pay these people. I just hired a guy from Amazon for my AI because I got to figure this AI. I don't know what AI is. You know, I mean, I failed, you know, basic math. But I'll pay this guy a load of money from Amazon to figure out AI for me. And you just have to do that.

So I get the vision and then I got the team around me and then I have them execute and I delegate ruthlessly. Now, all these ideas. remember this i don't fish i don't hunt and i don't golf to me that's all and off i hunt money i fish for money that's how the time you take golf and hunting and and and first of all i don't want to shoot a deer because i could taste the fur i don't want to fish and you know catch and release you'll rip the fish's face off or eye out and throw him by oh look how good i I am. You're swimming around with no eye for the rest of your life. I don't want to do that. In golf, when Tiger Woods is hitting the ball in the water, I'm just not interested in trying to perfect that.

There's nothing you're interested in outside of hunting money. Oh, a lot. I love to read. I love the beach. I like tennis when I was young. I was your guys' age. Oh, there we go. So you play tennis. Yeah, I played tennis. When I was your guys' age, I played a load of basketball. I played basketball three days a week. I played in three-man leagues. You get to be my age. You can't play. You know, you It can't be. When I see guys my age playing basketball, I'm like, stop, stop, stop, stop. It's embarrassing. I went across a street to one of my grandsons the other night, and he was shooting free throws.

And I went, I said, because I could usually really hit some free throws. I go to shoot a free throw. I didn't hit the net. Well, maybe with a little practice. Well, but you ever heard of muscle memory? I started researching muscle memory. And then I'd try to do it again. I really heaved it, and I didn't even hit the rim.

But when I was your guy's age, I played a lot of basketball. I played a lot of tennis. And so, yeah, I have those interests. And I probably exercise four or five days a week, an hour, mostly walking or recumbed bike or the elliptical. But to me, hunting and fishing, I just don't get it. So I don't feel like I'm losing anything there. Nothing. Putting me in a tree stand waiting for, I got, I got so many deer at my house.

I could lay in my pool with like 20 deer this morning. When I left my house this morning, there was these dears laying in my front yard. I rolled the window and I said, have a good day, guys. You're at the right place. Hank? Well, I don't want to eat them. Speaking of money, you previously mentioned that you believed that income inequality was one of the biggest problems of America. And I'm curious from your perspective, why is that?

Because the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and the system's rigged. Now, and listen, I'm taking advantage of the rigged system. When Trump got elected president, I bought a new G500. Why? It's almost free. I mean, I mean, when you do the math, I'm like, it's crazy. These hedge fund guys have carried interest. It's all stacked that way.

But here's what happens. When the poor get poor and the rich get richer, there becomes an uprising. And you're seeing it now. It's called the Democratic Socialist Progressives. There's two types of envy. There's benign envy. which is you take that envy and you challenge it to motivate you. You know, I want to be, I want to, I want, you take that as a motivation.

And then there's what's called malicious envy where you're just so mad. It's just not fair. It's just not fair. They got all the money. I got none. And then they, political leaders, they take that malicious envy and they turn it. into socialism. They harness that malicious envy. We're beat, you know the word, the new word now, oppressed, we're oppressed, we're oppressed. They almost turn into a political movement.

We're oppressed. And that malicious envy turns in to socialism, which turns into communism, authoritarianism, Castro, Hugo Chavez. It all started as malicious envy. And all throughout time, if the rich people in this country don't understand, at the end of the day, that malicious envy turns into a movement and they just take it. Marie Antoinette said, let them eat cake. They cut her throat. I'm tempted to write one more book called The Castle on the Moat.

It goes like this. There's this castle where the 0.1% live, and they got everything. Then there's this moat deep and wide. And in that moat, there's electrical eels and piranhas and sharks. It's deep and it's wide. And that's the middle class. And then outside the moat, there's the barbarians at the gate. They want in.

They want to come get it. But the people in the castle keep drawing the water in for themselves. They got pools inside. They're drinking. They're taking a lot of baths. And the water starts to go down. And the eels die, and the sharks die, and the piranhas die. And then there's not even water.

And the barbarians just walk across. And by the way, that's what Maga is. They're mad. On January 6th, they went to the castle. They went to the castle because they're pissed. Maga's pissed. And guess who let them in them? the castle. A lot of the cops because they're pissed off at who they're garden for.

If we're not careful, if we let this moat sink and the middle class go away, we've only been around for 250 years. So what's the solution? Because a lot of people would say the solution is we have to tax more. I don't mind taxing more as long as it's tied to, like I talked about tort reform, as long as it's tied to what Bill Clinton did, he's my boy, you know, that we've got to have a balanced budget. This is not sustainable. The national debt is not sustainable. And at some point, we're going to be Greece.

I would say tax more, but tied, like I said about tort reform, tied to rate decrease. I would also say tie it to a balanced budget. I'm happy to pay more taxes if we can balance a budget you know and look I put my money where my mouth is in Florida I ran a constitutional amendment to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $15 an hour and guess what it passed

people can't live on $8 an hour what do you think if you could control the minimum wage what would you make the minimum wage if you could just snap your fingers and that's what it is well if I could snap my fingers it's different different strokes for different folks. If you're living in New York City, there's one. If you're living in Columbus, Georgia, there's another. You can live in a, you can live like a sheik in Columbus, Georgia. You can have a mansion at Columbus, Georgia, the same money that wouldn't buy you

New York City. So that's the kind of the problems that is that, you know, living in L.A. and living in Mississippi. Now, if a business can't afford to stay in business by paying an increased wage, should they deserve to exist? No. Listen, here's a stat from the soon-to-be, I'm number one in Amazon today. Congratulations. For self-help books, life is luck. 25% of all businesses fail in the first year.

43% fail within five years and 65% fail within 10. And that doesn't even account for they'd have been much better off just working for somebody than going on this, you know, having this juice bar. When I see juice bars, I mean, how many juices you got to sell? So the first thing is, but we all want the, we all dream the dream. We want to own the business. And if you're going to open up a restaurant, you're most likely going to fail. And what if the minimum wage increases and then some businesses just say,

all right, fine, we're going to hire overseas. We're going to pay less over that. I do. I got, listen, I got 11, my call centers, I got 1100 people in my call centers. El Salvador, where abogadas.com goes to, the Philippines, Belize. Belize. I'm doing it. And by the way, in El Salvador, I got lawyers working in the call center.

They're making more money as, we're. with a law degree working in my call center in El Salvador. So why not then pay people here the $15 an hour? Hey, by the way, really quick, if you want extra content just like this as well as early access, and a bonus post show posted every single week, feel free to join as a channel member to get immediate access to all of that, as well as early access to everything else that we post, along with priority responses to all of your comments.

So if that sounds cool, feel free to join. Would love to have you on board. Thanks so much. We'll get back to the podcast. now. So why not then pay people here the $15 an hour? Oh, I do. The reason I do use El Salvador mainly, primarily is because it's just an incredible pool of Spanish-speaking people with college degrees. It's also less expensive. Yes. It's win-win. It's not only less expensive. It's more effective. If I can pay less for more, I want it. So it's interesting. We asked Kevin O'Leary about a year ago

what the minimum wage should be, and he said zero. And he said zero because the market should determine what they're willing to pay for a task. And if someone doesn't want to take the task, that's fine. If no one wants to take it, the person has to pay more to entice people. What do you say to that sort of philosophy? I believe that we have a moral responsibility to do the most for the most with the least. There's a lot of sloths out there and there's a lot of sloths with children and at the end of the day there will be an uprising because there has never not been one. At the end of the day, if you let the moat go to dirt, there will be an uprising. It is in our best interest. And look, in the world that I look at in the future, I'm not probably going to be a part of, there's going to be a, with AI, there's going to be people who get paid to do nothing. Because there's not going to be jobs, I think. I tend to believe that AI is going to balance the curve quite a bit. That I think it'll be anybody. It won't be as bad as we, it won't be as bad as we think. But it's going to eliminate jobs. Look, I just hired a guy for a lot of money from Amazon because I got to figure out AI. And guess where I'm using the AI?

first, the call centers. What do billionaires financially owe to the people that are struggling financially? Look, I'm not a guy that wears my religion on my sleeve, but I don't believe, I believe that my money belongs to God. I believe that what's happened to me has been so, I have been so lucky and so fortunate that I believe that my money belongs to God. I believe if I did it again, I would never be where I am. I believe that one different turn would have changed everything. And I truly believe that. And I know this, I don't live a big lifestyle other than the jet. You know, and I have houses, but they're not, you know, like that one you showed me. And the food I eat, I like, you know, I like, you know, cube steaks with smothered onions and fried potatoes and cabbage, you know, just country food. you don't need a lot

you know what's the difference between a hundred million and a billion as far as lifestyle if you get rid of boats and you know Rolexes see I got nothing

the wealthiest person in the room this is going to get clippered oh gosh I got it you know why I don't need it you know I don't need it I got an iPhone so I'm a way now you're actually

He doesn't watch him right? Yeah. What kind of watch is, what is it? What is it? Mine was a gift. What is it? It's a Rolex stage. Listen, my brother Tim, when he was alive, one time, you know, he's always wanted a Rolex.

And I don't want one for myself, but he always, he was the one that was paralyzed. And he ran my call centers for me before he passed. And one day, I'm down on Park Avenue over here in Winter Park, and I started drinking and I get drunk. And I go down the jewelry store and I bought Tim a Rolex. and I forget what I paid for it years ago and I call him of us hey come down here to Park Avenue let's have a drink he comes in

and I handed him the Rolex and he started crying which made me start crying because he was so happy and he's sitting there with a Rolex on his wrist I go I go look between me and you what is it about the Rolex

what is it for you he goes I'll never forget these words he goes It's like having a It's like having a Rolls Royce on your wrist I'm like I got an iPhone

I actually I don't disagree Says the person wearing a nice watch But the only reason I bought this watch Was actually to spite Graham So that was... And mine was a gift Mine on the backs is two million subscribers

It was a gift from a subscriber Look a lot of people A lot of people A lot of people wear them To pull ass and, you know, get women, get men. But here's the problem with all of it. Comparison is the thief of joy.

We look and we want. There used to be a guy in this building. His name, he's dead now. His name was Mick O'Brien. And this guy lived a high life. And he had this unbelievable car. And he had this unbelievable girl. And it was just, I mean, it was just,

and I was over there going, what am I doing wrong? What am I doing wrong? wrong. I'd see Mick. I'm like, what am I doing wrong? I'm pulling up in a previa van with four children. And then all of a sudden, one day Mick just collapsed. The building he had, there was IRS tape around it. The Ferrari was rented. The whore was rented. And at the end of Mick's life, I represented him in a social security case. But that guy took so much of my mind, so much of my space with invixtive. going, what am I doing wrong?

Why is he making so much money? He wasn't, but he was in my head. That's why they put blinkers on horses, blinders on horses, so they can't see. If you can put, if your listeners can do anything, put blinders on, because all the glitters is not gold. It's usually not gold at all. Now, one thing I was really curious about that we were talking on the way here in terms of income inequality. If we balanced the money,

everyone had the exact same amount. Over enough time, would we see the same distribution of wealth in that the people who are good with business will grow their money? The average person's going to end up spending it, not investing it.

And is that a problem of the person or the system? The person, because, listen, at the end of the day, adults are really children. Like I told you in the beginning, The reading level in America's seventh grade. You see a guy walking down the street. You think he's smart.

He's a seventh grader or six or worse. Just because they're older doesn't mean they're smarter. So we're dealing with grownups that are really children. I asked my wife one time, I said, let me ask you a question. If we could give up all our money and everybody in the world, all eight and a half billion people could have a house, three-bedroom house, white picket fence, grill on the back, full refrigerator, and we have it forever.

I said, would you do that? And she said, let me ask you a question. So what? Would that, would the houses be air conditioned? I go, okay, yes. And then she goes, yes. I said, what if the houses are not air conditioned? She said, no.

She needed AC. And I would too. That's called utopia, but utopia doesn't exist. You mentioned that $100 million is the same as a billion. I'm curious before $100 million, are there any actual lines you could draw from $0 million to $100 million and where, like, life takes? I think the number that makes you golden is $30. Why $30 million?

30 times four is $1.2 tax-free. If you can't live on 1.2 tax-free, I can live like a chic on 1.2 tax. I can't have all the houses. But if you give me a house and one point two, house paid off and $1.2 million a year, I can live like a sheik. So it's $30 million. I won't have Rolex, huh? $30 million plus a paid-off house. $30 million and a paid-off house.

The first thing I tell everybody listening, consumer debt, you pay off before you put anything in the bank, before you, any consumer debt, card debt, anything with crazy interest rates, credit cards, you pay that all. You and Dave Ramsey. Oh, I'm Dave Ramsey all the way. And then, and then, and then this is, people will argue with this. Then I pay off the house. I haven't had a mortgage since 1988. I had a case that I settled, David, David Vega versus key capital leasing.

It was my first big case. I took the money and I bought a house and that's the last time I've ever had a mortgage. The number one payment every month in every household in America is a mortgage payment. You pay off the house, you get $30 million, you put it in tax-free bonds. And why tax-free bonds, even in the Great Depression, less than 1% of the tax-free bonds defaulted. People will pay to flush the toilet. Water, sewer, you know, electricity, tax-free bonds. And nothing's full-proof.

Right. But I believe that the magic number is house paid off, no consumer debt, 30 million tax-free bonds, 1.2 million. You're making $100,000 a month tax-free. Now, what do you see to the people, though, that say that investing in the stock market long term is going to yield more than the 4%? They're right. They're right. They're right. Historically. but look, I would say two things to them. I'd say there's two books that are Bibles to me.

One is a random walk down Wall Street, and the other is Black Swan. And what I'd say about a random walk down Wall Street, as long as you're disciplined, and I'm very disciplined. Every month I put $500 in this deal, $500 in this deal, $500 in this deal, $500. $1.00 in this deal. Dollar cost averaging is very important. And as you get older, you reduce your stock. So like if you're 70, you know, you maybe have 70% in tax freeze and treasuries and 30 in stock. And then, but as you're younger and you start taking the weight off.

So when you're, how old are you? 36. 36. So you would have, you know, 70% in the stock market because you got time. And if your dollar cost averaging, and I've been in this, when it's close, crashing, I'm happy. Sometimes when it starts to crash, I start putting more in. And when it starts crashing even further, I put even more in.

Because I got time. Warren Buffett will tell you that. Time takes care of everything. And even if it crashes, you know, loses half, that's okay. That's good if you're young. It's not good if you're 70 because you only have the winner to pick it up. And as long as your dollar cost averaging, and you're going to be okay. And so that's what I would say, you know, my children are, you know, your age and they're in the

stock market. They're slowing it down a little bit because it's too frothy right now, you know, but what we're praying for is the stock market to crash. That's what I'm hoping for to. Yeah. Now, my introduction to you, by the way, was in the Jubilee video. Okay. Where you debated 20 people. Okay.

What did you learn from that experience? That malicious envy is on the rise. What was most surprising to you about talking with those people? There's there's jealousy and envy and they don't want to, you know, go out and get it done themselves. They're just kind of pissed off. Were you surprised by the video once you had completed it? You went home, then you saw it posted all of the people's recounting of their thoughts on the conversation. To those that don't understand, there was a 20v1.

So it's you as a billionaire. And then 20 people asking you questions. and it got a little bit combative at times. And then the video ended with one guy saying, well, what's stopping you from directly helping every single one of us here? We took time off of our job to come here to film this. You say you help people, well, here's a direct opportunity to help us, and you gave him $100.

And that seemed like it was the end of the video, and it was a happy ending. That part ends. And then it goes to everyone recounting their experience, on set talking with you. And most of them said, yeah, you know, he seems like an okay one, but generally speaking, billionaires or parasites. or it's like parasitic in nature or the other person said,

yeah, he gave me $100, but not all of these other people. You didn't give them $100. I'm curious, like, your experience on set and then watching that afterwards. Look, I've given money away. I give a lot of money away every year. Like right this minute,

we're building at the Coalition for the Homeless, we're building a wing for women and children. I'm building a Boys and Girls Club in Tallahassee. I just built a food bank in Appalachia. The food bank here in Orlando is called the Morgan Morgan, and Hunger Relief Center at Second Harvest. Rich people have a moral obligation because I believe that most of what's happened has been

lucky. And maybe just like being the paper boy was lucky. And I do believe what Bill Dimitri told me that the money does not belong to me. It belongs to God. And so, you know, they're always going to be, well, if I had his money, I wouldn't give, you know, you give money away. And they're like, you know, Oprah, in Hawaii, Oprah. gave a load of money away.

They're like, I have, you know, Oprah, you know, Jeff Bezos gave the food bank like $25 million. They're like, that wasn't enough for a guy. I mean, no matter what you do, you're, but you can't, you can't, you can't, you got to put the blinders on. You got to do what you can do. Yeah. Did any of those people ask for a job afterwards or come up and talk to you and try to get advice from you? No, but one, one kind of called me later. I thought she was wanting to fuck, but.

Kind of got this phone call, I'm like, what'd she say? You know, I really enjoyed meeting you. Why'd you give her your phone number? She left me a voice message here. I didn't give her my phone number. Oh, she just called the office. Yeah, she went to my voicemail. I didn't talk to her.

I met you at Jubilee. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. I'm like, then you're thinking this is a crazy person, too. What's really interesting, I really like the Jubilee with Patrick Bet-David. And with PBD, he made a really great argument and someone said, well, why don't you hire me? And so he offered this person a job and they disqualified themselves. So I want these benefits. And I want this and I want this. And he said, would you consider moving out? Oh, yeah.

Would you consider showing up at this time and leaving it this time? Would you do this? Would you do that? Because they were lamenting about not having a job. That was it. Marketplace is very difficult. And then he said, this is what you would need to do if you wanted to work for me. They said, no. He's like, okay. I'll tell you two stories to kind of go hand and love with that. You ever heard of that shoe company Zappos or Zappos? I forget the guy. I think the guy's dead now, right? Tony Shea. But Tony Shea used to do this.

When you give people a job, he'd offer him $2,000 to quit the first day. Dan Martel did the exact same thing. He stole it from that guy then. Yeah. I had Dan at my convention. And so I looked at that, I'm like, that's smart. Because, you know, why train those people if they don't want the job? Look, we're living in a world where there's a lot of people that just don't want to work.

Here's a real interesting story. Getting people to come back to the office was just like, I mean, nobody wanted to come back to the office. So I said, you know what? So these people didn't want to come back to the office, here's what we're going to do. You can work from home. But guess what? We're going to put a camera on your computer. we're going to put a camera up your ass.

We won't look at you. It'll be a pixel. The first week, 23 people quit. Oh, my gosh. It's not that they don't want to work from home. They don't want to work to work. And the people who want to work from home now are like, well, here's how it works. If you qualify, we're going to have a camera on you.

We're going to be monitoring you closer than we would. And we measure key strokes. We have this productivity score. This is incredible. And look, what's going on is a lot of people just don't want to work. And they're pissed off, but they really need to be pissed off at themselves. How do you justify that when you also say something like most people that are not successful or financially comfortable just lack the capacity? If you say someone lacks the capacity, it sort of implies that they don't have the ability to become financially comfortable.

But then if you say, oh, they have the ability, but they just choose not to because they're lazy or they just don't want to work, then like what is the actual, you can't come up with a solution if you have two different symptoms. Well, look, there's, I mean, there's no, there's no perfect solution for all this. But I do believe you have to say, look, you're going to, you're going to punch in. You're going to swipe a time clock, and we are going to make sure and measure your productivity. And if you don't want to do that, go somewhere else. I mean, at the end of the day, I am a very strong with a capital C capitalist, very strong capital C. What does capitalism mean to you? And what capitalism means to me is because the way we've set up our country, we became the greatest country.

we became the greatest country in the history of civilization. That's what capitalism means to me. There's no civilization that's ever measured up like we have. And so to me, the proof is in the pudding. I'm seeing this civilization crumble with malicious envy and the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. So it's like we've seen this movie. We've seen Marie Antoinette.

Who is to blame, though, because if the rich are draining the middle class. Well, the politicians are you cannot be given the rich should not have these tax breaks that like carried interest. I don't think I, I carried interest is such a small amount. It's just one thing. Yeah. Deduction for jets. All of it. Not having a balanced budget.

I don't think that's what the poor people care about, though. I think for me it's the display of wealth. when they look at Jeff Bezos with a yacht, like whether or not he got the deduction with the yacht, I think with the amount of money he has, he would buy the yacht. I mean, Oh, yeah, listen,

listen, during the, during COVID, people were pissed off at David Geffin. He's out there on his yacht, and they're all drinking champagne. It's, it's, there's two types of envy. Remember I told you,

there's benign envy, but the big one is malicious envy. And when they see you two boys walking in with the Rolexes, they're pissed because they don't have it. It's comparison is the thief of joy. It's just why I don't know. Why it rains?

I kind of know, but not really, clown. But it's envy. It's jealousy. There's an emotion. What about me? And look, I remember when I was your old's age, you know who I really got pissed off about? Monarchies. God, I hated kings and queens.

Still do. Why is Prince Harry getting money just because he was born? I mean, he's a piece of the wife's worse. Monarchies. Why does a monarchy? Why does a democracy need a monarchy? I mean, if they got rid of King Charles

and what would happen? What happens to the country? Nothing. They get more money. To me, it just seems like the Internet has really just led to a concentration of wealth because you could leverage in such ways globally. that you never could before, so you get extremes. But then it also seems like politically,

it's easy to weaponize the outliers to get votes. And now they've weaponized that. But it's even worse than that because what social media has done is there's people pretending to be rich that aren't rich. One time I had a guy called me looking for a bankruptcy lawyer. The next week I see him on social media in Las Vegas, in a limo with champagne. He'd called me the week before to BK is busy.

business. It's the pretending of wealth. There's a book that I tell a lot of people about, not many people have read it. It's called Richestan. You got these neighborhoods in America, and the author calls it Richestan. You got Upper Richestan, which is the people with the real money. You got Middle Richestan, and then you got lower Richestan. But they're all living in the same zip code, and they're all going to the same school, and they're all trying to keep, the The lower richest stand is trying to pretend that they're upper richestand. And there's this competition. And what happens then?

You know, credit cards. They go to Neiman's. They go to, you know, it's the envy. It's looking, you know, I want, I want the watch. I want the dress. I want the designer dress. It's envy. And the envy turns malicious because nobody wants to say it's my fault.

They want to find a fight. find a reason for it not to be their fault. Because nobody wants to say, look, here's a real reason. I'm a lazy fucking slug. Have you ever heard anybody say that? Not that I could think. Well, I claim that I'm lazy sometimes. I think, well, you didn't shave today, but that's kind of, that's a look.

I actually did. It's the look. It's the look. I shaved my neck. That's a look. That's a look. I've told my kids. I trimmed it. Yeah, he's, look, he's, did you trim yours?

No, he's like. But, yeah, it's nobody. is ever going to, everybody's going to have an excuse. They're never going to say, look, here's the real truth. I just didn't work. I'm lazy. They're going to say the system is rigged. The system is rigged.

And the richer getting richer, and the richer are taking care of each other, and the poor are getting poor, and poor old me. I'm in the poor section. Nobody wants to take personal responsibility. The best way out is, of course, work. Work, work, work, work, work, work. When I worked at Disney, you know, or Christmas Day, you got triple time. And I'd work as long as they wanted to be on Christmas Day

because I can open up presents later, but I can't get triple time ever. That's what I always thought. I would think that I would just celebrate Christmas the day after the day before. For triple time? Absolutely. Even for double time. time. Well, Thanksgiving Day to celebrate it the day before. Yeah, of course. But, but, but, but, but there's something, listen, there's also, there's that, that thing. You're the paper boy. What did you do to make money when you were 11? Anything? Yeah. I worked at a, it was a fish marine aquarium wholesaler. And I love, I was really big into aquariums. And so I worked there after school for free fish and coral. And I loved it. I wanted to skip school just to work. Here's what I tell my kids. If work is, work you're I love to work I love to work I love to work and I love money and the two go hand

in hand if work is work you're the people who are the most successful you know why you're successful I love it even this to me it never feels like work somehow we we make money by doing this you must be making a lot that you're you got a lot of viewers but work if work is work you're, that's why you're skipping in here. And that's what people need to do. They've got to find out what they love. You don't go to make money, you go to do what you love. If you do what you love, then work is not work.

That's another secret thing. For me, you know, when my brother got hurt, there's a lot of things that happened in our life, and then I wanted to go get revenge for my brother. So I have had purpose from the very beginning. And it's never I've never you know I hate it when Fridays would come Because back then we didn't have internet we didn't have nothing You know I was just like you know with a you know tape recorder at home

When Fridays would come I would be depressed Everybody else is skipping to the parking lot I'm like I wish it was Monday Because they have so much to do yeah who is the most famous person in your phone that if you were to call them they would pick up Bill Clinton. And how is that, like, to have such a powerful network? One thing I noticed in doing my research of you is that you remain very warm to people in every, and probably because they want to remain warm to you as well, which it does, I don't know if that turns out to their benefit, but it seems like you remain very warm to everybody.

And I'm curious, like, how, have you strategize this? Was this by plan? No, I think what has. happened for me is I'm Irish and I love people. So being warm is like, it's who I am. I love people. I'm a connector. I wonder how the average viewer can use this, what you've done to their own benefit. Like how you've built a good network. What can they learn from what you've done? Bill Clinton told me something one time that I think they can learn because I learned from him. I said, what's your secret, President Clinton? He said, here's what I do. Everybody that

I meet, I treat them like this. There's an election tomorrow and they're voting and I'm on the ballot. And I treat everybody just like that, even when I'm not running. And he said, I call it one at a time. And that's what I do. Everybody I meet, I'm running off for office. They're voted and the elections tomorrow, one at a time. It's not mine. It's Bill Clinton's. And has this served you very well? A lot of People say your network. It's made me. That's my talent. I'm not, I'm not smart.

I'm not academically smart. I don't believe that. It's true. But I'm very, very smart, smart. I'm very treat smart. I have x-ray vision. I can smell. And so, look, I'm not good at standardized test.

Thank God my wife is. So the kind of she balanced us out with the kids, yes, smart. But I'm very, very, very. street smart and I'm very my social IQ is off the charts. So I believe those. When you said you're not very smart, I thought for a second. There's different smart. Here's how smart I am.

I'm smart enough to know what I'm not smart at and smart enough to go find people who are smart at what I'm not smart at. The most dangerous person is the person who thinks they're smart but aren't smart. I know what I'm not smart at. I know that, but I know what I'm very smart at. So if you have X-ray vision for people, I would love to know what you think Graham and I can improve on. What do you read from us? Well, you're tort reformers and you're misinformed about your information.

You're getting third-party stuff. You're business people, so plaintiffs lawyers are not your favorite people. you think the system could be rigged against you because of, you know, greedy. But the thing you're good at is you're relentless, you're tenacious. No means yes. No's got to mean yes. If no means no, you're... And I don't think you two take no for an answer.

And you're both smart. But you tend to be conservative, I think. I agree with that. I don't know if I would agree that I'm a tort reformer per se. Well, I'm not, I'm not, I don't know. I'm just like trying to guess your weight. Right. This is, this is just what I've heard and we know people closely that are in the industry on both ends. Oh, I know, but we may have dealt with some stuff. But you're hearing lies or not lies, but just it's not true. Look, they say there's an insurance crisis and we need tort reform. They got it in Florida. and then the next day State Farm issued $5 billion to their stakeholders.

It's all a lie. Insurance companies are liars. I do agree with you that even if we were to change this, I don't think the insurance companies would ever say, oh, wow, we just saved all this money. Let's lower policies. I don't think that's ever going to happen. That's why I told you as I get it as broadcast. What tort reform? I've been in this business for a long time.

I've never had one tort reform where the rates got rolled back. They were promised to be rolled back. I would agree with you. Just the opposite happened. It went up. It's never stayed flat. It's always gone up. And the insurance companies have a great business model.

If they lose money, they raise rates. I have one more question for that. By the way, they don't just lose money paying claims. They lose money buying real estate and buildings and, you know, hedge funds and all sorts. But when they lose money, they just raise rates. And they say, it's John Morgan is causing this. And the malicious envy. It seems like you have a great relationship with your kids and your wife.

Yes. What do you attribute that to? And what's the best relationship advice that you could give for someone who's married? The best thing I say is about children is your child is one friend away from total disaster. I remember I tell you if you smell dogs, there's dogs, I've had to remove two children from my children's life along the way. It was the best thing every day because both those kids turned out to be exactly who I thought they were. The second thing is you have to have rules and real consequences. You can't just pick, you got to, you know, really do it.

And then the best thing is you just got to spend a lot of time with them. I mean, I lived in sports fields. I lived at the beach. I lived, you know, in batting cages. I, you know, they were in the car with me constantly. And there's only this one window that you get. And when you get to my age and you look back at the tranches in your life. the trunch that was the best was when your children,

the time with your children, until you get to be about 15 in a car. But from the time they're born until they're 13, 14, 15, that is the best trunch you're ever going to see. And the kids are baked by the time they're five. After five, the cake is baked. You've got to spend a lot of time from the beginning to five. And then you just have to love them.

but you have to have consequences and you have to be steady. I mean, one time, Dan, I told us, I was on a podcast yesterday, the breakfast club. And I said, well, I said, well, look, because Dan was with me after I did Morning Joe. And he said, well, give me an example. I said, well, look, you know, one Christmas, Dan came home. Dan's 37. He's y'all's age. Dan came home and had Christmas break.

And I said, Dan, I think you've been smoking marijuana over Christmas. He goes, no, I haven't. I said, I think you have. Well, I haven't. I said, well, I think you have. He goes, well, I have it. I said, well, we're going to find out. Because I got a peat kit back in the bathroom by the pool room.

Go pee in the cup. Okay. I said, let me tell you this. If you fail, you lose your car for this semester. If you want to admit it, you lose your car for a month. There was his mummo where he just standing there looking at me. He finally just reaches in his pocket and he throws me the keys. And that was that.

I drug tested the shit out of them. Because, you know, I used, marijuana every day. I mean, if I don't have, I mean, I float to bed. I mean, I'm flying on a pink, pink dragon when I go to bed. But, but when they're young, that can fry their minds. You know what stoneers are light, they're just real slow. And I wasn't going to let that happen to them.

And, you know, I had one boy, Matt, who's, you know, a star now, but he was a surfer, and surfers smoked up. And I just drug tested the shit out of them. Mike and Kate, I didn't have to. Dan and Matt, I did. All children are not the same. But you have to have consequences. One time Matt was playing an all-star game, and I was coming upstairs, and he was talking

his mother because his mother was late, and I heard him scream, shut up. Shut up. He didn't know I was there. I walked in. I just slapped him down on the floor. I said the day's over. Go take your all-star uniform. It's over.

It's over. You're not going to tell your mother to shut up. And I called Joe Strata, the coach. I said, Joe, that's not going to be there for the All-Star. John, you can't do this to the team. He's a shortstop. I said, I don't give a fuck about the All-Star game. I give a fuck about this kid.

If you win today, we'll be there tomorrow. They won today. We went the next day. And what about you and your wife? How do you keep a solid relationship with your wife? Well, look, marriages are tough. One time we were interviewed and the interviewer said to my wife, have you two ever thought about divorce?

And she said, yes, just never at the same time. Look, marriage is an unnatural. situation because you got two people that have, and my wife's very smart and very strong-willed. But here's what you need to understand. I've seen, listen, I've seen so many people get married and get divorced and all this. I just decided, you know what? I'll have rough patches, but I'll get past those rough patches because I'm just going to stay married to the crazy I know, then marry the crazy I don't know.

Because all these bids are crazy. And I'm crazy. It's bids and guys, we're all crazy. I stay with the crazy I know and love. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming on the podcast. Really appreciate it. We'll link to your book, all your information down below in the description.

Really appreciate your time and giving us extra time on top of it. Thank you, everyone for watching. We're in a rush. We've got to go. Until next time. 2.7 million is what I paid for the car. And what do you sell it for? I sold it for

No And I will drive this car Or than anyone's ever driven a cone exact What's the craziest thing you've seen in the car market? Where to begin? There's more money in the market than ever before You believe that maybe some of it's fake? I know it is.

Anyone who's in the business know that there's some fishy stuff that happens at those auctions. I had a plan. I had an idea. I turned a $600 video camera into $10 million. What triggered the audit? I owed like a million.

dollars. Holy crap. I was in a dark place. It was tough. Then I'd just have to turn it on for the camera. Is marriage on the horizon? Soon. When are Strad kids going to happen?