How To Invest in Yourself PT. 1

we're scared to talk about money. You know. One of the things I noticed, even until Freedom, we sit down for meetings and we know that a major part of the discussion has to be fundraising and where we're gonna and ad servicing the people who have given us resources over time. But for some reason, we will talk about cases families were supporting, where we need to be, how we need to get it done, all of the things.

We will will talk talking about our mental health, We'll start talking about the whatever we have to do for ourselves and our until freedom community, other people's problems, everything, And then we spend this short amount of time focused on fundraising so much that now we have had to say no, these meetings are only gonna be about fundraising, so we can force ourselves to talk about money. There

is something about now Linda who she is. She is Arab American, right, I don't know if that's a thing, but she's Arab. However, she's an American. Um. She doesn't mind talking about money. She wants to talk about money every single day. And I know that there are stereotypes about communities, but I think that the way in which she was raised it has always been important. Like her father being an entrepreneur, he goes all ways, trained them to get their money and save their money and not

spend exuberant amounts on things that don't matter. I think with us as black people, somewhere along the line, it's like the like, we got scared that we can't talk about money, we can't raise money, we can't have money, we can't buy a house, we can't have why because you know, we've been taught that in our communities, when you actually get money, you become a target. You've done

something wrong, right, people like you know. We was talking to Mona and she said, people will promote you, and they wanted to act like they want to see you get to a certain level, then when they get you telebrit they want to tell you that. Right, so people want to see you good. Just do good. It's not better than them, and it's it's sad, it's it's a it's a mind state that for some reason our culture

has adopted. You know that, especially in the arena that we're in, we feel we feel bad about having resources, about being able to pay rent, about having nice clothes, about having being able to pay You feel bad because if you're fighting for the people, there is this that you should be right there. You should get a job like you should work in McDonald's. You should be on the front line. You should put your and people. And if you're not doing that, then you've done something wrong.

You're cheating the people, you're robbing the people, you're capitalizing all black everything wrong. Right. People outside that can talk about killing us and this and now they can promote anything, the most negative things in the world. They can be billionaires, they could sell they could do everything, and people will celebrate them. But when you are in this field, if you have a dollar over lunch meet, you are somehow criminal and you're robbing your community. So we we we

we we are traumatized by that. Most people are traumatized by that. I don't I don't subscribe to that. I don't subscribe to the poor righteous teacher. I don't subscribe to you being broke in order to have to take care of your people. It doesn't even make sense. I think those are the anybody who's going to fight and die for our people to make sure justice, equity, and equality should be people that are substantially taken care of and should have probably more resource than the rest of

the people. But that's just how I feel. So, you know, I think we have to get out of that mind state of being afraid to talk about money, because when we talk about freedom, freedom main free. The enemy that's trying to kill us and stop us from moving, they are investing billions of dollars into that. React absolutely, So if you're not investing thousands or hundreds of dollars or even a million dollars into that, how do you think

you're gonna beat them? So I had somebody say to me recently, and I had this conversation with Dr Bernie's King, which is Martin Luther King's daughter, Martin Luther King Junior's daughter, Dr Martin Luther King Junior's daughter. Let's get that right for respect in the period. And the thing that came up was I was I was doing an interview UM and someone said, well, even the King's Center, they have corporate sponsors and they shouldn't be taking money because Dr

King didn't have no corporate responses. And the question that I have is number one, do you give them money, even even five dollars? Even five dollars? Do you give it to the King's Center, which is a place that is carrying on the legacy of CORRECTA Scott King and Dr King, not just from a perspective of like a you know, a memorabilia, but there's programming at the King's Center. They also deal with conflict resolution. I remember when I was going through, you know, some real public conflict um

and and particularly what happened with Um Samaria Rice. You know when they I was sent a letter demanding that I meet with her, and you know the whole story, demanding that I meet with a bunch of people. And I said, okay, no problem, I would like to bring Dr Bernie's King with me to the meeting. One. You know, even though I know Dr King and I love her. She tells my ask the truth all the time. Let's

just be clear. She sees something she don't like, she picks up the phone and she's like, listen, this is not right. I don't think y'all are doing it right. Don't invoke my father's name in things that are not true to what it is that he was trying to accomplish. She never said that to me, thank god, but I know she does to other people just in general. Right. And so this is a very very This is a woman who knows how to be um. Uh. She's four black people a hundred percent, but she knows how to

be um. What is the word neutral? In any space? You need environments like that because there is tension in movements. We should be invested in making sure that the King Center is a staple place in our community that can do all of these things. So rap, and and how the hell do you think that she is going to be able to be herself, speak truth to power, challenge white supremacy. She's supposed to go work again at the McDonald's. That's not gonna that's not gonna happen. She has her

parents legacy to continue. So who else is gonna pay for if we are not invested saying let's give five dollars, ten dollars, two dollars. No, you're not even supposed to take it if it falls from the sky, because no, not in scorporal. If it falls from the sky is George Sorrows is money. You gotta get it right. What's wrong?

You forgot? This is what I'm saying. So there's always gonna be something, And I think that that for us means we have to push back against that, and we've got to focus on money all the time so that we are constantly educating ourselves, our children, and our community on something that people have tried to keep us away from, so that one it's a divisive tool not to have us talk about money, and two so that we will never ever because the next step. First of all, you

educate people on the how and the what's right. Then you educate them on the unity piece, how you pull your resources together. And I promise you that whoever plants the seeds that money is bad for black people, those are the same folks or that is the same force that does not want us to figure out how to bring our money together. So one point three or one point four now trillion dollars that we spend will be in our own communities. You ain't said nothing but the truth.

I mean, I'm just saying so anyway, speaking of that, we're UM and at the time that this interview airs, we God willing that all things work out is they're supposed to, will be in Africa on sort of a pilgrimage for us where we are traveling UM to sacred Land.

I think we need it. Like we've been fighting so much and just against so many things internally externally, I think it's time for us to have a reset and a focus on UM, you know, on on where are people, where the origination of all people, let's be clear begin, but also the activists and the community, especially since George Floyd's murder, since people you know, since that time, people from Africa and other places around the globe have been reaching out to us, reaching out trying to learn more

about until freedom, teaching us things that they are doing in their UM communities and you know, across the world and particularly in Africa. And I think we UM are will do ourselves justice as leaders to go deeper and to understand that the world is not just here in America, but there is a world outside of that, you know, I look forward to it though, you know, just the pilgrimage to the motherland, you know, being able to formulate and just come into bring into fruition. What until freedom

really needs to push you to the next level. You know. For me, it's just this work that we do is selfless, but it is for our people, and we want to see something. We want to cataport our organization into a position to where is able to really effect change. And I think going to Africa and sitting with our people and filling the essence of the ancestors is going to take you know, our organization into the next level of the work that's needed to be done. So I definitely

look forward to that. So let's get into our interview today, because we're talking about money, money, money mine. Some people do bad things for that money, money, money, but we're talking about the good stuff, the good stuff, and were talking to some good brothers. You're my brothers from Arni Leisure, you know, with Shard Bloud and Troy Miller, two of the biggest I mean the biggest because that's what they say. They have the biggest conversations. Say you know. They are

two of the biggest wealth connoisseurs I call them. They talk about wealth, and they talk about financial literacy and how it is important, not just important, it is imperative for us to be teaching not only our kids but everyone in our culture about how important it is and how it is just as important as anything else that we learn in school, if not more important. So these brothers are gonna break it down for you. We're gonna talk about cryptocurrency, you know, because I want to know.

I want to know about stuff. I want to know about cryptocurrency because I might invest my money and you in your crypto little coins. I might invest my want to know about crypto too, but I also feel like is it safe? So you know, I want to know about that. And then also we got to ask them about the federal government because out other people see folks, black folks particularly making a little money let change, and they're like, oh, we need regulations. So we're gonna talk

to our brothers about that. And they're gonna give us all of the tea, all the tea earn your leisure. First of all, I think they started in two thousand and nineteen, but before that they were teaching financial literacy to public school students. In the Bronx, they launched Earn Your Leisure to discuss the money plays behind the scenes in sports, entertainment and business. So they wanted to just talk about what was going on, like, you know what, how you get money in sports and all of that.

But it obviously has blossomed into so much. They have five They have at least five million downloads of people who have sat down and watched and listened to the episodes. They got four hundred and twenty two thousand YouTube subscribers subscribers, which is a big deal because you know, getting people to subscribe on YouTube. First of all, I've not ever dried it, but but I know other people who have,

and it seems to be quite a thing. But they have seven hundred and two thousand Instagram followers, followers, seven hundred thousand Instagram followers, these brothers have from talking about financial literacy, that's dough. Let's bring on our guests, yea, our brothers, Earn Your Leisure, Rashard Balau and Troy Melons. I'm so happy to have them on here today so we can like get old stuff. Yeah, you know, these these are brothers from the b X, from the You

know what I'm saying something. I always feel good when I see my brothers from the Bronx doing what they do. They are elevating the culture. They are the new generation culture leaders, like you know what they're doing with this whole cryptocurrency and just empowerment about finances and teaching us how to be entrepreneurs and think outside of the box and have intergenerational wealth is just something that is inspiring.

You know, watching these brothers, I have the pleasure to say that I was one of like early was on this show earlier, you know what I'm saying, just watching you know what I'm saying, Yeah, just watching them and just being proud man. Just you know, a lot of us we don't support or celebrate people that are actually winning because, you know, for some reason, we see it as as men. We don't want to do it a lot.

But I just want to say, yeah, a competition, but I want to say that I admire you brothers, and you inspired me every day. Today I was listening to your Breakfast Club interview and I was like, yeah, I gotta I gotta be out here working, I gotta do more. I just gotta do more. Shout out to nineteen Keys, your brothers. All of your brothers inspired me. So it's a pleasure to have you all on our show. You know what's funny the whole conversation around with you know,

you guys being on Breakfast Club. Sometimes I talked to Charlottage. He and I talk actually every single day, and you know, we've been debating whether or not n f T s cryptoque, like what's good, what's not? You know, should we be invested here and there? So I'm glad that y'all got a chance to sit down together because hopefully some of the issues and concerns that he had, um and that I have, you know, have been sort of addressed. So again,

thank you all for being with us. Thank you, thank you for having us and mice So I appreciate you wearing that dreams to night. Man. It's crazy, yeah you know, yeah, yeah, I was just with my cousin, uh Punchy yesterday. He actually came and dropped some murch off and he was talking about you. Um. So yeah, man, keep up the great work. I appreciate you guys, and again we appreciate you blessing our platform and Tanica, thank you for pulling

up to activation. That was a pleasure meeting even a person and you know, being long time supporters of you, so this this is a privilege right here, absolutely, and y'all you know we're talking with Shine that day. That was an incredible interview, um that happened in that space,

and you know we had Shine on as well. I feel like we as a community, like all of us who are now getting older, especially you know above, like say, I guess thirty five, but definitely forty, we're getting We're understanding what was lacking and what we weren't taught when

we were younger. We're getting it. And I think that the fact that we're not getting it at seventy and we're so much closer to the younger generation, I think this generation is gonna be a little bit different and and better for the information that people like you are trying to teach, so, you know, the financial literacy. And I guess a question that I would ask in that is like why do y'all feel like financial literacy is so important? Like this is not you know, is it?

Is it? It's not the cool hip hop, it's not the you know, Oh I'm a rapper. I'm this that in the third you know you you're doing something that's very different, and so why would you say this was where you wanted to lean in. Well, I think it's import one because I was talking about this the other day, Like if you look at the school system, Um, there's certain things that are like mandatory that you have to learn.

At least when I was in school, it was like earth science, we had a regius exam, like you had to take earth science. You had to take chemistry, you gotta take math, Um, you gotta take like biology, different

things like history and UM. I don't understand why financial literacy and finances is it's something that's mandatory because it's like, let's take earth science or biology, and that's great to know we need more scientists, but the vast majority of people are not going to use those skill sets unless you're a chemist or a doctor. Where every single person

has to have financial literacy. It doesn't matter whether you work for sanitation, or whether you're President of United States, or whether you're a podcast or whether you're a basketball player. The common denominator is that everybody's gonna pay taxes. Everybody has to retire everybody you know has to, you know, save money. Everybody opens bank accounts, everybody uses credit cards. Everybody you know should be concerned about their credit score.

Everybody at one point in time is gonna have to live somewhere, whether you're in an apartment or whether you own a home. So these are things is that every single person does, but we're not educated on it. Like there's no education on how to buy a home in the school system. And what happens is that you just go out there and you just wing it. Go to a bank. You don't know if they're giving you the best interest rate, you don't know what type of mortgage

you're getting. You just you know, hopefully you just don't get taken advantage. You don't even think about getting taken advantage of because you don't even have any knowledge to even ask a question. So taxes, same thing, Like, you know, we see so many people falling in issues and hard times with taxes. People get drafted into the NBA, don't even know that they have to actually pay taxes one

years old. So I feel like financial literacy is one of these things that just as important as reading and writing and math and um, I feel like you know, since it's not you know, taught in the school system, and since it for a long time it wasn't popular, it wasn't sexy. Then it was just you know, our obligation and just kind of champion. And I feel like everybody has different you know, strengths and different missions that they're on. Some people who do like the political side.

Some people do you know, criminal reform. You know, our our angle is financial literacy and just try to empower people through that. So I think it's extremely important something that you know, everybody, um should should be aware of. Everybody should should be knowledgeable of, and um I think for a long time, you know, people were making bad

decisions because they just wasn't fully educated. So it's like, you know, you think that you have to you know, sell drugs or you have to you know, risk your life to make some money. But then you realize that you can actually make more money by doing something legal. It might take a little bit longer, but if you had the information beforehand, then you might still be alive or you might not be doing a twenty five year prison sentence. So I think it's like life of death

financial literacy. Yeah, I agree, man, it's it's a life of death situation, right, the information can actually free you from the situation that you could put yourself and potentially if you don't have it. That's kind of what we started with it. And it's funny because you kind of said, like it's not hip hop. For us, it was hip hop. It was like we were hearing messages in the music and saying, like, that's a lesson right there. So it reminded me of the first lesson that we ever did.

It was we used jay Z and when he said all black Scots sports entertainment, it was like we really sat sat with that, like is that true? Like if we look at all the people we ever looked up to and if they were wealthy, it always came from sports entertainment. And so that was a mission. But there's always something inside the music that we were like, all right,

that can be a gateway. We know there's something that is intense enchanted about the music because the kids listen to it, and so if they're listening to it, let's find something that we can actually teach from. And so when we heard Beyonce say like pay me an equity, all right, there goes a lesson and then let's teach about what equity is. And when little baby says, look I made a hun a million, I can't chill yet, like, oh, there's a lesson here, right, he's delaying his gratification for

a later time. And so we always found the music as something that would be the candy, right, and we're gonna put the medicine inside of it where we're gonna actually teach from those that positions, and so it's to make sure of both. We We understood that the younger kids needed it because that's what we were working with at the time. And then we realized it wasn't just an age thing. It was like everybody thing. Right, The kids needed it, and so did their parents, and so

did their grandparents. And so we took it upon ourselves and say, look, we have an obligation here. We have an opportunity to actually educate everybody. At the same time, financial literacy really doesn't have and it is a limit to it, right, Like somebody at twelve might know more than somebody at five. Right, it's just if they have

access to it. Right, Those conversations that you have at your table, if you're sitting at the table, could change your whole life, and so I was like, all right, well, if we're gonna take it to the kids, let's get everybody in there at the same time. And that's kind of what we've done. So what was that process, Like, you still you started out, I know you have started

out in public schools teaching financialidacy. What was the process like saying, you know what, we're gonna take this and we're gonna create our own platform and we're gonna make a branch out and make it more universal and national. Yeah, so it was. I was teaching in the Bronx for eight years and kind of just was like, man, like, they don't they're not equipping these kids with the tools

that they're gonna need once they leave these buildings. And every day I come in and like it was like a reset, Like I could teach as much as I wanted to, but the environment what they were in after they left the classroom, but always trump whatever I was trying to do, like this, this ain't gonna be the way,

Like I want to create a program. So I had the opportunity to create a program or some internship program and where kids would come they interview and um, they tell me what they want to be in the future, and I'll go out in the community and try to find him an internship. And basically they're performed on the internship, we would pay them. So I'm like, all right, they come into contact with money, let's teach them about money. So twice a week they would go to the internship.

Twice a week we had in the classroom. And so I was like, if I haven't in the classroom, let's give them six weeks of education that they missed for ten months. That's how I was treating it, like I knew ten months. Like they're gonna learn, like you said, earth science and all these things that they may not apply. But they better know what credit is. They need to know what taxes are, right, they need to know how to balance a bank account. They need to write a check. Right.

They don't even know how to write a check at this point. And so I was like, all right, we have an opportunity here. At the time, he was starting his financial advising career something like that, Let's just combine this, like we're gonna teach financial literacy. I'll do the education part and you'll teach the finance. Like I'll write the

lessons and you'll be the face of it. And so we kind of started there and then it kind of call attraction because he was like, look, let's record this, this is, this is we got something here, and he took it to social media, and once he went to social media, it just kind of crazy. He actually started recording it and then doing shows, and people like, well, where's the rest of this? I need to get more this education? Where can we get it? And he was

kind of like, all right, I'm growing my platform. You want to do a podcast? And I was just like, yeah, it's my brother. Whatever you want to do, we're gonna do it. You know what I'm saying. We've had businesses before that didn't work. So I was like, let's just support him on his vision. Like he wants to do a social media thing, let's get the podcast as an extension of it. And the rest is kind of history.

I love it because you know, we don't we really now Like before it used to be like hip hop groups. He used to be duels. Now everybody's like an individual, right, They're doing an individual things. So when I'm watching two brothers who are stars and you know, educated and brilliant in their own rank, come together and say now we we're gonna combine our forces to do something that's dope. You know, I just wanted to I want to celebrate that and tell us that we need to get back

to that. You know what I'm saying. I don't feel not feeling that I have to compete with my brother or you see so many different situations break up. We just watching y'all just continue to grow. You know. I know it's ye'll probably go through your own thing, but the way that y'all present to the world and the way that y'all represent and give these messages and make it cool, it's just something that's just dope, man. So I just wanted to salute you on that. I appreciate.

I told him that the I mean, there's a conversations we've had for over twenty five years. I said. The biggest difference now is that the world gets to hear them. And so it's important, right, Like, people are like, how

how do y'all do it? How can we duplicate It's gonna be tough, Like talk to somebody from twenty five years every day that that's part of the formula, and so like, it was nothing for me to share my knowledge with education in the same way I was learning about finance as the kids are learning because I'm like, well, these things I don't know. I didn't know about life insurance before I became a client of it, and he

actually showed me these steps. And so that's the thing we always talked about, like you put your ego to the side, like can we all win? We're gonna get there faster together. And so it was like, I don't care if if somebody looks at him and like he's the star to show that's all right, we know what that name behind us is what means more to anything, right, because that's what that's what changes the game, That's what leaves a legacy, like the stuff that we're doing inside

that name. Did you always have a love this one left? Did you always have like a love of finding? Like what created this love for finances? To I was like, this is what I wanted to get involved in. Yeah, me personally, Troy story is different, but I always I always was fascinated by by finances. I'm not really sure exactly like where Like my dad was always an entrepreneur, So that's something that he really instilled in me early on.

Was like always worked for yourself and you know that that's like, that's like the era that he came from. And um, I just remember, like at an early age, like just being fascinated with like movies like Wall Street and Barbarians at the Gate. It was kind of weird looking back on it now because no, none of my other friends was interested in that stuff. But that was just fascinating me to see people like that was wearing suits and making you know, so much money on Wall Street.

And then I went to Wall Street. My dad took me to Wall Street and it was just amazing for me to see like that was back before the Twin Towers um got blown up, and it was just amazing to me. The world was just moving so quickly and it was just so much stuff going on. Everybody has suits on. It was just it was just fascinating to me. And I was just I always knew since I was a little kid, like I want to do this, I want to trade stocks, I want to work on Wall Set.

That's what I originally want to do, was like work on Wall Street. So I always knew that I wanted to do something with finance, and I always knew like entrepreneurship was like something I knew. I never wanted to have a job, Like I knew that that definitely wasn't gonna suit my personality. So yeah, I always just had kind of had like a fascination for for the money ever since, like I was like a little kid. Yeah for me, I'm my parents is Jamaican man, so like

I'm first generation to this. Like we didn't have conversations about finance, Like the only conversation I had was amongst my friends. And so it became like a challenge for me, Like I'm a I'm a student. I'll say that to the to the day I died, Like I'm always trying to learn. And so anytime somebody's having a conversation about finance, if I don't know, I gotta go read. And I was like, look, they're not gonna have another conversation and I can't be a part of it, you know what

I mean. Like it became a challenge like, wait, they're talking about stocks, I need to go learn stocks. Right, they're talking about life, I need to go learn about life insurance. And so the more I started reading and more conversations, I kept being part of them, like all right now, I'm grasping this and my natural things like as soon as I learned something, I gotta teach it, right because that's what that's just what we do in education. If I learned something, the true test to see if

I grasped can I teach somebody else? Can they understand what I just learned? And so that just started and never stopped, right so even to this day, Like there's something in the news that's going on. If I don't know about it, I'm researching it and then I'm going back to teach it to the people because they need to know it. They might have missed it or they didn't probably understand it. And I think that's one of

the gifts we have. It's kind of making these complex conversations and complex topics very digestible to an audience that may not have thought that they could understand it. Um. So you know, it's it's like one of those things and the responsibility on our parts like, all right, we know what we have to do. We gotta do it every day because they people are not gonna lie on the typical aspect of hey, this is how news is

reported to them. Now, I know they look at us as a source, like if they say it and they can break it down and we can understand it and now apply it. You know, I was going to ask

a question. I am asking a question that may not make sense to some, but it is an issue that people have where they feel like they know everything right, like they already know everything, so they're not really growing and don't know why because they're not investing in further development even after they've made the money or you know, got the million followers. And I guess you know, that's

the question I have for you all. Do you feel like you're still learning about even the things you are already experts at, Like are you still keeping up with the new tax laws and really keeping yourself um invested in your personal development? Yeah, for sure. I saw something on the other day on TikTok and it was like, the two biggest things that millionaires do that other people don't do is that they cultivate relationships and they read

a lot. And I feel like that's one of the greatest benefits of having this this platform is that it's a great networking tool and you know, we get to like connect with some of the brightest minds, whether it's Wall Street Trap and nineteen Keys or everyone even up to Mark Cuban, like we connected with him. So it's like the more you learn, the more you realize that you don't know. And that just goes back to you know, being being humble enough to understand that there's always somebody

that knows more than you. So you know, education is something that's like it's just so important and you realize, like, you know, so many doors unlocked for you just by knowing things. And it's unfortunate because the vast majority of people, especially like you know, on our communities, um just uneducated

on so many different things. And it's like, you know, that's that's for a variety of different reasons, but you know, it's like them, if they had some level of education, then they would have a greater understanding of things and the world would open up to them. And then you see other people and that's really all that they do is educate themselves because they know, like the more that they learned, the more relationships that they have, it's just gonna make eat money a lot easier to flow into

their direction. So yeah, for sure, for us, we we definitely learned as much as we possibly can and the world has changing so quickly to nobody could really be an expert on anything because everything changes so quickly. So it's like n f t S wasn't even around two years ago. Cryptocurrency, like you know what I mean. So we're talked about the metaverse like this, so much stuff that's just that's just happening in in in the last five years, Like imagine what's going to happen in the

next ten years. So no matter how much you think you know already, if you stop learning, you're gonna become a dinosaur. So it's definitely something that you know, we constantly educate ourselves, and like I said, that's kind of one of the things that really helped our platform growth.

It's because it's a real organic vibe where we interview people and we actually ask questions to educate ourselves, so that the audience kind of gets that because people tell me one time, maybe I could tell you wanted to know that question, that's why you asked it. Because I'm looking at like I'm a student, like educate me, and by educating me to educating whoever else listens. Thousands millions of people that listen to the to the interview, so yeah,

education is extremely important. Before you, before you, before you jump in, let me just put this an extra question in what would you tell the for the beginner, especially young people, where do they go so they can get started educating themselves. We're gonna I mean, there's plenty of outlets, right, Like, like we said, we have a platform that they can do so YouTube University is always a great place. I mean, there's different podcasts, not just us in the space, but

different podcasts that they can learned from. It's really just what their interest is. And that's kind of like we kind of prod ourselves on, like we're gonna cover so many topics that you can find something that you're gonna be interested in. Like for so long, like I said, even at J Line, it was like sports entertainment, it was like those are the things we're gonna be. That's it. Like we're gonna be a rapper, We're gonna be in

some form of entertainment, or we're gonna play sports. And so now when we bring on experts and people who are familiar in other different fields, it's like, all right, well I never thought I could own a truck and company, but that seems interesting, or you know what, I never thought that airbnb could be a viable business that seems interesting, and so we become like almost a gumbled sup of different different opportunities, and you know, we kind of live

by that thing. Right. In order to be something, you gotta see it. And so we're gonna put as many people that look like us in these positions, but tell you, like, yo, you can do this, I'm doing it. Here's a stay ups. I think that's one of the things that you said, like from generation generation, we watch people do things, but we never knew how. We just saw the end result, like, hey, they made it to this point, let's celebrate them, congratulations.

The part we were missing was the how to. And so I think like with this information agent, what kind of doing is like all right, here's what they did, here's how they did it, here's how you can also do it. So it's it's a it's a drastic shift.

So when you're talking about the next generation being so far ahead, yeah, imagine then eighteen year old kid or the fourteen year old kids who's listening to this episode, who now has a Vendom machine company because he heard a podcast, right, Imagine what he does from the next four years. Just being in entrepreneur at fourteen and seeing

what a slack and experience went. That's like at eighteen college maybe something he wants to do, or he might just say, you know what, I want to continue running miss business that I have because a lot of times our kids, you know, and that was some of the things we were experiencing. Like we're sitting these kids at fourteen, and they're gonna make the biggest financial decision of their life in the next three years, and they have no idea that it's the biggest financial decision of their life.

Right when we're talking about student loans and we're talking about debt, and we're talking about interests, and we're talking about cosigners. All these terms of unfamiliar to the fourteen year old here, but in three years they need to know it. And so we want to keep their their minds shop to like, Yo, if you want to go that route, here's what you need to know. If you don't want to go that route, here like a million different options that also can be viable for you in

the future. That's okay. So what is cryptocurrency? What is like? What is it in the nutshell? What is cryptocurrency in the nutshef. Yeah, I mean crypto. It comes in many different forms, So I'll go through some different ones, but I think the most popular, well I definitely know the most popular one is Bitcoin, and that's the that's the biggest cryptocurrency and the one that most people kind of you know, recognize and and know about at least they've

heard about bitcoin. So we'll talk about bitcoin first then all that Troy kind of going to some others. But bitcoin is extremely uh interesting because ain't nobody knows like who actually started it. It just kind of like appeared years ago and now it's become, you know, a phenomenon um.

But I think the word currency is a little misleading because currency, in order it has to have some some traits, right, Where a currency is usually has some level of stability um, And a currency is something that you actually exchange for some level of you know, value or you know, you you buy some things things that nature's like a bartering system, where with bitcoin and a lot of other cryptocurrencies, that's

not really the case. It's more so of a store of value more comparable to like goal, but a lot more volatile meaning um, it's kind of hard to use something as currency when the price fluctuates so crazy. So it's like sixty one week and then next week is forty, right, So you can't really use that kind of as currency because it's like if if my haircut is gonna be forty dollars, I gotta be able to pay forty dollars.

I can't pay forty dollars and then next day the head because it's gonna be sixty five dollars because the price of the value is going up and down. So and then also, you know bitcoin started at less than a dollar and has peaked at sixty dollars, right, So it's it's it's been the best return on your investment out of like any asset class in the last fifteen years.

So being that most people are looking at it as an investment, so they're not really trading it for or using it as currency, Like I'm not gonna give you bitcoin for a burger if I think that this is gonna quadruple in value over the next five years. So the word currency is a little misleading, I think when

you start to look at it more of like digital gold. Um, that's something that you know, people can kind of wrap their heads around a little bit easier because we look at gold and gold really has and people say, like, well, crypto has no value, but nothing really has value other than what we believe it has value, right, like even gold, um, gold, Yeah, it has some uses where you can actually use gold, but for the most part, most people are kind of

just hoarding gold, and it's just always been something that has been valuable since you know, thousands of years ago, and it has grown up in value. So we place value in gold, we wear gold, so people think that gold is valuable. But the minute that people really think that gold has no value, then goal is not gonna

be valuable anymore. But it's just been valuable for so long that it's been like a staple the store value, so you put you know, you can have gold and and store it and then it goes up over the course of the time, where bitcoin is kind of like the same thing. So that's why a lot of people compare bitcoin to like digital gold. Um. But but do you sell it? But selling it? Right? Am I am? I am I right? That's being able to sell it

is the value for most of it. Well, it's it has a lot of different values, so you have the blockchain technology. So one of the things is that it

takes the power. The original idea of cryptocurrency is taking the power out of the banking system, right, So it's like, you know, going through the bank, everything is tracked and they know a serial numbers, and you know, it's your money is being controlled by central institutions, whether it's you know, the federal government banking branches, it's it's being controlled and

it's it's under a roof. Where this idea is to kind of have a house with no roof, where there's there's really no control, there's no regulation, and um, it's just a pair to pair transaction. So if I'm sending my saw money through bitcoin, it's just me and him. We don't have to use Chase Bank, we don't have to use cash app, we don't have to use zel, we don't have to use Vemo. We can just use

peer to peer transaction. I send you the money, it goes through the blockchain, and that we we eliminate, we cut out the middleman. So that was the original premise of it. So that's one of the benefits is that you know, it takes the power out of the centralized banking system. Another benefit of it is the the speed because um, you know, with the blockchain, everything moves a

lot quicker. So like even now to this day, you know, if I asked you, what's the fastest way to get a million dollars in cash from New York to London, Like if I wanted to to send it to somebody in London, what do you what do you think the fastest way to get a million dollars from New York to London would be? M M. I guess I would be thinking I'm old, So for me it's too I'm almost still at sender check but FedEx okay, so that's a little fast. But I guess some type just just

money period. If I wanted to just get a million, so the fastest way is to actually get on a plane and fly five hours to London, because even for that much money, it's going to take like at least two days for it to clear. So that's kind of crazy if you think about it. In in the fastest way to get a million dollars from New York to London is to actually get on a plane with a million dollars of cash and fly because the banking system

it takes two days for that to happen. So now with the blockchain, depending on what crypto you could use that in the middle, in a matter of minutes or amount of seconds, you can move that kind of money. So it's that's another benefit as well, is that it's a lot more efficient than wait. Wait, you gotta wait because you know I'm I'm on a slow don't do I have to buy bitcoin or not bitcoin? I have to buy some type of cryptocurrent, see of a million dollars and then send. Is that the way it works?

Like you gotta have the value in crypto already. Yeah, So if if a bitcoin is worth let's say it's worth forty dollars, you have to put in your U s D like the dollar and buy that much. So if you use a million dollars, you have to obviously do the math on it. It will be that many coins. So let's say it's like sixty coins, right, so you'll have sixty bitcoin. That would be the equivalent of a million dollars. That makes sense, Yeah, so that that would be the equivalent of it, and so like then you

can actually send that million dollars. You can send those sixty coins from pair to pair through the block chain. So like the block change is a ledger literally taking an accurate record that can't be duplicated from one transaction to the next. So okay, so like you said, go backs USD No, it doesn't. It doesn't go go go used to back used to. But they ever, I think I forgot who was the president, um that took us off of that. So for the last fifty sixty years,

the dollar is not actually backed by anything. It's only backed by the faith belief in the dollar, the military obviously, and things of that nature. So yeah, then nothing is really backed by anything. Yeah, cryptocurrency makes sense because it's whatever belief that we put into any level of currency is the value that it has at this point. Exactly. I did a lesson once with with some fifth graders and I asked them how much of the dollar worth

and they were like, it's a dollar. Well, I'm like, well, if something can be duplicated at a rapid pace at a numerous amounts, how much is it really worth? And they started thinking like oh, and so that was like kind of the Lee way into teaching cryptocurrency. It was like, it's just a belief system, right, Like, if I believe it's worth as much. That's how much is worth. So when we see a fluctuate from forty forty thousand to

fifty thousand, fifty thousand, that's how much is worth. And so when and to make you ask the question about uh buying it and selling it, And we always encourage people. We treated like an investment and so its investment is something you're gonna put money in and you're gonna let it grow over time. The problem is people will try to trade it right, and they'll buy it when they're like, hey, it's a forty five thousand, it can go to sixty and then it drops down to twenty eight and now

you're left holding the bag. Right, But if you that happened in two thousand and seventeen where we sort of run up to twenty thousand, and by two thousand and twenty it was at three thousand. But those same people who sold it right, they were like, hey, I'm gonna cast this on the way up. Great, it went down to three thousands. They sold it right. They cut that

I'm gonna cut my losses here. Those same people when they went up to sixty six thousand were probably like, you know what, what just happened, I could have made money. So that's why we try to treat it as an investment long term because long term it'll it'll appreciate and then that's when you're gain real value. So now I'm starting to get it, like was It's just like with stocks, right,

you have to see value in something, right. You gotta say, I see this, and I believe that the rest of the world's gonna see it the way I see it in the next couple weeks. So I'm invest my money in right. And then you also got the note when people was gonna stop seeing the value in that, so that you don't get caught holding the bag with a

bunch of something that ain't worth nothing. Yeah, Right, So that means if the new airbing b model, like I have stock in Airbnb, So if the new model pops up, that's got the houses with the purple light and the beds, you know, move type of thing, and everybody is starting to shift to that. Y'all are saying, still hold the traditional Airbnb or is it at that point that you want to shift? It's like it's it's like music, right.

At one point rock Him was the was the best rapper in the world and he was the hottest rapper. But then I'm not gonna say that because you know, it's a bronze thing. So we always gonna says, was Chris, come on, Chris, We're gonna keep all the way. But I'm just saying so at some point, but at some point in time, you know, um Naas came out, Biggie

came out, jay Z came out. They became the hottest, right, and then fifty cent came out, and then dips that came out, and now little babies out and drakes out, So your value goes up and down. Right, So it's like the same thing with NBA players, Right, So that the key with stocks going to the stock conversation is that this is why it's extremely important for people to diversify. And we like to talk about e t s or

index funds. This is like a basket of different stocks because you bring up a good point where it's like it's hard the individual, whether it's individual coins or cryptocurrency or individual stocks. The difficult thing is that you've got to know. You gotta know when to get in and when it get out because nothing lasts forever. So it's like a good company ten years ago might not be a good company now and not as stock is down because they didn't make the right adjustments, or just a

new company came out that's better. So that's why the safer bet is to like invest in like E t F which has like twenty different companies inside of it, and then they'll move companies in and out, so you're not investing in just one particular company. You're investing in a basket of companies. But like right now Apple is the number one company in the world, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, these are these are companies that are leading you know,

the world. Fifteen years from now, it might be a whole setup of new companies. So now those old companies might not be the company that you need to invest in anymore. So you have to be extremely like you know, up to date on on the times and and like you know, stay up to date on what you're actually invested in. But also you have to diversifies and you got now I would say a prom example of that.

And we're all over the same age. So like if I told you thirty five years ago you should invest in blockbust, so you probably think it was a good idea, right because VHS was the thing, and people have VCRs and this is a great thing. Ten years after they come. After after that, you hear about this company red Fan, and you hear about this company Netflix that's only side your supermarket and you can just rent right from a machine. And then Blockbuster has a chance to buy that company

and doesn't. And then streaming comes to me like, wait, I don't have to go to a store anymore. I could do this right from the confet of my home. And now there is no Blockbuster, right, there's like one store left that they keep as like an antique store. And now Netflix number one streaming service in the world. And that's how we consume content. And so if you pay attention and educate yourself, you're like, all right, extreaming is the next thing we need to look at that.

It's like even like lime Wire, like that's crazy. Like I just saw the other day the line wire, which was used to be the place where you could download music illegally. Allegedly some people did that, um, but now you know they disappeared when when Apple Music came Right now, we didn't need that, we don't we don't have to do this illegal. We got Spotify, we play nine nonsense and now we got entire music claddolock on our phones.

And so now line Wire is coming back. It's like like, yo, all right, well we're gonna do n f T s now, Like oh wow, they're trying to reinvent themselves, so paying attention to what's happening and not just overlooking. That's why I said, like, we're gonna read as much as we can and learn as much as we can because the chances are that you might miss it, and if you miss it, you know you're gonna have us to rely on. And even if you did, I just learned you No, No,

I just learned so much in ten minutes. Yeah, and you know, okay, let me you know, I'm over here really trying to think of things like people like me what they don't understand. Okay, because I hear you saying, let me put it in this context. It's like you got the girl you've been with for ten years, and then the new girl comes, who's tighter body, she looks a little hot to you know, she got it going on a little different. And now the ten year girl

is you know, sort of thrown out. But the question is at what point do you look at a brand like a Sony If we're thinking of this girl, the ten year girl being in a Sony, that this is a brand that lasts forever. You know what I'm saying, Like, how do you make those decisions? As well? I get the blockbuster perspective, but there's also the perspective of you know, brands that are like ever last, but this and I think which and I'm gonna take again, I'm gonna take

a guess at this. I think what it is is the tenure girl's ability to evolve and say, Okay, this is what the new Girls is doing. So I'm gonna get me some Chanello's shoes, I'm gonna get my body done, I'm gonna learn certain I'm gonna how to I'm just being honest. It's just it's learning that I'm i ain't cooking. I'm gonna learning the new meals they cook. I'm gonna do all this stuff and I'm gonna combined. It's just like when you look at Polo. Polo is a brand

that has outlasted a lot of things. They kept their signature, but they're able to evolve their clothing to fit with today's culture is so they never out of the culture and they have a signature brand that everybody can identify, so they're able to evolve and stay classic at the same time. I'll give you two examples. Um Apple, Right, Apple is a company that it's still relevant, still the number one company in the world, and it's only getting better. Right,

they haven't really missed in ten years. A company that that might be in trouble with Facebook, And now we're actually watching this where you know, Facebook had a hell of a run for fifteen years, but now you know, for the first time in fifteen years, they have negative growth on their platform. Um, you know, people were not really on Facebook that much. Instagram is still there, but TikTok is a major you know, thorn in the side

of Instagram. So now we gotta we were actually just watching the situation to see how they how they can maneuver out of this. But this might be potentially watching a company kind of going downhill. Right, So it's it's extremely important to just be observing and to watch pay attention. Read, especially if you want to invest in individual stocks. Read like their quarterly reports, their quarterly earnings, how they're doing, how their growth is doing. Um, that's the good thing.

On the publicly traded company, all the information is public. So like Facebook is a company, like we're watching in real time who might potentially be like how you talk about Blockbuster like that, we might be watching the death of a company. Then I'll give you another problem. But let me just insert myself and that okay, And and let me be clear that the brothers that earned your

leisure did not say this to Mica. Mallory is saying it that one of the things that Facebook will have to do is stop being so damn racist because they allow white supremacists to run wild on Facebook, and as soon as a black person chooses to speak up on anything, depending on how they feel about it or whatever protocols they put in place, black people are shut down and

their voices are silent. So that might be one aspect, because you know us, when we committed to something, we'd be with it until it's dead, all the way, like we're with the Yeah. But that's that's true. Right, Censorship was an issue, right that they couldn't really figure out how the censor, who the censor, And so when you try to do that, look what happens. Right, The former president United States a size, he's gonn create his own

media company. Now what now, like now you can't stop them, right, and so like you you gotta be careful with that. But I'm gonna give you another example of that evolution and being able to adapt because Amazon in was a book store, right if you only bought books from Amazon, right, But they realized that people wanted more than just books that could be delivered straight to their homes. And so now they started they started adding other things. You could

buy clothes, then you can buy electronics. That the number one e commerce business in the world. Right. They were able to evolve with the times, right, and so like they started as just having books and you can, but look at what they're at now, right. So that was that that adaptation and being able to evolve with the times. M that's dope. So listen, President Biden just signed an executive order for a review of the government approach the currency.

So what does that mean for the future of crypto? Yeah, we have to see. They should they said they should be actually having a speech about there sometime this week to to see, like, you know, when his official stance is gonna be. But you know what we think is that it'll it'll be some level of a government um crypto that will be put in place, um, and then

there'll be more regulation in the crypto Marre. They already started to regulate crypto, but it will be more regulation, more oversight, because that's one of the that's been one of the criticisms of crypto currency is that there's not enough regulation. It's like the wild wild West, and you know, people aren't paying taxes and it's funding terrorism and all kinds of stuff like that. So you know, they probably have a lot more regulations that that will be put

in place. And also they're gonna mess it up like the soon as people couldn't sit on the gate. Yeah, man, every time. I mean, but that's great because like y'all can hear it right, like when you tell you the premise of it was to be decentralized, and when you hear a government saying that they don't make a coin, it's like that kind of defeats the purpose of that they initially had. So you know, do you'll think the last question I want to ask, do y'all think that

cryptocurrency will ever replace the current monetary system? M Um, I don't think fully because I think that government's control currency, uh, and you know, it's just it's so many different levels to this, Like even if you've been watching news with this Russia Ukraine situation and they just kicked Russia out of the Swift banking system, which is like a European banking system and that most people never even heard of

before you got the the World Monetary Fund. And there's so many different like levels how they really have this this financial game and in the in the chokehole that you know, it's really kind of difficult for the powers to be to just give up power. That's almost impossible, especially you know, in the near future. So I don't know if it will completely take over, but it will definitely be uh something that's here to stay and a

part of the economic system. Um. But I think that you know, since the beginning of time, governments have always had a strong hold on current see and that probably will continue. But this can be an alternative um to that. Yeah, I agree, I think it's a new We should look at it as a new asset class and treat it like that. And so having a lot of education around it, you know, trusting you know, finding sources, reading white papers, which is it tells you what exactly these currencies do

and their functionalities. Educating yourself in that form so that when if you're going to make an investment, you've been

taken in much as knowledge as possible before you do it. UM. But yeah, it's definitely here to stay because we can see it even even in the centralized way where banks are now using blockchain technology and they can say like, hey, we hate bitcoin, that we hate bitcoin, but if you look and read the things that they're doing, most of them are invested in some form of cryptocurrency, whether they're using blockchain technology or they're saying, look, hey, we're going

to be involved in the metaverse in the future. And so it's it's here to stay, um, and make sure that you educate yourself. And that's what I would imploy people to do. So if you had a hundred thousand dollars, if somebody comes to you they said, got a hundred thousand dollars right now, what do I do with it? What would be like the quick reply? Um. Everybody's situation is different, but the first thing I would tell them

to do is try to pay off debt. If they have credit card debt, especially before you look to invest, try to get out of debt. That's that's something that really hurts a lot of people is that you know, you got these high credit card debts, So pay off your debt, and then you always gotta have money in savings, like you know, just like an emergency fund three to six months of whatever your monthly expenses are. Take care of that first. Then you know, make sure you have

like life insurance. You know, I'm leading up to this because most people will start at the top down where it's like, oh, put put it in crypto, put it in stocks, and it's like that's not really the most responsible thing to do. Like you got to kind of build a house from the foundation up. So build build your foundation first, like solid financial planning stuff. Then go to the next phase. The next phase to me probably

would be stocks. Invested in stocks, um, you know, more in the safe aside like ETF index funds, and then after that, you know, allocate a portion to like you maybe cryptocurrency, but I understand that cryptocurrency is still extremely violatio and it's still relatively in his in this new phase, so you don't want to allocate too much money. Never invest anything but especially cryptocurrency that you can't afford to lose.

That's like the golden rule in life, because too many people treat investing like gambling, and investing is not gambling, but it can become synonymous with gambling if you apply gambling principles to investing. And when you when you treat it like Vegas, you're gonna end up losing, just like

you losing Vegas. So Vegas, they said the rules. Man, So you don't think because like me going on the internet and putting my money and stuff, I've done it because I see that this is the thing, and some of the investments that I've made, I'm watching them grow, right, So okay, that's cool. I want to have something in my hand that I own, this piece to pay for this pen for my money. And so if I had a hundred thousand dollars, I don't know if I would

immediately go to the stock idea. I would be thinking more like when you talked about Airbnb or something like that. So would you say for a person like me that doesn't like to take risk, that it is better to go in a different direction. Real estate is always gonna be an asset. Real estate is always gonna be probably you know, one of the top assets in the world. So you can never go wrong with real estate as long as you buy buy correctly. So yeah, definitely, that's

that's another alternative real estate. I think, you know, real estate in stocks like the two cornerstones of investing. Um, you know, definitely real estate. If you're interested in in that, then that's not something that you know, I would I would discourage. I just understand that. You know, when you're invest in real estate is a lot of other stuff that come along with it. So you know, you're invest in stock, you buy a stock, you're not happy with it,

you can sell it. Tom All, real estate doesn't really work like that. You can't just buy a home first. It takes a long time to buy the home. And then you know, when you buy a home, if you're gonna rent out the property, you got to make sure that you can get the tenants. And then especially in New York, is a it's a headache if you ever have to kick a tenant out. Um, you gotta you know, have somebody that can change the boiler, that can cut the grass. Like, you know, not to discourage people, but

just to understand, like there's a lot that goes into physical. Yeah, the physical ideas of owning something is a lot more involved than owning something like digitally where you can just buy it, get in, get out, do whatever you want. It's a lot, a lot less, a lot cleaner. Yeah, And if you had the hundred thousand, I would I would take some of that allocated. Tells your education, right, because if you're just putting it in airb and being you have no idea how to run an airbnb business,

that's gonna be top. You're gonna lose your money. If you put it in stocks, you don't know how to trade, you don't have to invest, you're gonna lose your money. And so make sure that the first and foremost you educate yourself in any aspect of any area you want to be in. Right, get education or and findamental right. That always helps. Right, find somebody who's been through the experiences, who's had some some you know, trials and tribulations, maybe

some failures and some himes. I always call them glows and glows, Like we used to say that in the classroom, like what was the best thing you learned from that? What's something that you that you probably shouldn't have done it right, because now if I made a mistake, you don't have to do it, which could cost you money. So always educate yourself. Well listen, man, you guys are dope. You are amazing, and I just wanted once again give you your flowers. And because I already know in the

next ten years you're gonna be historical. We're gonna be talking about you're gonna get every award in the world. But before we leave, I need one question. Grits. Where do you take your grits with sugar or salt? I'm Jamaican, only eat grits. Yeah, I don't do sugar or salt and grits. I don't really eat grits too much. But when I did, I'm trying to cut cheese. But when I did, I was eating with cheese and hot sauce. I did hot sauce, so you was on the butter side,

not yell Okay, well listen, didn't say salt. He don't even eat it. We were on to third white planes, ro busting role. Fu man, we gotta have some welcome. Continue to do what your dude, pushing the culture forward. We appreciate you'll man, success follow find y'all. Yeah, yeah, Now, first and foremore, thank you for having us. I appreciate and keep up the advocacy, keep up the good work on you and for sure you're definitely an inspirational motivation

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with Balau Troy Millen's. These brothers are phenomenal interview They noticed stuff, and I only do they notice stuff, they know how to break this stuff down because I learned. You'll listen to me. In about fifteen twenty minutes, I got everything I tell you. Look, now you'll listen to me. Y'all think it's a joke the way I'm about to get on my c though slash stock market. Um Man, listen, you ain't even gonna understanding that. Next we just gotta

get some of my other brothers. We got get nineteen Keys, we gotta get Wall Street. Like these brothers, the way they break down this is so phenomenal. These brothers, like they pushing a culture forward and they're really going to be responsible for what we call into generational wealth, man, because I think people are gonna get it. You know, I get it. I get some things, but you know me, I'm all like man, So now I have to call them and say and explain this again and then that.

And it's like I'm one of those people that you have to explain things to twice. I have to read books sometimes twice. I might have a little form of dyslexia or something, but I need another I heard I heard shout out to nineteen Keys. He was doing the Breakfast Club interview and he said something that was dope. He said, that's what they call it research. He said, you got to search once and then research it. Need it. So we got to do research. You want the people

that gotta do me too, because I get it. But then I gotta shopping it up because once I get it, I got it. You know what I'm saying, shout brothers man, Like I've been wanting to do all of these things for a long time, and I'm getting more acclimated into with the way they just broke it down to me

was like, you know how lightbulb just go off? Lightbulb just Well, the hundred thousand dollar answer is really important because while I do want to have something in my hands, so I want to buy a pen, I don't want you to tell me that I put money into pens on the internet. I want the pens ships to my house.

That's me. But then I got to find a place to put the pens, and I gotta take care of them, and I gotta change the ink cartridge when it's not working, and I don't have a lot of time, So I have to reshape sort of my thinking that it's better to have something that you actually own, that's a product in your hand, knowing that you therefore have to take care of that and you have to have time to invest time in it versus, like he said, digitally, once

you put your money in, if you don't really like it, you can shift and move quickly. You can't really do that when you own something. Right, That kind of gave me a perspective. Listen, you live and you learn and I learned a lot today. I'm gonna take the class you down of course me and knows my brothers. I want to support. If you don't know, go to earn

your legion on all platforms. The podcast is one of the number one podcasts they have of course e y L University that you can go on and get piece by piece and they break it down to you and they bring you up to speed. So shout out to them, brothers, man, keep doing what you're doing. Love it. And with that said, we come to another episode. The end of another episode of Street Politicians. We appreciate y'all for always supporting us. We're moving up to number one. We're moving up to

number one, the best podcast on the internet. You tell about moving on, moving on up, man, shout out to everybody supports us. We're gonna keep doing we do. So you keep supporting us. Tell us, you love us, tell us you hate us, just tell us something man. Okay at Street Politicians, Paul at Street Politicians Pod. That's where you all hit us up with your ideas and my sons and like us, like us. I don't really think you should. If you don't like us, just don't talk.

Tell me because I want to know what you don't like. You know, they should go to my son in y General on Instagram and tell you about how much they like you. At Street Politicians Pod, we want any you know, even critique, but with respect about how the show can be better. But more over, don't think that we forgot about the small business segment. We want to make sure that we highlight as many real businesses what they need to have the tax. They gotta have a place where

they can eat commerce. You can go to the place, the facility or you know, people can spend their money and then get a receipt and they get a receipt, not just like slip the money over here. And we're not talking about those kind of businesses like real functioning services and businesses you can go to as Street Politicians Pod hit us up in the d MS. Within the next couple of weeks, we'll be back to our small business segments um and making sure that we highlight all

those great small businesses and brothers. We have to say every time, send us your businesses. We know we know you've got barbershops, we know you've got products, we know you have services, you've got car services, you guys are doing all types of things. Make sure we have that information so we can highlight it on Street Politicians. That's a fact. So with that said, I'm not gonna always be right. Ms Mallory is not gonna always be wrong,

but we both always and I mean always, be authentic. Salute. Listen to Street Politicians on the Black Effect Network on I Heart Radio and catch us every single Wednesday for the video version of Street Politicians or I Women dot Tv