From High Tech Cars to Scandalous Affairs in the NBA and Big Boy Investments: A Mixed Bag

Some of y'all just forgot about us , but it's all good . We back on this beautiful , beautiful Thursday morning . Yo Jay man . How you doing , man ? What's up with you ?

It's 4th of July coming up here this weekend , which means I'm doing nothing but bouncing around in the sun trying to get a tan like a you know , a roaming dog . So I'm excited , man . Maybe get some barbecue going . Hit the beach . Summer is officially here , so I'm stoked . Boogie . What about you ?

Excited to be back . What about you ? E man ? Let's hear it back from you .

So we went hiking and you know how you get on the pass and pass gets to going , man , you're rolling on these paths and we start to take a hard path on the side of a mountain And I'm on this path and I'm getting it and I'm thinking we're doing it , and everything started to look like a path And by the time we look behind us , i don't know where the

hell we at . We lost , bro , we lost . So you know me , i got to be hard . I'm with my lady man , i got to be strong man . So you know , i didn't let her know this , but I saw a trail at the bottom . I'm like , hey , baby , we got to get down here . So we walking down at the angle . She used her good judgment .

She said walk at an angle because we're not going to make it going straight down , because my black ass , i'm like , let's just go straight down , i'll slide down , i'll roll down .

We're like two miles away from where we started And then I heard something in the trees , because I'm looking at Doodoo on the ground , i see big turds got a lot of grass in it . So I'm like I'm good , it's elk , it's deer , it's whatever . But if I saw something solid out there , bro , bro , people be crazy Like .

So on to it again next week , fellas .

But we're going to talk about Mercedes Benz . They're trying to take things to a new level And all their cars right now we're not all 900,000 of their cars in the US have what they call MBX . Mbux , i'm sorry , is Mercedes Benz user experience . That's the , that's basically the computer and all their cars , right .

But they decided on June the 16th , the team up with Microsoft and add chat GPT to all 900 of the cars . But you , as a customer , you don't just get it , you know , you got to use the prompt Hey Mercedes , add me to the beta program , and then you're in .

Basically , this beta program , mercedes already had AI , so what's happened is that it always adjusts to the person that's in it . You know , adjust the seats , adjust the radio station , do whatever . But now with chat GPT , why are you coming home from work ?

You can have a whole conversation with your car , learn how to do something new , even automate things to your home . So by the time you get home , your stove is warmed up , your lights is on , your music is playing . You know you really got it , man . But the biggest thing that people scared of is data . Who's getting my data ?

You know Microsoft is known for a lot of breaches and all that stuff , but who's getting my data ? Our guys at Mercedes saying like you know what , we got it under control , all the IT processes are held by us and everything is stored by us . Nobody's going to see it in your name . It's not even tagged to it .

Azure has its own particular thing Azure Open AI . For your geeks like me , what is Azure Open AI ? That is an API , the rest API . I brought this to you so you can get all the models , like the language models , like chat , gpt you know um few units and different things like that . So otherwise , fellas , what do you think about this ?

Good move for Mercedes or bad move for Mercedes ? Do we trust it like that ?

It's an interesting use case for large language models in chat GPT . I think I speak for a lot of us now when although it's just at the precipice of AI , like it feels so oversaturated Everybody's using chat GPT for everything . You go on Twitter , you go on internet , it's .

Here's a hundred ways that chat GPT can improve your life , but this one actually sounds like pretty interesting . Uh , for all those lonely people out there , you can have conversations with your AI girlfriend as your cruising home . Uh , this may be the beginning of the end .

I don't know if I'm all that concerned simply because you have a listening device , a monitoring device , in your pocket at all times , like all the time . Whether you believe or not , all those folks out there are younger listeners . With tiktok , everybody's got your data already . That's like the most pervasive app . So You know for those .

But , to be honest , the target customer of Mercedes is definitely not a young teen , right ? It's . It's a more well-established , high-income earner . So You know , maybe their data is more valuable . I don't really know . But I think for the younger generation is just gonna be part for the course , like giving up your data . You've been doing it for so long now .

It's just part of life . I don't think there's gonna be as many concerns as that generation keeps getting older .

So data I don't think should be a Huge deal at this point , right ? Well , let me do this .

I know big boogie , investing and all this stuff You know , and that fix was out here straight up , big booming with the , the streaming , and now they're trying to take things to another level . They're coming out with net flicks bites . Man , it's gonna be off mill roads right there about a grove in LA on June the 30th .

I'm not giving no addresses out because I'm not a spokesperson for them , but check the social media leads will have it out there for you . But what it's all about is all those shows . In my household We watch a lot of iron shaft and you know the , the British cookoff and all these crazy things .

And they have these Cooks that are on these shows , the winners of some legends of these shows . They have things on the menu from brunch items to Appetizers , desserts , big plate , smaller place . They said this gonna range from 25 to 65 dollars a plate . All you got to do is get in and get a reservation .

I mean , some of the chefs like one of my favorites , like Curtis Stone , mean side and one of my all-time favorites , the boy be cooking that barbecue from Alabama Rodney Scott They all got something on this menu and they're all like legends and winners of all these , all these cooking shows on Netflix .

So what do you think about Netflix making this big jump to Netflix Vice ? I ? what y'all think about that ?

Like as you're watching it , they start bringing out courses , so like the happy birthday cake that Harry gets a bunch of recreations of it . So it's like an interactive movie experience where you get various dishes From the movie and the experience that you're watching . So I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix pivots to that and does something similar .

Like the cooking show . One is awesome . It would be really cool too and maybe They actually are doing this if they played episodes of it And they were actually making the dishes that won them that show , like in that moment as you're watching , like that'd be cool .

So you get to experience and taste what they were making for the chefs on screen For those cooking shows . But anytime you get like an all-star group of chefs like that , the menu is gonna be kick in . I just hope you know the quality , like he reaches , you know , matches the names of the folks on there . I think I saw Andrew Zimmer on there as well too .

Like he's a old-school Chef that's been on everything . He's eating bugs and shit on different cooking shows , so he's got a wide palette . He's that bald-headed dude You'll know I'm talking about if you look at my oh , i think it's a I think it's a dope idea and I'm gonna have to try and get . Is it in LA or I know you're not getting out the address .

If you don't know who Mariah Mills is , he is an adult film star to put it bluntly for the kids who has had a bit of an entanglement with Zion Williamson , who is one of the premier players in the league , hasn't played much over the last few years , deals with weight issues , etc . Well , she's been on a tirade over the last few weeks .

To bring you all up to speed , zion announced he was having a baby with a woman . Apparently , he also had a side woman being Mariah Mills . She did not take kindly to finding out about this and went on a Twitter tirade , so much so that she got actually suspended from Twitter .

She has some pretty wild tweets if you read through it , talking about how she let Zion spit in her mouth like the night before He was hitting it raw , got in a bunch of other crazy stuff , and now she's back this morning today with Eli , folks Eli folks , cash out here .

I was like you can be spitting on your girl man , Is that ?

I will say , though , that if the baby is Zion's , this baby , if it's a boy , will have the The strongest lower body you've ever seen in your entire life , oh my God . Yes , when you combine the two of them together , i'm talking an absolute wreckhouse .

This dude better be an offensive lineman , with that explosion dropping into a three-point stance , maybe a little pass block , maybe a little DN . So all is not lost . But the other crazy thing that she did was she apparently got Zion's name tattooed on her face as well .

So she is batting for the crazy cycle right now , trying to do everything she can , which my question to her is what does she expect Zion to do in the situation ? Do you think Zion's going to be like oh yeah , baby , everything's so good , let me take you back .

Or do you think he's going to hit the block real fucking quick and try and kick out the life ? I don't know .

This is all time crazy on public display And this is why folks out there wrap it up , and it's very important to be selective with who you choose to have a child with , because you will be tethered to that individual for life And if you are a high income earner , you have a target on your back and you don't want to be in this messy-ass situation with the

public eye .

Man Just don't understand All right , these basketball players I mean not just basketball players like normal dudes , let's just say high quality men , men that are in the higher income bracket , you know , paid bracket Why , why do you go and impregnate something that you know is a gold , that you know is out here all on Instagram and only fans ?

Why do you want that ? Like , what ? like ? if you said a woman like that down , not knocking women , i love women's , come on , i'm good woman power . But like you gotta ask me What do you have to offer ? That's a question like what do you have to offer ? and if they only can offer that thing down there , like , for me it's like that's not enough , like .

And if he comes out with more babies , i mean shit . You just signed a what a 213 million dollar deal in 2021 , so he'll be alright , those kids will be alright , you know yeah , i mean at the .

I mean , his biggest problem a couple weeks ago was the fact that he couldn't stop drinking soda and he gained a bunch of weight , and Now he's got two potential kids on the way . So you know what they say . But money , more problems , my money , more problems , more I am mills to see it all .

Bro , i was a big Zion supporter , come on bro Man , he's trust , he's stress eating .

Right now I'm only using a small percentage of My assets to do this . I still have the bulk and relatively safe stuff My 401 , 401k going into , you know , an S&P 500 fund , all that stuff .

But what I'm gonna talk to you about , something you all can think about and use in everyday life When you think about investing , you should think about The type of trends that are going on in the world , right . So what are we looking at ? a lot of Infrastructure .

We're looking at a lot of energy needs , right , shifting to an electric grid , alternative energy sources , etc . But That's all like . Companies like to greenwash . You know they , they liked . All this is environmentally friendly .

This is all great , but when you dig deeper , you see that there's no way we can meet these targets without , you know , just going wild on natural minerals and resources , and you know , spending Billions of dollars on infrastructure , stuff like that .

So things to think about is , instead of trying to look at investing in the people who sell you products right , the end product right , like a pen , a laptop , a desk try to look at investing in The companies that mine those resources used to make that pen , that laptop , that desk . Does that make sense , fellas ? What y'all think about that ?

And I think the fact of the matter is is , you know , in order to hit these targets to your point , we're going to have to mine these rare minerals , we're going to need a power grid that supports that , and we don't have the technology yet to Transition to 100% sustainable energy .

I think you know We'll have a better chance if we introduce technologies like nuclear , but what does that mean in the short term ? It means that we will continue to need to drill for oil , mine different minerals . So taking look at the companies that are leading the industry in that , you know , is a great investment strategy from where I stand .

And I think it's important too for you . You said you you do a small percentage of of it . Are we talking 2% , 3% , 10% , like when you do kind of riskier bets or new Strategies of investing ? what's kind of your general rule of thumb for how much of your overall wealth or portfolio You look to take on , kind of those new bets , so to speak ?

So just some interesting facts here , like Demand for rare earth elements is expected to increase by 4 to 600% over the next few decades , and then lithium and graphite in particular , which are used in EV batteries , right , electric vehicle batteries could increase as much as 4,000 percent , right .

So that's , that is huge , but It's it's not going to happen overnight , right . So that's why I kind of start with 10% , because you really never know what's going to happen .

Those contracts are then continued to be quite valuable because you have to do something with all that earth that you move around And I doubt that they're keeping that in-house . So that might be another interesting thing to Research a little bit more to see where those contracts going .

If it's some conglomerate , continue to double down on those , because I'm sure there's only a few folks that are certified to be able to move Particles of earth in specific countries , so they'll be designated to get those contracts as they continue to open up more mines so you segwayed into Exactly what I was going to get into , jay , and So another thing I

invested in is like agriculture .

But I don't invest in , you know , like the people putting their stamp on , like your avocados and stuff . I invest in things like the fertilizer used right to grow those crops . So you exactly dialed in on a key point of the strategy is it's looking at the other aspects of the operations , right ?

But I was gonna ask you , like , okay , so do you have any type of strategy for someone that you know , because a lot of these stocks that we talk , about . Like it's gonna be high . You know they're gonna be high , high price stocks , you know I'm saying so .

It's like okay , so I got a couple thousand , i Can invest , but for someone that's got like a couple hundred , you got to go to Robin or something . So , like any strategy or anything to help those people or give them something 100% so .

So to your point , diesel For someone who doesn't have you know what I would say , even a minimum of like 25 to 50k , to really spread it out and go in that path .

If you're not there yet , there are ETFs , just like the S&P 500 there , etfs that have shares or ownership in like several energy companies or mining companies , right , so you just have to do a little bit of research , but they have these mutual funds of these , all these companies together .

So you don't have to go and diversify and you can just incrementally put in 100 here , 100 there . You know what I mean . So that's what I would recommend . Energy is going to be big agriculture , anything with metals , gold included . I mean , you got to get back to the tangibles of it , right ?

Because if you don't have all of the basics that hairdryer you plug in in the morning , it's not going to work , right ? You need the infrastructure , you need all the materials and stuff to get you to using that hairdryer . I don't know why I use hairdryer and I don't use one , but it just came to mind , that's obvious .

I mean I would also recommend , especially if you really don't have a lot of extra cash , i would focus your efforts on getting extra cash through side hustles , whatever that may be right , valid point There are so many different ways to make money with the internet now It's crazy . Like you know , we talked about chat and GPT earlier .

I mean , there's a bunch of ways that you can do that . I think you can even invest time in becoming an expert in chat and GPT and taking a look at those skills and developing those over time , which will make you valuable in the job market .

And then , secondarily , like , look at side hustles , look at retail arbitrage , right , getting up an Amazon store where you drop ship , meaning you actually don't have to hold the inventory , you don't go buy products , you mark up the price of a product and then it ships directly from wherever it's housed in a factory , in Amazon's warehouse etc .

And they handle all of the shipping and handling etc . You just make your margin or your profit on top of that . So something costs $15 . Let's just say to bookies example $15 hair dryer , right . You go in and you list it on Amazon . You create your own Shopify account and you sell it for $30 , right , plus shipping and handling , right .

So all the shipping and handling costs are covered . You're netting $15 in profit for every single one you sold , but you didn't have to actually go to the manufacturer and buy 100 hair dryers ahead of time . So there's a bunch of different ways . There's a bunch of different resources . You live in the information age .

Go on YouTube , look at a side hustle , try a few different things for a relatively low investment and then just keep building that wealth and income and scrolling that away . And then when you feel like you have a good nest egg , then you can look at the market and start investing in ETFs and regular stocks , as you're just kind of building your wealth .

Especially if you're young , you got nothing but time to focus on a side hustle .

Yeah , people growing these lab meats out here is supposed to be green , organic , no killing the cows and the chickens and the lambs and all that good stuff . You know what I'm saying ? They don't want to kill them . We want to grow it in a lab .

But now there's a couple of studies that showing , like one no-transcript , the CO2 admissions to create this fake lab meat . It increases from 4 to 25 percent more than it does from just regular farming . And then also We out here grubbins supposed to be green , but man , they're looking at this meeting and it's thinking it could cause cancer , or you know .

We just don't know the long term of fix of what it can do to a human being right now because it's never really been tested . It's just something for the future . I think they need to leave it for the future instead of trying to push it on this now , but you know what It's random . So what y'all think about that ? fellas , fake me . What y'all think .

I mean , i understand if you you have , um , kind of the the moral stance of Wanting to eat fake meat but , like you like the taste of it . So why not just try to go to some family farm or sustainable farm or a single animal is killed and utilized to The best of its ability to feed people ? like super against You know giant monoculture Farming .

But fake me , ain't it for me , mm-hmm .

Number two There already is a green version of raising livestock That , just like Jay was saying , you go to these family farms like they're there . Are these farms out there that are actually net negative Carbon farms ? right , yeah , the meat costs more money .

It costs more money to raise cattle in this way , especially , then , the mass produced farming of cattle , which is extremely disgusting When you , if you've seen any videos of it . I highly recommend , if you like to eat meat , do not watch those videos inside of slaughterhouses and farms and shit like that . I highly recommend against it .

You will go vegan for at least a couple months , exactly .

And also Netflix hitting you up with Netflix bikes taking all those major , major shelves from all those shows , giving you a menu that you will love only if you can get a reservation in that joint to go eat it . Then we got my boy , jay , telling you guys about Zion out here messing with these scat little way He gonna get got phone .

Zion on blast , all on Twitter , instagram . And then my boy fucking telling you guys How to get that money , the big-time money . You know what ? stop looking at the middle man , go ahead and look at the big man on campus , the ones that's in those minds , the ones that's getting all that good stuff , man , you know , moving that dirt . The big boys .

You know what I'm saying . And then , last but not least , our random story of the day fake me Man . Gonna make me go vegan again , man , cuz that's tough . Maybe I'll hear giving us cancer . We don't even know .