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INTERVIEW: Earn Your Leisure Talks 'Invest Fest' '26, The Future of AI, Jaÿ - z Yankee Stadium, Black Entrepreneurship + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Every day A weak click, yours.
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  Speaker 2: Up the breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: You know I'm finished for y'all done morning.
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  Speaker 4: Charlamagne the God, we are the Breakfast CLUBLNG the Roses
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  Speaker 4: here as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, guests in the building.
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  Speaker 4: Invest festus back August seventh through the ninth. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 4: we ever showed and Troy earn your lesia back in
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  Speaker 4: the building?
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  Speaker 2: Fellers, are you're feeling feeling good?
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  Speaker 5: You having us another year?
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  Speaker 4: First and fore most, I want to say, congratulations you are.
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  Speaker 4: I see you finally moved into the house that.
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  Speaker 5: You built, finally four years in the making.
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  Speaker 3: Four years in the making. So how how is that feeling?
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  Speaker 6: I can't never tell where was shod building a house
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  Speaker 6: at I'm like.
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  Speaker 4: Born here, Yes, So how does it feel to to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, put things to paper, get it done and
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  Speaker 4: finally move in.
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  Speaker 7: It's been It's been a hell of a journey, ma,
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  Speaker 7: anybody's been following my journey. I brought a house and
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  Speaker 7: I have a water basing issue that I didn't know about.
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  Speaker 7: So the guy that sold me the house didn't tell
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  Speaker 7: me that, so I had to go to court. And
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  Speaker 7: I had to get the town's approval and I had
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  Speaker 7: to do the whole thing. So what I thought was
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  Speaker 7: gonna take eighteen months took four years. And it's still
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  Speaker 7: not officially done yet.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm in there this week.
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  Speaker 3: How was that your first night in your new crib?
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  Speaker 7: It it felt slightly weird, man, because it's like, it's
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  Speaker 7: just me in the house. It's a big house, like
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  Speaker 7: nine thousand start a family.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know if you told me this or
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  Speaker 6: I saw it somewhere you did.
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  Speaker 1: Did chat GPT designed your floor plans or something?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: They designed the It designed the exterior of my home.
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  Speaker 7: So I was working with an interior design and I
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  Speaker 7: was kind of giving her, like she gave me an
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  Speaker 7: idea for the exterior, and I'm like, I don't really
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  Speaker 7: like that, Like I wanted to look this because I
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  Speaker 7: built the home from scratch, so we had to do everything.
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  Speaker 7: So I was just playing around with chat GBT. I
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  Speaker 7: put some inspirational pics in that I saw from just Google,
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  Speaker 7: and it gave me the design for it.
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  Speaker 1: You liked it, That's dope.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm like, look, this is what we're gonna use.
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  Speaker 7: So and it was so crazy because when I took
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  Speaker 7: it to my contractor, he was like he had never
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  Speaker 7: seen that before, so he was asking me who the
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  Speaker 7: interior designer was damn that developed it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, GPT, that's.
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  Speaker 3: The design, take it over everything.
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  Speaker 5: His reaction was, I need to start.
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  Speaker 6: The lesson in that is like, you're not just relying
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  Speaker 6: on chat GPT, You're actually giving the inspiration what.
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  Speaker 1: You want to do.
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  Speaker 5: That's the thing with artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 7: It's only as smart as the prompt so you you
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  Speaker 7: have to have actual intelligence to talk to the artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 7: They go hand in hand. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 7: times people they forget that part with AI. They think
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  Speaker 7: like you could just know nothing and then because a
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  Speaker 7: I could be wrong, Like you can answer the question,
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  Speaker 7: it could be wrong. But if you don't know like
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  Speaker 7: set basics, then it's not going to lead you in
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  Speaker 7: the right direction. So prompting is really important.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that that's the AI that people forget.
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  Speaker 2: The actual intelligence mixed with artificial intelligence complete the idea
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  Speaker 2: of having it as an assistant to help expedite things,
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  Speaker 2: make things more efficient. But people will just let AI
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  Speaker 2: do it. Now, you got to bring something to it.
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  Speaker 8: They don't want the assistant though, they want convenience, and
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  Speaker 8: I think that's when they step back and try to
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  Speaker 8: just let you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, well, it's definitely going to bring us that. It's
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  Speaker 2: definitely going to bring us convenience that we can see
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  Speaker 2: that from the miles that's being created now to the
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  Speaker 2: models that are going to be created in the future.
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  Speaker 2: Convenience and efficiency of the two things that AI is
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  Speaker 2: here to disrupt, and it's going to happen at pretty
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  Speaker 2: much every scale of life, right from education and healthcare
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  Speaker 2: to everything will be more efficient and more convenient. And
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  Speaker 2: that's not going to change. So how do we combat that?
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  Speaker 2: Educate ourselves, invest in it, but become more familiar with
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  Speaker 2: it by actually learning it the actual intelligence piece.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I also learned about building this home.
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  Speaker 5: I went to China.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if I talked about the last time
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  Speaker 7: I was here, but I wanted China briefly started telling
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  Speaker 7: us all my stuff from China. So I realized how
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  Speaker 7: much more we pay for things in America. Everything you
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  Speaker 7: like cars, Yo, they got so many cars in China
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  Speaker 7: that we've never heard of, Like they have like twenty
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  Speaker 7: electric car companies that.
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  Speaker 5: We never heard of.
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  Speaker 3: It can't come in.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Like we heard the byd that they're here, but
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  Speaker 7: and they looked like phantoms, crazy way cheaper Yeah, like
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  Speaker 7: crazy swivel seats, all kinds of crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like a quarter of the price.
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  Speaker 1: Of what we can say, well, how cheap damn.
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  Speaker 7: So like what I saw a car that was comparable
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  Speaker 7: to a phantom and it was probably like fifty thousand
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  Speaker 7: dollars they just put out there.
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  Speaker 5: But it was like that was like the top of
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  Speaker 5: the line of luxury.
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  Speaker 7: Like, like I said, the swivel is the whole thing
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  Speaker 7: like that, it looked like he was an airplane.
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  Speaker 2: The version of the coloring and they just put out
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  Speaker 2: it's like one hundred and sixty thousand, where coloring is
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  Speaker 2: like six hundred thousand. Right, But they put the export
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  Speaker 2: control where they can't bring him here, right because if
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  Speaker 2: they did, what would they do to all my motive economy?
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  Speaker 3: They would kill it.
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  Speaker 2: That's straw.
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  Speaker 4: But I thought I read something recently that they could
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  Speaker 4: bring it to Canada when they're starting to do something
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  Speaker 4: where they can trade and do something that I.
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  Speaker 7: Couldn't even fly from America. I had to fly to Toronto.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think this ain't direct flights from America to
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  Speaker 7: mainland China. You gotta go to Hong Kong and Taiwan,
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  Speaker 7: but you can't go to like Beijing, Like you can't
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  Speaker 7: go to mainland China from America.
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  Speaker 5: So I had to fly to Toronto, and then I
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  Speaker 5: flew from Toronto.
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  Speaker 3: I think you came from Atlanta because I think China.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because maybe not, because I think when I went
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  Speaker 4: to last year, I had to fly. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 4: I think. I think I flew from Atlanta. I think so,
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  Speaker 4: But I was going to ask you that. So what
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  Speaker 4: were you able to get out of China?
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  Speaker 3: What was it?
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  Speaker 7: I got everything? I got my closet, I got the kitchen,
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  Speaker 7: I got furniture, I got chandeliers, I got the door.
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  Speaker 7: Oh man, I saw almost eighty percent of everything in
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  Speaker 7: my house I got from I got.
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  Speaker 3: Do you put it in a in a bind and
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  Speaker 3: then shioped the hole and then you owned the bin?
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  Speaker 5: Yep, you put it in a container.
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  Speaker 3: And it was nervous about that at all, Like how
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  Speaker 3: long did it take?
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  Speaker 2: Ye?
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  Speaker 4: But they take the risk, They taking the risks he's putting.
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  Speaker 4: He got to take the risk himself.
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  Speaker 8: A lot of people are doing, especially in terry decorators,
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  Speaker 8: a lot of people.
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  Speaker 7: But you know what, it's crazy, we got so many
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  Speaker 7: misconceptions in America because we like I had never been
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  Speaker 7: in China, so the only thing I heard of was
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  Speaker 7: like communists and they don't like you. They super racist.
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  Speaker 7: And I get out there and it's a black girl,
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  Speaker 7: shout to.
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  Speaker 5: Her name is Blair. She's from Detroit.
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  Speaker 7: She she lives out there, and she's the one that's
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  Speaker 7: like the plug, like she source his stuff and man,
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  Speaker 7: she got the whole thing on lock. And then they
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  Speaker 7: was and they was. It was just so much love,
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  Speaker 7: like friendly. Everybody was like super hospitable. Probably you definitely,
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  Speaker 7: but but but that's that's what made me comfortable though,
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  Speaker 7: just working working with somebody that that I had I
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  Speaker 7: knew before, and she she made it real easy. So
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  Speaker 7: I had an American that's on the ground. But I
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  Speaker 7: didn't realize. I didn't realize how many Americans live in China.
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  Speaker 7: I also didn't realize how many Black American It's the
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  Speaker 7: whole community.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I've actually seen like I went down a rabbit
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  Speaker 9: hole on tip Top. There's so many of us that
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  Speaker 9: live over there that it's everything is affordable.
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  Speaker 1: They said, you can eat off the ground over there.
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  Speaker 3: That's how clean. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And the Chinese food is different, of course, it's not
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  Speaker 7: the Chinese food that we have in America. It's like
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  Speaker 7: do you say what like your asks for them and
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  Speaker 7: for that, and they'll be like they look at you
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  Speaker 7: like you're crazy.
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  Speaker 9: Like you can go over there and be like, let
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  Speaker 9: me get some egg. Actually what, oh my god?
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  Speaker 1: Is the food it is?
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  Speaker 7: But it's different. It's like super light. It's like you know,
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  Speaker 7: it's super super light, and so it's good, but it's
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  Speaker 7: just it's it's completely different.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's completely hung but but it's good though.
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  Speaker 7: But it's like if you think you're gonna go out
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  Speaker 7: there and get like the Chinese food that we grew
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  Speaker 7: up on.
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  Speaker 3: This place is like that.
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  Speaker 4: This place like there in the States, but it's it's
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  Speaker 4: harder to because they don't speak they don't speak English,
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  Speaker 4: so it's just when you walk in there, it's just
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  Speaker 4: straight up and down Chinese, like no English at all.
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  Speaker 4: But it's the same thing. Like the food is lighter,
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't put the weight on you. You feel better
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  Speaker 4: after eating land. Sometimes you eat Chinese for you be
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  Speaker 4: like man, I was heavy.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't feel like that at all this place to
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  Speaker 3: see that.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be the common thing when you travel throughout the world,
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  Speaker 2: like you go anywhere you go to you go to Africa,
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  Speaker 2: Africa all the time you feel like, what what have
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  Speaker 2: I been eating my whole life?
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  Speaker 1: Bullshit? The goods?
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  Speaker 5: You know what's crazy about that? Also, not that much
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  Speaker 5: really not that much.
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  Speaker 7: So it's it's just crazy just because that was right
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  Speaker 7: in the middle of the whole tiraff thing. So I
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  Speaker 7: was super, super nervous, but it wasn't that bad. So
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  Speaker 7: that that it's like so much stuff that we hear
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  Speaker 7: on the news and then when you actually go it
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  Speaker 7: and you do it yourself, you like, no, this this
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  Speaker 7: is like sensationalized.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of stupid questions.
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  Speaker 4: So if you do buy something from China, something breaks
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  Speaker 4: right and shipping or something doesn't work, what do you
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  Speaker 4: do at that point?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the bad you got a call playing.
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  Speaker 7: No yeah, And that's what I'm saying. That's why it's
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  Speaker 7: good to work with somebody. So happens has broken it.
• 9:01
  Speaker 7: They sent me another one.
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  Speaker 4: I want to go to investment. So I was thinking
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  Speaker 4: about investments the other the other day and I was thinking,
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  Speaker 4: do you just keep it in Atlanta, kind of like
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  Speaker 4: how essence just keeps it in New Orleans, Like is
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  Speaker 4: it just one thing that it always stays there, or
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  Speaker 4: do you say, you know what, we take it to
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  Speaker 4: another city.
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  Speaker 2: It's home has been Atlanta for obviously for the six years.
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  Speaker 2: We flirted with the idea just because you know, the
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  Speaker 2: lack of support that we've gotten from the city of
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta has been, you know, something that has been puzzling.
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  Speaker 2: But we come from grassroots, so we know how to
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  Speaker 2: build things from the ground up, get help from you know,
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  Speaker 2: our partners and people in the world of business that
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  Speaker 2: have helped support the event. But we flirted with it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just something about the city of Atlanta when
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  Speaker 2: you know, COVID was happening and we were looking at
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  Speaker 2: a space we could do it. It's the epicenter of
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: black culture, of black business, about black entrepreneurship. We had
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  Speaker 2: a large fan base there and a large support based there,
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  Speaker 2: so it was like, all right, let's do it there.
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  Speaker 2: Yet one forty three hundred people, all right, Well, now
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  Speaker 2: we have partners that are from Atlanta. Our other partner, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: live in Atlanta. It made sense to just keep it
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: there and now it feels like it's part of the city, right,
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  Speaker 2: Like in the nineties, you know, like it was different
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  Speaker 2: types of events that were synonymous with Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: You're married, but.
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  Speaker 2: Stay together, let's stay together, right, And so now we
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  Speaker 2: had the idea and the opportunity to bring a new
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  Speaker 2: event there and stay there and hopefully it does stay there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the idea because it is a central
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: location for a lot of people. Right, You're talking about
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  Speaker 2: one of the busiest airports in the world. Large population
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  Speaker 2: of black people live in the South, and what an
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  Speaker 2: hour away from Charlotte, an hour and a half from DC,
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  Speaker 2: forty five minutes from Miami hour and forty five minutes
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  Speaker 2: from New York, and so people can congregate there. It's easy.
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  Speaker 2: They have their accommodations. It's a hub. So yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it has all the things that would be beneficial to
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  Speaker 2: be in a city to have with that type of thing.
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  Speaker 7: But it could definitely answer your question, Essence, it's locked
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  Speaker 7: in with the city of New Orleans.
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  Speaker 5: So Atlanta's home for now.
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  Speaker 4: So what is Atlanta not doing to make sure they're comfortable, Because,
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  Speaker 4: like you said, Essence knows what Essence festivals to say,
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  Speaker 4: New Orleans knows what Essence Festival does for that market, right,
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  Speaker 4: It brings millions and millions of business, not just there,
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  Speaker 4: but to hotels, to restaurants and.
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  Speaker 3: Least. Yeah, let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 7: According to Chat Gibt, Atlanta's done nothing for us, and
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  Speaker 7: you know, it's an unfortunate situation, but it's one of
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  Speaker 7: these things. I think a lot of times when when
• 11:29
  Speaker 7: you're a black entrepreneur, a lot of things are just expected, like, oh,
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  Speaker 7: you got it, like you're good or you know, and
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  Speaker 7: it's like if somebody else would come, like a Forbes
• 11:38
  Speaker 7: or somebody like that, then they would roll out the
• 11:39
  Speaker 7: red carp and do everything. But nobody. Nobody's doing what
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  Speaker 7: we're doing. Like as far as having twenty five dollars
• 11:44
  Speaker 7: people the day come, we having billionaires every single year,
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  Speaker 7: people at.
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  Speaker 5: The highest level we've had. We got Serena Williams this year.
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  Speaker 7: We had Magic Johnson before, we had fifty cent before, so,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, Steve Harvey Ray, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We had j Charlamagne, amazing.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: What have you'all asked?
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  Speaker 8: The city said no to.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just a matter when you work.
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  Speaker 7: So all right, this is this is good education because
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  Speaker 7: it's like when you work with a city, there's a
• 12:15
  Speaker 7: there's a budget, and there's different.
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  Speaker 5: Things that they can do.
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  Speaker 2: The municipalities.
• 12:19
  Speaker 7: They can help put up billboards, they can they can
• 12:21
  Speaker 7: help be a liaison with the with the center. They
• 12:25
  Speaker 7: can help with the police force, they can help with
• 12:27
  Speaker 7: the budget, they can help with transportation, they can help
• 12:30
  Speaker 7: with rooms at hotels, they can help with so many
• 12:32
  Speaker 7: different things. And that's what happens when when a lot
• 12:34
  Speaker 7: of these events and a lot of these events they
• 12:35
  Speaker 7: have like bidding wars between different cities, and it's like,
• 12:38
  Speaker 7: you know, okay, like we want we know what this
• 12:40
  Speaker 7: economic impact is. Like you said, one hundred million dollars,
• 12:42
  Speaker 7: that's what your GBT had estimated based off of, you
• 12:45
  Speaker 7: know everything, amount of people that we have, and then
• 12:47
  Speaker 7: the vendors that come into play too, So it's a
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  Speaker 7: whole economic you know, empowerment. Like we talk about economic empowerment,
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  Speaker 7: that's really economic empowerment on so many different levels, not
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  Speaker 7: not even mentioned in the pitch competition. So yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 7: not one hundred percent sure why Atlanta has not done anything.
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  Speaker 7: But you know, we came in into this independent, we
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  Speaker 7: put our own money up. You know, it costs four
• 13:12
  Speaker 7: million dollars to run invest FST and we get minimal
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  Speaker 7: amount of sponsorships. That's another issue that we can talk
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  Speaker 7: about it if you want, But to me, that's concerning
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  Speaker 7: because it's twenty five thousand people that come. It's one
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  Speaker 7: of the largest events in the world. When it comes
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  Speaker 7: to business, we check every single box. We have four
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  Speaker 7: hundred business vendors there. We got billionaires, we got the
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  Speaker 7: highest level of celebrity, we got all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 7: companies is like, explain it to me, how does this
• 13:32
  Speaker 7: look like? What does this mean? What does invest vest mean?
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  Speaker 7: But I'm pretty sure if it was anybody else doing it,
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  Speaker 7: they would have at least one hundred different sponsors in
• 13:40
  Speaker 7: every single bank and every single credit card company.
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  Speaker 5: But we gotta you know, it's.
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  Speaker 6: Because y'all black. They understand financial literacy conferences. When it
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: comes to white people and it's a black event, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Like, and it's passed the proof of concept sege Right,
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  Speaker 2: we and yeah, six We had over seventy thousand people
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  Speaker 2: last year. And you're talking about large corporations that are
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: headquartered in the city of Atlanta, right, you're talking about Delta,
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  Speaker 2: What's headquarters are in Atlanta. We're in a Coca Cola venue.
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  Speaker 2: Coc Cola is not part of the event. You're talking
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  Speaker 2: about home depot, right, or the blank owns the stadium, right,
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  Speaker 2: all these companies, those people of cold We've reached out
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: to everything, right, And it's the same thing to a
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: point where they had competitors saying like we want to
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: be a part of it. And that's the thing, Like,
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: you're in a Coca Cola venue, you can't have any
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: other So when Pepsi says, hey, PepsiCo wants to reach out, well,
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: we're in their venue, so we can't really you know,
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: affiliate with that. So you just start looking at the
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: space and you're wondering, like how this is happening? Right?
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: We are we missing something? And so the thing is,
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: like I said, grassroots, we know how to build, right,
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: we know the importance of it. So we just keep going.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: But yeah, man, it becomes frustrating, It becomes puzzling because
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: you want to do you want to continue to think.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: You obviously see the vision, you see the people that
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: are helping, but when there's a lack of support from
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: corporations and from the city, it's like, all right, how
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: many times We're gonna have to just keep climbing this
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: mountain before somebody realizes the value there.
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: And we can't afford to lose money. Black entrepreneur can't
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: afford to lose money. Fanatics fast spend they said eighty
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: you know something like that. They've lost money every single year.
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: But it's a lost leeper doesn't matter because he's a billionaire.
• 15:06
  Speaker 7: So it's like, that's why when you see every single
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: celebrity possible being there, it's not he can afford to
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: lose money.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: But is it a loss though, because he owns Fanatics,
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: which they make a loss leader.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the amount of jersey, the amount of things
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: that come out.
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: Of it itself, he said it was He said it
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: was a loss.
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: He said, he said it then itself itself.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Right, But is a marketing tool.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: But it's been a marketing tool. So you go back
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: to the valuation in two thousand and eight, it's at
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: nine billion dollars. Evaluation today is probably sitting at forty billion.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: It's not because people just bought more jerseys, right, It's
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: because people have more recognition, They understand who the brand
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: is and they've affiliated with a community that thrives in
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: them right, and you make no coincidence that, Hey, he
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: becomes more forward facing, the brand starts growing, starts growing.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: You see him around people. Now it's a white party.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: All the community is there, right opmmunities there, And so
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: that recognition helps the evaluation of the company effect, you
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: know what I mean.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: So they also got like ten sponsors for.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: One hundred sponsors.
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: But also there's a famous interview with Jeff Bezos when
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: he was on a Tonight show Dave let him and
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: I think it was year like twenty five years ago,
• 16:11
  Speaker 7: and it was saying like Amazon was not never made
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: a profit, and they laughed at him like, well, what,
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: like what are you doing? I think it was Jay
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: Leno and obviously they But what I'm saying is this,
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: a lot of companies can afford to lose money. It
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: took a long time for Meta to make money. Like
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: these companies can afford to lose money and then they
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: scale to become billion dollar companies. We got to be
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: profitable at day one. We never lost money. If we
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: would have lost money, we wouldn't be doing it. We
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: wouldn't have the show, we wouldn't have investments, we wouldn't
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: have but we wouldn't have anything if we So it's
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: like people don't really.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Have a full appreciation of this.
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: This is like walking the type rope, like you can't
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: afford to make any mistakes. You can't afford to lose money.
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: You can't were not raising money. We never raised capital,
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: We never got any investment like these people raising capitals
• 16:57
  Speaker 7: just off of ideas. We got a proven concept that
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: nobody's even offered us money ever before. So it's a
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: lot harder, but you know, what can you do? You
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: got to you gotta roll with the punches. But I
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: think that that's important. We really got to educate the
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: audience because they don't understand how difficult it is for entrepreneur,
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: but especially for a black entrepreneur, because you're up against
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: so many different things, but your your margin of error
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: is zero.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Y'all had Rich up here a few times. I saw
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: him before ess Infest, and I saw him come up
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: here after the same things he's talking about is very similar.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: He's doing it at a higher scale. Obviously, he has
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: support of a city and he's been doing it for
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: over thirty years. So our goal is like Rich is
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: one of our mentors. So when we talk to him, like,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: here's how you scale, here's the things that we're seeing,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: here's some pain points, here's how we grow. But if
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: he's facing it at that level, imagine what we're facing
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: at this level, you know.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, Yeah, it's invested in New Orleans, they actually
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: had a contract, like the city, they had a contract.
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: Yea.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't even do an event in a certain
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: mile radius without them being a part of it, you
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. So, like, that's a city that
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: understands the value of an event and the economic impact
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: that it had every year because they know if they
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: don't have it, what happens to the jobs? Right, Think
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: about how many jobs are created, Think about how many
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: hotels are now making business, and all these restaurants in
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: the track, all those things are happening. And if you
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: take that out of the economy, their GDP wasn't gonna
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: look like you know what I mean, It's not like
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowls coming every year.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: That and Marti grou explain that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: Explain the open pitch competition for those who don't know
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: what it is.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Shot the Paul Judge.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: Paul Judge is a brilliant entrepreneur and he's an investor,
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: so we partner with him on it. So it's a
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: pitch competition where you know, we we picked four finalists.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: They get on.
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: Stage, main stage, in front of fifteen thousand people, and
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: they pitched their business.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: And like shark ting.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Actually we always had celebrity judges.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: Last year we had Jalen Brown, we had two chains,
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: we had Angela Simmons, and we had who's.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: The fourth person? And this year we got La La Anthony.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: We have Angela Simmons come back again, Paul Judge, and
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: then we got an open slot. We'll probably been out
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: to somebody soon for that. But once again, economic empowerment.
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: So venture capital, right, less than one percent of venture
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: capital goes to black businesses. So and then less than
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: like one point five percent goes to every business that's
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: not owned by a white man. So every woman, every Asian, Hispanic, black,
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: we all lumped into one point five percent of the
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: money that actually is coming from venture capital and private equity.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: That's crazy if you really think about it, that's honestly crazy.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: So we have a problem in our communities funding. We
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: don't really necessarily have a lack of ideas, we have
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: a lack of capital. We can't scale. That's that's the
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: biggest thing, is like you need money to scale, so
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: you know, to be able to Last year it actually
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: gave two hundred and twenty five thousand because two people
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: won fifty thousand, two people one. So to be able
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: to give a head start to an entrepreneur like that,
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: that's fying.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: It's something that we wanted to add, and that's something
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: that we've been doing for the last couple of years.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: When y'all look at invest Fest today, what do you
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: think y'all are actually building.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I think we built an ecosystem for economic opportunity. Right.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: It's bigger than the people that are on stage. Obviously
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: there's celebrities there, but the people that are actually given information.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I feel like it is the super Bowl for entrepreneurship.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: And so whatever's happening in the year, that's what's being
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: the forefront. Whether it's AI, whether it's crypto, whether it's
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: real estate. People are actually learning what's happening in real time.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: But then the businesses that are inside the marketplace. You
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: got four hundred vendors in there, right, I would argue
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: that ninety percent of them are going to have their
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: best weekend in sales that week, and so what does
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: that do to their economy? Now when they go back
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So that happens. And then
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: obviously you talked about the pitch competition, but also the
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: people that are in the building right, Like, there's people
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: who are sitting next to executives that have no idea
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: right that network and the amount of deals that are
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: happening that we have no idea about are being transpired
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: because people that are like minded all come together in
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: the same room, which you don't see, right. I think
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: when people see it for the first time they're in
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: all of it, it's like, I can't believe that there's
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: so many people that look like me, that think like me,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: that want to change their life. And I think that
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: is the common theme when you when you walk into
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: that building, you feel like, Okay, this is different. What
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: can I take out of it? So outside of being overwhelmed,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: now it's like, how do I network? Who should I meet?
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Where should I be going? How intentional am I going
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: to be about my schedule? And what do I want
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: to hear about? Whereas where else does that happen prior
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: to this? Where else did that happen for our community,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: And then your partnership with Revolt, I saw it was
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: going to make like tickets more affordable for certain people.
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they did one hundred tickets. They sponsored fifty percent
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: off FO one hundred tickets.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I gotta give credit to some of our partners. Right,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: So Block has been with us for two years. Black
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: rockers with it's this year. Institutional with vest is that
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: advocacy s division. But it makes sense for them, right,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: black owns cash app Right, if you've got four hundred vendors,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: how many people can you now get on their payment processes?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: It makes sense? Right, it makes business sense. This is
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: not a charity of it. If there's business happening and
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: you have an institution that has payment processing, or if
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: you're into loans or right real estate, there's people. We
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: took the analytics on the event. The average person that
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: comes to invest us makes over seventy five thousand dollars.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: You know how much the average black family makes in
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: America a forty two thousand dollars. Right. The average person
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: is past high school education. I think sixty percent of
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: them have a graduate degree. And so you're talking about
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: the highest level of education, some of the highest levels
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: of wealth that are in our community are in the
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: same place. Those can't be opportunities for any business.
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: But then also the businesses, so this is important for
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: the audience to know too. When you're trying to raise money,
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: there's a bucket that they have for black business. And
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: so let's say it's like their budget to spend on
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: marketing is one hundred million dollars, then they have like
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: ten million for they used to call a di but
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: they'll call it some other diverse program something like that.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: So you come to them, We're not asking for any
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: diverse program. Our audience just happens to be black. It's
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: not called, you know, anything black like. It's not like
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: a Black investor conference whatever. So you come with all
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: the d DA DA But this is a different level
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: of racism that people need to understand as well, because
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: they automatically look at you like charity. So they never
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: they don't put you in the ninety percent bucket. They
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: put you in a tempercent bucket. So the money that
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: you get, even if you do get a corporate sponsor,
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: is going to be a tenth a tenth.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: It's five million spent on the business of.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: What you would have gotten if you was Forbes.
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: So they because they automatically going to say, Okay, this
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: is this is our community giveaway bucket. This is our
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: give back to the community bucket. This is our charity bucket.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: This is our But it's like we never we never
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: ask for any of that, like these these are just
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: real people. These are just real customers. Like but they
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: they'll automatically put you in that. So even if you
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: do get corporate sponsorship nine times out of ten is
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: gonna be just a fraction of what it would have
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: been if you weren't black.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: What's the worst mind frame to have for somebody that's
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: coming to invest face invest fent. What's the best mind
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: frame for somebody to have when they're coming out there,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Because I'm sure people are looking for something, So what's
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: the worst thing that they should be looking for?
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: And what should they be looking to do while they're there?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I think the worst mindset is that they calim to
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: have a party.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, parties they have after the.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Party is a part of it should be dressing like
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: it's a party.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: I'm burning the candle on two wins. I ain't gonna
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: lie like.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: You got to know what I'm saying, but you gotta
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: wake up, got to wake up in the morning.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Everybody's not built like us. So like, yeah, we are
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: gonna it's part of it. Entertainment, it's part of it, right,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Like it's our culture.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: We know that, right, So like a welcome mix it
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: though right on the first night.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: We got a v I P Night it's a it's
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: a black tip gallon this year, which is different.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: We're doing the Locks this year. Talk about that.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so so shout out to the Locks now
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: on full representatives. You know, when we talk about loyalty
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: in this space is something than that we put ourselves on.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: But we actually got to watch them growing up. And
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: so they put out their documentary recently at the Tribeca
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Film Festival and it got rave reviews, and so it
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: was an opportunity for us to bring it to invest
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Fest and it was like no brainer, Like we watched
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: them like our kids, I mean kiss our kids go
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: to school together, right, Like he lived down the street
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: from us, so like to bring him chic and styles together. Obviously,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: we have relationships with all them individually to highlight them,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to highlight this moment and to bring it to invest
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Fest was a no brainer.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: So like a screen So the first couple of years
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: it was Saturday and Sunday. Then we made it Friday
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: Saturday and sent all day Friday, VIP nights on Friday.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: This is the first year it starts on Thursday. Actually
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: because we got kids. We got Kids invest Fest, Yes,
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: all day Thursday, pitch competition for kids to win and
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: wins ten thousand dollars and then Thursday night we're gonna
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: do a screening of the Locks documentary. Then we're gonna
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: do a fire side chat with them. Themn Friday is
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: all day. Then Friday we got black Tie fifth for
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: via He We changed it this year and we're honoring Ti,
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: we're honoring Keisha Land's bottoms, and we're honoring Permain Dupre
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: and Jagged Edge is performing so real Atlanta. We wanted
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: to keep it real real Atlanta and we got big
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: bank there. It's gonna be it's gonna be a Viob
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: Kenny Burns and so yeah, it's like it's becoming like
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: a week Like.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, every year you can look at it,
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: those are those pain points, Well, what can we make
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: it better? We used to get emails can I bring
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: my kids to investments right out the top? It's going
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: to be over his head. And so the idea was, okay, like,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: how do we answer that, Well, let's create something specifically
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: for high school students. It just so happens at vest
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Faces a little earlier this year, so Atlanta the city
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: is going back to school at the same time, and
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: so it became an opportunity. All right, well, let's make
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: this event for the tenth, the ninth, tenth, eleventh gradest
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: to see this, right. If adults are overwhelmed and they're
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: blown away by let's bring that opportunity for the kids.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: And so, like you said, we have speakers that are coming,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: they have panels that they're going to be part of,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: and like we got four kids that are five kids
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: that are going to be presenting their businesses like businesses
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: and can win ten thousand dollars like we came out
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: of high school, good luck. Like if we got a
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: job that paid us nine thousand hours, but you got
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars, which again answers that question of how
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: do we get funding in our community. They don't have
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: to look, we're gonna fund it.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: How do you make sure the person with the least
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: money still feels like investments is a space that belongs
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: to them.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: That's the best part of investors. So we got somebody
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: like John Morgan, I know you had him last week
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: right from Morgan and Morgan. He's speaking at Investments billionaire.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: We got Sabena Williams speaking. But then we got the
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: brother like Derek Falcon. You know Cloudy Donuts. No, so
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: he's inspirational story.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Should check it out streams, Instagram, check it up.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: But somebody that was incarcerated, came home from Baltimore, changed
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: his life, got a restaurant. Now he's in New York
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: and he's got a Vegan Donuts and he's going viral.
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: So it's like, no matter where you are in life,
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: you could relate to somebody that's speaking at investors right.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: It's like, you can aspire to be this person, you
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: can aspire to be that person.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: You might relate to. Jim Jones. He going to be there.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: So it's like that's why when we when we pick
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: the people that's coming to invest FST, we want to
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: make sure that it's coachurally relevant and is touching every
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: single person that could potentially come. So nobody feels like,
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: oh this is left out or this is just above
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: my head. Like there's literally panels on how to start investing,
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: like how to do your first investment. Then there's panels
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: on how to build a home, then there's panels with
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: a billionaire, so you know, and it's all and everybody
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: comes to invest fst from the executive to the person
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: that's still in college to the person that's just trying
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: to figure it out. Like we got a mix of
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: everybody that comes. So that's that's like a microcosm of
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: the real.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: World, and those are the things you need. Right. We
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: get a lot of questions how to open a brother scout, Well,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Charles Schwab is going to be there, right, so you're
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: talking about the institution that can show you how to
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: do that. You have real professionals. Our CPA is there.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Everybody needs to pay taxes, and it's going to pay taxes.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: But where do you go to to find a professional
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: that you can trust? But we have that I want
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: to buy my first property, Well we're gonna have a
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: home buying process like all these things you needed. So
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the everyday person, it's kind of catered to you. So
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: you don't have to go out and look and try
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: to source it on the internet. No, we're bringing the
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: people directly to you, in front of you, and obviously
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: you're going to be there, but the people are sitting
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: next to you. They come in with the same idea.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I'm looking for the person, and we always talk about
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: networking across like that's the thing. You have the person
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: on stages in person important, but looking next to you,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: look to the left, look to the right, they're thinking
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: the same thing. How can we now work together right
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: so we can create.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: I'm glad y'all got John Morgan there because I'm not
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: going to front. That was one of the most interesting
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: conversations his book.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: He's he was here, and then we interviewed them after
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: y'all he's he's hilarious.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: He shatters every narrative about billionaire, especially white billionaire.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: When he left, I said that that might be one
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: of the top five people I've ever met. He's just that.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: And then we had his so it got so crazy
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: that the interview was just flowing that we brought his
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: son Dan into an interview and Dan got on there
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: and he uh, he showed some of his old talents.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: He started rapping on the episode.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: He spent six hundred million dollars a year on marketing.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, crazy, that's crazy.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: Six hundred million.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Six hundred million. He started out with one hundred thousand
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: and nineteen eighty eight and this year, well, last year
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: was six hundred million. It's crazy. When we were pulling
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: up his faces on the bus that was right on
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: the street. You see him now, you just see it
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: everywhere everywhere. I see it on podcasts, I seen it
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: on TV. I heard on the radio. He's on the buses. Yeah,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: I heard your drops. I heard your top Dog law drops.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Thanks he got inside?
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: Who is top Who is he White?
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Who the boys?
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Lucky Lucky?
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, top Dog.
• 30:55
  Speaker 10: Lucky.
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: I feel like when I was younger listening to him
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: on the radio, I didn't when I would go out
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: of state, I wouldn't hear him, and then it just
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: like spread. Like now he.
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: Was a radio personality before this. He does the car
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: commercials too.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I want to figure out how top Dog got in
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: my car, because like when I go to one on five,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: it'll flash by top Dog. He pays for that. Everybody car.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: He's going crazy right now.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: What's been in Best Press's biggest measurable impact.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: The biggest measurable impact.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: The businesses launched, jobs created.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: I would say that's a good question, because there's a few.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: I would definitely say the vendor marketplace, because there's real
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: success stories of people that man made their whole entire year,
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: or like met somebody, like they had a vendor that
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: actually met Steve Harvey's business partner and then they became
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: business partners, and so many different success stories from there.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: You watched that happen in real time. Right The person
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: who starts with a ten by ten booth now has
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: a twenties by twenty becomes an official sponsor of the
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: entire event, and so you're watching that happen throughout the
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: course of the event. Each year becomes like the reunion.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: I think that's why it feels like culture, because you know,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: like when y'all go to homecoming, rushout out to Delaarstic.
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: Listening, because I don't know where he'd be doing with.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: My brother went to Delasi.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: That's the only reason why he said graduated.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: He went there. A lot of people was there.
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: They might not have made, but they was there that
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: bad Yeah, graduated twenty fourteen. Business Administration with a concentration
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: in marketing super talent.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: So it feels like that family reunion. And so when
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: you come back every year, you see people. People keep
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: their bands and they sat like, I've been there for
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: six years, and then you see the growth in their businesses.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: And then the person who's been there for the first
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: time they say, man, I got a business. Why am
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: I not here? I need to be that ten by
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: ten next year because they're watching the scale, they're watching
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: the business. Like you said, most people, I would argue,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: if they have a spot in the vent of marketplace,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: is going to have their best weekend and we take
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: nothing from that. There's no percentage that comes back to
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: the event. Everything they make is this. I mean, so
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: you can see that economic growth each year. That's one
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: of the best measurables.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I think y'all got the Operation Hope Scholarships this year.
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: Shout out to John Hope, Brian good brother. You know,
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: John hol'brien is somebody that's been like just a tremendous
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: ally to us. The last time we saw him within
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: Carnegie Hall and he's you know, yeah, he he was.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: Like, I don't want nothing from you. I just to
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: help you out.
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: Like he's like a like a military type.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Well he's a good dude, man.
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: So yeah, I mean a lot of people chose so
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: much support for investvess And I know we talk a
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: lot of times about the things that we don't get,
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: but it's important to highlight the support that we do
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: get from speakers, from high level celebrities, from the business community,
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: from people that come your patrons, vendors, you know. So
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: that's important, you know, to show love to the people
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: that that do support you, because we do get a
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: lot of support.
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: And I think invest Press is one of those places,
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: Like I keep saying, we got to have like safe
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: spaces for us right either to learn or they experience joy.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: I feel like invest Press does a great job of that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you think what was your experience last because you
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: was there last year.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: I thought that was and you.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: Walked in the marketplace, man, we had a great time.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: That was the vibe. You sat down with Steve Harvey,
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: so you got the full experience.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: That's what I felt.
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: I felt like, Yo, this is one of those places
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: where you got you got to create a safe space
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: for us to either feel joy or to learn.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: And I felt like investments did.
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: A phenomenal job of that, Like they have a bunch
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: of people come and sit down and actually want to
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: be educated. You know, they actually want to learn financial
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: literacy in some way, shape or form. They want to
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: leave inspired. Like that's to me, that's very fulfilling to
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: be there. So I can only imagine how they.
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: And it's important to actually because you've seen it before too.
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: Like I think a lot of times we need to
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: go to events because we need to fill a real
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: love for the people the internet. Sometimes I call it
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: the vocal minority, and they get caught up in the
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: common section and.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: You would fit.
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: It feels like the whole world is against you no
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: matter who you are. Everybody got an opinion. Everybody's saying this,
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: everybody's saying that. But that's a small percentage of the population.
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: Then when you go to events like investmentst and you
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: see you can't even walk through the vendor marketplace and
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: people's just like, to me, that just lets you know,
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: like there's nothing like in person events, like we need
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: to really feel the love.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: Like look at jay Z.
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: How much slander does he get online and everybody's saying
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: he fell off and his audience is old and stadiums.
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: You know, that was like thirty something there, Like Lauren
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: are like that they couldn't believe that jay Z gets.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: That type of by people like that crazy.
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: I don't know if I would say I couldn't believe it,
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: but I always am impressed by how his team operate,
• 35:53
  Speaker 8: that's to me, And how seamless it be, even when
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: it's not seamless, that always amazes me.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: Like that line was not I'm trying to tell.
• 36:05
  Speaker 8: What I'm trying to Yeah, well what.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: Saturday and Sunday?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Guy, you missed it on Friday.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: I Didayday, Sunday, Sunday, Fridayday, Sunday Sunday was.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: The most historic night because of the people that he
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: brought out. When I watched Friday Night, I've never I've
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: been to a bunch of jay Z tours, probably twenty
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: right or whatever he's had, I've been to all of them.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: When I saw him come out, I've never seen him
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: not remember his words. I never seen him have a
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: sound issue. It was all weekend though, but I've never
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: seen it, so to me, it was like, all right,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: that's Jay with the forty five on. When he came
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: back Saturday, I was like, oh that's that's twenty three,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Like that's twenty three. So I think that was the
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: best jay Z I saw Sunday. I was like, all right,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: this is cool, but like some my heart hearts is
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: like I want to see him just go yes. I
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: love the people that he brought out.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: I love that point he I love that.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Real life when you see that again.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: Sunday was my favorite experience being on the floor, like
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: being on the floor.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Like Friday was. Friday show was great man reasonable doubt.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: But did you feel different energy?
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: And they didn't know a lot of a lot of
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: that audience didn't know reasonab But when we got when
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: we came to Blueprint, it wasn't that.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: That.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: It was like Friday. I felt like Friday was for me.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I had to be the young mixtape DJ coming up.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: I felt like Friday was for me.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: My daughter was sitting there, she didn't know everything until
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: lights went off in the Empire State. But Friday I
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: felt for me. Saturday, I was a DJing in Virginia.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Actually it was the nicest show, but the nice had
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: the cancer.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Because he was I took that bag.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: But say I watched Saturday on the stream, it felt
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: like they knew the words more Saturday, like it was
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: replying on Saturday.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: But Friday was for me.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: The moment, that for real moment. I mean we got
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: for real on Sunday as well, but I was like,
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: that was twenty three. That was the guy I saw
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: at Faith the Black putting his rafters up in MSG.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't see No. Forty five out there. That was crazy.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Here's why. That's why I say that, Here's why I
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: say that.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: It wasn't that fast.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: That was it was.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I said the Wizards of forty five because I've never
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I'm so used to him being like twenty three and
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: not missing anything, like he forgot words, and obviously his
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: thirty years of the album, I'm not used to him
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: not having his soundof point to one point, like the
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: sound man ran on stage and tried to take the
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: pack off his back and he like he thought, like
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: what the hell is this? And I'm like, Yo, this
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: is not happening at it Jay show, No way, I
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: didn't catch.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: That one.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Was sounding.
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: At one point, he just let the audience sing it
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: because he was trying to catch the track.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: That was Niggas in Power.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But even with that, he.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Didn't forget his word.
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: But even watching that, I was like, he's so great
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: because it's like not knowing that he can't hear, knowing
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: he's gonna be fighting the words, knowing that's gonna go.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Yo, y'all got this.
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: I'm sticking to the people, like the people had to
• 39:03
  Speaker 8: know that are in the ear Oh, we're trying to
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: fix this real quick.
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: I was like, he's just.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: So slick, because because I'm slick, you could tell Slick
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: didn't have his ear pieces.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: And I see j trying.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Trying to guide them, but I ain't say it was mine.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I say it was Jordan.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: But yeah, But like.
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: I said, that's just that's just one example, Lebron. There's
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: so many people right where if you just looked on
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: social media you would think, like it's fifty to fifty
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: might not get the same love. I don't know how
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: this is going to turn out. Then you show up
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: and it's twenty five thousand people outside wearing tims, and
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: it's like, not only that they have a deep reverence
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: because the average person is not going to be in
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: the comments. They got to do, they got their kids,
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: they got you know, work, you got tomy write in comments.
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: So That's why I said, like the vocal min you
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: gotta kind of be a little bit weird to sit
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: there and just write a negative comment on somebody's post
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: you don't know, you've never met in life.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: So but that gets amplified.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: So when you when you when you in that type
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: of environment where you really see the love, it's like,
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: okayy was crazy.
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: I felt like the people was like okay with figuring
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: it out. It was like we were in it together.
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: It was such a different feeling.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: That's why you got credit to New York.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Because I was nervous at first.
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: Somebody this goes down on here.
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: You also, it's an audience too. Everybody there is thirty
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: to sixty years old at trying to fight. And you
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, if it was a younger crowd, turn.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: That they even got in and they just wanted to
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: watch Jay, that's a lot.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: That a lot. I gotta give praise to the City
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: of New York and everybody that was in there, because
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: we've been to plenty of shows where that would have
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: been ugly. You sitting there for four hours, you're drinking,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: you're smoking, you don't know what's happening. It's people about
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: the bum rusher door. Potentially there's people that's bum rushing.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Like even where we was at this like five hundred
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: people standing in front of us, like no seat. I've
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: seen a dude. Before you walked in, there was people
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: sitting down right in that section. And when the people
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: when y'all came, they got up, but they didn't like
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: go to their seat. They just stood in front of us.
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: People were taking times letting people sit down because they've
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: been standing and they didn't have seats down, but they
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: were taking turn.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: The good thing when investment, everybody gets to seat. I
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: was gonna say back to the question you gets to see.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: The one thing I love about investmentst is like you said,
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: like sometimes people look at things online, right, and you
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: hear the chatter online and negativity online, but people forget
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: that they get paid for that.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: The more negativity they get, the more you know, viewership,
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: the more dollars they make. But when you go to
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: invest Fast, or you go to Essence Music Festival or
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: any anything where it's a lot of us there, you
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: don't feel none of that. It's just nothing but love
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: how you're doing your family. The same thing you get
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: ten fifteen thousand people.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: It's just love. And that's what I love about investments.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: It's just you get the love and you get that.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: The chatter online you don't see that, you see the
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: loved it.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: I think that's important too. Even like with your car show,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: and we've been to your car show a few times,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: they're gonna see DJ Envy, Like you're not hiding in
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: like the skybots. You're not like waiting backstage like we're
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: walking the Vandor marketplace where Well, I've actually sat down
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: in the audience next to people and they were like, Yo,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: don't talk to me right now, like I'm trying to learn,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Like I just wanted to say hot now, Like they
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: focused at that level. But you're gonna see it. Yeah,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: you're gonna see us, which makes it feel like I
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: know these guys. I want to support these guys on parties,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: guys the same way at the car show, you're like
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: you're walking around, you're talking to people, you're taking pictures
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: because that moment is what they came for. They want
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: to feel personal, they want to feel like they watch
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: you every day, They watch you every week, they learn
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: from you every week. Who are you in real life,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: and they keep seeing that happen over and over and
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: they come back because they're like, oh, this is really
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: a reunion, Like this really feels like a family.
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: You know. I was thinking about something we talk about
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: jay Z and I went to go on. I went
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: to Vegas this weekend and I saw Jeez and Mary J.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Blige.
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: And when you think about that forty five fifty four
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: demo being the highest spending demo in America, why don't
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: more people cater to those groups? Why is it always
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: about older youth.
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: I was just saying this the other day because there's
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: a lot of criticism once the jay Z thing of
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  Speaker 7: like Yo and Pete, this is if the audience is old,
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  Speaker 7: they're not valuable. Oh this is old heads. Those are
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  Speaker 7: old heads. But these are people with money. And like
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  Speaker 7: I said, I don't care if you're in a nursing home.
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  Speaker 7: If you coming to support me to spend money, that's
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  Speaker 7: a target demographic of people. Like that's relevant, Like who
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  Speaker 7: who decides the elections? Older people? Who has the most
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  Speaker 7: money in America? Older people? And even the word older
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  Speaker 7: is May fifty two years old. I just found that out,
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  Speaker 7: Like so it's like we're aging slower now because if
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  Speaker 7: you remember, like when we was kids, listen, did you.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: Watch Saying for the Sun. Do you know Grady was
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  Speaker 1: forty three on.
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  Speaker 7: The show, exactly exactly forty was fifty was like, you're
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  Speaker 7: grand that I'm forty eight, like Joe was like fifty five.
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  Speaker 7: Like it's like we got to stop this age, this agism. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: like it doesn't. It doesn't make any sense to me
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  Speaker 7: because it's like why are why are we like trying
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  Speaker 7: not to get older. That's the whole point of life
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: is to actually grow and to get older. They say
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  Speaker 7: the only thing worse than getting old is not getting old.
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  Speaker 1: Day said said, okay.
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  Speaker 5: That's whole.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Should have been there Friday that was not non set.
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  Speaker 2: We did an interview with Country Wayne. I think it's
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: it's a mixed signal, right, because when you want to grow,
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: people say you gotta skill young, you gotta skio young,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: you gotta skio young, and so you try to cap
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  Speaker 2: to that audience. But we sat down with Country Wayne,
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: right like, and Wayne was just saying, look, I'm not
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: my audience isn't on Instagram, they don't pay enough. My
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  Speaker 2: audience is on Facebook. And so if my audience is
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: there they older. If that's what the pay is, that that's
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: what I need to be at. But we are trying
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: to make memes and we're trying to make reels viral,
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: go viral, whereas this audience over here, they're not trying
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  Speaker 2: to do any of that. They just want to be
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: enter team and they're gonna pay for the service. So
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: we got to have that same mindset when it comes
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: to business. Yeah, it's cool to have stuff for young
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: people and to sk you young, right, because that's how
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: you grow.
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: If your business is not grown, is dying. But the
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: highest paying services is from this population. How do we
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: care to them as well?
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Vest Fast August seventh through the ninth. How can they
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: get tickets? If they need to get tickets, go.
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  Speaker 7: To invest fest dot com. This year we got Serena
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  Speaker 7: Williams as the headliner, crazy first female, first female headliner
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  Speaker 7: that we've ever had. We love to see everybody there.
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: August seventh through August ninth. We got some surprises that
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: we're working on.
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  Speaker 1: That's the first I thought.
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: You said, ray No, not headline headline and.
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: The head before we leave, because we let's go through
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: the headlines. Because we put up an impressive list of headlines.
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: We've had Steve Harvey and Tyler Perry, Robert Smith in
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: the year two. Then yet we can't ReadWrite history.
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: We had Diddy. Year three, year four, we had fifty cent.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: He said, we can't be right now, we.
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: Can't, we can't. It was a moment. That was a moment.
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: It was last year we had math.
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  Speaker 1: If it was out the moment that might have got
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: him jammed up.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Now we got to start loved us.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: He was, he was here, you were talking.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: About the best day, and it was like, that's what
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: did it.
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  Speaker 10: That's what people said, stuff kicked out, That's what they said.
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  Speaker 7: Last year, Magic John said this ship we got Serena.
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: So I just wanted to kind of go through that
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: because man, you're talking about black We've had like fifty
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: percent of the black billionaires in America in a five
• 46:48
  Speaker 7: year timeframe. That's pretty crazy. And it's like, this is
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: the highest levels of celebrity and we've done this. It's
• 46:55
  Speaker 7: kind of all right, one time you might get lucky,
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: two times you do it five years in a row,
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: like you know, it's a workable model here. So Serena
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: checked all the boxes, somebody that arguably you can say
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: she's the greatest athlete of all time. She's definitely the
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: greatest female athlete of alls. Twenty three Grand slams is crazy.
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: I think she's the greatest female and she might be
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: the greatest tennis player ever, not just female, but like
• 47:20
  Speaker 7: male and female tennis player ever.
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: But somebody.
• 47:22
  Speaker 7: She's kind of like Lebron because since she was ten
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: years old, she's been the chosen one and.
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: She lived up to that.
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: Very few child prodigies actually live up to the hype,
• 47:32
  Speaker 7: like she lived up to the hype and even surpassed it.
• 47:35
  Speaker 7: But now what she's doing as far as venture capital
• 47:37
  Speaker 7: is amazing, Like she's invested I think in sixteen unicorns
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: so far Serena Adventures, Like she's fifty percent of the
• 47:45
  Speaker 7: money that she that she employs into businesses are either
• 47:48
  Speaker 7: women or black and Latino owned businesses. So her business
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: acumen is going to take her much further than even
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: the sports arena took us. So she's kind of become
• 47:59
  Speaker 7: like a in two Games and just the iconic figure,
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: like you know Serena, Like it's just very few people
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: you could just say one one name, Yeah, Lebron Serena.
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: Like you say, Serena, you know who you're talking about.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: And the time, it can't be any better, right, Like
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: she just decides she's coming back in the same week
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: that we are. Now she's gonna be a headliner. So
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: she she did Wimbledon. Unfortunately, you know she has any issues.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Let's see, she doesn't invest fast. And maybe it's the
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: US Open, so we're looking forward to that.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: We'll get your tics.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: If you haven't got it, Rashan, try appreciate you for
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: joining us.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: Every day.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I waiting click your ass up.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club finished.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all done,