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- 0:58Speaker 2: Get into it all right, So now we're going to
- 1:00Speaker 2: go into investing. That's what that's what we You know,
- 1:03Speaker 2: people always tune into shots Market Monday's number one stocks
- 1:10Speaker 2: a whole vib Shout out to wall she Chaff of
- 1:12Speaker 2: bro shout out to everybody that we had on the
- 1:16Speaker 2: show to talk about investing. Shout out to Quentin Martin.
- 1:18Speaker 2: The first stock market show that we've ever done. That
- 1:21Speaker 2: was over year ago, so we talked about investing a lot, right,
- 1:24Speaker 2: But it's just like now we're in the time of
- 1:26Speaker 2: being socially conscious. We're in the time of actually you know,
- 1:30Speaker 2: and it does. Everybody's not socially conscious, but I'm just
- 1:32Speaker 2: saying as far as a lot of people are starting
- 1:34Speaker 2: to become socially conscious. So a lot of people grapple
- 1:37Speaker 2: because we do. We did a show last weeks shout
- 1:39Speaker 2: out the my song about you know the prison system ye,
- 1:42Speaker 2: and it's like, all right, you know what I mean,
- 1:43Speaker 2: Like I don't feel comfortable investing in being companies that
- 1:46Speaker 2: invested in prison or it's like now it's police brutality
- 1:49Speaker 2: and find out there's a whole financial play behind that.
- 1:51Speaker 3: I think. I think that was so opened the doors
- 1:53Speaker 3: because like a lot of people didn't even realize that.
- 1:54Speaker 3: And shout out to my song because I see him
- 1:56Speaker 3: on the field and he was in Kentucky with the
- 1:58Speaker 3: Breonna Taylor case and now he's in Minnesota with the
- 2:03Speaker 3: George Floyd case too, So shout out to my song,
- 2:04Speaker 3: who's doing incredible work.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Shout out to my song for sure. So all right,
- 2:10Speaker 2: one thing that we have not talked about so far
- 2:11Speaker 2: in the podcast is socially responsible investing. That's all right, Yes,
- 2:17Speaker 2: socially responsible investing. So this is an interesting conversation because
- 2:21Speaker 2: it's actually a really big thing and it's been around
- 2:23Speaker 2: for a very long period of time. But so there
- 2:26Speaker 2: are investors right that have social hang ups about different things,
- 2:32Speaker 2: whether it be about the environment, whether it be about tobacco,
- 2:36Speaker 2: whether it be about gambling, whether it be about war
- 2:40Speaker 2: or another one, weapons of mass destruction, prison companies that
- 2:46Speaker 2: benefit off of prison, health, health.
- 2:48Speaker 3: Care, anybody invested in tobacco, alcohol.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Women, a bunch of different things that people. So it's
- 2:55Speaker 2: like a lot of times just like you know, some
- 2:56Speaker 2: people and I'm not taking this out either way. Some
- 2:58Speaker 2: people's like, you know, I'm gonna invest and just get
- 3:00Speaker 2: my bread, get my money, and it is what it is.
- 3:03Speaker 2: And then some people was like, you know, I kind
- 3:05Speaker 2: of want to still invest make money. I believe in that,
- 3:09Speaker 2: but I still have some moral issues.
- 3:12Speaker 3: Ther moral compass is going on that I.
- 3:14Speaker 2: Don't necessarily want to invest in certain companies.
- 3:17Speaker 3: That's fair.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I'm not saying it's not so for that,
- 3:24Speaker 2: they're actually funds. There's actually funds now that I said that. Financially,
- 3:28Speaker 2: when you start to learn about more about everything, it's
- 3:30Speaker 2: something it's like ice cream. There's a different flavor for
- 3:32Speaker 2: every single person. So there's actually funds, ETFs and mutual
- 3:35Speaker 2: funds in place to four socially conscious investors.
- 3:41Speaker 3: Yeah, I had to put back the layers on this
- 3:42Speaker 3: because I was like, what you texted to me. I'm like,
- 3:45Speaker 3: I never heard of it. Let's do some research.
- 3:47Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. So you know, there's there's a few.
- 3:51Speaker 2: Like I said, So those are the different topics like environment, gambling, tobacco, alcohol, prison,
- 3:56Speaker 2: social justice, and religion. That's a whole dif conversations. We're
- 4:00Speaker 2: gonna talk about that, but so just to kind of
- 4:02Speaker 2: give you a few, there's esgu esgu Is an ETF,
- 4:08Speaker 2: a socially conscious ETF that does not invest in any
- 4:14Speaker 2: company that has anything to do with weapons, tobacco, jails,
- 4:21Speaker 2: even though they actually did have a private prison in
- 4:25Speaker 2: their ETF and then they found out and there was
- 4:27Speaker 2: a mistake and they kicked it off. So it's like
- 4:29Speaker 2: even that, it's like you know, you find out you
- 4:31Speaker 2: try to get the kosher hot dogs, police it was
- 4:35Speaker 2: made in a in a pig slaughtering house, Like it's
- 4:37Speaker 2: so crazy, but so yeah, but yeah, that's a ETF,
- 4:40Speaker 2: and that ETF has actually done pretty well, you know,
- 4:43Speaker 2: considering because a lot of a lot of times the
- 4:46Speaker 2: performance of these things aren't as high as other ones,
- 4:49Speaker 2: but that one has done pretty well. It's fifty two
- 4:52Speaker 2: week high is seventy five dollars, and it's fifty two
- 4:57Speaker 2: weeks low was forty dollars a month ago, so March
- 4:59Speaker 2: was forty dollars right now with sixty eight, so it's
- 5:01Speaker 2: it's it's up pretty nicely and in a two in
- 5:04Speaker 2: a two month timeframe. Another one is s s g A,
- 5:08Speaker 2: which is a women diversity ETF and like investing companies
- 5:12Speaker 2: that hire majority women or have women CEOs, it's like
- 5:15Speaker 2: it's focused around women. There's another one called c r
- 5:20Speaker 2: b N which is a low carbon environmental friendly ETF.
- 5:25Speaker 2: So there's there's a variety. Like you can just google
- 5:27Speaker 2: socially conscious funds and like kind of just play around
- 5:30Speaker 2: with it in different filters and you can see, like,
- 5:32Speaker 2: you know, what kind of fun you're looking for, you know,
- 5:34Speaker 2: with the situation.
- 5:35Speaker 3: It's interesting. It's interesting because I'm thinking to myself, like,
- 5:37Speaker 3: how many investors, right, are not willing to compromise their
- 5:40Speaker 3: values to make money? And when you when I think
- 5:43Speaker 3: of investors, I'm like, you know what, I think the
- 5:45Speaker 3: more the moral thing is like, they just want to
- 5:47Speaker 3: make money. Yeah, they don't put everything else. I think.
- 5:49Speaker 2: I think you know, people and myself included. You know,
- 5:52Speaker 2: I'm not preaching from the choir. We can conveniently get blind, right,
- 5:58Speaker 2: conveniently get blind. So it's like, you know what I'm saying,
- 6:00Speaker 2: Like you might see something. It's like it's not that bad.
- 6:05Speaker 3: It's like like if you were anti war, right, and
- 6:08Speaker 3: it was like, yeah, bone's at ninety seven dollars, right,
- 6:11Speaker 3: But I don't want to invest in any company that
- 6:13Speaker 3: has deals with any making machines or any type of
- 6:15Speaker 3: thing that could help in the development of weapons of
- 6:19Speaker 3: mass destruction or helping war. There goes that morale. It's like, wait,
- 6:22Speaker 3: well this is a good buy, right, this is a
- 6:24Speaker 3: good buy at ninety seven dollars. Is it worth it?
- 6:27Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Like, I think most people think,
- 6:29Speaker 3: let's just make money.
- 6:30Speaker 2: Oh, they just don't really think about it. You thinking
- 6:32Speaker 2: about it from that under standpoint, It's like, yeah, you
- 6:35Speaker 2: know Boeing has government contracts. Are you thinking that maybe
- 6:41Speaker 2: that government plane is sending a drone and killing an
- 6:44Speaker 2: innocent child in Syria? You're not really looking too far
- 6:47Speaker 2: into it. You could. It's available, but it's a lot,
- 6:52Speaker 2: it's a lot easier to turn the blind and just turnable.
- 6:56Speaker 2: This is what happens in a variety of different things. Yeah,
- 7:00Speaker 2: you don't you don't want to see certain things. Like
- 7:02Speaker 2: you you're walking down the alley, you see what's going on,
- 7:06Speaker 2: you turn your you turn around, and you walked the
- 7:07Speaker 2: out of.
- 7:08Speaker 3: The way a lot of times most of the time,
- 7:10Speaker 3: most of the time, I mean for your own safety
- 7:12Speaker 3: a lot of time.
- 7:12Speaker 2: And like I said, I'm not here to shame. We're
- 7:14Speaker 2: not here to shame anybody.
- 7:16Speaker 3: Nah.
- 7:17Speaker 2: But but I'm just saying, I'm just you just want
- 7:19Speaker 2: to provide some information for some people that may want
- 7:23Speaker 2: to take a higher level of morality in that in
- 7:29Speaker 2: that standpoint, and may want to take a higher level
- 7:32Speaker 2: of weeding out their investments. Just give them, Just give them.
- 7:36Speaker 2: That's the thing we just had to just provide information.
- 7:38Speaker 2: A lot of time people don't fully understand that. They
- 7:39Speaker 2: don't they don't they don't even know that it exist exactly.
- 7:43Speaker 3: So it's like a lot of people in this I
- 7:45Speaker 3: guess the quote unquote woke stage right. So it's like, yo,
- 7:48Speaker 3: if you're woke, let it be in all assets of
- 7:50Speaker 3: your life, right, not just in your individual things that
- 7:53Speaker 3: you're doing on day to day, but even in your investment.
- 7:54Speaker 3: And this is one of those things like like you said,
- 7:56Speaker 3: prior to this, I wasn't thinking about it. I had
- 7:59Speaker 3: no idea.
- 8:00Speaker 2: So and then that brings it to another conversation we
- 8:04Speaker 2: talked to John again. Shout to my son. Last week's
- 8:06Speaker 2: episode was about the prison system. We didn't fully go
- 8:09Speaker 2: into the finances of publicly traded companies, but so there's
- 8:14Speaker 2: prison stocks, like private prison companies that are traded on
- 8:20Speaker 2: the Stock Exchange. So a few of them are cor Civic,
- 8:24Speaker 2: which is c x W and g O Group which
- 8:27Speaker 2: is g E. Oh that's their that's their symbol.
- 8:30Speaker 3: The crazy thing about cor Civic and this is crazy
- 8:32Speaker 3: that you said that we don't even speak about this,
- 8:34Speaker 3: but dal Freeman shout out to Dala Feman. If you
- 8:36Speaker 3: don't know Dalla Freeman. Google him. I don't tell you
- 8:37Speaker 3: his background, but a very very successful man in the
- 8:41Speaker 3: world of technology. Uh. He called me. He said, y'all
- 8:45Speaker 3: loved that episode. Uh, the actual the CEO of Courcific
- 8:48Speaker 3: is my next door neighbor.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
- 8:50Speaker 3: He was like, Yo, it's a big business and I'm
- 8:52Speaker 3: glad y'all talked to me episode. Yep, loved it. Sent
- 8:55Speaker 3: me the message and that. I was like, wow, that's incredible.
- 8:59Speaker 3: He was like, yeah, it's a big business. It's a city. Literally.
- 9:01Speaker 3: You got to think of these prisons, these private business
- 9:03Speaker 3: as cities. They need everything that a city needs. And
- 9:06Speaker 3: when you look at it like that, it's like damn.
- 9:09Speaker 3: He's right. Yeah, and his next door neighbor is the
- 9:11Speaker 3: guy who is in charge of that.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Well, there you have it. So yeah, those are two
- 9:15Speaker 2: private prison companies. Now. The crazy thing about those stocks,
- 9:18Speaker 2: so it's been even on that episode, my song had
- 9:21Speaker 2: said that private prison stocks skyrocketed after Trump got elected.
- 9:24Speaker 2: That is true. Both of those companies are think one
- 9:26Speaker 2: up over one hundred percent in the year following Trump's election,
- 9:29Speaker 2: but they've actually been down for the last like three
- 9:33Speaker 2: year and four Like their five year chart is not
- 9:35Speaker 2: really impressive, which is a good thing. I mean, you know,
- 9:38Speaker 2: but just wanted to throw that out there. We have
- 9:41Speaker 2: to tell both sides of the story. So as an investment,
- 9:44Speaker 2: they haven't really they're not booming. They're not booming right now.
- 9:47Speaker 3: Which is good, which is good, which means that there's
- 9:49Speaker 3: less people going to prison.
- 9:51Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if there's less people going to prison.
- 9:53Speaker 2: But for whatever reason, the stock is just not doing well.
- 9:55Speaker 2: There could be a variety of different reasons why this
- 9:57Speaker 2: stock isn't doing well, but the stock is not really performed.
- 10:02Speaker 2: But what a lot of people don't fully understand is
- 10:04Speaker 2: that a lot of people are invested in especially cor Civic.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Up until last year, at the very least, a lot
- 10:11Speaker 2: of people are invested in Corsific without even knowing it
- 10:15Speaker 2: because through your four one K, through your IRA, through
- 10:19Speaker 2: your pension plan. So Vanguard and Blackrock were the two
- 10:23Speaker 2: biggest holders I think they still are of private prisons stocks.
- 10:30Speaker 2: Black Rock Vanguard two of the biggest mutual fund companies.
- 10:35Speaker 2: Everybody loves Vanguard because they have you know, It's what
- 10:37Speaker 2: I'm saying, it's a lot of It's a lot of
- 10:39Speaker 2: right and wrong in life. Right people love Vanguard because
- 10:42Speaker 2: it's like it's a no load fund and it's pretty
- 10:45Speaker 2: much free to invest, and it's it's cheap, and they're
- 10:48Speaker 2: the biggest hold of prison stocks. By the way, they
- 10:53Speaker 2: also have a lot of four one K accounts. Black
- 10:55Speaker 2: Rock has a lot of four one K accounts, right,
- 10:57Speaker 2: so cour Civic see XW was in a lot of
- 11:01Speaker 2: these probably still are, and a lot of these four
- 11:04Speaker 2: to one K make ups because when you invest in
- 11:06Speaker 2: a four one K, nobody knows what they're invested in.
- 11:07Speaker 2: The four one K you have probably three like four
- 11:12Speaker 2: one K is like a menu and they give you
- 11:13Speaker 2: like twenty different options of how to invest, right, twenty
- 11:15Speaker 2: different funds. Now within one fund, it's like one hundred
- 11:19Speaker 2: different stocks inside of a fund. So if you have
- 11:21Speaker 2: like three different funds, you have like three hundred different
- 11:24Speaker 2: stocks inside of your four one K that's you're invested in.
- 11:26Speaker 3: You doing research on all of them.
- 11:27Speaker 2: Now, I guarantee you nobody knows any of those companies.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Nobody knows any of those companies, right because you never acts.
- 11:35Speaker 2: It's not like just listed as soon as when you
- 11:37Speaker 2: they just tell you the name of the company. So
- 11:39Speaker 2: it'll be like Vanguard twenty twenty fund or Vanguard High
- 11:44Speaker 2: Interest Bond fund or Vanguard small Cap Value fund. Right,
- 11:51Speaker 2: that's the name of the fund. But inside of the
- 11:53Speaker 2: small cap value fund, it's about one hundred and forty
- 11:57Speaker 2: different stocks.
- 11:59Speaker 3: And that's when you get that big pamphlet that comes
- 12:01Speaker 3: to your house like that. Probably nobody ever goes through. Yeah,
- 12:04Speaker 3: and there's a bunch of these stocks, and you're like,
- 12:05Speaker 3: all right, well did I make money or not?
- 12:08Speaker 2: Pretty much? Pretty much?
- 12:09Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Nobody's individually looking into one
- 12:12Speaker 3: hundred and forty different stocks and then actually researching those
- 12:15Speaker 3: stocks to see if they align with their values and moralities.
- 12:18Speaker 3: This is not happening.
- 12:19Speaker 2: No, it's not. But you can't say that you didn't
- 12:23Speaker 2: know at least because we told you. So you know,
- 12:27Speaker 2: if you're interested in it, you can do some further research.
- 12:30Speaker 2: But so, just want to talk about the prison thing,
- 12:32Speaker 2: because we did speak about that last week, and.
- 12:33Speaker 3: It's some other things to know about these srs. They
- 12:37Speaker 3: tend to have a higher fee than regular funds, and
- 12:41Speaker 3: so I was like, what doesn't make sense. Why, Well,
- 12:43Speaker 3: the mutual fund has the person who's providing the fund
- 12:46Speaker 3: actually has to do more research, So there's more work
- 12:49Speaker 3: that the person has to do. Right, if they're gonna
- 12:51Speaker 3: do things that match your core values and your moralities,
- 12:54Speaker 3: it's like they have to find ethnical things that will
- 12:57Speaker 3: work for you. So there's a little bit more research.
- 13:00Speaker 3: Tend to be a little bit higher. And there's there's
- 13:02Speaker 3: a site that you can go if you're in social
- 13:05Speaker 3: responsibility investing. Social funds dot Com is the website, so
- 13:08Speaker 3: you can go research on yourself. So that that's one
- 13:10Speaker 3: thing that you should do. Obviously, do the research and
- 13:12Speaker 3: then know your values. A lot of people don't know
- 13:14Speaker 3: their own values, so like when they're trying to invest,
- 13:16Speaker 3: it's like, well, I believe there's know your own values
- 13:18Speaker 3: before you're going to go into this type of fun.
- 13:20Speaker 3: All right, so do the research. I just gave you
- 13:23Speaker 3: the website. And another thing is a lot of times
- 13:25Speaker 3: and we've said this website again, social funds dot com.
- 13:29Speaker 3: So you can go there on your own leisure and
- 13:31Speaker 3: do some research there. But one of the things that
- 13:33Speaker 3: it brought to my mind is like we talk about
- 13:36Speaker 3: diversifying when we're investing, right, but like this type of
- 13:39Speaker 3: fund doesn't It kind of doesn't allow you to do
- 13:41Speaker 3: that right, because if you're aligning everything with your values,
- 13:44Speaker 3: isn't everything kind of going to be the same if.
- 13:46Speaker 2: You no, No, you can invest in a variety of different
- 13:48Speaker 2: companies that don't that still align with your values, Like
- 13:52Speaker 2: you know what I'm say, It could be different industries.
- 13:54Speaker 2: Like it's just it's just hard, like you said, because
- 13:56Speaker 2: it's like you've really got to go through every single
- 13:58Speaker 2: fine because it's like, all right, you're invested in a
- 14:02Speaker 2: tech company, but it's this tech company providing software for
- 14:07Speaker 2: weapons of mass destruction. So now it's just so much
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- 17:01Speaker 2: Need intensive research that you have to do, which is
- 17:05Speaker 2: the fund manager's job. But you can still invest in
- 17:07Speaker 2: a variety like you can invest in tech. You can
- 17:10Speaker 2: invest in you know, farming, you can invest in financial
- 17:14Speaker 2: institutions like you can invest in different companies. It's just
- 17:17Speaker 2: that those different companies have to be in line with
- 17:20Speaker 2: what you feel comfortable with.
- 17:21Speaker 3: I would imagine that these funds are managed by very
- 17:25Speaker 3: very small companies. This feels like a niche thing that
- 17:27Speaker 3: like very small companies do.
- 17:29Speaker 2: No, Actually Vanguard has well right, right.
- 17:31Speaker 3: Right, you're right, you're right, Kanguard, that's a big one.
- 17:34Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, But so going to what you just
- 17:38Speaker 2: said as far as the niche, so there's different layers
- 17:42Speaker 2: of socially responsible fund as well. Like I said, your leision,
- 17:45Speaker 2: we just had to provide as much information as we
- 17:47Speaker 2: possibly can till every cause there's so many different types
- 17:49Speaker 2: of people in this world. So you got the socially
- 17:52Speaker 2: conscious people that don't want to invest in those things.
- 17:55Speaker 2: But religion is a huge thing in this world, and
- 17:58Speaker 2: now you have religious people who can't or do not
- 18:02Speaker 2: want to invest in certain things because of their religion.
- 18:05Speaker 2: So now you have funds for that. It's fun for everything.
- 18:09Speaker 2: So you have Christian funds like Guidestone is a Christian
- 18:14Speaker 2: fund and that's dedicated to invest in companies that have
- 18:19Speaker 2: core Christian values. Kind of a vague situation, but you
- 18:24Speaker 2: know that's what that's designed for. You can do some
- 18:26Speaker 2: research and kind of do you have AVE Maria, which
- 18:33Speaker 2: is a Catholic fund. There's a few Catholic funds, so
- 18:36Speaker 2: av Maria is Rising Dividend Fund. That's a that's one
- 18:40Speaker 2: of their their popular funds, and that's a Catholic fund.
- 18:44Speaker 2: So you know, Catholics, they're really big on like you know,
- 18:47Speaker 2: abortion and a couple other things. That's like real sticklers
- 18:51Speaker 2: for the Catholic Church. So they only invest in companies
- 18:54Speaker 2: that align with Catholic values. And then so just coming
- 19:00Speaker 2: off the month of Ramadan, we have a large listenership
- 19:04Speaker 2: all over the world and that includes America, which is
- 19:08Speaker 2: their huge Muslim population. There's a huge Muslim population in Africa,
- 19:13Speaker 2: huge Muslim population in Europe of course the Middle East.
- 19:17Speaker 2: So we have to say Issalam malakam to all of
- 19:19Speaker 2: the Muslims that tune in. And one thing about Islam
- 19:24Speaker 2: is that that's actually you know, part of the religion
- 19:29Speaker 2: is sharia law. Sharia law, so people have a misunderstanding
- 19:33Speaker 2: a lot of times of what sharia law is. We're
- 19:35Speaker 2: not going to go into a full but part of
- 19:37Speaker 2: it is investing, like there's actually guidelines so it's not
- 19:40Speaker 2: really up for like vague interpretation like if you really
- 19:45Speaker 2: are a hard liner in the religion, there's financial guidelines
- 19:49Speaker 2: of how you can invest. So like interest is outlawed
- 19:53Speaker 2: in Muslim countries. So Shatnez our good friends Egypt, and
- 19:58Speaker 2: I was over house yesterday and she was telling me
- 20:00Speaker 2: that there's no there's no mortgages in Egypt. No mortgages
- 20:04Speaker 2: in Egypt. You just buy the land. So interests, interest
- 20:08Speaker 2: is outlaw. You're not allowed to charge anybody interest. That's
- 20:11Speaker 2: one thing, right. Of course, if you're familiar with the religion,
- 20:14Speaker 2: you know that. You know alcohol is outlawed. A variety
- 20:19Speaker 2: of different factor is gambling. There's no gambling. Gambling is outlawed.
- 20:23Speaker 2: So in Islam you have halal and haram. Haram is forbidden,
- 20:30Speaker 2: Halau is allowable. That's like deemed okay, so now you.
- 20:35Speaker 3: Have to actually look that up. That was crazy on
- 20:38Speaker 3: the Jatronic album.
- 20:39Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so now you have you have halal funds.
- 20:43Speaker 2: One of the most popular funds is called a man
- 20:46Speaker 2: of fund. So the man of fund is a mutual
- 20:48Speaker 2: fund based around Sharia law which is halal and allows
- 20:53Speaker 2: Muslims that if you want to, if you want to
- 20:55Speaker 2: follow those guidelines, that you can actually invest in and
- 21:00Speaker 2: the Hamana Fund only invest in allow companies, meaning companies
- 21:05Speaker 2: that don't partake in gambling, companies that don't partake and
- 21:10Speaker 2: interest interest bearing accounts companies that don't partake in alcohol,
- 21:15Speaker 2: a variety of other things as well. So that's something
- 21:19Speaker 2: that is a big play as well, because like I said,
- 21:21Speaker 2: I mean, no matter what religion you follow, if you're Jewish,
- 21:25Speaker 2: they have culture funds as well. It's the same thing
- 21:27Speaker 2: kulshure and alal kind of the same thing as far
- 21:30Speaker 2: as like the meaning of it, where like Jewish people
- 21:34Speaker 2: have like if you're a strict hardline jew you are
- 21:38Speaker 2: only really supposed to indulge in kulshure. But culture is
- 21:41Speaker 2: more than just food.
- 21:43Speaker 3: Right, I think that that's a crazy misconception that people
- 21:46Speaker 3: only think it's a food.
- 21:46Speaker 2: Then the same thing with allow, like you see to
- 21:48Speaker 2: allow guys or to allow truck. So people when they
- 21:50Speaker 2: they think about allow, especially like if you live in
- 21:52Speaker 2: New York City or like, like you're pretty popular, it's
- 21:54Speaker 2: pretty popular allow food. And that is a certain way
- 21:58Speaker 2: where the food the animals you know, slaughtered and you
- 22:02Speaker 2: say a prayer and certain things, and the same thing
- 22:04Speaker 2: with culture. But that's only part of it. So like
- 22:06Speaker 2: with the culture, that's only part of it, Like you know,
- 22:09Speaker 2: as far as like the same kind of idea, and
- 22:13Speaker 2: like I said, that's that's true with a variety of
- 22:15Speaker 2: different religions where it's like, you know, depending on what
- 22:18Speaker 2: religion you subscribe to, that might you know, have a
- 22:24Speaker 2: play in how you choose to invest. So those are
- 22:28Speaker 2: all things to think about as well.
- 22:29Speaker 3: I know they listening like Yo, damn Shitty's sounds like
- 22:31Speaker 3: a history professor. This dude literally studies religion like no joke.
- 22:35Speaker 3: And anybody that knows has ever had a conversation with him,
- 22:38Speaker 3: they know, like he loves talking about religion. Shout out
- 22:41Speaker 3: the val who always brings it up. She always talks
- 22:44Speaker 3: about how you've taught us so much about the world.
- 22:46Speaker 3: But yeah, I know this is one of your sweet points.
- 22:47Speaker 2: So history has been my favorite subject since I was
- 22:49Speaker 2: a little kid.
- 22:50Speaker 3: Definitely.
- 22:50Speaker 2: I took a history of religion class when I was
- 22:53Speaker 2: in college and I never study, never got one broken,
- 22:55Speaker 2: got an A plus because I just already knew so
- 22:57Speaker 2: much about religion, all religions. I'm just fascinated by you know,
- 23:01Speaker 2: I think it's interesting to learn about Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, seek.
- 23:08Speaker 2: I have friends that are all different religions, and you know,
- 23:12Speaker 2: for me personally, I don't think that there's any one
- 23:16Speaker 2: religion that is reigned supreme. It's whatever you know, you
- 23:20Speaker 2: feel comfortable with. I'm not here to judge, but I
- 23:23Speaker 2: just you know, I always found religion interesting because I
- 23:26Speaker 2: realized how how touchy it is, and it's like people
- 23:29Speaker 2: die over their religion, and people will kill you over
- 23:31Speaker 2: their religion, and it's like you can't play around. Why
- 23:33Speaker 2: we don't really talk about religion too.
- 23:34Speaker 3: Much, and some people don't want to be separated from.
- 23:36Speaker 2: You can't play around with religion. So it's like it's interesting.
- 23:40Speaker 2: It's interesting to me, it's fascinating. So I try to
- 23:43Speaker 2: learn as much about religion as I possibly can because
- 23:45Speaker 2: I feel like a lot of times, most of the time,
- 23:47Speaker 2: we just we follow whatever religion we're born into. And
- 23:50Speaker 2: that's not really a belief system. That's more superstition. When
- 23:53Speaker 2: you when you believe in something that you don't fully understand,
- 23:55Speaker 2: is superstition.
- 23:56Speaker 3: You've been You've been bred to believe that.
- 23:58Speaker 2: Stevie Wonder said that, So now when you have a
- 24:01Speaker 2: full understanding of things. Not only does it open your
- 24:04Speaker 2: perspective and make you more open to the world, but
- 24:07Speaker 2: at least even in the thing that you do fully
- 24:09Speaker 2: believe in, you can actually believe in it as opposed
- 24:12Speaker 2: to just doing it because everybody in your family does
- 24:16Speaker 2: it and you feel like you're going to be cursed
- 24:17Speaker 2: if you don't do it.
- 24:18Speaker 3: You've been you've stunned research on your own, You've allowed
- 24:22Speaker 3: yourself to critically think, You've allowed yourself to analyze, and like,
- 24:25Speaker 3: that's the goal in life, right, allow yourself and allow
- 24:28Speaker 3: others to freely think and freely choose. You know what
- 24:31Speaker 3: I'm saying. I think that is as an educator, like,
- 24:34Speaker 3: that's the number one thing I'm looking for. Can I
- 24:36Speaker 3: allow these students to critically think for themselves? And we
- 24:39Speaker 3: should have that same mindset when it comes to our
- 24:41Speaker 3: family and our children.
- 24:42Speaker 2: That's a fact. So the last thing with the stocks,
- 24:45Speaker 2: this is pretty disturbing and it's all a financial place.
- 24:49Speaker 2: So now people might want to invest in black own company.
- 24:52Speaker 3: It's like black, who are there?
- 24:54Speaker 2: Invest in Black? But frombing investing standpoint, it's like, what
- 24:59Speaker 2: if I want to invest money in the stock market,
- 25:01Speaker 2: but I want to invest in black owned companies.
- 25:03Speaker 3: A lot of people want to do that, right, we
- 25:05Speaker 3: we buy black, shout out to them, Yeah, shout out
- 25:07Speaker 3: to me by black those my people, good good people.
- 25:10Speaker 2: So all right, it's like a black owned fund, I
- 25:14Speaker 2: couldn't find any, like a black ETF or a black
- 25:17Speaker 2: mutual fund that only has black companies. Couldn't find anything.
- 25:20Speaker 3: Yeah, and maybe there are someome I couldn't find any either,
- 25:23Speaker 3: but maybe there are some.
- 25:24Speaker 2: Well. I think the reason why there are none that
- 25:26Speaker 2: I could find is that out of four thousand stocks
- 25:30Speaker 2: on the New York Stock Exchange, twelve are black companies. Twelve.
- 25:35Speaker 2: That is so disturbing that that's a whole different conversation.
- 25:38Speaker 2: You're talking about economic and that's what people don't fully understand.
- 25:41Speaker 2: It's like black people are so far behind. It's just
- 25:45Speaker 2: it's almost it's amazing. It's like it's like running a
- 25:48Speaker 2: marathon and you like twenty three miles in and you
- 25:53Speaker 2: just started the race, and somebody else is twenty three
- 25:55Speaker 2: miles in.
- 25:56Speaker 3: So it's like we're on a treadmill. There's a marathon
- 25:59Speaker 3: going on. We don't treadmill.
- 26:00Speaker 2: That's not even one percent. That's less than one percent.
- 26:03Speaker 2: Twelve twelve out of four thousand companies are publicly traded.
- 26:08Speaker 2: So you were talking about economic empowerment, and it's like
- 26:12Speaker 2: a lot of times it's on a broad on a
- 26:14Speaker 2: small scale when you start looking at it from a
- 26:16Speaker 2: large scale as far as like companies and billions of
- 26:19Speaker 2: dollars and things of that nature, and like publicly traded companies,
- 26:22Speaker 2: there's twelve out of four thousand.
- 26:25Speaker 3: Yeah, like diversity, I mean, it's crazy. And during the research,
- 26:31Speaker 3: I actually, you know, I was proud to find out
- 26:33Speaker 3: that I'm actually invested in one be well, not invested,
- 26:35Speaker 3: but I do business with one at least, And I
- 26:37Speaker 3: was I'm looking at the other ones. I'm like, I
- 26:39Speaker 3: don't even know these. I don't even know these, So
- 26:41Speaker 3: you want to run down field?
- 26:42Speaker 2: Yeah, I got four that I people might know. Citizens
- 26:45Speaker 2: with their symbol is c z b ES.
- 26:50Speaker 3: That's what I actually have my mortgage through. So not
- 26:53Speaker 3: that I'm invested in it, but we do business together.
- 26:55Speaker 2: Yeah. Citizens is a black owned bank.
- 26:57Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 26:58Speaker 2: For one, like the number one, and that is formally
- 27:04Speaker 2: used to be Urban one, which is a radio No,
- 27:07Speaker 2: it's Urban one. For to one is Urban one and
- 27:10Speaker 2: it used to be Radio one. It's a radio syndicate
- 27:13Speaker 2: No r LJ, which is a lodging lodging company owned
- 27:19Speaker 2: by Robert Johnson, former owner of BT, former owner of
- 27:23Speaker 2: the Bobcats.
- 27:26Speaker 3: First billionaires, black billionaire, Yeah, I think so.
- 27:32Speaker 2: And then Carver Bank another black owned thing. There's a
- 27:35Speaker 2: few black owned banks, Yeah, Carver Bank.
- 27:37Speaker 3: Which is encouraging that they have. We have black owned
- 27:41Speaker 3: banks that are being publicly traded.
- 27:42Speaker 2: That's important. You want to list a few others.
- 27:45Speaker 3: Well, we have the same one so.
- 27:47Speaker 2: But so yeah, so but the so. Not only is
- 27:50Speaker 2: this discouraging as there's only twelve, even more so discouraging
- 27:54Speaker 2: than that. It's like you look at these charts, looked
- 27:55Speaker 2: at all of their charts. None of them have good charts,
- 27:58Speaker 2: none of them. None of them you look at Ian's
- 28:01Speaker 2: technical analysis would be buyas as far as if you
- 28:04Speaker 2: want to make money, they've all been. They haven't. They don't.
- 28:07Speaker 2: They're not doing well. As far as on the stock,
- 28:09Speaker 2: the stock has not done well for five years. Are
- 28:12Speaker 2: looking at a five year chart and it's not good.
- 28:14Speaker 3: And it's going to be tough to find that a
- 28:16Speaker 3: lot of these companies have a ten year chart or
- 28:18Speaker 3: a twentieth even sometimes it goes back to the history
- 28:20Speaker 3: thirty year chart. A lot of these companies that doesn't exist.
- 28:25Speaker 3: It just doesn't exist.
- 28:26Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even know what to say about that.
- 28:27Speaker 2: That's just that's something just to like as far as
- 28:30Speaker 2: working forward to something.
- 28:32Speaker 3: But that's I mean, a lot of that has to
- 28:33Speaker 3: do with a lot of systematic things that were put
- 28:35Speaker 3: in place so that it couldn't exist. We won't want
- 28:37Speaker 3: to ignore that fact, right, So having our own private
- 28:40Speaker 3: own company, or even having a black owned bank systematically
- 28:43Speaker 3: in America for years, that wasn't even a possibility. So
- 28:46Speaker 3: there are reasons why we don't have a long history
- 28:48Speaker 3: of it. So let's not ignore that fact. But like
- 28:50Speaker 3: I said, when we go back to the history of
- 28:52Speaker 3: some of these companies that we look at, we do
- 28:53Speaker 3: look at the ten year chart, we do look at
- 28:55Speaker 3: twenty year or the history of the company's chart, and
- 28:57Speaker 3: that's just not available right now for these companies.
- 29:00Speaker 2: Yeah, so you know that's some information if you're interested
- 29:03Speaker 2: in socially responsive funds, religious funds, black owned companies, you know,
- 29:09Speaker 2: just a different different take on investing. Because we talked
- 29:11Speaker 2: about investing a lot, so we just want to just
- 29:13Speaker 2: give people a different a different take on it, and
- 29:16Speaker 2: you can kind of do whatever you want with the information,
- 29:18Speaker 2: but you know, hopefully that that that shines some light
- 29:22Speaker 2: good and bad, good and bad, because everything's not going
- 29:24Speaker 2: to be a good story sometimes, you know, it's just
- 29:27Speaker 2: the news is just that we have to just report
- 29:29Speaker 2: what it is. And it's not always it's not always encouraging,
- 29:33Speaker 2: but sometimes you need stuff that's not encouraging to encourage you.
- 29:38Speaker 2: So hopefully some of the information, especially with the black
- 29:40Speaker 2: owned publicly traded company, hopefully somebody listening to this and
- 29:46Speaker 2: make it a goal and have it and have their
- 29:48Speaker 2: company be the stock that everybody wants to invest in,
- 29:51Speaker 2: not just a token company that's on the stock exchanged
- 29:54Speaker 2: that nobody's invested in, that is just going nowhere. We
- 29:57Speaker 2: not only my goal is to have a publicly trade company.
- 30:00Speaker 2: My goal is to be bigger than Amazon, bigger and
- 30:03Speaker 2: Apple biggin in Google.
- 30:04Speaker 3: Hey, we need that type aspiration in our community. Why
- 30:06Speaker 3: we need it? Why not?
- 30:07Speaker 2: Somebody gotta do it?
- 30:08Speaker 3: Yeah, we make these We make a lot of those
- 30:10Speaker 3: companies what they are, so we can make our own.
- 30:13Speaker 2: That's a fact.
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