Latest / Earn Your Leisure / The Hidden Truth About Hustle Culture Why It's a Trap for Black Entrepreneurs!

Transcript

The Hidden Truth About Hustle Culture Why It's a Trap for Black Entrepreneurs! · Earn Your Leisure

0:00
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this hustle culture. So I saw a
0:03
Speaker 1: clip on Instagram. I thought was interested, let's play this clip.
0:05
Speaker 2: Please, hustle culture and cruel optimism. It leads to a
0:09
Speaker 2: lot of crazy things for black folks, like exhaustion.
0:11
Speaker 3: Here's an article from the Time.
0:13
Speaker 2: It says that the hustle is an idea, a discourse,
0:16
Speaker 2: and a survival strategy, often glorified as economic opportunity. It
0:20
Speaker 2: is an ode to a type of capitalism that cannot
0:24
Speaker 2: secure the futures.
0:25
Speaker 3: Of anyone but the wealthiest.
0:27
Speaker 2: But it's popularity lies and now hustling can feel like
0:30
Speaker 2: an equal opportunity struggle.
0:33
Speaker 3: Okay.
0:34
Speaker 1: In that clip, and shout out to that brother Charlotte,
0:37
Speaker 1: he does a lot of like political different takes, so
0:43
Speaker 1: he pretty much was saying that, you know what I've
0:46
Speaker 1: been hearing a lot as far as on Instagram social media,
0:49
Speaker 1: that the hustle culture is a trap to keep people unhappy.
0:58
Speaker 1: You're never really gonna really reach the level of wealth
1:01
Speaker 1: that you know, my times out of ten that you're
1:03
Speaker 1: really going. So it's just a treadmill that we've brought
1:06
Speaker 1: into to kind of feel like, you know, we're running
1:10
Speaker 1: a race to know where type thing and yeah, you know,
1:14
Speaker 1: the traps of capitalism and it's really the only design
1:17
Speaker 1: for the top one percent to get wealthy and all
1:20
Speaker 1: of that.
1:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I.
1:23
Speaker 1: Saw that, and like I said, I saw other people
1:25
Speaker 1: kind of like you know, I've been seeing this a
1:26
Speaker 1: lot that theory.
1:30
Speaker 3: It triggered you.
1:33
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say, huh.
1:38
Speaker 3: We get we gonna get through it.
1:39
Speaker 1: We're gonna get through it at that point, I wouldn't
1:44
Speaker 1: say that it triggered me, but it was something that
1:48
Speaker 1: I think was worth talking about from a different perspective
1:52
Speaker 1: stoicism and the answer, I love it for sure, for sure.
1:55
Speaker 1: So I have I have some I have some pointed
1:58
Speaker 1: opinions on that.
1:59
Speaker 3: But do you have opinions of course.
2:07
Speaker 1: On the positive side, let's sandwich the situation. On the
2:10
Speaker 1: positive side. Well, it's like the negative First, I understand
2:14
Speaker 1: what they're saying by the connotation that you need balance,
2:18
Speaker 1: you do need rest, you do have to make time
2:22
Speaker 1: for family and friends. But in every society it takes
2:26
Speaker 1: capital to make reality come true.
2:30
Speaker 3: I think one of.
2:31
Speaker 1: The biggest things that is I talked about is like
2:33
Speaker 1: you have to put individual hustle into a system or
2:37
Speaker 1: business that allows you to scale. Now, if I'm on
2:39
Speaker 1: Canal Street selling fake Ferragamo bags, probably not the best business.
2:43
Speaker 1: But the idea that you can just like lay on
2:45
Speaker 1: the beach, everything's automated, click funnel funnel hack, growth hack
2:51
Speaker 1: your way to it does not work. How many people
2:54
Speaker 1: have you met at investvest Robert Smith, Barack Obama who
3:00
Speaker 1: should have been there?
3:00
Speaker 3: Right?
3:01
Speaker 1: None of these people are talking about growth tacking. They're
3:03
Speaker 1: doing the work every day. Tyler Perry fifty cent. Yes,
3:07
Speaker 1: you have systems, you have teams. But I think the
3:11
Speaker 1: bigger issue, I think a lot of people are giving
3:13
Speaker 1: up on the American dream and finding out that it
3:15
Speaker 1: is an illusion in a nightmare. But the thing I
3:17
Speaker 1: was talking about Barber about yesterday, man, the cost of
3:21
Speaker 1: living is going up so much. Like even for everyone
3:23
Speaker 1: who Matt posts this, if you'll wait on the rate decrease,
3:27
Speaker 1: well you finally got the rate decrease, But the five
3:29
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars house you not want it is now
3:31
Speaker 1: seven ninety five, so you're paying the same thing. So
3:33
Speaker 1: if you don't hustle in this environment that you're in,
3:38
Speaker 1: you're going to be on the wrong side of history
3:40
Speaker 1: and you're financially not going to be in a good space,
3:41
Speaker 1: and it's going to lead to a lot of depression.
3:44
Speaker 1: But but what do you I know this is near
3:45
Speaker 1: and did of your heart? What do you think?
3:49
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think you know.
3:53
Speaker 1: It's it's an interesting conversation because looking at it like,
3:57
Speaker 1: all right, you know, this hustle thing is killing us
4:01
Speaker 1: and it's counter productive and we wasn't meant to, you know,
4:04
Speaker 1: live life like that. But I think they're not really
4:08
Speaker 1: looking at it from a hustler's perspective. Like for me,
4:13
Speaker 1: some people don't have an option. There is no really
4:15
Speaker 1: no other option. You have to hustle that that's the
4:20
Speaker 1: job requirement. So it's like, all right, when I started
4:23
Speaker 1: working as a financial advisor, I didn't work for a
4:27
Speaker 1: Wall Street firm. Work for an insurance company. So if
4:29
Speaker 1: you're familiar with the difference Wall Street firms, you get
4:32
Speaker 1: paid salary. From my situation, I got paid a commission.
4:36
Speaker 1: That's how you make money, what you know, So it
4:41
Speaker 1: was no option of not hustling. You don't have an
4:46
Speaker 1: option not to hustle, like you got to hustle like
4:49
Speaker 1: I never had, like a job where I'm getting a
4:51
Speaker 1: salary and I can just work nine o'clock till five
4:55
Speaker 1: o'clock and then leave and then go home. We had
4:59
Speaker 1: to hustle starting what we started here early Aleisia, you
5:03
Speaker 1: had the hustle, like you gotta do things like what
5:05
Speaker 1: I mean, like that becomes a habit and that becomes
5:08
Speaker 1: ingrained in you. And that's something that I think is
5:10
Speaker 1: actually something that people don't fully appreciate. That's part of
5:14
Speaker 1: the process, more so than even having the money or
5:18
Speaker 1: having the freedom, Like I think that this dignity and
5:22
Speaker 1: actually figure it's like it's like figuring out a math
5:24
Speaker 1: problem puzzle. It's like a real you gotta go out.
5:27
Speaker 1: It's no blueprint to this. There was no blueprint. When
5:30
Speaker 1: I was a financial advisor, it was no blueprint. I
5:32
Speaker 1: had to literally like I was all over. I had
5:34
Speaker 1: to go to different neighborhoods. I had to go to churches,
5:37
Speaker 1: I had to go to sororities. I was writing insurance
5:40
Speaker 1: policies inside the project. I would go to the projects.
5:42
Speaker 1: I would go anywhere because at the end of the day,
5:44
Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce ever trying to figure it out.
5:46
Speaker 3: I didn't know.
5:47
Speaker 1: And if I don't do it, then I'm I'm not
5:50
Speaker 1: going to be successful. That wasn't an option. So I
5:52
Speaker 1: had to kind of figure it out to be successful.
5:54
Speaker 1: So as far as the hustle, I love the hustle.
5:57
Speaker 1: So I'm always I'm always like looking at a little
6:00
Speaker 1: different because I'm like, all right, you saying that that's
6:04
Speaker 1: not what we meant to do, and it's a trap
6:06
Speaker 1: and all of this.
6:06
Speaker 3: Well, what's the alternative to just have a regular job.
6:10
Speaker 1: Well that's a trap, right, you better you just now
6:14
Speaker 1: you're making somebody else rich, you work, you expanding somebody
6:18
Speaker 1: else's dream. Right, You're never going to have enough money
6:21
Speaker 1: to ever have any level of financial security at all.
6:24
Speaker 1: So which trap would you prefer? At least the trap?
6:28
Speaker 1: One trap you can actually at the end of the day,
6:31
Speaker 1: have some level of control of your of your own self,
6:34
Speaker 1: your own financial freedom, your own if it works out.
6:38
Speaker 1: So I just I just don't agree with that. I
6:41
Speaker 1: don't I don't buy into that because I feel like
6:44
Speaker 1: it's it's not like we're doing this because we just
6:50
Speaker 1: want to get extremely wealthy.
6:52
Speaker 3: That's part of it.
6:53
Speaker 1: But another part of it is that I did not
6:55
Speaker 1: want to work a job like I would have rather
6:59
Speaker 1: I'm not working at job I'm not working a job,
7:02
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. And that's the point.
7:03
Speaker 1: And that's okay too. It's like everybody's so judgmental. It's
7:06
Speaker 1: like I shouldn't sharp said, don't judge me. I'm not
7:08
Speaker 1: gonna judge you. I'm not gonna judge you if you
7:11
Speaker 1: feel satisfied working a job. That's where I come from.
7:14
Speaker 1: That's you know what I'm saying. That's the environment. We
7:16
Speaker 1: come from, a blue class working environment. I understand that,
7:20
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying. But I never wanted
7:24
Speaker 1: to work a job ever. That was never in my
7:26
Speaker 1: in my trajectory in life. So if you don't want
7:30
Speaker 1: to work a job, you got you gotta hustle. You
7:32
Speaker 1: gotta figure shit out, like you know what I'm saying.
7:34
Speaker 1: You can't just expect to just check to just fall
7:37
Speaker 1: into your lap. So and at the end of the day,
7:40
Speaker 1: what are we here for? Like you here you on
7:42
Speaker 1: earth to do shit. You're not on earth to just
7:47
Speaker 1: roam the planes and just harvest grass. I mean some
7:52
Speaker 1: people are, but vast majority of us we on earth
7:55
Speaker 1: to do shit. Commerce, hustling. We're doing this. We're trying to,
7:59
Speaker 1: you know better, our situ. We're trying to move up
8:01
Speaker 1: to scale. It's like a game. Like to me, like
8:03
Speaker 1: that shit is like an adrenaline rush, So I don't
8:06
Speaker 1: necessarily look at it like, oh, it's a trap. For
8:09
Speaker 1: every life is a trap. It's one big video game.
8:12
Speaker 1: Can we who go make it to the last level?
8:13
Speaker 3: That's it.
8:14
Speaker 1: You gotta figure out cheat coode to it. It's like,
8:17
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. It's like Mario Brothers. Who's
8:18
Speaker 1: gonna make it to the last level. Some of us
8:20
Speaker 1: gonna make it to the first level, some of us
8:22
Speaker 1: gonna make it minut some of us are actually gonna
8:24
Speaker 1: make it to the last level.
8:25
Speaker 3: And beat the game. But even if you don't beat
8:27
Speaker 3: the game, hey, it's been a hell of a ride.
8:30
Speaker 1: Enjoying a lot of times going after it is what
8:33
Speaker 1: makes it fun. Like and for those of you who'll
8:35
Speaker 1: be like, hey, I want to just walk to beach.
8:38
Speaker 1: As a person who is like taking three months off
8:41
Speaker 1: of what people want to tell you, you be bored out
8:43
Speaker 1: of your mind.
8:44
Speaker 3: After thirty days, you think that that's piece. You're gonna
8:47
Speaker 3: be bored.
8:47
Speaker 1: Your friends aren't gonna be able to do anything with
8:49
Speaker 1: you, your significant other one, your kids still have school, so
8:52
Speaker 1: you're gonna sit around and do nothing all day. Now
8:54
Speaker 1: you can, and that's the international arbitrarge. So make money
8:57
Speaker 1: in the States and go to other countries and have
9:00
Speaker 1: more freedom. But even then you still have to find
9:03
Speaker 1: a deeper purpose for what you want to do. And
9:05
Speaker 1: this goes back to the previous conversation of having ambition.
9:09
Speaker 1: But on a systemic issue, hustle culture isn't needed because
9:14
Speaker 1: the American economy is not as strong as it once was,
9:17
Speaker 1: and so many jobs cannot be provided like how it
9:20
Speaker 1: used to be. Like I remember when I started being
9:22
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur in three to four, a lot of people
9:25
Speaker 1: made fun not laughing out because the job security is
9:28
Speaker 1: not there. And even if you work in corporate you
9:30
Speaker 1: still have to hustle your ass off and be productive
9:33
Speaker 1: and know how to work that skill set of knowing
9:37
Speaker 1: who to be connected to, who endorses you. There's no
9:41
Speaker 1: way that you can escape it. That's why, even like
9:43
Speaker 1: last week when we did the levels of wealth we
9:45
Speaker 1: got people, You guys are out of touch once again.
9:49
Speaker 3: I've been broke as hell before.
9:51
Speaker 1: I've had the fortune of making two or three dollars
9:54
Speaker 1: in a year I prefer making two or three dollars
9:57
Speaker 1: in a year to be honest.
9:59
Speaker 3: But if these levels.
10:00
Speaker 1: Of wealth are not true, that just got paid sixty
10:03
Speaker 1: million guaranteed and never won a title. Brady's getting three
10:07
Speaker 1: point fifty to sit in the broadcasting boost to predict
10:10
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. Like if these and this is
10:12
Speaker 1: the reason why people gate keep information and a lot
10:16
Speaker 1: of people who are rich and wealthy are shutting the
10:17
Speaker 1: fuck up and not talking. Y'all say y'all want the truth,
10:21
Speaker 1: then get it, and now all of a sudden you
10:22
Speaker 1: hate it.
10:23
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll be quiet.
10:24
Speaker 1: And I didn't understand that some of the selective outrage
10:27
Speaker 1: with it. It's like we just was commentating on that list.
10:30
Speaker 1: We didn't necessarily even agree what ever make that list.
10:33
Speaker 1: But the thing about it is that you can't change
10:35
Speaker 1: it to make it convenient.
10:36
Speaker 3: To your situation. This is just the facts.
10:39
Speaker 1: Like when you start talking my money, it's like, well,
10:43
Speaker 1: then you saying ninety five percent of America is broken,
10:45
Speaker 1: that's a fact. That's the fact that most ninety five
10:48
Speaker 1: percent is that's a fact. What you want me to lie,
10:52
Speaker 1: we can lie to you and say no, because bro,
10:56
Speaker 1: I remember when I first made one hundred thousand dollars.
10:59
Speaker 3: And it wasn't no life changing to your thoughts.
11:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was better than probably eighty percent of America.
11:07
Speaker 1: So it's like no, I mean, or we're just not
11:10
Speaker 1: going to talk. We just we could just not talk
11:12
Speaker 1: about it at all. But when you're like, oh, that's
11:14
Speaker 1: that's saying that most of America is broke.
11:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, most of America's broke.
11:17
Speaker 1: The country's broke, so therefore most of the citizens are
11:21
Speaker 1: I mean, what you want, what you want that you
11:24
Speaker 1: want the truth for you or you want some smoke
11:26
Speaker 1: screen bullshit, like everybody not gonna make it. That's the
11:30
Speaker 1: harsh reality of life. Everybody's not gonna make it. H
11:34
Speaker 1: I mean, and people that it's like, yo, this hustle
11:37
Speaker 1: mentality is is is bad. They tell you that to
11:40
Speaker 1: make sure that you stay a worker, because what's the alternative.
11:43
Speaker 1: This is America. It ain't nowhere where you can just
11:46
Speaker 1: live off the land. So you either are an entrepreneur
11:50
Speaker 1: or you're an employee. That's what you're doing in America
11:53
Speaker 1: if you're in the legal system of things. So if
11:57
Speaker 1: they're discouraging you, if these people are discouraging you from
12:00
Speaker 1: being a hustler, which essentially they're discouraging you from being
12:03
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur because if you're an entrepreneur, you're hustle. There's
12:06
Speaker 1: no where around it, ain't They ain't no easy shortcuts
12:09
Speaker 1: to the entrepreneurship. You're gonna have to work fifteen hours,
12:11
Speaker 1: twenty hour days. That's that's going to have to happen,
12:14
Speaker 1: especially in the beginning stages. So if they're discouraging you
12:17
Speaker 1: from being an entrepreneur, what are they encouraging you to be?
12:21
Speaker 1: And even if you're legal that they took the cannabis
12:24
Speaker 1: business away defending their crisis is.
12:28
Speaker 3: But why would they Why would they encourage you to
12:30
Speaker 3: be an employee? Though? Right like, think about that exactly. Absolutely.
12:35
Speaker 1: They put out narratives you ever you ever hear these
12:38
Speaker 1: black people are at the bottom of the totem pole
12:41
Speaker 1: when it comes to wealth, when it comes to home ownership,
12:44
Speaker 1: when it comes to stocks.
12:45
Speaker 3: Why is the main why would you have a main.
12:48
Speaker 1: Focus in study that hustle culture is is bad for
12:52
Speaker 1: black people who have the least amount of money out
12:54
Speaker 1: of anybody. Have you ever heard hustle culture is bad
12:57
Speaker 1: for white people who's on Wall Street sniffing hope just
13:00
Speaker 1: to stay up for twenty hours a day. They hustling
13:02
Speaker 1: like a motherfucker Silicon Valley when they're running around doing
13:06
Speaker 1: all this shit. Max Zuckerberg probably met with three hundred
13:09
Speaker 1: four hundred people in three weeks to try to raise money.
13:12
Speaker 3: Is that hustling?
13:13
Speaker 1: Did they have a discourage him and say the hustle
13:15
Speaker 1: culture that's going to kill you. That's bad for you.
13:17
Speaker 1: Don't worry about that. That doesn't even make any sense.
13:20
Speaker 1: You're trying and discourage the people that need to hustle
13:22
Speaker 1: the most not to hustle absolutely, because they know if
13:28
Speaker 1: they would get the power and community and finance together,
13:33
Speaker 1: there could be some changes. That's why I keep saying
13:35
Speaker 1: as soon as we got into the market, the rules,
13:37
Speaker 1: regulations changed, creative culture change, NFT stuff changed, Like you
13:43
Speaker 1: have to just continuously adapt, but you're not going to
13:46
Speaker 1: be able to live off your mom or dad or
13:49
Speaker 1: significant other for free. That causes a lot of attension
13:52
Speaker 1: to and then like childcare is getting more expensive, like
13:55
Speaker 1: even if you have kids when people are like, well
13:57
Speaker 1: hundreds a lot if you live in which I'm from
13:59
Speaker 1: the Midwest, but if you live in the Midwest, and
14:01
Speaker 1: the smaller city with fifty thousand people less one hundred grand,
14:04
Speaker 1: maybe a lot if you live in a major city,
14:06
Speaker 1: if you take good care of your kid, and if
14:07
Speaker 1: you're an active parent, you're going to burn through thirty
14:10
Speaker 1: or twenty thousand dollars a year just taking care of
14:12
Speaker 1: your kid an extra curricular.
14:14
Speaker 3: Costs by design. So but what do we know. We're
14:21
Speaker 3: just grifting.
14:22
Speaker 1: And then the last thing is like, yeah, some time
14:24
Speaker 1: you gotta switch your hustle. If you're doing something that
14:26
Speaker 1: has no chance of scaling and counterproductive, that's not something
14:30
Speaker 1: that is sustainable, and that is something that's going to
14:32
Speaker 1: burn you out without any recourse.
14:34
Speaker 3: But that's up to you to know what is scalable.
14:39
Speaker 3: We've produced enough.
14:40
Speaker 1: Content on Earn your Leisure that you can watch episodes
14:45
Speaker 1: knowing pretty much any business that you want, and you
14:49
Speaker 1: can say, Okay, this is more scalable as opposed to
14:51
Speaker 1: me just selling T shirts on the street corner. Yeah,
14:54
Speaker 1: that could lead you to become the next football but
14:56
Speaker 1: you're probably not. Bob's gonna be real conversations, and if
15:02
Speaker 1: you don't like it, that's fine, So you can't always
15:07
Speaker 1: This is not a fairy tale, not a fairy tale.
15:11
Speaker 1: Like you know what I'm saying, Like, the only thing
15:12
Speaker 1: else gonna happen is you keep telling people fairy tales,
15:15
Speaker 1: is that you're gonna make them delusional and you're gonna
15:18
Speaker 1: lead them to disappointment. Absolutely, the entire world is waiting
15:22
Speaker 1: to see what Drome power does. The American economy is
15:27
Speaker 1: at one of its shakiest points since two thousand and eight,
15:30
Speaker 1: and people are telling you to work less. They're trying
15:33
Speaker 1: to offset the workforce by making the AI shit work. Meanwhile,
15:37
Speaker 1: motherfucking Apple keeps re rocking that same phone with a
15:40
Speaker 1: new button. And while we gotta trifold phone out, you
15:45
Speaker 1: gotta constantly innovate man. And for the record, assets homes
15:49
Speaker 1: are an asset. Commercial buildings are an asset, So our
15:52
Speaker 1: stocks are only going to go higher. That's what they're
15:55
Speaker 1: meant to do. So if you think that you can
15:57
Speaker 1: just chill and coast by, like I remember, even in
16:00
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, there were some homes five bedroom,
16:03
Speaker 1: four bath, thirty eight hundred four thousand square feet. Now
16:06
Speaker 1: for RIDDA, I was going for five to twenty five.
16:08
Speaker 1: You won't find a three bedroom in Alpharetta. That's two
16:11
Speaker 1: thousand square feet for five hundred grand. Now it wasn't
16:14
Speaker 1: that long ago, Like what do you want to do?
16:16
Speaker 1: We do not even gonna talk about New York and
16:18
Speaker 1: Lisha has never been that's never been something that we
16:23
Speaker 1: don't lack. We over index in Lisua. To be honest
16:27
Speaker 1: with you, really Usher has sold out ten shows and
16:31
Speaker 1: barn shot to us. But it's like, we don't have
16:33
Speaker 1: no problem. We're gonna go to a concert. We're gonna
16:36
Speaker 1: go say Usher, yep, We're gonna watch football all day Sunday,
16:41
Speaker 1: We're gonna do finish is crazy. So the fact that
16:44
Speaker 1: you try to just like yo, this is don't hustle
16:46
Speaker 1: too much. No, we need to hustle more more Over
16:50
Speaker 1: index on bullshit. We spend hours a day on social
16:53
Speaker 1: media just scrolling with aimless rap shit that has nothing
16:57
Speaker 1: to do with anything.
16:59
Speaker 3: That makes no more.
17:00
Speaker 1: And most of y'all arguable bots for those of you
17:01
Speaker 1: who don't know, like at least sixty percent of the
17:03
Speaker 1: Internet has been bots or n PC's for real and
17:08
Speaker 1: you just don't know it. For what And the players
17:12
Speaker 1: who play in the league don't give a fuck about
17:14
Speaker 1: fantasy football like that if you're watching it all Saturday,
17:19
Speaker 1: all Sunday.
17:20
Speaker 3: Some do.
17:21
Speaker 1: Some shout out to brow that I got kicked out
17:25
Speaker 1: the joint. Okay, yeah, the part lane he was on
17:29
Speaker 1: the ball. Some do, some do.
17:35
Speaker 3: I don't careing.
17:36
Speaker 1: About the fantasy what at least they getting some money
17:39
Speaker 1: off of it. They doing it for a different reason.
17:42
Speaker 1: It ain't just no regular like and then y'all dudes
17:45
Speaker 1: is playing fantasy for no money. Some people play fantasy
17:47
Speaker 1: for no money. A lot of y'all playing make believe
17:50
Speaker 1: on Instagram too, and they ain't cashing out on that.
17:53
Speaker 1: Stay focused, man, Like, life is hard, but you can
17:56
Speaker 1: make it harder.
17:57
Speaker 3: Be focused.
17:58
Speaker 1: And the truth is like, when you focus on things
18:00
Speaker 1: that you love, the journey of getting better at it
18:04
Speaker 1: is incredibly rewarding. The fearless you complained about it isn't
18:08
Speaker 1: gonna make it better. You're gonna take your fear to
18:10
Speaker 1: a real estate agent and say, let me put twenty
18:12
Speaker 1: percent down of my opinion.
18:14
Speaker 3: Doesn't work like that, man, And that's.
18:16
Speaker 1: What I say, Like, if you guys are actually parenting,
18:18
Speaker 1: these are hard costs, Like in New York City, what
18:22
Speaker 1: does the daycare cost in New York City, New York
18:25
Speaker 1: a month?
18:25
Speaker 3: Thousand a month minimum. Facts fact, that's for the bare minimum.
18:31
Speaker 1: If you're not on like any assistance or help program,
18:34
Speaker 1: if you just like trying to just pay it out
18:36
Speaker 1: your own pocket.
18:37
Speaker 3: A thousand dollars a month.
18:38
Speaker 1: That's easy, high quality daycare two three grand easy? Come on,
18:45
Speaker 1: what you're gonna say, Well, I'm not gonna go to work,
18:49
Speaker 1: and there's no there's no comfort in being broke. I
18:53
Speaker 1: was never comfortable when I was broke. I never felt like, oh.
18:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that's shit.
18:59
Speaker 1: Ever, who the fuck like you're paying these fairy tales
19:01
Speaker 1: for people who wants to be who wants to have comfort,
19:05
Speaker 1: not even fucking knowing if they can put enough gas
19:08
Speaker 1: in their tank or their car is gonna get overdrafted, Yeah,
19:12
Speaker 1: their car decline, are hoping that to go through? Not fun,
19:16
Speaker 1: been on both sides. I'm telling you, it's a lot
19:17
Speaker 1: more fun to be like, Hey, xanderisis cool? I don't cool?
19:23
Speaker 1: But you have to pick what path you go down.
19:26
Speaker 1: That's a few have to pick. There's no money in
19:28
Speaker 1: argument and entertainment, Like once again America is going to
19:32
Speaker 1: a shift twenty twenty five with waiting on the rate cut.
19:36
Speaker 1: Buffett isn't talking iron Horn is not talking. Tutor Jones
19:39
Speaker 1: is not talking that much. Drucon Miller's not talking that much.
19:43
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry's not talking that much. Lucien Grange ain't saying
19:46
Speaker 1: a motherfucking thing. His kid not saying nothing, Only people talking,
19:50
Speaker 1: Drake and Kendrick and Drake being more quiet. You have
19:54
Speaker 1: to get up and go after the all, like make
19:57
Speaker 1: your mom like my mom and dad sacrificed you much
20:00
Speaker 1: for me to not have turned myself into something. Give
20:03
Speaker 1: your kids something like. I went to the Astro game
20:05
Speaker 1: with Xander. Go to the concession stand, shout out to
20:08
Speaker 1: my Gotchi Chi took me over there.
20:10
Speaker 3: The lady, Oh, I love you so much. She's working
20:12
Speaker 3: at I'm seventy four. I started of investing because of you.
20:15
Speaker 3: I'm up. Don't listening to what nobody tell y'all. Started
20:17
Speaker 3: with a thousand, I got twenty eight thousand. Now Xander
20:20
Speaker 3: face lit up. Why are you so happy? It's amazing
20:24
Speaker 3: how these people treat you