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EYL #106 The Revolution feat. Killer Mike · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
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  Speaker 3: All right, guys, welcome back e y l Atlanta edition.
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  Speaker 3: You know this is we say our second home, but
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  Speaker 3: it really feels like our first home.
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  Speaker 2: Everything we've been doing live has been here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we get so much love out here. We really
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  Speaker 3: gotta buy some real estate out here.
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  Speaker 2: And now that's next. That's next for real. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a few episodes.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always excited about every single episode that we do,
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  Speaker 3: but a few episodes is really really exciting for us.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out the Day, man, that was a bucket list situation.
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  Speaker 3: He was every he was everything that we thought he
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  Speaker 3: was gonna be. Yeah, that's the first thing they asked.
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  Speaker 3: How was he everything we expected?
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  Speaker 2: As the fact, Shout the Day.
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  Speaker 3: And it's been so many other great people that we
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  Speaker 3: had the opportunity to interview, but this is right at
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  Speaker 3: the top of my list personally your as well.
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  Speaker 2: Choice.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, killing like somebody that we just admired
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  Speaker 3: for a long time and obviously one of the dopest rattlers,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like everything that he's done outside of
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  Speaker 3: music has even surpassed his musical career as far as
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  Speaker 3: is you know, advocacy, politics, business.
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  Speaker 2: Been activist since fifteen.
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  Speaker 3: Man, it's long, it's dope, it's dope. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this is something that we was looking forward to for
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  Speaker 3: a long time. And I had actually DMed him a
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  Speaker 3: while ago, a while ago, a while long't even know
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  Speaker 3: if he actually saw it, but the boss bosses got yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Ak and Nundre. It's just just just a bright light.
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  Speaker 3: If you're not following her, you need to follow her
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  Speaker 3: on Instagram. That's her Instagram handle and she she's just
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  Speaker 3: been amazing for us, just the resources just pouring into us.
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  Speaker 3: How can yeah, how can I help toward a class
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  Speaker 3: at Eyo University? And I put a post like that
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  Speaker 3: we need to get killing mic on ey L. She's
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  Speaker 3: like hit me right away, like I know I can
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  Speaker 3: set it up for you. So I'm like, I I
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  Speaker 3: appreciate that, and she reached out to him and that
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  Speaker 3: started the line of communication and we was kind of
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  Speaker 3: going back and forth for a few weeks, and then
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  Speaker 3: last week it was it was ironic because he actually
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  Speaker 3: DM me and we was on our way to the
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  Speaker 3: land in a few days. So I told him, like, yo, bro,
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  Speaker 3: I actually just got finish listening to your breakfast club Intero.
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  Speaker 2: We had a big announcement last week and I.
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  Speaker 3: Was actually in a barber shop ironically enough, so I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: let's set it up. And we set it up and
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  Speaker 3: we was here for about ten days and every day
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  Speaker 3: it was not kill a flight schedule. I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: working on our cinema text Like, yo, bro, like you
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  Speaker 3: got six more days, five more days. I told I
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  Speaker 3: told my man swing and that we was talking, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, nah, you know, he gave me his word,
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  Speaker 3: And just by speaking to him, I could tell that
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  Speaker 3: he was a man of his words. So like, there's
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  Speaker 3: no way he's gonna let us leave without giving us
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  Speaker 3: any time.
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  Speaker 2: Even if we left, we was coming back. Yeah, We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna keep coming to Atlanta until we get him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So this is our last night in Atlanta, and
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  Speaker 3: this is a nightcap edition. Man out here at eight
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  Speaker 3: o'clock at night, and we're going to interview the legendary
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  Speaker 3: killing Mike. So first and foremo, thank you for joining us,
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for cracing our platform. We appreciate it. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you for opening up your shout man Man, thank you man.
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  Speaker 3: This is Slagship Store slag Shot, and we're just glad
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  Speaker 3: to have you. So I'm sure we're gonna talk about Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: So we got so much stuff to talk about, man,
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  Speaker 3: I just want to just jump right into it. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you've been all over c NBC, CNN Club, all that
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  Speaker 3: you've done a lot. But the latest thing that you've
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  Speaker 3: done is an online banking. Yeah, a Black and Latin
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  Speaker 3: X owned I believe bank. Right, it's a banking platform, right,
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  Speaker 3: or a fintech bank and neo bank. Our kids do
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  Speaker 3: everything from their phone, literally do everything. Thirteen year old
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  Speaker 3: and everything from her phone. So banking is going As
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  Speaker 3: you see more bricking, more diclosures, As you see banking
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  Speaker 3: expanding in the text space, banking is going to end
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  Speaker 3: up in your hand, in your phone. Andrew Young, who's
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  Speaker 3: a former ambassador, former lieutenant to Doctor King, former mayor
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  Speaker 3: of Atlanta, travels one hundred and fifty two countries. I
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  Speaker 3: think he's an ambassador, so he ambassats all over the world.
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  Speaker 2: You came to stigure out my church man, come off.
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  Speaker 3: But he's been my friend and mentor since fifteen years
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  Speaker 3: old and actually is a part of me growing me
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  Speaker 3: as an organizer. Andy doesn't do things for financially motivated reasons,
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  Speaker 3: yet they end up helping the greater community financially. So
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  Speaker 3: one example is as mayor of Atlanta, he was responsible
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  Speaker 3: for making Atlanta international city by bringing the Olympics here
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  Speaker 3: and bringing the Olympics. He didn't bring a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: people to just ran, swim and jump that spoke different languages.
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  Speaker 3: Companies come also, right, you got Atlanta in Georgia is
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  Speaker 3: the third most fortune five hundred companies of any state
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  Speaker 3: in the Union. So that's what him making the city
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  Speaker 3: and international city helped to do, help to bring just
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  Speaker 3: with the Olympics, I think nine billion dollars into the city,
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  Speaker 3: forty one percent with the blackened minority contracts. The only
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  Speaker 3: condition was he couldn't personally make any money, but he
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  Speaker 3: made sure that people from the community made money. And
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  Speaker 3: then after that another eleven twelve billion poured in. Blacks
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  Speaker 3: walked away at one point something billion of that, which
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  Speaker 3: ain't bad, you know what I mean, It ain't bad.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, ideally we want to get to the
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  Speaker 3: ass and betters, but it ain't bad.
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  Speaker 2: Start.
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  Speaker 3: So as Andy does stuff, he does stuff that helps
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  Speaker 3: the greater community, and the greater community is better for us.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So Atlanta is a lot years ahead. It's a beacon
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  Speaker 3: in the South, it's an international city with all this
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  Speaker 3: proclivities and on all this is it's set back. It's
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  Speaker 3: still is far more progressive than anyone would have ever thought.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty years as all right, he goes to India, he
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  Speaker 3: sees where people being paid in payper currency, same thing
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  Speaker 3: that's happening in depressed areas here. They're being robbed and
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  Speaker 3: looted by check cashing places essentially. So you're already on
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  Speaker 3: the friends. You make two hundred bucks a week. Technically
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  Speaker 3: you want to be able to save ten to twenty
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  Speaker 3: percent of what you're making, right, So it's very hard
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  Speaker 3: to save twenty or forty bucks when you're making two
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  Speaker 3: hundred bucks a week.
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  Speaker 2: But some people have been dedicated, like our grandparents, enough
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 3: It, to put aside that twenty and let that twenty
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  Speaker 3: get to one hundred, and put that aside and make
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  Speaker 3: sure you got stuff like a basic life insurance twenty dollars.
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  Speaker 2: On the side.
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  Speaker 3: You've got enough to bear your money. Check cashing place
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  Speaker 3: in liquor stores. Cut that out of the poorest, the
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  Speaker 3: ability to spend the same to do anything, and that's
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  Speaker 3: a detriment, and it helped keep you at that bottom.
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  Speaker 3: Cast Landy saw a digitized system come there and greatly
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  Speaker 3: help people. So that was his part in understanding what
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  Speaker 3: Greenwood as a banking platform could do, or what's Greenwood
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  Speaker 3: there's a guy named Paul Judge here out of the
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  Speaker 3: tech world that's a brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: A bust of bread.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's Ryan Glover who built Noontime Records, who
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  Speaker 3: built Bounced TV, and who's a founding member of Greenwood.
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  Speaker 3: And they thought that this model of model's life is
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  Speaker 3: as we go more digital. Sixty five percent of banking
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  Speaker 3: is done, problem of your hand. Poor people need relief
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  Speaker 3: from being young predatory companies. All of this can meet
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  Speaker 3: and make sense and be a for profit thing, and
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  Speaker 3: Greenwood is born.
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  Speaker 2: Why is it named Greenwood?
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  Speaker 3: Greenwoods name green which for the town in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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  Speaker 3: that was burned in a race, wise burned to the ash,
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  Speaker 3: burned to the ground. And I would argue, and not
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  Speaker 3: only destroying that town in which a community turned a
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  Speaker 3: dollar thirty six times, so it was strong in terms
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  Speaker 3: of schools, doctors, Dennis stores.
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  Speaker 2: It was strong. It was like having an ecosystem in
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  Speaker 2: a jar in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: Even if your kitchen set on fire until that smoke
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  Speaker 3: getting in there, that ecosystem is still parking right in
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  Speaker 3: burning down that town. I would argue that the poor
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  Speaker 3: whites that did that destroy not only that town, this economy,
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  Speaker 3: but the greater economy around it, which is why you
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  Speaker 3: ain't seeing a basketball team pop up in Tulsa to
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  Speaker 3: a few years ago.
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  Speaker 2: There was no need. It was no, it wasn't. It wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't a place where harmony could happen. So in
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  Speaker 3: Atlanta nineteen oh six or so, you get a rioted
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  Speaker 3: not far from here that way and on that side
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  Speaker 3: of town. Black people were killed after that. Atlanta, which
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  Speaker 3: is also the home of the Atlanta Conference. With w
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  Speaker 3: do boys book into Washington. They're like, look, we're here.
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  Speaker 3: We're not going anywhere. We're right over here in the
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  Speaker 3: fourth Ward. We either gonna go to Ward with these
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  Speaker 3: white folks and we're gonna destroy the city and we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna become every typical southern city and it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be ashes again like Sherman left it when he was
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  Speaker 3: on his march to the beach in Savannah, or we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna figure out how to let business and.
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  Speaker 2: Commerce trump bullshit.
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  Speaker 3: So quietly and agreement was made where black people and
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  Speaker 3: business owners took this side of downtown and we're right now,
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  Speaker 3: we're in the historic Auburn and Edgewood Avenue Auburn and
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  Speaker 3: Edgewood Avenue are also work will always be to some degree,
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  Speaker 3: Black Wall Street. The Atlanta Life Insurance Company was there,
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  Speaker 3: started by Alonzo Herndon Evan's a Baptist church. The SCLC
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  Speaker 3: headquarters with their office is Virguley, Black Business. It's always
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  Speaker 3: been here. So Greenwood as a banking platform is in
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  Speaker 3: the spirit of that, initially in terms of making sure
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  Speaker 3: we serve worker class, poor communities, making sure we serve
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  Speaker 3: the unbanked, making sure we serve black people and the
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  Speaker 3: Latino X crowd. But it is not only for us.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone is welcome to bring their green there and anyone
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  Speaker 3: is well to know we're going to be stable with
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  Speaker 3: the wood, you know. So just like Atlanta had to
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  Speaker 3: realize as a city, it made more sense to cooperate
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  Speaker 3: and make business sense, not to war in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of the streets. Ess as a bank, understand that I'm
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  Speaker 3: not trying to tell anybody can't bank for us, who
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  Speaker 3: want everybody to bank with us, But we also want
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  Speaker 3: to be a place that grows into a lender in
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  Speaker 3: terms of car loans and home loans because many times
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  Speaker 3: the first generational wealth that anybody looks like us will
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  Speaker 3: have is be a home or something that someone left
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  Speaker 3: to us, right, and then they want to grow into
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  Speaker 3: growing given capital to businesses. But forty one percent business
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  Speaker 3: culture I think aka and who was putting up in
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  Speaker 3: terms of like.
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  Speaker 2: Businesses since Corona.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if it wasn't for my out of pocket what
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  Speaker 3: we have been able to survive when we open back up.
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  Speaker 3: We're not charging barbers, you know, booth wind and the
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  Speaker 3: initial things of that nature. So I have to think about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what's best for that. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: I think that Greenwood is going to be not only
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  Speaker 3: one of the best banking platforms, but it's going to
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  Speaker 3: grow into a strong financial force that turns into a
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  Speaker 3: lender not only homes and I don't know, but a
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  Speaker 3: small businesses, medium sized businesses, and businesses by creatives that
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  Speaker 3: grow bigger market.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, obviously you're an Atlanta historian, Like you said,
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  Speaker 4: you've been as an active activist for over thirty years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty years of my life. That's a long time.
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  Speaker 4: That's a long time, right, So I'm trying to think
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  Speaker 4: is this something during that process or is just a
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  Speaker 4: culminate event of situations that motivated for Greenwood to start
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  Speaker 4: right now, like, well, was there motivating factors or it
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  Speaker 4: was just like.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know what motivated Ryan. I think that
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  Speaker 3: what motivated Andy was going to seeing it work right,
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  Speaker 3: but few more people. For me, it made It's made
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  Speaker 3: sense for me for ten years. I've been talking about
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  Speaker 3: it actively for six years. And they were the first
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  Speaker 3: bank or banking platform to say, let's bring Mike into
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  Speaker 3: the business code. You know, there's plenty of banks had
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  Speaker 3: the opportunity, and I still shout out all the black banks, right,
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  Speaker 3: but no one else, you know, said well, let's get
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  Speaker 3: into the business with them. And I think Ryan, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, six years ago, I still saw
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  Speaker 3: me as me like if I was a talent scouted
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  Speaker 3: out of it, like ut, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: But the fact that they then doesn't bother me as
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  Speaker 3: much as I'm encouraged by the fact that Ryan did.
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  Speaker 3: Because Ryan understands that Michael Render is a kid in
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  Speaker 3: a room who plays the character killer Mike. But Michael
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  Speaker 3: Render is married to one of the best business minds
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  Speaker 3: in this state of the nation.
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  Speaker 2: She's a friend of aka another, she's my.
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  Speaker 3: Wife, Shay, And you know, like proverbs and I'm not
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a Christian, but Proverbs thirty one ten through
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  Speaker 3: thirty one talks.
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  Speaker 2: About having the right type of wife.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, the business partner and life partner that
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  Speaker 3: I have helps me understand.
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  Speaker 2: That the capital I go get, we can do something
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  Speaker 2: with it.
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  Speaker 3: We can bury, and we can put it places where
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  Speaker 3: compounds will grows. So you know, for me, in terms
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  Speaker 3: of Michael Render, I understand that that when Ryan invited me,
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  Speaker 3: that's bigger than whoever didn't invite me, because he sees
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  Speaker 3: what I see in the mirror, and that's someone with
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  Speaker 3: the potential to grow into a businessman. So Michael Santiago, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: my dad just look my dad, man. My dad.
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  Speaker 2: Shouts out, But Michael, liek my dad.
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  Speaker 3: I'm all like, I ain't name of my goddamn young
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  Speaker 3: not even Michael Sago. My wife said. My wife said,
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad, dady. Kids shout out, shout, shout out
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  Speaker 3: to Norry Victor Santiago.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of my fast shots out.
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  Speaker 3: So so people don't realize, I'm just some research and
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  Speaker 3: seventeen percent of black people are unbanked. You're paying to
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  Speaker 3: three percent, So if you think about it, that's a
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  Speaker 3: three percent of whites.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot. And then I will never forget.
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  Speaker 3: So people have heard of food deserts, yes, and so
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  Speaker 3: I used to go to school in Baltimore. I did
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  Speaker 3: a research study on food deserts, and it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're for people that don't know. They don't every neighborhood
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have like a grocery store exactly, So people go
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  Speaker 3: grocery shopping and like gas stations and corner stores, and
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  Speaker 3: not only is the food bad, but the prices are
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  Speaker 3: much higher too.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's it's.
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  Speaker 3: Enough process exactly exactly, so at least a high blood pressure,
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  Speaker 3: cholester all that stuff. So I never heard of banking
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  Speaker 3: deserts until like a couple months ago we did an episode.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was talking about banking deserts.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like there's different pockets in different areas where
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  Speaker 3: there's there's no bank, and then there's check cashing places.
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  Speaker 3: And then I never forget. Somebody told us because when
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  Speaker 3: we grew up, we had a check cashing place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: My first job as I worked at a summer camp,
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  Speaker 3: and everybody used to go to the check cashing page
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  Speaker 3: because you get it quick. Yeah, but they charged like
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  Speaker 3: three dollars, two dollars, you're not what you thinking about it,
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  Speaker 3: but that adds up. It's like why are you paying it?
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  Speaker 3: And it's like you never see a check cashing pigs
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  Speaker 3: in the middle class or.
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  Speaker 2: A wealthy neighborhood. It's either working class or poor neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 4: Because the crazy part is that not to get you off,
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  Speaker 4: but the crazy part is that had we known that
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  Speaker 4: the bank right across the street wrote the check, we
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  Speaker 4: could have gotten the same day.
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  Speaker 3: Sad thing, the actually was a bank in our neighborhood
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  Speaker 3: and we were just so conditioned. And not only was
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  Speaker 3: the check cashing place right next to the Chinese spot
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  Speaker 3: that shirt fried chickens. I always wondered how that worked.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like it was it was a weird dynamic.
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  Speaker 3: But I say that to say this online thinking, I
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  Speaker 3: think is is really the way because even in Kenya,
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  Speaker 3: I saw they had a lot of people can't get
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  Speaker 3: the things because it's so rural. But they changed the
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  Speaker 3: whole dynamic by having like just basic cell phones where
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  Speaker 3: they can bank on itself. So you knew it was real.
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  Speaker 3: When I seen the dance and get paid in the
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  Speaker 3: Blue Flag be it cel phone like no cap no
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  Speaker 3: like Brown zero is the barbershop and the booty clubs.
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  Speaker 3: When when I saw said Blue Flame, the Blue Flight,
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: we ain't going to night after, I'm not staying long.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Would do my mask.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: We're about to have seen that place before. It's a
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: black business. That's shout to Wall Street, Traffler Street travel
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: flying Now.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: We actually pulled up to it and as soon as
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: we got there, somebody did a black flip into the wall.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: We were like, you.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Gotta go in, you gotta you gotta interview the owner.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Man, he's a great for sure.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: So yeah, so you so you felt so you you
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: had that idea in Blue Flame, like this is this
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: is what I knew?
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: What was it? I knew son was happening. You know.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: It's like being in a gambling house and you and
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: you start hearing rumblers. You're like, oh, son happened?
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Excuse me for like something I learned business, you know
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: in the eighties and nineties. And how did the black
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: kid learn it in the eighties and nineties running errands
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: for pimps, doing airs in the gallant house and selling
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: to big crack cocaine?
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: So I learned business on the most mudimentary level. You can't.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: But it's like when you're in the gamon house you
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: start hearing a little noise, little you just start looking
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: around like something happening, somebody winning on, somebody losing that.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: But when I seen the phone light up the dancing,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: he turned the floor. What the fun is he doing?
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I don't see no money? She got THEMN hours. Oh yeah.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, come in red. She's like,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: what I say, y'all, I see you dance. She said, Oh,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: that's a niggas. He ain't get no money. You know
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: what I mean? She said, well now here He paid
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: me by cash out, and I was like, cash.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: The fuck is cast? Your wife knows. My wife doesn't
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: let anybody teach me about technology. She says, if my
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: husband needs to know something, I teach him right so
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: south South the little se smile and she stops smiling
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: from teaching anything. But that's when I if it's in
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: the clubs already. Man. My barber started doing it, and
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: my sister who's a hairstyle started doing it, and then
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: my sister who's an accountant, start telling me that they're
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: pain and receiving all digital that that their paper. She
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: used to work in paper checks, but those things coming
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: out to them saying Okay, I see what's coming. So
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: when Ryan calls me with the idea, of course, I'm
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: I'm a receptive and open because that's what's next. Fintech
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: is a huge financial technology. I feel like tech in
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: every area will take over. So like Tesla is not
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: a car company, it's a tech company.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So a lot of these brick and.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Mortar banks are on their last leg because they're not
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: making a transition. Yeah, well a lot of them are
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: are don't want to have legs a certain community, Like
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: you're never not going to see a Chase Bank in
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: a rich neighborhood or in the studio district where a
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: lot of us are private banking wanted how many So
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: there's gonna keep you know, Shad's gonna still be able
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: to pull up two hundred fifty thousandars Canstraer, but she's
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: not gonna be able to do it on Marketer King.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: That's not gonna happen.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: The one that Greenbrier may not last, but the one
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: on our meal it'll be there. And we have to
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: as a as a community that has foods and banking deserts.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: We have to start to prepare for that.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: And education and technology can keep you I'm in a
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: state of equity and having some ownership, and it can
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: keep you in a place of having some equality where
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: you stand a fair shot.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: It ain't fair, but just just let me get a
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: fair shot, you know what I mean? I think.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: And we just finished this book in our book club,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: The Color of Money. It tells the history of black
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: pay Yeah, yeah, nothink. One of the biggest things they
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: talked about me, I know, I know, as try as
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: you out too, I was like, I said, yell, earnist,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: we might get them. But one of the things that
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: they talk about is the history of our relationship with money.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: And once we learn our history, then we can understand
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: how to use it, how to value it, and how
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: to use it to our advantage.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. But one of the things that we lack is trust.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: And so as you take on this endeavor, I want
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: to know your thoughts. So, like, how do we get
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: the trust from the people? Yeah, what you do a
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: good job, and you do this best you can.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: If I've always told people to first of all, I said,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I didn't sign up for this leadership ship. I got
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: in this to wrap smoke weed and hang out at
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: the front, right. But you, destiny faked the universe or
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: the creator that has crafted has you put you on
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: the path. I didn't meet aka nundrum by chance. I
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: didn't happen until you guys, by chance. It's my cup
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: is empty. I'm supposed to be learning so I can
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: pour into others, you know what I mean? So it
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: matters of me. I always tell people I'm going to
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: do my very best, and if I fuck up, I'm
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: gonna apologize and allow me to get back because I
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: don't like playing with people. I could have sat with
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: other institutions and said, this is a deal. I want
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: give me this. I'm going to get you these many cars.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: You can give me this percentage off the cars. That's
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: not what I did. I waited to something that I
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: actually felt like was helpful to the community that produced
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: me came along, and when it came along, the opportunity
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: presented itself. I said, this is something that makes sense,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: this is something I'm willing to be a part of.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: This is something I wish to have, And even once
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: about group of economics because I feel like I remember
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: you a few years ago. I forgot what the triggering
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: event was, but you took a bunch of raptors in
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Atlanta to like back to open up black.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: It was Michael Brownson, Yeah, Okay, that's what it was.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, And then I remember they did it in Houston
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: and it was a thing, and I remember that's how
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: the play and you were saying, like, even if you
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: if you're a black entrepreneur or you're black profession whatever,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: but if you're putting money in a white bank, it's
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: still in a sense kind of the feasts the purpose
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: in a way. So well, I'm not that pessimistic. Okay, no, no, no,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: that's not I'm not one of those either ors. Right,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I'm from Atlanta. So people had to learn how to
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: cooperate here.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: William Hartsfield, who was an Atlanta mayor, was basically laughed
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: and ran out of town because he gave Delta like
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: a fifty one hundred year least and like a dollar
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: five dollars a year. But yet Delta became one of
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: the biggest employers of Atlanta and brought huge commerce and
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: made us help make us an international city.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Having an International, one of the world's busiest airport.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: And yeah, he had the foresight though to see it,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: you know, just like Maynard had the foresight.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: So you know, with me, it's like.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: You gotta have foresight, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: be willing to take the risk that you know is
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: secure or or sure you feel or you know, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: you can fail. But like in that so in the Netflix,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: in the Netflix series that you had when you went
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: like I think it was seven days, like you just
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: try to just only spend with black businesses, and he's like,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: even if you it's like everything has to be you
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: gotta learn to cooperate.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: You know, war is one without allies. I'm sorry, got
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: our point.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: But the point that I'm trying to make is that
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: the federal government at one point, instead of making the
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: big banks to fair business in terms of redline and
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: stuff with black people, said no, we'll, we'll we'll just
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: support the black banks. And they never came through on
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: their problems, right, and they still want us to come vote,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: but they never came through their promims. We should be
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: forced to have the federal government to do that, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: at the same time, we should be cooperating with larger
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: ain't the constitutions, many of which whose banks were built
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: directly off the banks and its slave that right when
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: you look at stocks and buns, a lot of that
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: is you weren't start in the bun. You weren't the property,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: yet that's what you were. So my thing is again,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I learned selling drugs me and you could be at
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: war a year ago.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: And year lady, the prices is right, and she I
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: don't want to kill you no more. I got a
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: hundred bands, you got a hundred bands. We got a
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: two hundred and fift thousd dollars deal.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: My buddy got twenty by your buddy got twenty five.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: So at a certain point, it's not that the pain
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: isn't there, it's not that the tragedy isn't there. At
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: what point do we have to start understanding that to
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: win a war? I must Ally, the United States and
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Russia have never liked each other, just two radically different
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: concepts on how to treat people, how to different money.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: But when Germany popped up and was Omar and everybody
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: motherfucker found a.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Way to get a little bar so show up to
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: the line.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: So we have to we have to think with the
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: same mentality that I don't have to like a love you,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: but in matters of strengthening me as an individual in
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: my understanding what I can do in my group, in
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: our community, I will partner or ally with you in
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: a matter of a bigger law.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Now, and that's just that's just what it is.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: So let me let me let me ask you a question,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: because I know not only are your entrepreneur, but you're
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: really in the politics.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: That was the second was the said wing because what
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: you just said is what you said about the president. Now,
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: you like, I don't have to like him or even
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: vote for him, but if he does something that helps
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: my community, I should take advantage of that, because take av.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Taking advantage of everything I'm telling But that's every president. Yeah,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: that ain't just president. Now, that's that's there has been.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: No president that has been for the black community. Take that.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: That's the fact.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: That's that has been no president that has been for
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: the black community. But if your policy affects the black
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: community in a positive way, which can affect the greater community,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: I have to pay you some attention. Is that suff
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I have to pay you some of Obamas. For you,
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: I'm clearing what I say and how I see. There
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: has been no president that's for the black community. But
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: if that president is playing in any way or policy
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: helps the black community, I'm for that thing. You get
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. I rate all us presidents at about
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: the ce different variations from a C minus down into
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: the d's too. You know, when you start off as
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: slave masters and presidents, that's a really funky what I'm saying.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: So you have to spend your life as a person
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: of color reconciling the fact that the dollars that are
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: in your pocket, the dead men, the slave masters that
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: are only that that that give you work and value
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to the things you're doing, own people, and that wealth
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: is something. So you know, when we get walking, we
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: get mad and we want to castigate rappers and then
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: a tinners and chickens, do the right thing with your
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: money you have, Andrew Jackson, You're twenty dollars bill that
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: you're tipping the stripper with committed genocide on people that
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: were from Middle of America and that were red and
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: were here before.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: You got here.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: So you're passing a genocidal bill to pay for your
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Sarah and your your need to get grinded on. And
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: you've never chastised yourself enough to say I'll only pay
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: by PayPal because I'm protested or greenwood.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: So I'm you know what you know? Man?
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: In matters of money, we had better learn that we're
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: going to have to pack some emotion to the side
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: to accomplish specific goals from a monetary standpoint, so that
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: we can take care of ourselves because no one's coming
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: to save us. Nothing's coming out of sky to save us. Karma,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: although it's a nice concept. Evil people live longer and
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: they seem to be happier. George Bushtin died he was
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: ninety middle something. So but you were. You were supporting
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Bernie senators absolutely, so you work. You have progressive I
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: guess liberal views. If voting for Bernie Sanders takes my
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: taxes up out of the forties into the fifties, just
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: that succeed takes care the next twenty five to thirty
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: years of Americans in terms of education, health care, trade
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: that trade and college education at basics and extensive health care,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: and provide social programs that grow us as a country.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I have no aversion to supporting that, and.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: In fact, I think that much of his policy has
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: been rape robbed and looted by both parties at this point,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: versus us getting behind the person who wanted to give
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: us everything we would have needed during this pandemic, including
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: some type of universal income, including some type of health
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: care that was universal leading toward it, including decriminalization of marijuana,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: including a federal task force that would have dealt with
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: roth police, including all these things that would have affected us.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: But because we didn't do it, because we didn't go that,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: but because we got robbed of it or whatever. The
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: theory is being, you gotta you know, you got to
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: give what you got, and you better master your coin,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: you know, because we're we're in a system where as
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: much as they want to say they care like Barnie,
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: they don't. And if you're if you're not going to
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: allow me to pay my ten or fifteen extra to
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: let someone like him leave the way, don't get mad.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna try to keep an extra ten or
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: fifteen percent and figure out who the fuck Trump's taxloy
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: is so I can be them on the West side,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: you know, But I did you know, I didn't I didn't.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Vote for the evil persons, whoever that may be. I
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: want to go back to it. I want to go
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: back to Greenwood for a.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Sec because a lot of times, and even in the book,
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: it dives into the fact of black bangs being.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Put in neighborhoods right where.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: Deposits weren't coming in at a frequent rate, and so
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: they had to charge higher interest rates when they weren't
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: loaning got money because most people don't really understand how.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Banks make money. The lows right.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: So my thing is like, is Greenwood is there going
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: to be similar like how other interests They're going to
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: be competing with the big thing.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: So that's their goal first, first year versus deposits savings,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: and so it's steps.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: This is where we are. First.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: First, the goal is to wipe out check pashing course,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: to wipe out the main the main parasites in poor
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: and working class people's lives. So you know, people here
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: saved twenty forty bucks. It doesn't sound like much to them,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: but when you're talking about now you can save ten
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: percent of your income, what about when person gets to
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: raise and get five hundred your thousand, Now you're saving
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: more money. So that is the attack, and the next
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: phase is in loans and home ownership, automobile ownership, and
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: then the phase after that. So I like the fact
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: that Ryan is, unlike in the past, is not trying
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: to do everything himself at the same time as much
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: he's he's seeking and they're talking to allies at this
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: moment realizing who are they going to get into business
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: with in terms of partnering with larger institutions that are
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: cover who are the institutions that your money is actually
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: going to be sitting with, and as a platform, what
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: they can do to reduce the eve and to you
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: help you find more financially literally help you to say.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: So, I'm thinking that's the first step. Eradicate the check
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: cash in push in the back of the day was
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: also the Soll phone store.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's level.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: And then then we got the posits and loans, and
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: so I guess the next last stage would be business loan,
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: small business loans.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well small man, I don't think that's the last stage.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I just think that. I just think that if you're
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: going to run nine.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Miles, plot out your first three, then plot out your
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: next three, and then your final three.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Right, So let's just say those are the first three miles.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I saw I wrest where Ryan said, like,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I think fifty of black businesses, Oh, black businesses get
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: loans at fifty percent lower rate than white businesses. When
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I think it's we're return at fifty percent lower rates.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: We're also denied in comparable applications. We're denied twenty one
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: percent of the time in white's only eight. Okay, So,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: and so I'm assuming that's something that you guys will
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: be trying to eradicate. As far as greens there's definitely
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: going to be. You know, Greenwood is not Superman, doesn't
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: come in the same one Swade. What it is a
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: part of the adventures. It's a part of alternative ways
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: now for us to take control of our dollars. And
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: that's everything from a new black credit union that's popping up.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: That's everything from the traditional black banks that are already
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: in the market, whether it be Citizens Trust or Carver
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: or One United. And that's new platforms and ventech like Greenwood.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm an advocate for you know, if you
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: want to if you want to get the freedom, take
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: a whole lot of buses. You know, don't depend on
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: everyone going in one bus, you know what I'm saying.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: And he even told me and Ryan don't travel together.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: He's just like what you guys are doing is that's
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: don't even travel together. Because if freedom is the objective,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: there may be slightly different variations of but we'll get
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: there even if it's not at the same time. But
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: I think we need a lot of kistons firing and
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  Speaker 3: an engine, not just one. And we have to we
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: have to begin to end. O will want or need
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: to critique or overly criticize based on a past failure,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: because a failure is something you.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Learned from that. And that's the part.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: It was like if people understood their relationship with the money,
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: they would understand. It's like if my iPhone breaks, I
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: don't say I'm never using Apple again.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna get another iPhone, you know what I mean.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: But if we like, and I bank with citizens, so
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  Speaker 4: shout out to citizens.
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  Speaker 2: But if they like, if they mess up.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: A deposit, It's not like y'all never banging with them again,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: I'm gonnaive them the same thingway.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: We gotta get it fixed. And again that's why I
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: tell people like one day as a leader, which I
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: wasn't even in the in the.
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  Speaker 2: Space to be.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: But akat another those people like that black women to
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: make you leave. But you know, I want to say,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: my bad, I fucked up. Yeah, you know, let me,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: let me get back on the bus, figure out. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: there's another reason I constantly consult with people too, you
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: know what I mean. Even before saying yes to this,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I called around to black men who had ran banks.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I called around the people work, like, what do you
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: think of this? What's been tech helped me understand? And
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: I got, you know, at least and that I already knew,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: you know, already trusted Andy, already trusted Ryan because I've
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: seen him do it.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: But I just wanted to learn more.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna like I found you guys, he's learning just
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: kind of bausting around.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: You know, like right some time and the rain. Now
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. So what's your all right?
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: So as far as business, because you're a business owner,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: obviously we're sitting in a business right now. So as
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: you said, Brick and mart especially Brick and Martar businesses
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: have been hit tremendously hard since the pandemic, especially black
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: businesses over forty percent of black businesses have completely closed.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: So what is your opinion, because I personally think that,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: like some of the problems in the Black community as
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: far as businesses, that we're too reliant on brick and
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: martar because that's what we know.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: It's like we know sneaker stores, we know hair salons,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: we know restaurants, we know barber shops.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: They're all great because they're service based businesses.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: But in times like this, it's difficult because you have overhead,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: you have staff, you have things of that nature. So
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: now you're you're going into the financial space, but you
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: still have a brick and mortar business. You think there's
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: a balance between the two for business owners, or I
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: mean I think there has to be for certain businesses.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: You know, I think that people like the Congregated Fellowship.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: So you can only keep churches, restaurants, liquor stores, and
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: barbershops closed along. You know them guys are gonna hang
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: in front of that liquor store, you know.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: People are people are gonna come to get groomed.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Essential business. Essential business litus comes and you can't get
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: drunk and go front there. Realized the politicians sneaking us
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: off but we have to change methodology. And here you
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: come here now either you have a mask or we
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: have one available. Take your temperature by appointment only. We
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: have four people in the chair, can only be four
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: of the people sitting, so you know, and my staff
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: is great about that. I gotta I gotta get them.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: They keep it clean, they keep it sanitized. Our bathrooms
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: are always That's a sticker of mine. Make sure I
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: judge businesses. Bam was like, Yo, this, this might be
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: the cleanest barbershop I've ever seen in my life.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Like I see mat.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Chula, shots out Selene, what's my new guy's name? Shots
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: out to Sam Selene? I thought Sam was cutting Celeena
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: is such a pro. He got hired as an intern
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: paid internship, you know, not a lot, but I would
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: have bought a few fair of joys. But Selene also
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: has has a talent of camera work. And he said, hey,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: I've worked myself out of internship. I'm still going to
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: do this type of stuff for the shot, but I'm
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: going to find a comparable replacement and train him.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: So I got to give him. Those are the.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Type of people you want on team. And I spent
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: a lot of years floundering in Barbara because what we
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: had barbaring, because what we had was people who were
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: used to the old school way in which I cut
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: hair all.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Day, but I don't clean up all day.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: It was I paid boover rent, so I feel like
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: I'm an independent contractor. But you never have to worry
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: about your air being hot, You never have to worry
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: about it being called. You never or those things get
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: solved quickly, but you never think about the variation of
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: boove rerint never changed that type stuff. So I love
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: working with people that get it, you know what I'm saying.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: And I love working with people that take cleaning the
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: corners of a building as seriously as they take making
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: sure that the light is on outside in that register,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: because you know, I have poured a lot into a
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: dream that really is a platform for other people to
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: prosper from. You know, I want to. I will not
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: have succeeded if we do not do what Chick fil
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: A did. Chick fil A took a novel concept and
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: gave the first opportunity for franchising to members of the
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: church and members of the family. They gave it to
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: people they knew it would take pride in it. So
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Chick fil A has always been ran. It's a different
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: type of pride. You know Andy Young talks about going
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: and seeing Kathy Truett walk into stores and start cooking hisself.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: You know that that is a mission that's greater than
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I want to make a lot of money. That has
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: added locations, that has sent kids to college because they
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: got an amazing scholarship fund. People genuinely see happy when
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: you walking Chick fil A, you're going to McDonald's saying
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: you can tell they might not be treated. So my
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: goal is too much like Chick fil A, grown ownership
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: right from behind these barber chairs and behind that desk.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: So you know, if Selim or Sam or any intern
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: that comes through here grows to become an owner. You know,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: shots out to mliss over with the Hawks and went
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: from getting a ball girl, I think an the NBA
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: for a bar now runs marketing for the Hawks. Those
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: are the type of stories I want my platform, and
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: that does come with making money, but that comes from
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: having a team of people that add to that in
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: that way.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: So I think that's why what you're doing, you guys
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: are doing, it's so important because you get it right,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: like you know what it takes to give a loan
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: or to a barbershop or here someone these businesses that typically.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't get along.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: But you said some interesting now your dreams, right, So
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: the barbershop was that's a dream? And if so, what
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: what's the next? Because I'm thinking of my mind, Like
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: you didn't know the fintech. So this kind of just
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: came along and it was a great opportunity.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: So what are the Yeah, I.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: Wanted to own a like I wanted I want. I
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: knew very young.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: I was ling very young. I was like this yard
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: work shit, this is not for the real man. What
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: are you? What are you talking? People selling drugs out here, Grandma.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: I seen my nigga take three hundred dollars my ground
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: game and ragget dass lawnmow. I'm going, you know, pushing
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: fucking more twenty five twenty bucks. And then old people
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: like after they see you do it quick, maybe I
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: shouldn't get it for nigga, this nigga twelve out scooter.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: You know, you don't think, oh, people can't slick you,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: but they're finesse you on the West Side.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: But when my.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Mom took me the Decatur you know, my mom lived
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: in the cab. Those people didn't mind paying twenty bucks.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: There was a kid living next door to me didn't
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: mind getting paid ten, So I would charge ours twenty five,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean, I'd give him ten.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Keep your teen is my lawnmower. I got do mainenance
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: on this motherfucker dog.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: And so I learned very early that figure out the
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: deal and figure out who smart. My mom had a
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: good business money, you know what I mean. She was
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: always about not working and figuring out ways to She
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: was affloorished by nature as me, and she was an artist.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: She dated very successful. She did a very successful, successful
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: drug dealer who opened up businesses as well. So she
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: was just always thinking. So you know, for me, it's
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: like it's my next thing. My next thing is mastering
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: the thing that I started before I find a next thing.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: You know, the banking made sense, but I've been peeking
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: and poking around there for the last six seven years.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: So this came and dropped in my lap. But it
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: was too perfect not to do. And it's really a
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: matter of me just getting out and getting a message out,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: getting the message out, let people know, hey, we're here,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: we're here. You have an option that doesn't lead you
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: to the check cashing place after you get your summer
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: camp job. Right, that's easy enough to do it. It's
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: daunting getting up at six thirty in the morning because
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: people with money are getting up early watching TV, you
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. By the time nine o'clock traffic hit,
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: they already in front of they tell they've done what
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: they had to do. So that part is like, Okay,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: this is a riz is like a real job. I
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: gotta wake up. But the brick and mortar stores that
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: we do in terms of these shops, and I call
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: them stores because what I learned really early is if
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: I'm dependent on barbers and booth rent, I'm going to fail.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: I'm going to close because people's lives is happening. You
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: don't know whose child needs what, you don't know what
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: emergencies are coming up with their parents. A lot of
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: barbers are talented people. They're making money on the quick,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: so they, like regular artists are entertainments or tradesmen, are
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: responsible for more.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: People than themselves, you know.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: So I started to not understand because I still got
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: to pay my rent. But I started to see the
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: glitch in the matrix. So we are transitioning to a
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: commission shop, right. So I've been talking to people like
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: the owner of sports Clips. I've been talking to people
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: like who worked in Floyd's and Ruty system getting it
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: as we sharpen our system.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: But what kept us open and kept us prospering.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: And went from being just a pet project that I
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: wanted to have a barbershop so I could have a
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: guy's place to hang as long as it pay for myself.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: My business partner and wife, you know, don't be paid
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: for it self. She wasn't gonna get me too much trouble.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: You know, my managers had sat out like now was
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: paying for herself. You know, you make a make a
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: grant to two after bootprint and all your bills paid.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: So it was like cool and I was like, but
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: then I'm like, you know what, Like when I'm sending
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: in a barbershop, how oftentimes I just need a T shirt?
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Like I just went to pick up some crack Forces
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: and I got to go to the VP. I don't
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: even want to go to the BP. I gotta go
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: to the BP. I gotta get your volved a dollar.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: I don't even want no they T shirt quality whack.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: I do feel like going to DTL lot. So I
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: started saying, why we're not selling T shirt? Yeah, we
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: started selling T shirts. And then it goes from fussing
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: and fighting with the barber about some money as they
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: don't or don't have or how short the short to
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: knowing I'm doing thousands of months in merchandise, and I
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: start to understand that not only are we a barber shop,
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: we're a cultural center and the swag shop unlike most barbers.
• 40:58
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• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Once you get in, try to keep it very simple
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: in terms of what you see with the barbers. We
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: use very you know, with manly stuff. You can grab
• 44:05
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• 44:09
  Speaker 3: We have art because I'm a fan of art. Chris
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Hope did this from art refolks. He also did the band.
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  Speaker 3: We keep things very simple, very clean, very taste, very
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: man like. And then we get you here. Come and
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: look at the cool shit you can buy to master
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: the nikes you just got for Walters, or the outfit
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: for What's happening, or which we have a synbiotic relationship
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: with other small businesses in which we want to make merch.
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: The Travis, the Travis Uh, the Travis s guys drop
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: the colorway is no accident.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: You understand what I'm saying.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: And I know that everybody doesn't want to wear the
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: exact same outfits of the club. So our customers get
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: exclusives one of one hundred and fifty May, one of
• 44:45
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• 44:46
  Speaker 2: And fifty May.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: You know our staple shop shirt sell We got a Transformers,
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: We got a star Stream shirt.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Your barbershopp ain't got no fucking Starstream, you know what
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: I mean. So that was my favorite cash.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Come on, man, you gotta see the one of the
• 44:58
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• 45:00
  Speaker 3: what we're in the business of doing now is making
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: sure that not only do you get a shave washing room,
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: a proper shave washing room, because you just sitting there.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: A getting a dry haircut is an experience. You might
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: argue about sports, but a shave washing room is the
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: only thirty minutes to an hour that the black man
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: or American working class man gets. That's just his Your wife, No,
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: I told my wife, you see much shit on buther
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: fucking white mo don't call me. I'm in the barber shop.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: This is your this is your country club. And so
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: after you get that cut and that exchange happens. Now
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: you get here and you get to take a piece
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: of that culture in the real world with you. And
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: what you're also about to start seeing from us is content.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: We work with actual artists. Ian Claire as an artist,
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: we work with, Chris Hovey is an artist. Scott Fuller
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: is a graphic designer we work with. So as we
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: drop stuff, you're going to see this stuff. Now leave
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: And this is you know, when we talk about scharm
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Shaw were talking about to me, two of the most
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: influential Black men walking face of the earth. It means
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: something that you're in the shirt because this needs to
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: say because on the best work determines your work, right,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: these men prove that work ethic determines your bod.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: It actually proves that. So in the real world.
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: I want this culture to leave from behind the counter
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: and go in the real world and create positive and
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: sustement track. You know what, this reminds me of Troy,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: somebody that interviewed recently.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: I guess I know what you're gonna say. Said, Yeah, so.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: Another hip hop les, especially when we come. We haven't
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: dropped this interview yet. I'm I'm gonna let the count
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: that's the man fucking talking about.
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the go.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: So it's crazy because you know he has a juice bar, Yes,
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: I know in Yankas and we went we did the
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: interview in the juice bar, and he was telling us
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: how we actually before he got there, the staff was
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: telling us how it changed the whole culture in the community,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: like people come and they look forward to getting the juice,
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: and and it's like and then he was his white
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: heim and his wife was telling us, Now they not
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: only do the juices, but they got the online juice,
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: and they got the merch, and they got the whole thing.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: They turned into a whole business. So it reminds me
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: of the same thing. It's like, not only are you
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: it's a cultural thing, like you said, it's a culture
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: for the community, but you're integrated, vertically rested peace in this.
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm going to because I'm like, yo, this
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: is now like when we went to la we had
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: to go to the marathon story too, right, and so
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: it was like it becomes a cultural landmark, absolutely, and
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: so like you I saw Nipsey out here, I'm like, yo,
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: that's what you've created. After a cultural landmark, was like,
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: now when you come to Atlanta, you have to come
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: and you go to Yonkers.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Yo, where's the juice bart? You know what I'm saying.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: And it provides not only opportunity for you, but also
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: provides opportunity for the community. Because the next thing, it
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: was like, Yo, how do we grow because maybe this
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: merch sells out so fast?
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Now you got to get a factory.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: But that also was now a maybe we're in this
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Friday or this Friday or next Friday. I go about
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: an hour north of here to look at screen pressing machines,
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: as I own a garage not far from here. And
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: you know, if you let's use around members, right, drug
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: dealer talking. So we're going to use a ten thousand
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: dollars number. Right, So you made ten thousand dollars last
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: my fear employees ten thousand dollars. What if I've learned
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: from my wife whose grandmother ran a liquor shothouse. Right,
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: they think, no, they you see a pint, they know
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: how much each shot out that pint costs them. How
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: much they should make off of this plan? She says, Well,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: I say, well, how much it costs.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: To make the tea?
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: Because if the cost is seven to make the ten,
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: the paye three I want to make. I want to
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: put three in and make seven out. I want to
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: change that. Right, So I said, how can I cut costs?
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: Because I'm looking at the shirts. We like a lot
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: of color, but the more color used, more expensive shirts are.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: I said, Man, the fuck this shit? I said, I
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: know somebody got laid off of furlough to fucked up.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: I know it's somebody that don't want to eat. I
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: know it's somebody can run a screenprint operation. I got
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: a building, why don't I just go buy my own machine.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: So we're in the process of doing that right now, right.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: I love Rick Cross's a business man. Rick Ross got
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: three hundred sun Nakers, got hold of feel on shit.
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: The first point is Nigga.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Lay niggah pack the fucking graund Rick Ross starts a
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: grass cunning company. The way he's shouting out John dem
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: sure they gave a niggas a pre track. And now
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: it's home boys that would say, hey man, let me
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: hold a sound saying let me get a job, because
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: most people want the dignity of having a job. And
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: now he has a way to cycle his money within
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: his own ecosystem. Maybe he got Trump's tax mo he
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: shot out too, and now he's able to put the
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: people around him on staff. He's able to dig up
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: John deal. Well he got to have a deal. Roseay,
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: you got to sell I need the John Deal. Yeah,
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: I'm just about four the boy. I need to track
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: the bad.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: But so that that's it. You have to start. You
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: learn to do that.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: You learn to get in the game at first, and
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: then start saying, well, what can I produce? What could
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: I do you know, so whether it's Jay who got
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: us into doing lighters, so you know, big lighters are
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: not cheap, but there are all the lighters I use,
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: but people are willing to pay. You know, it's easy
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: to say a Knicks past to. You know, it's hard
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: to say a dime, but you know it's easy to
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: It's easy to.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Say a nick. Yeah.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: Like, so.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: We have the specialty items that are synonymous with kill
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: a mic. If you watch Trigger Warning, you want to
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: know where to get cripple Cole and blood Pop will
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: just pop up. Go to the store, you get your
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Cripple col In, Blood Pop and more than like, you're
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: gonna say, well, let me grab a new era, let
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: me grab a lighter. White Woman came here last week plans.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: I just bumped up in the shop.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: I just popped up in. White Woman man spent two
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: hundred and summer dollars.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: God blasts a beautiful cat Gunner tar listening to in
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: the eighties. So this was the coolest mom ever in
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: the middle of this shop with all black guys, nobody
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: looking minuting. But she was just like my son loves y'all,
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: and I wanted to come in he's to run the
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Jewels fanom like we are the coolest motherfucking mom. We
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: took a great pick, but that type of stuff happens
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: more often than not. And I've realized that the Slash Shop,
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: and you know, a lot of people say it's a brand.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: It absolutely is a brand, but it's a brand based
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: around the culture of black and working class barbershops. And
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: what my ambition is to have, my small ambition is
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: to have one hundred and fifty three in every major
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: black market that's from Buffalo to Miami, from Los Angeles
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: to Charlotte, to have three and to expand. I see
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: now as I learn more about this game, and I
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: see Floyd's and Rudi's and supercussion great clips, I don't
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: see any reason why we can't get in excess to
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: five hundred.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: So at this point, I'm thinking, when people see you,
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: do they even think about music, Souse, The first thing
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: they think about is like.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: Well, run of Jewleses top ten on the Billboard, two hundred,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: We sold a lot of records. We just did an
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: adult swim special I only performance this year that's on
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: HBO Max for a month. We arguably the greatest rap
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: duo in the world right now. So I think that
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: people know me from music, but I'm more encouraged that
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: people know me for more than music.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: So my family's from Tuskege, Alabama.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: And if you talk about Lionel Ritchie, of course you
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: start singing and people start thinking of great records. My
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: family's a landown the family. So with my Auntius, remind
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: you of you know he about he about a lot
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: of l a baby. He did something with his money.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: He didn't just give it out the children. So first
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: stop having children, not a wetlock. And they didn't buy
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: some layer like Lyne of Richie, you know. And and
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: I can attend to that because I was talking to
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: a billionaire three days ago and he said, one of
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: the most savvy business people I know is an entertainer
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: name he calls nail, you know, white wol White Lie
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: your nail rich.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Now, that's dope.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: And even when we get to the bar before and
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: he gave me an idea I never thought about.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: I go to the barber shops my whole life.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: And he was like, how many times you see the
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: barber selling hair, grease, selling brooms, selling a brush, selling combes.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: We said, yeah, it's like what you would think like that,
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: that makes sense, that makes complete sense. It's like, why
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: would I have to leave the barbershop to buy I
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: hate beauty stores with my wife, so we started brushing.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: I hate born in the beauty stores to buy my grease.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: So we'll make sure everybody gets a brushing stuff too.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: But beyond that, I found a black company based here
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: in Atlanta, that Dutch private Lately that you sit down with,
• 53:05
  Speaker 3: let them know what you want. They create a line
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: for you. And we've got our own line created and
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: we'll be using a black company as I sourced locally
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: to supply our line. So by Christmas Day you'll be able.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: You'll get gus to get a package to take care
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: of your skin, your beard, your face and all that.
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: Because as a guy, man, I'm just simple. I'll go
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: to the mall or again, I go to Walters or
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: Wish or or I go to sneaker Cartel and I
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: get my kicks.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like doing other shit. You know what
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. I want to get Oh man, I'm in
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: the shop. I got up. Oh give me that kill
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: your mouses. Give me, give me that kill your mouses.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Give me that brush and I need some grease. One
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: stop shot, One stop shot man.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Because I sat in my barber shop on the south
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: side of the O G Shop, and I'm sitting there,
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: you know, slightly stone, just observing, observing things, and I
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: see a guy come in selling socks. I see a
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: woman come in selling juices. I see another guy coming
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: in selling shitty storefrom CV. You know what I'm saying.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: And then I'm saying, this isn't just a shop, this
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: is a store. But and then you know, I got
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: it where it was like again, where did I learned business?
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: The trap?
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: I start taxing people? Oh you come to myself. I
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: got to have I got to have tea. What don't
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: make no money? They ain't got nothing to do with me,
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: you and my shot spinning. So then they start serving
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: on the outside of the door. So then I said, well,
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: hey man, you're.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: All a curd.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: You got to give me five, but you're not gonna
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: come here and not facing taxations because every.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Month man, this man want this money. Man. And this
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: woman I sleep with.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: Then this fine beautiful woman, she liked money, probably as
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: much as she liked me, and she liked me before
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: I add money so I can't.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Go to a telling them, baby, we ain't good. You
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: got to pay me for it.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: And that's when I got the understanding that we're not
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: a barbershop. We're a store housing crypt of coola and
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: the blood pop doing selling out daily. Shouts out to Thug,
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: he took a picture with the big Holly ball Low.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: He took a bunch of blood pop up bit to
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: your session last night, so shouts out to Tip, shouts
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: out to Thub, shouts out for Savage.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: They all is Jay partner with you on that? Or
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: I know he had purchased something and put it in
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: the lyric, and I.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Was like, yeah, man, he gave us a shout out
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: like man to get a free jay Z shout out man,
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I old Jay for life. If Jake calls
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: me tomorrow and says I want to then what are
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: we doing?
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: Sir? You know what I'm saying.
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: It's it's still fledgling. We're still building it. We're still
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: very proud of it, and we're determined to make it something.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: I think that there is room in the market for
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: the brands that we built up with street fraternities, with
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: neighborhood clicks, with dope sayings. You know what I'm saying,
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: that should be an old boy Colone. I was so
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: nobody saying Cam It's flying, Cam cauld Sell. Colone is
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: easily as Johnny Tip. You know what I mean, really
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: the old Johnny De. Yeah, like Cam would do that.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: So my thing is you have to do it for
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: it to be done. So Criple, colon blood pop are
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: real things right now. You can buy them anywhere. Exotic
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: pop is so Exotic pop has been doing an adult
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: job of getting it out there. You can buy that
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: the locations at the Swashot locations and a few more places,
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: and you want to you know, our goal is to
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: go national. How you doing with stocks? I've seen a
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: couples that's in my wife question again. You know I
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: bought her after I like I bought I bought Shaye.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: These kind of gifts I get my wife crazel like
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: if I'm just like in Linux, I went into the
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: Apple Store and grass and figures, I'm gonna probably stop
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: by Victoria's secrets grab liking panies and bosses.
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: I like to see her, right, I'm probably you know.
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: What I'm saying, Like, I'm probably gonna go you know,
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: pop up at one of the high end perse stores,
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: because that's just happy at this point, and I like
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: seeing a happier face.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: But you do that so many times and you're just like,
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: you know, this is it.
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: It doesn't hit as hard because a woman, you know,
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: like my woman, she likes security, she likes the purses,
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: the boots and that stuff. But but in the last
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: few years, I've gotten more about, let me buy you
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: things that appreciate. So I bought her her grandmother's original house.
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: I bought her a duplex in an empowerment zone. I
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: bought a set of apartments. I bought a lot of
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: cool things for her. Well, the apartment I fought for us.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: The other stuff I bought just for her because I
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: wanted her to be able to make I told her
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: early on, if you quit your job and just work
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: helping me do me, I'll guarantee you one NY dollars.
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: So I was like, my goals, make sure you make
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: ten thousand dollars a month. And ain't got shit to
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: do with me. And you know, a few months ago
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: she came in and show me a piece of papers, said,
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: you know you got me there. I acknowledge it I
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: just want to tell you, thank you, I love you,
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But my wife, but I
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: started buying her stocks and just just ask if you
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: fire hundred stocks just like you know, stuff that I
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: know we're gonna always use. My grandparents, which is regular
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: working class foks. But they bought me Coca Cola and
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: Delta stocks because those were two of the biggest companies here.
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: They knew those companies weren't going anywhere. So I don't
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: know as much about stocks as she does, but I
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: know she's been very happy.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: But I bought her a lot of it. So from Tuskige, Alabama. Right,
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: That's yeah.
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: My grandmother family the black to be in this moment
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: where you have tens of thousands of people's signing up
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: for your new venture, over one hundred hundred and ten thousand,
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, just talking about the evolution, How does that
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: feel at this moment?
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: It feels exactly. My great grandfather's father was using New
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: Tatie experiment. My great grandparents were sharecroppers. My grandmother also
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: sharecropped until they bought their own land. They owned thirty
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: three Aggas and Tuskegee that we still currently own. Lumber
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: companies pay us to cut down trees and use the wood.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: So about you know, January had got a five hundred
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: dollars check, bought me and my son some Jay's.
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: Actually, but it was time for him. He grew.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: He had a gross bird, and you know it was
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: good to see that something. My great grandparents worked their
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: butt off, you know, they really worked, They really worked
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: fingers at the ball. My great grandmother argued with her
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: husband that she didn't give a damn if it was
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: you know, pickings, even time to harvest everything. That her
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: children were going to school just like their white folks kids.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: So my grandmother and then were able to go to school,
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: and my great grandmother had to work doubly and triply
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: as hard as a woman, and her and my great
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: grandfather provided a platform for their children to then come
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: to Atlanta, to not need or want to educate themselves,
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: and to become working class nurses, mechanics, you know, just
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: the American dream. Just able to buy home, maybe have
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: a rental property, take your kids on the cash. I
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: really had the chocolate version of the American dream thanks
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: to my grandparents raising. My grandfather grew up. His father
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: abandoned them at ten years old. He had to raise
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: his two sisters with his mother very hard times. His
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: brother in law brews moonshine. He ran moonshine to Atlanta.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: His cousin had a shot house in Atlanta.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: You know, my.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: Grandfather had a radically different life, but it was one
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: of the most kind and sweet man you'll ever want
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: to meet. But he was ultimately a libertarian. In his
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: fossip youths. He wanted the government not involved in his life.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: He wanted as least amount of taxes as possible, and
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: he wanted the opportunity to fish hunt. He left the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: fuck along.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: You know. He took care of him and his family,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: and he took care of his neighbors.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: If we went and caught fifty craft mean walleyte those
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: fish were cleaned by my sisters and grandmothers in the back,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: they were frozen.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: We kept twenty five.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: The other twenty five were distributed, passed four of the
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: fives to the poor and elderly around them. So, you know,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: for me, my family ingrained in me what you should
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: be as a man. My job is the first and
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: foremost take care of myself mentally, fields the spiritually. That's
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: why I came to be in the gym in the morning,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: but I go. That's why I drink the water instead
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: of cold, because I want to live a long time
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: see my grandkids. And that's why I take care of
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: my money, because I don't want my grandkids working from
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: a place of treading water to try to get to
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: land after they start on the beach, so that they
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: can build refuge and help the other people that are
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: coming in have something.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: You know, so I did.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: I am doing what my great grandfather and grandmother did,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: what my grandparents did, and what my mother and father done,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: and I'm being responsible to myself and my family and
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: accountable to my community.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: That's powerful.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: So as far as Green, I know you guys haven't
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: launched yet, but can people Like are they signing up?
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: It's like on the wait list waiting lists.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're jumping up on the waiting liss now and
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: the amusement park offers up there as they providing jobs,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: so like if somebody wants to work on the other end,
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: So like, I.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: Know they are hiring people now.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: They they've actually poked some great minds from one of
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: the big well a couple of the big four institutions.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: I think more people are being brought off, but I
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: can hit Ryan to the answer. We actually charls a little,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: talking my gout a little out here. He actually was
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: just talking to Ryan, and so we're gonna have a
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: call with him next week.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: That's good. Ryan's a great gutta be dope to a
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: great business mind.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: Because yeah, yeah, I'm sure that because I have some
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: questions even about like the ATM, like you could take
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: money out of the ATM, right, yeah, so that that's dope.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: So it's like for people because most people are just
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: so used to just bricking more than banks. Yeah that
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: I like breaking still, yeah, I like going. I have
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: both though, Like you have a Capital one account which
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: is on last and now I got it. You got
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: a lot of money too.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: The man fell right now.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: So I want to ask you one more question with
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: Kobe Rack because you said something that was very interesting.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: In a while ago, I saw an interview your thoughts
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: on education because Troy used to be an educated well
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: but he used to be a public school We had
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: a whole argument. We had a whole because me and
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: him is like complete opposites when it comes to school.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: He worked in schools for his whole life. Pretty much.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: And I'm like the anti school person, even though I
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: do have a college degree.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: I said, you're the smart niggawree.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: But the thing about it is, I feel like self
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: education has taught me so much more than form.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: So you would be my grandfather. Okay, So I told
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: my grandfather I got a more house.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: He's like, in your house.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: I was like, nah, actually I can't.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: I told his perspective is always jaded because he's speaking
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: from a place now. I knew him when he was
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: in sixth seventh grade. I knew him when he was
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: in ninth grade. He needed to be there right now,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: I said, not even from like an academic standpoint, but
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: from the social environment. And some of the academics and
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: things like ye after eighth grade don't even matter, And
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: I'm like, we kind of still need something, something we
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: don't need.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: Why I think school matters. I'm a name names.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: Stanley Pritchard, Robert hitch Pitts, Chief Judge, Joshah Jackson, Cameron Dollar,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: Michael Rinchard, Tip Harris, Keisha, Lance Bobs, Michael Julian, Marvin.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Airy, Derek.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: All these people are pretty elite amongst having accomplished things
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: in Atlanta. The first five or six people I named
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: were direct classmates of mine. So I was socialized around
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: n c A, a champions Chief judges, professional football players,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: and businessmen. And I was socialized and educated around these
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: people when we were in the sixth grade, in seventh
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: grade and eighth grade, and I knew I could be
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: a rapper because I knew my friend.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: Play out of basketball.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: So Cameron Dollard, who went on to one of right,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: So Camera's Me and Cameron were elementary school rivals. All
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: we did was fun as we fought, and I give
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: credit Cameron a lot for challenging me as a kid,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: like he challenged this, and that's just for nothing.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: We were both to the chubby guys he had a
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: men had.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: Cameron is an amazing testament to mentality because his dad
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: was one of the most winning coaches in the state.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: He coached at Frederick Douglas High School.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, so Cam, Cam really sharpened me in terms of saying,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: letting me know that all your friends ain't gonna gently
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: encourage you, so I'm gonna push the shit out of me.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: So we played, you know, on a team, Cam and
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: like losing. So Cam, if I had to be on
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: his team.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: He was pushing me the whole guy like chubby as now.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: So I remember I Shall telling us at twelve she's
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: going to need to make it and a lawyer and
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: said we were like, fucking man, what are you talking about?
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: The man? It's not even a girl.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, Assha is a fucking she
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: judged the cap got the one of the most powerful
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: women the state of Georgia. They just took a program
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: she created to make this state wide program. And I'm
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: just like she told us, I should push me to
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: go to a dinner last week. At the dinner is
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: a friend of mine in late I mean not the
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: late former mayor of Atlanta on the senior read all
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: these other prestigious black men, just to have a conversation.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: That's want another.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: That's how much she cares about me that she pours
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: in my club so school. In terms of socialization, most
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: people who look like us have to wait until they
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: go to a history through the Black College.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: University to get that type of encouragement.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: I got that encouragement in third grade from fighting camera
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: grade for my best friend Robert Hicks.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: In ninth grade from now chief judge Roshah Jackson.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: My greatest economic encourager was a man named William or
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: Bill Murse.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: He's an art teacher at Frederick Lovel's High School. He's
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: a reason that I'm that I love art and just
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: saying I figured out a way to make money.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: You know I love art, right. He also was the
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: first person to tell all these little want to be
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: dope boys. They sent me to his his art class twice.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: That was smart, But I have I like to fight.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: Oh you said, my god, let's do his school a
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: lot of school suspension. So they just sent me to
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: him twice a day. Send him begins at the end
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: of the day. Man, we don't save peoples. Yeah, I'm
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: Herrige classes. Mister Murrige the first person to say by
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 3: land by the Dawn because he understood that the bluff
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: the Blessed is where people went to vi hera and die.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: But he understood that that land being sold at that
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: time one dollar five dollars. The city just needs to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: get it off, was going to become valuable. That land
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: is the same place that my wife amised me not
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: to buy demon and by the department and buying that
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: without having touched it. It went from a two hundred
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: and fift thousand dollars investment to being worth in excess
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: of say one hundred thousand dollars. So he prepared me
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: for that. He's the same person that calls me now,
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: like compete, son, out of my guard. You need to
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: eat healthier like so he, like you, was just an educator,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: that's what he is. But he was the first person
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: to help us understand this little want to be d
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 3: boys and players and pimps and whatever we thought we
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: wanted to be.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: You know that you money is a tool or a
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: weapon to be used.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: It's not something that you just put gold gold fronts
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: end from doctor Joshrey and well started jacket and some
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: feebles and be the coolest in school.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: It's a tool for you to use.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: Mister Murray never really worried about the rules of school
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: because he was co owner of Murray Brother's funeral home.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: He owned land at another dome when he used parking
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: like people ain't gonna never stop dying. If you burying people,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: you're gonna stay, You're gonna be good. Yeah, you know
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: a long time so I he went to Booker T.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: Washington High School, noticed the names of the high schools.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: I'm saying to Frederick Guggam's Booker T Washington book T
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: Washington educated, Lena Horne and Martin Musther King educated. Most
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 3: of the educators that educated me educated mister Murray and
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: then went to Morris Brown College. Mister mister Murray gave
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: me a scholarship with Morris Brown. I choose to take
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: a scholarship at morehouses States.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: No, it's coming back, Doctor Kevin is bringing that one back.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: So margs brown back.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: Just look at all the black confidence buildings that I
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 3: encountered every step of the way. You know, Herman and Russell,
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: the largest black real estate development in Southeast built the
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: only Scotch breaker in our skyline has a step that
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 3: is thinking of Georgia Pacific building only black devil. I
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: think to build that lived five streets back from me.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: I grew up in the little working class houses that
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: buffered them, you know, from projects, and then they leave
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: them to enter our class. You know, I joke and
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: I laughed about the blue Flame. But the blue flame
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: it's all about Michael Kato, whose father was mister Koe.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: What's the mister k don't do we don't know the
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: paper bags got delivered to the marching organizers, so what
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: the buses could get paid for and people could get killed.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, people wouldn't get killed that they were protected
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: by people like the Deacons of Defense.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: You know that happened because people like miss Kato, you know,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: people that the good boogie black folks were frown up.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: Hut.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: You know, my dad told me one time about working
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: booking when mister Kato came in and had been arrested,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: and I said, what to say? He was drunk and
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: school the brown to say them diamonds and he was
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: wearing was blinded everybody. He was such a gentleman. He
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: went down the sat and fom his things and problem,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: and I said, what happened?
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: He d say.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: Eventually a Jewish lawyer came and he got right out,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. So I just those are
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: the stories and.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: The characters I've grown up with.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: Well, I just wrote a letter for a person ain't
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: Stephen Jones, and he's another big part of the reason
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: we're sending this barbershop. I ran in Adamsville, so in
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: the front my grandmother's front door. Adamsville was that way
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: in their back door bank head. So Tip grew up
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: a few sheets for me, so he ran more sensiment bankhead.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: I had a great grandmother since so I didn't want
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: to insensible. My auntie was an alibill, so I d
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: up getting out of the shrub.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: I wanted to.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: But Steve I used to go to, who was from
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: going home. He was from Chorlie Lows, Alan Rogers. Steve
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: was twenty three years old, already had twenty three twenty
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: four houses rental properties, already had toe trucks, already had barbershops.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: And he would allow me to just kind of sit
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: and he just give me game, like my cousin cut.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: My cousin Jimmy actually was cutting in his shop and he.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: Just you know, I was like it.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: I was a chither of little black head, big buck
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: to smile, white smile.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: But he was the first person to tell me, get
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: you one little chain. He said.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: He said, well a Roman, he said, like a white
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: man said, you wear a Roman? He said, white folks, children,
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: you know I ain't gonna tell you that, he said,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: but you know, he saying, keeps me a white shirt.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: So Steve would wear chrias guest jeans, a stiff white
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: shirt or polo style shirt.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: Very simple presidential roles he had on.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: But if you knew money, you knew he had something.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: So I just would just sit there and I'll sit
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: down here and be talking to me, and dudes be
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: bringing him McDonald's fast full of ash. But he just
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: impartd all his wisdom. Never offered for me to be
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: a runner for him, never offered me, no plays, but
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: he just poured a practical wisdom. And for whatever reason,
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but twenty years removed from that, you know,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: he gives a thirty years remove from that, I get
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: a chance to write the judge on his behalf and say,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: you know, please allow this man to come home. You
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, because if he comes home, I
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: can guarantee you that I'll help him have employment. And
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: many of the lessons that he was learning illegally he
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: passed on to me and I have been able to
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: use him for the betterment of the community.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: So he is he has a redeemed factor. That's one
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: of the proudest moments. I don't know because I haven't
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: heard back from.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: The judge yet, and I haven't heard back from Steve,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: but Steve Digget to let him to judge at the letter.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: But I'm hoping that how long has he been inside?
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: I think he's rounding up on teen. He had got
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: out for a while. Okay, he snatched back and God
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: bless everybody inside man, everybody for sure kill him like
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: man has been a.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: Every music us we gotta do.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna freestyle no no, no, no no no no,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: get your cash cash Greenwood Baby be on your ass.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah bar, I'm not gonna ask the best artists from Atlanta.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna say, what are the three greatest albums
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 4: that have come.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: Out of Atlanta? Three greatest albums? Good question? You gotta
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: come out of Atlanta? Good question? Uh huh, that's a
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: tough one. I would say the greatest hip hop albums. Sorry,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: you're gonna be tell you. If you don't say one,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: I know which what you're gonna think up too?
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: Can I give your mind spurts from a New York inspectrum?
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: All right, So I'll start, and I'll start with uh, Equimini.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: I think equipment is probably number one for me.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: I think I don't. I'm not gonna say trap music
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: because I think King is a better album.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 4: I'll say that, and then I will say for me,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: just on the person that I gotta go, I'm gonna
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: go back to outcasts, but I'm gonna speaking about love below.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: But Dre's part two thousands album. I listened to big boys,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: but the two thousand side me.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: You know off the trap, say trap trap music, change
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: the game a whole lot, Doug motivation, one.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: On one scratch motivation.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: And then of course, you know, the greatest, one of
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: the greatest albums of all time Confessions. I said hip
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: hop though the classes in that that's Atlanta. That's Atlanta.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: Shout out to usher Man. I mean, so, what's your
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: what's what's your top three? That's a New York respective.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't really have a top three that
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: you that you grew up on. Maybe maybe just whatever,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: just your favorite what I'll just say, artists that.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 3: I'll give I'll give artists that I think deserve recognition,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: that will that never get named it's a big machine,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: weren't behind.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 2: And I'll give you three artists that matter a lot
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: of Atlanta. Uh Ali, So you hear any of those
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: songs about you know.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 3: That that is that is that is that is Ali
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: and he was as daring and brave and singing as
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: Andre three thousand ever was, and weirdly dressing before Andre
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 3: three thousands right.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: Uh, So Kilo is definitely to be heralded.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: DJ Toomp cool and I connect him because DJ Tump
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: was there doing mc sh i d who was a
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: transplant from the Bronx here who came to Atlanta kind
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: of set off that the possibility.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: It can happen.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: He was the DJ and making beats back then to
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: Jedus Round. He also went to work at for Uncle
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