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- 1:00Speaker 3: Talk about Adidas and Yea, We spoke about this a
- 1:04Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago or now. More information has come out,
- 1:06Speaker 3: so let's see. Appears that Adidas and Yea have reached
- 1:10Speaker 3: an agreement for the remaining to sell the remaining inventory
- 1:15Speaker 3: that they have of the Easy brand, which is five
- 1:18Speaker 3: hundred dollars five hundred million dollars worth of product and easies.
- 1:23Speaker 3: Is this a win for Kanye or will Adidas ultimately
- 1:27Speaker 3: be manipulated for this favor?
- 1:30Speaker 4: What do you think?
- 1:30Speaker 5: Because we were talking about this yesterday and you made
- 1:32Speaker 5: a great point. It's like, what if they stressed this
- 1:34Speaker 5: out for a three year period and say, hey, we
- 1:37Speaker 5: haven't sold the five hundred million dollars worth of inventory,
- 1:39Speaker 5: or if they discount it while he's under this contract.
- 1:41Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 1:42Speaker 3: The thing about corporate is that this is why people
- 1:45Speaker 3: do like internal audits because you don't really know, like
- 1:49Speaker 3: forensic auditing on your books and different things in that nature,
- 1:52Speaker 3: because you can make up things right and somebody say, okay,
- 1:55Speaker 3: like we're going to pay you for you know, a
- 2:00Speaker 3: million downloads on your podcast, and then like they're the
- 2:04Speaker 3: only ones that see your downloads the data. How do
- 2:08Speaker 3: you know if you're getting one hundred downloads or if
- 2:10Speaker 3: you getting ten million downloads. They're giving you reports to say, okay,
- 2:13Speaker 3: you have one point five million downloads this month.
- 2:16Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 2:16Speaker 3: That's really not I don't know, like you know what
- 2:18Speaker 3: I'm saying. So it's like if you're saying, Okay, we
- 2:21Speaker 3: got five hundred million dollars worth of product, which is
- 2:24Speaker 3: the equivalent to four hundred thousand items, right, I don't
- 2:29Speaker 3: know you have four hundred thousand items?
- 2:31Speaker 7: Creeping Dragon?
- 2:32Speaker 6: Where is it? A?
- 2:33Speaker 3: Is the warehouse in China? Is the warehouse in Wisconsin?
- 2:36Speaker 3: Is the warehouse in the Philippines? I don't know. You
- 2:40Speaker 3: sell you said, what if you sell that in one month?
- 2:43Speaker 3: And then it's like, well, we only sold fifty fifty thousand,
- 2:45Speaker 3: we got more and you're just making more sell it
- 2:49Speaker 3: because it's like this is going well, so let's just
- 2:51Speaker 3: keep going doing this for another two years. So I
- 2:54Speaker 3: think it's gonna be interesting.
- 2:55Speaker 6: I think it is.
- 2:57Speaker 3: Kanye I don't think really loses in this situation. I
- 3:00Speaker 3: do think that he should still do something independent if
- 3:04Speaker 3: he can, if he can get his head together and
- 3:06Speaker 3: really like focus on that. But I feel like he
- 3:09Speaker 3: doesn't really get hurt by this. Adidas they're gonna have
- 3:12Speaker 3: to do something explaining because they took a strong stance
- 3:16Speaker 3: on him and separating them and saying that they don't
- 3:20Speaker 3: condone hate speech.
- 3:21Speaker 6: And they have people that they got an answer to.
- 3:24Speaker 3: They got people that are going to be questioning, well,
- 3:29Speaker 3: you just reverse this.
- 3:30Speaker 6: Now you're going back.
- 3:32Speaker 3: So how do you explain working with somebody two months
- 3:36Speaker 3: later after you just say that you can't work with them.
- 3:38Speaker 3: This is why I say, it's only business. It's only business.
- 3:41Speaker 3: There is no morals when it comes to this. And
- 3:44Speaker 3: that's why when people try to put morals, it's not
- 3:46Speaker 3: about morals. It's about if you can make money or
- 3:48Speaker 3: if you can't make And Kanye started to hurt the
- 3:53Speaker 3: business too much when he was talking too much because
- 3:56Speaker 3: it wasn't a moral thing. Because if the moral thing,
- 3:58Speaker 3: then you would have cut him when he said a
- 3:59Speaker 3: thing about black peop slavery.
- 4:01Speaker 6: So that's not the reason why you did it.
- 4:03Speaker 3: You did it because some of the things that he
- 4:05Speaker 3: said started to hurt your bottom line. You should have
- 4:08Speaker 3: just said that, because now you look like it's a
- 4:12Speaker 3: crazy reverse when it hasn't even been six months. It's
- 4:16Speaker 3: been like three months. Like three months ago you said
- 4:20Speaker 3: this is over, we can't do it. I mean, did
- 4:22Speaker 3: you lose two billion dollars and you say it, okay,
- 4:25Speaker 3: let's think about this, and.
- 4:25Speaker 8: You start looking at four projections and you're saying to yourself, wait,
- 4:28Speaker 8: we lost two billion, but like we still had him
- 4:30Speaker 8: part of our calendar fiscal year for half the year.
- 4:33Speaker 5: What is it going to look like when we don't
- 4:34Speaker 5: have him for any nine billion right in two or
- 4:37Speaker 5: three years.
- 4:38Speaker 8: I think from from Kanye's standpoint, it's interesting because he
- 4:43Speaker 8: has so much leverage he doesn't have to do it.
- 4:46Speaker 8: But from a monetary standpoint, it makes sense if he
- 4:48Speaker 8: needs the money to do it. Because it's the first
- 4:50Speaker 8: time we had this conversation. Earlier, it was like for
- 4:52Speaker 8: so long, especially in our community and hip hop culture,
- 4:55Speaker 8: we couldn't quantify the impactac It's tough to quantify it, right,
- 4:59Speaker 8: Like we'll tell you like, yeah, with this much of
- 5:01Speaker 8: the consumer, but the people are buying it because they're
- 5:03Speaker 8: seeing us wear it, and so that you got to
- 5:05Speaker 8: take that into account. When you look at the bottom line,
- 5:06Speaker 8: it's like, yeah, whatever, Like Kanye was the first time
- 5:09Speaker 8: you were like, all right, you can see the cultural
- 5:12Speaker 8: impact and the financial impact come together. And then when
- 5:17Speaker 8: the financial impact was taken away, look at the bottom.
- 5:20Speaker 7: Line of your company.
- 5:21Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think it was.
- 5:22Speaker 8: And look at the bottom line for the rest of
- 5:24Speaker 8: the people on your company since that moment.
- 5:26Speaker 5: That's true while in a recession, while inflation is there,
- 5:29Speaker 5: spending is tighter. I think the Adidas executives made a
- 5:32Speaker 5: huge mistake that a lot of big corporations make. They
- 5:34Speaker 5: don't talk to the audience and don't know what the
- 5:37Speaker 5: audience really wants.
- 5:38Speaker 4: So like when you.
- 5:39Speaker 5: Took easy away from it, the shoes will really worth
- 5:41Speaker 5: like thirty bucks, Like no one wanted to wear them.
- 5:44Speaker 5: It was like wearing like Payless Nikes with the big
- 5:48Speaker 5: foosh on the side right like yeah, and without aim
- 5:51Speaker 5: being attached to it. So when you have that kind
- 5:53Speaker 5: of mistake and don't have an athlete in place or
- 5:55Speaker 5: any succession plan, yeah, that's a huge mistake. I thought
- 5:59Speaker 5: they They probably thought they can push them away and
- 6:01Speaker 5: capitalize on the inventory and then backfire. And the same
- 6:05Speaker 5: way what we saw going back to Apple when they
- 6:07Speaker 5: put Steve Jobs out and Skully rand Apple and it
- 6:09Speaker 5: was like, well, if we have a few good ideas,
- 6:11Speaker 5: the business will run well. But sometimes you have a
- 6:13Speaker 5: person that's so important to the brand ethos that you
- 6:16Speaker 5: can't detach them away.
- 6:17Speaker 6: But also it goes down to it's like Michael Joyan
- 6:21Speaker 6: and leaving Nike.
- 6:22Speaker 3: Yeah, right, Like at a certain point, it's danger when
- 6:26Speaker 3: one person has so much influence over a company.
- 6:29Speaker 6: That's not a good business model.
- 6:32Speaker 4: Well, it depends on how you structure to do.
- 6:33Speaker 3: No matter what, no matter how you structure to deal,
- 6:36Speaker 3: because God forbid, somebody can die, somebody can get sick.
- 6:39Speaker 3: You never want to have like there's nobody that even
- 6:43Speaker 3: in CEO included.
- 6:45Speaker 6: Disappears from Google and it's over.
- 6:48Speaker 3: Disappears from Apple and it's over, like Steve Jobs died
- 6:50Speaker 3: and Apple is still running. Right, It's like, it's that's
- 6:55Speaker 3: a dangerous business model when you have a star player approach.
- 7:00Speaker 4: To think even worse having no star.
- 7:03Speaker 3: Well, not necessarily, because it's a slow grind, right, Like
- 7:06Speaker 3: I would rather take this the no star approach and
- 7:10Speaker 3: slow grind it out.
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- 9:02Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child
- 9:06Speaker 1: in Massachusetts. An MS thirteen gang member from Al Salvador
- 9:10Speaker 1: accused of murdering a Texas man of Venezuelan charged with
- 9:14Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just
- 9:18Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President
- 9:22Speaker 1: Donald J. Trump's leadership. I'm Christy nom the United States
- 9:26Speaker 1: Secretary of Homeland Security. Under President Trump, attempted illegal border
- 9:30Speaker 1: crossings are at the lowest levels ever recorded, and over
- 9:34Speaker 1: one hundred thousand illegal aliens have been arrested. If you
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- 9:59Speaker 2: Will be Protecting sponsored by the United States Department of
- 10:02Speaker 2: Homeland Security.
- 10:02Speaker 3: As long as I'm profitable, as long as I'm making money.
- 10:05Speaker 3: Because here's what happens with star players. You learn this
- 10:08Speaker 3: from sports, and you learn this from music. Record labels
- 10:12Speaker 3: and sports are very similar. When a player go through
- 10:18Speaker 3: the ranks, right, they're extremely humble and they're willing to
- 10:21Speaker 3: learn and their team player. At some point they start
- 10:25Speaker 3: to excel more than everybody else and they go from
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- 10:47Speaker 3: have to deal with that start player differently. The coach
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- 10:53Speaker 4: It doesn't bring the value that Lebron does.
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- 10:59Speaker 3: a four or did Michael Jordan could scream at a referee, right,
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- 11:07Speaker 3: it's extremely difficult to deal with personalities like that.
- 11:11Speaker 4: That's true.
- 11:12Speaker 3: You don't realize that until you have to deal with
- 11:14Speaker 3: the personality most people could. You can't have sympathy for
- 11:17Speaker 3: somebody until you're in their shoes. If you're not a coach,
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- 11:22Speaker 3: the CEO of a company that has to deal with
- 11:25Speaker 3: the nonsense, it's difficult to understand it.
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- 11:33Speaker 6: You know what? I'm just saying it's not But it's
- 11:37Speaker 6: not to say that.
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- 11:44Speaker 3: the headache becomes more than the talent.
- 11:49Speaker 6: The headache becomes more.
- 11:49Speaker 5: Than Can I give you an example where the inverse happened. Yes,
- 11:53Speaker 5: Tom Brady and Belichick, but now go this is me
- 11:56Speaker 5: Ian red Panda rebellion. Belichick was overrated as.
- 12:00Speaker 6: Coach, But at what point we.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Saw when Thomas left.
- 12:05Speaker 7: Er the fact that he hasn't won since Thomas.
- 12:07Speaker 5: And has had no If we want to talk about
- 12:10Speaker 5: cultural impact, boy, But here's the thing.
- 12:12Speaker 6: Here's the thing.
- 12:14Speaker 3: Coaches most of the time outlift players, but owners outlift
- 12:19Speaker 3: all of them.
- 12:19Speaker 4: Absolutely, that's a great bar set.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Of Again, coaches outlift players, owners outlive everybody. Here's the thing,
- 12:27Speaker 3: Patriots have never been the same since Tom Brady left.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Here's also a thing. Nobody is bigger than the system.
- 12:34Speaker 3: The Patriots still make billions of dollars every single year.
- 12:37Speaker 3: So who lost Robert Craft is always that's the purpose
- 12:40Speaker 3: of being an owner. Equity of average. He's still coaching, He's.
- 12:46Speaker 4: Still gonna be out of.
- 12:48Speaker 3: That, out of us bigger than the program.
- 12:51Speaker 8: That's what the running back to the Kanye thing like,
- 12:53Speaker 8: he's in a position where he can have the leverage.
- 12:56Speaker 8: Right So now if he even wanted to create something
- 12:59Speaker 8: or have equity, it's like, yo, I'm not I don't
- 13:02Speaker 8: want to do this deal.
- 13:02Speaker 7: I'm gonna watch y'all keep bleeding.
- 13:04Speaker 8: Because there is no saying like, how do I know
- 13:05Speaker 8: when you sell F one hundred million, you're gonna.
- 13:07Speaker 7: Stop saying it. We're gonna stop sales.
- 13:09Speaker 8: And say like, well, well we've reached out our mark
- 13:11Speaker 8: and thank you for the partnership and go on in
- 13:13Speaker 8: your way. There is no way to know, right, they're
- 13:15Speaker 8: probably holding it like, Yo, we're gonna sell it. They're
- 13:17Speaker 8: probably projecting like we're gonna do two billion in sales,
- 13:20Speaker 8: and he can't go back to Nike.
- 13:21Speaker 7: Yeah, And it's not like.
- 13:21Speaker 8: We're gonna be yo, Hey, we're gonna open the books
- 13:23Speaker 8: and show you. We're just gonna agree to these terms
- 13:25Speaker 8: and then we'll figure this thing out. There is no way.
- 13:27Speaker 8: But he has leverage. Now if he says, yo, I
- 13:29Speaker 8: don't want to agree to this, you know why. You
- 13:30Speaker 8: know why he doesn't have leverage in this scenario, goay
- 13:35Speaker 8: that money. That's what I said, can't go to war
- 13:37Speaker 8: less your money's right, That's what I said.
- 13:40Speaker 6: I said that.
- 13:40Speaker 8: I said if he needs it from a monetary standpoint
- 13:44Speaker 8: right now, he may say like, I'm comfortable living in
- 13:46Speaker 8: my backpack with forty million, right.
- 13:49Speaker 7: He might be comfortable doing that.
- 13:50Speaker 8: Or he might say, like, Yo, my ego knows that
- 13:53Speaker 8: I'm I'm worth ten billion, and if I ordered me
- 13:56Speaker 8: to get back there, I gotta get this capital to
- 13:58Speaker 8: build what I really want. And that might be something
- 14:00Speaker 8: he could do too, right, But it's just about where
- 14:03Speaker 8: where you're at with it, because he might be like,
- 14:05Speaker 8: remember it, for like two months, he was just I'm
- 14:07Speaker 8: living at my book back and you rarely see him
- 14:09Speaker 8: at the additional hotel in LA and he's in the lobby,
- 14:12Speaker 8: and I.
- 14:12Speaker 4: Think he knew the downfall was coming in he felt it. Yeaheah.
- 14:15Speaker 7: But if he comfortable in this space now, I don't.
- 14:18Speaker 4: Know, that's a hard fault. No, we're gonna be real.
- 14:20Speaker 7: No, I don't know. I don't know. He's a different
- 14:23Speaker 7: type of do. I don't know.
- 14:25Speaker 5: Good lesson if you have something good, don't ruin it,
- 14:27Speaker 5: whether that's the executive, star player, coach or read your paperwork. True,
- 14:32Speaker 5: because we don't even know, we don't know what the
- 14:33Speaker 5: percentage of the say to say a five hundred million.
- 14:36Speaker 4: He's not going to get a hundred million dollars out
- 14:38Speaker 4: of this deal.
- 14:38Speaker 7: No, you're not.
- 14:39Speaker 6: And once again, nobody's bigger than the program.
- 14:43Speaker 7: Never.
- 14:44Speaker 3: I understand when you understand that you'll go far in life.
- 14:47Speaker 3: When you don't understand that, you'll have trouble.
- 14:50Speaker 5: If that's true, Adidas wouldn't wouldn't have got went back
- 14:53Speaker 5: to reconcile what they did wrong to get him. They
- 14:54Speaker 5: would have been able to run the program without them.
- 14:56Speaker 7: That's short term.
- 14:57Speaker 8: That's short term, right, long term is going to exist
- 15:00Speaker 8: twenty years probably after this.
- 15:02Speaker 7: Well we'll see, right, But the thing is, yeah, it's
- 15:05Speaker 7: the same game plan. Right.
- 15:06Speaker 8: Nike knows at some point Jordan is going to stop
- 15:09Speaker 8: playing basketball. So what they do They create Team Jordan.
- 15:13Speaker 7: Right. That wasn't successful. Nobody even nobody even thinks about that.
- 15:16Speaker 8: When Eddie Jones and Ray Allen were doing Jumpman, nobody
- 15:19Speaker 8: was jump in. They needed to bring back the retros
- 15:22Speaker 8: of the guy who made the money. But while they're
- 15:24Speaker 8: doing that, they're looking for the next talent. Oh there's
- 15:26Speaker 8: this guy from La Oh, we got to get him.
- 15:28Speaker 8: Oh this is kid from Acron, We definitely have to
- 15:31Speaker 8: get him.
- 15:31Speaker 5: And they also Nike also used Kanye and don ce
- 15:34Speaker 5: and their cultural influence for no equity to make.
- 15:37Speaker 7: The retros pop. This is also true.
- 15:39Speaker 5: I remember when don Cee was the first one, don
- 15:42Speaker 5: Cee and killing retros, retros back. That's a fact. Negotiate
- 15:46Speaker 5: from the very beginning, so you don't get screwed over
- 15:48Speaker 5: because there's no lower team business, only what the PaperWorks.
- 15:51Speaker 4: As.
- 15:52Speaker 10: There you have it, my graduates from my school being
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