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- Vince: the Vincere Project and H Hour production. Special to me, because it's an H hour production. Or value that has to the world or not, it's mildly interesting in the story for me. Maybe that's not the right way to say it. It is interesting, but it's interesting because I'm interested in what H hour does or doesn't do. Ends up creating, and like I always share, right? It's it's everything is designed with these 10, 20, 50 year plans. Eternity, right? Like how do we document this legal paperwork for this particular thing to live on just in case the there is a world order and civilization does survive. You know, opportunities presented. Man, we got a training events is running a little VFW retreat. That's gonna be good here in the middle of October. So you can take a look at their website or other stuff on social if that makes sense. I'm gonna be there. It'll be good. Gonna have some burgers, a la Vince veteran folks connect with some new friends, reconnect with some old friends. I mean that's kind of what we do. We have a team. It's gonna be the same kind of group people and we'll rotate some folks in and out throughout the weekend to kind of help and assist. It'll be a really nice weekend. Man, we got Secure the Beach coming up November first. Mary's hard at work, Brock's design in it. I think that's sold out though. I don't know. Some students signed up, right? They get comped. And then you know they're they're They're gonna walk on the beach for four hours with Dr. Ruiz, which is always a cool way to spend an experience outside the classroom. It's some of that experiential learning, immersion, right? Get to build a relationship and assess and evaluate do I want to be around this person. You know, Vince is supposed to be training for the 88 miler, and I am, but I'm not I'm not training as good as I I normally do. I'm not being as rigid or or strict. I wanna say, for example, this past week I made a nor'easter rip through, man. Thank you to all the people that reached out checking in. a lot of flooding. People definitely had some property damage. You know, it's it's it's terrible. Like, whether it's an act of God or a storm or whatever, it's it's a couple levels, man. One is there's people that were here for Hurricane Sandy when that ripped through. So that that can trigger some strong emotional experiences or feelings. It can also demonstrate resolve, practical application 'cause the storm was so recent and and many people lost so much, man. Others gained because out of a crisis, that's what always happens. If somebody's underinsured or vulnerable at a phase of life or, you know, be beyond their means, the the storms will will devastate people. And there's a test of resilience and resolve. And as a community, man, I'd I'd say the community is like really, really tight knitted and supportive of each other like that. I feel supported, loved, and cared about here, you know. I think I've been here ten years now, you know, and Some wonderful relationships. You never want to see somebody get hurt or you know lose something or have some damage, man. I don't know, but thanks for everybody that that reached out. That was really considerate. but we're good. We're good on our end. Huge summer, man, finishing up. I don't get into the specifics of details of like all H-Hour things and stuff. and most people know that I'm a big Bitcoin proponent for all the reasons, right? The government has a vested interest one way or the other, whether it's nefarious or not. But all that Bitcoin they see is in their criminal investigations from Smugglers, traffickers, all sorts of weirdos, criminality, whatever. They're gonna leverage that and use that and they're definitely gonna use it to attack the debt. I mean that's not financial advice, but my intuition tells me that that's what those folks are trying to do. but yeah, if if your business or you personally had Bitcoin on the books, you you plused up forty percent, man. And if your dollar cost averaging that and you get a forty percent bump on your on your statement at the end of the year for your small business, man, what's better than that? You know, and that's the crazy thing and they don't tell you. It's like in a small business, you're eligible to create a Roth four o one k man, and like then you're creating the fund and managing on your own and you're not paying the one percent and it's not saying you the best ideas. There's sometimes it's appropriate to pay the the fee. You know, there are people uniquely talented in a way, much much like H hour. It's like you're better served to pay that person five percent and then an additional twenty five or fifty percent on on the profit because they do that and they win by a big Big, big, big amounts. but it's if you can get access to that kind of fund. You know, and not everybody can. But anyway, the Bitcoin thing. It's just an interesting and fascinating way, man. A couple of clients play with it, pay with that stuff. Keeps the show going. I like it, man. You know, big year there, SAS, SAS pocket apocalypse, right? Like Adobe was my hunt and we harvested some Adobe and we're gonna hold it for twenty thirty, the other part of it, you know. It's it's just not it's gonna have to pump a little bit at some point here. It's just gonna take time. It's a value investment. And then QuickBooks is the next one. I'm not saying it is for you or me. I'm just saying if you were hunting, I would start hunting QuickBooks. I say that because every small business in America, I think like eighty, ninety percent of them are connected to it. and they have cash flow. They have a lot of cash flow and they're integrating AI and it's it's a better platform or software than it was when I started this business. And that's just been a very short period of time. but yeah, I don't know, that's that's not financial advice, it's just things to consider, look at. Or throw in the trash. It's not interesting if you made this far. but yeah, man, the the the storm rips through and that's frustrating. But we had a beautiful Friday night, man. Like the sky was like these electric colors, pinkish, orangish, all the matrix and and the spectrum, right? Like it just came alive, and that's a good thing. And ultimately like so Mary and I go to the the football game, see Southern and Donovan play a tough loss for the boys. And it's cool now, you know, we she teaches and I'm in town and we know a lot of the kids or we know mom or dad or through one one connection of and it's just little town big town stuff, man. It's just beautiful, right? It's a regional school, so it covers pretty big area. But little town, big town stuff and it's just good to see, man, student athletes out there getting it. Tough go, you know, win element. A tough first half, I think. Done in a little more explosive on the on the outside. Soturation, I don't know. Freaking football analyst or scout, but you know, it's beautiful things. I will disclose this, it's like internal stuff. I just don't don't get into my relationship with my wife and kids, but my wife had to do a little thought experiment on the the way back and she's like Or I said, was like, hey, you know, what what do you think we would have been like on the ride up? Like what would we say to him if he if he plays sports, the big game is that night, and he's with his friends and family, and this is what he's been working for all year or years or in this big thing at this moment, right? And there's gonna be other big things after it if he continues to play. But like in this moment, this this night is the big night, right? And she goes, It's like hey, I would say, like, hey, this is what you work for, this is what you want, man, have a lot of fun, you know, do whatever. I was like, Yeah, I'd say something similar, like, hey, just keep your head on a swivel. Protect yourself at all times. Be considerate, you know, like be aggressive. But protect yourself at all times, right? Especially if it's a contact sport or but any sport, right? Like head on a swivel, you know, baseball, tennis, doesn't matter. Pickleball. If it's if pickleball is a sport, you still gotta keep your head on a swivel. But it's not a sport, so you don't have to worry about that. But pickleball. So then we kinda like just go quiet and we're driving and then like we just both bust out, laughing. And I'm like, there's no chance at any of that. She's like, she's like, yeah, you're right. She's like, as I'm making breakfast, she's I'm telling them, Yeah, you gotta get some today. Get some. Right. And now the way the world is social media, the kids can talk smack to each other, they have access, they can find each other, antagonize. And me, I'm I'm probably gonna probably be like, Hey man, like the parents were talking bad about you, and they don't think you're good. I don't know. They might be right. You know, and you can't do that all the time. Right? But like once in a while you can antagonize and instigate a little bit and and and get somebody to outperform. That doesn't work for every student athlete. And then on the backside, in a win, loser, draw, like what do you tell a a young person about sport? Right? You know, you gotta walk it off with them. Right, you gotta walk it off with them. But pizza's definitely for winners, right? If we lose, we definitely don't get pizza 'cause that's just that's just habit. And they start making that connection, like, I'm entitled to have pizza when I want pizza. And the next thing you know, they wonder why they're never never winning anything, is because they're always entitled to have pizza. So there's been no consequence of the underperformance, right? Like if you miss a tackle or an assignment or or blow something. And like I think I think people are like, you know, the the physical mistakes I'll never get mad about. Like, I don't I disagree. Well, once once you get to high school, there are physical mistakes that could be made in sport if you if you've been training and know what you're doing that are inexcusable. You know, and but effort and energy are always gonna be just not tolerated, unacceptable. You know. You know, so but I think it's it's all either way, right? But the storm teaches us, right? And going back to the sports is that no matter what you're doing, you're bracing for a moment, a moment in time. You could be bracing for an impactful moment. It could be literally just bracing for a physical impact in in a short period of time. and then in, you know, it then it will reveal deficiencies, inadequacies, parts that you didn't resource properly, or you didn't train or pay attention to that, or you didn't give consideration that the the game that can evolve and change, and there's new evidence as the the time moves on, right? Because the storm could escalate, right? Hey. unforeseen off the North Atlantic something, and next thing you know, we have like a swell. Well, now we have a very different circumstance situation, but you have to be attuned to that. You know, prepared is like, hey, worst case scenario. And Mary and I, I think, as a as a business and a brand and a company, we we're working on a deal for another part of the business and that's not going to work or go through because the Treasury decided to go wild all within the same week as we're getting ready to sign stuff. And that's super frustrating because at the end of the just came to a number on the interest rate on like Yeah, you're betting that it might go down. I'm betting that in five years when we gotta touch this thing again, it could be triple. Embellishing a little bit, but not really. Anyway. But you're bracing for impact to make a decision or choice and about the consequence associated with that. And so I think that's what it is. Would we despouse to our son or anybody, our colleagues or clients, each other? It's like, hey, did you prepare, embrace for the potential impact of how you're gonna be and what you're gonna do, deal with? You know. You know, and and then, you know, it's good to be in a good community. And I think I think the Long Beach Island. Corridor through Route 72 and Stafford, Beachhaven West, Manahawkin, down through like Tuckerton, up through Barnegate and and the Inca even considering not West, right? Like it's just really strong, strong, strong, strong American communities, man. I joke and tease that like this part of New Jersey is like the modern day Rhodesia 'cause it's surrounded by communists on all sides. but this area's definitely not that, man. Like just a lot of small business owners, investors People like keeping the resources in their community and redistributing back around their community. I know we do. Like if we have a big month, man, I'll donate our local not for profits and support our local sports and community. That's it, man. You know, it's cool. You know, Brooke, my partner, her k her kids are gonna be football players, right? You know, they're they're they're football players, right? Like that's that's it. And then then then my son comes generationally after that. And then the next son, you know, Brock's got a son, right? Like you you just keep feeding, feeding the best talent to the community and You rally it and this the proof is out there and and they're you know, produce man, Olympic level athletes, NFL players, right? Like it's not an accident. Like, yeah, there's requisite criteria for that stuff to happen, but you know, you go one wrong down. The seriousness of it, of names you've never heard, you'll never know. It's like, that's why it is because this guy that actually did achieve the highest level or made it's because he was practicing against dogs all the time. You know, the right type of dog, the right brief dog. Hard practices, hard training, and their youth sports and coming up dads that are involved. Moms that are involved and you know, the storm is just that. The storm is gonna rip through and then these folks are so bonded and I feel part of it as well. Having a community business in town is that like I don't I don't know, man. Like I don't I just don't see how I would want to be anywhere else at this moment in time. Like where else would I wanna be? Like when the storm gets here, I want be here, man. I don't know. You know, and then you think about your neighbors and the support and how does it impact them, right? We have some elderly neighbors along the way and you get little concerned, right? Elderly mom. gosh shoot, it's not really cold right now, but if the power goes and then they don't have they don't have power, what are we gonna do? And do they have a generator? Give place to stay if we have the power, they don't, or partner. And I think I think that's kinda how this community is, man. It's tight knit, protective, you know, protective. You know, like their community chats, man. If a car parks in the wrong street, throw it in the chat. Next thing you know, the CIA Masada showing up to clear out the street. Conducting their own investigation, just getting stuff done. That's a good community, man. It's it's you know, it's interesting is when I was the the Bush Center, this guy, Keith Hennessy, he was an advisor of President Bush. He he ran a class. He was he taught at the Stanford GSB, right? So super smart guy. And he did this all experiment and talked about and I'm paraphrasing and shortening the version. It was like an hour-long lecture, but the billionaire next door. He's like, you know. Does America as a whole benefit from people becoming billionaires? And then does that neighborhood or that street or that community benefit from people having resources and networks and wealth and connection? And you know, I think across the board everybody would agree that that's a good thing. That's a good thing when there's resources and people are successful in industry and business and innovation. Now I I I I I would agree with this. I mean, I know I know of somebody that in this area they they they didn't like the neighbor. They just didn't get along with the neighbor. And but that's been going on for a long time, right? For a very long time. And so flashback to twenty nineteen, I'm thinking about this or whatever, and I know this guy's uber successful and the neighbor maybe is, maybe isn't, but they they just don't get along. So I'm sitting there in twenty nineteen and I'm g I'm sharing those those little notes for a reason. And it comes up, you do breakout sessions and you talk about things and I shared and of course, you know, you know, this somebody's felt safe enough to offer their opinion and this Marine Corps officer Turd offers his opinion about doing what I'm doing, right? 'Cause at that point we're investing in crypto. This is twenty nineteen, and so I'm like totally a counter and I'm trying to figure and try to freaking unbank my family and self to just create a a separate entity and have a treasury company. But anyway, air grass, not that that matters. So I share like, hey, this is how I view it and look at it as a business owner and what I'm trying to do and how I'm considering it, what I'm looking at. At that point, H-Hour wasn't formally a business, but I've been very cultivated and like some smart remark to make and blow it and dismiss it off, right? And really self righteous and rude. But I was open. It was weird. It was very like I'm not just like, that's kind of weird. He's not being very nice and polite and respectful. And he's the kind of self righteous person. They're white people that they they ended up having a bunch of white kids and then they adopt a black kid. In of itself is not a crime, it's whatever. But immediately what I always think of right always is in the field I'm in, is like, Think of abuse and neglect right away because every documentary and sets sick case you have is either it's like some black family adopted this white kid that they chained in the basement or some white family that's abusing the little black girl or boy. And my mind goes to that because every case study starts like that. They don't talk about it, but if you do the research into that world, you think about that. So anyway, that's my judgment of him and his stuff. Self-rightous prick. but Either way, right? So we're talking about Bitcoin and the business and the importance of having people that have means and resources. And clearly you might be a socialist or communist too. That would make sense. But anyway, the point being is like ultimately the the the the people that have the means and the resources can endure whatever impact of storm and they can recover quicker. Right? The people that don't have the means and resources that have been struggling regardless and that every single day is do or die, they struggle because they are always in a survivability mode. And whether that's the addiction to stress and cortisol specifically, and or it's a trauma response because the world is cruel and mean and difficult and they don't have the requisite skills to overcome or adapt to those particular things, right? That that can limit and create issues and dilemmas. So if you think about Hurricane Katrina ripping through New Orleans, right? It's a pretty impoverished area and people want to align at long race and it's not. It's resources, right? And you're living below sea level. When you live below sea level, much like we do here and or at sea level, it's like you are subject to the ocean and Mother Nature doing exactly what it's supposed to do. But I would always say, based on what we pay for our insurance policy, if climate change was real, they wouldn't be insuring on these things. There's no way, no how. They just wouldn't do it. They wouldn't ensure anything near a lake or a river or water or on the side of a mountain. So in space of like what you share ideas and concepts about, hey, the billionaire next door and the business and how it works and benefits, it only people feel if they're they're part of it or in on it. But I would also say though that it doesn't mean good, bad, or right or wrong. I would just say that the people have resources and the and the will to support and helpful. It's not limited to a socioeconomic thing. But power and control is very much influenced by that. And so back to that neighbor, right, who may or may not be a billionaire, right? He didn't particularly enjoy his neighbor. So when his neighbor put his house up for sale, which it never even hit the market, he bought it. One swoop of the pen. I ass. Gimme. And then he proceeded, right, to turn it into a PJA grade little golf setup course, something something with a view. And I think that right there tells you exactly what you need to know about anything and everything, is that the scoreboard is what we keep and what matters. And if you want to be rich, that's one version, but if you want to be wealthy, that's actual power and control. That gives you the ability to say no. And yes to things, right? Meaning like being able to buy your neighbor's house to knock it over and destroy it and make it better and improve it, is a degree of power control. And that can only be done if somebody has wealth and means and resources. So what I would submit and suggest is that when that guy knocked that dumpster over, because it was a dump, right? He knocked it over and essentially improved the market and the neighborhood and the local community and economy as such. That's pretty phenomenal and amazing. And why would you not want more of that with industry and business, man? It's kind of crazy though, too, and I find sometimes on the threads on social, like, not that I'm stuck on them, but I'll see these comments and people say things about wildfires ripping through California. And I think about that. I know somebody out there, and it's like, man, like I don't, I don't that person's uber successful and wealthy because they are willing to work seven days a week all the time. But nobody knows that. They just see the fact that they have fancy stuff and homes everywhere doing whatever. And I'm like, well Yeah, they're getting up like four AM to keep that life and do that stuff and connect with high performing people because that's how they do it. Like I don't want that person to lose those things. What's the incentive of that? So I think it's what happens is people just don't ask, man. I think what I find at the retreats is guys don't know how to ask for help. I think at our beach events, people don't know how to ask themselves a good question, and that's why those things exist. And both of them exist for that reason. And then I think when you're out in the world, right, it's you know You ask everybody and just be open to whatever feedback you get. Right? Because that phase when I came into that room about, you know, the billionaire next door and how to overcome things and withstanding. I had come through my own storm, man, and I had my own sense of confidence or whatever that was. So to hear somebody say something rude or dismissive about what I'm doing when I'm doing it, it's it's internalized. You make a note of it, you make a mental note and consider the source, right? Like my company's Added 40% to the bottom line from August to September, and that dude's still poor, right? And at the end of the day, that's not a judgment of somebody that has or have nots. Poor meaning a poor attitude and behavior, because that's exactly who that person is, right? And and I think you know, I'm using this as a singular incident, but it's not uncommon for people to deal with difficult things like this. You don't have to blow things up or or do anything about everything that you encounter like that. I'm just giving you one example of how I agree. with the idea of living in the best zip code that I can possibly live in around the highest achieving people I can possibly the highest character people I can be. Because back to my son and my kids, it's like I want to expose them to high character people and then they'll make an informed decision about what they want or or what they're gonna do, man. I know I needed to be around some high character people and I and I feel like sport again is what created that, but sport's not the only place for that. I think there's plenty of places to create that. I think the the start point is you want to be in a a relatively safe community to be able to imagine and and daydream and and not operate from a place of fight or flight, man, because that's that's really hard to learn and experience life on those terms. Yeah. I don't know what the point of all that was, but yeah. A little veteran retreat coming up. Reach out. All veterans, right? Got a two fourteen, you're more than welcome. unless you're a terrorist, heroin dealer, or a pedophile, you're welcome. Right? Yeah, you're definitely welcome. And secure the beach. I know, reach out to Mary. Maybe I should make an exception. Add somebody on the billet or not. But yeah. I think it's our responsibility to create opportunity, but sometimes we have to move to those particular things. And I've lived in enough places at this phase of my life to say the zip code does matter. quite a bit. That's our responsibility. All right. this isn't financial advice, but buy Bitcoin. All right, talk to you later.