I Don't Trust Any Jewelers" Here's Why

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3:36Diamonds are some of the lowest rates they have in the last 10 years, and De Beers made a thing for that stone to be of a certain value. 100%. There's about 100 element that's more valuable than diamonds. Diamonds are not rare. at all. They were never valuable throughout human history. They just became valuable in the 20th century. Yeah, last 100 years. Marketing. And they hoard the diamonds to make them rare. Yeah, it's an artificial market. That goes back to the whole marketing of America. Yes. Diamonds are our girl's best friend, but also engagement. This whole engagement wedding industry.

4:18Y 'all want to talk about the Somali daycare. that's the real scale they was that was diamonds are not valuable like gold has always been valuable since since 5 000 10 000 years ago people have been trading gold people were never trading diamonds people never thought diamonds were valuable until a european came to africa and had a brilliant idea to shut the the whole resources down and and hoard all the diamonds and then trinkle it out and then put a major marketing campaign in Hollywood and tell Americans that when you get engaged to somebody, you have to put a diamond ring on their finger and tell them that diamonds are our girl's best friend.

4:59Tiffany's in all of this marketing, and now diamonds are so valuable, but diamonds are not worth anything. In the history of mankind, this is a blimp when diamonds are actually valuable. Absolutely. but do what you want I know it looks good to shine and all that but and like you say if you ever go in harsh times and need to resell it you're not going to get anything for it no not at all but do what you want well speaking of diamonds let's show this clip from Speed as far as not that clip there's two clips with diamonds well we can show both actually but there's one clip when he went to the village and he was about to the 17 cows.

5:46Let's show this clip, shall we? Oh, that's your daughter? Yes. First daughter. Oh.

5:56You want to give me cows? Huh? You want to give me some cows? Yeah. So propose it. Then do I come with your family then when you call she eats? You have to agree first. Wait, she? You have to ask from her first. If she agrees, then you can come to the father and then you can negotiate how many cows you can pay so that she becomes your wife. How many cows do I have to give you so I can marry her? 17. 17 cows? Yes. How much are we looking at? 17 cows. How much is 17 cows? Because a cow can cost$5 ,000 to$7 ,000. And our money is equivalent to the$5 ,000. So five times 17. $250 ,000. $250 ,000 a cow.

6:38$250 ,000. $250 a cow? 20 cows, or 5 grand. Wait, 20 cows, 4 grand? 5 grand, 5 grand. So,$4 ,000. Yeah. So, do you want one wife or two wives? Or three wives? 15K, you get three. I want 10! 10 wives! How many do we have here? One, two, three. You can only have six today. Six? You can only have 60. Yo, this is crazy, bro. This is insane. What the hell? This is crazy. 25K, 6-5. I'm going to be in contact with them cows, okay? You are welcome. Shout out to Speed, person. Shout out to Speed. I like him. Yeah, he's doing a great job. So they thought that this was a joke. Like I said, we went to Kenya and they educated us that it was 10 cows.

7:34That was the dowry in Kenya. but I guess Estonia, I think he's in Estonia, Kingdom of Estonia. It's a small kingdom. You ever seen the guy, so he's the king. You've probably seen this video on Instagram when he came to Abu Dhabi with 21 wives. Yep. That's where he's at right now. So the head of the village, I guess that was his daughter. And a dowry. So dowry is the offering that you give to the family before you can marry. 17 cows. Now, he says some vitally important things to listen. So at first it was like, you ask her, she has to agree to it. So it's not like, oh, she has no right. Because I saw that in the comments.

8:12That's so sad. She has no rights. They literally said, you have to go to her first. She has to agree to it. And then there's something else key that the head of the village, he was like, okay, bring your families and we'll negotiate a dowry. And then, you know, 17 cows. You think he overpaying with the 17? is that like a cow index i think i hit him with the premium he hit him with the premium that's before negotiation that's before negotiation start high and work your way down work your way down um but i think all right all jokes aside though right this goes back to what i was talking about before as far as tradition just that little 30 second clip you saw a tradition as far as yo you go to her first she he said okay quickly let's bring your family i'm gonna bring our family we're going to negotiate the terms that is out okay this is the offering that you have to provide all of that like i always say that goes back to having some level of tradition culture and social norms that have to be done customs it wasn't just yo what's up i like you let's go out on a date i like you know i mean like let's let's let's go to vegas and let's let's elope i'll tell our parents later after this is all done.

9:30We got a kid, three kids. My mom never even met you. It's so much stuff. I thought that that was a pretty cool clip for people because a lot of people have never seen that before. Never been exposed to that. I thought that was some good education. What's your thoughts on it? I really like what Speed is doing. Even in the next clip about Botswana and the diamond industry, I love in his own way how he's educating his audience. I just want to know if there's like a chart that we can try. Trading View, y 'all got the Diary Cow Index per country available just because you know, just in case. How many cows are you willing to give?

10:16I don't know. I got to see the chart. And I got to see what the historical price were. So it just depends. Trading View, Charles Schwab, somebody. Oh, Vlad, put it up, Tentiff. Put that in. Yeah, Polymarket. Put that up. Let me know. How much? $2 ,000 a cow? So that's the part, because I guess depending on where you are, the cows go for different prices. But that would be good to know, too, because I don't think it's a standard price for a cow. I know we're joking, but you have to know the price of everything you pay. Like, I know Troy put it in a thing. Five of y 'all got a chain that plays movies.

10:57Like, at some point, we need to start having conversations with those in our culture about what should not be done. I saw that. Oh, it's 5K per cow. 5K. But then you bring up the point, is it a Wagyu beef cow? Yeah, well, what's the quality of it? Some of these cows is like malnourished. They're like 80 pounds. They can barely make it. So is this the finest grade of beef that we can provide? Yeah. Because that might be more, that might be a higher level of price that you're paying. Yeah. 5k. How many cows you willing to pay? Yo, think about if this 5k. 5k at a prenup. That may not be a bet. If you pay a 5k, because people will die.

11:47This once again, it's either that or a push present. I just learned about that. You just learned about the push present recently? What? Did you know about that? I'll say a way. Y 'all are getting what? Let's think about this rationally, right? Because some people will say like, damn, cows. They laugh. No, but that goes back to there's different forms of currency. Yep. If you're in the middle of the desert, water means more to you than$1 ,000. Yeah. A gallon of water would mean more because you'll die. So a gold bar means nothing in the middle of the desert when you're about to die of dehydration.

12:32Water is premium. So, yeah, you can kind of laugh off the cow thing, but if your survival is based on farming, cow okay but cow's going for five thousand dollars let's say let's say let's let's just say 10 right that's 50 that's 50k right like okay it it's not really that funny after a certain point in time because it's like let's say he asked for 14 that's 70 000 the vast majority of people that got married got did not get 70 000 at all so y 'all laughing but it's an investment into the family That's a fact. Like the vast majority of people got married for nothing. For nothing. And it's a good way for the father to know if you have capability of taking care of the daughter, at least on a financial front too.

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