What You Watch Online Is Destroying Your Life

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3:13Brilliantly boring since 1865 is a service mark of the PNC Financial Service Group, Inc. PNC Bank, National Association, member FDIC. So this just made me think about something. because he put a post up yesterday. So you have the top 81 billionaires in the world have more wealth than 50 % of the world's population combined. That's 4.6 billion people. So 81 people have more wealth than 4.6 billion people. We already know that Elon Musk is planning civilization on Mars. We just covered that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are planning to eradicate all human diseases by the year 2100 by using artificial intelligence.

4:07And we talked about potential technology to make humans immortal. So it's pretty amazing and discouraging. when I go on social media, what I see is debates about fantasy football,

4:29said rapper having beef with said rapper's husband, food debates, fashion debates, and a bunch of other random nonsense that has no real significance in life. and this is happening in real time right in front of you and you're being consumed with so much nonsense that you don't even even have any concerns or cares about it at all and it's like robbing a bank right in front of you you don't even have to actually hide things it's in it's done in plain sight when you're looking at the this is things that are changing the way that the world will operate and directly affect every single human being that's living on planet earth.

5:24And the vast majority of people are concerned with such unimportant things. They wouldn't even register on any of these things that I just talked about levels. So when you're looking at your life and you're not where you want to be, well, that's the reason. Because you're making conscious decisions to consume things that are taking you away from any level of productivity and you're staying there and it's being done on purpose and everybody should be embarrassed. The people that are doing it on the media side, the people that are actually producing the content should be embarrassed. And the people that are consuming the content should be embarrassed.

6:10It's like going back to say, okay, well, there's so much alcohol in the hood. Well, who made you drink alcohol? You're still making a conscious decision. We already know that the cards are stacked against us. So when you make a decision to consume this content, that's the decision that you're making because there are alternatives. You're watching an alternative right now. But unfortunately, we're never going to have the same level of viewership or interest as any of those things that I just mentioned. So at some point, you have to take self-accountability and realize that as the world changes and as we enter a new world, you can call it a new world, or you could just call it a new world, you will be a digital slave.

6:53and this time your slavery will be voluntary. You signed up for it and you gave no fight and you will continue to stay at the same level that you're at, potentially even worse, your children also, and that's the decision that you have to make. Are you comfortable with this or do you want better? The choice is yours? The choice is yours. No choice is yours. Let me piggyback off that. Tesla is in talk with Saudi Arabia to open a new factory in their country. Shout out to Jamie Dimon. J.P. Morgan CEO says that it is a huge mistake to think the economy will boom anytime soon. This is probably one of the greatest bankers since James Pierpont Morgan, who the firm is named after is telling you the truth.

7:46National debt is$33 trillion. U.S. government spending represents about 25 % of GDP. Credit card losses are rising at the fastest rate since 2008. And there have been 116 IPOs on the U.S. stock market in 2023, 27 % less in the same time in 2022. And most of them are trash. the trash part was my addition we have to focus on the parts that really matter arm great kudos to rashawn for being involved in instacart instacart um and walmart expects 65 percent of their stores to be automated by 2026 i don't care what sexy red said back to even even i don't know i don't care what you gotta watch from like who's scared even a leather leather jacket let's talk about the rant era all that i hate i had it had to even do that to get y 'all to watch this information people like he don't know crypto i know i've been financially free since 2015.

8:48you can ask my mom dad when i was broke i'll tell you i was broke when i was up i ain't gonna tell you i'm up but i'm free you can ask my baby mama will be good will be bad you can see it in xander's face right we have to stop and i keep pointing this out to every shop at the math house i'm going in this week um i asked every podcaster and i asked every week how many podcasts make a million dollars a year more and return a shot always laugh because they don't want to say most of them is broke but i keep asking that question to tell you that having beef in the media does not pay you mr beast just said on a 500 million view No, no, 100 million view video he did.

9:29He got 500 grand. I said, thank God I'm not in that business. That's a lot of other ways to get 500K real quick. That takes two. If I got 100 million views, I want 300 million. But watch how YouTube, after the strike is fixed with the writers, YouTube ends up being the biggest movie producer in the next 10 years. You got a model to pick from. Hey, bring me a movie. Fully produced, fully edited, or we'll pay for the movie in advance. Which one do you think will win? I'm going to go with Google A for$200. Focus on the things that matter. That's why I put up the other day. Too many opinions, not enough assets.

10:10And if I've helped you increase how many assets you have under management in your personal household, please put yes in chat. But we got to stop focusing on the BS. Drake and Charlamagne. Kudos to Charlamagne for not feeding back into the BS. You can't even give an opinion no more when people attack you. the yield on the 10-year treasury uh skyrocketed to unparalleled heights from 2006 the bond market is now uh booming after it collapsed since 2020. even with us how much fluff conversation do we have shout to the houston rockets the new doku in there but we don't have no fluff hey hey we want to talk about diversification i ain't said too much shout out dylan brooks you know what i mean shout out to all my behaviors boy boy they hit different oh yo you're out for that you you wow for that i mean we're not but it's probably you know that's like wow for that it's like jay said um i'm gonna go to the bench when jay was like yeah we ain't get through to you yet um yeah you you're gonna keep yet attention is the most valuable commodity this is why it's so sought after so it can never compete with sports it can never compete with entertainment or celebrity gossip it's just it's impossible it's amazing that you know um he even was able to reach this level and still going but um you know at some point in time you got to take self-accountability like i said we we can blame other people and other people are responsible for a variety of different things historically and currently but ultimately self-accountability has to be had it has to and it's like if if you are in a position where you're an adult and you're indulging in in these type of mindless entertainment over and over again, it's going to have an effect on your life.

12:09It's impossible for it not to. It's impossible for you to know every single thing that's happening on Shade Room, on Academics, on Hollywood Unlocked, and shout out to all of those people. TNT. But I'm just saying, it's just impossible for you to know every single thing that's happening and still be at a highly productive level. It's impossible because I know billionaires, and I don't know any billionaire that knows any of the stuff that's happening. Zero. so you can't you're gonna have to tell him you can't you can't information is a liability no it is a net negative on it yeah it is i've never i've never heard mark cuban talk about um cardi b and nikki minaj's beef i never heard robert smith talk about um his fantasy football pick i've never heard michael nova grass talk about um my terry cloth choice of of outfits on InvestFest stage.

12:58These are certain things that I've never heard. I have heard them talk about artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, investing in companies, habits, behaviors. These are conversations that I've actually heard. So I just say, you don't have to have the aspiration of being a billionaire, but they're not done by accident. These type of habits are not are not caused by accident so you a certain level of self-evaluation that we all have to do even us like you know sometimes you gotta look at like like i'm i'm focusing too much on this this isn't this isn't i gotta get back to what's really important right but you're on youtube and going through the whole rabbit hole of gangland in america and you know about the blood set in Stockton, California.

13:52It's not beneficial. You live in Tampa, Florida. Why are you fascinated with gangsta disciples in Chicago, Illinois? It's not beneficial to your life. But they programmed us to look at somebody else's struggle as entertainment. And even like this rat beef and different that's somebody else that's a real life conflict that's a struggle that somebody has whether they haven't gotten emotionally assured enough to know how to handle themselves publicly or know how to actually deal with their emotional intelligence but regardless these are real problems and we look at problems as entertainment blue face and his baby mom and and the kid like this people problems have become our entertainment that that was kind of the premise of the mental health conversation and is there something that you're talking about because they were saying we we capitalize on struggle but nobody talks about solutions in fact when solutions are made and solutions are highlighted everybody does it down or push them to the side we're not really trying to hear that and so when you talk about the mental effect that that has on you consistently imagine if you're born into that a lot of us are like those things that you're speaking of like going down the rabbit hole on youtube but like i can say we're guilty of it everybody right like this is the culture that we came up in but there comes a point in time and I guess a growth inside of somebody that you realize that what am I doing?

15:20How is this beneficial? And what can I do with my time other than this? And once you figure that part out, then these things become more entertainment for you. Market monies becomes more entertainment. These type of things that provide information that can actually change your daily life, that becomes more entertaining. But everybody doesn't get there. And everybody's not going to get there at the same time. And some people may never get there. but the people who do we got to make sure that they get the information at the highest level people have phds in gossip that's a fact that's funny as hell but true an abundance of street credibility will only leave you bankrupt financially i've never met anybody that was able to cash in any level of street credibility so it's like you it's not transferable that's a good well any financial institution is not transferable it's just not nowhere it's really not it's not it's only going to leave you bankrupt it might get you a section in the club maybe that's going to leave you bankrupt yeah so it's just you know once again i just think that okay hold on i'm going to cut you off but i'm learning to guess what they're going to say so we can respond to it in advance what do you say to all the people but will you guys entertain rappers who promote this culture yada yada and and that's why and that's why thank you we have we have to we have to this is only the it wu-tang has one of the best line i think it was the jizzle i got you he said um mostly the dumb are intrigued by the drum so what he's saying by that you know people always say like nas got bad beats i never listened to rap music for beats i listen for the lyrics i only listen for lyrics but i understand what he was saying like that's not bad either that's why he said mostly the dumb is intrigued by the drum so once we started getting into the era of beats that's when hip-hop really changed so now i'm just saying as far as like when keep going i'm not gonna be when the beat overpowered the lyrics beat is important part of the song for sure but the lyrics was always the most important part when the beat became the most important part this is when mumble rap comes you don't have to rap you could just say anything you just ride the beat yeah you can vibe with the be so what i'm saying is that now we're in a situation where yeah we can't fight against a fire with a water gun it's it's just a certain level of intelligence we have to we have to provide the entertainment for you because if not you're not going to listen then there's education inside of the entertainment and that's why it's called entertainment yeah that was crazy master killer on triumph he said that that's the first time in the year quoted him you can't feed a baby steak can't feed a baby steak either if you actually end up killing the baby this is this is wisdom and understanding that there's growth and maturation so we're still immature as people we have we have we have a long way to growing to being mature so when a baby is born you you you don't feed it solid foods you have to feed it applesauce you have to feed it you know milk not yet no they're gonna be like no you can't be that one i'm just saying an infant i know that's over Over the course of time, no, this is a serious conversation.

18:25No, it's serious. I mean, you got to have a certain level of maturity to even understand. Like, you got to be able, if you're immature. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have? Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused. Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. NLP, aka Neuro Linguistic Programming, is a blend of hypnosis, linguistics, and psychology.

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19:41He reflects on his journey from his Harlem roots to global icon status, discovering the hip-hop origin of his name. The ledge was on the TV. Rakim had the bucket hat can go during it. Pops was like, that's Rakim. That's who you named after. I just was like, damn, that was f***ing swag. Rocky offers a window into not only a boundary-breaking artist, but as a man committed to fusing creative ideas, community, and remaining unapologetically himself. Have you ever gotten roasted for any of your outfits? For sure. Some people don't be getting the vision. Look, they can roast me, they can cook me, they can deep fry me, they can saute, whatever they want.

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21:19I love to be naked. I just want to be in my brown underwear all the time. Ross Matthews. You know what kids always say to me? Are you a boy or a girl? Oh my God. All the time. That's so funny. I know. So I'm always like, hi. I try to butch it up for kids, you know, so they're not confused. Yeah, but you're butching it up. It's basically like Dora's day. Right? No, I turn into Bea Arthur. Listen to these episodes of Dear Chelsea on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Run a business and not thinking about podcasting? Think again. More Americans listen to podcasts than ad-supported streaming music from Spotify and Pandora.

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23:17If you're enough to do that, then you shouldn't be listening. So you have to have a certain amount of maturity to even understand what I'm saying. So it takes time for a baby to grow into a toddler. It takes time for the toddler to grow into a child. It takes time for the child to grow into a teenager. and it takes time for the teenager to grow into a young adult. It takes time for the young adult to grow into an adult and it takes time for the adult to grow into a wise person. If you try to force that growth too early, then you'll end up hurting them. If you try to feed a baby steak, you're going to end up hurting them.

23:51If you try to make a five-year-old drive a car, you're going to end up hurting them. If you try to make a 12-year-old go out in the world and fend for himself, you're going to end up hurting them. So as you're, as a leader, it's your responsibility to make sure that you're guiding people in the right direction over the course of time in ways that they can understand in the language that they can understand in a speed that they can actually keep up with. If not, then what are we doing it for? Yeah. But the thing is we don't have time. Well, all we have, only thing that we have is time because if you look at it, it's like we had the conversation with diddy and he's like yo we got to make rapid change and give them different things and he's like yo that's not that's not quick enough well we got in this situation this is this isn't even 400 years slavery they said 400 this is actually even longer than that when you look at the fall of africa from kemet all the way to molly these are thousands a year this white supremacy has been in in rule for thousands of years yeah right so this is something that unfortunately you can't you can't reverse something like that in one year or five years this is why when mark zuckerberg has a hundred year plan this is important when ceos of japan looking at three or five hundred year plans for that company that's important unfortunately we are always only thinking about tomorrow in a week our long-term planning is next year like friday that's our long-term planning you know what i'm saying but that's not that's not a formula that's sustainable that might be that might be beneficial for individual person but when you look at a collective we have so we can't even agree on one particular issue like there's not one issue that as a collective black people really agree on even even reparations this people can't even agree on that and that analogy this is important so in that analogy where would you say that we're at are we still in the infancy stage or are we looking at are we compartmentalizing where we're saying this financial revolution is at the infancy stage or as i shouldn't say black culture but our community where would you say that we're at i guess over the last decade that would be fair honestly yeah where we are what you guys think we got to be in the infancy state we just had the right to vote 60 years ago like we technically wasn't even treated as equal human beings in this country until recently.

26:16So we are just now learning about this financial literacy information that we're providing. It's so revolutionary because the vast majority of people have never even, they don't even know anything about it. They never knew about stocks or real estate or let alone private equity, venture capital. So - Angel investing. Yeah. You know what's interesting? I'm just going to add to this point of what you're saying is very important. The higher we go and the more people that we meet, let's say of stature and of certain levels of financial freedom the less knowledge there's some at the top that have the knowledge but yeah as we go we're meeting people and i never knew what that was i never knew what that was i had nobody thank you guys that's why you guys are so important so it's even interesting as we come because i know that's something even in the financial planner world you would i would meet people of a certain level of intelligence you would think oh they should know that they didn't know but their discipline is not in finance their discipline is in health or it's in medicine and they didn't have the discipline to know what finance is and so the higher we climbed we're starting to see like this thing is really something that's been absent from a lot of different disciplines so uh go ahead though i wanted to get a 50 year plan 50 they gotta be at least a 50 year plan this is why it's like how you start with education like you got to understand too i think frederick douglas said it's a lot easier to train i'm paraphrasing it's a lot easier to build strong boys than to rebuild i agree so and that goes for men or women but i'm just that's what he said so it's you got to start all right now if we implement this program and it starts with somebody that's five years old now because even so the problem with the five-year-old is that even if their parents are going to be negative influences so you got to really it's a whole generation that has to of negativity that has to be replaced before a next generation can even get in a position to teach their children so this is this becomes the new compounded interest right where we look at the time the information is now the rate that we got to look at right they get it at five at ten they have it but then there's a generation that they're going to learn even faster so yeah in a sense that is the compounded interest of the future but but and in the investment you got to look the threats like if she wouldn't have came on most people wouldn't have even known that they're actively fighting so even when i bring up the rants and stuff like i tell people all the time like there's a reason for a to get your attention but there's a message i'm trying to also sneak in, even when they have the conversation about diversity inclusion.

28:37And that's why I'll shout to Nicole at the event with JP Morgan next month, I believe.

28:44There's a lot of interest in us post-George Floyd, but now that that has been eradicated, I've had a couple of talks with some companies and like, hey, that was the first thing that got cut, especially with markets turnaround, the marketing budget and diversity inclusion. Well, let's do the hell with that. The only part that troubles me is that while we are slow to get off the blocks, those that don't want us to have this information, they're moving really, really, really fast to make sure that we don't have it. Really fast. You got to move faster. And this is always my point. I never have to tell a guy, get the courage to go talk to a girl.

29:22Go buy Balenciaga. Go buy. I never have to push that. Nike, shit company right now. inflation goes up and consumers have less to spend it won't be a great stock i don't want to keep talking about the same seven to eight companies but there is a reason why so i'm going to be honest and say we have to move faster because when i woke up and saw that charlemagne and drink post i saw thousands of comments of commentary and people write think pieces and you're not monetizing and making no money you're obsessed with me bro I mean, but once again, that's their personal thing that they have going on. But why?

30:02Why is everybody commenting so much? Why is that a headline? Oh trending topic? Hey, what can you do? Um, Aaron's going to court tomorrow. Let's talk about that. Yes. Like, let's talk about that. I mean, we could just, it's human species. Is it always meant for a select group of people to have knowledge, wisdom and understanding than the masses of people just to be ignorant. That's how it always has been throughout human civilization. So I think that you might get frustrated when you're trying to uplift the masses and make them enlightened. They don't want to be enlightened. If the vast majority of people, if 100 ,000 people watch Market Mondays, those are the 100 ,000 people that want to get enlightened.

30:43If a million, if 3 million people is going to watch academics talking about Chicago drill and drake and and um whoever beef whatever charlamagne then it's hard to really advocate for those three million people because they're making conscious decisions you could say now they're not educated enough to even make a decision but at a certain point it's hard to it's it's getting increasingly hard hard to make that argument because there's so much access to information there wasn't always access to information back but previously it was it was illegal to read previously information was hidden you didn't even have an opportunity to be educated so you you were purposely left ignorant now it's it's becoming increasingly difficult to have that same level of empathy for adults because at some point you see something on social media and you decide not to watch it you see some you somebody's giving you some level of information at some point.

31:47Everybody at this point. And you're making a decision to be like, nah, that's not for me. The access to information, the barriers are so low at this point that it is a conscious decision that you're making to not be educated. Straight up. I don't know how many entrepreneurs that we've spoken to who have become successful who haven't said I watch YouTube TV prior to Earn Your Leisure. I did this. I would for free for free to do just to learn I just happen to watch it or I could watch bad bunnies video Shout out to bonito I'm not gonna got a bunch of billion viewed video, but like yeah, these are choices.

32:25We're making them. Yeah I will at what point what age do you think we should make the cutoff from being entertained to? Learning to make our lives better It's difficult. What would you tell your son? Let's say that I mean you got to understand a certain level it's hard to to for me personally i i would i never i was always on that my whole entire life i always was on i i was i always obviously listen to music i listen i'm in the culture so i don't i'm not like a you know a monk but i was always i always had a more serious demeanor since i was young yeah i always was on that type of time like i read rich dad for that when i was 17 18 years old like that was like a whole you know bible for me as far as education is concerned that's probably like what a lot of 50 year olds don't know but even before that i was always interested i was interested in in stocks i was interested in business you know it's you know that somebody's making money that's how i always look at like somebody's making money so i'm i'm interested to know who's making money and then how can i make money so to answer your question it's difficult i i think you know because you can't have those same level of expectations for kids yeah but i i think there's a intersection i think what makes us unique and i think it's what's made us unique since we were younger was that we were able to find information inside of the entertainment i think we had this yeah i think we had the ability to decode some of the messages i think we were able to break down and have you know a common understanding when it came to music especially when it came to sports.

34:03It was, yes, this is entertainment, but yes, this is business. Why do you get this contract? Who's his advisor? Who's his agent? Those are the kind of conversations that we were having on top of having the ones that, obviously, in the barbershop when you're in school. So you can't alienate them from it because there's lessons to be learned inside of it. We had a conversation with Lauren and she was talking about Roblox. I'm like, there's an intersection there. And we've said this plenty of times. Yes. kids enjoy it let's meet the winner at let's tell them that this is a publicly traded company so it's just about finding the intersections i don't think we can cut off the age and say you know what at 13 you're no longer watching this can you put time restrictions on some of it yeah can you incorporate education inside of some of it of course and then you're going to have the real world experiences that you can provide for them as well so i think it's a mixture i don't think it's a cut off because had that been cut off for me or and i could maybe i could speak for him as well i don't know where we would be without music i don't know where we would be without sports i mean i just say and it's the last thing i'll say about this i just don't understand how you don't want to just take your life serious and like i said even for me it wasn't like i was in business my whole life when i was playing basketball like that's what i was doing all day i was going to i was trying to better myself because i felt like that was a pathway to me never i never was a gamer not to not to knock that but i'm just saying that's not what i was doing i was never a gamer i was never somebody that was just smoking weed like i i of course you get introduced to that and that's a decision that's easy to make but i was always serious like i always was serious about my life like i want to do something i want i want to just be a regular person i want to be a special person so i i don't understand how you can just have so much complacency it's just it's it's difficult for me to comprehend because it's just so much serious stuff that's going on like i said no matter what you want to do like whatever you want to do with your life you only get one shot at it so why why would you not take it serious like why would you get an opportunity to breathe every single day that's a blessing is that the defense mechanism that kicks in right if i i pretend that it's not happening if i ignore it that's what it is that's not happening because my life is there's so much real happening in my life that i need to be distracted by the realness of it now you feel like it's a defense mechanism i don't know if it's a defense mechanism i think that it's just a it's a thing where people don't have that same level of urgency like i said if you look at it from a standpoint of like it's a blessing you're actually blessed to be able to walk, stand up and breathe.

36:31That's a blessing. There's a lot of people that are incarcerated. There's a lot of people that's dead. There's a lot of people that aren't physically able to even operate or mentally able to operate. So if you have a sound mind and a sound body, that's a blessing. I think it's disrespectful to just take that blessing and just do nothing with your life or do minimal amount. Everybody has the ability to be great in certain areas. So you could be the best carpenter. You could be the best investor. Like they said, he's the master investor. What is he going to say? The average investor? Like, why would you say what?

37:06Why would you strive for mediocrity? Like we say we're the biggest, what are we supposed to say? We're the smallest? Like people get offended. Like, oh, they're saying they're arrogant. They're saying he's arrogant. He's saying he's a master investor. Like, well, what are you saying you're the best in? And why weren't you putting out the information before i did it they drug me online i didn't want to be showing my face on camera like no you gotta like if you're gonna do a youtube show you gotta like put up the camera because you should have made two tech index never show your face be like ghost face kill it hey i don't know i'm gonna go get all the meat last year but but a lot but it's like even when i put up that post shout out uh to my guys though i was like yo stay inside for two years that's a small sacrifice like when i asked kairi like how long were you playing to get to the league he like bro what you mean every day since eight that's what i dreamed about when i met kairi he was doing trooper thread in front of me and i'm like i ain't playing i ain't not so from a butter you got me i can't hurt you yeah that's so what it shows the level of passion the thing that we're really trying to convey is like you have to have passion for something every day you have to get after it even when we traveling around these are still our talks yeah you get one life you choose and this is what i will say for everybody who goes outside all the time who parties a lot and y 'all like i'm seeing a bunch of people looking like they're happy when they're out when i see you in real life you look miserable it's better to have the real life that you're really happy about when you don't got a post than to pretend like you're posting for somebody else's media and i'm telling you like this the media that you're posting on don't make that much money for the people who own the media the last thing i want to say about this because you brought up a good point and i've been meaning to talk about this for a while because we spent a lot of time in alana and we go out all the time but i think i know what you know celebration is meant to celebrate something so when drake said drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments there's some level of truth to that right he actually has something that he can actually celebrate every single night because he's worked hard enough to put himself in a position financially where it's not hurting him and then also he's earned his leisure on that certain level.