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July 1, 2022 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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RECESSION is HERE! How to GET RICH in a Dying ECONOMY! | Guest: Grant Cardone | Ep 266

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More women in positions of power.
If Putin was a woman, which he obviously isn't, but if he were, I really don't think he would have embarked on a crazy macho war of invasion and violence in the way that he has.
If you want a perfect example of toxic masculinity, it's what he's doing in Ukraine.
That was so long.
How many more times do I have to start this show out?
Like, this is basically the way the show works.
Find a bullshit video that is going to make people mad, or you're just going to be like, am I living in Retardville?
And then the answer to that question is always, yes, if you're not mad, you are living in Retardville.
Then music plays and we try to have a good time and dance, but it is just a crazy time.
We know that you dance with us and it goes on for so long and we're all uncomfortable, but we start the show in the best place where we don't know where the world is going.
We don't know what the future holds.
But we got a lot of crap to talk about, including an amazing guest today, Grant Cardone, the billionaire and super financial media mogo for some reason decided he would go on the show.
But, you know, everyone needs a time in the broom closet.
On that note, welcome back to Slightly Offensive, the Best Worst Show on Blaze TV, where we always have confetti of color, 8K graphics, the kind of money that you get when you go to BlazeTV.com slash Elijah and sign up.
I am always joined in the studio by my producer, Josiah Moody, who's here in the producer chair.
He got the confetti of color as well.
Looking great there with the color coming down and the party pop right.
Oh!
And as you know, guys, we have upgraded our graphics, and every time that we have one of these in our hands, that means that we are not canceled and we're still going good.
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So luckily, we still all are here.
We got a big show talking about today, including the most insanity.
That video, we're just starting out with that.
Boris Johnson, he's turned out to be such a fat sack of shit.
Like a waste of time.
You know, he actually got caught partying in the most strict lockdowns.
Do you know about that, Josiah?
That during the height of the lockdowns, when people in the UK couldn't even leave their homes, couldn't go to businesses.
They couldn't even drink a beer standing up.
That was illegal.
And he was caught partying with people.
He said it was a meeting.
He had to have conversations with people over alcohol because he's a politician and because we're all fat losers and we are all plebs, but he gets to have fun because he knows what he's doing.
Rules for thee and not for me.
He has it going on.
He's healthier.
Look at the man.
He's fit.
I'm blowing some of this confidential.
I need some confidential energy.
Dude, so cringe.
This is what they do.
It's, oh, in fairy tale land, in hypothetical land, if Putin was raised in America, like I could do the same thing.
If Putin was raised in America, he wouldn't have done this right now.
If Putin was a Christian, if he went to church every single day and actually read his Bible every day, nobody cares.
That's not the situation we live in.
Stop talking about it.
Oh, if he was a woman, really?
There's so many other things that you could put in right there.
Well, yeah.
No, and the crazy thing about this too is like this is where we're talking about the weakness of the West right now and this collapse that's coming economically, which is insane.
And that's why I brought Grant Cardone on.
If you don't know who he is, you should find out who he is.
The guy's rich.
He's very successful.
I'm like, we got to talk to somebody who's rich, famous, successful, and ask them like advice for the average person on how we can survive the upcoming hyperinflation, the lack of affordable home and housing, and also skyrocketing rent, I don't know, food prices, basically everything falling apart.
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But I think this is kind of crazy where we've gotten into a point in the country where you know things are bad when the men are like, you know what?
We're just going to give it up to the women to figure things out.
And I'm not, I'm actually not talking crap on women because the saying behind every good man is an even greater woman.
I don't like that phrase.
Yeah, I don't like that phrase.
I think that's that's dumb.
Behind every man is a strong woman that he leads as she takes care of his household, as she looks after his family, as she helps him to add value to the family, right?
So he can focus on his work.
But this idea that like somehow men don't have the capability to solve the issues, guys, we caused these problems.
We literally made the issues.
You can blame it on women.
We're the ones who gave them the right to vote.
We're the ones who let them get into power.
And Roe Vade voted in by men.
Yeah, it was all Roe v. Wade was voted in by men.
And then women, they did help take it apart, but it was catalyzed by Clarence Thomas, who was a man.
And so the fact that we've gotten to a point in the world where they're saying, well, now we need to just give up.
Men need to shut up.
They need to step back.
And they need to just let women figure things out.
Women can't even get along with each other.
They can't even figure out their friendships.
They're not going to figure out the country.
Even though there's plenty of lovely women out there who are strong leaders, who are bold, who have filled positions that men have given up, that men have chosen not to lead.
And when women lead, it's a sign of a curse on a country because if men are strong and they're leading the country well, women do not feel the need to lead.
Well, I think that's kind of the main point that the guy is making too.
Like, well, look at Putin's Putin is a masculine man who's making a masculine move by going in.
And who does he think he is?
Oh, he doesn't fear anybody.
He doesn't fear us.
He needs to be more like a woman.
He needs to be emasculated.
So not only are they telling you, they're also dissing women at the same time simultaneously because they're going, oh, Putin with his moves, what are you doing?
If you were a woman, you wouldn't do this.
What?
A girl isn't strong enough to go to not fear anybody and go in.
Well, in reality, yeah, a female would be scareder to do this, but that's what they want.
That's what they want.
They don't want a man.
They don't want a king.
They don't want somebody that's coming in.
It's going to come and assert himself and be dominant.
And that's why they want women in office.
They're just, I mean, it's crazy that this is the narrative.
But yeah, a woman is only as strong as her husband.
Right.
If a woman isn't, if a woman isn't as strong or if she's a bitch or whatever she's doing, it's because her husband isn't leading her properly.
And if the husband doesn't have his house in check and the wife has to step in and fulfill that role, then your house gets out of line.
Why are you surprised?
You're the man of God.
You're the man who's supposed to take control of your house, take control of your wife.
And so if, you know, shit starts breaking and the house starts getting sideways, but you've been gone or you've been doing stuff partying.
Can you really be surprised because you abandon your post and you need to, your wife is your post and you have to make sure that you're leading her and telling her what to do because she's not the leader of the household.
No, she's not.
And I know a lot of people have different kinds of relationships, right?
Like you have to understand like the empowering of women was meant to weaken men.
It's meant to emasculate society to keep men from acting like men so that women's, the spaces are always made up of both sexes and then they always favor what women want.
And so, like even the complaints about air conditioning being too cold in an office place, it's all about adjusting to women so that men have less and less of spaces where they can be themselves, so that they cannot ask masculine, so they don't have individuality and power and they can't also work together.
And then they get.
They get punished for acting like men, for being overcompetitive, right?
This is why we have all these made-up jobs for women in the workplace where they have a certain quota 50 for women, 50 for men so they give women these these weird like liaison of of desk uh connections where they just sit around and like go to some uh portals at Linkedin and they sit there and I watch their, their videos on Tiktok.
They just like drink shakes, walk around.
You just need to like do something with the women and they're forced to hire them.
Now there are plenty of women who are, who are, who are hireable, who you could work with, but it's not the norm, it's never been the norm and it's not like we figured something out 60 years ago that they didn't know for all of history.
We're not that smart, we didn't advance, but of course, now we live where we're at and we're relying on women.
Now here's the point, when we talk about this, i'm gonna, I need to go here.
Uh, um of let's see um yeah, of Denmark, let me go here.
So Denmark right, we're in the middle of all this stuff that's going on right now and it is pretty insane of what's happening now.
In the midst of all of this, we see the West collapsing because we're blaming Putin on toxic masculinity.
Instead of solving the issues that are going on in our countries, we're blaming toxic masculinity.
And in the midst of severe possible food crisis uh, crises the um, the Dutch I think this is Dutch yeah Denmark, they um are shutting down a bunch of their farms in the middle of all this to Reduce nitrogen by 30.
which is an absolute insane thing.
Not only does this biologically not make sense, I mean, if you're talking about fertilizers, whatever, I guess you could talk about an unnecessary amount of nitrogen, but there's an idea about the seventh year letting land rest.
This is very biblical.
The idea is that we're coming in, and the men that are leading our country that are around there, it's not because we need women, it's because we need men to start acting like men.
We need someone to get up and say, no one gives a shit about your black hair.
No one gives a shit about your transgender body mutilation surgery.
Go away.
We got real things to take care of, like the fact that we're getting involved in a war that doesn't concern us.
We're defending a country like Ukraine that doesn't matter.
And most importantly, on top of all that, our response to the problems in the world is: let's accelerate this so that we can bring upon the new world order.
Let's squeeze the middle class.
Let's create this feudalism where nobody owns anything, where they're happy.
Let's make them eat.
Like they remember the thing is they would say, oh, why don't you eat impossible burgers?
They're better for you.
But guess what?
Almost every restaurant are now more expensive than beef.
So they also want to replace your beef and then replace it with something synthetic and worse.
They always want you to have an ulterior, self-man-made version of the world that God made.
And then they want to say, guess what?
You're nothing you can do to fix it.
You're going to have to rely on everyone else.
And when you're a woman, they'll tell you to shut up if you're a white woman, leave it to black women.
If you're a black woman, they tell you to shut up and leave it to trans black women.
If you're a trans-black woman, they tell you to shut up, leave it to disabled trans-black women.
I'm sorry, ma'am.
The list keeps going.
You look great in your wheelchair.
You wheel around.
I'm not going to tip you over or nothing.
Enjoy your placard and primaries, parking wherever you go if you're working and affording a car.
But I'm not looking to you to run my country when you can't even run.
Yeah, I feel bad for the women that became men that were handicapped because two of their legs didn't work and now their third leg isn't going to work either.
It's just, it's really disheartening.
No, I know.
And I thought this was a joke.
When I saw this, that they're closing out a bunch of their farms in Denmark.
I ended up going over to Washington Post and they ended up confirming, which is crazy because Washington Post.
That's actually insane.
Yeah, the Dutch Prime Minister condemns protests by farmers at Minister's Home.
He's condemning the protesters who are saying, hey, we have problems in our country.
We're not going to sit back and blame Putin and toxic masculinity.
We want to actually solve our issues and we want to build our country back.
Yeah.
I remember we were talking about the famines that were happening in Shanghai and what was going on and everything and the baby formula shortage before it even hit America.
We talked about it on the show and then next week it just, boom.
And we told you guys, listen, this is happening.
This is weird.
We don't know what's going on, but Patriots apply and get some food and get involved with your community, get involved with your church because you guys are all going to need each other if shit really hits the fan.
Like, Elijah's not kidding whenever he talks about these things.
Economic collapse, recession, probably.
We're in a recession.
We're in a recession.
We're in a recession right now.
Yeah.
But they're not fully saying it yet.
The left isn't, of course, because they're going to lie to you until everything's going to be.
The quarter hasn't ended.
So they don't have it on paper.
You can feel it.
The stock market is tanked.
You can't go out in the streets without getting mugged.
Your crypto doesn't have any value anymore anymore.
Inflation is out of control.
Your gas prices are unaffordable.
You're literally in a recession.
Your basic foods and needs are almost impossible to get on.
You know what would fix this problem?
Increasing the amount of production.
That would bring the prices down and fix everything.
And you know what their goal is?
And you would do that by giving tax breaks and reducing tax burdens so that you can pass on down the line, the production line, increase the amount of product.
But instead, Biden's planning on increasing taxes, which is going to further create a squeeze on actual to market products.
And we're going to have a really hard time getting basic necessities.
In fact, this summer, there's no sriracha sauce at all, and tampons are going to be hard to find.
Well, that's why I'm excited for this interview with Grant Cardone, because I think that he's rich, and he's going to kind of show us as well how to not really show us how to get there, but give us some advice, give us some tips.
So if you're planning on leaving, don't leave yet because you guys are definitely going to want to see this.
That's true.
I got to stop buying smartwaters.
That's how I can save some money.
No, but I want to talk before we jump into Grant Cardone thing.
This is a huge win, a huge white pill for us today.
In the midst of blaming and sending everything towards women and saying that, you know, we need to close down our farms.
We need to cause more problems, which is, by the way, all intentional to bring about this collapse because they want to reignite the world into a global unification.
It is interesting, though, we had this Supreme Court article or case that was decided that was they returned the legislative power to the legislative branch.
Now, this was West Virginia versus the EPA.
And the reason why I want to talk about this, it's so important, is because what you're going to hear from this landmark decision is two things.
One, they're going to over-freak out about it and say that it's actually going to cause us to all die from climate change, while at the same time, minimize the true impact of what this decision is going to do so you don't realize the power that's returning to you.
So let's break this down.
So there is this challenge between the Clean Air Act back in 2015 from the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA.
The EPA is a three-letter agency.
These are common, especially from Woodrow Wilson and FDR all the way through.
We've had so many of them, from the CIA to the FBI to the NIH, the FDA, to the CDC, which you might know most importantly recently.
These non-legislative branches of the government, federal bureaucracy, or as we call them, the deep state, right?
People, not elected bureaucrats who are put into power, who make decisions over regulation in your life and codify and change what you can produce, what companies you can start, what kind of medicine you can take.
And most importantly, they take your life into their hands.
They didn't put him into office.
We can't take them out of office.
And why?
It's because of Supreme Court decisions and legislation like that happened back in 2015, where it gave the EPA an ability to fight climate change, aka to fight bullshit, and put in legislation to throttle and remove the power of independent corporations and the middle class so that they can have ultimate power in the government.
Well, Clarence Thomas said, I'm tired of this, motherfuckers.
You're going to just go down.
You made my life hell for 43 years.
I'm going to make your life hell for 43 years.
We're just going to go through this and we're going to start undoing all of these non-constitutional, anti-Republic, anti-Republican too, not the party, but anti-Republican, anti-federalist ideas that are out there that we need to take the power and we need to put it back into the state's hands.
So I want to read this to you.
So the Supreme Court has been up to some bad stuff recently, but it said to cap off its term, the Supreme Court handed down a much-awaited decision on West Virginia versus the Environmental Protection Agency.
The decision, which severely limits EPA's presumed authority over carbon emissions, is being celebrated as a win for those wishing to see regulatory power curb.
Let me zoom in a little more here for you guys.
In its decision via Chief Justice Roberts, determined that Congress did not grant EPA in Section 111D of the Clean Air Act the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the agency took in the Clean Power Plan.
And that on the question of whether the best system of emission reduction identified by the EPA in the Clean Power Plan was within the authority granted the agency.
The court's decision is more than just a win for the energy industry.
However, based on the court's rulings, we are looking at the future where the legislative branch of the government actually has to legislate.
So what this means in a nutshell is environmentalists and Democrats are saying that we've overturned the EPA.
Oh no, the birds aren't chirping.
They're coughing.
And, you know, the squirrels are crying.
This is the problem.
We're really trashing the world.
I love the world.
I don't love Republicans that are anti-environment.
I am very pro-environment.
I don't like people like, fuck the ocean and throw their trash.
And no, don't litter.
Take care of the land.
Till it.
I used to work for the forest agency and even as a scientist down in California for a while.
And we'd like, you know, cover, try to recover burn areas and go into deep crevices and whatnot.
I love that stuff.
But the world wasn't, we are not made for the world.
The world was made for us, right?
We don't serve the world.
We tend to the world.
We take care of it because we are gardeners by nature.
That's what God gave us.
We literally tend to the things God gave us, but we don't worship it.
There's no mother nature.
There's no authority that the earth has over us.
And that's just the truth.
And any type of natural disasters that threaten us, that's because God wants us to know that the creation is not the creator and that he can, in any moment, he can take this out.
He wants us to be in awe of what he created and to fear him and to see his might.
If even the oceans and the storms that he created are powerful and could wipe us out, how much greater power does he have, which is why we should fear him.
If we fear the storms, we evacuate for, you know, what are those called?
Like typhoons and hurricanes.
Imagine that.
We're afraid of what God created, but yet we mock God and we're not afraid of him.
That's some crazy stuff.
But I do want to say this: that the reason why this is important is because this sets a precedent.
When the Supreme Court sets a precedent, it basically allows the lower courts to decide what they want to do.
And what this said is that these three-letter agencies, I don't know if you remember how much the NIH, the CDC, really, and the FDA overtook power during the scandemic, but they almost became a branch of government, literally.
Right.
They were doing stuff without legislation.
Emergency powers, emergency act.
What this tells you is you're not allowed to do that.
And Congress is no longer allowed to deflect.
They have to put things to a vote.
And it has to affect their ability to be in office.
And it has to reflect their constituency.
So this takeover of the deep state has been crippled today.
It was crippled.
It was pushed down.
And that's why they're mad because they're mad that the power is going back to the legislators, to the people, to the state.
Finally.
We're getting it back.
One law at a time.
Yeah, it was crazy how much the power they let Fauci have.
And I mean, how many calls that he was able to make, how many calls CDC was able to make.
And now it's finally not going to be able to pull that shit with us again.
Finally, dude.
Like, big dubs, big dubs.
Well, I know.
And if I'm not going to read this, but Yahoo is writing things like the conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court has chipped away at the wall separating church and state in a series of new rulings, eroding American legal traditions that need to prevent government officials from promoting any particular faith.
It's like, dude, we are a Christian nation, okay?
And they're upset because we're starting to win.
I don't know why we've been fighting this hard for a long time, but we're getting back one piece at a time.
We are dog eat dog.
It is literally an air dog fight every single day, and we have to keep taking this back one moment at a time.
That is also to say, not only do we talk about the prayer that was changed, but most importantly, what's happening in our country is there is a shift because darkness cannot stand the light.
And we're finding piece by piece that we are not without a representative.
We are not without some sort of a redeemer.
And we can take this nation back.
And we really can overcome these people.
It's true.
They're sinking.
They know it.
They're losing.
And yes, there is no, really, if you look at what the separation of church and state meant, they are confused on what that meant.
Very confusing.
It was supposed to be that the church wasn't domineering the state.
I mean, the state wasn't domineering the church, wasn't controlling it, and wasn't trying to get in the way.
And the idea that, you know, I'm one faith just trying to come in like the Anglican church, right?
It was to keep away this sort of dogma where there became a politicization of the church.
Nobody.
It wasn't supposed to keep that Christians and that God wasn't a central tenant of the nation.
This nation was meant for God-fearing and moral people.
That's what it was created for.
Exactly.
Nobody should be scared if the church is involved in the government.
If the church members or people of the church were involved in government, you shouldn't be scared.
But you should be scared if the government's involved in your church.
If the government is involved in your church in any way, you should be worried because once they take power, that's why we see with the Catholics, only I can read the Bible.
You guys can't read the Bible.
Only I can tell you how to think whenever it comes to God.
And God becomes just like how science has become a political genie bottle where you just, oh, let's take this passage completely out of context.
You're not allowed to read the Bible and then tell you, and then you have the Christian crusades.
Oh, just go to war and you're going to heaven.
It's like, no, it's not true.
Like, that's terrible.
That would be one of the worst things that a government slash church has done to its people.
Like, terrible.
No, it is true.
It is absolutely true.
And I got to say, with all this being in mind, I want to talk to some people that are not in the political world.
I want to change it a little bit.
And I want to make sure that I'm able to talk to Grant.
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It doesn't cost you anything.
And if you leave that five-star review, it might get right at the end of the show.
We have a couple at the end.
Anyway, though, I want to introduce Business Mogul, billionaire, and one of the most influential and business-minded people, Grant Cardone, who, by the way, has single-handedly helped multiple people I know become millionaires.
This is not a joke.
This is why we're having him on.
And he's out in Las Vegas right now.
And I'm so glad he's able to take some time.
Grant Cardone, welcome to Slightly Offensive for the First Time.
Yeah, hey, so good to be here.
The story of my life is offending people.
No, but only slightly, though.
And what people are most offended by, we were talking about this, is our dashing good looks.
Because I know that people on the show get one good-looking guy at least every single episode, but I'm afraid for the audience with us both on the screen together, I think we might actually break the internet.
And, you know, people need, they need reasons to hate right now.
So with everything, with everything else going on, the gun laws that are changing, Roe versus Wade, inflation, now our good looks.
I mean, this interview should just blow up with the haters at least.
I know.
Well, the haters, don't worry.
They can always abort themselves because we're not going to be giving them any attention at all today.
You know what I'm saying?
We're just successful men.
I make at least $37 a week.
So it's like, and I know I'm going to get up to $40 probably starting next week.
And then, you know, people ask me, they go, well, you know, that's not that impressive.
And I'm like, cool.
Well, you know, in some countries, people only make a dollar a day.
So at least I'm rich for Sri Lanka.
You know what I'm saying?
Exactly.
I totally understand.
Yeah.
There's rationale for everything, by the way.
And one day people said you'll get there too.
I just want to encourage you.
This is, if people don't know who you are, one day you'll get to that kind of money too.
We got to talk, though.
We do have to talk because besides being good looking and rich and having good lives and making the haters hate us, the world has gone kind of crazy right now.
And, you know, I'm a millennial.
I'm 29 years old.
And I look at people like you who are 32 and you've had a couple more years on me.
You've been able to get out there and have some success.
I saw you have a couple of cool things like a plane and stuff.
But, you know, that stuff aside, I mean, are we actually just starting right out the gate?
Is everything screwed?
Is it all over economically?
Or is there going to be any recovery?
Are we going to see any good news soon?
So let me just lay it out for you.
So at least in America, this is a little, this little part of the universe.
The group of people that have spent 20, 30 years, like your parents probably, the middle class in America is probably permanently, unless they change all their activities and what they believe and hold true to themselves.
People that have been in poverty and the lower, the lower class income earners in America have always been, you know, screwed.
They know it.
The politicians know it.
And who we haven't given any attention to are the hundreds of millions of families in America that are burdened with too much debt, not enough opportunity, not enough income, and a bunch of terrible, terrible financial advice.
Yeah, no, and this is kind of where I'm coming from then.
Because right now, I feel like I might be wrong, but if you make less than $250,000 collectively in a family, not only do I feel like you're going to feel inflation, but I feel like that's become the new middle class.
And it's going to sound crazy to some people out there because believe me, I'm not trying to, I'm not going to income shame you.
I know depending on where you live, it might change.
It might be different.
But am I wrong on that?
Like seeing that really genuinely, you've got to be up into what used to be considered the upper middle class just to kind of scrape by or to get by and to not feel the pain of what's going on.
No, 1,000% agree with that.
And I've been saying this for a decade.
Look, inflation is not a new thing in America.
It's a new thing that we're talking about because it's been happening for a long time.
The first levels of inflation are a dollar simply does not go as far, right?
So it's like when you print this much money and you literally everybody ends up at the monopoly table with more money so they can pay more of everything.
And this is what's been happening now for decades.
It just so happens COVID accelerated all this, like throwing some gasoline on a fire that was already lit.
So I've been saying for years, look, you need to make at least $240,000, $250,000 a year to pay your bills and to actually get any kind of lifestyle that would allow someone to start investing money in things like stocks, much less the cryptos that people have been gambling on, or to buy real estate and own good real estate.
So I know people at Facebook today that cannot pay their rent, yet they make $270,000, $280,000 a year, but their rent in that same market is $9,000 a month for an apartment that's 30 or 40 years old.
So the game has changed.
The politicians on both sides are not telling the American public the truth.
They cannot help you out of this situation.
Debt is not your problem.
Spending is not actually the problem.
The biggest problem is income.
People have to figure out ways to earn income in excess.
And I know everybody's going to hate me for this.
The minimum wage jobs are not the problem.
Median wage is definitely a problem.
Median wage needs to go from $58,000, $60,000 a year for sure just to start solving people's problems.
Yeah, but I think people are freaking out.
Like I genuinely believe, because you look at the situation at hand and like, it's like someone like myself, you know, I'm doing well.
God's been good and I obviously work hard.
I work my butt off.
I get the privilege of the fact that my wife's a stay-at-home wife and she adds to the family wealth in her own way, right?
I'm able to, I'm freed up to do what I need to do.
I'm able to focus on what I need to focus on as she takes care of the house.
But for the majority of us who are out there and people that are walking around there looking at this, I mean, people feel like there's no way to get more money.
Like there's no tree where it's just growing.
And it's like they're looking to someone like you saying, well, what can I actually do to start to increase my income?
Because this one, 2% raise that I'm getting every year is seven or eight percent below even inflation.
So I'm losing money day by day.
My money in my bank is losing its value.
People are getting into their savings just to buy groceries.
And it's like, okay, well, I mean, how, I mean, you're going to be fine.
I imagine you're probably going to make some money throughout all this because you have the capital.
But to the average person that's in that range, I mean, what could they actually do?
What are things and practical ways people can get out of this or get ahead?
Yeah, well, you got to quit going through these periods of being what's called comfortable.
Look, I grew up with nothing.
Like I was raised by a single mother, five kids.
She raised this.
My dad died at 10 when I was 10 years old.
He was a young man when he died.
And when the income stopped, what happens is, and this is a message for everyone suffering with this right now.
This is not going to go away.
The only way it's going to go away is you have to change your behavior.
So my mom was literally trying to conserve and save money.
Okay.
Saving money is only good for banks.
I've been saying this to people for a decade.
Saving money is basically a bank's program to keep you in prison to the banks.
Banks don't save money.
They convince the American public to save money.
And when they do, the bank then calls a guy like me up and says, hey, Elijah's saving money over here like an idiot, busting his ass, and then brings the money to Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citibank.
He dropped it off with us.
Would you like to borrow it, Mr. Cardone?
Like they're not even keeping your money.
They're lending it out tens of times.
People need to quit saving money.
They need to quit planning for retirement.
They need to invest money back into themselves, their business, and their household to produce more income.
And I'm talking about second, third, and fourth flows of income.
I'm not talking about investing in the stock market, retirement accounts, much less investing in crypto.
People need to invest only in things where they don't lose their money and that income they earned provides them with a second income because they're investing their hard-earned dollars, not in consumer items, but in investments that will pay them cash flow.
Cash flow is the holy grail.
Cash is garbage.
It's a fiat.
It's complete mythology that cash is worth anything.
It's not.
But most American families keep trying to hustle money and then save it only to find out it goes down in value, buys less and less each year, and they never get ahead.
Then what happens is a COVID happens to shut the world down and maybe do a reset.
And who knows, maybe a new world order.
We got tired of listening to that story.
So we're in war 25 minutes after they quit talking about COVID.
Yeah, I was going to say, I think maybe you're with me on this, but do you think this is all intentional?
Because I happen to side with, I mean, Klaus Schwab, he says we're going to move towards this method.
We've got to completely change, squeeze out the middle class.
You've got BlackRock, right?
You have trillions of dollars worth of assets being owned by these private companies having their way in.
I mean, it feels like this is genuinely some sort of like a technocratic feudalism that we're switching back into that methodology.
And we're not asked if we want it.
It's just being selected for us.
Well, look, I just don't believe things just happen.
I think things are made to happen.
And it's not surprising to me that Vanguard's worth, I don't know, five or six trillion dollars under management today.
BlackRock's got five or six trillion.
Their goal is to have 20 trillion.
Those two groups, by the way, could literally own planet Earth.
And, you know, everybody's running around worried about Elon and Bill Gates.
And these guys, the Vanguards, and you and I were both taught coming up in different generations, but coming up, hey, invest your money, invest in mutual funds, diversify your investments.
These mutual funds are garbage dump traps to enslaving middle class America.
Okay, they're enriching Wall Street.
Anything you guys can do to get on the other side of Wall Street, this is what I believe.
Anytime they use an acronym, they're fucking you.
ETFs, IRS, 401k, IRA, like all these little terminologies are made to complicate money.
Money is a very, very simple machinery.
It's simple.
America produces one product, U.S. dollars.
That's all it produces.
It then sends U.S. dollars out so that people work their ass off.
It's not because they want to tax people.
It's because they want you to work.
And so a guy like me getting out of college, first thing he does is he goes to work, tries to get a job, tries to get a little better at it to get some money.
Second move he's going to make is, I'm going to go buy a house.
And this mistake is being repeated over and over and over again.
But you look at a Warren Buffett and Elon Musk.
Warren owns one home his entire career.
He's one of the richest men on planet Earth.
He never bought two houses or three houses or flipped houses.
Elon owns no home.
Steve Jobs owned one.
But the American average American thinks the American dream is to buy a home.
The American dream is not to buy a home.
It's to have freedom.
And that means you need cash flow for multiple avenues in order to have any freedom.
Let me ask you about that because I'm not a homeowner myself.
I actually moved to Texas.
It's funny.
I was going to buy in 2020 and then I was like, you know what?
I'm going to wait until some of this switches off.
And because I'm from LA and people just don't really own homes in LA.
You live in apartments.
And so I come out here and the houses that in my neighborhood were when I moved here about like maybe 525, 550 are going for like 1.05, 1.1 million, which for most people is out of their reach or whatever.
And my personal financials aside, it doesn't really matter.
I'm asking whether I can afford the house.
The matter is like, is this even a time to buy?
Is that really even necessary anymore to own a home?
Like, what is your advice to somebody in their 20s, in their 30s?
That's the majority of the people who watch this show.
Do we buy houses?
What do we do with our money?
Where do we live?
You should not, it is one of the greatest, and I get hated on for telling people this.
Okay.
I own 12,000 apartments.
I've been accumulating apartments now for 30 years.
I have not owned homes along the way.
I actually own a couple now, but I waited until I created some wealth for myself and had money coming in.
Like I don't spend any money on anything or any time.
If I had to trade my time to get money, like all the money you guys are paying me for this interview today, right?
It's a lot.
I would never $16.
I would never spend any of the $16 because it's going to get taxed.
I would take the $16 if I could and invest it in, I would start investing $16, $16,000, $16 million, whatever the number is, right?
Over time, I would start investing in properties that pay me money.
And that's when I consume.
I do not spend, this is what I would tell somebody 27 years old.
Never spend earned income.
Only spend income from your investments.
And so I didn't buy a house in the beginning.
You know, I bought two rental properties, then bought a third rental property.
I rented where I lived and I owned property.
I put my money into properties that would pay me income from the rent.
And that, I believe, by the way, in the next probably 12 to 18 months, we're going to have the biggest, the biggest real estate opportunity for average Americans in the last 50 to 100 years.
It's happening right now.
We're in the window right now because of what's happening with interest rates.
Interest rates have gone from about 2.5% to 6.25%, 6.5% on a single family home.
That means your payment could go up as much as 40%.
So if you were paying, I don't know, $2,000, that payment could literally overnight go to $2,800.
I would tell people that's going to force an entire million people to become renters.
It's happening right now.
I've been saying this for a long time.
And that creates a tremendous opportunity in Los Angeles to start buying four plexus, eight plexes, 12 plexes, 30 units.
It's actually easier to buy a 30-unit complex today than it is to buy a home.
Really?
I mean, why is that?
I mean, I hadn't heard that.
Because the banks love, the banks, Bank of America will not give you a loan to borrow money to buy their own stock, but they will give you a loan to buy a 30-unit complex in Los Angeles.
They love income-producing real estate.
They're going to be harder on you to buy a million-dollar home, which is what it's going to cost you in LA.
It's going to cost you a million dollars to buy a house there that produces no income.
You have to pay for the roof.
You're going to pay property taxes.
You got to pay to fix it, furnish it, et cetera.
When I buy a million dollars worth of income-producing property at Los Angeles, which I can still today, I wouldn't, but I can because I hate California.
I can write off the roof.
I can write off the interest.
I can write off the law, mowing the lawn, I can write off the gas, the electricity, the property taxes.
Everything is a tax write-off.
And this is what wealthy people do that the middle class does not know how to do.
And what our education system, for whatever reason, refuses to teach people when they have four or five years in college to teach people how to reduce their tax bill.
Don't do that as well.
Yeah, so it seems like they're trying to always keep us sick, depressed.
I always tell people I'm poor.
Like, that's just, and it's, it's kind of the age-old uh test of time, too, though, because people don't realize.
I mean, there's more opportunity now than there ever was, especially in this country where you actually can go from nothing from rags to riches.
It's not like you win the lottery.
I mean, it takes hard work and time and calculation, but the information is free.
I mean, you literally offer it yourself, telling people how to actually build on yourself.
What do you think about people like Dave Ramsey, though, and what he says, and how, like his plan of this, you know, save your money, pay down debt, these kind of this kind of like model.
Yeah, look, Dave got rich because you know, somebody Dave a radio show that Dave Dave didn't get rich because Dave made any great investments.
I got rich because I made investments.
Nobody gave me a radio show, nobody gave me a TV show.
I'm a little envious with Dave, but I'm glad I didn't get that.
I'm glad I didn't get that gig because Dave's worth about $50 million and I'm worth about a billion too.
So, um, I don't know.
If I'd have got Dave's deal, then I'd be, you know, I'd be giving people advice on how to get out of debt.
It's completely ridiculous, though, because if you look at a company like Apple Computer, trillion-dollar company, $200 billion in cash, they borrow money.
Who are you going to listen to?
Dave, all debt is bad debt.
I have $2 billion worth of debt today, and I love every dollar of debt I love, okay?
Because it's good debt.
And Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, like all these groups that lend me Goldman Sachs, these people that lend me money.
I love these people.
They're good.
And my brand, my name, my business.
And then other people pay this debt down.
Now, that's different than debt on a car to buy a Gucci belt, Visa, MasterCard.
That's the debt that Dave's talking about.
But good debt, good debt would be debt that I would use to build myself, to build a business, or to own real estate that pays me and my family more income, whether I'm living or not.
Yeah, I was going to say, well, a couple of things.
You also mentioned earlier about crypto.
You don't sound like you're like too much of a fan, especially now.
I mean, do you think it's a good investment?
Do you feel like people should avoid it?
I think it's a scam, like Buffett was saying.
Well, I think that if you're on the come up, you know, and it sounds like most of your audience is on the come up, you know, I wouldn't be gambling ever.
I want sure things.
I never want to lose any money.
I'm in Vegas today.
You know, my wife, I'm playing blackjack down there.
I'm playing like $25 a hand.
Everybody's looking at me like, I could play whatever number I want to play down there, but I don't want to lose money.
I don't even want the memory that I lost money.
So I'm just down there playing, just goofing off, right?
So I would just tell people that in the beginning, what you want to do is never lose your money.
You don't want to gamble.
You want a sure thing, a guaranteed thing.
I was 28 years old, 28 years old, and I bought my first piece of real estate.
It was $78,000.
I put three grand down and I made $2,400 a year on the three grand.
I knew on the first deal that I did, I said, this is going, I am going to get rich doing this.
I just got to do a second deal, a third deal, a fourth deal, a fifth deal.
And so you can't do that with crypto.
You can't put three grand down and buy $78,000 worth of crypto and have somebody make the payments for you.
But you can do that with real estate.
That is the best game in the world.
But everybody's looking at the Dogecoin, the Luna, the crypto, the Ethereum, the BTC.
I own a bunch of BTC, by the way.
I mean, not a bunch, bunch, but I own most people.
And but for me, it's just a long pass.
It's like, okay, if it goes to a million dollars, then I was right.
My first BTC purchase was given to me.
I was given $50,000 worth of Bitcoin at 500 bucks and I still have it today.
So I don't, if it goes up, it goes up.
If it doesn't, it doesn't.
But I would not play games.
I would not take risk until you have second and third flows of income that are independent of your time that cannot be disrupted.
And then, in fact, would get better if the economy gets worse.
During COVID, I had 12,000 apartments pay me every month.
Okay.
Just do the math on 12,000 apartments at $1,900 a month.
And the rents were going up.
Like we have properties right now where the rents are going up $1,200 a month.
I'm just feeding your haters right now.
Like, oh, my God, this guy's raising the rents.
Yeah, so that's why I bought the property too.
And by the way, why would I not raise the rents when gasoline went from two bucks to seven?
I don't even know that kind of money, actually.
It's like, I'm kind of calculating in my head and I'm going, damn, lucky motherfucker.
But also, I really was.
I was doing the math in my head and I'm like, I don't, that's a number with too many zeros, but it's also not a bad position because I think that's weird.
What you're saying, too, is like everything is going up and you are able to charge more.
But then it also begs the question, though, with these second and third incomes is like, so, right.
So, like, someone like myself, I have a show.
I also have like, you know, preliminary incomes, different types of things, advertisers, et cetera.
But then, on top of that, it's like, are you saying the only other avenue or the best avenue would genuinely just be property?
Because I mean, I don't understand what the rates going on right now, how anyone could, you know, even justify taking a loan out on a property with a 6% interest rate.
Exactly.
So, because they can't afford the home now, right?
Look, they didn't qualify for the home in January.
January, that was six months ago.
That was when interest rates were 2.5% and they barely qualified.
So, when the rates go to 6%, by the way, I would rather a higher price and lower interest rates if I'm buying a house.
I would much rather a higher price and a lower interest rate because you're paying that interest rate every month.
You pay for the price one time.
Your viewers are going to hate me.
I'm telling you, they're going to be like, fucking guy don't know what he's talking about.
He's wrong, blah, blah, blah.
Look, nobody ever got rich buying homes ever in the history of the world.
Number one, number two, never in the history of the world has there been wealth created because you saved money.
Okay.
People should be investing money first in themselves to get great at something.
I don't care what it is, waiting tables, busing tables.
Like, you got to get great at something first.
You don't need to become an investor first, except in yourself.
I was 25 years old, got out of a treatment center for drug addiction.
I was $40,000 worth of debt.
Like, nobody trusted me.
Nobody believed in me.
I didn't believe in me.
I had no self-esteem.
I was wrecked.
Nobody to look to.
And I'm like, I got one thing in front of me, my job.
It was a layup, right?
In basketball.
It was the easiest shot I could take.
I need to get good at this job.
And I hated the job I had, by the way.
It's not like I loved it or had a passion for it.
I'm like, I need to just put my head down, focus on this one thing and learn how to increase my income and get control of that.
So I invested in me and I started getting better at my job.
That's all I did.
When I got a little bit of confidence that that was starting to move forward and I had a little extra money, three grand, four grand, I started figuring out, okay, what can I do with this money so this money could start working?
And that has been, I don't code anything.
I don't know anything about technology.
Like I've started a bunch of businesses with no money, no debt, written eight books now, because what I'm sharing with people is what worked for me.
And I'm just telling people, like, this worked for me.
This took me from nothing to Having a number of businesses that are very, very successful with no debt.
We borrowed no money to start the first companies, a lot of hard work.
And then when I got any extra dough, what I did was I took it and put it in one place where I knew I would not lose it.
And for me, that's not the stock market.
It's definitely not the crypto market.
It's not bonds.
It's not paper.
Like, I don't want to trade a piece of paper that everybody knows is garbage.
I think everybody knows that.
You know, this piece of paper is full of lies.
It's got lies all over it.
You know, it's got a guy I don't know.
I thought he was a president.
He's not.
It's got the White House in the back.
It's got in God We Trust.
I mean, this is fabricated.
This is worth no more than this piece of paper right here.
Like, why would I trade one piece of paper for another bullshit piece of garbage paper that Wall Street certifies just because they put their little stamp on it, call themselves BlackRock or Blackstone or Goldman, you know, or JP Morgan?
These people are making trillions and trillions of dollars.
We need to think more like those guys than like your uncle who's saving money in the backyard.
Yeah, I was going to say, well, is there hope for us, though?
I mean, genuinely speaking, going forward, because I feel the same way with you.
Like, I mean, I'm putting my money back into investments.
I didn't do a lot into crypto, didn't do a lot in the stock market.
If you did, you're kind of screwed right now.
I still wouldn't pull out.
I mean, I'm not the one to say this, but I mean, is there hope?
And also, too, I want to get your thoughts on a lot of people are saying that, you know, about buying property in the metaverse, about buying digital property.
Is that bullshit too?
Is that part of the scam?
Or is there hope in that?
I hope you guys go put millions and millions into the metaverse.
Like, if you're going to buy virtual property for millions, what's my shit worth?
It's real.
And by the way, Facebook can't even keep, you know, if you post anything on Instagram, you're going to have the first 50 comments are going to be robots, right?
They can't even keep bots off their own platform.
How the hell are they going to end up in a metaverse?
I can't get Siri to even give me the right directions to a location.
But we're going to go to a metaverse and live in some virtual universe.
It's just not real to me.
And if that's real, by the way, how much more real is the real stuff?
That's right.
I was going to say, so last question, though.
Can I just say this about, hey, is there any hope here?
Yeah, I was going to ask you about the hope.
Yeah, the hope, man.
The hope.
Let's say I'm a Barack Obama right now.
Okay.
So there is so much hope right now.
There are so many ways to make money today that did not exist just 10 years ago.
There are so many ways for people without leaving their home to reach the entire planet Earth using the internet.
Like if you can figure out how to utilize social media, 12 years ago, I had no followers on any social platform.
I knew nothing about it.
I was 50.
At that time, I was 52 years old.
I knew nothing about technology or how to use a smartphone or how to set up an Instagram account, YouTube, or whatever.
These platforms that have been created that reach billions of people, like you're reaching, are phenomenal tools for those out there that learn a craft, get really good at it, and then want to go online and start reaching either more consumers or helping other people learn how to do what you've done.
Just this past weekend, I had 125,000 people sign up for a free real estate training, 20,000 of which showed up.
And many of those people made a decision at the end of two hours on Saturday to invest some money and some time to come hang out with me in July.
So what that did for me is it connects me to people.
The biggest opportunity on planet Earth today is people.
This is the easiest time in the history of the world to connect with people.
And the only way you can actually build a company, make more money is through people.
It's not through money.
Okay.
Everything I have today, there was a person between me and it.
And so if you can learn how to use the social media platforms or whatever's coming next, maybe it's the metaverse, whatever that might be, to reach more people and to extrovert into society and make a connection with people that are like-minded.
If enough people know you and you can help enough people, there will be funding that comes along with that.
Well, that's some good news because I was feeling pretty shitty about the world.
I'm like, I just look out the window.
I'm like, damn, I think I noticed I paid $52 for like four little small sirloin steaks and $36 for a cut of salmon, which by the way was like $14 about last year.
So I've noticed just things Dublin changing and moving, and it seems like the income is always staying the same, but it's shrinking as inflation goes.
But I didn't want to say with the hope, the last thing is predictions for people because we want to invest.
We want to go out.
You've seen the shit.
You've been around.
Where do you think the economy is going to be in five years?
Like, do you even think we're going to have a country?
Like, where should we predict ourselves so that we know that we're putting our money in the right places?
Well, look, America is still the best deal in the world.
Like, all you got to do is, if you don't believe that, just go travel to some of these other places.
And you're going to come back and say, oh, my God, go to Singapore, Dubai, Sydney, Australia, London.
You're going to come back and say, hey, real estate in America is cheap.
I still believe real estate in America is on sale.
The opportunities are what's going to happen in the future.
We are going to become a renter nation.
This country will become a renter nation.
That creates an opportunity for America.
Don't complain about it.
Lean into it.
We have 75 million baby boomers that are moving into retirement and then will die.
Those people will end up in nursing homes.
They will not buy homes.
Okay.
You will have a lot of empty homes in this country in the future, promise you.
You have millennials like yourself that are not interested in settling down in a house right now.
It might be a good idea, but it's not the first thing they want to do.
They don't mind renting.
Also, renting today is not like it was 10 or 15 or 20 years ago.
You were poor if you rented.
Today, I know rich people that prefer to rent because of the amenities that come with that property, the swimming pool, the security, like the ease to drive up and just drop your keys off the front desk and go to your unit.
So a lot of things are changing in that area.
Now, regarding our government, whatever Joe Biden and his administration is trying to do to stop this country, to extend what COVID seemed to try to stop the entire global economy, I don't exactly know what these people are up to or why they want to wreck the dollar or stop the economy because they're doing that with inflation right now.
This inflation thing is going to be brutal.
It's going to be worse on the U.S. economy than, and particularly interest rates.
The drive to raise interest rates is going to be very, very hard on this country.
Goldman wants it.
Blackstone wants it.
The Vanguards want it.
They all like, yeah, we need to raise interest rates, which means it cannot be good for the average person.
So those people are not thinking about the average person.
Even when they talk like they want to help you, because they're liquid and you can get your money out tomorrow and they don't want to help you and they're not helping you.
They're helping themselves on the backs of a lot of people.
So I think that there's hope for those people that can open their eyes up.
They can see, hey, America is a cool place.
For a lot of people, it's a really cool place.
And then you got to see where this money is going to go.
You know, why is BlackRock, Blackstone?
Why are they starting to invest a lot in rental properties?
Because they know what's happening.
And that's what I would tell people to do today.
Follow the money.
Don't listen to what people say.
Watch what they do.
Emulate it, copy it, or partner with them and go do what they're doing because they're going to be the survivors.
That's some good advice.
I like that.
You know, when you see the evil people and you know what they're doing, well, they're just trying to make money too.
So don't get uh don't be a victim.
And I like to tell people that a lot: don't be a victim of the day and age.
You know, like if times get hard, then just work harder and smarter and continue to make more money.
And maybe this is the catalyst you needed to stop being a lazy, you know, son of a bitch and just actually get off your ass and do something with your time and you know, not be a wage slave and sit around and maybe you know, help pioneer the world a little bit, do something different.
Because a lot of these guys out there that you think are these maniacal, well-connected cabal people really actually also came from nothing and they found their way in.
And so you can find your way in.
And hopefully, if you get in, then you're not going to be evil and you don't use your power, your influence, or your money to hurt people.
Use it to help.
And that's kind of the positive thing that we can see.
Grant, if people want to find you, if they want to follow you, what's the best way to keep up with you?
Yeah, if you're a poor, if you're a bad person, don't be bad and broke.
You know what I'm saying?
I mean, like, like, pick your lane, man.
Like, don't be both, right?
Yeah, look, people can follow me.
You know, just Grant Cardone, and you won't have trouble finding me, I promise you.
That's awesome.
Grant, hope you have a great rest of the time in Las Vegas.
Make sure that you continue to play those crazy tables at $25 a hand.
I don't like to gamble very much either because I just lost.
I lost $20.
I hate losing.
I played $20 on a digital roulette in Vegas last week, and I like, I lost it, and I felt so stupid.
And I'm like, and I don't even care.
It's $20.
I was just like freaking out because I'm going, man, this is such a waste of money.
And then I look over and I see some dude playing $500 hands on a roulette table.
I go, damn, you got to be an idiot to be spending $500 per hand on a game that's literally a 50-50 chance.
It's kind of stupid.
Yeah.
It's what people do every day, too, man.
It's crazy.
Keep it dumb.
Well, Grant, thanks so much for coming on.
We really appreciate it.
Thank you, man.
Appreciate you.
All right.
We're good to go, Grant.
Thank you so much for your time.
And we really appreciate it.
And it was good advice.
Excellent advice.
And I think I'll probably end up not buying a house, investing in some rental property.
Oh, okay.
Don't feel bad if you don't have a good pair of headphones.
You could be a billionaire and still not own a pair.
It's true.
I don't know what's going on there, but I appreciate it.
You guys putting up with that.
We had a little bit of a delay there in the sound, but it was a great interview.
And Grant did awesome.
I hope he wins a good hand there at the table.
And I hope as we all gamble and get through life that we make some progress.
If you have any kind of guest suggestions like that, always just let us know in comments or let us know people that you would want to see on the show, especially if they're ever in Dallas.
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But if you just send us random names, like grab this person.
I don't even know what it is.
I've been added to this publicist-like account where it's just like, yeah, Cheng Yang-hu, who was in China.
And I'm like, I don't care.
I get like 50 deals a day, literally.
I'm like, I don't know if that is, but let them know.
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