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June 9, 2025 - Fresh & Fit

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Brandon Carter Returns

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	And we are live.
	What's up, guys?
	Welcome to Frustrated Podcast.
	Man, it is Money Monday.
	We got the OG in the house.
	Brandon Carter.
	Let's get into it.
	Let's go.
	Ryan, what's up, guys?
	Welcome to the Fresh It Podcast, man.
	Regular edition.
	It's Money Monday.
	We're here with Brandon Carter, man.
	It is Money Monday, man, which is a very good day because a lot of you guys need some help with getting your stuff together, man.
	We got an expert in the house.
	Let's go.
	Quick announcement.
	We're running a CC Council Club, as you guys know, sale.
	CC17 is the code.
	Capital CC17.
	Do we have an annual code for them?
	Because they asked me this while I was live.
	We are working on it as we speak.
	Okay, we need an annual code.
	Hopefully we can get one for you guys by tonight.
	But yeah, guys, if you guys want to get locked in at that monthly rate of 17, Basically, 50% off and you get access to us.
	Weekly Zoom calls.
	We'll probably do a Zoom call with Brandon after this.
	We will open up the phone lines for a small period of time and let you guys be able to interact with Brandon, but we're going to do a call right after this on Zoom.
	So, yeah.
	These are the best shows, man, on Mondays, bro.
	Monday Mondays.
	Yes, absolutely.
	I think so, because that's when I'd be here, man.
	So I would agree.
	Welcome back to the full, brother.
	Brandon Carter.
	I always love being here, man, with y 'all, you know.
	When y 'all started this shit, you know what I'm saying?
	And just see how y 'all taking it, how y 'all battle adversity.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Some of it is self-imposed.
	You know what I'm saying?
	But y 'all still fight.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Y 'all still fighting.
	You know, you don't give up.
	That's what I like to say, man.
	Do you remember the old days?
	The first studio that we had at Panorama?
	I posted a photo of us in the studio.
	Oh, yes, yes, yes.
	Bro, I got a bunch of those photos, man.
	We just got a table, a sign.
	Me and Chris, that was it.
	Yeah.
	I remember before that, before it was fresh and fit, it was the unplugged shit.
	Yep, finished.
	And Myron hit me up, like, yo, man, I started a podcast.
	You want to do it?
	I was like, yeah, it's a pandemic.
	I ain't doing shit, man.
	So, like, New York was shut down, and I was one of the first guests on that shit.
	Oh, man.
	That was right in the middle of the lockdowns, too, because in New York, you guys had it worse than us, man.
	We locked down first, homie.
	Yeah.
	Like, I remember, well, the first shit I saw was in Miami.
	It was a heat game.
	Right before the start, they said, yo, everybody gotta leave.
	You know what I'm saying?
	And then, um, and then I had, I was with this, it was a long time ago, my girl.
	This girl had, this girl had flew in to New York.
	And then, um, and I seen that shit, like, ah, you should probably go back to L.A., man.
	This shit look like shit's gonna get crazy.
	Because I never seen a basketball game get fucking shut down right before tip-off.
	Wow.
	It was a heat game.
	And I was like, oh, shit.
	All right.
	But it's cool, man.
	It was dope, man.
	I made a lot of money during the pandemic.
	Like you did, too.
	We came up.
	So I've been looking forward to another one, man.
	When they were talking about monkeypox, I was like, man, please make some monkeypox.
	I'll tell you this, man.
	There's another one coming soon.
	Yeah?
	Very soon.
	Well, they're going crazy in L.A. right now with the riots and shit.
	In New York, too.
	The anti-ice protests.
	Perfect storm.
	It's coming.
	Yeah.
	So, Brandon, real quick, though.
	The first thoughts of our podcast when you first met me, actually.
	What are the first thoughts of it?
	Okay, so I knew Myron before the podcast started, to be clear.
	I've hung out with Myron.
	So I remember, we was, I don't know if you remember, man, we was somewhere, we was eating, and I had this girl, it was a long time ago, it was like way before.
	And then she was saying something, and Myron was like, yeah, that's real stupid.
	I'm like, bro, that's Murray.
	I'm like, nigga, I'm trying to.
	Hold on.
	Brandon, I can confirm.
	We're at North Italia, I remember.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I can confirm.
	We were at La Sanjaria, right?
	It was two Spanish girls.
	I think one was from Argentina and one was from Colombia.
	Bro, she says, oh, I want to get dessert too.
	And Mara was like...
	I was like, nigga.
	She was like, wait, did he mean that?
	I was like, no, no, no.
	He didn't mean that.
	I was like, no, I meant that.
	This nigga brown, bro.
	And after he said that to the first girl, and then it was like, later on in the night, I met up with this other girl in my room.
	He was calm right the next time.
	like yo man listen I don't care Well, thanks.
	Come on again.
	Oh, man.
	That was funny, bro.
	And then when he said he was going to start a podcast, I was like, all right, well, this should be...
	I toned it off.
	Nah, man.
	It's just him, man.
	You know what it's like?
	It's being friends with Myron.
	I imagine this was like Kanye West's friends feel like every time he sees something crazy.
	All the time, motherfuckers are even like, yo, this is your man?
	And I'll be like, yeah.
	Yeah, that's my man.
	Listen, you know, it's the internet.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I like black people.
	It's all the time, man.
	But it's cool.
	He can say stuff that I don't necessarily agree with.
	He's still cool.
	And I say stuff that he don't necessarily agree with.
	Like, it's okay for women to have jobs and vote and shit.
	I think that's fine.
	I ain't got no problem with that.
	But I know Myron.
	We know his stance.
	Well, at least he didn't change.
	He was all the same.
	One thing you can say, some motherfuckers that's fake on the internet, this motherfucker was this motherfucker before this shit.
	When there was no one was watching.
	Literally, no one was watching.
	He was the same fucking dude.
	And you gotta have some respect.
	I appreciate that, man.
	It's got me in a lot of trouble.
	Me and friends with you, because that mean a lot.
	I know it has.
	I know it has.
	But it's like, hey, man.
	And I appreciate you standing by me, bro.
	Because I know a lot of people will be like, oh, bro, this nigga crazy.
	Talk about the boys and them niggas.
	Well, you know what, man?
	You're really just saying words, right?
	Yeah.
	And I'm friends with motherfuckers who are doing life in prison.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like, who did bad shit.
	It's different than just saying bad shit, right?
	So, like, if you're not gonna turn your back on the dudes who, like, did some shit, then he's just saying words.
	He ain't, like, fucking out here acting crazy.
	You know what I'm saying?
	It's just speech, man.
	It's just words, man.
	He's getting offended.
	It's just words.
	But no, man, I appreciate that.
	And that's why, you know, to this day, bro, like, you know, we still...
	It looks like six now.
	Longer than that, man.
	Yeah, like six or eight, yeah.
	There's a video I posted on my Instagram.
	That was from 2019, but we met, I think, before that in 2018.
	Yeah, like 18. Damn, man.
	Yeah, no, it's crazy to see seven years, man, how things have...
	Kind of update the people on projects you've got going on.
	What's new with you?
	Oh, man, you know, listen, I'm just still running my business, teaching people how to grow their online fitness.
	Business.
	Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
	And that's my main thing.
	I do some, like, side shit.
	Like, I trade, you know what I'm saying?
	I trade futures.
	I've been trading futures for, like, five years.
	You're making money, though.
	Yeah.
	Your money, bro.
	You're making money.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No, I make money.
	So, like, fucking with the stock market and shit, you know?
	But that's more, like, of a hobby.
	Like, instead of playing video games, I fucking play the market and shit.
	But, yeah, really just focus on helping people grow their online fitness business the same way.
	Yeah, that's how we started out.
	That's how I met him.
	He came to an event.
	You could tell.
	Yeah, I know.
	You had a mastermind.
	I went to it.
	And you're teaching guys how to scale fitness business and stuff.
	And this is when I was working for the government.
	So I was like, oh shit, this is interesting.
	But I had to get approval from the government.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	And then I was like, hey, I'll be back.
	Let me just get this shit approved.
	Because as soon as I did that thing, I filed up the paperwork.
	And it takes a couple weeks to get approved.
	It took like three weeks, got approved.
	And then I was like, bam, all right.
	And then it's funny because that paperwork, they later were Because you get authorized, you know, outside employment.
	I got it authorized to do that.
	Got authorized, was going.
	And then once the YouTube channel started to take off, they're like, hey, bro, we're pulling this authorization paperwork.
	Like, you can't be doing this shit.
	I was looking at, like, some old footage of when you used to come on the calls for HGT.
	And it's like, before this shit started, you was making, like, 40 grand.
	Yeah.
	Like, a month.
	Yeah.
	It was good side income.
	Because that money, like, you know, it would fluctuate.
	It'd be like, You know, on a bad month, like 10 or 20, in a good month, 40, 50. With no following back then either.
	With no following either, because I wasn't on YouTube like that.
	It was all Instagram mostly.
	But I was taking that money and saving it, and that's what I used to start everything up here.
	Because people ask, how'd you guys get started?
	Because people always say, damn, how'd you guys start up with good cameras and good mics up front?
	That's how.
	Because we're able to invest in the shit.
	up front with like good equipment.
	Yeah, because everyone starts their shit like they do their podcasts with shitty-ass mics in a room somewhere with webcams and shit.
	So I was like, nah, man, we need to do it with good equipment, multiple camera angles, have a producer in the back, switch and shit, real good live production.
	And that's kind of what set us apart.
	Also, during COVID, remember, you couldn't buy that stuff in the store.
	They were sold out.
	Yeah!
	So we had all the shit already there.
	Get to go for...
	Perfect timing.
	If you guys want to learn how to start your online fitness business too, the way Myron did, I got a free e-book.
	It's 100% free.
	It's called The Ten Commandments of Online Training.
	It'll show you how to grow your online fitness business, even if you don't have a big following, like Myron, even when he started.
	Even if you don't have a big following, even if you're not certified, even if you don't have a lot of experience.
	It'll point you in the right direction to see if it's even the right business for you.
	Because you might read that shit and be like, oh shit, I don't want to do work.
	I'm looking for a scam.
	And then you won't be able to find it.
	You know, it ain't a get-rich-quick scheme.
	If you do find a get-rich-quick scheme, I've been looking for one of them motherfuckers for mad long.
	Yeah, man.
	That's the thing.
	People don't want to put in the work a lot of times.
	It's not going to be easy, but it's absolutely doable.
	I remember I was working my cases and shit, and I'd come home and then do the fitness stuff, check out my clients, then obviously go back to work with the feds.
	Work.
	Alright, so let's see here.
	Should we read some chats?
	There we go.
	Okay.
	No, not yet?
	Okay.
	All right.
	Oh, yeah, because we just think we're going to let people call in.
	Yeah, we're going to have some people call in and then go to Zoom and go into the more advanced stuff.
	What's going on with you, with the content?
	I saw you did a video with Sartain.
	Talking about me?
	Oh, yeah.
	Sartain was on my shit, on my YouTube.
	and somehow we talking about Yeah, Tuesday and Thursday.
	Tuesday and Thursday, okay.
	I started on Tuesday and Thursday because I wanted to do the days that y 'all weren't on.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Because I didn't want to be, you know, I didn't want to make it weird.
	I need to go back on here.
	Let me know when you're ready, man.
	fucking do it tomorrow we could okay you normally go Okay.
	All right.
	You let me know.
	No pressure.
	Yeah, no, no.
	We're going to make it happen.
	Yeah.
	But Sartain was on.
	And then, I don't know, man.
	Somehow, he started talking about big booty white girls.
	And then, you know what everybody was thinking?
	Fresh.
	The Winter Soldier.
	You know what I'm saying?
	When it comes to the white girls, man, you know, the winning soldier.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Listen, man, I'm part of the gang, you know, BBC gang, we're up.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's good stuff.
	You feel me?
	So, I guess we could go into kind of how would someone begin with starting, like, we could start with an online business.
	Any kind of online business.
	Yeah, because obviously you're an issue with helping people scale up their online coaching when it comes to fitness.
	But how could someone get...
	Yeah, I think...
	Okay, so this might be contrary to a lot of what other gurus and shit say, but I think you should have a fucking job first, right?
	Like, you know, you had a job when you started, because it's difficult if you're relying on...
	I wish more people said that, bro.
	We're like one of the few people that tells them, like, yo, get a fucking job first.
	Everyone else says, oh, laptop lifestyle.
	Like, yeah, you can go ahead and be an entrepreneur right away.
	You got to work your way up to that, man.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like, it's very rare that you see that.
	And those are the exceptions that people do it.
	Like, if you got a job, then you have, you know, at least you can have your bills covered and shit, you know?
	And then you start it on the side.
	And you might have to put in more hours.
	Yeah.
	By the day, right?
	You know, and here's the thing.
	The average person walking around the street, everyone I see, they have so much potential.
	It's untapped, right?
	But they don't know how to utilize it and really bring it to the surface.
	And part of that is, you know, really getting dialing in your calendar.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So one thing that helped me, this is when I was struggling.
	I had like multiple jobs.
	It was during the recession after my father blew his brains out, right?
	And I had to take it to the whole family.
	And, you know, one thing I did, man, is I was like, okay, I ain't got no money, but I got time.
	Right?
	So I started planning out every hour of every day.
	So this is my calendar.
	Even now.
	Years later, man.
	Still the same way.
	Every hour of every day.
	Because if you do that, what happens is you're going to squeeze out more success each day.
	Does that make sense?
	Like, you'll find you're going to accomplish more.
	If you're out here freestyling your days, it's not going to work.
	I'm not saying it can't work, but what's gonna happen is, sometimes the time just goes.
	You're just like, fuck.
	But everybody who's followed my advice when I say start planning out every hour of every day, everyone who's done this shit, they get more done in a week than they had the prior month.
	And if you start stacking those week after week, then you start running circles around the competition.
	You can really start outpacing any issues you have, any problems you have.
	You can take it to the next level.
	You can really get control of your life.
	Bruce Lee said, if you love life, don't waste time.
	Because time is what life is made of.
	So you want to start weaponizing your day.
	Weaponizing the hours.
	And it starts with the calendar.
	Plan out every hour of every day.
	And that's why if you have a job, then you can work another 40 hours.
	Because people say, "Man, what about family?" and all that shit.
	First of all, when people say that fucking family shit, unless you got a bunch of kids, you don't have your own family unless you got kids.
	So sometimes it'd be like young dudes.
	What you talking about, spending time with mommy, nigga?
	You would spend time with your mommy?
	It's time for you to lead in there.
	You spend too much time with your mom.
	That's why you sound like a bitch right now.
	You know what I'm saying?
	It's time to step out and be a man on your own.
	But anyway, it's 168 hours in every fucking week, right?
	And here's the thing.
	If you work 80 hours a week, which I think you should, either on your own...
	but you can have your job and your business.
	Would you say that's step one of the tangible, you know, like...
	Make sure you got a job.
	Like 80 hours, though.
	Because not a lot of people are saying that.
	80 hours, 80 hours, 80. Business is fucking hard.
	Yeah.
	80% of businesses fail.
	Only like 5% of businesses ever reach a million dollars a year.
	Right?
	The odds are super fucking low that you're going to succeed in any kind of business.
	Right?
	You know what I'm saying?
	So you have to really put the odds in your favor by putting in more time.
	Yeah.
	Like more time, more effort.
	80 hours a week, even if it's your own business, especially if it's your own business.
	Yeah.
	Like if that's the only thing you're doing now, you got to make sure that shit succeeds.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Also, if you're working a job.
	When you're working there, your employers are going to pay you just enough to make you go to work, pay the bills, and come back.
	Yeah.
	Versus your actual friends that work with you, like, they've been there 20, 40 years.
	You just say, you know what?
	I don't want to be these guys here 40 years plus, still doing the same job that I'm doing at 20, so I want to get out the job as soon as possible.
	If I start a business, then at that point, I can work towards that, leaving my job.
	Yeah, and you want to have some income, man.
	You know, you want to have some income.
	Like, when you're starting your business, you don't want to rely on, man.
	You want to be in a position where you got to make rent this month off a job, off a business you just started.
	Survival.
	You just learned.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Because here's how you get rich.
	How you get rich is you make more money than you spend and invest the difference.
	And if you do that over a long enough period of time, you will get rich.
	You get what I'm saying?
	Make more money than you spend and invest the difference.
	It sounds so simple, but in practice, this is what most Americans fail at.
	I mean, there's really no other way.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Unless you get a super high-paying job.
	But you can still fuck that up if you're spending more than you make.
	Like, athletes go broke all the time.
	There was some study that came out last year that people that make six figures a year, a majority of them still live paycheck to paycheck.
	So it's not, $100,000 a year, And I would argue in today's day and age, it's even less now with inflation and how, you know, the dollars dropped off so much just from 2020.
	Like, what, almost 50% of the money in circulation now was printed during the COVID era.
	Even, like, rappers like Fat John, all these guys are saying, like, yo, I make money for my career.
	A million dollars plus just went on his hand.
	Check the check.
	Yeah.
	Check the check.
	How much he made?
	Two million, five million?
	He was saying some wild numbers.
	And it went, disappeared, like, boom.
	Yeah, Fat Joe and this other rapper.
	Is it Jadakiss?
	Jadakiss, yeah.
	Yeah, a podcast.
	Okay.
	They spoke about how they lost money.
	They said, dude, Jadakiss was like, you gotta keep working.
	Yeah, you got it.
	You got to keep working because because they make their lifestyle.
	Yeah, so they got it.
	They got to keep but I'm saying do the opposite Yeah, you know I'm saying like you you see me like with like fucking expensive watches and jewelry and shit now But you got to remember man for like almost 10 years on YouTube.
	I like it All you saw me was with fucking some Jordans.
	Yeah Apple watch bro.
	He has no car.
	That to me is insane.
	You know what?
	I'm real reluctant to race.
	A lot of New Yorkers don't have driver's licenses, though.
	Yo, bro, I just got my driver's license, like, last year.
	Yeah, I remember, though.
	Yeah, I lived in New York.
	I lived in New York for 15 years, man.
	But you're in Florida now, bro.
	Yeah, no, no.
	A lot of people don't know that about New Yorkers.
	A lot of them don't have driver's license.
	a lot of them don't know how to drive.
	Yeah, Locario, to this day, don't drive.
	It doesn't have a license.
	Bro, I had an Illinois driver's license because I'm from Chicago, Southside.
	I moved to New York after college and I immediately got rid of my car because it was like, oh, this is a nightmare driving here.
	in the train the shit was more convenient it cost you more to keep the car It was intense, right?
	I was like, man, I'm in New York.
	I just didn't renew it.
	There's no need.
	And I didn't renew it until I came to Florida.
	Yeah.
	Like last year, I got my driver's license.
	I'll be honest, though.
	From what I'm learning from these guys that have a lot of money, billionaires, they're like, yo, the less I have, the better.
	So they have no type of, like, reoccurring bills.
	All the shit that will be on your mind mentally to drain you is gone.
	And just put all the money back into your business and focus on that.
	I swear that's the shit I think about all the time.
	Like, I'm reluctant to raise my reoccurring bills expenses.
	I'll buy some one-time shit.
	If I buy a watch, that's one time.
	You know, buy some clothes one time.
	Buy some fucking diamonds, jewelry, shit.
	is one time.
	But like to raise your recurring experience, Then it's like, you know, I just, there's no amount of money you can't fuck up.
	Yeah.
	There's no amount of money you can't fuck up.
	Remember the whole Bitcoin boom?
	Yeah.
	You guys are going crazy in the clubs, buying cars?
	So, buddy of mine was a dealership here in Fort Lauderdale, right?
	And, actually, you know it.
	And what happened was, they would buy cars every month.
	Like, they would buy, like, this car, like, car.
	I'm like, damn, these niggas are balling.
	Yeah.
	But you know the problem, though?
	When the money slowed down.
	When the money slowed down.
	That bill is still there.
	So that, now you're cooked because you gotta pay all these bills and the money slowed down.
	Every business is going to have ups and downs.
	Every business is going to have ups and downs, seasons.
	That's why most businesses don't last more than five years, right?
	Because they can't outmatch the seasons.
	And then to do it for decades is super hard because there's a recession on average every 10 years.
	And most businesses don't survive that shit, right?
	So you got to always protect the downside.
	You get what I'm saying?
	Like always protect the downside.
	You know who's the smartest person I know in the industry right now?
	No, if it's not me, besides me, who is it?
	Well, indirectly, it would be you, but it's really Myron, because you mentioned him.
	He doesn't spend money, saves it, puts it in real estate, stocks and crypto, and has low expenses.
	No, he's doing it right because he's only been...
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Well, I mean...
	So for me, making $130k per year, for me, even back then, I would consider that a lot of money.
	Because my expenses were so low.
	Yeah, that's the thing.
	When I was working for the government, I was like, not spending that much money anyway.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I don't know, man.
	I'm just like a very...
	I think materialism is one of the worst things that we have in Western society.
	I think it's really bad.
	Like, the way you go about it is really fucking smart, where you have...
	Yeah, yeah.
	And then you have, you know, which I'd like for you to explain to them how you do it, actually.
	Yeah, for sure.
	Because there are some people here that want to niggify, which is fine.
	Yeah.
	But the way you do it is really smart.
	Like, where it's like, yo, I have multiple accounts, and then I have an account where this money goes in, where it's like literally just expendable income.
	Yo, you know.
	Expendable income.
	I didn't start flexing.
	Oh, yeah.
	I know.
	When I met you, you weren't flexing.
	I wasn't flexing.
	I didn't start flexing until I had enough assets.
	No, no, no.
	When I met him, he wasn't.
	When I met him, he was wearing rubber bands and Apple watches.
	He wasn't flexing even back then.
	He was flexing his muscles.
	Come on, bro.
	Come on, bro.
	No, you can't say you're a player.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	But when I met Brandon in 2018 When his soul just strikes again.
	When I met Brandon in 2018, he was very Apple.
	Then you started balling right after that.
	When the assets pay for it.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Because you know, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, right?
	I read that when I was 19. I was like, okay, your assets have to pay for your luxury.
	Because then you can do it all the time.
	You don't have to stop.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Ball forever.
	Exactly.
	You're the only person I know that's Put a system on it where it'll never fuck you.
	You're the only person I know that's done it.
	Yeah, I invest 50% of every dollar I make.
	Damn.
	You know, my dad told me to do that, you know, when I was in high school.
	And I was like, is that what you do?
	He was like, nah.
	But I want to make sure you don't.
	But it's like, I saw why he said it.
	He was telling me to do this because he fucked up, right?
	And then, you know, that was part of the reason why he ended up, like, taking his life.
	Like, he lost everything and, you know.
	All types of shit, right?
	So 50% automatically is going into the thing.
	It's coming in because I know all your money comes in one account, which I did that too.
	And then 50% goes immediately to investing.
	And then the other 50, it goes to work.
	And then so like 30% of the income is what you live off of.
	Right, and then the numbers change where you depending on where you at right, but I like 30% because it's like Everything.
	Electricity.
	Rent, food, electric bills, right?
	So you immediately realize, but you got to make more money.
	To use that 30%.
	Yeah, you got to make more money.
	If you're only going to live on 30% of your income, you got to make more money.
	Yeah.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like, seriously.
	Also, inflation, prices are going up.
	Yeah, you know, it's not going to hit you like that that fast in a year, right?
	But that's where the investments come from.
	Because if you're investing money, inflation helps you.
	You get what I'm saying?
	Like, if you have investments, then inflation is a good thing.
	You think this shit is having no accident?
	No.
	You think the fucking smartest people in the world are just letting this shit happen?
	Yeah.
	I mean, aren't letting this shit happen?
	Oh, yeah.
	Because they invested, right?
	When inflation goes up, motherfucking, the prices of your assets go up.
	Like, real estate, you know, one of my favorite hedges against inflation.
	Because, you know, because...
	So what ends up happening is like over a period of time, the equity in the home is a lot of times will be worth more than what you owe on it.
	You can call it like a force.
	So if you know that, you think that the motherfuckers in charge don't win.
	They know what it is.
	They know what it is.
	But yeah, so 30% is really good.
	So that's the barometer.
	It can change.
	30 to 40, you know what I'm saying?
	So these numbers are like...
	No, that's good because then basically you should be able to pay your rent and everything three times over.
	Yeah.
	That's what people, so I think for people logistically when they're looking here, okay, well 30% kind of personify that for me.
	Okay, we should be able to pay for your living expenses and your rent three times over.
	That means that you make more than enough and you're in a good position to invest.
	Yeah.
	And then you got, you know, about like, let's call it like 10%, 5% to 10%.
	So 50 goes in, 30 for living, so now you got 20 left.
	Yeah, you got 20 left, right?
	So maybe like 15%, let's call it 15% for taxes.
	Now, if you got a job, some of that tax is coming out, but you still want to put 50% because let's say you got a business as well, so you want to keep some of the money, then you can write some of this shit off, and you might not be profitable your first year, so you know what I'm saying?
	you might not pay no taxes on your business, right?
	Yeah.
	And so it really just depends.
	And then when you have a business...
	Depending on the state you live in, that percentage might have to be more.
	Depending on what kind of write-offs you have.
	Yeah, that's why I left New York.
	The taxes is the number one reason I left New York.
	Damn.
	And Manhattan has this tax.
	Yeah, there's another tax if you live in Manhattan.
	It's a city tax.
	So, you're getting taxed by the feds, then you get taxed by the state, and then the city taxes you for being in Manhattan in particular.
	Yeah.
	Is there a Queens or Brooklyn tax or no?
	Nah, nah, man.
	Only Manhattan.
	Yeah, I mean, the tax for living in Brooklyn is living in Brooklyn.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You know what I'm saying?
	It's gotten better now, though.
	I was shocked.
	Oh, yeah, it's getting better now.
	It's getting better, man.
	You won't like the reason why.
	You won't like it.
	Yeah, I know why.
	I think it's cool.
	We're comedians, by the way.
	Yeah, that's true.
	You won't like the reason why.
	This is a comedy skit.
	Understandable, understandable, understandable.
	But no, I think New York is 32, man.
	I love New York.
	I love New York, man.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Shout out to, you know, back in...
	Papi Negro.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Keto Suave.
	What?
	You know what I'm saying?
	Me and Tay.
	de que lo que.
	But, he said, That's crazy, bro.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	So then you have, like, 5% just for balling.
	Yeah.
	Just for fucking balling.
	Like, spending on some dumb shit is like a reward.
	Yeah.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Five to ten percent, you know, depending on how much you're putting aside for taxes, you know, just for balling.
	Okay.
	So if you make 10K a month, basically, you're putting like 500 bucks away.
	Exactly.
	For fun.
	Right, right.
	So if you want to buy 10K a month, guys.
	Exactly, right?
	So that...
	motivated me, right?
	So like, let's say-'Cause 500 ain't that much when you're making 10. Let's say I wanted to buy a new outfit that costs, like, 500.
	You know, I want to get some new J's back in the day.
	I wanted to get some J's and maybe some other shit.
	You know, I gotta spend 500.
	That means I set a goal.
	Okay, I know I gotta make 10 bands.
	Yeah.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So it would push me.
	Gotcha.
	if you put those kind of restrictions on it.
	But the reason, but also...
	Right, it's a...
	Okay, this shit I want to buy costs $500.
	I got to make 10 bands.
	So I get it.
	But remember, we're investing half the money we make, right?
	So that forces me to invest $5,000.
	You get what I'm saying?
	You see how that works?
	It goes into an account that you don't even need.
	Exactly, exactly.
	You know what I'm saying?
	And that was really...
	I mean, that's one of the reasons...
	And that was one of the things that kept me, you know, kept me afloat because it's been down times.
	Of course.
	But it don't look like there's down times.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	Because it's like, okay, boom, I got all these investments I was able to pull from.
	You get what I'm saying?
	Well, my dad didn't.
	You know what I'm saying?
	At what age did you learn this?
	What age were you when you learned this?
	You know, a lot of shit was, my dad was telling me shit to do.
	That he didn't do.
	Like, he was telling me all his mistakes.
	So a lot of people don't know that I got sent away to military school.
	We grew up in Southside Chicago, like, super poor and shit, right?
	And I got sent away to military school, and I was, like, one of the only, like, bro kids there.
	I was on some, like, affirmative action and shit.
	They needed another nigga up in there.
	And I, like I say, looked at me and said, close enough.
	The black token.
	Black token.
	Yeah, so I was over there, man, you know.
	And when I Mom ain't have a car, none of that shit.
	But when I went to military school, around that time, his business started to take off.
	He was working on his business the whole time.
	Struggling.
	It then started to take off.
	He had an insurance claims business, but he did all the sales.
	And he ran it.
	He started to take off.
	By the time I graduated from high school, he was making $3 million a year.
	Adjusted for inflation.
	This was in 2000.
	So adjusted for inflation, that'd have been like $8 million.
	And I didn't experience it because I was gone, right?
	I knew it happened.
	Because I knew it happened, anything this nigga told me, you know what I'm saying?
	Like I saw this, I saw him come up.
	So anything, and remember, this nigga was a street nigga, right?
	He ain't have no...
	He was an orphan.
	He didn't know his parents.
	None of that shit.
	You know what I'm saying?
	That's a real Chicago street nigga.
	Straight up.
	I didn't experience it in the West, but I knew it happened.
	I was at military school.
	Then I went to college, Howard University.
	By the time I graduated from college, he lost all the money and killed himself.
	Because the depression that hit in like 07. It was like he lost all the money, right?
	And then he got fucking bad.
	Like he wasn't mentally right.
	And then he killed himself in 07. Oh, he lost it before the Depression hit.
	Well, yeah, before the recession because it was something.
	But there was like signs of that before.
	Like some people were doing bad.
	Like small businesses and shit were already doing bad.
	You get what I'm saying?
	He knew it was coming.
	It came to him.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like, I don't know if he knew a fucking recession was coming, but he knew that his shit was fucked up.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah, he ain't seen no way out.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah.
	So, you know, that kind of just taught me, okay, just because you get rich don't mean you can't fuck it up.
	So we started back from zero.
	He didn't leave us no money.
	He didn't have no money.
	There was nothing left.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I couldn't even fit the nigga's shoes, right?
	What did he spend it on?
	Man, yo, you know some real shit?
	Like 30 million back then is a lot of money, bro.
	Here's the thing.
	This is why I want everybody listening.
	Because some of y 'all are going to come up.
	So if y'all watching this shit and y'all listening to this and y'all taking action, some of y'all gonna come up.
	Yeah.
	If you start...
	You get what I'm saying?
	And they start indulging in the fruits of their labor.
	You know, and right, you can go too far, right?
	So now you're not doing the shit that got you there, so you're not moving forward, and then you're indulging in other shit, you know?
	And, you know, gambling, you know, fucking who knows what else, you know what I'm saying?
	Drugs, all that stuff.
	A lot of people do that when they move here.
	He wasn't fucking with drugs, but I've seen it with other people, you know what I'm saying?
	And, yeah, man, there's no amount of money you can't fuck up, right?
	So that's why I still work hard.
	Yeah.
	Because I just feel like, one, I enjoy it.
	I enjoy what I do, right?
	But, like, that's just the back of my mind.
	Like, my dad made it and then lost it.
	Yeah.
	And anyone could do it.
	Like, Allen Iverson went broke.
	He fucked up, like, $300 million or something crazy.
	Damn.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I didn't know that.
	Mike Tyson made, like, $300 million.
	Lost it all.
	Like, there's no amount of money you can't fuck up.
	Yeah.
	Like, straight up.
	There's no amount of money.
	$300 million Mike Tyson lost.
	Went broke.
	Banking up.
	Had to start over.
	That's 90s money.
	So that's like double now.
	This motherfucker was living in Washington Heights.
	He went from being $3 million to broke living with this chick I know in Washington Heights.
	Her and her grandma.
	Bro.
	No bullshit.
	Mike Tyson, he's living in the Heights.
	And then he came up again, you know?
	There was an after party after the Bitcoin conference in Vegas.
	Went to Mike Tyson's old house.
	Bro.
	Fucking mega mansion, bro.
	No.
	Dude, I almost cost an arm and a leg.
	Oh yeah, the one with the Tigers it used to have, yeah.
	I can't imagine, like, doing that.
	Yeah, he had a house in Farmington, I remember.
	50 Cent bought it.
	Yeah, he was like, yo, man, this shit's too expensive.
	Yeah, 50 got rid of it.
	50 got rid of it, too.
	I was like, why the fuck would you want to live in Farmington, Connecticut?
	For the story, yeah.
	I own the house that he owned.
	There's no amount of money you can't fuck up.
	So that's why, like, to Fresh's point, like, one-time things I'll buy, right?
	like watch it.
	And also like, If she hits the fan, I can get money for my wife.
	I can get money for my jewelry, because, you know what I'm saying, I can get...
	Something.
	You know what I'm saying?
	But it's like...
	Like parking cash and watches.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Right?
	And a lot of times, watches, like luxury watches will appreciate.
	Yeah.
	You know what I'm saying?
	You buy the right one for sure.
	If you buy the right watch and if you don't, you know, don't do shit to it, it'll appreciate, you know.
	So it's sometimes with inflation or even better, like the right watch, you know, right watch the right time, like like any investment.
	Right.
	And so I look at this shit like parking money.
	Yeah.
	Does that make sense?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	No, I mean, I think that's I think the part that's so difficult for people is like taking 50 percent of their income and assuming that's not even there.
	That's just going to be saved and used for other endeavors to build wealth, whether, you know, be real estate or, you know.
	I trade and I invest.
	What Bannon does is very smart.
	After he made his money and his status, so to speak, his network is actually very powerful.
	Derek Moneyberg, Jeremy, they all have money themselves.
	Network, yeah.
	So he's staying up to date because he knows what to do with his money.
	Invest in stocks, do the putts, do the trading, and then of course market with Jeremy.
	I'm laughing at some of this shit.
	No, it's T.I. That's the old picture of T.I. Yeah, from like old porn shit.
	Yo, man, listen.
	T.I. is one of my favorite rappers.
	Back when I was hustling, I was riding around listening to that Trap Music album.
	It was the soundtrack.
	Two artists I know that killed it after their career.
	They made it really big out there from the lawsuits.
	T.I. and Flo Rida.
	They want a lot of money.
	Yo, Flo Rida.
	Flo Rida came up.
	He got a hundred million dollars from Celsius.
	What did T.I. do?
	Who did he sue?
	He sued some fucking toy brand.
	These people copied his kids' images and put it on toys.
	He had this kid group and they fucking stole that.
	They copied that shit.
	I did not know that.
	And then he sued them for infringement.
	So I imagine you got your money from the rap game.
	You could have fucked it up.
	Could have made the money.
	Who knows what?
	Then, you got money from your actual songs you can sell.
	You know, sell the catalogs or whatever.
	But if you don't fuck that up, you got money from this lawsuit.
	I think you're good for life.
	Kelsey got 30M.
	Oh, yeah.
	She got 20 from Diddy.
	Cassie.
	She's a victim.
	Oh, yeah.
	She got 20 from Diddy.
	She's a victim, man.
	And then, yo, this came out in court.
	She got 10 million from Intercontinental.
	Oh, from the video?
	And the thing is because they asked her to defense bro.
	They were cooking understand they're like hey, you know what other you know legal situation Do you have any other pending lawsuits?
	And she was like, no.
	And like, oh, really?
	Is it not true that you sent an order to Intercontinental and received $10 million from them?
	And it was like the week of the trial.
	Oh, shit.
	And she was like, yes, it is true.
	And they're like, yeah, what'd you do?
	And she was like, yeah, we sent a legal demand.
	And basically, they didn't want to hit the news, so they just gave her the 10M and called it a day.
	Wow.
	Oh, shit.
	So she got $30 million total.
	I love them.
	'Cause what they did was they said, oh yeah, you were having,'cause they were trying to go to the rent, That's why you had to move back to Connecticut with your husband, with your family, to New London.
	And is it not true that you had a music tour set up?
	And she was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And basically, she got the $20 million from Diddy.
	Then the Fed started their case right after that.
	And then on top of that, she got another $10 million from Intercontinental.
	And she canceled her music tour.
	Damn.
	And then came out in court.
	And I was like, oh, shit.
	But hold on.
	Don't forget, she's a victim.
	Yeah, of course.
	You know, man, she used to fuck this dude I knew, man.
	No, just straight up.
	This dude, Ryan Leslie.
	Oh, shit!
	Yeah, I knew Ryan in New York.
	I mean, I met him a few times.
	We weren't like boys and shit, right?
	But I knew Ryan.
	Ryan Leslie.
	Yeah, he's one of the most profound music producers.
	Oh, no, they dated, bro.
	Yeah, yeah, she was dating him.
	She was dating him, yeah.
	He introduced her to Diddy.
	He discovered her, yeah.
	And Diddy was like, you know what?
	He took her.
	Get that.
	Get over here.
	I had a brain pour.
	Yeah, Ryan Leslie is the guy that, yeah, he came up during the thing.
	They were together for three years, bro.
	Nigga, she's been around the industry, bro.
	Of course.
	Kay Cuddy, Ryan, Diddy.
	Some other names that we won't name here.
	Well, we all know that because escorts and shit.
	Yeah.
	You know, like she admitted on trial, like 30 of them, that she had sex with.
	Nigga, she wanted to sit there watching.
	She wanted to shit, bro.
	She wanted to shit.
	For sure.
	Y 'all see that interview?
	Which one?
	With the nigga named The Punisher.
	Oh, yeah.
	I was there when he gave his testimony, bro.
	You was there where?
	I was at the trial.
	You were in New York for the trial?
	I was there for a few weeks.
	I saw you there.
	I was gonna go this week, but we just got too much shit going on.
	But yeah, I was there for the first couple weeks of the trial, bro.
	Like, yeah, the nigga was there.
	He wrote a book called In Search of Freezer Meat because he had erectile dysfunction.
	And yo, the lawyer asked him, why is your book called In Search of Freezer Meat?
	And he was like, because I'm trying to, you know, get hard.
	He said that shit on the stand, bro.
	Everyone was like, what the fuck?
	That was Clown World shit, man.
	Yo, man, the nickname to punish you, man.
	They asked him how he got that nickname, though.
	He said he got it on the basketball court.
	That's what he claimed.
	He got it on the basketball court.
	Oh, man.
	But, yeah, he has erectile dysfunction, and he couldn't, like, get it up.
	Damn, that's sad, bro.
	You can't use your dick.
	And he told the story of, like, how he got, like, fired, basically.
	Diddy was, like, watching him smash Cassie.
	And I guess he got so excited he came in and, like, threw a condescension.
	Yeah, I'm ready to watch you bang her now.
	And he said he couldn't get a hard-on after that.
	And he had never used condos before so it kind of threw him off.
	And he couldn't perform that day and they never called him back.
	He did an interview with Cam 'ron.
	Cam 'ron said, hey, how's that pussy though?
	What's that pussy like?
	But Cam 'ron's one of them guys.
	Niggas on the barbershop, they want to know.
	Was that pussy good or not?
	He was like, yeah, but how's that pussy though?
	I was like, what the fuck?
	I came out of nowhere.
	I was like, this is the most niggas shit ever.
	But it was funny though.
	The nigga Punisher said he got like two bands.
	Yeah, the first time.
	And then every other time.
	Because the reason why is because he was a stripper.
	So she called him.
	He was supposed to show up for a bachelorette party.
	He thought he was going to do a 20 minute tease and leave.
	He shows up and she's wearing a wig and shit.
	And she's like, oh yeah, my husband's here.
	And the way he told the story was crazy.
	Basically, it's a dark room.
	There's candles lit and everything.
	And she's like, look, it's not a bachelorette party.
	It's going to be us rubbing baby on each other and my husband's going to be in the back watching.
	The first time he showed up.
	They're sitting there rubbing baby on each other, and he sees a dude walk in naked with a veil, whacking off.
	And he's like, what the fuck?
	And mind you, it's dark in there, so he don't know what's going on.
	And Cassie told him, yo, don't look at him.
	Don't look at this nigga beating off with a mask on.
	Yo, I'm serious, bro.
	If you know off with a mask on in the corner, don't look at him.
	Bro.
	The crazy part is like, And she's like, "They're doing it too." 'Cause like, that's what he wanted.
	He wanted them glistening and shit.
	And like, out of the corner of his eye, 'cause she's like, "He's gonna come in.
	Don't acknowledge him." Whatever.
	Out of the corner of his eye, he just sees some nigga walk in like, bro, can you imagine?
	Like, fucking...
	He came in with like a fan.
	He just comes in and just like, he's walking in and just like...
	Ow!
	Did you imagine, bro?
	Oh, God, bro.
	Did you imagine, bro?
	It's dark and you see something naked with a veil on coming and whacking off.
	And then you see his Diddy.
	You're like, what the fuck?
	He didn't know until a year later.
	After.
	Like a year later.
	Damn.
	That's what he said, man.
	You know, he might just not want to get his car bombed.
	You know what I'm saying?
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yo, because Diddy...
	Diddy's a wild boy But it's like There's like a lot of stories in New York Of him Like, fucking people up, man.
	Bad boy.
	Yeah, like really like on some like real gangsta shit like fucking fucking people up.
	Like Nas talked about it, you know, like you ever see the Hate Me Now video?
	Yeah.
	Where like they on the cross.
	Diddy was seen that shit like I don't want that to come out the video and his manager put that shit out.
	I ain't snitching.
	Nas said it in a song shit.
	But Diddy didn't want that shit coming out and Nas' manager put that shit out anyway.
	They went in his office and fucked him up, man.
	He had to go to a hospital dude named Steve Stout.
	There's, like, tons of stories about Diddy, like, fucking people up.
	He's big in the industry, too, by the way.
	Steve Stout.
	Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you this.
	He did a really good job of paying people off, getting shit removed, because on the trial, a lot of, like, just like that, violent acts come out of, you know, him, he tried to, he heard Shook Knight was at, like, a fucking diner down the street.
	They're in the middle of a freak-off.
	He was about to run down on Shook Knight.
	Bro, yeah!
	They were in the middle of a freak-off.
	They stopped.
	Take off the baby oil.
	Put the mask on and ran in there.
	Think about that.
	Just put this in context.
	You hear other stories about people running when Shook Knight come.
	Yeah.
	Right, you know what I'm saying?
	Yeah.
	This motherfucker saw Shook Knight and started running towards him.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I'm just saying, in New York, we knew he was on some fruity shit, but he was like a fucking gangster gang.
	But that makes him even more dangerous because he has a son to hide.
	So it's like, it's like, it's even more, he has to bring up the force and the intimidation even more so to make sure people don't spread rumors and shit.
	It wasn't a game, man.
	You know, I met this motherfucker once, right?
	really?
	White hair, he's not that tall.
	Who?
	All white hair.
	I'll tell you the story.
	So I used to be with a modeling agency at one point, you know what I'm saying?
	In New York, right?
	Yes, I won a big one.
	And I did, I did, they had the Sean John.
	The brand, right?
	So they hired me to do this show.
	And then they had me in a suit, right?
	They tailored it to me, and it was cool.
	What year is this?
	Early 2000s?
	Man, yeah, somewhere, maybe it was...
	Six.
	Something like that.
	And then after it, I asked the casting director, I was like, yo, can I keep this suit?
	Y 'all tailored it to me, man.
	You can't just sell some shit like this.
	Motherfuckers ain't built like this.
	And then she said, all right, let me go ask Diddy.
	And she went across the room and she was like, I said, you're talking to him.
	And then he looks at me and he goes.
	I had to give the suit back, you know what I'm saying?
	I ain't never talked to him, but that's only, thankfully, that's the only encounter I ever had with dude, you know what I'm saying?
	Yo, that's wild though.
	Couldn't give the suit away, bro.
	I was just like, man, what y 'all gonna do with this shit?
	He said, if I ain't smashing, you ain't having it.
	You know, it's just weird because, you know, in the early 2000s, like, this dude was on top, bro.
	You couldn't avoid this guy anywhere.
	Well, pause.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I meant as in, like, he was everywhere.
	Like, MTV.
	This is before social media.
	Like, all these young people are like, who is Diddy?
	And I'm like, bro, like, 20, 30 years ago, man, this dude was everywhere.
	So imagine having that much power, right?
	That much access.
	It was untouchable.
	And control.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you might get bored.
	I mean, I'm not excusing his accent.
	I'm just saying, like, having that much power and control, bro, you're like, fuck this shit.
	I'm gonna do some wild shit.
	Maybe.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But I don't understand why he does it, though.
	It's kind of weird.
	Hey, man, listen.
	Me neither, man.
	How are these motherfuckers going to get some more money, though?
	Enough about daddy.
	Guys, get your questions in, by the way.
	Oh, yeah, they're going to ask us questions, right?
	Instead of chat GPT, we got chat BBC.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Get some real nigga questions.
	We're going to go ahead and obviously do a Zoom call as well with you guys after this.
	Shout out to Mr. Carter.
	You are by far one of my favorite guests on the show.
	Super funny and inspiring.
	Much respect, big dog.
	Always, thank you, FNF.
	You guys are awesome.
	There's a lot of truth in that statement, man.
	Shout out to you, brother.
	You know what I'm saying?
	All right.
	We got the Dark King.
	It's not me this time.
	What's up, guys?
	Just wanted to show some love to Brandon.
	You're the reason I have two jobs.
	Come on!
	A lot of motherfuckers been saying, because I've been telling them, if you broke, man, You do that shit for like a year, you won't be broke no more.
	80 hours is a good one.
	That's what I'm saying.
	A lot of you guys will just work one full-time job?
	Bro, that's not enough, man.
	You gotta be doing more.
	I get a lot of messages like this, man.
	I'm sorry, you can finish reading it.
	I just want to say I get a lot of messages motherfuckers telling me, y 'all, I saw that and now I came up, man.
	It really helped me out, you know?
	Straight up.
	Get another job, man.
	I had four jobs when I was struggling during the recession, bro.
	There you go.
	Making six figures is possible for anybody.
	It really is.
	You're going to have to lose free time, but...
	I didn't sacrifice sleep.
	I didn't sacrifice working out.
	I sacrificed the bullshit, though.
	Like I wasn't playing no video games.
	No girls.
	No drinking.
	No drinking, I didn't watch...
	So you know how difficult that was for me.
	I'm genetically predisposed to liking that shit, right?
	But I just sacrifice, because if you can't sacrifice for your goals, then the goals become the sacrifice.
	I think watching sports, man, probably one of the worst things you could do as a brokie.
	Yeah, if you're broke, man.
	Yo, listen.
	How many guys just sit there and spend hours watching sports, bro?
	It's an escapism, right?
	And I understand it, but it's like, Like, if you don't want to come up, then that's cool.
	You know, like, I get it.
	Like, if you don't want to come up, you're just gonna be a regular nigga doing regular shit till you die, then that's fine, right?
	You might gotta make peace with that.
	But, like, if you're trying to come up, man, then you gotta, like, put your foot on the gas, man.
	Yeah, and honestly, bro, like, I think sports is one of the worst ways to spend your time, bro.
	Like, it's just like, you know, you better at least be working if you're gonna be fucking doing that shit.
	Yeah.
	But, um, what else do we got here?
	Oh, we never finished this shit.
	Oh, we didn't finish it from before?
	No, I think we read it.
	Nah, I cut them off after the first sentence.
	Okay.
	Amazon and Royal Farms, and also I cut grass on the side.
	Good?
	Yeah.
	Also, thank you Fresh Myron and Moen Bills for the cashback credit card stream.
	My current credit score is 759.
	Good work.
	But that's only because of my parents.
	I don't have a credit card of my own yet, so that video helped a lot.
	I'm thinking I'm getting either the Wells Fargo active cash or the Citibank double cash credit card.
	Yeah, bro, get one of those or get both if you want.
	You know, cashback credit cards, you've got to have at least one of those.
	DripCon says, if you think a chick attractive on IG but you don't live in the same state or even the same country, how do you actually make the move if there's no realistic chance of you bumping into a real life?
	Bro, this is where you've got to have I have a very good Instagram account, bro.
	And we talk about that in DMs on demand, but if you don't got a good Instagram account, bro, you're cooked.
	Also, you got to flare up, bro.
	That's your best bet.
	Yeah, man.
	Use them points.
	You got to pay for them.
	Use them points.
	We've been thinking about potentially doing something for y 'all, covering this shit, because a lot of you guys fucked this shit up.
	But we might do something for you guys to cover that.
	Yeah.
	Do you start off engaging with her profile, like, comment, and pick stories, or do you This Instagram shit.
	Back in the day, guys, the biggest thing was having the appeal and the status.
	But nowadays, it's more like, not really the message, it's the messenger.
	Because with being the messenger that they want to be around, for example, with the lifestyle, that guy, they're going to respond to you.
	You can even put emoji, you can put some dumb shit, they're going to respond.
	But if your page sucks, no response at all, bro.
	You're ghosted.
	So I would say don't comment, don't like, just send a DM, but you have to have that page that's good for what she needs.
	Yeah, man, I ain't been single in a long time, but I remember before when not everybody can get the verification shit.
	Man, that shit was powerful.
	That was powerful back in the day, bro.
	That shit was like...
	That shit was...
	That shit was like having a fucking magic wand.
	It used to be you could only get it like you had to actually be either like a celebrity or you had to have like real articles on you.
	It was not easy to get an old verification.
	Man, when I got that shit.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Nigga, when I had that shit, nigga.
	Everything was different.
	Bro, takeover was real.
	That's when I met my girl.
	When I had that shit.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I don't know if I'd be with her if I ain't.
	The power.
	Now any asshole can get it.
	Any nigga with $20 can get a verification.
	Honestly, I think they should be separating it.
	A gold.
	A gold one if it's real.
	Real nigga verification.
	I just bought the shit verification.
	Twitter, if you're a government official, it's gray.
	They should do something like that where it's gray for government official, blue for...
	Black if you're a real nigga.
	Something like that.
	Real nigga verification.
	They should have it though.
	Something.
	But what else we got?
	DPG says, Mexican flag cartel is marching on the LAPD right now.
	Crazy in LA.
	If you live out there in the failed state, fellas, get your money up and get your rear end to Texas or Florida.
	We don't play that out here.
	Yeah, bro.
	What's going on?
	I covered that shit earlier.
	Bro, absolutely cooked, man.
	I don't even like the visit, bro.
	Same!
	Nah.
	Bro, we go there and we get the fuck out.
	Bro, we do not sit there and sightsee none of that shit, bro.
	We do our interviews and get the fuck out, man.
	We understood the culture of L.A. How it's run by gangs?
	I'm good, bro.
	I'm a straight nigga.
	I'm a civilian, bro.
	Get me out of here.
	Fuck out of here, bro.
	That shit trash.
	And it's like, Yeah, it's tough.
	They make it hell for you to get a gun out there, bro.
	So you can't even defend yourself against these fucking...
	In Florida, man, I walk around like Black John Wick.
	Jamal Wick.
	Florida, you good.
	Bro.
	Jamal Wick.
	What else do we got here?
	Hey, FNF, real estate question here.
	If I'm unable to find a good multifamily deal to house hack in my area, would you recommend getting a single family living in it for a year, then turning it into a rental, then I can use the HELOC to get another property?
	Yeah, you could do that, man.
	Because the thing is right now, the interest rates are really high.
	So it's tough to find good deals.
	As you guys know, I got a couple houses this year, but it was a fucking pain in the ass to find them, dude.
	I don't know if I'll be able to do another deal for the rest of this year because interest rates are trash, bro.
	Terrible.
	So, yeah, man.
	You just got to be real militant, keep looking, and having a single family home and then house hacking, there's nothing wrong with that.
	You're going to eat the cost over the first year.
	And then when you're house hacking, something's wrong with that unit.
	You gotta pay for it.
	You right there, nigga.
	It's not like my units or your units.
	It's his house.
	Motherfuckers don't even know who I am.
	Who their landlord is.
	You know what I'm saying?
	You know what's scary, though?
	Imagine buying a property and it's roof damage.
	You gotta repair.
	And it's your first property.
	You're still young.
	You've house hacked before.
	You can talk about it.
	They call it being house poor.
	Where you get property by skinning your teeth.
	You're in it.
	And you're like, alright, cool.
	This is awesome.
	But then, Murphy's knocking.
	Murphy's Law.
	Oh, shit!
	You're in the house now?
	Problems.
	And before you call your landlord, brother, your fridge is not working.
	The stove ain't working.
	Fix this shit, nigga.
	Hold on, it's my shit now.
	Yo, nigga, wake up!
	Fix this shit!
	So it's tough, bro.
	It's tough sometimes.
	So have reserves, for sure, for your property because things will go wrong and they can.
	You have to, bro.
	What else do we got?
	And we'll do a zone call after this as well for the guys in Castle Club.
	Guys, sale right now.
	CC17.
	Get in there.
	Price point that you will not get again for a very long time.
	This is a good comment right here.
	There's a lot of truth in this statement.
	Brandon is a cool-ass dude.
	And the kind of brother who's impossible to hate.
	Sorry about your dad, bro.
	I shout out to you, brother man.
	Hey, thank you, brother.
	Appreciate it.
	He's kind of funny sometimes.
	Conflation!
	WStream earlier.
	Did I miss Brandon saying what felt me?
	There'd be no FNF?
	I didn't say that.
	I didn't say that.
	Not in his stream.
	He didn't say in his stream.
	Nah, they did.
	You know, here's the thing is, man, winners are always going to win.
	So, like, if Myron didn't meet me and shit, he'd have found another way to win.
	winners are going to win.
	I'm happy that I was...
	I'll be honest, I probably would have stayed with the government.
	Because I like the job a lot.
	So I probably would have stayed.
	So it was a lot of fun.
	It was a good time.
	But now it's just getting crazy, bro.
	It might not be good to be a government employee now.
	Now you do whatever you want.
	And some shit I don't want you to do.
	You do it too.
	But it's all good.
	Listen, guys, if y 'all want to learn how to grow your online fitness business the way Myra did, there's a free e-book called The Ten Commandments of Online Training.
	Links in the description.
	It gives you the information you need.
	See if it's right for you.
	You might read and be like, this is not the path.
	But at least you'll understand.
	You can cross this off your list of potential banks.
	There's a lot of things in there for just running an online business in general.
	Social media, marketing, whatever.
	Even if you don't want to start a fitness business, a lot of stuff in here will teach you how to get an online business going, right?
	It's very applicable to a lot of different things, especially service-based businesses, for sure.
	And growing your social media and advertising on there and everything else like that.
	DBG to get the 50 subs.
	Shout out to you, bro.
	I can't imagine being a trainer and having to train in person, clients.
	That must be annoying sometimes.
	Well, that's why I teach them online.
	It was actually kind of gratifying.
	I've been a trainer since I was 16, right?
	So we're talking about 25 years, 26 years of being a trainer.
	It's gratifying.
	It's just not financially rewarded.
	It's cool to actually see people change.
	But once I learn how you can get Results, sometimes better results in person.
	I mean, get better results online than you can in person.
	It's like, oh, then I'll just do this.
	Then you can help more people.
	Charge them less.
	Right?
	And make a better income for yourself.
	Right?
	So it's pretty dope, man.
	I think online training is a better service.
	Sometimes trainers will be reluctant to do it because, man, what about their form?
	I got to help them with their form.
	It's like, no, nigga.
	You can't out-train a bad diet, but you can out-diet bad training.
	So what I teach my students is to focus on give them the workout plan, give them the custom diet plan, but now your job is to make sure they do it and they follow it.
	And if they follow it, they're going to get great results.
	Diet is the most important part.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah.
	Alright.
	Any more chats?
	No.
	No.
	Oh, what?
	So do we want to answer a couple of calls, a couple of answers on the phone and then go to the cast club?
	Chat BBC.
	Gotta be quick because we got the girls here.
	Alright, let's take like three questions on the phone lines then.
	Cool.
	Take a few.
	We're going to fire up the phone lines for you guys right now.
	Oh, we call it up the phone lines.
	And then we're going to call the nigga Ramsey show.
	You guys can ask questions.
	Nathan says, Fresh Fit and Brandon, I make $700 approximately per week per paycheck working 48 plus hours a week.
	Yeah.
	I have other bills and responsibilities, but how would you advise I invest to grow my money?
	No, you don't, nigga.
	You ain't got enough money.
	You got to get another job.
	I don't mean that in the disrespectful way.
	You got to get a second job.
	Even if you're just driving Uber, doing Uber Eats, you know what I'm saying?
	I'm telling you, that's what I did.
	It was during the recession.
	Even though I had a college degree, I couldn't get a good job.
	So I trained people in the morning, and then I showered at the gym, and then I worked security at the Prada store for like eight hours.
	And then after that, I worked for a moving company.
	And that was five days a week.
	And on the weekends, I trained people in the morning, and then I managed a restaurant.
	I was the weekend manager for a restaurant in Queens on Steinway Street.
	Awesome.
	Yeah, I just worked.
	I just worked, worked, worked, worked, worked.
	You got to get another job.
	I'm telling you, man.
	Get another job, brother.
	He's earning roughly $14 to $15 an hour, I think, with that rate.
	Yeah, bro.
	You got to get another job.
	For $700 a week, you're making $2,800 a month.
	You got to make more than that, bro.
	Get another job, brother.
	I'm telling you.
	I wish it was Uber.
	I would have drove Uber.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah.
	We tell guys that all the time.
	Have your full-time job, and then what you do is you augment your full-time job.
	With something like an Uber.
	Uber, another job.
	Because you can basically work that around your other job.
	Because you can just turn the shit on and then leave your job and then turn the Uber on and go start working.
	And don't raise your expenses.
	That's the thing.
	Don't raise your expenses.
	Then you start investing the money from your other job.
	You do that shit for a year, you won't be broke no more.
	You'll be coming up.
	Also, it's low investment.
	Ready to connect.
	Click connect the show now.
	Pick people up.
	You're done.
	Yeah, so, yeah, dude, look, this is, I'm glad you said that.
	You are connected as the host.
	Welcome.
	And just so you guys know, a lot of you guys say y 'all want to invest money, blah, blah, blah.
	But you don't make enough.
	You don't make enough.
	You can't invest until you actually start making money.
	You have an earning problem.
	You don't have a saving or investment problem.
	You have an earning problem.
	You gotta earn more, guys.
	Most folks will be like, I got a thousand dollars.
	What should I invest it in?
	Nigga, a fucking, someone to write you a resume.
	Bro, I remember I had 10K saved up.
	I went to my mansion.
	I was like, look, bro, I made 10K.
	It's fucking amazing.
	He's like, you don't got shit, bro.
	Make 100K in it.
	And they come back to me.
	Because investing, you know, the average return from the stock market is 10% a year, right?
	The average return from real estate is like not much more than that, right?
	Yeah, it's not.
	You've got to be really, yeah.
	And it's slower money because it's like you're getting the cash flow in like drips, right?
	So yeah.
	So it's like, you got 10 bands, right?
	You invested, let's say you get the average return, right?
	If you only got 10 bands, you're probably not an expert investor, right?
	So like, you're probably gonna get the average return at best.
	And then, so what, after a year, you got a fucking another thousand dollars?
	Fuck you gonna do with that?
	Nothing.
	Right, you gotta make more money, like, and keep investing over and over and over again.
	But here's the thing.
	If you invested just $2,000 a month in something like, S&P 500 index fund.
	If you could make an extra $2,000 a month, you could do that fucking part-time job working on weekends or something, right?
	If you invested in an S&P 500 index fund, average return of 10% a year.
	For 20 years, you'd have $1.3 million at the end of 20 years, right?
	And if you want it to increase more, then you, you know, you either put in more money or you find an investment that has higher returns, you know?
	But it's like, if you make more money than you spend.
	And invest the difference over a long enough period of time, you will come up.
	That is the key to success.
	And compound interest, what they don't tell you is that it takes years to actually effectuate properly.
	A long time.
	And straight up, this is not, like, it's not in my best interest to say you did.
	Like, if I was one of these, like, all the, if I wasn't, these other motherfuckers would tell you, man, yo, just buy my shit now, get the course.
	I'm telling you, no nigga, get a job, get another job.
	Like, get your shit together, right?
	Because that's what I did.
	That's what I really did.
	And this is the ugly side that they don't want to tell you.
	Like, a lot of the gurus don't want to tell you this because they want you to buy their course, whatever.
	We're telling y 'all, bro, it's not going to come easy.
	You're going to have to get another job.
	You're going to have to work a lot of hours.
	And you're going to have to save that money.
	Then we could talk about you starting up another business.
	Because you won't even have the money to get into the course and get into the mentorship.
	Now, you were different because you had a good-paying job.
	Right so you got a good paying job then you can then it makes sense to augment it with another business But if you like fucking Man, get another job, brother.
	Like, I beg of you.
	Like, I say that because, you know, I know there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of fucking black people watching this shit, right?
	You know what I'm saying?
	And also, like, this TikTok brand of I Can Make Money Quick because they're watching on the internet, right?
	And the internet's been the greatest and the worst thing because it's like, people think that they can make a bunch of money quickly on social media.
	It's easy.
	Yeah, it's just like, yo, I mean, It's the best time to be black.
	Martin Luther King was not getting his ass kicked every weekend for you to sit around being broke.
	Facts.
	Right, you know what I'm saying?
	The March on Washington was originally called the March for Jobs.
	Go get one, my nigga.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Go get one, right?
	He wanted us to have opportunities to get jobs and fuck some white women.
	Exactly.
	That was the dream.
	Thank you.
	You understand?
	Yeah, I ain't got to tell.
	I ain't got to tell.
	You see how enthusiastic he was?
	The Winter Soldier guy, you see how enthusiastic he was?
	He was doing it, though.
	He was.
	Marty Marr was out here, man.
	You know what I'm saying?
	They talk about Mahoney Marr.
	Listen, Marty Marr was a good dude, right?
	But you know what I'm saying?
	After hours.
	After hours, Marty Marr was out here.
	We made this show, bro.
	After hours, nigga, for a reason.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yo, man.
	We shall overcome.
	You know what I'm saying?
	You know what I'm saying?
	We did.
	White power!
	Wait, whoa, whoa.
	Interracial dating used to be illegal in Florida.
	Come on, this kid.
	Oh, yeah.
	White power?
	Yeah, I did.
	Did I hit your fist when you said that?
	No, no, he sneezed.
	After, after.
	He sneezed.
	Oh, man, I didn't mean to hit his fist when he said that.
	bless you French bro okay speaking ancient he said I make 20 an hour when there's 1.5 overtime and for an additional extra bucks for differential I work 10 hours Mondays to Fridays.
	Yeah, man.
	I mean, bro, you need to work.
	You need to make some more money, bro.
	700 a week is not enough, dude.
	To invest, at least.
	It's not enough money, man.
	Akichi Goro.
	Give the 10 subs.
	Shout out to you, brother.
	Appreciate that.
	And then, also, you might want to invest.
	Instead of, like, you're talking about investing, save some money on the side so you can learn a real trade that will get you more money.
	That's something you can think about, too.
	It should burn you at your job to want to get out.
	Like, you should be there like, damn.
	I'm not going to be here forever, but I'm going to hustle now.
	Stock it up so I can leave and do my own shit.
	Yo, man, just sacrifice for like a year.
	You know what I'm saying?
	You come up, work 80 hours for a year.
	I promise you won't be broke.
	You know what I'm saying?
	And then you eventually want to get into something that you love and still work 80 hours a week.
	Because then when you love it, it doesn't feel like work.
	That's really the cheat code of life is to find something you enjoy, something you would do for free.
	I would train people for free.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I've trained people for free.
	But I'd rather get paid for it, right?
	But if you do something you love, then now you're cheating the system a little bit.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah.
	No, for sure.
	What else do we got here?
	Oh, we got the number.
	Let's get the phone lines.
	Get to the phone lines.
	What's the number?
	646 something?
	646-490-0394.
	Okay, ninjas, we're going to take a couple phone calls.
	Let's go right to the lines.
	646-490-0394.
	Get on with us or Brandon.
	I would say prioritize questions for Brandon.
	You guys can talk to us whenever, but you got Brandon in the house.
	So, you know, expertise is in, obviously, digital marketing, online fitness coaching, running online businesses, courses, any of that stuff.
	Hey, Brandon, up.
	646-490-0394.
	Yep.
	We got anybody online yet?
	Yes, we do.
	All right, let's get somebody on.
	Let's go.
	7467, you're up.
	7467, you're up.
	Hit us with your question right away.
	would I mean Come on, brother.
	You can do this.
	You can do this.
	We believe in you, bro.
	We believe in you, brother.
	Black power.
	You know, interracial dating was, like, illegal until, like, very recently in Florida.
	Dude, he died for us, bro.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like, my girlfriend's Dominican.
	Like, that shit would have been illegal.
	Well, I mean, technically she's black, though.
	Huh?
	Technically she's black.
	Oh, listen.
	Don't tell the Dominican that.
	Oh, you're right.
	You're right.
	Nios, Mido.
	Get up, gang.
	I know black.
	I know black.
	No, boy.
	I don't know.
	This guy ain't on the line.
	All right, bro.
	I know black.
	This nigga retarded.
	I know black, poppy.
	What's next?
	3693, you're up.
	3693, you're up.
	All right.
	3693.
	Yo.
	Yo, Myron, you are always late to every show, but you talk about black people.
	Why are you always on black people time?
	Alright, man.
	Next caller.
	Yeah, bro.
	That's nigga trolling, bro.
	Yeah, and I start my stream up at 5, actually, so he's wrong.
	That shit be on at 5 p.m. every time.
	He sounded like a motherfucking Timu black man.
	That's Arabic.
	Who's up next?
	1-3-4-1, you are up.
	1-3-4-1.
	Timu Muhammad.
	1-3-4-1, you are up.
	Hello, can you hear me?
	Yep.
	Hey, thanks for letting me on.
	Just a quick rundown.
	So I've been trying to follow the Brandon path right now.
	I'm working two fast food jobs.
	I'm also going to college for biochemical engineering.
	But I'm working on my fitness as well right now.
	I'm 21 years of age.
	I'm down to like a 14.6% body fat at 88.6 pounds of muscle or so.
	I'm looking to get into your fitness online program and stuff like that so I can build my way and eventually get down to one fast food job with all my biochemicals taking off and stuff like that.
	For sure, man.
	Was there a question in there?
	Sorry, my fault.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, so how would you recommend going about it?
	Because I know to read your book first and whatnot.
	That's the first step.
	What I tell my students who come in and they need to get in some better shape, there's something we teach called Makeover Madness, where we show them how to start documenting their process of getting in shape.
	And then when they do it, they're their first testimonial.
	You get what I'm saying?
	And this shit works like super well because people start getting invested, you know?
	People start getting invested into following you, into your journey.
	And then, you know, once you actually do it, then it's like, oh, you start aspiring people and people will be like, oh man, how can I do it, right?
	And it's doper if you were actually out of shape.
	See, I was never out of shape.
	You know, like, by the time digital cameras came out, I was already in pretty good shape, you know, because I started working out in the 90s.
	So I don't have no footage of me.
	I don't have no before and after pictures.
	So it's cool because Yeah, it's amazing when you have it.
	So that's going to be your first step, is getting that before and after.
	You get what I'm saying?
	And the beauty of online training is like, you know, you don't even need a big following, right?
	'Cause if you had 20 or 20 years The average in-person trainer is charging $100 per session.
	You've got to see that motherfucker three times a week, at least, right?
	So that's like $300, and they're not even going to help you with your diet, right?
	So it's actually a steal.
	$80 a week.
	If you have 25 clients paying you $80 a week, if you kept an average of 25 clients for 52 weeks a year, that's $104,000 a year.
	You know what I'm saying?
	And you don't need millions of followers to get.
	25 lines.
	A lot of people watching probably have 25 people right now who'd be excited to work with them.
	You know what I'm saying?
	But I'm getting ahead of myself.
	Your first step, obviously, download a book and see if it's the right thing for you.
	It might not be, right?
	But what's really important is getting the shapes you had at Dope before and after.
	And you're going to use that as your marketing.
	That makes sense, brother.
	And that helps a lot because people can identify with that, too.
	They can identify.
	That was my problem.
	That was something I had to overcome.
	People were like, man, you've never been fat, Brandon.
	You don't know.
	And I'm like, yeah.
	No, you're right, bro.
	I've never been fat, man.
	So I don't know.
	But if you've been fat, not only can you relate to them better, you can speak up.
	I've trained enough fat people that now I have understanding.
	But there's stuff that if you've never been overweight, then...
	Little shit like how they perspire in different spots.
	There's a bunch of shit that I don't want to get into that someone who's never been fat doesn't understand.
	You can speak to that.
	You can speak their language.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Aww.
	Yeah, like being able to put seatbelts on.
	No, no, no.
	It's fine.
	Like being able to put seatbelts on is what?
	That's some shit I never thought about.
	See, like the real shit.
	That's some shit I never thought about.
	There you go.
	But you lost a lot of weight, though.
	Yo, shout out to you, Moe.
	Thank you so much.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Let's go, homie.
	So, yeah.
	Moe's the homie, man.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Or if you're skinny, right?
	How you were a hard gainer, how you overcame.
	So, like, you know, you do both, man.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You can do either or.
	Yeah, that's the beauty.
	And you don't have to look like a crazy fitness model or some shit, right?
	In fact, you know, another thing, if you get too in shape, right, people have a problem even believing that they can get like you.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But if you're just the step that they can believe, right?
	If you just get in shape, you lose 10, 20 pounds or whatever, people would like, that's exactly what they want to do.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So it's kind of more compelling.
	Does that make sense?
	It's believable.
	I can achieve this.
	It's believable, yeah.
	Versus your physique, nigga.
	It's like, oh man, you got to set obtainable goals, man.
	Alright, who's up next?
	The Winter Soldier.
	Who is that?
	That's Fresh, the Winter Soldier.
	Holy shit!
	That's kinda hard, bro.
	I fuck with that.
	You made that shit?
	That shit a little hard, bro.
	I fuck with that shit, nigga.
	That's Castle Club, man.
	Yo, Castle Club.
	Listen, I gave him that name, the Winter Soldier.
	That's the sauce, man.
	Yeah, I think you need to grow that hair out, man.
	I got some snow.
	I don't think it's going to go down.
	It's going to look like that.
	It's going to be a fro.
	Yeah.
	Who's up next?
	Let's go 6744.
	You are up.
	6744.
	You're up.
	All right.
	Hey, what's up, guys?
	What's up?
	Just had a quick question centered around.
	Real estate.
	So I bought my first property.
	I say I have multiple properties.
	I only have one property.
	I bought it two years ago in Southern California.
	I live in San Francisco.
	And the reason I bought it is because we can build out.
	I can build ADUs.
	The house is sitting on three quarters of an acre.
	So I want to rezone it so that I can build another home aside from a couple ADUs.
	My issue is I'm running into financing problems where Construction loans minimum is around 10%.
	And I'm wondering, like, what could I do to maybe get better financing options?
	Listen, all my real estate is seller finance, so my room might be better.
	Yeah, I look for those deals.
	Yeah, no, that's good.
	Yeah, dude.
	Now, this is kind of where you have to figure out if the juice is worth the squeeze, right?
	Have you calculated what those ADUs would earn you?
	And if it's worth the effort of doing that?
	Because you're trying to do construction in Southern California, which is going to be expensive, and then taxes and everything else like that.
	Like, do you think the ADUs are going to make you that much more money where you want to do this?
	Yeah, so at the moment, we have two options we're looking at.
	We're either looking at boxables, where the homes come prefabricated, they come in, install them.
	You hire an electrician privately and Palmer to install the lines, and you essentially have it done.
	That's one option.
	The other option is to literally build it from the ground up.
	There's probably only a 15% to 20% difference between the two.
	It's just that it's much faster to get a boxable home.
	My issue is that I don't know whether or not the property would go up in value.
	Having a boxable home versus, you're right, construction.
	Because everything in California, or everywhere, is expensive.
	Yeah, they're going to mark you up quite a bit.
	And then, here's the other thing, too.
	Are you a gas club?
	No, I'm not.
	Right, you've got to get in there, nigga, because we're probably going to go ahead and get, I'm going to get Dave from the BiggerPockets.
	Dave Green.
	Dave Green.
	And he does a lot of talks with ADUs.
	So, you got to get into Cass Club, bro.
	Because that's literally one of his things.
	And I'm going to host a Zoom call with him very soon on there with you guys.
	And ADUs is one of the things that he did.
	And he did them in California, too.
	Yeah, yeah.
	That'd be great.
	I'd definitely like to look into Cass Club.
	Motherfucker, you trying to get a fucking construction loan?
	It's 17 bucks a month, man.
	Stop being a goddamn fucking dreidel spinner, man.
	Comedy.
	We're going to go ahead and we're going to get...
	on 17 bucks so you can get the goddamn info.
	Yo, this is like a very serious decision, bro.
	Like a very serious decision.
	I'm telling you, I'm gonna get somebody that literally, this is what they do with the ADUs.
	Because he's done ADUs in California.
	You're going to be dealing with a lot of fucking bullshit, man, to get this done.
	So, um...
	Yeah, and we did Dustin, the tech guy as well, a Zoom call with him.
	The numbers.
	Legendary, bro.
	So, guys, Castle Club, man, we got you guys with Hella Valender.
	Okay.
	Castle Club sounds great.
	I haven't been the biggest proponent.
	I've seen clips.
	I saw you guys on a call-in show, and I've seen a few clips from Myron covering the Diddy case.
	Yeah.
	And it was really cool to get it.
	I mean, the reason, great.
	Just great coverage overall.
	So thanks for that, Myron.
	Yeah, but the Castle Club is where we do a lot of the coaching stuff.
	And this question right here is a very specific question.
	I'm literally messaging him right now.
	Damn, man.
	Listen to this, man.
	Myron hitting up his network, man.
	Imagine if he was in the Castle Club.
	Yeah, man.
	You got access to those people.
	So, yeah, man.
	But yeah, dude, jump in there, man.
	And we're going to have that talk with him because this is something that you definitely don't want to fuck up.
	And I'm not an expert on ADUs, and especially not ADUs in California.
	There's a lot of zoning and shit you got to deal with.
	And then getting a loan, getting a proper loan for that.
	I know for a fact David Green has properties in Northern California.
	We're kind of the area that you live in.
	He's dealt with ADUs.
	So, well, I'll put you in touch with him.
	That'd be great.
	All right, man.
	Perfect.
	Thanks, guys.
	All right, bro.
	Later.
	Jump in there, man.
	Get in there.
	CC17, get a half off.
	Half off.
	CC17, all caps.
	All right.
	Let's go.
	One more and then Zoom call?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, guys.
	Get in there, man.
	You want to do Zoom call?
	They said one more.
	Yeah, yeah.
	One more call.
	One more call and then Zoom.
	Then we're going to switch to Castle Club.
	Alright.
	7886, you are up.
	7886.
	Yeah, that's me.
	What's up, bro?
	Yo.
	Hey.
	Hey, how's it doing?
	I'm Mike.
	I've been watching you guys for a long time.
	I did your DMs on demand.
	I got a lot of value from that.
	Awesome, bro.
	So thanks for that.
	You know why we hit me up when they was launching that shit?
	I helped with the launch.
	I was going to say that.
	Right?
	No, it's true.
	Sorry, go ahead, bro.
	Hit us with your question, though.
	Come on.
	We're short on time.
	Yeah, yeah.
	My question was for Brandon.
	If there was a business model where you could have an online booking type of business, but to book sessions for motivational speaking, do you think that would hold up in today's market?
	or anything that's a waste of time.
	So you wanted to have a business where someone can...
	I don't think I comprehended it.
	I apologize.
	I wanted to do motivational speaking.
	Okay, you want to be a motivational speaker.
	I have a wild backstory where I lived when I was supposed to be dead and I couldn't read at age 20 and woke up from a coma and stuff like that.
	I wanted to motivate people.
	The way other motivational speakers do.
	And I was wondering, do you think that business model still holds up today, or do you think it's just a waste in today's market?
	You know, it's going to be difficult to just make a living as a motivational speaker, to get paid speaking gigs enough for you to actually make a living off of it.
	Right.
	You know, so you're going to have to have I don't know your story or what you're trying to accomplish, but I'm going to assume that you've got a crazy story.
	Rags to riches.
	You are doing dope shit now after like it.
	And if you don't have a business behind it, you know, I mean, it takes a lot to become a paid speaker, bro.
	You gotta have a huge influence.
	And a brand as well.
	Yeah.
	Like, you look at someone like Tony Robbins, right?
	They're getting paid to do motivational speech and shit.
	again, paid a bunch of money, but he built up, you know, a brand, built up an image, and then he was able to go ahead and market that and get paid for gigs.
	My boy, Mark Manson, you know, when he, when...
	You know, then he wrote The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, and that became, like, a huge, crazy seller.
	Like, the homie back in New York, you know?
	And he told me when that shit hit the New York Times bestseller, his speaking fee immediately went up to 20K.
	It was, like, 5K, right?
	But he was, like, famous.
	Like, internet, he had a big following on the internet, and he had a self-published book that made a lot of money.
	That had a lot of buyers.
	But it was still like 5k a speaking event.
	And that was every once in a while.
	But then when he became a fucking New York Times number one best-selling author, then the speaking went up to 20k.
	Now if you get really big, I know Gary Vee speaking, the homie Gary Vee, shout out to Gary, his speaking fee is 100k plus per event.
	Bro, even now.
	I haven't seen him in years, bro.
	The thing is, tech companies will hire people like that to come speak to their team.
	Okay.
	I don't see him on social media like that.
	But here's the thing, though.
	Gary has a...
	Evaluation.
	You know, evaluation.
	$100 million is right.
	So you can't just have a cool story.
	Like you just...
	I have a business that I started, like a clothing line, that goes with a podcast that I want to do, and then I have a side business where I make money from taking care of mental administration.
	Okay, so here's the game plan, homie.
	Check it out.
	What you're going to do is, you're going to start speaking for free and shit, right, to promote your businesses.
	And if you start doing a really good job and you start getting popular, you really get shit popping, then people will start reaching out to you for paid gigs.
	Does that make sense?
	You know, because I speak for free a lot of times.
	If it's the homies, if it's somebody I know, and if it's in Florida, if it's in Miami, I'll speak for free.
	If the locals want me to travel, they gotta break bread, right?
	But like, you know, if it's in Florida and it's the homie, alright, we cool, you know, but it's like, you know, right now you want to start speaking for free.
	Getting exposure.
	Getting practice, right?
	Because it takes a minute to get good at speaking from stage.
	But use it to promote your businesses.
	And that's going to be very helpful for you.
	All right.
	And then when you, Build your social media following as well.
	Yeah, you got to build your social media following.
	I have 12K followers on Instagram.
	That's what's up.
	All right, nigga.
	Keep it on.
	You bought followers, nigga?
	Keep it honest.
	Yeah, yeah, I've talked to you before, Fresh.
	I know.
	Now you need more of that coming organically.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Also, YouTube is where you need to be, bro.
	I've said it before.
	I'll say it again.
	TikTok and Instagram are not real, bro.
	Like you build real influence with longer form content, not with fucking, you know, short form videos.
	Like you can, like you can still go viral doing that shit.
	But if you want people to like book you for speaking, People gotta, like, give a fuck about what you gotta say and watch you long-form.
	Like, Joe Rogan can easily get a speaking engagement because people are used to watching him long-form.
	But, like, you know, someone who just does, like, clips here, shorts here, or there, it's not gonna be the same, man.
	Like, you build a real audience with long-form video.
	I actually got...
	Of course, of course, do both of what I'm saying.
	My long form doesn't have that good of plumbing.
	You do that.
	Get that popping.
	Dude, it looks easy, bro.
	It's not, bro.
	Yeah.
	And I'll be honest with you.
	You sound like a weirdo.
	You got to fix that.
	You got to fix the way that you speak.
	You sound like a weirdo.
	And people are like, I'm just keeping a row with you.
	Is that your real voice?
	Yeah, yeah, but I'm on a ventilator, so it kind of changes my voice a little bit.
	You want a ventilator?
	You got COVID?
	What the hell?
	Nah, I had a stroke and went into a coma when I was like 18 years old.
	I died and then I was brain dead and then suddenly I just woke up the next day when they unplugged me.
	So I got super lucky and now I've just been trying to retrain myself.
	I graduated college and all that.
	Okay.
	Now I'm just saying because you sound computerized and shit.
	So that's why you want to be able to sound authentic and sound very personable.
	Yeah.
	So first you got to get your health right.
	I'm not in the hospital.
	I'm not in the hospital.
	I attached it to my wheelchair so I can go to college and then I graduated.
	I can't get off the ventilator.
	What?
	Yeah.
	Wow.
	You do got a story.
	That's different, bro.
	That's different.
	Yeah.
	I take back some of the shit I said, man.
	I want to hear more about this.
	This is the young Stephen Hawkins.
	Yeah.
	Well, look, man.
	Yeah, kind of like that.
	I would say, obviously, build your social media platform up.
	Focus on...
	That's tough.
	Yeah, no, but just think about it.
	No bullshit.
	If he pull up to the stage with the wheelchair, on a ventilator, they're going to give him some leeway, right?
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah, well, not now.
	Yeah, now that we know.
	I didn't know that, right?
	You just thought he was a regular nigga talking.
	Yeah, I thought, yeah.
	But, like, you know.
	Nah, nah.
	Now it's a little bit more acceptable.
	Most of the dudes that call into your show are kind of lazy.
	They just need to focus more on better in their life.
	But I just had the...
	So now I'm trying to build myself up again.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yo, yeah, no.
	All right, man.
	No, I mean, dude, I'm invested in this story.
	Listen, brother, brother, I've been there, bro.
	Yeah.
	You ain't been in a wheelchair on the ventilator, nigga.
	Hold on, hold on.
	My actual speech was so bad back in the day, bro.
	Listen, it's gone better, but it's terrible.
	I got casted to speak at FX Summit for traders last year, and...
	Did a podcast, it was cool.
	And I went up on stage, told my story from Barbados to here, and I fucking loved it.
	And I just think, like, having the drive to go for it and just try things...
	is to power it in itself.
	Granted, though, you're in a wheelchair.
	Sorry.
	Don't worry, don't worry.
	Because here's the thing, when you call them, Let's go.
	Okay.
	But no, I'm just being honest with you, because when I heard it, I was like, what the hell?
	This sounds weird.
	But since you're on a ventilator, people will make, obviously, and you're in a wheelchair, people understand that.
	So that's different.
	I thought that's actually how you sounded and you were like...
	That is this...
	Yeah, but now that makes sense.
	If you can do it, then you pull up on the stage with that shit.
	Yeah, so no, that's an inspiring story, my friend.
	The right marketing.
	Yeah, you need to steal the marketing, though.
	Still marketing.
	Yeah, and also focus on the market.
	Yo, listen.
	For sure.
	Yo, I was calling it low.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So, just keeping it organic.
	TikTok, Instagram videos.
	Daily content.
	And then at some point, put a link in bio.
	If you want to book me for speaking engagement, put it there.
	And you got a story.
	You got a good story, right?
	And that's more important.
	He's trying a lot more than you lazy-ass niggas in a chat.
	Come on, man.
	Come on, man.
	You know what I'm saying?
	You know what I'm saying?
	Motherfuckers can breathe normal and walk normal and still bums.
	Still bums, man.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Also, he's showing up every day.
	Yep.
	You know what I'm saying?
	That's important.
	Yeah, that's real shit.
	That's real shit.
	Like, you know, like, you can't take that shit.
	I hate to action.
	He bought the course.
	Yeah.
	Most niggas are old bro.
	I'm saying, man.
	I like this guy, man.
	I like this guy.
	Yeah, as soon as I bought the course, I went from, like, 100 followers to, like, 12, 13,000 followers.
	So, I mean, it's worth it if you guys focus on the lessons they're teaching you and just take notes and stop being lazy.
	Yeah, listen, and you got a good story, and that story, you got to market that story.
	My dad ain't leaving me shit when he killed himself, except for a fucking superhero origin story.
	Like a fucking bad black man, dead daddy, come out and get rich, right?
	So that's the only thing I got.
	So it's like, I tell that fucking story.
	Every day, to anyone who listens.
	Every day, like, anybody who listens, motherfuckers, somebody who left a comment, like, man, you always telling us about your dead daddy, man.
	I'm like, nigga, that's all he left me, was this fucking dope-ass story to tell.
	Not a fact, bro.
	So, bro, what's your page, bro?
	Drop it so people can follow you, bro.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Drop your stuff, yeah.
	Oh, yeah, drop your stuff.
	It's Date Night Mike.
	It's Date Night Mike.
	D-A-T-E-N-I-G-H-T-E-N-I-G-H-T-E-N-I-G-H-T-E-N-I-G-H-T-E-N-I-G-H-T-E-N-I-G-H-T-E-N-I-G-H-T-E-N-I-G-H- You a dating coach?
	Date night, Mike.
	Date night?
	Oh, date night.
	I just said date night.
	I was like, date night.
	I was like, yo, this shit took a fucking change.
	Stuff like that.
	Okay, no, I'll fuck with you.
	And I've been talking to different people.
	I had one of Kanye's music producers on my show.
	Okay.
	All right.
	You know Myra like that, man.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I'm assuming that new Kanye track is Myra's along.
	Oh, shit, bro!
	That shit lit, man.
	Yeah, I do know you, bro.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I used to text you when I wanted to take you to a LA Kings game, press.
	Oh my goodness, bro.
	Yo, shout out to DayNikeMike.
	P-Line, man.
	W in the chat, bro.
	Hey, shout out to you, bro.
	We dropped his socials there, man.
	So go check him out, guys.
	Go show him some love because he's working harder than a lot of you bitch ass digs in the chat, man.
	So shout out to you, man.
	Keep killing it, bro.
	And focus on the longer form content.
	Get on YouTube, bro.
	Because like I said before, Instagram and TikTok, you're not going to have the same level of influence as if you were to do a successful YouTube channel.
	Yes.
	For sure.
	Shout out to you, homie.
	Shout out to you, brother.
	Jump on Zoom?
	Yeah.
	All right, guys.
	All right, guys.
	Come on over to Castle Club.
	CCC17, guys, is the code.
	Get in there, half off.
	Man, jump in there.
	We're going to continue on for another 20, 30 minutes with Brandon over there.
	And then we're going to go after hours with some lovely ladies.
	So let's go ahead.
	If you guys are watching on Castle Club right now, all good, because we're going to continue to stream over there on Castle Club.
	So you don't got to go anywhere if you're watching on Castle Club.
	We're just going to drop the Zoom link.
	Alright.

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