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Aug. 11, 2025 - Fresh & Fit
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And we are live.
What's up guys?
Welcome to the Freshman Podcast, man.
We're here with the legend himself, Anton Daniels.
Let's get into it.
Let's go.
Let's go.
Alright, we are back.
What's up guys?
Welcome to the Friendship Podcast, man.
We are here with the legend himself, Anton Daniels.
Very highly anticipated episode.
We've been talking about this one with you guys for a bit.
Wow.
Bringing him on, he came, was so gracious to come down to Miami and hang out with us and do a show.
Happy to have him, man.
Welcome to the show, bro.
Man, I appreciate you, bro.
Yeah, man.
We're happy to have you here, bro.
Before we get started, can I say something?
Sure.
So I have to do this in person because.
I just want to make sure that we all, that the audience and the people understand something that I think that it's very, very appropriate for me to apologize to these guys in person.
I have to.
And it's not just for me.
It's to establish a cultural norm that people need to address things accordingly.
And when they make mistakes, they need to apologize, right?
So first of all, I just.
want to say I apologize to you guys because.
Thank you, bro.
You don't have to do that.
Nope, I got to say it because earlier years ago, I chose sides in situations that had nothing to do with me.
You know what I'm saying?
So, and this is not anything that we discussed prior to going live and stuff, but I just wanted to make sure that y'all know that I shouldn't have chose sides, that I shouldn't even have got involved in it.
And I needed to make sure that I told y'all in person.
because it's just the right thing to do.
And I needed to meet y'all myself instead of going by things that other people say online.
And I think that that's the real.
man thing to do.
So as I matured and as I evolved, I wanted to reach out to you personally and now I wanted to say it in person that I apologize.
A great deal of respect, Anton.
And we apologize for anything we might have said, right, in retaliation.
And I really appreciate that.
You really didn't have to do that, man.
And, you know, it just goes to speak to the strong character of, you know, the type of man that you are.
And, you know, I'm glad that we're able to bury the hatchet over some stuff that really isn't that important and we can help out a lot more people.
Yeah, absolutely.
So thank you so much for that.
I really appreciate that.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I didn't know I was coming, man.
I'm so happy.
You know, it's an honor to have you here.
You know, I've been waiting for this for a minute.
And that's why we're happy to have you here.
I know people have been really enjoying our collabs when I jump in on some of your late night shows.
Yeah, man.
And I appreciate you for coming up there.
Of course, of course, man.
I mean, for you, bro, I was like, man, I'll just jump in and, you know, try to add some value.
So thank you for coming, dude.
And I'm really happy to have you.
But for those of you that may not know who you are, well, they definitely know who you are now.
But can you introduce yourself real quick to people that might not know?
Anton Daniels.
I think that a lot of people think that I got into the game a little bit later than I have.
But I've been on YouTube for probably 10, 11 years.
And I don't know.
I'm just, I don't look at myself as like a big content creator.
I recently crossed 800,000 subscribers on YouTube on my bro.
Pretty big, I'm saying my friend.
That's pretty big.
That's though.
So that's just one of your channels.
You have multiple.
Yeah, I got another channel.
It's got 370, something like that, 380 subscribers, and then another one, the 80 or something like that.
But I just try to add value.
I try to talk about popular culture issues and look at it from a different perspective.
I think that a lot of people.
even you know even though we we stand on the red pill and masculinity and stuff like that i think that you guys approach it from a different perspective for me i approach it from completely different perspective especially where i'm from you guys are down here in miami in the thick of things i'm from the midwest so you know i just kind of just talk about the popular culture issues but i think that it more or less comes back down to the money for me i'm all about money yeah that's all i care about also just ask some context here as well, you do it for value and for the people.
Because a lot of things you do, I'm like, you could do way bigger things for a certain angle.
And it's more like, yeah, that's true.
And I'm wondering, like, okay, he's a YouTuber that's been in the game for years, but you drop all gems that people don't realize that you drop a lot of gems for free on your channel.
Yeah, yeah.
And if you want to see what's up, look at his actual history.
Watch your videos.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Non-stop.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I appreciate that.
Good shit on you, bro.
I appreciate that, bro.
I'm definitely doing it for the money, though.
Of course, of course.
But you're not explaining people as much as other people.
You know, because a lot of people are like, buy my course or some other shit like that.
Well, you know what it is.
So you give a lot of game out for free.
You could do that, too, but you don't.
I just believe that if you know your stuff, it's not necessarily anything that I need to hold back.
Because once you tap in, you're going to see a lot more value.
So I don't hold back.
I don't gatekeep because I think that the value that I bring is more than just the surface level.
So once we start digging into it, once you start seeing the value in it, you're going to want to meet in person.
You know, you're going to want to deep dive into it.
A lot of times I have to put the medicine inside of the candy because a lot of people need the entertainment value first.
Of course.
And so I don't kind of limit myself.
But at the same time, I just try.
If people see more value, then most of the time they sign up for the Patreon.
I got like 18,000 Patreon members.
we do meetups um i try to do them like once a month or once every other month and so it's dope it's real cool also when you do you give commentary on creators guys in the industry yeah i'm friends with some of them and it's like i'm like damn I know personally he's saying the truth because they won't say it on camera, but financially they're going through trouble.
No, it looks good on camera.
100%.
Off camera, them niggas are struggling.
I think that most people, like even if you go online and you look at people's net worth, it's not accurate.
No.
Yeah, yeah.
Not even remotely accurate.
I know a lot of people that's celebrities and they're struggling.
They're absolutely struggling and most people are not financially literate even if they make a lot of money yeah right so you talk about these nba players you talk about this in these nfl players most people don't realize that these guys is most of them is out of the league on average by five years most people not making kevin durant steph curry money you know but they spend it like they are yeah and it's got to last them for the rest of their life yeah and so what i try to do is i try to reset level set and help people to understand that even if you're getting it at the bottom,
you still got to have the same type of habits.
My budget is the same when I was making 100 grand versus making 3 million.
Whoa.
So it's the exact same.
It doesn't change.
I keep a percentage of, I only spend about 10% of the money that I make.
Yeah.
Tops.
Yeah.
And that 10%, like personally, you mean, right?
Like not business expenses.
Obviously, that's going to be more, right?
If you're spending money.
Yeah.
Well, the goal for me, a lot of people try to figure out how to make money.
I think that when you get past a certain level, you try to figure out how to get rid of money.
Okay.
Because the goal is now, my only enemy is the IRS.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Yeah, from the perspective of lowering your taxes.
That's what you're liable.
Yeah, the tax that you're liable for.
Yes, yes, absolutely.
So that's my only enemy.
My goal, like even in real estate, right now I got 17 properties.
I buy a lot of land.
It's an auction coming up in Michigan on August 20th.
And so my goal is to figure out how I can get rid of as much money as possible.
Gotcha.
That's what I do.
That's what I do in real estate.
So what best ways to kind of like lower your tax liability.
Well, I guess we could hit real estate first.
So when it comes to like real estate, you mentioned that you have some land.
What do you invest most in?
Are you in residential, commercial?
100% residential.
Residential?
Okay.
100%.
104 units, right?
Well, okay.
So this is my goal.
I got two goals in real estate.
My first goal is to acquire at some point 50 properties.
Okay.
And the 50 properties will allow for me to make at least $100,000 a year if I decide that I never want to do anything again just in rent because right now I got 17 properties averaging $2,300 a month brings in about $39,000 a month gross or after expenses I don't have no mortgages Oh, you bought them all cash.
I have zero mortgage.
Oh, shit.
Okay.
Zero mortgage.
Okay.
So that's a clean 40 without even.
Okay.
Well, you got a minus housing insurance, property taxes, and maintenance.
But all of the properties that I'm doing right now is all brand new.
Okay.
So I don't really have any maintenance.
Oh, so did you buy them while they were being developed or did you buy them after they were the initial getting into it they were bought during a little bit after 2008 Oh, damn.
So you've been in this for a minute.
Like, 100%.
Yeah.
So you bought it right during the crash.
A little bit after.
Probably closer to 2010 is when I really started getting it.
It's not bad.
But you were still able to get them at probably a 30, 40% off.
Well, I try not to look at the property values, but it was way more than that because in the Midwest, we were hit the hardest.
So here's the thing.
What people don't understand is I went broke in 2008.
a little bit before 2008.
By the time 2008 hit, I was already in the midst of it.
How'd you get to, if you don't mind us asking, like, for the audience that might not know, like, your background, how'd you get to that point point where you got?
Obviously, the economy is terrible in a way.
I know with the whole real estate market crash, but how'd you get to that point?
Okay.
So I used to work in a plant.
So in Detroit, our goal coming out of high school, I graduated in 2000, born in 1982, so I'm 43 years old.
So I graduated high school in 2000.
Our goal in Detroit was to just get in a plant.
That way we can get a plan papers, a discount on a Cadillac or a Lincoln, depending on which one you work for.
You can get a job right out of high school or you get a job in a steel mill, right?
Because Detroit, at that time, it was the number one auto manufacturer.
Yeah, Motor City.
100%.
So my brother got me in the plant.
I was working about 16 hours a day, seven days a week.
But it was different back then because you didn't actually have to work work.
So what we would do in the plant is I would cover him.
He would cover me.
And while he was sleeping or while he was gone, we was getting paid doubles because we didn't have to clock in back then.
You just got paid based off of whatever the supervisor put in for you.
I was 19, 20 years old making $100,000 a year.
Wow.
In the year 2000.
But no, like 2001, 2002.
Okay.
But Anton, what about your inheritance?
Well, I'm going to cover that.
I'm going to cover that.
So I was making $100, $120,000 a year.
Wild.
My brother got me in a plant.
And to give people kind of, because they might hear $100,000, but $100,000 in 2001, bro, that's like $150,000, $160,000.
I spent it all.
Yeah, that's like $150,000, $160,000.
The only thing that saved me was one of my OGs in a plant.
He would say, Antime, put up at least 25, 30% of everything you gross.
Okay.
So even when I went broke, I never touched that money.
Okay.
So I just was stacking, but I spent every dime.
What did you spend it on?
Cars?
Oh, man.
Flights, cars, clothes.
I bought a Trailblazer SS.
I had a Grand National 86 my first car was a Buick Rego 86 Buick Rego and then I bought a Grand National when I really got money 120 at 20 years old in Detroit because Detroit's kind of cheap compared to other cities so it's really general you must have really been throw blowing through money brother to get to every damn every damn I had three cars right off the bat and but I mean you didn't really get a chance to to enjoy it as much because I spent the majority of my time at the plant.
You know what I'm saying?
I was working a midnight shift and, you know, it was just a thing.
But I got fired before the recession.
Okay, so you get the job 2,000.
I was working there like four, five years.
Okay.
And I got fired.
In 05 for what?
I got fired for like 06 time card for all.
Nicky time.
Let's go.
I got fired.
Let's go.
I got fired.
So before even knew the recession was coming, I had the worst timing in the world.
Yeah.
So what I did was.
I went to, I went on a, because you know, I had a lot of money.
So I'm going out of town and I'm whatever.
But I didn't have any more time to call off from.
So I had a friend, doctors know, fake doctors know.
Gotcha, yeah.
They was after me.
They called in on the doctor's note, found out that it was fake, brought me in, fired me.
That was it.
How did they know that it was?
It must have been doing some real work.
No, they just checked out everything that I did because I was...
Yeah.
Okay.
I had the trailblazer since everything.
Oh, yeah.
I bought a Bentley.
I had a Bentley.
Yes.
I had a Bentley.
I got some pictures.
I'll show it.
I'm sure your boss is driving what?
A Honda?
Yeah, bro.
And a Bentley back in 005, 004.
Like, that was a car to have.
Yeah.
It was in all the rap music videos.
Like, do you know people PJ Pedjimon Ghademi?
He does.
Is that a car hack?
I don't think so.
So he used to work at a bank.
He had a better car than his boss.
Oh, yeah.
That's going to put you in a race.
Yeah, that's good, bro.
So this is me way back then.
What the hell?
Yeah.
This nigga look like a Detroit nigga for real.
What the heck?
Keep it on screen.
That's Crazy, man.
Wait, wait, that's like 0405.
Yeah, something like that.
I don't know.
Yeah, you can put it up.
That's actually hilarious, nigga.
That's funny.
Yeah, so I had houses.
I had Bentley's.
had all of that.
So I was just...
I was checking, checking.
You think your bosses saw their extravagant lifestyle?
We're like trying to like what the hell's going on?
Yeah, I mean, because I had the same personality.
I talked a lot of shit.
But I, you know, what could they do until they was able to do something?
And then they started basically, you know, investigating everything.
And then once they found out that I was doing time car fraud as far as like bringing in fake doctor's notes, yeah.
They fired me.
Okay.
Damn.
So this 0506, so you get fired from the plant.
And then what happened?
I was working at Root Steel.
Same local that they make the same union, same local that they make the Ford F-150.
Okay.
And I got my cars repossessed, moved back into my mom's basement.
Oh, shit.
Yep.
Okay.
Was this after you got the second job or like in between you finding that job?
No, no, no.
I was working the 16 hours.
When I got fired, everything just went down and I had to move back into my mom's basement.
All of my cars got repossessed.
Question for you.
So I've been in the car game for six years now, right?
And the number one thing people never want to admit.
Bentley right there.
Yeah.
Guys, this is him right here, man.
Flossing on the Bentley.
Cheese, let's fucking go.
The polo.
We love the polo boots in Detroit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the biggest thing in the car world is getting repossessed your car it's shameful no one wants to admit it why are you so comfortable sharing that story because if i that was me i wouldn't want to share that oh i didn't want to share it at the time oh okay but Okay.
But see, my thing is now, my biggest thing and my whole spiel online is I live my life like an open book.
So I show how much I make.
I show my bank accounts.
I show my brokerage accounts.
I show everything.
You know what I'm saying?
Because I think that it's too many people.
that's pretending and it's not enough people that's actually showing the results.
A lot of pretenders.
But see, it's not just that.
It's just that it's so many people that then scammed in the black community, unfortunately, that that's the barrier to entry in order to show trust, right?
So I kind of live my life like an open book.
Yeah, I mean, it'm transparent about it now, but at 26 years old, I didn't want anybody to know that.
So real quick, take us back to the feeling you had when this happened.
What was it like?
Oh, no, no, no.
Let me tell you something.
The repo men, they were relentless.
Like, I had moved back in my mother's basement, but when they came by, because my brother initially had blocked, because I got a younger brother that's six years younger than me, he was still in high school, or he had just got out of high school.
He had blocked like the cars in and they had put it in a garage.
But see, they was flashing lights for the neighbors and beeping the horn and kind of like embarrassingassing me.
It was sad.
It was real.
They couldn't just take the car in silence.
They had to make a scene about it.
Yeah, 100%.
God damn.
Did you make them like work for it though?
Like, were you in the hiding for a minute?
They couldn't.
For a while, I just got tired.
And I was just like, you know what?
I had some money that I had put up.
So I took some money that I had stacked.
And I went to the auction and I bought a used car.
I think I bought a used Cadillac STS with a North Star engine in it.
And I just wrote that.
and I gave everything else up.
Can I say this?
It takes a lot of humbleness to say that and then move forward because, oh, guys, I'm going to end here.
Balls to the wall.
I'm going to try to figure this shit out, not get a smaller car and downsize.
But here's the thing.
I had already been, I was raised in the inner city of Detroit.
It ain't like I had money before.
You know what I'm saying?
That was new money.
Yeah.
So I was cool with going back broke because I was like, okay, well, I know what to do now.
And I've studied because my first work study job out of high school and a college was the library.
So I'm reading the whole time.
I'm reading Warren Buffett, a random walk down Wall Street, Buffettology.
I'm studying, right?
I just don't have the money and the resources as much as I want in order to move.
But I was smart enough to realize, okay, I'm not going to keep on pulling money out of the money that I got in order to try to keep up these cars.
Gotcha.
Right.
So when I gave the cars up, I was just really like, okay, I was back to the mud.
Yeah.
It's back to the grind.
So now you're, and then you're telling us about the real estate.
So, okay.
So it's like, oh, six now you.
Oh, six, oh, seven.
I was already broke.
Okay.
Yep.
I was done.
And then, um, I got a job at a call center.
Okay.
And then I got a second job.
at home depot overnight um I went back to school for software engineering, but I went to community college.
Okay.
So here's the thing that people don't really realize about a hack because everybody is worried about student loans.
Your first two years, unless you're just trying to fuck everything, you know what I'm saying?
You're just trying to go on campus and stuff like that.
Your first two years, you're going to transfer out of that.
It's all general ed.
It's all, you know what I'm saying?
So it really don't matter.
So I went to community college because I didn't want to incur any student loans.
That's a smart way to go.
I went to Oakland Community College.
I studied software engineering, and then I transferred after that to Oakland University.
This is still in Michigan, though, right?
100%.
Okay, Oakland, Michigan.
So I studied software engineering, and then I had developed an app.
because that's what I was working on.
it was a music app.
And so it was basically in the mixtape era, right?
That PIF, that era?
That era.
Live mixtapes, that PIF.
You know, Kevin.
Hot new hip hop.
I'm the owner of that PIF.
They got destroyed, bro.
They did.
But I seen that coming.
Yeah.
I seen that coming a long time ago.
So anyways.
So this is what year now?
07, 08 now?
It's around 07, 08.
Maybe a little bit before that.
Okay.
But I was always still working on my passion.
I was always still working on the stuff.
E-commerce, mixtape sites.
And I realized, though, I couldn't get a job in the industry unless I actually had the paperwork behind me.
That's why I decided to go back to school.
Gotcha.
You know what I'm saying?
and then eventually I landed a job of michigan um as a software engineer so i was working there but it wasn't even about the money at that point because i was getting bank on my businesses i was making a lot of money with Google AdSense.
I was generating a lot of revenue.
Okay, you had your YouTube at this point.
Well, no, no, no.
Google AdSense on the sites that I was developing.
Oh, so you're going to pay for ad revenue on your websites.
Correct.
Yeah, because you can also monetize your website by getting sponsors or ads on your stream.
Yeah, putting a site of website merchandise.
Yeah.
Yep.
Oh, okay.
So I wasn't on YouTube.
I don't even know if YouTube was monetized at that point, but Google AdSense was generating a lot of revenue for websites.
Gotcha.
So my goal was to generate traffic.
This is an early internet era.
So people are still running ads on websites.
Increasing noise.
Banners on the website.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They put it on the website.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's how I was generating a lot of revenue, but I wasn't spending the money.
I just stayed down in my mom's basement.
Question.
If you would move out.
If you never went broke, you think you would have learned lessons?
No, I need money to go broke.
You know what's crazy about it?
It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
It got me out of the plant.
And even though I suffered at the moment, it was the best thing that ever I mean, at the time I was I was broken.
Of course.
You know what I'm saying?
But now looking back on it, it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
Every millionaire I know or billionaire I know went broke at some point.
And I taught them, okay, you know what?
Moving forward, I need to be smart about my money.
And even you, didn't you like, uh, have a bunch of Jordans and stuff you used to buy?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
No, I mean, this is when I was in my 20s.
Yeah, I was collecting Jordan and spending a bunch of money on it like a retard.
And I was like, well, why am I doing this?
And I just stopped.
But I mean, but that's normal.
New money, you gotta get it out of your system.
Yeah, yeah, you.
Yeah, you gotta get it.
But see, I'm fortunate enough that I was able to get it out of my system early in my 20s.
Yeah.
But then I was able to recover from it.
And then I did really, really well after that.
So now it's not a big deal to me.
Now I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of the money versus needing the money in order to make me feel good.
So what's the difference now?
W in the chat.
So, okay.
So, you pivot.
it getting to um i'm still working two jobs yeah i'm never i was never not working right don't matter what i was happening in my business because i needed my benefits i had my daughter in 2008 okay um so i still needed my benefits and one of the benefits that came along with working for the university of michigan was it's right huh is it the spark nope uh uh university of michigan wolverines okay yep yep so one of the so i was up in an arbor But one of the benefits from it,
because I didn't need the money, I banked every dime that I got.
I never spent the checks.
So you do websites for them.
Right.
Yes.
Okay.
Yep.
That's IT.
That's adsend stuff.
Okay.
Yep.
ITS, Information Technology Services at the University of Michigan.
I worked a block away from the big house.
Gotcha.
Okay.
But here's the thing.
They double matched a 403B, which is the same as a 401K.
Okay.
Except for it's for public institutions.
And so they double matched your retirement.
They gave you the best benefit package.
And so there was other things that came along with just the money because I didn't make that much money there.
I was only making like $60,000, $70,000 a year.
Yeah.
But I was able to bank that entire thing.
And then I was also able to double match my 401k up to a certain amount.
Government estate jobs, it's the benefits that give you the, you know, the best setups.
It's typically not the money.
Like if you want to make money, I always tell people, you got to go private sector yeah if if you're in the government or the state bro you're always gonna you know they're not gonna pay as much but you'll get great benefits a hundred percent and then from there i pivoted over to comerica bank so i got recruited by google and i got recruited by uh comerica bank comerica bank is more of an asset management bank so they get big clients um anything regarding death benefits all of that type of stuff they manage that type of stuff gotcha it's not a traditional chase
even though they're in the same space, but they manage more oil money, all of that type of stuff.
But I had a choice, right?
Because I could relocate with my daughter over to Mountain View, California, and we took the tour.
And they were offering a decent amount of money, but instead they allowed for me to be able to stay in a legacy environment, so an environment that traditionally is not technological and built out the UX UI practice over at Comerica Bank.
So I was able to make the same amount of money, and then that's when I had upward mobility in corporate America.
I parlayed the job from the University of Michigan over to Comerica Bank okay but I was on YouTube back then And here's the key.
A lot of people don't notice back then.
So when I was in, are we in 2008 now?
2009?
No, more like 2012.
Oh, shit.
2011.
I swear a lot then.
Okay.
Yeah, like 11 and 12.
But here's the thing.
I was leveraging YouTube at that time to market myself more effectively in order to separate myself because in corporate America, it goes up like this.
So it's less positions that's available in corporate America.
And that's when you have to start marketing yourself differently.
So I'm family man.
you know so yeah what kind of content were you uploading to youtube at this point family man urban exploration architecture urbex all of that type of stuff travel stuff all right and um bring my daughter to work type stuff gotcha that type of a family channel slash vlog type thing but i'm assuming it was probably gerated very clean uh-huh no swearing none of that very corporate.
Buy the book.
Wholesome.
Yeah, because that's another thing that people don't understand is that when you start to get into corporate America, I see people getting fired a lot today because social media is more.
TikTok.
100%.
Instagram videos.
But they don't realize that they're embarrassing their employer.
Yeah.
Right.
They getting on there with their company uniform on and stuff and they talking and all of that.
And it's going to backfire.
But I was able to leverage that in order to continue to accelerate into corporate America.
And then I retired in 2019.
Okay.
You left corporate America behind in 2019 and you still maintained your YouTube channel.
And I went back.
Okay.
I got retired.
Yeah.
Because I got offered a crazy.
So one of the people that I had a really great relationship at Comerica, once I retired, and I didn't know that the pandemic was happening, because I retired in like October, something like that of 2019.
Okay.
Yeah, because I didn't really even start talking about the Wuhan shit until November.
The earliest people.
Yeah, it's November.
November of 2019.
Yeah.
But realistically, bro, it hit everybody like a ton of bricks in March.
January 2020.
Yeah.
March.
Yeah.
I mean, I was doing really well.
I thought I had made enough money to set me for the rest of my life.
My daughter was going to be straight.
I had my quart side tickets to the Pistons.
And I was.
But then all of that got shut down and uh i got invited to come back into corporate america at a different bank at flagstar bank um and so i wound up taking a position at flagstar bank but i did it differently back then so then i had learned how to move a little bit differently when it comes to your pay structure what i learned is that everybody that gets to a certain level in corporate america they don't care about the actual pay The only thing they care about is the equity and the bonuses.
Boom.
So when you negotiate your pay in corporate America, you have to make sure, yep, your ESPs, yeah, yeah.
Basically, it's the ESPs is a quarterly program now.
Yeah.
ESPs, you allow what does that mean?
It's like some employee stock programs.
You get it at a percentage less.
So let's say you can get it at it depends on the company.
You can get it at 10, 15, 25 percent less than what the market is going for.
But you have to let it sit for at least a year.
I'll give you an example.
So I was granting at wix dot com hours.
I did 12 to 14 hours a day for a year and a half straight.
But I had a chance to join the ESP program.
So I would put the money on me extra and buy Wix stock for a discount.
So by the end of the year, I had a bunch of Wix stock, a bunch of money saved up.
And guess what?
I bought my first property.
But you can't sell it until after at least a quarter that you buy it.
But you're getting it at a discount.
You have to hold it at discounted price for a quarter at least before you're going to sell.
Yep.
Okay.
But I was able to negotiate my pay package to where I was only getting a certain like a minimum because again, I didn't need the money.
So I got a minimal amount as far as my regular base pay and then everything else was equity.
Oh.
Everything was stock options.
Gotcha.
Oh, no.
So I needed the money.
I needed the money.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the next time I went into corporate America, I negotiated for the equity.
Then eventually Flagstar merged with New York Community Bank.
And then by that time, I was able to retire again and I retired into 2024 again.
Okay.
Wow.
That's incredible.
But again, I never touched any of the money from there.
I just put it all in banking, crypto and stocks.
Okay, and you were still obviously running your YouTube channel all the time and everything else like that.
So, but bro.
And real estate and, you know.
Oh, let's go back to real estate because that's how we even went down this, this, um, rabbit hole.
So, you bought all your houses, you said.
Majority of them.
So, no, no, no, some of them I bought cash in the beginning.
When the market started to recover, that's when I then leveraged some of the, um, equity that I had in another property and then I pulled it out and bought some more properties.
Got you.
But I paid them all off.
Okay, so that's what I was going to get out of it.
How did you pay them off?
Well, I'll tell you in a minute, as soon as he asks the question, go ahead that's fine i was going to say like um did some of them you buy with loans or then or does others you buy just straight up cash i mean obviously you got i only bought three properties with loans and then i actually posted it might still say on my instagram the rest were bought with cash correct where are you buying them at on average like uh how much were you auctions sometimes you go to the oakland county auction but then once closures yeah but then once you start to get involved with different real estate like for
example the first piece of land that i bought was actually from a realtor that contacted me and he was representing a woman that just got out of a divorce and so she got the property in a divorce and she just wanted to get rid of it because she wanted to move on with her life and get on with her boyfriend or whatever.
So you get it at an off-market price, at a better price from people.
Best deals is always going to be off-market.
Of course.
Every single deal that you do in real estate.
That's why it's important.
And I think you're really good at networking.
Yes.
For you to build relationships.
Yeah.
But what people don't understand about networking.
is that in order for you to be an effective networker, you have to bring something to the table.
Yes.
If you are not adding value, people that go to these networking events and everybody just looking for a job, you're wasting your time.
If you don't already got motion, if you don't already got money, if you're not able to.
add value, then what people look at you as a leech.
They don't look at you as a person that they want to keep around and do business with.
So, you know, me having these different relationships allow when they've seen a deal come through, they know, okay, so he got a lot of capital.
He got money that he's trying to get rid of.
They're going to bring it to you first.
And often at times, you get it at a really good deal.
So even with the girl that I bought the property from, I bought the first one.
She said, okay, I appreciate you.
I got two other properties.
If you want to come and check those out, I'll give you a better deal on those since you already, you made good on your word.
And you can go to closing in two weeks.
Or you call a titling company, you can go to closing in less than two weeks.
You screenshot, you can screenshot, um, you know, because they want to know that you actually got the money to be able to buy it.
You can screenshot your bank account.
Yeah.
And you can go to closing in less than two weeks.
Yeah, dude, it's it's actually crazy when you do deals, because I've done a couple of cash deals, um, the speed at which you can close.
I mean, that's one of the biggest benefits for the seller is like you can close without a bank.
You got no financing contingency bullshit and they can get it done quickly.
Yeah.
Um, so okay, so you bought only three houses with loans.
How much were you buying these houses for?
Because you bought them at the time.
One of them was a little bit more.
I try to stay in a certain range.
I try to stay in, uh, well, at the time it was cheaper than that but even now i still try to stay in the three to five hundred thousand dollar range okay because it's easier to be able to move the property if you ever have to sell it because it's much more difficult to sell million dollar properties because you have a smaller market range of people that can buy it right so one of the properties i think i paid like 350 another one was like 120 and another one's like 300 okay that you bought cash yeah but one of them i bought with my mother okay and but i bought her out so um i gave her a hundred thousand
dollars in cash um for her equity that she had in the property.
And then I just paid off the mortgage separately.
I'm trying to understand the power of paying it off in full versus spreading it out between multiple properties.
Well, I don't need the cash from the doors, right?
Oh.
So I'm not looking at cash flow.
For me, I need to get rid of the money.
Got it.
So that's why I'm trying to send it over because it's different.
If you structure your business from a corporation, then it's two separate entities.
It's you and then it's the corporation.
But if you're structuring your business to where basically you are the business, you're the LLC.
At the end of the year, and this is why you separate certain businesses and you set up some as corporations and some as LLCs, at the end of the year, the only thing that matters is the adjusted gross income.
It's the AGS.
Right.
So the AGS is the money that you make, whether it's a job, whether it's a $10.99, whatever, then you factor in your expenses because it's going to ask you what are your expenses for throughout the year, right?
And then after that, the money that you make versus the money that you spend to keep the businesses open and then the money that, whatever your expenses are, at the end of the day, it's going to come down to one number and that's your adjusted gross income.
If you got a 401k, right, and you make $100,000 a year and you got a business and you make another $100,000 a year, well, your 401k, you want to max that out.
You can max that out at like $23,000.
That reduces, if you just do a regular 401k, then that reduces your taxes.
Let's say you got a, I'm going to make it very simple.
I make $100,000 a year i got a 401k this is for people with regular jobs i got a 401k well i don't really want to be in that hundred thousand a year tax bracket so in order for me to reduce my taxes taxes while increasing my assets i'm gonna max out on my 401k that now reduces my tax burden and i'm now in a 77 range which it lowers the tax bracket while at the same time i don't have to worry about paying taxes and i'm letting that increase But in order for y'all to do that,
you have to lower your expenses.
You have to lower the amount of money that you are spending because most people can't invest or max out in a 401k because every dollar.
that they make, they spend in it because their lifestyle is now increasing with the amount of money that they make.
Yeah.
Right?
So, but it's the same thing when it comes to business.
It's the amount of money that I take in.
Let's say I take in another $100,000 from my business.
My goal really is to spend $80,000.
That way, I'm really only paying taxes on $20,000.
Whether that's investing back into the business myself or creating another business to where I can then justify my adjusted gross income is lower.
Yeah.
At the end of the day, I just want to lower my adjusted gross income.
Yeah.
While increasing my assets.
Yeah.
No, I mean, that's why I invest in real estate.
It's the best way by far to.
to shield yourself from tax liability to a degree.
But most people invest in real estate so that they can, they're trying to basically be able to generate enough income and rental to throw off the amount that they're paying in a mortgage and the property taxes and the insurance and whatever the mace.
Right.
So they're trying to cash flow.
I didn't need the cash flow.
Right.
So I'm basically reversing the process of mortgaging.
I'm compounding it because I don't want to give any interest over to the bank now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm not giving them no money.
I'm keeping all of that money for myself and I'm just reinvesting it into another property.
Damn.
Yeah.
No, I see the strategy there because.
And obviously, right, if you have the capital to do that, it's a good move because you keep all the money that you make and then you have equity in the house and you can tap into that at any time.
You know, you can easily, hey, I have this house paid off.
Any bank will fucking give you a line of credit on that.
They'll beg you.
They'll beg you.
They'll actually beg you to take out money.
Yeah.
They beg you to do business.
So make sure you became your own bank.
100%.
Yeah.
Because if you're sitting on those houses.
Okay.
So you bought a lot of them.
You said in the 2010-ish area.
Yeah.
And the 2010s.
Yeah.
So you were buying them.
But then when COVID hit, I started buying pro, I started buying land.
Land.
Because everything got messed up in COVID because the interest rates were so low and everybody was trying to refinance.
Yeah.
Or hurry up and buy a property and what they were doing.
was they were spending sometimes $40, $50, $100, $150,000 over asking without even seeing an inspection.
Yeah.
I'm not about to compete with that.
I'm not about to overpay for a property just for the interest rate because I didn't care about the interest rates.
I was paying cash.
So that's when I mistakenly started buying land.
And that's when I started getting into building properties.
Okay.
So now I build houses instead of just buying them.
I don't even buy houses unless it's a really good deal.
I'd rather build them than buy them.
So the 17 that you have, a lot of them were built by you.
Correct.
No, no, no, no.
They were already bought turnkey.
Okay.
So the ones that I'm building now, I got four in flight right now.
Okay.
Those are the ones that I'm building.
Okay.
So you bought turnkeys, but you bought them without a bank involved.
You only did three deals with.
Logan.
Correct.
Wow.
One of them with my mom.
Okay.
And smart.
Yeah.
I mean, like I said, if you got there's different ways, right?
For him, he's saying like, I just wanted to park money.
Right.
And I don't need cash flow.
Then if you're doing that, then, you know, then obviously, buying houses cash can make sense.
Yeah.
And then obviously, you're getting all the, all the cash flow from it because of some of the pitchers or some of the projects.
Because I do own a couple of houses cash.
It is good.
That's where I'm at.
You get all the money to come in and you don't have to pay the fucking bank.
Yeah.
It's all to the bike chairs.
Everything cash flows, you know.
It's in the bag.
But this is nice.
Yeah.
I kind of got a template now because I got an architect.
So, oh, and I built the rest restaurant too.
You built the restaurant?
Yeah, we're going to get into that.
Nice.
Well, no, I don't own it anymore.
So I closed in 2019 because my lease was up and I didn't want to continue to run it.
Oh, you closed at the perfect time, bro.
It was on.
It was on right before COVID, bro.
But I never built that restaurant for me.
I built it for my father.
It was supposed to be a retirement gift.
Okay.
My father died in 2017.
So I just finished it.
I finished it.
Beginning of 2018, I did an escalating lease.
Escalating lease is basically because I knew that the plaza needed more tenants.
What I did was he wanted me to sign a five-year lease.
I told him I'd sign a one to two year lease with an option to renew every single year after that at an escalating rate.
Gotcha.
So by the time 2019 hit, you know, I needed to get out of there.
I was still working in corporate America.
It was too much.
Oh, yeah.
It wasn't for me anyway.
It was supposed to be for my father as a retirement gift.
Gotcha.
So me and him was working on it and he passed away.
Which now apparently I got an inheritance.
Yeah, yeah.
So there's a theme going on saying that Antonin was gifted money from his parents and that's why he got all his money now.
Yeah.
He got an inheritance.
He got a lawsuit, a win.
So he made loads of money.
Which is a fucking lie because it's not true.
Well, I guess my thing that I always ask people.
You always try to find a way to hate, bro.
Yeah.
The thing that I always ask people is, then how come my mom didn't get it?
Or your brother.
My mom was still married.
She was widowed.
How come she didn't get it?
How come none of my three brothers didn't get it?
If that be the case.
Why they didn't get it?
And let me get, don't, let's not mistake it.
My father had taxed.
debt that i had to take care of we had to take care of my mother all of that But I would have loved to got an inheritance.
I wish I was a Nepo baby.
Like, that's what my daughter is going to be.
You know what I'm saying?
I don't, that's not a, only in the black communityity is it looked down upon to actually have something inherited or given to you or any of that type of stuff.
I would love to celebrate my father in that way, but he gave me more than that.
He gave me the ability to stand on my own too.
He played a huge role in my life.
um you know and i think that that's all i needed in order to stand on my own but i wish that he did it would have been much easier for me to do what it is that i did so so to discredit you They try to say that your father left you with an inheritance.
Yeah.
Well, the whole reality, you were the one that built that.
They're saying that I got insurance money from him dying, right?
Yeah.
But here's the thing.
My father was an independent contractor.
He actually worked at a facility, but he died on another job.
So he was doing a separate job.
He was, you know, hustling.
And he died on a separate job.
And that's how he wound up passing away.
Wow.
So, which, you know, it was, I mean, you know, it is what it is.
It's life and death.
But I'm sure he'd be proud of you, though.
For sure.
Yeah.
I was on my way.
Like, I was there.
Like, you know, I was investing in him.
I think a lot of us in a black community, we get a black tax.
And a lot of that is basically anybody that's successful or anybody that made it out of college, you got to come back and you got to kind of take.
care of everybody else yeah yeah so i was kind of in black tax mode um but yeah it was it was well i was on my way i was really really there that's crazy that they would say like try to use that obviously like a tragedy like that oh yeah you got an insurance payout from your father.
And here's the thing.
I have two older brothers.
Yeah.
I got two older brothers.
So it's my oldest brother after that.
Then it's me.
I'm the middle.
So I got two older brothers that are six and seven years older than me.
Then it's me and then I got a younger brother that's six years younger than me.
So why am I the one that gets the money if it's some insurance money to be had?
Real quick, here's another one.
And how much insurance money is it?
Yeah, it was limited.
But you ever heard the theory about T Payne?
No, what is it?
It's like you're his brother.
I'm T Payne is my brother.
And that's what you actually got his money to.
I'm like, bro, does it mean I got money from T Payne?
That's what I heard.
That would be funny.
Bro, what the hell?
Yo, these guys are weird, bro.
Yo.
But I mean, it is what it is.
That's what comes with the territory.
Anybody that gets an emotion, anybody that gets a level of success, you are going to have to deal with people making up stuff about you, saying stuff about you.
That's just a part of the g it.
So, we're going to do a Zoom call to this.
Yeah, yeah.
We are going to Yeah guys, by the way, yeah, we are going to have a Zoom call Anton, by the way, for you guys.
Get in.
We got a code for you guys.
It's free.
As you guys know, we still do the coaching calls.
We're going to take care of you guys.
We'll do a coaching call with you guys today.
And then we're going to do another one, I think, on Wednesday as well.
So get in now.
We can for the Cow's Club.
Get in for only a buck and ask your questions.
Because we're definitely going to have a Zoom call as well.
So, do we want to read chats or?
Yeah, chat in the meantime.
Okay.
Oh, just one.
Okay, cool.
Good.
So we'll read that one and then we'll get back to it.
Six XLs look a bit filled out there, bro.
uh thanks for uh prepping the oss merch uh you'll fit into a 5xl soon enough you have anything you want to say back well that's my dog one chest oh dude they really made an ai picture of you bro oh wow um for now for now mgx merchant stores by the way speaking of ai uh currently we're seeing a shift in the marketplace companies are saying you know what let's find me to lower expenses use ai to our benefit and let go people that were very costly to the company how should people make
think with a coming uh question the new revolution how should they move forward to make money well the biggest thing is you have to look at the companies that i think that the first thing that you got to do is you got to identify the companies that's going to be disrupted, right?
Not the companies that's going to make money from AI, the companies that's going to die as a result of AI.
And one of the things that I teach on my Patreon is like the eight things that you look for when you're looking to invest in a company, right?
So first thing, when it comes to AI, you got to look at industries that's not easily disrupted.
One of the stocks that I love personally is Republic Services.
It is one of the most steady stocks that you'll ever have.
And so if you're looking to protect yourself from an industry that's easily disrupted across the board, I like Republic Services because it's trash.
Bill Gates has invested in it.
Several big people are invested in it.
It is an industry that's very difficult to get in because you have to have so much infrastructure in order for you to be able to survive in it.
So you're going to have waste management.
You're going to have Republic Services, which is the second biggest.
It's a very profitable stock.
You weren't kidding me wrong when you said it's trash.
Like literally, you were like, People thought like, yo, what trash?
Why is he trash?
Why would I invest in it?
No, he means that's in like, you know.
Yeah, and they got a lot of government contracts.
People are always going to need trash.
trash services.
Of course.
Governments are always going to do contracts with the trash companies.
No matter how bad their finances are, no matter how bad their books are.
Trash companies are absolutely awesome.
I love Republic Services.
That's interesting.
Yeah, that's an interesting.
Yeah, I never thought about that, but that's true.
Like they ain't going nowhere.
You're going to always need waste management.
100%.
Every single time.
Every government contracts with a trash company, whether it's waste management or Republic Services.
So that's the first thing, right?
The second thing that I look for is...
You know the AMDs.
You know all of those companies.
We know Google and A transformation with Gemini and all of that type of stuff, right?
ChatGBT, Microsoft's OpenAI, Sam Altman, all of those type of people, right?
Those are all of the people that's the leaders of that, right?
But when it comes to making money with AI specifically, right.
The first thing that you got to understand is a lot of movie companies are going to absolutely use this in order to try to lower their expenses.
Right.
When it comes to, now I don't say y'all invest in movie companies, but what I am saying is that AI is like the internet when it first came out.
It is the lowest barrier to entry in industries that you otherwise would have had to spend a lot of money in order to get into.
When the internet first came out, e-commerce, it kind of closed the gap.
between you being able to market yourself effectively.
Now, AI allows for you to be able to do things more efficiently.
What I tell people to do is that you have to use it to make sure yourself is more, you're more valuable in corporate America America.
So I talk to project managers.
I talk to people that are scrum masters, and it basically expedite the process in order for you to be able to do things more efficiently.
So if you are just a worker, then you just got to learn AI.
You got to start going into prompt engineering, machine learning, all of that type of stuff.
The only thing that you really save from from a technology perspective is cloud, AI, machine learning, and really that.
If you're a software engineer, you got to learn a new skill set.
Cooked.
If you, any of those people, some of them are at most risk people?
Absolutely.
For sure.
They're already replacing them.
However, if you look at, if you are into AI machine learning, if you are a developer on that front, they are giving out hundreds of millions of dollars in order to recruit people in order to get into that industry.
Literally.
Like that is what Mark Zuckerberg is using in order to try to poach people from OpenAI that is in that particular industry because there's so few people that actually understand it.
There's so few people that actually understand the programming, the machine learning, all of that type of stuff.
For AI.
100%.
Okay.
But if you are in anything, I don't care if you're an Amazon worker or if you're a technology, you're in technology as far as a call center, you are going to be disrupted.
It's it.
This is it.
This is over.
So everybody is going to be disrupted.
Everybody.
Amazon, they're using real machines to actually replace people inside of their warehouses.
UPS workers, they're trying to get rid of them so that they can move more efficiently because as long as they can use these robots and they can use robotics in order to replace people to do these things, it's going to be easier.
I mean, you're talking about they're going to replace all of the trucking.
Yeah.
Everything.
Everything is going to be upset within the next ten years.
Delivery.
Like, for example, delivery itself will never be the same.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So nothing is going to be the same.
Nothing.
I mean, I'm seeing fucking robots.
Random.
Ratting down the street right here in Miami and they just delivering food and the fucking little things.
Oh, it's Tony.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's Gabby.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's your food.
Yeah.
So my thing is, the only thing I care about is investing in the companies themselves.
And of course, I leverage AI, whether it's content creation or anything, whether it's the actual thumbnails that I'm creating, clips or anything like that.
Yeah.
And so even on my channel, fuck, I'm doing 60, 70 million views a month.
Wow.
Wait, that's a lot.
That's good.
That's crazy.
20,000 new subscribers every 28 days.
That's crazy, bro.
It's insane.
Between all the different channels, right?
Nope, just one channel.
Just one.
One channel.
Oh, shit.
Which one?
Anton, that's wild.
I like the morning show.
It's fucking insane, bro.
Yeah, that's fucking crazy.
That's good, though.
It's insane.
Like, even just between those two videos.
And you said you're using AI to like do what?
The thumbnails or the?
nails expedite the process.
I drop...
Six clips on that, six, 12.
Some days I can drop 30-something videos.
Wow.
Off to YouTube.
And it's just me.
And it's only YouTube, right?
It's just me.
Goddamn.
Shit.
No help, no nothing.
But I expedite the process with AI.
Shit.
No, that's crazy.
I use AI to help me build the templates to come up with the clips, all of that, like to cut up the clips more effectively and everything.
And I drop 36, maybe 36 videos a day.
Wow.
Yeah, I clear.
Between shorts and clips.
Yeah, and I clear in a month, anywhere between just two channels, maybe anywhere between $150 and $250 a month.
Shit, that's fucking.
That's it, man.
I mean, I'll bring.
I saw the video.
But no, we're not.
But thankful for the Rumble.
There we go.
So, yeah.
We're always smoking.
Do you remember those days?
Yeah.
Well, well, yo, Anton, two Lambs a month.
I will say that's just that.
Like, and that's just two channels.
I don't I don't mind showing my stuff.
Yeah, no, that's that's crazy.
That's good shit, man.
And then on Patreon, I got eighteen thousand Patreon members.
Yeah.
and then sponsorships and shit like that.
Nigga.
I make an insane amount of money, bro.
Yeah, no.
And I have zero overhead.
Yeah, because I was going to say you don't have any overheads.
I feel like you're doing it all by yourself.
I have zero overhead, bro.
No, all I did was take, because I was in U.X UI.
So all I did was take the learned lessons that I was implementing in order to make them richer in corporate America, and I implemented it into my own businesses.
And so whether it's building the houses and expediting the process with that and the process as far as UX and that, or whether it's content creation, I use the same processes.
So for YouTube, you do it all yourself, no overhead.
I'm assuming for your other stuff that you've got going on, you have overhead because you probably have employees.
So you can focus just on YouTube.
The only overhead I have from a content creation perspective is the other people that I stream with, which is separate from this.
That's a completely separate channel.
Gotcha.
So the other people that I stream with, yeah.
Okay, okay.
That's the only overhead that I have.
Okay.
That's it.
Fair enough.
That's good.
No, I mean, dude, that's, that's, uh, and I just split that channel with them.
Yeah.
But other than that, bees, all this stuff, that's all me.
That's 100% me.
Yeah.
Damn.
Because doing Eclipse and everything else like that, man, it could be very time-consuming.
I'm assuming you have some type of...
Okay, so you, all right, so you go through and you put the thumbnails, clip it, all that other stuff.
Less than eight hours it takes me.
Okay.
And I'm talking about between streaming and doing the clips.
Yeah, yeah.
And then you're also.
So I'm going to stream for two and a half hours on the Millionaire Morning Show.
I'm going to stream for three hours late night.
And then I'm going to spend two to three hours doing all of the rest of this stuff.
And I'm dropping the, and then you, and that gets you 36 videos a day.
Yep.
For between two different channels.
Yep.
No, three different channels.
Because the after hours channel, I also clipped, though.
Yeah.
So you're like, okay.
So you're clipping it.
No, man.
That's a fucking very, very solid operation.
So my goal is to actually scale it up.
I'm going to scale it up and then I'm going to also, you know, start to get other people and then basically implement the templates and the systems that I. have in order to blow other people up.
Because see, that was us three years ago until we got demonetized.
Remember?
Clips, a channel.
Yeah, yeah.
Like you, when you, when you, when you post.
So he's just doing it with AI now.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Same shit, just AI faster.
Yeah.
But AI is not used to replace anything.
It just assists me, right?
So, yeah, it makes like augments.
So people using AI in order to create, like, faceless videos and shit like that.
YouTube is cracking down on that shit.
It is.
But they are now.
Yeah, I saw that.
I was going to ask you, like, did you hear about how, but you're the original content creators here.
Fine.
Correct.
I think that's more, like, this crackdown with AI, it's like going to be on people that, like, don't make original stuff.
Correct.
So all of my stuff is still what it is I've just expedited the process And I've simplified it to where I don't have to need Anybody in order to do it Because anytime I look to hire somebody Honestly I've hired people Y'all know they don't love their shit the way you love it They're not going to grind the way you grind So mine is all about I got videos dropping while I'm sitting here with you guys Yeah yeah Everything is a day or two ahead of time So while you're doing your show You're dropping clips
while i'm doing the show correct i i have no wasted movement so even when i'm even when i'm doing the show right now as we speak, hold on.
No, no, no.
So even when I'm doing live stream, so let's say I do the late night show, right?
I know I got other people on there.
So during that time, I'm actually clipping and working in the background while everybody else is talking.
Damn.
Well, that makes sense because you turn your camera off sometimes.
When I'm in there.
Like I'll even jump over.
I've expedited the process so sweet to where I can do a reaction video.
in 10 minutes 15 minutes i can have it out but sometimes i'll take i'll say all right guys i got to take a break for a second y'all keep it going i have a you know my studio is set up to where i got three different sets i got a set for the million and one show, a set for the reaction videos, a set for interviews, all of that stuff.
So now I'll get off camera, they talking, I'll introduce a new subject.
I can hear him in the background, but I'm over there doing a reaction video at the same time.
Damn.
Yeah.
Talk about, well, I mean, yeah, yeah, having having things set up in a certain way just makes it ten times easier.
So, no, man, that's it.
Hold on.
He only has in a day 24 hours.
Y'all niggas on the couch, smoking weed, drinking Pepsi, saying it's hard to get people to grind.
You know, the hardest part to get people to do is to be able to see it through even when they're not making money.
You know what's wild?
Back in the days, watch a lot of DVG, right?
And he was young coming up on YouTube.
Yeah.
But you know, he did more than anybody else.
Why does that?
He maxed out content.
Yeah, he did.
He was doing one vlog a week, right?
He did three a day.
Yeah.
And I was like, hold on.
What's the revenue he's getting?
And DDG, you know, he shows everything.
Yeah.
He said revenue.
I said, bro, if I drop three vlogs a day, I can triple my income.
Facts.
Bro, that shit works.
It does.
But you got to put in the work, though.
But people don't want to work.
But see, that's why I don't care about giving them the game.
Because I know that 98% of these motherfuckers are not going to do it anyway.
Or if they do it for a day or two or for a week, they're going to burn out.
Because they don't have anything that's driving them to be successful.
They doing it because I told them to.
They're not actually looking to get the information so that they can leverage it in order to be more successful.
So I could say this all day long.
It doesn't even matter.
I know I can give every idea that I have.
It don't make no difference because they're not going to do shit anyway.
See, you just said that to us.
Nigga, I'm thinking right now we could make some money and fire some people.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I'm just saying, bro.
No, really?
Seriously.
It's business.
It's business.
Things need to hold on, hold on.
In business, right?
You gotta make hard choices.
Things need to be cut.
Seriously.
It sucks, but it's what it is.
You want to survive in these hard times?
Yeah, I mean...
Y'all think it's good.
I'm talking about other people.
And let me also say this also.
Y'all think it's good, bro.
I have never actually sold a course in my life.
I've never sold a course.
W. Yeah, I mean, yeah, there's no, here's the thing with courses, right?
A lot of times people say, oh, this information you get for free.
But what people don't get is that when people, if you get in the mindset and you buy a course and you spend money, you're going to take that advice more seriously.
100%.
Because you put a barrier to entry to it.
Yeah, you put a barrier to entry to it.
People pay for it and then they take it more seriously.
And that's just kind of what it is.
Because unfortunately, even if you give a lot of sauce for free, people aren't going to take it seriously because they got it for free.
And they don't really implement stuff until they pay for it a lot of the times, which is the unfortunate reality of human nature is like people don't pay until they pay attention.
Right?
100%.
Sorry.
Even if I say you got to pay $5 for the information, it's going to weed out all of the people that ain't serious.
Yeah.
$5 will weed out everybody.
Like right now, like we're telling guys right now, we're going to have a Zoom call for a dollar to join in.
And then you'll see who's really serious versus who's like just...
masturbating right now y'all got to start investing in yourself it's funny because y'all will spend money on McDonald's, y'all will spend money on a hoe on jewelry, you will spend money on anything that don't actually at mines it's always got to be return on investment even what even if i'm talking to a woman at the time i'm trying to figure out what value do she add into my life other than coochie nothing sorry but the but a coochie come back that's extra that come with it yeah it's supposed to
come with it but the point is is just that i just think that people waste their time they waste so much even when i was working my regular jobs the reason why i was i was going to school online So all of my homework I was doing while I was at work.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Like I would, because I was working a double and I was actually working with my guy and he was doing half the job, I would sleep for my six, seven hours.
The other time I was actually doing my homework in between when the coils was getting, it was acid purification process in the plant because I was working in a steel mill and I was doing my homework double the whole time.
And I was actually working with my guy and he was doing half the job.
I was sleep for my six, seven hours.
So you know what I'll do?
No wasted movement.
At my job too, I will have my eight hours, right?
But you know how jobs are.
You got eight hours per week.
You don't really work for an affiliate.
No, you only work for about two or three hours.
Two or three hours, right?
So I would look on YouTube.
how to be a YouTuber, how to make content to social media while at work.
Yep.
So I do the same thing.
I was editing videos while I was at work.
Honestly, I would bring in my separate laptop and I would you only doing two or three hours worth of work.
I would vlog, edit a video.
Oh, man.
How are you so productive?
I don't know.
Because I'm working on it at the job.
Yeah.
All my own stuff.
Everybody else is chilling.
They talking with each other.
Drinking beers and shit.
I'm working.
Yeah.
I got y'all paying me to edit my own stuff.
Yeah.
Thank you.
So that's what I'm gonna do.
Yeah.
But again, I think that a lot of people, they lazy.
They don't work.
They don't grind.
They don't hustle.
They don't have any consistency.
Even if you're not good, you're gonna get good after repetition, after you do something so many many times And you know, people just don't leverage the information.
We live in a space where you can literally look anything up on YouTube.
Yeah.
And motherfuckers are still broke.
How, bro?
How?
It's true.
It's true.
Like, you can literally get anything on the internet nowadays, right?
Like, it's like, you don't even gotta go to school and a lot of, and the access to this information is like fucking crazy, bro.
They asked me, why did I take another job when I was doing so well in real estate?
And then you just like, well, I'm working from home.
Why wouldn't I get the free?
It was free money to me.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I'm gonna take it.
Oh man, you shouldn't be working a job.
You're a millionaire.
I don't give a fuck.
Oh, yeah.
I want everything.
Yeah, you gotta stay hungry.
If I had the capacity to be able to take on another one, I would, but I just don't have the have the capacity anymore let's do i guess one more question before we do zoom call yeah yeah we could yeah yeah uh any more any more chats bills i don't know so anton uh we'll have you show from our master talk to your brother this my last question for you if you don't mind tell them how you have in your account not a lot of money every month because i'm not gonna do this from from now on i have zero i keep less than 10 grand in my regular checking
account okay 100 but my my mental stimuli not my my spin in summary because i don't mind showing myself i'll show you my spin stickers with everything more than you yeah no i respect it bro like yo, this is honestly how you see, you know, if people are really about it, you know, because I'm the same way with showing my real estate and stuff like that, because bro, a lot of these influencers be, be fucking fake lying, bro.
Yeah.
They cap.
They view, they, they bot view.
Yeah.
That's another thing too.
Like, bro.
Anton, I can say this clearly, because obviously we see your views as well.
You don't buy, we don't buy, bro.
Everybody buys, bro.
What are your thoughts on all these niggas botting, bro?
I think that you messed it up.
You messed up your own, um, organic.
Mine's got to be organic.
I'd rather have a hundred thousand people that fuck with me than a million fake views.
Yeah.
Snacks.
Yeah.
Because those people are going to be the ones that add the value.
Now, my spend a summary, like, this is one bank account..
This is July 2025.
Total spending?
Oh shit.
Total spending 227?
Yeah, that's a month.
You spent that?
Yeah.
Oh, what did you buy?
So this is my actual real Chase account.
Oh, let me pull that back down.
So this is my real Chase account.
Yep.
It's the app.
So I'll go to...
That's June 268.
So now here's the thing.
This is not me spending money on just random shit, though.
This is me actually spending money on things that matter.
So these are my investments.
Oh, this is me buying whatever it is that I need to buy.
It don't matter if you buy real estate.
Don't matter what you buy.
Now that's up.
That's June, 2025.
But that's also, even if you move money from accounts too, right?
No, not, not from within the account itself.
Okay.
And this is May, right?
212.
Okay.
Right now.
And you're putting most of that into like what?
Stocks?
It all going to my brokerage accounts.
Okay.
100%.
Now this is what's in my personal account.
Vanguard, Fidelity.
Yeah.
I use Fidelity.
Fidelity.
props like that because they're not paying but facts yeah same thing i got a vanguard but like now this is my personal account modesty is just uh what the gotcha okay Gotcha.
So you put...
Yeah.
Yeah, got it right there, bro.
Hold on, he's short.
What the hell?
Nigga.
Ted?
That's fire.
Yeah, yeah.
So you do that to keep the fire, I guess.
Well, what do I need money for?
and once you invest it into what you need Yeah.
What do I need money for?
Kind of like you.
You don't spend any.
Yeah, I don't.
Yeah.
The same thing with me is like I invest just like.
Good point.
Yeah.
I got my sapphire card.
card that's all i got that yep i got my marriott card so when i travel got that one and then i got my delta card i don't want to show my number on it no no and i got my delta card so i can get into the sky miles lounge yeah what else what else do i need money for i need more than 10 yeah that's a good point i think anthony should be in every school teaching kids about financial literacy and the black people how to be Oh,
So basically what happens is...
Money comes in.
You invest into your different brokerage accounts.
Oh, I go broke every month.
Yeah.
Yeah, and so putting it...
Every month I go broke.
Okay.
Every dime I spend.
Goes like 90% of that goes into investments pretty much.
Almost 100.
Almost 100.
And then you keep 10K for yourself for whatever reasons you might need.
Then obviously you got your credit cards and everything else like that.
I mean, just in case I got to get some cash or something like that.
Yeah.
What do I need money for?
Like if I ever need to be liquid, you know what I'm saying, that I can sell a stock or something like that, I can get a hold of whatever amount of money that I need to get a hold of.
if I'm buying some real estate, all I got to do is screenshot of of my brokerage account and then I can close within two weeks.
You can get whatever access to cash or capital that you need within one to two business days from selling it for fidelity what do i need money for well that's actually good that's actually a good point to do steve but meanwhile but here's the thing but here's the thing for cash deals my here's the thing though my brokerage account money is working for me 100 percent of the time yep yep 100 percent of the that's how i bought my 911 yep is that nvidia stock took off And so that's when I bought my 911.
I bought my money.
I bought my 911 with the money that my money made for me.
I'm not about to work for the money and then spend it.
I got to.
My money is employees.
Yeah.
So the money got to go get me some other money and then I'll spend that.
Preach, man.
Yeah.
That's how it's got to be, you know, I've talked about this like with real estate or whatever, like your goal is to have the assets pay for your lifestyle.
100% versus having yourself pay for your lifestyle.
I'm never going to trade my time in for money and then trade that in for the stuff.
I'm going to trade my time in for money and then let the money go and get the stuff of me.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the way, that's the way to do it.
Much smarter.
Using your assets to pay for your liabilities.
Yeah.
100%.
Right.
Versus what a lot of people do is they spend time to make money and then that earned income is what they used to buy the liabilities, which is a fucking new value.
I did it.
Never again.
Yeah.
But I mean, you have to do it so you can get it out of your system.
Yeah.
I can say no.
Like, remember, you know my goals.
Buy Lamborghini, all that shit.
I did everything.
But now I'm good.
Yeah, I did it.
But I mean, we still like nice cars.
I still got my habits and stuff like that.
Well, he don't.
Well, me, no.
But I know why people...
Yeah.
Myron is tight.
Myron only cares about hoodies.
Yeah.
He's a Santa guy.
Hey, man.
He's from the Santa, you know?
Myron cares about hoodies and debate.
I know.
Because Flash is going to do his thing.
Girl of a mind.
What do you spend money on, Myron?
Like, what did you choose?
Because we all got a vice.
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
Because I don't drink.
smoke.
So...
I'll tell you, can I tell him what you spend money on?
What?
What do you spend money on?
This nigga spends money on the business.
That's it.
That's it.
Yeah, that's it.
Equipment.
Yeah, my body.
Better cameras.
the lighting, butchers.
So what, okay, so what are you working on?
What are you working towards?
No, I...
What's cool, man?
Bro, this is gonna sound fucking lame, but like, I just like helping niggas out, bro.
Like, you know, showing them a different world view or shit.
Like, I just, I just like that.
I don't know.
It's just, it's just, it's just weird.
I don't know.
Because, and I feel safe saying that, but it's like, that's what it is.
L Like, yeah, I don't really like material things.
So, like, for me, I just like, suck shit on the internet.
I don't know.
But I mean, it could be anything.
It could be going to a specific place that you ain't ever been to.
I hate traveling, bro.
I just got back from DC.
I hate traveling, bro.
I hate it.
Like, and it's weird too, because it's like, I think Press agrees with me.
I think we're the only ones.
We're like the only people, bro.
I hate traveling, bro.
I hate housing.
How'd you grow up?
No, I hate traveling.
You hate it too?
You're trying to lose with us.
Okay.
100%.
But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
That's a hot take that I don't like to tell people.
I don't like that.
I hate traveling.
People, I hate traveling.
They look at me like I'm crazy.
No, bro.
It's a headache, bro.
a week ago for eight hours and that it just really broke my heart.
It broke me in the inside, bro.
I hate traveling.
Bro, and it's something about you not having control that just like ticks me off, bro.
And then like, yo, stuck in an airport for eight hours?
Bro, I'd be raging.
You know what I hate?
When I go to a place, I was in Marbella, right?
In Spain.
I was on a mission.
Bro, I saw normies drinking alcohol, having fun.
I'm like, these niggas are fucking weirdos, bro.
And I'm here with these niggas partying.
Fuck no, I feel weird.
So I left, went to the crib and went to the airport early in the morning.
But bro, I feel weird being on a certain spot.
You know what I'm saying?
Oh, man.
It's not the same.
Man, I hate traveling.
I hate fucking having to stand up.
I mean, I do the best.
So if I get outside, I'm going to get to sleep.
I'm glad that there's other people.
Bro, because I don't like sharing that because people look at me like I'm crazy when I say I don't like traveling.
They look at me like, you're weird.
I don't even share that shit, bro.
My setup that I got for myself at home is way more comfortable than I can ever experience going out of town.
And I appreciate you coming to fuck with us because I know you hate traveling now.
No, no, no.
I appreciate it even more.
I don't mind going to...
to kick it and you know what i'm saying connect with people i don't like the process that you the what you have to go through i see i'm i gotta check the bed for bed bugs and Like, I don't want to stay in the Airbnb because they be having cameras and shit in there.
Like, yeah.
And the more visible you become, you gotta be super nice.
to people and junk like that and all of that.
I'll just be chilling, man.
I'll be one of the slow motion.
I think we both can relate here.
Yeah, yeah, no, I'm glad.
I think men should still have one of my hot takes, but not every single month for not just travel for some experience and then get back to home to grind.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
I know the YouTube stream crashed or some shit, but now we're good.
So YouTube was popping.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know what the focus has popping.
Yeah, we just 5K plus.
By the way, we should do the Zoom call.
Yeah, we'll switch to Zoom.
Yeah, fuck it.
So guys, come on over to Castle Club guys.
Use the code free.
Get in there for a dollar.
You're gonna have an open QA with Anton, teach you guys how to make money, whether it's in the business world, content creation, investing.
I'm sure a lot of you guys will probably want to ask him what's in his portfolio for his broker's accounts, what he's investing in.
That's so easy.
So yeah, bro, that's come on over guys.
Castle Club Man, code is free.
Get in there.
It's only a dollar to join.
And you get in for the first month for only a dollar.
So yeah, all in there.
Two more chats and then let's head off on over.
Okay, last two chats here.
Anton, what's up with the Michigan real estate market?
It's the best market to invest in.
Okay.
It's the best.
The Midwest is the best place to invest in.
Yeah, Midwest.
Michigan, Cleveland, any of that.
Any of that is awwesome.
Anything outside of Chicago.
W Anton, WFNF, I appreciate the analogy you men bring respect.
And he's here all week, by the way, guys.
We're going to have one on Wednesday as well.
So it's going to be a good time.
So guys, come over to Castle Club right now.
We're going to have a Zoom call, private Zoom call with Anton where you guys can ask your questions.
So we're going to have a great QA.
Crazy, when you said you went to Oakland University, I was literally looking right at it while waiting at the light.
Poem.
There you go, bro.
There you go, my friend.
All right, guys, come over to Castle Club.
We're going to switch on over.
Stream is going to continue over there.
So don't worry if you're already watching on Castle Club, you're good.
But the stream is going to continue over there.
Guys, come over.
Let's go.
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