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do you think being rich or poor is a
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choice n i don't no get up go make some
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money get up and go make some money
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becoming rich is easy if I can do it
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anybody can do it I feel like they don't
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give poor communities a chance I ask
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both poor and Rich the same questions
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around money and success do you think we
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should raise the minimum wage I don't
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think it's up to me to answer that us
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has the highest wealth inequality among
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developed Nations where the top 20% of
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Americans own 86% of the wealth while
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the bottom 80% own only 14 and with
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Rising inflation putting a strain on all
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Americans I decided to travel to both
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the poorest neighborhood in DC and the
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richest neighborhoods in Austin to
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understand what keeps the poor poor and
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the rich rich how different is life for
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the rich versus poor and is the American
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dream still alive or is it there to keep
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you working until you die they say
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Follow Your Passion don't follow your
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passion I followed my passion I wound up
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[ __ ] homeless and 109 lbs find out
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and without knowing anyone there I
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travel to what many consider the most
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dangerous low-income neighborhood in DC
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to investigate but thankfully I was able
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to find someone to show us around when I
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first came up to you we weren't filming
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it he was like hell no I mean I thought
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she was a police officer a little bit
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your first do I look like a do I look
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like a narc you never
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know as we walked around he introduced
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me to people that I can talk to
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subscribers you got 350k 350k oh [ __ ] so
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now now you want to talk now you want to
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talk okay okay do you guys think it's a
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choice to be poor or Rich a choice a
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choice matter get up go make some money
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get up and go make some money going to
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make some okay you said it's not you
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said it's not I had to search my thing
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cuz if you would have used your
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opportunities you would have chose to
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have like make better decisions but the
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reason why I said No at first cuz I was
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just thinking like technically it's not
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a choice cuz anything can happen to you
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like the government taxes anything
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sometimes it might not be a choice and
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sometimes it is also aren't you guys hot
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as [ __ ] right now like how the are y'all
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wearing beanies bro it's hot as [ __ ] you
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guys are all like look at all of y'all
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like wearing beanies and [ __ ] do you
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think being poor is a choice yes why all
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right so you got people battling the
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black thing the white thing right and it
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makes sense but it don't because you can
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get on train right now you'll see a
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white man with with with bald up jeans
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holy shoes but he got a fat wallet but
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you'll see a black guy like me or mixed
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guy like me with $200 pair of shoes
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or300 pair of shoes on or maybe a skinny
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wallet a lot of black people say that
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white people think we white people think
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they better but they're not they just
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make some white people make better
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choices do you think being rich or poor
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is a choice n i don't N I wouldn't say
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it's a choice some people put their self
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in certain situations or predicament to
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be rich or poor but based on that
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definition doesn't that insinuate that
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it's a choice that if they put
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themselves into it um yeah you can say
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yeah you right yeah how much do a barer
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cost at McDonald's I don't know see so
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that there let me know that mean you
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live a two different lives cuz I know
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you don't it's not a bad thing that you
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make probably better choices than me or
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other guys or or other women in my walk
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you you just had a better chance better
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schools a better opportunity can I ask
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you how much you make a year um I know
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we're putting you on the
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spot I don't know I make $30 an hour so
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$30 yeah $30 hour five five days a week
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man right between 32 36 what do you do
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for work a couple thing I'm an
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entrepreneur how much you make a year
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[ __ ] probably like uh Millions my
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[ __ ] do you guys think the minimum wage
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should be increased yes H why because
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minimum wage jobs and they be over here
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giving out $15 $14 an hour that's not
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even enough to really to uh even get a
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one B on a popping yeah hell why cuz
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everything High having a job that I have
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I still struggle and still go check to
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check some people get paid minimum wage
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and
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the rent don't add up to what you know
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minimum wage is yeah push them more cuz
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a lot of people need money though you
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know if I may challenge you what if we
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raise the minimum wage wouldn't that
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just raise the cost of everything I mean
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yeah yeah but still you could be able to
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afford at least but wouldn't it just get
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higher prices but that's going to help
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you save money because then you're not
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spending money on dumb stuff and then
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not spending money on weed and all bro
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just incriminating him oh wait no it's
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legal here it's legal here yeah
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yeah do you can do anything so we'll
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return to anosia so we can have him show
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us around more of the realities of a
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neighborhood that's literally minutes
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away from the capital and with violent
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crime rates 2 47% higher than the
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national average and with 50% of the
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residents living in poverty I was
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curious to see how different or similar
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it would be as I travel to the richest
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neighborhoods in Austin Texas and so
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before I do I wanted to see if you
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Drop now we're actually in a one of the
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most richest neighborhoods in Texas I
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think we're going to go house to house
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uh to ask rich people the same questions
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that we asked the poorer
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neighborhoods these dogs are terrifying
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holy [ __ ] and compared to Anacostia man
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bro it was hard as [ __ ] to get an
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interview here they either didn't answer
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or just straight up rejected me like to
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participate you guys best luck yeah
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thank you so much but you know me bro I
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wasn't going to quit cuz we're out here
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trying to make the best damn videos on
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YouTube so I went downtown to talk to
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the people there where are you from and
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what do you do for work I am from
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Argentina and the US and I'm a full-time
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artist and designer so I have a real
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estate development company and then uh I
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have also back home where I live a
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shared workspace and I run that on the
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day-to-day but those those businesses
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have been pretty dialed in for several
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years now so about a year ago I actually
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got involved in a pickle ball business
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of all things so now I have a third
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company I'm a nurse I've been in sales
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for about 20 something years I'm in the
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commercial real estate business got it
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got it um I'm curious guys do you think
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anyone can become rich I do I think it
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requires a lot of hard work
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determination discipline and just not
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giving up yeah of course no it's not a
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choice it's very difficult to make money
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in today's society each year that pass
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it's much more difficult it's not a
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choice but it is a choice to try to do
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your best however it's not guaranteed to
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anyone and it's very difficult for
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people to make end meet so I I went to a
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poorer neighborhood in DC and asked
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these exact same questions and one of
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the points that they raised to me was
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you probably have no idea how much a
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McDonald's Big Mac costs and I was like
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to be honest I don't let me ask you do
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you know how much a McDonald's Big Mac
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cost I have no idea
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yeah it kind of says a lot right I yeah
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I just I I don't know and I also don't
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eat fast food yeah neither do I neither
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do I yeah I certainly believe that
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anyone could be rich especially in if
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you're were talking about monetary
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wealth the sky's the limit in this
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country if you really want to go after
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something and really put yourself out
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there in Risk what is your opinion on
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government Aid do you think it helps
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people overall or makes people lazy of
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course course it helps people we need it
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I think Aid through more thirdparty uh
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Charities goes better than unaccountable
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government Aid not the government Aid is
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bad in of itself but uh accountability
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to you know I'm going to help you to
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help you up permanently versus this
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permanent help making a permanent
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underclass I think is really a problem
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in our country it don't make you lazy
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cuz if you old if you are Elder you're
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not going to make you lazy for real you
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really can't do nothing but if you just
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scam unemployment like what you doing
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like if you just collecting that [ __ ] up
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like come on you lazy get off your ass
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and stop collecting them unemployment
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man for
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real hustle
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unemployment hell yeah I hate it a lot
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of people are comfortable with receiving
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instead of going out and get it I wish I
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could get it sometime like food stamps
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and housing I wish I could get it but I
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just can't as me being who I am I just
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can't settle for left because I I love
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money do you think government Aid makes
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people lazy yes hell yeah hell yes has
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your family ever received government
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my sister had my brother probably my mom
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when we was kids yeah why do you think
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it makes you makes people lazy because
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it's a lot of women a lot of guys out
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here that live over there it's a lot of
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women out just have babies back to back
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to back to back just so they get food
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stamps five kids you get $1,000 a month
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so this may already be obvious to you
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but it's clear that how people view
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money and opportunities here in the US
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is different compared to anywhere else
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in the world I mean if you don't believe
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me that's fine but put politics aside
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and think why have 7.2 2 million people
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have already entered this country alone
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in 2024 because even if the American
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dream is dying you can't deny that there
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must be a reason why some people are
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literally risking their lives in
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prosecution to cross the border in order
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to enter this country so land of
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opportunity and freedom whether you were
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born here legally or legally or grew up
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rich or poor your experiences are going
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to shape how you view money and
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opportunity and if I'm going to be
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honest with with you and I know it's
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demonized to say this but I want to be
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rich and it's exactly why I wanted to
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make this video because at a time where
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it's even becoming a luxury to be able
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to build a family I want to be able to
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provide it for my loved ones and create
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an even better life than like the ones
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that my parents gave me and they gave me
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a great life and if I want to create
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bigger and better videos to change how
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Society approaches issues to stop our
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ever increasing divide all that's going
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to need money man like y'all really
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think I'm putting myself in these r
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risky dangerous situations and
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conversations just so I can have free
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clout but all jokes aside for a country
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that obsesses over money over everything
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we're awfully scared to talk about the
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realities of why some succeed why some
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fail and as you'll see later on it's
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exactly why I spent the day learning
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from someone who has actually seen both
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poverty and wealth because is this story
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just one in a million or can anyone
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including myself for you watching can
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anyone truly become rich but again what
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does being rich even mean to understand
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I wanted to dive deeper into a poor
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neighborhood 3 years ago DC was number
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one M cops did you know that no I didn't
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what do you think changed we grew
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up a it's a lot of guys hereit that that
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I've been shot two times but you'll
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never think that no I got C I could have
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[Music]
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guessed like him right here I just look
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up to him let's got r yeah yeah do you
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still yeah I still do he's one you want
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to talk to him hey bro he doing a
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YouTube channel man get South and
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stuff uh do a quick interview it's no
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disrespect to y'all just when you see a
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camera m course of course two [ __ ]
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people like sticking their like camera
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at me like it's going to be hard to talk
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or like act normal what's
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up how the job
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in great come back up there yesterday
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come to St you going to get it this
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neighborhood raised a lot of people
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uh-huh where you born and raised here
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yes right here this one street you got
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good bad good bad bad you got houses
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worth a million then you got houses
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worth $30 I didn't vote you wonder why I
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didn't vote why look these the ones you
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want us vote for but then what y tell us
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vote for them y'all throw y trash on the
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street y' ask for change but where's the
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change at why should I vote for this man
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after y'all put everything up y'all
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could have took it with y'all y'all
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messing the streets up even more right
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here you got the big chair and the sad
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thing about this right here is it hurt
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your heart a lot because this area right
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here it's a it's a new drug out called
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boot so it turns out boot or commonly
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known as bath salts is a new dangerous
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synthetic opioid that's spread
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everywhere around DC and it puts people
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in a zombie like State and it's even
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said to be worse than fenel look outside
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of McDonald's better yet go down east
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over better yet go to anacosta subway
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station you'll see 16y old little 16y
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old 17 18y old girls out there have the
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boot looking like zombies looking like
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this guys looking like this like looking
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like zombies and as I walked around and
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I learned more about his life and what
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he's seen I couldn't help but think of
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just this visual divide between the rich
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and the poor especially in DC where in
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the same damn city that it was once
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considered the murder capital of the
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world it's also been the home to the
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richest and most powerful people in the
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world
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[Music]
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but see they got uh train police offes
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because there a lot of bikes going to
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Metro trains so they got extra security
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and stuff how's this helped in
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curtailing a lot of that crime it's
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helping a lot helping a whole lot are
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you about to go somewhere yeah I I just
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bur you down here cool cool cool that's
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all but you don't got nothing to worry
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about you good you a good hand yeah yes
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here you
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go most likely you you you openminded
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people right
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here
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inside
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BR I'm catch you you head out all right
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man appreciate it peace out so you saw
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the realities of what many haven't shown
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before in the worst neighborhoods but
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the question remains can anyone become
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rich who's better to ask in an
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ex-homeless drug addict who lived in
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skid to a now multi-millionaire with m
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multiple businesses all right so now I'm
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in front of sunlife Organics as you can
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see right there and I will actually be
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going on a tour with the owner he's a
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crazy story he was once a homeless
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addict so he has literally experienced
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both spectrums right the poorest of the
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poor living in Skid Row to now being a
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multi-millionaire and yeah we're going
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to spend some time with him dude nice to
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officially meet you man yeah thank you
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for taking the time I appreciate it yeah
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time's a little crunch right now but
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it's okay work we'll make it work uh
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let's get some sustenance and you've
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been here before right yeah yeah many
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times I love this place me too me
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too hey what's going on we're only doing
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this for the camera oh really
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yeah in front of each door we always
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have triple filtered uh ice water for
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the dogs and then when the dogs go in we
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also have treats for the dogs or organic
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dog treats um which is another way of
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just serving the community
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um and making people feel honored making
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their pets feel honored so it it all
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goes along with the ethos of love heal
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and
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[Music]
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inspire all these businesses that you've
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started from every detail was for you
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and then also you don't cut Corners do
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you feel like two like both of those
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traits uh contributed heavily to like
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your success overall I think my success
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in terms of being known as best-in class
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but I mean financially we lost money for
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10 years literally lost money for 10
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years I got lucky with real
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estate um I got lucky with stocks day
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trading stocks was where I made the bulk
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of my money to support myself while this
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business floundered for 10 years so no I
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wouldn't say that
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mentality directly contributes to the
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quote unquote success cuz I would
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imagine most of your people are
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interested in making a bunch of money
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that was never my goal I had a business
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that made money and I was [ __ ]
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miserable I started this because this
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was something that I wanted I wanted to
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be able to go someplace where I could
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get something like this and not worry
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about the Integrity of the ingredients a
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place where I would walk into and the
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people working there were happy I mean
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watch what she's doing look at her look
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at the smile on her face I'm guessing
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she's
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smiling it's only cuz the cameras are on
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that's yeah no but I mean we're happy
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here right is this a happy place the
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happiest place I the last time with AJ
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and and oh yeah they say Follow Your
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Passion don't follow your passion I
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followed my passion I wound up [ __ ]
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homeless and 109 lbs be very careful
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with your passions find your purpose
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become good at your purpose and then you
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will automatically become passionate
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about your purpose so after he showed me
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around his business he was now going to
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show me around his house and I wanted to
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learn more about how he was exactly able
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to go from being poor without anything
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becoming so rich I was a drug dealer I
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was homeless me ill strung out on heroin
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cocaine I felt like a [ __ ] movie star
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with all that dope so what does like
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everyday look like for you I it's like
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pretty flexible schedule like yeah
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flexible schedule I'm at Sun every day I
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get I get up at uh 5: in the morning
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every day no alarm clock my eyes just
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open I'll go for a walk not a not a long
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walk but I'll go for a walk and then
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just do a out loud gratitude list um
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thank you God for this day thank you God
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for the roof over my head head thank you
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God for the clean water that I get to
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bathe in thank you God for all of these
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amazing opportunities Mondays and
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Fridays I train um for an hour heavy and
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hard with a professional top tier
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personal trainer yeah I saw my buddy
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Leon uh he like threw up the three your
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workout right yeah it's
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interesting most people that come and
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work out with me um they end up throwing
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up or they end up giving up about
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halfway
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through now housekeeper out of town so
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you're going to have to forgive the
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mess also this is kind of like great
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house man my laboratory so there's just
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like constantly [ __ ] everywhere those
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are the mushrooms I was telling you
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about that I put my coffee in the
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morning I keep pretty stocked up and
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brother yeah this is like uh this is
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like a doomsday prep but for healthy
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people
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and um can I try a little drop of course
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I don't mind at all
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[Music]
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yeah oh yeah it's it's really really
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good this I got in Uruguay this
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amethyst damn this [ __ ] is crazy isn't
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that nuts this is a little pool area out
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here
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man this is goals man look at that
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Crystal this was my earthing grounding
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station here and I was laying on my
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towel and I was like absorbing the
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energy of the Earth all of a sudden I
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smelled this horrible smell and I look
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over my cat is right next to my head
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taking a massive [ __ ] so this this has
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become the $20,000 litter
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box I no longer lay in there I go in
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there and I [ __ ] I mean it's natural
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though isn't it yeah she she thinks so
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in about another six or seven weeks
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you're going to see hundreds of
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butterflies out here swarming this thing
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so why is butterfly such a significant
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part is it metamorphosis
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metamorphosis I was the
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ugly caterpillar crawling on my belly
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and like looking up at everything and
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going oh God if only I could be that or
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if only I could be that tree if only I
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could be God could you imagine if I
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could be like that butterfly not knowing
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the whole time I am the butterfly but to
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become the butterfly I have to go within
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I have to wrap myself up and go within
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and go and create my own Chrysalis and
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learn to become still and when I learn
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to become still I learn that I am
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limitless that I can fly that I can do
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anything that I can in fact transform
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into that glorious beautiful being do
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you think everybody has a capacity to
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change yes absolutely if I can do it
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anybody can do it if a [ __ ] like me can
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do it anybody can do it does that mean
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anyone can become rich of course
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becoming rich is easy becoming happy is
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not that easy we've got the custom sauna
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from Europe oh [ __ ] which is [ __ ]
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incredible man I oh my God this is the
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nicest sauna in the world oh [ __ ] yeah
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nicest sauna in the world a [ __ ] I love
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this thing I love saunas man I do it
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almost every
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day um and then this is the little chill
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like meditation area if you could just
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kind of this walk through your kind of
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like Journey from just childhood to
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where you are now just yeah um ve very
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challenging childhood parents were
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immigrants to this country from
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different countries different languages
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different religions terrible parents uh
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a lot of abuse a lot of neglect as a
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child which then led to sort of a
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self-fulfilling prophecy drugs and
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alcohol at an early age to help me like
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cope with how I
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felt um and uh and then
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again that began to snowball and then I
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sort of derived my identity out of I was
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the bad guy I was a drug dealer I was
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this I was that and left Ohio to get
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away from trouble went to
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California found a lot more trouble
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unfortunately and um eventually wound up
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homeless mentally ill strung out on hero
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cocaine shooting
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speedballs um 33 years old physically
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incapable of going
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on and I
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surrendered which some people think is
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bad but I think surrendering is joining
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the winning team so I surrendered I
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raised my hand and I asked for help a
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charity called musicians assistance
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program took me in and um they put me in
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treatment long term then they put me
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into a halfway house
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longterm and at 33 years old my life
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began again and that's when I learned
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that one day at a time I stay clean and
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sober no matter what and eventually
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learned that one day at a time I become
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1% better no matter what I've traveled
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all over the world multiple times I get
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to do a lot of cool stuff for people
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that I care about and I love my life is
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incredible my life is amazing and so as
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someone who's experienced both I wanted
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to now ask khil the same questions I
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asked the rich and poor earlier do you
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think government Aid like welfare keeps
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people lazy of course it does it's
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learned helplessness I was on welfare I
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was on food stamps and as long as I was
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living like that why would I [ __ ]
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sober up why would I do anything I can
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just lay around [ __ ] shoot dope I was
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way more comfortable than you are right
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now at 27 years old me at 27 with all
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those chemicals being shot into my vein
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I felt like a [ __ ] movie star with
00:24:02
all that dope and your tax dollars were
00:24:04
paying for my food stamp so I could go
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get that dope government is a disease
00:24:10
disguised as its own cure as someone who
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has lived both lives would you rather be
00:24:16
poor and happy or Rich and
00:24:20
miserable poor and happy for sure one of
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the purposes of life is to be [ __ ]
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happy is to find happiness uh if I had
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to be a janitor in
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Cleveland but I could have the same
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girlfriend the same pets or something
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similar and the same level of feeling
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inside versus having a billion dollars
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and being like a lot of rich and famous
00:24:41
people that are [ __ ] miserable that I
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know I would definitely take the janitor
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in Cleveland definitely I mean I want to
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be
00:24:50
happy happy is good everyone deserves to
00:24:53
be happy everybody deserves to live the
00:24:55
life that they want to live problem is
00:24:57
is most people don't believe that so by
00:24:59
this point you've seen the visual
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differences between the rich versus poor
00:25:02
and it's obvious but something that's
00:25:05
been hidden though are the more subtle
00:25:07
differences and the best way to explain
00:25:09
this is to think of life like a video
00:25:12
game so at the start of the game the
00:25:13
factors that you're born into like money
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environment time period genetics and to
00:25:18
a certain extent your looks they affect
00:25:20
your initial stats how hard you have to
00:25:23
work and how little you have to be able
00:25:26
to up but whether you were born rich and
00:25:29
started out as a level 24 or was born in
00:25:32
an unfortunate situation like a refugee
00:25:34
camp and you go through life the
00:25:36
experiences in the choices that you make
00:25:38
will improve or take away from your
00:25:41
score or stats so you get the point but
00:25:44
here's an interesting question why is it
00:25:46
that some people like khil had for all
00:25:50
purposes a main character Arc where
00:25:52
others remain as NPCs in The Game of
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Life Never realizing their potential
00:25:57
like the countless people that I'm sure
00:25:59
he met while he was in Skid Row did any
00:26:01
of your peers from Skid Row achieve
00:26:04
success like you zero
00:26:06
zero zero so what was it about kalalo
00:26:09
that even in the lowest of lows and
00:26:11
Against All Odds he was able to win to
00:26:14
me I think it can only be explained by
00:26:17
the dog that's inside of you the voice
00:26:20
inside you that I'm sure khil and
00:26:22
countless great even in the lowest
00:26:24
moments heard that said [ __ ] this I'm
00:26:28
better than this and it's this drive and
00:26:30
tenacity and not a skill issue that
00:26:33
separates a good player from Kobe Bryant
00:26:36
or you watching from
00:26:39
gen and so the question is is this
00:26:42
mentality or this dog that's inside of
00:26:44
you something that you're born with or
00:26:47
something that you can add in this video
00:26:49
game of life because again is this rag
00:26:52
riches story by khil just a one in a
00:26:55
million chance or can anyone truly
00:26:58
become rich and if so what the hell is a
00:27:01
secret I'm curious if you think anyone
00:27:04
can become rich in that Essence do you
00:27:07
think being poor is a choice whatever
00:27:09
zip code you're born into is going to
00:27:11
greatly determine your immediate
00:27:13
opportunities if you're born in Beverly
00:27:16
Hills probably going to have a lot of
00:27:18
opportunities that most people could
00:27:19
never even dream of if you're born in
00:27:21
South Central you're kind of [ __ ] out
00:27:23
the gate but you can rise up out of that
00:27:25
you can become whatever you want to
00:27:26
become it just takes time it just takes
00:27:28
time why do you think the US is such an
00:27:31
unequal country when it comes to wealth
00:27:33
inequality just the enironment that they
00:27:35
grow grow go in and you go to the white
00:27:37
Community right now you won't see no
00:27:38
liquor stores in no neighborhood you
00:27:41
look around right now it's three it's
00:27:42
three liquor stores in this corner you
00:27:43
know it's two tobacco shops right here
00:27:46
but you you go white neighborhood you
00:27:47
see no tobacco shops so I feel like they
00:27:49
don't give poor communities a
00:27:53
chance so like the environment makes it
00:27:55
easier to make let's say poor choices
00:27:58
exactly because the truth is the wealth
00:28:00
inequality is growing and it's it's not
00:28:02
stopping the middle class is dying and
00:28:04
Americans can't buy healthc care gas
00:28:06
rent or find jobs and what used to be a
00:28:08
common like a family and affording a
00:28:11
home is slowly becoming a luxury and So
00:28:14
after talking to all these people from
00:28:16
both rich and poor have I changed my
00:28:18
mind to be brutally honest yes and that
00:28:22
it's motivated me to want to become rich
00:28:23
more because if I realize anything is
00:28:25
that sure money can't buy happiness and
00:28:27
more More Money More Problems but it
00:28:30
sure as hell brings a lot more solutions
00:28:32
and a whole lot better set of problems
00:28:34
because are you going to tell me that
00:28:36
not knowing what restaurant you want to
00:28:37
order your door Dash from is a lot
00:28:39
better than not knowing where your next
00:28:42
meal is but then again maybe it does
00:28:46
taking becoming rich to be able to say
00:28:49
that money isn't everything and on the
00:28:51
other side how experiencing the lowest
00:28:53
depths of poverty fear and struggle is
00:28:56
the only motivation you need to realize
00:28:59
that maybe money is everything because
00:29:01
in some ways the worst place to ever be
00:29:04
is in the Middle where things are good
00:29:07
enough where you want to stay complacent
00:29:09
but not bad enough to ever want to make
00:29:11
a change the point of life is not to
00:29:14
have a bunch of money although money is
00:29:16
amazing and anybody that tells you that
00:29:18
money can't buy you happiness is full of
00:29:19
[ __ ] it's [ __ ] yeah it's [ __ ] if
00:29:22
you go from making a minimum wage job to
00:29:25
making $400,000 a year the next day
00:29:28
you are going to be infinitely [ __ ]
00:29:31
happier I will tell you that from
00:29:32
personal experience so the American
00:29:34
dream may very well be dying but what if
00:29:37
it's just different than what it used to
00:29:38
be so maybe today the dream isn't about
00:29:41
the money but more so the audacity to go
00:29:44
after it even though everyone else calls
00:29:46
you crazy because you're only crazy
00:29:49
until one day you're not do you feel
00:29:52
like you kind of have to go through that
00:29:54
life experience of becoming rich to then
00:29:56
finally realize that money is isn't the
00:29:58
end all be all I would have at 27 I
00:30:01
would have been like Ah that's [ __ ]
00:30:02
stupid the dude wants to hang out with
00:30:03
his cats and get up at 5:00 in the
00:30:05
morning that sounds dumb but I've been
00:30:08
at L Arc with the biggest movie stars in
00:30:12
the world that stuff's cool if you don't
00:30:16
know about it you can't afford it these
00:30:19
are only amazing when you can't afford
00:30:22
them once you can afford them it's just
00:30:26
a watch when you can't afford them you
00:30:29
think that this is going to fix you my
00:30:31
only advice to you would be that just
00:30:33
put the money piece on the Shelf as long
00:30:35
as you're moving in the gifting and
00:30:37
talents that you believe that you were
00:30:39
called to to move in I have a feeling
00:30:41
that you will have resource you just
00:30:42
seem like the kind of person that will
00:30:44
will get you have a mindset I can tell
00:30:46
don't even don't even focus on the
00:30:47
wealth it's going to come thank you I I
00:30:50
can't show it but I have like Goosebumps
00:30:52
right now what do you guys want to do
00:30:53
when you guys grow up I want um I want
00:30:56
to be a lawyer man thank you a defense
00:30:58
attorney what I want to be is a auto
00:31:00
mechanic cuz I like cars and all that
00:31:02
and and it's it's a it's kind of a high
00:31:04
paying job I want to be a Defence
00:31:06
attorney and if I don't do that I want I
00:31:08
want to play football like I'm going
00:31:09
Chase my dream until I can't no more
00:31:12
people think that money is ultimately
00:31:13
going to make them fulfilled it's not
00:31:15
money will bring you happiness in the
00:31:16
beginning but but to be fulfilled you
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