Buddy, you're welcome to create a life you love. This is Tony Green and today we are doing the business version of create a life you love. One most important thing when you're creating anything is your passion. You can create something that you don't love but it's always going to be work. You're always going to be working. You're always going to be trying to, it'll always feel like a struggle, okay? Like when you're in a relationship with someone and you don't, you're not in love with that person. A lot of times it seems like it's a complete struggle because you're working at it. You're faking it. In creating a business or working or a career, any of that, the number one thing is passion. Do you love what you're doing? Do you want that result? If you don't, that's the first and most important thing to fix. So I'm Tony Green. I'm a psychic medium. I air my show Psychic Medium Tony Green every Monday at noon and then I try to follow it up with this show. I'm going to start talking about how to create the work, business or career that you want and love today. That is one of the most important things to me because we spend more time on our business, on our career, doing what we do to bring in money than we spend doing anything else. Most of the time we spend more time working than we do sleeping. So if we're going to be in a place trying to create a career, trying to create a job, trying to create a business, it needs to be something that comes from the heart, something we are driven to do, something we are 100%. This is it. I love it and I want it and I'm not going to quit it. There are so many business owners that I have worked with that I know that I care about deeply. People who are in careers, professional athletes, and even people just in regular, not regular jobs, but that work for other companies, then the happiest people are not the people who make the most money. They're the people who are doing exactly what they want to do. They're the people that are waking up every morning and they're happy to go to work. They're happy to do what they're doing at work. They have so much passion and drive for it. It doesn't matter what it is. It matters how you feel about what it is or what you're doing. I've been very, very, very blessed.  If I didn't, I was out the door as quickly as I was in the door. If they sold me, it's going to be this, this, and this and I walked in and it wasn't, I was done. I was out. I don't have that thing that says, well, give it in a job, with a job. I don't have that thing that says, well, give it another week, give it another month. Let's see what the new, if I'm not feeling it, I'm not doing it. It's just not happening. Okay. Now, having said that, how do you know what your passion is? How do you know what you're really passionate about, what you love, what you want to do, what you'll love creating?  It's that thing you do most often. It's what you research. It's what you look about. It's what you talk about with your friends that they kind of look at you like, oh my God, calm down. It's that thing that makes you get up in the morning early and go do. And so for me, one of my passions is cycling. I love cycling. I don't want to become a professional cyclist. I don't want to be doing it for a living. There are very few things that will get me out of bed early in the morning, cycling is one of them. The other ones, that's for another show. But I will tell you that I know when you're doing what you love, when I was working in a health club and I was teaching spinning and yoga and cardio boot camp, I couldn't, that was, I loved it. Absolutely loved it. When I was training people in the fitness industry, I, hands down, loved it. Absolutely. When I was doing fitness and lingerie modeling, loved it. Hands down, loved it. Okay. Doing what I do now, love it. When I did promotions and marketing, loved it. Everything has a season. Everything comes to an end or transitions. For some people, you can have your passion and you have one passion from the beginning of your career to your end of your career. Others, it might transition, you might go from here to here to here and end up here. It's okay, no matter how that works, as long as you're doing what you love, as long as you have this passion for it. And I'm going to tell you, nobody can tell you what your passion is. Nobody can look at you and say, your passion is this, your passion is what you find yourself searching for, what you find yourself looking for online, what you find yourself, again, talking about continually. Now I have friends that are inventors. I have friends that are doctors and attorneys and friends that are bartenders or teach music. I have friends that are, I'm trying to, I'm like trying to have all of it come up. This is what I'll tell you about each and every one of them. It doesn't matter what they do. The people that are doing what they love end up making the most money and on top of that, they never complain about their work.  All they'll do is talk about the good aspects of their job or their career or their business. They'll talk about what they love about it. They're the ones who bring that good energy to the table. They're always happy. They seem like they're so happy, go lucky, sometimes so much so that it annoys you. Well, that's a good thing. Jump on that. Don't you want to be that person for a change? I want to be that person, right? We all do. So, when you're thinking about your passion and a business, if you're wanting to start a business, the one thing I tell people is don't think you have to start with everything. Start with what you have and move forward with that. Don't think you need to know everything. Those are the two things that stop or break people before they even get started. If you think you need to have everything before you go into it, you don't. If you love fitness, start as a trainer. Start with a cardio classes outside. Whatever you love, there's a way to start it that allows you to start it today, allows you to start it as a side job, or a side career, or a side business. One of the biggest mistakes people make when starting a business is they think they have to have a big, elaborate space, a huge space. They're seeing the end game. And that's great. Don't get me wrong. The end game is really important. Having that, this is where I want to end up is really important. But let me tell you, when you first start, where you think you're going to end up and where you actually end up can be two completely different places if you're listening to the universe. If you're ongoing with the flow. The first biggest mistake is they think they have to have everything. The big place, the most beautiful things. If you don't have the cash coming in, you just put yourself in debt and you're working to pay off that debt, that's going to take away from the passion of your project. Scale. Be practical. Work it in a way that allows you to grow with your business. The second mistake people make is they think they need to know everything. Sometimes knowledge is disempowering. If you go into something thinking you have to know everything, you will never go into it because we can never know anything. Not about any particular business. And if you think you know everything, the universe is going to throw things in your lap to continue to show you, oh, you don't know this yet. Because it's impossible to know everything about any aspect of any career, job, business. Don't think you need to know everything. Don't think you need to have everything. You start where you start. I have friends that, I have a friend who has a significant amount of money. And he has created businesses with patents. He's created products with patents, created the business, and then sold the business. But every time he sells his business and starts a new one, he doesn't do it elaborately. He starts small because he knows what his goal is. He's going to get it to a certain point and he's going to turn it around to somebody else. The second part of that is don't think you have to go so big and hire people or have this person or that person or the other person to do all these different things. Some of the most incredible businesses are run with three people. There's a lot of heart and soul in them. Some of the most incredible attorneys I know and doctors I know have, let's go attorneys, have a small, like I'm not going to say small because it's an extremely successful business. They can't even take people on because they're so successful. But it's them, their office space, and sometimes the person who answers a phone, most of the time they're answering their own phone. Now if you have the vision to have more, then grow with your business. Don't think you have to have it all walking through the door because you're going to put yourself under before you have a chance to get up. Doctors that I know, there are doctors I know that work in hospitals and they're happy. Don't get me wrong. But some of the happiest doctors I know are those who have clinics, their own clinic, their own little team, and they get to do what they want the way they want it. Those are the happiest doctors I know and they do very well. I mean they can't even take on more patients. So the idea is, if this is your vision, that's okay. If this is your vision, that's okay. But stick to your vision and it doesn't have to be what somebody else's vision is. It can be exactly what you want it to be. It can be exactly the way you want it to be. For the love of everything, do not think you have to have everything before you start. Don't think, I have to have this big building and these chandeliers and that this art and no, people aren't coming there for that. They're coming there for you and what you're putting on the table. And again, don't think you need to know everything because again, you will never get started if you need to know everything. Needing to know everything will, you'll never get out of bed in the morning. You won't get out of bed in the morning. It won't happen. I'm a psychic and I don't know everything. I know people expect me to. It's crazy. They think like, what am I so unoriginal? What am I thinking right now? I don't really care what you're thinking right now. Don't ask me that question. It's none of my business what you're thinking right now. Psychics don't go in your mind and figure out your every little thought. That's not how it works. It's not how we want it to work. If I was knowing what you're thinking right now, I'd probably be pretty terrified as a matter of fact. So I don't don't think you need to know everything. Don't think you need to have everything. When you start your business, don't have goals but not super high expectations. Okay. This goes for if you have a patent, if you're starting a career, if you're starting a job, have goals but let go of your expectations. Now there's a huge difference between those two. Expectations can sometimes don't don't don't send me emails and comments and call my phone and tell me all about this. Expectations can sometimes be a sense of entitlement. Like something is owed to you. I expect this. Okay. But that's you. There are other people involved. Okay. So don't have expectations. Don't have expectations of other people.  Don't have expectations of your partner for a lot of things. If you if you have a boss, if you have a job, don't have expectations because nobody for the most part people cannot live up to our expectations. Okay. They can't they just can't live up to our expectations because they don't understand them, know them, or a lot of times care about them. Okay. They're too busy worrying about their expectations. But one million percent have goals. So I'm starting here and there's a song and its spirit always speaks to me through music and it's usually rap which is so funny because I can't sing and if you I can't do especially can't sing rap but we started at the bottom now we're here. We started at the bottom now we're at the top. So the the idea is you don't need to start up here. Have goals. Start where you are and grow with it. Grow with it. Grow with it. The most successful business owners I know have started where they were and then have their goals and grew. I know a guy who started with a corner not like a corner bar but with a bar and he grew it sold it got another grew it did what he needed to do and now and this is this is an adult show and I'm not saying we agree or disagree with it what anybody does but we live in a real world here. Now he owns a chain of adult clubs like adult dance clubs strip clubs. I said it oh my god I said it strip clubs and I did promotional work for him. I went in when he first opened the first the first club and I said you know what do this this this and that you know start with calendar start with DVDs start with this start with that get these promotional items out there and that one of the things I did for him he's like I don't want to spend the money on that I go why would you and sometimes you need somebody else from the outside to come in and even though he's a brilliant businessman and say listen the way we're going to do this calendar is we're going to have advertisers all the people who are coming to you right now and asking you to like buy our beer buy our this let me do your build out let me do this let me they're going to be sponsors in your calendar if they want your money you're going to get their money this is a real world tit for tat folks that's so funny because his strip clubs so we started with the calendar which by the way he made profit on profit on profit from the advertisers paid for the calendar and so he didn't have to pay a penny for that and he made money off of that second he sold the calendars and made money from that and from the calendars he did a you know it all profit on profit on profit you start where you are and you go and don't think you he didn't like when I say you don't need to know everything don't worry people will come in and they'll help you they'll give you that like as soon as I brought up calendars and this and that his first thing is I don't want to pay for that he couldn't see he could see making money off of the alcohol he could see making money off of this or off of that off of food he couldn't he's like that's not practical I don't see making money off of that but even if he would have just straight up paid for the calendar and he didn't even have to pay for the photographer because the photographer had advertising in there hello I mean one more time there's always a way right if it doesn't happen today there's a way it might not happen today it'll happen the next day okay um so he couldn't he his mind wasn't working in that way so here I step in and I'm no no no listen to me this is what we're going to do and this is how we're going to do it and this is how it's going to work boom beautiful work that way so don't think you need to know everything and be be willing to listen to people even if they don't do what you're doing I don't own a bar I've never owned a bar I don't own a strip club I've never owned a strip club but I can walk in and say this is what needs to be done this is how we're going to do it another friend of mine who owned um golf courses when he first did the golf courses I walked in I said okay I've never played golf never any of that thing but I was able to make a list of I don't know how many things promotional ideas and ways he could run the business that would bring people uh and do things along those lines you don't need to know anything about the business you need to be open to ideas and you need to be open to ideas from other people so don't don't ever think you know everything or need to know everything because somebody could be standing in front of you with a million dollar or a hundred thousand dollar or even a ten dollar idea and and you'll miss it so go in thinking I don't know everything I'm still in school even if I have this business I'm still in school I'm still learning I'm still growing I'm going to take every ounce of information that comes my way and I'm going to flow with it I'm going to grow with it I'm going to go with it so okay now I forgot where that started but we're going to keep going I think there was a point to all of that I kind of just let things come when I'm doing this so law of attraction and business once you have your idea if you whether you want to be in a business whether you want to um own a business work for a business I have a career oh yes don't have expectations but do have goals you're going to start here but you're going to grow to here that's just how it works that's how it works every single time and that's how it works best once you start keep in mind that you are going to keep growing and you may not know where all of that growth comes from when I first started I just started with sessions and I I still do the sessions I turned into teaching I taught I teach programs um intuitive programs and weight loss programs and many different programs and I taught it for the Milwaukee public school systems and recreation systems and I integrated hypnosis and healing with that and it was wildly successful but that idea came to me in the the most bizarre way I didn't go into my business thinking this is what I'm going to do once I had my website up and I was starting uh having clients someone reached out to me and said hey will you we have a radio station we want you to be on our station and take callers I said absolutely even though I didn't know anything about it how it was going to happen I said yes and that's how I grew a little more and then I went in I was offered a tv show from somebody who had me as a guest on their tv show they said you know what you need you should consider doing a show and that's how the tv aspect of it started so even though going into this I didn't even think of those things I did have a goal and I still do have two goals that I'm working towards sometimes the universe will bring you better right my idea of a tv show might have been this but now it's so much better because I'm being live streamed through so many stations and I'm being um yeah streamed on so many podcasts I would have never thought of that as a goal but it came in I was willing to grow I didn't think I knew everything I was open to expansion with having goals and no expectations you will be surprised every single time having goals it can be your financial goals I want to grow to this point I want to bring in this amount I want to be at this space every you know week month year whatever it is okay and then even if you do not see it happening immediately it's okay it doesn't happen immediately sometimes sometimes it takes a minute for your energy to catch up with your goal and let me say that in another way sometimes it takes a minute for your belief system about what you deserve to match what you want you might think I deserve uh or I want to make six figures but some place inside of you there's a belief system that says that's not possible I don't deserve that who do I think I am whatever your belief system is sometimes it takes a moment for your belief system to catch up with what you want but you just keep working towards it every day and let it happen a little bit at a time and it will happen it absolutely will happen okay and you should have those same goals for every single aspect of your business and actually your life 100 percent so not only with finances but every aspect of your business to have to be surprised with new ideas with new ways to grow with new clients or customers that are and always say this that are in alignment with me and what I do and how I work it does you no good to bring in people whether they work for you or their customers are not in alignment with what you do and how you work if you're saying just bring me people you might get the bottom of the barrel people a lot of times in relationship and in work people say I just need someone instead of being exact about it be exact have that goal for the type of employee have that goal for the type of client we are coming near the end of the show and I just want to remind you that it is your job to create the miracles in your life


Earlier I saw a guy who is smoothing out the wrinkles in that piece of the set and I thought, wow, that is detail right there. In much the same way, as they make it their business to be behind the scenes to fix these problems so that we don't even see their presence, I think, that is really kind of a metaphor for our role here today. We can be smoothing out the wrinkles in the set that is our world and its problems. And my specific area of focus is around young people as one myself. And I think that when we think of those two phrases, young people and problems, probably there's a whole bevy of issues that come to mind, whether it's something like the necessity for education reform or gang violence or youth unemployment. A recent Wall Street Journal headline placed it at almost 23%. Yeah, you can tell I'm the glass half empty kind of girl. But one of the biggest problems, not in reality, I actually read Peter DeManus' book Abundance and that definitely changed my mind. But one of the biggest problems isn't any one of these issues that you're seeing represented with the pictures up here, but rather this. The fact that we're generally seen as the sources of these problems as opposed to the sources for their solutions. Too often, the genuine story of youth falls by the wayside. We make up 18% of the world's population and in some developing nations we even make up a majority. Yet, we're often reduced to growth simplifications, to dichotomies. Any author ambitious enough to take on the task of writing the global story of youth would have to realize that this is oversimplifying. But in the story of the world's young people, I read plots that focus on our roles, either as these exploited victims who make for heart string tugging magazine covers or as the narcissists of the me generation slack to this and bystanders who are self obsessed. To be truly reflective of my generation, this story and its summation of us as characters has to change. I really came to this thought because of some reading that I did actually in my AP site class and we learned about a phenomenon called learned helplessness, which probably a lot of you are familiar with. Back in 1967, a psychologist named Martin Seligman, who was working with a bunch of dogs as test subjects at U Penn, found that the dogs would get trapped in a self discouraging mindset after they were subjected to adverse stimuli again and again and found that there was no way out. They simply gave up, even after the situation changed and it became clear that they did have an opportunity to escape the stimuli. I bring this up not because young people are lab animals, at least I hope not, but rather because we are used to an adverse stimuli of sorts. That is hearing no from day one, whether from teachers or parents, older siblings or other authority figures. We hear variations of you're too little for that. You're not smart enough to get that. You're not experienced enough to do that.  And over time, just as repeated failed attempts to discourage those dogs in a study at U Penn, we fall into a disempowered mindset in which trying is no longer seen as useful. By confining our possible roles and solving the problems that plague us, not letting us change our story, society is teaching us helplessness. A first step to change that is to include us as authors of the story, by including us in meaningful public forums. I feel extraordinarily lucky to be here today, not just as one teenager, but one of two. Jack, do you want to stand up? Wave to everybody. So probably a lot of you know. And this is like one of the first times I've been at a conference like visioneering and I'm not the youngest person in the room. Actually wait, no I still am. But I think that it's extremely valuable to have actual young people in the room because a lot of times I'll see adults who are included as these token voices for youth. Well, you know what, we do have functioning vocal cords. And while I am extraordinarily grateful for the adults who do stand up for young people, I think that it's also very important to have a certain amount of age parity. We hear a lot of talk about gender parity about diversity and I think that we really need to make a strong movement toward including youth whether in boardrooms or in conferences or on stages. So back in 2010, I really began starting thinking about this when I came home from the TED conference where I'd been speaking, giving this talk called What Adults Can Learn From Kids, incidentally. And I realized that in the audience I was looking out on there were maybe only one or two people who were under 20, if that. I wanted to create a venue for the inclusion of youth that would have the same ability to give us the inclusion and a marketplace of ideas worth spreading that I'd seen at TED. And I really credit our sponsors that first year, some folks from Bing. I know that that's not a great word here with some Google folks in the room, but it definitely takes a lot of guts to hand over a gleaming conference center to a bunch of teenagers to basically run around and talk about ideas. It was extraordinarily ambitious, the fact that we wanted to do that and the fact that they agreed. We had a theme of power to the students and after a successful first year, we actually continued. Here are some images from our planning committee. We're starting up this year again in our fourth year. And last year, so Jack came and spoke, we had about 1,000 attendees. And I realized that the demand for the stories of young people was not just limited to our peers. It wasn't just teenagers wanting to hear other teenagers. We had parents and civic leaders and educators and change makers in the room who were adults who said, you know what, hearing young people's voices, this really does matter. This is giving me new ideas for how I look at my work and education. Tremendous demand exists for the authentic stories of young people. Beyond giving us the stage to change our story in methods like TEDx Redmond, is supporting us in changing the plot. That is solving the problems that so often dictate the stories you hear about our generation. I had the wonderful opportunity to meet a couple of people that I'm going to tell you about. The stories of Al-Hassan Umar, Dana Al-Madala, and Talia Lehman provide perfect examples. So Al-Hassan founded an organization out in Port Said, Egypt called Ebni Nafsak, Develop Yourself, after he witnessed the unrest of the Arab Spring and realized that many of the young people he knew were wondering what their future held for them. They didn't have many opportunities, jobs were limited, unrest was compromising the economy. So Ebni Nafsak focused on recruiting these active Egyptian youth who came from poor backgrounds and teaching them entrepreneurial skills so instead of being confined to the jobs that might have been available, they could go and create their own jobs. Al-Hassan is making a radical change throughout the youth in his country by giving them the opportunity to tackle their dreams through honing basic human development skills, math and economics, and learning other languages. And all of this helps address the high rate of youth unemployment and bring together creative ideas for a positive social change in the country as a whole. This is Dana Al-Madala. We were actually at a conference together and we started posing in face paint. Long story behind that, you can talk to me about that later. And Dana is just an absolute sweetheart, but more than that, she's also a firebrand and quite the rebel because when she was in ninth grade, she actually got expelled for standing up against what she saw as issues in her education, wrote learning, teachers who didn't care about students being creative and never gave them the chance to really make their voices heard. So what she then went and did after that was found an organization called One Hand, One Heart to give others, especially girls, who she saw as being confined in the conservative society, the ability to teach others, including orphans, sick children, and elderly literates, through the use of video broadcasts. Dana is showing many other girls that they can be successful and achieve what they want even within the confines of their society. And as someone who was interested in the intersection between neuroscience and computer science, she's mentored many groups of young people in developing scientific projects. And Talia started out as this girl in Iowa who is fundraising post-hurricane Katrina. Several million dollars in TV interviews later, she started her own organization, Random Kid, which serves as a gathering point online for teens looking to do good. And it integrates social media so that an impact which might have before been contained to one individual knocking on doors can now be spread exponentially. Dana, Alhassan, and Talia's examples are inspiring to me, not because they're stories of these awesome individuals, not because they're so exceptional or they're prodigies or they're special. I think that what is valuable about them is that they really are completely relatable. And what's more, this isn't a story of victims waiting to be rescued, just sitting around in distress for the grown-ups to arrive. This is a story of young people helping each other help themselves. More of this kind of grassroots action needs to be discovered, publicized, and supported. A world where young people get to author their own story is one where we help each other help ourselves, but it's also one where you ask how we can help you. That's a pretty daring statement to make, but I see it this way. Sometimes that can mean bringing in our viewpoints to force organizational change. Sometimes it can mean using our skills to further shared goals. I talked to some folks at Viacom and I was really struck by the fact that at MTV, a lot of people on the executive board have mentors who are actually interns. And I saw that reversal of a typical relationship as extremely, I think, promising of what the future can hold. You see, youth have increasing power in new settings by using the tools that we have at our disposal. And I read countless articles about how we're condemned as slactivists because the extent of our activism is seen as mostly clicking like on Facebook. But that's definitely not true because online social movements can be responsible for massive social change, as concrete, as toppling regimes, or as intangible, yet crucial, as attitude shifts. I would show as an example the greater expectation of transparency. I've grown up on a web that seems to answer my every question with the information I want available at a click. And so running into barriers in this search for information seems abnormal to me. How does this mesh with government cultures of secrecy, classification, the archetypal closed door? Simple. Either governments promote more open door transparency initiatives that publicize and document more of what used to be secret, or we find out for ourselves. This is an age of hackers and citizen journalists using access to knowledge for greater decision making power. And the ability that we have to use technology means that we can be solutions, not problems. This sounds crude, but it's to the point. We want you to use us. I mentioned the stat at the beginning, which placed youth unemployment around 23% according to the Wall Street Journal, but another huge issue, and one that that statistic, that simple number doesn't speak to, is the fact that there are many college grads and many high schoolers over the summer who are stuck in low paying jobs where they're not being fulfilled, where they're not having an impact. They may have skills that allow them to do many things beyond what they're currently doing. Helping bridge the gap between young people oriented towards service with technology skills and local governments still stuck in the dark ages technology wise, a project called Code for America is actually bringing young people into government so that they can more effectively reach out to citizenry with modern technology or help the governments do so. And another project, 17 year old Jaisal Patel's NGO Technologies has created tech solutions for nonprofits. He's already implemented a biogas energy project built information technology infrastructure for an organization supporting Indian cloth weavers and developed website for a nonprofit fighting human rights abuses.  There are many, many teenagers like Jaisal sitting in classrooms, walking down the street, waiting for the chance to serve. And I don't think they should be in the 23%. I mean no one should. But to return back again to that 23%, these young people problems that I mentioned at the beginning, these aren't just young people problems because what happens to us doesn't happen in a bubble. By the same token, our solutions can be everyone's solutions. A breakthrough in my mind means increased opportunities for us to make our voices heard, whether on stages like these in mass media or through grassroots organization. It means sitting at tables in boardrooms and having input on the solutions that will affect us just as much as our ideas, our attitudes, our unemployment rates will affect you. A breakthrough equals young people helping each other help themselves and established organizations and leaders asking us for help instead of us always seeing it as the other way around. This is what it takes to get rid of a generation's learned helplessness. Coming of age in a digital world, young people like Al Hasan, Dana, Talia, Jaisal and me are redefining ourselves. We are not stock characters in some storybook, the victims in distress waiting to be rescued when the grownups arrive, or the narcissistic villains of the me generation. Our world, it's obviously apparent, is no fairytale. And yet one of the precious things about people my age is that even as we break free of these dichotomous assumptions about who we are, we strive for the same ending as many of those oft-heard childhood tales. You see, when we think about our global story, in all the naivete or hope of our youth, we want to believe that it will end the same way as so many stories, and so they lived happily ever after. That ending starts with including us as authors. Thank you.


g some weed, asking me about some cool experiences that I've had with famous people, and there's some cool stories to tell for campfires. But how many of those people would I really care to be friends with? To be honest with you, not very many of them. It's just, and some of the ones that are... They're not balanced. They're not. And that's okay though. I can totally respect and admire their gift and their talent, but I think it's crazy when we hold some of these people up in this limelight. Oh my God, they're so... Try to get some athletes like Michael Jordan to not talk about basketball. When you hang out with them. No, we tend to... What happens is we see people who have these gifts. Overglamorize it. Well, what we do is we make them gods. We start to worship them, like they are infallible or they're perfect or they're great people. How many people do you know if they were talking about the favorite celebrity, whom they've never met and don't know at all?  He's such a good guy. You could tell he's a good guy. Oh, she's so funny. She's so down to earth.  You assume that because you admire their gift so much that what happens as humans is when we admire someone for a gift, we tend to turn them into... Put them on a pedestal and turn them into this amazing person because how could we possibly admire someone so much if they're not this perfect God? You see what I'm saying? And we do that and it's such a bad thing that we do.  They don't know anything at all about anything and they give terrible advice.  I love watching you act. Stick with acting. But you're, I don't know you. I don't trust you. Well, it's the same thing we see with hot chicks on Instagram that all of a sudden now are answering fitness advice.  It's like, you don't know anything about this. Well, at least they show something though. You know what I mean? Like, oh, we're fit. Maybe you know a little bit about fitness. But anyways, always good times with you guys. Yeah, no, I... This 420 episode is a... Good one. Yeah, I like it. We haven't had an episode where we really talked about... We haven't stretched our legs in a while. Everything we've done. I noticed that when we first started talking, I'm like, you know what's crazy is we've been doing so many interviews and quads that we just... Remember when we first started, we'd have like, you know, we were just... We had a ton of content information but there got to be a point where we'd sit there and be like, well, what should we talk about? What should be the topic today? Like, or what should we address today?  We didn't... We were only doing, I think, one qua back then and we didn't even have a lot of people that were engaging at that time. So we're just constantly coming up with topic ideas. It's like, we haven't even had to do that in so long that I forget that it's... Sometimes it's nice just to get on here and not have any direction or anything that we have to cover or any sponsorships that we have to talk about or any... And back then, we used to part ways. You know? We used to go do our other, you know, side jobs at the time and then or just reconvene once, twice a week and you got all this new stuff to like, catch up on. Are you guys... There wasn't a single moment since starting this that I even had the slightest doubt that this would be something that we would be doing for a long time. How weird is that? From day one. From day one, I didn't think to myself like, well, I'm right away on... Well, I remember Contreras and I had this conversation. Remember her asking me like... Cause she's been with me seven years and in seven years, she's watched one, two, three, four, me build four businesses in that time. So she's... So her question to me was like, you know, is this gonna be something that you build up, you do and then you move on to something else? Like, do you find yourself doing mine pump, you know, for a long time?  I really do. And the reason why I do is because it's the first thing ever that I've been a part of building that fulfills so many of my needs and things that are important to me. And some of those are crazy ones, like I have to be stimulated with new challenges and new ideas and new ways to make money. Like that's important. Like I like to be challenged by... That's why you build them up and then, you know, sell them off or like make them profitable and then move on to something else. Well, that's what's cool about this one is that it's turned into something that there's so many like sub-businesses and pillars within the business that it feeds that side of me that's important. Then it has another side to me that's really important. That's why I fell in love with fitness and health. Is it has this accountability piece for me is that if I'm gonna talk to people and teach people about health and wellness, it requires me to continue to improve upon myself. So it provides me this opportunity for growth in the space that I already know that I love to do.  It feeds so much. It's turbo growth. It is the incubator of growth.  That kind of trips me out.  And so it's like every day you just wanna like come in, guns blaze and then conquer something. Well, you know, what's cool too is that we're, we all are leaders. And right now a lot of what we've done to build to where we are has been about ourselves or been about the business, the single thing. And now that it's getting to this point, what I'm really excited about is when we really get to follow another passion of mine which is developing other people. Oh, I can't wait. And building others up and helping others be successful because. I enjoy doing that probably more. I do too. I mean, that to me has always been my favorite. What kept me at 24 for as long as I did was my people. I love to build a team and I love to find young, hungry minds that wanted to learn, that wanted to be better, that wanted to help others and I wanted to help teach them how to do that while making money and having a livelihood. That just totally got off on that. So we're just now starting to kind of touch that in this business. And I think that's gonna fulfill a side of me that I love doing for years. I've never worked for three years and it feel like the fastest period of time ever. Yeah. And a lot has happened in that three years. But I've never, I mean, three years working in a gym feels like an eternity.  And I love the gym. It's like, I don't like it. I love it.  And if I think about how different we were even three years and how much we've grown and all that stuff, yeah. But when I just, otherwise it's like, God, it's weird. It feels like- I used to count the days. I don't even know like what day it is today. It's Friday. That's cause you had a- I don't know because of what happened earlier. What do you think of? I'm really interested to see. So, Taylor's kind of finding his groove and the stuff that he's doing within the business. And, you know, he's starting to get into a lot of the partnership networking for us and handling that side of the business, which I love because it's the side of the business that I enjoy and seeing him be able to be kind of an extension of what I like to do and now start to align us with some really cool companies and do some really in-person live stuff. I think it's going to be fun. Like I think now is the time we have enough people, especially on the West Coast that we can tour the West Coast and come up and fill- It'll be a new, this will be a new growth period for us because we're proficient at podcasting. We're getting proficient at video. We're not, our skill isn't on video as good as it on podcast. What I mean by that is our comfort flow, all that stuff. But it's getting there. Live is new. So live, I feel like however we do in the beginning, we're going to get so much better, you know, later on. And I'm excited because every time we do something new- It's a new area to grow. And I think that that's definitely something that I'm looking forward to it. And that's the thing about fear and like excitement we talked about this just recently on a podcast. And it's at that level now where fear to me feels way more like it's excitement. And so that to me, I've been like, one of the biggest fears is just talking in front of people and that's already like, oh shit, that's going to be fun, exciting, everything's going to be- Did I tell you guys that one of our guys, one of our close buddies, I won't name him because I know he doesn't want to probably sell out Brett Contreras on this, but he was- We'll sell someone else out. Yeah, we'll sell Brett out, whatever. That's what Brett gets for not coming up here on the show. Sorry, glute master. No, I actually, I think we're supposed to meet up with him when we're down south. He's a cool guy. Yeah, no, Brett's all dude. And who I'm talking about actually said nothing but great things about him.  But I guess that he's absolutely terrified of like speaking in public like that. Oh, this other person? Yeah, so in the end, he's, I guess, Brett is holding these like glute camps and like certification courses, like he's doing certification courses and everything through his facility. And I can't remember, he told me there's like 50 to 70 people in there or 30 to 50. I can't remember exactly how many, but somewhere in that range. And he was all like suited and tied up. And he said he was like, he literally was just drenched in sweat, sweating, and he had to like stop mid-sentence until I had to go, I got to take a breath, you guys. I don't like talking to any of that.   Oh dude, that's crazy. But people don't know that. Some of the guys that are, and this is what's wrong with our industry is guys like him that do have incredible information are intelligent, are breaking through on some great, I mean, if it wasn't for, I mean, we all see the hip thrust now exploding because of him, right? That is Brett Contreras, 100%. Before that, nobody was doing these. And he did all the research, all the studies to prove how beneficial they are. Otherwise, you wouldn't see dudes doing it now. You see bodybuilder guys, you see power lifter guys. Oh my God, 10 years ago, if a guy was doing that, he would have got laughed at. Yeah, totally. And so he's completely changed the game. So, but not a lot of people know who he is and not a lot of people are falling or paying attention because they're not the best at marketing and selling and being that voice out there.  If you can do, if you can pick anything that most people are scared of and you become not afraid of it, not only that, but become good at it, you then have a superpower.  You could do all these things that take a lot, like dangerous and whatever. Here's an easy one. It's still hard, but it's easy. Learn how to get comfortable talking in front of people. That will separate you so much from so many other people. And just like sales and communication skills is invaluable. If you get good at talking, this is why I'm excited to do this, because I'm not necessarily terrified of speaking in front of people, but of all of my methods of communication- Isn't that the number one fear that they tested? Like statistically, it's that and, you know, arachnophobia or whatever is up there high, but that was definitely, I believe in the number one. Yeah, and for me, I'm not scared. I mean, I'll do it. It's not a problem. It's just, I'm not super versed in it like I am with this kind of conversation or small groups. I'll talk in front of small groups. No problem. So I can't wait to get really good at that or to practice it and get better at it is what I should say.  And for us, for our growth, I think it'll be the next level. Well, that's, you know, you're touching on something that I think is an important point is, you know, learning in business to find your blue water, right? I think everybody's, when someone, like what's happening right now, and I was talking to this kid the other day about this who's starting this podcast and he's getting into it. I'm kind of asking him what he's doing and I said, you know, part of what, you know, the success of Mindful, I said, we definitely were not talented on the mics whatsoever.  But we did, I did see the blue water in what we were doing big time. And by blue water, I mean, it's just, it's not shark infested, right? So shark infested waters, red water, that's when you get into a space, you get into an industry that's overpopulated. Everyone's trying to do it. Tons of people killing it. What? We're seeing that right now in marijuana. Like everybody is jumping on board. They're starting to get more red. Right, and you're starting to see that happen even on podcasting now where, okay, the cat's out of the bag, there's money to be made here, everyone's going to here, let's all just jump in. And, you know, so you think you're doing kind of the right thing because, you know, everyone is doing it and so therefore the industry's gonna grow and you might make your way there and be okay because of that if your timing was early enough, right? If you timed it right and got in early enough, you might ride away even be shitty. We've seen examples of this. I mean, we know podcasts that I listen to and I'd be like, man, they're not that great but they got in so early, they rode the wave. So I think understanding that when you get into a space like this is really looking at it and saying, okay, what is somebody not, what need is somebody not fulfilling or what is it different? Where's the blue water at? And for us, I remember going like, okay, I see these like health fitness podcasts that are really good and they're highly produced and they're putting out really good information and it keeps my attention. But then I asked myself like, would any of my clients or my buddies or anybody like listen to this, like, hell no. Like these guys, it's one doctor interviewing some scientists and they're talking about lab results and I mean, stuff that I like because I'm learning. It's too boring. Yeah, but I'm such a small niche of people. So I really think that understanding and being able to see that was important early on. And then I saw the other side which was like peer entertainment, like, oh, maybe laugh, they're hilarious. All these things are great. Like, okay, I could see my buddies listening to that because it's really funny but then it doesn't really add a lot of value to their life other than laughter and humor, which I think does add value to their life, but not like real aptical things that they can do like working out better or doing things. And you're not, you're definitely influencing people but you're not influencing people as if you were presenting good, you know, information that people could apply and change or whatever. That's what you mean by that value. You do that with entertainment. Right. And you've got a pretty crazy format. Well, and nobody was really doing that in our space. Nobody was really combining this entertainment value that an average Jane or Joe who may not even be, I mean, that's another thing when I knew we were on the right track when I was meeting these people that would tell me they would start up and like, you know, I'm not really into working out but I love the show. I still hear that. Yeah, like, I know I love the stuff, the topics you cover. I think the information is great. Like I always feel like I learned something from it. Like I was like, okay, good. I know that I'm onto something because it's not, I knew finding another me out there would wanna listen to this. Like I knew of finding another person like me that was seeking a little bit of entertainment with some good information that they could walk away with everything. I knew that was out there, but I didn't know if it would draw people that had no desire to learn about really about fitness. You know what I'm saying? And I think that's important. So you see all these people jumping in. We have a lot of peers in the space that are starting podcasts up. And it's like, oh, I'm gonna start a health and fitness podcast. Like, okay, cool. Yeah, what's your angle? Yeah, what is different? What value are you gonna add to people's lives and there may be something. And I've heard some people that I thought, oh, that's a smart idea. I think that's a good idea. No one's really doing that right now. I had this idea that I wanna do with my buddy still and I just, we don't have the time to do it, is much of the health and fitness space, what we talk about, how fucked up and corrupt the fitness industry is, well, the medical marijuana and marijuana industry is very much so the same. And when we talk about bro science, there's bro science in cannabis. Bro science is these guys that have passed down information, family, generation, generation, and they just go about growing. Very few guys that I meet, very, like none, I would meet when I first started getting into growing actually understood the science behind it. Like they were just people that had passed down information and so when they would talk about, oh, you need to do this because that makes the crystals pop.  You know what I'm saying?  Yeah, right. So they would say things like that and be like, okay, well, what does that mean? You know what I'm saying? And so then I would go back and I would start to research and oh, I said, oh, I get it when you flood the plant system with this much carbohydrates and that's the plant's way of responding. I do this, but you can overdo that and you can underdo that.  You know what I'm saying? I would start to piece this stuff together and I became what you would call a master grower in a very short period of time because I just did the research. Are there any podcasts in that space? There are podcasts, but they're terrible. They're not entertaining to listen to. They're not informative and entertaining. They're either some really nerdy guy talking about, it's very similar to what our space was. So no one's gone in there, like gone in, gave it, made it informing to put a mind pump spin on it. And that's what my buddy is like, man, I love it. And he's a fan of our show, right? You guys know Sturgell. And he's the one who's been pulling on my shirt for a while, like we gotta do this. There's still no good podcasts that are doing that. And he's on another level. And he has the other side that, so, Sal, you have a lot of the in-depth medical side because of the direction that you went. I have a lot of experience in the growing side. And then so does, and he's on a whole other level with the supplement nutrient and water and everything like that, because he used to provide that for normal farms. And his business is now growing to where he's starting to provide that for. Did you know that there's indexes, marijuana indexes now, where you can follow the marijuana market on the stock market? And I was looking at some of these and they've all had great returns. Yeah, this is a good time to invest. No, it is, it really is. But again, the hardest thing with investing in that is similar to the hard thing with investing. And I see people doing it in cryptocurrency is also a great time to grab some of those things. But my recommendation when investing in either one of those is do your homework, do your research, pick three to five companies or things that you really believe in because you've done your research and invest 5% of your income that you can... Yeah, very volatile. Yeah, very small. Throw it in there and leave it up because it's early enough that, this is like when you think back to the people that, oh, I wish I would have put $100 into McDonald's stock way back when, you know what I'm saying?  And you know what, think of it, don't think about it anymore. I've been telling my brother-in-law and my other buddy who are, they jumped on the crypto thing about the same time I did. And they're like up and down with it and freaking out every time. Just let it sit there. Yeah, leave it sit there, don't let it, don't...    Yeah, it's like playing poker. Like at the end of the result, you wanna have positive, but you gotta be able to deal with the swings and I wouldn't have the, I don't think I have the fortitude. I wouldn't be able to lose 10 grand. It's like working in the med... Well, that'll consume me too, yeah. The marijuana industry, dude. You're just gonna end up looking at a screen like all day, you know, freaking out.  Excellent. Check it out, go download our app, Mind Pump Media. Then you can search all of the episodes for specific topics. For example, if you looked up cannabis, this episode would probably pop up. I licked it up. Thank you for listening to Mind Pump. If your goal is to build and shape your body, dramatically improve your health and energy and maximize your overall performance, check out our discounted RGB Superbundle at mindpumpmedia.com. The RGB Superbundle includes maths anabolic, maths performance and maths aesthetic. 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Greetings, everyone. This is James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 and Progressive Discussions. And before I go on to do my next video talk show, I am stopping by from my immediate area off Route 17 South in Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey, the one and only, the famous Bendick Steiner, as seen on the Jerry Seinfeld Netflix series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. That's right. It is in my close area and I love it here. Outstanding food, outstanding coffee and I will go in soon before I go on to do my next show. James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 and Progressive Discussions here. And aside from the famous Bendick Steiner in Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey, Route 17 South, right behind the famous Teterboro Airport where everyone with private jets lands who wish to visit New York City. We are right next door, directly next door to the famous Bananas Comedy Club in the Holiday Inn on Route 17 South in Hasbrook Heights, New Jersey. And there it is. The famous Bananas Comedy Club with a very highly rated Gabriel's Restaurant. You get complaints online why it wasn't here earlier to investigate saying why are we getting complaints. What's wrong? You don't listen. But you tell you and they don't listen. But when they tell you they're going to fix central air and they don't, to me that's contempt for the customer. Well it is. They don't care. They just don't care. It's like a politician. They don't care. Well they don't care when people keep walking out and they don't even do money. But you see, when we were talking outside about lying and insincerity, they came, they had big Cheshire cat smiles, the husband and wife. Oh yeah, don't worry. We're on it. We're going to fix it. The franchise owners. I had a talk with them. Yes I did sir. The owners? The husband and wife. They were both here. He's a bald guy from up north in Greenwich, Connecticut. No this guy wasn't bald. He was chubby. He was just chubby. This is a bald guy. But maybe that was a regional. Maybe regional. You can speak to the owner.  Gee he must be doing quite well for himself. He owns 49 of these. And he can't afford to fix friggin' air conditioning. They're fixing this. They can do it redoing the whole place. Yeah but not in a timely fashion. It was next month.  This is hot. This is bone stew. This is brutal. No it's not brutal. This is cool. No yesterday was brutal. But I wasn't, I was at happy hour. I got back. I had to go out in the shower. So this is all, this is just all. I was at La Fortaleza in Garfield. I had to do an happy hour. Oh. Having Modelo Especial. I had one because my brother-in-law explained to me how tough DWIs are in New Jersey nowadays. That's nothing new. Zero point something, blah blah. Is this like a brain store for men or something? It's been horrible for over 10, 15 years. Like one stinkin' beer is gonna like put me over the top. Whatever a cop wants to do, he'll find something to get you through it.  Oh I had roast pork, soft tacos, and one Modelo. And it was quiet over there. They all know me there by now. I was still up to the owner. Really lovely place. Midland Avenue in Garfield, New Jersey. Yeah. Well you know Paseik Street that goes to River Road? Anyway, it's not that far from us. It's probably like 10 minutes from here. Of course.  Oh with the vest and the sports jacket? Well that's the other one. Joseph. I got to the other day. You brought them? I brought them back. He doesn't even brush his hair from Christ's sake. Hair straight, strings coming out of his shoes. You know really, you're present. He's bodily maintenance. Maybe Albert Einstein is his mentor. That's why he never gets more than 8 people.  In general. Generally speaking. Maybe because they believe in themselves. Oh, like the hoarder Eileen, yeah. It's what they say. It's what everybody else is called. You're not listening. Now I have a hunch that when she goes and gets the same Benedict medallion blessed, she's not going to remove it from the package and she forgot to bring the holy word. Watch. Whatever sound advice you give that woman, she'll yes you to death, but she won't apply it. To show how you can be mentally sick, you've got to get rid of it. Oh God. Or get elected. All Trumps?  And here, they're so, they're so, they're so stingy that they can't even pay the cable bill so we can watch CNN. The manager had to bring in her own antenna.  Oh my God. You know what the, you know what the own, the bullheaded owner reminds me of Jeff Bozo Bezos of Amazon. The guy that looks like he has a dildo for a head? Yeah. I hear he's got, he's using agency people that get no benefits now. He's just agency people. To work. He's a multi, multi-billionaire for many times over. Right. I think he's one of the wealthiest people on earth. Second I think. The guy that owns Alibaba in the mainland China, I think, is one of the wealthiest, if not the wealthiest. Well, Putin doesn't like competition to run against him. They kind of like have accidents, you know. You can talk about wealth. Yeah. The wealthiest guy. Yeah. Well, if you're a friggin' dictator, I guess you can control everything. But still, no other dictator's been worth that much. You know, a half-frozen beer would not be that bad right now. Not half-frozen, at least 25%.  There's no air moving at all.  Contempting your customers.  He's like the super-wealthy, friggin', you know. There's McDonald's that I come to here in Hasbro-Kites. Does the owner care at all about his customer base? Oh, God. Contempt, yeah. Disrespect. Does he deserve to own this McDonald's and all the others that he does own? And you said it's 49, right? Yeah. He's got to be loaded. Loaded with loot, brother.   That's not right. But that's a bad attitude. That's not right. There's so many people that are wealthy and they don't care at all.  They just don't care. And then they get really established. And then they start cutting corners.  And I've seen it. I've seen it.  Jackass. It's a human nature problem. It's a way of attitude problem.  Well, I do. Yeah. I mean... This is not right. It could be something as easy as built in obsolescence of a light bulb that burns out. You know. Well, could you imagine, yesterday I wouldn't have stayed here that long. That was 10 minutes. I said, I thought I could talk to this. I'm out. Oh, yeah. Well, you got, you've got every indoor room imaginable over there with the AC cranked up. Everything's cool. Why should you suffer over here? Bananas. What do you call it? Gabriel's restaurant. Even the hallways are leading to the rooms. Yeah, they're nice and cool. The bar. The bar at Gabriel's. This is your sports shirt. They have a television at the bar at Gabriel's. Yeah. Oh, it sounds like a sports bar. No, it's not that. At least two or three. Yeah, but if there are games on, you'll see, yeah. Nice big pool. Oh, yeah. Beautiful pool. Right. I'm sure. It's very comfortable out by the pool today. Oh, it's huge. Look, look, it's, I think it's only in 85 or something or eight. Yeah, but it's multi-use.  This is blue. Look how long it took for your goddamn coffee. Because, because, because no one was keeping on top of the coffee machines. There was nothing. That's great. In the pot, by the way. That's great. It's not the, you know. It's incompetent. I would have said it would come out. Yeah. You know what? Let's cool off outside.  Gramercy pot. Here are McDonald's. We've had breakfast. Our friend Eileen, she blatantly lied to my friend Jimmy and myself about her relationship with Ray. Yeah. She looks just right in the eyeballs, too.  That day, months ago, on a Sunday, yeah, I think it was, it was a weekend day. That weekend day when Ray left, she left for kind of 20 seconds running after her. Was she running after Ray to meet with Ray? Hmm. Hmm. Some secluded rendezvous across the avenue, cocktails for two. Yeah, she lies. She looks at you in the eye and lies, which is worse.   I don't know.  You know what I mean? You lie to us, you don't do it, you're out of a block. My guy, my guy. Let's stop that once since I can call her out.  You know what? I told my sister, Alicia yesterday, you know, concerning all the aggravate, all the aggravation that people get in general, with relationships and marriages and everything. I says, now I know why certain men are lifetime bachelors. They choose to be bachelors. Remember Vincent Gardenia the actor? He, he died a bachelor. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't think he was, well, I don't know if he was ever married, but he was a, he was a, an admitted life long bachelor. He just didn't want, I know a guy from Dumont that lives in San Diego, Donald, Donald Boos. He goes on, he goes to resorts all the time, goes to Vegas, goes everywhere. He lives by, he has a roommate, no significant other, no marriage, nothing. He comes and goes as he pleases. It doesn't make sense to me, the same person, everything, the same person. Yeah, but you know what's even worse? When they, when they complain and say, why do you have those hobbies? Why do you, I don't like your friends. Why do you do that?  I heard a girl with a guy talking over here in the parking lot a few weeks back. Yeah. He was smoking. She was heavy, very heavy. Oh, Jesus. Why don't you quit smoking? I myself, I laugh. I said, you're hard to save. Quit eating. That was, that was cute. No. Why don't you quit eating?  In other words, she's like, she's like Chris Christie, like, come on, don't, you know, you're pretty good at smoking. Look at you. Why don't you quit smoking?   But that, it doesn't end there, right? Yeah. My friend, Joe, the old guy, he saw one day, he knows I get impatient, you need to. Yeah. You have to learn to be patient. I said, whoa, you wait a minute, my shot. Why do I have to learn to be patient? Why should I learn to be patient? Where is that written? I said, what's your point? Why do I have to learn to be patient? He couldn't connect it with anything? I'm not sure right now. Tie it into anything. No, I forget what it was when I was on the highway. I said, I'll come on over. But my point was to him, he couldn't argue it. Why do I have to learn to be patient? I don't want to be patient. I'm not patient.  I give you, I give you an example. Back in the day, I was in Bob the Accountant's car. And Bob the Accountant, along with many other idiosyncrasies that he had, he would be driving on a major highway In this case, it was Garden State Parkway. He was in the left lane going 35 to 40 miles an hour. Everybody was blowing a horn at him. Move over. What are you doing? You're in the You're in the You're in the fast lane, man. He was in the middle lane. I said, listen, you push that pedal on the right a little harder. It will go faster. I had to fit up here on the Boulevard with that beat. Oh, like Tom, I was selling time. I said, SUV cop car. Oh, I said, pull over. Pull over. You better pull over, Mac. I yelled again. I said, pull over.  What? I said, you're lucky he's going on a call. You just escaped a $250 fine. What do you mean? I said, whatever you see, just lights and or a siren. You yield. Both sides have to pull over. You have to yield. You didn't budge. I don't know that. You lived here 30 some odd years. You don't know that. Any siren, EMTs, police officers pull over. Both sides. I said, my God, I'll beat you. I bet that sound the written test when you get your license. You have to yield to a siren. Both sides, though. Right. What? Like I'm saying, if somebody's on the highway, get and you want to go 40 miles an hour, get the hell in the right lane where the exits are. Don't people don't don't stay in the left lane. And everybody's like, everybody's tailgating and blowing the horn. You aware? So I'm sounds like Bob drove like his personality. He didn't know what the hell is this. Well, no, he was a very stubborn and lots of way selfish man. I says, why, you know what you are? Remember when Mr. Magoo yelled, roadhog, you're a roadhog. You're hog in the highway. You have no business being. Well, he was pulled over one time in North Arlington or Belleville. I forgot. He was telling me the story. He went to this go-go bar over there and the cop got him for something called channelization. In other words, the way he he tailgated, he actually like tailgated the cop and then went around him like, like really fast. Like, I don't know, the cop didn't like what he did and gave him a ticket. So, I says, you don't stay in the fast lane if you're going 40 miles an hour. Man, get in the right lane. You're embarrassing me. Well, one of the states right lane accepted.  They say slow drivers cause more when the elderly drive. Get the country so hard. Yeah.  Well, my doctor told me, this is true. That's your body because the shrink at age 30 except for your ears and nose. Oh, that's why George Burns had I told him, I said, oh, what can I say? Groucho Marx. Something in Dumbo. A chimpanzee has, no, another chimpanzee. Something in Dumbo. But I told him, Jimmy Duranty. Hot cha-cha-cha my nose. But that's for your ears and nose and the only two things that don't shrink. That's a lovely thought. But I said, oh, you're his brand. Dumbo. And you know what? It's not so much lack of calcium. It's hormones. Your hormones change. Human body. Like when they talk about a porosis in post-menopausal women. They found out it was lack of estrogen.  But Pinocchio on Dumbo. Oh, Pinocchio must be referring to Donald Trump. Everybody in this room Everyone in this room has untapped potential.  Tony Robbins. He said, you should have heard them, they were all in agreement together and I was outside of it. He said, you ought to hear them laughing at the people. Even Reverend Ike used to laugh when he used to pick up all the donations.  All these suckers. They laugh at it, yeah, they laugh. They laugh at it about it. Give them motivation. No, they'll give you. Listen, when this guy that's tried to call me now, he does seminars nationwide and worldwide now. Actually, I don't know how he gets the suckers, but anyway, I listened. He wanted me to video his seminar. I did it as a favor. I listened to what he did. He had the people warm up with 100 reps as he told stories. I would say 95% of the seminar was all storytelling and he's laughing. Oh, guess what? I'll tell you this story now. And he's laughing. And I'm like, Do any of you realize what's inside of each of you? He got $500 ahead of the potential that you have. We've got to bring it out. You know what? In order to bring it out, you've got them. In order to bring your potential out, you need to empty your bank account. $500. Oh, gosh. Yeah. I mean, when it comes to televisions, you'd be surprised how cheap, flat screen, smart, the new smart TVs have got. You point to one guy in an audience, you. You may not do you what's inside of you. You. You. It's incredible. Yeah, but they got to send you to $500 to $1,000 first. I know. It's the water. Here's my new book. My DVD collection. If you feed an ego, you'll make money. Really? Me? You think I have untapped potential? Oh, you can't imagine. Tell me more. No idea what you're losing out on because you haven't tapped what's inside. Is it my astrology sign that makes me so special? What makes me so special? Every sign is special. Oh, that's nice of you to say that. You know what? I am going to buy your DVD collection for an additional $149.99. You know how easy and even easier to make money? Making a little half of it, like 10, 20 pages. Sell it for just $10.00. And motivated. Your voice alone would fill a room, a hotel, what do you call them? Bankwood rooms? Bankwood. Bankwood hall. You have no, you. And unlike these other people, I'm not selling you a whole book or a whole set. Mine is a booklet, 10 pages, 10 dollars. And you know what? When you're at the podium, I bet that you can take the amulet out there in your seminar. People, I want to show you that I am in touch with the cosmic energy coming from the galaxies of the universe. Meet my amulet. Amulet. Do these people really have untapped potential in my seminar? And they'll go, yes. And they'll be like, oh my God, he's not, he's not moving that pendulum. Well, they would lie.  I think it's somebody backstage working. Are you talking about Three Card Monty? The show game, remember that? Yeah. Was it a split tee or something? No, it was a walnut show. It was a walnut show. It was a hole. Oh yeah, the P went through the hole on the tip. Look at this. It's so humid. You can get some fries and go, we'll go. Yeah, you know what? Enough is enough. You know, why suffer? Well, at least we had some laughs. They don't want us to be comfortable. Next to the famous bananas country club. What am I saying? Comedy club. This has been a Mega Lab 21 production.