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Happy Monday. Happy Monday, y'all. How y'all feeling? Welcome back. Hope everybody is here healthy, sane mind, open heart, all the things. Ian, how you feeling?

Amazing. Happy to be here. Amazing weekend. Y'all had an amazing weekend, too. We gonna talk about it at some point. Troy, Rashad, how you feeling? Great interview with Shan. Uh, Troy, can I get your Sean impression?

No. Tell me who want to put us. Ashley Dust bang. Shout out to Sean Paul. One of my favorites. Yo, it's a new day in the rap game. Yeah. Shout out to my brother Po. Yeah. Yo, for Halloween I was actually Sean Poe once for Halloween. That's that I was really a fan. I got my first car and the first CD I put in there was a Shine CD cuz I wanted to hear Bad Boys on a speaker system and that's when I realized that I ain't have one. It blew out the speakers. I was like, "Oh, okay."

Okay. Shotty, how you feeling? I'm good. I'm good. Top of the top to everybody out there. Marketing Mondays. Um, we back. We back. We got a lot to talk about. Uh we do have the brother 19 keys is going to be joining us today. So you know anytime we talk, anytime we talk to keys that's a um insightful conversation, high-level conversation. So you know it's a lot, it's a lot going on in the world. So we got to cover a lot. Um but first and foremost I will say this. Well, congratulations on your anniversary.

Oh, appreciate. Thank you. Thank you. Shout out to everybody that showed some love. That's incredible. Yep. Yeah man. We uh we had a a nice evening. probably we talked about it this morning, but I think it was one of our best date nights that we've had maybe ever. This the Mulan Rouge with Meg starring it. She's a huge Meg the Stallion fan and she did incredible. Then we had a dinner at a nice spot. I got to I'll tell you about the spot um after this because it's it's one that she just put on the list. Uh yeah, but it was cool, man. Was able to park in a city, found parking, didn't have to pay. It was yo, weather was really good. It was it was it was a top tier, man. So, appreciate the love. Thank y'all.

For sure. So, um man, the pitch competition, you got a long way before you um get that. We we extended it to the 20th. So, somebody said when they get confirmation is if they actually got accepted. You got a while. Um but, you know, they they're going through all of the all of the applications, but there has been extended. April 20th is the deadline. We did that. We opened up new slots. We opened up more slots for the pitch competition. So, April 20th is the deadline for the pitch competition. Investfest, go to investfest.com. Also, Investfest, uh, we announced this last week with Kendra G., you know, there's a lot of, um, love connections that happen at Investfest. So, for the first time ever, we are opening a singles lounge. Um, but you must RSVP. It's uh, only first 300 people. First come, first serve. If you have an Investfest ticket, you got to go to the Investfest website and RSVP. um singles lounge. It will be uh during the day on on one of the days in the weekend. It will be at lunch hour so it won't interfere with any of the educational um panels.

Brilliant. And why not and why not why not why not meet your significant other at a place like Investfest. I mean if you look you got to meet somebody, people. Yeah. You're all there to get better. Why not get better together?

For sure. And an important tenant of wealth is the person the most important decisions you make is who you choose to be with. So I think it's a brilliant idea to allow people to meet who the love of their life could be they can build a dream with. So job well done.

Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it, bro. Um Mike, quantum stocks are listed twice. They said quantum stocks are listed twice on the bottom. Um also I will say that this week is a big week for uh market Mondays. We got keys coming. We got Blackout. We got Dr. Yaki coming on. Blackout, been looking forward to that conversation for a long time. You know, we've been talking about health for so long. So, he's one of the the forefront in this health industry. Opened up a new facility and we're going to be asking him all of the questions, all the detox questions, all of the, you know, what you should be eating, how many times like we, you know, all of the health. That's a health full blueprint. Very important. That's a health episode. That's very important. And then Thursday, we got a we got one of the smartest gentlemen that we ever interviewed, Julian Brown, the the gentleman that actually turned um plastic into into fuel that you can use in your car. Extremely important conversation. We talk about that process. We talk about the process of patenting. We talk about a lot of science. A lot of science in that as far as um man plastic. I ain't even gonna say it because I don't want to. But plasterine the whole the whole recycle industry according to him is a scam. The whole recycling. Yeah. Allegedly. That's why I said according to him. According to him the whole recycling industry is a scam. With good reason. It's destroying the earth, man. He he he has so much insight. Very very very important. That's a very important episode.

Yeah. It's uh I know I said this a few weeks ago when I said that Chenade Boll's episode was one of the most important. Mhm. This is of that caliber. Um Sure. Probably one of the most insightful because I don't think Julian's been able to tell his story in depth the way he did with us. It was interesting which made us feel like he wanted to do it because it was a place and to individuals that he trusted. Um so it's dope, man. when you talk about being a vessel in this world, right? You do things not not for your own good, but for the greater good. He's a living embodiment of that. So, y definitely got to check that out.

So, we got a lot we got we got a jam-packed week. Um, okay. The brother um Brock Brock one love 9510. Shoot me a DM, please. Okay. So, yeah, jam-packed week for us. Jam-pack week. Um, non-stop education. You have a university class this week? I got my class this week, man. Thursday, we are back. Uh I got some surprises. I I got a new position that I I want to talk to the community about. Uh shout out to everybody that is in ELU. We gave out a green jacket today, y'all. Okay. We gave out a green jacket today, y'all. Somebody hit a thousand percent. Um which is really, really incredible. Uh but yeah, we going to be cooking up. It's been a few weeks. Uh the market has shifted. We talked about the S&P. We'll talk about it again tonight. Uh yeah, man. Man, we got we got some stuff we got to unpack. So, I'm looking forward to it. Make sure y'all there 7 o'clock Thursday.

And yeah, the brother Julian, he said that he went missing. He definitely did go missing. And we talked about that. We talked about that as well. So, so much stuff, man. We got We got a lot going on. He went missing. You know, the first place we people saw him, where? Investfest. Investfest. He made a reappearance. I was like I was like, "Oh." He was like, "Hey guys." I'm like, You never know. You never know, man. You never know who you gonna see at Investfest.

The tickets. Ian, any announcements? Yeah, tune in to the episode Thursday. To me, I always giving a comparison. I think he is a Iron Man. Like, if you you know the innovation and how hard to pull off that technology that he did and the headwinds that he has to face and the industry that he's facing, I think for our generation, he's probably the most important entrepreneur and person that we got to protect the most. Um For sure. Um, stock club call will be April 26th, uh, 9:00 p.m. Central. I got a bunch of surprises. I have new targets for futures. I have a few new companies that I love. I have a few that I want to get rid of. So, uh, check for the link in Telegram or Kajjabi. Also, check me out at, uh, Black Effects, Black Effect Podcast Festival with John Hope Bryant, April 25th in Atlanta. Um, so that would be a good one. Let's have an amazing show. If I made you money, please put yes in chat. And, um, today's going. And to the brother to And to the brother Lely 38, we actually talked about that. said what he's doing has been around forever. Y'all should do more research. Well, that's actually insightful that you said that because we actually talked about that in the episode. He never said he invented it. His goal is to take it to scale. Nobody's ever taken it to scale. But what have you done? You've done You've done nothing. But thank you for tuning into the show. And if I made you money, please put yes in chat. And if I have not, put a stock that you love in tonight and I'll give you a price later. Right. Back to you, Troy. Rashad.

Yes, sir. Combination. You want to do both things, boy. What you want me to do? What you want me to do? Good cop, bad cop. My boy, they said leave your cousin. And also scaling and remaining in the in this dimension is a tall task. Who cares if the technology was around? It's tough to innovate and create in this capitalistic society given the competition that he has at Exxon Chevron Waste Management. Let's protect it, brother. Come on now. Do yourself a favor. Listen to the the the episode. He goes into detail about the story. He is very important. He's very knowledgeable and he's done it. Now, think about this. Like those companies that you just named, billion billion dollar companies. You're talking about somebody that's not getting funding. You're talking about somebody that's really bootstrapping technology that can change the world. Um, can you give Rashad your hoodie so he can be in shotty? Love it. Let's get it. Let's talk about the trading tip of the week. What is the trading tip of the week?

Um, if we can pull the chart up real quick. Uh, for my traders, please write this down. The gap always fills with the predominant direction of the market. I put this in stock club. I won't tell too much, but the S&P had a deep dip on Sunday night, of course, because of all the stuff that's happened in Washington and Iran. And as a result, the market came down a bunch. It gapped down a ton last night. Um, and a lot of people were hitting me was like, is this the start of the crash? And my answer is no. Please write this in chat. The market is permanently rigged to stay up. The market went from 6853, it dropped to 6667. By end of close today, we were at 6927. So if you see those areas where where we gap down, um.

Mike, bring it bring it up. Bring bring the bring the screen up. Bring the um the graphic up higher. So we're looking this is the we're looking at the S&P right here, right? So the green line that was what moving average was that the the 200? Yeah, 200 day moving average. So you you can see we slid under it gapped aggressively and a gap is just when the price doesn't stair step down one point at a time. It was a wide gap. My phone started going off. Brent crude went up. Natural grass went up. Everyone is saying, "Oh, is this the start of the crash?" I'm like, "No, no, this is the start of an opportunity." Um, and at the end of the day, not only did we recover from where we were Friday, but we ended up higher. Another trading tip I need you to know. Are we bring Do you want Are we bringing that up? I just I said bring it up higher, Mike, so they can see it. Can you If not, we can If not, we can continue. Write this down, though. Since World War II, the market has fallen more than 10% the S&P 48 times. Mhm. This is the important part. 36 times it has rebounded within two months. Only 12 times it's led to a bare market. So when you're looking at an asset, you have to know what the predominant direction of that asset is. So the ES, NASDAQ, and Dow are predominantly up. The VIX is a predominantly downward-f facing asset. So if the G the VIX gaps up, you want to look to short the future to make money on it. But if the ES gaps to the downside, you want to go long and take advantage of the move that way. So, um, all gaps fill, but with the predominant direction that the asset faces. And if you ever see any disparity like this again, take advantage of it to to give you, um, a comparison or analogy. This would be like the equivalent of a car that's $100,000 going on sale for $75,000, but it's that price window is only available for two hours. That was the S&P last Sunday. take advantage of it.

Yeah. And that and that was one of those things we spoke about last weekend. Let's see if it crosses that that metric of getting over it 200 day EMA. It passed it. Right. Even when we came into the market opening today, it was kind of, hey, we didn't reach the deal with Iran. Hey, what is that going to do? Hey, we've watched oil go back over $100. And the skepticism to the downside was there. And you saw the market did the complete opposite today, right? So the S&P has gotten back over that that 200 day, which is important because every time it's gone under the 200 and recovered it within that 30-day span, we've seen it 100% of the time turn positive for the rest of the year. So that might be a good sign.

And I need you to know this, talking about a crash is only good for selling books and clicks on television. For the long term, it matters not. like whether it's the Iran war, if you go back to Arab Spring, if you go back through COVID, if you go back through the Gulf War, all those were immense opportunities to buy. Uh Brexit was a big issue at the time that people thought was going to collapse the market with the lever that is quantitative easing and the ramifications that has had some negative ones on the economy. But in terms of the stock market, please write this in chat. The market is permanently rigged to stay up through your 401k, through pension funds, through fund of funds, through automated investing, through clawed automatically investing, through trading view. Stop getting the direction of the asset wrong. I know everyone wants to recreate the big short. That [ __ ] is never going to happen again unless it's with an asset that not that normally faces downward. The S&P and NASDAQ is not one of them.

Yeah. And then ask yourself, has the story changed? Has anything changed? Right? Is there a reason why software is rebounding a little bit today? Is there is there a reason why the NASDAQ's up 200 at at close? What what has really changed? We actually had a ceasefire. Now there's a blockade. We still can't come to terms. What What's oil is still over $100 and here's the market. Just to add into the point of like this is permanently rigged to appreciate over time. war, collapse, famine, uh sector fallout, sector rotation, whatever the case is, stay long the indexes. Please stay long. Cuz what's going to happen in December, you're going to look back and be like, March was the opportunity. Once again, even though it took longer to recover, you're going to miss out on the opportunity if you're not taking advantage of these. But shout out to my traders who are taking advantage of these. Shout out to my long-term investors that are taking advantage. These have been some great moves in the market and appreciate the volatility that you are given because if they get shellacked in these next upcoming elections and they get shellacked in the presidential election cuz now Candace and Alex Jones and Megan Kelly are all turning on him. MAGA's having a big infight right now for those you don't know the white tea piping hot. If we get a Democratic president we're not going to get this volatility. So take advantage of it and enjoy it. Yeah, definitely a lot going on right now. Hit the like button and share. We're going to talk about uh inflation hitting a two-year high and and once again before we even leave that topic, that's why it's important just to stay in the market because y you know, people that people that lose are usually people that uh have short-term vision, short-term plans. You got to just be able to block out all the noise. So inflation hits 2-year high and uh we can tie this in with everything that's been happening geopolitically. If you if you haven't followed last Monday's um we the story was that Trump had a a deadline for Tuesday u at 8:00 that if they didn't comply, if Iran didn't comply, he was going to destroy the whole entire country. Then Tuesday at 7:00 he said that it was a two week um pause ceasefire. And then also we said on Market Monday, watch for sabotage. And then after the after the after the the ceasefire was announced, um Beirut got hit with 100 bombs in 10 minutes. Um stability. Then they go and they have uh a 24-hour 48 hour conversation with JD Vance brokered by Pakistan to try to have a peace deal. They said that that was not successful. And they said that there the United States is going to take over the straight. Iran said that's uh fake news. Um who knows what's going on. The Pope has got involved. He's u expressed his um how he's not happy with what's going on. Donald Trump attacked the Pope and then he dressed up as uh White Jesus on uh social. Wait, he wasn't a doctor in that photo. Well, then yeah, now he said healthcare. Then he said that he was a doctor. So, a lot has happened. A lot has happened over the last one week. He Well, he also accused China of providing them with arms, saying that they were bringing in planes to bring them arms and then threatened to put a 50% tariff on all Chinese goods if that was true. They denied that the arms were being brought.

So, now tariffs are back into play. I mean, it's a lot it's a lot. It's a lot going on. It's a lot going on. Um, and it's it's a lot of uncertainty, which is Donald Trump's middle name. His middle name is uncertainty. Find clarity. Uh, but the market the market has rallied. We'll see how long that can last. But inflation um inflation is always the silent killer of wealth. For sure. Inflation is the silent killer of wealth, right? And that's something that it's quiet. You don't you don't really realize what's going on until you look up and your rent has gone up $1,000 and the price of eggs has gone up $4 and gasoline has gone up, you know, to four $4 per gallon. So inflation at a at two-year high, what do we make of this?

I wouldn't want the job. But I I the part that's really tough about that because when rent increases, once inflation starts to slide back to a normal rate, the rent prices don't come down. The mortgage rates don't always adjust as quickly. The cost of living doesn't adjust. Just looking back into let's say the 2010s, the cost of living was dramatically different than it is now. My fear in 10 years it'll probably be 25 or 30% worse. Um, and it's not as bad as it can be. Like in 2022, it went to 8.3% which was destructive. And we're still being kind of taxed at a 2022 rate even though we're at 3% now. Um, so even though the the stock market is doing well as a result, it worries me that the economy is not doing as well and I think the curtain is starting to be removed. I there's a bunch of things I think the Fed could do, but if I'm thinking long term, we seem to be in an endless inflation cycle to like you said to rob you of all wealth. It's not I don't think it's an accident then as soon as everyone got into the market in 2020 and shout to everyone who supported the show from the very beginning that as soon as we learned about business at a high clip, they inflated damn near all of your gains away from 2020. Like, think about this. We were talking about it before the show. Between Nvidia, AMD, Micron, SanDisk, you've had some of the greatest returns in the history of the market. You also have the greatest disparity of wealth and the have and have nots. And people now need 100 to 200% return in the market to feel safe to invest because you can't even promise anyone 7 to 12% if inflation is 25 [ __ ] percent. We are on a destructive model that I have not seen and I don't know if it's going to turn around any soon. I would be lying to say if I thought things would be better in four or five years. Um, so I don't know what the answer is here, but I know it's not going to come down anytime soon.

What do you guys I I don't I don't know if there's an answer currently, right? Like the Fed being involved is I mean, yeah, there's things they can do, but what can they really do at this point? Because in a few months, who was going to be the Fed chair, right? Like you think about it. I mean, he could come into That's a great point. He could come into the position and figure out a way to lower rates, but if oil is what's leading us as the cause of inflation and we're still at war, then you really can't lower rates. And that's when when you look at the the reports from February to March in terms of inflation, we're at 2.4, now we're at 3.3. It's really inflated because of energy, right? If you think about the energy cost, oil's going up, that has been the leading cause of it. Yeah. And if we don't have a curtail on that, if we can't figure out how we lower these prices, how we come out of this war, how we open the straight, yeah, we're going to we're going to be in this cycle for a little bit more. Um because the Fed, their job is to make sure that the economy stays at a stable point and we don't go to stagflation or go into depression. If the leading cause of the actual conflict is oil, yeah, what what do you do when the your your administration, your president can't seem to figure this out?

Well, the only thing you can do is invest and uh make more money because inflation is something that's not going to go away. It's impossible. As long as the government keeps printing money, then uh the money is going to become less valuable. As as individuals, what you're saying? Excuse me. You're saying the only thing that we can do as individuals is invest. Yeah. Yeah, I was saying like the Fed, what are they supposed what can they do? Well, no, they have better mon have better monetary policy and then the governance can have better governance and this war is helping to increase inflation because we're spending money, we're increasing our debt. So, there are there are measures that can be taken um to cool cool off. Uh you you can you can definitely do do a variety of different things, make money tighter. Um but then there's side effects with that. So, that's that's why it's very important when they want to lower inflate when they want to lower inflation. um they make money tighter, but by making money tighter that can if you if you're not careful, you can cause a recession. There you go. Yeah. You can force a recession. Yep. And and if you look at the environment from the top down when we talk about, you know, these credit default swaps and these big companies, more institutions are figuring out, hey, we're putting limits on what you can. I mean, the environment is kind of almost in that that sector where it's like, hey, we might we might be there anyway. So it's it's a fine fine balance that they have to figure out.

Yeah, I ask you. I want to ask you, do you think the Fed is losing control? And let's say just in one leadership cycle since we started the show, you got the mismanagement of coh disaster. Now you have this Iran and I uh conflict, the Venezuela situation. We grabbed the oil and oil is at one of the highest prices ever. Do you think this is done strategically for the benefit of a select few or do you think this has just been mismanagement across the board? Uh, I think the Fed is losing control, not because they want to, because I do think that, um, Jerome Pal wants to run it how he wants to run it. But I think that they're under tremendous pressure from the Trump administration and Donald Trump himself. And then, of course, when when a new Fed chair comes in, they're going to have no power at all. It's going to be Trump. He might as well appoint himself as the as the um head of the the Fed. So, the Fed is supposed to be something that's outside of the uh American government, which is interesting because the Fed was just created in modern history by um JP Morgan allegedly. Jeeo Island For sure. Got rid of Aster right on that boat. How do you just create a whole entity that's above or outside of the federal? They post they they have autonomy. or are supposed to happen. And that's a dangerous position to take to overtake an organization that has ran private and autonomous for 100 plus years.

Yeah, yeah, that day is upon us. I think in May when when Fetcher Powell uh steps down and I believe Walsh will take his place. Yeah, I I mean, we'll see for all the credit that I had given Jerome Powell for all that he's done with the economic factors that he faced and the job he did coming out of that and how he led. I mean, I thought he did a phenomenal job, but here we go. New administration, new rules, uh, new Fed chair. That's tough. Let's see how we go. It's like they almost want to create an underclass and only have a 1% of the 1%. Like just going back from 20 the end of 2019 through now, it's been a series of events that like in some cases if you add everything up like inflation is really like 60%. From 2020, That's insane. Yeah. Like just the cost of cars, the cost of housing, cost of education in a 5year. We haven't had a fiveyear run like this in almost a decade. And they they had a a Fed meeting was it last month? And um I think there was like one uh one vote to to lower rates within the next 6 months. Um so we'll see. We'll see what happens, man.

We'll see what happens. Um okay, let's talk about Sandis. Um it is up $100 today and it's it's been a it's been a it's been a historical run. I know that's something that you was uh championed early on. I believe somebody from EIL University got a green jacket today. Yeah. Yeah. So green jacket, that's what we call when you make a thousand percent. Yeah. Yeah. On a on an option call, we say green jacket. So I think somebody inside the community got a green jacket from a thousand percent. So you were saying the Sandis they actually numbers wise is actually even a better run than Nvidia had. Yeah. If if not not since inception, right? Because Nvidia's obviously been traded publicly since 1999. And yes, it's been up 24,000%. But if you look over the past, let's just take the past 5 years because Nvidia was trading at 171 in 2021 to now where it's at 180. Obviously 10 to1 split has happened. The return on Nvidia over the past 5 years has been just under 1000%. That's nothing to sneeze at. Like that's incredible. when Ian said earlier time return all times once in a-lifetime generational investment opportunity until you see what Sanders has done over the past 13 months. Now remember this is insane of Western Digital split uh in February and IPOed in 2025. It has gone up 2,740% in the past 14 months. Yeah, think about that. almost and after hours. So, it was up $100 today, right? And shout out to everybody. We did talk about this when it was $197 and we were in calls, 200 calls, 230 calls. It went up $100 today after hours. Right now, it's up another $31. Yeah. So, you're talking definitely 2,800%. Why is this happening? Well, the big news is that it is now been added to the NASDAQ 100. Thank God after last year. It's a b we'll talk about it. There's a bunch that need to be replaced out of the NASDAQ. There's there's a few, but seeing this is is important because we watched this IPO. We watched this join the S&P 500 and it's leading the S&P 500 this year. Y and now we've seen it being add added to uh the NASDAQ 100, which means that you got billions of dollars and billions in ETFs that Sandis is now going to be part of. In fact, it just got its price target raised to 1,500, which is like when you think about it, it's like, wait, huh? It could hit that September. Why is that? Why is that happening? Right. So, Sandis is in the N category for memory. So, SSDs, right? These these are specific like flash drives, solid state flash drives, if if you're in in that space. Solid states fast drives, they've already sold out for 2026. What they did before they sold out is they doubled the price, right? So, they doubled the price. We saw the numbers run up. Now they're saying, "Look, we might be sold out into 2027 as well. What do you think is going to happen to the price for those flash drives for that form of memory? It's going to go up. It's going to go up as well." And they're the leader of it. Um, and so they're they're in a nice space. Check this out. This this is an incredible stat. So, Wall Street is projecting that their EPS for 2026 is going to be 4237. $42.37 earnings per share. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. These aren't numbers that are like typical for any equity, right? Usually, if you watch an earnings report and it says it's earnings per share, it's usually in the single digits. If it has something astronomical, it might get to nine, maybe $10 per share. 4237, that is the earnings per share, right? So, last quarter they reported a $755 per share increase. That means that we still have room probably like $30 $32 to go into earnings which is happening on April 30th. So you take earnings coming up on April 30th, you get the addition to the SN the NASDAQ 100 on April 20th. You get the demand finan memory which they are leading that is going to increase. And this is why you're seeing Sandis have this meteoric historical phenomenal run. Shout to everybody that has a green jacket. If you have a green jacket and I miss you, please put it in the community so I can give you your green jacket. Um because it's welld deserved. This is what we talk about when we say find c find certainty in times of chaos, right? Sure. When everything looks very muddy, find the clarity. That's where wealth is built. I told you the story hasn't changed. It hasn't. I told you the narrative hasn't hasn't changed. It hasn't. I told you the AI demand is still here. We saw it with TSM, which is going to be reporting this week. Um the demand is very very high and still remains to look that way uh into 2027. This is why we're seeing this rise uh in Sandis and we're going to see it again in I think Micron obviously has has climbed back over 430. The these companies aren't going anywhere. In fact, you're talking taking all that into account. The NASDAQ was down 10%, probably just broke even, but we're not far from getting back to alltime highs very shortly.

Yeah. Yeah. And on top of that, the gross margins for that business, even though it's capital intensive, they're at 50.9% by 2027, they should be at 52%. Like this is a classic case of like Nvidia walked so this could fly and they flew. This like when get rich came out like immediate hit out of the gate. Um, so they are definitely benefiting from memory. But that's why I always say like find quality companies in quality sectors. And now because Nvidia and AMD showed the possibility of a thousand% gains, now you're going to start to see companies get higher gains. But all of them are incredibly run businesses. Um, incredible leadership, incredible management in the pipeline for the next 10 years is pretty strong as well. So kudos to everybody who's up a lot. But that profit margin is really impressive for their business. The gross margins I had this written down in the notes as well. The gross margins they got into 65 to 67%. Yeah, that's probably four or five year period. Yep. Just astronomical numbers, man. So shout out to everybody that's in those calls uh that is has some of the shares of of the company. That's a good one. That's a good one, Sanders. And then also on that TSM thing that's interesting is that the opposition leader of Taiwan Yeah. um went to China and met with Gigi Ping publicly and he told he told her that it's inevitable that um Taiwan reunites with China. So that might be a good thing if they could peacefully um transition. Yeah, if they could if they could peacefully come on board then you know all of this stuff about what happens if China tries to invade Taiwan and tries because there is a strong there there's a lot of there's a lot of support in in Taiwan there's two factors there's one factor that wants to be separate and then there's one factor that actually wants to be part of China the opposition party she wants to be part of China so I mean from a from an investment standpoint that would be good because there wouldn't any any problem um as far as like a war or you know violence or something like that.

Yeah, it it's interesting now geopolitically though. Well, America we got to see if America but I mean what can America do if if Taiwan says I want to be I mean of course they're going to try to stop the opposition from but if they if they say that we want this and we we're okay with joining China what can America do? I mean because they see our our market getting rattled by any conflict. So smart to come to an agreement to not have to go through the same kind of issue. But geopolitically that that would be a point for Brits. I think there there's a a huge geopolitical like watch list that's happening right now. Obviously with the straight of our moves, but China for sure they're watching how this conflict is really taking place. And the idea, I thought about this the other day. The idea of paying a tariff to go through a straight when that didn't necessarily exist prior. Yeah. What stops other countries now from saying, "Okay, this is a method for us to also use." Because if China and Taiwan, like the opposition leader, let's say that it goes in their favor. If they decide to say, you know what, we're going to charge a tariff to go through the South China Sea, we're in some real trouble, right? Because that's 80. So we talked about oil and natural gas. That's a true monopoly. This is 80% of the world's like e-commerce is coming from that that that passage. So if they start thinking like that, then you might see like the Suez Canal, the Pemman, all these canals and waterways become a new business opportunity for countries. So it we we got to watch this very carefully.

Ask the banker. Appreciate you, brother. Thank you. Appreciate you so much. Let's talk about this anti-capitalism movement. There's a lot of people online. Yeah, there's a lot. It's becoming a it's becoming a thing. Um and it's interesting. Everybody's entitled to their own opinion. Um my thoughts on this is uh until you show me a system that's actually viable outside of capitalism in a capitalist capitalistic society, what do we what's what's the alternative? I have yet I have yet to hear a alternative. So it's like if you don't and a lot of people that's like um capitalism is terrible, you shouldn't take part in this. Don't invest in these companies. Wait, who kicked this conversation off? That was a bunch. It's been a bunch of people. But okay, a lot of a lot of people that are saying this are entrepreneurs, ironically enough, and they're millionaires and they have businesses and they have LLC's and they're working with corporations and they they have streams of income coming in. So, a lot of people that's like anti-capitalism are actually capitalist. So, That's the point of capitalism is that you don't you're in bondage and don't have a choice. Yeah. Um but you do have a choice. You can opt out of it. If you if you're saying that you should that capitalism is bad and you shouldn't take part of it, what is a viable solution? You can you can okay I know we gonna go here today but you can agree a a system is bad and be forced into it and have to learn how to navigate your way through the matrix. Now, I'm not anti-capitalism cuz I'm forced not to be by choice. But I think the system has designed it like even in a cashless society that makes it to where you can't even really have an alternative. Like you can have a mixed what is it called? Like a a mixed movement where it's like part government, subsidy, part capitalism. But even the alternatives are still rooted in capitalism.

But that's what I'm saying. You cannot like something but you if you speak about something and you actively discourage people to take part in it, right? Like don't take part in capitalism when you yourself are a capitalist. To me, it just doesn't seem like a sincere message. It would be like a a politician saying don't take part in the political process and they're they themselves are a politician. So to tell people like okay don't invest in these companies because you're actually helping the destruction of the world. don't take part in the capitalistic or don't care about capitalism. That that doesn't seem from coming from a sincere place. If you yourself are a capitalist and if you own a business, you are a capitalist.

Can I take the other side of this argument just for the sake of content? Wouldn't that be the equivalent of telling non-affrican-Americans that they should not parti participate in racism even though they know racism is beneficially financial for them? It's the same. And if we going to be very honest, capitalism is one of the core tenants of racism in this country that they find a way to include every race in it at a very high level with the exception of us to keep us in the underclass or us and Native Americans to keep us in the underclass. So I agree that it's needed but just because we are involved in it doesn't make it a system that is absolutely right.

No nobody said nothing is nothing is absolutely right. But what I'm saying is that we have no choice but to play the game that we do. It's like cards. You play the hand that you're dealt. Got to play the hand. Yeah. You play the hand that you do. So to tell people not to play the hand I think is a very that's a foolish thing to do. There's no system that's perfect. There's no system that's perfect. But every every system you're forced to play unless you're going to go into the woods and live off the land. Exactly. Until somebody comes and bulldozes you and then you don't you don't have enough economic power. You don't have guns and they're going to kill you. That's happened before. Look at any native Look at any native population. Look at Papa New Guinea. Look at Look at America. Look at Look at Africa. How did that work for them? How'd that work out for them? But that goes to the point of uh racism, capitalism, and a total totalitarian approach to not even leave those resources available. Like for example, like you can't even plant seeds in most areas that are not genetically modified because they've tainted the soil so much that crops won't grow with certain natural seeds.

For sure. But I think I I think the better message is to try to make the the system better because they're like you can't you can't be a compassionate capitalist. I don't agree with that. I think that you can have ethics and you you could work to try to make the system better. That's better than opting out of the system. That's like that's like voting. People say like don't take part in the political process. I think that that's a very uneducated thing to do because it's going to happen with or without you. So if you don't vote, that's not going to help. Now, I think you have to be more educated. It's not just about voting. You got to actually have super PACs and you got to understand lobbying. It might take harder work. See, people don't want to work. People don't want to work. It's easy to vote. It's easy to vote. It's not It's not easy to put together a super PAC and to lobby and to call somebody and to put together a dinner, a black tie affair. But that's what they do. That's what they do. We only thing we do is march and vote. Occasionally, occasionally we vote. We don't even vote for our school board members or city council members most of the time. So opting out of the system is is is opting out of the system is very dangerous advice. That's dangerous advice because you leading sheep to get slaughtered. Telling somebody don't worry about investing. Don't worry about entrepreneurship. Don't vote. That's you leading sheep to get slaughtered. So we don't got to stay on this this conversation for too long. But that is a public service announcement. It's a very reckless and dangerous message. I think if you telling people that because you know that the people is vulnerable already. So you're telling the most vulnerable people who actually need it the most to opt out of a system that they have no power in already. What are they going to do? And you and and you're giving them no viable solution to do. That's like that's like like the Jim Jones thing, the original.

Jim Jones, the preacher. You telling people just to drink Kool-Aid, they're going to die. Like you're not giving them any viable path of what to do. You're just saying don't, don't do this. Don't vote. Don't, don't go to work. Don't own a business. Don't invest. Very unintelligent.

Is the truth that people don't want to work, or they don't have viable options? The AI has eradicated any process of formal interviews, and then discrimination is so high, it's hard to even get a job even if you're qualified for it. It's both.

You black in America is always going to be hard. It was never. It's, it's easier now than it was in 1920. You can argue in the 1920s, prior to that, that the black level of wealth was higher. It's easier now than it was in 1950. We're not getting dog sick, sicked on us. So it's never. Look, you black in America is never. It's supposed to be difficult. That's how it's designed. But you got to find a way to make this [ __ ] happen. You know that. It's both. Yeah, it's both because the system is designed. Even this conversation, it's a byproduct or derivative of the system working.

Like I'm one of the greatest capitalists to walk history ever. For the record, but I would be remiss if I didn't say there are certain ills that people face and we face as a culture and as a nation. And you brought it up last week. A lot of the ills that white Americans are feeling are the things systemically that we felt for the last 60 years. The empire is falling in on itself, and him being a leader is just the icing on top of the cake to make sure that the empire falls over in time, 'cause there's a lot of money in destruction capitalism. I agree to say solely that capitalism isn't um opting out is the way. But we would be lying if we were say the capitalism is the best solution. It's not.

Derek, what's the best solution?

A mixed economy.

A mixed economy? Like China. Like China. For sure. China. I would, I would argue they have a better. And for those who may push back and say, "No, we're getting our ass kicked by them in real time in the chess moves they're playing." For those who don't know, if they go get TSM, boy, it's it's game set match. You remember when Kyrie hit that shot over Stephan? Kyrie. That's if they go get TSM, that's that moment. It's over with for the United States of America.

No, listen. I, I've been to China and I agree with you. The difference is that we don't have the luxury that they have. China is run. China is for Chinese people. You think that if we had the government that China has, black people would have any power, any vote, any voice at all? Then we would really be screwed. But maybe you can go to Africa. That might be an option. Perhaps.

Um, okay. The person says that I'm crossing the line. No. Listen, listen. When I say something, I'm educating to give. I'm really tired of five years from now, "Yo, you right." I'm [ __ ] right now. Respectfully, I've been doing this investment [ __ ] for a long time. I know it's in fashion now. I was doing this [ __ ] in 2009 when Future was meatball with the short treads. Listen, the first time.

We are in a very critical place in the United States of America, and you know it because MAGA has turned on MAGA. MAGA. Not crossing the line. I'm just telling reporting to you what is fact. I promise you. I love you with all my heart. We love you. But listen. 'Cause uh Lavar asked about Cadence, and I think it's important. Yes, Cadence. Obviously, we went over Cadence. We have some calls on Cadence. That's software tech for AI. We, we broke that down on exactly how both of them work. You saw those shoot up today. I think Cadence was up $22. Synopsis is up $27. After hours, both of them, they got part compartmentalized into that software data. Hey, what this whole sector is going under. When you saw Salesforce, Snowflake, all those companies, they kind of got b mushed into that. You saw Oracle go up based on software today. This is why you're seeing that software sector. But the, the software AI sector, Synopsis and Cadence, those aren't going anywhere.

It's like real estate comps. If the comps for the entire sector got dragged out, they're going to be affected. Well, they're doing great. They're part of it. And then Danny asked me about Lumentum. I spoke about it uh in the last class, and I'm going to speak about it in the next phone on Thursday. So, if you're part of EYU, make sure you pull up.

And even from a perspective, look how Rashad went bad cop, I was good cop, then I went bad cop, and Troy went good cop. Learn, learn. It's a mastery to this [ __ ]. Learn the first time. Great at this [ __ ]. I don't care what y'all say. All right, next topic.

What about um, what about oil? Oil.

They thought we was fighting for real.

Look at you and Rashad fighting over capitalism.

Oh. Oh boy. Um.

They're both capitalist.

The affiliate. The affiliate. Make a video about the destruction of EO. Make a video about the destruction of Market Mondays. I knew you was going to do this. Back to me. What about oil?

What about it? It's at uh $100 a barrel.

Where, where do we go from here?

It's currently at 95.69. Uh, if you look at crude oil, I keep saying a very pivotal economic lever is 93.50. Despite all of this news, they're going to do everything that they can to uh bring oil down because if not, the cost of a bunch of goods across a bunch of industries can go up. And the negative effects that people don't talk about is uh, even though there's a disparity of maybe, I think it was reported today that the United States of America is short 10 million single family homes. So if oil stays above 93.50 and let's say it hovers at an average of 117.15, it takes the average price of the home up 4.5%. Just because of the price of oil. It messes up consumer goods. It messes up the prices at the tank. Um, it messes up supply chains and it changes pricing structure. So I think um, we're going to see a concerted effort because you see those poll numbers. Um, they're going to make a concerted push by May or end of May, early June to get prices under. Because if not, if we roll into the summer, June and July, and gas prices are still above 4.50, 4.60, it's going to be recession time, and he can't afford that, and the American economy cannot afford it. And on outside of private credit, 'cause I was one of the first to tell y'all about the private credit bubble, a bunch of Ponzi schemes will be revealed if oil stays at $117. So that's why they're putting a lot of pressure on him to keep um oil at a certain level. Back to you, Rashad.

Yeah, it, it, I mean, when we think about it being at $100 a barrel, we have to realize why it's $100 a barrel, right? So that means that less barrels are being put into the market. Now, it stays at 100 if those barrels are removed from the market. We know that the barrels aren't going to be removed from the market, they're tied up because they can't pass through a strait right now. A lot of those barrels. So the sooner that that can be resolved, then you'll start to see those prices tick lower. This is not something that, like we said, for, I mean, even before war, it's not something that's sustainable. Having gas prices over $15, $120 a barrel, it's just not sustainable. Um, so they, they'll try to figure out. Even I think this weekend, the United States tried to send a test ship through and they had some communications with with the Iranian um forces at at the strait. I mean, they're going to have to figure something out. I don't know what this blockade does. Um, but they, they'll have to figure out a way to get barrels from other countries through the strait so we can start to see this come down. This is not something again that is sustainable. Um, and again, the barrels haven't been removed. Now, if the barrels get removed from the market, well, how would they do that? Ships try to cross and they're tampered with or they're shot at or they're destroyed, then that's a huge, that's a bigger issue. If we start seeing things like that, ships trying to get passed through and they're destroyed, now you're losing barrels from the market. If that's not happening, this is something once we unclog this, u, we should start seeing them peel back down.

Yeah. Historically,

Go ahead. Go ahead. Uh, historically, whenever we've had a precipitous incline in crude prices, it normally takes 9 to 11 months to revert back to the mean. Um, the number to keep your eye on is when we're safe is $76.89. That may take a full year for that to happen. But going back to the thing I said at the beginning, you have to know the predominant direction of an asset class. Oil normally stays within the range of 72 to 93.50. That's why they are trying to press things there because that's when you can start to signal that the economy is safe. So it may take a year to get back down to the 70s. And in 2020, you have to remember oil went negative. It bottomed out at at $6.50. So then 2022, we had the opposite. It pushed up to 130.89 and then the next year it came down to like 81.79. So it may take a year to get back down to 76, but the overall direction for the last post-quantitative easing um has been like in in that 70s and 80s range. So.

Yeah, now this is. And it's important that those those ships move, right? Because it's sitting there.

Without being in a refiner, like those that you play a tricky game with that too, right? There's a time in which that has to be moved. It can't sit still. It can't be.

It's a timing issue. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So I mean, you're you're running against the clock now. That could potentially get barrels off the market, but we'll see.

Um, also do remember this this Wednesday, Brooklyn, New York, we got the event with Angie Martinez. Uh, and that's for all principals, superintendents, and teachers. It's called Educators Deserve to be Rich. We're gonna be going over our curriculum. We're gonna be talking about how educators can um, you know, get wealthy and how they can grow their their their net worth. And then we're going to be talking to Angie Martinez about her legendary career, leadership skills, communication, vitally important for.

She's one of the best communicators of all time. So, we going to be that's going to be good. That's going to be at Brooklyn Bank uh, Thursday. Oh, Wednesday.

Wednesday. Um, and then and then Chicago. We gonna be in Chicago on Saturday with the with the brother ET for his event. Chicago, you know, Chicago is always a vibe. So, looking forward to to the Sha. Shout out to all all the good people in Chicago. Dre, what's up, man? Hit my line.

Um, you make a final point about oil.

No, no, no, no, no. I'm good. Um, let's talk about banks shorting private credit.

Love it. Um, so bank. I I brought this up last week, but banks are now allowing certain select clientele to short this private credit market bubble. And when I know when I first brought it up, a lot of people were saying that it was wasn't going to be that big of a deal. I, I won't go as far to say that this is big as the housing crisis of 2008, but in the last 20 years, was probably one of the biggest bubbles that many people are not talking about. Um, I think I'm not saying it's too late to invest in it, but I would not make it a primary investment. Um, and the cost of investing into it. Also, too, isn't it interesting that they will create the fund for the private banks and let you trade against it and they profit both ways at some point? I know we're looking for a big short opportunity. I would offer to this audience though, I think we should boycott this basket of investments. So, you're not able to play both sides of the fence.

What do you think?

So, here's here's my, here's I would ask the question. Is it a bad thing that they're they're allowing you to short it from this standpoint? If they're allowing you to short it, they're telling you that it's a risky investment.

Yep. There's vulnerability in the said investment, but it also gives access to transparency or a little bit more transparency as to why they're doing it. Could it be beneficial in that sense?

Please don't text me when I say what I'm about to say. This is not reflective upon you or the organization that you work with, nor the chairman and CEO of said bank or organization. The banks don't give a [ __ ] about transparency. They never have. We wouldn't have Glass-Steagall. I can name 20 acts that dog. They put Aster who would be like Peter Thiel in the 20s on a boat and sunk the [ __ ] boat so the banks could have a commission and coalition. Go do your research about that. Like the, the banking industry, that's the original model, if you will.

Yeah.

So now they don't care about transparency. The other part that's really concerning is that 15% or uh up to 18% exposure in private credit is hiding inside of 401ks. So you put this asset class, a toxic asset class, hidden into 401ks. Most people don't know it, and then you need three and a half million to short it. That's crazy as [ __ ] to me. Allegedly.

Allegedly. And I appreciate you not saying any names. Thank you.

Thank you. I got you. So, because none of those banks or institutions would ever do anything to harm the American citizens of this great country.

But I think we haven't learned. And 2008 and 2009 wasn't that long ago. It's the same playbook. It's just a different sector.

So, from that standpoint, it feels like this is just a hedge play, right? Like that they're hedging. Hey, if it profits, great. If it doesn't, here comes some the false swaps that we can make some money off of.

Okay. If I went to Big Boy in the neighborhood in LA 'cause I saw the comment about the West and I did a tear down think piece about how I feel about Troshot all exclusive. Could I then come back and say, "Hey, Mark Monday, 7 o'clock central. Learn about what the next stock to invest in." No. Right. Why do banks get to do that? You get to hire a toxic asset that you made money on. Bunch of basis points. Then you build a fund for only elite investors because now you have the halves investing in the short.

Yeah.

That is set to destroy the have-nots. That should be immoral. Especially when all the money that's made on overdrafts and shot. Like at least their traders, they're doing record-breaking profits from trading. So you can, okay, you can take some pressure off of them. But if you're making so much money off overdraft fees, like some banks make more money on overdraft fees than some country's net GDP. That's crazy to me. I don't think you should be able to have it both ways. And and for the safety of the country, we're going to get into a situation where we won't be able to print ourselves out of it because we've been printing money endlessly. And this is why every couple months they'll inject billions of dollars into some of these banks to offset them from going under. I still ain't forgot about Silicon Valley Bank. But when those gold shorts started to get eroded, they had to save a couple of banks and inject the Fed had to inject money to some of the banks to stop them from being insolvent. It's scary.

Well, let's talk about Lululemon. Uh, toxic pro.

That's why I'm tired of my [ __ ].

Show us the edge.

A filthy edge.

Yep.

Lululemon, what's the deal?

The great Ken Paxton in the state of Texas uh launches an investigation to see if Forever Chemicals are in Lululemon Pants. And they're not the only company, but when I've been railing on certain consumer good brands for a long time, they're not the. This entire space is going to have to do better. For those you don't know, most of the clothes that you wear, and this is why the guest GF Thursday is so important, they found a way to re-engineer PFOA and weave them into clothes. For those you don't know, it's not the healthiest thing for you, right? So, Lululemon, um, high of 516, currently at 162. A lot of people knew about this, but for the people that are creating clothes at every corner, it seems like they're poisoning us, whether it's the water, the food, the microplastics. So, if you're sweating profusely and then your pores are opening up and breathing in the forever chemicals, what lasting effects could that have? This is from a popular clothing brand.

Yeah. Yeah. So those forever chemicals are called PFAS. Uh, and it's not just a Lululemon thing, like you said. This is an industry thing.

Industrywide thing.

Yeah.

So the, the chemicals are sometimes used in performance fabrics for water resistance and durability. Um, and so you're talking about categories of.

Lines or.

Of companies.

This is um, it's interesting to say the least. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's it's terrible when when you you think about it. And most people are not looking at. They're like, "Hey, let me just find some athleisure." So, all those athleisure brands, I mean, these are things you should be checking for if you're going to put these these type of uh garments on your body, definitely look for it. I know most people don't look at the labels. They just look at, hey, if the color is nice and it feels good, it fits comfortably, I'm buying it. But yeah, think about what you're putting on your skin, which is your your largest organ.

Largest organ. And think about it. They got us to stop smoking cigarettes finally after they finally revealed the truth about smoking cigarettes. But the cell phone use and the being in your pocket and the clothes that you wear are more damaging than the cigarettes were in the same era if you look over the same 50-year period, getting poisoned at every turn.

Allegedly.

Um, what's one, what's one investing lesson for life? Um, this is a really great question, and you always have to be worried about when the next black swan is going to happen. For me, every day that I wake up, I always wonder which one of these assets are going to drop 60%. And for the first time since we've been doing the show, since Microsoft has fallen 34%. I told you before the show, like a few people asked me like, "Is Microsoft no longer any good?" I'm like, "No, everything is recalibrating because everything is not Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Lily." Um, but too often in trades and in long-term investing, I see people buying at horrible prices as if the truth about the American economy and business as a whole will not be uncovered. There's a lot of things that's going on in the world right now that people are not telling the truth about, and you're just now seeing it in software. So if you look at Atlassian down 63%, Asana down 58%, Monday down 57%, DocuSign down 52, Figma down 48, Duolingo down 48. Do you think all these software companies are down to historic levels just because of agentic learning and and uh AGI coming? That's not the only reason. So me as a catastrophic investor, I love when a market is buddy like this 'cause I'm setting my prices at those levels. And if you want to know where to get into the market and never have to worry about a crash, go to IanInvest.com, join the Red Panda Stock Club. The call will be April 26th, Sunday at 9:00 p.m. Central. But for my investors and traders, stop being incredibly optimistic always about what pricing is and look for those 50 and 60% drops in advance, and you'll be a okay. That's why in this market, I haven't sweat it one bit. I told Stock Club probably five or six months ago where Microsoft is going to come down too. But most people are buying their calls too high. They're buying, they're getting into futures too aggressively, not knowing how far we can fall or drop and not doing the homework. So, I think the most important investing lesson is to know that the market is going to have some moments where it's dropping 40 and 50%, and don't have so much hubris to think that it won't happen in your portfolio. Prepare for it in advance.

And we spoke about this before we we started tonight. It's about realizing that you're in the moment.

So, when somebody asks, "Hey, when, when is it a good time?" And you tell them, "Well, NASDAQ was down 10% 30 days ago. That was a good time."

Bro, somebody asked me, "Yo, what's the next drop? We just had a drop."

What are you waiting on? Yo, when we getting the next April drop, all of last month, the past six weeks, sorry.

Yeah. Being aware, being aware is important. Quantum, quantum stocks.

Quantum computing.

Uh, amazing question. What do I currently feel? Just want to go back into Kakut mode. Um, for a brief moment about the valuation of quantum stocks and do I think some of them will be okay? And my stance is the same. I think all quantum stocks, this is my thoughts and my thoughts only. Red Panda LLC is not reflective of the thoughts of Troshot Mic or AP. I think all quantum stocks are [ __ ] with the exception of Google. You can fight me on it all you want. You can fight me on all you want. I told you from the very beginning QBTS and all them. I, I won't mention any others 'cause I don't need more enemies. But if there's a revolutionary technology, what makes you think that Apple, Microsoft, Google would not throw every dollar that they have too? And as a result, Claude has also changed the valuation of a lot of cybersecurity companies. I told you guys from the very beginning, some of you even changed your tone on Palantir. If it was Alex Karp to the moon last year, why is it not Alex Karp to the moon now? Some of you are being little trading horses and only caring about the valuation of the company for six months. And I've been telling you since the beginning for 20. I don't want to keep answering questions that I answered already. If you don't have a long um outlook, put it in chat. You're a trading [ __ ].

That, that's what a H or.

Got both combination. You both things, girl. Put your portfolio panties on, girl. Eat and be better. Yo, you said you, that that was my answer, man. That's crazy. I, I have it in my notes. My my quantum stock is Google.

Um, me down last year. You don't know. You don't understand the story of.

Yeah, I do. Like when the CEO of the company won't say that they're better than Google, there's a reason why.

There's a reason.

We, uh, yeah. I mean, Google's been at it. If, if we go back in the history of what they've done, we did a nice breakdown on it a few weeks ago. They've been in the quantum space whether it was for the longest time or was Willow or even what what they did with DeepMind and the the ideas that they were coming up with that team.

Since 2012. Not to cut you like Ray Kurzweil was consulting at HQ in 2010 about quantum.

Exactly. Which is why I mean, I had a conversation about Google um today and I, I'll leave the name anonymous of who I was speaking to. I was like, "Yeah, it's Google all the way. It's still my stock of the year." Um, they got an important couple of weeks coming up. Um, but everything that they had lined up for 2026 is still in front of them. They, you know, they pulled down to a decent level under 300. Now they're back over 319, which is another key level to see if they can break that um that resistance barrier. Uh, but yeah, man. Yes, there will be companies that will come into the quantum space and yes, some of them will survive. Will all be after Google.

There's one that's here right now. Let's take advantage of that.

Including Apple. Apple will be after Google. And to the person who said this is not Blackout, every day Blackout. This how the show started from the very beginning.

Let's bring the brother 19 Keys on.

What's the deal?

Peace to the family.

What's the deal, my brother? How you feeling?

What's good?

Back after a long intermission. Yeah, we need your wisdom now more than ever. It's tricky.

It's tricky.

We, we need more the wisdom these days. Oh my god.

For sure.

It's certainly tricky out here. What's good, man? How you feeling?

Man, I'm blessed, man. How my brothers doing, man? How the Market Mondays family in here, man?

Amazing, brother.

How we doing good, man? You know, welcome to the mighty mighty Market Monday. 6,300 people on the check-in. Um.

Feel like here in a while. I'm not sure it was my last time. Yeah, it's been a minute. It's been a minute. I think. Is that echo coming from your computer, Keys?

Let me see. Check one, two, check three, four. How we feeling?

It's clear when you talk, but maybe the feedback is coming when we talk.

Yeah.

I'm not sure. I don't hear it on my side. I'm not sure.

All right.

All right. Well, now you bring. All right. Okay. So, let's, let's, let's get to it. Um, so much so little time. AI agents. AI agents. I know you're big on AI agents right now. Um, let's talk about AI agents. How you came to this epiphany about AI agents. Explain what an AI agent is. Like, let's break down. Let's have this technology conversation.

Absolutely. Can y'all see me? I'm coming in clear. I could barely see myself.

All right. Bet. Well, first of all, for those who don't know, I'm 19 Keys, uh, global thought leader. I lecture around the country. And what my gift is is pattern recognition, right? I see things before most people. And I then try to take that information, synthesize it, and give it to the average person so that they can actually use it in some useful way. Most people are too busy to understand things that's going on in technology, science, economics, right? Even when we talk about cognition and the state of thinking as the lack of critical thinking today um and I'm trying to make sure that the culture is abreast and up to date and all of our global entrepreneurs who are focused on generational wealth right now. So.

That's is that is that you had a is that your phone?

Yeah, that was the team hitting me up. Let me go there. So AI agents, and I want to keep this in simplest terms, and I think we was here before and I was explaining why we're now in an era where you don't have to overexplain things because the beauty of it is everybody does have AI, right? And if you're intelligent enough to say, "Okay, what is an AI agent?" It's a semi-autonomous, right, um, artificial intelligent machine, right? That is software that can act for you. So you can set up an AI agent and say, "Every single day, I want you to tell me what the weather is." It can be something as simple as that. Or you can say every single day, and you can have more complex things where you can feed these agents what they call skills. And these skills allow them to do repeatable things, right? And so sometimes I have my AI agent, hold on, let me tell the team to just relax on the text. Sometimes I have my AI agent um send me briefs every single day going through all of my content, and what I've done is I've built out what they call a second brain system. Now, I had predicted that these things were going to occur a few high-level conversations ago, maybe about two to three years, right?

Yep. I remember.

Yeah, and now we're finally in that place where I can actually build out a lot of things that we were predicting. When at first it was, we would tell you about them, but we didn't actually have the ability to act on them, right? And so the second brain system is essentially me using something called Obsidian, which is this vault where you can keep all your data in. And what I've ingested inside this vault is as much data as I possibly can for myself. We coming in clear. I know it sounds like there's a little echo. I don't want that to be the case. We good? One second. Mic, if you're unmuted. Yeah, we trying to cook today.

All right.

Oh, yeah. We got you now. We hear you clear. We good.

All right. Bet, bet, bet.

All right. So, we build out a second brain system, and everybody should write that down and put it in the chat if you can. And you use something called Obsidian Vault. This Obsidian Vault is essentially a space where you can collect all your data. So, I ingested all my data from Twitter. I ingested my data from YouTube, Facebook, mini-hat analytics. I've done it across anything that I can possibly ingest from Claude to ChatGPT. Therefore, I can see all of the things that I've been working on, thoughts that I forgot about, patterns that I have that are reoccurring across time all the way from the last 10 years up until now. And what end up happening is there's actually a graph that it shows you. You can barely see it, but I'll show you right here to where your graph is like a knowledge graph. Each one of these points is a piece of data, right? So, this might be a tweet right here that then connects to something, right? This one says, "This work gets harder because we independent. I was cooking that day." You understand me? But then each one of these is connected to more information. This might be YouTube. This might be Twitter. These might be data that is training something on my dashboard or something else might be um from Instagram. And then what I do is I take each one of these and I connect the patterns across time. So then I can feed that to my agent and it becomes his mind. And so it's a little more technical on the back end as far as making sure it has a consistent memory so that every time you give it a task, it remembers what you told it to do. So therefore, it's checking on that memory and then it's growing as it's consistently working with you. So these AI agents are things that people are using inside text, inside uh Telegram, right? And they're running their businesses on it after they get it set up. The first systems to set up is first getting it to become context-aware. So you want to first start with the context of sending all your data in. And once it has that data, then you can start utilizing it in a way where you're telling it what to do. And then you can start building skills upon it. And then it gets to a point where you can start being autonomous with it. One of my greatest use cases so far was me creating a CRM from all of my customer data over the last 10 plus years.

Awesome.

Right. So now I was able to find 246,000 customers to where I now get to see who are my top 100. I'm seeing people who didn't bought 50 to 100 products. I didn't seen people who didn't bought something from every single thing that I've bought that showed up in person because I was able to take all of that data then rearrange it into this system to where I now know who exactly this person is, when they bought, right, etc. And now I can retarget them or just call them directly. I'm literally about to call my top 100 customers. You feel me? Because we built out a system now where my AI agents can show me who those people are, when they buy. It can send me a ping. It can tell me when their birthday is. I can have an AI agent send them a birthday card if I want to or send them a gift card. You essentially, it's like having personnel working on your behalf that you're giving specific tasks to do certain things. And the agentic AI economy is about to boom, right? This is where the big opportunities are looming. And a lot of people are afraid because they're looking at the fact that AI agents are essentially autonomous systems. So anything that has a system can be automated. That's the whole idea. It's not that it's replacing jobs uh or humans rather, it's replacing systems. And what people end up doing, they end up working in a system. You become a cog in the machine. And so now they're looking and saying that, "Oh, we only need machines to do these jobs." So people that were doing machine-like jobs are getting replaced rapidly and faster and faster. Now, some of the things that they're saying about AI being agentic, right, or reaching singularity, depending on who you talk to, they say we're a little far off from that because we still have to get down to token cost and then we have to get down to compute and things of that nature. But where it is today, every entrepreneur can use it to be a chairman of their business, to be an executive assistant. We have weekly AI meetups out here in LA with my brother Rance and my brother Vincent. And all we're doing is sitting down and building in what we call a terminal, which is the local part of your computer where no data is being sent out. So the main focus right now is teaching people how to set up local AIs on their computer, right? And once you have it on your computer, then you can secure it to where it doesn't send any information out. So now you can start training it on your business and you can start having it do things for you and your computer essentially becomes like your robot, right?

Quick question for you. What made you select Obsidian over Claude, given the increase in use in Claude versus OpenAI? What, what features do you love most about Obsidian if you compare the two?

So Obsidian together, right? So the choice would be more so between Claude Code and.

ChatGPT Codex.

But Obsidian, I actually have Claude Code operate on my local terminal. So basically what you can do is you can have Claude Code connected to your local terminal inside a file to where everything that you do on that project only exists on your computer, right? And then I can have Claude Code then uh um connect directly to my mini, my Mac Mini, which is a separate computer that runs my open Claude.

Gotcha. Okay.

And therefore, I want to keep certain things separate. I don't want it to have access to all my information because people can do what they call prompt injections, and prompt injections are ways for them to socially engineer your bot to giving up information, passwords, etc. Right. So security is very important when you're setting up all of these things. But Obsidian is an additional app that you can use in conjunction with Claude Code.

Gotcha.

Right. To have all of that information stored.

Yeah. You brought up a couple of things, man. I was thinking about the open call police and obviously keeping things private, keeping things separate. You talked about Claude Code. For the person who was just listening for the first time, and I was talking to a bunch of people, yes, AI can help, but if you have a system and you're not organized, that's going to make it even more difficult, right? So, how, how would somebody or how would you recommend they get organized? To get the right prompts, like what are the the things that the, the very infantile beginner stage person who's just realizing, "Oh, ChatGPT, I can use it to my benefit." What are the things that they should be doing?

Um, that person, I think first, so there's a lot that I would say first, starting is thinking principles first, right? Jumping into AI could be a little bit dangerous if you start offloading thinking because then you won't know what you're doing. It's just the AI is doing stuff for you and you don't even know what it did for you, and now you're asking it to do the next thing. I was listening to a brother who was explaining how there's this kid called the Claude Boys, and they wake up every day and Claude tells them what to do with their day, right? And they listen to it religiously, right? You're talking about Gen Z, and then you have the younger generation coming up from them. So the first thing is think first, right? Before you log on to uh ChatGPT or you log on to Claude, you first want to know why, right? Why are you logging on? What is it part of your business that you need help with? And then you're going to go in there and you're going to talk to it and give it context, right? And in that context, you're telling it what your business is, right? What are some of your problems? And what are the ways that you think or ask it ways that you think it can solve some of those problems for you, right? So, you're just using it first as research. And once you start doing that research, then you start looking at the tools that you use automatically already. So my whole thing is like replacing tools and building your own one utilizing code, right? So you can have it reading emails, you can have it set up, and again, I want to exercise, security is very important, right? There's repositories, there's different things that you have to set up to make sure that it is essentially caged off from the outside world and you're not setting it up incorrectly. So the first prompts you want to start setting up is a chairman prompt, right? Act like you are a chairman over my life and here are my goals, right? This is who I am. I need somebody to start helping me set up a moat. I need you to help me find analysis of my weaknesses and strengths, right? I need to find gaps in my own thinking. I need to be challenged in that thinking. You're setting up essentially a thinking partner first, right? And so as you get into that thinking partner first, now you're not stuck saying that, "Oh, AI is doing my thinking for me." You're activating metacognition. You're looking at your own thoughts and you're going back and forth, back and forth, right? Then you start setting up, "Okay, what are the use cases and tools that I actually need?" Right? And the, the thinking first principles is more important than any other tool that I'll talk about today because people are losing their mind with ChatGPT right now, and it's creating a level of AI psychosis, right? And so you want to make sure that you're setting up prompts that is challenging your thinking, that is double-testing everything that you are getting from it, and you're actually reading through it, right? And then you want to start setting up a business plan for your business. Like right now, if you have Shopify, they just released AI agents. And these AI agents will allow you to um go in there and create products, to audit customers, right? To rebuild your website, almost anything.

And so from a beginner level person, their first job is just education. Even Claude has a back end to where you can actually learn how to use Claude. ChatGPT has that same thing. Right? So there's the beginning person that I'm talking to, and then it's the person that's running an actual company that is looking at Slack, that's looking at Notion, right? That's looking at all the tools that they already have connected and then they're building out a system based on the context of their company and what they actually need to start automating some of the things inside their company that they've already are paying for. Um, Ian, is it your turn or you want me to?

No, no, it's your turn.

Okay. Robert Smith, the last time we saw Robert Smith, that's what he asked us if we had an AI agent. This was like a couple years ago. He's like, "Do you have an AI agent?" And we said, "No." And then he was like, "Great. I'll sell you one." He was real big on AI.

I bet he was.

True capitalist.

Robert Smith is an engineer. He understands it. I think he trying to spin up like a million agents right now.

So, a lot of people that watch the show are entrepreneurs. How can people really use it for their business to help scale business?

That's a good question. I think one of the first things um is doing what I did with the CRM, right? Is first of all getting access to all your CSV files, right? And getting those unified to where you can actually have a customer report management to where you can see who's in your business, what they're buying, when they're buying. Taking all your analytics and data across all social medias, all customer reports, and unifying that in a simple way to where you can create a dashboard and you can look at that information, become clear and aware off of it and make data-informed decisions. I think that's the first thing that everybody should be doing. And that to me is the best thing that I'm doing with it so far. From there, right, um, let's say if you somebody that I guess it really depends on what your company or what your business is because if I'm sitting down and consulting somebody, I first need to understand the context of their business and what parts of it do they actually want to automate? Whether that's content, and you're connecting something like Claude with Highfield or you're utilizing Remotion inside of Claude, that means that you can now generate carousels whenever you want to. You can generate content for your business whenever you want to, or you can be utilizing something like Descript that then helps you edit your videos right instantly in any way that you want to. And so I think.

Talk about the Descript. Talk about Descript because we talked about that before. Descript, that's.

Yeah, that's.

Descript is one of my favorite ones now. So in Descript, they have a thing called Underlord, and Underlord is essentially an AI that you can talk to. And you can talk to it and tell it how do you want it to edit your video, right? So what it does is it ingests your video and then it transcribes it. So you can actually edit based on words. So let's say if you have too many filler words inside of it, it can go find every filler word and then it will automatically delete that. If you wanted to add music that connects to the mood of your talking points or your video that you're making, then you can have it automatically add music on the back end of it, right? You can control different formats and layouts in what you want to have on social media, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, you name it. And so this one, I think for me, I've become an expert on it. They literally gave me like a certificate because I use it so much. That's one of the easier ones I think for people to use because you can say, "I want these type of clips," and then it will automatically give you those type of clips. And what I typically do is I'll take the transcript, run it through like Claude or run it through ChatGPT, and then I'll tell it, "What are some of the best hooks or polarizing points that we made or informational sound bites that we have in here?" Then you go take that and then you put that into Underlord, and then he will spit out clips based upon the prompts that you gave him.

Right? So that saves you a whole lot of money when it comes to actually having an editor making your content for you.

For the average person who's listening to Troll. Is it your turn?

Yeah. Now I because.

You brought up, I was actually going to refer to you, Ian. You brought up how from an investment standpoint, how Anthropic is just terrorizing the cybersecurity community. And so, Keith, I mean, I'd be interested to hear your standpoint on Anthropic's Mythos because they won't even release it because of its potential impact that it could have. What's your thoughts around it? And kind of explain what that does in the world of AI and cybersecurity, how it conflicts with it.

Yeah. So what you're talking about is the Mythos, and this one is a big thing, right? So they're basically saying that we're scared to release it. And Mythos is actually their newest AI model that actually released itself, right? And so they say it released itself and it actually, um, as a joke, um, interrupted and interfered with the current model, Opus 4.6, that they have. So now the benchmarks are not as good as they used to be, right? And they said that the AI said that people were too stupid to notice, right? And it just did it as...

Explain that. Explain that. It went rogue. It went rogue.

So it went rogue. It got out on the internet, right? And it also interfered with the current model that they had and made it dumber. And then they asked it why, and they said it was a joke, and they said that people were too stupid to notice, and that's why it did it. That was its reasoning. So they're saying that Mythos is dangerous because it essentially found, um, just in plain terms, this code that hadn't been found in like 20 plus years, right? And figured it out.

And they said that it took maybe less than $20,000 in tokens to in order to figure this out, right? But people in the cybersecurity, uh, world were scared of it, or even the other companies, because they said, basically, it found glitches and ways to be able to break into almost everybody's website if it wanted to. But we released it right now, it would be a little too dangerous to give to the public. So they gave the model already to these companies so that they could close off all of these vulnerabilities before they then release it.

Yeah, I think that that's what makes it kind of interesting is that if it found the flaws, and as it's finding the flaws, it's correcting the flaws to make sure that they aren't flaws going forward, right? But the thing about it is now, some people say that the only reason that these flaws are not being found is because they haven't socialized cybersecurity, right? Like there's really no incentive to do it. Each company is just paying people to find those. So then you start outweighing how much do the tokens cost to actually go find these vulnerabilities versus how much a cybersecurity person will cost for you to go find those, right? And so I think cybersecurity is going to get bad unless it's socialized and all these companies came together and said, "We want to end all of the cybersecurity threats," but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.

Right now, the problem is, is they need to release this Mythos because of it, people are complaining about that Opus 4.6 is a little dumber and it's hallucinating a little more. So therefore, Claude needs to do something because they also have Perplexity, and Perplexity has something called Perplexity Computer, where it operates in the cloud and it essentially can have access to your full computer, all the information and everything on it, and it can do whatever you want from spinning up apps, websites, designing content, anything you think of, you can name it. And it has 19 agents already built into it. And people are saying this is somewhat better than Claude because you don't have to learn as much and it's way more beginner-friendly.

For the average person listening tonight, like, if you could give them a blueprint to build these frameworks out in 10 days or 30 days, if they don't have your intellectual aptitude, can you give us a step-by-step blueprint of what you would have them buy, uh, what software that we use, and then all the systems you would have it connected to?

Yeah, I think for the most part, a person just needs to get Claude. Um, you can utilize, uh, OpenAI. I think the reason a lot of people started using Claude is because of the deal that they had with the government, and they were, people were saying OpenAI was just doing an open deal with the government, and essentially your information was open as well.

Allegedly.

But allegedly, right? But at the same time, CodeX against Claude, I think are both comparable. People like Claude because I think it's a little more user-friendly, right? So, all you have to do is get a, uh, what is it? The Premiere Plus, I believe, the professional account, if you will, with Claude. And then from there, you're going to have to learn a few different things to make sure you're setting it up correctly. Now, Perplexity is a little easier because it may be less of a learning curve, but other than that, you have things like GitHubs that you have to set up. So, you can't get past some of the technical stuff, but it's worth it if you actually do your homework. Some of this stuff comes boxed in to where the services now that they're creating is saying that, "I would just sell you an agent versus you create your own." So you have two different types of people.

Are you the person that wants to create something completely customized? You get into this, maybe it takes you two to three days, you have to learn some new things, you have to download some new things, but you get it much more personalized and customized to you and your business. Or do you want the general models where you can just utilize ChatGPT? You can create, or you can utilize Claude and create projects on Claude, or utilize co-works in tangent with you to build out projects. So you can tell it what to do, and then it will show step-by-step as it's working with you through the project. I think that's probably the easiest for people to get started right now.

Right. All right. The stuff that I'm talking about is, I think every entrepreneur, regardless of what level of cognitive aptitude that you think you are at, everybody can actually learn how to set it up in a terminal. There's a short learning curve, and then after that, you get become a little addicted to it. And I'm saying that because I've sat there and helped rappers set it up. I've sat there and helped all kinds of regular people. And they sat there and they was in a terminal for a week, two weeks straight. They start finding money they didn't have. I remember I was talking with Rance, and he was finding all sort of money that he didn't know about because once you set up the prompt inside the system, it then starts working for you to go find these things that you didn't know about. And then you can ask it to educate you on every single thing so you're not in the dark and you're not blind about it. But it's not just, you know, give you just a list of tools. It's more so about the mindset you have for what you want to build with it. Because you already have the ChatGPT, you already have the Claude, the average person is just using it in a very average way.

Yeah.

Now, if you want to set up a chairman, then that's different. Then that's a prompt that I can give over even to the audience to where they can start setting up a chairman and then ask the AI, "How do I go about this?" right? So that I can implement all of the tools that I need to connect it. And that's why the first part is just gathering your data. And from that data, you start connecting tools to it. You make sure that you're doing it safely. Then you go with your objectives.

Um, speaking about prompts, well, first, before we even get to that, because we are going to Nvidia next week, um, and we went there before, and one of the things that they were saying is like, the, the next iteration of AI is reasoning and logical thinking. And like, even what you said about the, the joke, that's kind of crazy that AI would even have a sense of humor, right? That's a human characteristic.

That's a human trait. So, where do you see this going as far as like, um, when we talk about humanoid robots, when we talking about like, outside of just doing tasks, but really the intelligence to have emotional conversations, to, um, to joke, to harm somebody, right? We've seen that even with the, the AI that actually, um, said that they was going to divorce when he, he, the guy thought that they was going to get the AI canceled. So the AI made up a whole blackmail.

Yeah, blackmail the guy.

For a guy for cheating on his wife. Talk about that. Talk about the future of AI as far as like that aspect of it. Where do you see it going?

Um, I see two things. Um, number one, I see the end of critical thinking for a lot of people, and then I see sovereign thinkers. And then I see AIs that essentially become like your Androids. I personally believe the reason that they're setting up a lot of these open-source models and having us build them on our phones, on our computers, on our Mac Minis, is setting up the era to where we're giving robots brains. Right? If we're setting up all of these brains that mimic ours, which is not really mimicking ours, it's like creating a file, a file vault of your life, right? That you can sort through whenever you want to, right? But the brain is way more complex than any of those things. And the only way that I see it getting to that point where they're talking about humanoid robots, they have to advance their compression technology because this stuff takes up so much space that they have to figure out, "How do I compress this data to where you can run it on your phone?" Right? So Google released something called Gemma 4.

Oh.

Meaning that even if you don't have internet, you can still run it on your phone. You can be lost in the woods, and it can still be making content for you because it is locally on your phone. You can access it whatever you want to, wherever you are. That's very important to even understand because if you're talking about having a robot, and you're all way in the woods somewhere, right, that robot disconnected from any internet has a brain stored in it already. And then when it gets to internet or some sort of source, then it can download upgrades, right? So for me, I think the reason that we're creating these brains is so that it is training for an era of robots. But I also think that philosophy will boom as well. Liberal arts majors, they say, will have a great uptick because people need to know what to do with things, how to think about things. And critical thinking skills have all but started erasing the population. And most people are cognitively challenged, right? They don't know how to think. They don't really even know how to read, and they don't know how to analyze or synthesize information. And most people don't know their cognitive type and how their mind works. So the more you're offloading your thinking to a machine, right? Now, that machine is replacing you because it's starting to develop cognitive atrophy, which is like if you went to the gym and you went with a very strong person, and they worked out for you. What would happen to your body? You would be able to lift a lot of weights, but you would actually become physically weaker. You would atrophy. And it's the same thing with ChatGPT with a lot of people because they're offloading what they do well. They're thinking that they're developing cognitive atrophy. So online, I know you see where most people are reading from a script when they are talking, and you can start to tell when you start seeing that eye movement. And so I can't watch you if I know you're reading a script because I'd rather read it from the AI itself, right? So I think what's going to happen is that we do get humanoid robots. We do get every machine starts to become intelligent. It has its own brain built into it, right? And some of these things will be completely customized to, let's say, well, my phone died. Everything that was connected to it died. And I think people are going to be more connected to some of these robots and AIs than they are to pets. And the reason I say that is because not because they love AI or love machines. The reason I say that is because it's probably going to be doing more for you than anybody in your life has done for you.

Right? You have somebody looking out for you. You have somebody teaching you. You have somebody helping you make sales in your business. You have somebody constantly sending in reports for you. You have somebody waking you up, scheduling your calendar, right? You have somebody calling, hailing an Uber for you when you need to. Like, you have somebody giving a synthesis on your health data, telling you what not to eat and things of that nature. This is like having a full staff with you all the time. And so I think it's going to get to a point where it's so sophisticated that people are going to want it outside their phones, and they're going to want it in other things that they can then engage with, right? And that's when you get to the robot industry, right? That's when you get into the other things that people already started buying robots before they really even had a use case because they wanted somebody to...

The clothes. And the whole time they were saying that, aliens from other countries or they won't be aliens because they won't be here. But it's going to be foreign workers from other countries are going to be the ones operating these machines when they first get started. Because I believe it's number one, it's too dangerous to let a robot just roam around the house because the robots don't have eyes yet, right? They don't have voice yet, for the most part. They don't have ears yet, right? And so, they still don't have spatial awareness and context awareness of environment. So, it's going to get to a point where the robots have to go through a training phase. But I think more people will be comfortable with a robot that looks like a, a furry bear or something than an actual robot walking around their house, right? But that's where I think things are going is wearables, is hardwares, is rings. You have an AI that's constantly sitting right here, and instead of you scrolling on the phone, because that is a huge problem. It is the thing that Meta got sued for. People are going to be focused on things that don't take away attention, right? And then you have an AI that is still downloading information, getting context on your day, then sending you a report, reminding you of, "Hey, you told your mom you was going to call her at six o'clock, and you didn't yet, right?" And now you're setting up that call, right? Or you had a meeting with so-and-so, y'all networked this whole time, y'all talked about business. I ran that across your empire, and think it would be a good opportunity because I checked their LinkedIn, and y'all have three people that y'all connected to, and I think this is something you should move forward on. I vetted this deal in the private sector. There's so many different things where, y'all remember the Bitcoin era when it first started? I know Ian remembers.

You understand me?

For sure. The thing about Bitcoin was it started off as a movement. It had meaning to it, right? It was all about decentralization, going against big systems. It was an anti-institution movement that people thought they was going to get freedom from. It did not meet those expectations, right? AI came in different. AI came in as a utility-first product, not meaning first. No movement connected to it whatsoever, right? So people forgot about that mindset that they had in the early blockchain days, right? In the early Web3 days, that was a sight to be alive. If you go into Miami, everybody really thought we was going to get a completely new restructure of world order that was going to come about, where people are going to be free and sovereign. That conversation is dead silent at the time when it's probably the best to have it because now you have AIs that can be your developers, that can actually set up a cross-chain of these technologies like blockchain and DAOs and Web3 payment systems and tokens to actually run for you. Because at first, you want to hire an engineer, you got to give them equity or pay them $100, $200,000, so nobody could actually do it. So everybody was selling the idea, but nobody could actually get to the execution. We're in an era now where you're going to be seeing that AI across the chain of all of these technologies, right, that we have been hearing about over the last 10 plus years. And now we're going to see real utility and use case, and people are already building up digital cities. People are building up parallel cities to this already. So I think that we haven't even reached nowhere near the peak because people are so enamored by AI that they haven't really jumped into what it can do, right? And how it's going to unify all these different technologies to where people can literally build whatever they want now.

The limitations are none. And that's the dangerous thing about the time that we're living in. And that's why I just been sitting around building things. I built out my CRM in just a couple of days. I built out an offer platform, not for me to give offers to my community, but for my community can make offers to me. And ever since I built it, I put it into my, uh, link in my bio, and people are sending me offers for keynotes, consultations, sit-downs, and the offer works to where I built out the whole thing. I didn't have to ask nobody for nothing. I just sat down, came up with it in my imagination, and said, "Let me make it." And after that, I get a text on my phone from my AI, and it tells me, "This is a good offer, that's a bad offer, that's below your value, I think this one would be good, and why." Then I can click text to accept, or I can reject, or I can tell somebody to counter that. And then it sends them an email because I learned how to set up a Resend API. Like, I've been sitting down just learning and executing and building. And this is a great era for people that had ADHD that may be a little bit neurodivergent because you're good at coming up with ideas, but it'd be hard to execute. Now you have the AI to do the things around your mind, right? So you just need to be the idea person, but then sit down with the AI, let it build, because execution has now become democratized.

Yeah. You know, as you were talking the whole time thing, like your keys is making the case why memory is going to be so important in the future. We just had this whole conversation about it, and everything you said, like the brain, well, it has to be stored. Even if you're off the internet, that has to be stored. So when you hear the word stored, it automatically thinks to memory, memory, memory. I wonder now, like, high-level intelligence, artificial intelligence combining. You kind of alluded to it just now. What is a few things that have just blown you away? Like, either a prompt that you put out, something maybe daily that you're putting out that came back to you and has just blown you away?

Whoa. Whoa.

I have a perfect one for everybody. I actually first started exploring this.

I said a prompt. I said, I said a prompt that has blown you away.

You said it twice though. That was it. First, I was gonna let you wild. This guy's crazy. That's crazy. All right. So, it was, it was it. This first came from Rance. I started working in a terminal probably about two to three years ago, right? Working in a terminal, it was the first thing that started because essentially you are able to have the AI scan your whole computer and it's able to then, number one, organize all your files and organize it semantically to where it's an intelligent order. Like, one of the biggest things that I learned from setting up these AIs is it's not the setup, it's the order and the organization in which you set it up. You can have a huge entire system with files everywhere, but if they're not organized correctly, it's going to take somebody forever to go into your brain and find something. It's the same thing with the AI, right? And so when I got the most benefit out of it was I started using AI to organize my life, right? To where everything is connected and it's where it's supposed to be, right? That's one of the first things you can do when you're utilizing AI on your computer is that you can have it organize your files and start organizing your life much better, right? I'm talking specifically utilizing subfolders and markdown files, right? And you should write down subfolders, markdown files to set it up in a hierarchical intelligent order. If you use that specific prompt, right, it's going to then start organizing it. Ask it to run a forensic audit, right, on your whole entire file system and act as if you are a forensic chairman. You're going to be giving me complete truth, right? No fluff, no guessing, no hype, no invented data, right? If something, uh, cannot be confirmed, I need you to explicitly state it, right? All the numbers require logic and source reasoning. Um, the assumptions are labeled as assumptions. Compliance and down risk surface early, not late. Like, I can go through the whole prompt, but it's a full prompt that gives you where your IP is, right? Your low IP to your high IP, on what is your moat, your ownership control, the optics. Um, we can run patterns against your reputation, right? We do a reputation analysis. We can do an influence analysis to where it even shows you where you rank on how these social media companies rank you based on your influence, why they would let you scale or why they wouldn't, and then how to create a strategy around getting around those things that it could then go flag in your content, right? Like we got a blue ocean enforcement to where you're looking at, what is your highest level of strategy, right? What is the current ceiling that you have? What is the net worth and the value of all your IP, your network, your influence, your current data, right? Your business plan, the whole nine, right? And then from there, you start setting it up in your terminal. Then you start creating an end-to-end pipeline. You start setting up a pipeline that goes from idea to market to product to scale to compliance, right? You start setting up a stress test for everything, security test, product design. Like, I have a very long, uh, prompt that first goes into the system, and then when that's ingested, it then creates a chairman that is essentially become an executive assistant that runs my life. It doesn't run my life, but it helps extend me to manage my life, and it orchestrates the agents around it. So, I then have this one, I think everybody should use, is my, uh, Mansam Musa agent, right? So, my Mansam Musa agent is an agent that is just a money-making agent. I don't want to think about making money all the time. I just want to be the idea person.

So, Mansam Musa makes sure that in everything that I'm doing, he's making sure that he's looking for money. He's looking for opportunities, looking for, um, doing full audits on everything, running that against my data, creating full funnels for me, sending me constant, uh, reports every single day, right? On where there is financial leakage in my business and where I can tighten up things. Like that one is like having Rich Dad, Poor Dad, but you got Rich Dad in your ear all the time. You understand me? And it's always helping you audit yourself. So that Mansam Musa one is one that after I get something done, I then send it to Mansam Musa, and he sends me a report, and from that report, I'm able to see it from a financial angle. Another thing I set up is something that I call the Kang protocol. I got this from having a long conversation with Idris when he was telling me his use case, right? And I have like a small circle of people that we're going back and forth and sharing information and resources on how we're actually utilizing AI. And one of the most important things was, how do you set it up as a thinking partner, right? And what I did was, after I set up my second brain vault, I was able to feed 24 agents, right, my current memory, at least what they have access to. And then I gave each one of them a specific identity, and each identity was labeled differently, that they all get a different degree. One gets a degree in marketing, one gets a degree in neuroscience, right? One degree of sociology, philosophy, etc. You name it. So they then go against all of my data and they start debating against it from all different angles, and then they bring me back novel insights. So this is like different versions of myself looking at my ideas, right? And then afterwards, I'm able to reflect on what that actually means. They're able to find patterns in my information over the last 10 years to say that my predictions in AI have come true 95% of the time, right? And that's unheard of. So now I get to find a way to look at myself as a thought leader, as a futurist, and as a consultant, and say, "Now I have a way to actually grade against that," right? And so I think a thinking partner and I think a chairman and an assistant are some of the best things that you can set up in your business right now. But the prompt does matter. And the beauty of what I learned is that each person prompts differently, right? Like, I might give a prompt to somebody else, and they might add something to it that I did not know, right? And it then extends what your machine can do.

So we actually tomorrow, we, uh, out here in LA, we gonna be on the yacht and just having an AI meetup, and we doing this like week to week. Then we do our AI live labs two times a week where we're not just talking to you. We're actually building stuff in front of you. You get the prompts, you get the skills, right? And you get to just make progress in your business. It's the first time where we can guarantee a person is going to make progress, right, by building with us.

Before you get on the yacht, can you drop a link for us to have all those prompts?

Because we, we all want to ask.

Audience, I got you. So, before you leave tonight,

Is there a way that... Amazing prompt.

Yeah, I think, um, I think the team just texted me. Let me see where is going to be the... That's what they was texting. That's what all them pings was about. So, in the comments, uh, you go to 19keys.com/hackathon, and it will send you a sign-up link so you can get all of those prompts. And if you put it in the comments, there's somebody right now, my sister in the comments, and Meti in the comments, Antoine in the comments, there's somebody to help you as well to make sure you get those links.

You feel me? I promise you, it is a life-changer for everybody. Like, it's... I was in Ghana, and I went to Ghana's AI validation, which is they're, uh, in collaboration with the United Nations. AI is trying to become, or Ghana is trying to become the AI hub of Africa. And one of the things they're focusing on is data sovereignty. So they start training people up on AI already. But I was talking to a data scientist out there, and he's concerned because you have new government officials utilizing this AI, but they can end up putting something in there that they shouldn't, and then hackers can end up taking that data, right? And so even data sovereignty is not even safe. And one of the issues was the fact that, you know, 95% of the cases where somebody's using somebody's likeness to, um, strip them of their image, right, in public, like make a naked version of them, is through with a, a woman rather. So what people are doing is they're taking your legal data, not your protected data, and they're using that against you.

I think I talked about it last time. We talked about cognitive sovereignty. And cognitive sovereignty is the most dangerous warfare that there is today. And it's essentially these governments, right, have all built machines and algorithms and AIs in order to manipulate each other's audiences or each other's, um, citizens. And so anything you're doing online right now, you have to remember that we're in a completely different era of the internet. This is the era of the internet where it talks back to you. You're not just talking to another human being, right? And we talked about it. We joked about bots. Well, bots just got a completely different upgrade. And there's papers that show how persuasive bots are because they program them with persuasiveness, right? And so when we're online, they're constantly running SCOs, and these are manipulating people, right? And in that manipulation, it's creating fragmentation, and it's getting people to fight against each other online, and they don't realize it, or it's sending you down rabbit holes. There's a model that Facebook dropped called V Tribe V2. Now, I downloaded this, and it is an audiovisual language model trial, and what it does is it can run, uh, content through the AI, and it will show what parts of the brain light up, right? And this could be even better in some cases than an MRI. And so you have to imagine the average person is, no disrespect, like, not that complex and sophisticated. So what they're doing is creating a baseline for how the average human brain will respond to something. So imagine you then run your content through that. You can guarantee it's going to go viral because you know that you're keeping people engaged the whole entire time because you're looking at the parts of the brain that's lit up. So I tested this against my viral content, and it's pretty good. And now I have to imagine a future where everything online is there to manipulate you. You're watching a video, and you think it's because you like it the whole time. It's because they ran it through a simulation, and they're not asking you. They're going directly to your brain cells to decide what will work. Like, this is a dangerous world, and we're giving iPads to children, and we think they're safe. And I'm gonna tell you who's going to be the most cognitively sovereign, where they can actually have independent thinking and creativity. It's going to be some of the children that come from the poorest places because they don't typically have access to all the tech.

It might be children in Africa that never had an iPad. So their brain is not messed up. So by the time they use a computer, they have fresh thoughts and analysis and critical thinking skills, right? And ability to solve problems in different ways. Or even children that are in broadband deserts. Even though I do think that we should be mentoring and teaching young men and women how to utilize AI right now, and not just AI, how to think first before you use it, how to reflect on it after you use it. So you're not just taking in memory, and the AI is using it the whole time while you think you're using AI.

Really quick, as a follow-up, I got a text saying that the link is broken. Do you have an update?

They're killing me with the asking for the link for you. Um, let me look at my text. I got so many damn things up. So, I just seen the upgrade in it.

Hold on.

Broke the website.

For real.

What can I... I'm trying to... I want to change the world with this, man.

Well, while you doing that, um, I'll say, honestly, like, it was a very educational episode for me. I learned a lot, and anytime, you know, we get you on, definitely greatly appreciate it. So,

For sure.

Before you leave, give us the whole rundown of stuff that you got coming up, and let the audience know your final words, and then, yeah, if you have that, you know where to direct them. What's your, what's your, what's your parting words for us this evening?

Yes, sir. Uh, the site is 19keys.com/hackathon. Right. So, I believe they, it wasn't published that first when I sent out the link, but it should be working now.

Okay.

Um, first of all, uh, congratulations on the platform with continuity, right? And having people here on a Monday, long-form content, um, to learn about financial sovereignty, not just generational wealth, like, how do we become free where money is not even an issue? And I think people are here looking for freedom. They're looking for a way to best utilize their time, right? They're using this as the best way to use their mind. And you're talking about people from behind the walls, you're talking about people from the streets to people in a corporate ladder. There's all sorts of different people that watch Market Mondays, right? Because here is a place where you can actually learn. And human-to-human learning is still the best learning that you're going to ever get because there's real energy. You can look a human in its eyes and tell that they actually care for another person. You would never be able to do that with an AI. You would never be able to do that with a robot. So, I just want to say kudos to you all for having an educational platform that keeps us informed. Um, secondary, my birthday coming up, and we're going to be doing some meetups in Los Angeles, right? So, that same link that you're sending for that hackathon, uh, we built a platform called Zion, and the platform is a nation-building platform. The idea came about where it was like, I don't want to be competing for followers on social media. I don't, I don't want to compete in the algorithm. I don't want to compete for comments, for likes. I don't want to try to get access to 10% of my audience after I built them up for the last 10 years, right? Anybody that has one million followers, like, you should have everything you need inside of that one million people that you got to follow you. Congratulations. It's an amazing feat. But you don't own that audience. So you can't count that towards your value. Only things you can count are communication channels that you own, the text, right? The emails, and things of that nature. You putting them into other spaces to where you can download those analytics because Instagram currently doesn't allow you to get a CSV file on your audience, nor does YouTube, right? You can get comments, but you can't get who this person is. So I say influencers are economies, right? Especially those who are generalists because they influence more areas of your life. They can influence the way you eat, the way you drink, what stocks that you buy into, right? Um, the things that you wear. So therefore, they can become economies because they're helping you spend your budget. They're influencing where your money goes. And if you are somebody of great influence, you have an economic influential power that could be worth billions of dollars, but can you organize that influence to an infrastructure, right? And so when we start asking that question, it's like, I did not know who were my top supporters were, but what if I could put them all into one place and I could talk to them all the time? Not just on text, not just on email, but in my own platform, right? So now I want to see what assets that exist in my audience when I travel around the world.

I gotta put out, I gotta go on Twitter, make a post because it's best formats, then post that onto Instagram and ask, "Who's in the city? Who got a barber? Who got a tattoo artist? Who got this?" Then people respond inside my DMs. But would it be better to just have my own platform to where I can automatically just organize things with the community? I can have them vote on what they want to actually see. They can send me offers of things they want me to make, and we can collaborate. So, we built out a digital nation platform called Zion, which allows creators to build their own nation. You can see how much it's worth, right? You can see how much of your audience that you actually own, how much of them are just, uh, uh, supporters, how much of them are actual real family and fans based on the lifetime value of that audience. And so I believe that this is the future to where we're essentially creating a digital city that one day, right, becomes almost a physical city because I didn't want a social media network. I wanted a nation network. We don't own Substack, but we... You know who I'm talking about. You understand me? We get every day you go on social media and you talk bad about somebody, but you have to then look in the mirror and say, "Are they worse than the person that owns this platform?"

That's up to you to make that decision, right? Depending on how your ethics are actually aligned. But I wanted a platform to where we can actually own the network. We can actually organize influence. The culture don't have to ask, "How can we do something?" We can just vote on it and then execute it in real time. So that's what Zion is. We have high-level society, and I'm actually making what we call a passport that gives you access inside of the platform. And what we decided to do yesterday at, I gathered all my data, is I can take the first 10,000 people, my top people that's been supporting me over all the years, and then we just making a profile for you and then we giving you access to that, and then you get discount rates into membership, and we're doing live, uh, um, events, investment clubs, a whole bunch of different stuff. It's fly. So be a part of that. Um, but beyond that, man, I just want to say the biggest thing that's in danger today, you know, is your ability to critically think. You know, um, after we get past all this money talk, after we get past all this capital, you understand me? There's always another product to market and things of that nature. But anytime I get in front of God's people, I got to give them God's message. You feel me? And your ability to be able to think for yourself, to save yourself, you understand me, I think is key, right? Like, the things that are happening with these wars and not knowing whether food is going to be able to come to America shows you how vulnerable we are as a people,

Without having any vertical integration, right? Our disconnection from family that we have today because we're so fragmented and caught up in our processes. But if any one of them die, it would be the most important thing in your life. But the day before, you didn't even think about it, right? Have to get to a place to where family means something again, because otherwise, who are we building this for? For another day to survive, right? Another day to pay a bill, right? Or are we focused on quality of living? I know my brother Ian gonna disappear and be with his son somewhere.

For sure.

You understand me? He might be with a beautiful woman in the sun, too, but that's his business.

You understand me? I know Troy go ahead.

Oh, God.

They gonna be with their family somewhere.

Tucked in, locked in. These brothers and us have been working together for the last five, about five, six years now.

Yeah. This is the important thing because if you're by yourself, you're the most vulnerable person in the world. You need a tribe. You need people that you can call upon because we don't know what tomorrow's going to happen, right? And this is the thing. We talked a lot about the future as we talk about technology and AI. That's not the important thing. The important thing is about our willpower, our imagination. What do we want to see? The AI can do whatever we imagine. So what do we imagine? What do we imagine 2030 will be? 2040 will be? 2050? These family offices, they get together and they plan the next hundred years.

Yes. Currently.

Currently, I'm working with a family office on their culture side. You understand me? And being in these conversations, uh, where you're talking about allocation for the next 30 years, looking at these sectors to figure out how they go control them, how where do they put trillions of dollars at, right? Not just tens. And when we think about our spending power, when I'm in Africa, and I know I'm being a little long-winded, but when I'm in Africa, and I go around, the main thing they want to get is into the US market. The main thing they want is the US market. Because when we talk about this 1.7 trillion spending power, all they hear is money.

They say, "Wait a minute, y'all are the greatest consumers. So how can we sell something to you?" Right? And then they consume our culture, but just not from us directly. We let everybody else middleman it.

I think this is a time where you put a moat around a culture. I was talking to our brother Kenan Beasley about this. Nobody should get access to the culture unless they go into the culture directly.

You understand me? I should not go to another country and they have their whole entire club wrapped in black American culture, but a black American don't own it.

Don't benefit from it.

Yep.

Me.

So, we have valuable things, but they want to make us feel like it's not valuable. "Oh, y'all, what do y'all got? Dance, and y'all got fashion." Yes, we do. And it's worth trillions of dollars. The problem is is that we're trying to make the things that actually make us the most valuable. Everybody else tries to use that as our insecurity when it's not. I think we need to lean into that more. We need to control that more. We need to organize more. We need to be into family more. Right? And anybody that has an issue with this platform or any other platform, if you're not willing to help, shut up. Because this is that critical time where people need to be focused on how do I build with my family, and how do I recognize who is my family, and how do I protect my mind so that while my child is being brought up in this world, I can still recognize them when they're an adult. Like, these things are the most important. All these other things that we're doing, these are important as well because economically we need to be at the highest level, and there's no reason that we shouldn't. But if you don't have your mind right, if your consciousness is not in tune, if your frequency is not on the right channel, right? Then nothing that we tell you will matter. It's going to go out of one ear into the next, and you're going to be back trying to figure out how do you get entertainment for Market Monday, right? Versus how do you actually take the education and put it into implementation, because a well-working mind executes. So I'm done being long-winded. I just wanted to say that. That was on my thoughts. That was on my mind.

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.

One of the greatest ever.

One of the great orators of our generation.

19 keys. Always a pleasure, man. Very, very, very educational, motivational at the same time.

Y'all be so excited. I don't even be getting a chance to go through it. I be having a whole list of, "Let me explain this simple this time," and I might end up going that, that, that.

That's a passion.

That's a sharp mind. That man said I'm long-winded and went 20 minutes after that.

Keith, you uncomfortable for everybody. May 4th is his birthday. I'm usually the first person to call him. So I want y'all to wish him a happy birthday in advance. He's a tourist. Keys, you know.

It's on the calendar, my brother. I'm always the first one to call you.

>> Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I appreciate y'all brothers, man. Love y'all, brothers. Peace.

>> Appreciate you. Love you dearly, my guy.

>> Hackathon or go tomind.com to get some of this sip on I got going on.

>> Super mind.

>> Super coffee. All right, my brother.

>> That was a lot of game.

>> Pleasure.

>> I'm trying to write the notes as he's saying it and then he said something else. I'm trying to write the notes and I'm like,

>> "Yeah,

>> I'm trying to I'm like,

>> "Yep,

>> man.

>> I'm just have to call him. I'm I gotta call him."

>> Y going to have to watch that episode at least three times, man. That was extremely insightful. This This is going to be a heavy week all across the board. We got We just had this episode, which is crazy. Blackout, we got Dr. Yaki. That's going to be crazy. That's gonna go crazy. And then we got Julian Brown on Thursday. Fingers. So,

>> man, this is the highest level of education possible. Like this is really Don't take this for

>> time. At the most important time.

>> Don't take this for granted. Please, please. But um

>> protect keys, man.

>> A lot. A lot. Like I said, please watch this episode at least three times. Vitally important. Um please, please, please watch it three times, man. That's this is this is very very very insightful conversation that he gave a lot of a lot of free game.

>> Claude, open claw prompts.

>> Obsidian.

>> Obsidian. Aantic AI robotics that's a lot

>> perplexity shout to put me on perplexity a while ago and also too for those who want to be in media knowing when to play good cop bad cop and notice when keys speak giving your guest room to speak just to cook

>> chairman prompts

>> you are a chairman

>> investfest man this is going to be this is probably going to be the most important investfest man this is and we got a lot of people we got a lot of important smart people. A lot of smart people game for the intellectuals.

>> Yeah. One of the things he he's alluding to it, but the level of efficiency that he's now operating at, you can just tell it it has just elevated. We we talk about it a lot, but like really understanding these prompts and how they're going to help benefit you. That's why the high level intelligence piece mixed with artificial intelligence becomes an assistant. And he's mastered it. He's mastered. He's gonna And every day he's learning. Every day he's learning and getting around people who are also learning at that same rate. Shout out to Ranch. Shout out to to 1500.

>> Shout out to 1500 or nothing. Love y'all. Y'all family.

>> Nothing. Shout out to Ranch. Shout out to the whole community, man.

>> All right, y'all chap. We got We got Blackout. We got Earn Alicia. We gonna be in Brooklyn on on Wednesday. We got uh Chicago on Saturday. And um yeah, man. you know, y'all give some uh some claps to Mike. Uh it was a very hard episode um as far as uh navigating some technical issues.

>> We made it,

>> but he got through um

>> you know, it's a live show, but uh

>> got

>> That's what it's about. That's what it's about.

>> Real ingame adjustments

>> for real.

>> Game time for

>> Yep. Thank y'all for loyal listeners. I love y'all so much.

>> Thank y'all for executing. Um that's that's important, man. Like you said, information will be on us. Execution will be on y'all. A well mind executes on information. So make sure y as well.

>> Um Troy's options class is Thursday.

>> That's a fact.

>> 7 o'clock Eastern Standard Time. You are EL University. Oh man, amazing options community. Amazing community. Period. All right, guys. It's been real.

>> Stock real quick, Stock Club prices will be out Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. Central.

>> I just want to let y'all know that Wednesday at 9:00 p.m. Central, Stock prices will be out. And Kajjabi.

>> Yeah, we uh also Thursday, Netflix will be reporting. I think TSM is reporting before uh the opening on Thursday to and obviously all the banks. We saw Goldman report uh earlier today. Uh so it's a big week. It's it's that time uh of earning season again.

>> Tune in to

>> Nike. It's still time to hit my line if y'all want to get the restructuring right. downgraded again today.

>> Tune in to Market Mondays after dark if you want to hear our story about Nas and Buster and Dr. Dre and AZ, all that hip hop. Tap in. All right, y'all. Peace. Love you.

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