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PART 1 Stories of the Trillion Dollar Man | January 2025 | Dan Peña QLA Castle Seminar

Dan Peña26:01

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Just [ __ ] do it. Subscribe now. The world is changing, and, um, Trump is going to change as much as humanly possible, as fast as humanly possible.

He's going to put in laws that prohibit his laws from being undone. How can he do that? The UN understands executive orders, but how? Congress is going to have to sit, okay? Yeah, yeah. And when Congress says it, it's fait accompli. He controls the Congress, the Senate, and the Supreme [ __ ] Court.

They laughed at him, and he still controls the Supreme Court. I mean, he could make himself dictator. I think he will. Yeah, that’s—I know it doesn’t match my outfit, but what? The U and the liberal faction, they’re not helpless, but they’re up against the wall. There’s not much they can do.

The QA seminar is not just a seminar; it is a blueprint for creating generational wealth as fast as humanly possible. I teach you how to turn nothing into millions, billions, and even trillions if you want to take control of your life to create a legacy that lasts for generations.

The time is now. Do not wait for the right moment. The right moment is this moment. Be bold, be selfish, be ruthless, and take no prisoners. I will still do seminars, but I won’t be able to do this forever. Act now or not at your own peril.

Thank you very much. I’ve been asked two or three times would I come back to do this and that. No, I’m not. You know, I’m not interested in coming back to this. Help Trump? Trump’s got enough people; he doesn’t need me. He doesn’t need me.

Although I was willing the first term, I wanted to do that kind of stuff, but not now. I’ve got four more years to pull as many of you across the threshold for U wealth, and I’ll get a bunch of you across. With people you know that are helping me, I’m going to call on Mel Gibson, I’m going to call on Joe Rogan, and I’ve already called on, um, Charles Payne at Fox and a couple other guys I know.

But they’re closet super closet conservatives, but now they can come out, and we—you know, I’ll enlist their assistance. I’m willing to pay my own money, which is a big deal. All these—not all these guys, but most of these guys are [ __ ] broke. They’re [ __ ] broke, and I don’t need the money, and I don’t need the moral validation.

So we’ll see what happens in the next few or four years. It’ll be fun. As Sally says, it’ll be fun. Questions? Have a drink. I think we should do a toast to Sir for your impact on the world and thanks for your philanthropy. Thank you. I think it’s very important. Cheers.

Do you see any injuries coming? Sorry, do you see any injuries coming, like to the forefront, other than health care and cybersecurity? Um, now that Trump’s in, not as easy. I want you to get from A to B the easiest way. I want you to get from A to B that they don’t throw you out. You stay in the saddle.

Healthcare is the geometrically easiest. Artificial intelligence is the overall most profitable, but it’s hard to get into. But, I mean, you can make a whole bunch of money, um, and then go and, you know, if you want to divert that money or the proceeds from those deals to saving the world, that’s fine.

But it’s interesting. I’ve been doing this over 30 years, and they may start out wanting to save the world, but at the end, they only want to save themselves. I’ve seen a lot of kids come to and sit in this room that, you know, when they make a bunch of money—and a bunch of money depends on the kid—all of a sudden, you know, the, uh, saving the birds and the [ __ ] goldfish and [ __ ] like that doesn’t become as important.

And that normally comes with maturity and age. I never wanted to save the world, so I skipped that portion. But I’ve been around a lot of successful people, [ __ ] and, um, at the end of the day, when they get as old as I am, they’re interested in their legacy. What are people going to think?

I didn’t really start being interested in my legacy until I was maybe 65. But I’m certainly interested—not in my legacy, because I know when I add another trillion or two trillion onto what I’ve already done, you know, I mean, I’ll get credit for it now, but I’ll get credit for it 100 years from now.

I don’t want to give a [ __ ] about the credit 100 years from now, but, you know, I want to put up the numbers that can never be surpassed. I like being called the greatest of all time. And, uh, you kids, uh, and I’m very judicious with making sure we don’t embarrass the, uh, the brand.

And, uh, you know, very seldom do I come off my perch and stop one of you from doing something, but occasionally I do because you—you got to get [ __ ] up. And, you know, you start to believe your press clippings because I have, you know, a bunch of people that, you know, people think that, um, they don’t call them mini-mes, but they’re kind of like mini-mees, and they give false information, like false prophets, you know, back in the Bible times.

So occasionally I step off my perch and I get involved, but not too often because, for the most part, most of you are respectful of the, uh, of the brand. They’re not respectful so much to protect me; they’re respectful to protect your part of the brand that you’re making money off of. That’s fine.

You know, even though it’s not exactly what I would want, it’s close enough for government work. Because the brand is pure, and we haven’t had any big, you know, fuck-ups, no stains on the brand, and so that’s fine. As long as you stay within, you know, roughly speaking, the guidelines, I leave you to your own devices. That’s fine. I have no problem with that.

Um, but I mean, the closer we get to Armageddon, uh, the closer we get. I mean, you know, there’s a rage now in London, in the UK, people stabbing each other because you can’t get guns here. The, uh, and even the rough-ass serial gangsters have trouble getting guns here.

Um, and so they’re stabbing people. And so in America, they’re still shooting people. Where my daughter lives, uh, last week, they killed 16 people. It’s a low, low weekend in Chicago. 2016 died. And so why my daughter wants to live there, I stopped asking. You know, she likes it. She thinks there’s action in Chicago, and so far, you know, touch wood, nothing’s happened to her.

Well, they don’t want to stop it. Chicago, you know, is where Obama bought his election. Chicago is where John Kennedy bought his election. I mean, um, you know, the old saying from, uh, the mayor now and the mayor from 30 years ago: vote early and vote often.

And, you know, a lot of that’s going to die. You know, I won’t say the Democratic Party is dead, but the Democratic Party is dead. It’s going to take a whole 20 years. I don’t know, 20. I hope never. I hope it’s 200 years, but they [ __ ] up. They underestimated, and they threw everything at Trump—everything at Trump—and he succeeded.

But it just shows how disgusted the underbelly of America was. And with all the foibles and all the mistakes and all the things that, uh, President Trump says, they would rather have him. Of course, you know, they had him running against, initially, uh, against Joe Biden, who’s essentially brain dead at some point.

You draw the line in the sand: we can’t take anymore. And Trump, fortunately, had the money, the wherewithal, and the grit to stick it out. Um, you know, what happens after Trump? I don’t know. I don’t know, other than maybe he becomes dictator. I’m okay with that. You—I’d vote for him. I don’t give a [ __ ].

The, uh, but the world is [ __ ] across the board. You talk about the fastest point from A to B. Uh, coming over, I was thinking about the right lane of traffic, we’ll call it, with less restrictions, less, uh, regulations, especially in my line of work in agriculture. You know, just kind of lift the hood off of it and let the loose in drag.

But might there be as much opportunity or more on the left side of the road? Absolutely. The answer is yes. Yeah, but I mean, people talk about thinking outside the box, you know, and they’ve been saying that since I’m—maybe since I’m in, I guess, college, the early 60s.

But very few people take action outside the box because they’re afraid of being embarrassed, you know, made fun of, etc., etc. But like for me, I’ve been made fun of with a dunce cap, called the [ __ ] you know, since I was 6, 7, 8 years old. Shed my pants in class, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Um, so that doesn’t bother me. That doesn’t scare me. Um, and so virtually nothing scares me, but I’m an anomaly. I understand that I’m in the minority. And, uh, but the spread—don’t be afraid. Fear is nothing but false expectations appearing real.

It’s not impossible to spread, but it’s almost impossible because of the thing I’ve talked about all week: the hard wiring that you’ve had and whatever reason they did it. You know, as I’ve already told you, the parents’ two best—not best, but two biggest excuses: I did the best I could, or, you know, I didn’t know any better.

Okay, well, both of those reasons are horseshit. Somehow my mother found the [ __ ] Spock book. Somehow when my dad—when I got thrown out of the school district, we had to move where we couldn’t afford. My dad didn’t ask for a raise; he went and got two extra jobs. You don’t do that. The kids don’t do that anymore.

I’ve been working since I was 10 years old, and when I couldn’t pick the weeds on the big farm, my mother came and turned the lights on, and we picked weeds till 2, 3 in the morning. Um, but that doesn’t happen anymore.

So the sense of commitment and pride, it’s not totally dead, but it’s pretty [ __ ] dead. And for the people, the poor [ __ ] that think that artificial intelligence is going to be the cure-all for them, 10 years from now, we’re going to have 40% less employees just because of artificial intelligence. Forget anything else.

So what are they going to [ __ ] about now? And I believe the robots—I said this, I think, the first or second day about seven or eight years ago. We had the two biggest computers known to man at that time play the three greatest chess masters, and the three greatest chess masters at that time beat the two computers.

But at the end, uh, the guy that was in charge of it—I don’t know if it’s Michael Dell or Bill Gates—said, “Is there anything you’d like to say to the people watching this?” And the computer said, in a voice just like in the movies, “Don’t trust us.”

Now, [ __ ]! I mean, what do we have to have? Moses come down and tap us on the ass? Don’t trust us? And we are—there’s a great movie, I don’t know what it’s called, with Will Smith, and the, you know, the computers take over and [ __ ] like that.

There’s another great movie with the, uh, what’s his name? Anyway, and Gates and Jeff and these guys, and Elon says we’re going to be stuck in their dick pretty soon. But what are we doing about nothing?

Now, it’s hard for me to believe how artificial intelligence is going to take the 300 hookers away from you, but I’ll get to a th after that. Yeah, Mike, so have you seen the YouTube videos, uh, with the Dan Pena AI voice overlaid?

Y—we’re trying to get those off, but we have been unsuccessful, right? It’s the most politically correct version of Dan Pena. It’s hilarious. I can’t, yeah, and you can hear—if you’ve been following Dan Pena for a while, you can hear the difference. There’s a slight difference, but it’s pretty good, I gotta say.

CAD has shown these to me. It’s certainly not me, but there’s a difference. The AI doesn’t curse. I understand that. It doesn’t curse, and it’s not—it’s not the same voice. It’s about 95% there, but it’s not. It’s a little bit off.

But when we have the—what do you call it here? Given the seminars, it’s going to sound like me. It’s going to say [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ]! Yeah, yeah, hologram. Excuse me, fck shun. Yeah, yeah.

But I mean, the holograms and the, um, well, I mean, well, I mean, I see Sally’s only seen me really angry a couple times in the decades we’ve been together. But I mean, I can be violent, you know, and when I was younger and I was tougher, you know, I don’t care if you were 8 foot 3 and you had 40-inch arms. You either had to kill me, or I was going to kill you. There was no alternative.

And now I worry about my brace, my bridge in my mouth, and I’ve got artificial knees and hips and [ __ ] like that. So I have to get it over with pretty quick. The fight has to end in 15, 20, 30 seconds. Otherwise, if we go down to the ground, I’m less effective now.

But see, I bite your jugular vein, and I have bitten jugular veins before, and the fight’s over. You know, why’d you do that? He didn’t bleed out. But I bite your nose off. Why’d you do that? Because, you know, I have not as many physical advantages as I once did, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have advantages because not many people are biting the jug vein.

I will, you know, and so we—I think I mentioned the second or third day of the seminar we’re in Toronto, and we’re going back from dinner to a big expensive restaurant with a black guy who’s not black.

And the, uh, three big black guys stopped us in an alley. We took a shortcut, and he—the manine kind of—so I walked up to the biggest guy and I said, “Are you here to rob us, or are we fighting?” The rest of my board—they didn’t run like scared deer, but they kind of ran like scared deer, you know?

And Trey, the black guy who says he’s not black, stood by me. The rest of the board disappeared, and the guy said, “No, sir, we’re your fans. Can we do a selfie?” And so it was kind of funny.

And so, but I’m saying, “Are we fighting, or what do you think you’re going to do here?” And that’s just my natural personality. Now, there were three young guys in their late 20s, and whether Trey and I could have fared okay, we don’t know. But they didn’t know either.

So all you have to do is put a little hesitation in it, and then one of them went back to the hotel and bought us a bottle of vodka. You know, so whether he was a nickel or a dime bad guy, but he certainly didn’t look like an investment banker.

And he went back—in fact, I have a—on my, uh, social media, there’s a guy who’s sitting at a table with me, a sweater and a cross, big black eye. And the, uh, but most people avoid confrontation. I look for it, and I, you know, I shouldn’t be looking for confrontation at 80. I just shouldn’t. I know better than that.

And whenever my kids watch me, “Daddy, I mean, why do you do that?” Because that’s me. That’s my DNA. I just—I would regret walking away.

Yeah, do you still carry the cricket bat with you? No, I don’t carry the cricket bat. I don’t carry the—but you’ve seen the, uh, YouTube. I took it to Toronto because they were afraid for my security, and I took it there.

And about the third—I know, five, ten minutes into my talk, somebody asked me during the pause, “Mr. Pena, why do you have a cricket bat?” I’ve been told that I should be concerned about my security.

So about ten minutes later, somebody asked, “Listen, what are you going to do with the cricket bat?” And then I jumped off the stage and I ran towards the group and I said, “Because I’m going to kill the first four or five of you with it!” This is Canada, okay?

And so, um, and I would have if it got shitty. I have no hesitation of killing somebody. Zero. You’re defending yourself. So, well, I mean, sometimes I defend myself before I need to. Legally, legally defend yourself.

Sometimes I’ve been criticized: you defend yourself before the fight starts. Well, where I come from, the fight—whoever starts the fight normally wins. Whoever hits first. And so, and even though I’m an old guy now, I mean, that’s in my blood, and I’m just, you know.

But anyway, the rest of the board didn’t run like rabbits. That’s an exaggeration, but they certainly weren’t there when we were face to face with the guy, that’s for sure. They weren’t.

And then when I got to the hotel, Sally was waiting for me. “What happened?” He said, “Well, I saw everybody run up, but you weren’t there.” Well, first, I can’t run anymore, Sally, so it’s not like I can run away from him.

So, Dan, is there like a shadow government on top of the government that influences their decisions? Well, I’ve never been part of that, but there are people. Elon Musk used to be part of that before Trump got elected. Now he’s part of the government.

There are, you know, I’ve known, you know, um, a lot of really high-powered people, and, uh, whether there’s an Illuminati and that kind of thing, I’ve never been part of that. I don’t know that for a fact, but I do know that the rich families, like the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, etc., do have more to say about what happens in life than regular people.

I’ve never really been part of that, although I’ve been on the edges of that because I’ve known people like that. And to me, of course, my politics are really right of center. They seem pretty reasonable people. They’re not wackos like the people with, you know, earrings and [ __ ] [ __ ].

But now, you know, those people are to come back, and the people with earrings and [ __ ] are going to go out of vogue, and the people that are, you know, not right-wing but right of center are going to come back into power. And Trump’s doing this, and I hope to God he keeps doing it.

And, um, which is better for us because those people are going to be afraid. And as I’ve said for four or five hundred times now during the week, they do not want the 30, 40 years that they’ve endeavored to build a business to go down a rat hole. Nobody wants that to happen to, you know, their, um, endeavors of life.

And that fits right in with our model because we’re the savior. Now, it’s hard for me to sell the savior part without laughing, but I mean, it is—we are savior, and we are the succession plan.

And just as I marvel how in Canada you can get 25-year, you know, seller’s notes, and of course, the one time we went to court, they got turned back because the 88-year-old guy—poor [ __ ]—you know, not poor [ __ ], we were honoring the [ __ ] note.

But I mean, to sell an 88-year-old guy a 25-year note is maybe a bridge too far. But if it had been in his favor, no, nobody—he would have been no, no. But he had a son-in-law or nephew or some [ __ ] got out of law school that said that this isn’t right, and they overturned it.

The old man didn’t want to overturn it. He didn’t—we didn’t do anything; we honored the note. [ __ ] I think it’s 30-year notes, 30 [ __ ]. I mean, you go to Canada, I mean, Jesus Christ.

And that’s why even I make fun—Canadians are more civilized than most. They’re more civilized than most because we retain from people from Scotland. [Laughter]

And have you ever received—have any of those people come here? Blue hair? No, no earrings? No, we—we have a line that we don’t cross. No, no, they’ve come to the gates. Really? Yeah, yeah.

We have people with, um, blackards, you know? Uh, yeah, yeah. Really? Yeah, yeah, not recently, but I mean, I’m not, um, Greenpeace and those kind of things know that I don’t like them, um, and I say they’re full of [ __ ] and the, uh, you know, we’re not global warming; it’s climate change.

Uh, and of course, there’s been 11 scientific groups that have gone to the North and South Pole. Ten are dead; one’s still alive, okay? You can’t find anybody who went on scientific expeditions to the northern tempo that are—I mean, aren’t from 100 to 80 years ago.

And S—and I went—it wasn’t our intention going there in 2011, 2015 to be able to say that we were the only ones, but, you know, we wanted to renew our VES on the North and South Pole, blah, blah, blah. But we went, we talked to the scientists. We heard—I saw with my eyes when the guy’s pulling out cores in on the South Pole, and he said, “This core was, uh, 55,000 years ago. We were 1.8 degrees warmer.”

And I stopped the guy and said, “Could you please say that again? 55,000?” I mean, and cyclical, right? Correct? Everything repeats itself? Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

And, um, and it’s—it’s a neat play. Unfortunately for the average guy and G, I mean, it’s—it’s tremendously expensive. But, um, and then North Pole is a Russian deal. They’re all Russian—not all, but almost all Russian.

And they laugh, even—they’re drinking vodka for breakfast, and they’re laughing at this global warming scare. They think it’s a [ __ ] joke.

Um, I think the best part about the, uh, global warming theme is when you answered the woman, uh, I don’t remember where exactly, about global warming, about the instruments that the girl that came running—well, what they didn’t show is she came running up on the stage, and I was ready to—as she—if she had jumped on me, I was ready to hit her. But she slipped and fell down the ramp. God saved her. [Music]