PTW#103 Jason Hartman
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Summary
Jason Hartman was formerly the world's richest homeless guy. Now he's the richest homeless man in the world. And he's doing it by investing in real estate. In this episode of the Plane To Win podcast, I'm joined by Jason Hartman to talk about his journey from homeless guy to real estate investor and entrepreneur.
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one of the biggest issues plaguing modern men is that the vast majority of them lack a tribe of
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other virtuous trustworthy masculine men who gather for the sole purpose of improving
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a dead-end job only to go home to a nagging wife or girlfriend that doesn't respect them
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with what sports teams are playing this weekend what bar they're going to watch the game at
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if these men are lucky enough to unplug from the comforting lies that modern society sells them
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and decide they want more out of life they look around and realize they need to get into a better
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room that's where a private community of men chasing excellence comes in
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men in our community have all committed to being the best versions of themselves that
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they can possibly be they willingly run toward challenges knowing that pushing themselves
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out of their comfort zones is the key to unlocking their true potential as men
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if you're ready to take control of your life back and curate a network of successful
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and knowledgeable men now is the time to seize the opportunity
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all right welcome back guys we're doing a plane to win podcast this is 103rd installment i'm joined
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today by my friend jason hartman who i guess you're formerly the world's richest homeless guy because now
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you bought a house no i'm still the richest homeless man in the world you're still homeless okay good
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yeah yeah we'll get into those details uh a little bit of a different boating sort of excursion there
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with the intro than the kind of stuff we've done before huh yeah oh yeah definitely but that looks
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awesome man i love it i love it and folks you should always notice rich is the only guy with his shirt
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off and it looked pretty cold there yeah well that's you know we do cold plunges there's these
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portable saunas that our guides bring in that we set up and they're wood fired so we do uh hot cold
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immersions in the uh lake so there's always that going on nice but thanks for joining me today man
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your um long time friend met you at i guess i met you in person in real life at gammon's event
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yeah the first time but i did your podcast a few years ago and you know we've chatted on and off
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and we've done a couple of we've done a super yacht trip and a catamaran trip in the british virgin
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islands um so welcome jason um what should we chop up today man because you're a man of many talents and
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we only have like an hour hour and 15 minutes tops yeah yeah you know um wherever you want to go
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that it's going to be the most value to your community i mean my background is in mostly real
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estate investing all my life uh did really well with that but i like to travel been to 99 countries
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some of them you know many times over and uh i uh i gotta say you helped me a lot through some
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different relationship issues and things like that that i've had over the years and uh
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it's just been great uh following your work rich thanks man um yeah let's talk about the richest
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homeless man in the world claim because you because you made most of your wealth through
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real estate in the states um i have your bio on the one percent forum if you guys are looking at
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the ticker ticker on the bottom uh jason will be one of the speakers at the forum october 17th and
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19th and if you're interested in coming this is going to be the first and few times that you'll
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see an offering uh with a link to buy a ticket there's there's only a handful left you can go to
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entrepreneurs and cars.com forward slash the dash one dash forum dash 2025 to learn more and grab a
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ticket if you're interested but your but your bio talks a lot about owning a ton of real estate
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throughout the united states different cities is it all in the u.s like have you concentrated
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building your wealth in the united states yeah you know as far as real estate markets go around the
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world and believe me i've i've looked and in the 99 countries i've been to i've been to you know some of
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many times over and i've i've met with brokers i've met with investors developers in these different
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markets and the u.s is a very special real estate market because uh real estate financing is basically
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subsidized by the government here ever since uh you know the great depression world war ii uh you know
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the government created all these uh you know pseudo governmental entities or agencies that help fund real
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estate deals so you know if you're if you're rightfully pissed about welfare and uh wasting
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government money uh i say as investors you know get your own welfare program just be an investor and
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that's essentially a government program for investors um how do you choose where to buy real like what are
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the starting points for people that are interested in creating life-changing wealth uh via real estate
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and what kind of timelines because people always want like instant gratification right like pop a
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bill lose the weight rub the cream under your eyes look 20 years younger right like how does that work
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in the states yeah you know it uh it's uh i mean look there are many ways to make money in real
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estate uh it's a huge industry right so you know people can do wholesaling they can do flipping fix and
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flipping they can do all kinds of things but um what what i do at my company's empowered investor
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we teach people how to buy and hold real estate so it's it's kind of boring but it works it's really
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reliable rich and um you know it uh in in three to five years you'll you'll be probably pretty
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impressed with what you can do uh you know there's that old quote you've probably said it before or
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heard it uh you know most people overestimate what they can do in a year and they underestimate what
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they can do in five years and just like becoming a good man uh you know it it takes time
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right you you've got to sort of earn your stripes along the way and uh and that's uh true with real
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estate investing too and how do you evaluate that investment like what do you look at as far as
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demographics the renter the location like what are the key variables that are really important you
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don't have to get get through like a huge list of everything but maybe like the top three to five
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sort of thing yeah so first of all when looking at markets uh you know it's a it's a in the u.s
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it's a huge country outside of the u.s it's a it's a huge world and um but you can always divide it
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into three basic types of markets linear markets hybrid markets and cyclical markets okay and linear
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markets it kind of visualize looking at a chart right of appreciation over time and when you do
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that a linear market will look pretty boring it'll just kind of chug along it'll go up at a slow pace
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it'll have small ups and downs over the years over time but they won't be significant uh whereas the
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opposite of that is a cyclical market and i'll tell you where these markets are in a moment
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but cyclical market that graph or that chart looks like a roller coaster man it's like up and down and
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up and down and uh so you know it's fantastic during the upswings because you know you can hit home
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runs but uh during the downtime you give it all back right in a linear market it's a lot of base hits
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and so you just do well consistently in a linear market a hybrid market as the name would imply is
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in between the two so let's talk about some examples uh the west coast of the united states
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cyclical market glorious highs ugly lows ups and downs okay the expensive northeastern markets uh you
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know washington dc new york uh connecticut markets uh boston those type of markets those are cyclical ups
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and downs uh where i lived most recently south florida so if you look at like miami cyclical
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market almost everything else as you know the wonderful hillary clinton just kidding uh called
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them the flyover states right almost everything else around the country is a linear market with a few
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exceptions that would be hybrid markets and almost everything in the world around the world is a
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linear market the most markets are linear okay they're just kind of they just kind of chug along
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and appreciate slowly and nicely and consistently um around the world let's go back to cyclical for a
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second think of paris london hong kong dubai cyclical markets right uh very speculative in nature
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and um and so the linear is where i play and where i recommend people play if they're patient and they just
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want to create wealth over time and you know the time is going to pass anyway you might as well do
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something that's conservative and reliable and uh and then the hybrid markets uh there's not too many
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of them but in the u.s a couple of examples would be austin texas um denver colorado uh you know markets
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like that a nashville tennessee would be considered hybrid uh markets between the two and which ones do you
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prefer are you more of like a linear okay yeah linear linear yeah and i mean i mean look if your
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timing is right okay the cyclicals where are you going to make the most money right but you know it's
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very hard to time the real estate market believe me i've tried i've interviewed thousands of experts
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over the years on my show and man you know it's largely luck it's it's kind of like trying to time
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the bitcoin cycle right it's right it's speculative right is is a linear pattern the one that most of
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the big investors are following like you kenny mcelroy uh robert kiyosaki like stuff like that
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um well that's a good question i i would say ken follows linear and hybrid uh and i do linear hybrid
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uh but um ken doesn't do anything that i'm aware of in cyclical markets because they're just too
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difficult now interestingly uh you know on the political side and the legal side um linear markets
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tend to be more conservative uh they tend to be you know the trump voters right if you look at the map of
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the country right uh you know mostly mostly the only people that voted uh against trump were in the
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cyclical markets right it's it's kind of funny how that works and the other thing we look for rich is we
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want to invest in landlord friendly markets and so you know if you're in the socialist republic of
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california for example it's a very landlord unfriendly if you have a bad tenant good luck
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getting rid of them because if they know how to play the game they can just screw you over for a very
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long time whereas in the linear markets you know they're they're conservative markets they expect
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people to follow the rules right you don't pay your rent get out right that's the way that is that
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state or is that city um it's both yeah it's both i mean you know there can be you know for example you
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look at texas right texas texas would be a conservative state but you look at austin and
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that's a liberal city but mostly you know it they're they're similar okay um at what point
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like there's that notion of um you know from good to great like that like that heavy heavy flywheel that
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it takes a lot of effort and energy to sort of get get turning at what point for most real estate
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investing in the states um does it start to become a little bit easier where uh you know the dividends
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are paid you figure out stuff you can kind of share um things like expenses you know doors uh you know
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with h-back units sort of like like stuff starts to make a little bit more sense like at what point
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does that work for most real estate investors because i know a lot of guys that have that have
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dabbled in it maybe done done a little bit here and there they have a couple of doors a couple of
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properties but they never really scale it up big like you know some guys like you have right yeah
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so uh that's a that's a great metaphor you know jim collins in the book good great he talked about
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the flywheel he explained that really well and um it's the hardest part is to get going you know when i
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was uh taking training to get my pilot's license right the only time the plane is really on full power
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is on takeoff okay you know the rest of the time you're you're throttling it back so that's the
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hardest part and it's that first couple of years and then the flywheel starts to finally move you know
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and um we did a uh we every month uh we do a master class that's just free open to the public
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and uh the month before last i did one on what i called the perpetual motion machine you know about
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100 150 years ago everybody's trying to invent the perpetual motion machine it's not possible
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energy because yeah defy it defies the laws of physics right but um with real estate investing
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it really is possible because you get to a point where you you have some properties and then those
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properties have appreciated the tenants have paid down the mortgage balance and you can refinance them
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and have them buy you more properties and that's the perpetual motion machine right to where you can
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you can get the portfolio self-funding itself so that you really don't have to put any more money into
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it your properties buy more properties for you and uh we have a whole spreadsheet on this and you know
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it takes an hour and a half to really go through it but that's the idea you said that's free you're
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doing that on your channel on the empowered investor yeah so um it's it's not on youtube it's it's just
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a class that people register for it's a zoom meeting and so people can ask questions participate
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and they just go to jasonhartman.com slash wednesday and register for that every month and
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then our pro members we have a community like you do uh they get all those replays for free but we
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don't replay it except for the pro members got it yeah um
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because we want people to be there yeah yeah we were listening to you um on the super yacht in
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croatia because we did some mastermind stuff and you were talking about how leveraging um
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uh i think inflation debt and inflation was um and and often unspoken about or not not detailed
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wealth creator can you can you get into that part of that talk maybe on this podcast and sort of
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explain to viewers how to how to leverage wealth through debt and borrowing yeah it's a great question
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rich and um yeah about about 20 years ago i um i started teaching a strategy that i call and it's a
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mouthful i call it inflation induced debt destruction i know it's a mouthful um and basically what that is
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is think about it in in the u.s because we have such a favorable mortgage and financing environment
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here uh as opposed to canada you gotta like renegotiate your deal every five years and most
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countries are like that right here subsidized by the government so it's pretty cool take advantage of
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that and you borrow money at today's value right so if i held up a dollar and i said hey rich what's
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this you'd say it's a dollar but 10 years from now you would also call it a dollar but the
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value of it would be lower almost for sure because we have just persistent inflation and inflation
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destroys the value of our stocks our bonds our equity in real estate uh our other investments
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our savings right it destroys the value because as we save money or invest money that money becomes
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worth less as inflation debases the value of it but it also destroys the value of debt my favorite
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four-letter word right so so if you borrow a million dollars at today's value and if there's
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10 inflation now during biden that take only one year for 10 inflation but now you know it might take
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two or three years to have 10 inflation either way 10 of inflation occurred over some period of time
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now that one million dollar loan that you borrowed if you owe one million you get your mortgage
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statement it says you owe one million right but the value is only 900 000 because inflation has
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essentially paid off a hundred thousand dollars that's like free money right and so most people
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they get completely screwed by inflation right you know the the poor the the non-investor class
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their money keeps getting debased and devalued through inflation but people that get long-term
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mortgages on their income properties their inflation benefits them not only because the property goes
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up in value but the balance of the mortgage goes down the debt is debased by inflation and that's
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inflation-induced debt destruction you've you've got a lot of eggs in one basket with real estate
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all in the u.s there's there's a lot of people who are saying still the best country in the world it's
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going to be great for decades to come there's a lot of people who are saying by x year 2030 2040
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2050 whatever the empire will have fallen and you're all going to be fucked basically let's what's
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your position on the direction of the united states in general economically oh that's that's a loaded
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question i mean look for for 60 years of pathetic liberalism we have been going in the wrong direction
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i mean we're almost 60 years you know since lbj and his great society or you can even take it back
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to fdr right um we've been going toward a we've been going in a very bad direction we've accumulated
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massive debt we run massive deficits every year uh and it's terrible trump thankfully is finally
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trying to turn this around but it will not be easy and it will not be without pain uh so you know
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we'll see if he can do it but um you know it's looking pretty good i think overall um you know
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a lot of people have likened the united states to rome in the fall of rome and you know when you study
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the fall of rome you realize rome fell from within it wasn't really an outside enemy that destroyed rome
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i mean i guess you could argue that sort of because rome was fighting a lot of wars that it shouldn't
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have been involved in and you could argue the u.s does that way too much too right um but you know
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mostly it fell from within yeah right a lot of debauchery a lot of uh you know sloth and uh really
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just bad habits and that's what happens right we've all heard that cycle of you know it takes strong men
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to you know make a great society in a great world and then weak men destroy it right but strong men become
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weak when they have luxury and and they become apathetic it's just human nature we all do this
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right when things are going well we relax a little bit and you know we don't go to the gym as much as
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we should or whatever it is and uh and so so it's always a cycle like that and the trick is um you know
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one of my i mean we're going on a little bit of a tangent here but one of my favorite quotes
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is from napoleon and napoleon said the most dangerous moment comes with victory because when
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we're victorious we become complacent and we let down our guard and so that's a lesson to everybody
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you know the most dangerous moment comes with victory so don't be complacent after you win
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right you know uh just keep doing it keep stay disciplined and keep doing are you starting to
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diversify your holdings outside of the states just sort of hedge it a little bit are you still
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definitely holding all in the states for the first yeah well last year i did i did open a foreign
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bank account um you know mostly for like estate planning and asset protection um but also it
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gives some diversification because there are some things i can invest in that you know really aren't
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very investable within the u.s uh but i do not own any foreign real estate um i've certainly looked at
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it i certainly considered it um you know in about in about a third of those 99 countries i've traveled to
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i've i've really looked at it deeply and i just i just haven't found anything that works as well as
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the u.s you know besides the financing that i mentioned there are many other reasons the u.s
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market is pretty special for real estate and look just just for the record my company empowered
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investor we could easily be selling international real estate like we get pitched on this almost
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weekly you know someone will say hey i got properties in costa rica or australia or dubai and i want
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you to sell them and we've certainly considered it right no question uh but it just seems that the
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the deals aren't as good the transparency isn't as good you know things in the u.s that and i know
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you're canadian obviously and you know you probably have pretty similar in canada because pretty close
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to the u.s obviously but um in the u.s we kind of take it for granted that we have access to all this
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data okay like this data makes things really easy and safer when investing for example you can just go
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to zillow or redfin or any of these sites and you can you can figure out the value of a property
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and when the properties are sold they're recorded this process is very transparent in the u.s in other
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countries it's very opaque and you don't know what anything's worth you know they don't have uh an
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mls system like we have in a lot of these other countries and so you know they have what they call
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off-plan properties okay and you know you just don't know what the value of anything is it's very
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hard to figure it out now uh there is a a cost to that though that seems good right it's mostly a
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benefit but um if you compare real estate to the stock market for example the stock market is a
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very perfect market so for example and i don't like the stock market i think it's a i think wall
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street's you know the modern version of organized crime okay but the market is perfect if you own apple
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stock and you know i don't know what it's trading for right now but say it's 100 bucks okay and you
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want to sell your apple stock and you call your broker and say hey i want to sell it uh but i really
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want 110 okay and the broker is going to say no it's trading for 100 that's it period end of discussion
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there's nothing you can do with real estate though it's a less perfect market and you can fix it up
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you can market it better you can do things that'll make it more appealing and make it sell for a higher
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value uh so the more perfect the market for an asset the less room for creativity um but you do
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want some amount of data and transparency in that market right here's an interesting one for you so
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if if real estate is such a great investment and the most amazing you know place to park money why are
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you homeless why do you live in hotels that's a great question yeah so um you know it ties into
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your work and when i you know i i was following you a lot a couple of years ago i had a bad breakup
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and i just kind of started reevaluating my life i read a book called die with zero and i thought like
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what am i doing you know this chick uh that you know lied to me uh she just shacked up with the next
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guy moved to another state she had like no obligations right she could just do anything she wanted
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right um you know she was also homeless okay living with her parents and um and i thought
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how easy is that you know who who has the most freedom here her or me i've got like way more
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money she had like no money okay and um you know but she's just much freer than i am so i decided
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you know i sold my house in palm beach florida and i just decided to travel for a year and uh so you
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know that's that's what i'm doing and i am actually house hunting now i'm in scottsdale
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and i'm gonna buy a house here i've been looking heavily um interestingly it takes a long time to
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look at properties here though because there is so much inventory uh in this market that's not true
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of every market but it's definitely been going up is it a buyer's market down there i would say this
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is a buyer's market yeah i mean it's not like a radical buyer's market but it's it's ways you know
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it's in favor of the buyer you know you see a lot of these um youtube experts quote unquote um
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saying you know get a whole bunch of passports buy some real estate in this country in that country
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and this country sort of thing and the u.s is getting flushed down the toilet it's the worst
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place in the world to be and i gotta i mean by all measurement a pretty smart guy in this podcast
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right now that's that's all eggs in one basket in the states traveling the world you've seen the world
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you've probably been to a lot of these places that these guys are all like get 15 passports and buy
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real estate in this obscure country and some bullshit part of the world sort of thing um
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what's your take on all of that i mean you've probably seen all these all these videos and
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social media gurus and all that sort of stuff like what do you think yeah i've definitely studied that
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intensely i've read books on it i've interviewed many people about international investments and all
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this kind of stuff you know it's kind of like a uh a spoiled kid who doesn't appreciate their
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parents and what they provide for them or a spoiled woman who doesn't appreciate her husband and what
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he's providing for her you know either one and um you know it's uh i i mean most of the world the
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economies just suck they're fucking tragically bad okay i mean one of my favorite places to go is europe
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okay but europe is a disaster of epic proportions okay like the youth unemployment rate in spain or
00:25:26.260
italy or greece you know is like uh this is for um male i think males i mean it depends what survey
00:25:32.920
you look at but like males under 35 years old okay they're they're like 52 or 54 percent of them are
00:25:39.720
unemployed these places just have like no economy in a lot of them if you look at i mean one thing i i'd
00:25:46.140
recommend for anybody who's thinking like this is just look up uh the gdp per capita of any country
00:25:52.700
and the uh income per capita of any country that you like right and you'll find that those two won't
00:26:00.140
be far apart they're pretty close gdp per capita and income and um you'll see that you know their
00:26:06.300
their per capita gdp is like you know twelve thousand dollars okay and yeah you go there and you think i can
00:26:13.800
buy this awesome place um but it's not really that great the construction quality is bad the supply
00:26:20.320
chains are terrible um you know the workers tend to be lazy um or there's just a million laws and
00:26:27.560
uh things that get in your way i mean i remember i you know i go to europe pretty much every summer i
00:26:33.080
was born in europe just so you know uh and i go pretty much every summer okay and um about five years
00:26:39.880
ago i was on a trip and i posted this on facebook and i just realized and um i i posted uh in america
00:26:49.340
the customer is always right in europe the procedure is always right and it's like it's like i just cannot
00:26:56.520
believe all of these countries with this incredible history and art and culture and science i mean these
00:27:03.640
are the you know all these european countries made the world okay we really got to appreciate them
00:27:08.480
but they have become so bogged down in their own fucking bureaucracy and their own like linear
00:27:15.520
thinking it's just amazing you know i'll be at a hotel and i'll ask for something and it's like well
00:27:20.540
that's not the procedure well i'm a customer just take care of it like just think out of the box
00:27:26.360
it's it's mind-boggling to me like the the one of the lowest business startup rates in the modern or
00:27:33.300
the advanced world is germany and in germany you try to start a business okay and it's you are hit
00:27:39.560
with roadblock after roadblock after roadblock after road you know just everything is getting in your way
00:27:45.360
you know it's it's nice to visit these places and you know the buildings look great and the food is
00:27:50.660
great but man you try to do anything and you realize all of these countries are like stuck in the
00:27:56.160
past they just they just you know it's just a hugely different thing so you've traveled a ton
00:28:04.760
in the last couple years um i mean whatever i talked to on whatsapp you're like i'm in this random
00:28:09.380
place and we'll be yeah i'm in i'm in japan or yeah um thailand or whatever yeah what what parts of
00:28:15.020
the world do you like the best and why yeah you know so much yeah for for culture i like europe the
00:28:24.760
best uh for uh you know if you want to see amazing amounts of wealth and really amazing architecture
00:28:32.540
and buildings that's modern go to the middle east i was in cutter recently and i couldn't believe it
00:28:38.300
i mean it's just like dripping with money of course dubai and abu dhabi are too when i've been there a few
00:28:43.580
times but um you know and and then you know asia i mean it's just all different and if you're single
00:28:50.960
and you're a passport bro you know that's part of your audience i'm sure uh you know i i would say
00:28:57.420
just go to these places and check them out and have a good time and um you'll definitely find that with
00:29:04.020
um with women uh they are just much more friendly and much more traditional in the sense that they
00:29:12.880
actually value men whereas in western europe and the u.s and canada it's like it's just a disaster
00:29:20.780
i mean so the social life is just a mess in these places because uh all of the rules if you will the
00:29:27.780
customs they're not really rules but you know the sort of implied rules that have worked for
00:29:32.520
thousands of years to organize society um you know starting really in the 60s with second wave
00:29:38.300
feminism uh just going through these countries um you know it's just changed everything and um the
00:29:45.440
culture is just not great you know so business like business in the u.s is fantastic it's a great
00:29:54.420
place to do business americans understand business and they're great at it um but the culture and the
00:30:01.520
social life um if you're single um you know it's worth considering other places so make your money
00:30:08.600
in the states enjoy life and women elsewhere basically yeah and and then you're geo arbitraging
00:30:14.460
your money okay so you know your your money spends a lot better in some of these other places
00:30:19.800
and that that is true you know a lot of passport bros go to thailand they're like they're amazed
00:30:25.580
you know everything's like one third the cost right uh but to at some point like if you're if
00:30:32.820
you're wealth if you're really wealthy in the u.s you know there are services and things that just
00:30:37.360
aren't offered in these other countries because the economy can't support it so you know if you like
00:30:42.160
like real luxury you won't be able to access it in some places in the middle east and the richer
00:30:48.200
asian countries you certainly can but um a lot of these passport bro destinations
00:30:53.080
yeah where where have you found the women to be the best because that's the thing that pops up a
00:30:59.060
lot is a whole passport bro movement and i mean like one of the like one of the warnings i always
00:31:04.520
issue to guys is like yeah just because you can move to thailand and and shit's cheaper and maybe
00:31:09.280
you're going to stand out from the crowd because the average height is shorter than you know like
00:31:14.540
an american height sort of thing but like the grass is always greener where you water and fertilize it
00:31:19.340
so hopping the fence doesn't solve a lot like if you're a dork in the states you're going to be a
00:31:22.800
dork in thailand too yeah i mean like as far as the environment and and women and like the lack of
00:31:29.160
uh toxic feminism sort of stuff where we found the women to be the most attractive the most agreeable
00:31:35.080
the most feminine you know stuff like that yeah well before i answer that i'll just say that uh one of
00:31:41.100
the things i've always uh said is that feminism was a conspiracy to lower the birth rate of educated
00:31:48.500
white people okay now why do i say that right it sounds crazy um well the reason is that in the
00:31:55.520
60s colleges were full of educated white people okay and you notice that you know only the white
00:32:02.480
people were like dumb enough to fall for it okay you know the hispanic community didn't fall for it
00:32:07.900
the black community didn't fall for it right only the dumb educated whites fell for it it's just a
00:32:13.440
crazy thing how that worked and um and so you know that just just pervaded the colleges in the 60s and
00:32:21.480
then we got to third wave and it got even worse you know um and and listen i don't don't get me wrong
00:32:27.880
i think women should have rights and be able to vote and drive and do all these things of course
00:32:33.000
um you know but uh it's just this like man hating type of environment that it's come to is just
00:32:39.940
radical it's crazy what both sides need to realize is that we both need each other and um you know
00:32:46.500
the they have to come to peace and uh you know make make good with each other because you know we both
00:32:52.380
offer different things uh there's a great book called men on strike that i read years ago and i had
00:32:57.540
my girlfriend at the time read the book and she said i agree it's written by a woman um and uh you know
00:33:02.380
it talked all about this this issue and it was written i don't know 15 or more years ago yeah no
00:33:09.780
i think it's early 2000s but i don't know i could be wrong but but think of it she said all that then
00:33:15.020
and it got so much worse since then i mean it's just so crazy now but i think the pendulum you know
00:33:22.320
the pendulum always swings with society and it's it's kind of swinging back toward the middle uh so
00:33:28.140
hopefully it'll get there to a reasonable place and everybody will be happy again but i say all this
00:33:33.600
because you know you look at any statistic the birth rate is plummeting the marriage rate is plummeting
00:33:38.300
depression is skyrocketing i mean this is like a real thing that is dangerous and deadly okay
00:33:45.360
suicides are skyrocketing i mean this is not you know just uh idle chatter this is like a real societal
00:33:54.120
ill in the western countries so western europe u.s it's the same deal in both of those places um
00:34:01.120
where well you know it depends what you like and what you're looking for i mean um amazingly you know
00:34:07.160
i was in colombia with george uh several times and um you know women are friendly and they're like
00:34:14.460
mucho gusto jason you know they're just really friendly and happy to meet you you know and it's
00:34:19.040
just a different kind of thing what's interesting is that country for example with all of its um
00:34:25.020
history has been tough right there obviously with the drug trade and the corruption and so forth and
00:34:30.820
you know everything south of the u.s border is pretty there's a corruption problem in almost
00:34:36.860
all of those countries pretty much i mean we have it here too but it's a different kind of corruption
00:34:41.720
it's like a white color corruption it's a little different and um but but you know they're oddly
00:34:49.000
with people only making like twelve thousand dollars a year there's a certain kind of like optimism
00:34:54.180
because things are on the upswing okay like things are moving forward for them it's getting better
00:35:00.700
okay whereas until recently in the u.s it was just getting worse and worse and and uh you know for
00:35:07.800
decades american workers in real dollars did not get any raises right they were just working you had
00:35:13.980
to be an entrepreneur if you wanted to get ahead or an investor if you were just working a job in the
00:35:18.680
u.s for for decades i mean 1977 until the first trump administration literally there was no raise
00:35:26.660
adjusted for inflation for the average american worker okay uh so so it's bad but to answer your
00:35:33.500
question uh you know a lot of guys like the philippines um which i've only been there once i haven't
00:35:39.440
spent much time there at all um but southeast asia you know you're gonna find just a whole different
00:35:46.200
thing but everybody's attracted to different people and different culture and things like that but
00:35:50.900
eastern europe um you know the problem with eastern europe even though i think uh the um the attractiveness
00:35:58.460
level is very high there is that the the attitude and the um you know a lot of those people have lived a
00:36:07.180
pretty hard life or their parents have at least and uh you know they're um they're a little somber about
00:36:14.260
it you know yeah they're pretty harsh in eastern europe they're it's like there's um there's an
00:36:22.220
edge to eastern european women um they're probably some of the most attractive but they're also like
00:36:27.960
if you don't understand women and game and how to manage chicks like they're they're some of the
00:36:32.580
hardest women for guys to manage and will easily just like they'll they'll fucking destroy you if you
00:36:38.120
don't know yeah yeah they're they're they are strong i agree um they can also be quite quite uh
00:36:47.540
like like fiercely loyal i remember i think it was um a divorce lawyer that's all over the internet i
00:36:54.460
can't remember his name right now um this guy with the sleeve tats on his forearms and he was saying
00:36:59.280
you know that they're also fiercely loyal too um so i mean as long as you're the hypergamous best option
00:37:06.000
and then you know how to deal with their bullshit which will inevitably come up then things will be
00:37:11.820
fine well and and you know rich it totally depends on the country too of course i mean we're talking
00:37:17.400
about a region but you know poland uh is one of my favorite um and um you know they're they're catholic
00:37:24.300
right so it's um they are loyal and traditional and it's pretty good yeah um
00:37:31.920
but remember their parents grew up under communism and it was harsh okay like they they were they
00:37:42.020
were probably i mean look if you meet a woman who's 30 there right she was born after right
00:37:48.020
after the berlin wall fell okay right after lech walenza did his thing in solidarity if it's poland
00:37:53.480
um so she doesn't know it but she she got it from her elders right she understands what it was like
00:38:01.620
from them you know we were we were talking before we went live about you know the the you know the
00:38:07.480
red flags from my book um are there are there red flags that you've thought about or maybe identified
00:38:13.480
with real estate investing oh definitely you're like oh that's a comparison yeah i'm just wondering
00:38:21.700
because because i think it's an easy like i think one of the mistakes that that a lot of guys make
00:38:26.560
and even creators make is like do do a b c d sort of thing you know it's like and i think for a lot
00:38:32.260
of people i mean maybe maybe this is just me but it's like tell me what not to do so i can stay away
00:38:38.360
from the landmines and you know you're kind of going to gravitate to the better stuff anyway right
00:38:43.600
it's like you know this is dangerous that's a sharp object this will kind of fuck you so right
00:38:49.060
you know what i mean like have you identified like a list of red flags when it comes to like
00:38:54.440
your investing portfolio or in life in general oh yeah definitely i mean you know i think the one
00:38:59.160
um when i started out 21 years ago doing just helping investors only i had a traditional real
00:39:05.900
estate company before that i sold it to coldwell banker uh but when i got into the investment only
00:39:10.760
business not like you know someone wants to buy a house we don't we can't help them to live in
00:39:15.760
right but just for investors uh 21 years ago um i created what i call the 10 commandments of
00:39:21.660
successful investing and that's kind of been my core content and the thing that i would say is
00:39:26.560
resonated with people the most is commandment number three okay and that is thou shalt maintain
00:39:33.380
control so the opposite of this is your red flag okay right and we say you should be a direct investor
00:39:40.600
uh buy things that you actually own and control rather than relinquishing control to some financial
00:39:48.200
advisor on wall street uh a person who's syndicating deals a fund manager right um thou shalt maintain
00:39:56.720
control if you don't you leave yourself susceptible to three major problems number one you might be
00:40:02.980
investing with a crook okay we've all heard of bernie madoff and enron and global crossing and you know
00:40:09.180
all of these scams on wall street they're like a daily thing okay uh number two you might be
00:40:13.740
investing with an idiot so either through their their crookery or their stupidity you're gonna lose
00:40:19.020
money right and number three assuming they're honest and competent they take a huge management fee off
00:40:24.600
the top for managing the deal and there's there's no shortage of hearing about how these ceos and
00:40:31.920
boards of directors issue themselves giant bonuses and giant compensation packages even when
00:40:38.120
their shareholders are losing money um one great example is larry ellison founder and ceo of oracle
00:40:44.900
right we've all heard of larry um from 2000 to 2002 larry paid himself out of oracle almost a billion
00:40:53.240
dollars a billion okay in two years almost okay and at that same time his shareholders lost 61 of their
00:41:03.820
investment so it's just completely unaligned right whenever you do a deal you want to be doing a deal
00:41:10.840
with someone who has an alignment of interest okay uh and very rarely is there an alignment of interest
00:41:18.240
and by the way this all changed on you know with stocks and wall street with milton friedman uh the
00:41:25.440
economist from years ago and i love milton friedman i think he's he's brilliant okay but the one thing he said
00:41:32.380
as he said that the the enterprise its first goal is to bring value to the shareholders and wall street
00:41:42.440
went nuts with that idea it just pervaded wall street and it pervaded the executive suites and the c-suites
00:41:49.500
and all of these uh you know companies just focused on shareholder value and at the same time they were
00:41:55.560
screwing over their employees and you know they were uh they were just taking all of these profits
00:42:01.580
for themselves so their their goal was to get the stock value up and so the investors were like
00:42:06.600
temporarily happy but their options packages made them so much richer than their investors and so it's
00:42:13.880
just like an out of alignment thing i'm not sure i've explained that perfectly no that makes sense
00:42:18.420
um what's your take on like um alternative investments kind of like crypto bitcoin you know
00:42:24.940
more more specifically yeah you know i mean bitcoin everybody's got pretty much the same funny story
00:42:32.660
i first learned about it when i was doing a speaking engagement uh years ago uh in central america i've
00:42:39.760
done a couple international engagements right and uh i remember one of the other speakers was telling me
00:42:45.380
as we were standing on the beach barefoot uh you know for a cocktail party he was saying you know
00:42:50.260
he was telling me about bitcoin and it was 74 dollars and and we're at what 106 000 now or something like
00:42:58.680
that um and look my opinion on bitcoin uh and crypto we have to first of all separate those two because
00:43:07.440
cryptocurrency is not bitcoin bitcoin is a different animal it's in a class by itself it is
00:43:14.500
way better than any other crypto okay um is that you know it it could go to nothing right the regulators
00:43:25.580
could attack it um you know maybe quantum computing could hack it i don't know but i want nothing more
00:43:33.900
than to see it massively succeed okay and i own a bunch of it right but i wouldn't put a lot of my money
00:43:40.320
there right maybe you know 10 percent of your net worth maximum okay uh because you know it really
00:43:46.460
air it's just code it's it's it has no intrinsic value uh it doesn't produce income right um you know
00:43:55.720
to me if you want to qualify something as an investment it must produce income if it doesn't
00:44:02.040
produce income it's totally a speculation if the whole strategy is buy low sell high that's speculative
00:44:09.380
okay that's gambling and you know you can gamble a little bit i think it's okay um if you've got
00:44:15.600
the money but just be careful okay and and i want to be wrong about this i want to see bitcoin be the
00:44:22.060
thing i love it you know it's it's like the freedom currency so i hope it succeeds wildly but i'm cautiously
00:44:30.980
optimistic are you um thinking the same when it comes to stuff like gold or do you have a different
00:44:35.960
opinion on gold well gold uh i mean go you know gold is the advantage of gold is it's got the
00:44:42.060
history bitcoin's only got 15 years okay a little more than that um you know so uh gold has got
00:44:48.540
thousands of years and uh the problem with gold though is it doesn't produce income it's the same
00:44:52.740
problem uh and uh so it's it's speculative and the thing that makes um i mean there are really only two
00:45:01.080
super winning things that people can do one is uh have a business right and have a business that does
00:45:08.580
well you can do very well in a business that is successful number two buy income property and on
00:45:16.120
the income property side the reason it beats everything else is because it's a multi-dimensional
00:45:21.980
asset class so you know think of an iceberg right and the old saying that most you know only a little
00:45:28.200
bit of the iceberg is above the water most of it's below the water and with real estate you know we
00:45:34.020
see what's above the water we see appreciation and that's exciting we see positive cash flow and that's
00:45:39.300
great but what's below the water is inflation-induced debt destruction tax benefits leverage multiplying your
00:45:46.200
returns the tenants paying off your mortgage these are the things that you don't really like notice or
00:45:51.040
think about that are making you wealthy and um you know gold bitcoin buy low sell high stocks if they pay
00:46:00.780
a dividend buy low get some dividends in between sell high that's the whole game for either of those assets
00:46:07.260
with income property you've got like six things that are making you wealthy all the time that are just
00:46:12.980
working for you constantly what are um we got about 15 minutes left so let's do this what are the top
00:46:19.720
best choices that you've made in your life and what are the and what are the worst choices that
00:46:24.280
you've made in your life well maybe like three from each category like what's the best you've done
00:46:29.560
and the dumber shit that you've done yeah okay so um best choices uh leaving the socialist republic of
00:46:35.100
california uh about 14 years ago moving out of california and moving out of a high tax high regulated
00:46:42.660
environment is gonna help you get wealthier a lot faster when i when i moved to arizona in 2011
00:46:49.020
when i crossed that state line my state income taxes went down by 69 percent from california okay
00:46:56.240
and um you know it's just a whole better environment socially and everything so leaving california great
00:47:03.280
decision uh that i thought i might regret okay but i didn't i i'm very glad i did that um i used to
00:47:10.040
say beautiful state though yeah it's great place to visit don't don't don't be in their tax nexus
00:47:16.700
that's the problem um i used to say that i was glad i didn't get married before the era of social
00:47:24.980
media and i was saying that from the perspective rich of a guy who thought well social media is
00:47:30.920
increasing my opportunities right and you know like online dating increasing your opportunities but that
00:47:39.040
is i changed my mind that was actually a terrible decision in a way because of the way social media
00:47:46.020
has corrupted women uh and it has just ruined the dynamics of the whole game which you know you're
00:47:53.360
an expert on but i'm glad to talk about it too um and then um you know some of the dumb things were
00:47:59.860
i'd get you know get kind of like sick of a property over the years and just sell it because i was just kind
00:48:04.920
of sick of i had this problem or that problem and then you know it's worth much more now you know
00:48:10.700
so that that was bad decision what sorts of things would make you sick of it like
00:48:14.960
you know issues repair and maintenance issues you know and these things are you know the thing with
00:48:22.740
those with all properties though yeah you know you're gonna have like annoyances okay and um part of
00:48:29.280
that game is that with with the properties being a direct investor you're gonna feel the bumps in the road
00:48:34.920
because you're running the deal right if you buy stock in a company you know tim cook is never
00:48:41.080
going to call you from apple and say hey jason what should i do right you know you got to make a decision
00:48:47.000
you know but the thing is they're charging a giant management fee for doing that um so you got to just
00:48:54.020
sort of manage your emotions that's a big part of being an investor of any kind but definitely a real
00:48:59.080
estate investor um gosh uh well you know when we were in croatia on the uh super yacht uh i was uh on
00:49:10.220
the raft you were on the raft too being pulled by the jet ski and that raft flipped and gave me two
00:49:15.960
really bad shoulder injuries and um if i was in better shape before that the injuries might have
00:49:23.340
been prevented right because for some reason like my arms flailed around and i don't know i injured
00:49:28.800
him not sure what happened it happened so quick um and then i couldn't work out for basically eight
00:49:34.820
months and i'm just getting back into it now and uh you know you got to have a reserve of extra fitness
00:49:41.940
that is kind of like more than you need right kind of like investing you got to have more money than
00:49:48.060
you need right uh because you don't know which way things will go and um i i think that was a big
00:49:54.020
mistake um because i didn't know i never had a real injury i mean i'm i'm you know i've always been a
00:50:00.320
skier and i never got injured i couldn't believe it right and uh this was my first like sort of life
00:50:07.220
changing major injury i dodged the bullet before that yeah i mean you know to that point i i had the
00:50:15.460
opportunity i think to get on the same tube at the time yeah driving the tube and i was like no i'll
00:50:22.340
wait no it's no it's cool you guys go ahead yeah yeah but you were you were on that tube before
00:50:29.180
well i was on with the right passengers like i you know i hopped on with a couple of the gals that i
00:50:35.560
knew that uh you know we're gonna have the drivers slow down oh okay got it yeah yeah yeah that that
00:50:41.760
jet ski i'm pretty sure are really wave runner um i'm pretty sure that thing had like no governor
00:50:47.720
on it no that thing ripped it was like a mclaren it was insane i mean it was not like a jet ski you
00:50:53.860
see in the u.s yeah whether whether governed to like barely get up on a plane right yeah no
00:51:00.680
they're probably governed to go 50 i bet that one goes 60 or 70 what's what's the most fun that you've
00:51:07.260
had i mean like you've done some pretty cool shit i mean you talked about pilot's license uh you know
00:51:11.780
i know you've talked about yachting we were talking about um i think you said you were considering buying
00:51:16.720
a catamaran at one point when we were down in the british virgin island yeah i was gonna buy one of
00:51:20.640
those exact catamarans i'm glad i didn't because you know being on them i didn't think they were that
00:51:24.820
great honestly yeah it was a little little bumpy in the crappy weather too in the water but um like
00:51:32.020
what's the most fun like what would you recommend guys aim to go and do at least once in their life
00:51:37.900
like you know go go make some money create some freedom for yourself like what would you recommend
00:51:42.440
as a must-do activity oh wow um like this is you know for me like the most fun i can have with my
00:51:50.640
clothes on is probably doing supercar rallies like i love ripping cars fast for the mountain passes just
00:51:55.520
yeah at the limits of grip you know hanging out with your boys you know uh eyes out for the cops
00:52:01.560
maybe have to run from them sometimes i don't know yeah yeah well there's a great song about that rich
00:52:06.100
and it's from the band that started in your city rush yeah red red barchetta uh red barchetta
00:52:13.180
you don't know this song no i know the song i just have to listen to the lyrics i i was never a big
00:52:18.560
rush fan like i had to introduce you to the tragically hep right yeah yeah you did but rush is fantastic i love
00:52:23.900
rush anyway um so red barchetta is about a you know the sports car red barchetta you obviously know
00:52:30.320
what that is right and um and he he takes it and drives it through the mountains and he describes
00:52:36.100
the whole scene of him racing the car uh trying to escape uh the um the government that's chasing
00:52:42.220
him basically basically because i'm gonna dig through that after this but but i mean for you like
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what's your recommendation for guys to go and like you know we always seek like there's always some
00:52:51.720
challenge there's always some level of competition there's always some thing like what have you done
00:52:56.460
where it's like oh yeah this is like a must do like guys have to do this shit well i would certainly say
00:53:01.280
although i've only done it once because i didn't want to make a lot of money buy a lot of real estate
00:53:05.320
like make a lot of money of course you should do that yeah you should definitely make a lot of money
00:53:09.620
that's the thrill uh for sure but um you know i'd say skydiving was definitely i mean skydiving is
00:53:17.520
very fun um but uh you know if like if i got a terminal disease tomorrow i would do it every day
00:53:24.000
really skydive every day oh yeah it's great yeah it's a major thrill yeah see i'm one of those guys
00:53:31.080
that likes control of the adrenaline like i have to be in the driver's seat um but you know i gotta be
00:53:37.420
driving the car i gotta be on the motorcycle i gotta be on the jet ski you know i gotta be flying the
00:53:42.520
plane sort of thing yeah um i don't like i like flying anything yeah i love aviation yeah i'm a
00:53:50.400
huge huge aviation fan i think you said that you grew up in a single mother household and she wasn't
00:53:55.560
particularly like well off right like when you're growing up no not at all not at all we didn't have
00:53:59.640
any money my uh it wasn't it was not that great and um the single mom thing is uh you know kind of
00:54:06.100
like i saw some of the stuff you talk about i saw it from my mom dating when i was a kid right
00:54:10.780
yeah and uh you know things were different back then obviously but not that different i guess yeah
00:54:16.620
how how does money change or improve your life does it make you happier like that level of wealth that
00:54:23.560
you're at you know yeah before you answer that so the reason why i'm asking the question is because
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one of the things that i get criticized for by the guys that don't like the notion of doing work or
00:54:35.140
think that it's too much work or that it's not worth it is i always tell them look guys aim to be
00:54:39.480
a millionaire by the time you're 30 if you miss that mark at least hit it by the time you're 40
00:54:43.420
there's no reason why you can't hit it yeah absolutely you've done that many times over so
00:54:47.260
like how has that changed your life was it worth it yeah um you know number one you gotta not let
00:54:56.220
money become the master it's just a tool okay and um you know i kind of spent a lot of time in my life
00:55:04.200
and it was a mistake i'd say uh being on the treadmill you know just chasing the dollar and
00:55:09.860
what i didn't realize is that i didn't have to keep chasing i was done okay and like i didn't realize
00:55:17.820
that until uh during the late stage of covid i whipped out a google spreadsheet and i just started like
00:55:25.640
itemizing all my investments i'm not the kind of guy who like keeps like obsessive track of that stuff
00:55:31.820
right i just have deals here and there and and i realized like i'm rich man like why am i still
00:55:37.940
working and then you know i had that breakup and uh i'm thinking like i have less freedom than this
00:55:43.620
gal does and she's never made any of the sacrifices that i made this is not fair right it's not right
00:55:49.240
and so that that was the impetus for my becoming the richest homeless man in the world
00:55:53.320
um but uh yeah you know money is good to a point um it it after a certain point it just is kind of
00:56:03.660
like it doesn't do anything for you it will not make you happy i mean money will not make you happy
00:56:09.320
uh there's uh but it it will make you more happy than poverty okay so yeah it's always better to cry
00:56:17.000
in a lamborghini than to do it on the bus stop seat right i would say again i've never seen guys crying
00:56:22.900
in a lamborghini i have lots of friends with supercars they just don't right yeah they just
00:56:26.400
don't you know the other thing is it just gives you a lot of choices and a lot of options optionality
00:56:31.280
and you just don't you know a big part of like stress in life comes from not having money for most
00:56:37.260
people right and so the money thing is just something you ought to just take care of it
00:56:41.880
like become the millionaire by your 30 like rich says just get it out of the way check it off the
00:56:48.580
list okay it's just one of the mountains in life you have to climb you got to climb the health
00:56:53.780
mountain and fitness mountain right and you got to take care of that and you got to take care of the
00:56:57.960
money right just get it taken care of right but once it's taken care of like yeah you know keep
00:57:04.640
earning money but you don't need to be like obsessive about it once it's done right what's a realistic
00:57:10.960
timeline for the average american in a good city that gets into real estate maybe follows some of
00:57:16.840
your advice and your protocols attends like your zoom sort of webinar is it a is it a five-year
00:57:22.660
timeline to make a million bucks is it 10 years like what would you think that that would be
00:57:26.920
yeah it depends what they're starting with starting with 100 grand yeah everybody starts different so
00:57:32.100
so if you have 100 grand you could buy one maybe two properties nowadays because they've gotten a lot
00:57:36.660
more expensive and um you know in uh in in i mean it depends on the market cycle too right so you
00:57:43.880
know depends what side of the cycle you're on but in in five years you should be able to accumulate
00:57:48.580
uh two more houses and have you know four good rental properties um if if you're starting with just
00:57:56.060
100 but you know if you're starting with more you can do it faster so so five to ten years would
00:58:00.960
probably be like a reasonable timeline oh yeah definitely i mean in in five years i mean like
00:58:08.880
if you would have been our client in 2019 or 2020 and bought properties and held them through the
00:58:18.240
covet era you have seen your properties appreciate like 47 it's incredible what happened i mean it's
00:58:26.140
just insane and um all of these doomers that keep talking about how you know the market's going to
00:58:32.500
crash and you know the world's going to end and all that stuff you know i understand those arguments i
00:58:37.260
mean i totally get them i'm not unaware of them but what they don't realize is that every morning
00:58:43.860
eight billion people wake up and the the number one question and number one goal on every human's mind
00:58:53.240
even if they're a drug addict or an alcoholic or uh you know a kid um you know it doesn't matter
00:59:00.980
every human has the same thing how can i improve my situation today how can i improve my situation
00:59:07.780
right if it's a if it's an addict it's getting their next fix right and i'm not saying that's good
00:59:13.140
i'm just saying that's him to them it's improving their situation right and uh you know but if it's a
00:59:18.080
business person you go out into the world and create value and and you've improved your situation
00:59:23.580
and since most of the world thankfully lives under capitalism now rather than communism like it did
00:59:29.800
before uh i mean you know the only way you can improve your situation is by improving someone
00:59:34.920
else's situation right and and the the the massive amount of energy that's going into that flywheel
00:59:43.400
to keep things going it's incredible you know uh people just figure stuff out you know rich um
00:59:50.520
we all remember 2007 2008 the great recession right the global financial crisis yeah and um
00:59:58.400
one of the things i i said back then on my podcast to my investors is i said look the day before and
01:00:05.640
most people think the day that crisis started was when lehman brothers fell okay when they failed
01:00:11.200
and the day before lehman failed the world had the exact same amount of real estate of oil of gold
01:00:19.060
of you know everything right it didn't change after the crisis started right it all it did is change
01:00:28.020
positions as to who was on the side of the trade right and you know i just want to help people get on
01:00:34.880
the right side of the trade uh it's kind of like you do in life and love life you want to help guys get
01:00:39.740
on the right side of the trade yeah i mean um i like talking to guys like when i did george gammon's uh
01:00:48.540
you know conference it was like basically like hey guys you know you you're you're making a lot
01:00:52.740
of money or you're going to be making a lot of money here's how not to lose that fucking money
01:00:56.340
that you're making when it comes to relationships right um so that's always an interesting conversation
01:01:01.040
um so let's let's start to wrap it up on that note because i want to respect your time because i know
01:01:05.840
that you got another uh thing happening after this shortly um last question i i just see her in the
01:01:10.520
chats from my boy lair and he's like you know what direction would you suggest to
01:01:14.080
go to build the first 100k i think you mentioned earlier that you've got like zooms and like an
01:01:18.960
empowered investor program is there somewhere where people should go to sort of start with
01:01:23.120
those basics to sort of get the wheels turning yeah i think that you know the first thing with
01:01:27.920
anything is education obviously and um you know when i discovered you rich i i didn't i did not know
01:01:33.460
what i didn't know right and now i know what i didn't know because i followed your work uh in in
01:01:38.940
your field and in my field it's the same way you're just going to learn a lot of stuff you
01:01:42.980
know listen to my youtube channel listen to my podcast um join our monthly master classes they're
01:01:48.480
totally free you don't have to spend a penny for any of this stuff it's all free and um and then
01:01:54.120
you know get your first property and just pay attention to it okay um andrew carnegie had a great
01:02:00.500
saying he said the secret to wealth is put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket
01:02:07.400
basket okay um you know as long as it's a good basket right uh and just watch that basket and
01:02:13.580
manage it and um you know it it will work for you and really the only things to do are a business and
01:02:20.300
the real estate that's i i don't i don't know of anything else that's reliable that you can do other
01:02:25.820
than those two things so for those of guys watching i'll i'll add jason's youtube channel little
01:02:31.320
little tag sort of hyperlink in the title of the youtube video so you can go sort of start there and go
01:02:35.220
down the rabbit hole um and again if you're interested in maybe meeting jason in person and
01:02:40.240
hearing his talk he'll he'll be at the one percent forum october 17th 19th and uh those tickets are
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now available to the public entrepreneurs and cars.com forward slash the dash one dash forum dash
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2025 which is in the ticker below it's been ticking along the entire show jason thanks for joining me i
01:02:57.320
look forward to uh seeing you in the fall and hanging out again soon so much yeah thanks thanks rich
01:03:03.080
and i look forward to seeing a lot of your followers in toronto it's going to be great
01:03:08.320
looking forward to the event thanks man we'll talk to you soon all right guys if you enjoyed that
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