00:22:46.220are you seeing a youth movement involved in the church
00:22:48.880definitely where we are in downtown brooklyn we're seeing that we're seeing
00:22:52.780masses of young adults coming we have i know we have a young adult ministry and right now we're averaging about 250 to 300 young adults that come every week
00:23:02.860how does that conflict with the ideologies of brooklyn because downtown brooklyn there's a lot of gays and stuff like that is does that conflict at all
00:23:08.400no it's not because i think our church the primary focus of our church is love
02:08:31.560Yeah, it's funny that you say prison because, yeah, in New York City, you know, things can get rough.
02:08:36.040I definitely did gravitate towards Islam in prison, man, for sure.
02:08:39.260I did on four years up top, and, you know, I changed my life around to influence the youth positively now through collectibles, you know.
02:08:45.080And, you know, influence them in a way where they don't have to go to the streets because a lot of these brothers and sisters, they ain't got families.
02:11:26.920And hopefully we can get it right as a community, and hopefully we can get it as, you know, as a global situation where these kids and these women can stop dying, man.
02:11:33.360That's a real serious situation, you know what I'm saying, in Gaza.
02:11:36.120So, rest in peace to all the women and the children that lost their life in Gaza.
02:11:49.300But, you know, America propaganda teaches that Islam is terrorists, you know what I'm saying, and they sort of hide the duplicity of America.
02:11:56.980You know, which I'm American, you know, I'm a black American, Spanish and black American, so I understand how it is.
02:12:02.140But at the end of the day, you have to be able to think outside the box.
02:12:05.000Don't believe everything that America tells you in the media.
02:12:07.960You know, beautiful platforms like yourself, beautiful platforms like FNF, you know, shout out them, too, because I know that's the OCTU over there.
02:12:15.400You know, beautiful platforms like that has given the truth to us all, and, you know, we thankful for y'all brothers and the work y'all do, man.
02:12:22.120You know, and anytime y'all in New York, I'll pull up, man, and I'll give my share.
02:12:25.260You know, it's all love to y'all, for sure.
02:20:06.580What's the best thing you learned in business school that you can tell me now so I don't have to spend a lot of money in college?
02:20:13.300Honestly, you know, the best thing I learned is just, like, you know, you got to learn from the business owners themselves.
02:20:19.620The best people to come by were, the most knowledge we gained were from business owners, you know, so people, more than the professors, the people we got to network with, the entrepreneurs, you know, just getting to know people was awesome.
02:20:46.780Um, but to be honest, if you already made it without high school this far, um, if you're in your deep 20s, I don't think it's worth going back.
02:20:54.660Um, honestly, it's not for everybody either, so, like, my undergrad, I didn't do too well, so it was just for me to kind of redeem myself, uh, kind of get some education, some experience there, but, you know, I think it's worth going back.
02:21:13.640Yeah, I mean, but think about it, like, your professors, if they were going to be successful business owners, then they would be successful business owners and not teaching you.
02:21:19.900I mean, listen, I can't say too much, but, you know, I definitely respect the professors, uh, you know, the input that they had on all of us, um, you got a nice, but, uh, yeah, no, uh, I think that's a, that's a good take, too.
02:21:33.420Some of the professors that did come, uh, were, you know, either, uh, you know, previous business owners, they, you know, are directors or CEOs, or either on the part-time, they're coming back to school as teachers, um, but some professors, you know, all they've ever done is teach.
02:21:51.220So, yeah, I think it's a, it's a, it's a difficult conversation to have, I think.
02:21:56.140There are some professors that are definitely.
02:21:57.520So, all they've done is teach, so, like, they don't know anything about business.
02:22:03.560Yeah, I mean, that's a hustle itself, you know, some, it's kind of like the e-commerce courses, you know, those people who, you know, we drop in a course here, we've never actually sold much or made millions on drop shipping, but.
02:22:14.420You know, they, they now run a course, so, similar to that kind of hustle.
02:22:18.500The difference is, though, like, a business degree is, like, you can go into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt.
02:22:29.500I mean, this degree, I think what it called me, cost me around, like, $40,000.
02:22:33.300I would say, you know, it's going down quick, thankfully.
02:22:37.000I'm working on that, but, um, yeah, it's definitely a trade-off.
02:22:40.140I think, also, you know, a lot of these programs are working towards, like, directly, working as a pipeline to get you into some companies, like, Pepsi, you know, Verizon, Amazon, things like that.
02:22:53.300So, it's kind of, like, a very structured way to get into some companies where they have, like, an MBA program or, you know, they're hiring directly.
02:23:09.780You know, if I'm working on a business in the next couple of days, the next couple of years, I'm working on something, then no.
02:23:17.060You know, you went to film school, so now you're working on something entertainment-wise, working on something content creation-wise, so I don't think you had, like, a failed education experience.
02:23:26.620But I think, you know, it depends on what you worked on, the outcome of it.
02:23:33.080I think, you know, I think, you know, as far as what I've learned so far, I think, you know, I'm prepared for a career in management, career in some kind of tech or marketing field, you know, so, you know, I'm feeling prepared and ready for these experiences.
02:23:51.460But in terms of running my own business, I'm a little bit more, you know, hesitant.
02:23:55.600I've never really operated my own business, so hopefully, you know, let's see.
02:41:31.200Because I'm a Jew, and, um, I know war is complicated, but overall, I, I believe in the defense of Jewish lives, even from a religious standpoint.
02:41:42.860Um, I think every Jew has a religious obligation to protect the lives of Jews, and I, and war is messy, and, uh, I don't know if there's, there's a lot of drama, and I don't know if a war was ever fought without a lot of collateral damage.
02:41:57.500And I think that the difference between this war and, like, say, the Ukraine war is that there's a lot more eyes, a lot of more eyes on Israel, and I think rightfully so.
02:42:07.940I mean, Israel is a lot of people, I mean, Israel is a very important place for the whole world, and I think when everyone looks, now everyone's gonna look and see all the collateral damage, and say, like, this is so, this is an anomaly.
02:42:17.280But if people had their eyes on other wars around the world that were justly fought, you're gonna see, there's a lot of collateral damage, and it's very sad.
02:42:25.200We really want, we should just live in peace, but, like, if you, it's, when, when there's terror, and, and, and it's gonna repeat itself, it's like, you have to take care of it.
02:42:36.040And it's, and it brings some really rough things where, you know, if they're gonna hide, if they're gonna put themselves behind their children, and their wives, then, like, does that set a rule in the world that terrorists could just get away with whatever they want by hiding behind women and children?
02:42:53.600Because then terrorists can control the world.
02:42:55.040So it's a very tough, moral position where, in order to stop the control of terror, you have to do what's right, you have to wage the war.
02:43:03.180And we really want the war to be over.
02:43:04.740We wish, we wish they would just accept the terms, and just put their arms down, and, you know, and just, I don't think it's gonna happen.
02:43:15.240I think, I think, I think history has shown that they're not gonna, they're not gonna stop, they're not gonna surrender, they're not gonna give back hostages, but,
02:43:38.460The Torah, the Bible, I mean, I mean, I mean, the Hebrew Scriptures, I don't mean New Testament, because I'm a Jew, I believe in the, in the Hebrew Scriptures, which ends with, with Chronicles and Malachi, and, I mean, whatever it says in the Bible about the Jews being chosen,
02:43:53.800but it says pretty clearly that the Jews are chosen for something.
02:43:58.500I believe that the Jews are chosen to be a moral example to the world, show the world how to be civilized, how to act, and show the world to turn to God.
02:44:08.480So without Jews, would we be uncivilized?
02:44:10.240Well, I think that monotheism right now in the world is one of the big reasons the world is as civilized as it is, which was an idea that was introduced to the world by Judaism, developed into other religions.
02:44:24.380You have Christianity that came from Judaism, Islam, that started off with belief in Abraham and Abraham, Abrahamic religions, it started with Abraham, that was Judaism.
02:44:35.000So I think, I think there's no doubt that monotheism, the idea that we all serve one creator, that there's a creator who's creating us at every moment, and that we, our entire lives are, we owe him to serve him and to do what he wants.
02:44:58.440Okay, so what I think as a Jew, what chosen means is only chosen, was that we're chosen for responsibility.
02:45:04.720It doesn't mean that like a time will come when the whole world is going to be damned and it's just the Jews.
02:45:09.940Because the Hebrew prophet said that when the time comes for, you know, when, I know in the Christian and Muslim belief, the Messiah already came.
02:45:19.500But in Jewish belief, that's not the case.
02:45:21.120But we believe when the Messiah comes, the entire world is going to be, the whole world will recognize God.
02:45:26.400And every nation, every nation is going to be at peace with one another.
02:45:29.600It's not that only the Jews are going to be, are going to be, you know, in God's grace.
02:46:27.220And it doesn't say by name, but it says that they're going to ask him, what are these wounds between your hands?
02:46:31.480And he's going to say, these were the wounds I received in the house of my friends.
02:46:33.880So some people believe that that is a verse that's referring to Jesus, saying that when he's resurrected, he's going to admit that the people who criticized him, the ones who had him punished, the ones who caused the wounds, are actually his friends.
02:46:50.920Because they're the ones who wanted what was good for him.
02:46:53.800And Jewish belief is a good ending for everyone, at the end of the story.