The Glenn Beck Program - Ep 215 ｜ African Entrepreneur SLAMS 'Do-Good' Snobs Making Poverty Worse ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

00:00:00.000 and now a blaze media podcast a few years ago my next guest sat down with dr jordan peterson

00:00:08.040 and finally gave a good answer to the question do black lives actually matter i don't mean in 0.88

00:00:14.740 the virtue signaling sort of way you know everybody post a black square of facebook and 0.65

00:00:19.720 instagram yeah that's not uh i mean do they really matter do we actually care by 2050 25

00:00:28.100 percent of the world's population will be african that's a lot of black lives we should care about

00:00:34.120 but instead most philanthropists avoid the solution that could actually lift africa out of poverty

00:00:41.040 capitalism no more toxic foreign aid even bono gets this now no more raising money off of pictures of

00:00:49.680 helplessly poor africans no matter what the socialists say the most effective way to end poverty 1.00

00:00:57.320 is to free the market my next guest today has a plan to make that happen please welcome amazing

00:01:05.500 entrepreneur and prosperity activist magot wade you imagine the number of african americans that have

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00:02:39.480 life and death preborn.com slash glenn hello my god how are you hello glenn i'm very well thank you

00:03:00.280 thanks for having me good i uh i feel like i could be a brother from another mother you have i mean

00:03:08.900 everything i read uh from you i'm like yes and i have a feeling a lot of people who have never heard

00:03:16.540 you before are going to feel exactly the same way that we are i don't know maybe it's just that you're

00:03:22.600 speaking common sense so clearly and you just don't hear it very often anymore so i'm excited for this

00:03:28.800 conversation thank you likewise um so let's let's start with uh well let's start with

00:03:38.600 who you are and where you came from you were born in senegal right yes i was born in senegal the west

00:03:45.240 coast of africa and the way i like to tell my story really is um from the standpoint of my um

00:03:52.360 evolutionary intellectual journey because i think it's very important so the best way to to to try and

00:04:00.900 follow the journey is yes i was born in senegal west coast of africa and then right around age two

00:04:05.780 my parents made the hard decision that so many african parents before them had to make and so

00:04:11.780 many african parents since them continue making which is take this painful decision to leave their

00:04:17.820 child behind in this case they left me behind um why so to provide for a better life for me they just

00:04:24.180 decided that in order to provide for a better life for me they had to separate from me um many families

00:04:30.220 try to do the journey together right they take they try to take their children together with them

00:04:34.540 but my parents said you know she's too young and we don't know what's gonna what's waiting for us

00:04:38.860 on the other side so um better leave her alone with uh our their parents in this case my grandma 1.00

00:04:44.440 and um eventually they left and um you know you might say oh a couple years is not much but um you

00:04:51.820 know i think stuff like that you it follows you right in in bizarre ways oh yeah but but my parents

00:04:57.100 did what they had to do they they did what they had to do i'm not mad at them at all if anything

00:05:00.700 i'm very grateful you know for the journey that they decided to take so they left me behind with

00:05:04.960 my grandma and uh moved to europe back then um first they arrived in france but then eventually

00:05:11.780 later on they moved to germany and by the time they decided that the immigration journey had worked

00:05:17.400 they were still in germany and that's when they called for me so right around age seven or so

00:05:22.000 um i was called to go be reunited with them and there i had to go through the second major

00:05:28.860 separation of my life because this time now i have to leave grandma behind and so that's a whole

00:05:34.080 other you know level of um of um you know like um trauma again but anyway um moved left uh grandma

00:05:41.680 behind and grandma was very clear with me because she said baby you're gonna be going to this place

00:05:47.320 where almost no one is going to look like you and they won't speak the same language as you do

00:05:52.400 and there the children have been going they go to school not something that you've been doing because

00:05:57.560 i was very much a free rent child as i like to say anyway so but grandma said something very important

00:06:03.740 right after that and she said she said although most of them will not look like you because many of

00:06:10.460 them are going to have this white skin and you have this black skin she said it is still it is still 1.00

00:06:15.480 human skin human they're human you're human that's all that matters and then she said and that language

00:06:21.000 they speak it's still a human language so if they can speak it you being a human you surely will be

00:06:27.100 able to speak it and um going to school is what little humans do you're a little human you'll be just

00:06:32.440 fine and she said you can you can be you know she said you can be impressed with some of this

00:06:37.280 but um under nerve circumstances can you be um intimidated by it and my grandma was very

00:06:43.860 intentional with her words very she would always choose them very carefully and so sure enough i go

00:06:49.280 to germany you know very curious pairs of eyes looking at me you know the kids are like what is

00:06:56.060 this person and i'm looking at them who are you you know it was very fun but you know and so right

00:07:01.840 there you know your little girl and everything grandma said was true she said she predicted so for

00:07:06.300 me she had predicted all of these things you have to understand right so that's how i see it

00:07:09.180 and i'm like surely the next thing grandma said is going to be true as well so i will be fine i will

00:07:15.100 learn german and i will learn and eventually within six months i was speaking a flawless german i was

00:07:21.380 one of the best the best student in my class and then quickly i caught up on um i caught up on the

00:07:26.880 classes that i missed out on from back home and it was so fantastic right and so anyway so that's how

00:07:32.620 it started but but beyond that when i first arrived in germany glenn i looked around and the only

00:07:40.120 question that could come to my to the little girl's mind that i was was how come they have this and we

00:07:47.620 don't and literally all i was speaking about in that case what really triggered that in my mind was

00:07:53.100 how come back home when grandma says my god it's time for your shower from the moment she says that and

00:07:59.060 things start getting into motion and the moment where the water actually touches my skin 45 minutes

00:08:05.620 to an hour can go by why because grandma has to has to get a um uh the charcoal oven going literally 1.00

00:08:14.280 meaning like like when you're at camping and you're not cheating with that uh with a chimney right

00:08:20.160 you put the charcoal in there you put them you know put the matches in there and then you start

00:08:26.020 fanning it as much as you can so that it catches on and once it does you put a pot of water on it

00:08:32.520 so to for it to boil once it boils you bring in a bigger bucket put it into that bigger bucket the

00:08:39.180 water add colder water to it to make the temperature safer then somebody stronger than grandma would drag 1.00

00:08:45.100 it to the shower area and there at last i can finally take my shower some 45 minutes after it was

00:08:52.860 decided that i was going to take a shower but here in germany mom says my god it's time for your

00:08:58.000 shower i'm like where is the bucket of warm water especially in this cold weather no way i'm getting

00:09:02.860 naked in here and so mom would say she would say come on you silly just jump in the shower so i go in 0.99

00:09:09.400 there turn the knobs water is coming down temperatures that i want i'm like wow it was really literally that

00:09:16.320 it was just like and then i was like how come they have this and we don't and then it was about

00:09:20.420 everything it was about it was about the paved roads compared to the unpaved roads back home

00:09:24.300 always coming home having ashy feet from the dust and everything always having to wash your feet

00:09:28.320 and then you go to these grocery stores you have these beautiful displays of all types of foods and

00:09:33.840 and products and you know it's all climatized in the air ac in the summer and uh you know heat in the

00:09:41.140 winter and and i think the little girl was just saying this ease of life first of all was it possible

00:09:47.740 and and if it is how come how come they have this and we don't and that literally became the defining

00:09:55.020 question of my life i had to know and you know how kids can be before we get in wait wait before we

00:10:02.260 get into what you learned because i this is where i just i just love your outlook um you when did you

00:10:10.820 move to america from germany yes so first when we um so from germany a couple years into germany

00:10:16.840 my parents decided we're going to stay in we're going to stay in europe so we moved to france

00:10:21.020 so we went to france and france is where i was primarily educated and after business school in

00:10:26.080 france i decided that france would be too small for my ambitions because you know when you grow up in

00:10:31.140 france this is why you know when people complain about america complaining about oh you know black

00:10:36.000 people this black people that can't do this can't do this in america i'm like i knew one thing for sure 1.00

00:10:41.200 in france in france someone like me with my background there is no way in the world in my

00:10:48.600 wildest dreams ever that i could have achieved what i've achieved in the u.s back in france

00:10:54.280 wow i've never heard that about france why is that because in france couple of things um when you are

00:11:01.020 a um from the immigration and that's by the way how they talk about you you are from the from the

00:11:06.400 immigration and um they would say so when you're applying for a job first of all 0.83

00:11:13.060 your photo is in there your address is in there your age is in there and your address alone forget

00:11:22.400 even your face which right away sends a signal but then your address alone tells them where you live

00:11:28.220 and insofar as most people uh from the immigration because that's how they talk about us

00:11:33.440 live in these ghettos that there is no other way to call it la banlieue you know la banlieue 0.96

00:11:39.380 it's pretty much ghettos where a lot of the people from the immigration are parked in because if you 0.99

00:11:45.680 try to move if you try to live in a different neighborhood there is going to be a strong bias

00:11:51.100 against even your application being taken into account simply because of your skin color so you see how

00:11:57.240 everything everything you know follows each other uh you can't live in such neighborhood so you have to

00:12:02.620 go to the neighborhood where we're allowed but if you come from a neighborhood like that it's

00:12:06.500 probably going to infringe on your ability to get this job or that job and on top of that even if

00:12:12.560 you're french what they call francais de souche meaning for them you know white uh judo christian

00:12:19.620 background that's what for many french people being french means um even if you're that then the

00:12:26.440 class system kicks in france the the um the uh social ladder does not work very well it is it is

00:12:33.560 very stuck and so you have very different types of classes where um and they don't you it's really

00:12:40.280 hard to start from this one and move to the next one and to this day i even see you know i grew up

00:12:45.740 example actually just one more thing i i grew up you know like um tv anchors like you for example well

00:12:51.920 guess what it's almost like if it was you during my time uh but now some 25 years later you're still

00:13:01.180 there if you're still alive but then most importantly it's your offsprings that are on tv you see the

00:13:06.680 meritocracy where is the meritocracy in this and and go and then go go there stay with me even think

00:13:13.840 about the top french companies today what are they i mean what is lvmh it's you know what is lvmh

00:13:21.420 it's these brands and companies that were started many years ago and family member of the family

00:13:26.820 member they're keeping it don't take me wrong i am very happy when the brand when a company was built

00:13:31.220 and your offspring get to benefit from it but what i'm saying is even at that level it's very hard to

00:13:37.440 see brand new companies that are today big big big companies so anyway you see how um the social

00:13:44.460 ladder seems to be stuck so for many in so in my case i would have a double jeopardy as they would

00:13:50.700 call it it's one being uh from the immigration and the other one you're just in a society where

00:13:56.460 the class the class uh the social uh ladder and elevator just doesn't work doesn't work so of course

00:14:02.820 it it is so amazing because growing up here we've always heard how enlightened and how we should

00:14:09.240 be more like france um and uh and as we have in some ways recently become more like france um it's

00:14:19.100 destroying everything that america is so you go over from france to america and what's your what was

00:14:26.100 your hope and then what did you find oh my hope when i my hope was i look i i believed and i still

00:14:35.180 believe in the american dream because when you're in france growing up whether you're in france or

00:14:39.800 parts of africa america really is the it's the top destination even today you ask many young french

00:14:48.780 people as a matter of fact many young europeans their dreams are still american dreams this they

00:14:56.080 if you ask them anywhere they would like to go for the most part you will have some answers about

00:15:00.520 some place in america they want to come to so the movie sold us america why what is what is the is it

00:15:06.400 is it the palm trees and the sunshine of california yes uh or is it something else what what is it it's

00:15:13.280 all of it it's and i would pinpoint to one word the freedom you sense it you know when you're in

00:15:20.700 france and you're watching beverly hills 90210 whatever the zip code number was yeah 9012

00:15:26.820 whatever the zip code was um but you know you for us imagine you're like this young kid you're like

00:15:33.220 16 or 17 and you're watching your counterpart 16 or 17 and they can drive and they can take themselves

00:15:38.720 pretty much anywhere they can have these jobs um it was just uh i think the abundance and most

00:15:45.500 importantly the sense of freedom at least for me that's what made it the abundance and the sense

00:15:50.320 of freedom that i was feeling from anything related to americans all the way to how americans speak

00:15:55.420 and there's something that just feels very free you know in the tonality of it because you have to

00:16:01.020 understand i learned british not american i only learned in when i came to america that i did not

00:16:06.940 learn american i learned british so even between those two languages there is a sense of freedom going

00:16:12.340 from one to the other so i think um that sense of freedom is is really very much what is the driver

00:16:19.120 and this sense of anything is possible anything you're possible your background will won't stop you

00:16:24.920 um your agenda won't stop you nothing will stop you literally and these stories of people who came in

00:16:31.560 and they were dish doing dishwashing in the restaurants and all of a sudden next thing you know they have a

00:16:35.680 chain of restaurants it's just like are you kidding me this doesn't happen in many other places it just

00:16:40.120 doesn't so you found that those stories were true yeah do you still feel that way i still feel that way

00:16:49.820 i still feel that way even with all of america's problem now does it mean that i am not worried

00:16:56.600 that this country is um is am i worried but this country is

00:17:07.800 losing you know what hang on hold that thought because i want to go now back to the problems that

00:17:17.260 you found that as a kid you realize now why you didn't have all those things and then we'll come

00:17:24.380 back to that question about america because i think people will understand your perspective on

00:17:30.360 what you're finding about america today yeah uh after we go through what you found so yeah why why don't

00:17:37.480 they have those things yes yes in africa yeah so the the so then from um the little girl's question

00:17:44.960 of how come they have how come they have this and how come we don't the question eventually evolved

00:17:50.440 with uh time okay and what the question became the question became much more precise and it became

00:17:58.880 how come some countries like mine are poor while others like the u.s new zealand singapore

00:18:05.120 those countries are rich why and along the journey i've heard so many things uh glenn as to why that

00:18:13.320 was the case uh chief among colonialism well it's this is what this is this is a funny part glenn if

00:18:20.460 uh i like to i like to use this because i will say people you can you can take a hundred people a

00:18:25.340 hundred uh african people and line them up over here and take a hundred african people and line them 0.78

00:18:29.580 up a non-african people and line them up over here ask them why is africa still the poorest region 0.99

00:18:37.380 in the world africans and their so-called allies will come with their usual suspects are going to be 1.00

00:18:42.940 oh uh colonialism slavery racism they're stealing the natural resources and all of that and then

00:18:55.300 non-africans who don't even seem to care much they will come up with uh those guys low iq 0.95

00:19:04.380 lazy always fighting each other um they come up with that and and both sides would both can i take

00:19:13.240 and both sides would also say oh yeah and they're all corrupt and they have corrupt leaders bad

00:19:20.080 governance and corrupt leaders you will hear all of that that's what those are your suspects keep that

00:19:26.480 in mind now let's go back why you were poor why some countries are poor some countries are rich

00:19:30.780 so i've heard all of those usual suspects as to why we were poor all of those from both sides okay i hear

00:19:37.320 that and then it makes no sense most of this makes makes no sense because why because i'm looking around

00:19:44.260 and thinking if any of this stuff was true how come my parents the same people the minute they leave

00:19:51.600 senegal and they come in this case to you know france or despite everything i said about france they come

00:19:58.640 to france they go to europe they get to self-actualize how come how come so i'm starting

00:20:04.720 to think this has nothing to do with this the human being in this case but the only variable in this

00:20:10.520 equation you just told me is the place that these people happen to be in or not so now i'm interested

00:20:16.720 what's up with these places what's up with them and then at first of course i'm thinking of course it's

00:20:23.060 because here they're rich of course it's going to happen and here they're poor that's why it's not

00:20:26.740 going to happen but meanwhile guess what god is so good this way god is so good this way because

00:20:31.900 you have to understand at some point in my life glenn through all of this through these years

00:20:37.120 um for eventually i made it to the u.s after business school like i told you and i started out as a head

00:20:43.800 hunter in finance in silicon valley in the heydays of a datcom boom you know working finding talent for

00:20:49.960 google before google was a household name brand they had only one building and even within that building

00:20:55.980 it was just like one you know like i think a few offices same with netflix same with netflix getting

00:21:02.060 lost so many times going to the netflix offices because they were so tiny no one knew what these

00:21:06.260 things would become so when i tell you that i've seen it close i've seen it close so anyway so so

00:21:12.040 doing extremely well for myself extremely well for myself um glenn buying a home in one of the most

00:21:18.720 expensive zip codes in america los altos hills so you cannot tell me that the american dream does not

00:21:24.120 exist little gal my god could never have made it in under any other circumstances i am sorry and i

00:21:29.660 stand by my words so anyway so this is all happening and eventually doing extremely well for myself and

00:21:36.500 one day driving down big sir so happy so excited feeling such a sense of uh you know just achievement

00:21:45.220 and all the gratitude that i was feeling for everybody who helped me on the journey any all the way from

00:21:52.000 my grandma back home who no longer was with us to all these americans that have come my way to my french

00:21:57.840 teachers to everybody that has come along the way because it takes it takes a village to make a person

00:22:03.540 so thanking all of these people for all of these opportunities and my everything and eventually all

00:22:09.180 of a sudden my mood turned dark as it would always do glenn when i felt that way

00:22:13.260 what what has been my lot and when i tell people i am literally haunted

00:22:19.280 it's because when you grow up with stories of people like you packing themselves into little

00:22:27.120 little fishermen's boats to make the journey to another country so that they can help those of

00:22:33.860 their families stay staying back home with a better life economic better life so but many of them

00:22:39.820 don't make it because the boat tips over and they're at the bottom of the ocean right now

00:22:45.280 serving as fish food when you grow up with stories like that and these are not strangers these are

00:22:50.640 friends these are friends of friends these are family friends these are family and it's happening all

00:22:56.240 the time to this day and actually it's accelerating that phenomenon and when people don't do that they

00:23:01.820 get into planes trying to make it you know to europe somewhere above england a body drops because

00:23:06.680 somebody thought it would be a good idea to to hide into the landing gears of a plane or you open the

00:23:12.540 cargo section of a plane and there's a frozen body because somebody thought it would be a good idea to

00:23:16.600 hide there but they didn't know the temperature goes so down up there and you die and when when they say

00:23:22.060 those routes are too dangerous and they say they let's go land route when they go land route what

00:23:26.520 happens to them they get stuck in libya where today glenn when that happens to someone like me

00:23:33.540 you get sold literally as a slave yeah and your cost is between 300 and 500 dollars it took for

00:23:39.800 cnn to to do a piece on it for the rest of the world to finally believe us and so would you not be

00:23:45.940 haunted if like me these were the stories that you grew up with your whole entire life every single

00:23:52.660 month there is one of those coming up okay so as soon as you would be in this mood of happiness

00:23:58.440 this is what would happen the minute i was in such a a state of elation that's the next second i would

00:24:07.300 be reminded of this and then of course it's like it's like having a form of depression almost right on

00:24:15.060 the spot but that day as i was driving down big sur something happened that never happened before

00:24:21.560 i think at that moment glenn um basically my body started to jerk around to so much that i almost

00:24:28.320 the steering wheel almost you know took me down below to the ocean you know probably what i'm talking

00:24:33.840 about big sur you know how steep it can be yeah oh yeah and anyway um and i stopped the car as soon

00:24:39.540 as i could and you know in retrospective all i can think of is what they talk about they say that

00:24:46.880 the mind has an amazing ability to make pretty much sense of anything including the worst that's how you

00:24:55.680 could nazis can justify these actions we have that capability as humans but they say the body the body

00:25:02.800 doesn't doesn't have that ability and in my case i would go further i would say that the soul and

00:25:08.660 maybe that's a differentiation for me between the mind and the soul and the soul is much more

00:25:13.440 connected to the body than to the mind and i think that day that day they separated that day the

00:25:19.960 separation happened body slash soul said i am done with you mind trying to justify pretty much anything

00:25:26.020 or accept pretty much anything you're on your own with that madness so literally two people in one body

00:25:31.400 soul body here and mind over there and i had to and i think that separation is what caused the jerking

00:25:40.320 around the body going so violent and i stopped the car and i got out i got out and got on my knees

00:25:47.620 literally and i said god this is it this is it i i i i surrender because surrendering was the only thing i

00:25:54.340 could do to alleviate the pain because what happened is the best thing you can do it is right surrendering

00:26:02.700 and so i made a vow with god and i said look from here on i will show up and i want for every breath

00:26:11.180 that i take to be to the service of africa of my people now mind you i don't know what to do i don't

00:26:18.720 know what to do about this because my whole life what i've said to myself i would push it under the rug and i

00:26:23.080 would say listen this problem was there before you it will probably be there long after you're gone

00:26:29.120 please leave your life please try to have a successful life at your own level that still

00:26:34.840 will be a great thing there is this is just just try to live your life but that day didn't work

00:26:40.420 anymore i i just felt like maybe this is what i came here for i had to do more and i would never be

00:26:45.780 left alone until i did more and once you realize that you're just like okay i get it i heard you now

00:26:50.460 okay but you're gonna have to show me the way god because i don't know what to do from here

00:26:53.300 and sure enough glenn everything started to happen everything so eventually i went back home

00:26:58.640 to senegal it's been four years since i haven't been back then because you know with my immigration

00:27:04.160 and everything you have to wait make sure your h1b everything gets through before you get out

00:27:08.440 otherwise you you know so anyway so i took my husband back then who was french to senegal and

00:27:13.120 to show him where i came from and everything and they're discovering that the hibiscus that i grew up

00:27:17.260 with has disappeared the women who used to grow the hibiscus to you know to make the beverage um 0.98

00:27:23.400 were losing their livelihoods leaving the countryside packing themselves into the cities becoming maids 0.78

00:27:28.480 treated really badly the cycle of poverty going on and meanwhile this beverage which is part of my

00:27:34.180 culture disappearing and i was just like you got to be kidding me so i was in shambles and eventually

00:27:41.220 remembered what my father would always say criticize by creating it's okay to have a problem

00:27:47.260 with the world but you have to offer alternatives you cannot just be in criticism mode and i got up

00:27:53.460 and i'm like okay i'm just going to start a company it's going to be bringing back this beverage we're

00:27:58.300 going to put women back to work by the time the undp did a case study on us we had put back to work 0.57

00:28:05.280 400 women and later 9 000 women and it was all happening came back to the u.s got myself a

00:28:11.840 business partner we went at it we did all of this but you know glenn the reason why i bring up this

00:28:15.740 story is it's in doing that that i got my answer why some countries are poor others are rich because

00:28:22.600 while i was doing that uh we had a sister company in the u.s and a sister company in senegal my home

00:28:28.200 country and just from the get-go back then it was in 2003 um we were setting up the the the the legal

00:28:36.460 entities in the u.s it was so fast we're talking less than a day back then we're talking maybe a

00:28:44.100 couple hundred dollars over there back then almost two years thousands of dollars thousands of dollars

00:28:51.120 opening a bank account you had to jump through all types of hoops over here 20 bucks you could open

00:28:55.400 a bank account you're on your way and then the labor laws the labor laws back home you married 0.71

00:29:00.060 your employees for good or for bad the minute you hire an employee first of all it's the state that

00:29:04.120 also has to agree that you can hire so and so and at which price and when you need to let them go

00:29:10.160 the state also has to approve that and it's at all levels the tax laws the tax laws are so complicated

00:29:16.980 that is worth truckloads of laws and regulations so much that you will make a mistake and making a

00:29:23.640 mistake means you're always subjecting yourself to being harassed and or imprisoned by the government

00:29:28.440 yep so so i'm comparing these two things and i'm like wow it is so easy to start and run a business

00:29:35.680 here in america and over here it is so hard and then my answer was again oh but of course americans

00:29:41.620 are rich that's why and america we're poor that's why just come to think wait a second you just said

00:29:46.340 poor wait a second you're poor because you don't have enough money uh at least not enough money to

00:29:51.940 take care of your basic needs you don't have money because you don't have a source of income

00:29:57.040 what is a source of income for most of us it is a job isn't it where do jobs come from it comes from

00:30:04.800 businesses the private sector oh but wait didn't you just tell me it is super hard over here to build

00:30:10.680 to run to start and run a business and here you told me it is super easy to start and run a business

00:30:15.940 connect the dots connect the dots connect the dots glenn now now it's all making sense to me

00:30:21.860 yeah if indeed jobs are what's needed for people to get an income income which act gets them out of

00:30:32.480 poverty yet you're telling me that in this place it's almost impossible to start a business wow and then

00:30:41.220 you look around and you start looking at all of these economic indexes the doing business index

00:30:46.480 um um of a world bank the heritage uh economic freedom index all of these indexes measuring how

00:30:53.080 hard or easy it is to start and run a business pretty much anywhere in the world and systematically

00:30:57.720 these indexes are showing what uh what as an entrepreneur i have been going through basically it

00:31:04.320 is harder to do business in almost anywhere in sub-saharan africa than it is anywhere in scandinavia

00:31:10.500 and i take scandinavia because even the most anti-business people among us bernie sanders i'm

00:31:15.640 talking to you uh like to use you know like to use like to use uh scandinavia as a model i'm like

00:31:24.380 because of course bernie sanders doesn't understand that scandinavian nations are more capitalist than

00:31:28.640 almost any sub-saharan african nations um yeah so there glenn i had it africa is the poorest region

00:31:36.420 in the world because it happens to be the most over-regulated region in the world it is a region

00:31:43.040 in the world that offers the least economic freedom to its entrepreneurs it means our entrepreneurs are

00:31:49.800 not free to enterprise and when entrepreneurs are not free to enterprise they cannot build the

00:31:54.540 companies that create the jobs jobs which provide the income income which takes somebody from poverty

00:31:59.960 to prosperity there you had it done and of course five only is it is it five percent of the businesses

00:32:07.580 in senegal are legal yeah yeah and it's uh and those numbers are pretty much the same uh all over

00:32:16.040 you know um sub-saharan africa except for four of them so so one of the problems that i've always

00:32:22.880 thought and i was so glad when i heard bono say this because he's been raising money for africa forever

00:32:27.180 and at one point he i think he was talking maybe at the london school of economics and he said and

00:32:32.440 they didn't like to hear this but he said you know aid is one thing but i think i've been wrong all these

00:32:39.500 years what they need is jobs and industry and they need a maybe a hand up but not a handout otherwise

00:32:49.380 we're just perpetuating this and i think of all the people that claim to love uh africa and want to

00:32:58.640 help i think most of the things they're doing is keeping africa down glenn let me say something right 1.00

00:33:07.920 there because i think um this correlation most people don't make obviously i'm a black person

00:33:15.440 i'm privileged to travel around the world i live not only in one place but a couple places

00:33:21.720 um i have you know i live in senegal as well as i live in the u.s because my business also is in

00:33:28.020 senegal we manufacture products there and we sell them in the u.s and um you see what i have noticed

00:33:35.780 it's always the same when you said the people who claim to love africa i will push it further down

00:33:40.920 in this case let me bring let me bring grace into this the people who claim to care about black 1.00

00:33:46.520 people systematically seem to be the self-proclaimed people and they always have the same mo with black 0.97

00:33:56.280 people and it is never about looking at us as fully capable people but it's almost like there must

00:34:06.720 be something inherently wrong with us that that which works with other people cannot work with us

00:34:13.080 let me let me make the the comparisons here for you for africa what do these self-proclaimed people

00:34:21.700 who care about africa what have they been promoting they have been promoting foreign aid

00:34:27.500 and humanitarian aid

00:34:30.600 here in the u.s what have they been promoting welfare for the most part right and of course

00:34:41.920 that stuff is not working why because in both situations it is robbing us of our self-agency

00:34:51.300 as if we're not capable wow of doing as much or or more than others this and when you follow that

00:35:00.380 train of thought of course it's gonna it's gonna instruct everything else this is how you end up

00:35:05.240 with some women saying that two plus two equals four is racist and math is simply not something 0.99

00:35:12.780 that black people can handle therefore we have to dumb dumb math we have to we have to even erase 0.99

00:35:20.540 math if possible because that's the only circumstances under which they can thrive

00:35:24.500 you do the same thing to me when you are not seeing what economic freedom means

00:35:29.980 um so here what i'll do is just take a little um comparison again look glenn for anything in the

00:35:38.740 world to thrive whether it's for you as a human being or a tomato plant you're gonna plant or anything

00:35:43.620 i believe there are two things that are needed you need it needs to start with a good seed a good core

00:35:49.620 the seed for me is and the core for me is just that character and virtue and then it needs to be

00:35:57.100 implanted in the right soil with the right nutrients with the right uh sun exposure all of that good

00:36:04.480 stuff if you optimize those two you get the best tomato plant you can find in the world ever you find

00:36:13.220 the best person most productive healthy happy person you could find ever so let me let me wait wait let

00:36:20.700 me push back on you and to play devil's advocate here please um yeah but you you were born underprivileged

00:36:29.260 you don't you've never been exposed they've never been exposed to these things um you know they don't

00:36:36.760 know how the rest of the world work whatever the excuse is they'll say it it comes from oppression

00:36:43.860 being colonialized or colonized and uh uh and oppressed by people sold into slavery so you have

00:36:51.420 all these disadvantages that you can't make it on your own yeah so how do you respond to that

00:36:59.980 the answer that i would have to that is bullshit bullshit why bullshit let me explain right oh i love 0.89

00:37:09.860 you why why bullshit why because first of all even in the u.s how many millions of black outliers do you 0.89

00:37:17.600 have how many how many glenn how many and then you have those of us who come from from africa coming to

00:37:27.260 the u.s again look at how many if you want to take that premise i am starting to see that the outliers

00:37:34.600 are that many more than what you just what you just put on the table now the problem is they're the

00:37:42.120 most vocal ones and they have academia media and hollywood on their side which it's a big huge

00:37:51.600 megaphone so we live under this illusion that what they're saying is actually true and the only people

00:38:00.300 who are going to get screwed by it are the people who are actually willing and listening to them

00:38:05.800 and by the way it's not necessarily the white people who are going to suffer from this

00:38:09.340 but any black person who stakes their future on these narratives is going to be doomed

00:38:16.980 so i i was talking to uh james lindsey um who is an atheist um very very bright man and i said uh

00:38:27.040 james i i i've sworn off the word evil um but i i can't think of another word that fits this does an

00:38:35.660 atheist and he said well what what do you mean i said this whole philosophy is telling people because

00:38:43.700 of your race you can never make it without us and you know without without our little group here

00:38:53.660 that's going to plow all these people under and they're never going to let you uh buy i said you

00:39:01.620 are destroying people's um will their self-esteem their willingness and hopefulness of looking forward

00:39:12.140 and going i can do anything you're destroying it there there's no other word that fits other than

00:39:18.700 evil that's right and he said i think i agree with you it's evil what's happening that's right that's

00:39:25.260 right now evil is definitely happening but you know even if i say there is evil and this is me now push

00:39:34.700 doing devil's advocate on you yeah even then it might be evil but glenn in the end of it at the end

00:39:41.300 of the day this is what again i learned from grandma is they whoever whoever they is and sometimes they

00:39:48.060 is i don't know white people they can be another nation they whoever they is and whatever reason why

00:39:57.600 they supposedly do not want you to self-actualize um as optimally as possible my grandma would say you

00:40:06.400 know what and so who cares the minute you give them that power you're done so for me i am not even

00:40:17.040 willing to stop at the very evil because if you're stopping at the very evil it's still letting me off the

00:40:24.240 hook me this human being who has the choice or not right to hear that or not that is the i think

00:40:34.640 that's the thing about socialism is it tries to crush your your self-determination um so it can control

00:40:44.640 you and the minute the populist stands up and goes no i'm not giving it'll it in some cases it has been

00:40:53.440 very bloody for a very long time but as long as you have this business why i think they're they're

00:40:59.040 after religion so much of the time because when you have a belief in god you have this faith that

00:41:06.400 you know even if you plow me under it's all going to be for god's good and so i'm i know who i answer

00:41:12.320 to that's right um and they can't have that no so capitalism when done right when it's not crony

00:41:18.960 capitalism yes where it's not in bed with the government yes um that frees people and feeds

00:41:26.080 people and has changed the world and now it's getting such a bad name it is it is it is getting

00:41:33.440 such a bad name but um i think capitalism is getting more of a bad name in wealthy nations today than it is

00:41:42.000 for example in places like africa yeah do we have people especially the pan-africans who are anti

00:41:46.880 uh capitalism and this goes back to by the way uh the days of the african liberators um you know 0.76

00:41:54.560 so we do have people like that but africa is the youngest population in the world 19 years old one

00:42:00.400 nine and by 2050 one quarter of the world population will be african and unlike one way way way way way 0.98

00:42:08.480 you heard me right one one in every four people will be african yes yes wow no one is paying attention

00:42:15.520 at least definitely america is not paying attention and this is sometimes this is something that's

00:42:20.000 really to me it's mind-boggling um because think about it and the nice thing about this population

00:42:25.840 is unlike maybe what might be going on in latin america where there is a strong sense of identity

00:42:33.200 related to socialism for various reasons various reasons the african population the youth does not have

00:42:39.920 that baggage against capitalism per se they just wants to see a system that works for them as well

00:42:47.600 sadly for most of them the only businesses that they have seen work for the most part

00:42:52.400 is uh crony businesses my friend um you know would call it a capitalism but in this case

00:43:01.120 in this case um that's what they have seen happen but but what you have is this amazingly young

00:43:07.280 population who doesn't have preconceived you know um mental blockages against capitalism all they want

00:43:15.040 is for it to work they're not they want to have fridges they want to have cars they want to have

00:43:19.920 all of this all the things i talked about they want to have it okay so are this is this is like the

00:43:25.120 youngest population in the world and i see here so so far who has been dealing with us um the europeans

00:43:32.160 is primarily in my side of africa the french and what has been their relationship to us it has been

00:43:38.240 you leader corrupt leader i am going to work with you where in a way i protect your national boundaries

00:43:47.280 and um in exchange for your natural resources in the meantime in this deal the everyday ordinary african

00:43:56.000 what's in there for him to see nothing in that deal they don't exist russian slash chinese uh the chinese

00:44:03.600 chinese come and say uh you you um corrupted leader this is how i'm going to help i'm going to work with 0.99

00:44:11.040 you we're going to build the infrastructure with you so that your people don't rebel against you for the

00:44:16.560 time being in exchange your natural resources and by the way we give you the loans you pay us back and

00:44:22.800 we bring our own people to work on these projects so no jobs for the africans even the rice that they 1.00

00:44:28.560 eat is imported from china nothing not even a usb key stays on the ground so that's the chinese deal 1.00

00:44:34.800 what's in there for the uh ordinary african except for the road they get on or that bridge that maybe

00:44:40.320 it's going to collapse it's going to collapse 10 years from now because it was not done the right

00:44:43.360 way and many of us die on it but nobody's ever going to care not much for the ordinary african 0.99

00:44:48.160 and then the russian now comes comes in and the russians are like you uh corrupt leader how i'm 0.68

00:44:52.880 going to work with you is i'm going to be here to protect you your personal integrity against your

00:44:58.880 people and against your military and against your you know um secret defenses and all of that in

00:45:04.720 exchange your natural resources of course ordinary african sees nothing this is a place where i see 0.85

00:45:09.840 for america to say to show to show up and when i say america i mean the people of america to say guys

00:45:19.200 guys in this case meaning you ordinary africans we're going to go hand in hand together and with

00:45:24.400 the power of the free markets which means we're going to do business with one another we are going

00:45:30.160 to elevate each other together because that's what the markets do and then glenn imagine the opportunity

00:45:35.520 that we have here for this next generation one quarter of the population to all of a sudden

00:45:40.640 have a natural relationship to capitalism as you say done right have a natural healthy relationship to

00:45:48.160 it why because they experienced what it is and what it means and what it can do to their lives

00:45:53.920 this is the opportunity we have on the table right now that america is not taking we think it's all about

00:45:59.280 guns and and and you know that soft power right there we have a way of doing it and americans

00:46:04.880 who americans better than americans do does this that's what they've done for this country so we are

00:46:10.320 missing out on this and meanwhile right now our youth is becoming pretty much corrupt by uh russia 0.87

00:46:16.320 is the latest one to to come to the scene so that's something that i think americans have to think

00:46:20.960 about but instead of thinking about this glenn let me give you an example of what they're doing instead

00:46:24.960 so remember when we talked about the business environment being one of them uh african business

00:46:31.280 african countries having some of the most rotten business environments in the world which doesn't 1.00

00:46:34.960 allow their entrepreneurs to work well one of the solutions that i'm working on is what we call the

00:46:39.120 charter city the startup cities these are next generation special economic zones with their own

00:46:43.840 law their own governance when it comes to business so that straight at home i too get to benefit from a

00:46:50.480 world-class business environment from ever having to take my little feet and trying to migrate somewhere

00:46:55.840 else in the world to build my business and be successful i can do it straight from home and

00:47:00.720 achieve all of that from home do it surrounded by my family surrounded by my community surrounded by my

00:47:06.480 people surrounded by my land all of that do it in just like you get to do it in the us so here we are

00:47:13.360 doing these things but guess what right now something like that is happening in honduras on the island of

00:47:18.800 rory tan there is uh there is an initiative called prospera it's just that special economic zones so

00:47:25.760 honduras on its own is i think 130 or 142 i should know better and um on their own they're 130 or 142

00:47:34.000 under doing businesses record index ranking either way really bad ranking really bad but this zone on

00:47:41.920 its own guess which number it is glenn give me a number number 20 number nine top ten nine number nine

00:47:53.360 top ten and we're seeing the results companies are coming jobs are being created all of that good stuff

00:47:58.480 is happening but then guess what what did people like senator warren um cory bush and um bernie sanders

00:48:09.520 decide to do they decided to side with the government the current government of honduras which is known

00:48:15.600 to be in bed with the governments of cuba venezuela and china are those really the best actors we can

00:48:23.120 be dealing with so they're all in bed together especially especially not with business exactly

00:48:29.120 so now trying to push out this zone and expropriate american investments and elizabeth warren like i said

00:48:36.560 cory bush and um bernie sanders are helping while they're doing that while they're promoting the

00:48:43.200 expropriation of american businesses guess what they're using the imf arm to actually give a 900

00:48:52.960 million dollar package aid package to honduras so what are you doing when you're doing that you're

00:48:58.880 saying no to the businesses that will build the jobs that the hondurans need and by the way now connect

00:49:04.960 that to the immigration happening in the us we're all everybody here is fighting with one another

00:49:10.880 because of the immigration right there we have an opportunity for the people of honduras to be able

00:49:16.640 to stay home and build lives back at home in the most serene way possible and we're denying them that

00:49:25.760 right meanwhile financing promoting aid so these governments then you ask me what incentives do they

00:49:36.960 ever have to do the right thing but then you turn around and say oh they're corrupt well you're feeding

00:49:41.680 the corruption right there right so right so glenn uh what which is it gonna be because you can't have

00:49:49.840 it both ways but i guess in this situation i am starting to think that maybe elizabeth warren and

00:49:55.760 the left only not wants in the immigration uh going on they use us as political pawns that's the only

00:50:02.320 thing i can think of oh yes i mean it is you know the the idea some of the the most the most racist people

00:50:13.040 that i've ever seen in bulk um are those that are saying things like to save the planet we have to make

00:50:23.440 sure that africa uh doesn't build power plants who the hell are you to tell people anywhere that they can't

00:50:35.680 have cheap power cheap power is the first stepping stone no no no power is the first stepping stone

00:50:45.440 to being able to build your country and build business and become self-reliant and we are

00:50:52.800 we are crushing crushing not only our own country but the poorest countries in the world because

00:51:02.000 we say no you you can't you can't have that kind of power yeah we won't help you build that exactly

00:51:08.640 and um in addition it's a very good point and it's that's the only reason why i added um the anti-fossil

00:51:14.880 fuel zealots to my war because they're a huge threat to this development that we need because without power

00:51:22.720 like you said what what's going to run these businesses yeah but you know glenn this is even what

00:51:26.640 happens to africa if we get rid of fossil fuels we're dead we're dead we have a sacrificial lambs

00:51:34.480 on on this on in the story didn't you get the memo and so there's even worse than that glenn there's

00:51:41.200 worse than that every year every year on the african continent african continent alone because the

00:51:48.480 numbers get much bigger when you take the rest of the poor nations one to two million african women

00:51:53.760 are dying every single year due to indoor air pollution because these women don't have access 1.00

00:52:00.960 to clean burning fuels meanwhile right anti-fossil fuel zealots are telling them oh don't you want

00:52:08.240 these solar stoves we gave you come give me a break solar stoves that's the best you can that stuff

00:52:14.320 doesn't work you know it's it's laying around all over the place doesn't work these women don't want 1.00

00:52:18.640 it leave me alone so then they're telling them well too bad then because that's the only other thing

00:52:23.760 you allowed it's that and then women are like oh fine so i'm going to go back to burning my lungs 1.00

00:52:28.240 literally frying my lungs using biomass of different sorts and this is happening people don't

00:52:35.200 right now i know and people don't realize in in america 125 30 years ago the number one killer of

00:52:43.920 of women was not childbirth it was fire there you go it was fire because you were cooking indoors

00:52:52.160 that's right and nobody is nobody's willing to really look at these things that's right instead

00:52:58.320 they're they're pushing this narrative you know the black lives matter i don't think they do to those

00:53:04.320 people i don't i don't think black lives matter black lives matter those words i'm 100 on board with 1.00

00:53:13.040 but the organization of made especially of self-proclaimed marxist no they're it's a sham

00:53:21.200 it's a sham the crooks uh whatever you want to call it it is what it is how again when you go back to

00:53:28.320 whoever in this country or back um in africa by the way africa glenn is home to 90 of the

00:53:35.040 representatives of the black race and when you know that what africa needs the most right now to grow to

00:53:41.040 get out of poverty into power into out of poverty into prosperity is economic freedom meaning

00:53:45.600 capitalism free market capitalism and you being a marxist which is the opposite of it you can't 0.90

00:53:52.960 with a straight face tell me that you care about black lives you cannot tell me with a straight face 1.00

00:53:59.600 that the very force that africa as a continent where again 90 of the representatives of a black race

00:54:07.440 lives what it needs the most you are against yet you tell me that black lives matter no it doesn't 1.00

00:54:16.640 so so let's go back to a solution the the startup cities i mean i i for a while because i'm a big um

00:54:25.600 i'm a big fan of walt disney and i think if walt disney would have lived an extra 10 years the world

00:54:31.120 would have changed because he was working on ebcot which was not an amusement park it was a prototype

00:54:37.680 city of tomorrow and he was completely redesigning it uh in a way that would be much more independent

00:54:45.520 freer from uh many regulations um and the best ideas would would win um and you know i brought that to

00:54:56.080 uh texas that spirit to texas and even texas is just over regulated to where you can't just open up

00:55:04.640 a space and say let's just think freely here for a second forget everything else let's just think freely

00:55:14.000 is there a place in africa that that can be done where the government will protect it yeah so the good

00:55:21.360 news is we've been talking to six nations going on eight and i'm very confident um that very soon

00:55:27.120 we'll be able to announce one i was very close um a year ago i was very very close uh but then you know

00:55:34.240 government being what it is uh you have some things happening in um there's always something happening

00:55:39.120 in government as you know and a deal that was almost about to be signed um something just happens and

00:55:44.240 the everything gets thrown off track but um like i said i have six going on eight that i'm working

00:55:51.040 with and um what i'm seeing is actually the excitement and that's what i'm really excited

00:55:55.520 about really excited about um there are many little considerations that come into mind when we try to

00:56:01.360 when we look at which country to go after right um ideally you're looking at a country where you have

00:56:07.280 a leader that despite the the public figure that you know he or she gives to the rest of the world

00:56:14.240 this is somebody who um understands these these issues understands has some understanding of you

00:56:21.200 know how prosperity is built they may not have had the opportunity to build it because not maybe the

00:56:27.520 right team in place or whatever but they have it you're looking at people who have been um who still

00:56:32.640 have time on their mandate or mandates you are looking at the geography of the country itself ideally

00:56:39.120 you don't want landlocked but you can still do it with landlocked uh with some some some extra caveats

00:56:44.240 in there and then when you do that um then you start to look at the the constitution of that country

00:56:51.920 but you also need to look at the international treaties that they signed because for anybody who

00:56:56.160 understands anything about this um international treaties for the most part oftentimes supersede

00:57:01.120 even some parts of your constitution you know i think the europeans many european nations are seeing

00:57:05.360 that and there's also a big problem that's why probably um um some some some very specific

00:57:11.840 parties will be elected uh in june when the eu goes for elections you know people trying to elect um

00:57:19.360 representatives who are going to go back and renegotiate uh immigration laws within eu because

00:57:24.560 right now it's superseding uh country by country um immigration laws right so in any case so you have to

00:57:30.560 look at all of these parameters and then you also have to look at the lay of the land and kind of

00:57:35.840 help them design a plan as to how we're going to do this some of these countries are going to have

00:57:40.080 in this zone to allow for common law to happen within the zone when the rest of the country is on civil

00:57:45.440 law right and so that's that can be a pretty heavy undertaking as you can imagine right um yes so so

00:57:52.080 there's all of this type of work that needs to be done and as you can imagine at that level too there

00:57:56.880 is these extra forces happening with uh especially in the case of francophone nations there's always

00:58:02.320 these tensions that are happening with the hold that france might have on some of these nations

00:58:07.680 so finding ways to do this in a way that is not threatening to pretty much

00:58:12.240 anyone and that's why this is the the the the city is the model because what we do there really

00:58:19.120 is on a rather unoccupied plot of land where literally there is nothing because people decided

00:58:24.560 there is not there could be nothing um there's nothing to fight for over there and so what you

00:58:29.600 do is uh you always have to find a country where not you know in every of these countries where the

00:58:35.680 laws are so bad uh only the cronies for the most part can get to do business and i i don't when when

00:58:41.840 i say crony i want to be very careful here because you got to do with what you have right um

00:58:47.760 you have to do what you have it's not like these people woke up and said i want to be a cronies i'm

00:58:50.960 going to be a crony but you know you get started you start being shaken down you realize the only

00:58:54.880 way to stay in business is to you know get give into it you would prefer different ways but this

00:58:59.120 is what it is but anyway by the time you arrive uh some people are benefiting from the status quo

00:59:04.320 some people are benefiting from the status quo and they definitely do not want it to go anywhere so

00:59:08.880 you do not want to frighten those people under no circumstances ever because if you go to war with

00:59:13.600 them you will lose just the way it is so you don't go to war with them but what you do is um you go to the

00:59:20.000 the next layer so we're talking about the cousins we're talking about the younger brother you know

00:59:26.160 those who are they're close enough to smell the goodies but they can't touch it because

00:59:32.880 the layer one already has it so if you have people like that who are close to the government

00:59:38.880 then this is where the magic can start to happen because you speak with them they get you uh contact

00:59:44.320 with in contact with the government you have all of these conversations and then this is going to be

00:59:48.640 actually the place that layer two gets to actually get some real work done so remember the the the

00:59:54.480 other the other layer of um people who are close to the government so and it's with them actually

01:00:01.040 that you work and usually uh layer one meaning um the people who are benefiting from the status quo right

01:00:06.720 now they have these big businesses whatever they don't see you as a threat because you're just there

01:00:10.880 and if nothing and and some of the ways you do this also is you have ways for them to have

01:00:15.920 um for example you know there is the zone all the money that is going to build there is a part of

01:00:22.400 that um income that is going to go back to the the the normal government right to the to the to the to

01:00:29.520 the national government and you can have deals where for example um you know the money is going to go

01:00:36.400 through this bank that is very legitimate bank but it's owned by some of these people and you see so you

01:00:42.240 start to figure out how how are you going to make sure that everybody's interest is in a way together

01:00:48.960 because that's what i love about peaceful commerce if we're in the same freaking boat you're not going

01:00:52.560 to mess with me because you put the hole in the boat we all go down so instead of fighting instead of

01:00:57.200 fighting i think people have to really have a different mindset and first of all really look at the

01:01:01.280 people of the land and look at these government officials also as the heroes of the story they have been

01:01:06.800 used to being called all types of names but again glenn i guarantee you anything you want you know

01:01:12.000 a lot of these people many of them get into government uh to do good things and then they go

01:01:16.560 in and you know how it is you get the system corrupts you or it will tell you clear flat out you want to

01:01:22.320 be clean here you're going to be spat out because the antibodies like you cannot we can't keep them

01:01:26.560 here so anyway whatever for from whatever reason it is it ends up being the way it is so i think

01:01:31.840 what happens is you have to come with a clean with a clean and uh and different mindset where the

01:01:37.280 local people are going to have to be the heroes of a story where the people in government working

01:01:42.160 with you to make something like this happen have to become the the heroes of a story where you don't

01:01:47.280 look at the oligarchs on the ground as um de facto enemies but you try to understand how and where can we

01:01:54.480 honestly um legally join forces to make this thing work and these zones by the way the one we have we

01:02:01.600 negotiated a 50-year contract uh 50-year protection plan from the government signed in so meaning no

01:02:06.880 matter which government comes in they cannot really attack you in honduras they're trying but i think

01:02:11.200 they're finding that it has teeth so it has real teeth so if you take all of these parameters into

01:02:16.560 account and you go in with a very different mindset then i think you really get to build something

01:02:21.600 amazing and then all we need is one two three to be built and then the change happen because

01:02:25.680 everybody's going to emulate you rather than you know you trying to keep knocking more doors so that's

01:02:30.640 pretty much how i've been going at it as the co-founder of prosper africa working with a prosper

01:02:35.600 team which is one of the best in the world for this uh on our team we have a um ex chief strategy

01:02:40.960 officer of a dubai international financial center so amazing people like that but again what our team

01:02:46.720 has in check tell me tell me real quick what is what i know you are what what do you do because

01:02:53.760 your team is actually putting this into practice all you know so the world can come

01:03:00.800 to africa yes yes we're doing it in my case especially in africa i am doing it so no child

01:03:07.360 because you have to remember glenn at the end of the day for me everything is personal i have vowed at

01:03:12.640 some point in my life that no child ever would have to be separated from her family because of economic

01:03:19.040 reasons i i've just it just it just it's just it's just a vow of my i could not i could not do it for

01:03:25.120 myself but if i can if i can have a say in it for other children you betcha you betcha so the reason

01:03:31.920 why i'm doing this is because i want for anyone at home who would like to build a life at home to be

01:03:39.040 able to build a life at home so we're creating these zones primarily so that africans no longer have to 1.00

01:03:46.720 migrate away from their countries the way they have to right now simply due to bad to bad um 0.98

01:03:53.120 business uh business business climates in their countries and beyond that of course uh the caveat to

01:03:58.800 this is because the laws are so i mean these business environments are so well designed um glenn

01:04:06.240 when you're thinking about the fact that you have you know law its own law and its own governance

01:04:11.200 when it comes to business also custom regulatory framework you're designing these zones so

01:04:16.560 that the regulatory cannot be um co-opted it cannot be captured and so i give you for people

01:04:23.920 listening to us i give an example it's almost like you know right now anybody in the us um starting an

01:04:29.200 llc or a company you know that you can incorporate it pretty much in any state you want regardless of

01:04:33.360 the state where you live right so that that that um right is what we call choice of law so most

01:04:40.160 companies especially most everybody in the us has it at least within the us and then globally globally

01:04:45.920 multinationals get to pick pretty much their choice of law from anywhere in the world so choice of

01:04:50.480 law is there we think it should be for everyone up and down this up and down the stream but in

01:04:55.280 addition to choice of law right uh regulatory choice you know choice of regulatory meaning that for

01:05:01.200 example if you're going to be a medical in the medical industry you need you should be able to get

01:05:05.680 to choose am i going to subject myself to the fda as a regulatory body or am i going to subject myself to

01:05:12.560 a to the oecd or any of the oecd countries because this is how you see sometimes

01:05:17.280 you need a treatment the fda says you can't have it here then people have to travel over to germany

01:05:22.080 so only those of us who can afford it go there to get a treatment that works you know so right here

01:05:27.520 on the zone you get to have also regulatory uh choice of regulatory it's rather amazing and that in

01:05:34.480 itself is is a such an amazing innovation and so game changing it's amazing so um and this along with

01:05:41.120 many other things like and also even property rights pushing it from where it is now to like

01:05:46.160 uh having a three dimension uh property rights model where you know property rights doesn't even

01:05:51.520 just have to be the superficie meaning like uh like this table here and height but also width like

01:05:57.280 meaning the view the view is already taken into account this is maybe too much for people to follow

01:06:02.080 in but for anybody who is into law and regulation here follow up if you want to have more details

01:06:07.200 but so what i'm saying here is that it is so amazing that um it promotes innovation first and

01:06:13.920 foremost so what's going to happen so now all of a sudden glenn imagine what's going to happen to me

01:06:18.240 as an african i go from being one of the least respected places in the world because we are the poorest

01:06:25.840 region in the world which by the way i think also fuels racism but anyway uh we go from that pathetic

01:06:32.160 state of affairs the rest of world doesn't even think people don't even think we could ever get

01:06:36.800 anywhere we go from that to leapfrogging into places where our people don't have to move anymore if

01:06:43.680 they don't want to because all about choice you want to go we want for immigration to become all of a 0.77

01:06:47.920 sudden we want for people to no longer immigrate because of hunger but because of taste that's

01:06:54.720 where we have to get to so now we got to that place and on top of that now the most amazing

01:07:00.880 innovative companies in the world in the most cutting-edge industries in the world choose

01:07:07.920 africa to go build their businesses because the because the business climate allows it and now we

01:07:14.400 go from being the last in the world to being we took the elevator and we're like on top that's what i

01:07:21.840 see glenn that's why i'm bullish on my on my continent because we know how to do this and we know how to

01:07:26.800 get there and it doesn't need too many people it's only one to five percent of the population that

01:07:31.200 changes the world for good or for bad i find my people we go and we're going to get it done

01:07:36.560 margot you are a delight thank you so much the name of her book is uh the heart of a cheetah

01:07:44.160 and i i think you can see that uh in you the heart of the cheetah margot wade thank you thank you

01:07:51.760 my god thank you so much and i appreciate you

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The Glenn Beck Program - March 30, 2024

Ep 215 ｜ African Entrepreneur SLAMS 'Do-Good' Snobs Making Poverty Worse ｜ The Glenn Beck Podcast

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