＂Diamonds Are The BEST Short In The World＂ - Rob Hersov WARNS De Beers' COLLAPSING Empire
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about diamonds, minimalism and the future of the diamond industry in South Africa. We also have a special guest on the show who has been a minimalist since the early 90s and now holds the world record for the most valuable diamond in the world, the Kruger Diamonds.
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the beers selfishly i did a video one time on the beers diamond what can you say about them
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there's a lot of stuff you hear about you know how they're the ones that made it
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you know diamonds are not really as big as they're supposed to do they control 80 to 85 percent of
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the diamond distribution and i was concerned that they had a monopoly what do you guys in
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south africa think about them so personally i'm a minimalist okay i only wear blue and white i don't
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own any watches anymore really no vases no jewelry i don't collect anything when i proposed to my
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wife i was in a german forest hunting wild boar in a tree with snow she was next to me covered up
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pointing out the ball and i said will you marry me get out loaded rifle she goes i thought you'd
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never ask i'll marry you but if you ever give me a diamond ring engagement ring anything i'll sell
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them on ebay and i said well why would you do that she said why should the bears tell me this shiny
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stone's worth anything why should hallmark cards tell me tomorrow's mother's day it's marketing
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and from that day on she minimalized me i can put my life into four suitcases
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i only wear blue and white have a look at all my videos i'm a minimalist it's liberating how long
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have you been a minimalist since since 2010 got rid of everything and that's when you guys started
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dating no we we've been dating for a thousand years you've been dating for a thousand years
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she's my soulmate it's the rarest thing a thousand years a long time you look pretty good as a thousand
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year old yeah it's real hair so so that's how did we get onto minimalism no you said diamonds when
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she said if you ever give me a diamond i'm going to sell it on ebay debia is a genius monopoly
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and a complete farce and what is a diamond it's a shiny stone it's worthless so it's from south
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africa and you think it's a fraud what they did to diamonds well it's genius it's not a fraud it's
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complete genius to make hang on to it a shiny stone like it's worth more shiny stone are we insane as
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humans we prize a shiny stone it's insane rather have bitcoin and lots of them really so you can also
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make diamonds in labs now debia's is sitting on a mountain of unsold diamonds it's going to it's
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the best short in the world it's the best short in the world oh my god oh in addition to cadbury's
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mcdonald's because of a zempick everyone's going to be slim everyone's going to be slim so why would
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you ever buy cadbury's round trees burger king and why would you ever buy diamonds because they can
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be made in factories get out of those and this is short diamond this is that's the quote rob short
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diamonds yeah short cartier short all of those things i mean i'm a minimalist i don't what do you
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drive so you would ask me that wouldn't you i drive an fj cruiser toyota fj cruiser completely pimped
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i've got the big tires i've got a wrap i've got everything it's the only kind of position i enjoy
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you say you're a minimalist don't maybe maybe i gotta have a car do you don't you have a 30 million
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dollar property like in dubai or something like a vacation property or no okay so we like three things
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you didn't ask me so here it goes really we like katie and i like three things big houses okay
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lots of money in the bank yeah and great experiences cool we like we like memories for
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the rocking chair so any fun crazy thing we do it's like i i'm not cheap when it comes down to
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experiences that's the one thing wouldn't you rather go walk hiking with the gorillas or go to
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antarctica for dinner it's much more fun hiking with gorillas some shiny damn watch yeah well listen
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i think this podcast not the beers out of business walking all those we're gonna have millions of
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people shorting uh diamonds it's it's begun the big short come on baby it ain't drill baby drill
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you watch the movie the big short what a great movie you know who's the one guy i've been wanting
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to interview and he never does interviews who michael michael burry doesn't do interviews do you know
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