All right everyone thank you for your patience I am extremely excited today it’s going to be my Channel’s first live stream and I have such a special guest today so without further Ado let’s get into it Mr marquet Burton the saint and The Sinner now I have this whole
Introduction right now for you already but before I go ahead and and say it do you want to give your intro the the you know the fancy one the malol flex one uh sure why not uh marquet Devon Burton the one and only none before none to come Malcolm Flex Flex Luther your
Favorite YouTuber’s favorite YouTuber the saint in the center thank you for having me you’re welcome so marquet Devon Burton is the man of many talents young multimillionaire businessmen who graduated from prestigious universities like UC Berkeley uh John Hopkins University he is a founder of several businesses most notably Fletch app from what I
Understand that allowed him to enjoy Financial Independence in his 20s and we’ll get into all the different business aspects and questions uh later on in this episode finally Mr Burton is a best-selling author with this autobiography the Black Box highly recommend by the way you can get it on
Amazon and a musician and a Pianist well recently a penist and last but not least a YouTuber is that is that okay is that a good intro fantastic thank you anything I miss over there no I think that’s more than enough well Mar I want to say that man
Like I want to start off with your childhood but I got to say you are hustling hard I mean I was coming home from work today and you were Live on YouTube right just recent a few hours ago I think you know what that was
Actually a Premiere so I found a way to make myself appear everywhere like air in every place like space and so as you might know from the Master sunzoo he says when far appear near when near appear far so right now we’re running an encirclement strategy I’m everywhere but
Thank you very much for that one yeah you’re welcome and by the way you’re you’re talking about the The Art of War right great great book I actually got that as a gift recently and I love when you reference it so you know book go ahead sorry
Saying one of those books that a lot of people mention and even some read but very few understand and so it it really requires that you break it down to apply it to our Affairs today in daily life it you know it’s not very clear in terms of
How do you use a book based on war for Affairs in the modern era oh it can be used for so many things businesses even relationships I think one of the quotes that always that I always think about is before you can get someone to do what
You want you have to gain their trust first um I’m paraphrasing a little bit but gain their trust first then you can get them to do whatever you want and when you do gain their trust and they disobey you got to punish that that is
What it is so um close from from the book yeah so one of the things that actually I just thought about this while you were speaking one of my questions I was going to ask about your childhood was this whole um smooth with words thing have you always been good with
Your words like you seem to make your words rhyme all the time you you have a lot of word play like I’m not sure were you always good at this and that’s kind of what caused you to go into music or was it vice versa where you know you got
Into music and then you just became better with your words undoubtedly certain cultures have you know a given area of strength or a given area of focus like for example if you look within the Jewish culture we find that they have a strong focus on family on education and if you were to
Take uh higher education there’s certain areas of study that they tend to go into law media things like this business finance engineering medicine right precisely you make from one of these cultures right yeah yeah you know sorry to interrupt funny thing whenever I go to a college campus and I see you know
Someone of my similar skin tone I’ll ask him are you a Premed major or an engineering major it’s always one of them hasn’t been enough EXA you Pakistani Pakistani yeah yeah yeah yep yeah precisely and uh so with the African-Americans we know that very much so they’ve been influential in music and
The Arts in the United States you know the small ethnicity about 12% of the population but are the inventors of jazz music rhythm and blues rock and roll hip-hop music and in as much as that’s the case you know being cool was at a premium within that culture and the way
You speak matters and so I think one that was one of the major driving forces every black kid in a ghetto wants to be a rapper and then in addition to that being a keen Observer I didn’t grow up with parents who were you know very learned or accomplished but they did
Have one uh very meaningful personality trait which was to uh learn from those around you and if you can’t do something find someone who can make friends and see if they can help you out and in being a keen Observer and I had the Good Fortune of being around some people who
Are real thinkers Hustlers movers and shakers and you absorb that people talk about you know being around birds of your feather well sometimes you want to acquire a feather and if you’re around that kind of person you’ll be able to acquire that feather so yeah I had some
Good influences I’m very thankful yeah no and I appreciate that and everyone in the comments if you can just confirm that the sound is okay and we’ll proceed so make sure everyone can hear what we’re saying sound okay everyone can you guys hear us okay I can hear you fine okay great all
Right yeah we got a thumbs up all right great all right so um mark quit I I read your book The blackbox it was a great book um and I I actually like the outline of it how you had certain chapters of your life that you
Remember uh really well and before I get into that uh do you want to give a quick overview of what your childhood was like just your childhood not like high school or anything after that just your childhood sure so how high does childhood go because we’re clinically immature in
Today’s society so people are 25 they still think they’re a kid so uh what are we marking off as childhood sorry what was that I said what ages would you like to demarcate as childhood you know that’s a that’s a funny point because in your book one of the first
Chapters starts out when you’re three years old which I was really surprised at and I was actually going to bring that up um so okay you know what I’ll just I’ll start with that so one of the instances in your book which was really surprising to me and caught me off guard
Is first of all you remember something at 3 years old and it was a situation where you had a bad feeling about a random stranger coming out at night and you your mom was about to open the door it was a sound you know you guys wouldn’t get a knock at that time
Usually and you you were basically I’m not sure if you’re saying it or you’re signaling it or you’re just thinking it that you know Mom don’t open the door don’t open the door and she opened it anyways she got knocked out right on her head right on her face and I guess that
That’s one of the things three years old was that really the case so your childhood I assume starts at that time well that was the earliest memory that had meaning what I tried to do with the book is make sure that know it was everything that would be impactful to
The reader all of the things that were transformative to me and also I wrote the book for those who are not readers and so I wanted it to read like a movie and all the stories are true stories and in fact if there was any point in which
I wasn’t sure about something or I’m like did I imagine this I’ll reach out to the other person in the store and say hey is this how you observed it is this what you recall and consistently they’re like yeah that that’s actually how it happened and even with that particular
Story I was talking to my mother about that and of course she was shocked that I remembered it and you know even just getting her her perspective on it and finding out the truth of the matter whereas you know I was looking at it from a child’s perspective I didn’t
Really know the whole story and then hearing her fill in some of the background so as I recounted the story from the child’s perspective at the end of that chapter as with many of the chapters I’ll give a lesson and and at the end of that chapter I think I spoke
To you know what my mom had you know the truth of the matter the full truth in addition to what I had experienced as a child so with that being said do you want to give a quick overview before I uh get more questions yeah so childhood
Uh we’ll take it from age y three to I don’t know I’d say 14 maybe High School y okay fair enough yeah so um born to a father in prison doing 10 years plus for uh narcotics uh distribution and a mother who at that time I was born was
On cracked cocaine so I think technically I’m a crack baby I mean I I came out came out all right considering what could have happened and I was born into poverty uh raised in Los Angeles ghettos uh went to underperforming schools as evidenced by Teach for America actually teaching in some of my
Schools which was ironic I found that out later in life when I became one who was in Teach for America but anyways um went through school being very respectful to my teachers and uh those around because I was raised by Southerners but applying myself or trying hard and also obviously the
Quality of the school and the students and the culture uh was quite poor uh anyways uh around age 11 12 started uh selling uh illegal substances some of which are now legal just for the purpose of you know not getting out of poverty to where you couldn’t eat but rather
Wanting to you know be able to wear the the latest brand brands that the other kids were wearing and did that for a Time engaged in various other forms of uh crime until at one point I I realized that I was a Despicable character and
Needed to change my life uh at age 16 I uh tested out of high school not because I was particularly bright talented or ambitious but instead because um The Counselor went around to tell everyone which tier of college they could apply to and when she got to me she said quote
Why do you even come to school end quote uh which was to suggest that uh my grades were atrocious and I obviously hadn’t been applying myself and I’d been getting into trouble while at school and she said quote there is no college that would take you end quote and so
Through a number of fortunate experiences I was able to uh I was forcibly mentored you know there’s a substitute teacher who forcibly mentored me and had me test out of school and then from there uh life became quite different it took a bit of work but
That’s the short and sweet of it so one of the things you mentioned is that your mom was a drug addict and your father was in jail and you also have a brother correct yes I have a younger brother seven-year Gap yeah so uh quick question
Before I get into my main question um how’s your relationship with them now uh actually I just heard about your relationship with your mom a little bit about it earlier in your in your um Premiere that you had but how’s your relationship with your mother father and
Brother today because I haven’t I didn’t really read about it in the book towards the end sure my father’s deceased which makes sense because when you live that hard you know it turns out go to jail or you get deceased yep that’s right life will be bumpy and short uh so there’s
That my younger brother is in the military and given the nature of my life and then the seven-year Gap we didn’t have much time to spend together because I um tested out of high school at 16 at that time he was like nine years old and
So we weren’t in the house during the same time so I recommend everyone who has kids you know don’t wait have such a big gap um but my brother’s in the military now he’s doing very well we’re quite different we grew up in different environments and circumstances with my
Mother I have a great relationship I’ve been very blessed you know she is a lovely woman and I never held a grudge against her I always understood that she did the best that she could do based on she was given yes y um so I the question that I wanted to
Get into based off of this quick background is I guess these days you’re most popular out would say on YouTube because of your thoughts on masculinity that whole clip came out with you on the whatever podcast um you became really famous because of fresh and fit even
Though I know initially they’re the ones that came to you and you were kind of one of the first few that gave him their Limelight kind of like what you’re doing to me right now but what do you think shaped your thoughts on masculinity not really having that Father Figure in your
Life you know I was very fortunate in that every other weekend and sometimes every weekend I would go to my uncle Jimmy’s house and I wrote about this in my book The blackbox and Uncle Jimmy had a proper nuclear family had a son who was about my age maybe one or two years
Younger and his wife aunt Leslie they’ve been married since then and still are today and so I had a proper examp example of a man my entire life uh and ironically I actually looked just like him it’s very strange we go out people think that I’m his son I look more like
Him than his actual son uh but that was number one he was a very straightforward man and very traditional and I got to see that example when I was within that household I lived like I was his son and that was very important and it taught me
A lot of things even one the idea that uh the the father or the male must be in the child’s life at the same rate as the mother I think is a a falsehood that we have in the society today even if you were to look at biology for example the
The mother has to be more approximate to the child because she has the child’s source of food and water you know with the breast being that source for the infant so she has to be proximate and close whereas the father might be working or he might be doing X Y and Z
And so I think that obviously having a father is critical having a father in the home is necessary but the father doesn’t have to be proxim he does have to be there constantly you know like a mother and so I I think that’s one misconception that we have about the
Father today is we we really want to have an and androgynous Society where the male and the female are the same where the father and the mother are the same and make the same equal contribution I have a bit of an obsession with this but yes I had him
And it really has impacted my life in the most positive way and I think that the reason I can say things in the YouTube space uh that most others cannot is because I come from a unique position which is to say that many of those you would observe on YouTube today were the
Nerd in school uh they were not the cool kid um they might speak of being the alpha male but that has not been their lived experience over time and furthermore they haven’t had a breath of experience wherein in my case you know I was born into poverty and I’ve lived you
Know I’ve lived very well I’ve been very fortunate I’ve traveled everywhere you you’d see on Instagram filled up four passport books so I’ve operated in every strata of uh socioeconomics you know American poverty third world poverty American Wealth know opulence in Europe and Middle East and so I’ve been able to
See all of those levels and also having come to from a ghetto which is unique among content creators I also am able to assess and size up people very quickly because it’s a necessity for survival within a ghetto and wherein you would have people who would call themselves a
Beast or Savage they never been in a fist fight so in my estimation it’s quite hard to call yourself a Savage you never gotten a bloody lip or given one out so as a result I have a fuller experience and so when you might see me
On a podcast I’m willing to say things that perhaps others are not willing to say one in part because I come from a harsher environment so I’m accustomed to that and then two I also have very strong convictions as I said I was raised by a southerner and I was raised
By folks who are deeply religious and my grandmother was retired so you your grandmother’s probably very religious too I trust but you know when people get older in age uh they’re they’re getting closer to seeing Allah subhana wa tala or they’re getting closer to seeing God
And so you know they’ll have their Bible or their Quran or whatever their religion is closer and my grandmother would walk me to school every day and kind of give me culture and values and program me and so I’m very strong in my beliefs and for that reason you know I
Can speak with a level of conviction that others don’t and I think that’s what’s really you know getting people to listen to the message because it’s strong and you can tell that I’m very serious about what I’m saying I’m not just trying to get clicks or or fame
Yeah um you know I appreciate that I actually just had an uncle pass away recently who was 80 and the one of the things I was going through my head is that our new generation is so different than previous generations and that old generation is slowly dying off it’s like
No one will ever be like that ever again like I don’t know that many you know everyone had that grandparent who was very strict you won’t have that anymore like I don’t think my generation is gonna be that strict like he comes into the room everyone stands up I don’t
Think that’s there anymore I was just talking about that with my family and oh by the way Chung comes in um with the Super Chat I appreciate it uh peace to the Saints inde peace to the Saints shout out to Chun yeah so one of the
Things I wanted to talk about also was you mentioned your your grandmother and first of all so your uncle um Bill did you saw him every weekend for a majority of your childhood or was it into your teen years as well or Uncle Jimmy oh
Sorry Uncle Jim yeah I had a lot of uncles my grandmother had nine children and this is one of the things you spoke of which is to say the older generation was different it was more common to have a a bunch of kids yes and so Uncle Jimmy
I probably stopped that maybe around age 14 and that was largely because you know you think you’re grownup you know you want to on the weekend you don’t want to spend time with your uncle and his family you want to go to a party or get
Into a little bit of trouble and so around then that’s when I stopped and I think that it was fine in as much as number one we have to understand uh something that the Carnegie Foundation calls the promise years he talking about those years age seven eight nine those
Age uh those years that are very formative in terms of creating values creating those things in you that will never change those things in you that are core and essential and those things were already built by that time even though you might not necessarily be acting on those values sometimes it
Takes a little bit of time for you to realize that you’re misguided by the society and those values will come back to manifest and the way you raise your kids and the way you conduct yourself once you’ve rediscovered who you are based on that actually uh during
Those for years you had mentioned that you moved a lot um in your book The blackbox where you I think from your mom’s house you want your grandmas from grandmas to Uncle Jimmy Uncle Jimmy back to Mom’s house um what are your thoughts on that do you think moving around is an
Overall positive or negative it’s absolutely negative and human beings you need to feel settled you need to feel safe there needs to be certain levels of predictability and most importantly you know one of the things that makes family so great is that you have them around you they’re they’re close and they’re
People you trust when you’re moving constantly you don’t have a community around you you don’t have people you trust it’s hard to have long-term relationships long-term friendships when you reach maturity those are the persons who will invest in your company those are the persons who would take you in if
You were ever to fall on hard times so you need that and increasingly even for those who aren’t suffering what I suffered which is moving a lot due to Poverty eviction and you know poor parenting um today have a lack of community for a lot of other reasons
Namely technology and the way culture has devolved so I think that it’s truly important to be within a community ideally one that shares your values whether it’s the Uma or an ethnic Community or what have you yeah yeah for sure so I I guess the reason I asked
That question is because throughout my life I always had an opposite opinion and let me expand on that so okay by the time I was 10 by the time I was in fifth grade I also moved about five times I was born in Queens and then from Queens
We moved to Connecticut and then from Connecticut we lived in three different towns went to like three or four different schools then again my parents first initially moved out of New York for better schools and then you know we were a bit lower income as well and we
Moved around a few different uh schools we tried to get into the nicer schools they caught that we didn’t live in that Community they kicked us out you know all the different games that we tried and so like at the time I agree with everything you’re saying you did
Feel a little left out when you went into Middle School everyone knew all their all their friends from elementary school I didn’t know anyone I just met everyone this year and that did bother me but now looking back you know like 20 years later I do feel like that all that
Did have some benefits like I was able to make friends a lot quicker I I I got over the rejection part of it right I was able to introduce myself I I don’t know if it was extroverted because my own personality or I almost became that
Way I’m not sure but I will also say that there was a little difference where I had siblings I had four siblings and so and they’re all close in age and so we had a bit of our mini Community we didn’t care what other people really
Thought of us because we had each other so there was that aspect to it that you didn’t have so right maybe that’s why we had a bit of a different experience that’s a meaningful insight and what I like about that is no matter what you’re given you still have choices and the
Choices that we make inform the life that we’re going to have so I think that’s a very meaningful piece you share thank you so much um okay I’m looking over the child the last question I was going to ask was uh when did you get so smooth with your speech
But all right so let’s get into your high school experience so during High School um you you came to this dichotomy or a duality where on one side you were involved in the wrong activities such as you know selling products you shouldn’t be selling your friends were gang banging
You and selling drugs but on the other hand you were showing yourself as a very bright individual who was excelling in school you won number one in a like I think as a state wide poetry contest and then there’s other things as well sure of course I mean I assume of course you
Didn’t want all your friends knowing that you’re doing so well in school I I don’t know because a lot of times I feel like people would try to hide that in in high school or or middle school but I guess my main question here is what made
You choose the correct path and I asked this because I grew up um I didn’t grow up in the lowest of lows I’m not going to act like I did but maybe you know a tier or two above that and I remember a lot of my friends and when we were in
Elementary school or you know later Middle School they were pretty good in school they weren’t bad they were smart kids but what happened is high school they just lost it like totally lost it and you know their their grade suffered they didn’t go to college and to to this
Day when I go back home sometimes I see friends that I grew up with you know in their 30s now working at Dunkin Donuts or something and it’s truly sad because these kids were smart huh do they give you a discount you get free donuts no no but uh I guess
It for me I always thought you know it’s not their fault I was very lucky and blessed I think one of the biggest privileges I had was that I grew up in a two person household two parent household I had a strong father and I
Had a mother and a lot of the a lot of people didn’t have that and that is why in my opinion they you know they got into selling drugs it was quick money you know who sometimes they had to take they had other responsibilities no one was at home watching so my biggest
Question with you is in high school what made you the correct path because it’s much easier to take that quick money than to try harder in school and go to college and make money the the hard way the correct way you know what when I
Think back on it I I don’t know that anyone’s ever posed the question to me in that particular way there really are two pieces you know part of it is that um I realized that I was Despicable part is I was forced onto the right path and so there’s two aspects of
It so number one to be very clear um I was a money machine so I was all about increasing you know my wealth what selling whatever I could sell you know other activities I was involved in which are not necessary to name I don’t want to glorify anything yeah but I was very
Much so invested in earning let’s say and um having friends that were involved in various forms of crime there are even times that you know you get wrapped up into things that maybe you don’t want to do or they don’t sit right with you and there was one particular uh situation
That occurred and before it occurred I don’t I didn’t object to it I don’t even know if I knew it was going to happen but once it happened when we were leaving the the crime scene as it were um I was going through a purse a friend
Of mine had did a purse snatching we were we were there about four or five of us we’d all run and he he’s driving the getaway car and I’m going through the purse and I had found a poem and it was written in Spanish and it was quite
Strange because I was a you quite a terrible student I would never say I was doing well in school I wasn’t doing well in school I was doing well on state exams I was scoring in the top percent uh for students in California so I was great at examinations and I was winning
You know writing contest speech contests I was great at displaying you know the merits of intellect but not performing as a student which happened to be different things one involves diligence I wasn’t diligent I was lazy didn’t ought how to study and didn’t really care but anyway we’re in this getaway
Car I’m re I’m Shuffling through this woman’s purse I find a poem the poem’s written in Spanish at this point I was in a I was taking a Spanish course in high school not ever paying attention or doing any classwork doing any homework for some strange reason I could read the
Entirety of this poem written in Spanish by a native Spanish speaker uh for those who are not religious call this the universe call this what you would like to for those who are religious um this is when God speaks to you in subtlety and um the title of the poem in Spanish
Was something to the effect of like the power of God’s hands and then it goes on to say you know God’s hands cover me when I need it God’s hands protect me and God’s hands this and I was reading the poem in English to the people in the
Car and they were like bro shut up I don’t want to hear that like I don’t want to hear that like and and you could tell it was the guilt of what we had just done that was e him alive and me too and after that I realized wow I a
Despicable character we just uh basically stole from someone who has nothing a a a recent immigrant who doesn’t speak English and needs everything that she has this is vile and then I realized oh I I should not be involved in these things I’m better than this that was part one but I still
Didn’t know enough as to how to get to the correct side of life or find the straight path and uh as I said I had a there was a substitute teacher that had decided to forcibly Mentor me and so I just started listening to her and following her directions they were good
Directions led me out of poverty and criminality well I wasn’t in poverty I was living in a ghetto but I wasn’t in poverty but led me out of criminality and so it was uh my good fortune so I guess one is the reason I was able to to
Like feel that that was bad my fitra was properly calibrated is because the way I was raised I was raised by deeply religious people who had a very clear sense of right and wrong even within a ghetto we didn’t do the things other kids in the ghetto did uh I was always
Aware that I was different from these kids and uh wow okay so I had a base on which you know when I heard that message it could resonate it could connect to something some people don’t have that face when you mention your parents yes parents are very important um so anyways
That’s what it was I had a foundation of values that I was neglecting and ignoring and number two I had an experience that showed me I was Despicable and I was able to lick in the mirror and see the truth of that most people can’t self-reflect and then
Number three I had a a good black woman who forcibly mentored me and said hey this is the way follow my directions and I’ve always been great at following directions a lot of people they think being a leader doesn’t involve listening yes that’s a key piece being a leader
Doesn’t involveed being able to follow directions oh that’s a key piece turns out every General was once a soldier every great teacher was once a a student and so I’ve always been good at being a student or a soldier when appropriate and I’ve gotten better over time wow
Thanks that was a great answer um Abdi here um comes in with the Super Chat saying peace to the Saints uh Arc also thank you for your support Mark is saying real no I I appreciate that wow I’m just trying to digest it well the last thing you said it was it was
Something you know I a quote came to my mind where a teacher has filled more times than the student has even tried right makes sense and yeah so College let’s get into college what was your um major at UC Berkeley and John Hopkins I know you went into Tech yeah this is hilarious
At University of California Berkeley I took a political science degree um did you want to get into politics at some point absolutely not absolutely not you know at the time I wanted to be an attorney and I didn’t realize the reason I wanted to be an attorney I wanted to be a criminal
Attorney is because all of my family members were in prison or jail for most of my life you know the uncle that you love you know he he’s in jail right now you know so I realized that subconsciously I wanted to be able to free my mother or my uncle or whomever
My father whomever was locked behind bars and there was always this false assumption that they were somehow innocent or not wrong you know there was this assumption that they were behind bars for you know uh false pretenses so anyways uh I think that was a subconscious force and the suggested
Course of study for becoming an attorney was political science and so that’s why I took that degree then at the end of uh University the girl I was dating at the time uh she had applied to Teach for America so I applied to Teach for America and in as much as education had
Radically changed my life at the University of California Berkeley that was the first time I’d really been in a diverse environment and I’d been in an environment where it’s not overrun with police there’s something called freedom and I was around those who have wealth and have imagination and so my I
Actually had a yeah I actually sorry S I actually had a question on that so did you experience an identity crisis growing from the hood to a school with many rich people I mean that that that’s a big culture shock and how’ you deal with that it is definitely a culture
Shock and you know it I was able to adjust fairly quickly in as much as number one when I was a a youngster for about a year and a half two years when my mother was uh on drugs and just was kind of awal I was living with my
Grandmother my grandmother was retired she lived in an allwhite neighborhood as a result I went to primary school for one and a half to two years with all white kids and that is the time that I mastered English or at least the rudiments of English which is something
That most black Americans don’t get because when you learn English it’s not only what you learn in uni or in primary school it’s also what you learn at home and also from your peers and so I was around young white kids who were speaking mainstream English and so that
Gave me a great advantage over the average uh Black American or recent immigrant but I say that to say this uh at that time I became familiar with whites and so when I went to University then I was you know reset within you know a white majority not to say Berkeley was
Majority white there’s a significant portion of uh Asians I think it’s 44% ethnic Chinese in fact but it was uh quite separate the ethnic Chinese didn’t really mix in with anyone else uh except themselves and so basically being less than 2% of the population black and then
Even less than 1% black male I basically found myself around like uh White Frat Boys and um so it took some time to adjust number one language you know how do we speak to one another in a ghetto you don’t speak to people rudely you don’t even ingest you don’t insult
People unless you’re officially playing the dozens which is to say joking back and forth roasting but outside of that you don’t disrespect people verbally whereas within white culture you can say all kinds of things and it doesn’t lead to a fight whereas in you know where I
Grew up these things would lead to a fight so those are the things you have to adjust calibrate I learned to smile and uh yeah there a lot of adjust I stopped carrying a gun at some point um when this you know tall Polo player I was dating
I was like what are you doing and then I realized I like you’re right no one’s trying to kill me here what am I doing okay on that know the the roasting some of the roasting you do on YouTube it cracks me up and I’m I’m sure a lot of
People don’t get the roast you do sometimes but I crack up Adam I CRA crack up Adam um okay here’s a question that has been asked a lot lately and I wanted to know your thoughts I kind of know your thoughts already but I I guess
I just wanted you to say it again do you recommend College it depends on what you study so it’s been oversimplified mostly by people who have not gone to University oh college is a waste of time for who if you study something that ends in the word studies
Ah you’re getting a fake worthless degree what are those some examples please some examples please Cho studies African-American studies gender studies you know these kinds of things those are fake degrees and if you’re in America uh and you’re studying English unless you are a supreme scholar you know Divine intellect
Uh you’re going to be broke so those are a waste of time you don’t need to go to university however if you’re saying something that requires a laboratory uh chemistry biology you’re studying something that’s going to require official credentials uh being a doctor these things are absolutely necessary to
Go to university if you’re studying philosophy i’ probably a waste of time wouldn’t go to university for that if you want to make money and most people going to University seeking gainful employment afterward if you’re going to do engineering I highly recommend you go to university software engineering electrical engineering mechanical
Engineering highly recommended accounting go to university why not because you can’t learn accounting without the university but me being an expert in retention and graduation rates it turns out that showing up makes it easier for you to learn retain the material and be successful but here’s the most important part especially for a
Kid like me um I got a network that I would have never had before I went into University I’d never met a Jewish person my entire life if you would have said Jewish I’m like what’s that and when I was in university all of a sudden I was
Notic like I figured out like a third of the white friends that I had were Jewish I didn’t even realize wow and that’s an important Community to be connected with because the best thing you get from an elite University is not the education it’s the network make friends and those
Will be the people who invest in your businesses and give you good introductions that’s actually I mean I didn’t have this question written down but that was actually one of my things as well so I always was not always but I was under the impression that you don’t
Need college to be successful I actually graduated at the bottom 2% of my engineering gr class congratulations yeah and I did I ended up doing pretty well and you know um in my class there was times where I had a better job than everyone who graduated with me and I was
I actually made the newspaper for becoming successful yet graduating at the two bottom wow but that’s to say that I recently got accepted to an IB League school and this time I’m doing it more for the network as you said and Al also it’s a name on the resume it looks
Good on your resume that’s that’s another reason that’s a fact she saying reason people drive a Rolls-Royce right means something yeah so marqu I guess uh let’s go live stream for five more minutes um and then from there we’ll just take it off the Record and guys
We’re GNA go on for five more minutes after that the second half will be out in a few days okay so next part I oh my God I have so many more topics I hope I could finish these so teaching career I have a theory as to why you went into
This but maybe I’m just you know um projecting but why did you I want to hear from you why did you go into teaching education had actually changed my life so even when I had more money than my peers because I was hustling when I was a Youngster I still lived in
The same ghetto and I still had largely the same thinking as them when I went off to University and I was exposed to ideas that I’d never heard of exposed to different people and I really had a greater sense of what the world had to offer that was all as a result of
Education and so I was a a True Believer that education is transformative and at that time I didn’t yet understand that a certain type of education is transformative not all types of Education we see today that people are being miseducated but I really believe that education uh is the way and that
Knowledge would allow people to better understand the world they live in and you know find greater happiness and greater income and so that was one of the things I wanted to offer and truth be told I’d never really had a good teacher until I was um 16 and that was
Wasn’t even a teacher I had in in the school setting that was that teacher who had forced herself on me as pause forced herself on me as a mentor and so I wanted to be a good teacher to you know show the light of education and make people passionate about their learning
Such that they could do something with themsel yeah and honestly that’s literally why I thought you wanted see from my point of view I figured you wanted to go give back to the community and because you saw how much of a difference education can make in
Someone’s life right and yes sir yeah I thought about that too and I actually had friends uh some of my friends that there’s only a handful of people in my graduating class that ended ended up doing really well and one of the guys um he actually became a teacher and taught
At our high school and that was his way of giving back to the community but one of the one of the the annoying parts or the negatives is that teaching is underpaid even though they have such a big impact on is it underpaid is it well you got remember I was a teacher
But now I’m a businessman and it’s I see what you’re saying I see what you’re saying but for what yeah no I see what you’re saying so for what they do for a lot of teachers especially I mean teachers today are not like teachers
Like 20 years ago I feel like um I feel like they were more qualified before for some reason but that just might be me I feel like my teachers were also a lot older and had had a lot more experience before compared to today but that just
Might be my own anecdotal experience um but yeah so again he ended up he stopped teaching and then he ended up going to um some Ivy League schools to get to go forther educ uh forther degrees in education but another story is I also had a cousin who taught in harlon for a
Few years and you know she would share some heartbreaking stories and I mean do you have any that you’d like to share what’s what’s one that comes to mind I have too many and in fact I could write write a book just on sad stories
So I won’t recount too many of them but I will share one of them and I suppose it’s curious now that I mentioned this one this one involves a poem too and so I suppose uh at some level poetry has tracked my life long story short I was
Teaching in Baltimore Maryland which uh I found out later on when I was working in the mayor’s office about 10% of their population was on heroin which is a very hard drug anyways during the winters uh of course it gets very cold and it snows and so uh uniquely I was the only
Teacher that would allow the kids to come in before the school bail so I would let them hang out in my classroom so they didn’t have to sit in the snow why I was the only one who knows I guess they didn’t want liability or maybe they
Just wanted peace the other teachers who knows but anyways some of the kids took a liking to me uh Beyond just you know being a their teacher a long story short one day I came into my classroom and I saw that there was a a letter left on my
Desk I opened it up it was uh entitled this turned out to be a poem was entitled to feel unwanted and upon reading the uh sad poem it was pinned by a girl obviously and within the poem she had stated that she wanted to have a baby why uh so that
The baby would love her so that someone would want her and care about her and depend on her and that she would matter in other words I found this to be extremely disturbing in as much as you know she kind of reminded me of my mother in this sentiment like probably
How my mother grew up and how my mother felt uh and then I but I didn’t know right and the Curious Thing is that this letter or this poem could have belonged to any one of these girls that I taught uh and these were 11 12-y old girls
Eventually I found out who it was it was a young lady whose name I won’t say uh at this time uh but I was able to find out who she was and um the sad thing is that I found out in the Teachers Lounge after it had been discovered that she
Was uh found in one of the back hallways having a sexual experience with two boys at the same time on the the school cameras there cameras all over you know this school is bit of a juvenile hall kind of situation go through metal detectors to get in cameras everywhere
Wow okay so anyways um I was very disturbed because an 11 12y old having a sexual experience at school on campus with two boys at the same time it’s very advanced stuff but the point is this um I knew that that experience she was having was because she feels unwanted
Because she feels unloved and unvalued and so that was the most impactful story because it kind of let me know the core of uh what needs to be done you know uh improving Families how do you improve families well parents right deciding like figuring out who should be a parent
Who shouldn’t be a parent and well how do you figure that out well women being thoughtful about who they open their legs to and men being thoughtful about who they would impregnate and that’s why I talk a lot about men and strengthening men and also talking about females not
Being promiscuous and so that experience has definitely driven a a major point of focus for my content I appreciate that and I think that’s going to be a good place to end our stream because that was literally going to be my next question I was going to ask you what do you think
Is the solution to the lives of these children and you you kind of answered that so with that being said guys I really appreciate you guys watching this we’re going to have the second half of the video out in a few days and thanks for the support peace real quick real
Quick enam tell them where they can find you on YouTube so that um when I put this on my uh Saint Channel they can check out your the the followup on your channel oh thank you so much yeah so if you guys want to follow me you can
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