The BEST Financial Advice For GETTING RICH (Become A Millionaire) | Grant Cardone & Allison Maslan

And that's what the business owner needs to do right now. You need to go to zero. You're starting over. Get to acceptance as fast as you can. Move through the stages of loss as fast as you possibly can. Get to acceptance. Understand that denial and anger and blame and bargaining are just bullshit options and the emotions will not serve you in this event. You need to move to pure logic, do the math and reboot your business.

You know, you've got this billion dollar enterprise. You've been a business owner for how many years have you had.

I've been in business for myself for 32 years.

Okay. Okay. We're about the same number of years there.

Yeah.

So did you.

You're a lot younger than I am, though. I can, I can tell that.

Well, you're very kind.

Yeah.

But I'm not going to say my age here right now, but.

Well, I'm 62, so I bet, I would bet $10,000 you're younger than me.

Okay, maybe a little bit younger than that.

Yeah. Yeah.

Not a whole heck of a lot. So did you always know you wanted to be a business owner?

No. No, I didn't. I didn't actually. Didn't. I was forced into being a business owner because I kept getting fired from jobs. So I was 30. 30 years old and kind of just ran. Ran the. Ran out of landing space on the, on the job that I had. I was working for a guy up in Chicago and it's. There was no place for me to go in his company. He didn't create any. Any way for me to evolve in the company. And so I left there because I started experiencing burnout and I thought I was working too hard, but it wasn't actually working too hard. It was again, I didn't have a mission anymore. I had already achieved all the missions a couple times. And I was like, I need a new challenge. And there was no new challenges in his company. There was. I wasn't looking to be a partner. I wasn't looking to be the boss. I wasn't looking to be the decision maker. I was already a decision maker in my own little space every day and making things go right in my world and in my job. And I was happy with the job. But at some point, when you've run, when you've run the same game and the same. If you ride the same ride enough times, you're gonna be like, I don't need to do that ride anymore.

Right.

And so I came home. I was living in Lake Charles, Louisiana at the time. I was Traveling. He was in Chicago, and I was traveling 200 days of the year and came home and said, hey, I gotta. I gotta figure out what I'm gonna do. And I had an idea for how I would change the way people sell things. This is. This is 30 years. So what is that, 1990? Yeah, it was a long time ago. And. And I wrote. I wrote a book about it. I never published the book, didn't release the book, but I. I wrote it as a course book. And I went around and started teaching and selling and showing people another way to do things. It was extremely resisted. You know, new ideas tend to be resisted.

Right.

And it took me three years to ever make any money. I. I went backwards from my other job to this job to this new job. It was terrible. I probably shouldn't have done it. It was a bad idea. It was not scalable. But, you know, 30, 32 years later, now, somehow it all kind of worked its way out.

Right. So that first three years that you were not making any traction at all, where did that inner drive come from that kept you on that track?

There was nothing else I could do. Nobody else was going to hire me. I had lost six or seven jobs before this. I remember I was. I worked at McDonald's when I was 16. I lost that job. Worked at a furniture store when I was 17. Lost that job. Fired. I was fired. I was like, you have to get off the premises. I worked for a car dealer. I was fired from a car dealer five or six times. I mean, that's. Car dealers will hire anybody. And so I've always been a little bit of a problem. I have a big mouth. I'm very opinionated. And, you know, as you can tell after three or four minutes.

Yeah, no, I get it. I get it. No, I think, look, I couldn't hold a job for more than two weeks myself. And so I think that some people are just. They're born entrepreneurs, right? And I know for me, I had to figure the thing out or else I was gonna be in big trouble. So you clearly figured things out and you built this massive enterprise. Was there ever along the way that you thought, holy cow, I might lose this whole thing? Does that ever come up for you?

Oh, yeah. Like, like, like, first of all, I don't think I've built. I appreciate what you're saying about it being this massive thing. It doesn't feel massive to me. It feels really small and, you know, in many ways, very disappointing. I mean, one of the driving forces in my life, if I've always been a bit disappointed with Grant and Phil. I've always felt like I'm under. I'm underplaying my ability, you know, probably why I have the gorilla. The gorilla. When I saw this piece of art, I was like, I gotta have that piece of art. I don't know why I gotta have that piece of art. I gotta have that piece of art. He's so big, you know, he's so like, so, so he's so. He takes up so much space. And so that's what I've always wanted from him. My dad died when I was 10 years old. Left a big void in my life and I wanted to be somebody. So when 2008 happened, fast forwarding like, I had three businesses. I had a little bit of real estate. This is only 12 years ago. I had maybe, maybe I think I had 300 apartments. And two companies, the two companies got just slaughtered. I was living in Los Angeles. I just left San Diego. I lived in La Jolla, moved up to LA. 2008 happens. The two companies got slaughtered. I was officing out of my home. Okay, that was a mistake. And buying a little bit of real estate, dabbling. And then when that. I thought I was doing pretty good, but when the economy hit in 2008, I was like, oh, my God, what was I thinking? I've been at risk the whole time and didn't know it. Yeah, because the economy, when. The economy, when these kind of things, events happen, it actually shows you how solvent your business really is or isn't. And so I was at risk then. I was terrified. I mean, to answer your question, I was terrified in 2008 that I would lose everything and swore at that time this would never happen to me again, you know, and that the next time, right now, when it happened again, I'm going to be like, I'm going to be. I'm going to be at least big enough to where I don't have to. To worry about it all going away. Now we're in this. I'm like, could it all go away? I don't think so, but it's certainly a scary time right now.

Yeah, it is, it is. And so when you, when these fears come up or, you know, even in 2008 and a little bit of a hint of it now, I mean, you seem like the type of person, like from the outside looking in, that you handle these tough emotions, but, you know, how do you deal with that when that comes up? Are you the type. I mean, do you go inward? Are you. How do you process that.

You know, I think I get. I think. I think I try everything on the. On the available range of tones and choices of energy. You know, like, I go through grief. I go through, like when this thing, when 2020 happened, the amount of grief that hit me immediately was phenomenal amounts because I was like, I had literally just walked off a stage with Kevin Hart, John Travolta, Floyd Mayweather, Usher. Spent three days with these guys. Top of the food chain, guys. Had a perfect event. And I went off on the secret project that. That. That will be disclosed in October of this year. And I'm like, dude, we, we. I'm telling my wife we are that far from like, literally breaking through the stratosphere, finally going to make it. And then, boom, this thing happened, you know, And I'm like, oh, my God, why is this? Am I the most unlucky person in the world or what? So the first thing that hit me was grief. And then I'm like, okay, what is this? What is this similar to? And then I started putting. This is where the entrepreneur with a little bit of experience, particularly if you have a lot of awareness, I was able to tap into 2008 and 911 and 1990, and I'm like, okay, what do I need to do right now? Grant, you need to go to acceptance as fast as you can. This is going to be the worst economic event of your lifetime. So this is basically what I played out in my head. Go to zero. Go to zero and everything. Assume that you lose everything, you're going to lose 7,000 units, you're going to lose seven companies, you're going to lose every penny you have. Okay, go to zero. Now, where are you, who are you and what are you going to do to rebuild it?

Right?

So that's what I did in the beginning. But I mean, between me and you, I still wake up every day. Well, I cannot believe this is still here. I cannot believe this is. I still go and forth up and down. Yeah, I think my exterior. Yeah, my exteriors probably don't. Aren't. Aren't completely demonstrating my in. What. What goes on inside.

Right. Yeah, well, you know, I think that. I think that Rockefeller said something like, as long as, you know, that you could rebuild, right. So that part of you that built this could do it again. So there, you know, that going to zero is probably a good exercise. Like, okay, if that happened, what would I do?

Yeah, yeah. You know, just. Now, who wants to do that, though? You know, like, it's hard thing to confront.

Yeah.

And unfortunately, you know, 35 million people right now are having to go through that.

Yeah.

And it kills me, it kills me to watch. I remember when my dad died, you know, we were, we were a good middle class family. We'd done well. My dad had done everything right. Saved his money, paid off his debts, worked hard. If he said he was going to do something, he did something. Everything that a good person would do, he played by those rules, paid the house off, etc. He dies at 52. My mom on a Thursday, my mom on Monday had already sold the house, cashed in the life insurance, paid off. Anything that was left to be paid off, she did. Downsized us from the country house to back in the city, like this all happened in a week. When my mother should have, when my mother should have been experiencing grief. She was, she was making moves. Yeah, but the moves were contraction. They were to get smaller. And when I saw that, I'm like, man, I can't. I didn't know what to do. I didn't actually know what was going on. I'm 10 years old, but by the time I'm 15, I know what's going on. I'm like, okay, she's playing defense. And by the time I was 16, I said, I'm going to get rich one day so I don't have to play defense.

Yeah.

Thinking if I could get rich enough one day, I would never be on defense. But it's actually not true. Okay. You just, you play a bigger game of defense.

Yeah, yeah, but you're playing to win, not to not to not lose.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. My mom was playing to not to not lose.

Right. So this for you, because for you, it's all about that bigger level the 10 times. And I mean, ultimately that's what business owners want. Right? They want to double, quadruple and more their business. But do you think for you, is there, is there something internally with that, that loss you had with your dad? You know, losing a father, your father represents that direction in life. Do you ever think that there's going to be a level where you would say, okay, I'm here, or is it for you just that always that next sense of accomplishment?

Well, you know, my dad. It's a good question. My dad, I lost my dad 52 years ago. So, I mean, there's got to be something else going on at this point now. Right? Like something else has got to be driving the bus. So let me just go back to the first thing you said. I don't think most business owners want to actually 10x their business or 4x or 2x. I think most business owners actually just want to make more. A little more money than they made when they were working for someone. I think a lot of people actually get into business thinking, okay, I'm just going to replace the 50,000 I couldn't live on with another 50,000, but I'm going to be the boss now. So it's a terrible proposition by definition. It's not even what an entrepreneur does. An entrepreneur, by definition, organizes a business of businesses and takes on more than greater than normal risk, takes on more than greater than normal risk in order to do so. So most people that start businesses are basically just managers. They're just managing an idea, and you're not adding risk to it. Risk is. To me, risk is time and money and liability.

Well, it's not just managing. It's often the business is managing them.

Yeah, exactly. The business never got big enough. They're like, I'm not gonna work for Jazz. I'm gonna work for. I'm not gonna work for Coca Cola. I'm not gonna work for Twitter. I'm gonna work for myself. You're gonna hate yourself. Like, you're better off working for somebody else for 50 grand. Like, I don't. You know, Gary. Gary Vaynerchuk was with me one day. He's like, you know, I'd rather somebody that works for 50 grand work for themselves. I'm like, nobody should work for 50 grand. It's stupid. You can't live on 50 grand, Gary. Like, you live in New York. How are you Gonna Live on 50 grand in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, California? Anywhere. Anywhere in the world. You need money. People need money. And so I think too many business owners organize a business because they want their own personal freedom or they want to work for themselves or some. Some like, that would never drove me. The only reason I got in business was to make money. Like, when I was a salesman before, I owned my own company, the only reason I went to work every day was to make money. Like, I just wanted the money attached with. With. With the business. And now I know a lot of guys don't talk about this money thing very much, and they're like, oh, I do it. I'm purpose driven, and I'm on my why. And I got a mission. My mission has been money the entire time. And unfortunately, I made a bunch of poor decisions because I wasn't correctly educated, because I should have ended up where there was real money, not. Not these little spaces that I'M in.

So what does the money represent, though? Is it like a scorecard for you, or is it just. Is it freedom?

It represents choices. I want choices. I don't. I don't want to feel like I have to sell the house. Like, my mom had to sell the house. She had dumped the house. My dad finally bought the dream house. Okay? He worked for money, and money's useless. I mean, it's not. The money is useless. Right. What can I do with it, though? And so if you don't have money, you know, I know money won't make you happy. I have not been seeking happiness this entire time. I've been seeking freedom and choices. I don't want to be pinned down. That's why I'm going to reopen my office this Monday. Whether the government lets me open it up or not. I'm like, I want my choices.

Right.

I'm willing to get sick. You know, I want the right to get sick. I want. I speed. I admit that. I speed when I drive my car. Okay? I don't mind getting the ticket. I understand. And I grew up where I didn't have those choices. I can't get the ticket. I can't buy a new car. I can't buy fruit, organic fruit. I can't buy good water because it's too expensive. I can't go to Starbucks because, you know, I'll save $4 a day. And over the next 30 years, maybe one day I'll have some money in a retirement account. That's how I was brought up.

Right? Yeah. So you're doing the exact opposite. It's almost as if you're. I don't know, not rebelling isn't. Isn't the word. But you freed yourself, and you're like, you're not gonna pin me back down to the way that I was.

It doesn't work. It doesn't work. I tried. It doesn't work. The middle class, this middle class thinking, which to me is best describes what I'm talking about. Save your money, pay off your house, conserve, protect, get a good job, make just enough money. It doesn't work. It's failing Americans every single day. And it failed my dad. My dad did everything right. He did exactly what the middle class dream is. It failed him. And so I'm not rebelling. I'm like, oh, that formula just doesn't work.

Yeah.

You know, that thing does not fit into the freedom game.

Well, what about that? This idea of stepping into that higher version of yourself? Because if you're stretching Yourself. Because the middle class often represents a comfort zone. Right? So you're stepping outside of that comfort zone. That's where the risk is. What about that whole element for you? I mean, that's exciting, right? There's the adrenaline with that.

Yeah, but, you know, I'm not really an adrenaline guy. I mean, I'm really. I'm really like a. You know, I really want sure things. I just want sure things. I actually. I'm extreme. I'm way more conservative than anybody financially. I'm extremely conservative, you know, Now. Now there are times where I'll take risks. Like we rented the Miami Marlins stadium. It was. That was a $7 million event. I walked into the place and said, I'll take the whole place. And. And I'm gonna. I'm gonna fill it up. On Super bowl weekend 2017, everybody's like, you're crazy, dude. I said, no, I know I can do this. To me. To me that. I knew I was stretching the. I was stretching possibilities, but I really, truly believed I could do it right.

So I think that's something I'd like to dive into. I think that's so powerful, having that belief, you know, before it actually happens. It's almost like you're seeing the unseen. Can you talk about that sense of belief? Because I think, you know, business owners would love to fill that or anyone actually going after their dreams. And I think they doubt themselves so much that they don't take those leaps.

Yeah. So, I mean, I don't know how you developed that. I mean, it's definitely self development. Like, you got you. I spent a lot of time on Grant, on my personal development, on my belief in myself, on. You used a word earlier that, like. I use it, like, constantly. Mystery. You don't want to be a mystery. You can't know until you die. You can't know the truth about that. You can't know what happens over here. You just got to trust. I don't want to trust anything. I want to know. I'm not interested in a faith. I'm interested in knowing what is the answer. I truly believe that if I look hard enough, I can find the answer to anything. So for me, the 34,000 people, it's not. It's not some kind of, like, esoteric concept. For me, it's me doing Math. Okay. There's 6 billion people on the planet, first of all, everybody's telling me I shouldn't do it, so that by itself was an indicator. Oh, shit. Because most people, the masses are wrong. Most of the Time when I see everybody putting on masks, I'm like, that mask cannot be good for people. You know, when I see everybody joining the American Airlines award program because they want their free miles and they want their free trip, and look where masses of people go. It cannot be good for you. Those are businesses. They're institutions. They're funding something massive. So when everybody told me, no, that's crazy. 34,000 people. And then they said, super bowl weekend. That's insane. I'm thinking to myself, I got this weird kind of logic that's like, okay, well, that's what. Nobody. Nobody's gonna do an event on super bowl weekend except us. And then the third thing was, if I take this risk and pull it off, people will be talking about it forever. Right. It'll be free advertising forever. And the fourth thing is, Grant, if you don't quit, I have this. This datum that I. That I live by. If I don't quit, I cannot fail.

Yeah.

So I might have to tweak, and I might have to move, and I might. But if I don't quit, it's impossible for me to fail if I don't quit. And I just knew that I would not quit until we filled up every seat. So we spent the next 364 days filling up every seat in the arena.

Yeah. Well, yeah, that's quite an accomplishment. And I love what you just said, because I have always felt that most failures are when somebody quits.

Yes.

And so. And you said earlier, you know, there's always a solution. It might be around the corner, it might be over the top, but you just don't take no for an answer. And I think that is a key ingredient. I think you definitely embody that. Right?

Yeah. Yeah. But to do that, you know, again, this goes back to when I quit that job and started working for myself. The payoff has to be significant enough to me. It's not easy enough to tell people, oh, just don't quit. Most people should quit because there's no payoff. There has to be a payoff significant enough. This is why so many people are happy working from home right now. They're like, yeah, man, I like. I like working for home. I love this. I love being at home. Yeah, of course. Because you're not going for a payoff. But if there's a big payoff, and you understand, there's no big payoffs ever gonna happen to your house. You're never gonna open your refrigerator up and see freedom. You're not gonna go lay on your couch and reach down, you might find some. Some leftover pistachios from two months ago. But you're not gonna find. Your dreams are not gonna. Nobody's gonna come to your house.

Yeah.

And bring you a package of dreams and freedom and possibility and, you know, so people. People are getting comfortable right now because they don't want to confront the situation that. Or maybe confront the responsibility that, hey, maybe life is not what you thought it was. This Corona thing. This Corona thing. And people being at home, 35 million people being without work, the government sending you money now, like, it's been shocking to me how many people have just taken this and said, okay, I'll stay home.

Yeah.

Because. And I think the reason is. Is because the payoff. There's nothing they're going for that's big enough that says, I can't stay at home.

Yeah. I don't know. I'm sensing now a lot of restlessness. I think people are like, okay, this is going to happen three, four weeks now. They're just itching to get back out there, you know, And I know that. I'm feeling that. So. But, yeah, I mean, I think being home, that is the ultimate comfort zone, you know?

Yeah.

The couch potato.

Yeah. And you have a beautiful setting. I like. I just want to go sit in your living room and hang out with you.

Yeah. Well, it's. You know, I'm very grateful. We do have a nice place here, and it's a retreat. I actually have a flying trapeze on my property, so.

Oh, wow.

I'm a trapeze artist, so I've been doing a lot of that lately.

But where in San Diego do you live?

I am in livinghain, which is.

Yeah, I know where that is.

Yeah.

Yeah. Beautiful.

Yeah. Horse country.

Yeah.

So. But how do you. So what advice do you give business owners right now? I mean, that are, like, not just to weather the storm, but, you know, how do you. How do you get out of this stronger than when you went in?

Yeah, I would. I would re. I would go to zero. Whether you go to zero or not is not important, but you need to mentally reboot the entire business. Now. You need to assume there's no business on the other side of this, that that will become true for many people. By the way, maybe more than ever in the history of the United States of America. 200 year, 230 years we've been around, this is going to probably be a reboot for the entire economic system and maybe the whole country. So California will probably go busted Illinois will go busted. These were already states that were in trouble. New York, New Jersey, like, the massive problems in this country, like, severe. That will affect the entire planet. So I would tell business owners, hey, you. You knew you were in trouble before this. Your number said it. We were going through economic growth that was spiking like this, but your business was growing like this. That, like, you were literally defying the trip. So if you. If you were having a flat line going into this, you were in trouble. You just weren't confronting it. You weren't taking responsibility for it. You were crossing your fingers and hoping, let me get another three or four years out of it. That's many industries that have been going through that scenario. Some businesses, like the restaurant businesses, were like, they were on record. You were crossing your fingers and hoping, let me get another three or four years out of it. That's many industries that have been going through that scenario. Some businesses, like the restaurant businesses, were like, they were on record. Years. Record years. Like the. Oh, my God. But they knew underneath that. Every restaurant owner in America knows restaurants are always at risk.

Yeah.

Warren Buffett. Look at Warren. Warren said he would never, ever invest in the airlines. And then he did. But here's what the old man does. Cut the losses, sell the airlines. Take our little whip in as fast as we possibly can. He went to zero.

Yeah.

He basically erased his mistake by selling out his situation. Takes it off his books and starts over. He reboots. And that's what the business owner needs to do right now. You need to go to zero. You're starting over. Get to acceptance as fast as you can. Move through the stages of loss as fast as you possibly can. Get to acceptance. Understand that denial and anger and blame and bargaining are just bullshit options. And that emotions will not serve you in this event. You need to move to pure logic. Do the math and reboot your business.

Like, really reinvent. Reinvent yourself. Diversify. Right. I mean, we, We. I run a business coaching company, and we mentor business owners all over the world. I mean, the. The. The good thing that I will say is we've had clients that had ideas, things they wanted to do, and now this has, like, been a forced.

Yes.

You know, into action, like, you know, almost creating new revenue streams in a week because they had to.

Yeah. Compression, compress, you know, pressure makes diamonds threaten threat. Threat makes. Makes the best of us. And again, this is the problem with everybody being at home. There's no threat at home. And restlessness won't be enough. Okay. Like, you need to Get. People need to get angry now. You can't just get stir crazy. Like you need to understand that your freedoms, the freedom to create, to create business. Businesses are really artists.

Yeah.

To me, I'm more of an artist than I am a businessman. I'm an actor pretending to be a businessman. I'm writing scripts, I'm a producer. I'm trying to write this story, this movie out. I'm trying to paint this canvas and.

And someone taking your paintbrushes away.

Yeah, they do. They took my paintbrushes, my canvases, my. You know, I got a nice house. I don't want to be in it every day. That's not a business. That's not a business. I did that from home. I tried to run a business from home for. From 30 years old to 45 years old. It does not work. You cannot get big at home. You get smaller at home. You get comfortable at home. You watch TV at home, you eat, you visit Ben and Jerry in the freezer at home. But people need a place to go to work.

Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, it is just. Yeah. We could go on and on with this. It's in.

America needs people. Yeah, America needs people going to work. America needs like your city, the state, the county all depend on those taxes and they depend on people doing things.

Yeah, well, I mean. Yeah, it's just, it's, it's impacting mental health.

Yes.

You know, people aa, you know, they're not able to get together. It's on Zoom. I mean, someone is relapsing on drugs. Being on Zoom is not going to cut it.

Yeah.

So I don't know, it's so far reaching and I think we won't know the extent of it for quite some time.

No, I think, you know, I think, you know, right now there's going to be, the, the negative impacts of this are going to be far greater than the, the hundred thousand people that die because of a virus.

Yeah.

And I'm not, I don't, you know, I don't want anybody to lose anybody any more than anybody else. Look, me going to AA meetings when I was 25 years old, like saved my life.

Yeah.

So if I came out of a treatment center for drug addiction at 20, 25 years old, if I couldn't have gone to that treatment center, by the way, that place is probably closed.

Yeah, I think they, I think they all are. You know, so my husband's in aa, he's watching, doing meetings on Zoom. But you know, he's sober now. If he was at a Time when he wasn't. Wow.

Yeah. That fragile place. Yeah.

Devastating. I wouldn't, you know, we wouldn't be together. Let's just put it that way. So how do you, you know, as we kind of round this out with your team, because you see you're bringing your team back. How do you motivate your team through this? Where's your head around that?

Yeah, we have a very, very strong culture here. It's almost like a military unit. So it's very. It's very, very strong environment. People know when they come to work here, they're like, okay, this is either gonna be real good or real bad. But that creates a very. That creates a strong team. And so we've been doing the zoom thing. We've been doing video for meetings. We have a meeting every single day. We. You're required to report your statistics daily. People are required to train daily. But still, I don't have people together. So. Monday. Monday, three days from right now, I don't know when this plays, but three days from right now, we will restart the company and we'll be. Not. Not restart the company, but restart working from an office, cross our fingers and hope the police don't come arrest me.

But you're doing it anyway.

But if they do. If they. There's worse things than going to jail for a day.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah. I mean, there are those people that are going to say, oh, well, you're putting your employees at risk.

I am. I am putting my employees at risk.

And they're. And they're.

Because we are at risk. Because we are at risk. Let's just make it official. Living on a goddamn rock that's. Flying through the universe spinning. A risk.

Yeah.

Okay.

There's risk of so many things we don't know every. Yeah.

You know?

Yeah. I mean, there are those people that are going to say, oh, well, you're putting your employees at risk.

I am. I am putting my employees at risk.

And they're. And they're.

Because we are at risk. Because we are at risk. Let's just make it official. Living on a God.

Right. We never know, really, what's going to happen.

I live in Miami. I live on the ocean. There's hurricanes coming this year. We know the hurricanes are coming. Okay. I know there's cancer on this planet. I walk outside the sun. Damn rock that's flying through the universe spinning is a risk.

Yeah.

Okay.

There's risk of so many things we don't know every. Right. We never know, really what's going to happen.

No, I live in Miami. I live on the ocean. There's hurricanes coming this year. We know the hurricane is baking people. People actually go to the beach and try to get this. Okay. Like, they try to get the cancer injected into their system. I know I'm aging. I'm 62 years old. I'm running out of. This physical unit here is running out of time. So I get in an automobile. There's 66. I don't know. Hundreds of thousands, millions of car wrecks are coming. Okay. I know there's cancer on this planet. I walk outside, the sun is baking people. People actually go to the beach and try to get this. Okay. Like, they try to get the cancer injected into their system. I know I'm aging. I'm 62 years old. I'm running out of this physical unit here is running out of time. So I get every year, tens of thousands of losses every month. 10% of the American. There's probably 33 million drug addicts in this country. We have a. We have a damn opioid epidemic in this country that. We're not talking about that anymore. That'll kill way more people than the coronavirus will.

Way more.

And it will be here for. It will be here for decades.

Mm.

Because nobody will confront that. We got in an automobile. There's 66. I don't know, hundreds of thousand millions of car wrecks every year. Tens of thousands of losses every month. 10% of the American. There's probably 33 million drug addicts in this country. We have a. We have a damn opioid epidemic in this country that politicians that are raping and pillaging this, the United States of America. I'm not worried about some virus. So I will put them at risk. If they don't want the risk, then stay home. But you're not going to feel like we're not talking about that anymore. That'll kill way more people than the coronavirus will.

Way more.

And it will be here for decades because nobody will confront that. We got politicians that are raping and pillaging this, the. The United States of America. I'm not worried about some virus. So I will put them at risk. If they don't want the risk, then stay home. But you're not going to feel like part of a team staying home.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, there's nothing more powerful than having that face to face connection. So. Yeah, I mean, I. I'm excited to see. I'm excited to see what's. What's happening here. I'm hoping we're going to be moving along here pretty quickly. So I think people like you out there being vocal, saying, hey, we're opening, we're moving on. You know, we're expressing our American right here to, to share our gifts and make a difference in the world with our businesses and give people, you know, an opportunity to have a nice life. That's why they've come to work with you. So.

And people need an example right now. You know, my only examples are what I see people doing on, on Instagram and TikTok. Yeah, it might be entertaining, but it's, it's not going to make the world better. I need to go, like, even watching Will Smith do something that makes me laugh or Kevin Hart that makes me chuckle and like, oh, that was funny, right? Yeah, that's a moment. But I need to go do my own thing. And I'm talking about people. People need to go do their own thing. TikTok is not your thing.

Yeah. Well, those of you that are watching right now, too, I mean, you know, what are your thoughts about this? Is this, you know, lighting a fire in you to go, hey, you know what? I'm ready to get out there, get my business going again? You know, you've got a lot of people that depend on you. You've got customers that, you know, they want to, they want to support your business. You know, where, where do you stand on this? So I, you know, I appreciate you, Grant. I appreciate that you're, you know, expressing how you feel and that you're being completely honest and, you know, you're living by what, you know, you're practicing what you preach. So, you know, I think a lot of people are in fear right now and understandable. I mean, nobody wants anybody to get sick. So please do not misunderstand us here. Yeah, they will. But the thing is, you know, you're. You're weighing what's, what's the worst.