Reuniting Hearts: The Power of Family Gatherings

So this last family reunion, I told them, I said, it is an honor to do this because when you do a program for the family reunion, you get to know who everybody is because everybody wants to be in that program. You got to place them and rewrite their little clips, and now you know who they are, and that's magic, man, right? And I told him, I said, this fact, y'all, this is so fly. That 100 years from now it's going to be in somebody's attic and it's going to be historical fact. Like, don't nobody think about like stuff like that like I do, you see what I'm saying? Yeah, I hear you. Ways to do things without just saying I'm gonna build a website for this person. No, people gonna hold on to my— my father passed just before the pandemic, thank God, because he lived a full life. My father lived a full life. He outlived all his friends and he died on his 82nd birthday in his own home, in his own bed. Full circle of life. I would be— I'd be greedy if I was sad and wanted more, because I can hope, only hope and pray that I go out like that. Amen. Right? Yeah. In your sleep, on your birthday. Come on, man. Wow. Come on. Wow. Yeah, but he wasn't— he didn't have cancer or nothing like— he had his ailments. He was old. And he was ready to go. Like, you can't discount when people know they lived a good life and they're ready to go. I've done all I could do here, I'm ready to go. Yeah, right. And that is the beauty of life. So I tell people, you live life to the fullest, because I, I'm— as long as you breathing, there's nothing you can't do. And I'm gonna ride it till the wheels fall off, right? Because at some point you're gonna get tired. And I thought, hey, think about it, I thought I was gonna go to the club forever. I'm balling forever. You got tired of it now because you can't, you can't beg. I don't even go out to eat, right, because I don't like spending money for stuff that I could cook better than they do, right? It's not even about— it's not even about the money, it's about the quality of what I spent my money on, right? It's like, come on, y'all. And he's just like, people overpromising, underdelivering, because there came a point the 2000s where fake became the new reality. Yeah, they became real. I watched, I watched it. So I just feel blessed that I was able to live in a time where you had to pick up the phone like, hey man, can I come over? Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. Pick up a phone with a cord, right? Yeah. As opposed to now. Now, but now it's great. Because I know how to use it and everything. But now you, you know, you feel frustrated because you don't know what's real. I know it's real, but even sometimes I get, you know, I have to be disciplined and, and not fall for stuff, right? Because they can have you believing some stuff that's not true, you know what I'm saying? Just, yeah, just ask Kamala Harris, man. They have you believing stuff that ain't true. Exactly. And like, you could have took a different approach. And, or just sometimes it ain't nothing you could do. Sometimes, sometimes you gotta take the L, right? Sometimes you gotta take the L. But everybody expect people to do stuff for them. I'm like, no. I said, now you— now I switched my brain to what the hell they gonna do? Because whatever they gonna do, they doing for their rich friends. So how do I adapt my hustle to take the event, to take the benefit, get the benefits and take advantage of the things that they do for their rich friends on my level? Because the rules are the same, they apply the same, right? You know, it might not be a million dollars that I'm investing, but I can invest, I can invest $10,000, I can invest $5,000, I can invest $500. As long as I know what's going to happen and know the game, well then that little bank turns into big bank over time, right? Yeah, I get to take advantage of all the tax cuts and all the stuff because I learned the game. I know the game. So if I know that these are the write-offs, will let me fashion my company to deal with these write-offs to where I don't get charged for taxes. Do it just like these big corporations where they have armies of lawyers to find the loophole. You know, the Europeans is over because they got them fundamental things down to the wire. They're not following, they're not just doing what everybody else is doing. They're not one-trick ponies, right? Yeah, yep. And you have to, you, you know, I learned this a long time ago that when, when vinyl went from vinyl, you know with Technics, DJing with Technics, to DJing with CDJs. And I was like, I'll never DJ with no CDs. And I almost lost my job because