Life is a Journey with Joseph Kimbrough
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Today's guest is a acquaintance of mine that was introduced to me by a good friend, Lindsay.
And so Joseph Kimbro is here with me today.
And Joseph, thank you so much for being here and being a guest on the Matt Hilton show.
Oh yeah, thank you for having me on.
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
So we were talking a little bit, you know, getting ready to come on and we were talking about travel.
So let's open up with that.
So you live in Tanzania?
Yep, Tanzania for three months, in 2022.
In 2022.
Yep.
And I lived there for a month in 2021.
Okay, so what took you to Tanzania?
So initially after the whole pandemic,
been in the house, nothing to do, me and my girlfriend at that time, we was like, well,
we want to go do something else.
And then she was like, let's go to Tanzania.
So I was like, all right, Tanzania is.
And then we just literally went, stayed there for a month, but that first experience going there,
we got there at midnight.
So this is my first time out the country.
Oh, okay.
Yep, exactly.
So we get there at midnight and we go into the building.
I have been in real estate for a while already.
So we go into the building and I start immediately checking foundation issues.
It's like a Scottsdale, it kind of like goes with the window a little bit.
Get upstairs to the room.
I see termites had been there.
Then they open up a room with a guy in there.
He screams.
And so I'm just like, we're not staying here.
We go downstairs.
We're like, okay, so what do we do?
Because they speak Swahili, we speak English.
We don't understand each other.
And it's at midnight by the way.
We see it.
And so we look, I'm talking to the guy.
I see her face.
She sees this red because I look, I see a red.
But the size of the cat, Black fur, I'm like, the tail was at least six inches long.
Wow.
I'm like, I looked at the red, the red looked at me.
I look at her.
I said, keep your burn.
I was like, don't scream.
It's like a sign of weakness.
It's so literally, I take the guys phone us.
I'm about to find nearest Mary had something.
You got to have something out here.
And so ended up getting the job or a made up there.
And the rest of the trip was great.
Wow.
So how did you find the hotel?
That's the first one.
I went, I went to like his Google.
Oh, okay.
Because you know, like, I couldn't understand it.
Like, I understand it.
Because Mary don't translate to many languages.
Right.
So that's the easiest hotel to find.
There we go.
There we go.
So the moment the rat in the term mind saw it,
how did you find that hotel?
She was looking.
She was looking.
Yeah, the person had updated, not had updated pictures.
So they had pictures when it first opened everything.
Look fine.
We get there looking nothing like the pictures.
I was like, we're not doing this.
Yeah.
Not again.
So we found a place out there.
And then after the hotel and we ended up just thinking
with that place this time for the four or three months.
Wow.
Fantastic.
So what was your favorite thing that you did while you were there?
So my favorite thing doing out there was the Safari.
Because we saw every animal.
My favorite animal was the lion.
So I got to look straight in the eyes.
He deferred.
Then literally I went out there in the middle of the Serengeti.
It was a tree where a jaguar had killed a animal.
You can see the remains of the animal.
I ain't noticing the time.
Look down.
But I can say that when I peed near hippo pool
in the middle of the Serengeti and underneath a tree
where there was a jaguar.
Wow.
Wow. A cheetah was killing another animal.
And then the guys I heard getting the vehicle,
getting the vehicle and then we got to see like the
the mother cheetah killing off the gazelle.
And then you saw all her cups come in.
But they just grow with them dangling.
Have the thing just dangled through their mouth,
playing with it and then they finally take it to a bushing here.
Wow.
I've always wanted to go on a Safari.
And that's that is on my bucket list for things to do.
I'm here in the near future.
But yeah.
So uh, so you went on a Safari.
You were telling me that you went over to see where your ancestors
you know came from and things of that nature too.
And then it was a religious type of a experience as well.
So tell me a little bit about that.
So it was so like with the whole ancestors name,
like obviously people were brought over here on ships and stuff.
So we went and went to uh,
think it was Zanzibar.
We was at Zanzibar.
Yeah.
Which means to cost the black people.
That's the actual name of what it means.
And so when we was there, we got to see like the last view of what
the captors would have saw before being shipped to
the like Jamaica and you know the islands in America,
England in places like that.
So we got to see that.
Got to see the shackles standing there like where it was like super hot at.
Got to see like the room that came about this hot.
That pretty much when they held 50 men, 75 women.
What they turned into a church, but was originally a trading part
where they would put people there and say, hey, I'm paying ex amount for this person here.
So we got to see all that stuff and learn a lot of the history.
Wow. Fantastic.
And you were telling me about a different type of Bible that you read here versus
tell me a little bit more about the religious part of it.
So for me, going over there, just learning more about myself,
I started reading the Bible here called The Seffor.
It has 87 books.
Pretty much.
That's about the regular Bible has 66.
See that has 87 says more in depth of stuff that you might not see in the regular Bible.
You're not going to see the regular Bible.
And so just going over there, just learning more in depth.
And then like I said, I plan on eating the opiate this year to eat the opiate Bible
just to confirm some stuff that might be in this one.
So where does that passion come from?
Does that come from grandparents parents?
Like, where did you pick that?
That's so when it comes to the Bible, I was saying more so,
growing up just wanting to know the truth.
Because like when I was going to church, we went to like a Baptist church
and I saw them do most of like the dancing and stuff and the praise.
And I'm like, I just don't.
I don't.
I don't know.
I was like, let me read more into this.
I need to read more into this.
Now I'm always been more curious as a kid.
And so and then with my godmother who raised me,
she had martyred mother decaying juniors.
So I got to learn a lot with her.
She's like, we still were writing stuff.
Yeah.
So fantastic.
Well, let's let's go there for a minute.
You just brought up your childhood and so what was your childhood like?
You said your godmother raised you.
So what happened early on in your childhood?
Well, the happy early on in my childhood was when I was born, my mom was 16.
And my dad was older and so I was pretty much adopted by my godmother.
And she raised me until I was 13 in Oakland, South Oakland.
Okay.
So I grew up right down the street from my South Oakland high school
on my salis in January.
Okay.
And I went to school, but the thing is, early on, I got a lot of fights and stuff
because I always wanted to go and be more of my mom.
I knew I had seen her.
So I just wanted to like literally get from that place and go be with her.
And so yeah, I fought my weight out of DISD until I can no longer go to another school in DISD.
And I moved to the suburbs in Louisville.
And that's where your mom was?
Yep.
And so you know, see King Pickman, my godmother, Carter State, look, I can't have him
hearing the noise getting a lot of trouble, different kind of fights in school and stuff.
And by the time I was seven, great, I'd already been over, I had just some fights.
So yeah, it was just, it was like it's time for him to, he has to go with you.
He needs you now.
Yeah.
I will make sure that I don't make you mad during this interview because your arms are pretty big.
And I've never been in the fight.
So he's been in over 100 fights like, yeah, I know who would lose that one.
So when you moved to Louisville, how was that transition?
Because if you haven't lived with your mom and now you're living with your mom,
how did that work for you?
So I went from being very strict raised with my godmother,
whereas being at Oakley's used more so, I wanted to make a shoot that you,
or you'd get around the wrong people and doing the wrong stuff.
So I was confounded to the house.
I remember a school house.
No basketball practice.
I didn't get to play basketball until really my freshman year, or I didn't have a basketball.
So when I moved my mom, it was more freedom.
So she was like, hey, like you raised right?
I trust you.
So I could go out.
I might stay out to like 10 to 11.
Come in.
But one time, one time she got me though,
because I saw her car and I knew I was in trouble because she was at work.
And I was out.
And it's like my first couple weeks out there.
And it was like a girl.
And then I was out in my mom's house out there in the open area.
And I was kissing her.
And then, when I walked in the house, my mom was like,
don't be doing that stuff.
You're not coming out here getting the most out of me.
New trouble.
Right, right, new trouble.
Yeah, new trouble.
So I was like, okay.
You heard a loud and clear.
I heard a loud and clear.
I avoided that.
So assimilating into a new high school like I said at this point?
No, so I was in seventh grade, my mom.
So more in new middle school.
So it was like, I think it was dumb.
Yeah, so meeting new people, how they spoke,
how they dress.
I came over there.
I was still trying to wear my stuff the way I was wearing it.
Oh, Cliff, it just, it wasn't mixing.
It didn't look right.
That you were me and you.
I was being me.
Right.
I was like, no, it's not.
No, so I had to change.
I changed.
Okay.
Well, you seem to turn out to be a good young man, right?
Yeah, and so
I want to hear more about like your high school experience
and what did you do after you graduated?
So high school experience, I played basketball
and I graduated from a school in the country
up near Oklahoma called Nocona, Texas.
Okay.
I didn't know that.
I don't know.
Yep, they make the Nocona cowboy loose there.
Yep.
So I went there graduating class of 63 students.
Complete different.
Yeah.
By the way, when I was there, I was literally the only
black person in the 50 mile radius.
So how's like, so what to do now?
Wow, like basketball, you know, just one to go play for like the coach.
I like the coach and so I was like, well, I'll go move there because, you know,
he was cool.
His son's my trainer.
Okay.
So he just made sense.
And yes, I went out there play for him for a year
and met one of my best friends out there who's from Montenegro.
And he lives in Montenegro right now, but we still talk.
Yeah.
So you did, did you have family in the phone?
Uh, no family in the corner.
Just me and my mom.
We was out there.
Okay.
So she moved from Louisville to the corner.
Yep.
And then many I graduated when she left.
Yeah, she had high.
She like, I'm going back to that was what we have things to do.
Because when I tell you it was nothing to do out there,
the highlight is dairy queen.
And maybe a barn party.
And I've been to boys.
I can say I checked that off the list.
So I just got to ask what is a barn party?
Basies like out at a barn, random barn, like people,
they having a party, drinking.
Okay.
Yeah, dancing dancing,
back and stuff.
Yeah.
So I went, I was like, oh, this is like, I was like,
one step out of trouble not coming to another one.
Yeah.
All right.
Okay.
So I want to ask and explore a little bit with you.
I mean, you say you're the only black person I'm assuming is
I dream all like within a 50 mile radius of the corner in no corner.
So what is that like?
Maybe a white male.
I don't experience like I have never been in a situation
where I've been the only white person in a 50 mile radius.
Right.
So me, I was cool with it.
Okay.
I didn't.
I didn't care.
Yeah, I was cool with it.
I was out there.
I got a long way, everybody.
I still talk to a lot of people.
Still they're on my Facebook, they're on my Instagram.
We still talk now.
So what is that inside of you, Joseph,
that gets you to that place where you were cool with it.
You you made friends like,
there are some people that I know that
they make a big deal right of being a minority in any type of situation.
And I just want to hear from you and maybe give some encouragement to some of our listeners
and the viewers of, you know, what was it in your mindset or in your soul that that
yeah, I would say for me what what made me just be kind of used to it.
Just get out there and I just decided to look at everybody just
for who they are as a person.
Yeah.
So now, you know, of course, there's some bad bad eggs
and you know, we had our conversations.
But conversation was it, right?
And then nothing else went further than that.
But outside of those just few people, like everybody else was cool.
So I mean, for me, it's just not judging
what the whole group of just the one individual that I was dealing with.
So it's more so it's really profound.
Right? Not making the generalization of a group of people.
Right?
And I'm sure it's just the opposite too, right?
Of people from another race and different culture, right?
They would look upon you and make it a generalization or an assumption, right?
Yeah.
So that's profound.
Now, I did get a lot of questions.
I'll tell you that.
Yeah.
I got every single question you can imagine.
In locker room, I've one of them discussed.
[LAUGHTER]
Sure.
[LAUGHTER]
That's a discussion I want there.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was funny.
So when you graduated high school, did you pursue a basketball career in college or
what happened there?
So I did go to college for almost a semester.
But when I went there, I chose to go to a private school.
Some told me to go to other school.
But you know, I was like, I'm going to go to this one because at that time,
I was like, well, I really want to be closer to my girlfriend at that time.
So I was like, I was staying at Dallas.
And I just go to North Carolina to see her sometimes.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I'll go here.
Obviously that didn't work out.
[LAUGHTER]
Uh-huh.
And when I was there, my mom, you know, because of her jobs and stuff,
she didn't really make a whole lot.
So she sent me enough just like my phone bill.
So then I was like, I was like, well,
I said, I suck at grades because I'm too focused on how to get more money.
And then also the coach with basketball training, yeah.
You was going to work every single morning.
You had three practices a day.
I was like, I just, yeah, I don't have the time.
So I went to a Wells Fargo,
cause getting some money out.
And I met this Marine Recruiter there.
I run it.
And he's like, how would you like to be in the Marine Corps?
And so I told him, I was like, hmm, I was like, sign me up.
Right there on the spot.
Yeah, like, I was like, he's like, I don't know if you flat footed.
I was a little flat footed, I don't know.
I don't know if they even means anything.
But he, uh, yeah, I went signed up and I joined as a filter radio operator.
Okay.
So the guy that does the air strikes and many likes that kind of, you know,
stuff.
Well, I'll say how long did you serve?
I did four years.
Four years.
Well, thank you for your service.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
So what was that like?
Vanden in the Marines.
I heard they've got some pretty intense training.
It's pretty intense, but, you know, for me, with the yelling part,
there was nothing for me just growing up and stuff.
Like I said, my, uh, Godmother was much more straight.
So when it came to that, they're yelling and they're antics.
I'm a, I'm a choke.
I'm like, you can't, my face.
You ain't doing that.
You can't touch me.
Yeah.
So, uh, yeah, but I was, I was cool.
It, you know, going in and going to like training and then learning my M.O.S.
doing like the combat training.
My favorite thing was being out in the range.
Shoot rifles.
Okay.
So you get pretty good at that?
That's still a shoot down.
Do you?
Yep.
I'm my rifle.
I keep it in my car.
We go, I go to the range.
That kind of stuff.
Okay.
What, what, what ranges your favorite range around here?
Well, I'm about to start checking out Frisco Gun Club.
I think it's like Eagle Gun Club, which is like 25 yards.
And I'm like, that's, no, by better marine recently.
And he has one way it goes up to 1000 yards.
They told me about.
So I'm gonna go check that out.
Okay.
So what years did you serve?
Uh, 2013 to about 2017.
Yeah.
Okay.
And do you have any, um,
what's one thing that you could share with audience and with me about
what did you learn?
What's the biggest takeaway that you that you had from serving in the Marines?
Mission accomplishment.
Okay.
What does that mean to you?
So to me, uh, mission accomplishment, you get the job done.
Like if you have a mission, you focus on that mission, you keep doing it,
be persistent about it, and you get it done.
What are things getting your way?
Do you move out the way you get it done?
All right.
You find the way to get it done.
Okay.
Yep.
Is it all about you and what you can do?
Or do you work as a team and with others to accomplish the mission?
So yes, you working with a team.
And so obviously with a team, the whole focus with them is getting it done.
Reason why I say that is because I speak more from a standpoint of my business.
I run it myself.
I found it.
So for me, I'm speaking solo like myself is still a mission
accomplishment, but obviously having people work with me as a team would get the job done.
Sure.
And a lot of times I make it a lot easier to do too.
Right.
When you have somebody else there.
Yeah.
Hold on.
Easier.
Yeah.
I find that in my roller-save business.
Like I've been a solo agent for, you know, many years.
And then brought on somebody onto my team in the last year.
It's made my life a lot easier with paperwork and
working with clients when I get a lot of business coming in at one time.
So yeah, so it helps out a lot to build that team.
Yeah.
So mission accomplishment.
I like that.
So once you got out of the military, what did you do after that?
Started learning real estate.
Okay.
What part of real estate?
Did you get your real estate license?
No, didn't do my license.
Okay.
So this is in actually so backtrack, I got into personal training.
Okay.
So that's how it came to personal.
Yeah, it became personal training.
That's actually how I even got this size.
Got spent four hours in the gym just working out all the time between, you know, clients and stuff.
Sure.
Because I didn't want to job back and forth.
So I was just still up here and working out while I wait.
While you wait.
So did that for two years.
But I was learning real estate as I was doing it because I always went to get into real estate.
And so I started off as a wholesaler.
And my first deal went out there, so the property made $10,000 on it.
And then went so the another one three weeks later and did a double close on that.
It made $15,000 on that one.
So I was like, hold on.
Right?
This is, I was saying, man, I'm like, in the Marine Corps, people getting shot after 25,000
a year, I just did this in like a month.
So I was like, okay, well, let me keep doing more of this here.
And so fast forward to like 2021, I started,
I got used to it, started doing more consistent, I found a new way of host selling.
Something called like Astroflick and I learned from the sky name Jamil.
So started doing that and then so 20 plus properties that year.
And then decided to transition to multi-family at the end of the 20,
to the one though, because I was like, I actually want equity on the ship.
So and I don't want to own single family properties.
So I only want to own apartment buildings.
So that whole year I asked myself,
how can I own apartment buildings?
How can I, what's the best way for me to do this here?
So for the audience, if you can like, bring it down to elementary level of what is a whole settler
when it comes to real estate.
Oh, the whole settler is there.
So whole settler is what they do is you're either co-call, vortex, a pre-foreclosure list,
and people who might be going through probate, someone passed away,
found after their airships.
People who have a motivation to sell some type of underlying paint,
like I need to sell this property now.
Right.
So your co-call in them, your texting them,
you're on the phone, hey, I see you're kind of going through this here,
which like sells property.
Then you get on the contract, instead of you closing on it yourself,
you day, you take it and you send it out to some cash buyers,
and they will say, hey, I'll pay cash for it.
In reality, they're paying cash, but they're actually going to get hard money loan.
It's not the same miles, but hey, they go get the hard money loan and they pay for the property,
and you get paid, right, then they're there.
So in the way between like two to three weeks,
depending on how it takes title to get everything clear and closed.
Right.
Right.
And they typically happen pretty fast because like you said,
you have found people who need to sell not so much water.
Yes.
Yeah.
People not like, oh, I want to buy one this price.
Like, people like, I need to, and I take what I can get.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So you see some host sellers, they might make $50,000 host selfies.
I saw somebody post on Facebook once,
it made $400,000 on a host selfie.
I wonder, I don't know if that's right, but hey,
I won't get into morality of it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I remember when we were on the phone, you're like a lot of people don't like wholesalers.
Yeah, this guy industry, right?
This guy told me once why I was telling him about investing my fund.
He was like, he's like, don't tell me you used to be a host seller because I hate host sellers.
He's like, because it's just not ethical in my eyes.
It sounds like, well, I was never a host seller.
Do you want to admit it's the...
(laughs)
Yeah.
I see no...
Right.
Right.
Fantastic.
So what is this...
What did you call the type of flipping astro flipping?
Yeah, it was this guy...
What is that?
So this guy, he has a brand called astro flipping is name is Jamil Adamji.
Okay.
And I was actually on his podcast once.
He was telling me, this is right before I went to Tanzania.
He was telling me that his family came from there.
He's Indian.
And you see quite a few like Indian and Arab people in Tanzania.
So...
Yeah.
Okay.
So yeah, his course is about, I don't know how much it is now,
but it was like $8,780 during that time.
And you pay for it, you go through, you learn,
and then you start implementing it.
Gotcha.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
So you mentioned the fond and things that you're doing now.
So tell me about what are your plans for 2023 with your business?
So my plan for 2023 is to raise capital, close out this fund to new investors.
And it took a quarter, at least a thousand units,
a thousand multifamily units this year.
Multifamily.
Okay.
So...
As an equity partner.
Okay.
So I already have deals.
People, like I have people I work with that I've experienced 15, 20 years of experience.
So for me is mainly just get more equity and just provide equity to their deals.
Yeah.
So how did you get into, I mean, what was the fascination of real estate in the beginning?
In the beginning?
Mm-hmm.
Like when I first got started?
When you first, yeah.
So did you know somebody in real estate?
Did you hear about a seminar?
Like I went to a rabbit case, I keep a seminar.
How did you?
Yep.
And it was like, I saw people pulling out their credit cards, swiping my girlfriend.
She's not my wife.
But my girlfriend at the time, she was like literally, hey, she come to this year,
meaning I think you'll be good at real estate.
Yeah.
I went to I saw a multifamily.
But now I saw wholesale and also flipping houses.
I saw never one flip houses.
That's way too much work.
I saw wholesale in I was like, well, I don't have much cash, but just to get me some cash.
It's that kind of how I started learning more in depth about that.
But the end goal was always get into multifamily and start building wealth.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's it.
So ultimately like in 2020, I went to a bank multifamily event.
I'm not sure if you've heard of them.
Yep.
But not too many people heard of them.
Yeah, it depends if you're in multifamily, you will know who they are.
Sure.
I went to one of their events and I'm like, yeah,
going to pay for their mental shift.
I go there and it's like, yeah, it's 30,000 for their mental shift.
I was like, yeah, hey, that's three times more than what I paid for the other mental shift.
I was like, hey, I don't know.
I want to pay for this.
Do I want to?
But anyway, I met this guy.
He was their equity partner there.
And so we started talking and then a couple months go by.
He tells me more about what he does.
I go to his house, sit down with him.
He tells me his wife meets some of his kids.
And then he was like, would you want to raise capital?
Whatever you all fund.
It's like no greater.
Four years ago, I said, I want to own a fund.
I just know what I want to acquire in the fund.
So when the opportunity came to where now you own a fund,
and I can acquire multifamily, I was like, yes, how much does that cost?
Who would I need to speak to?
Yeah.
So he put me with his attorneys and who went from there?
So what is the process for owning a fund?
Like do you have to have a special security
license or anything like that?
Or you have to get in registered with the Security Exchange Commission.
So you're regulated by them.
Like, basically, I can't just go take your money and run off to Saudi Arabia.
Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, the SECs who's actually taken down the FTX guy,
they find him in the Bahamas.
Well, it came in out of his way, but they found him in the Met.
So they will find you.
Yeah.
They will find you.
They will find you.
Have you not changed the subject or what you mentioned FTX?
Have you, are you in the crypto currency?
No, no.
I hate crypto.
You hate crypto?
It was too, like, it was so new.
I was like, I saw people making money in it, but I was like,
I just, I was like, if it's not real estate, I don't care for it.
Because anything that has like red days, where you can lose money,
I don't like the concept of losing money.
I used to trade forex.
So I know when it feels like to lose money and then you just, you lost it.
You can't go and say, hey, give my money back.
Right.
You just lost it.
Now, that's a bad feeling, so I'm like, I don't care for that.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
So along the way, it sounds like you've
grown your business quite a bit from the young days of whole selling, right?
Making the 15,000 in a month to today.
And what you plan on doing it, acquiring the 100 units in 2023?
Well,
want to go more like 500 to 1000 units in 2022.
Uh-oh, okay.
All right.
Fantastic.
So if you want to, I mean, so how did you get from point A to point B?
What's your motivating factor?
What is your big Y?
My big Y?
Yeah.
So I would say my biggest Y and this kind of happened
why I got to meet Mark Cuban at Lifetime Fitness in Holland Park.
And we was playing basketball.
And my first time meeting him, I hit it three and I looked down and I realized
wait, this is Mark Cuban, I just hit it three on.
I was like, hold up.
I was like, what you doing here?
He's late and he's been coming here since it was premiere place.
So we started talking and I told him, I was like,
do I say, I want to be a billionaire?
These like, it's a lot of work.
I was like, well, that's what I do.
As I like to work.
For me, it's the thing for me is just actually putting in the work every day is something that I like.
I enjoy doing what I do as far as working.
Like if I didn't work on what I'm doing, then I'm like, I just wouldn't even
like, what am I be doing?
Yeah.
Yeah, you got to be passionate about what you do, right?
Yeah.
So you want to be a billionaire?
Yeah, and then beyond that,
to even like how I go to Tanzania and something that we do with my wife, we take a
stuff over there like clothes, school supplies, till orphanage there, whenever we go visit.
So to even scale that up and I mean, if you want to do that, you have to get more income or
get more people that can help.
So any of the viewers and listeners that are with us today,
how do you like decide for somebody's a good investor or a good person to put money into the fund
and things of that nature is a full process that you go through with each individual?
Like what does that look like?
I sit down, really get to know the person, do I actually like them?
Do you actually like me?
Or be a liar?
If I feel like they're going to be calling me every five minutes, what's my money doing?
What's my money doing?
What's my money doing?
Like, I don't want your money.
I keep that $100, $200,000.
Right.
So it's more so just the trust factor as well.
And then also something that sells that I do personally is I even watch their
I'll have a conversation kind of like, what is their lifestyle like?
Right?
Like if it's a guy and he's not very focused with his lifestyle,
I'm not going to accept his money because I'm getting into some stuff and then he reflects on me
and I get to be by association.
But why was you working with this guy?
No, I don't want to work with him.
Yeah, just neap in the butt.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you're going to send the video that you recently had made.
So I'm assuming there's some contact information on there
that people that see that will be able to do.
Yeah.
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