I want to be an agent of change because I know that there is so much

potential within this country where we can be. Hey, welcome to the Empire Show. This episode is going to be a little different and you'll understand why in just a moment.

I don't normally go on a bit of a diet tribe before interviewing our

guests, but today I am going to do that because you all know the Empire

shows about building an empire, financial wealth, generational wealth, and taking that money and creating

meaning out of it. Money and meaning is what we're all about. And a few weeks ago, when I started

talking about the COVID virus and how small businesses are suffering and how when you look at the

states that are open for business they are the ones that are leaning more Republican or

conservative and the more Democratic states are still shut and my theory was that because it's an election year and obviously the Democrats don't want the Republican to go to get reelected

that maybe there's a little bit of finaggling going on and I also told you that I'm not a

Republican and I'm not a Democrat I'm a free market capitalist. That's it. I solve problems in

exchange for money and I take that money and I produce meaning out of it for myself, my family,

and the three charities that I give to, Shriners, Toys for Tots, and Compassion International.

And, but a few people got on my ass about, hey, you should leave politics alone,

Bedros, and you should stick to teaching us to make more money.

Well let me tell you something.

It's the politics that give us the environment to make money.

My father was a member of the Communist Party.

You guys know this that I escaped Communist

Soviet Union when I was six years old and my dad did not have the opportunity to

make money. In fact, when he would steal material and make suits in the home so that he could have bribe money

to get us to escape the Soviet Union, the KGB came through because they suspected that he was working under the table and of course producing

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