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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 115 - Rick Ross: How to Manage Your Employees When They're All Carrying Guns

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

"I'm the kind of person who is embarrassed to lie," says "Freeway" Rick Ross. Not the words you would expect to come from a convicted felon. Rick built an empire, a drug empire that is, the notorious Los Angeles crack-cocaine empire. But the man who...

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So I have Jason Gangerd with me and the reason I have Jason is because Jason hosted the

0:08.4

conference, the Mastermind Talks, where I was able to interview freeway Rick Ross on

0:14.9

the stage in front of how many people were there, Jason?

0:18.3

We had 150 people in attendance.

0:20.4

150 and there were all, I mean this was a high-powered audience.

0:24.0

Everyone was like an incredible entrepreneur and I don't want to tweet my horn but I

0:29.2

think nobody really wanted to hear what I had to say but everybody wanted to hear what

0:33.9

Rick Ross had to say is the largest drug dealer in history and Jason why did you choose

0:40.4

him to come to the conference and why did you choose me to interview him?

0:44.1

Honestly, James and I listen to a lot of podcasts and you have a lot of friends who are

0:48.8

big names in the podcasting space.

0:50.2

I thoroughly believe that you're one of the best interviewers in the space.

0:54.4

I mean the amount of research you do on your guests is really second to none and I knew

1:00.2

going into that interview with Rick you would be well researched and you were.

1:04.1

You said you read like every article.

1:05.8

Oh yeah, I watched two documentaries.

1:09.3

I read his autobiography, I read other books about the whole Iran country thing where

1:14.1

he was kind of this pond in the middle which was a fascinating story all by itself even

1:20.6

though he was like a peripheral character in that story.

1:24.8

It was still fascinating.

1:26.5

So that's exactly why I thought you'd be great for it is again you do incredible research

1:31.0

of people you ask unconventional questions and sometimes you ask questions that people

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