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In five, four, three, two, one, welcome. You stupid bitches. Welcome to the Genius Brain podcast.

This is not a special guest. This is the cohost. We have Joe, mother fucking Jitsukawa.

What's up, mother beep? Oh, hello, hello, hello. You guys didn't know about this. So like how this podcast is going to work.

It's interesting because when obviously I had this part with myself, but the other half is going to be with me and Joe together.

And yeah, man, it's always fun doing shit with friends. Always, man. People say don't do business with friends.

And that's because you're a piece of shit. I know. I've always heard that too. Everyone's like, don't do business with family and friends.

You're in relationships. I want to rule relationships. I do. You know why? It's because it's like when you get to see the true side of them.

Yeah. And then through the struggle, you actually bond more.

Right. Yeah. You know, it's, it's, I think that advice came out for not to do business with friends just because I think a lot of people don't know how to do business.

And that's true. People come in hyper confident, confident about their business abilities. Yeah.

And that's where things become fucked up. Yeah. And what I found out through my parents is that when my parents were finding a lot when they were younger,

it always had to do with the fact that we didn't have money. Yeah. When you're strapped for cash, like stress levels are right.

And that's where the friendship starts to fuck up a little bit. Yeah. And if you think about it, like for hundreds of years, family businesses was the norm.

Yeah. Like, you know, like the whole family does the farm together. The whole family, they're like a family of shoemakers or whatever.

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