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Cold As Ice with Ben Baller & JimmyBoi

EP 58 - TRAX NYC (Jeweler) + NYC Streets & Motivation, Coronavirus & CDC, Barclays Center VIP Treatment, Meeting Andrew Yang, ICE T Interview & more

Cold As Ice with Ben Baller & JimmyBoi

Ben Baller x JimmyBoi x DBPodcasts

Arts, Business, Visual Arts, Entrepreneurship

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

You are now listening to the greatest podcast in the world! This is Behind The Baller Podcast with Ben Baller & he's here to discuss: Being motivated by these New York City streets, Coronavirus: The CDC, States of Emergency, Trillions lost in the stock market & more, chopping it up with Greg Yuna, watching the Kobe & GiGi Tribute, VIP Treatment at Barclays Center for the Nets game, meeting the Owner of the Team, meeting Bobby Cannavale, seeing other friends at the game, meeting Andrew Yang, Nets vs. Magic, Sotheby's, Kaws, Vinyl, Lil Uzi, Dave & Buster's & more. Then it's an honor and a privilege to have Trax NYC on Behind The When Trax moved to U.S., Azerbaijan & Ben going there with Justin Bieber, Speaking Russian, What year he became a jeweler & what attracted him to jewelry, what he would have done in hindsight, favorite jewelry skills, "The Incident" that stemmed from the episode with Greg Yuna, how Ben got started, Being in Uncut Gems, conflict in the jewelry business, doing business outside of social media, passions outside of jewelry, Coronavirus, Trax Tokyo, Media & Marketing, being humble, how long he sees himself in jewelry, Biggest piece that he's made, Worldstar, What he does for fun, favorite restaurants, favorite place to vacation, favorite cars, favorite watches, putting the whole diamond district on blast & more. Then Ben brings it back for the Outro to discuss: His wedding anniversary, NextShark Podcast, racist attack in SF, Meeting with Bape, Daniel Arsham Studios, Kobe Tribute Piece, upcoming ICE T interview & so much more. This episode is not to be missed! Produced by: DBP CORP www.dbpodcasts.com Music by @lakeyinspired Available on all Podcast Platforms, YouTube & BehindTheBallerPod.com Behind The Baller Theme Music Artist: Illegal Kartel (@illegal_kartel_mikal_shakur) Produced by: Gene Crenshaw @yuyuthemaker

Transcript

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0:00.0

Jingилось

0:30.0

You're what up y'all. You are now listening to the greatest podcast in the entire world

0:39.1

behind the baller where I rarely talk about jewelry and I talk about almost everything else.

0:46.0

I am your host Ben Baller, not Ben Humble. We are live in New York City and there's something

0:54.5

about this place that just makes me not want to sleep and when I go outside and I smell these

1:01.4

New York streets, I just get motivated to get at it early, to grind and hustle and of course do what

1:09.2

I love most and that's talk that shit into this sure microphone. So let's get right into it.

1:18.8

I was going to do an emergency podcast yesterday because of the new CDC warning.

1:24.5

And I've been saying this all along. You guys already know it's been I've been on the front lines.

1:29.2

This shit is much worse than people think it is. Some people are still taking it as a fucking joke.

1:36.7

Okay. I'd say even maybe 80% and that's being like fair, right? Because I think maybe 90%

1:44.6

of the people that are out there, not necessarily everyone who listens to this,

1:49.9

but the people who out there just, you know, general people I know in the streets and the general

1:54.6

public, they think this shit is like not going to affect their daily lives. And my question is,

2:01.6

has there ever in our lifetime been a time where schools were closed? There was a curfew. In the

2:08.9

USA, okay, not in the 47 years that I've been alive. No, okay. The CDC said this could be bad. Really?

2:19.4

You fucking assholes. How about you let us know how bad? Okay. How about you be totally transparent

2:27.4

and give us an estimate of how many thousands of people are currently infected in the United States

2:33.9

of America? Okay. They updated the number of 53 infections inside the United States. But then

2:39.6

what about those 70 people who were infected on a plane trying to enter a Costa Mesa? Okay.

2:45.6

There are still idiots trying to say that China is getting better now that there's no new

2:50.7

infections and no new deaths and it's on a decrease. No, you fucking dipshits. China is not

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