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🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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In this explosive episode of Dropping Bombs, Brad Lea sits down with entrepreneur and author Ben Oberg to dismantle everything you think you know about wealth-building. From exposing why most financial advisors can’t actually make you wealthy, to breaking down smarter strategies involving gold, real estate, and high cash value life insurance — Ben reveals the financial playbook the top 1% actually use.
If you’re tired of financial advice from broke advisors and want real-world strategies from someone who’s done it — this is the blueprint.
Connect with Ben
Book: American Mediocrity
Website: https://thecapitalistnetwork.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benoberg
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0:00.0 | Financial advisors do not know how to make you wealthy. |
0:03.2 | The average financial advisor makes $11,000 a year. |
0:06.2 | They have no personal wealth, which is a $340,000 profit. |
0:09.7 | After 40 years, by the way, you have to pay income taxes on it. |
0:12.6 | This is what advisors are good at. |
0:13.9 | I think it's an absolute scam. |
0:15.3 | What's your best advice to somebody who has an IRA right now? |
0:19.2 | Well, my first thing is... |
0:20.1 | What it is, Brad Lee, back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio. |
0:28.9 | Folks, I got a real treat for you, Ben Oberg in the house. |
0:33.7 | What's up, Ben? |
0:34.4 | What's up, Brad? |
0:35.1 | Good to be here. |
0:36.1 | Folks, if you guys don't know who this dude is, he's an author. He's a basic genius, I would say. Yeah? I mean, you've went through some |
0:44.9 | hard times to learn this shit. That's the genius level. I don't know about genius. Then I'd be |
0:49.7 | Elon. Well, that's how you, well, again, Elon's definitely considered a genius. Have you ever taken an IQ test? |
0:55.9 | No. |
0:56.6 | So how do you know you're not one? |
0:58.5 | I don't. |
0:59.4 | I mean, I got like a 2.3 GPA, pretty sure. |
1:02.5 | So did I. |
1:03.4 | Yeah, that doesn't mean anything. |
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