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🗓️ 9 September 2023
⏱️ 183 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's up, guys? If you're on Spotify right now, please follow the show so that you don't miss any future episodes and leave a five-star review. Thank you. |
0:08.4 | That Trident can really, the power that comes with it, the accolades that come with it, it's not good at times. |
0:15.9 | What do you mean? In my opinion, no human being was created to be worshipped by another human being. |
0:21.6 | You know, when you're a seal, go to the base that's not the seal base. |
0:25.6 | You go to NAB or go to another base and we have that trident on. |
0:28.6 | Everybody stops and they look and like, oh crap, you're a seal. |
0:31.6 | And it's like that can build up pride within the person. |
0:35.6 | And there's been guys who, you know, it's been too much power. Even though that's detrimental to that kid, that kid can end up dead or in prison. You know what I'm saying? If I remember this correctly, didn't you say before you went into the military? Like, you were involved in that? Yeah, I was in the Bronx. Yeah, I grew up in the Bronx. I was a product of my environment. I didn't have a father. My father died when I was five. We left Nigeria when my father died. |
1:28.2 | Yeah, you had a, hold on a second. You had a really unique childhood. Obviously, tragedy in the middle of there, too. And you ended up really taking control of your life and turned into an unbelievable success through your own work, which is amazing. But like, you were really wealthy in Nigeria for like until you were five and you had to come here. What happened there? Like, what was your dad's background? So my dad, he was a, he was a genius. He was a visionary, entrepreneur, philanthropist, multi-millionaire, you name it. He did it. He was, he was born in Nigeria, left in his late |
2:04.0 | teens, ended up getting a full-ride academic scholarship to study architecture and engineering |
2:10.2 | in London, got his bachelor's, got his master's, started accumulating his wealth in the West. |
2:17.1 | He was one of the first black men on the board of the World Trade Center in New the West. He was one of the first black men on the |
2:18.6 | board of the World Trade Center in New York City. He was one of the first black man on the board, |
2:22.7 | black men on the board of the British Financial Planning Council in the UK. I mean, the dude was a |
2:27.3 | genius after a number of years and after accumulating all of his wealth in the West, he decided |
2:31.6 | I want to go back to Nigeria because Nigeria's rich |
2:36.4 | in resources. You got oil, you got natural gas, you got cocoa, you got gold, you got minerals. As a |
2:41.5 | matter of fact, you got China, not going into parts of Africa, not just Nigeria, but other parts |
2:46.9 | of Africa as well, and buying up land buying up land and broke and doing deals with |
2:52.2 | with with Nigerian governments or property owners and and to mine these areas for natural |
2:57.3 | resources and so my dad knowing how how rich Nigeria was and resources and is in resources |
3:03.2 | you know he wanted to create like a like a Nigerian Wall Street like an African Wall Street |
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