$100K/Month Instagram Secret GONE: Millionaire's New Move | Jason Stone DSH #989

Yeah, B-Rose,

I think even on YouTube, you're not allowed to use more than like 10 seconds of actual footage.

Like you're supposed to have at least 50%, I'm not sure the ratio, but like a certain percentage of it.

And that's why people are doing half the screen is the video and half the screen is like the commentary.

But if you have the whole video playing for more than 10 seconds, it's

it could be, you know

Alright guys, got someone I've known for damn eight nine years now Jason Stone.

Thanks for coming on, man.

What's up?

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, dude.

It's been cool to see your growth on social media and in real life.

Like, you've been killing it.

Yeah, likewise with your podcast.

You've been killing it.

I mean, I was just telling you before this podcast started.

Like, I don't know how you bang out so many episodes.

A lot, dude, but content is king, and you know this running huge Instagram pages, you know?

Exactly.

You're posting, what, like, four times a day?

On the million.

Well, the millionaire measure is actually disabled right now.

First time in 10 years.

Jeez.

Sucks.

What did you post?

Well,

like maybe seven, eight copyright violations over the last couple years, but I never monitored that email.

So I never thought anything about it or never looked at those and took them seriously.

I'm like, oh, I'm the millionaire mentor.

I got legacy verified, 10 million.

I'll never get disabled, but it happens.

And a copyright?

Yeah.

So was it just footage you didn't own?

I guess.

It's just reels.

There's businesses that are built just to go after people that post their copyrighted work.

And businesses will take a viral video, copyright it for five bucks, and then go after whoever posts it.

Wow.

Like a whole business is built just around that.

That's crazy.

So I got to be careful.

Yeah.

I got to tell my team, because we use a lot of B-roll in our footage, in our clips.

Yeah, B-rolls, I think even on YouTube, you're not allowed to use more than like 10 seconds of actual footage full screen.

Like you're supposed to have at least 50%.

I'm not sure the ratio, but like a certain percentage of it has to be editable.

And that's why people are doing half the screen is the video and half the screen is like the commentary yeah i've seen like gameplay yeah you're allowed to do that but if you have the whole video playing for more than 10 seconds it's it could be you know damn strike so that guy just is trying to get you for money well there's more those yeah there's multiple companies that have posted strikes against the account holy crap hope you get it back man yeah that was your bread and maybe you know somebody

i've been dealing with a lot of knuckleheads that say they can get it back oh yeah and i've dealt with those but it sounds like that's more between you and the copyright person than instagram itself well these people are telling me, oh, we'll take all the copyright strikes off.

Don't worry about it.

From what I've heard is when that happens, they ask you for money.

Have they approached you?

So if I would have dealt with these strikes as they happen over the years, pay them $1,000 or whatever they wanted, $1,500,

I would have been fine.

But the thing is, I never thought about it.

I never kept up with that email because it's like a secretive email I keep to the side for that Instagram account.

So you don't get hacked.

And I didn't think anything of it.

And I never saw them.

I never saw them all come through.

But I wish, in hindsight, I wish it would have just paid them off.

Yeah.

And we would have been cool.

Damn.

But I'm ready to pay 30, 40 grand to whoever can get it back.

If you're out there.

If you're watching this.

Because that page was cash flowing, man.

It is.

It sucks that income stream.

Yeah, because how much was it doing at the peak?

I mean, we do anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 a month for the last 10 years.

Damn.

Yeah.

A month?

A month.

Off one Instagram page?

Just selling shout-outs.

Dude.

That doesn't even count the affiliate marketing that I've done, the brand endorsements that I've done, the

deals you've got.

Affiliate marketing was huge.

Or just deals I get from being able to post you on the account.

No,

the doors that open unlimited.

When you got a platform, because I know people that pay to get on Fresh and Fit, and they'll make 100 G's in an hour.

How?

Just by being on a podcast and promoting their course or their offer, whatever they'll promote.

When you have a platform and you get 7,000 live viewers, you know, that's valuable.

Yeah, I mean, I've had people pay me 10 grand to come on my podcast to be able to, it's like more of a shout-out package.

They're not paying for the podcast, they're paying for the the content we produce on the podcast.

And then I'd shout them out 10 times on the account.

And now that's

gone too.

Crazy, man.

I think you'll get it back eventually.

I think so.

This page is so old.

It's like a legacy page.

Yeah, it's legacy verified.

I've even heard of people getting their accounts back that have been permanently banned.

Yeah, it's a permanent ban.

Yeah.

Damn.

Well, what are you doing now to make up for that?

Hmm.

We're doing,

I've been a trader for 20 years on and off.

I've traded crypto, traded stocks, traded penny stocks way back in the day, the Jordan Belford days, the Timothy Sykes days.

I've traded Forex,

and now I'm actually

trying to get out of trading and into like algorithmic trading where we can build algorithms for a crypto or Forex or even stocks or options.

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WS Forex.

Right.

So that's kind of like where I'm dabbling right now trying to build a business called F Capital.

And that's going pretty good.

No, so similar to what Jeff's doing, Jeff Seconder.

Exactly, yeah.

Yeah, he's crushing it with exactly.

Yeah, dude, I get his ad every day.

I know.

And I know who runs his ads, and I know like how much revenue he's doing.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

All from a Forex bot.

Yeah.

And it just trades your money for you.

That's exactly what it is.

Pretty crazy.

And with AI really looking legitimate now, this could be a possibility that it could work, right?

Things like there's a lot of rules and regulations in the gray area in the United States for

U.S.

residents to be able to get into this industry.

A U.S.

client is only able to trade on 50 to 1 leverage.

So there's not many options for U.S.

clients.

In order to onboard legally, an onboard U.S.

client, you have to have a $10 million net worth or more.

Damn.

Yeah.

So it's not even accredited.

It's another level.

It's another level above accredited that will allow a U.S.

client to go offshore and use a 200-tone leverage brokerage anywhere in the world, legally.

And that's segmented.

I mean, it's not like you're breaking the law.

It's like a gray area of the CFTC that states that,

you know, be careful.

They just want to protect the U.S.

customer.

And that's all that it's for.

Because I don't know if you know the statistic that 90-some percent of traders lose.

Wow.

So 90% of people are losing their money trading, whether it's stocks, forks, crypto, anything.

If people are there manually trading, 90% of people lose.

And that's what the CFTC wants to protect.

That's really high.

I didn't know it was that bad.

But thank God we don't manually trade.

So we want to use AI and algorithms to place all our trades for us.

So the people winning are just, a lot of them are automated, just AI programs, basically.

I mean, that's what big banks do.

Big banks are trading trillions a day in the foreign exchange, trading the Euro to the USD, making little tiny fractions of a cent.

And they got the best AI problem.

And they got the best algorithms in AI, yeah.

So that's what I think AI is going to be more implemented into these algorithms because algorithms is not AI.

Let's make that clear.

An algorithm is a computer program with a bunch of ones and zeros.

That's not artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is actually a learning module that actually will learn from past to dictate the future.

So once we're playing with artificial intelligence incorporated into these algorithms to either flicker back between one algorithm or another, depending on the market volatility, because sometimes if the market's flat, you're not making money.

So when the market's volatile,

it could use a better algorithm than when the market's flat.

Right.

What percentage return on average per month have you been seeing with these algorithms?

We're doing about 10%.

Wow.

Yeah.

For a month, that's insane.

That's 120%.

This year has been

insanely volatile.

So it's like 10 to 15, sometimes 20.

Holy crap.

But one of our algorithms has a three-year track record going back three years, averages 7% a month.

And that's all it's really about the track record.

If most people out there don't have a really good track record, so they're just testing.

Even like NERP, like Vetus came under a bunch of drawdown.

And I heard,

just heard by people, and other, there's a bunch of companies right now that are getting crashed out.

Well, NERP's crashed a few times.

Yeah.

That wouldn't be the first time they've had a big drawdown.

I've seen it like twice a year with them.

But that's a risk you take.

Yeah.

You know, and we've gotten wrecked on some of these before you went and started.

I got one with you.

I know you got wrecked on some.

We are wrecked on a couple big ones.

I got

three.

Can we say the names?

Let's not.

Let's keep the names.

No, I'm glad you persevered because it compelled me to leave the space entirely.

But a few guys like you ended up making your own.

I was, I was just, I was like, I knew

I want to do this.

Like, I know I've gotten wrecked.

I've lost millions of dollars putting into companies that failed, but I knew there was one, and I knew there had to be a way for the long run.

And that's just being safe, risk to reward, finding that algorithm that doesn't use a lot of your capital to trade, but it's there if it's needed.

It's there if there's a big drawdown day, a big volatile day, or there's a current event, news, war that swing currencies crazy.

So as long as you keep it safe and a lot of money in the account and you're only utilizing maybe 1% to 5% on a daily basis, you're perfectly safe.

A lot of people, they just get greedy.

Greed is what takes over and they want to make that extra few percent a month.

They want to make 10%.

They want to make 20.

If someone comes to me and says they're going to make 20% a month, I'm like, run far away.

Run far away.

The drawdown needed for that is just too high.

The risk is too high.

Yeah.

So our, what's really dope about ours is

only two to one drawdown ratio.

So I know if I see a $10,000 drawdown, I'm making five grand the next day.

And it's been like that

for three years.

Wow.

It's insane.

I've never seen anything like it.

Even on News Days?

Yeah.

Holy crap.

On Newsdays, there's what we call, we have a,

it's a velocity filter.

So when something shoots up or goes down quickly, it's taking less trades.

So that's something we implemented.

It's not AI, but it's like,

it's going to limit the amount of trades per minute.

Right.

Yeah.

And that's really dope.

That's huge, dude.

No, I need to look into that, dude.

Cause

I, like you, I saw potential in it for eight months straight, 10% a month.

And then one fucking Newsday, dude, lost the whole account.

Yeah.

Like

I didn't pull out anything.

So it was a total L.

That's the other thing, too.

You need to pull out some on the way up.

Yeah.

A lot of people leave their whole million dollar bag in there.

It's greed.

It's greed.

Because you see the numbers every day.

I want to leave mine compounding, but I also want to get my principal out as quick as possible.

Facts.

So I could compound

from 500K to a million in a year, probably less than a year, the way it's going right now, probably seven, eight months.

But I really want to get my principal out.

And that's once you get your principal out, then you're free riding.

Right.

Yeah, but something like this is cool because it's super passive.

Yeah.

Like, I've never seen something like that.

It's the best thing since life bread.

Yeah, because people try to get 10% a year.

I think I just had an $80,000 a month last month.

Holy crap.

Yeah, you're getting 10% a month compounded.

So it's even higher.

It's pretty nuts, man.

Hopefully that can.

And you said the last three years, every month has been 10%?

For the last three years, the average of the history has been 7%.

But this year has been volatile.

Even 7% is fire.

You know what I mean?

Most people will love that in the year.

Yeah.

I would.

Because once you have millions, you don't need to be doing anything crazy.

Like, we used to chase crazy returns, but after losing millions with Forex.

And crypto.

I'm not chasing.

And crypto, yeah.

Crypto's down bad this week.

You still have a lot?

I have zero crypto.

Wow.

You got fully out?

I put it all in this.

Because you were big into crypto.

Yeah, I really was.

I was really big.

You had an NFT page, too.

Yeah.

I would promote crypto.

I was full on.

I don't know.

I honestly believe that crypto is not the future anymore.

You think it's algorithmic trading?

No, no, no, not that.

I'm just saying like the future of money.

And

if you look at it this way, the person that doesn't know about crypto or they've never done it before, it's very confusing and tough to them to be able to copy and paste a code to send money to their friend when they can mess that up.

Because I've messed it up, copy and paste.

I thought I copy-pasted something.

It wasn't pasted.

I pasted it in, lost 100K.

Damn.

With Apecoin.

Pasted the wrong address, sent it back to the wallet, lost 100K.

Multiple times I've copy and pasted, thought I pasted the right thing, and lost money.

Now, and I'm good at what I do.

Like I know crypto, and I know how it works.

Imagine a newbie coming into this.

When is it going to

be able to be safe or for like the grandma version to transfer money in between each other?

And I don't think we're ever going to get there.

Not anytime soon.

Yeah, anytime soon.

It needs to be like a Venmo system.

Yeah, exactly.

Like, Venmo's super easy.

Just type in the number or the username, done.

Yeah, so

I don't think Bitcoin is going to be like

over 100K ever.

Ever?

Ever.

Whoa, that's a bold save.

Ever.

You're going to get some heat for that.

It's down to like 55 today.

I think 100K is the ceiling.

I don't know

because

the miners don't give a shit about holding it.

They're just dumping as soon as they get a batch.

And then how much more Bitcoin can be mined?

A lot.

There's 10 more years of Bitcoin mining.

Miners don't care about it.

They just want to make money and they convert their money into US dollars or something safer, crypto so and Ethereum is like the gateway to all the scam coins right yeah how many people have been burned with crypto scam coins meme coins yeah Ethereum and Solana are like the gateways to that yeah yeah it's pretty bad so I don't know I'm just I'm not pro crypto anymore

it's good good conversation because

like I was deep yeah yeah yeah for me to switch

it's I don't know no I am but

someone in your shoes that's making this cash flow with algorithmic trading I could see why you like that more.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, I mean, I pulled it out.

Like, you think Bitcoin's going to double anytime soon?

I can dump my money in my algorithm in seven months.

Exactly.

And you know, it's got a three-year track record.

You don't know if crypto is going to go up or down.

It's super volatile.

So I could see why you'd rather have 100K in a trader than 100K in Bitcoin.

Yeah.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Any other investments you're doing right now?

I do a little real estate here and there, but nothing to brag about.

Investment-wise, No,

that's it.

Just the traders mainly?

Yeah.

Do you want to raise money for that?

Is that the goal?

Like turn it into a fund?

Yeah, we're going to plan on making a fund out of it.

We plan on having a U.S.

regulated algorithm that will work on 50-to-one, modifying our current algorithm that works on 50-to-one margin.

And then

U.S.

clients can feel safe putting their money.

into U.S.

regulated brokers.

That's the goal.

And then we can create a fund out of that.

Right now, I don't trust any brokers in Forex.

It's so hard to get on the bottom.

Outside the US.

There's like five big ones in the U.S.

Yeah, outside the U.S., I mean, because that country could just take your money.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

We found a good batch of them in Australia.

See, Australia is a pretty reputable country, but a lot of the brokers are in some country you never heard of, some island.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

The U.S.

clients will actually get onboarded through a license through SVG, which is the Virgin

Grenadines, Virgin Islands over there.

So it's not technically technically licensed under Australian ASIC licensing.

So it's like a loophole.

Yeah, that makes sense.

And some of the

brokers fake their trades, too.

Have you seen that?

That was with MT4.

Right.

And that's why the U.S., I think the U.S.

doesn't want any U.S.

clients on using MT4.

Because you know how everybody used, years ago, these MLM companies with the Forex, they post their screenshots of all these MT4 and like everybody got burned.

All these manual traders got burned.

So I think the U.S.

just doesn't want this MT4 software in the hands of any U.S.

client.

Yeah.

I was upset when they banned it, but now I see why.

Everyone lost their money on that app because you could just fake the trades.

So yeah, it's a Russian company.

And

if you know the broker you're working with, you could just fake everything.

Fake every single trade going through MT4.

Damn.

And that's how we got burned on one of those companies.

Yeah, one of the traders we were in.

None of the trades were real.

They got people for years on that one.

Jeez.

Some of these scams, man, being in Miami, you're probably used to it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A lot of intricate scams out here, right?

Well, more in Dubai, probably.

But yeah, the Miami scam life is real.

You can feel their energy, though, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

You walk in a room and just talk to people.

You're like, all right, it's kind of weird.

Just commission breath

for the sale.

You still doing networking events and stuff?

No, not really.

Yeah, I haven't seen you out too much, actually.

But laying low.

I've kind of stepped away from like the speaking, the networking events a little bit.

Was that by choice or just kind of?

Yeah.

Because

I've did network marketing before.

I did it once.

I'll never do that again.

It wasn't for you?

Definitely wasn't for me.

Yeah.

My wife still does it a little bit.

It doesn't feel like the incentives are aligned.

I like businesses where it's a win-win.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

It's a lot of work, a lot, a lot of work just to make a little bit.

That's what I'm saying.

It's like e-commerce.

Margins are so thin.

Like, you could do 10 million in e-commerce and make, like, 200K.

What?

You know what I mean?

You haven't heard this?

No.

Yeah, e-commerce margins are thin, dude.

Really?

Because you got to spend money on marketing.

The Facebook ads.

Product costs went up because of C19.

Facebook ads are super expensive, though.

Yeah, I've been doing e-commerce for 25 years, actually.

Really?

Well, I did it the right way.

Like, my first business was Treadstone Performance.

So we make cars go faster.

Okay.

You know, like the Fast and the Furious movies?

Yeah.

So it was like a hobby passion of mine.

I was able to turn, I was lucky enough, fortunate enough to turn that into a business when I was in college.

And I remember starting my online store and listing my first product.

And eBay was big back then.

So I was able to capitalize on the eBay just like kind of Amazon blew up.

Well, I was one of the first power sellers on eBay selling car parts.

So I would have made, I was doing millions from my parents' basement.

Damn.

Yeah.

And this was 20 years ago.

So that's

why we were doing millions 20 years ago.

Yeah, so that business is still running strong.

What?

Yeah, 24 years later.

We're still selling on eBay?

No, yeah, we still sell on eBay, but it's not our primary income.

But the business is, we have thousands of wholesalers worldwide now.

Damn, I didn't even know you were running that.

Yeah.

I don't run it.

I just own it.

Yeah, I've never seen you talk about that business.

Yeah.

I post it here and there, but yeah.

So you're into cars pretty heavy?

I like cars, but I don't like cars like I used to.

I used to wrench them under the hood mechanic do all the work myself i've modified so many cars i've welded inner coolers holy crap under the car with a wrench i used to go to junkyards wrench turbos off of cars and 20 degree weather busting my knuckles i never knew this side of you man yeah i thought you were just a little behind the scenes kind of nerdy instagrammer you know what i mean gotcha that's cool dude so yeah that's i have the business the guys run it team of like eight seven eight guys and uh

i'm i'm actually looking to sell it okay

yeah, now would be a good time because a lot of valuations are going down actually.

Really?

Because of the investment bubble, yeah.

Yeah, you used to be able to sell your company for a lot more than now.

Damn, yeah, and might hire a new M ⁇ E firm.

Yeah, I mean, we'll see.

It might come back, but just so many companies were inflated, their valuations.

So when they sold it, the companies that bought them never really got value.

Gotcha.

I don't know.

You're into jiu-jitsu too, right?

Jiu-Jitsu, yeah.

I've been doing that for five years.

I love it.

Nice.

We got Jake Shields coming on right after you.

Who's Jake Shields?

Jiu-Jitsu fighter in the UFC.

Oh, really?

Oh, yeah.

I know Jake Shields.

I remember that name.

Yeah, I don't know.

Something about Jiu-Jitsu,

you can't explain it of why people get addicted.

It's very hard to explain.

But someone just brought up a point the other day.

It's like when runners get runners high.

I don't know runners high because I hate running.

So

I'd rather get my cardio in the the gym, jiu-jitsu.

And I'm like, I'm a competitive person because some of my friends, I bring them there and they're like, this is not for me.

I don't want to, I don't want to fight.

I'm like, it's not fighting.

It's like, it's more about like, it's a puzzle that you'll never solve.

Yeah.

It's, it's constant evolving of learning techniques.

And it's so cool when you learn a technique and then you apply it when you're live sparring.

It feels so good to learn something new.

I don't know how to explain it.

Do you take on actual fights or you just spar?

So every Monday, Wednesday, we actually spar for, we have beginner's class, intermediate class, and then about 30 to 45 minutes of sparring.

So you either start standing up and it's like

a match.

You can either go hard or you can flow.

I find myself always wanting to win and going hard

because I'm a competitive, so I do competitions.

Every month or two, I'll go to a competition.

Oh, nice.

You're nice.

I have like 30, 40 medals already.

Holy crap.

I got to check out some footage of you, man.

Yeah,

my personal Instagram page.

Do you recommend people develop some sort of fight skill in general?

I definitely would recommend if you're a parent and you have kids, put your kids in jiu-jitsu.

What good is, I mean, unless someone's going to go for professional sports, what good is learning a skill of a ball, throwing a ball up and down a field?

What is that going to do for you?

It's going to do, I mean, you may be able to get in shape, but like this is a skill that you will learn and have for life.

You want to protect your family.

You want to feel confident.

You want to walk around into a bar and feel confident that, you know, you know how to de-escalate situations, not escalate situations because you know how to fight.

Yes, you can break someone's arm, choke someone out, but now most people, when they get into situations at the bar or they're about to get into a fight, the adrenaline kicks in and they don't know how to control it.

They either get scared, fight or flight.

And then when they're ready to fight, they don't know what the fuck they're doing.

Like,

if you ever get grabbed by someone who knows jiu-jitsu, you're done.

It's that quick, especially if they're a black belt.

Wow.

You're done.

Are you a black belt?

No, I just got my purple belt.

Oh, you're not eating my purple belt.

Okay.

Five years, it usually takes about 10 to 12 years to get black belts.

Holy crap.

Yeah.

It's that intense?

It's one of those martial arts that takes a long time to learn.

Dude, because I used to take karate.

I feel like it was way easier to get black belt in karate.

Yeah, it is.

I was already blue belt in like fifth grade or something.

Yeah, it takes a long time.

Wow.

And what's the test like?

Do you have to beat a black belt person?

No, it's not about testing and beating somebody.

It's just about learning the moves, learning different moves, applying them.

And

it just takes so long to learn.

Like, it literally takes 10 years

to learn everything there is to know about it and be good at it.

You got to do a pay-per-view with you and Alex Becker.

He does jiu-jitsu?

Yeah.

What belt does he?

I don't know, but he posts on Facebook all the time.

Really?

Yeah, I would watch that much.

I got to follow him.

Does he post on Instagram still?

No, No, he hates Instagram.

Yeah, he's just on Facebook, one of those.

Yeah, I don't use Facebook at all.

I don't either, but I'll go on like once a month and I'll see him post like three paragraphs.

Hmm.

There's some clients on Facebook, but it's just really, not really my.

Yeah, I love it.

So I opened a gym with my professor.

Oh, nice.

Yeah.

So about a year ago, he was looking to, he was like in between gyms.

He was running his business at like a local gym, his condo, a studio, and never really had a, like, he had a falling out with his past partners.

partners.

And I was training with him.

Wherever he went, I followed him.

We trained.

And I was looking for office space at the time.

I'm like, why don't I put my office?

We get a gym.

We go 50-50.

You get the gym.

I use your name in the gym.

I help you market it.

He's good at what he does.

He trained with the Gracies.

He's a fifth-degree black belt.

His professor was Ryan Gracie.

And he's probably one of the best in Miami.

Ryan Gracie?

No, professor.

Actually, Ryan Gracie passed away.

So it's Professor Arashiro Guillermo.

He's actually a real estate agent.

So, he was trying to find me properties for my office.

We went into business together.

So,

that's been a money pit, to say the least.

I thought it was going to be very easy.

You're starting that business.

I'm like, people are all going to come to my jiu-jitsu gym.

I'll get a component of my social media.

Bro, we are still not breaking even.

The gyms are tough.

My rent is like seven grand a month in the heart of Wynwood.

Holy crap.

And

the people come and then they go.

I don't know.

Yeah, the return.

potential.

Slowly, slowly, like we're almost breaking even.

I feel that gyms are just, you got to put up so much capital up front.

I'm already 100K in debt

for the equipment and stuff.

And then.

Yeah, it's a tough model.

I'm not a fan of most retail models, to be honest, because we could just make money on the internet.

Thing is, I'm doing it for passion though.

Yeah.

I'm not doing the gym to make money.

And if it loses more money for the next year, I'm okay with it.

You just want to give back.

Yeah, I love bringing people in.

Hey, you know, you want to come talk to me?

You want to come meet me?

You want to learn something uh you want to learn a great skill not just about it's not about me it's about helping people out right and giving them an amazing skill that they're going to use for life yeah that's a cool two-in-one though okay a little business advice and then yeah jiu-jitsu advice yeah the people oh go for coffee can i pick your brain i'm like come train jiu-jitsu you want to talk to me come train jiu-jitsu i don't like the pick your brain uh line dude that shit gives me like goosebumps like why do people think that's a cool thing to say i don't know can i buy you coffee i'm like oh an hour of my my time is not worth $5.

Yeah, I'll be coffee or like, want to get lunch.

I'm like, all you got to do is spend $220 to buy a membership.

You can talk to me all you want because I kick your ass.

I love that.

Have you ever had to use these skills on the streets?

Not yet.

Okay, that's good.

No.

But I am a hell of a lot more confident just

in speaking.

If something were to happen.

I've gotten in some confrontations before that five years ago i would have been scared now i'm not scared anymore you know yeah that's a good just mentality to have you could walk in any room with that confidence because people can feel that energy yeah especially if something happens like

you know people always want to test you you know yeah yeah especially out here you're a target man you just you just learn how to calmly de-escalate situations knowing and i can fucking kill you right now

what would be your move if uh you wanted to kill someone

Get to the back.

Yeah.

Get to the back and then I could choke, yeah.

Yeah, because you're not getting out of that, right?

Once I get to your back, it's game over.

Wow.

Yeah.

Damn.

The whole thing with jiu-jitsu is to get you on the ground, right?

Yeah.

Or that's to kind of

stop your movement.

Yeah, an arm bar, arm bar subdue somebody.

You can break someone's arm very easily.

Have you done that?

No.

Jeez.

I've seen YouTube videos of competitions where some people won't tap out and then fucking snap.

My arm's hurting right now.

Professor got me a couple arm bars last week.

Jeez.

Dude, it's been fun.

Where can people learn more about you and potentially invest in the fund and everything?

So effingcapital.io is the

algorithmic trading.

Millmentor.com is the blog.

And if you want to get a hold of me on my personal Instagram, because Millionaire Mentor is down, Jason double underscore stone.

And if you could get his Instagram back, guys, he's got 30K waiting for you.

There we go.

We'll link it below.

Thanks for coming on.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.