A Deep Dive into the Mind of Colt EP 44 01:03:03

From the art of the deal to keeping it real. Live from the Simply Vegas studios, it's The Power Move with Jon Gafford. Back again, back again, back again. You know what? This is like episode 43. We had a guest scheduled for today. They had to reschedule, which is fine. It happens sometimes.

So I'm thinking to myself, you know, what can we do? Because when we have a guest, you know, I like to be prepared. Well, first of all, if it's your first time joining us, my name is John Gafford. I'm your host. Next to me is Colt the Bulgarian Mongoose Amadan. How are you, Colt?

Doing well. Thank you. And as always, I just pulled that out. I pretty much just added. I've seen a place in a random thing generator for your nickname. The Bulgarian monk. Yeah, the Bulgarian monk. Strong move. Strong move. Yeah, there you go. And Chris, the counselor. How are you, sir? How are you guys? Good. Good to see you. So again, I like to be prepared when we do this. I like to have as much stuff as I can. And we'll do our standard current events regularly.

because I'm sure there was a couple things happened over the weekend. Nothing has happened. Maybe we can chat about. And then, yeah, then here's what we're going to do for today's show. Today is going to be a winding journey, a dark journey. Let me see if I have the right sound effect. Wrong one. We're going to take a winding road, a long trip, Connell, into the mind of Colt. Wow. Okay.

Of me? Of you, yes. So today, literally, we're just going to have, you know, you always say you could do this. You always say that it should be the power move with Cult of Amadam. Yeah. Three minutes. I got three minute episodes. Yeah, so today we're going to see what you got. We're going to take a journey into the mind of Cult. And notice, this is normally the portion of the episode where I would talk about what we're really going to talk about. But let's face it, at this point,

It could be anything. I have no idea. Did you bring the coins you need to cross the River Styx? Yes. Pay the ferryman. Pay the ferryman through the River Styx? Yes. Was it Hercules? Yeah, we're going deep. We're going to all in. But first of all, probably the saddest news in rock for a long time that I've seen, man, is Taylor Hawkins.

Thought you're gonna say BTS sold out. No not BTS sold out Taylor Hawkins passing away like dude Legend man legend and it's funny how people don't really get their due for how good they are until they're gone and as I've been playing drums since I was a kid since I was seven and I can tell you Taylor Hawkins almost

one of my favorite drummers. When I would play with my little, you know, when I'd play with the guys that I would play with when we were playing music together, always the Foo Fighters songs we played were always my favorite. Yeah. Because they were like the hardest hitting songs. Ever, ever long was a band, was a song that my band plays and that drum, that drum, uh,

whole yeah so much you know layout yeah a lot more difficult than I think people realize yeah ever long we would play two songs by then we play ever long in times like these and both of them not necessarily the easiest things to do because they're you know the times change and there's a couple it's it's kind of intricate but but again fun a song so I was I was horrible to see that happen yeah little so oh oh d oh d yeah it came out well he came out he had a bunch of stuff in the system a silver lining though john personally to you

You did tell a story here a couple months ago about how you took the boy to go see them. And I mean, think of all the legends you never got to see. Yeah. No, no, no. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Yeah, the fact that he got to see them was great. They came out today. I don't know if you saw this. They canceled all their shows. I don't know...

I mean, I don't know if you'll ever see that band play again just because for several reasons. Number one, I think that when you saw interviews, as much as Pat Smear is that band and the other guys are the band, every interview I ever saw with Foo Fighters was Dave and Taylor. It was like Beavis and Butt-Head. It was those two guys for 20 years. It's been those guys. And I just don't know...

You know if Dave Grohl has it in him to continue that band without Taylor think of the friends that guys lost dude I mean, I mean just moment of silence for Dave Grohl. Yeah, man. I mean, it's it's I mean, it's nuts I mean you saw all the people that came out the most interesting thing I saw that I came out from this is you never really realize who hangs out with who and who's good friends with who or whatever it is, right and

Perry Farrell yesterday, him and his wife were just crushed. And he's like, Taylor was my best friend. I mean, a lot of people said, you know, I knew him. I met him. He was a great drummer. We played music. He was an inspiration. But Perry Farrell's like, dude, that was my best friend. And I never, I mean, who would have thought that? And it gave a heartfelt, you

in a statement about him and was showing some video of them hanging out and everything. And it was just, it played actually what potentially, it was a voicemail they got from him the night he died. Wow. Before he went to bed. It was nuts. It was crazy. So again, dude. You want me to try to blow your mind on air? No, go ahead. Who was the best friend? What was the name of the guy you said? Perry Farrell. Do you think that's his real name? No, I do not. Say that name very quickly. Perry Farrell. Peripheral.

Yeah, that's the point. That was his, like, when he was all screwed up on drugs. Yeah. He got this thing. I read a book. It was talking about Perry Farrell back in the day. It's like, man, it's like seeing from the side. It's like, I'm peripheral. He started calling himself Perry Farrell. Really? Just random fact of the day. Random fact of the day. Trying to lighten it up a little bit. No, random fact of the day. It didn't seem to do a second. We hold down. I mean, again, you know.

I have an idea, and I want to know what you guys think about this. This is what I think about this. I think anybody caught with enough to be considered distribution of any substance that has fentanyl in it should go for attempted murder.

That's my personal belief. I think if you're caught with that substance, because here's my point. Here's my point. Ready? If I shoot a gun at you and I completely miss you, I'm responsible for the bullet, and yet it's attempted murder because I shot a bullet. Anybody that is slinging a substance or substances that may have fentanyl in them,

better damn sure know that you could put with a small amount of that, you could absolutely kill somebody. So my thought is this number one, make fentanyl testing kits, whatever they are free, but from the U S government is many places. You can put them for free distribution, come get them, whatever. I mean, put them everywhere. There's no reason that anybody should ever take anything unknowingly with fentanyl on it. Huge can of worms. You just opened up and I a hundred percent agree with you. I think that

American drug policy is highly regressive. A lot of these people in prison, we don't look at drugs in a very progressive way. We like to pretend that people don't get high or that people don't get turned on to legal drugs and then have to find the cheaper street ones. We don't view people as having medical issues when they have drug issues. So we criminalize people at the border, which creates a black market. And in that black market,

These companies don't care. A lot of times it's fentanyl is Chinese, right? Yeah. So it comes over in these barrels. It's cheap to make. Yeah. It's not the new thing they're making in Mexico. Right. And so it kicks up, right? So you can step on your shit so much more and get more profit. So there's a profit-laden industry. You want to blame anybody, it's American drug policy. And I'm not shitting on America. I understand. Here we go. But our drug wars. You're going to let him talk about America? 9-11 again?

We're supposed to step in here. Oh, wow. So if you legalize drugs or you decriminalize them and treat them as a medical issue, right, you eliminate all of that incentive for all these drug wars, all these –

People in Mexico who die on our borders, right? All the drug crimes, all the cartels, they're all fueled by our high-priced black market drugs. Yeah, that's good. I mean, it's a good point, but I think... And so to your point... I don't think we're ever going to have legalized drugs in this country. I just don't think it's ever going to be that progressive. We'll be decriminalized. I don't think we're going to have that. But also the point being is, I think they should make the fentanyl testing kits available because fentanyl is the problem right now. It is what it's killing people.

I mean, just people every day. And it's always the same thing. I lost a friend. Oh, I had Mexican, I had Mexican Xanax or something. I had no idea that had fentanyl on it. I just thought, you know, whatever it is. So I think literally you should have those testing kits everywhere to make it, you know, so nobody can ever have plaza. I didn't know. I just bought it for this guy. He told me it was clean and I was trying to sell it. No, dude, there's test kits for free everywhere. If you've got it and you're trying to sell legal drugs and they have fentanyl on them, it's attempted murder and you're gone.

I don't think you can look at it either way. Here's the other problem, though. A lot of people that are mulling these drugs aren't the people who are supplying them. When you watch these things, people that are mulling drugs, oftentimes their families are being held at gunpoint back in their home country. If you don't get these drugs, the cross will kill your family. I'm not talking about that guy. Listen, I'm talking about the guy that's on TikTok advertising I'll deliver drugs to your house. That guy. That guy needs to go down for attempted murder. That's on TikTok?

I'm sorry, not TikTok, but Snapchat or whatever it is, where they have literally like these drug menus go out on random text unsolicited to everybody. That's the black market. That was all that. That's what Bitcoin was made for, was selling people on the internet. I agree, but those people need to go down. I've never even seen those people. I haven't either, but whatever. All right, so moving on from that.

um fentanyl's bad fentanyl's bad people those people you're gonna get control soon enough colt you'll get control here i don't know if i'm ready for it guys i think i think crazy day i wasn't mentally prepared for this i was expecting you guys carrying me through this can we talk about and everybody's talking about will smith obviously and what he's done

Can we just, I mean, can we get him an intervention? Not so much about what happened, but get away from that woman you're married to. Cause if you watch that back, dude, it's like Chris rock told the joke and he was laughing and she was pissed. And then you cut back to Chris rock and there's a solid eight seconds there where you don't really see what happened, which is probably just long enough for her to lean over and say, you're going to let him talk to me like that.

And she has got him so spun. I mean, if you've seen, I mean, this is a complete demasculation. I know. The complete humiliation. The complete, she owns that dude. And I don't get it. Like, I don't get it. So, Tupac, you not think that that's his fault?

- Dude, I do, besides, he was an intervention, bro. Okay, like you never dated somebody that was awful for you in the past. You never dated somebody that was cryptically terrible. - Oh, I've dated some terrible people, sure. But did they control me? No.

I think it's almost like Stockholm Syndrome, man. I think maybe he likes it. I don't know, dude. Again, I don't conjecture other people's relationships. But that whole thing, and if you look at it. He has skirted a lot of personal responsibility for that. I get it, but you look at what he said. When he went on stage and he was all crying and bawling, he's like, you know. What a baby. Well, he's like, no, he's like, I'm having a real time dealing with what people expect me to do. I think he was talking about her. Bro. Bro.

Talk about a 10 out of 10 finale to that speech. Well, I remember what it was. I was just so... Somebody else had commented on it. I'm like, that's the number one thing I took away from it. At the end of it, aces. Absolute aces way to end any conversation you ever argument ever. What did he say?

I'm a work in progress. Yeah, that's it. What are you supposed to say to that guy? Well, you should be better. He's like, I know I said that. I said that. What are you going to do to somebody that says, hey, Colton, I'm a work in progress, buddy. Bill Maher came out today and spoke. What did Bill Maher say? He said two great things. First off, he said that was exactly what's going on in the world. It was, ha-ha, wait, I should be offended, but...

Now let me go overreact. And he goes, that's exactly what happened is it was like you see on the Twitterverse. You see, ha ha, that's funny. Wait, no, I think I should be offended. Yep, I should be offended. Let me go overreact, right? Then I saw he said he was talking at the Vanity Fair or someone that apparently

A very, very well-known African-American in the Hollywood scene just said, Chris Rock handled that perfectly. Oh, my God. He had the whole race on his shoulders. And I watched another guy, the guy on today's show I just –

had the TV on and he kind of reiterated the same thing, right? Like, thank God, Chris rocked in it react for American male community. Let's face it. How many, okay. You're Chris rock. You're laying in bed at midnight.

How many things that are hilarious are going through your head that you wish you would have said immediately after that? I have the most amount of sympathy for Chris Rock. Oh, dude, totally. But can you imagine if he'd have been like, damn, bro, I'm not banging her. I mean, it would have been. Keep your wife out of my mouth. I'm like that dude. Like that dude. Your kid's son, right? Like what a piece of shit. Like I could go on a tangent. Think about what Chris Rock really did there.

He didn't press charges. No, he didn't. Jim Carrey was on saying something going, I'd sue him for $200 million. What he did was absolutely inexcusable. He goes, and that's going to live on forever. What's every comedian's worst nightmare? Well, to be slapped for a joke, right, is there's kind of two ways to rub that, though. You're right, Colt. Look at something, laugh, be offended, overreact.

But also, we do live in a day and age where not enough people get smacked for what comes out of their mouth on the keyboard. Kind of a weird, and I'm not saying I don't condone it, but it is interesting to see. If he would have gone at it hard, right? But here's the thing. It's like, can you imagine if Don Rickles would have said that? But he would have said way worse. Do you think he's going to go up and smack Don Rickles? I mean, dude, for as long as there have been celebrity.

And as long as Don Rickles has been alive, it's a roast. It's part of what goes in. And those jokes are not hateful. I don't think Chris Rock was being hateful to her. I think it was the fact that Chris Rock, if Chris Rock made a joke about me, I'd be like, oh my God, Chris Rock. That was such low-hanging fruit, dude. Just made a joke. Well, hang on. There's one bald woman joke you could even make. Well, no, no, no. See, I'm going to challenge that philosophy because now, all right?

if I don't know if there's such a thing, but I hope that there is some sort of fraternal order of comedians, the fuck. And they are having a meeting right now saying, okay,

It's all in agreement, motion 425, that every single set of every single comedian from here forward to the end of time shall contain at least one Jada Pinkett Smith joke, which I think would be due process for that crime, and I think that would be a fitting punishment. Every single set. If it was somebody else up there, he wouldn't have gone up and slapped them. You know what their greatest punishment would be? What's that? That we never mention them ever again. That's a good point. But it's not. They should have kicked their ass out of there. The longer you stay relevant, the more, right? Yeah.

It doesn't matter what they say as long as they're talking about you. It doesn't matter what they're talking about. I can't stand him. So Colt, that's current events, man. What are we talking about? The floor is yours, my man.

What are we going to talk about? What's been on your mind lately? What's been on my mind? Like, you know what? Fuck. I thought I hated Tom Hanks really bad. No. Fuck Will Smith. Oh, we have a new contender. You know what? I never really thought about it because I don't like him at all. So he's just been off of my mind. But this guy is a horrible actor. Poor Ollie. Really? You thought I did not think you're Ollie. One fit during that movie. You're a horrible actor.

Pursuit of happiness? Pursuit of happiness? I know he's rich. No. Horrible. He's a horrible actor.

I don't like Will Smith. Jada Pink is sort of the same way. Wait, wait, wait. So you're saying that no rich actor can ever play a poor person because in real life you know they're rich? That's cultural appropriation. Do you know what it is? It's wealth appropriation. Okay, I don't know the guy's name. You know Peter from the, I don't even want to say it because I'll probably say the wrong thing. The guy from Games of Thrones, Peter Dunn. Peter Dinklage. Dinklage. Dinklage.

He did an interview once and said, you'll never see me on social media. You'll never see me do interviews. Nothing. Because I don't want people to know who I am because then they can't visual me as an actor. Will Smith is out there too goddamn much. All I see is he's a douchebag. Look, he had to leave Philadelphia because he almost got beat up by the Yankees. I mean, it's not his first rodeo.

And then to have the nerve to slap Chris Rock. Come on. The guy's like 5'8". Tom Hanks and Will Smith can go live on an island together. Do you know one of the funniest memes? Get the hell out of here. One of the funniest memes of all this came out. It's got The Rock saying it. And Will Smith going, very funny joke, Mr. Rock. That's a funny joke, sir. If Chris Rock, if it was The Rock, he would not have done anything. What a pansy. And Chris Rock,

Take this. Learn from it. You have to assume the worst in life. Okay. You have to assume when someone's looking pissed off walking towards you, get ready to duck. I would have ducked and punched him in his throat.

Will Smith would have been down. I mean, Chris Rock had no reason not to think he was coming to give him like a hug. Like, ah, you son of a bitch. Exactly. Whatever. You're not expecting that. Or acting like he's going to punch him. Yeah, like ruffling his hand or something. Is there anything worse you can do to another man than the open-hand slap? I love it. I've gone to that well. Is that just... Well, there's the open-hand slap and then there's the mom slap where you catch like left eyebrow down to right, just right across the face. You catch like left eyebrow down to right lower lip.

Smack get the whole face. I smacked the guy so hard one time that the whole like Jim stopped playing basketball Yeah guy on my basketball team was elbowing me kept hitting me kept hitting me I said if you ever fucking touch me again, like you're playing dirty. You're trying to hurt me You ever do that again? I'm gonna fucking end you he said shut up and play the game. I Slapped him if I you didn't shut up on the bottom of my hip. I

slapped this man so hard I saw his soul start to leave him. Shadow realm. And he was shadow rousing. Shadow realm. And he just stared at me and all of a sudden a tear came down his eye just...

The fear. It was just sort of like, I've never been hit like that. People should get hit. I will say that. Not a comedian, right? Not somebody at the Oscars. Nobody should be slapped for what they say. No, absolutely. Violence is not good. There are a lot of people that should be slapped. Sometimes people should be. A lot of people should be slapped.

I will. You might joke about that. I'm 100% serious. No, there's a Bill Burr bit where he goes on about that. He goes, really? There's never a time to hit a woman? He goes, what if she's drowning your kids? She's got two of them down already and the third one's going in the water. Never? That was funny. We don't hit girls, but I'd hit Will Smith. Don't hit girls. Will Smith. He just seems he's so cool.

I don't think he's cool. He thinks he is, and his wife's over there cheating on not just some random kid, on some kid that's 20 years old, friend of the daughter or son, whatever. I mean, God, man, have some balls and go after that kid. Why would he go after that kid? That's his wife's problem.

Okay, so why are you going after Chris Rock? It's wife's problem. And you should have taken that in. Touché, counselor. I think Colt just painted you into a corner. He should have gone in back and said, you know what, my wife's got a disease and she's offended by that. Apologize. If you don't apologize, then maybe I'll slap you. No, but that's right. Then you give him an opportunity to be like, you know, that's a medical condition, right? Right. So then we can get the famous, you know, the John Gafford. Oh, no, I didn't know your grandma was so important to you.

Wow. Okay. Now we're going on? Okay. I'm out of this discussion. I have yet to read the text on this. All right. Well, yeah. Cole, I don't know if you're aware of what happened here. So at the risk of being... You can get some Cole's notes. We'll get Cole's notes on this. So we had a situation where it was...

And the text chain, I don't even remember how it happened. But Chris was actively... John, you don't need to apologize. This was Machiavellian genius. And that's what I'm talking about today, how to deal with Machiavellian geniuses, right? Because you're going to encounter them at some point in your life. So on a text chain, I don't remember who was on it. I don't know how this came up. But essentially...

Chris's grandmother may have gotten wrapped up very similar to a joke like the aristocrats. If you don't know what that is, Google it. I'm not going to get into the exact specifics of how it was going, but it was getting worse and worse and worse and worse and worse to the point where we were giggling like school children as we were doing this. Now, Chris was involved in this text chain. He saw this text chain. He was commenting. So I made a terrible choice. I know.

A terrible choice. When worlds collide. Which was try to move said...

conversation about Chris's Nana over to another text Jane that he is on with several of our other guy friends at which point Chris immediately victim victim like like he had no clue what I was talking about I was like what is going on to the point where people were like is John okay is he like what's going on with him this is really good this is really creepy yeah

She's probably going through some things. Yeah. People are about to get in their cars, drive to your house. It was bad. It was Machiavellian genius. And I'm texting my side like, oh, you're such a dick that you're doing this to me. But I mean, at this point, you're faced with a choice. I think you're faced with a choice, which is you can backpedal and

And you can try to, you know, you can try to explain this. Or you can do what I did and just stay all in and get worse and worse and worse, which is what essentially... I think that's the best thing to do. Creating the meme of the guy who's sweating. John has two choices. Take the bait for the trap I just laid you. Or exercise your own free will and not say a thing. And John's like, no. Bam. I have no free will. I think you always have to double down. Is there ever a...

A time in life you just don't double down. No, no, no. Because not only... I made it existential. Not only was he acting all incredulous, like, oh my God, what's going on? He's baiting me. Just saying things. Literally just yelling from the mound, I'm going to hang this curb

ball. Here it comes. Here it comes right down the middle. And yeah, I was just... I smoked every... No, I didn't care. I smoked every pitch. Well, I had to also make it philosophical and existential and be like, or exercise your free will. I'm not doing that. I never was the first person to claim I had free will. Do you know who doesn't? Me on pretzel bread. And I can tell you what. So I went to...

Two restaurants this weekend. Let's talk about, first off, shitty service and shitty food. Top of the world. My dad wanted to go there. He's like, I've never been really up to the top of Strat. One word, stratosphere. Strat. Strat now. It's not even Strat. You're shocked? Well...

It was expensive for shitty food, and they couldn't get the pretzel bread right. That's when I knew this was starting off. Pretzel bread was garbage. Salad was garbage. Everything. Everything was garbage. Went to the win last night. SW Steakhouse, number one pretzel bread in Las Vegas by far. Even better than berries. You been to the German American Club?

The German American. There's a German fetish club on my house. You get what you pay for. You go to the Stratus. Well, guess what? I paid about the same goddamn money for it. That's the sad part. Don't go. Go to SW over that. What else? What's the best restaurant in Las Vegas? And what's the worst? Best? I would say SW for steak. I would say I love Sinatra's. Worst for steak? For sure, Top of World. It was worse.

horrible, like horrible. I've had bad stakes at bars, but you expect that. No, I have a better question. So forget if you had to put your finger on for not even just restaurants, everything. What's the worst customer experience, customer service experience you've ever experienced Colton me. Yeah.

Because I already know what mine is off the top of my head. We haven't talked about it in a long time. You, Chili's. You. You think I forgot about you. I didn't forget about you. You served me six margaritas. I leave my car being responsible, and then you tow it? You tow it, Chili's? Did we ever get anything from that? I don't know if we have or not. I need to call you. No, we sent a demand letter, and I don't know if we've ever heard back. You know what? We've had bad experience. I can't even get like a cheeseburger queso, like nothing for towing my car? No.

The molten cakes there are so good. I was going to say we're never going to get sponsored by Chili's. I'm going to say something else as we do this. For those of you that are listening to us on podcast services, I apologize for something. I clicked a box that I didn't realize I picked on our host service.

And you were exposed to lots of random commercials for which I got paid $8. So sorry about that. I just realized that was happening. You're holding out money on us. Yeah, no, no. You're holding out money. I'm about $2.67. Yeah, somebody owes me. A lot of smaller people would do this for the $8. I do it strictly for the glory. I do it for you. You know what? We had bad customer service at the Cigar Lounge.

Yes, we did. We've had two times that was very bad. I've had a lot of bad customer service in Vegas recently, and I'm shocked. Do you think it's just post-pandemic, or do you think it's – so is it shortage of staff, or is it attitude amongst the staff? I think it's attitude, right? I think shortage – you can walk around and still be happy and smile and say hi. Right.

SW had some of the best and I forget how great that restaurant is. Everything of the win. I said that the win last night, it was just great. Like everything was amazing from the housekeeping. People were nice. Everybody was nice.

You go over, and it's a perfect example from one extreme to the other. The Strat, oh, my God, everybody was so ignorant and rude. I mean, I'm telling you, Strat, Tom Hanks, and Will Smith can go fuck themselves. Isn't the Strat in Alphabet City? No, it's in Naked City. Naked City. Naked City, what a great part of town. If you've never been to Naked City, Las Vegas, every time I go there, the crackheads, the

Is this where the steakhouse is? No, but I go out there. I sell some apartments over there, and they make me feel good about myself. A little crackhead, no teeth, tell me I look good looking. Maybe not known for their steaks. You saw a guy got, not retired, but an off-duty cop from Washington got stabbed and killed on the trot bridge between MGM and Cosmo.

Can we talk? My homeless guy. There is a lot of deaths on the strip that we just don't talk about. People don't realize that. Well, they used to bury them. That was a thing in Vegas. They would bury the deaths. And they still do. Yeah, because there was a lot. They still bury a lot. There's been multiple suicides this year. I mentioned that before. I know a girl whose grandfather had the contract to go clean them up, specifically the suicides. How cool would that be? Not? No.

Well, okay. No, no, no, no. The worst place. Not to do it, but just have that as a top job title. No, the worst jumper place. The worst jumper place. That's happened a long time, but the worst jumper place is for sure the Luxor.

Yeah, because it's inside. Because they just land right in the middle of the damn food court. And it's happened. They land in the food court. It happens a lot. I had one outside the El Cortez when I lived in the Ogden. Oh, did you? Yeah. I had to step over where the body was on the way to get the girls with car to that next day. That's terrible. How's that, man? Never mind. I mean, people come here and just – it's terrible. It's terrible when they do that. They come here and they just go on benders and –

lose too much and we think there's nothing else oh geez that's no we can't say that i'm sorry i don't like will smith his his whole family noxious name a more obnoxious family than his so you are kind of more online with the m&m thing now back with that old yeah he didn't slap m&m but m&m doesn't need to will smith doesn't need to curse his records so fuck him all right you too remember that

And he didn't say nothing. That's what I'm saying. Will Smith is such a pansy. Go find him.

Go find a real person, a little comedian. I'm telling you, Eminem's got to be 5'6". Go back. Eminem's like Nostradamus, man. I'm telling you. He picks beef with the right people. Yeah, they turn out to be the terrible humans. Yeah, everybody he picks beef with, you're kind of going, yeah. Yeah, I get it now. Yeah, I get it. He really wasn't too far off. He never goes after anybody who turned out to be awesome. No. He goes after Benzino and stuff. He's out there with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. I know who Benzino is. The guy who owns Source magazine.

Oh. Oh, source. Anyway, long story short, Eminem. It's always dialed in. I like Eminem. But Will Smith. Him. Tom. I'm sure. Do you know what? Tom Hanks' whole family seems obnoxious. Saw something about his kid. Seems super annoying. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. His kid thinks he's like some big banger. The rapper kid. Chet. Chet. Chet. Chet. Chet. Chet.

That's okay. Okay. Let's just, let's see. There is nothing. No white. Why was a white boy? Summer was the name of his jam. Look, Colt, as much as you dislike Tom Hanks, trust me, there is nothing you will ever do to him that will shame her or hurt her, hurt him more than that child. So there's just nothing worse. What do you do? Yeah. You're his parent. You just bet you beg him to stop telling people he's your money. Don't name your kid Chet. He got, he named one kid Colin. Yeah. Look at that kid. Yeah.

Oh, that was a great movie. He named one kid Chet, and he gets Chet.

Nah, but Chet. I know two other Chets. Is there a better Chet movie character than Chet in Weird Science? Is there a Kyle that doesn't punch holes in drywall? Like you name your kid what they're going to do in life. No. Oh my gosh. Drink Red Bull and punch holes in walls. You named your kid Kyle and you're a shot. My son walked around the pool all day, blowing kisses at every girl. He's my troublemaker.

maker yeah giovanni should wow and your kids giovanni and he turns out to be like an italian lover yeah let that be a lesson if you have a daughter named candy summer bambi i went to school with a charity a trinity school with a lot of girls they all smell like cigarettes right

Terrible. Name your children the names you wish them to be when they grow up. I never thought of that. John Davis. Colt. Rockefeller-esque. Cornelius. What's a name that should be making its comeback? A name that should make its comeback? All those fight club names go Cornelius and Rupert. Rupert.

That's a strong name. Rupert? I don't hate the Roo. So then I was starting to think the other day, because Mel Gibson was, they kept showing his face, like his reaction to the slap. And it's like, you offended Mel Gibson. Is Mel short for something? Like, is his name Melvin or something? I don't know. You just named somebody Mel? Melvin? Melbourne? We're going to take a break. And when we come back, we're going to continue talking about nonsense. You know what?

We're going to come up with some stuff. I'm going to jump on social media and get some questions to ask Colton in real time. That's what we're going to do. We'll be back in a minute. I was thinking Mel. Is that just his name? Melonious. Hi, John. Hey, it's John Gafford. If you want to catch up more and see what we're doing, you can always go to thejohngafford.com where we'll share any links that we've things we talked about on the show as well as links to the YouTube where you can watch us live. And if you want to catch up with me on Instagram, you can always follow me at thejohngafford.com.

I'm here. Give me a shout. Welcome back from the break. I'm your host, John Gafford. The counselor had to leave, and I think it's probably better because today we're taking a deep dive into the mind of Colt. We're trying to figure it out. So we've got Colt repositioned where he can really kind of give us all of his thoughts. If you're watching this on YouTube, thanks for watching it so much. This is the time when I pander to you. If you're listening to us on a good old...

Make sure you give us five stars every little bit. It helps. And if you're listening to us on YouTube, make sure you like and subscribe. Push that button there. Do it now. So... Did we decide if it's five stars or four stars? I don't know. Five or four. Whichever the highest rating is. If I say five, because if I say five and there's only four, people would just give me four by default. But if you say four and there's five, they'll be like...

Okay. I'll go 80%. You only go on four. I'll go 80%. My mom's texting me. She sent me like 30 pictures of outdoor furniture. Asked me which one I'd like. I tell her the second one. It doesn't go good on text. I need the iPhone, but I'm telling you the iPhone sucks. It's just overrated. Anybody want to...

You know what I've been getting, John? Oh, boy. I've been getting a lot of the fake tags on Instagram that you win something. You know what I've gotten three of the last eight days? What's that? I've won an iPhone. You've won an iPhone.

Well, they just assume that, A, anybody – you know what it is? They target Android users because they figure anybody dumb enough to have an Android would fall for that and be the lure of getting a chance to step up in society's view and own an iPhone is just too good of a thing to pass up. You know, I was at SW last night, and there was a guy across from me that had the Google phone. Where do you think the Google phone rates on the scale of iPhone and Android? Is it below both of them? No, but Google's an Android.

That's an Android phone. No, but it was like an actual Google phone. No, I'm saying, but it's an Android phone because Google makes Android. So the Samsung above the Google? No. I mean, that's like saying who's valedictorian of summer school. It doesn't even matter.

But let's, you know, Colt, let's dig into your mind here. Let's dig into you. Now that you're comfortable, are you feeling comfortable? When you turn the lights down, are you good? Are you comfortable? Because I'm trying to figure out. I should have got some scotch, but I'm okay with it. I'm trying to figure out why you are the way that you are. And I'd like to spend the next 25 minutes or so trying to figure this out. Because let's face it, a lot of the stuff that comes out of my mouth is clueless. So.

At what point? Clueless? No, no. I'm clueless. I'm speechless is a better word. So at what age did you know that you were different? Well, I remember when I was about 13 months old.

13 months old. What happened at 13 months old? You know what I did notice as a young kid? I hated not being at the house. My mom would be in a bowling league. She would drop me off at the hilltop lanes, and they'd have this little area for the kids. Amazing grilled cheese. I think bowling alley's grilled cheese might be better than the hospital's.

I'm just throwing it out there. Hospital grilled cheese, number two. Bowling alley grilled cheese. Number one. Number one bowling alley. I'll tell you what. Both of them have better food than the top of the world. See, this is the funny thing. I spent $350. I could have gone to the hospital across the street and got better food for my dad's birthday. That's where we're going next time. John, you're 50th. You want to go to the hospital? We're going right to the hospital. You know, St. Rose's here, I've often said, is like sizzling with doctors. Yeah.

see it's that is a perfect that's better than Sizzler do we even have Sizzler that's a great thing no I uh you know what John I think just uh my parents named me Colt that's what you get for naming me Colt so this is your parents fault is what you're saying I feel like well my grandparents goes back

So back all the way, all the way back. So, you know, it's a well-known fact that we talk about all the time that at some point your wife is going to murder you. We talk about this all the time on the show. Almost murdered me last night. She did. What happened last night? Well, no, she doesn't tell me anything, John. I sit there, you know what I did yesterday? I wake up and she goes, all right, I'll see you at the hotel. What hotel? I'm like, I got work to do. No, I got the wind for the night.

And she goes, we've talked about this for two months. I go, no, we didn't go to hotel. When I push some appointments off till today, I wake up today and she goes, all right, tonight, where should we go for dinner? I'm like, what are you talking about? She had the hotel for two nights. I went down and canceled it. She hates me. Let's not talk about that. Well, here's the question. What are the odds? And I forgot to put odds on it. What are the odds that she has been talking to you about it for two months and you just went in, in one ear, not the other.

Oh, no. I listen. It's her. She thinks she says stuff. Your wife doesn't think that she says stuff? No, no, no. No, my wife says a problem. That's why I'm saying that. My wife does say stuff and it goes in one ear and out the other. My wife will sit there and pretend like we had a conversation and then gets pissed off at me. She got pissed off. The whole family. We had a little barbecue with their sisters. You think my wife's crazy? Sisters are nuts. Sisters are nuts. You know what, though? That's going to bring me to an actual point we can make for today.

Because I've been thinking about something a lot. And it's something I kind of feel bad about that I've said for years and years and years and years. And it's this. I have, you know, in speaking engagements, all kinds of stuff everywhere across the country, I've said this probably a hundred times. I've said, if you want to make more money in real estate, answer your phone when it rings. That's what I've said. I've probably said that a hundred times. And I

I read something maybe a month ago and I thought it was, it hit me like a tongue, a ton of bricks. I'm going to share it with you guys, which is this, which is the phone in your pocket is there for your convenience, not the convenience of others. Now, when I started thinking about this, you are, and you probably are, if you're watching this right now, going down social media, you probably are a little bit, you're probably addicted at some point to, so to, to this thing, the bing bong boom of your phone. And, uh,

When I am at work all day, when I'm gone all day, I come home at like five o'clock is when I normally get home around that time. And my kids go to bed at like nine 30. So I have four hours of the day, most of the days a week where I can focus in, spend time with my family. And much like you just said, when you said, you know, my wife makes plans and, and, you know, I don't think she told me my wife does that. And I just didn't notice because I was staring at my phone.

So I realized how much of my kids growing up I missed because I was staring at my phone. And I felt really bad about that because I've given people that advice. Now, if you are in real estate, is it important that someone answers your calls? Yes.

Get an answering service. They're dirt cheap. Somebody you can pay to answer your phone. It costs you nothing. But if you have little kids, remember you got them until they're 18 years old. Well, here's another thing that woke me up. I thought that, because we were at Delilah on Friday night, and I thought that

I had until 18. That's what I've always gone with. I have until 18. I was having this conversation with my buddy, Kevin. And he goes, no, man, you got until 16. Because when they get the driver's license in the car, they're gone. That's when the freedom kicks in. I really have to tell your kids are the age right now for you. Yeah. I'd say start doing that. You'll see starting now, your kids will shut you down.

I'll go sit in their room, stuff like that. I, um, I noticed that I was at the park the other day and some guys like, you know, this is my only kid. Kid was probably about 18 months old playing at the park. He was on his damn phone the whole time. I'm like, dude, you have no idea how fast this is going to go. And it goes, yeah. Uh,

My mentor getting into real estate was from a small little bro. I mean, it was him and like three assistants. That's it. And he did stupid amount of business. And everybody's like, what's your go-to? What's your go-to? He goes, answer your damn phone. Yeah. So there's a difference. I said the same thing. You know, you sit there and it's like, okay, well, I can't be on my phone all the time. No, we're not saying about, you can't be on your phone working. You're spending, I don't care who you are.

everybody's on social media. It's the bleed. It is just, it's an addictive thing. It is designed to be that way. I, it's exactly designed by very smart people, smarter than us. You know, one of the goals I have is, is my 50th birthday approaches and we're leaving to go to Cabo on Friday. So this will be the last show. I'm going to social media, everything. Yeah, no, we will of course. So, so it'd be interesting to watch social media cause my birthday party should be fun. Um,

But, you know, one of the goals for as you reach these milestone birthdays, you try to set better goals for yourself and as you go on the next thing. So one of those goals is to be the best version, obviously, as I can. And part of being the best version of myself is being the best man that I can is really giving focus to my wife and my kids. That's something that's really important because I don't, you know, if they're talking and I'm looking at my phone, I'm not focused on them. I'm focused at my phone.

So now what I've started doing just as a habit, and this is my new good habit is when I walk in my house, if I sit down somewhere, I throw my phone at least six, eight feet away from me. So if I need it, I know where it is. Right. If it should happen to ring, I have an option. If I can, if I want to feel like getting up to answer to that minute or not, but I don't just compulsively pick it up to look at it every five minutes. Cause I, cause you're, my brain is programmed to need to be entertained.

And I found since just doing that in the short amount of time that I've been doing it,

The amount of focus that I have on my kids and the amount of focus I have on my wife has been dramatically increased, but not just that, but I find that we no longer are wasting Saturdays. We're no longer wasting those days off. It's like, okay, well, if I'm not entertained sitting here, I need, let's, let's go. Where are we going to go? Let's go somewhere. Let's go do something. No, I, I, I did. I was at the park. I was at the pool this weekend and it's just amazing. I'm in the pool playing with my kids and loving it. And,

There's nothing more important than your family, right? And like, I've always said this, I've said it multiple times here, but you know, like when I almost lost my kid, dude, that was it. Everything became a back burner. Work was always a front runner, whatever, making money. I tell you, everything went to a back burner. Like you said, you have to tell 18 that comes quick, whatever, but

Yeah, the phone. And anybody that says they're not addicted to their phone is lying. Yeah, they're lying. They're lying. Well, let's get back into the mind of Colt. What would you say of anything there is? What are your favorite things? Favorite things? Yes. You know what's a weird thing I was thinking on –

Sunday I was at the pool I love the sun I love just being out in the sun it tries to kill me skin cancer so many times let's dig into this I think I see a connection you love the sun but it's trying to kill you you love Yvette she's trying to kill you

It makes life interesting. Maybe I just was a boring kid. Did you put this together that maybe this is just where it's at for you? Let's see what else I like. Cheese on a stick. Okay, cheese on a stick. Trying to kill me. Going to give me a heart attack. That's true. I did have heart problems. Never thought. Maybe it was because I was eating a lot of cheese on a stick. Maybe it was because. Are you so excited? Like after Cabo, we get to go have cheese on a stick because we don't have to worry about our beach bodies. No, dude, I'm rolling right from Cabo right to Newport.

I go right from adult spring break to kid spring break that quick. See, I go to Utah. I was going to go Palm Springs, but then Utah, it's going to be cold. Dude, if you guys want to come to the beach house, if you want to come down. I got to go to Utah for Utah real estate. But no, you know, I love the sun.

You know what I'm getting over? Pizza. I've had some shitty pizza lately. What's going on with everything? Where did you get bad pizza? Everywhere. Everywhere? I've had like five different places. Horrible. Grimaldi's, best pizza in town.

yeah you like grimaldi's i like it it's okay it's better it's good customer service hasn't been the greatest carmines for me is the best pizza yeah it's good i don't know there's a lot of stuff that uh that i love probably a lot of stuff i shouldn't like i love cigars again trying to kill you disappointed god see john yeah let's think of something i like that's yeah what is something you like that's not bad for you let's try to figure that out is there anything

I mean, scotch is scotch. Good for you. Every, I don't know. Scotch and coffee. I would say those are what my wife is calling. I'm going to put her on speaker. Oh, shoot. We're recording the podcast right now. You're on speaker. Colt is laying down on the couch. Why? Yes, we are. I'm doing a deep dive into the mind of Colt. So here's the question. Is there any question that he's like an open book right now? Is there any question that,

that you've wanted to extrapolate that makes Colt the way he is that you've ever wanted to ask Colt? What question would you ask him? I think you need to delve into the childhood a little bit and the mother figure. I'm a little...

I need to know more about the mother figure. Yeah. Well, we just came, we just had a break. We'll be here Thursday. We just had a breakthrough. The breakthrough was, he goes, you know what I love? I love the sun, but it's trying to kill me. And I go, I go, you also love a vet and she's trying to kill you. Exactly. So right now we're trying to think of anything that he actually loves that isn't trying to kill him. That's the goal right now.

It's a short list. It's a short list. So honey, this is the first time you've ever made it on the podcast. I know. So what's the worst thing that John does that pisses you off? He's flipping the script on me now. So go ahead. He's doing the reverse.

psychology on you. Yeah, he is. He is. Well, you know what I just said? You'll appreciate this. Does he leave dirty laundry laying around? No, we were just talking about, we were talking about the focus with the phone because he goes, you know, that's mad at me. He goes, because she booked a room with the wind, told me, she said she told me about it. She didn't tell me about it. And he goes, has it ever happened to you your wife thinks that she told you stuff? I go, no, no. The problem with my house is she does tell me stuff and I just don't hear it.

I said, that's the problem. And I said, then we started talking about focus with the phone. So I'd be happy. I said that. There you go. No, no. My favorite thing that you do is when you tell me that, um, something happened and I'm sure, no, I'm sure I told you. No, no, no, no. I'm sure I told you, Oh, you're, you're sure you told me that you bought a plane. You don't think that

Are you going to consult her? No. I told you about the plane. No, the plane I didn't. That's right. I didn't tell you about the plane. You didn't tell me about the plane, but you were sure that you mentioned it. I'm afraid to buy tennis shoes without consulting you that.

John, you bought a plane without talking to your wife. Maybe. No, but I thought I had. I thought I had. Digit, tell me that you took advantage of that. What did you go out and buy?

You know what? I didn't go buy anything. And that's why he's hit the lotto. It really is. She could have gone out and anger purchased. She could have. She does. She does. I could have bought a matching playing cold, but I didn't get an all pink one.

I would trust your plane. Let's go. Let's go do it. I'll find you one, even if it's a little four-seater. Okay. It's a plan. We're doing it. Yeah, now Colt says he wants, yeah. So I'll remember this when you're trying to board the plane on Friday, Colt. I'll remember this. Getting on Gidget's plane. Go ahead. But Colt, you must remember, I'm always the one that's sticking up for you. You know this. She is. Well, because she's smart. Because Yvette's not just going to kill one person.

She's going to take at least three or four people down to make a point. And Scott, John. Are you saying I'm going to be first or last on that list? No, I think you're safe. You're safe because you boys are nice. And you and Yvette could go grab a bottle of champagne and go get on the jet and fly off to Mexico together. And we'll be good. We'll be dead. Sounds good. All right, I'll let you get back to it. All right, I'll be home later. All right, talk to you later.

the nerve to go buy a plane and not talk to your wife about it. I thought, no, I thought I had, I thought we discussed it. That's not like, Hey babe, I, uh, I went and bought a new TV. We talked about it or I don't even know about a car. Like what's the threshold of when you can do shit without telling your wife? Well, for me, apparently it's plain. I don't know where else you go from that. I don't know.

Apparently it's plain. Honestly, I don't know. You know what? But no, after plain, I got to tell you, because she was pretty hot about the plain. Not because we got it, just because literally we didn't talk about it. And ever since then, literally everything that I kind of do, I'm like, hey, I'm thinking about doing this, you know, like every little thing, you know, and yeah. And she's damn tough. Here's the issue. That's the thing. You got to have a wife. Like my wife, as much as we joke around, my wife trusts me.

you know, with everything. Like I wouldn't have to discuss stuff, but she's always on board with everything. That's one thing. I think we did both luck out and marry good people, but she might kill me, but yeah. Well, dude, I got to tell you the one thing that the one deal my wife has had a bad feeling about the one deal where she was like, I don't know. I just doesn't, I don't feel right about this. And I pushed through it anyway. That's the one I lost seven figures on.

So now like, I can sold her gut on all of this stuff. My wife met that guy once. Yeah. And she's like, who the fuck was this guy? He's a piece of shit. Fuck him. Blah, blah, blah. And swear to God. And,

Isn't that funny? Dude. She did a notary once for that guy and found out that you guys knew each other. And I've never, my wife has never once said one bad thing about anybody in 20 years of loans and stuff, except for him. Isn't that wild? Yeah. Well, you know, he had it coming.

I dude you just never know sometimes the people and sometimes you go with a gut feeling that's how it is dude today somebody tell me I'm not going to mention their names because I don't know but I found out that one of a guy used to do business with like 12 years ago is now potentially wrapped up in that Ponzi scheme that's going on yeah I heard that today and I was like oh god thank god I'm clear him that's it good lord

You got to be careful taking partnership. I think we've talked about this before, but when you're taking a partner, your name's now tied to them. Even if you're building a real estate team, same thing. Anybody you bring on is now a byproduct of you, right? Like they are, they wrap. If somebody goes on your team and screws up. Oh, it's on you. It's a gaffer group. Oh, no, for sure. It's not, you know.

Craig or whoever that screwed up. So I think the partnership's a big thing. I think a lot of people are doing a lot of crazy partnerships and not having them sorted out or planned out. I mean, I was with a guy the other day and he goes,

You have partnerships agreements? I go, yeah, on anything I do. And he goes, me and my partner don't have anything in writing. And I go, oh, trust me. And he goes, yeah, I got screwed once before. Still has nothing in writing. Yeah, that's on you if you get screwed again. You have it like I have in my stuff. Everything.

Who owns the social media page? Yeah, we separate everything. I have everything. It's like a prenup. You have to. Everything. If this breaks up, who owns what? Naming rights. Even the stupidest stuff. He was shocked that I have social media stuff in my stuff. My partnership agreements. How in-depth does yours go? Pretty good. Well, you know, because I actually coach a lot of people when they're trying to put together real estate teams. And...

The truth about real estate teams is sometimes they're good ideas. Sometimes they're bad ideas. It just depends. If you have two people whose skill sets completely are opposite, then fine. That's a good idea. But what happens in most cases is you have two high functioning agents that just don't want to do it by themselves because it's boring to do it by yourself. And in those situations, it's probably better for each person to just have a team and have some people that work for you than have a equal partner with equal say, because sometimes

You tend to have disputes over the dumbest crap, over just the dumbest things. And those partnerships tend to end in failure. Now, whenever two agents come together and they want to say, we want to form a team, I'm always like, okay, cool. If you guys split up, who's going to maintain the team? Who's going to keep the website? Who owns the leads? Who does this? How are you doing a valuation of this? Are you doing a buy-sell valuation, which is pretty standard for those of you who don't know what it is. It means like one of the people has to write an offer that they're willing to take or pay.

It's like, I'm going to make you an offer to buy me out. And they either have to be prepared to write a check or get a check for that amount, which is really a great way to do it because it's fair. Because if the other person thinks it's too low, they write the check. If they think it's too big, they get the check. That's what it is. It's a really fair way to do it. But having those things go, but in most cases, I found that

People that want to team up and do real estate teams, it's better if they just do their own team with minions is a better idea. Especially on real estate or residential side. Yeah. It's so much easier to teach stuff. Like I've been trying to create a team and, you know, it's really hard on that commercial side. You got to get people that are truly, truly invested in it. And the problem is, is people...

you know it's it's slow money in the commercial game yeah you know and trying to build the teams a lot different you know but uh yeah i i always see that i always see partners going into stuff and they're the same exact person you bring nothing to the table at that point like there's no one of you is not necessary if you always agree with your partner you're in a bad partnership and i've always said that about you and gavin right you guys

you guys are great like i've i've been in cars when you guys have had conversations or whatever you guys you guys are great partners and that's why look at this brand right like i was uh talking to a guy at the win he was a big developer and he's like oh you're out here and we're just talking and he's like how long has your bit your your guys's company been around

And I was like, well, you know, I think they're 12 or 13 years. How long has it been? About 13 years. Yeah. 13 years. And he goes, wow, you guys own the market in 13 years. I'm like, these guys own the market in five years or four years, five years. That's what I told him. He's like, that's crazy. And I always say it goes back to your guys's partnerships.

Because you guys bring such different, you guys are a lot alike, but you guys are two completely different people. Well, I think true to the key to having a good partnership is understanding how to disagree respectfully. I think that's a good way to do it. No one can do that anymore. And you don't, and you don't, you know, sometimes you just got to concede a point. And, you know, you, you, you, I'm constantly asking myself this question. How important is this to me?

Like, well, I even be thinking about this in a month. And again, I've talked about this before in other episodes and it's a great exercise. If you find yourself getting really upset about things or when you have to concede a deal point or something in your life or whatever it is, just put a reminder in your calendar 30 days from today. Like 30 days ago, you were mad because the color of the font on the website wasn't what you wanted. And then in 30 days, you'll look at that and be like, who cares? Because in the moment, it's all consuming. Right.

Everything in the moment is huge. That goes back to Will Smithing. He didn't think about it. It was in the moment, made it huge. I don't think he wrecked his career because he's a piece of shit anyway. He didn't wreck his career. He has wrecked his career a lot of different ways that way. If he was not somebody big like that,

he could have ended his career i like going from winning an oscar to ruining your career in the same night well bro easily it happened kanye is on his way to doing that with his may his absolute mayhem that you need to watch that documentary that shows you that persistence and speaking yourself into it like he was a true believer it was the first like

Season not season episode of it was really motivating like he was like hey, I'm gonna make it I'm gonna make it no matter what and

But then he started doing some drugs, he said, and, you know, got depressed. And, I mean, he's literally lost his mind. And you're going to – it's sad. He's going to lose his family. You know, he suffers from depression. Who knows what comes out of this, right? Like the end game for him is not good. And, you know, it –

Just shows you as quick as you can go to the top, you can come down. Well, no, dude, exactly right. And I got to tell you, even with, you know, one of the things that I constantly try to do, even with all the success that we've had is I always try to stay grounded because when does like megalomania ever end well for anyone? No.

Never. And the megalomaniac lived happily ever after. It always ends very poorly. So if you have an inflated sense of yourself, it's not going to end well. Something bad is going to happen. The music industry, now it's really rapid about it, but it is a perfect example of you're hot now.

A new up and comer comes to age that the music industry does a great and the nightclub industry. You can be a hot 22 year old girl and have an eight year run and bam, you're out, right? There's a new wave of it. It doesn't matter if you're an attorney, you can be the hot attorney right now.

Five, six years, somebody else might come up. Real estate, you can own a market. There can be somebody younger, more motivated that's going to come in and can overtake a market. You cannot just rest and expect to succeed always. Like there are...

I laugh. I mean, you were around 2006. These guys driving these crazy cars, partying like, you know, first of 2006. Everybody knew five or six major people, and those guys aren't even around anymore. No, they're all gone. I'm shocked when I run into some of them. I mean, it's crazy. Well, let's finish this episode and this quest into Colt's mind with this. If you could go back and talk to young Colt,

and tell him some advice things that he should do what would those be what would you tell young Colt uh travel I would travel younger lose your ego sooner right like I had an ego in my 20s thought I knew everything I think if you would open your mind and go realize you're not so smart you'll be more successful I would say um

Should have invested in Bitcoin back in the day. Well, you can't be like, bet on the Yankees to win the World Series. That's basically back to the future of the movie is what you're doing now. How awesome would that be? You know, I went to the Wynn. Got no discount. Yeah. I'm an owner. Yeah.

One share, don't care. They didn't give me a discount. They didn't give me a discount. Oh, God, I need to buy another company. Sorry, guys. They didn't give you a discount. I think that, honestly, just surround yourself with good people, right? Like, I have been fortunate enough. I've surrounded myself with good people in life. You know, my first mentor taught me a lot. I feel like I learned a lot from you guys. Just surround yourself. Don't lose the ego. Go surround yourself with good people. Make some money.

what about Tom Hanks movies would you recommend those I just want to waste any I don't waste money on it even Will Smith you know like I've been to Will Smith's movies I've been to Tom Hanks movies I'm mad that I wasted that money I mean what's the stupidest thing you've ever bought in life can't you can't beat what paying a movie to go to or paying to go see Tom Hanks that's stupidest money I ever wasted

Name a way you've said money worse. You know what? You haven't. In the small chance that Tom Hanks is one of the three people still watching this. Tom, we're sorry about Colts. The thoughts and feelings of Colts. What about Chet?

Chet, you can suck it. What about Will Smith? You can suck it too. I feel bad for Will Smith. Why? I feel like he's Stockholm Syndrome, man. I really think he does. Be a man. Get out of that relationship, man. I think that he's always... I mean, he straight up said that the whole Tupac thing and her has always weighed in his mind.

I think at some point in life, you either got to get over shit or move on. And I don't think a lot of people do that in their marriage and their business. Sometimes it's time to wipe away and kind of move on to a new venture. Yeah. Well, let's hope he takes your advice and moves on to a new venture, if you will.

If you're still watching this on YouTube, thank you. Hopefully, I feel like we should be talking quiet because you're probably asleep. And yeah, that's all I got for this week. We'll be on vacation next week. We will see you back real soon with more guests and more business topics. Better tans. Better tans. See you soon, guys.

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