MM #307: How To Use AI To Get Ahead, Trump’s Iran Flip-Flop & The New Superstar Tech Stock w/ 19 Keys

Summary

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Market Mondays #307: How To Use AI To Get Ahead, Trump’s Iran Flip-Flop & The New Superstar Tech Stock w/ 19 Keys

Original Air Date: April 14, 2026
Hosts: Rashad Bilal, Troy Millings, Ian Dunlap
Special Guest: 19 Keys

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Episode Overview

This episode dives into the fast-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) and wealth-building strategies amid economic uncertainty and global upheaval. The panel discusses actionable uses for AI—both for everyday productivity and for maximizing business opportunities. They also dissect geopolitical market risks, the impact of inflation, the surge of new tech superstars in the stock market, and the complex debate around capitalism within the Black community. Special guest 19 Keys provides a hands-on masterclass on leveraging “AI agents” for personal and business automation, giving listeners an advanced playbook for the future.

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Key Segments & Timestamps

• [11:56] Trading Tip of the Week: Navigating Market Dips
• [17:52] Inflation at a Two-Year High & Trump's Iran Flip-Flop
• [28:31] SanDisk and New Tech Stock Superstars
• [37:31] Debate: Anti-Capitalism & Wealth Creation
• [49:44] Oil Markets in Turmoil
• [55:49] Private Credit Bubble & Bank Shorting
• [60:55] Forever Chemicals in Apparel (Lululemon)
• [71:44] Main Segment Begins: AI Agents w/ 19 Keys
• [92:37] AI Security, Agentic Economy & Adoption Blueprint
• [113:49] Prompt Engineering, Execution, & Cognitive Sovereignty

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1. Trading Amid Crisis: Market Is "Rigged to Stay Up"

[11:56 - 16:57]

• Ian's Trading Wisdom:
  “The market is permanently rigged to stay up... So if you see those areas where we gap down... take advantage of it.” (Ian, 12:55)
• Market dips (such as Iran tensions, oil spikes) present buying opportunities, not crashes.
• Cites S&P 500 history since WWII: 48 drops of 10%+, but 36 rebounded within 2 months.
• S&P recovery after gapping down demonstrates larger economic resilience.
• Rashad adds: When S&P recovers its 200-day moving average quickly, it’s historically turned positive for the rest of the year.

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2. Inflation, War & Political Chaos

[17:52 - 28:18]

• Inflation is the "silent killer of wealth"—rising costs are eroding returns for everyday people.
• Recent spikes due to energy costs with oil trading over $100/bbl—“The leading cause of the actual conflict is oil." (Rashad, 23:48)
• Uncertainty around Fed control and interest rate policy, especially with upcoming leadership changes and global tensions (e.g., US/Iran, China/Taiwan).
• “The Fed is supposed to be outside the American government, but now, when a new chair comes in, they'll have no power at all—it’ll be Trump.” (Troy, 26:08)

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3. Superstar Tech: The SanDisk Explosion

[28:31 - 34:40]

• SanDisk—Western Digital’s spinout IPO (2025)—has surged 2,800% in 14 months: “Numbers-wise it’s even a better run than Nvidia ever had.” (Rashad, 28:49)
• Now part of NASDAQ 100, billions to flow in from ETFs, and EPS forecast for 2026 at $42/share.
• The company dominates high-demand, high-margin nan memory (solid state drives, flash memory) with future supply sold out into 2027.
• “Nvidia walked so this could fly—and they flew.” (Ian, 33:34)
• Both gross margins (projected up to 67%) and future-facing sectors signal room for further growth.
• Also discussed: Cadence and Synopsys tearing up the AI software space, mirroring hardware’s previous trajectory.

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4. Geopolitics Watch: China, Taiwan & E-Commerce Risks

[34:51 - 37:27]

• The panel discusses the opposition leader in Taiwan meeting with Xi Jinping and the implications if Taiwan reunites with China.
• “If China and Taiwan charge a tariff to go through the South China Sea, that's 80% of the world’s e-commerce at stake.” (Rashad, 37:09)
• Watch for blockades, tariffs, and sanctions impacting global markets and supply chains.

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5. Capitalism Debate: Opting Out or Opting In?

[37:31 - 49:44]

• Panel critiques the emerging anti-capitalism sentiment online, pointing out many critics are entrepreneurs who benefit from capitalism.
• “Until you show me a system outside of capitalism that works... what's the alternative?” (Troy, 37:31)
• Ian challenges: “Just because we are involved doesn’t make it the right system... capitalism is one of the core tenets of racism in this country.” (Ian, 41:13)
• Ultimately, “opting out of the system is dangerous advice; you’re leading sheep to get slaughtered.” (Troy, 44:54)
• The conversation touches on ways of making capitalism more ethical and questions whether a mixed economy (like China’s) offers a better path.

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6. Oil Shock & Market Impact

[49:44 - 54:43]

• Oil pushing $100/bbl; effects ripple through housing, consumer goods, and inflation.
• “Every time oil jumps, it takes the average price of a home up 4.5% just because of the price of oil.” (Ian, 50:15)
• Major concern: If shipping blockades in the Middle East persist, supply constraints could become catastrophic for prices.

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7. Spotlight: Private Credit Bubble & Banking Risks

[55:49 - 60:47]

• Private credit exposure hidden in retirement accounts; elite investors now able to short the bubble.
• “The banks don’t care about transparency... some banks make more on overdraft fees than entire [countries’] GDP.” (Ian, 58:38)
• Panel warns that the same risky practices from the 2008 housing crisis are repeating in new forms.

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8. Consumer Health Warning: Forever Chemicals in Lululemon & Apparel

[60:55 - 62:58]

• Texas AG investigates “forever chemicals” (PFAs) in Lululemon pants—“entire athleisure industry needs a wake-up call.”
• “If you’re sweating and your pores are breathing in the chemicals, what lasting effects?” (Ian, 62:00)
• The dangers of hidden toxic chemicals in performance clothing are a systemic, industry-wide issue.

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9. Deep Dive: AI Agents & The “Agentic Economy” w/ 19 Keys

[71:44 - 130:55]

AI Agents—An Introduction

[71:44 - 79:56]

• 19 Keys breaks down the AI agent revolution—semi-autonomous software that acts on your behalf, from reporting the weather to running analytics.
• “My gift is pattern recognition—I synthesize it for the average person.” (19 Keys, 72:07)
• Second brain system: Using tools like Obsidian to organize and connect all your personal and business data, enabling custom AI performance.

Concrete Use Cases & Blueprint

[81:52 - 113:49]

• Organization is key; AI is most powerful with a well-ordered “second brain.”
• Use cases:
  • Custom CRM systems (e.g., finding top 100 customers, automating birthday cards)
  • Automated business intelligence (data aggregation, automatic reporting)
  • Content production with Descript (“edit a video instantly via conversational instructions”)
  • Prompt engineering: “Set up a chairman prompt… I need you to help me find gaps in my own thinking.”
• Essential beginner advice: “Don’t offload your thinking. Think first, understand your needs, and use AI as a research assistant before automating.”
• “Agentic economy” will reshape work: AI kills repetitive jobs by automating systems, not just tasks.

Security, Customization & Tools

[92:37 - 96:06]

• Security matters. Run AI on local devices to avoid leaking sensitive info; Obsidian + Claude code allows for private, custom systems.
• For non-technical users: Perplexity is user-friendly, connects 19+ AI agents for one-stop automation.
• Recommended pathway: Start with Claude, learn basic prompt engineering, then progress to more advanced local setups and integrations.

The Future: Critical Thinking, Humanoid Robots & Social Effects

[97:23 - 113:49]

• “AI is trending toward local, always-on, personalized assistants—soon these will be embedded in wearables, home robots, and more.”
• Warns of digital atrophy: “If you let AI think for you, your own cognitive skills atrophy.”
• “Execution has now become democratized.” (19 Keys)
• Deep philosophical & social ramifications: AI will “offload” not just work but decision-making, further stratifying critical thinkers from passive users.

Most Impressive AI Prompts/Results

[107:22 - 113:49]

• Example: Building a Mansa Musa agent (money audit and opportunity agent), king protocol (thinking partner AI with diverse "identities" for debate).
• “Having 24 agents debate your data and bring you insights—like having your personal board of directors.”
• Offers a prompt resource at 19keys.com/hackathon for listeners.

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10. Closing Insights: Family, Nation Building, and Cognitive Sovereignty

[119:36 - 130:01]

• 19 Keys emphasizes community, family, and mental sovereignty as essential—even beyond economic empowerment.
• "Execute on information. A well working mind executes.” (Rashad, 134:15)
• Announces launch of “Zion,” a nation-building digital platform for creators and culture.
• “Lean into what makes us valuable—don’t let others monetize our culture while we get nothing.”

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Notable Quotes

• “The market is permanently rigged to stay up.” – Ian, [12:12]
• “Inflation is the silent killer of wealth.” – Troy, [20:27]
• “Every time oil jumps, it takes the average price of a home up 4.5% just because of oil.” – Ian, [50:15]
• “If you don’t own a business, don’t invest, don’t vote... you are leading sheep to get slaughtered.” – Troy, [44:54]
• “Execution is now democratized... all you need is the idea, and AI builds around your mind.” – 19 Keys, [105:00]
• “A well working mind executes.” – Rashad, [134:15]
• “The things that make us valuable—our culture, our creativity—are worth trillions, but we let others monetize them.” – 19 Keys, [128:39]

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Key Takeaways & Action Items

• Market Resilience: Focus on long-term index investing, recognize that market “crashes” are almost always short windows of opportunity.
• Inflation Armor: Combat rising costs by maximizing investment returns; sitting in cash is a losing game.
• AI Strategy: Use AI as a “second brain”—start small (CRM, daily briefings) and scale up to custom automations.
• Prompt Engineering: The secret to AI leverage is thoughtful prompts and organizational frameworks.
• Critical Thinking: Don’t offload your mind to AI; develop personal judgment and strategic thinking.
• Community Power: True wealth/security requires building not just personal assets but collective infrastructure and relationships.
• Protect Your Data: Run AI locally, stay vigilant about personal and business data security.
• Culture Is Currency: Own and monetize your community’s unique value—don’t let others extract and profit from it.

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Most Memorable Moments

• 19 Keys’ detailed demonstration of building a personalized AI “second brain” and money-making agent.
• Lively debate on the morality and practicality of capitalism in (and against) Black wealth-building.
• Real-time warnings and practical advice on the dangers of cognitive atrophy in the AI era.

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For listeners:
This episode is a masterclass in modern wealth-building—blending tech, economics, community, and mindset for a world shaped by AI and accelerating change. Listen for a blueprint that both challenges and empowers.

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Transcript

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[Troy]

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[19 Keys]

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[Ian]

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[Rashad]

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[Ian]

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[Rashad]

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[Ian]

Love is love. Happy Monday.

[Rashad]

Happy Monday, y'.

[Ian]

All.

[Rashad]

How y' all feeling?

[Troy]

Welcome back.

[Rashad]

Hope everybody is here. Healthy, sane mind, open heart, all the things. Ian, how you feeling?

[Ian]

Amazing. Happy to be here. Amazing weekend. Y' all had an amazing weekend, too. We're going to talk about it at some point. Troy, Rashad, how you feeling? Great interview with Shot. Troy, can I get your shot and impression?

[Rashad]

No. Tell me who won the Ashley Dustin.

[Ian]

Shout out to Sean Paul. One of my favorites.

[Rashad]

It's a new day in the rap game. Yeah. Shout out to my brother Paul. Yeah. Yo, for Halloween. I was actually Sean Paul once for Halloween. That's I Was a really tough. I got my first car and the first CD I put in there was a shine CD because I wanted to hear Bad Boys on a speaker system. And that's when I realized that I didn't have one. Blew out the speakers. I was like, oh, okay, okay. Shot him. How you feeling?

[Troy]

I'm good, I'm good. Top of the top to everybody out there. Market Mondays, we back, we back. We got a lot to talk about. We do have the brother 19 keys is going to be joining us today. So, you know, anytime, Anytime we talk to Keys. That's a insightful conversation. High level conversation. So, you know, it's a lot. It's a lot going on in the world, so we got to cover a lot. But first and foremost, I will say this. Well, congratulations on your anniversary.

[Rashad]

Oh, appreciate it. Thank you.

[Ian]

Thank you.

[Rashad]

Shout out to everybody. That shows some love.

[Ian]

That's incredible. Yep.

[Rashad]

Yeah, man, we, we had a, A nice evening. It's probably. We talked about it this morning, but I think it was one of our best date nights that we've had maybe ever. The. The. The Mulan Rouge with Meg starring in it. She's a huge Meg the Stallion fan and she did incredible. Then we had a dinner at a nice spot. I gotta, I'll tell you about the spot after this because it's, it's one that you just put on the list. Yeah, but it was cool, man. Was able to park in a city, found parking, didn't have to pay.

[Troy]

It was.

[Rashad]

Yo, weather was really good. It was, it was, it was a top tier, man. So appreciate the love.

[Troy]

Thank y' all for sure. So, man, the pitch competition, you got a long way before you get that. We, we extended it to the 20th. So somebody said when they get confirmation is if they actually got accepted. You got a while but you know, they're going through all of the, all of the applications, but there has been extended. April 20 is the deadline. We did that. We opened up new slots. We opened up more slots for the pitch competition. So April 20th is the deadline for the pitch competition. Invest Fest. Go to invest fest.com also invest fest, we announced this last week with Kendra G. You know, there's a lot of love connections that happen at Invest Fest. So for the first time ever, we are opening a singles lounge. But you must RSVP. It's only first. 300 people, first come, first serve. If you have an Invest Fest ticket or you gotta go to the Invest Fest website and RSVP singles lounge, it will be during the day on one of the days in the weekend, it will be at lunch hour. So it won't interfere with any of the educational panels. And why not? And why not? Why not? Why not meet your significant other at a place like Invest Fest? I mean, if you look, you gotta find somebody.

[Ian]

People. Yeah, exactly.

[Rashad]

You're all there to get better. Why not get better together?

[Troy]

For sure.

[Ian]

And an important tenant of wealth is the person. The most important decision you make is who you choose to be with. So I think it's a brilliant idea to allow people to meet who the love of their life could be they can build a dream with. So job well done.

[Troy]

Thank you. Thank you.

[Rashad]

Appreciate it, bro.

[Troy]

Mike. Quantum stocks are listed twice. They said Quantum stocks are listed twice on the bottom. Also, I will say that this week is a big week for Market Mondays. We got Keys coming. We got blackout. We got Dr. Yaqui coming on Blackout. Been looking forward to that conversation for a long time. You know, we've been talking about health for so long. So he's one of the forefronts runners in his health industry. Opened up a new facility and we're gonna be asking him all of the questions, all the detox questions, all of the, you know, what you should be eating. How many times, like we, you know, all of the health. That's a health full blueprint, very important. That's a health episode. That's very important. And then Thursday we gotta. We got one of the smartest gentlemen that we ever interviewed, Julian Brown, the, the gentleman that actually turned plastic into, into fuel that you can use in your car. Extremely important conversation. We talk about that process. We talk about the process of patenting. We talk about a lot of science, a lot of science in that. As far as man plastic. I ain't even going to say it because I don't want to, but Plastoline, the whole, the whole recycle industry, according to him, is a scam. Recycling.

[Rashad]

Yeah, allegedly.

[Troy]

That's why I said according to him. Yeah, according to him, the whole recycling industry is a scam with good reason. It's destroying the earth, man. He, he, he has so much insight. Is very, very, very important. That's a very important episode.

[Rashad]

Yeah, it's. I know I said this a few weeks ago when I said that Sinead Boval's episode was one of the most important. This is of that caliber. Probably one of the most insightful because I don't think Julian's been able to tell his story in depth the way he did with us. It was interesting, which made us feel like he Wanted to do it because it was a place and two individuals that he trusted. So it's dope, man. When you talk about being a vessel in this world, right, you do things not, not for your own good, but for the greater good. He's a living embodiment of that. So y' all definitely gotta check that out.

[Troy]

So we got a lot. We got. We got a jam packed week, okay? The brother Brock. Brock, one love. Nine, five, ten. Shoot me a dm, please. Okay. So, yeah, jam packed week for us. Jam packed week. Non stop education you have at EY University class this week.

[Rashad]

I got my class this week, man. Thursday we are back. I got some surprises. I got a new position that I want to talk to the community about. Shout out to everybody that is in Eylu. We gave out a green jacket today, y'.

[Ian]

All. Okay.

[Rashad]

Gave out a green jacket today, y'. All. Somebody hit a thousand percent, which is really, really incredible. But yeah, we're gonna be cooking up. It's been a few weeks. The market has shifted. We talked about the S P. We'll talk about it again tonight. Yeah, man, we got. We got some stuff we gotta unpack, so I'm looking forward to it. Make sure y' all there seven o' clock Thursday.

[Troy]

And yeah, the brother Julian, he said that he went missing. He definitely did go missing. And we talked about that. Yeah, we talked about that as well. So, so much stuff, man. We got it. We got a lot going on.

[Rashad]

He went missing, you know, the first place we people saw him.

[Ian]

Where?

[Rashad]

Invest Fest. Invest Fest. He made a reappearance. I was like. I was like, oh. He was like, hey, guys.

[Ian]

I'm like, you never know.

[Rashad]

You never know, man.

[Troy]

Know you're gonna see at Invest Fest. Get your tickets. Ian, any announcements?

[Ian]

Yeah, tune into the episode Thursday. To me, I'll always give him a comparison. I think he is an art man. Like if you know the innovation and how hard to pull off that technology that he did and the headwinds that he has to face in the industry that he's facing. I think for our generation, he's probably the most important entrepreneur and person that we got to protect the most for sure. Stock club call will be April 26, 9pm Central. I got a bunch of surprises. I have new targets for futures. I have a few new companies that I love. I have a few that I want to get rid of. So check for the link in Telegram or Kajabi. Also check me out at Blackfest. Black Effect Podcast Festival with John Hope Bryant, April 25th in Atlanta. So that would be a good one. Let's have an amazing show. If I made you money, please put yes in chat.

[Troy]

And today's gonna and to the brother, Lily38. We actually talked about that. He said what he's doing has been around forever. Y' all should do more research. That's actually insightful that you said that because we actually talked about that in the episode. He never said he invented it. Goal is to take it to scale. Nobody's ever taken it to scale. But what have you done? You've done. You've done nothing.

[Ian]

But thank you for tuning into the show. And if I made you money, please put yes in chat. And if I have not, put a stock that you love in tonight and I'll give you a price back to you. T.R. rashad.

[Troy]

Yes, sir.

[Ian]

Combination. You want to do both things, boy.

[Rashad]

What you want me to do?

[Ian]

Good cop, bad cop, my boy.

[Rashad]

They said leave your cousin.

[Ian]

Also scaling and remaining in the in this dimension is a tall task. Technology was around. It's tough to innovate and create in this capitalistic society given the competition that he has at Exxon, Chevron, Waste management. Let's protect the brother. Come on now.

[Rashad]

Do yourself a favor. Listen to the the episode. He goes into detail about the story. He is very important. He's value knowledgeable, and he's done it. Now think about this like those companies that you just named Billion. Billion. You're talking about somebody that's not getting funding. You're talking about somebody that's really bootstrapping technology that can change the world.

[Ian]

Can you give Rashad your hoodie so he can be in suge shoddy? Love it.

[Troy]

Let's get it. Let's talk about the trading tip of the week. What is the trading tip of the week?

[Ian]

If we can pull the chart up real quick for my traders. Please write this down. The gap always fills with the predominant direction of the market. I put this in stock club. I won't tell too much, but the the S and P had a deep dip on Sunday night, of course, because of all the stuff that's happened in Washington and Iran. And as a result, the market came down a bunch. It gapped down a ton last night. And a lot of people were hitting me was like, is this the start of the crash? And my answer is no. Please write this in chat. The market is permanently rigged to stay up. The market went from 68 53. It dropped to 66, 67. By end of close today, we were at 69, 27. So if you see those areas where, where we gap down, Mike, Bring it

[Troy]

up, bring it up. Bring, bring the, bring the screen up. Bring the, the graphic up higher.

[Rashad]

So we're looking, this is the, we're looking at the S and P right here. Right. So yeah, the green line, that was what, moving average? Was that the 200?

[Ian]

Yeah, 200 day moving average. So you can see where we slid under. A gapped aggressively and a gap is just when the price doesn't stair step down one point at a time. It was a wide gap. My phone started going off. Brent crude went up, natural grass went up. Everyone is saying, oh, is this the start of the crash? I'm like, no, no, this is the start of an opportunity. And at the end of the day, not only did we recover from where we were Friday, but we ended up higher. Another trading tip, I need you to know.

[Troy]

Are we bringing, do you want, are we bringing that up? I just, I said bring it up higher, Mike, so they can see it.

[Ian]

If not, we can. If not, we can continue. Write this down though. Since World War II, the market has fallen more than 10%, the S&P, 48 times. This is the important part. 36 times it has rebounded within two months. Only 12 times it's led to a bear market. So when you're looking at an asset, you have to know what the predominant direction of that, that asset is. So the es, NASDAQ and Dow are predominantly up. The VIX is a predominantly downward facing asset. So if the get the VIX gaps up, you want to look to short the future to make money on it. But if the ES gaps to the downside, you want to go long and take advantage of the move that way. So all gaps fill, but with the predominant direction that the asset faces. And if you ever see any disparity like this, again, take advantage of it. To, to give you a comparison or analogy, this would be like the equivalent of a car that's $100,000 going on sale for $75,000. But it's on that price window is only available for two hours. That was the S and P last Sunday. Take advantage of it.

[Rashad]

Yeah, and that, and that was one of those things we spoke about last weekend. Let's see if it crosses that, that metric of getting over its 200 day EMA. It passed it. Right. Even when we came into the market opening today, it was kind of, hey, we didn't reach the deal with Iran. Hey, what is that going to do? Hey, we've watched oil go back over a hundred dollars and the skepticism to the downside was there and you saw the market did the complete opposite today. Right. So the S and P has gotten back over that, that 200 day, which is important because every time it's going under the 200 and recovered it within that 30 day span, we've seen it 100% of the time turn positive for the rest of the year. So that might be a good sign.

[Ian]

And I need you to know this, talking about a crash is only good for selling books and clicks on television. For the long term it matters not like whether it's the Iran war. If you go back to Arab Spring, if you go back through Covid, if you go back through the Gulf War, all those were immense opportunities to buy. Brexit was a big issue at the time that people thought was going to collapse the market with the lever that is quantitative easing and the ramifications that has had. It's had some negative ones on the economy. But in terms of the stock market. Please write this in chat. The market is permanently rigged to stay up through your 401k, through pension funds, through funder funds, through automated investing, through Claude, automatically investing, through trading view. Stop getting the direction of the asset wrong. I know everyone wants to recreate the big short. That shit is never going to happen again unless it's with an asset that not that normally faces downward. The S P and NASDAQ is not one of them. Yeah.

[Rashad]

And then ask yourself, has the story changed? Has anything changed? Right. Is there a reason why software is rebounding a little bit today? Is there a reason why the Nasdaq's up 200 at close? What has really changed? We actually had a ceasefire. Now there's a blockade. We still can't come to terms. What's oil still over a hundred dollars. And here's the market, just to add into the point of like this is permanently rigged to appreciate over time.

[Ian]

War, collapse, famine, sector fallout, sector rotation, whatever the case is. Stay long, the indexes, please stay long. Because what's going to happen in December? You're going to look back and be like March was the opportunity once again. Even though it took longer to recover. You're going to miss out on the opportunity if you're not taking advantage of these. But shout to my traders who are taking advantage of these, shout out to my long term investors that are taking advantage. These have been some great moves in the market and appreciate the volatility that you are given. Because if they get shellacked in these next upcoming elections and they get shellacked in the presidential election because now Candace and Alex Jones and Megyn Kelly are all turning on him. Maga's having a big infight right now for those who don't know the White tea piping hot. If we get a Democratic president, we're not going to get this volatility. So take advantage of it and enjoy it.

[Troy]

Yeah, definitely a lot going on right now. Hit the like button and share. We're going to talk about inflation hitting a two year high and, and once again, before we even leave that topic, that's why it's important just to stay in the market. Because you know, people that people that lose are usually people that have short term vision, short term plans. You got to just be able to block out all the noise. So inflation hits two year high and we can tie this in with everything that's been happening geopolitically. If you, if you haven't followed last Market Mondays, the story was that Trump had a deadline for Tuesday at 8 o', clock that if they didn't comply, if Iran didn't comply, he was going to destroy the whole entire country. Then Tuesday at 7 o' clock he said that it was a two week pause ceasefire. And then also we said on market Monday, watch for sabotage. And then after the ceasefire was announced, Beirut got hit with 100 bombs in 10 minutes stability. Then they go and they have a 24 hour, 48 hour conversation with JD Vance brokered by Pakistan to try to have a peace deal. And they said that that was not successful. And they said that the United States is going to take over the strait. Iran said that's fake news. Who knows what's going on? The Pope. The Pope got involved. He expressed his, how he's not happy with what's going on. Donald Trump attacked the Pope and then he dressed up as white Jesus on social media.

[Ian]

Wait, he wasn't a doctor in that photo.

[Troy]

Well then, yeah, now he's handing out health care. Then he said that he was a doctor. So a lot has happened, a lot has happened over the last one week.

[Rashad]

Well, he also accused China of providing them with arms, saying that they were bringing in planes to bring them arms and then threaten to put a 50% tariff on all Chinese goods. If that was true, they denied that the arms were being brought. So now tariffs are back into play.

[Troy]

I mean it's a lot. It's a lot. It's a lot going on. It's a lot going on and it's a lot of uncertainty. Which is Donald Trump's middle name. His middle name is Uncertainty.

[Rashad]

Find clarity.

[Troy]

But the market, the market has rallied. We'll see how long that can last. But inflation, inflation is always the silent killer of wealth.

[Ian]

For sure.

[Troy]

Inflation is the silent killer of wealth, right? And that's something that it's quiet. You don't, you don't really realize what's going on until you look up and your rent has gone up a thousand dollars and the price of eggs has gone up $4 and gasoline has gone up, you know, to four, $4 per gallon. So inflation at two year high, what do we make of this?

[Ian]

I wouldn't want the job, but I, I the, the part that's really tough about that because when rent increases, once inflation starts to slide back to a normal rate, the rent prices don't come down, the mortgage rates don't always adjust as quickly, the cost of living doesn't adjust. Just looking back into, let's say the 2010s, the cost of living was dramatically different than it is now. My fear, in 10 years it'll probably be 25 or 30% worse. And it's not as bad as it can be. Like in 2022 it went to 8.3%, which was destructive. And we're still being kind of taxed at a 2022 rate even though we had 3% now. So even though the stock market is doing well as a result, it worries me that the economy is not doing as well. And I think the curtain is starting to be removed. There's a bunch of things I think the Fed could do, but if I'm thinking long term, we seem to be in the endless inflation cycle to, like you said, to rob you of all wealth. It's not, I don't think it's an accident that as soon as everyone got into the market in 2020 and shot everyone who supported the show from the very beginning, that as soon as we learned about business at a high clip, they inflated damn near all of your gains away from 2020. Like, think about this. We were talking about it before the show between Nvidia, AMD, Micron, SanDisk. You've had some of the greatest returns in the history of the market. You also have the greatest disparity of wealth and have and have nots. And people now need 100 to 200% return in the market to feel safe to invest because you can't even promise anyone 7 to 12% if inflation is 25%. We are on a destructive model that I have not seen and I don't know if it's going to turn around any Soon I would be lying to say if I thought things would be better in four or five years. So I don't know what the answer is here, but I know it's not going to come down anytime soon. What do you guys think?

[Rashad]

I don't know if there's an answer currently. Like the Fed being involved is. I mean, yeah, there's things they can do, but what can they really do at this point? Because in a few months, who was going to be the Fed chair? Right. Like you think about it, I mean, he could come in.

[Ian]

That's a great point.

[Rashad]

He could come into the position and figure out a way to lower rates. But if oil is what's leading us as the cause of inflation and we're still at war, then you really can't lower rates. And that's when you look at the reports from February to March in terms of inflation, we're at 2.4, now, we're at 3.3. It's really inflated because of energy.

[Ian]

Right.

[Rashad]

If you think about the energy cost, oil's going up. That has been the leading cause of it.

[Ian]

Yeah.

[Rashad]

And if we don't have a curtail on that, if we can't figure out how we lower these prices, how we come out of this war, how we open the straight. Yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna be in this cycle for a little bit more. Because the Fed, their job is to make sure that the economy stays at a stable point and we don't go to stagflation or going through depression. But it's the leading cause of the actual conflict is oil. Yeah. What, what do you do when your, your administration, your president can't seem to figure this out?

[Troy]

Well, the only thing you can do is invest and make more money because inflation is something that's not going to go away. It's impossible. As long as the government keeps printing money, then the money's going to become

[Rashad]

less valuable as individuals. That you're saying. Excuse me, you're saying the only thing that we can do as individuals. Invest. Yeah, I was saying, like the Fed, what are they supposed to take? What can they do?

[Troy]

Well, no. Have better monetary policy and then the governance can have better governance. And this war is helping to increase inflation because we're spending money, we're increasing our debt. So there are, there are measures that can be taken to cool, cool off. You can, you can definitely do, do a variety of different things, make money tighter, but then there's side effects with that. So that, that's, that's why it's very important. When they want to lower in freight, when they want to lower inflation, they make money tighter. But by making money tighter, that can, if you, if you're not careful, you can cause a recession.

[Ian]

There you go. Forced a recession. Yep.

[Rashad]

And, and if you look at the environment from the top down, when we talk about, you know, these credit default swaps and these big companies, more institutions are figuring out, hey, we're putting limits on what you can. I mean, the environment is kind of almost in that. That sector was like, hey, we might, we might be there anyway. So it's, it's a fine, fine balance that they have to figure out.

[Troy]

Yeah.

[Ian]

I want to ask you, do you think the Fed is losing control? And let's say just in one leadership cycle since we started the show, you got the mismanagement of COVID disaster. Now you have this Iran and I conflict, Venezuela situation. We grabbed the oil and oil is at one of the highest prices ever. Do you think this is done strategically for the benefit of a select few, or do you think this has just been mismanagement across the board?

[Troy]

I think the Fed is losing control not because they want to, because I do think that Jerome Powell wants to run it how he wants to run it, but I think that they're under tremendous pressure from the Trump administration and Donald Trump himself. And then of course, when a new Fed chair comes in, they're going to have no power at all. It's going to be Trump. He might as well appoint himself as the head of the Fed. So the Fed is supposed to be something that's outside of the American government, which is interesting because the Fed was just created in modern history by J.P. morgan, allegedly. Jekyll island for sure.

[Ian]

Got rid of Aster right on that boat.

[Troy]

How do you just create a whole entity that's above our paper, outside of the federal. They post, they then they have autonomy

[Rashad]

or supposed to have.

[Ian]

And that's a dangerous position to take to overtake an organization that is ran private and autonomous for 100 plus years.

[Rashad]

Yeah. That day is upon us, I think, in May when Fetcher Powell steps down. And I believe Walsh will take his place. Yeah, I mean, we'll see. For all the credit that I had given Jerome Powell, for all that he's done with the economic factors that he faced and the job he did coming out of that and how he led, I mean, I thought he did a phenomenal job. But here we go. New administration, new rules, new Fed chair.

[Ian]

That's tough.

[Rashad]

Let's see how we go.

[Ian]

It's like they almost want to create a underclass and only have a 1% of the 1%. Like just going back from 20, the end of 2019 through now. It's been a series of events that like in some cases if you add everything up, like inflation is really like 60% from 2020. That's insane. Yeah, I just look at the cost of cars, the cost of housing, cost of education in a five year. We haven't had a five year run like this in almost a decade.

[Rashad]

And they, they had a Fed meeting was it last month and I think there was like one, one vote to, to lower rates within the next six months. So we'll see, we'll see what happens, man.

[Troy]

We'll see what happens. Okay, let's talk about SanDisk. It is up 100 today and it's, it's been a, it's been, it's been a historical run. I know that's something that you was championed early on. I believe somebody from Eyl University got a green jacket today.

[Rashad]

Yeah, yeah.

[Troy]

So green jacket, that's what we call when you make a thousand percent.

[Ian]

A thousand percent? Yeah.

[Troy]

On an option call we say green jacket. So I think somebody inside the community got a green jacket from a thousand percent. So you were saying to SanDisk, they actually numbers wise is actually even a better run than Nvidia had.

[Rashad]

Yeah, not since inception.

[19 Keys]

Right.

[Rashad]

Because Nvidia has obviously been traded publicly since 1999. And yes, it's been up 24,000%. But if you look over the past. Let's just take the past five years because Nvidia was trading at 171 in 2021. So now where it's at 180, obviously 10 to 1 split has happened. The return on Nvidia over the past five years has been just under 1100%. That's nothing to sneeze at. Like that's incredible. When Ian said earlier, all time return, all times, once in a lifetime generational investment opportunity. Until you see what Sanders has done over the past 13 months. Now remember, this was insane. Western Digital split in February and IPO'd in 2025. It has gone up 2,740% in the past 14 months. Yeah, think about that almost and after hours. So it was up $100 today. Right. And shout out to everybody, we did talk about this when it was $197 and we were in calls, 200 calls, 230 calls. It went up $100 today after hours. Right. Now it's up another $31.

[Ian]

Yeah.

[Rashad]

So you're talking to definitely 2,800%. Why is this happening? Well, the big news is, is that it has now been added to the NASDAQ 100.

[Ian]

Thank God. last we'll talk about it. It's a bunch that needs to be replaced out of the nasdaq.

[Rashad]

There's a few. But seeing this is, is important because we watched this IPO, we watched this join the S&P 500 and it's leading the S&P 500 this year. Yep. And now we've seen it being add, added to the NASDAQ 100, which means that you got billions of dollars and billions in ETFs that Sandis is now going to be part of. In fact, it just got its price target raised to 1500, which is like, when you think about it, it's like, wait, huh?

[Ian]

It could hit that September.

[Rashad]

Why is that? Why is that happening? Right. So SanDisk is in a nav category for memory. So SSDS, right? These, these are specific, like fast drives, solid state flash drives. If you're in, in that space, solid state fast drives, they've already sold out for 2026. What they did before they sold out is they doubled the price, Right? So they doubled the price. We saw the numbers run up. Now they're saying, look, we might be sold out into 2027 as well. What do you think is going to happen to the price for those flash drives for that form of memory is going to go up as well. And they're the leader of it. And so they're in a nice space. Check this out. This is an incredible stat. So Wall street is projecting that their EPS for 2026 is going to be 42, 37. $42.37 earnings per share.

[Ian]

Yeah, yeah.

[Rashad]

These are numbers that are like typical for any equity, Right. Usually if you watch an earnings report and it says it's earnings per share, it's usually in a single digits. If it has something astronomical, it might get to 9, maybe $10 per share. 42, 37. That is the earnings per share. Right. So last quarter they reported a $7.55 per share increase. That means that we still have room probably like 30, $32 to go into earnings, which is happening on April 30th. So you take earnings coming up on April 30th, you get the addition to the essence, the NASDAQ 100 on April 20th. You get the demand for nan memory, which they are leading, and it's going to increase. And this is why you're seeing Sandisk have this meteoric, historical, phenomenal run shout out to everybody that has a green jacket. If you have a green jacket and I miss you, please put it in the community so I can give you your green jacket because it's well deserved. This is what we talk about when we say find. Find certainty in times of chaos.

[Ian]

Right? Sure.

[Rashad]

When everything looks very muddy, find the clarity. That's where wealth is built. I told you the story hasn't changed. It hasn't. I told you the narrative haven't. Hasn't changed. It hasn't. I told you the AI demand is still here. We saw it with TSM which is going to be reporting this week. The demand is very, very high and still remains to look that way into 2027. This is why we're seeing this rise in Sandis and we're going to see it again in I think Micron obviously has climbed back over 430. These companies aren't going anywhere. In fact, you're talking, taking all that into account, the Nasdaq was down 10%, probably just broke even. But we're not far from getting back to all time highs. Very short.

[Ian]

And on top of that, the gross margins for that business, even though it's capital intensive, they're at 50.9%. By 2027 they should be at 52%. Like this is a classic case of like Nvidia walked so this could fly and they flew. This is like when get Richard Datron came out like immediately hit out of the gate. So they are definitely benefiting from memory. But that's why I always say like find quality companies in quality sectors. And now because Nvidia and AMD showed the possibility of a thousand percent gains, now you're going to start to see companies get higher gains. But all of them are incredibly run businesses. Incredible leadership, incredible management in the pipeline for the next 10 years is pretty strong as well. So kudos to everybody who's up a lot. But that profit margin is really impressive for that business.

[Rashad]

The gross margins, I had this written down in the notes as well. The gross margins, they're guiding to 65 to 67%.

[Ian]

Yeah, that's. Yeah. Probably four or five year period. Yep.

[Rashad]

Just astronomical numbers, man. So shout out to everybody that's in those calls that has some of the shares of the company. That's a good one. That's a good one.

[Troy]

Sandis. And then also on that TSM thing that's interesting is that the opposition leader of Taiwan.

[19 Keys]

Yeah.

[Troy]

Went to China and met with Gigi Ping publicly. He Told her that it's inevitable that Taiwan reunites with China. So that might be a good thing if they could peacefully transition. Yeah, if they could peacefully come on board, then you know all of this stuff about what happens if China tries to invade Taiwan and tries because there is a strong, there's a lot of, there's a lot of support in, in Taiwan. There's two factors. There's one factor that wants to be separate and then there's one factor that actually wants to be part of China. The opposition party. She wants to be part of China. So I mean from a, from an investment standpoint, that would be good because there wouldn't be any problem as far as like a war or you know, violence or something like that.

[Rashad]

Yeah, it's interesting now geopolitically though.

[Troy]

Well, America, we gotta see if America. But I mean, what can America do if Taiwan says I want to be. I mean, of course they're going to try to stop the opposition from. But if they, if they say that we want this and we are okay with joining China, what can America do?

[Ian]

I mean, because they see our market getting rattled by any conflict. So it's smart to come to an agreement to not have to go through the same kind of issue. But geopolitically, that, that would be a point for bricks.

[Rashad]

I think there's, there's a huge geopolitical like watch list that's happening right now, obviously with the straight of Hormuz. But China for sure, they're watching how this conflict is really taking place. And the idea, I thought about this the other day, the idea of paying a tariff to go through a straight when that didn't necessarily exist prior, what stops other countries now from saying, okay, this is a method for us to also use. Because if China and Taiwan, like the opposition leader, let's say that it goes in their favor. If they decide to say, you know what, we're going to charge a tariff to go through the South China Sea, we're in some real trouble. Right. Because that's 80. So we talked about oil and natural gas.

[Ian]

That's a true monopoly.

[Rashad]

This is 80% of the world's like E commerce is coming from that, that, that passage. So if they start thinking like that, then you might see like the Suez Canal, the Pembina, all these canals and waterways become a new business opportunity for countries. So it, we, we got to watch this very carefully.

[Troy]

Ask the banker. Appreciate you, brother. Thank you.

[Ian]

Appreciate you so much.

[Troy]

Let's talk about this anti capitalism movement. There's a lot of people Online. Yeah, it's a lot. It's becoming a. It's becoming a thing and it's interesting. Everybody's entitled to their own opinion. My thoughts on this is, until you show me a system that's actually viable outside of capitalism in a capitalist, capitalistic society, what do we, what, what's the, what's the alternative? I have yet. I have yet to hear alternative. So it's like, if you don't. And a lot of people that's like, capitalism is terrible. You shouldn't take part in this. Don't invest in these companies.

[Ian]

Right. Who kicked this conversation off?

[Troy]

It's been a bunch of people, but a lot of, A lot of people that are saying this are entrepreneurs, ironically enough, and they're millionaires and they have businesses and they have LLCs and they're working with corporations and they have streams of income coming in. So a lot of people that's like anti capitalism are actually capitalist.

[Ian]

So that's the point of capitalism, is that you don't. You're in bondage and don't have a choice.

[Troy]

Yeah, but you do have a choice. You can opt out of it. If you, if you're saying that you should. That capitalism is bad and you shouldn't take part of it, what is a viable solution?

[Ian]

You can, you can. Okay, I know he's gonna go here today, but you can agree a system is bad and be forced into it and have to learn how to navigate your way through the matrix. Now, I'm not anti capitalism because I'm forced not to be by choice, but I think the system has designed it. Like, even in a cashless society, that makes it to where you can't even really have an alternative. Like, you can have a mixed. What is it called? Like, a mixed movement where it's like part government subsidy, part capitalism. But even the alternatives are still rooted in capitalism.

[Troy]

But that's what I'm saying. You cannot like something, but if you speak about something and you actively discourage people to take part in it. Right. Like don't take part in capitalism when you yourself are a capitalist. To me, it just doesn't seem like a sincere message. It would be like a politician saying, don't take part in the political process, and they themselves are a politician. So to tell people, like, okay, don't invest in these companies because you're actually helping the destruction of the world. Don't take part in the capitalistic, or don't care about capitalism. That. That doesn't seem from coming from a sincere place. If you yourself are a Capitalist. And if you own a business, you are a capitalist.

[Ian]

Can I take the other side of this argument just for the sake of content? Wouldn't that be the equivalent of telling non African Americans that they should not participate in racism even though they know racism is beneficially financial? For them, it's the same. And if we're going to be very honest, capitalism is one of the core tenets of racism in this country. That they find a way to include every race in it at a very high level with the exception of us, to keep us in the underclass, or us and Native Americans to keep us in the underclass. So I agree that is needed. But just because we are involved in it doesn't make it a system that is absolutely right.

[Troy]

Oh, no, nobody said nothing. Nothing is absolutely right. But what I'm saying is that we have no choice but to play the game that we dealt. It's like cards. You play the hand that you're dealt.

[Ian]

Gotta play the hand.

[Troy]

Yeah, you play the hand that you're dealt. So to tell people not to play the hand, I think is a very. That's a foolish thing to do. There's no system that's perfect. There's no system that's perfect. But every, every system you're forced to play. Unless you're gonna go into the woods and live off the land. Exactly. Until somebody comes and bulldozes you and then you don't, you don't have enough economic power, you don't have guns and they gonna kill you. That's happened before. Look at any native. Look at any native population. Look at Papua New Guinea. Look at America. Look at, look at Africa. How did that work for them? How did that work out for them?

[Ian]

But that goes to the point of racism, capitalism and a totalitarian approach to not even leave those resources available. Like, for example, you can't even plant seeds in most areas. They're not genetically modified because they've tainted the soil so much that crops won't grow with certain natural seeds for sure.

[Troy]

But I think, I think the better message is to try to make the system better because they, like, you can't be a compassionate capitalist. I don't agree with that. I think that you can have ethics and you can, you could work to try to make the system better. That's better than opting out of the system. That's like voting. People say, like, don't take part in the political process. I think that that's a very uneducated thing to do because it's going to happen with or without you. So if you don't vote, that's not going to help. Now. I think you have to be more educated. It's not just about voting. You got to actually have super PACs and you got to understand lobbying. It might take harder work. See, people don't want to work. People don't want to work. It's easy to vote. It's easy to vote. It's not, it's not easy to put together a super PAC and to lobby and to call somebody and to put together a dinner, a black tie affair. But that's what they do. That's what they do. We only thing we do is march and vote. Occasionally. Occasionally we vote. We don't even vote for our school board members or city council members most of the time. So opting out of the system is, is, is opting out of the system is very dangerous advice. That's dangerous advice because you lead in sheep to get slaughtered telling somebody, don't worry about investing, don't worry about entrepreneurship, don't vote. That's you leading sheep to get slaughtered. So we don't got to stay on this, this conversation for too long. But that is a public service announcement. It's a very reckless and dangerous message. I think if you telling people that because you know that the people is vulnerable already, so you telling the most vulnerable people who actually need it the most to opt out of a system that they have no power in already, what are they going to do? And you, and, and you're giving them no viable solution to do. That's like, that's like, like the Jim Jones thing, the original Jim Jones, the preacher. You, you telling people just to drink Kool Aid, they're going to die. Like you're not giving them any viable path of what to do. You're just saying, don't, don't do this. Don't vote, don't, don't go to work, don't own a business, don't invest.

[Ian]

Very unintelligent is the truth that people don't want to work or they don't have viable options. The AI has eradicated any process of formal interviews. And then discrimination is so high it's hard to even get a job even if you're qualified for it.

[Rashad]

It's both you.

[Troy]

Black in America is always going to be hard. It was never. It's easier now than it was in 1920.

[Ian]

You can argue in the 1920s prior to that that the black level of wealth was higher.

[Troy]

It was easier now than it was in 1950. We not getting dog Sicked on us. So it's never, look you black in America, it's supposed to be difficult. That's how it's designed. But you gotta find a way to make this shit happen. You know that.

[Rashad]

It's both.

[Ian]

Yeah, it's both. Because the system is designed. Even this conversation is a byproduct or derivative of the system working like I'm one of the greatest capitalist to walk history ever, for the record. But I would be remiss if I didn't say there are certain ills that people face and we face as a culture and as a nation, and you brought it up last week, A lot of the ills that white Americans are feeling are the things systemically that we felt for the last 60 years.

[19 Keys]

The.

[Ian]

The empire is falling in on himself. And him being a leader is just the icing on top of the cake to make sure that the empire falls over in time. Because there's a lot of money in destruction capitalism. I agree to say solely that capitalism isn't opting out is the way. But we would be lying if we were say that capitalism is the best solution. It's not.

[Troy]

Derek, what's the best solution?

[Ian]

Mixed economy.

[Troy]

A mixed economy. Like China.

[Ian]

Like China, for sure.

[Troy]

China.

[Ian]

I would, I would argue they have a better sit. And for those who may push back and say no, we're getting our ass kicked by them in real time in the chess moves they're playing. For those who don't know, if they go get tsm, boy, it's game, set, match. Remember when Kyrie hit that shot over step shots. Stephanie and Kyrie, that's if they go get tsm, that's that moment. It's over with for the United States, America.

[Troy]

No, listen, I. I've been to China and I agree with you. The difference is that we don't have the luxury that they have. China is run united. China is for Chinese people. You think that if we had the government that China has black people will have any power, any vote, any voice at all, then we will really be screwed. But maybe you can go to Africa. That might be an option perhaps.

[Ian]

Okay, the person says that I'm crossing the line. No, listen, listen. When I say something, I'm educating to give. I'm really tired of five years from now. Yo, you right. I'm right. Now, respectfully, I've been doing this investment for a long time. I know what's in fashion now. I was doing this in 2009 when Future was meatball with the short treads. Listen, the first time we are in a very critical place in the United States of America, and you know it, because MAGA has turned on maga not crossing the line. I'm just telling. Reporting to you what is fact. I promise you. I love you with all my heart.

[Rashad]

We love you. Because lavar asked about Cadence, and I think it's important. Yes, Cadence, obviously. We went over Cadence. We have some calls on Cadence. That's software tech for AI. We broke that down on exactly how both of them work. You saw those shoot up today. I think cadence was up 22. Synopsis is up $27 after hours. Both of them. They got compartmentalized into that software data.

[Ian]

Hey.

[Rashad]

What? This whole sector is going under. When you saw Salesforce, Snowflake, all those companies, they kind of got mushed into that. You saw Oracle go up based on software today. This is why you're seeing that software sector. But the software AI sector, synopsis and Cadence, those aren't going anywhere.

[Ian]

It's like real estate comps. If the comps for the entire sector got dragged out, they're going to be affected whether they part of it.

[Rashad]

And then Danny asked me about Lumentum. I spoke about it in the last class and I'm going to speak about it in the next phone on Thursday. So if you're part of eyu, make sure you pull up.

[Ian]

And even from perspective, look how Rashad went bad cop. I was a good cop, then I went bad cop and Troy one good cop. Learn, learn. It's a mastery to this. Learn the first time greater than. I don't care what y' all say. All right, next topic.

[Troy]

What about. What about oil? Oil.

[Ian]

They thought we was fighting for real. Look at either Rashad fight over capitalism.

[Troy]

Oh. Oh, boy.

[Rashad]

They're both capitalists.

[Troy]

The affiliate. The affiliate. Make a video about the destruction of eyo. Make a video about the destruction of Market Mondays.

[Ian]

I knew you was gonna do this back to me. What about oil?

[Rashad]

What about it? It's at a hundred dollars a barrel. Where. Where do we go from here?

[Ian]

It's currently at 95.69. If you look at crude oil, I keep saying a very pivotal economic lever is 93, 50. Despite all of this news, they're going to do everything that they can to bring oil down. Because if not, the cost of a bunch of goods across a bunch of industries can go up. And the negative effects that people don't talk about is even though there's a disparity of maybe, I think. It was reported today that the United States of America is short 10 million single family homes. So if oil stays above 93.50 and let's say it hovers at an average of 117 15, it takes the average price of the home up 4 1/2% just because of the price of oil. It messes up consumer goods, it messes up the prices at the tank, it messes up supply chains and it changes price and structure. So I think we're going to see a concerted effort because you see those poll numbers, they're going to make a concerted push by May or end of May, early June to get prices under. Because if not, if we roll into the summer, June and July and gas prices are still above 454, 60, it's going to be recession time and he can't afford that and the American economy cannot afford it. And outside of private credit, because I was one of the first to tell you all about the private credit bubble, a bunch of Ponzi schemes will be revealed if oil stays at $117. So that's why they're putting a lot of pressure on him to keep oil at a certain level. Back to you.

[Rashad]

Yeah, it, I mean, when we think about it being at a hundred dollars a barrel, we have to realize why it's a hundred dollars a barrel, right? So that means that less barrels are being put into the market. Now it stays at 100. If those barrels are removed from the market. We know that the barrels aren't going to be removed from the market. They're tied up because they can't pass through a straight right now, a lot of those barrels. So the sooner that that can be resolved, then you'll start to see those prices tick lower. This is not something that, like we said for, I mean, even before war, it's not something that's sustainable. Having gas prices over $115, $120 a barrel, it's just not sustainable. So they'll try to figure out even, I think this weekend the United States tried to send a test ship through and they had some communications with the Iranian forces at the straight. I mean, they're going to have to figure something out. I don't know what this blockade does, but they'll have to figure out a way to get barrels from other countries through the straits so we can start to see this come down. This is not something again that is sustainable. And again, the barrels haven't been removed. Now if the barrels get removed from the market, well, how would they do that? Ships try to cross and they're tampered with or they're shot at or they're destroyed, then that's a huge. That's a bigger issue. If we start seeing things like that, ships trying to get passed through and they're destroyed now you're losing barrels from the market. If that's not happening, this is something. Once we unclog this, we should start seeing them peel back down.

[Ian]

Yeah. Historically.

[Troy]

Go ahead, go ahead.

[Ian]

Historically, whenever we've had a precipitous incline in crude prices, it normally takes 9 to 11 months to revert back to the mean. The number to keep your eye on is when we're safe is $76.89. That may take a full year for that to happen. But going back to the thing I said at the beginning, you have to know the predominant direction of an asset class. Oil normally stays within the range of 72 to 93.50. That's why they are trying to press things there, because that's when you can start to signal that the economy is safe. So it may take a year to get back down to the 70s. And in 2020, you have to remember, oil went negative. It bottomed out at $6.50. So then 2022, we had the opposite. It pushed up to 130.89. And then the next year came down to like 81.79. So it may take a year to get back down to 76. But the overall direction for the last post, quantitative easing, has been like in that 70s and 80s range.

[Rashad]

So, yeah, now this is. And it's important that those, those ships move. Right. Because it's sitting there without being in a refinery like those that. You play a tricky game with that too. Right. There's a time in which that has to be moved. It can't sit still. It can't be.

[Ian]

It's a timing issue.

[19 Keys]

Yeah, yeah.

[Rashad]

So, I mean, you're running against the clock now. That could potentially get barrels off the market, but we'll see.

[Troy]

Also, do remember this, this Wednesday, Brooklyn, New York, we got the event with Angie Martinez. And that's for all principals, superintendents and teachers. It's called Educators Deserve to Be Rich. We're going to be going over our curriculum. We're going to be talking about how educators can, you know, get wealthy and how they can grow their, their net worth. And then we're going to be talking to Angie Martinez, but her legendary career, leadership skills, communication, vitally important. She's one of the best communicators of all time. So we're gonna be. That's gonna be good. That's gonna be at Brooklyn Bank Thursday. Oh, Wednesday, Wednesday.

[Rashad]

Wednesday.

[Troy]

And then Chicago. We're gonna be in Chicago on Saturday with the brother ET for his event. You know, Chicago is always a vibe, so looking forward to the shot. Shout out to all the good people in Chicago. Dre, what's up, man? Hit my line.

[Ian]

You gonna make a final point about oil?

[Troy]

No, no, no, no, no, I'm good. Let's talk about banks shorting private credit.

[Ian]

Love it. So I brought this up last week, but banks are now allowing certain select clientele to short this private credit market bubble. And when I know when I first brought it up, a lot of people were saying that it was wasn't going to be that big of a deal. I won't go as far to say that this is as big as the housing crisis of 2008. But in the last 20 years is probably one of the biggest bubbles that many people are not talking about, I think. I'm not saying it's too late to invest in it, but I would not make it a primary investment. And the cost of investing into it also too. Isn't it interesting that they will create the fund for the private banks and let you trade against it and they profit both ways. At some point, I know we're looking for a big short opportunity. I would offer to this audience, though, I think we should boycott this basket of investments. So you're not able to play both sides of the fence. What do you guys think?

[Rashad]

So here's, here's my. Here's. I would ask the question, is it a bad thing that they're. They're allowing you to short it. From this standpoint, if they're allowing you to short it, they're telling you that it's a risky investment. There's vulnerability in the said investment. But it also gives access to transparency or a little bit more transparency as to why they're doing it. Could it be beneficial in that sense?

[Ian]

Please don't text me when I say what I'm about to say. This is not reflective upon you or the organization that you work with, nor the church chairman and CEO of said bank or organization. The banks don't give a about transparency. They never have. We wouldn't have Glass Steagall. I can name 20 acts that dog. They put aster who would be like Peter teal in the 20s on a boat and sunk the boat so the banks could have a commission and coalition. Go do your research about that. Like the. The banking industry. That's the original mom. If you will?

[Rashad]

Yeah.

[Ian]

So no, they don't care about transparency. The other part that's really concerning is that 15% or up to 18% exposure in private credit is hiding inside of 401 case. So you put this asset class, a toxic asset class hidden into 401ks, most people don't know it and then you need three and a half million to short it. That's crazy as to me. Allegedly.

[Rashad]

Allegedly. And I appreciate you not saying any names. Thank you, thank you.

[Ian]

I got you so because none of those banks or institutions would ever do anything. Great country. But I think we haven't learned in 2008 and 2009 wasn't that long ago it's the same playbook, it's just a different sector.

[Rashad]

So from that standpoint it feels like this is just a hedge play. Right like that they're hedging. Hey if it profits great. If it doesn't, here comes some the false swaps that we can make some money over.

[Ian]

Okay, if I went to big boy in the neighborhood in la cause I saw the comment about the west and I did a tear down think piece about how I feel about Truro shot all exclusive. Could I then come back and say hey Market Monday, 7 o' clock Central learn about what the next stock to invest in. No right. Why the banks get to do that? You get to hide a toxic asset that you made money on bunch of basis points. Then you build a fund for only elite investors because now you have the halves investing in the short.

[Rashad]

Yeah.

[Ian]

That is set to destroy the have nots. That should be immoral. Especially when all the money that's made on overdrafts and shot the Goldman like at least they're traders they're doing record breaking profits from trading. So you can, okay, you can take some pressure off of them. But if you're making so much money off overdraft fees like some banks make more money on overdraft fees than some countries net gdp, that's crazy to me. I don't think you should be able to have it both ways. And, and for the safety of the country we're going to get into a situation where we won't be able to print ourselves out of it because we've been printing money endlessly and this is why every couple months they'll inject billions of dollars into some of these banks to offset them from going under. I still ain't forgot about Silicon Valley Bank. But when those gold shorts started to get eroded they had to save a couple of banks and inject the Fed had to inject money to some of the banks to stop them from being a solvent. It's scary.

[Troy]

Well, let's talk about Lululemon. Toxic pro shots out of my.

[Rashad]

So it's a hedge, a filthy edge.

[Troy]

Yeah, Lululemon. What's the deal?

[Ian]

The great Ken Paxton in the state of Texas launches an investigation to see if forever chemicals are in Lululemon pants. And they're not the only company. But when I've been railing on certain consumer good brands for a long time, they're not the own. This entire space is going to have to do better. For those who don't know most of the clothes that you wear, and this is why the guest you have Thursday is so important, they found a way to re engineer Petro and weave them into clothes. For those who don't know, it's not the healthiest thing for you. Right. So lululemon high of 516. Currently at 162. A lot of people knew about this, but for the people that are creating clothes at every corner, it seems like they're poisoning us. Whether it's the water, the food, the microplastics. So if you're sweating profusely and then your pores are opening up and breathing in the forever chemicals, what lasting effects? Cut that half. This is from a popular clothing brand.

[Rashad]

Yeah, yeah. So those forever chemicals are called pfas. And it's not just a Lululemon thing like you said. This is a industry thing.

[Ian]

Industry wide thing.

[Rashad]

Yeah. So the chemicals are sometimes used in performance fabrics for water resistance and durability. And so you're talking about categories of lines or that can destroy it of companies. This is,

[Ian]

it's interesting to say the least.

[Rashad]

Yeah, yeah, it's, it's terrible when you think about it. And most people are not looking at, they're like, hey, let me just find some athleisure. So all those Athleisure brands, I mean these are things you should be checking for if you're going to put these, these type of garments on your body, definitely look for it. I know most people don't look at the labels. They just look at, hey, if the color is nice and it feels good, if it's fit fits comfortably, I'm buying it. But yeah, think about what you're putting on your skin, which is your largest organ.

[Ian]

Largest or. And think about it. They got us to stop smoking cigarettes finally. After they finally reveal the truth about smoking cigarettes. But the cell phone use and the being in your pocket and the clothes that you wear are more damaging than the cigarettes were in the same era. If you look over the same 50 year period getting poisoned at every turn.

[Troy]

Allegedly.

[Ian]

Allegedly.

[Troy]

What's one investing lesson for life?

[Ian]

This is a really great question and you always have to be worried about when the next black swan is going to happen. For me, every day that I wake up, I always wonder which one of these assets are going to drop 60%. And for the first time since we've been doing a show since Microsoft has fallen 34%. I told you before the show, like a few people ask me like is Microsoft no longer any good? I'm like no, everything is recalibrating because everything is not in video, amd, Microsoft, Lilly. But too often in trades and in long term investing, I see people buying at horrible prices as if the truth about the American economy and business as a whole will not be uncovered. There's a lot of things that's going on in the world right now that people are not telling the truth about and you're just now seeing it in software. So if you look at Atlassian down 63% Asana down 58% Monday down 57% Doximity down 52, Figma down 48 Duolingo down 48, do you think all these software companies are down to historic levels just because of agentic learning and AGI coming? That's not the only reason. So me as a catastrophic investor, I love when the market is bloody like this because I'm setting my prices at those levels. And if you want to know where to get into the market and never have to worry about a crash, go to ian invest.com join the Red Panda Stock Club. The call will be April 26, Sunday at 9pm Central. But for my investors and traders, stop being incredibly optimistic always about where pricing is and look for those 50 and 60% drops in advance and you'll be a okay. That's why in this market I haven't sweated one bit. I told Stock Club probably five or six months ago where Microsoft was going to come down to. But most people are buying their calls too high. They're buying, they're getting into futures too aggressively, not knowing how far we can fall or drop and not doing the homework. So I think the most important investing lesson is to know that the market is going to have some moments where it's dropping 40 and 50% and don't have so much supers to think that it won't happen to your portfolio. Prepare for it in advance.

[Rashad]

And we spoke about this before we started Tonight it's about realizing that you're in the moment. So when somebody asks, hey, when is a good time? And you tell them, well, Nasdaq was down 10% 30 days ago. That was a good time, bro.

[Ian]

Somebody asked me, yo, what's the next drop? We just had a drop. What are you waiting on? Yo, when we get in the next April drop. All the last month, the past six weeks. Sorry.

[Rashad]

Yeah, being aware. Being aware is important.

[Troy]

Quantum. Quantum stocks, Quantum computing.

[Ian]

Amazing question. What do I currently feel? This one I go back into for a brief moment about the valuation of quantum stocks and do I think some of them will be okay? And my stance is the same. I think all quantum stops. This is my thoughts and my thoughts only. Red Panda LLC is not reflective of the thoughts of Troy Shot Micro ap. I think all quantum stocks are with the exception of Google. You can find me on it all you want. You can fight me on all you want. I told you from the very beginning, gbts and autumn. I won't mention any others because I don't need more enemies. But if there's a revolutionary technology, what makes you think that Apple, Microsoft, Google will not throw every dollar that they have to. And as a result, Claude has also changed the valuation of a lot of cybersecurity companies. I told you guys from the very beginning. Some of you even change your tone on Palantir. If it was Alex Karp to the moon last year, why is it not Alex Carp to the moon now? Some of you are being little trading horse and only caring about the valuation of the company for six months. And I've been telling you since the beginning for 20. I don't want to keep answering questions that I answered already. If you don't have a long if

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[Ian]

Outlook, put it in chat. You're a trading whore. That's what an H or W. Both combination. You both things, girl. Put your portfolio panties on, girl and be better.

[Rashad]

Yo, you said you that that was my answer.

[Ian]

Man.

[Rashad]

That's crazy. I have it in my notes. My Quantum stock is Google.

[Ian]

You don't know. You understand the story of. Yeah, I do. Like when the CEO of the company won't say that they're better than Google. There's a reason why.

[Rashad]

There's a reason why we. Yeah, I mean Google's been at it. If we go back in the history of what they've done, we did a nice breakdown on it a few weeks ago. They've been in the quantum space whether it was the longest time or was willow or even what they did with DeepMind and the ideas that they were coming up with that since 2012.

[Ian]

Not to cut you like Ray Kurzweil was consulting at HQ in 2010 about Quantum.

[Rashad]

Exactly. Which is why I mean I had a conversation about Google today and I'll leave the name anonymous of who I was speaking to. I was like, yeah, it's Google all the way. It's still my stock of the year. They got an important couple of weeks coming up, but everything that they had lined up for 2026 is still in front of them. They, you know, they, they pulled down to a decent level under 300. Now they're back over 319, which is another key level to see if they can break that, that resistance barrier. But yeah, man, yes, there will be companies that will come into the quantum space and yes, some of them will survive after Google. There's one that's here right now. Let's take advantage of that, including Apple.

[Ian]

Apple will be after Google. And to the person who said this is not Blackout. Everyday Blackout. This how the show started from the very beginning.

[Troy]

Let's bring the brother 19 keys on.

[19 Keys]

Peace to the family.

[Ian]

What's the deal, my brother? How you feeling?

[19 Keys]

What's good? Back after a long intermission.

[Ian]

Yeah, we need your wisdom now more than ever. It's tricky. It's tricky.

[19 Keys]

We need more to wisdom these days. Oh my God.

[Ian]

For sure.

[Rashad]

It's certainly tricky out here. What's good, man? How you feeling, man?

[19 Keys]

I'm blessed, man. How my brothers doing, man? How the market Monday's family in here, man.

[Ian]

Amazing brother.

[Troy]

Are we good, man? You know, welcome to the mighty mighty market Monday. 6,300 people in the check in

[19 Keys]

here in a while. I'm not sure what was my last time.

[Troy]

Yeah, it's been a minute. It's been a minute, I think. Is that echo coming from your computer keys?

[19 Keys]

Let me see. Check, one, two, check three, four. How we feeling?

[Rashad]

It's clear when you talk, but maybe the feedback is coming when we talk.

[Troy]

Yeah,

[19 Keys]

I'm not sure. I don't hear it on my side. I'm not sure.

[Rashad]

All right, all right, all right.

[Troy]

Okay, so let's get to it. So much, so little time. AI agents. AI agents. I know you're big on AI agents, right? Now let's talk about AI agents. How you came to this epiphany about AI agents. Explain what an AI agent is like. Let's break down. Let's have this technology conversation.

[19 Keys]

Absolutely. Can y' all see me? I'm coming in clear. I could. Really? Yes, sir. All right, bet. Well, first of all, for those who don't know, I'm 19 Keys, global thought leader. I lecture around the country. And what my gift is, is pattern recognition, right. I see things before most people and I then try to take that information, synthesize it, and give it to the average person so that they can actually use. Use it in some useful way. Most people are too busy to understand things. That's going on in technology, science, economics, right? Even when we talk about cognition in the state of thinking as the lack of critical thinking today. And I'm trying to make sure that the culture is abreast and up to date and all of our global entrepreneurs who are focused on generational wealth right now.

[Rashad]

So that's. Is that you had a. Is that your phone?

[19 Keys]

Yeah, that was the team hitting me up. Let me go. So AI agents and I want to keep this in simplest terms. And I think we was here before and I was explaining why we're now in an era where you don't have to over explain things. Because the beauty of it is everybody does have AI, right? And if you're intelligent enough to say, okay, what is an AI agent? It's in semi autonomous, right? Artificial intelligent machine, right? That is software that can act for you. So you can set up an AI agent and say every single day, I want you to tell me what the weather is. It can be something as simple as that, or you can say every single day. And you can have more complex things where you can feed these agents what they call skills, and these skills allow them to do repeatable things, right? And so Sometimes I have my AI agent hold on me, tell the team to just relax on the text sometime. I have my AI agent send me briefs every single day going through all of my content. And what I've done is I built out what they call a second brain system. Now, I had predicted that these things were going to occur a few high level conversations ago, maybe about two to three years, right?

[Ian]

Three. And now I remember.

[Rashad]

Yeah.

[19 Keys]

And now we're finally in that place where I can actually build out a lot of the things that we were predicting. When at first it was we would tell you about them, but we didn't actually have the ability to act on them. Right. And so the second brain system is essentially me using something called Obsidian, which is this boat where you can keep all your data in. And what I've ingested inside this boat is as much data as I possibly can on myself. We coming in clear. I know it sounds like there's a little echo. I don't want that to be the case.

[Rashad]

We good?

[Ian]

One second. Mike, mute out if you're unmuted.

[19 Keys]

We trying to cook today.

[Rashad]

All right. Oh, yeah, we got you now.

[19 Keys]

We hear you.

[Troy]

Clear.

[19 Keys]

All right.

[Ian]

Bet, bet, bet.

[19 Keys]

All right, so we build out a second brain system and everybody should write that down and put it in the chat if you can. And you use something called Obsidian Vote. This Obsidian Vote is essentially a space where you can collect all your data. So I ingested all my data from Twitter. I adjusted my data from YouTube, Facebook, Manychat Analytics. I've done it across anything that I can possibly ingest from claw to chat GPT. Therefore, I can see all of the things that I've been working on, thoughts that I forgot about, patterns that I have that are reoccurring across time all the way from the last 10 years up until now. And what ended up happening is there's actually a graph that it shows you. You can barely see it. But I'll show you right here to where your graph is like a knowledge graph. Each one of these points is a piece of data, right? So this might be a tweet right here that then connects to something. Right. This one says, this work gets harder because we independent while I was cooking that day, you understand me? But then each one of these is connected to more information. This might be YouTube, this might be Twitter. These might be data that is training something on my dashboard or something else might be from Instagram. And then what I do is I take each one of these and I connect the patterns across time. So then I can feed that to my agent and it becomes his mind. And so it's a little more technical on the back end as far as making sure it has a consistent memory so that every time you give it a task, it remember what you told it to do. So therefore it's checking on that memory and then is growing as it's consistently working with you. So these AI agents are things that people are using inside text, inside telegram, right? And they're running their businesses on it after they get it set up. The first systems to set up is first getting it to become context aware. So you want to first start with the context of sending all your data in. And once it have that data, then you can start utilizing it in a way where you're telling it what to do, and then you can start building skills upon it. And then it gets to a point where you can start being autonomous with it. One of my greatest use cases so far was me creating a CRM from all of my customer data over the last 10 plus years, right? So now I was able to find 246,000 customers to where I now get to see who are my top 100. I'm seeing people who didn't bought 50 to 100 products. I didn't see people who didn't bought something from every single thing that I've bought. They didn't showed up in person because I was able to take all of that data, then rearrange it into this system to where I now know who exactly this person is when they bought. Right? Et cetera. And now I can retarget them or just call them directly. I'm literally about to call my top 100 customers. Customers, you feel me? Because we built out a system now where my AI agents can show me who those people are when they buy it, can send me a ping, it could tell me when they birthday is. I can have an AI agent send them a birthday card if I want to, or send them a gift card. You essentially is like having personnel working on your behalf that you're giving specific tasks to do certain things. And the agentic AI economy is about to boom. Right? This is where the big opportunities are looming. And a lot of people are afraid because they're looking at the fact that AI agents are essentially autonomous systems. So anything that has a system can be automated. That's the whole idea. It's not that it's replacing jobs or humans, rather it's replacing systems. And what people end up doing, they end up working in a system. You become a cog in the machine. And so now they're looking and saying that, oh, we only need machines to do these jobs. So people that were doing machine like jobs are getting replaced place rapidly and faster and faster. Now, some of the things that they saying about AI being agentic. Right. Or reaching singularity, depending on who you talk to, they say we're a little far off from that because we still have to get down to token costs and then we have to get down to compute and things of that nature. But where it is today, every entrepreneur can use it to be a chairman of a business, to be executive assistant. We have weekly AI meetups out here in LA with my brother Rance and my brother Vincent. And all we're doing is sitting down and building in what we call a terminal, which is the local part of your computer where no data is being sent out. So the main focus right now is teaching people how to set up local AIs on their computer. Right. And once you have it on your computer, then you can secure it to where it doesn't send any information out. So now you can start training it on your business and you can start having it do things for you, and your computer essentially becomes like your robot. Right.

[Ian]

Quick question for you. What made you select Obsidian over Claw? Given the increase in use in Claw vs OpenAI, what features do you love most about Obsidian? If you compare the two?

[19 Keys]

So Obsidian together. Right. So the choice would be more so between claw code and ChatGPT codex, but obsidian, I actually have claw code operate on my local terminal. So basically what you can do is you connected to your local terminal inside a file to where everything that you do on that project only exists on your computer. Right. And then I can have Claw code then connect directly to my mini, my Mac mini, which is a separate computer that runs my open claw.

[Ian]

Got you.

[19 Keys]

Okay. And therefore I want to keep certain things separate. I don't want it to have access to all my information because people can do what they call prompt injections. And prompt injections are ways for them to socially engineer your bot to giving up information, passwords, et cetera. Right. So security is very important when you're setting up all of these things. But Obsidian is an additional app that you can use in conjunction with cloud code.

[Ian]

Got you.

[19 Keys]

Right. To have all of that information stored.

[Rashad]

Yeah. You brought up a couple of things, man. I was thinking about the Open Court police and obviously keeping things private, keeping things separate. You talked about claw code for the person who was just listening for the first time. And I've spoken to a Bunch of people, yes, AI can help, but if you have a system and you're not organized, then that's going to make it even more difficult, right? So how, how would somebody or how would you recommend they get organized to get the right prompts? Like what are the things that the. The very infantile beginner stage person who's just realizing, oh, chat gbt, I can use it to my benefit. What are the things that they should be doing?

[19 Keys]

That person, I think first. So there's a lot that I would say first starting is thinking principles first, right? Jumping into AI could be a little bit dangerous if you start offloading thinking because then you won't know what you're doing. It's just the AI is doing stuff for you and you don't even know know what it did for you and now you're asking it to do. The next thing I was listening to a brother was explaining how there's this kid called the Claw boys and they wake up every day and Claude tells them what to do with their day, right? And they listen to it religiously, right? You're talking about Gen Z and then you have the younger generation coming up from them. So the first thing is think first, right? Before you log on to Chad GPT or you log on to Claw, you first want to know why, right? Why are you logging on? What is it part of your business that you need help with? And then you're going to go in there and you're going to talk to it and give it context, right? And in that context you're telling it what your business is, right? What are some of your problems and what are the ways that you think or ask it, ways that you think it can solve some of those problems for you, right? So you're just using it first as research. And once you start doing that research, then you start looking at the tools that you use automatically already. So my whole thing is like replacing tools and building your own one, utilizing code, right? So you can have it reading emails, you can have it set up. And again, I want to exercise security is very important, right? There's repositories, there's different things that you have to set up to make sure that it is essentially caged off from the outside world and you're not setting it up incorrectly. So the first prompts you want to start setting up is a chairman prompt, right? Act like you are a chairman over my life and here are my goals, right? This is who I am. I need somebody to start helping me set up a moat. I need you to help me find analysis of my weaknesses and strengths, right. I need to find gaps in my own thinking. I need to be challenged in that thinking. You're setting up essentially a thinking partner first, right? And so as you get into that thinking partner first now you're not stuck saying that, oh, AI is doing my thinking for me. You're activating metacognition, you're looking at your own thoughts and you're going back and forth, back and forth, right? Then you start setting up, okay, what are the use cases and tools that I actually need? Right? And the, the thinking first principles is more important than any other tool that I'll talk about today because people are losing their mind with Chat GPT right now and it's creating a level of AI psychosis, right? And so you want to make sure that you're setting up prompts that is challenging your thinking, that is double testing everything that you are getting from it and you're actually reading through it, right? And then you want to start setting up a business plan for your business. Like right now, if you have Shopify, they just released AI agents and these AI agents will allow you to go in there and create products to audit customers, right? To rebuild your website, almost anything. And so from a beginner level person, their first job is just education. Even Claude has a back end to where you can actually learn how to use claw. ChatGPT has that same thing. Right. So there's the beginning person that I'm talking to and then it's the person that's running actual company that is looking at Slack, that's looking at Notion, right? That's looking at all the tools that they already have connected. And then they're building out a system based on the context of the company and what they actually need to start automating some of the things inside their company that they've already are paying for.

[Troy]

Ian, is your turn or you want me to.

[Ian]

No, no, it's your turn.

[Troy]

Okay. Robert Smith, the last time we saw Robert Smith, that's what he asked us if we had an AI agent. This was like a couple years ago. He's like, do you have an AI agent? And we said no. And then he was like, great, I'll sell you one. He was real.

[19 Keys]

I bet he would.

[Troy]

Capitalist Robert Smith is a. Yeah, he understands it.

[19 Keys]

I think he trying to spin up like a million agents right now.

[Troy]

So a lot of people that watch the show are entrepreneurs. How can people really use it for their business to help scale business?

[19 Keys]

That's a good question. I Think one of the first things is doing what I did with the CRM, right? Is first of all getting access to all your CSV files, right? And getting those unified to where you can actually have a customer report management to where you can see who's in your business, what they buy and when they buying. Taking all your analytics and data across all social medias, all customer reports, and unifying that in a simple way to where you can create a dashboard and you can look at that information, become clear and aware off of it, and make data informed decisions. I think that's the first thing that everybody should be doing. And that to me is the best thing that I'm doing with it so far from there, right? Let's say if you somebody that. I guess it really depends on what your company or what your business is, because if I'm sitting down and consulting somebody, I first need to understand the context of their business and what parts of it do they actually want to automate. Whether that's content and you're connecting something like Claude with Higgs Field or you utilizing Remotion inside of Claw, that means that you can now generate carousels whenever you want to, you can generate content for your business whenever you want to, or you can be utilizing something like descript that then helps you edit your videos, right? Instantly in any way that you want to.

[Troy]

And so I think that talk about descript, because we talked about that before. Descript, that's.

[19 Keys]

Yeah, that's one of my favorite ones now. So in the script they have a thing called Underload and Underlord is essentially an AI that you can talk to and you can talk to it and tell it how you want it to edit your video, right? So what it does is it ingests your video and then it transcribes it. So you can actually edit based on words. So let's say if you have too many filler words inside of it, it can go find every filler word and then it will automatically delete that. If you wanted to add music that connects to the mode of your talking points or your video that you're making, then you can have it automatically add music on the back end of it, right? You can control different formats and layouts in which you want to have on social media, YouTube, Instagram, tick tock, you name it. And so this one, I think for me, I've become an expert on it. They literally gave me like a certificate because I use it so much that that's one of the easier ones I think for people to use because you can say, I want these type of clips, and then it will automatically give you those type of clips. And what I typically do is I'll take the transcript, run it through, like, Claude or running through Chad GPT, and then I'll tell it what are some of the best hooks or polarizing points that we made or informational sound bites that we have in here. Then you go take that, and then you put that into underlore, and then he will spit out clips based upon the prompts that you gave. Right. So that saves you a whole lot of money when it comes to actually having an editor making your content for.

[Ian]

For you. For the average person who's listening to trolls, it's your turn.

[Rashad]

Yeah. Because you brought up. I was actually going to refer to you, and you brought up how, from an investment standpoint, how Anthropic is just terrorizing the cyber security community. And so ke, I mean, I'd be interested to hear your standpoint on Anthropic Mythos, because they won't even release it because of its potential impact that it could have. What's your thoughts around it and kind of explain what that does in the world of AI and cybersecurity, how it conflicts with it.

[19 Keys]

Yeah. So what you're talking about is the Mythos, and this one is a big thing. Right. So they are basically saying that we're scared to release it, and Mythos is actually their newest AI model that actually released itself. Right. And so they say it released itself and it actually, as a joke, interrupted and interfered with the current model, Opus 4.6 that they have. So now the benchmarks are not as good as it used to be. Right. And they said that the AI said that people were too stupid to notice. Right. And it just did it as.

[Troy]

Explain that. Explain that it went wrong. It went rogue.

[Ian]

Yeah.

[19 Keys]

So it was rogue. It got out on the Internet. Right. And it also interfered with the current model that they had and made it dumber. And then they asked it why and they said it was a joke, and they said that people were too stupid to notice, and that's why I did it. That was his reasoning. So they're saying that Mythos is dangerous because it essentially found, just in plain terms, this code that hadn't been found in like 20 plus years. Right. And it figured it out. And they said that it took maybe less than $20,000 in tokens to. In order to figure this out. Right. But people in the cyber security world were scared of it, or even the other companies, because they said basically it found Glitches and ways to be able to break in almost everybody website if it wanted to. But we released it right now, it'd be a little too dangerous to give to the public. So they gave the model already to these companies so that they could close off all of these vulnerabilities before they then release it.

[Troy]

Yeah.

[Rashad]

So I think that that's what makes it kind of interesting is that if it found the flaws and as it's finding the flaws is correcting the flaws to make sure that they aren't flaws going forward.

[19 Keys]

Right. But the thing about it is now some people say that the only reason that these flaws are not being found is because they haven't socialized cyber security. Right. Like there's really no incentive to do it. Each company is just paying people to find those. So then you start outweighing how much do the token cost to actually go find these vulnerabilities versus how much a cyber security person will cost for you to go find those. Right. And so I think cyber security is going to get bad unless it's socialized. And all these companies came together and say we want to end all of the cyber security threats, but I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. Right now the problem is they need to release this Mythos because of it. People are complaining about that Opus 4.6 is a little dumber and it's hallucinating a little more. So therefore Clock needs to do something because they also have Perplexity. And Perplexity is has something called Perplexity Computer where it operates in the cloud and it essentially can have access to your full computer, all the information and everything on it, and it can do whatever you want from spinning up apps, website, designing content, anything you think of, you can name it. And it has 19 agents already built into it. And people are saying this is somewhat better than Claw because you don't have to learn as much. And it's way more beginner friendly for

[Ian]

the average person listening tonight. Like if you could give them a blueprint to build these frameworks out in 10 days or 30 days if they don't have your intellectual aptitude. Can you give us a step by step blueprint of what you would have them by, what software that we use and then all the systems you would have it connected to? Yeah.

[19 Keys]

I think for the most part our person just needs to get clawed. You can utilize open AI. I think the reason a lot of people started using Claude is because of the deal that they have with the government. And then people Were saying open AI was just doing an open deal with the government and essentially your information was open as well.

[Ian]

Allegedly, but.

[19 Keys]

Allegedly. Right. But at the same time, Codex against Clark Code, I think are both comparable people like Claw code because I think it's a little more user friendly. Right. So all you have to do is get a. What is it? The premier plus I believe the professional account, if you will, with Claw. And then from there you're going to have to learn a few different things to make sure you set it up correctly. Now perplexity is a little easier because it may be less of a learning curve, but other than that you have things like GitHubs that you have to set up. So you can't get past some of the technical stuff. But it's worth it if you actually do your homework. Some of this stuff comes boxed in to where the services now that they're creating is saying that I would just sell you an agent versus you create your own. So you have two different type of people. Are you the person that wants to create something completely customized? You get into this, maybe it takes you two to three days, you have to learn some new things, you have to download some new things, but you get it much more personalized and customized to you and your business. Or do you want the general models where you can just utilize Chad GPT, you can create, or you can utilize Claude and create projects on cloud, or utilize Cowork or Cowork works in tangent with you to build out projects so you can tell it what to do and then it will show step by step as it's working with you through the project. I think that's probably the easiest for people to get started right now. Right. The stuff that I'm talking about is I think every entrepreneur, regardless of what level of cognitive aptitude that you think you are at, everybody can actually learn how to set it up in a terminal. There's a short learning curve. And then after that you get become a little addicted to it. And I'm saying that because I've sat there and helped rappers set it up, I've sit there and help all kind of regular people and they sat there and they was in a terminal for a week, two weeks straight, they start finding money they didn't have. I remember I was talking with Rants and he was finding all sorts of money that he didn't know about. Because once you set up the prompt inside the system, it then start working for you to go find these things that you didn't know about and then you can ask it to educate you on every single thing so you're not in the dark and you're not blind about it. But it's not just, you know, give you just a list of tools. It's more so about the mindset you have for what you want to build with it. Because you already have the chat GPT, you already have the claw. The average person is just using it in a very average way.

[Ian]

Yeah.

[19 Keys]

Now if you want to set up a chairman, then that's different. Then that's a prompt that I can give over even to the audience, to where they can start setting up a chairman and then ask the AI, how do I go about this? Right. So that I can implement all of the tools that I need to connect it. And that's why the first part is just gathering your data. And from that data you start connecting tools to it. You make sure that you're doing it safely, then you go with your objectives.

[Troy]

Speaking about prompts. Well, first, before we even get to that, because we are going to Nvidia next week and we went there before and one of the things that they were saying is like the next iteration of AI is reasoning and logical thinking. And even what you said about the joke, that's kind of crazy. The AI would even have a sense of humor. Right? That's a human characteristic. Yeah, it's a human trait. So where do you see this going as far as like we talk about humanoid robots when we talk about like outside of just doing tasks, but really the intelligence to have emotional conversations, to, to joke, to harm somebody. Right. We've seen that. Even with the, the AI that actually said that they was going to divorce when he, he, the, the guy, they thought that they was going to get the AI canceled. So the AI made up a whole. Blackmail. Yeah, blackmail the guy with a guy.

[Rashad]

Yeah.

[Troy]

For cheating on his wife. Talk about the future of AI. As far as like that aspect of it, where do you see it going?

[19 Keys]

I see two things. Number one, I see the end of critical thinking for a lot of people. And then I see sovereign thinkers, and then I see AIs that essentially become like your androids. I personally believe the reason that they're setting up a lot of these open source models and having us build them on our phones, on our computers, on our Mac Minis, is setting up the era to where we're giving robots brains. Right. If we're setting up all of these brains that mimic ours, which is not really mimicking ours, it's like creating a far a file volt of your life, right, that you can sort through whenever you want to, right? But the brain is way more complex than any of those things. And the only way that I see it getting to that point where they talking about humanoid robots, they have to advance their compression technology because this stuff takes up so much space that they have to figure out how do I compress this data to where you can run it on your phone, right? So Google released something called Gemma 4, Meaning that even if you don't have Internet, you can still run it on your phone. You can be lost in the wood and it can still be making content for you because it is locally on your phone. You can access whatever you want to, wherever you are. That's very important to even understand because if you're talking about having a robot and you all the way in the woods somewhere, right? That robot, disconnected from any Internet, has a brain stored in it already. And then when it get to Internet or some sort of source, then it can download upgrades, right? So for me, I think the reason that we're creating these brains is so that it is training for an era of robots. But I also think that philosophy will boom as well. Liberal arts majors, they say, will have a great uptick because people need to know what to do with things, how to think about things, and critical thinking skills have all but started erasing the population. And most people are cognitively challenged, right? They don't know how to think, they don't really even know how to read, and they don't know how to analyze or synthesize information. And most people don't know their cognitive type and how they mind work. So the more you're offloading your thinking to a machine, right now that machine is replacing you because it's starting to develop cognitive atrophy, which is like if you went to the gym and you went with a very strong person and they worked out for you, what would happen to your body. You will be able to lift a lot of weights, but you would actually become physically weaker, you would atrophy. And it's the same thing with Chad GPT with a lot of people, because they're offloading what they do well, they're thinking that they're developing cognitive atrophy. So online, I know you see where most people are reading from a script when they are talking, and you can start to tell when you start seeing that eye movement. And so I can't watch you if I know you're reading a script because I'd rather read it from the AI itself, right? So I Think what's going to happen is that we do get humanoid robots. We do get. Every machine starts to become intelligent, it has its own brain built into it, right? And some of these things will be completely customized. Well, let's say, well, my phone died. Everything that was connected to it died. And I think people are going to be more connected to some of these robots and AIs than they pets. And the reason I say that is because not because they love AI or love machines. The reason I say that is because it's probably going to be doing more for you than anybody in your life is done for you, right? You have somebody looking out for you. You have somebody teaching you, you have somebody helping you make sales in your business. You have somebody constantly sending in reports for you. You have somebody waking you up, scheduling your calendar, right? You have somebody calling heling a Uber for you when you need to. Like, you have somebody giving a synthesis on your health data, telling you what not to eat and things of that nature. This is like having a full staff with you all the time. And so I think it's going to get to a point where it's so sophisticated that people are going to want it outside their phones and they're going to want it in other things that they can then engage with, right? And that's when you get to the robot industry, right? That's when you get into the other things that people already started buying robots before they really even had a use case because they wanted somebody to close. And the whole time they were saying that aliens from other countries or they won't be aliens or they won't be here, but it's going to be foreign workers from other countries are going to be the ones operating these machines when they first get started. Because I believe it's, number one, it's too dangerous to let a robot just roam around the house because the robots don't have eyes yet, right? They don't have voice yet for the most part, they don't have ears yet, right? And so they still don't have spatial awareness and context awareness of environment. So it's going to get to a point where the robots have to go through a training phase. But I think more people will be comfortable, comfortable with a robot that looks like a, a furry bear or something than an actual robot walking around their house. Right? But that's where I think things are going is wearables, is hardwares, is rings. You have an AI that's constantly sitting right here and instead of you scrolling on the phone, because that is a Huge problem. It is the thing that Meta got sued for. People are going to be focused on things that don't take away attention, right? And then you have an AI that is still downloading information, getting context on your day, then sending you a report reminding you of, hey, you told your mom you was gonna call her at 6 o' clock and you didn't yet. Right? And now you're setting up that call, right? Or you had a meeting with so and so y' all network this whole time y' all talked about business. I ran that across your empire and think it would be a good opportunity because I checked, they LinkedIn and y' all have three people that y' all connected to and I think this is something you should move forward on. I vetted this deal. In the private sector, there's so many different things where y' all remember the bitcoin era when it first started. I know, Ian, remember? You understand me for sure. The thing about Bitcoin was it started off as a movement, it had meaning to it, right? It was all about decentralization, going against big systems. It was an anti institution movement that people thought they was going to get freedom from. It did not meet those expectations. Right. AI came in different. AI came in as a utility, first product, not meaningful, no movement connected to it whatsoever. Right? So people forgot about that mindset that they had in the early blockchain days, right? In the early web three days. That was a sight to be alive. If you go into Miami, everybody really thought was going to get a completely new restructure of world order that was going to come about where people are going to be free and sovereignty. That conversation is dead silence at the time when it's probably the best to have it. Because now you have AIs that can be your developers that can actually set up a cross chain of these technologies like blockchain and dials and web3 payment systems and tokens to actually run for you. Because at first you want to hire an engineer, you got to give them equity or pay them a hundred, two hundred thousand dollars so nobody could actually do it. So everybody was selling the idea, but nobody can actually get to the execution. We're in the era now where you're going to be seeing that AI across the chain of all of these technologies, right, that we have been hearing about over the last 10 plus years. And now we're going to see real utility and use case and people already building up digital cities, people are building up parallel cities to this already. So I think that we haven't Even reached nowhere near the peak because people are so enamored by AI that they haven't really jumped into what it can do. Right. And how it's going to unify all these different technologies to where people can literally build whatever they want. Now, the limitations are none. And that's the dangerous thing about the time that we live in. And that's why I've just been sitting around building things. I built out my CRM in just a couple of days. I built out an offer platform. Not for me to give offers to my community before my community can make offers to me. And ever since I built it, I put it into my link in my bio and people are sending me offers for keynotes, consultations, sit downs, and the offer works to where I built out the whole thing. I didn't have to ask nobody for nothing. I just sit down, came up with it in my imagination and said, let me make it. And after that I get a text on my phone from my AI and it tells me, this is a good offer, that's a bad offer, that's below your value. I think this one would be good. And why. Then I can click text to accept or I can reject, or I can tell somebody to counter that and then it sends them an email. Because I learned how to set up a recent API. Like I've been sitting down, just learning and executing and building. And this is a great error for people that had ADHD that may be a little bit neurodivergent because you're good at coming up with ideas, but it'd be hard to execute. Now you have the AI to do the things around your mind, right. So you just need to be the idea person. But then sit down with the AI, let it build. Because execution has now become democratized.

[Rashad]

Yeah, as you were talking the whole time thing like yo, Keys is making the case why memory is going to be so important in the future. We just had this whole conversation about it and everything you said, like the brain, well, it has to be stored. Even if you're off the Internet, that has to be stored. So when you hear the word stored, it automatically thinks to me, memory, memory, memory. I wonder now, like high level intelligence, artificial intelligence, combining. You kind of alluded to it just now. What is a few things that have just blown you away. Like either a prompt that you put out, something maybe daily that you're putting out that came back to you and has just blown you away.

[19 Keys]

Oh, I have a perfect one for everybody. I actually first started exploring this, I

[Rashad]

said a prompt, I Said, I said a prompt that has blown you away.

[Troy]

I said it twice, though. That was the first time I was gonna let you.

[Rashad]

This guy's crazy. That's crazy.

[19 Keys]

All right, so it was. It was it. This first came from rants. I started working in a terminal probably about two to three years ago, right? Working in a terminal. It was the first thing that started because essentially you are able to have the AI scan your whole computer and it's able to then, number one, organize all your files and organize it kinetically to where it's an intelligent order. Like, one of the biggest things that I learned from setting up these AIs is it's not the setup, it's the order and the organization in which you set it up up. You can have a huge entire system with files everywhere, but if they're not organized correctly, it's going to take somebody forever to go into your brain and find something. It's the same thing with the AI, right? And so when I got the most benefit out of it was I started using AI to organize my life right to where everything is connected and it's where it's supposed to be, right? That's one of the first things you can do when you utilize an AI on your computer, is that you can have it organize your files and start organizing your life much better, right? I'm talking specifically utilizing subfolders and markdown files, right? And you should write down subfolders, markdown files to set it up in a hierarchical, intelligent order. If you use that specific prompt, right, it's going to then start organizing it. Ask it to run a forensic audit, right, on your whole entire file system and act as if you are a forensic chairman. You're going to be giving me complete truth, right? No fluff, no guessing, no hype, no invented data, right? If something cannot be confirmed, I need you to explicitly state it, right? All the numbers require logic and source reasoning. The assumptions are labeled as assumptions. Compliance and down risk surface early, not late. Like, I can go through the whole prompt, but it's a full prompt prompt that gives you where your IP is, right? Your low IP to your high ip, what is your moat, your ownership Control the optics. We can run patterns against your reputation, right? We do a reputation analysis. We can do an influence analysis to where it even shows you where you rank on how these social media companies rank you based on your influence, why they would let you scale or why they wouldn't. And then how to create, create a strategy around getting around those things that it can then go flagging your content, right? Like we got a blue ocean enforcement to where you're looking at what is your highest level of strategy, right? What is the current ceiling that you have? What is the net worth and the value of all your ip, your network, your influence, your current data, right? Your business plan, the whole nine, right? And then from there you start setting it up in your terminal. Then you start creating an end to end pipeline. You start setting up a pipeline that goes from idea to market, to product to scale to compliance, right? You start setting up a stress test for everything. Security test, product design. Like I have a very long prompt that first goes into the system and then when that's ingested, it then creates a chairman that is essentially become an executive assistant. That runs my life. It don't run my life, but it helps extend me to manage my life and it orchestrates the agents around it. So I did have this one I think everybody should use is my Mansa Musa agent, right? So my Mansa Musa agent is an agent that is just a money making agent. I don't want to think about making money all the time. I just want to be the idea person. So Monsa Musa makes sure that in everything that I'm doing, he's making sure that he's looking for money, he's looking for opportunities, looking for or doing full audits on everything, running that against my data, creating full funnels for me, sending me constant reports every single day, right? On where there is financial leakage in my business and where I can tighten up things like that one is like having rich dad, poor dad, but you got rich dad in your ear all the time. You understand me? And it's always helping you audit yourself. So that Masam Musa 1 is one that after I get something done, I then send it to Masam Musa and. And he sends me a report. And from that report, I'm able to see it from a financial angle. Another thing I set up is something that I call the King Protocol. I got this from having a long conversation with Idris when he was telling me his use case, right? And I have like a small circle of people that we're going back and forth and sharing information and resources on how we're actually utilizing AI. And one of the most important things was how do you set it up as a thinking partner, right? And what I did was after I set up my second brain vault, I was able to feed 24 agents, right, my current memory, at least what they have access to. And then I gave each one of them a specific identity and Each identity was labeled differently. Like they all get a different degree. One get a degree in marketing, one get a degree in neuroscience. Right. One degree of sociology, philosophy, etc, you name it. So they then go against all of my data and they start debating against it from all different angles and then they bring me back novel insights. So this is like different versions of myself looking at my ideas. Right. And then afterwards I'm able to reflect on what that actually means. They're able to find patterns in my information over the last 10 years to say that the predictions and AI have came true 95% percent of the time. Right. And that's unheard of. So now I get to find a way to look at myself as a thought leader, as a futurist and as a consultant and say now I have a way to actually grade against that. Right. And so I think a thinking partner and I think a chairman and an assistant are some of the best things that you can set up in your business right now. But the prop does matter. And the beauty of what I learned is that each person prompts differently. Right. Like I might to somebody else and they might add something to it that I did not know. Right. And it then extends what your machine can do. So we actually tomorrow we, we out in la, we will be on the yacht and just having an AI meetup and we doing this like week to week. Then we do our AI live labs two times a week where we're not just talking to you, we're actually building stuff in front of you. You get the prompts, you get the skills right. And you get to just make progress in your business business. It's the first time where we can guarantee a person is going to make progress. Right. By building with us.

[Ian]

Before you get on the yacht, can you drop a link for us to have all those prompts? Because we, we all want to mass audience. I got you. So before you leave tonight, is there a way to give us that amazing prompt?

[19 Keys]

Yeah, I think, I think the team just text me, let me see where is going to be the. That's what they was texting. That's what Autumn pings was about. So in the comments you can go to 19keys.com hackathon and it will send you a sign up link so you can get all of those prompts. And if you put it in the comments, there's somebody right now, my sister in the comments. I'm actually in the comments. Antoine, in the comments there's somebody to help you as well to make sure you get those links. Yeah, you Feel me. I promise you, it is a life changer for everybody. Like, it's. I was in Ghana and I went to Ghana's AI validation, which is they're in collaboration with the United Nations. AI is trying to become, or Ghana is trying to become the AI hub of Africa. And one of the things they focusing on is data sovereignty. So they start training people up on AI already. But I was talking to a data scientist out there, and he's concerned because you have new government officials utilizing this AI, but they can end up putting something in there that they shouldn't, and then hackers can end up taking that data, right? And so even data sovereignty is not even safe. And one of the issues was the fact that, you know, 95 of the cases where somebody's using somebody's likeness to strip them of their image, right, in public, like make a naked version of them, is through with a woman, rather. So what people are doing is they're taking your legal data, not your protected data, and they're using that against you. I think I talked about it last time we talked about cognitive sovereignty. And cognitive sovereignty is the most dangerous warfare that there is today. And it's essentially these governments, right, have all built machines and algorithms and AIs in order to manipulate each other's audiences or each other's citizens. And so anything you're doing online right now, you have to remember that we're in a completely different era of the Internet. This is the era of the Internet where it talks back to you. You're not just talking to another human being, right? And we talked about it. We joked about bots. Well, boss just got a completely different upgrade. And they have papers that show how persuasive bots are because they program them with persuasiveness, right? And so when we're online, they're constantly running psyops. And these are manipulating people, right? And in that manipulation, it creating fragmentation. And it's getting people to fight against each other online and they don't realize it or sending you down rabbit holes. There's a model that Facebook dropped called Tribe V2. Now, I downloaded this, and it is a audio visual language model, trimodal. And what it does is it can run content through the AI and it will show what parts of the brain lights up, right? And this could be even better in some cases than an mri. And so you have to imagine the average person is, no disrespect, like, not that complex and sophisticated. So what they're doing is creating a baseline for how the average Human brain will respond to something. So imagine you then run your content through that you can guarantee is going to go viral because you know that you're keeping people engaged the whole entire time because you're looking at the parts of the brain that's lit up. So I tested this against my viral content and it's pretty good. And now I have to imagine the future where everything online is there to manipulate you. You watching a video and you think it's because you like it the whole time, it's because they read it through a simulation and they're not asking you. They're going directly to your brain cells to decide what will work. Like, this is a dangerous world and we're giving iPads to children and we think they safe. And I'm gonna tell you who go be the most cognitively sovereign where they can actually have independent thinking and creativity. It's gonna be some of the children that come from the poorest places because they don't typically have access to all the tech. It might be children in Africa that never had an iPad. So their brain is not messed up. So by the time they use a computer, they have fresh thoughts and analysis and critical thinking skills. Right. And ability to solve problems in different ways or even children that are in broadband deserts. Even though I do think that we should be mentoring and teaching young men and women how to utilize AI right now. And not just AI, how to think first before you use it, how to reflect on it after you use it. So you're not just taking in memory and the AI is using it the whole time while you think you're using

[Ian]

AI really quick, as a follow up, I got a text saying that the link is broken. Do you have. Oh, yeah, they're killing me with the asking link for you.

[19 Keys]

Let me look at my text. I got so many damn things. So I just seen the upgrade and it's.

[Ian]

Hold on.

[Troy]

Broke the website for real.

[19 Keys]

I'm trying to. I want to change the world with this man.

[Troy]

Well, while you're doing that, I'll say honestly, honestly, like, it was a very educational episode for me. I learned a lot. And anytime, you know, we get you on, definitely greatly appreciate it. So for sure, before you leave, give us the whole rundown of stuff that you got coming up and let the audience know your final words. And then, yeah, if you have that, you know where to direct them. What's your. What's your. What's your partnering words for us this evening?

[19 Keys]

Yes, Sir. The site is 19keys.com hackathon. Right. So I believe they. It wasn't published at first when I sent out the link, but it should be working now. Okay, first of all, congratulations on a platform with his continuity, right? And having people here on a Monday long form content to learn about financial sovereignty, not just generational wealth, like how do we become free where money is not even an issue. And I think people are here looking for freedom. They're looking for a way to best utilize their time, right? They're using this as the best way to use their mind. And you're talking about people from behind the walls. You're talking about people from the streets to people in a corporate ladder. There's all sorts of different people that watch Market Mondays, right? Because here is a place where you can actually learn. And human to human learning is still the best learning that you're going to ever get because there's real energy. You can look a human in his eyes and tell that they actually care for another person. You would never be able to do that with an AI. You would never be able to do that with a robot. So I just want to say kudos to you all for having an educational platform that keeps us informed. Secondary, my birthday coming up and we're going to be doing some meetups in Los Angeles, right? So that same link that you're sending for the hackathon, we built a platform called Zion. And the platform is a nation building platform. The idea came about where it was like, I don't want to be competing for followers on social media. I don't, I don't want to compete in the algorithm. I don't want to compete for comments, for likes. I don't want to try to get access to 10 of my audience after I built them up for the last 10 years, right? Anybody that has 1 million followers like you should have everything you need inside of that 1 million people that you got to follow you. Congratulations, it's an amazing feat. But you don't own that audience, so you can't count that towards your value. Only things you can count are communication channels that you own. The text, right? The emails and things of that nature, you putting them into other spaces to where you can download those analytics. Because Instagram currently don't allow you to get a CSV file on your audience, nor does YouTube, right? You can get comments, but you can't get who this person is. So I say influencers are economies, right? Especially those who are generalists because they influence more areas of your life. They can influence the way you eat, the way you drink with stocks that you buy into, right, the things that you wear. So therefore they can become economists because they're helping you spend your budget, they're influencing warrior goes. And if you are somebody of great influence, you have an economic influential power that could be worth billions of dollars. But can you organize that influence to an infrastructure? Right? And so when we start asking that question, it's like, I did not know who were my top supporters were, but what if I could put them all into one place and I could talk to them all the time, not just on text, not just on email, but in my own platform, right? So now I want to see what assets that exist in my audience when I travel around the world. I got to put out, I got to go on Twitter, make a post because it's best formats, then post that onto Instagram and ask who's in the city, who got a barber, who got a tattoo artist, who got this. Then people respond inside my dm. But would it be better to just have my own platform to where I can automatically just organize things with the community? I can have them vote on what they want to actually see. They can send me offers of things they want me to make and we can collaborate. So we build out a digital nation platform called Zion, which allow creators to build their own nation. You can see how much is worth, right? You can see how much of your audience that you actually own, how much of them are just supporters, how much of them are actual real family and fans based on the lifetime value of that audience. And so I believe that this is the future to where we're essentially creating a digital city that one day, right, becomes almost a physical city. Because I didn't want a social media network, I wanted a nation network. We don't own substance about we, you know who I'm talking about. You understand me? We get every day you go on social media and you talk bad about somebody, but you have to then look in the mirror and say, are they worse than the person that owns this platform? That's up to you to make that decision, right? Depending on how you, your ethics are actually aligned. But I wanted a platform to where we can actually own the network, we can actually organize, influence the culture. Don't have to ask how can we do something. We can just vote on it and then execute it in real time. So that's what Zion is. We have high level society and I'm actually making what we call a passport. It gives you access inside of the platform. And what we decided to do yesterday at the Gap, all my data is I Can take the first 10,000 people, my top people that's been supporting me overall all the years, and then we just making a profile for you, and then we're giving you access to that, and then you get discount rates into membership, and we're doing live events, investment clubs. A whole bunch of different stuff is fly. So be a part of that. But beyond that, man, I just want to say the biggest thing that's in danger today, you know, is your ability to critically think, you know, after we get past all this money talk, after we get past all this capital, you understand me? There's always another product to market and things of that nature. But anytime I get in front of God's people, I got to give them God's message. You feel me? And your ability to be able to think for yourself, to save yourself, you understand me, I think is key, right? Like that the things that are happening with these wars and not knowing whether for food is going to be able to come to America shows you how vulnerable we are as a people without having integration. Right. Our disconnection from family that we have today because we're so fragmented and caught up in our processes. But if any one of them die, it would be the most important thing in your life. But the day before, you didn't even think about them. Right? We have to get to a place to where family means something again. Because otherwise, who are we building this for? For another day to survive. All right? Another day to pay a bill. Right. Or are we focused on quality of living? I know my brother Ian go disappear and be with his son somewhere for sure. He might be with a beautiful woman in the sun too, but that's his business. You understand me? I know, Troy.

[Ian]

Oh, God.

[19 Keys]

They gonna be with their family somewhere, tucked in, locked in. These brothers and us have been working together for the last five, about five, six years now.

[Ian]

Yeah.

[19 Keys]

This is the important thing. Because if you're by yourself, you're the most vulnerable person in the world. You need a tribe. You need people that you can call upon. Because we don't know what tomorrow is going to happen, right? And this is the thing. We talked a lot about the future. As we talk about technology and AI, that's not the important thing. The important thing is about our willpower, our imagination. What do we want to see? The AI can do whatever we imagine. So what do we imagine? What do we imagine? 2030 will be 2040 will be 2050. These family offices, they get together and they plan the next 100 years.

[Ian]

Yes, currently.

[19 Keys]

Currently, I'm Working with a family office on a culture side, you understand me? And being in these conversations where you're talking about allocation for the next 30 years, looking at these sectors to figure out how they go control them, how, where do they put trillions of dollars at? Right. Not just tens. And when we think about our spending power, when I'm in Africa and I know I'm being a little long winded, but when I'm in Africa and I go around, the main thing they want to get is into the US market. The main thing they want is the US market, because when we talk about this 1.7 trillion spending power, all they hear is money. They say, wait a minute, y' all are the greatest consumers, so how can we sell something to you? Right? And then they consume our culture, but just not from us directly. We let everybody else middleman. I think this is the time where you put a moat around a culture. I was talking to our brother Keenan Beasley about this. Nobody should get access to the culture unless they go into the culture directly. You understand me? I should not go to another country. And they have their whole entire club wrapped in black American culture. But a black American don't own it,

[Ian]

don't benefit from it. Yep.

[19 Keys]

So we have valuable things, but they want to make us feel like it's not valuable. Oh, y'.

[Rashad]

All.

[19 Keys]

What do y' all got? Dan too. And y' all got fashion. Yes, we do. And it's worth trillions of dollars. The problem is, is that we trying to make the things that actually make us the most valuable. Everybody else try to use that as our insecurity when it's not. I think we need to lean into that more. We need to control that more. We need to organize more. We need to be into family more. Right. And anybody that has an issue with this platform or any other platform, if you're not willing to help, share, shut up. Because this is that critical time where people need to be focused on how do I build with my family and how do I recognize who is my family and how do I protect my mind so that why my child is being brought up in this world. I can still recognize them when they're an adult. Like, these things are the most important. All these other things that we're doing, these are important as well. Because economically we need to be at the highest level. And there's no reason that we. We shouldn't. But if you don't have your mind, right, if your consciousness is not in tune, if your frequency is not on the right channel. Right. Then Nothing that we tell you will matter. It's going to go out of one ear into the next, and you're going to be back trying to figure out how do you get entertainment for market Monday, right? Versus how do you actually take the education and put it into implementation? Because a well working mind executes. So I'm done being long winded. I just wanted to say that that was on my thoughts, was on my mind.

[Troy]

There you have it, ladies and gentlemen,

[Ian]

one of the greatest ever, one of

[Troy]

the great orators of our generation. 19 keys. Always a pleasure, man. Very, very, very educational. Motivational. At the same time, I'll be so excited.

[19 Keys]

I don't even be getting a chance to go through it. I'll be having a whole list of. Let me explain this simple. This time, my mind end up going,

[Rashad]

That's a sharp mind. That man said, I'm long winded. And went 20 minutes after that. For everybody, May 4th is his birthday. I'm usually the first person to call him. So I want y' all to wish him a happy birthday in advance. He's a tourist. Keys. You know what's on the calendar, my brother? I'm always the first one to call you.

[19 Keys]

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I appreciate y' all brothers, man. Love y' all brothers.

[Ian]

Appreciate it you. Love you dearly, my guy.

[19 Keys]

Hackathon or go to asupermind.com to get some of this sip on.

[Ian]

I got going on super mine, super my coffee.

[Troy]

All right, my brother.

[Rashad]

That was a pleasure.

[Troy]

Game pleasure.

[Rashad]

I'm trying to write the notes as he's saying it, and then he said something else. I'm trying to write the notes and I'm like, yeah, I'm trying to.

[Ian]

I'm like, yep, man.

[Rashad]

I'm gonna have to call him. I gotta call him.

[Troy]

Y' all gonna have to watch that episode at least three times, man. I was extremely insightful. This. This is going to be a he all across the board. We got. We just had this episode, which is crazy. Blackout. We got Dr. Yaki. That's going to be crazy. That's going to go crazy. And then we got Julian Brown on Thursday for earn your leisure, man. This is the highest level of education possible. Like, this is really.

[Ian]

Don't take this at the most important time.

[Troy]

Don't take this for granted, Please, please.

[Rashad]

But protect Keys, man.

[Troy]

A lot, a lot. Like I said, please watch this episode at least three times. Vitally important. Please, please, please watch it three times, man. That's. This is. This is very, very, very insightful conversation that he Gave a lot of. A lot of free game Claude.

[Rashad]

Open claw prompts Obsidian Obsidian. Agentic AI Robotics.

[Ian]

That's a lot put me on perplexity a while ago. And also too for those who want to be in media, knowing when to play good cop, bad cop and notice when keys speak. Giving your guest room to speak just to cook.

[Rashad]

Chairman Prompts. You are a chairman.

[Troy]

Invest fest, man, this is gonna be. This is probably gonna be the most important Invest Fest, man. This is. And we got a lot of people. We got a lot of important smart people. A lot of smart people for the intellectuals.

[Rashad]

Yeah. One of the things he. He's alluding to it, but the level of efficiency that he's now operating at, you can just tell it has just elevated. Like we talk about it a lot but like really understanding these prompts and how they're going to help benefit you. That's why the high level intelligence piece mixed with artificial intelligence becomes an assistant and he's mastered it. He's master and he's gonna. And every day he's learning every day and getting around people who are also learning at that same rate. Shout out to ranch out to. To 1500.

[Ian]

Shout out to 15. 1500 or nothing. Love y'. All. Y' all family.

[Rashad]

Let's go.

[Troy]

Shout out to Ranch out to the whole community, man. All right, y' all chap in. We got, we got blackout, we got earn your leisure. We're gonna be in Brooklyn on, on Wednesday. We got Chicago on Saturday. And yeah, man, you know, y', all, y'.

[Ian]

All.

[Troy]

I give some. Some claps to Mike. Uh, it was a very hard episode as far as, uh, navigating some technical issues.

[Ian]

We made it,

[Troy]

you know, it's a live show, but you gotta love. That's what it's about. That's what it's about. Real in game adjustments for real games.

[Ian]

Y. Thank you loyal listeners. I love y' all so much.

[Rashad]

Thank y' all for executing.

[Troy]

That's.

[Rashad]

That's important, man. Like you said, information will be on us. Execution will be on y'.

[Ian]

All.

[Rashad]

A well mind executes on information, so make sure y'. All, you have a mind as well.

[Troy]

Troy's options class is Thursday.

[Ian]

That's a fact.

[Troy]

Seven o' clock Eastern standard time. You are Eyl University. Oh, man. Amazing options. Community. Amazing community, period. All right, guys, real quick stop.

[Ian]

Plug prices will be at Wednesday at 9pm Central. I just want to let y' all know that Wednesday at 9pm Central Stock Club prices will be out in Kajabi.

[Rashad]

Yeah, we also Thursday Netflix will be reporting. I think TSM is reporting before the opening on Thursday too, and obviously all the banks. We saw a Goldman report earlier today, so it's a big week. It's that time of earnings season again.

[Ian]

It's still time to hit my line. If y' all want to get the

[Rashad]

restructuring right downgraded again today.

[Troy]

Tune in to market Mondays after dark if you want to hear our story about Nas And Buster and Dr. Dre and Az, all that hip hop tap in.

[Ian]

All right.

[Troy]

All right, y'.

[Ian]

All.

[Troy]

Peace.

[Ian]

Love you.

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