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#36 Make LEGIT Cash Movie Investing with Bad-A$$ Chicago Movie Mogul Ted Reilly and Comedian Skyler Higley Apr 08, 2019

Show notes

What happens when a former Goldman guy turns into a movie investor? *12 Days of Christmas beat*

17 films, 2 TV shows and a slate of 4 web series

Yup, this SAVAGE (Ted has 6 kids!!) schools us on how to make legit money investing in movies!

Ted and his partner Kelly Waller run Chicago Media Angels and they’ve created some bad-a$$ movies and shows that are already making returns!

Can a regular person like me or you invest as little as $5k in a movie and make bangin’ returns?

What’s the smart-money way to invest $10k or $20k in a film, TV or other media and have a good shot at makin' it back?

Besides movie-makin', we also talk about the Fed: is Trump REALLY pushin the Fed to bring back “quantitative easing?” We need to WEAN ourselves off the Vicodin our economy’s been on, not double the dosage, Donny T!!

Finally, we discuss our boy Elon Musk - Tesla delivery miss, Elon’s tweets, RIP Harambe....

Enjoy!

Shownotes:

2:00 Plugged skylar - Young Hustle 10pm Fridays

4:45 Ted Riley “30 Miles To Nowhere” movie. Thriller on Amazon.

6:00 Jeff Bezos

8:00 “Come As you Are” movie

9:00 Markets up 1%. Close to all time highs

10:00 “Quantitative Easing”

12:00 Fire truck sounds funny explanation of “Quantitative Easing”

14:00 Trump, Fire trucks, and stock market

16:00 Amer doesn’t think this is good for economy b/c already in “Bubble Territory”

22:30 Trump and “Opioids

26:00 Fear of market high

31:00 How to make money through movies

40:00 How to make low budget movie money back

42:00 classes of movies in terms of price points

44:30 Ted is cutting to the chase - don’t make a feature film make a web series. Shorter videos are easier to capture audience

48:00 Ted breaks down parts of a movie

50:00 What about a lawyer wanting to make money on a banker making money in movie

51:45 “equity is high risk high reward”

52:30 Lay person becoming producer? Make it your full time job.

53:30 Low risk low reward in terms of debt investing

59:00 Investor US building audience

1:01:00 Has to be cheaper way than Fox to make money

1:02:30 Elon Musk

1:07:30 Why did Tesla not reach their estimated orders?

1:12:40 Saudi Arabia

1:18:00 Start of Saudi decline?

1:19:00 Patagonia

1:24:00 Taylor Swift Op-ed to Apple’s big plan

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#35 Real-Estate Gangsta Joey Cacciatore Schools Us on Makin Chedda with Comedian Lancey Richardson Apr 01, 2019

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Wassup friends,

Oh man, dis episode was DOPE!

Comedian Lancey Richardson (Comedy show every Thursday at 8pm at Chicago Joe’s) cracked us up while real estate gangsta Joey Cacciatore (http://jos-cacciatore.com/) coached us up!

Why did Joey drop out of college to develop the bad ass Lacuna Artist Lofts property?

What are the 3 techniques Joey uses to make serious chedda in real estate?

How did Joey take a $300,000 parking lot in 2017 and turn it into $9 million of condos today?!

Why the F is Joey Cacciatore so cool?

(Hint: has something to do with meditation. I told y’all *reflection* is fo’ real!!)

We also got a taste of my grandma Zarifa - she slam dunked the Lyft IPO

*grandma Arabic accent* tech bubble all over again!

Finally, we broke the news to Lancey that he missed in the crazy news cycle: Trump was elected President in 2016! And according to Joey, we have 10 more years of Trumps in the White House after Ivanka wins in 2024!! (WTF?!)

Enjoy!

Amer

SHOWNOTES:

7:30 Brexit day 3 years ago March 29th

9:15 markets up 13% this quarter

15:50 last year fed stopped raising interest rates

23:00 Muslim underground railroad

30:00 Estate taxes putting companies out of business

33:30 50K to 500K in 25 years

35:45 Capital gains tax

39:25 Hedge-fund risk

42:20 FUNNY

45:30 Don’t go to college

56:15 Art of real estate development

1:00:00 making bank through real estate development

1:24:00 How much money you make - how much you can borrow

1:26:00 Zareefa - Lyft IPO,

1:28:00 Uber vs Lyft

1:34:30 “Not just ride sharing”

1:37:00 Facebook dumpster fire

1:43:30 Gov probably going to regulate social media - sell facebook

1:44:00 Apple new services - credit card, tv plus, apple news, #BUYAPPLE

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#34 Stocks Down ~500 pts Fri ... ERRRYONE JUST CHILL with Meghan Powell Mar 25, 2019

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Hey peeps,

Flip-flop-Fed.

Right Said Fred.

Yabba dabba dooooo!

Yeah, so the Fed flip-flopped last week. First, interest rates were UP in December. Now, they’re DOWN in March. And guess what? Stocks prolly ‘bout to flip-flop.

Errryone just ch-ch-ch-ch-chill. Keep investing 20% of yo chedda, no matter what the market do. Bein’ chill-ion gonna get you to a billion.

What about Mark Zuck?
He always in some muck.
Our passwords weren’t secure?
Man, W-T-F ??!!

And y’all gon love Meghan’s story about being on a flight with Jesse Eisenberg (yep, he’s as creepy as he looks).

Lyft IPO goin’ bananas. Investors straight THROWIN billions at Lyft! Is it gonna be another Snap? Dat sh!t still down 35% from IPO even tho it came out bangin.

Finally, Bud Lite been talkin’ smack to MillerCoors on TV commercials, sayin Miller & Coors brew with corn syrup. And now MillerCoors suing the sh!t outta Bud. Let’s sit back and watch deez 2 clowns beat the sh!t outta each other!!

Click listen and enjoy!

Amer

Shownotes:

3:00 The NZ Mosque shooter

11:00 Meghan Powell - Air and water show at the Cards Against Humanity Theater. Every Wednesday in April at 8pm.

12:00 Agenda

15:00 The markets-down week in stocks-dovish. Fed has embraced an easy money policy. Why are they flip flopping?

20:00 What does the Fed know that we don't?

24:30 Lifeblood of economy is interest rates-stay invested

30:00 60/20/20 rule - keep that 20% continuing to invest

36:30 Does this data negatively affect the market

39:00 Facebook-down 3.5%. Instagram check out.

40:00 Jesse eisenberg story

48:20 FB has been storing passwords incorrectly

53:30 Disney and Fox

58:00 AT&T and Time Warner is a much messier merger

1:09:00 IPOs for Levi's, Pinterest, Lyft, Uber - is this a sign of an oncoming down market?

1:14:00 Bud Light vs MillerCoors - corn syrup

#33: New Zealand Tragedy — My Take As A Muslim Mar 20, 2019

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Hey friends,

Dayyum, this one was not easy to record. I’m glad we did, tho.

As a Muslim myself and regular mosque-goer, I was shaken up by the mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. My guest Sam Prickett and I open by discussing my experience of the tragedy, which happened the same day we taped the show.

Though Sam isn’t Muslim, he’s actually gone with me to Friday prayer before, so he could relate to the peace and stillness there was in the mosque moments before the tragedy took place.

After this, we jump into talk‘mbout some bidness news and other sh!t. Rich parents bribing SAT proctors (or, per Sam, proctologists)?! And TWO Wall Street executives caught up in all this?!

And what kinda bullsh!t is the FAA on? FAA was TOTALLY cool with TWO Boeing MAX 8 crashes?! Surprise, surprise — Donny T & Boeing’s CEO are boys. Solution? Swap out Air Force One with a MAX 8.

We finish up with Brexit. Britain wants a divorce from Europe. Only problem is they’re still sleeping on the couch and refuse to move all their sh!t outta the house.

Happy listening!

Amer

5:00 Amer at an open mic when tragedy in NZ happened

15:30 What to do in the aftermath of such tragedy

19:19 Relevant verse from the Quran about life and death

25:00 Thank you’s to all the amazing people that are helping

27:00 Let’s talk markets: up a HUGE 2.5% last week

29:25 How does the Federal Reserve target GDP & inflation?

34:30 Summing up the markets

36:07 College admission scandal’s impact on Hercules Capital & PIMCO

44:20 Scandal’s impact on Hercules Capital

45:00 Discussing white privilege and status privilege

47:20 Scandal’s impact on PIMCO

48:30 Boeing crashes: make Trump fly in a MAX 8

51:30 Impact on Boeing stock

52:35 Why the FAA hesitated to ground sketchy planes

57:25 Bottom line on the Boeing issue

59:18 Trump’s models and bottles trade signing cancelled

1:01:00 Facebook still wack

1:04:00 Brexit - one nasty a** breakup

1:08:40 Biggest NY cocaine bust in 25 years. Is Wall Street gonna make it into the office this week?

#32: R. Kelly vs Stocks: Who Had a Worse Week? w/ Comedian Jack Hutsey Mar 11, 2019

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Wassup y’all,

While R. Kelly snap-krackle-popped all over America on CBS, stocks fell 2.5% this week.

Why’d stocks drop - and where they prolly going?

“Hmmm, what else can we snatch from Snap?”

- probably Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerburg-lar is completing the theft trifecta:

(1) FB from the Winklevoss-es (Winklevii?)

(2) “stories” feature from Snapchat

(3) and now doin private posts, including auto-deleting posts after some time. Thanks, Snap!

WTF is FB without peep’s postin every dumbass thought they have?!

And remember Pharma-bro, Martin Shkreli? He done gone all Larry Hoover on us, runnin his drug company from prison with a contraband cellphone. “Ayyy a**hole, come decorate our prison cell” D-Rock & Krispy, who probably made Shkreli their prison b**ch.

Finally, did you know Trump’s tariffs haven’t had their intended effect? “Well WTF did you expect?” - all economists in America. The government reported America is somehow hittin record trade deficit numbers DESPITE THE TARIFFS!

6:30 Stocks suck thanks to Trump’s trade war with China

7:38 Low job creation

9:50 Question on unemployment and hiring

13:30 Investing for the kids

15:25 Stipulations for a 529 account

18:40 Ekarmoney- Finding love with homeless people and the flow of money

20:44 Summing up 529 plans

22:30 Facebook! Mark is going crazy!

25:10 Facebook is going private

27:50 Amer’s note on cheese and his wife

30:23 Soldier Boi, Pharma Bro

34:00 Martin Shkreli prison life- quotes from Wall Street

37:30 International Trade- USA’s trade deficits

39:55 Trump approaching the trade deficit foolishly. What’s new?

41:37 Favorite Imports

42:35 2020 Presidential Favorites

#31: Income Inequality Makin' Us All Mentally Crazy. One Fix? INVEST!! with Shreya, St. James & Noshod Mar 04, 2019

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The march upward in stocks continues - TEN straight weeks! Time to sell? NOPE. Time to BUY, my peeps. Keep yo 20% movin' into the markets.

Robert Kraft prostitution sting was bad enough to hear about. But did Tom Brady’s boy know about the huge business scheme behind the massage parlor ring down in southern FL?

It’s official: we all done lost the 5G battle to China. So now wassup? Is 5G truly revolutionary? And what’s the right investment move?

Noshod asks about investing in medicine in anticipation of a possible health epidemic. SJJ asks about investing in porn because everyone’s becoming more socially awkward. Are these legit investments? And why the F- do I have guests that ask these kinda questions?

Income inequality sucks because there’s super rich people and super poor people living side by side. But researchers are now saying American inequality is bad for people’s health, BOTH RICH and poor. For real?!

4:00 The Young Hustle My Last Friday Mar 29th at 10pm Comp tickets @lifeofStJames

9:00 Bob Kraft

13:30 Markets

22:00 60 20 20 Rule

33:00 Beating Mental Blocks with Investing

42:00 Income inequality

49:00 Cat Named Xanax

54:30 5G Revolution in Speed

59:20 How Powerful China is Going to Be with 5G?

1:16:00 Elon Musk- Purposely Trying to Tank Tesla Stock?

1:21:30 GAP and Old Navy

1:25:00 ATT and Time Warner

#30: F- the Paycheck Mentality. Get-chu a *Net Worth* Mentality with Meghan Powell Feb 25, 2019

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Hey friends,
Markets Are KILLIN’ it! WTF is going on?!
Mr. Market was in a really good mood this week. He’s up 11%+ to start off the year, up NINE straight weeks!
Well, if you’re following me, you cool as a cucumber. Chill as a chickpea. Easy green peas-y. Why? Because you playin the long game, buildin’ legit wealth. You ain’t gamblin Wolf of Wall Street style. Up or down market, put in yo 20%.
Why’s the market up? Well, Fed’s slowin their roll on quantitative easing sales. And Trump’s startin to get all scared on China trade war, talm’bout moving deadlines and meeting with China’s president. Art of the deal my a** ...
Click “Listen” now to hear my guest Meghan Powell and I talk about movin from a paycheck mentality to a net worth mentality. Yup. It’s time. Grow up and get you some real cheddar. I’ma show you how.
Finally, we discuss all the shiy things banks did this week. Don’t get me wrong, banks are important, I use ‘em all the time to help me make bank. But dayyum deez banks LOVE to do stupid a sh!t to hurt people! Like help rich Frenchies evade taxes, help Russians move dirty money, and lose billions on losing stock trades they stuffed in a drawer 10 years ago hoping it’d go away.

SHOW NOTES:

6:00 Our guest Meghan Powell: If you have a sales team that would benefit from Improv Sales Training contact Meghan Powell at MPowell652@gmail.com for more info

15:00 The Markets are doing *great* WTF is going on?!

17:45 60/20/20 rule

39:00 Would a Bernie Sanders win negatively affect the stock market?

43:00 Change your money mindset - move from a paycheck mentality to a *net worth* mentality

54:00 Google’s YouTube losing advertisers fast due to permitting a soft-core pedophile ring in its comments section

1:00:00 Elon Musk - why the F do you keep posting sensitive info on Twitter?

1:03:00 Lyft IPO: *driver* “get in, we’re going PUBLIC”

1:07:30 If you’re having a bad day, just look to Kraft Heinz-slashed their dividend, stock -28%, $15 billion write down, SEC investigating and a partridge in a pear tree

1:11:00 Danske Bank was kicked out of Estonia after $230 billion of money laundering. UBS fined 4 Billion. Deutsche bank lost 1.6 billion. Banks suck this week.

1:20:00 McKinsey consulting company - they suck too.

1:21:30 Apple credit card teaming up with Goldman Sachs for some reason. Clowns don’t know what they’re doing.

Special Mentions: become Anti fragile, Babyshark, Rich dad, Poor dad, and Bernie Sanders

#29: Well, Excuse Me, Mr. Gangsta Market, Up 8 STRAIGHT Weeks! Feb 18, 2019

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If you’ve been listenin’ to me and investing 20% every week, you done made some SERIOUS cheddar the past 8 weeks yo!! Yes, KEEP INVESTIN’ every week. If you’re not, whatever excuses you makin’ up, knock the teef outta they mouth!
I know, I know. Last week I said the market’s gonna puke. Well, it definitely did NOT puke this week. I DO still believe the market’s vulnerable given
(1) Drumpf clownin’ around with China trade war and (2) the global economy straight up slowin’ down.
Even when the market does puke tho,stayin’ disciplined = long term rich AF.
What about all this drama with Amazon pullin out of NYC? And WTF is up w Bezos not being there to rescue the deal? Too busy hittin’ LA pool parties w spicy Lauren Sanchez? Too busy piss matchin’ with D-Trump and the Enquirer’s truthful Bezos story? (Lancey can’t even believe the Enquirer actually published a TRUE story! First for everything) I ain’t diggin’ AMZN stock over the next few months, sell some of dat sh!t because Bezos distracted fo’ sho.
And wassup with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) draggin all the millennials with her to the left? Is she a communist? Is she the reason Amazon left NYC? Wasssup AOC!?! Are we still gonna have a stock market if everyone becomes a socialist? Listen in to this ep to hear wassup.

Our guest this week is Lancey Richardson. He has a FREE Stand up comedy show called “Comedy Tub” - https://www.facebook.com/Comedytub/ every Thursday night at Chicago Joes at 8 pm.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

5:30 Topics: Markets, Greed, Amazon, Millennial Socialists

9:00 WTF is Lancey’s accent?

11:00 Lancey's investing strategy - “buy whatcha know”

17:00 Amer’s strategy: Buy at least 20 “Whatcha know” stocks to diversify

21:00 Markets - Fed pausing rate increases is BIGGLY for stocks

26:00 60:20:20 rule

29:00 80/20 rule

30:00 JP Morgan himself said “There's something calming about having savings”

31:00 Playing the long game in stocks helped Amer become aware of his greed and thereby work on reducing it

42:30 Mo’ money, mo problems - what does this ACTUALLY mean in reality? Or is it BS?

45:30 Playing on “scared money” at the casino

47:00 Amazon HQ 2 - WTF happened?

1:02:30 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: millennials banking hard left bc of AOC

#28: Brace for Another Market Puke... By Investing MORE! W/Ted Reilly and Sam Prickett Feb 09, 2019

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Imagine you just finished heaving, you crawl back to the couch on your knees feelin relieved, thinkin “everything’s ok again, phew!”

Well, that’s what January (and so far February too) was like for stocks. Feels ok right now..... but that sh!t ain’t gonna last! So start runnin’ for the hills (uh, really bathroom) right?

Nope. No such thing as a quick buck in my book. Only way to brace for another puke is...wait for it...invest MORE! Real wealth doesn’t happen in a day or a week. It happens with *disciplined* investing.

On this podcast, Ted & Sam join us to talk about the markets — and how I do not believe it’s possible to be a daytrader and reliably make a quick buck.

We also bang the ringside bell for the boxing match that’s now underway between the most powerful person in the world — D-Trump — and the richest person in the world — Jeff Bezos. *Michael Buffer* LLLLLLLet’s get ready to rummmmbllllllllllle!!!

What does this - and the Virginia governor fiasco - mean for stocks? Will “cancel culture” soon take over the biz world? What the hell is “cancel culture” anyway?

Finally, Ted and I wrangle over how much the Cubs should get “cancelled” due to Grandpa Joe Ricketts hating on minorities, and whether the Cubs franchise will take a valuation hit the way the Reds (Marge Schott) and Clippers (Don Sterling) did years back.

Show Notes:

19:00 The markets - keep investing even when the market is puking. 60-20-20 rule

24:00 How much does the president have to do with the economy?

27:30 On average your investment doubles every 7 years. #KeepInvesting

37:00 Why don't people think about the numerator? How much of you stash can you spend per year?

#KeepYourNumeratorLow

45:30 Now's the time to buy real estate

50:00 Cancel culture - black face?

1:00:00 Bezos vs Trump - Are Trump and Saudi govt behind this?

1:21:00 Chicago Cubs and the Ricketts racist anti muslim emails

#27 This One’s For You, Dad. Feb 05, 2019

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The stock market is feeling gooooooood. We’ve got the best stocks in 32 years! So life’s perfect, right? WRONG. We’re setting ourselves up for a recession. What does a recession mean? Finally find out here!

Show highlights:

03:20 About Anthony Bonazzo- our new guest!

06:46 Amer’s disclaimer- this show is dedicated to the dads.

08:37 Amer’s baba was a warrior.

23:06 Anthony’s advice on grief.

28:00 One of the most important things Amer learned from his dad.

31:08 The Markets: January had the best stocks in 32 years! But not all is well.

35:00 Why our stock market is happy- the Fed and Trump.

38:19 Why the rich are getting richer.

46:10 We have a slowing economy on our hands. This is what you need to do.

51:10 There are too many billionaires in this economy!!

54:12 What does recession really mean?