1 00:00:17,550 --> 00:00:20,460 Kevin Bae: Hello, I'm back. 2 00:00:25,860 --> 00:00:32,160 I'm late. I supposed to post on Monday, but I didn't. Lazy 3 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:41,070 Welcome back. That's all I got podcast. Still fiddling with all 4 00:00:41,070 --> 00:00:47,310 this stupid stuff. Okay, I'm live on YouTube. And I am going, 5 00:00:47,670 --> 00:00:52,920 I'm recording everywhere I need to do this stuff a little more 6 00:00:52,920 --> 00:01:01,080 often so I can be more polished. My lovely home office studio 7 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,360 anywhere else was supposed to post on Monday, which I meant to 8 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,530 do. But I couldn't get around to it. So here I am Episode Number 9 00:01:10,530 --> 00:01:17,160 12 which isn't bad, I suppose. Unless it's something you don't 10 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,870 enjoy, then it's bad. So I'm just gonna jump into this thing. 11 00:01:23,310 --> 00:01:27,780 And start with a meal I ate yesterday, look at this piece of 12 00:01:27,780 --> 00:01:36,900 shit. I ordered, I ordered a Whoa, a mushroom Swiss 13 00:01:36,930 --> 00:01:41,160 cheeseburger from from the Cheesecake Factory. And I 14 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:46,050 generally eat a low carb meal. So what I did was I you know, 15 00:01:46,380 --> 00:01:50,640 excluded the bun, I included the french fries, and ask them to 16 00:01:50,670 --> 00:01:54,390 provide me some, you know, maybe some lettuce to wrap it in, and 17 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,770 salad and place in the fries. So this thing comes here and it's 18 00:01:58,770 --> 00:02:04,170 it was over $15 almost 16 bucks for this burger. And it comes in 19 00:02:04,170 --> 00:02:07,830 it looks just look sort of pathetic and lonely. You know, 20 00:02:07,830 --> 00:02:13,770 you when you eat lower carb, and you're cutting out bread and all 21 00:02:13,770 --> 00:02:17,640 that kind of stuff. You forget how much bulk it has just for 22 00:02:18,270 --> 00:02:21,450 the presentation. So this thing arrives and I look at it like 23 00:02:21,450 --> 00:02:27,090 this is fucking pathetic. You know, and you forget to that 24 00:02:27,450 --> 00:02:33,390 most of the cost of of that meal. Aside from the labor, you 25 00:02:33,390 --> 00:02:41,070 know, it costs it it takes to produce it is is the meat. So so 26 00:02:41,070 --> 00:02:44,760 it's like one Patty of meat, maybe a couple of slices of 27 00:02:45,090 --> 00:02:49,890 Swiss cheese. And you know at most is like three or four 28 00:02:49,890 --> 00:02:52,140 mushrooms probably that information, probably three 29 00:02:52,140 --> 00:02:55,200 mushrooms that they slice up and put on there. You got tomatoes 30 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:04,260 and lettuce and all that shit pennies. So 1516 bucks for a 31 00:03:04,260 --> 00:03:11,340 penny of meat. It was just so underwhelming and disappointing. 32 00:03:12,060 --> 00:03:17,910 You know? I don't know. I just thought I'd start. Start off 33 00:03:17,910 --> 00:03:20,520 with it. It just it just kills me every time I look at this 34 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:26,400 stupid picture. So what do we have this week this past? It's 35 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,030 almost two weeks now since since I posted. I had the story on 36 00:03:30,030 --> 00:03:35,640 ivermectin. Which by the way, that is my personal box of 37 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:43,050 ivermectin. There was a story. And I saw it was from a tweet 38 00:03:43,470 --> 00:03:50,310 from Professor, that professor, Dr. Pierre quarry. And he was 39 00:03:50,310 --> 00:03:54,990 talking a little bit about how he has to fight to keep the 40 00:03:54,990 --> 00:03:58,710 information accurate on his own Wikipedia page, because people 41 00:03:58,710 --> 00:04:01,980 keep changing it around. So I searched around a little bit. 42 00:04:01,980 --> 00:04:05,850 And I found the original story from the desert review. And it 43 00:04:05,850 --> 00:04:11,700 was written by somebody who is a Wikipedia editor. And anybody, 44 00:04:11,910 --> 00:04:17,310 me, I assume everybody by now knows about Wikipedia and how 45 00:04:17,310 --> 00:04:23,430 its user editable. I've edited things on Wikipedia myself. I've 46 00:04:23,490 --> 00:04:27,000 tried to correct things that were not accurate about things 47 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,460 that I've done or about things that I knew. And I know you're 48 00:04:29,460 --> 00:04:35,490 not supposed to edit personal things. So there's no Wikipedia 49 00:04:35,490 --> 00:04:38,940 entry on me personally, but some of the things that I've done, 50 00:04:39,780 --> 00:04:42,270 there are entries about it. So I've tried to correct those and 51 00:04:42,270 --> 00:04:46,170 I don't know if that's legal according to wiki Wikipedia has 52 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:49,530 rules or not, but I did it anyway. And so far they've been 53 00:04:49,530 --> 00:04:56,400 sticky. So what seems to be happening with ivermectin and 54 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:03,090 Dr. Corey is that they're making change. to it, which are not 55 00:05:03,090 --> 00:05:06,510 factual, and it's done with a political bent. So from the 56 00:05:06,510 --> 00:05:12,690 desert review, let's see this guy writes, and I forget his 57 00:05:12,690 --> 00:05:15,450 name, you can go there. There's a link in the show notes. 58 00:05:16,859 --> 00:05:20,129 This is, you know, these are all everything here that I talked 59 00:05:20,129 --> 00:05:23,369 about from my blog. So if it's not in the show notes, it's 60 00:05:23,369 --> 00:05:26,999 somewhere on the blog. So this guy says allow me to illustrate 61 00:05:26,999 --> 00:05:30,539 a case in point Dr. Pierre Corrie served as the chief of 62 00:05:30,539 --> 00:05:34,589 Critical Care Medicine at the University Medical Center. This 63 00:05:34,589 --> 00:05:38,309 fact is accurately reported on his Wikipedia page. In addition, 64 00:05:38,339 --> 00:05:40,589 he published a book on ultrasound and won a British 65 00:05:40,799 --> 00:05:44,069 award for this again, this is also accurately portrayed on his 66 00:05:44,069 --> 00:05:47,969 page. He testified at the us senate about ivermectin, I 67 00:05:47,969 --> 00:05:51,749 blogged that video as well. A while back, and this is where 68 00:05:51,749 --> 00:05:54,779 the incorrect incorrect information gets written. The 69 00:05:54,779 --> 00:05:59,489 Wikipedia page reports during his testimony in December 2020. 70 00:05:59,819 --> 00:06:04,199 Corey erroneously claimed that the anti parasitic medication 71 00:06:04,229 --> 00:06:08,189 ivermectin was a wonder drug with miraculous effectiveness 72 00:06:08,219 --> 00:06:11,879 against COVID-19. The one thing that's really been bugging me 73 00:06:11,909 --> 00:06:16,499 since more than one thing, I suppose, but since Trump got 74 00:06:16,499 --> 00:06:23,249 elected news reports or people, people writing in the general 75 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:29,459 legacy media, they're always using falsely claimed here 76 00:06:29,519 --> 00:06:35,549 erroneously claimed. You know, it's claimed, you can't falsely 77 00:06:35,549 --> 00:06:39,179 claim something you can claim something that maybe later is 78 00:06:39,179 --> 00:06:43,049 false. But you claim it you don't falsely claim it. That's 79 00:06:43,049 --> 00:06:45,659 just the stupidest thing that it can't even be grammatically 80 00:06:45,659 --> 00:06:50,429 correct. So anyway, erroneously claimed the anti parasitic 81 00:06:50,429 --> 00:06:53,159 medication, ivermectin was a wonder drug with miraculous 82 00:06:53,159 --> 00:06:57,269 effectiveness against COVID-19. In support, Wikipedia cites an 83 00:06:57,299 --> 00:07:02,009 AP back check article by a journalist, Mrs. Beatrice, doop 84 00:07:02,159 --> 00:07:06,989 de pui, what a name. Hopefully I'm pronouncing it correct, who 85 00:07:06,989 --> 00:07:09,869 is not a medical professional. To my knowledge, she's never 86 00:07:09,869 --> 00:07:13,199 served as a medical director of critical care or pulmonary 87 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:16,319 medicine. I believe she's written for the Star Tribune and 88 00:07:16,319 --> 00:07:19,409 Teen Vogue magazine. In the past, however, she somehow 89 00:07:19,409 --> 00:07:24,029 sufficiently is sufficiently competent to call Dr. corys. 90 00:07:24,029 --> 00:07:30,959 Testimony false. Let's see. There's also a senior editor of 91 00:07:30,959 --> 00:07:33,539 Wikipedia who seems to be singularly charged with 92 00:07:33,539 --> 00:07:36,959 defending vaccines and altering any positive information about 93 00:07:36,959 --> 00:07:40,049 the drug. So the writer of the article in the desert review 94 00:07:40,049 --> 00:07:43,649 goes on to say, Wikipedia reports that there are 41 95 00:07:43,649 --> 00:07:48,749 million editor accounts and some 127,566 are actively editing. 96 00:07:49,379 --> 00:07:53,489 Considering this. It's interesting that ASAP which is I 97 00:07:53,489 --> 00:07:58,919 guess, the handle, the Wikipedia handle for the editor, is the 98 00:07:58,919 --> 00:08:03,299 very same editor who reverted my edit. This is the man writing 99 00:08:03,299 --> 00:08:07,619 now, his edit unpair query and the same editor who recently 100 00:08:07,619 --> 00:08:12,569 edited the ivermectin Wikipedia page. Wow, what are the chances? 101 00:08:13,649 --> 00:08:16,589 I was curious, I checked his other editing activity which 102 00:08:16,619 --> 00:08:20,549 displayed is displayed on Wikipedia. It turns out that he 103 00:08:20,549 --> 00:08:24,179 is also the same editor who manages the axpert AstraZeneca 104 00:08:24,179 --> 00:08:28,379 COVID-19 vaccine wiki page. And he's also the very same British 105 00:08:28,379 --> 00:08:31,619 retired computer scientist who edits the Big Pharma conspiracy 106 00:08:31,619 --> 00:08:37,049 theory wiki page, he also edits the spike protein wiki page. So 107 00:08:37,289 --> 00:08:40,529 you've got the guy that's obviously hired by 108 00:08:40,889 --> 00:08:47,939 pharmaceutical companies to keep the information on Wikipedia, 109 00:08:47,969 --> 00:08:53,279 quote, unquote, accurate. You can't trust anything. This guy 110 00:08:53,279 --> 00:09:00,629 is posting about COVID-19 about vaccines or about ivermectin 111 00:09:00,719 --> 00:09:04,079 because there's a clear agenda to play one down and play the 112 00:09:04,079 --> 00:09:08,549 others up. So you have to be careful what you're reading out 113 00:09:08,549 --> 00:09:15,059 there. And it things have been really ratcheted up, I think in 114 00:09:15,059 --> 00:09:22,769 the past week, with what's her face, Jen Psaki out there, 115 00:09:23,609 --> 00:09:28,619 talking about working directly with Facebook and telling 116 00:09:28,619 --> 00:09:33,989 Facebook what they can and cannot post regarding COVID-19 117 00:09:34,019 --> 00:09:39,149 the pandemic the response, vaccines, blah, blah, blah. And 118 00:09:39,719 --> 00:09:43,889 I think I saw somewhere posted that. I don't know who it was, I 119 00:09:43,889 --> 00:09:47,489 can't remember but just perusing Twitter, somebody came up with a 120 00:09:47,489 --> 00:09:53,039 good point. That right now Trump has a lawsuit against both 121 00:09:53,249 --> 00:09:59,969 Facebook and Twitter. And I think Jen Psaki, which is a 122 00:09:59,999 --> 00:10:04,739 Biden's press secretary, I think her statements this past week 123 00:10:05,009 --> 00:10:10,439 should help his case in court about Facebook and Twitter. If 124 00:10:11,879 --> 00:10:16,169 Facebook is taking direction from the federal government 125 00:10:17,699 --> 00:10:22,709 for what is accurate information, what is inaccurate 126 00:10:22,709 --> 00:10:31,379 information and is taking direction to remove posts. That 127 00:10:31,379 --> 00:10:34,709 is then they've become a de facto arm of the federal 128 00:10:34,709 --> 00:10:38,039 government. And what they're doing is now government 129 00:10:38,039 --> 00:10:44,579 censorship. It's not just normal people, flagging posts, it's the 130 00:10:44,579 --> 00:10:49,619 government now coming in saying, shut up. You can't talk about 131 00:10:49,619 --> 00:10:57,449 that your opinion doesn't matter. So then, that becomes 132 00:10:57,449 --> 00:11:01,829 direct government censorship. It's no longer a private company 133 00:11:01,829 --> 00:11:06,419 removing it. Anyway, I've got my own now supply of ivermectin, 134 00:11:06,419 --> 00:11:10,979 I'm not taking it. You know, I what I did was, is that I'm 135 00:11:10,979 --> 00:11:17,219 going to be doing some traveling July, August, September. And so 136 00:11:17,219 --> 00:11:20,489 I figured, okay, I am not willing to take a vaccine yet 137 00:11:20,489 --> 00:11:23,819 just yet. And from everything I've been reading about 138 00:11:23,849 --> 00:11:29,459 ivermectin and the protocols that they have listed on the 139 00:11:29,489 --> 00:11:37,109 flcc C's website. It's, it's fairly benign. The chances of 140 00:11:37,109 --> 00:11:41,489 any adverse reactions from ivermectin and taking some 141 00:11:41,489 --> 00:11:49,319 multivitamins, and vitamin d3 is very small, so and you should be 142 00:11:49,319 --> 00:11:53,669 able to take it at first symptoms, you know, Dr. Corey 143 00:11:53,669 --> 00:11:57,689 says that he takes it as a preventive measure. But you 144 00:11:57,689 --> 00:12:03,359 know, I've never been one to just take medication or pills as 145 00:12:03,359 --> 00:12:09,659 a preventive You know, I've had all my childhood vaccines and 146 00:12:09,659 --> 00:12:14,579 all that kind of stuff. And but it you know, I'm generally if 147 00:12:14,579 --> 00:12:17,309 I'm not sick, if I don't feel that there's a problem, I'm not 148 00:12:17,309 --> 00:12:22,229 going to take anything. So what my deal is, is that I will keep 149 00:12:22,229 --> 00:12:27,959 this kind of on the side, keep it on supply. And then because 150 00:12:27,959 --> 00:12:31,139 it's also supposed to be very effective upon first symptoms. 151 00:12:31,469 --> 00:12:37,169 So you know, if I feel something coming on, you know, and I 152 00:12:37,169 --> 00:12:39,899 should know, because I haven't been sick, and several years, I 153 00:12:39,899 --> 00:12:43,949 haven't had cold or flu or anything, and quite some time. 154 00:12:44,279 --> 00:12:47,189 So if if something starts to go south, I should be able to feel 155 00:12:47,189 --> 00:12:50,849 it. And then I just keep a supply of a multivitamin and 156 00:12:50,849 --> 00:12:54,239 vitamin d3 and the ivermectin and then I can just start the 157 00:12:54,839 --> 00:13:00,269 protocol that they suggest. I've also done that, done that for my 158 00:13:00,269 --> 00:13:07,139 wife. So I have it not taking it until it is necessary. The next 159 00:13:07,169 --> 00:13:11,789 story I blogged was now this is all old stuff. Because it's been 160 00:13:11,789 --> 00:13:13,979 almost two weeks and I didn't really blog much within the last 161 00:13:13,979 --> 00:13:19,259 week. But supermarkets are stacking up stocking up on 162 00:13:19,259 --> 00:13:23,009 things that have shelf life. Because what they're trying to 163 00:13:23,009 --> 00:13:28,409 do is they're trying to lock in the prices because of not just 164 00:13:28,409 --> 00:13:36,599 inflation but in supply chain problems. But you know, I still 165 00:13:36,599 --> 00:13:40,229 maintain that inflation is at least the current inflation is 166 00:13:40,229 --> 00:13:45,809 temporary because of all the we're in uncharted territory of 167 00:13:48,509 --> 00:13:53,699 gross government manipulation of everything. You can't close down 168 00:13:55,169 --> 00:14:01,469 entire economies and expect that ripple effect to go quietly it's 169 00:14:01,469 --> 00:14:08,339 gonna take a long time. So here we have from the Wall Street 170 00:14:08,339 --> 00:14:11,069 Journal when prices start rising food sellers often purchase more 171 00:14:11,069 --> 00:14:13,559 inventory than they need to protect their profit. price 172 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,199 changes have been minor in recent years executive said 173 00:14:16,499 --> 00:14:19,739 generally involving a pool of specific products. The current 174 00:14:19,739 --> 00:14:22,889 price increases are bigger or bigger and are playing out more 175 00:14:22,889 --> 00:14:26,129 broadly across supermarket aisles. Executive said General 176 00:14:26,129 --> 00:14:30,689 Mills campbell soup, JM Smucker are among food makers raising 177 00:14:30,689 --> 00:14:34,079 prices to compensate for higher costs, meat and produce prices 178 00:14:34,079 --> 00:14:36,359 have been climbing to with retailers anticipating more 179 00:14:36,359 --> 00:14:41,939 increases through the rest of the year. So this is something 180 00:14:41,939 --> 00:14:46,439 to watch out for. And if, if you have you know, I'm not saying 181 00:14:46,439 --> 00:14:49,169 hoard you know, like the crap that happened with the toilet 182 00:14:49,169 --> 00:14:52,769 paper and the paper towels that was just all stupid, especially 183 00:14:52,769 --> 00:14:56,039 back then there were no supply chain problems where now we have 184 00:14:56,039 --> 00:14:59,969 this ripple effect of people not going back to work or you know, 185 00:15:01,230 --> 00:15:04,320 So in raw materials you weren't able, people weren't able to 186 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,170 produce, or companies weren't able to produce raw materials 187 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:11,280 for, you know, other all the products that we use down the 188 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,530 line, and then you had the problem of not being able to 189 00:15:13,530 --> 00:15:16,230 ship them because people aren't working. And now you've got 190 00:15:16,230 --> 00:15:19,110 container ships and shit all over the place just kind of 191 00:15:19,110 --> 00:15:25,200 hanging about trying to get to where it needs to go. So this 192 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:30,090 has got to shake out. I was thinking 2022 maybe about this 193 00:15:30,090 --> 00:15:32,970 time next year, or maybe towards the end of the year, but maybe 194 00:15:33,090 --> 00:15:37,830 it'll be longer Who knows? With the price of labor that's shot 195 00:15:37,830 --> 00:15:41,400 up with all the money being pumped into the US economy by 196 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,320 the federal government, they were talking about another $4 197 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:50,910 trillion. But I don't know. I Oh, who the hell knows 198 00:15:50,910 --> 00:15:55,620 everything so freakin unstable. Who knows? So you know, I have 199 00:15:55,620 --> 00:15:58,830 got an extra freezer in my basement and what I do is we go 200 00:15:58,830 --> 00:16:02,400 to Costco, or whatever, you know, I will keep a supply of 201 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:06,900 meat and things like that in that freezer so I can at least 202 00:16:07,260 --> 00:16:11,760 weather the storm for some drastic price shocks. You know, 203 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,970 toilet paper is a different story. I I'll jump in the shower 204 00:16:14,970 --> 00:16:18,870 and just wash myself off before I start hoarding things like 205 00:16:18,870 --> 00:16:27,240 toilet paper and paper towel. Speaking of Jen Psaki from 206 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:31,830 earlier night just now obviously, she had the most lame 207 00:16:32,670 --> 00:16:36,960 fucking thing in a press conference, and I think that's 208 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:41,610 the this my post was dated July 8. So it was either that day or 209 00:16:41,610 --> 00:16:48,300 the day before. And when you watch and it was it was the same 210 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:52,650 way with when when President Obama was president. The news 211 00:16:52,650 --> 00:17:00,630 media and their reporters are just so it's so incestuous. When 212 00:17:00,630 --> 00:17:03,900 you when you watch them, it's just kind of sickening to hear 213 00:17:03,900 --> 00:17:13,440 them. bootleg, pretty much Sasaki walks in. And this is 214 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:14,100 what she does. 215 00:17:14,460 --> 00:17:17,880 Unknown: I said Happy Thursday. Well, I was gonna say I did here 216 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:22,080 it was Steve Hollins. 29th birthday. So happy so disgusted 217 00:17:22,140 --> 00:17:24,900 for this I have a tour with but I'm willing to. 218 00:17:25,740 --> 00:17:30,510 Kevin Bae: She is a terrible singer. In eight seconds. 219 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:36,210 Unknown: It begins NDB Who's with me? Someone who has a good 220 00:17:36,210 --> 00:17:43,530 boy. birthday to you Happy birthday to you. So it turns out 221 00:17:44,940 --> 00:17:51,450 Kevin Bae: she is tone deaf in more ways than one day is just 222 00:17:51,450 --> 00:17:56,820 awful. I don't know when you when you see this, like, come 223 00:17:56,820 --> 00:18:04,350 on. What kind of press do we have? What happened? What the 224 00:18:04,350 --> 00:18:13,140 fuck happened to us? It's just so disgusting. Anyway, getting 225 00:18:13,140 --> 00:18:19,110 back to where I was. Okay, so the reason I didn't blog a lot 226 00:18:19,110 --> 00:18:25,380 in the last week. Right now I'm living in Chicago. And I went 227 00:18:25,410 --> 00:18:28,020 back to Chicago, living in Chicago right now I'm living in 228 00:18:28,020 --> 00:18:34,620 Georgia. I'm from Chicago. And I I lived in Chicago my whole 229 00:18:34,620 --> 00:18:41,340 life. 53 years I moved to the north eastern suburbs of Atlanta 230 00:18:41,970 --> 00:18:46,830 late last year after living my entire life in the Chicago area. 231 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:53,040 So you know, my father still lives there. And I still have 232 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:59,040 other family siblings there. But it was his 87th birthday on July 233 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:03,690 10. And I you know, I'm used to going out to dinner with him or 234 00:19:03,690 --> 00:19:08,070 whatever. So, this time I you know, I drove up and went to 235 00:19:08,070 --> 00:19:19,650 lunch. And you know, I worked with my father for I worked for 236 00:19:19,650 --> 00:19:24,690 my family rather for over 30 years. And I worked with this my 237 00:19:24,690 --> 00:19:28,890 father here and the picture sitting in his office. 238 00:19:34,890 --> 00:19:38,910 You know, for I worked for my family for over 30 years I 239 00:19:38,910 --> 00:19:43,560 worked directly with my father side by side basically for over 240 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:47,940 20 years. And in various capacities. Mary's business My 241 00:19:47,940 --> 00:19:55,410 father is a classic entrepreneur. And you know, it's 242 00:19:55,410 --> 00:19:58,440 since it's been a solid year since I've seen him in person. I 243 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,870 did take them to lunch last year. Even Through the, in the, 244 00:20:01,050 --> 00:20:05,490 during the height of COVID. When in Chicago, you could not 245 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:10,590 actually go to a restaurant and eat, so I went and got takeout 246 00:20:10,590 --> 00:20:15,180 and brought it to the office. So it's been a year and you know, 247 00:20:15,180 --> 00:20:19,350 my father has been on the decline, you know, he's, he's 248 00:20:19,350 --> 00:20:29,130 old. But, you know, after, after not seeing him for a solid year, 249 00:20:29,190 --> 00:20:34,800 you could tell that the changes are more pronounced. And I don't 250 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,190 know if it's because I'm not there every day. You know, I 251 00:20:38,190 --> 00:20:40,680 quit the family business two years ago. So I haven't been in 252 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:45,570 the office on a daily basis over there, you know, since March, 253 00:20:46,140 --> 00:20:54,300 end of March 2019. So you see him every single day everywhere 254 00:20:54,300 --> 00:21:02,370 weekdays. And if you don't know him, you know, he, he might 255 00:21:02,370 --> 00:21:07,590 still seem like a pretty sharp guy. Because he tells, you know, 256 00:21:07,590 --> 00:21:10,020 my father has always been a storyteller, just like, you 257 00:21:10,020 --> 00:21:17,910 know, a lot of entrepreneurs. Guys like him, it's, it's hard 258 00:21:17,910 --> 00:21:20,940 to describe what he's like. I mean, he's very Trump, like, in 259 00:21:20,940 --> 00:21:26,280 a lot of ways. Just not as bombastic. You know, he's 260 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:34,350 Korean. He's, he's, you know, he was born in South Korea. But 261 00:21:34,380 --> 00:21:44,040 he's, he's a good storyteller. So if you don't know him, you 262 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:46,560 know, and you're listening to him tell stories, you might 263 00:21:46,620 --> 00:21:50,760 think, yeah, he's, you know, pretty sharply. He's 87. He's 264 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,470 pretty mobile, he still drives himself to work every day. But 265 00:21:55,470 --> 00:21:57,360 now, you know, he's getting to the point where he's starting to 266 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:02,400 tell stories that I know, for a fact never happened. Because, 267 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,520 you know, because I worked side by side with them, almost on a 268 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:10,170 daily basis for so long. That these things I know, for sure. 269 00:22:11,790 --> 00:22:15,120 Didn't happen, you know, places that he's flown to trips that 270 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:21,780 he's taken, you know, for sure. He's not there. But the one 271 00:22:21,780 --> 00:22:28,020 thing the memory, your memory is a is a funny thing. And the 272 00:22:28,020 --> 00:22:31,410 things that stick with him that are have been consistent, the 273 00:22:31,650 --> 00:22:36,570 things that he's mentioned to me over decades, are his regrets. 274 00:22:37,230 --> 00:22:41,820 And, you know, so now that I've had some time to kind of step 275 00:22:41,820 --> 00:22:46,110 away from everything and listen to him talk, the regret sound 276 00:22:46,170 --> 00:22:50,760 even a little bit more sad than before? Because now it's like, 277 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:56,880 Okay, he's making up, you know, is that he's not making them up 278 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,240 on purpose, these memories of his or the stories that he's now 279 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:06,660 telling a lot of times it's two things mashed up into one or 280 00:23:07,140 --> 00:23:11,790 things from the news or, or something that he's kind of 281 00:23:12,750 --> 00:23:14,250 inserting into his own life. 282 00:23:19,980 --> 00:23:26,040 lost my train of thought there. Anyway, it was his regrets. 283 00:23:26,070 --> 00:23:28,620 That's where both his regrets. Those are the things that have 284 00:23:28,620 --> 00:23:31,620 been consistent, consistently, those he hasn't changed for 285 00:23:31,620 --> 00:23:38,280 decades. And, you know, I suppose I, I always thought 286 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,890 about this, you know, it's always been kind of in the back 287 00:23:40,890 --> 00:23:47,910 of my mind. But now, it makes me realize that, or maybe it's 288 00:23:47,910 --> 00:23:53,550 cemented in my brain. That He is my father, even though no matter 289 00:23:53,550 --> 00:23:57,180 all the things he's done and accomplished, he's the poster 290 00:23:57,180 --> 00:24:03,630 child for. Don't wait. If there's something you want to 291 00:24:03,630 --> 00:24:08,850 do, don't wait. Just go do it. Even if you can't finish it, you 292 00:24:08,850 --> 00:24:13,500 can't complete it. Just get it started. Get moving. It's the 293 00:24:13,500 --> 00:24:18,690 only way you're ever going to get it done. That principle and 294 00:24:18,690 --> 00:24:23,910 then the other one is, don't listen to what people say. Watch 295 00:24:23,910 --> 00:24:28,230 what they do. Because people bullshit all the time, including 296 00:24:28,260 --> 00:24:36,570 my father. You know, or they will say things that they want 297 00:24:36,570 --> 00:24:41,070 people to believe, but they themselves don't believe it. Or 298 00:24:41,070 --> 00:24:45,420 it's an action they never do. So. You have to look at if you 299 00:24:45,420 --> 00:24:49,950 really want to know what a person what what's very 300 00:24:49,950 --> 00:24:54,060 important to a person is you have to watch what they do. 301 00:24:54,540 --> 00:25:00,780 Because the actions they take those are the real intention. So 302 00:25:00,780 --> 00:25:05,130 those are the things that they are genuinely thinking. Now what 303 00:25:05,130 --> 00:25:13,410 they say, people talk bullshit all the time. And, you know, the 304 00:25:13,410 --> 00:25:17,370 reason that oh, here's a picture here of him, we're getting in 305 00:25:17,370 --> 00:25:19,860 his suburban because we have to go out to the restaurant, 306 00:25:20,790 --> 00:25:23,430 because he can't ride my jeep first, it's very difficult for 307 00:25:23,430 --> 00:25:26,670 him to climb up into the jeep. And second, I brought my dog 308 00:25:26,670 --> 00:25:30,330 with me to Chicago, and it was full of Labrador hair. So I'm 309 00:25:30,330 --> 00:25:33,480 like, well just take your suburban, that's him climbing in 310 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:40,020 the suburban now, here we are at the restaurant. And he is kind 311 00:25:40,020 --> 00:25:43,980 of scanning the room as he's always done. He's looking for 312 00:25:43,980 --> 00:25:53,520 people that he recognizes. Because his, his, uh, he's, he's 313 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,770 used to being recognized himself, it doesn't happen so 314 00:25:55,770 --> 00:26:01,290 much anymore, because his generation have all moved on. So 315 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:05,460 he's very used to being recognized in the restaurant, by 316 00:26:05,490 --> 00:26:10,350 other customers, people from the community, you know, they come 317 00:26:10,350 --> 00:26:14,130 up, talk to him, shake his head, so it doesn't happen so much 318 00:26:14,130 --> 00:26:17,100 anymore. So he scans the room looking for other people, he 319 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:22,680 still spots people once in a while. But, you know, we were 320 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:29,040 sitting down eating, and he's talking about some of the things 321 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:36,750 that we've done together. And, you know, we did a lot over 25 322 00:26:36,810 --> 00:26:42,990 years. And, you know, everything's business. So you 323 00:26:42,990 --> 00:26:47,790 know, yes, I, you know, he's my father. So, and we live, or we 324 00:26:47,790 --> 00:26:51,240 used to live about 10 minutes apart. So Christmases, 325 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:53,880 birthdays, Father's Day, all those things, you know, all 326 00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:57,840 those events, we would always see each other after, after 327 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:03,450 hours after work. But even then, you know, when we're see we're 328 00:27:03,450 --> 00:27:07,320 out for his birthday with the family with the entire family. 329 00:27:08,310 --> 00:27:11,460 Even then, there's very little sitting down and just kind of 330 00:27:11,460 --> 00:27:15,690 enjoying the meal. And, you know, I don't know talking about 331 00:27:15,690 --> 00:27:19,320 whatever. Instead, it's always involved shoptalk, always 332 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,560 because that's, that's, that's my father. It's like, wait, when 333 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,110 you get back to the office, you got to go do this, we got to do 334 00:27:25,110 --> 00:27:31,470 that we got to Don't forget about this. So now that he's 335 00:27:31,470 --> 00:27:36,120 combining these things, you know, he's, he's got these other 336 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,450 stories in his head. So he's, you know, he's kind of 337 00:27:39,450 --> 00:27:43,650 reminiscing, but he's making them bigger, larger, more 338 00:27:43,650 --> 00:27:44,550 grandiose. 339 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,650 So I try to correct the record, you know, he talks about some 340 00:27:49,650 --> 00:27:53,400 properties that he says that he owns in Phoenix, or, you know, I 341 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:57,780 used to own didn't I own that property over here, you know, 342 00:27:57,810 --> 00:28:01,290 own one over here by you know, the, in the Illinois Wisconsin 343 00:28:01,290 --> 00:28:03,840 border, and I have to correct you know, correct the record 344 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,110 form and say, Nope, you know, you never did or you sold that 345 00:28:07,110 --> 00:28:11,460 off or whatever, whatever it is. And he looks at me with this 346 00:28:11,460 --> 00:28:14,640 perplexing look like, are you sure about that? You know, and 347 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,060 he knows that I don't lie to him. He knows I tell him the 348 00:28:18,060 --> 00:28:21,600 truth. So he trusts what I'm telling him, but he, it confuses 349 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,350 the shit out of him, because he really believes that these 350 00:28:25,380 --> 00:28:28,890 things that he either owned, or had still either still owns them 351 00:28:28,890 --> 00:28:34,200 still has them. In some cases, he never owned a property that 352 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:38,520 he thinks he now owns. You know, but he did get around some of 353 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:44,400 his regrets. And with those, you know, we used to talk about it 354 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:51,210 quite a bit. And we would joke about it because my father is is 355 00:28:51,210 --> 00:28:58,410 a classic success story. He he did live the American dream. He 356 00:28:58,410 --> 00:29:04,560 came here with nothing, and built up his life into something 357 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,310 massive, something, you know, very few people in the United 358 00:29:08,310 --> 00:29:13,980 States do in the world. And so we talked about, you know, some 359 00:29:13,980 --> 00:29:18,810 of the regrets and sometimes he talks about, you know, my mother 360 00:29:19,530 --> 00:29:22,890 and his current wife, and I would tell him, I was like, You 361 00:29:22,890 --> 00:29:25,740 know what, you're somebody who should have never gotten married 362 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:33,000 ever. Hey, you know, look, no smile. And Jose, I think you're 363 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,660 right. You know, and yeah, sure. I'm talking about my own 364 00:29:36,660 --> 00:29:42,900 existence being just eliminated. But here we are at the 365 00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:47,370 restaurant. I asked him to smile for the camera on this picture, 366 00:29:47,370 --> 00:29:51,270 but he was so focused on preparing his napkin that he 367 00:29:51,270 --> 00:29:57,570 just he just didn't hear it. So I took it anyway. But anyway, so 368 00:29:57,570 --> 00:29:59,970 I told him, I was like, yeah, you should have never, never had 369 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,960 Never had a wife never had children. Because to be quite 370 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:10,830 honest, all of us kids, we just held him back. You know, if he 371 00:30:10,830 --> 00:30:15,120 had his choice, he would stay at the office, you know, if he 372 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:24,660 could 24 hours, seven days a week, he has such a drive, and 373 00:30:26,910 --> 00:30:31,560 what works, what works through his mind is always on the 374 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:38,220 business. And so his work ethic, and his instincts are so strong, 375 00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:43,770 that it had really pained him every day to come home, to have 376 00:30:43,770 --> 00:30:48,600 to deal with family. You know, and with his kids, you know, 377 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,720 there's four of us, I mean, I have an older brother, and then 378 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,690 I have a half brother, half sister from my father, second 379 00:30:54,690 --> 00:31:03,180 marriage. And none of us, none of us lived up to. I mean, you 380 00:31:03,180 --> 00:31:05,220 know, I suppose it's a classic thing that, you know, kids never 381 00:31:05,220 --> 00:31:08,070 live up to their parents expectations. But in this case, 382 00:31:10,260 --> 00:31:15,930 you know, my, when you when you have a father that has such 383 00:31:16,590 --> 00:31:21,210 drive, it sort of like being Michael Jordan's son and trying 384 00:31:21,210 --> 00:31:24,420 to play basketball, you know, you are never going to live up 385 00:31:24,420 --> 00:31:28,800 to that height you can try. But there are intangibles, there are 386 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:35,220 things that that person has, that you don't end. You know, 387 00:31:35,220 --> 00:31:37,830 it's, it's just my opinion, my siblings can speak for 388 00:31:37,830 --> 00:31:42,780 themselves. But, you know, to me, none of us none of us have 389 00:31:42,780 --> 00:31:47,550 his instincts or drive. You know, each of us has maybe a 390 00:31:47,550 --> 00:31:52,890 little bit of something of him, you know, a little piece of, you 391 00:31:52,890 --> 00:31:56,460 know, whatever his total packages, but I think even you, 392 00:31:56,490 --> 00:32:02,130 you can put us together in a company in a business and we 393 00:32:02,130 --> 00:32:08,490 will not equal what he can do and what he what he has done. 394 00:32:10,350 --> 00:32:13,740 You know, so why why don't even have a family. He's Korean. So 395 00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:22,320 culturally, traditionally, you know, he, he believes part of 396 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,130 being successful is having a family having a wife, children. 397 00:32:26,550 --> 00:32:30,060 And, of course, a Cadillac. You know, maybe Cadillac these days 398 00:32:30,060 --> 00:32:32,820 isn't so much but he likes to tell the story about 399 00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,170 he was trying to get an SBA loan, I think it was and the 400 00:32:37,230 --> 00:32:43,020 loan officer at the time, came to visit him at his office and 401 00:32:43,020 --> 00:32:46,080 told them, you know, my father at the time was driving an 402 00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,290 Oldsmobile. Nice Oldsmobile, there was a Cutlass, I think at 403 00:32:49,290 --> 00:32:53,790 the time. And the loan officer said, look at Casey, you got to 404 00:32:53,790 --> 00:32:57,750 be you got to look successful. And next time I come back here, 405 00:32:57,780 --> 00:33:00,360 I want to see you driving a Cadillac through a loan officer 406 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,940 telling him to buy a more expensive car, which is weird. 407 00:33:05,490 --> 00:33:08,370 But anyway, so you know, Cadillac is is this thing, and 408 00:33:08,370 --> 00:33:12,390 he's ever since then, he has owned a Cadillac, either a car 409 00:33:12,420 --> 00:33:16,080 or an SUV, you know, he owns right now at Cadillac Escalade. 410 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:22,260 He wasn't driving it today, but our that day. But he hasn't, I 411 00:33:22,260 --> 00:33:28,620 know cuz I was with him when we bought it. So he had to have a 412 00:33:28,620 --> 00:33:37,410 family. And the problem is that being a family man is the one 413 00:33:37,410 --> 00:33:41,820 skill set. One major skill set my father did not possess. He 414 00:33:41,820 --> 00:33:45,780 doesn't know what to do with people on a personal level. If 415 00:33:45,870 --> 00:33:50,790 If you were a one of his business colleagues, say you 416 00:33:50,790 --> 00:33:58,920 were a salesman, or you were a, a competitor, you know, he knows 417 00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,290 exactly what to do. He knows how to talk to you. He knows how to 418 00:34:01,290 --> 00:34:04,740 get out of you what he needs. But on a family level, when 419 00:34:04,740 --> 00:34:08,580 you're dealing more with emotional behavior and reactions 420 00:34:08,580 --> 00:34:13,980 instead of people motivated by profit and getting getting work 421 00:34:13,980 --> 00:34:24,900 done. It was terrible. He just could not understand why we 422 00:34:24,930 --> 00:34:32,160 couldn't do what he did, or where he couldn't relate to us, 423 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:36,270 perhaps maybe even as to maybe what our needs were. And these 424 00:34:36,270 --> 00:34:39,840 are just things I'm not like, I'm not lamenting it or really 425 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,480 complaining about it at all. It's just I kind of understand 426 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:47,340 it better now than I did before. And the last couple of years 427 00:34:47,340 --> 00:34:49,680 being separated from the family business not being around it's 428 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:55,560 kind of cemented all these things. No, and I think the 429 00:34:55,560 --> 00:35:00,630 other part of it is that I you know, there's no perfect Father, 430 00:35:00,630 --> 00:35:03,270 there's no perfect mother, there's no perfect family, you 431 00:35:03,270 --> 00:35:11,010 know, we all have issues or problems or whatever. But now, 432 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,130 you know myself, I have two kids that are grown. And now I have 433 00:35:14,130 --> 00:35:18,540 two grandchildren. One, which, you know, these we're pretty 434 00:35:18,540 --> 00:35:22,560 close with for the first couple of years, our grandson, you 435 00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:26,310 know, he was born here in our house. So we saw him for a 436 00:35:26,850 --> 00:35:34,500 couple of months. But beyond that, you know, he's been living 437 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:36,270 with his mother, and we haven't really seen him, we see him on 438 00:35:36,270 --> 00:35:39,900 video, so he, he won't really know us. But 439 00:35:44,940 --> 00:35:53,670 there's Godfrey there goes Godfrey. Godfrey. Yep, be quiet. 440 00:35:56,070 --> 00:35:59,850 So, you know, having the perspective of being both the 441 00:35:59,850 --> 00:36:02,790 father and the grandfather, now I you know, I understand better, 442 00:36:03,450 --> 00:36:08,430 I believe, you know, motivations and, and these kind of problems. 443 00:36:08,430 --> 00:36:12,300 And the focus there really, is that you cannot live your 444 00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:15,630 children's lives, you cannot do it for them, which is, I think, 445 00:36:15,630 --> 00:36:19,470 a difficulty my father had, you know, he could do these things. 446 00:36:19,530 --> 00:36:28,290 Why can't you know, one of my father's other regrets, is 447 00:36:28,290 --> 00:36:31,440 retirement, he's never been able to do it. He's always talked 448 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:36,150 about, he's talked about it for maybe 1520 years. He would talk 449 00:36:36,150 --> 00:36:43,860 about wanting to buy a house in Arizona, or Florida, all these 450 00:36:43,860 --> 00:36:51,000 different places. And he just never did. You know, it's not 451 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:58,020 like he couldn't, he had the ability. It's just that it. You 452 00:36:58,020 --> 00:37:02,790 know, this is where you watch what people say, Don't listen to 453 00:37:02,820 --> 00:37:05,640 what people say you watch what they do instead. And then you 454 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,370 know, their real motivation. So what's really important to him. 455 00:37:11,190 --> 00:37:13,830 So he never pulled the trigger trigger on it, he would talk 456 00:37:13,830 --> 00:37:16,620 about it a lot. He even talked to some real estate agents and 457 00:37:16,650 --> 00:37:19,050 talk to some business colleagues about what they think about this 458 00:37:19,140 --> 00:37:26,280 location, that location. But he never did it. You know, and I 459 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,480 know this, because this is hair. There's a picture of my father. 460 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:39,480 Here, I'll give you his voice. If you can hear that. Of course, 461 00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:40,950 now I've got a buffering issue. 462 00:37:47,070 --> 00:37:52,350 Why is a stupid thing buffering now? Oh, you know what? Probably 463 00:37:52,350 --> 00:37:55,680 because I'm trying to live stream at the same time. So this 464 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,930 is I could have should have just played this off my local 465 00:37:57,930 --> 00:38:05,700 machine. mistake. Okay, there we go. There's buffering. I should 466 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:06,510 hit play earlier. 467 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:27,090 I have no idea what he's talking about there. I couldn't 468 00:38:27,090 --> 00:38:30,360 identify. It couldn't identify what it was he was saying. 469 00:38:33,330 --> 00:38:37,380 Anyway, um, you know, just to kind of reiterate about my 470 00:38:37,380 --> 00:38:48,360 father and regrets. And watching what people do versus what they 471 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:53,190 say, you know, here's some of my father's basic accomplishments 472 00:38:53,190 --> 00:39:01,440 here. And he was in Chicago. He was pretty much the shit. He was 473 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:06,240 one of the most prominent cranes in Chicago. We even were able to 474 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:10,710 get a street corner named after him. And there's a proclamation 475 00:39:10,710 --> 00:39:16,200 from the city Mac when Mayor Daley was mayor where they list 476 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:21,720 a bunch of his accomplishments and you know, they even made the 477 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:26,100 street sign the corner that that's named after him is the 478 00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:30,210 corner of fostering kedzie over on the north side. And the 479 00:39:30,210 --> 00:39:33,120 reason is that at that corner is because that corners where he 480 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:37,440 founded a bank on the first Korean community bank in 481 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:44,730 Chicago. The getting the street sign down was my idea. But my my 482 00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:47,280 younger brother at the time, was in a position where he was able 483 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:51,240 to push this thing through and get it done. So it was kind of 484 00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:55,380 cool, but, but what my father did, he came here in the 1950s. 485 00:39:56,790 --> 00:40:02,850 He went to school in downstate, Illinois, and Decatur. He worked 486 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,660 in different pharmaceutical labs or different labs. He was a 487 00:40:06,660 --> 00:40:13,440 chemist by, by trade and by training. Then he started his 488 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:17,700 own pharmaceutical company. He produced generic drugs, liquids, 489 00:40:17,700 --> 00:40:22,440 tablets, and things and his generics. They were in Walgreens 490 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:27,930 and Rite Aid and all the big chain CVS. He produced 491 00:40:30,150 --> 00:40:34,530 pharmaceuticals for the Defense Department. So his stuff was, 492 00:40:34,650 --> 00:40:41,220 you know, at veterans hospitals and with the military. After 493 00:40:41,250 --> 00:40:45,000 after that, you know, he did run into some trouble here and 494 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:49,170 there. He was not not a perfect man. So, you know, he did run 495 00:40:49,170 --> 00:40:51,600 into some a bit of trouble and he sold his pharmaceutical 496 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:57,060 company. And with the success of that, and the money from there, 497 00:40:57,210 --> 00:41:01,140 he launched into a whole bunch of different things. He founded 498 00:41:01,140 --> 00:41:05,100 in, you know, as I mentioned before, Korean community bank in 499 00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:10,830 Chicago called foster bank. He bought a hotel, he bought a 500 00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:16,050 country club with, had a restaurant. And he owned a 501 00:41:16,050 --> 00:41:18,120 restaurant before that, as well, while he was doing a 502 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,300 pharmaceutical company, it was called the day Whoa, a Korean 503 00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:23,640 restaurant on divine Avenue in Chicago. I don't even know if it 504 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,850 still exists. But he also bought a bunch of commercial real 505 00:41:26,850 --> 00:41:30,420 estate, he bought residential real estate that he would rent 506 00:41:30,420 --> 00:41:34,410 out. And he had other businesses over the years, things that I 507 00:41:34,530 --> 00:41:39,030 all worked at, the only place I did not work was the hotel. I 508 00:41:39,030 --> 00:41:44,280 even had a brief stint at the bank. But finally, the thing 509 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,000 that he really ended up with that was kind of the largest 510 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:52,080 part of his businesses was broadcast properties. And that's 511 00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:58,710 where I worked with him for the last 20 over 20 years. He ended 512 00:41:58,710 --> 00:42:04,380 up first just doing a local cable news show in Korean. And 513 00:42:04,380 --> 00:42:07,050 then he found a way where he could acquire some low power TV 514 00:42:07,050 --> 00:42:11,550 stations. So he he did that he had two stations in Chicago, one 515 00:42:11,550 --> 00:42:16,140 in Milwaukee, and one in the Atlanta area. He still has one 516 00:42:16,140 --> 00:42:21,030 in Chicago and one, the lptv in Atlanta. And then over the 517 00:42:21,030 --> 00:42:27,840 years, we built a big stable of television stations, some full 518 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:33,330 power, most of them low power, and radio, am FM radio all 519 00:42:33,330 --> 00:42:40,230 across the country and Guam. So he started out from nothing. He 520 00:42:40,230 --> 00:42:44,490 came to the United States, not speaking English at 20 bucks in 521 00:42:44,490 --> 00:42:51,270 his pocket, as he famously says. And he rose to be, you know, 522 00:42:52,530 --> 00:42:55,920 quite a prominent man in the Korean community in Chicago, you 523 00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,050 know, I would joke around with him sometimes he's he was a big 524 00:42:58,050 --> 00:43:01,620 fish in a small pond. But you know, that that really is all 525 00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:04,890 joking aside, and it doesn't, I try to take away from his actual 526 00:43:04,890 --> 00:43:07,860 accomplishments, because he's done things that I I wasn't 527 00:43:07,890 --> 00:43:10,770 could never do. It's just not in me to do what he does. 528 00:43:12,150 --> 00:43:17,910 So just that's just an example of if, if he truly wanted to 529 00:43:17,910 --> 00:43:22,530 retire, this is a man that's done so much in his life. It's 530 00:43:23,010 --> 00:43:25,920 not like he can't go out and buy a house someplace where he wants 531 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:31,440 to go problem is that he doesn't know how to retire. You know, 532 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:37,380 it's just it's not in his bones. He's not able to stop. You know, 533 00:43:37,380 --> 00:43:41,910 and his his motivations. Were never with business. It's never 534 00:43:41,910 --> 00:43:44,490 been to Okay, I'm going to build this business, and I'm going to 535 00:43:44,490 --> 00:43:47,250 pass it off to my children. You know, I don't think I 536 00:43:47,250 --> 00:43:50,520 understand. I understood that in the beginning, either. Which is 537 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:56,370 fine. It's, it's all his, you know, his deal is that he's 538 00:43:56,370 --> 00:44:00,540 addicted to business. He wants to do the next transaction, he 539 00:44:00,540 --> 00:44:06,090 wants to do the next deal. You know, it's, it's, like I said 540 00:44:06,090 --> 00:44:09,150 before, it's not a bad thing. It's something I didn't 541 00:44:09,150 --> 00:44:13,350 understand in the beginning. Let's see. Okay, there's the 542 00:44:13,350 --> 00:44:20,220 Proclamation. In this picture here. And if you're listening to 543 00:44:20,220 --> 00:44:22,710 this on a podcasting 2.0 compatible podcasts, you'll be 544 00:44:22,710 --> 00:44:28,380 able to see this picture. I will put these up with chapters. He's 545 00:44:28,380 --> 00:44:31,350 putting away these takeout Chinese takeout boxes that are 546 00:44:31,350 --> 00:44:34,770 filled with candy. He likes to pass out candy to people. This 547 00:44:34,770 --> 00:44:38,370 is something he's picked up in the last decade. So every time 548 00:44:38,370 --> 00:44:40,710 he goes there to eat, they give him this little box filled with 549 00:44:40,740 --> 00:44:47,460 a bunch of candy. So this is his giant stash. But anyway, you 550 00:44:47,460 --> 00:44:51,810 know, we used to have big fights, at work, all centered 551 00:44:51,810 --> 00:44:55,950 around business because I'm a very, I'm fairly conservative, 552 00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:01,860 in most ways. And I'm not a big risk taker, like You know, and 553 00:45:01,890 --> 00:45:04,890 he had already amassed a bunch of wealth. By the time, you 554 00:45:04,890 --> 00:45:08,670 know, I started working in broadcasting with him, I, you 555 00:45:08,670 --> 00:45:12,720 know, I worked in the other businesses with him. But it 556 00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:15,450 wasn't like side by side on a daily basis, it was kind of on 557 00:45:15,450 --> 00:45:19,740 the side and other businesses. But in this case, I was with him 558 00:45:19,740 --> 00:45:24,810 in the office every day. And I see this, like, okay, you have 559 00:45:24,810 --> 00:45:27,840 all this wealth, and you have these businesses. So let's 560 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:29,910 figure out a way where you retain the wealth and grow the 561 00:45:29,910 --> 00:45:34,860 business. But it wasn't, you know, my concept of what I 562 00:45:34,860 --> 00:45:39,060 thought he wanted wasn't the same. Or at least my concept, 563 00:45:39,060 --> 00:45:43,200 and what he wanted wasn't the same. I couldn't understand it, 564 00:45:43,230 --> 00:45:47,040 he would never, he was never one to really explain it. It was 565 00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,670 always just like, well, this is it, we got to get this done, get 566 00:45:50,670 --> 00:45:54,360 this done, go do this. And, and I would literally tell him, I 567 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,120 was like, What do you want to do that for, that's just going to 568 00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,730 cost you a lot of money. And you're not going to get a whole 569 00:45:59,730 --> 00:46:02,250 lot of bang for your buck out of this, you know, and, you know, 570 00:46:02,250 --> 00:46:06,480 my, my thing was always like, Okay, if you want to do this, 571 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,420 let's plan this out a little more carefully and do this, and 572 00:46:09,450 --> 00:46:14,310 do it in a more controlled manner, to try to preserve 573 00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:18,270 capital and expand the business the same time, but none of it 574 00:46:18,270 --> 00:46:21,570 ever moved at the pace that he needed to go. So you know, we 575 00:46:21,570 --> 00:46:23,490 would we would fight and we would argue about it, you know, 576 00:46:23,490 --> 00:46:26,250 he'd always get this way because it says business. But you know, 577 00:46:26,250 --> 00:46:30,330 I couldn't, I was never able to not put in my two cents, so we 578 00:46:30,330 --> 00:46:36,150 will conflict a lot. And it took me such a long time to 579 00:46:36,150 --> 00:46:39,510 understand, oh, what the hell, that's stupid pictures off 580 00:46:39,510 --> 00:46:46,710 again, I gotta fix if you're looking at this as a picture of 581 00:46:46,710 --> 00:46:51,000 my father, and there's a bug in the, in the, in the corner of 582 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,550 the photo, that's from a different blog that I run. 583 00:46:54,510 --> 00:47:04,650 Anyway. So, you know, now that I quit. I've got like, two years 584 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:08,160 of separation from it all, separation from the family 585 00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:13,230 separation from the businesses. And, you know, it's kind of just 586 00:47:13,230 --> 00:47:15,510 solidifying, I think that the ideas were always back there, 587 00:47:15,510 --> 00:47:19,620 but now solidifying that, that I, you know, where I can 588 00:47:19,620 --> 00:47:28,980 understand him better. It's, it's just kind of funny that 589 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:35,160 he's, you know, in some so many ways, his big man. And, you 590 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:40,440 know, he should, at 8070, starting to shrink, but in 591 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:45,270 reality, you know, he was a fairly big guy, fairly prominent 592 00:47:45,270 --> 00:47:49,350 guy. And the stories that he tells now are even bigger than 593 00:47:49,350 --> 00:47:53,430 before, you know, people that he that he thinks he's met, which 594 00:47:53,430 --> 00:47:56,970 he hasn't. And it's kind of a shame, because, you know, his 595 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,720 his real story, the real reality of his life is pretty big to 596 00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:01,230 begin with. 597 00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:07,200 But I think he makes these, his mind is making these stories 598 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,830 bigger, because he's really never been satisfied where he 599 00:48:10,830 --> 00:48:16,740 is. And, you know, that's the part that's kind of sad with 600 00:48:16,740 --> 00:48:19,350 him, you know, when I go eat lunch with him, it's kind of sad 601 00:48:19,350 --> 00:48:24,180 that, that he's at this stage in his life, and that you can, you 602 00:48:24,180 --> 00:48:30,600 can be somebody like him, and accomplish so much, and 603 00:48:30,630 --> 00:48:34,920 accumulate even enormous wealth. At one point, him and his 604 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:40,200 companies were worth probably close to half a billion dollars. 605 00:48:41,130 --> 00:48:45,600 This is in the early 2000s. You know, it's not even close to 606 00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:48,000 that now. Because the broadcasting properties, the 607 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,480 value of them, just plummeted. But he was at a stage where he 608 00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:55,020 owned enough I think, if he would have just cashed out, sold 609 00:48:55,020 --> 00:48:57,150 it all off at one time, it would have been in the hundreds of 610 00:48:57,150 --> 00:49:04,530 millions. So to be somebody like him, that was able to get to 611 00:49:04,530 --> 00:49:09,090 such a point in his life. That is the envy of I would think 612 00:49:09,090 --> 00:49:14,070 most people in the world that the fact that he has such 613 00:49:14,070 --> 00:49:18,660 mundane regrets that really bug the shit out of them is a little 614 00:49:18,660 --> 00:49:26,580 sad. Yeah, you know, we all have regrets. But I think the lesson 615 00:49:26,580 --> 00:49:31,470 to take from my father with those with those type of regrets 616 00:49:31,470 --> 00:49:34,080 is, um, you know, I think most of our people's regrets are 617 00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:39,420 small. But they they bug the shit out of us. So the best 618 00:49:39,420 --> 00:49:42,570 thing to do is just accept them that they're there. You know, 619 00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,290 you can still regret them. But don't let them eat at you. You 620 00:49:46,290 --> 00:49:51,840 just kind of leave it there. It's there. And now it's done. 621 00:49:51,870 --> 00:49:54,660 It's gone. You can't change it because it's in the past so you 622 00:49:54,660 --> 00:49:58,950 can you can still have the regret. But without the baggage 623 00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,240 You know, that's something he can't do all his 624 00:50:03,240 --> 00:50:06,030 accomplishments, and a little things still bugged him like, 625 00:50:06,060 --> 00:50:08,670 like the divorce with my mother, even though he's had a second 626 00:50:08,670 --> 00:50:13,680 wife, second family. You know, and it should have been better 627 00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,410 for him because his second wife is Korean as well, my mother is 628 00:50:16,410 --> 00:50:20,310 not she is from upstate New York. So the second marriage 629 00:50:20,310 --> 00:50:24,960 should have been better form. But still, it's still the idea 630 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:31,020 that he got divorced, that still bugs on which it shouldn't, you 631 00:50:31,020 --> 00:50:36,270 know, just move on, move on, those things are done. So, you 632 00:50:36,270 --> 00:50:40,350 know that in my blog post about the visit, you know, I say that 633 00:50:40,350 --> 00:50:46,770 the, the two things to take away are that the truth of people 634 00:50:47,010 --> 00:50:51,540 lies in their actions. And that goes for everybody. Don't listen 635 00:50:51,540 --> 00:50:53,760 to what they say, you can hear what they say, as long as their 636 00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:56,310 words match their actions, you're fine. You know, that's 637 00:50:56,310 --> 00:51:00,720 the thing to watch. But when their words don't, when the 638 00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:03,870 words that they use have an opposite meaning to what their 639 00:51:03,870 --> 00:51:10,860 actions are, you can't trust them. That and the fact that and 640 00:51:10,890 --> 00:51:19,050 not the fact but that lesson. Plus, don't wait for tomorrow. 641 00:51:21,030 --> 00:51:26,100 If it's something you want to do, just go do it. And then you 642 00:51:26,100 --> 00:51:31,260 won't have some of these petty nine regrets. And you may not be 643 00:51:31,260 --> 00:51:33,660 able to finish it, you may not even be able to accomplish it. 644 00:51:34,350 --> 00:51:37,620 But if it's something that you want, if you don't go for it, if 645 00:51:37,620 --> 00:51:42,360 you don't go towards it, you'll never get there. There's no 646 00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:49,410 chance zero chance. So that is the podcast for this week, 647 00:51:49,410 --> 00:51:55,800 because that's all I got, which is still the same lame name on 648 00:51:55,800 --> 00:52:04,170 the podcast. Let's see Let's cut to that. Oh, you can buy the 649 00:52:04,170 --> 00:52:12,600 shirt if you want. I have a shop on my site. So again, this is 650 00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:16,560 this is a podcasting 2.0 compatible podcast, I've been 651 00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:21,780 trying to do it this is a you can stream money directly to me 652 00:52:21,780 --> 00:52:26,010 if you're watching this on an app like breeze or pod friend or 653 00:52:26,010 --> 00:52:30,180 someplace where you can stream satoshis which are micro 654 00:52:30,180 --> 00:52:32,700 payments micro I forgot what the hell they call her bits of 655 00:52:32,700 --> 00:52:39,330 Bitcoin. There is a list of podcast apps at new podcast apps 656 00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,970 calm and you can go there. And there's a whole bunch of 657 00:52:42,630 --> 00:52:45,810 different apps and platforms that you can use that are 658 00:52:45,810 --> 00:52:49,170 podcasting 2.0 compatible. So you should go there, check out 659 00:52:49,170 --> 00:52:49,890 the different apps, 660 00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:58,170 go to podcast index.org support their efforts to extend RSS and 661 00:52:58,170 --> 00:53:03,510 to make and keep podcasting open for the independent podcaster 662 00:53:03,510 --> 00:53:07,320 because we all know Apple, Facebook, Spotify, even though 663 00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:12,300 this podcast, you can access it on all those platforms. They 664 00:53:12,300 --> 00:53:16,170 don't give a shit about anybody. So you know right now what I'm 665 00:53:16,170 --> 00:53:18,990 doing, because this is just something I just feel like 666 00:53:18,990 --> 00:53:22,770 doing. It's I don't plan on making money if it makes money 667 00:53:22,770 --> 00:53:28,080 fine if I get anything fine. But this thing is self hosted. So 668 00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,740 I've got a dream dreamhost account. So that's where my mp3 669 00:53:31,740 --> 00:53:35,520 files are. I that's also where my website is. And I have a 670 00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:40,290 WordPress blog site. And with that, I have blueberries 671 00:53:40,620 --> 00:53:44,940 powerpress plugin, and another plugin from lemon creations that 672 00:53:44,940 --> 00:53:51,120 allows me to insert a few of the podcasting 2.0 namespace tags, 673 00:53:51,630 --> 00:53:54,480 one of which is the value for value tag or the value tag as 674 00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:59,220 they call it. And that that's the tag that allows you to 675 00:53:59,940 --> 00:54:06,630 stream money or not money. It's crypto money cryptocurrency. You 676 00:54:06,630 --> 00:54:09,930 know, I think normal people won't even know what the hell it 677 00:54:09,930 --> 00:54:14,670 is. But it's their satoshis and their bits of Bitcoin. That's 678 00:54:14,670 --> 00:54:18,150 the best explanation I can give. So if you go and use one of 679 00:54:18,150 --> 00:54:23,370 these apps, you can load them up, you know, it doesn't take 680 00:54:23,370 --> 00:54:26,370 much you can put 20 bucks on it or whatever. And then you can 681 00:54:27,720 --> 00:54:31,440 set the app so it streams you know certain number of Satoshi 682 00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:33,630 is permitted. Then you can also if you hear something that you 683 00:54:33,630 --> 00:54:35,850 like, or an idea you like or something that you found 684 00:54:35,850 --> 00:54:38,790 particularly entertaining, you can hit the boost button to 685 00:54:38,790 --> 00:54:41,160 like, Hey, I like that and then you can boost now they're also 686 00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:45,300 working now on messaging. And I know the messaging works inside 687 00:54:45,330 --> 00:54:52,410 of I think Curio caster and pod friend, so you can send money 688 00:54:52,410 --> 00:54:56,010 and also send a message to the podcaster it's all interesting 689 00:54:56,010 --> 00:55:00,330 stuff. You should go check it out. If there's anything Any 690 00:55:00,330 --> 00:55:05,940 questions, comments or ideas you have for me, you can email me at 691 00:55:05,940 --> 00:55:12,390 mail at Kevin Bae Comm. I'd be more than happy to answer any 692 00:55:12,390 --> 00:55:15,990 questions you might have. But that's it for this week. 693 00:55:16,050 --> 00:55:19,800 Hopefully. You know, normally I was gonna try to do this on 694 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:21,630 Monday. So I don't know if I'm going to podcast again this 695 00:55:21,630 --> 00:55:24,690 coming Monday, but we'll we'll find out. Anyway. That's all I 696 00:55:24,690 --> 00:55:26,160 got and I'll talk to you later. 697 00:55:42,449 --> 00:55:43,889 My dog Mark didn't help. 698 00:55:56,099 --> 00:56:02,519 Anyway, adios muchachos should learn how to say that in Korea.