Jordan Belfort

Yeah.

Christmas 2013.

2013.

I was just telling this to someone.

So people like say, wow, were you like just at Stratton like 10 years ago?

No, it was like literally 30 something years ago.

Yeah, it's crazy, right?

I have, for sure.

I've definitely had at least three lives, you know?

up to Stratton, then Stratton started, and my life was literally insane, balls to balls for 10 years.

Then I had this five-year period where I was indicted, waiting to go to jail, worst five years of my life, like you're dying in slow motion.

Literally, jail wasn't even the bad part, by the way, but it's when you're waiting to go to jail, and your life is slowly, it's like the Roman Empire is falling and burning and burning, and you're sitting there watching yourself die in slow motion, and I used

I still was living in a giant house.

It's like your possessions being stripped away one by... It's the fucking worst, right?

When I finally went to jail and I lost everything, it was liberating.

I hit bottom.

I mean, bottom, no more money left, right?

Separated from everything.

My kids were the saddest part of all, right?

They were nine and 11 at the time, right?