Ken Behr
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Elbow grease gets the, I just kept going.
And a few of my friends did too.
Yeah, sure.
Well, money and starting completing a task, right?
Somebody once told me when I was a kid, my mom's best friend said, it doesn't matter if you're gonna be a garbage man, just be the best one you can be.
And I took that to heart in drug smuggling and drug dealing.
Yes.
I know guys that have made hundreds of millions smuggling drugs.
There's two famous guys, Bruce Perlowin, who's a famous guy that gets you on the, get him on the show.
And another guy, Donnie Steinberg, they took companies public.
Wow.
They made hundreds of millions after they smuggled doing, you know, stock options.
And so, yeah.
Uh,
not well theoretically if you took pablo escobar or ochoa and you took their money from those days the ochoa brothers and looked at it today inflation yeah i mean you got to look at you know people read my book and they go well he only got paid twenty thousand dollars for that gig yeah i mean but that was like eighty sixty to eighty thousand right in today's money for a night's work wow
When I was a kid, so one of the things that happened, I was selling weed, you know, grams and quarter ounces of blow and pounds of weed.
And two things happened that changed the trajectory, I guess, of my path.
One was my partner in Florida moved back to Ohio.
And him and I were selling ounces and quarter pounds and pounds together in Florida.
And I was introduced to somebody who I say in the book, if my dad taught me how good it was to be right, this guy taught me how right it was to be wrong.