Matthew Cox
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And they're going to be like, but we didn't authorize that.
Then they bring in the FBI.
So in order to get around having some essentially do-gooder cause a problem.
We had to come up with a way to get the CDs manufactured, but not rely upon any American domestic manufacturing production.
Well, another guy I was doing business with was out of Las Vegas.
He was running up to Vancouver, British Columbia.
Well, the guys on the British Columbia end purchasing the product were Chinese, the 14K faction in Vancouver.
So he ends up discussing the matter, because I explained to him my problem, like, man, this is screwed, and we can't get this stuff made.
And so, you know, back then I'm making cassette recordings of the albums for all my buddies.
And they're like all trying to get their hands on, you know, we didn't have the ability to burn CDs.
Right.
That was five years later, you know.
And so he starts talking to the Chinese guys up in British Vancouver.
Well, the guys in Vancouver, this is the essence of Guanxi, one of them calls a 14K operative in Toronto.
Well, the 14K in Toronto do a lot of business with the Italian Mafia.
Well, one of the 14K guys in Toronto talks to an Italian mob guy in Toronto.
The Toronto mob guy calls a guy in Italy.
Says, yeah, sure, we can get this done.
And they're not going to report it to the FBI.
So all of a sudden, we were able to now develop a capacity.