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Joseph, I know you're a busy man. I very much appreciate you taking the time to be with us here today. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. So when I was looking into your story, one of the places that I wanted to start because it's something that I've just never personally experienced is this idea of being an immigrant to our country and then growing inside

What is the drive, what's the motivation? And just from being in America and meeting people who were born here, natives, it seems to me there are so many, and not that every immigrant becomes an entrepreneur, but it does seem like so many highly successful entrepreneurs are immigrants to our country. And there's a million examples. I mean, three out of the four guys on the All In podcast are immigrants. I mean, there's just so many examples of this.

Just your experience, your thoughts around why that seemingly tends to be the case that a lot of immigrants that come to this country come and are very industrious, whether it's a small business or it's growing a corporation like you have. It seems there is a less entitled nature to immigrant entrepreneurs than some of our natives. Do you think that's a proper classification? I'm just interested in your thoughts around that.

How do you approach your children with that? Because I, though while native, have a very similar experience. I came from a very poor town in the middle of the woods, in the middle of nowhere, where, you know, and the audience is probably sick of hearing this, but like, we used to say you could leave the doors open in our town because the criminals lived in our town, they didn't steal in our town.

I remember at the age of 12 walking through my single traffic light town that had one gas station and a bunch of buildings that looked like they were completely bombed out, and that's where people lived, and going, I gotta get out of here. This can't be my life. But so many people stayed there. So I get out of there, have my own success and my own life, and now I have children in a very similar situation. We live in a nice suburb, they go to a private school,

and I'm struggling with them to find that hunger that I had. If I was on a sports team, I wanted to be the captain. If every business I've been a part of, I wanted to be on executive leadership or the CEO. If I was in sales, I wanted to be the top guy. I always wanted to be the hardest situation, the best at the thing, the top of the heap. And while they're good, driven kids and successful in their own way,

Yeah, because that to me, this ability to negotiate is a life skill that I think many are missing, but to me feels paramount to success in anything. Success in a relationship with a spouse, relationship with your kids, your parents, your friends, your community, your peers in your work, your employees, who you're doing business with. You are constantly negotiated in almost every interaction that you have all day, yet

Yeah, we talk about all the time, you gotta earn your video games, right? I get that that's your release, completely get it, we all have it. Each generation has the things that they do, and video games tend to be this generation. I have two boys. They are like, I hate video games. I mean, Roblox and me are probably enemies, although it's probably a great company to invest in. Seriously. Yeah, the business model is insane. But, you know, I think this idea of

I think this idea of instilling, like, I don't think enough parents today, I think we outsource too much of the development of our children today, right? We get so caught in our life, our world, the sale we didn't make, the position we didn't get, or whatever stuff is frustrating or causing us anxiety, and we become so contained in ourselves that

Then we come home and we're not even present with literally the reason that we're on earth, the perpetuation of our genes and our bloodline. We're not even investing in that. We're outsourcing it to whatever they're scrolling through on YouTube shorts or whatever's coming through the video game or whatever.

If your kids have Snapchat or whatever, Snapchatting each other. Or the schools. I mean, jeez. Think about what happens in most public schools. I mean, I'm in New York State. I'm completely... I can't even... I would work 10 jobs if I had to, to keep my kids out of public school. Because I just... I want to know what they're being taught. They go to a private Catholic school. And it just...

Maybe there should be some good changes coming. Him and Trump should work tightly together on all that. Yeah, I thought it was very interesting, you know, going back to Trump and the art of the deal. I thought it was very interesting when he had Mondami at the White House and they're standing next to each other and you see, you know, to have the composure that Trump has.

To sit at that desk and have someone standing next to you who has basically built their entire persona and certainly their campaign and on basically just being, you know, TDS, right? I mean, it's basically just standing up there going, you know, Trump bad vote for me and.

And to have that guy standing next to you and be able to say, we disagree on a lot, but there's a lot that we do agree on. And I promise this little narrative has a question in here. When you read the art of the deal, and I think so many people who are anti-Trump, I think there's the kind of complete wackos who've just...

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Second and third order thinking that he uses to get to the outcome that he wants or even to get to an outcome. So many, and I think some of this is we just simply believe our politicians are intelligent because they're in that position and they're not. He is willing to get to an outcome where, and sometimes that's messy. And I think there's like this complete, again, this goes back to the misunderstanding of negotiation of just,