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Chapter 1: What fraudulent investment schemes were exposed?
I was charged with transactions of an unregistered securities dealer or salesman. And in today's world, it doesn't even exist any longer. Guys like Cardone are raising money on Instagram. The internet has completely transformed the way that securities are looked at. Everybody was a criminal raising millions of dollars, you know, driving expensive cars.
For the judge, he said, you should have known better. And as a result, I'm going to make an example out of you. Where were you born? Boston, outside of Boston, Framingham. Yeah, that was my quintessential childhood years. Okay. You know, there up until eighth grade.
So, yeah, I think those are, you know, whether you read psychological books or, you know, you recall it, those are like your childhood years you remember. But it was really the tale of two cities with mom and with dad. You know, that behind the walls of the house where everything looks good at the white picket fence, that's really where you start to figure out what life is about.
what was the, what was the issue? It wasn't leave it to beaver. No, man, it's never leave it to beaver. Is it right now? It's never leave it to beaver. We always say that if, uh, like if the person, if it looks like it's just a perfect family and the guy's perfect, the woman, everything, the wife and everything is phenomenal. You find out like, you know, 15 years later, you're always like, wow,
man they the cleavers were so amazing and then you find out that ward had like a a sex slave chained up in the basement the whole time and you're like what you know the whole neighborhood was taking turns and he was you know it's like what what yep there was an oxy issue but yeah no he comes out on a podcast talking about how he was abused his probably go viral what
No, but you're totally right, though. But I think we don't talk about a lot of that. At least that generation didn't talk about a lot of that.
Yeah, no. You bury that down deep, deep into a ball, a hot ball, and then eventually it turns to cancer and it kills you. But it's good for the bulk of your— For the first 35 years.
Yeah, you're fine. You're fine. Fine. Fine, yeah. Men have two options, right? We're either sick or we're fine. Yeah. That's it. That's it. You can't complain about it. But yeah, man, no, behind closed doors, it was rough.
You know, my dad was an addict, you know, was involved in organized crime and mom was trying to take us to church on Sundays and figure out how, how do you take the ideas of, you know, secular religion and pour them into this individual that you're married to and you love coupled with, you know, a massive addiction. Yeah.
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Chapter 2: How did childhood experiences shape the speakers' lives?
Leave your information here, and I'll come and I'll let you know. What was that beating like? I didn't get to the beating brother. The cops beat me home. Oh, okay. Oh yeah. Yeah. That was the, that was that beating came to my mom when, when he came back out around very physical, you know, with mom.
And so it was always at the moment I could get in front of them or in between the two of them, I would all the time. But yeah, that's when I first realized, you know, they, you know, the cops go, Hey, so you turned this in and, you know, they, they have the whole, you know, here I am like, yeah, just let me know.
And that was the first time, you know, there they were in the driveway, you know, with our beautiful French doors and, you know, our rock, the whole thing. Right. And that was the first time the neighborhood was like, what in the world? And then you got a monster here, you know, but he sat in this recliner when he gets so high, he sat in that recliner.
And when he was gone for those few days after they took him, like I sat in that recliner, that was my like, Oh yeah, I got you.
so how how long does how long do you stay in the house like do you graduate high school do you yeah my mom fought that good fight for the better part of two decades did she ever did he pass away or did she's dead now okay or did they stay married they didn't stay married she finally left after about 20 years okay so that was her enough is enough finally got to that point thank god
Yeah, my mom went down to the ship. No kidding. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know, like what I used to say, she was the worst case of Stockholm Syndrome I'd ever seen in my life.
And she never drank? No.
Well, she would have like a glass of wine.
Sure, but not...
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Chapter 3: What lessons were learned from family dynamics?
Even if there's not, you didn't know there was going to be traffic? What's the worst that happens? You show up 30 minutes early. So what? Get to know people. Hang out.
Same story, man. Yes. So I look at some of those things and this, you know, you don't want to know one that sticks with me forever. Here I am in the front seat. We're doing collections, right? Like running around Boston turnpikes, like psychopaths. We get off the turnpike and we're, and we're turning right. And this car's coming like they always are.
His car's coming this direction that their blinker on, they're going to turn past us. And he looks at me one of those sober moments. And he's like, the guy with his blinker on, you can never trust those people. Right. He was like, and so the story was, you know, here you are, you're eight. You're like, I'm just trying to eat my hostess, bro. Like, I don't even know what's going on right now.
Right. I don't even have a seatbelt on. His story as you got older was if you pull out in front of this guy, your excuse is going to be, he had his blinker on. You can't trust him to know what he's doing. He's an idiot. And he would have these euphemisms all day long. And now that I look back and I have kids of my own, I laugh. One of the funniest ones, I tell it to my kids.
Oh, my God.
it's horrible bro you're like nine years old right like and he has all of these like one liners one at a time one and now they all start to come out you know you're like geez louise at some points like you said funny charismatic sales 101 like good father like wanted to tell you these stories but was just a complete disaster and couldn't get out of his own way yeah
yeah i was gonna say my dad did the whole um you're always gonna make money you're a salesman you he's like the secret to sales is sincerity if you can fake that you got it made yes and you got that in spades and i'm like okay i have no fucking idea what you're saying i love spades yeah i'm sitting there like i don't i just sincere i don't know what sincerity means sincerity you know mine was uh with the money thing it's so funny mine was this all right so trav
You're going to grow up, and you're going to make a ton of money, and you're going to marry this beautiful girl, and she's going to get this great little minivan, and your neighbor's going to hate you. You're going to grow up. You're going to make no money. You're going to be a drug addict and a degenerate, and you're going to marry this ugly girl, and your neighbor's going to hate you.
So just be the first guy.
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Chapter 4: How did the speakers navigate their early careers?
Yeah. I know Portia. Portia.
She said, Portia. She said that somebody said, stop. Yeah. Federal. Yeah. She said, stop thinking about how horrible this is. Start thinking about the amazing person that you're going to walk out of prison as. And she was like, when she walked out of prison so many years later. She walked out and she's like, I was an amazing person. Heck yeah.
Like, you know, and people are like, you're an amazing. She's like, I am an amazing. She was like, it was amazing. Yeah. And she's got a boatload of confidence. Yeah. But that's, that is the right attitude to stop thinking. I shouldn't have gone to jail. I shouldn't have this. I shouldn't have that. They didn't stop it, bro. You got to look at your best bet is to look at this time as a gift.
You'll probably walk out a decent human being.
It's funny you say that because that's the same advice I give to everybody is that you cannot, you can, I don't know. I hope the four people in comments roast him.
Seriously.
You were saying, sorry. You were saying you cannot go in. You cannot go into this. And when you walk out, nobody wants to hear, my baby mama did this. The district attorney hated that. My co-defendant, whatever. Nobody wants to hear that. This guy snitched on me. Nobody wants to hear that. Yeah. Nobody wants to hear that.
The best advice I give to these cats on the way out, the blueprint for employment is this. Hey, Matt. What? I'm Travis, and for the last two years, I've been incarcerated. What I learned about myself while I was incarcerated is one, two, and three. The reason I applied for this job is because I think I can bring A, B, and C to your company based on what I learned.
What did you do to get yourself incarcerated? What do you tell them when they ask that? It's irrelevant. Well, I know, but people ask.
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Chapter 5: What led to the legal troubles discussed in the podcast?
You go to prison. You keep hanging out with him. Nothing has changed. My buddy Pete says, you cannot go to prison And continue to behave in the same manner that led you to prison and get released and not expect to come back. A hundred percent. You know, so, so I'm like, this is an opportunity. It's like, first of all, there's three guys here from NASA. There's guys, I'm not joking.
They're like NASA. There's guys here that, that have master's degree. There's guys here. There's a, there was, So Lance – I forget his last name. He was a billionaire. There's guys here that owned – worth $100 million. There was a guy there that owned two nuclear power plants and was building nuclear power plants in China. You know what I'm saying?
Like there are guys here that are – you could never get into the same restaurant. If you were the busboy, you wouldn't be in the same – well, maybe if you're the busboy. But so the idea that you're here with these people and you're not spending time with them and talking to them and taking the classes that they're teaching because someone like me, I'm teaching class.
Mm-hmm.
Like this guy who's a drug dealer, like the only opportunity you have to mix with me is in class. Correct. Maybe we sit down at the same table, but pretty much it's you and your car. Your little gang members are all sitting together and there's four people there and I'm not going to sit there or I sit there.
You guys come in, you guys sit there and you guys talk and like, you're not, you don't want to interact with me in front of them. Like whatever it is, the situation is to start taking these classes. You can talk to these guys on the record. You're taking none of those opportunities.
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