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Entrepreneur: Expanding Black accounting opportunities in the entertainment and crypto industry, CPA Kendale King. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: appointed president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National
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Speaker 1: Association of Black Accountants. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass.
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Speaker 1: Kendale King, How.
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Speaker 2: Are you doing? Kendale?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing good, doing good and you know, everybody always
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Speaker 3: you know with these intros makes me sound cooler than
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Speaker 3: I think I am.
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Speaker 1: But well, guess what, CPA, you pretty cool to me,
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Speaker 1: my friend, You pretty cool to me because I don't
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Speaker 1: even do my taxes. Okay, I have to have somebody
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Speaker 1: like you do my taxes. That's been even with the
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Speaker 1: easy form, I get nervous, mister King.
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Speaker 2: So welcome to money making conversations of malt the class.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you for having me.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Now you know you're in California. Did did the world
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Speaker 1: start in California? Where'd you originally come from?
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Speaker 3: You know? You know, I'm originally from Cleveland, Ohio. So
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Speaker 3: I was born in West Palmba, Sporida, but I lived
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Speaker 3: my life in Cleveland, and that's where you know, you
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Speaker 3: know I call home after you know, after graduating high school,
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Speaker 3: I went to Moorhouse So I did you know this
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Speaker 3: some time in Atlanta and I graduate with it there.
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Speaker 3: Then started my career off in backing down in Florida,
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Speaker 3: but didn't make it over to LA until twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 3: So a few years so I've been here, you know,
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Speaker 3: going on six years, seven years.
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Speaker 2: Now, HBCU.
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Speaker 1: Why why did you attend an HBCU?
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Speaker 3: Man? Look, I tell you this. I was literally you know,
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Speaker 3: top of a class, all the good stuff, and you know, Mit, Harvard,
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Speaker 3: all them sending me letters to apply. I remember I
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Speaker 3: didn't know about a Morehouse at that time, but I
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Speaker 3: went to a session you know, that was happening at
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Speaker 3: John Hey, my high school, and at that time, you know,
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Speaker 3: I was doing the common app you know, applications to
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Speaker 3: getting high school being into college. You know, with h
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Speaker 3: with Morehouse, you can do the common app and they'll
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Speaker 3: take that. With Harvard, Mit, they just had all these
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Speaker 3: other different like questions you had to you know, talk
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Speaker 3: about what type of dream did you have yesterday? Type thing,
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Speaker 3: just like really expand on that. And it was for me,
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Speaker 3: it was just like, man, I got to keep jumping
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Speaker 3: through all these hoops in this joint. It makes no
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Speaker 3: sense to me and so for for me, and then
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Speaker 3: you know when I apply it to your more House
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Speaker 3: and it gave me in tuition scholarship. So it's like,
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Speaker 3: not only is this is my people telling me that
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Speaker 3: they want me, They see me, and they're willing to
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Speaker 3: put their money where their mouth is with it. So
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Speaker 3: that's you know, the main one of the main reasons
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Speaker 3: for me. And it was like freezing cold in Cleveland
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Speaker 3: and I have.
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Speaker 2: To leave right. You know, it's really good.
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Speaker 1: So let's let's talk about CPA accounting in general now.
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Speaker 1: And my degree is in mathematics. So again, just because
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Speaker 1: I have a degree in mathematics doesn't mean accounting falls
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Speaker 1: under that umbrella, because I'm telling you there's a different
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Speaker 1: level of respect for people who do accounting, and it's
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Speaker 1: a super level of respect people who are CPAs did
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Speaker 1: Was that a dream?
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Speaker 2: Was that a goal? Is this something that you wanted
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Speaker 2: to do all your life?
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Speaker 3: So it's interesting because you know the I didn't really
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Speaker 3: even know what a CTA was until I got into
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Speaker 3: high school. But for me, you know, growing up, I
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Speaker 3: used to I love playing games, you know, I love
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Speaker 3: entertainment and everything and all that. So you know, playing Monopoly,
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Speaker 3: playing you know, cash flow, you know, different types of
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Speaker 3: games like that. You know, I always had to be
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Speaker 3: the banker, you know, I'm like, give me the money,
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Speaker 3: let me do it. And so it was always intriguing
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Speaker 3: to me mind games or TJ puzzles, stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: So for me, you know, you know, just and then
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Speaker 3: growing up where I grew up, in the circumstances that
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Speaker 3: I have with my family, my mother's andle mother. We
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Speaker 3: you know, I had a you know, she had helped
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Speaker 3: every now and again, but basically was kind of doing
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Speaker 3: all that on her own. And you know, so we
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Speaker 3: have fams, we have financial issues, and so it was
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Speaker 3: always very apparent to me. And I think it's just
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Speaker 3: combined that, hey, I want to get money right, and
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Speaker 3: you know that was you know, I'm smart and I
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Speaker 3: can I can think, you know, critically, and but honestly,
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Speaker 3: at first, I thought I wanted to be a you know,
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Speaker 3: an architect. You know. My mother sat me down, was
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Speaker 3: like the you're good at math, Yeah, you know how
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Speaker 3: to do this here? And we literally googled careers that
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Speaker 3: you need to be good at mathing and architecture was
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Speaker 3: one of them. I started there and realized I sucked
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Speaker 3: at drawing. So I was like, yeah, this is just
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Speaker 3: this ain't for me. And so the next one on
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Speaker 3: this was accounting to some classes and I was like, oh,
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Speaker 3: I think this is it.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's a beautiful thing.
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Speaker 1: Because like I said, I wondered around college for seven
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Speaker 1: years before I figured it out.
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Speaker 2: So because I was just stumbling.
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Speaker 1: I think about when I talk to people and I
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Speaker 1: have individuals like you with an account and background, people
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Speaker 1: go okay with Shan. You've had GPAs on the show before,
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Speaker 1: You've had accounting tax experts on the show before. What
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Speaker 1: makes mister King different? Well because his brand centers around
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Speaker 1: what I like to call and what he calls capital culture.
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Speaker 1: Tell everybody what that is?
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Speaker 3: So capital culture essentially to you know, the thought process
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Speaker 3: is that it is. You know, usually I think people
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Speaker 3: have this this sense of what finance, what accounting tact
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Speaker 3: like it's just all boring. It's all, you know, you know,
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Speaker 3: just stuits and ties, long hours. You know, sure you
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Speaker 3: have you know, some a good job, you make some
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Speaker 3: you know, some money, but it's boring.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: Where I feel like, you know, the experiences that I've
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Speaker 3: had is that it's all really it's really about the industries.
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Speaker 3: It's really about the community that you decide to go to.
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Speaker 3: And so me heavily being in an entertainment space. You know.
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Speaker 3: So when and when I say entertainment, I mean like production,
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Speaker 3: so movie, TV shows, the content creators, gaming, stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: You know, it especially within that type of culture, but
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Speaker 3: also within the you know, the African American black culture
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Speaker 3: as well, and so you know, when I'm when I
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Speaker 3: came up with Capital Culture, it's basically mixing all those
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Speaker 3: things together and you know, revolutionizing the way that we
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Speaker 3: interact and see finance accounting and not just being this
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Speaker 3: taboo thing that you don't want to talk about, but
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Speaker 3: something that you that's actually entertaining and something that you know,
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Speaker 3: you actually want to talk about and want to be
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Speaker 3: in and want to you know, be around.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's really interesting because you know, I always try
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Speaker 1: to do my research when I before, and I always
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Speaker 1: do a pre call to my guests and just get
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Speaker 1: a sense can understand how I think in my philosophies.
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Speaker 1: And I went to a Capitol culturemedia dot com and
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Speaker 1: uh and.
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Speaker 2: I saw I saw pictures of Mary J. Blo on there.
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Speaker 1: I saw stories about Dapper Dain and uh for Real
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Speaker 1: and and uh JP Morgan and U Rihanna and Jermaine
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Speaker 1: dupri and and uh and I called up I called
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Speaker 1: up Kendall and I went, uh, mister King, Uh, you
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Speaker 1: know you got a lot of articles on your website. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I always like to give advice. Uh are you afraid
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Speaker 1: of any copyright infringement?
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Speaker 3: You told me, sir, Yeah, no, so yeah, definitely. You know,
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Speaker 3: I remember that conversation was pretty funny. But you know
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Speaker 3: I have thought out to you know, my team, and
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Speaker 3: you know it's my my brother in law, Jamal, and
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Speaker 3: my my sister Kalina. So we are you know, the
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Speaker 3: engine behind that, you know. So you know, Jamal and
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Speaker 3: Coleena are the ones researching it, and we're creating these
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Speaker 3: stories from scratch. So it's not like we're taking it
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Speaker 3: from somewhere else and putting it on here. It's like,
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Speaker 3: you know, the research is being done and the connection
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Speaker 3: as it relates to finance is being you know created.
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Speaker 3: So it's not just you know, we don't try to
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Speaker 3: you know, find out in you know, oh this is
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Speaker 3: some gossip or anything like that, but we take things
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Speaker 3: that are trending, you know, or things that are happening
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Speaker 3: and find a way to connect that culture with the capital.
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Speaker 3: You know, So you know, not just talking about stuff
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Speaker 3: just to talk about it into to raise eyebrows or
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Speaker 3: be a you know, you know, just like Team Z
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Speaker 3: or anything. But actually, how does this you know impact
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Speaker 3: you know, people's pockets, how does it impact the economy
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Speaker 3: economy and you know, and figured out that way. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's a you know, all homegrown and honestly most of
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Speaker 3: the most of that credit and work goes to, you know,
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Speaker 3: to my team Jamala and Cleena who put that together.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because because like you know, I had to let
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Speaker 1: him know and hester Rashan calm down, we could he said,
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Speaker 1: we have a subscription where we get a license these photos.
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Speaker 1: Because that happens because again, you know, we have to
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Speaker 1: understand that I've never seen this done before the way
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Speaker 1: he's doing it. You know, this is an individual CPA background.
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Speaker 1: He's merging entertainment and finance together. That's something that unprecedented.
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Speaker 1: And he's also going to another step by creating the
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Speaker 1: stories on this website that he feels will be relatable
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Speaker 1: to your thought process, seeing about trademark infringement, copyright infringements, lawsuits,
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Speaker 1: all these things that in the IP world, you're that
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Speaker 1: word a lot, especially when you're moving into AI quote
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Speaker 1: unquote artificial intelligence. That is what you're talking about, and
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Speaker 1: that's what you're referencing and that's your motivation, correct sir, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so that.
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Speaker 3: You hit it right on the head. Anything that is
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Speaker 3: you know, involved in entertainment, all those issues and problems,
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Speaker 3: you know, bringing it and trying to make it as
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Speaker 3: digestible as possible. I also have a podcast called Hollywood Accounting,
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Speaker 3: which also goes into it, you know, you know, just
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Speaker 3: at a level of me just speaking to it, you know,
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Speaker 3: but you know, talking about gaming lawsuits and you know,
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Speaker 3: content creator deals, you know, moving into you know, into
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Speaker 3: new media and being accepted and you know, you know,
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Speaker 3: going into a higher level than just posting things on
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Speaker 3: Instagram or YouTube. But you know, as it relates to
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Speaker 3: you know, AI crypto, you know, all that stuff, and
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Speaker 3: just tech in general. You know, it's historically, you know,
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Speaker 3: people who aren't informed to get left behind. And so
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Speaker 3: I don't want to d left behind. I don't want
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Speaker 3: to you know, have you know, people who are subscribing
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Speaker 3: essentially to the same thought and same beliefs that I
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Speaker 3: have to get left behind either. And so that's why
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Speaker 3: it's been very important to me to make sure that
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Speaker 3: I'm staying on top of it as much as possible,
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Speaker 3: and then I'm also you know, sharing that information.
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Speaker 1: You know, how I can wow, you know the thing
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Speaker 1: about it that I appreciated. And his name is Billed K. D.
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Speaker 4: A l. E.
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Speaker 1: Correct ken Dale King, and you're based in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: uh just been named president of the Black count of
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Speaker 1: California account Association. How why is that important to you
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Speaker 1: to have that role in your life now? Can deal?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think, yeah, no, that's it's a big role
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Speaker 3: because again, accounting, you know, in general, again is already
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Speaker 3: a career that's looked at as not fun, you know,
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Speaker 3: avoiding it as much as possible. And so that's just
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Speaker 3: the general sentiment. So imagine you know, the you know,
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Speaker 3: the inclusion of you know, black and brown people in
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Speaker 3: the space too. I believe I read that there was
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Speaker 3: a statistic that the percentage of c pas out there
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Speaker 3: that are blacks are less than three or four percent,
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Speaker 3: you know, uh in in in the world, you know,
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Speaker 3: and there's hundreds of thousands of PCAs. So it's it's
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Speaker 3: that type of those type of statistics that you know,
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Speaker 3: are alarming to me because we need to understand finance
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Speaker 3: in order to do literally anything else, if you know,
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Speaker 3: especially if you want to have a business. You know,
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Speaker 3: a lot of lot a lot of time. Now people
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Speaker 3: are want to be entrepreneurs and they want to you know,
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Speaker 3: push forward, but if they don't have any understanding of
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Speaker 3: finances or even somebody that they know and trust that
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Speaker 3: you know, also has that you know, we really need
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Speaker 3: to do better of, you know, putting our people in
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Speaker 3: place to be educated and to you know, learn this stuff.
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Speaker 3: And so that's a big thing that I want to do.
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Speaker 3: Not only am I the president of the National Association
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Speaker 3: of Black Accountants out here for the LA chapter you
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Speaker 3: know in California, I'm also on the board of the
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Speaker 3: California Society of CPAs. And you know what I'm trying
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Speaker 3: to do with those positions is again push and educate
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Speaker 3: and try and solve this pipeline problem where you know,
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Speaker 3: people are seeing that there's a very big, you know
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Speaker 3: drop and interest in getting into the accounting you know
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Speaker 3: space in the accounting field. And so you know, where
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to fit in is again doing what i
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Speaker 3: can to show them that, hey, it's not all just
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Speaker 3: tash returns and long hours and you know, boring knights
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Speaker 3: and everything. There's also you know fun, you know, depending
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Speaker 3: on what you decide to do, and you know, bring
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Speaker 3: in gammafied education and Gammify events is kind of the
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Speaker 3: thing that you know, I'm kind of bringing to you know, everything, wow,
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Speaker 3: trying to make it fun.
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Speaker 1: You're doing a fantastic job. We speaking to Kendale King. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he's uh, he's educated us. He's combining finance and entertainment
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Speaker 1: something that you know, you would never see it that way.
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Speaker 1: He's letting us know that numbers can be fun and
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Speaker 1: you can make a lot of money, but you need
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Speaker 1: to understand the process and be aware of all the
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Speaker 1: pitfalls that go all with it, go along with it.
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Speaker 1: That's what capitoculturemedia dot com is being made up. But
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Speaker 1: when we come back some more interesting information. One of
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Speaker 1: the things is why should people care about crypto AI.
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Speaker 2: On my show today.
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Speaker 1: It is the president of the Los Angeles Chapter of
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Speaker 1: the National Association of Black Accountant Kendale King. And before
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Speaker 1: I left them went to break, I brought up something crypto.
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Speaker 2: We hit a lot.
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Speaker 1: There's some venues named after crypto websites AI. Let's divide it. First,
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Speaker 1: let's start with crypto. What exactly is crypto? Kendale.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so crypto, you know, another term for you know,
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Speaker 3: just the overarching you know technology, digital assets, blockchain. But essentially,
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Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it is a way
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Speaker 3: where you know, the blockchain is allowing you to interact
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Speaker 3: with monetary transactions with one another. And that's the basic, basic,
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Speaker 3: most way I can say it. But and the reason
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Speaker 3: why it's it's something that isn't powerful, it is powerful
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Speaker 3: now is because you know, it's something that allows you
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Speaker 3: to interact with people through different borders. There's you know,
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Speaker 3: having control of your own money instead of putting it
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Speaker 3: into banks. Obviously, if you're you know, putting it on
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Speaker 3: a you know, like a coin base or something like that,
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Speaker 3: then obviously you're still using intermediar. But there's ways where
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Speaker 3: you can really own your own assets into your own
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Speaker 3: wives and have full control over that. And it's really
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Speaker 3: just in my opinion, it's the way of the future
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Speaker 3: and it's something that you don't want to be left
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Speaker 3: behind in And I know again that there's a bunch
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Speaker 3: of confusion and everything out there, but it really does
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Speaker 3: go it's really going to serve people well to just
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Speaker 3: educate themselves just a little bit to be able to
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Speaker 3: understand how to interact with it.
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Speaker 1: Now when again that's another area, like you said CPS,
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Speaker 1: where people of color, especially black people, are not aware
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Speaker 1: of it, don't understand it. You know, Uh, we we're
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Speaker 1: trailing in the credit game. We're trailing in the game
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Speaker 1: to get loans for our small businesses, let alone trying
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Speaker 1: to understand what crypto is. Then it started dancing in
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Speaker 1: with AI, and AI is a whole new ball of
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Speaker 1: wax that we need to get a clear grip on
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Speaker 1: or understanding only what is your definition of what AI is?
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Speaker 3: So artificial intelligence essentially, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: is a machine, you know, program that is allowing you
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Speaker 3: to you know that it is how do I say that,
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to say this as easy as possible. It's
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Speaker 3: able to perform tasks that like regular human intelligence you know,
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Speaker 3: can be done with it with a machine, and it's
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Speaker 3: done at super fast speeds. I am a big user
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Speaker 3: of chat GPT specifically and where I use it the
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Speaker 3: most within the accounting space is really automating certain tasks
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Speaker 3: or you know, helping me think, you know, out certain
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Speaker 3: thoughts of hey, I have this question, you know, instead
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Speaker 3: of using Google, where was my best friend before? You know,
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Speaker 3: and I would just search like, hey, you know, what's this?
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Speaker 3: Or tell me about that, you know, or does this
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Speaker 3: thing exist? You know, you can go on to chat,
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Speaker 3: GPT or other you know types of you know, websites
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Speaker 3: and programs to basically ask your questions and they can
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Speaker 3: really help you think things through. And that's just really
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Speaker 3: the best scratching surface obviously you can. Then you know,
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Speaker 3: you get into you know, higher level AI where they're
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Speaker 3: creating pictures out of words and you know, doing somen
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Speaker 3: like these complicated math problems and you know, everything like that.
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Speaker 3: But you know, for me, again at a very base level,
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Speaker 3: I'm using it to speed up mundane task or having
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Speaker 3: some type of thing that I can you know, kind
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Speaker 3: of spitball things with, and they write stuff for me,
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Speaker 3: you know, pretty quickly. It's easy to say, hey, here's
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Speaker 3: my idea, write this out, give me an outline, and
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Speaker 3: then I can start, you know, putting in my thought.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know the interesting thing about it with your
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Speaker 1: CPA background, and I want to give another note. When
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Speaker 1: he was talking about the small number of black people
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Speaker 1: who are involved in the CPA industry. What does your
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Speaker 1: wife do, sir?
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Speaker 3: My wife is also.
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Speaker 2: You kind of like hoarding them there, you're holding them
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Speaker 2: under your house.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we agree. Just had a we just had
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Speaker 3: a son in January. Congratulations, you know, well, thank you,
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Speaker 3: thank you.
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Speaker 2: And you know, how can that son not be a CPA.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a legacy's built in here
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Speaker 1: now he's probably.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. You know.
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Speaker 1: The thing I love about talking to you, Kendall is that,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's a degree of frustration not saying that's
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Speaker 1: a bad thing because of the fact that you're on
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Speaker 1: his should to help us out, educate us, give us
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Speaker 1: platforms that you're personally building. You have a podcast that
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Speaker 1: you're personally hosting. You have a wealth site called Capital
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Speaker 1: culturemedia dot com that the information on that website where
20:35
Speaker 1: from Taylor Swift. Information, whether it's information about Pharrell and
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Speaker 1: his conflict with this singer Pink, whether it's Terrence Howard
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Speaker 1: and his legal lawsuits with the CIA. All this information
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Speaker 1: is put out there in the general public. What he's
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Speaker 1: doing that I love about it. He's getting rid of
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Speaker 1: the gossip side of it because that's what a lot
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Speaker 1: of it is. It becomes clickbait. But his is about information.
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Speaker 1: It's about the financial literacy of it all. And that's
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Speaker 1: where I want to go, the importance of financial literacy
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Speaker 1: speak to us Kendale.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so again I think it again real quick, just
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Speaker 3: even on the articles that we're posting. Again, all credit
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Speaker 3: and everything to you know, to my brother in law, Jamal,
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Speaker 3: who really spends most of all of the time to
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Speaker 3: you know, putting that stuff together, and my sister Cleena,
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Speaker 3: who you know, they work together to put all that
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Speaker 3: stuff together. I provided the vision, I provided the you know,
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Speaker 3: the direction, and they really execute it on you know,
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Speaker 3: on doing a lot of that and so you know,
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Speaker 3: again kudos to them really, you know, thanks for you know,
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Speaker 3: building that platform with me and you know seeing that through.
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Speaker 3: But all in all, you know, I think we are
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Speaker 3: all understanding the you know, the issue of financial literacy.
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Speaker 3: And I think you can see other platforms out there
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Speaker 3: that have grown over the years, like Earn your Leisure
21:56
Speaker 3: for example, who saw tremendous growth and success during the pandemic,
22:01
Speaker 3: but you know, being able to put that on the
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Speaker 3: forefront and you know, in certain neighborhoods in certain communities,
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Speaker 3: talking about finances was a hush, hush, don't don't do that.
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Speaker 3: You know, let's you know, not you know, let's not
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Speaker 3: push that. You know, let's not talk about that. You know,
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Speaker 3: if Bill's gonna get paid the way they need to.
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Speaker 3: You know, I can you know, my mother has told
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Speaker 3: me stories of how you know, in the past, you know,
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Speaker 3: our family, you know, previous generations. You know, when checks
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Speaker 3: we're you know, we're a big thing of you know,
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Speaker 3: bouncing checks and you know, trying to tide them, you know,
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Speaker 3: to the next week and you know, and doing all
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Speaker 3: we can to you know, getting getting the loan to
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Speaker 3: you know, the whole Peter to pay, robbing Peter to
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Speaker 3: pay Paul type of situation. And you know, it's really
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Speaker 3: just because you know, historically, you know, there's been a
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Speaker 3: real big effort systematically to prevent education in general to
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Speaker 3: you know, the black folks, but even specifically, you know,
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Speaker 3: as it relates to finances and you know, accumulating wealth,
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Speaker 3: and so at this day and age where we have
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Speaker 3: able luckily and you know, definitely, you know, from the
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Speaker 3: efforts of you know, the people who came before us,
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Speaker 3: we have a little bit you know, a lot more
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Speaker 3: freedom and a lot more opportunities than you know we've
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Speaker 3: been given in the past. And so it is our
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Speaker 3: duty to make sure that we are being as literate
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Speaker 3: as we can when it comes to finances, because that's
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Speaker 3: going to be a major, you know, solution for us
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Speaker 3: to be able to succeed individually, as a youth, family unit,
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Speaker 3: and as a people.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's important that knowing the numbers. You know, my
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Speaker 1: guess as a child, he liked playing with the numbers.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people were out there playing in the
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Speaker 1: mood he playing with the numbers. Wanted to be a banker.
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Speaker 1: He monopoly, He wanted to control the numbers. And then
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Speaker 1: he followed that passion. And I appreciate the fact that
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Speaker 1: you know, you tried other things before you found your lane,
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Speaker 1: which I think is important people hear that is that
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Speaker 1: Do you know this is what you want to do?
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Speaker 2: Correct?
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Speaker 4: King?
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes I do.
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Speaker 1: Now, as we close out here, how can we get
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Speaker 1: in touch with you? I know I mentioned the website
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Speaker 1: a lot, which is really great. I think people should
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Speaker 1: at least go over there, and I'm sure it has
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Speaker 1: contact us type information. How can we you mentioned your
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Speaker 1: podcast Hollywood accounting podcasts which people can find. How can
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Speaker 1: we get in touch with you?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can definitely fign me on LinkedIn Kendell King CPA.
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Speaker 3: I'm probably the only one. And then also on Instagram.
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Speaker 3: You know, my handle is real Kindel King, so r
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Speaker 3: E A L. Kendell King and off have a YouTube
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Speaker 3: channel as well, Kendel Kings. But yeah, I'm definitely again there.
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Speaker 3: There hasn't been too many Kendel Kings out there, so
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Speaker 3: honestly at Google Search are probably you know, uncomfortable to right,
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Speaker 3: So that's the that's the best way to get in contact,
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Speaker 3: I would say for sure LinkedIn or well.
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Speaker 1: My friend, it's been fantastic. Thank you for reaching out
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Speaker 1: to me and thank you for educating me. And more importantly,
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Speaker 1: your website, man is educating us all. There's a blog
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Speaker 1: in a sense because it's a it's constantly updated, it's
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Speaker 1: constantly reminding us that there's a fine line between gossip
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Speaker 1: and finances. And he crosses thatline with his website. He
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Speaker 1: crosses thatline in a very detailed manner with financial literacy
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Speaker 1: with his podcast. Thank you for coming on my show.
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Speaker 3: Kendale King, Thank you appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Cool.
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