Holy [ __ ] it's a tribe called Best.

Hey, what's up? ItsMeKnowlo, and I

have another story for y'all today. And

this one is real simple. Uh, I'm going

to try to keep it short and sweet, but

I'm just tired of people being tonedeaf,

entitled, and rich.

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Everybody

lacks something in their life. It's some

kind of void. It's some kind of hole.

It's something that you're missing,

right? something that you need. It might

be as far as like mental health. It

might be money that you're missing. It

might be companionship that you're

missing. But everybody is lacking

something. Okay?

I work with uh lots of rich people. I

I'm not saying I work with rich people.

My colleagues aren't rich, but the area

that I deliver in, I have a route, and

those people are rich. The average house

is like $2 million, $3 million. You

going down the street and you know you

see people driving like Honda Accords,

Honda Civics. It's like over here on the

regular like just the regular dular car

like everybody has a Rivian,

everybody has a Tesla,

everybody has a Porsche.

Some people just got multiple bandes.

It's a guy over there that has a Ferrari

and a Range Rover and like three Benzes,

a couple 70s BMWs.

How do I know? Uh, for one, I'm very

astute. I watch my environment. I don't

miss much. I don't miss nothing. That

That's number one. Number two, I like

cars. I'm like a car spotter. I'm always

looking at cars. And number three,

I occasionally talk to the guy about his

cars. Okay, so uh the cat's out of the

bag. A lot of people got a lot of stuff.

And I'm walking down the street one day

and I'm outside. I got this satchel with

this mail in it. And it's maybe

let's say 25 30 lbs.

It's maybe 86, maybe 90° outside. You

know what I'm saying? It's pretty hot.

And uh a a lady approaches me. She's a

lady that I know. I see her all the

time.

I know pretty much like

maybe like 99% of my customers. I'm I'm

cordial with with the bulk of them. A

lot of us stop. We talk. We converse. I

spend a little bit more time with them

than I probably should. you know, time

wasting practices.

Um,

I'm walking down the street, she's

walking down the street, she's walking

her dog. You know, that's uh that's what

people do when people are rich or

hipsters or they got generational wealth

or whatever the case may be. They're

always walking a [ __ ] dog

or going to a coffee shop or going to

Pilates or going to the yacht club or

jogging. These are just things that I

see. Just observations. Okay.

I'm walking down the street this way.

She's walking down the street this way.

We're approaching each other.

I say hi. She says hi. The dog is

And uh you know she just she she has

that that she look at me dead my eyes.

Dead my eyes.

When people you know they they want to

stop you to converse. She tells me

yeah my girlfriend is staying in the

back house because she's going through a

divorce.

So I'm letting her stay in my back

house. It's a pretty nasty divorce.

I'm like okay. Like, aren't you

fortunate? You have two houses on the

lot. You have a front house and you have

a back house. And your girlfriend is

fortunate

to have somewhere to stay while she's

going through a messy divorce. Like, you

got a friend in me is what I'm sure

she's saying.

Um,

so she she tells me about her girlfriend

and she says, "Uh,

yeah, you know,

it's so expensive to go through a

divorce." And for me personally, Nalo,

um, I don't like people

that say disparaging things about LA. I

don't like people that say disparaging

things about California.

And uh if you go an episode or two back,

you'll know that I don't like people

saying disparaging things about my

folks. But

I do personally get offended when people

say disparaging things about LA and

California. And we have a lot of

transplants here. We have a lot of

people that aren't native Angelinos. I

am.

We have a lot of people that aren't

Californians. I am.

And you guys come here and you live here

and you suck up the re the the the the

resources. You come to California and

suck up resources. You eating our good

food. You add all of our vegan uh

vegetarian cuisine. You you you at all

of our restaurants eating up our good

fresh table uh free range organic

gluten-free food. You sucking down all

of our food, all of our kombucha.

You and all of our coffee shops. You

enjoying our sun, you getting all of our

UV rays.

Cuz in California, let's keep it a

stack. Let's keep it a stack. In

California, we don't really get weather.

90, 95, 98% of the time, the sun is out

here. It's warm.

California. Welcome to California.

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People come to California and complain

about the traffic. They complain about

the homeless. They complain about the

gang banging. They complain about the

price to live. They complain about blah

blah. [ __ ] blah. Leave.

You don't have to be here if you're not

from here. If you're a transplant, you

chose to come here for whatever reason.

Holy [ __ ] It's a tribe called best.

If you're a Californian or an Angelino,

you can also leave. Like, I mean, you're

not tethered here. You're not shackled

to this state or city. You're not even

shackled to the country. You can leave

the country if you like.

But I digress.

We stop.

We're in each other's face. We're

talking. She's telling me about her

girlfriend that lives in the back house

and how she's going through a nasty

divorce. And

California,

divorces are so expensive.

Like a person with common sense, I say,

"Aren't divorces expensive everywhere?"

"Oh, but no. California so expensive.

California so expensive."

I said, "Well, why you don't live

somewhere else?"

Well, the weather's good here.

California is nice and sunny. Well, it's

not too bad then, is it?

It's too expensive to live here. And the

divorces are too expensive, but the sun

is so beautiful and so warm on your on

on your skin, just tanning and crisping

your skin. And you're just soaking up

the D. You're just soaking up the

vitamin D up here just enjoying our

weather. You can't leave cuz the sun is

too good. The weather's too good.

But you complain how expensive it is.

Can't really have it both ways. You

cannot and should not have it both ways.

She says, "Yeah, I'm trying to put an

addition on my house. I don't

really know what she was talking about.

I tuned out cuz I didn't care." When

people start talking about uh money and

financials and what they're going to do

or what they're not going to do or how

they splurging or what they can't

splurge on,

I check out. I don't care about people's

um money issues cuz I don't care about

keeping up with the Joneses. I don't you

know you know I just really don't care

to hear how good that you're doing

because

when my ship sails in and I start doing

good financially and I'm checking

chicken.

You know when I'm checking chicken like

a mother clucker.

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I'm not going to be telling you about

how much money I got. I'm not going to

be telling anyone about how much money I

got. Nobody.

I don't want to look like I have money.

I don't want to appear to have money. I

want to have nice things. And the things

that I have will be if you know you

know.

I don't want the cliche. I don't want

the designer. I don't want the trend. I

don't want what you have. I don't want

what you like. The stuff that I want.

You probably don't get it. It's only if

you know, you know.

But people like talking about money.

So, I want to put a new addition on my

house and uh you know, gh California,

you got to get these permits and it's

all the bureaucracy and it's all the

yellow tape and you have to do this. And

I was just thinking, why is it so

difficult? You know, just all this

paperwork and

while she's talking,

I look at her house.

I look at her house again. Like I said

earlier, you have a pretty big house.

You have a house in the back. You have

two houses on the lot. You don't have

one house. You have two houses.

Her driveway is long as a [ __ ] The

driveway is long as a [ __ ]

You know what's in the driveway?

a side by side,

a Bolt,

a Audi,

a Tesla,

and a big beefy lifted up off-road

douchebag overlander Bronco.

You mean to tell me

that you had the audacity

to sit here and complain to me about

your [ __ ] money troubles? The

bureaucracy and the yellow tape.

California is giving you a hard time

about spending your money.

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You're having a hard time giving your

money to California. How is that my

problem? How is that something that you

should share with me?

I'm a brokster.

I'm a mailman. One of my rules in life,

I may not have said this to you guys

before, but I'm going to say it now.

This is our thing cuz we're besties,

right? This is a tribe called best. This

is a tribe called best. So, I'm going to

share this with you guys.

If you're not rich,

you're broke. If you're not wealthy,

you're broke.

So though I make enough money to

survive. Though I live ah okay,

I don't live how I want to live.

I still do have budgetary restrictions.

A lot of times I live paycheck to

paycheck. Sometimes I got some money and

I'm doing fine and things is good and I

could I could, you know, chill for a

while. I'll be on cruise control for a

second, but a lot of times I got to

tighten up my belt and I got to live

paycheck to paycheck because I am

American. I am a regular common folk.

I work for my money. I work hard. My

work life balance is no good.

My work knows me better than my wife and

child. I spend more time with my

colleagues than at home. Okay?

And you can tell me how you want to put

a new addition on your house. And it's a

problem that California is making you

get all these permits. It's taking too

long.

I see a side by side and a bolt and a

Tesla and an Audi and a Bronco

and you're talking to a poor person

about money. How insensitive are you? Do

you not read the room?

It's 86 to 90 degrees out here. I'm

sweating.

I'm sweating.

Like my essence is coming out. Like I'm

out here like I'm I'm like like you know

I could be out here and damn near have

have a heat stroke or or just whatever

the case may be. I'm not going to.

But it's like I'm out here like I'mma be

looking like a California raisin. Like I

could be out here getting petrified by

the sun in this 40 lb bag and I'm

dodging and ducking and and maneuvering

around dogs and people like you that

tell me about your money problems and

you're rich.

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A lot of people lack emotional

intelligence. Emotional intelligence is

like um I'm not giving you a definition

word for word. I'm giving you my opinion

on emotional intelligence, what I've

learned in 40 years and what I

extrapolate from all the people that I

see in the world. Like emotional

intelligence is being able to read the

room. It's being able to look at the

people around you and have sympathy or

empathy and

understand that all the time what's good

for the goose is not good for the

gander. Uh emotional intelligence is

understanding

what's um

how do you call it

what's in your mouth doesn't have to

come out like top of mind tip of tongue.

You don't have to say what you think.

You could like keep your mouth closed

and keep your thoughts to yourself or

this is a conversation that you can and

should

have with your other rich friends,

not me, the brokster.

Cuz we work really hard to um cut down

on overtime and we and we do pivots and

um we keep our budget tight every month.

uh you know to make sure not not to

overspend and and not to have time

wasting practices and not to dole out

too many hours because

our supervisors and managers need fat

ass bonuses.

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You get what I'm saying? We're at the

bottom of the ladder. We are the worker

bees. We are the ants. We are the peons.

We don't get bonuses. We get uh where's

my button at? We get

screwed.

Okay, we don't get bonuses. We get

screwed.

And we work very hard

so that somebody else can have more and

have better. That's the American way.

So, I just like I said, I just get tired

of people being audacious enough to be

rich

and

just have the luxury of time.

The world is your oyster.

You know, time is the time is the most

expensive luxury that you can have. Time

is the best thing that you could ever

have. You got time,

you got money,

you have Caucasian skin, you don't

really have much to worry about,

and you lack the emotional intelligence

to

to to to bite your tongue. You're

telling me about your money woes and

about your divorced girlfriend that's

living in the back house because in

California, divorces are so expensive.

I mean, I get it. Humans like to talk.

People like to relate to each other. But

you just got to read the room. Uh, just

got to read the room.

Cuz like I said, while she was talking,

I just totally tuned out my break brain.

My brain went on autopilot. Like my

brain just completely shut off as soon

as she started talking about money. Cuz

I'll just be looking at you like you.

When people talk about money, my my my

mind shuts off. I'm from the hood. Like

the hood hood, like the real ghetto.

Like I said, I'm from California,

Southern California. I'm from Los

Angeles. I'm from the east side. I'm

from Watts. I'm from the Blue Gates. And

I grew up with dudes that would

rob people,

sell dope,

get gr,

get food stamps, and shoot dice. So they

had like five, six streams of income.

They had on uh figuro chains and Rolex

chains and gold teeth and Jordans and

spank white t-shirts

and a pocket full of money and they'll

walk up to you and say, "Hey, let me

hold some. Hey guys, let me get a

dollar. Hey my [ __ ] come on. Hey, my

[ __ ] just give me a dollar. It It's

all good though." Like, I give you the

dollar back. Just let me hold something.

I was born that night. I wasn't born

last night. I just seen you right there

with a [ __ ] full of money.

If you broke as a joke, if you ain't got

nothing but lint, if you ain't got no

money, that's not my [ __ ] problem.

Cuz you got Jordans and you got gold and

you got hoes and you got dope to smoke.

If you don't have money, that's not my

problem. But I know that you have

problem. So no, you can't hold nothing

from me. Not nothing.

And that's the way that I feel when rich

people talk to me about money. It's it

kind of feels like

it's the it's the equivalent to like

playing in your face. You let somebody

borrow some money

and they pull up in a new car and you're

like, "Hey, Charlie, where's my money?

I've been waiting on my money. Charlie,

it's it's been a while, man. You said

you're going to pay me back." And

Charlie's like, "I'll give it to you

when I give it to you." And you're like,

"Hey, Charlie, that's a new car. That

ride looks pretty new. Is that a new

car, Charlie?" It's new. You know, I'm

doing pretty well. Hey, well, you're

doing pretty well, Charlie. Where's my

money? You got to kill Charlie. You have

to murder him. He's playing in your

face.

You owe me money, but you're still

having wild expendites. Is that the

word?

Anyway,

there is no point to this story. It is a

pointless story. I just wanted to have a

conversation with y'all. I just wanted

to tell y'all a story cuz I love y'all

and I love telling y'all stories. But

yeah, long long story short, short story

long. Yeah, like I said, I'm at work and

I'm just walking up the street and I

said, "This lady just had the audacity

to come to me

and talk about her money problems, talk

about the bureaucracy and how difficult

California was making it for her to

spend her money.

Like, you want to put an addition on to

your house. You want to maybe, I don't

know, go up, make it two, three stories.

Maybe you want to put another room. You

want to go left, right, to the side. You

want to put a pool. Whatever it is you

want to do, that's not my business.

I'm a brokster. I'm not a homeowner.

I got a regular family.

I got a regular car. No resentment,

no jealousy. I'm just the type of person

that truly doesn't care. Like, I don't

have a jealous bone in my body.

Not one that doesn't exist. I don't

care. I don't um care about people

enough nor pay attention enough to um

develop envy.

I don't have a competitive bone in my

body. Not a competitive bone in my body.

Anything that I'm doing, I don't want it

to be better than yours cuz I don't give

a [ __ ] about yours. I want mine to be

mine. And I'm in my lane, being

creative, making what I'm making and

doing what I'm doing. And I want to

inspire you to make something cool. And

you could inspire somebody else. But my

aim and my goal is not to be better than

anyone.

My aim is to be me and have my thing.

And I think that that's just one of

those things that a lot of people don't

understand. I think that that's just a

form of being tonedeaf. You know,

like

I'm not one of those people that thinks

it's it's crass to talk about religion.

I'm not one of those people that thinks

it's crash to talk about politics. I'm

not one of those people that thinks it's

crass to talk about money. Talk about

what you talking about, but read the

room.

Share your views and opinions with

like-minded people.

Uh, short little one. I had a guy in the

comments the other day and he was

disagreeing with one of my videos and I

told him at the end of the day, it's my

video on my page and my opinion. It's 7

zillion people on Tik Tok. It's 7

trillion people on Tik Tok. Don't get in

my [ __ ] comments disagreeing with me

because I don't give a [ __ ] what you

think.

You don't like what I'm saying? Go to

someone else's Tik Tok page. Get off

mine.

I am too into me to be jealous of you.

I'm too into me to to be in competition

with you. I'm too into me to argue with

you.

So we could talk about money,

we could talk about

politics, we could talk about religion,

we can disagree,

but read the room. Like

you disagree with me, I give you a short

answer that's kind of blas. I'm kind of

blowing you off. I'm not in the m I'm

not in the mood to argue and I'm not

gonna get on, dude. Skating the wind.

Go argue with somebody else.

Cuz what we can't argue is my opinion.

Facts are facts. Those are concrete.

Facts are science. Facts are something

that's tested and proven and and and and

it's math to it. A fact is 1 plus 1 is

two. Not 11 like Terren Howard.

A fact is 1 plus 1 is two. That's

something that we can't argue. We cannot

argue that.

That's a fact. But we also can't argue

my opinion because my opinion is my

opinion and I'm putting it on my page.

And if you don't like what's on my page,

back off or jack off.

And it, like I said, it's just it's just

what I feel about a lot of people that

talk about money. It's like if I went to

a homeless person and was like, "Whoa,

man. I sure did get a fat ass paycheck

today." Mhm. I'm going to go to 7-Eleven

and run it up. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Just learn how to read the room. A

lot of people lack emotional

intelligence. I like the people that I

work with and I I like the people that I

um service, cater to, whatever is the

correct way to say it. I like I like my

customers. They like me. But

yeah, just

don't don't talk to me about money. If

it's 97° outside and you didn't offer me

water or Gatorade,

don't talk to me about how much money

you got.

You got a lot of paper. You checking a

lot of chicken,

but your heart ain't in the right place.

Save me from dying. I'm outside. It's

hot.

It It It don't, man. It It don't even

got to be water. You ain't even got to

hydrate me, man. I walk by the crib. Get

Give me a bag of Doritos. Dehydrate me

more. Give me some salty ass Doritos.

It's the thought that counts. You ain't

got to get it right, but it's the

thought that counts.

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