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First Week Selling Life Insurance as an 18-year-old High School Student (Ep. 220)
Are you looking to break the norm of a 9-5? Or your next opportunity after school? Andrew Taylor sits down with an inspiring 18-year-old high school student, Kenny Brooks Jr, who started selling life insurance just one week ago — and he’s already making waves.
Known online as “Funnysalesman Jr.” he’s following in the footsteps of his viral salesman father, Funnysalesman. Joining him is his best friend, Brandon Owens, who started alongside him and together they’re dominating door-to-door sales. This episode is packed with energy, humor, and powerful insights for young adults looking to break free from the norm and start building a successful career early. If you’re a teenager or young adult wondering how to change your future, this is the video for you!
Hello everybody. Andrew Taylor here, thanks for coming in today. We have Kenny Brooks Jr with us, thank you for coming in. We got Brandon Owens coming with us today, and then we also have Brett Dunham, who we met in second grade, and were we getting in a fight or what was happening?
Speaker 3:Pretty sure you cut me in bus line and we probably fought.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you guys have any friends. You've gotten a few fist fights with.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we met off a mint, off, what A peppermint. My teacher gave them out and Kenny got the last one and it was my favorite and he handed it. He was like you want it? And that's how our friendship started.
Speaker 1:Can you pull that mic a little closer to you? A little closer. Okay, Okay, that's pretty cool. Yeah, All right. So this is a. I think everybody's in for a treat. So we got a good story here. So we got Funny Salesman Jr here. Can you tell everybody who your dad is? Funny Salesman?
Speaker 4:The sales genius, the sales guy, and he's the dude on the YouTube video. Yeah, youtube video. His original video, like 350 million, broke the internet.
Speaker 1:So 350 million views. If you don't think you've seen it, you've seen it. It's a video where he goes up to a door. He's super funny. He tells a bunch of jokes and he's selling something and it's. You can't say no to him because he's just funny, right.
Speaker 4:Let's show the clip right here.
Speaker 5:That's why your neighbor said I'll remind him a Nicolas Cage, because I'm going to 60 seconds. So watch this right here there. Look who does this the most on the window? The kids, the dogs that are ugly black guys that eat fried chicken. Now you see these water spots. Look, they get whiter than my elbows without lotion. Watch this, dad, and I'm out your hair, because Stevie Wonder says seeing is believing, and I got a disease called enthusiasm, so I'm going to cut straight to the mustard.
Speaker 5:Watch this, though Don't laugh too. Puts some coating on your window. No water spots, no fingerprints, no streaks. That's why we can't sell it to criminals. Don't tell OJ or Tiger Woods. Okay, high five, they be loving this stuff. Now, dad, you and mom, y'all would agree. Oh my God, you see this right here. Who did that? Who did that? Okay, watch this Now. My mom said if it's darker than me and it don't pay the bills, it shouldn't be there, right? God bless you. Now. Look this right here. We just upgraded like Beyonce. This is our new surfactant. Hold this and watch this, because this should be the main reason why you get the HBO special. You know what HBO mean. No, you get to help a brother out. Yeah, I've been on the road like toilet paper?
Speaker 2:How many of your neighbors?
Speaker 5:in the community said they just go get it because I'm funny, because this stuff sells itself. Look, you just go back and forth like an argument. Now I'm a Jesus, but look how I split that. Like Moses, did the Red Sea Paint me green, call me a pickle. And look at this right here look, goes good with chicken. Don't drink it, though it. Oh yeah, mom, now this is my last demo and I'm out your hair quicker than your favorite shampoo. Y'all familiar with these right here. Sharpies. Yeah, now, watch this, even though I'm black, it ain't black magic, it just works.
Speaker 5:Because, look, say you got this in the clothes or the carpets or the laundry. Would you agree that out, mike tyson? Oh, okay, you were done, it was. It was a multiple choice funny joke, because you know you can't put bleach on colors, right, sure, look at this, this safe on colors. That's why we couldn't sell it to sammy sosa. But look, you just spray the spray right now. Do this right here, takes out ink, blood, coffee stains, grass stains, kool-aid, lipstick, gum glue, candleway. Would you say that's whiter than the colgate?
Speaker 1:smile, not, oh, my goodness you see that everybody could look it up. That's your dad. So he recently spoke at our national convention and then I I was like, dude, you should sell insurance. And he was like, well, my son, kenny brooks jr, all right, is still in high school, but he'd be interested in selling insurance. And that's how we connected right, like just to kind of tell everybody you're still in high school, but he'd be interested in selling insurance. And that's how we connected Right, like just to kind of tell everybody you're still in high school, still in high school, yes, sir, and you've been on Zooms getting trained by Brett and some other producers, for sure In class.
Speaker 4:In class Every day While I'm in school.
Speaker 1:Every day, okay, okay. How have you liked selling insurance so far, so far?
Speaker 4:so good. I mean the learning experience, for sure. Yeah, I mean so good so far, so good. I mean honestly selling a $20 cleaner. To me it was like, if I can sell that you know what I mean I can sell anything for real.
Speaker 1:So you started doing what your dad did with the same cleaner.
Speaker 4:Yeah, same, cleaner what?
Speaker 1:age? Did you start doing that at Around nine years old? How many doors have you knocked on?
Speaker 4:I don't even know. Over five, I couldn't even tell you honestly. And then Brandon's your best friend, yeah, kind of got into the sales.
Speaker 1:So for everybody watching, let me kind of paint this picture for you. A month ago or so we met you guys. You guys got your license and then, when I called you to tell you we could get you leads, you guys said your license. And then when I called you to tell you we could get you leads, you guys said we don't need leads because we'll just go knock on people's doors. That's what we do, yeah, and then you went and knocked on people's doors but you didn't have ipads.
Speaker 1:No, got our first sale on the phone so you were using your cell phone yeah, carter got her.
Speaker 4:Um, um, we had her, we had um brett, he had us like a plot plot sheet. Um, we had her fill the plot sheet out. Um, then we got home we just filled out the information. The app wasn't working. The app wasn't working and said we needed like a ipad or like a desktop. So I mean we went to the house and just filled out the application First day we got our first carrier end up doing that.
Speaker 1:And how many sales have you guys made so far? So?
Speaker 2:last week was my first official week, so I say I put like eight policies last week.
Speaker 1:Eight policies. How old are you? 20, be 21 next month. So you're 20. 20, you're 18. That's legit. How many sales have you made um?
Speaker 4:around five, six, nice yeah, but I still haven't even got a carrier yet. So yeah, I'm still except america.
Speaker 2:It was probably doing like four or five together, four or five together, and then he's probably done five. We've probably done like four or five together, four or five together, and then he's probably done five apiece. Probably done like.
Speaker 1:What do you think you guys can do when you guys get rolling?
Speaker 4:I don't even, I don't even know, just promoting it and then just already knowing the sales game. It's going to be crazy for sure All right.
Speaker 1:So what is? Can you tell me some of your openers that you guys are using on these door knocks, and did you learn them from your dad? Did you make them up yourself?
Speaker 4:I mean, yeah, so it's just enthusiasm. So when I first knock on the door, I try to break the ice with the customer. So me, I knock on the door. Hey, how's it going? Mom, don't beat me up. Okay, you know what I mean. Don't beat me up. My name is Kenny Brooks, woo-woo. And then you know what I'm saying. I kind of go from there. Or I try to throw them off and say I'm just joking, I'm just the benefits coordinator for the city of Uwu. You know what I'm saying? Just go from there. So it just comes natural.
Speaker 1:What else you got? Because your dad, I saw him with Big Sean that clip, yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, big Sean. What he said back to him was impressive bro.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Big Sean, Shout out to him. For sure that was legit. Yeah, for sure I was supposed to be there. He told me to come up there. I was at doors actually, so I ended up missing it.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you guys have been going together Together. You guys kind of just meet the customer, what?
Speaker 4:does it look like when you guys go together, um, so we we usually just go. I mean, he goes one floor, I go to other floor. Um, because when we go together sometimes we can't, I don't know, it just looks. It looks a little weird to them. So the um customers sometimes.
Speaker 1:So we we try to hit different doors, different doors okay but they, they complement each other well too.
Speaker 3:They like he'll break the ice if it's going too long, the application, and then he'll be writing it, because they call you a lot, because they need help. I mean just for quotes and stuff. They got it handled. I could never touch it and they'd be fine, but just to kind of guide them on what carriers would approve them. But he'll be writing it and if it's taking too long he'll make them laugh. It's a great combo, but sometimes it crowds the room a little too much and they're both good on their own.
Speaker 1:What's your opener?
Speaker 2:I typically just start by, you know, greeting the customer. Oh, you have a lovely smile Because I did solar before, I did insurance and connection is everything in solar. So, oh my God, I love your dog. Or you know, sorry, hey, sorry to bother you, but you know the benefits coordinator. And then you go in with the line and then once I get in the door, if she has a cat, I say what's up to the cat or dog and you know that typically gets me in the door.
Speaker 1:I used to have this rule if their dog likes you, they're buying. Yeah, have this rule if their dog likes you, they're buying. Yeah, like 100 of the time yeah, that's how it was.
Speaker 2:The last lady I was with um, her cat was, you know, rubbing all up on me. So I was like this is an easy one.
Speaker 1:If I can sit and rub your cat, I know you're gonna buy from me for sure yeah, I'm allergic to cats, so I would try to pet their cats, and then my eyes would get all red. Yeah, my nose would start running and then I'm allergic to dogs too. I'm hypoallergenic, oh nice dude, you kind of sound like lil wayne. Has anyone ever told you that? No, no, I don't sound like lil wayne, I don't think. Or you sound like somebody who is it?
Speaker 2:I don't know I don't know. You gotta tell. You said Lil Wayne, who else do you think?
Speaker 1:Maybe Wiz Khalifa A little bit yeah maybe a little bit. Yeah, maybe a little bit. Yeah, that's smooth, though. You walk up to the door and say I like your smile.
Speaker 2:Or just whatever the customer, whatever I can relate to, whatever I see. You know, oh my God, you have a really nice rug right there, you know, and then it's not hard for me to get in the door. I know I'm a pretty handsome guy. You know, all the older ladies, you know they compliment us. So once this is like that, and then most of our audience they're, I would say, they're elderly. So you know, when they're elderly they're lonely, they want somebody to talk to.
Speaker 1:So that also helps, and someone to be nice to them and listen to them, yeah, and they're super respectful to everybody.
Speaker 1:They always compliment how respectful they are to them, so definitely, well, the reason I wanted you guys on because you guys are brand new, right, but the fact that you're brett showed me a video of you in class in high school, right on the training, training on the computer in class.
Speaker 1:Was that your phone? Yeah, no, yeah. So I was on my iPad on the phone call and then, like what you guys are doing I think that a lot of people they don't realize in high school they turn 18, they could do this and I started right out of high school I was 18, bagging groceries and like this. And I started right out of high school I was 18 bagging groceries and, um, like it changed my whole life, just sticking with this and learning it and learning sales and learning how to build teams and doing all this stuff. So the reason I think there's a big opportunity for you guys is because there's a lot of young people that want to make money but they don't know where to go. Yeah, then we were tripping, because we were looking up online alcohol sales by generation and, like our generation, what did it say?
Speaker 1:it was like 20 billion a year in alcohol sales and then your generation was like three billion dollars a year in alcohol sales 30 20 billion down to three, down to three yeah, so we're. I'm like I wonder why, like younger people are not drinking as much. Do you guys have any idea um?
Speaker 2:I just hate it. I don't like drinking, um, but yeah, I'd rather just spend my time on doing something you know, like going to get some money or you know things like that something productive, yeah, something productive.
Speaker 1:Exactly what about you same? You don't drink a lot you know like going to get some money, or you know things like that. Something productive, yeah, something productive. Exactly. What about you Same, you don't drink a lot, nah, well, yeah, you're 18 in high school.
Speaker 3:I shouldn't ask that, and you're not even 21. No, next month, so you can ask me that next month they don't miss a day. They're out every day in the field, so they don't have time for that, not in the field. Yeah, they wanted to knock today during the thing we should go knock right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you just got to find us a little apartment building and I guarantee we'll come out of there with something For sure. Let's do it.
Speaker 1:All right, should we? Yeah, we'll film the rest on our iPhone.
Speaker 3:I've already scouted I got a couple.
Speaker 1:Yeah. What about just a regular house, though? Why does it got to be an apartment building, I mean?
Speaker 4:it could be a regular house.
Speaker 2:It could be anything.
Speaker 4:But the senior facilities, it's just a ratio. It's more of a ratio thing. A house is cool but it's like a coin flip 50-50 coin flip. You know what I mean. Are they interested? We just know the senior home is a better ratio or an apartment building is a better ratio, like someone's going to want it, you know what I mean. And then how we pitch it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so go ahead. Yeah, it's like, because I feel like with the houses, you know it is a 50-50 coin flip.
Speaker 1:But like apartments, or because you you know you have a whole floor. So if there's 20 people on the first floor, we're gonna get somebody on the first floor. I guess it's tight spaces to go knock too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, instead of walking from house to house to house to house. Yeah, and it's an easy question. Like does anybody else here? Uh, need something like this.
Speaker 4:Yeah, like sally a3 needs it and trust me, that's all I did was um door, um door door, like house-to-house-to-house. I'll say, before I was doing this, all I did was door-to-door selling the cleaner. I still sell cleaner on my off time, just to work on my sales talk, critique my sales talk, and just working on it. That's what I do and I love going door-to-door. That's where I find happiness at for real.
Speaker 4:Honestly, how did your dad teach you so? He basically taught me. So I grew up. He was always out of town so I never seen him. But during the summer and then with little breaks, I used to go down to the crew with him. That's what it's called the crew. So I used to go out um down um to the crew with them. That's what it's called like the crew um. So I, I used to go out with them every day and just watch them go to doors. And then I was out there at nine years old writing like 13 sales. My high week. My high week was like like 60 sales. But I, I used to hold meetings back in the day um the company. But he kind of taught me, basically through door-to-door meetings, things of that nature reading books, rich Dad, poor Dad, how to make friends with folks.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a lot of books. But yeah, I mean, he taught me in so many ways, but that guy, that guy's a legend. Shout out to Funny, Selma for sure.
Speaker 1:That's legit man. So, he taught you just by him leading the way himself.
Speaker 4:Leading the way doing it. I've visibly seen it like every day, day to day.
Speaker 1:You think you could take him on like a one-on-one?
Speaker 4:I don't know, man. No, the thing, what was crazy is I seen his routine every day 6 am he'd get up and he didn't get back till like 11 o'clock. Then they had meetings every single day at 12 at night, so then he wouldn't get to bed until until like 1.30, 2 o'clock, wake up again 6 am next day. And he did that for like 300 days. And they were only off one day a week, sundays. So he'd do that every day for like literally 25 years straight 25 years straight.
Speaker 1:25 years straight, dude. He had me dying at the conference laughing just because someone said, like how would you sell life insurance? Do you remember what he said? He said something like you didn't, you didn't hear, I forgot what he says. He said something like, hey man, did you get it yet? Or he said something like something about dying, yeah.
Speaker 2:Right off the first line.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's like something like you know you're going to die. And then it was just hilarious. His delivery was good, his delivery was crazy, so he taught you just by going out there selling, just by going out there, you fell in love with selling. Yeah, sure, and then now you found something that you think might be your thing, which is insurance. What do you like about the industry for other young people to kind of?
Speaker 4:The volume. For sure, it's more the people, the people. For sure, just working with older people I know you guys sell it IULs to more younger people, but it's the people, the policy is easy. So I mean yeah to the young people. I mean it's easy. It's going to be kind of rough at the start but it's pretty easy.
Speaker 2:It's not for the weak, though. Definitely not for the weak, because you've got to get out there every day, because there are going to be some days where you don't get anything, and there's going to be some days where you don't get anything, and there's going to be some days where you write five, six policies. So it's just the consistency.
Speaker 1:Most people of our generation don't want to be consistent in our days. Yeah for sure. Now we're going to help you guys build an agency, because you guys are putting in the work and also I think you guys have a really interesting story, which is you're not at the clubs, you're not out partying, you're out there hustling and making money. So for someone who wants to get into this, you've been working with Brett, who has been helping you guys a bunch, right. What could somebody expect, like if you recruited your friend, what could they expect? And like your friend, what would it? What could they expect and like, what's it like working on the team you guys are on?
Speaker 2:well, honestly, without Brett, you know, a lot of this wouldn't go as smoothly. Like Brett's a big help, like that's what everybody has to know. Brett is a really big help. So shout out Brett, um, but yeah, um, they will. Just it's teamwork, you know, like you gotta get out there every day, basically.
Speaker 4:So, yeah, that's really it and then returning the favor because Brett's basically teaching us how to treat our agents, the guys under us. You know what I mean. Like, because I mean he's gonna you're gonna get a big return back. I mean you're going to get a big return back. I mean if you're teaching your agents everything that you know, basically giving them the cheat code. All right, how I visualize my agency is like I'm going to teach you what I didn't know. You know what I mean. Like I'm going to give you the cheat code so you can come in here. You know what I?
Speaker 5:mean Faster than me Faster than me.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean so faster than me. You know what I mean. So it's just returning a favor, like Brett. You know what I mean. You are a big help and I appreciate it.
Speaker 3:Hey man, I was passing it down from him to me, so so, Brett, can you tell everybody what you've done?
Speaker 1:Because, like, how long have you really been doing this?
Speaker 3:I started like end of May or April last the hang of things.
Speaker 1:How many months did it take?
Speaker 3:Like two weeks, I mean my first full month. I wrote a lot of policies but I mean I'm still as far as learning. I'm still learning. I mean every day I'm studying. I learned quick because I studied a lot and I called a lot. I got the reps in. But I mean it shows like if you do, clients can see it Like if you're worried about them thinking you're scamming because you're calling like two minutes into it like all right, you're not scamming because you know way too much about this. You know that's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know way too much about the products the policies.
Speaker 3:I can tell you do this all the time.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 3:Feel comfortable.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep, that's huge. And then what are you doing, right? So, last month, what'd you do?
Speaker 3:I issued a. Wrote What'd you issue? I issued $27,000.
Speaker 1:The $27,000 off IULs you issued. Now you're doing all this for one. You're a busy dude, you're a dad, you've got other things you're doing and you're finding the time to do this, but when you are doing this, yeah you're doing it live in front of everybody else. How much has that helped you?
Speaker 3:I mean a lot like, uh, not only does it like I get used to calling and doing stuff in front of people, but it also teaches me, teach myself and ask questions. I don't know, maybe, um, but like I'm, I'm in the zoom dial, like no matter what I'm doing. If I'm going know maybe, but I'm in the Zoom dial, no matter what I'm doing. If I'm going to the grocery store, I'm in the Zoom dial. If they got questions, I'm there. If I'm on the road, if I have an appointment, I'll pull over. I'm on the Zoom all the time and it's like I don't require anyone to be there. But I think, since I'm doing it, we'll have 12, 15 people on a Sunday when no one got invited, just hop it in, because they know I'll be there and they know other people will be.
Speaker 1:So and you're calling life so like if you, if someone, were to join your guys's team. You guys are all doing this together on zoom yeah, so like we essentially, essentially, how Brad operates.
Speaker 2:You'll wake up in the zoom and then you'll go to sleep in the zoom for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're always on the zoom 24 7 but it's helpful, right, because it's like a you right, because it's like you're not going to an office but you're in a virtual office.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've learned so much just by being in the Zoom within the past couple of weeks, like now I can. You know I don't really need bread, like for anything now I do, but you know I don't.
Speaker 1:Yeah but you can run an appointment by yourself now. Yeah, before you were like uh, what do I do? Right, but you guys didn't wait, you just guys, you guys just went out as soon as I got one character dude. How cold is it where you guys are.
Speaker 3:Where do you guys live, that's?
Speaker 1:right, detroit. You guys are door knocking in detroit. Yeah, and when you called me it was like 8 or 9 pm. How cold was it?
Speaker 2:30 degrees 30, spend some days where it's 19, 18 degrees. I know, a couple weeks ago it was just negative 2.
Speaker 1:No leads, no iPad, in Detroit, 30 degrees, and you don't even really know what you're doing.
Speaker 4:But me and him. We knocked on like 11 degree, 16 degree weather, selling cleaner, Selling cleaner. It was messed up. We like, bro, how are we going to get something to eat tomorrow, bro, I got to go get some money 16 degrees, how much you make on a $20 cleaner.
Speaker 4:You don't got to say exactly, just roughly so usually if we go out for like an hour, we'll probably make if it's me and him probably like 180 a piece, like an hour 30 minutes. If I go out for like four or five hours it looks more like 450, 500.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and seeing him do that has taught me a lot, though. Like it's taught me like help my sales game, because, like he's crazy with it at the doors, like if you can sell cleaner like you could do anything okay, so I asked him about his pitch.
Speaker 1:I should ask you about his pitch. Like what's he like going up to the doors?
Speaker 2:unbelievable. Like I couldn't even explain it, like it's just you know how his dad is, like you know you're just punching them in, you know. Like you're just getting them after punchline, after punchline and then like just watching the people draw into them is like dang. It makes me want to get better, oh yeah, so you're kind of like a comedian.
Speaker 4:Yeah, essentially I try to be and I try to make it more funny, like wherever I'm at, like I could still clean her down here. See, what I'll do is I'll do things a little different. What I'll do is I'll do things a little different, like I'll just say, hey, how's it going? My name is Kenny Brooks. I'll say I go to Wolfie Wolf. High School Coach Wolfie Wolf got us out here Just part of our basketball fundraiser. We're just impressing the neighbors with pink miracles, an all-purpose cleaner right. And I'll say my mom said, if it's darker than me and it don't pay the bills, it shouldn't be there right Now, real quick, I just want to show you one demo and I'm going to be like Michael Jackson and beat it. Okay, now, real quick, and I'll show them. So yeah.
Speaker 4:So they asked how much is it? So, how much is it? Okay, so, yeah. So, this being our last week of fundraising, each bottle it was $39.95. But this being our last week of Fundraising, each buy was just $19.95. So he caught us at the best time, okay, and then, oh, you got me. You know what I mean. So that's how I kind of draw a man, and then the HBO special or just my training right here. If you do the HBO special that way, me and him, we both get commission. What's the HBO? You just help a brother out, okay, that's the two for one. Okay, that way he gets his commission as well. Okay, and then you know what I'm saying. They do the two. You know what I mean. So I mean.
Speaker 1:You mean. I would buy it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I did, you did, I did buy it yeah, shout out to Rhett, and I ain't even sell it to him.
Speaker 1:How do I buy some right now?
Speaker 4:I mean, if you buy it through the website, the lady behind the desk eating a chili cheese fry, she'd get the commission. But I mean, if you buy it through me, I'll just ship it to you, that's fine, I'll buy it through you. I'll take my profit. Well, when your dad was with Big Sean.
Speaker 1:He said that he said you want to get the HBO special, but I was waiting for Big Sean to get his money out. Oh yeah, but he didn't I know, yeah, know that we got to play that clip on here, cuz it's good.
Speaker 5:Hey, how's it going? Oh, sorry to bug you, I know it's dark, I'm dark, I'm going to dark. You big shine. Yeah, I've been listening to you since Moby Dick was a minnow. Okay can I actually one quick question?
Speaker 6:Whatever?
Speaker 5:I'm trying to be like you. I'm finally famous too.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 5:But you know a lot of people like Stevie Wonder. They ain't seen me yet. Yeah, did you get your CDs?
Speaker 6:Of course I did.
Speaker 5:You see these stains right here Of them. Louis Vuitton yeah, oh, you upgraded like Beyonce. Look, don't panic, it's organic. If you Spike Lee, what's up my boy? Yeah.
Speaker 6:God bless you.
Speaker 5:God bless you too. We hanging in there like shingles, I hope he bless you and don't stress you.
Speaker 6:You know what?
Speaker 6:I'm saying yeah, of course he. Of course you got the answers if you're true or false, because he gonna test you. But just know that it all matters about who you're next to. You see your dad. He a good guy, you know what I'm saying, not a hood guy Wish you could guy, meaning that you wish you could be in his shoes. You know, even though he cleaned him, it's like he gave you a lesson and he really mean it. You know he not just been standing behind the words for content, he doing this shit for content. Even though it's the same word, it's two different meanings. You understand. So you gotta understand. That is black genius and everything that you're seeing, and the fact that that's your dad. Of course he older, but he colder. You know what I'm saying and you know what I'm saying. You the younger him, you the best version of him, so you bolder. You know what I'm saying and I'll shout out to your mama if you haven't told her. But uh, love is unconditional, just like the bond between you and your mister boy.
Speaker 5:You just educated me boy, you a teacher you know, I fought kindergarten cuz I couldn't scribble because I graduated from school a hard knock. So yeah, I'm just trying to show them the right ropes. They said if you give a person a fish, you can eat it for a day, but if you teach them how to fish, you can feed them for a lifetime. Oh, God.
Speaker 5:Remember we was together at the secret, remember, yeah, oh God, yeah, look, you see this glass right here, because they said the water out here was harder than raising kids. Have you ever seen something that prevents fingerprints?
Speaker 6:No, I haven't seen anything that prevents fingerprints.
Speaker 5:Yeah, they said the poof was in the pudding. Yeah Right, yeah, rest in peace, yes, sir. Well, look, watch this right here. Look, you spray this on a glass right Now. If you have something to clean, everything except bad credit, look. Oh, okay, no fingerprints. No fingerprints, yeah even on black, it ain't black magic. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 6:That's pretty cool man. I'm impressed, I think.
Speaker 5:I should get me a bottle. What you think?
Speaker 6:I think you should get you a bottle.
Speaker 5:I think you could do a lot of crime. Is them shoes, comfortable.
Speaker 6:And skip a lot of time by not having them. Fingerprints Look.
Speaker 5:Yeah, the shoes comfy. Yeah, the Show them how to get the HBO special. You know what HBO?
Speaker 6:mean, it mean.
Speaker 5:You get to help a brother out.
Speaker 6:Help a brother out, for sure, bro. Hey, good seeing you, man.
Speaker 1:And that's your little brother. That was there. Yeah, my little brother, is he in sales?
Speaker 4:too. Yeah, no, the whole family, my whole family's in sales, like my whole everybody, my sisters, all of them are in sales them.
Speaker 1:I met your grandma. Yeah, she was getting into licensing. She's in sales too. Did she get her license yet? Um for insurance yeah, I don't know she was studying when I was with her. I did everybody does sales everybody's in sales.
Speaker 4:All my sisters I have 10 siblings. They're all in sales. It's crazy, that's legit. I take my little brothers and sisters out to go sell. We'll come back to my dad with like 1,500. Like three, four of us. Wow, it's crazy. He's just breeding salespeople. My little siblings. They're going to be way better than me, like crazy.
Speaker 1:Your little siblings. Who's the best one?
Speaker 4:I say Javon. I say Javon Just because he a little more creative. No, my little sister probably Jaleah. It's a coin flip between them two. How old? Jaleah she's 13. And Javon he is 11.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Yo, what are your guys'?
Speaker 2:goals Like long-term goals, long-term um, financial freedom, that's the biggest one. Um, and just to run my own agency one day, like, just have agents under me. To, like you know where sean mike said in the room earlier, um, to where I'm not trying to leave the house and make money, you know. So to get where you're at, what about you?
Speaker 4:um, stay number one. And number two is basically have my own sales team, have my own sales company, just market it. What?
Speaker 1:about you, Brett? What's your goals?
Speaker 3:To get funny like Kenny. No, I think I'm funnier with my dad jokes, but no, my goal is the same thing. The thing is I like being in the trenches, so, um, like, right now I just want to write as much as I possibly can, personal um, but of course it's building the agency, uh, helping young people like them grow um, just through my mistakes, kind of like you did with me, and uh yeah just I like seeing people underneath me succeed because it shows, like shows the upline you are.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the impact you have on them too. That's legit. So if someone wants to work with you, that comes across this podcast, because I bet you some kids in high school are going to watch this how can they reach you guys?
Speaker 4:They can reach me at funny salesmanjr.
Speaker 1:Is that on?
Speaker 4:Instagram, on Instagram, on any platform, for real.
Speaker 1:FunnySalesmanjr.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay, and then I got a link. Link is going to be in my bio. This video drives things on me in the bio, for sure.
Speaker 1:And they can just fill out the link in the bio Name email.
Speaker 4:Yes, sir.
Speaker 2:What about you? My Instagram is racksb2x and then like in my bio. It has like my insurance stuff, like the plan roll and everything.
Speaker 1:It has like my MPN, my business number, where you can contact me at, and yeah, everything, cole, and can we drop this stuff in the description, that way people can get a hold of them? Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 4:We can put it on post edit as well.
Speaker 1:Okay, cool. So if you guys get this thing rolling, will your dad help you find salespeople 100%. How many people does he have watching his stuff every week, every month? Millions.
Speaker 4:How many millions? Don't say none of the piles. I seen this thing. I went on his phone and I seen his views in the last 30 days, profile views in the last 30 days, and it said 44 million in the last 30 days. That's just on Instagram alone. Damn, dude is blowing so I'm not really. I'm not really worried about like him promoting. I know that it's gonna take off. That's gonna take off incredibly. So I'm not really worried about that. I'm just worried about me getting the information.
Speaker 4:Everything down pack being ready, I know, everything else gonna fall in for sure, so yeah, now what do you?
Speaker 1:what kind of people are you guys looking for to join your team Hustlers?
Speaker 4:Yeah, dogs, dogs.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't. Nobody's soft. You can't come in this game and think things are going to be easy Shoot. I'm going through some stuff right now with carriers, but you know you just keep pushing. So yeah, we definitely want hustlers. People who want to change their life, you know, want to change their family's life.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's going to take advantage of it Like that's going to really take advantage of it Not complainers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, have you already had some complainers?
Speaker 4:Yeah, People that weren't that didn't meet.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just feel like we kind of have people who don't appreciate the opportunity as well. You know, know, like just being right here is an opportunity. You know, and if I can get on a zoom and brett and fill out an application, I'm gonna call brett every day.
Speaker 1:You know, and use my you know tools and resources dude, you guys are a great team, like I could tell just by talking to you too. Right, yeah, legit, all because you gave him that, that candy yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 4:I was in trouble too. I was in trouble, so they put me in his. They put because he's a grade over me, so I was in trouble, so they my teacher ended up what'd you do this room?
Speaker 4:I don't know. I think I pulled this girl's chair under. I was on the urge of getting kicked out of school. What's crazy is I dang near got expelled from that same school when I was a class comm. At that school Shout out Grand River Academy. I ended up pulling his chair. The girl was crying. Then they put me in his room. I ended up finding him and giving him the mint. I had got a free mint. I gave him the mint Because I had got a free mint. I gave him the mint and then we was just boys ever since. But I wish I wasn't such a class clown, because then they sent me to a fraternity school and I got humbled over there.
Speaker 1:Why? What happened?
Speaker 4:Yeah, because I went from being a class clown to getting bullied over there. And it was crazy, though, because I got bullied in a fraternity group like I used to like, and then they were they used to instigate so big at that school, so I used to be in a bus. Bro, are you gonna let him talk? You gonna talk, let him talk to you like that. Oh yeah, when he said when you get off the bus, he got something for you. So I had to forcefully fight every day almost, and then I don't know, then when my dad blew up, it's just like those same group of people that used to instigate, but he's just talking about me yeah, it's crazy how things have.
Speaker 2:The road goes around, comes around.
Speaker 1:So so how'd your dad blow? When did your dad blow up? Like you said? He's been doing this for 25 years. When did dad blow up? When did your dad blow up? Like you said, he's been doing this for 25 years. When did he blow up?
Speaker 4:So originally I never even knew he was that big. Honestly, I never knew he was that big. I really, this past year I was like, yeah, he got pulled, like he really got pulled. But originally he went viral, probably like 2013, and he never knew it. That's why he was so busy on the road selling cleaner. He never knew it. Like Ellen DeGeneres reached out ridiculousness, they reached out. And the lady that posted the video with the $350 million, she got all the credit. She got paid.
Speaker 4:Yeah she got paid Off of $350 million. She got paid like like 300 grand off that video and what happened was, um, my dad found out I guess it was like some stuff where he was trying to sue her without, but then he was just like you know, I mean, if you know what I mean, if she didn't make that video, I probably you know what I'm saying yeah nice, so he just let it go. But then after that, you know, he just started making, still making content, and then now he's doing big things now.
Speaker 1:But what year did that start to happen? Is this like?
Speaker 4:recently, like 2015, 2016. But he was still on the road, so he was still doing original content. But Timberland, his manager, he started managing them around 2020, and that's when he really blew up, took off Legit Legit.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm excited. I'm glad you guys are on our team. Sure, can't wait to see what you guys do. In five years. We should probably do this again and be like yo look at what we talked about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, we're definitely going to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We're just going to make this work.
Speaker 4:How many agents in five years? Five years.
Speaker 2:We probably have like 60,000, 50,000.
Speaker 4:Yeah, a lot of agents, though for sure I'm going for 50,000 in five years. Next year probably have like $1,000. Year after that, $5,000.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:After that, there you go Love it Shout out Brett Shout out. Funny Salesman Shout out Pops For sure.
Speaker 1:So if you guys are watching this, reach out to these guys, because we'd love to work with you too, if you fit the description like you said, though.
Speaker 4:We've got to fit the description.
Speaker 1:It's got to be the person that's hungry, wants to take advantage of the opportunity. But if that's you hit these dudes up. It's free to get into licensing. How much is it to get your license to actually take the test in Michigan? $41.
Speaker 3:$41. $41.
Speaker 1:$41,. You get your license in Michigan. We'll pay for the class. We'll pay for the class. So someone, anyone, let's say they're 18, they're in high school, they don't got much, they gotta find $41.
Speaker 4:We'll take care of it. We'll take care of it. We'll do it so you're'll take care of it, or us, you know.
Speaker 1:We'll do it. So you're saying if they don't have 41 bucks, you'll give them 41 bucks.
Speaker 3:I tell them, if they finish the course in a week, I'll pay for the class With their license, with their license, yeah.
Speaker 2:Legit. Real hustlers are going to get that done.
Speaker 1:In a week, in a day, in a day and it's an opportunity.
Speaker 4:So I mean everybody can go get the opportunity. You know what I mean, even if they are interested. I mean it's like this is a real opportunity to really change your family's life. So, honestly, it's really like a big opportunity. So I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, talking to you guys makes me want to bring Mike, because I have a five-year-old, but it makes me want to start bringing him to work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so we can start seeing.
Speaker 1:I'm going to bring him tonight. You guys will meet him tonight, but getting him around that sales stuff because you see what your dad's doing with you and all your siblings.
Speaker 4:You have to.
Speaker 2:That's legit Also a big reason why I do this as well as my mother. She passed away when I was six months. You know she left me an insurance policy and you know. Just saying that, you know she helped me while I'm not even here.
Speaker 1:While she's not here.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, while she's not here. So just insurance in general. It's important and I think you know people need to know about it.
Speaker 1:Well, in general it's important and I think you know people need to know about it so well.
Speaker 2:I'm sure your mom's proud of you. Yeah, yeah, so appreciate that all right boys.
Speaker 1:Thanks for everything you guys do. Proud of you guys, excited to be on your team. Brett, thanks for all the help and we will see you guys later thanks.