1 00:00:00.365 --> 00:00:02.965 I just found out something interesting about you. 2 00:00:03.435 --> 00:00:06.565 Okay. All right. You saw a historical event happen 3 00:00:07.745 --> 00:00:10.365 and you decided to cold call instead? Yeah. 4 00:00:10.925 --> 00:00:13.285 I didn't even think about it just until recently. Uh, had 5 00:00:13.375 --> 00:00:14.375 Until now. Yeah, 6 00:00:14.375 --> 00:00:15.925 until now. This, this is coming to light 7 00:00:15.925 --> 00:00:17.125 and this is hilarious to me. 8 00:00:17.245 --> 00:00:19.445 'cause that's a cold calling, like hustle. 9 00:00:19.835 --> 00:00:24.645 Yeah. Well, whoa. The January, 2009, uh, a plane was, uh, 10 00:00:24.665 --> 00:00:26.285 coming in for a crash landing 11 00:00:26.305 --> 00:00:27.925 and landed in the, in the Hudson River. 12 00:00:28.925 --> 00:00:31.845 I happened to be working in a skyscraper in Jersey City. 13 00:00:31.965 --> 00:00:33.965 I think it was called the, uh, Jersey City 14 00:00:34.735 --> 00:00:36.205 World Trade Center Financial Building. 15 00:00:36.205 --> 00:00:37.805 They changed the name of the building Yeah. Since then. 16 00:00:38.145 --> 00:00:39.805 But it was like the Jersey City World Trade 17 00:00:39.805 --> 00:00:40.885 Center building at the time. 18 00:00:41.425 --> 00:00:43.045 And I was on the, I think we were on the top floor 19 00:00:43.045 --> 00:00:44.525 penthouse, let's surround windows. 20 00:00:44.625 --> 00:00:47.045 It was sweet. Right. And, uh, I'm sitting there 21 00:00:47.105 --> 00:00:48.405 and I, I had a commission, 22 00:00:48.445 --> 00:00:50.005 a hundred percent commission on sales job, 23 00:00:50.145 --> 00:00:52.885 so I was straight commissions, uh, cold calling all day. 24 00:00:52.885 --> 00:00:54.485 They'd give you a couple leads to call every, 25 00:00:54.485 --> 00:00:56.325 you get a few warm leads to start the day. 26 00:00:56.545 --> 00:00:58.845 And then, you know, the next seven hours is cold calling. 27 00:00:59.145 --> 00:01:01.445 And so I was going about my cold calling like a normal day. 28 00:01:02.185 --> 00:01:05.805 And on a plane you can just see the plane comes in 29 00:01:05.805 --> 00:01:07.445 and just lands on the, on the river, 30 00:01:07.465 --> 00:01:08.925 and you're just like, whoa, what the heck? 31 00:01:08.925 --> 00:01:11.205 You know, what was that? So obviously some people 32 00:01:11.205 --> 00:01:12.245 got up, like, did you see that? 33 00:01:12.265 --> 00:01:13.965 You know, like a plane just landed in the river. 34 00:01:14.665 --> 00:01:17.765 And I, I think I got up and was like, oh, that's crazy. 35 00:01:17.985 --> 00:01:19.005 You know what I mean? Uh, 36 00:01:19.865 --> 00:01:21.005 and you know, it was like, 37 00:01:21.005 --> 00:01:22.805 all right, everyone back to your desk. Yeah. 38 00:01:22.945 --> 00:01:24.965 You got a call, You gotta do more cold calling. 39 00:01:25.065 --> 00:01:26.205 And so I just continued 40 00:01:26.205 --> 00:01:27.805 to do my calls until the end of the day. 41 00:01:28.265 --> 00:01:30.525 And I don't know that I even talked about it when I went 42 00:01:30.525 --> 00:01:31.965 home because my last memory 43 00:01:31.965 --> 00:01:34.045 of the day was just my last sales call. 44 00:01:34.045 --> 00:01:35.045 Yeah. The, the fact 45 00:01:35.045 --> 00:01:37.325 that a plane landed in the river barely registered, 46 00:01:37.595 --> 00:01:38.885 obviously it was in the news. 47 00:01:38.905 --> 00:01:40.885 And I remember being like, oh yeah, I remember seeing that. 48 00:01:41.785 --> 00:01:44.845 Did not register as a memory really beyond that. 49 00:01:44.865 --> 00:01:47.445 And then of course, the captain of that, of 50 00:01:47.445 --> 00:01:48.565 that plane became famous. 51 00:01:48.565 --> 00:01:50.645 Captain Sully Sullenberger. Yeah. 52 00:01:50.705 --> 00:01:55.245 Became a movie Miracle, um, the Hudson. And I'm like, what? 53 00:01:55.345 --> 00:01:57.365 You know what I mean? Like, that was like a non-event in the 54 00:01:57.365 --> 00:01:58.405 middle of my day of cold calling. 55 00:01:58.515 --> 00:01:59.845 Yeah. That's hilarious. 56 00:01:59.985 --> 00:02:03.605 And it's funny 'cause it's like the cold calling culture. 57 00:02:03.755 --> 00:02:06.205 It's like, yeah, this crazy thing is happening, 58 00:02:06.225 --> 00:02:07.565 but I gotta go make my call. 'cause, 59 00:02:07.665 --> 00:02:09.005 But you know what, what's Up? 60 00:02:09.635 --> 00:02:11.965 Because I ignored what was in front of me 61 00:02:11.965 --> 00:02:13.885 because I ignored a plane landing in the river. 62 00:02:14.045 --> 00:02:15.445 I continued to cold call and 63 00:02:15.445 --> 00:02:19.605 because of it today I am now worth $463 trillion. 64 00:02:19.815 --> 00:02:22.805 There you go. Are you really though? Are you really? Yes. 65 00:02:22.835 --> 00:02:23.205 What about.