Welcome back to the show—my fellow extraordinary Americans. For today’s guests, we have Ralph Brown. Ralph is a financial advisor, entrepreneur, and speaker passionate about the boating business. He’s the president of Dreamboat’s Global Inc. and vice president—and founder of Cup Royal, which is creating the first annual power board race worldwide. 

Ralph also holds four world records in boating, including the smallest powerboat across the Atlantic Ocean. The longest non-stop ocean village in a flats boat. That’s the longest unescorted ocean voyage in a flatboat and the first flatboat to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Ralph has gone through many successes and failures in business and has always taken the first step despite what others thought. He’s an extraordinary American, and I’m honored to have him on the show. Ralph, are you there?

Yes, I am, and I’ll pay you $5 for that interview again.

Ralph, thank you so much for taking the time to be on the show. It’s my honor to have you.

Ralph. I knew you were an entrepreneur. You’ve been a financial advisor, and you’re. In the boarding business. Can you tell me more about yourself, your background, and how you started?

Well, in a nutshell, I’m a former fire service server, U.S. Marine. I went to the Marine Corps. I went to college, and I ended up being a schoolteacher. And then we started having babies. The check I was getting as a schoolteacher was weak, and the bills at the end of the month were difficult to meet. 

So, I started looking for other work and ended up in the financial planning industry, which I loved. It’s just a really good job. I dealt with about 20 homes a week, around a thousand homes a year. Go too, and you get to meet people and hear all their backgrounds just to meet a wide variety of people, and I help them with their long-term financial planning. I would do their life insurance and sometimes health insurance as well. But it was a good job. I loved it. 

But then, one day, I was out boating with my kids, and it was a day after Thanksgiving, you have to understand. I wouldn’t say I like shopping. And this is the day after Thanksgiving. So we have three boys and a daughter. I took the two boys and went camping. And she took my daughter and went shopping. But we were camping and boating when we hit a rock and broke the motor. I got pretty *********. I thought we could put a man on the moon. We can’t make a boat go over the top of these rocks and still be safe on the high seas. And I think this is. Yeah, I had no idea that would be a pivotal point in my life. 

At that time, they just ruined my day of fishing, but I got this done about that and just doing about it. I can’t believe we can’t make a boat that runs in super shallow water. I’m talking about being really shallow over the top of rocks and still being safe on the high seas. You see boats made for big waves running around in shallow water, OK, and boats wanted, I was made for shallow water. Tip over and kill their passengers out at sea. 

And so this is just something I stood about: my wife was in a car wreck, and she ended up having major hospitalization. And to this day, she’s got some serious health problems from that car wreck. I had three small kids and a sick wife, but I asked him whether my boss wanted me to drive 4 hours a day or he would want me to stay in a hotel in another town, but I decided I wouldn’t want to stay at the hotel. I wanted to go. Home every night, so I’d go home and kiss my wife and kids every night instead of missing them in the hotel. 

So, I got to stewing about how to make a better boat, and it gradually became an unbelievable passion, where everywhere I went, I was diagramming boats and doing calculations. I have a pretty strong physics background from my time in the Marine Corps. I got a really good job in the Marine Corps, heavy electronics. 

And so, you think you know Marine Core; you learned to shoot, right? Well, yes, I did all of that. Every marine shoots a rifle. But I got to learn about laser-guided bombs before they came out. I got to, you know, learn about someone’s got to fix them before they even came out. They sent me to school. They got me to go to school. They call it torque compression. Pressure and torque calculations and all of that kind of stuff. All those things and all those aircraft use a lot of that stuff. I got to work on terrain clearance, OK, where planes would fly themselves over the terrain. You will if you’re flying at 500 miles an hour; you’re moving 733 feet per second. OK, that’s 2 1/2 of me. 3 1/2 football fields. In a second. OK, you know you’re moving. 

And so if you’re doing 1000 miles an hour, you’re going 14166 feet per. And all that stuff’s got to work, right? If it doesn’t work right, you will be in the countryside. And that’s an old Orange Court joke. You know, if things don’t go right, I’m in a spot in the countryside. You’re dead. OK, but all those things have to work. Have somebody fix all that kind of work. I had to go to school and all that stuff. I got to go to school on radar. I had to go to school. 

So, education and being a finance expert for four years helped me a lot. And I could sit and do all kinds of calculations. And you know, on napkins, in papers, and everywhere I went, I just became—this is before the phones were out. Like we have now, these phones are everywhere. They had a calculator on it.

 So you know me—the old phones. I didn’t have it. So, you do all your calculations, and I was passionate about it one day. My wife said to do it either or shut up. You are driving everybody up the wall. Nobody believes you can do that. You’re a finance expert. You don’t know anything about the wrong thing to say to them. Me. She went to bed. And that night, I walked in. Students, dude, and I got the Internet. I formed a corporation.

And so I spent a lot of time trying to make a boat, going to very shallow water, and handling very rough seas. And we did a good job. We accomplished it, as you mentioned. I set four-wheel records with the boats I built, and then. 

We sold a couple of units to the US Army. We sold the National Park Service, a couple of units, federal Fish and Wildlife, and NOAA National Oceanic Country to other countries halfway around the world. People come and shop and say you have to have a big shop doing all this. They come to where’s the shop? I say you’re here. Where is it? You’re here.

Because we’re building things in a little canvas thing, you know. But we’re there because we didn’t have the money. We were doing all that, but I ran across a lot further. We are using a lot less fuel. And the more I thought about that, I thought, Well, you demonstrate that to the world by breaking the world’s speed record for going around. The world, see? The powerboat record is 61 days. The sailboat record is 41 days, and most people go.

Did it just mean that you saw your eyes? Your eyes went to the top of your head, like, huh? OK, because that’s what everybody does. They give that Funny look … Huh. Powerboat: 61 days. The sailboat is 41 days old. How can you? Is that possible? Well, it’s called fuel. The sailboat doesn’t have to stop to get any. The power boat has to carry it. And stop and get it. 

And so you’re carrying a lot of fuel. And so net-power boats have never beaten them. Record the sailboat record. Ever. And so we intend to do that. And we got to look at this and realize that the competition market. Not the boat-building market but the competition market. OK, it was $1.1 trillion.

Wow, 

That’s the competition market. 

1.1 trillion. 

And you look well. What’s the biggest competition in America? We think football is. OK. It is in America, but it is the largest football stadium. OK, it’s a Michigan State stadium with 112,000 people. That’s a lot. It’s bigger than all. The NFL stations and all NFL stadiums—all of them. Look at the Raceway Indianapolis Brickyard Raceway. When they put the extra seats in, it holds 350,000 people. There is a huge difference between 112 and 300. What’s on TV? What’s the most popular TV show in the world? OK. Well, it’s not the NFL, people think; oh, it’s got to be the NFL. About 5 million people watch the average game, so that’s a big audience. 

5 million People 

If you were to ask me, I was born in India, so I would say cricket because many people in India watch cricket. But yeah, it’s usually the NFL and Formula One in America.

Well, Formula One is worldwide—the average gain. On average, over 100,000 people watch it, or about 100,000. Watch it now. Americans like us recently had Formula One in Vegas, and their audience was about 1.2 to 1.5. 

But it was also 11:00 to 3:00 -11:00 at night to 3:00 in the morning. Pretty late, OK? And it was still over. You know, over a million people stayed up and watched it. But when you add in the European audience, the Asian audience, and the African audience, all of that together, it’s like, you know, they all watch the same race. And when you add all of this, it’s 100 million people watching it. That’s just wild. It’s much, much bigger than football. 

And then, if you look at the boating crowds, the crowds that show up for boating are often as big as the football crowds or bigger, or even the racing crowds; they’re bigger than that, but they don’t follow it on TV. You do well. 

Wait, wait, why don’t they follow on TV? With one exception, one race is followed worldwide—the America’s Cup. The Cup generates so much of a crowd and audience in the Americas that it’s covered worldwide. It changes the tourism that comes from it and the trajectory of a nation of small nations. 

For instance, Bermuda, the nation of Bermuda, spent $66 million bringing the America’s Cup to Bermuda. As a result, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, they received $336 million worth of economic benefit. 300… 666 million were paid out; 336 were paid back, followed by the two largest. Years on record in the history of the country of terrorism. OK. And Bermuda makes this money from three things. Bermuda makes this money from international banking insurance. And then they make it. 

So the rich people making money from the insurance they’re doing—reinsurance—are what they are. They’re in the reinsurance capital world, I think. OK, companies that take a risk behind the scenes. As far as that goes, international banking is really big there, but the rest of the country survives on tourism. And to have the two biggest years in the country’s history is changing the trajectory of a country’s economy from a boat race.

That is, that is amazing. Like, I’m just, like, thinking about it. And yeah, you’re affecting the lives of everyone in that country just through one industry!

Know 11 races. One race, the race. Last, they have sections. It’s about two weeks of racing, but that’s all. You go. What kind? You know what makes it different? One is that they allow one team per country. It’s kind of like the NFL’s idea, the NFL. That’s one team per city. OK, with two exceptions: New York and Los Angeles, they’re big. But other than that, there is one team per city; most cities don’t get one. If you want a team, you wait in line for a long time, OK? 

And the teams are super expensive, so buying one—you know, 4 1/2 billion dollars, $6 billion for a new team—that’s a lot of money. 

However, when you consider the America’s Cup? It is exclusive to one team per country. It’s expensive, so only the top, high-end people get involved. It’s built for the top tier. It’s built for the high end. OK, that’s a really big deal, OK? 

And the sponsors come on board for that, too. But if you need that super exclusivity, you need that patriotic rivalry. Now, if anything has ever been proven, in the 6,000 years of recorded history, in this world, OK, what I have ever been through is that men are willing to fight and die for their home country.

I was one of them. I was in—the Marine Corps. The first thing they make you memorize is the art of your code of conduct. Article one of the Code of Conduct: I’m an American fighting man. I’m prepared to give my life for my God, my country, and the American way of life. I was one of them, and throughout wars throughout history, men have signed up and fought for their country. They don’t even care if it’s. Right or wrong? In most cases, for instance, when I was doing financial services, I had an older German man as a client. And he was. 

He spoke more German than English, and he was older. I did some financial planning for him one day. I asked him. OK. Were you in Germany during World War II? And he said yes, I was. I said because he was, you know, a male of fighting age in World War I. I asked him. Did you fight in the German Army? He said yes, and I did. 

And I said, did you know what you were doing was wrong? He said yes, and I did. And we often discussed it among ourselves: we knew what we were doing was wrong, but we were doing it because it would make Germany a better place. We’re doing it for the fatherland. OK, we’re doing it for Germany. For Germany. I’ll die for Germany. I’ll kill innocent people. But we have a primal instinct deep in our hearts. Deep in our souls, it says I have a patriotic rivalry. 

And the America’s Cup seizes on that patriotic rivalry. If you can seize on that patriotic rivalry, your audience grows big. And that’s why World Cup soccer is so big. 

It’s only every couple of years, OK, because everybody’s sharing their own country. That’s why the Olympics are so big. OK, cause everybody’s cheering for their country, and that’s by Cup Royale. It will be so big because we only have one team per country. We’re making it top-tier, OK? Yeah. With that patriotic rivalry, the top tier is for the super-rich who want to compete. And there’s no shortage of gigantic egos out there. None whatsoever. 

And a lot of them have 100 million or more. But if all you have is maybe $500 million now, we look at it. That as well; that’s a lot of money. Try it. Buy an NFL team with 500 million people who look at you. Say you’re nuts. Come back when you have 6 billion. Dollars, and we’ll talk to you. OK, but until you have 6 billion, not 6 billion to spend, not 6 billion, but 6 billion to spend, OK. Alright, so you probably have to have 10/20 billion to have 6 billion to spend. You know when you have that—kind of money. Come back. 

So, where do you go? You want a top-tier team that represents a city or country. OK, but it’s got to be top-tier; it can’t be a Little League. It can’t be a minor league. It’s got to be the Major League in that sport; it has to be top-tier. It has to represent a city or a country. Where do you go if you only have a couple hundred million? You can’t buy it. You go to Europe and buy a soccer team. What are the European soccer teams? Three, four, five, and six billion. What? What are the cricket teams in India now?

That’s all you have. You have many, but you have—the national cricket team.

OK, if you get in the national, if you’re national, buying the national team, what’s the cost? 

Billions!

So you got $500 million where you go. Well, I’m giving them an Ave. I’m giving them a place to buy a team and race in front of the world, and they did. There are lots of egos. You know. So anyway, I could rattle on and on. I’m telling you about Cup Royale, and this is what CupRoyale® is. But go ahead.

Thank you. I’m just amazed because it’s so big, and it’s a big event, and I can see it going supermassive, and I’m just trying to process all of that. And so it’s amazing, and I’m looking forward to it. I would want my audience to know more about Capra.

But Ralph, there’s a question I wanted to ask. What was the biggest lesson you learned in the industry during your time in the boarding business?

Boy, I’m not sure I could say the biggest; one of the biggest is to have the funding you need lined up before you stick your neck out. OK, because I stuck my neck out, and I got it chopped off big time. But I learned so much in the process. OK, and now I’m learning how to do this right. 

And so, if you don’t get your hand slapped, you don’t learn anything, OK? You don’t stick your neck out; you don’t learn. And I’ve learned a lot. And. And so right. You know your team is made up of the right people. That’s a big deal. The right kind of people are helping you. That’s a really big deal. Take care of your employees. Take care of your employees. Take care of your employees because nobody’s any better than your team. And that in teams, not just the Board of Directors, the officers, and the employees, OK? Very, very, very important. 

Suppose you spend a lot of time and money Training somebody. Do you want them to quit? And that’s why we look at this. We were talking earlier about this minimum wage jump. OK, you know, it used to be. I was a kid growing up in the 1960s and 70s McDonald’s… All the McDonald’s had nothing but teenagers working there. They’re all high school kids, making three bucks an hour—2 and 3 bucks. $1.70 was my first job. I washed dishes in the Ramada Inn restaurant and made, you know, 70 dollars an hour. But those were kids’ jobs. Those were not expected to be adult jobs. OK. And the idea that adults will go in there for a career flip? Hamburger, huh? That’s wild. OK, that’s not. That’s At all costs, get a go. Get an education. 

And so we’re going to help these poor guys who can’t afford $100,000 because they’re making $6.00 an hour at McDonald’s. Let’s raise the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour. Guess what? You raise the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour. It has a cascading effect on everything. I don’t want to pay anybody the minimum wage as an employer. I don’t want them to quit. 

So, I’ve got to pay double or triple the minimum wage. OK, that’s because you want people to stay and not quit. After all, you’re spending money and time training them, and you don’t want to start all over and go through money, time, and training. You want them to be good workers, and you want them to be happy. So, you must pay them double, maybe triple, minimum wage. 

So, if you’re paying double, $6.00 an hour, that’s 12 bucks an hour, or $18.00 an hour somewhere in there. And then you take it too. To $15.00 an hour, double. That’s 30 bucks an hour. Triple that, which is $45.00 an hour. How does a small businessman pay that kind of wage? The people keep his people from quitting. It’s hard. 

And you have to compete with people overseas working for $0.50 an hour. They used to work or earn two or three bucks an hour. Suppose you compete with people overseas, making two or three Bucks an hour. And you’re paying 12 to $18.00 now; that’s hard. Very, very hard. 

But now that you have to pay $3040 an hour, you want to compete with $250. That’s extremely stupid. OK, if you have a problem, the problem is that you have an adult working for minimum wage. The problem is that adults are not trained. The adult doesn’t have the skills. Adults don’t have the power to get off the minimum wage. The solution is education. OK, education. 

So they can get a better job, and now maybe they can afford $100,000. House. OK. They can get a better job. But guess what? If they can’t afford $100,000, Dollar House, you give the difference between $6 or $7.00 an hour, and $15 an hour is OK. Guess what? And that causes everything to cascade, and now the house that used to be 100,000 is 350. They can’t afford it either at $15.00 an hour. 

But guess what? Many other people in the middle can’t afford a $350,000 house, either. But they used to be able to afford a $100,000 house. But because of the cascading effects of raising interest, I’m sorry to get into such a tangent.

No, no. This is something that I would want my audience to know because this is important. After all, America, an extraordinary America, is about financial Freedom. But we have to go. The root cause was found, and we got to find a solution. 

And so, you know, there are a lot of politicians giving solutions like raising the minimum wage. The audience got to know why that wouldn’t work in the long term. For instance, if you look at California.

It will give you access to San Francisco, the first city in the country. They have a minimum wage of $15.00 per hour and just walk around the streets; people are lying all over the homeless streets. They were lying all over. Where they’re homeless, they poop on the sidewalks. They urinate everywhere. OK, you go to the doctor’s office. The doctor pays an armed guard to escort you back and forth to your car because these people who are homeless or robbed are not all of them; some of them are, 

but crime is outrageous. People are walking in the stores, just stealing stuff and running. OK. And there’s nothing you can do about it because, again, it’s you; you destroy the ability of the lower guy to get to their next level. If you destroy that, they lose heart. They’re lying on the sidewalk and getting food stamps and free food because they can’t afford a place to live. OK, it’s just wild. 

And the problem is not the minimum wage. The problem is that adults don’t have the skills and knowledge to get to the next level, and that’s my opinion, and I’ll stick to it.

No, I mean, what you’re saying is true. Large swaths of the country are relying on politicians to solve this problem when, in fact, you have to help the small business owners and entrepreneurs in their ability to hire employees and do their job, do their business altogether, but sometimes like.

All policies are anti-entrepreneurship and anti-business.

And in that, Yeah. I’m sorry. I mean to. Interrupt you.

They’ll go. They’ll go. 

Ahead. Yeah, when they started putting money out, passing it out, and giving people a paycheck to sit at home. And all of these small businesses couldn’t get anybody to come to work. They’re getting a paycheck to sit at home. OK, that’s wild. 

I’m not against some sort of, you know, unemployment. I’m not against that. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about all these programs that they kicked in, and they started printing money and passing it out to everybody. People don’t want to go to work when they get free money. You have to be a real genius. To figure this out, you know, people.

It also eventually caused inflation in 2022; food and gas prices rose. But ultimately, people are looking for a long-term solution. So, Ralph wants to ask a question. What do you think about it on a national level? What would be the overall solution to consumer debt and inflation? Because right now, there is inflation. It was a big problem. Train, too, and it will be a problem at some point in the future.

Point inflation is not going anywhere. It’s going to get worse. I’m not sure I know a quick fix for it because I don’t think there is a quick fix, but you have to stop feeding the problem. 

OK, if you’ve got a fire, don’t throw gasoline on it. OK. And more welfare, more free money to sit home more. You are raising the minimum wage. None of those things fix the problem; you can’t fix a problem within our borders when you have no borders. 

What I mean by that is, if you’re trying to fix a problem inside the United States and the money that’s being produced in the United States is going overseas for cheap labor everywhere, OK, that solution is not going to fix it because you can’t finance the United States of America. 

OK, you just can’t; it’s just not possible. And the idea that if we’re going to take all of our jobs, you know, and send them to China or send them to Mexico or Africa now, that’s where they’re going now to Africa because they can get super cheap labor in Africa. 

And the quality of the stuff coming out of Africa. It will be junk. For four or five years, but five years from now, they’re going to have a bunch of quality materials coming out of Africa, and all those jobs that went to Mexico and China, they’re going to go to Africa, OK? And they’re going to start having some of the same. We’re having problems because all those jobs are leaving. Yeah, you can’t. You can’t fix a problem without shutting off the borders. You just can’t. 

OK, you’ve got to compete if you’re paying somebody 30–40 bucks an hour and competing with them—a guy making three or $4.00 an hour.

You just can’t do that.

You can’t. It’s just not going to work. You’ve got to see industries that produce wealth. He has to put that money back into the economy. And if we produce wealth in this country and that wealth comes from business, the economy of wealth coming here, that wealth has to stay here; otherwise, it just goes to China or Mexico, which doesn’t fix our economy. And that’s where it has to be. 

For instance, here in Florida, you’re a farmer; you’re an orange Grove farmer. OK, you got orange Groves everywhere. Florida was nothing but orange groves. You go back 20–30 years. Orange Groves are everywhere. You have a really bad freeze—one year. 

OK, so you don’t have many oranges, so do you want to raise the price of oranges to offset it? OK. And then next year, you will have slightly more inflated prices to offset it. The problem is that we have NAFTA. North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement So all these orders are coming from Mexico. They didn’t have—a freeze in Mexico.

I’m going to come and cheat. The American Orange Grove farmer. OK. He can’t raise his prices. To fix the problem. He just goes out of business. Because you have to have, you’ll have good and bad years in business. You’ve got to be able to fix the bad year with a good one—the year following it. And if you’ve got all this stuff coming in from Mexico, it’s just you. There’s no way to fix it. You can’t fix it. OK, you can’t raise the price. They just, you know, boom.

So what’s happened in Florida? Almost all the orange goats are gone. Almost all of them are gone. Amazingly, the world’s #1 producer of oranges is out of business. OK. And it’s really poor stuff at the border. I could go on and on; it’s just that you can’t fix the whole world. 

And if you’re going to make Americans hate their economy, that is the economy that makes our country strong. Compete with people willing to work for $0.50 an hour, a dollar an hour, or $2.00 an hour. And you can’t take that $2.00 an hour to our economy. You can’t buy a house for $2.00 an hour. You just can’t.

So, I think this outsourcing happened because the companies wanted to make more profits. If you look at the car industry in Detroit, like in the 1950s, many people had good jobs, and one could feed an entire family. 

But then inflation and outsourcing happened because of companies like General Motors. They wanted to make a lot of money, like huge profits, but it came at the expense of American workers, you know?

Once one company does it, OK, we live in a country built on competition, and the economy is built on competition. Some people say it’s terrible. I think it’s what’s built the strongest economy in the world; by the way, we’re still the strongest economy. Not by much, but we’re still the strongest economy globally. Hey, it was built on competition, and it brought the standard of living of Americans way higher than most of the rest of the world. I mean, dramatically higher. You go to Europe, and then you live in little, tiny houses, OK? And you, the average American in the house, are dramatically larger. And they go, how is that possible because of the American economy? But the competition is what’s made it that way. 

So, here’s the problem: If you’ve got five companies making the same thing, Alright, one company. They take their labor to another country. They lose their shirt for the first couple of years because the laborer is not skilled. OK, but after a couple of years, the labor skills. 

Alright, so during that time, there’s such a differential. Between what they’re paying and what the guy in America is paying, the next guy has no choice if he wants to stay in business; he’s got to get that cheap labor, too. So now you have two overseas, you got the three of them here, and three others go. You know, it’s nothing. I have no choice. You know, they’re going out of business. 

No one’s buying their product because of their product. It costs twice as much as the other guys. And the reason is this. I mean, not twice as much, but 25% more. OK, it costs 25%. 

And if you’re talking about a $30,000 item, 25% is a lot of money. OK, it is. If you’re making it, if it’s a 25% difference, OK, you can’t compete. You have no choice. But to do the same thing they did, and you soon start seeing all the jobs go out. It would be best to have protection at the borders, and that’s the referee’s job. You know, I’m so sorry. 

This is a very important conversation because, right now, many Americans are grappling with how we maintain the standard of living. 

After all, like in the 1950s and 1960s, one person could have a job and feed an entire family. Now, the father and the mother have both got to go, and they’re still going into debt. To maintain the same standard Of living. So this has become an actual problem.

Oh, there’s no doubt. It’s a problem all across, and who’s raising the kids? OK. The schools teach the kids without the parents’ values, mostly the local community values, which make strong values for the kids. So, I’m an American. I believe in basic freedom. I believe in competition. 

I believe in freedom of religion. In our school system, most teachers are good people but are part of the teachers’ unions. And the teacher’s unions are led by people who don’t share American values for the most part. And it’s pretty scary. 

And so, they’ve taken the teachers’ union values and tried to teach them in the school system. And this goes back to John Dewey, who invented the Dewey decimal system at Columbia University. There’s not enough time for this call to go through all of it, but a change in values occurs when the kids are not getting their values from their parents. 

They’re getting them basically from the Internet and the school. And you’re not getting the values that made America great, in my opinion. And so, my kids never went to public school until they were Adults. OK, adults, they, and then they can say that their ones are adults. They can make up their minds, but in our homeschooled and private schools, our kids, people say, Oh, you’re rich, no. We’re not, and you’re kidding me. We sacrificed and sacrificed and sacrificed. It’s a lot of hard work. To do that, but we did. OK. Because we wanted our kids to get our values, not this teachers’ union value, OK, just as far as that goes. 

And I don’t want to attack anybody here, but it’s just that I want old-fashioned American values, OK? And you, you. And some old-fashioned American values are trashed. We know those are trash, and we don’t want them. But we’re talking about normal values. Yes, there was a lot of racism that took place 200 years ago. 

OK, we’re not living 152 hundred years ago. OK. And most of that stuff—not all, but most of it—has changed. We elected a black president twice—not once, but twice. OK, whether you like his politics or not, I like it. The fact that we elected a black president twice. So don’t tell me that Americans don’t hold down people of different races. Look at our colleges; they’re full of people from other countries. I mean, just full, and we are all across the country,

So yes, Racism was a big problem in the past, and there’s still some racism. It’s never going to go away. You don’t fix racism with racism, OK? Which I don’t. Want to get one, too? Deep into that, I’d love to talk more…

Yeah, you can. You can, and then we could go on and on about It. But ultimately, yeah, the American standard of living is being threatened. You know, like we are not. We’re going deeper and deeper into debt. The outsourcing of jobs is there. And yeah, that’s much deeper. The only question is: is it going? To be a political issue, or will it be a grassroots movement? 

I would love to see the grassroots movement, but the point is that you can’t buy an American-made car unless the name of the car is Kia. It’s what he’s made in Georgia. OK, some of the Toyotas are made in California. They’re assembled. They’re not made; they’re assembled, but the old American standard names are pretty much built somewhere else, and that’s pretty scary. OK, those were fantastic. Industries, and just go. You know that. The core basis of almost every industry in the world is the United States. And it’s something we’ve sent elsewhere. 

And so, until we decide that our economy is worth salvaging and the American job is worth salvaging, OK, it will never be fixed. And the politicians have to say, OK, they’re the referees. The politicians are the referees. I’d like to give it to you—a really quick story.

They’re pretty bad referees, and because they’re, they’re just taking the can down the road, waiting for the next politician to fix it. But then that person hits the can. The road and. It keeps going on and on until it’s going to explode. At some point, you know.

Yes. And so that’s the reality they’re creating. If you were to take a foot,

And play it like we’ve played. Like we’ve played international trade. OK, I will use China because it’s the biggest exam. Alright, let’s suppose you went and got the best football team that was out there. Every year, it’s different, but if you go back about seven or eight years ago and take the New England Patriots, they won more championships than anybody else. 

So, we will put the New England Patriots on one side. The best we can bring together is not today’s New England Patriots but the New England Patriots. A few years ago, when they were, you know, Tom Brady was over there, and they were just, you know, Cronk was still playing, this is the same one, and what we’re going to do is we’re going to play China. All right. OK, with the same rules. We do business. OK, at that time, a factory worker in America was making about $15.00 an hour. OK. You were, and at that time, you were paying about $0.50 an hour for a ********. OK, so you can get a 30:1 ratio. 

So what we’re going to do is we’re going to line up. On the field, there are 11 men in front of you. OK, we will line up 330 Chinese on the other side for the New England Patriots. OK, now the. The New England Patriots have to play by all the NFL rules. OK, the Chinese team doesn’t have to play. Any of those rules? They do whatever they want. There’s no such thing as off-site for them so that they can line up—the middle of the New England Patriots.

So when they hit the ball, they will hand it to the Chinese, OK? And 300 of them are going to run over those eleven players. This is the same way we played and traded. We did business. OK, there’s no chance the New England Patriots would be slaughtered. Everybody would watch the first game because it would be cool to watch. Then, in the next week, all the ones that forgot to watch the first one will watch because it’s going. To be cool. Watch the third game. Nobody cares. It’s not a competition anymore. OK, it’s 300 ******** running over 11 football players.

That is such an interesting analogy. It’s so true. You know, because that’s basically what has happened to our trade altogether.

Pretty soon, the NFL will be out of business. Now, all the players are out of business. All the coaches are out of business. All the people that sell teams, shirts, hats, and all that are out of business. All the groceries, all the lawyers, all the agents, all the car manufacturers—all those jobs that are associated with the NFL are gone. All of them because we played the same way we traded, and it’s moronically stupid, OK? And the referees are the politicians, and they’re not doing their job. We hire them to do their job, to make it fair and right.

But lobbyists buy them out, and lobbyists want to make profits. And then, isn’t it in their interest to you? Know and think about the people.

Yep, so. Now that I’ve given my political. Opinion has probably lost half the people here, but anyway.

And I mean, we’re trying to bring financial freedom to the. 99% and. We need to know where to go. The root cause of things solves the issues. 

Yeah, fix the problem if you don’t know what the.

Yeah. So, we have to get to the root cause because extorting America is about the abolition of financial slavery. You know, it’s about financial freedom. So, I’m glad that you like your understanding of this.

But Ralph, you?

Yeah, go ahead.

If you want to eliminate your financial problems, there’s no easy solution, but let me give you a two- to three-year solution. Invest $25,000 in a couple of Royale, in my opinion, because I can’t say. By for a. Fact: It’s illegal to say it’s a fact but a risk. OK, but in my opinion, you will make a major return. 

And you will make it what I call generational. OK, wealth returns where the legacy of your children and grandchildren will see you improve and grow forever and ever and ever if men are on this planet, OK? And women are on this planet; CupRoyale® will continue to be the oldest. The most organized sport in the world is in America. It’s come.

 It’s a sailboat race, so we’re creating the first-ever powerboat race around the world, but we’re structuring it like a combination of what the Americas got. In Formula One and the Tour de France, the structure is like the American NFL, but instead of being national, I mean cities. It’s nations, and that brings out that patriotic rival. That people are willing to fight and die for. And that’s what makes them want to fight for it. That makes the rich, the gigantic egos, want to pay lots of money for these teens that will only go up in value as the NFL teams have escalated in value. 

And so all this is a, it’s a, it’s years of research accumulated in such a way as to bring in a multibillion-dollar opportunity into $1.1 trillion. Economy or not, the economy is a $1.9 trillion segment of international competitive sports. And we think this is a.

Well, where can the audience go to get more knowledge and information? About a cup Royale.

The best thing to do is email me at ralph@CupRoyale.com. Royale is like a French word for royalty or an American word for most extra. Royale is like most extremes, so cut means tournament or race. Like most extremes, the Royale was the most extreme race in the world. They say powerboats race worldwide, broken into 20 segments in the ocean, 20 segments, and harbors, and they’re tailored to fit—a sporting. 

And that’s why we have the 20/20 hindsight to look at everything the sporting industry has done to make itself super successful. And so, we’ve gone through the—basically, the banquet. OK, a whole pile of stuff is out for the banquet, and we’ve picked the things that work best for different. Four people, different teams, and we all brought all that to the Cup Royale. And so, we think it’s a huge opportunity. 

So, if you want to make generational wealth. OK. No, there’s no guarantee; it’s legally a risk. OK. You know, reach out to me. ralph@CupRoyale.com 

Ralph, thank you so much for sharing this opportunity with the audience. And I would want my audience to look at this because your statement is true. And yeah, boot racing is. It is a huge thing. A huge thing, you know. So, Ralph, are there any other projects? That’s what you’re doing. Other than corporal, you might want to. The audience here gets a glimpse into it.

That’s primarily what I’m working on. OK, that’s it. That’s why I’m working on CupRoyale® now that I’m involved. I go to church. I’m involved in that kind of stuff and other things like that. But those aren’t the projects that you’re thinking of. Business wise. I’m working on Cup Royal. OK.

There’s also Ralph and Ralph. I could go on and on and converse with you about the different things in the economy, but right now, the hour is coming to a close, and I want to. I want to thank you so much for taking the time to come to this podcast and, like, sharing your knowledge. And I. I want to have you. In a short or later time, you know.

Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. This is a great, great chance to talk. I probably blew off a little too much, but thank you.

No, thank you. Thank you, Ralph. I want to conclude this podcast. We’re letting my fellow extraordinary Americans know that. Hey, look, there’s something extraordinary within every one of us. We must awaken it and unleash it until next time. Bye for now.