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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.25,0:00:03.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,B.J. was one of many fellow inmates
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.12,0:00:05.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had big plans for the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.41,0:00:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had a vision. When he got out,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.64,0:00:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was going to leave the dope game for good and fly straight,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.49,0:00:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he was actually working on merging his two passions into one vision.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.62,0:00:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd spent 10,000 dollars
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.14,0:00:20.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to buy a website that exclusively featured women
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.42,0:00:26.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having sex on top of or inside of luxury sports cars. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.31,0:00:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was my first week in federal prison,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.29,0:00:33.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was learning quickly that it wasn't what you see on TV.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.11,0:00:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, it was teeming with smart, ambitious men
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.01,0:00:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose business instincts were in many cases
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.76,0:00:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as sharp as those of the CEOs
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.16,0:00:43.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had wined and dined me six months earlier
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.99,0:00:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was a rising star in the Missouri Senate.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.54,0:00:51.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, 95 percent of the guys that I was locked up with
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.38,0:00:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been drug dealers on the outside,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.12,0:00:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but when they talked about what they did,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.53,0:01:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they talked about it in a different jargon,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.23,0:01:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the business concepts that they talked about
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.01,0:01:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weren't unlike those that you'd learn in a first year MBA class at Wharton:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.69,0:01:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,promotional incentives, you never charge a first-time user,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.20,0:01:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,focus-grouping new product launches,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.77,0:01:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,territorial expansion.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.01,0:01:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they didn't spend a lot of time reliving the glory days.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.28,0:01:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the most part, everyone was just trying to survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.13,0:01:24.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a lot harder than you might think.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.32,0:01:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contrary to what most people think,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.11,0:01:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people don't pay, taxpayers don't pay, for your life
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.49,0:01:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you're in prison. You've got to pay for your own life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.28,0:01:35.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to pay for your soap, your deodorant,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.03,0:01:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toothbrush, toothpaste, all of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.33,0:01:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's hard for a couple of reasons.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.68,0:01:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, everything's marked up 30 to 50 percent
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.08,0:01:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from what you'd pay on the street,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.44,0:01:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and second, you don't make a lot of money.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.02,0:01:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I unloaded trucks. That was my full-time job,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.29,0:01:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unloading trucks at a food warehouse,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.58,0:01:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for $5.25, not an hour, but per month.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.94,0:01:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how do you survive?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.09,0:01:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, you learn to hustle, all kinds of hustles.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.61,0:02:01.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's legal hustles.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.21,0:02:03.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You pay everything in stamps. Those are the currency.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.38,0:02:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You charge another inmate to clean his cell.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.80,0:02:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's sort of illegal hustles, like you run a barbershop out of your cell.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.70,0:02:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's pretty illegal hustles: You run a tattoo parlor out of your own cell.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.92,0:02:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's very illegal hustles, which you smuggle in,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.20,0:02:22.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you get smuggled in, drugs, pornography,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.31,0:02:25.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cell phones, and just as in the outer world,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.77,0:02:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's a risk-reward tradeoff, so the riskier the enterprise,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.28,0:02:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more profitable it can potentially be.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.14,0:02:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want a cigarette in prison? Three to five dollars.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.08,0:02:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want an old-fashioned cell phone that you flip open
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.38,0:02:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is about as big as your head? Three hundred bucks.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.03,0:02:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want a dirty magazine?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.36,0:02:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, it can be as much as 1,000 dollars.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.75,0:02:51.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as you can probably tell, one of the defining aspects
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.85,0:02:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of prison life is ingenuity.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.40,0:02:57.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it was concocting delicious meals
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.81,0:03:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from stolen scraps from the warehouse,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.01,0:03:05.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sculpting people's hair with toenail clippers,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.16,0:03:10.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or constructing weights from boulders in laundry bags
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.78,0:03:15.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tied on to tree limbs, prisoners learn how to make do with less,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.55,0:03:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many of them want to take this ingenuity
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.22,0:03:20.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they've learned to the outside
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.41,0:03:22.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and start restaurants, barber shops,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.65,0:03:24.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,personal training businesses.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.100,0:03:28.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.49,0:03:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no rehabilitation at all in prison,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.79,0:03:32.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no one to help them write a business plan,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.99,0:03:36.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,figure out a way to translate the business concepts
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.25,0:03:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they intuitively grasp into legal enterprises,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.27,0:03:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no access to the Internet, even.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.84,0:03:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, when they come out, most states
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.43,0:03:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't even have a law prohibiting employers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.78,0:03:50.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from discriminating against people with a background.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.50,0:03:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So none of us should be surprised
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.80,0:03:55.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that two out of three ex-offenders re-offend
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.65,0:03:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within five years.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.24,0:04:03.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, I lied to the Feds. I lost a year of my life from it.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.55,0:04:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when I came out, I vowed that I was going to do
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.21,0:04:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatever I could to make sure
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.03,0:04:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that guys like the ones I was locked up with
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.47,0:04:15.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,didn't have to waste any more of their life than they already had.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.51,0:04:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I hope that you'll think about helping in some way.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.16,0:04:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best thing we can do is figure out ways
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.73,0:04:24.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.42,0:04:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.66,0:04:30.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because if we don't, they're not going to learn any new skills
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.74,0:04:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's going to help them, and they'll be right back.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.28,0:04:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All they'll learn on the inside is new hustles.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.16,0:04:40.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you. (Applause)