talks. Okay. Let's take a look at the note. If you say that money talks,

it means wealth allows a person to have power and influence if they possess it.

Yeah, definitely. It also refers to the idea that you can

get special treatment or persuade people to do things they might not

ordinarily do. So if you offer them money they're willing to do things that they

probably wouldn't do if you didn't offer them the money. So that's what we mean by

money talks. All right. Let's continue. The original phrase can be traced back to

G. Torriano's Italian proverbs. Remember he

had a book of ... of Italian proverbs. It doesn't mean he created it, but that

might have been one of the first citings, we had of it, So it was already

a proverb at that time. There is also a variant you know, another way that we

sometimes say it . There's also a variant of this phrase, money talks and bullshit

walks. Okay. So you might want to be careful with

that one because of course it has the word bullshit in it. And some people will

find that a little offensive. But you know it's understandable you can

understand. So money talks means money makes people do things.

Bullshit is just a lot of talk and if that's all you offer is just a lot of

talk maybe somebody just might walk away. iI's money is the thing that makes them

you know, that influences them. That's that's the thing that is usually

the final thing . that the defining factor that makes somebody decide to do

something or not do something. That's kind of what this proverb is telling you.

All right. Let's continue. Let's give several examples here. Example number one.

If you want a special table with a beautiful view at that high-class

restaurant just slip the maitre d a big tip. Yeah. Now remember of course you know

we've seen this in the movies all the time. A Maitre D' is usually the

headwaiter at these really high-class restaurants and we always see this in

the movies where they tried to give a big tip to get a better table. Why ?

Because well money talks just like we say you know, money talks. So you give

them the tip and it makes things happen. All right. Let's look at number

two. Companies often make large donations to politicians while they are running

for office in order to buy influence because money talks. Yes.

You know we've often seen statistics about this. I've seen politicians

actually admit that they spend about 50 percent of their time making phone calls

to get more donations for the next time they are running. You know, we all think

that they're spending all this time writing laws and arguing about laws, but

actually more than 50% of the time they're trying to get more money. And

when they get that money that usually those companies they want some favors

for it. So this is a this is one of the best examples of money talks. All right.

Let's look at number three here. I you want that superstar player to sign with

your team, you are going to have to outbid the competitors. Yeah. So maybe

it's a free agent and you know, maybe what is the again the final deciding

factor for him is probably more money than anything else. That's the way it is

done. Money talks. So anyway I hope you got it. I hope it's

clear. Thank you for your time. Bye bye.