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I'm about to do the video right now.

I got the lyrics and everything.

I mean, yeah, like, the last video got, like, 5 ,000 likes or something like

that.

Yeah, man, it's going to be great. You do yours as well.

I'll do mine now.

We can make money.

Entrepreneurs together, mate.

OK. OK, bye.

Let me just set this up.

So can I take you far away from here?

Baby, take a trip with me.

You'll see.

There's no time wasting.

You're waiting, bro, with me.

Yeah.

Because I got you, baby. You won't fall.

Girl, we're flying for this love, babe. Yeah.

Get a little warm up.

Toby the entrepreneur.

Cha -ching!

Toby!

How are you getting on looking through those university prospectuses?

Um... You know what, Dad?

The only prospect I want is to be like the guys on the lift.

What lift?

The rich lift.

I mean, look here.

This guy's 20 years old, and he's already one of the richest men in the

Hey, just like your father.

I said one of the richest.

Your mother was talking to Sister Tola earlier.

And she suggested we should look at Warwick University.

I hear it's very good. Yeah, whatever.

What do you mean, whatever?

Shut up. This is a serious situation.

Look, this is your education that we're talking about. If you don't go to

university and get good grades, how will you get a good job?

Dad, but maybe that's just it.

Maybe I don't want just a good job.

If you don't want a good job, then what do you want? You want to be lazy riff

-raff, hanging around on the street corner, doing nothing all day?

No, Dad, I want to be a businessman, an entrepreneur, make some money.

I mean, I could invent the next Apple. Toby, you can't invent fruit.

No, the maker's off my phone, Dad.

I mean, look here.

All these companies offering internships for a whole year. How good would that

experience be?

Son, there's an order.

instructor to this thing.

You go to school, you get A -levels. You go to university, you get a degree. You

get a degree, you get a good job. The good job makes you rich and you look

your father so he can retire early.

Dad, education doesn't mean money.

I mean, I know bare people. Bare people?

A lot of people that make lots of money and never went to uni. No, son. All

successful people went to school.

Really? Yeah. Steve Jobs.

Who is this Mr. Jobs? The guy behind Apple.

Are we back to this food business again? You want to be selling tomato on the

street? Dad, think about the next time you fly to Nigeria.

Think about the man that owns the airline.

Richard Branson never stepped foot in a uni.

That's just two people, Toby.

There are millions of rich people out there who got where they are today

of their university education.

Fuck like you.

What was that?

Nothing. Look, Dad, you know what I'm saying is true.

I mean, all the people I know that have money never went to uni. I mean, I'm

planning to be rich, so I don't need school to get there.

She broke my heart.

And on my birthday.

On my birthday.

Why do you think she left me, Tony?

Tony! Oh, sorry.

Look,

all you need is the big issue to complete that look. Get over it, Frank.

Plenty more fish in the sea.

I don't want fish.

What have I done to deserve this?

Why me, God? Why are you punishing me like this?

Can I get you anything, Frank?

Funke, are you just going to ignore your bloke?

Look here, don't insult me, Tony. Don't insult me. Do you think I would just go

for any tramp in the street?

Funke has standards.

Funke, that is Frank.

Frank? As in my Frank?

The only mosquito in my neck?

Yep. Apparently, he's given up eating and drinking.

Depression. His girlfriend's left him.

She did?

Thank God, you!

Thank you, God, for answering my prayers.

You need to help him. He's a mess.

I'm going in.

Easy, Funke. It's not a military operation.

It's only Frank.

Frank, my darling, you need to act like a man.

Forget about that girl.

I cannot.

Life is over. My life is a mess.

You need to man up.

A woman like me needs a puff, Bobo.

Look, come on, Frank.

I will help you.

What do you mean?

I'll have you feeling better in no time.

Toby, there's an old Nigerian saying, which says that, what a young man sees

standing up, an old man sees sitting down.

What has that got to do with anything?

Everything. You see, if you paid my attention at school, you would have got

I've not got time for these riddles.

Toby, come.

You are lucky that I don't get my koboko and pay some sense into you.

I want you to learn of your own accord.

So, I have invited an old professor who has been so kind as to grant us an

audience. There's no point.

Put me zip it.

Ah, he's here. Open the door for him.

Hi. Ah, Master Toby.

What a pleasure to meet you.

Bio told me so much about you.

I must say it's a delight to talk about the necessity of an undergraduate

education. Right. What?

University, my boy.

By the end

of

this lecture, I hope you will have come to a greater appreciation for the

institution that...

produces people that are of use to the world and themselves.

Okay.

Grigory Perelman, Russian mathematician, once said, learning is what most adults

will do for a living in the 21st century. Now, Toby, as you're on the

of adulthood,

These words define the significance of university education in the current

times.

Unlike school, we don't go to university because we have to, but because we want

to.

University education leads to a greater earning capacity,

a broad range of opportunities.

and a more rewarding career.

In the words of Albert Einstein, education is what's left behind when one

has forgotten everything he learned at school.

And that is the formula to your success.

Hey,

excuse me.

We are closed.

Closed for what? What are you talking about?

You're grabbing me.

Yes. Stop it, please. We have closed. Where is Tony?

He's coming.

Excuse me. OK, this is such a joke. I said he's here. See?

I said he's here.

I can't believe what you have done to me.

These last few hours, you've made me feel like a brand new man.

Frank, I'm ready for you to make me feel like a brand new woman. How can I

repay you? You make me feel alive.

You make me feel alive.

Come on now, do it now.

You know what? I always thought you were a little scary, Fungi.

I never saw you as this kind -hearted, caring woman that I've seen today.

There is a lot you don't know about me.

How can I repay you?

I will be back tomorrow with a very big surprise for you.

Love.

So dad, how's your naughty professor friend?

Toby, the professor may have failed to persuade you, but I have something else

up my sleeve.

Dad, it's going to have to be something magical to change my mind.

Well, this man will knock some common sense into you. He's a lawyer after all.

Lawyer Nicholas.

Lawyer Nicholas?

Yes.

You don't know lawyer Nicholas?

One of the biggest lawyers in London?

That man's firm brings in a revenue of three million pounds each year. You know

a millionaire?

That's right, my boy. I move with all the biggest movers and shakers.

No, Gladio works in his wife's building.

He'll be due any minute.

By your hand. Oh, bear.

You're welcome.

I'm off on a flight to the south of France. I can only really stay for about

minutes. That's all we need. This is my son, Toby.

Teddy! Your dad's told me a lot about you.

It's Toby.

Oh, silly me. Sorry, Tony.

Nicholas, please, sit down, sit down.

As a fellow professional in the world of law... I didn't realise you attended

law school.

Don't let's bother with the details.

I want you to tell Toby about your journey. You are a very successful man.

Yes, it is true.

Five properties in the UK, seven internationally, including a vineyard,

I'm just about to open in the south of France. But I don't like to brag. Yeah,

OK, that's wonderful. You hear that, Toby?

Vineyard, south of France. So I want you to share with us how you got... Look, I

hate to interrupt, but do you think my Ferrari would be fine out there? I

mean... We are in the middle of the ghetto.

Wait, a Ferrari?

Yes, that's right.

This year's model, limited edition, one of only ten in the whole world.

Personalised number plate, of course.

But I don't like to brag, you know.

That is sick.

I'm sorry you feel that way, Tony, but I've got a lot of money and I can afford

to buy whatever I like with it.

No, sick means good.

Oh.

Oh. Oh, OK.

Well, yes, so you want to know how I became so bloody brilliant.

That's right, that's right. Tell Toby, tell him, tell him.

So how hard did you study at university?

Yeah, and how you got a car like that?

Don't worry about that. Just listen to Nicholas.

So, Nicholas, how hard did you study at university?

University? Well, Bayo, Tony, to get Ryan today, I had to buddy really,

really hard.

I had to study where all the most successful, beautiful, glamorous women

and then how to get them to fall in love with me.

I mean, how else was I supposed to make my fortune?

When I meant study, I meant academics.

How did you do at your academic?

So you studied how to get rich women?

With the deepest of pockets.

Academic? Oh, no, no, no. I didn't have any time for that. I left school when I

was 16, never looked back.

That's a year younger than me.

I just had to find the richest... I mean, the right woman to marry.

It's all about accent. What can I say?

It turns out her daddy's a lawyer, and now all I do is hang around with the

right people.

Naturally, people think I'm some kind of hot shot in the city.

My advice to you, Tony, is to get to know the right people and get to know

very well.

I think you will find that the Ferrari won't be safe out there for much longer.

Right, OK, nice chatting with you, Bayo, nice chatting with you, Tony. I'll send

my invoice in the post.

You want to charge me for the chat? Well, you're not even a real lawyer.

Get out!

It's Toby, by the way.

Whatever.

It's for one night.

Dad.

What? Everything you show me has proven that I don't need education.

Yes, boy, you do.

No, I don't. Unless I want to be some nutty professor or some fake gold

lawyer.

Just face it. I'm not going to uni.

Toby. Whether you like it or not, you are going to university.

No, I'm not.

Look, I am trying to warn you, but you won't have it. So go on. Go on. Do your

own thing. Make your mistakes. But don't come back here when things fall apart.

Fine. I'm my own man. I'll make my own decision. Not under my roof, you will

not. Well, then maybe I won't be under your roof.

Toby!

What's the matter with you?

Parents, Tony. Parents.

Oh, they just don't understand.

You know, parents are the same no matter time nor place. They don't understand.

Kids make mistakes.

So this goes out to kids all across the land. You don't need to argue because

parents don't understand.

This day is just getting weird.

It's a Will Smith song, yeah?

When he was the first prince.

Oh, sorry.

You weren't born then.

Can I get you anything?

A hot chocolate. Great.

Hope it cheers you up.

Tony, the only thing that could cheer me up right now would be if my dad could

get a personality transplant.

That bad?

Yeah.

I mean, you know me.

I'm an entrepreneur.

A businessman.

I mean, I guess I'm just saying that I don't feel I need to go to uni to do

in life.

Well, I'm sure he just wants the best for you.

No, he wants the best for himself.

Any fair coffee going, Tony?

God bless you, mate.

So what business are you thinking of?

Oh, that?

Gadgets, technology, that kind of stuff.

Oh, I used to be in that game.

What do you mean?

The technology business.

I started it off when I was at Cambridge.

So you were homeless in Cambridge?

No, I was at Cambridge University doing a degree in information technology.

You went to university?

I told you it was a waste of time. Oh, I wouldn't be so sure about that. You

see, I got friendly with this guy and we started selling Walkmans while we were

undergraduates. What's a Walkman?

A cassette player with earphones.

What, like an iPod, right?

No, like kind of, except an iPod hasn't got a cassette.

Anyway, things really took off. The money was rolling in. It all seemed so

simple, I gave up uni.

Didn't think I needed it. Then what happened?

Two letters, one number.

MP3. Well, as soon as that caught on, people didn't want to buy Walkmans

anymore. We went bust.

It was too late to go back to university.

So, soon after, I had no degree and no job.

Not long after that, the wife left me.

Here I am now.

Women. Can't trust them.

So, what happened to your family?

Where are they?

I didn't really get on with my dad.

Difference of opinion.

Left home when I was 17.

Never could go back.

My gosh.

Terrible. Well, that's just the way it is, eh?

Yeah.

It'd be 90p for that copy.

You what? I thought it was free.

I'm not running a bleeding charity. I'm trying to run a business here, and it's

not easy.

You're off soon, Toby.

You haven't even touched your chocolate.

Yeah, I've got to watch the business awards.

I'm going to season it. Business awards, eh?

One day that'll be me.

Watch it.

Tony, don't you have somewhere to go?

Well, it is my cafe.

Look, just because you are lonely and desperate does not mean you should spoil

my marriage proposal.

I beg, go, doll.

Disappear. Funke.

Funke.

We don't know how to thank you.

We?

What do you mean by we?

Darling.

If it wasn't for you, I would still be in misery.

I would still be down in the dumps. The thing I hated most was his dressing.

And you fixed that.

And then there's the aftershave he uses.

He's an all -new gorgeous friend.

We felt the only way to repay you was by baking you his very special cupcakes.

We will sure invite you to the wedding.

What wedding?

Darling, keep this up, or you'll be walking me down the aisle.

Thank you.

I need to go.

Frank! Frank!

Fonke, bring the cakes over here, and you and I can be lonely and desperate

together.

And the

winner tonight for the London Business Awards is...

Jeff, you won!

I'm the real businessman.

Thank you so much, everyone. This award means so much to me.

I'd first like to thank my family, my mum and dad, my brothers and sisters,

of course, my beautiful wife and children.

And last but not least, I would like to thank my university lecturers, who

taught me so much about business and made me the man I am today.

So I would like to say thank you. And if there's any kids out there watching

tonight, I want to say stay at school, work hard, and you could be like me.

Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone.

Good night.

We need to talk.

Now, son, when I was your age, there were so many businesses that

I wanted to do, but I couldn't.

Why? Because I needed to feed my family. I had to do multiple jobs.

Cleaning, security, minicabbing, just so that you and Shadi would have a decent

education and the chance to be something in this country.

Are you now telling me that... All of that has been in vain because you don't

want to study?

That I've been thinking. Yes, but you haven't been thinking straight.

I get the whole importance of the uni.

Oh, that's good.

That's good, my boy. I'll see if I can arrange an open day.

I also want to be an entrepreneur.

Oh, Toby.

Have we not been through this already?

So I've decided to go to uni.

That's my boy.

That's my Toby.

What?

I want to do business studies.

Which one is business studies? Can't you do something proper like math? No, Dad.

Okay, what about engineering or medicine?

Dad, I want to be a businessman.

That's what I want to study.

It's either that or nothing.

Do we have a deal?

Well, I will have to talk to your mother about that.

I guess anything is better than being a dropout.

You won't be saying that when I'm making all the money.

Toby, I will say what I like until you make your first million.

It'll be a little sooner than you think.

So do we have a deal?

That's my Toby.

Come to your father.

Come to your father.

Now, football.