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So we got a lot of things to talk about today.
TikTok, QT's, Netflix, Amazon hiring 100,000 new people.
Apple's iPhone launch, whether it's going to happen or not.
Opic is weaker at 60.
Delta uses Frequent Flyer Mile program to raise $6.5 billion.
What a way to raise money.
NVIDIA's SoftBank deal, $40 billion acquisition from ARM.
And then two sheriffs shot point-blank execution style in California, Compton, I believe.
There's some controversy there.
Seven states where you can start early voting.
Bloomberg committing $100 million just in Florida to help Biden win it all.
And then some fires in LA, Beverly Hills Republicans.
I don't know if you saw the fires in L.A.
It's pretty intense.
What's going on there?
Trump's rally speech in Nevada.
Buffett campaigned for Obama and Clinton, but hasn't donated or spoken out for Biden and no one knows why.
And then Brady lost Rogan a four-hour debate, a bunch of other things.
Singapore's no destination flies to nowhere.
And then Navit Afghani executed in Iran, which will cover that as well.
But I think we start off with Bloomberg's $100 million deciding to help his brother, Joe Biden, win the state of Florida.
Hey, brother, what are your thoughts about this?
Okay, here's what this reminds me of.
Did you watch the last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David show on HBO?
So Larry David, he goes and Mocha Joe's a character, a reappearing character.
So Mocha Joe has a coffee shop.
Larry David goes in there.
The coffee's cold.
The scone is too hard.
The table's wobbly.
He's upset about it.
So he opens a store right next to it and calls it his spite store.
Opens a coffee shop right next to it to put it out of business.
I think this is all like 500% personal with Bloomberg.
All right.
He's writing this check.
It'll probably be hatred.
Personal towards Trump.
Yes.
And his hatred towards Trump.
This is all something happened with these guys when he was the mayor because think of the amount of money, the fortune that he is going to spend on his losing primary campaign.
And then if this $100 million doesn't help him out, it's a spite store on the political side of things.
And it's 100% personal with him.
What do you think about that, Adam?
Well, obviously he doesn't like Trump.
I mean, obviously.
I mean, that's Bloomberg.
Obviously, yeah.
I mean, you're spending $100 million.
But I'm saying the only reason is it's personal.
Oh, okay.
No, I mean, there's obviously more to it.
You know, I'm going to give you an answer you're probably not expecting out of young Adam Saws over here.
Let's hear it.
Well, most, you know, from Miami, Florida boy, lived everywhere in Florida.
Florida is literally the most important state when it comes to elections.
Agree or disagree?
Yes, purple, yes.
It's purple.
It has the most electoral college votes.
Al Gore, Bush, Concord, Florida.
Bingo, Bango, Ballads, Chad's always.
You got North Florida and more GOP.
You got South Florida, more Democratic.
You got the Cubans.
You got old people.
You got Haitians.
You got blacks.
It is the most important state.
So that's why we're going to single out this state.
But here's my thoughts on this.
I actually hate seeing stories like this, whether it's on the left or whether it's on the right.
Bloomberg donates $100 million.
George Soros donates, you know, a billion dollars.
The Koch brothers donate.
It's just a pay-for-play thing, these super PACs.
One thing for sure is if you're a billionaire, you could just buy your elections.
Hey, Bloomberg wants to give $100 million to Florida.
Cool.
The Koch brothers want to give $50 billion to Nebraska.
Cool.
It's just so excessive.
And all these billionaires just.
So you're heartbroken.
I'm heartbroken unless Biden ends up winning war.
I mean, what's he going to spend it on?
TV commercials?
I guess he's worth the money.
I mean, it says it right here.
He's going to use it for two reasons.
Number one, to obviously prop up Biden, but number two, to make Trump spend more of his campaign chest.
So, you know, it's like literally prop him up.
Yeah, he's going to, I mean, he's going to spend a lot of time.
Here's a question I got for you.
Here's a question I got for you.
So he's going to spend $100 million, which, first of all, $100 million is nothing to a guy worth $65 billion.
That's like you having $65,000 and giving $100 to a person running for office.
That's like you having $650,000 and giving $1,000.
To him, it's not a big deal.
And then let's look at how much money this guy spent on his own campaign.
He spent a losing campaign.
Do you know how much money he spent?
Do you know the $900 million?
$900 million he spent on his own campaign, and he got 58 delegates, and he lasted less than barely a hundred dollars.
I was going to say, not even a couple of months.
But this is the point I'm trying to make to you.
If, I'm even going to ask you a crazier question, okay?
Say he spent $64 billion in the state of Florida.
Say Bloomberg hates Trump so much, he gives his $65 billion to help Biden get elected.
You think Biden's still going to get elected if he gives him $65,000?
No, there's no guarantee.
What I'm trying to say to you is the following.
As much as money matters, as much as money matters, as much as you can go out there and say, well, it's about this and it's about that and it's about this.
America voted Obama.
When Obama was coming up, Hillary had all the money, not Obama.
Okay.
When he was coming up, Hillary had the money.
He didn't have the money.
When Trump was coming up, Jeb Bush had all the money.
Jeb Bush, they won had $140 million.
Trump had nothing, right?
Trump just had a social media presence.
This is more than just giving money.
I think what's starting to happen today is money matters.
Don't get me wrong.
You need the super PACs.
You need the money 100%.
But if you are not coming out, just yesterday, Trump did a rally in Nevada, right?
And just yesterday, look at what Trump's doing.
So yesterday, Trump is in Nevada, does a rally, gives a talk.
I don't think if it's yesterday, maybe it was a day before then when he gave the talk, two days ago.
He gives a talk in Nevada.
On fire, this guy.
Lit up, right?
Getting up there, talking, people, hollering.
There's 80,000 people.
When I was watching it when it was alive, I was in the bathroom.
I'm being serious with you.
I get out of the bathroom.
I said, babe, look how many people are watching.
I said, there's 80,000 people watching Trump in their bathroom stall right now, listening to this guy speak from anywhere.
I said, when Hillary and Trump were running, here's what was happening.
If you remember this: Hillary's running against Trump.
Every day you turn on Facebook, Trump was somewhere doing a rally.
Every day you turned on Facebook, you didn't see Hillary Clinton do rallies.
No matter how much money is spent, if Biden's strategy is to lock him up, don't have him come out, don't let anybody see him, no one's going to get any opinions, any of that stuff's not going to take place.
I don't care how much Bloomberg spends.
Nothing's going to happen.
You know, why do you think Bloomberg is such a lightweight and so unsuccessful nationally?
I mean, he was, I mean, the media company he built is unbelievable when you look at Bloomberg and what that value is of that company.
He was such a great mayor.
I mean, you would almost think that he would transfer over and be an outstanding president, but he's such a lightweight.
What is it with him nationally?
People just don't identify with him.
Different strokes for different folks.
You have a Jewish billionaire who made his money in New York City.
He's going to resonate in New York.
He's not going to resonate in the middle.
He did a good job.
I just thought he could do a better job in these primaries.
And you would look at him and have a little more respect for him, but he's kind of a putz when you think about him when I actually.
I give you a perfect idea there.
It's a very good question you point out, by the way.
Very good question.
We're not prepared for this, but that's a very good question.
I will tell you this.
So, you know how you decide to go away and come back and reappear in the media, okay?
Like, reinvent yourself?
Yeah, no, not even reinvent.
You kind of like when you have the money sometimes, you're getting all the attention, all this other stuff.
You get to a point where you don't want any attention, right?
Because sometimes you don't want attention because you don't want your personal life to be targeted on your back.
Like, how many times do you see Jordan doing an interview?
Honestly, how often do you see Michael Jordan doing interviews?
Not even as a owner.
He doesn't do it.
What was the most common thing when Jordan was in Chicago and they would ask him about his personal life?
What would Michael say to the universe?
Like, people like you, what would he say?
He would deflect.
AA, you probably wouldn't even ask him that question because you know it's pretty much.
But if you did, it was a code in Chicago.
You don't ask Michael about his personal life.
But if you did, Michael point blank will look at you and he would say, you know, I'm here to talk about basketball.
My personal life said it.
I don't want to talk about it.
But my basketball life, whatever questions you got, we can talk about it.
So he deflected.
Why?
Some of these guys just don't want your personal life to be advertised, right?
So Bloomberg is so big in New York.
He's the mayor, all this other stuff.
Then maybe his marriage didn't work out.
He's a single guy.
He's got the money.
He's got girlfriends on the side.
I don't want publicity.
Then he decides to go out there and get on social media, which I'll tell you how many followers he has on social media.
And this stuff matters today.
It didn't matter 40 years ago, but it matters today.
Watch this.
Bloomberg on Instagram has 468,000 followers.
Let me say this one more time, Adam.
Bloomberg on Instagram has 468,000 followers.
That is less than many 12-year-olds that are putting cat videos on Instagram.
He's not even in his video.
And he's running for office.
His last video he posted this morning got 2,583 views in two hours with 19 comments.
And this guy's worth $65 billion.
What this tells you for this, for right here, is the big screen.
He is not fit for the big screen.
He's fit for the boardroom.
It's a very big difference.
Today's presidential, to win, you got to belong here.
He doesn't belong there.
Not Bloomberg.
That's my opinion.
I wonder how many of those posts he does on his own.
Do you think he, that's the beauty of Trump and some of these other people?
Bloomberg ain't a Twitter finger.
He's been filtered, right?
And it's a real message that's getting out.
Yeah, I mean, look, like you said, something must have happened in New York.
And, you know, would you be surprised that Trump pissed Bloomberg off?
I mean, how long is the list of people that Trump has pissed off?
Can we add just Bloomberg to that list?
It's not like it's a big deal.
And depends how thin your skin is because at some point Trump's going to say something about you.
So do you hold a grudge?
Do you take it that personally?
Yeah, he's not cool with that.
So apparently that's not something he's comfortable with.
But we'll see what's going to happen with that $100 million.
So Apple apparently is not launching for the first time ever.
Apple will be doing their event today at 10 o'clock, okay, Pacific Standard Time, which is 1 o'clock Eastern Standard Time.
But rumor has it.
They're launching a new iPad.
They're launching a new watch.
They're launching all this other stuff.
But rumor has it they are not launching a new iPhone.
iPhone has reportedly been delayed till October due to COVID-19.
Do you think that's an accurate rumor?
And if it is, do you think that's a good strategy to delay the phone launch till October?
Well, my first reaction is: as good as Apple is with marketing, with PR, maybe they have a surprise that they've kept under wraps and maybe they'll have a huge announcement, about two new phones today.
Nothing would surprise me.
I guess logically, it seems COVID, you know, in China where they make the phones might have some sort of impact on production.
But Apple's also the type of company that I don't think they use too many things as excuses and they're going to find a way to use this publicity stunt today to make some sort of big announcement.
I can't believe they'd be, you know, kind of go quiet or not have something big to say.
Adam.
Just as a consumer, what's the difference if they bring out a new phone in September or October?
Now, let me ask you this.
Are you a die-hard Apple fan?
No.
That's the problem.
To a die-hard Apple fan.
Do I have Apple?
Yeah, like, oh my God, the new phone.
Like, no.
Well, you know, to the diehard Apple fans, September is like December 24th.
You know, what Christmas means to you is what September means to you.
Yeah, they want to go line up outside the stores, even though the stores are closed.
That's the point.
Every time that I see, I'm in the mall.
I remember just being in the mall.
This is literally last year and lines out the door in Apple.
And I, you know, me, I'm a pretty inquisitive person.
I'll go, you're going to say this.
Go ahead.
I was going to ask, while you're saying this, I want to ask the audience a question.
Let me ask you, how many of you, the moment the new iPhone comes out, you go out there and buy it?
And how many of you are watching this right now?
Be honest.
I tell you myself, my answer, I'll tell you right after you tell yours, how many of you, the moment iPhone 12 comes out, you're going to go buy it?
Comment below.
Go ahead, Adam.
Yeah, that was actually my point, is that there was lines out the door.
And I'm not a die-hard, really anything.
I remember just asking people online, like, hey, guys, what's going on here?
Dude, it's a new iPhone 11.
It's coming out.
I'm like, why do you have to go opening day?
Man, I just love Apple.
I'm like, you can't wait a day or two?
No, man, I got to have it.
Okay.
What I wanted to ask that person was like, how in debt are you?
What's your debt situation?
What's your best friend?
But don't you want to ask everybody that question?
It's like, why do you like, dude, you don't need to run out and get the new phone the day it comes out.
Like, that's the beauty of that brand.
I guess the biggest question is, how often do you really need a new phone?
Do you need it every single time it comes out?
Can you use a phone for a year or two?
Like, that's the bigger question.
First of all, you're talking about a trillion-dollar company.
This trillion-dollar company's number one selling product is what?
The iPhone, the smartphone.
And this trillion-dollar company, historically, when you go back to the 80s and 90s, you know what they were known for?
Selling expensive computers.
If you owned Apple, you were rich.
It was not the 486 or 386.
If you remember the old 386 and a 486, Apple was $2,900, $3,500, and the other computers were $1,800.
Here's the other part when I think about this data here.
By the way, just so you know, most people here are saying no, no way.
When I say most people, Kai, would you agree?
90% of people are saying no.
90% of people are saying they don't go line up to buy the iPhone.
90% of them.
Well, good.
I'm happy to hear that.
I feel like that's a Android, Android.
It's an older thing, though, because people used to do it back in the day.
Like, if we ask how many have ever gone to line up and then the question becomes, they're still selling, though.
Like, they are still selling.
Because now people can order online back in the day.
Okay.
I got it.
If you didn't order, like, you couldn't order online, either you line up right away or you get it in four hours.
Well, maybe the better question is, how many of you guys are going to order it regardless whether it's face-to-face or online?
You're going to order it.
Here's a couple things.
There's two ways to look into this, the way I see this.
Number one, you know, Apple has a surprise up their sleeve because they've historically been known as the surprise, like you were saying earlier.
But the surprise was more a Steve Jobs thing, not a Tim Cook thing.
So I don't think Tim Cook is a surprise guy as much as Steve Jobs was.
The other part was, well, my book was coming out with Simon ⁇ Schuster.
Simon ⁇ Schuster had an emergency call with me in June, I believe.
I don't know when it was.
It was a June Kai that we had that call.
They had a call with me in June and they said, Patrick, I don't think we can launch the book on June 18th.
I said, why is that?
Printers, we just can't print the books the way we did.
So we can print, but we're only going to be able to print 5,000.
And our first batch was supposed to be 25,000, 35,000.
So maybe Apple is having a hard time being able to produce the phones because if all of a sudden they got a million orders, how the hell are we going to make it?
Statistically and shipping them.
It could be.
These diehard Apple fans are like diehard comic book fans or something.
They expect something on that date.
And everybody thinks of Apple as the most innovative company in the world.
So I think they'd miss a big opportunity today if they came out flat and didn't have something that they had to say.
I use Apple.
I love Apple.
I don't care about the new phone.
It's just another thing I'd have learned.
I think it's a 10.
What?
10X or something?
I got the 6S.
It's great.
It's pretty sarcastic.
It's the Apple flip phone.
10.
10.
10, I think, yeah.
What is this?
Is this an 11?
Is this the 11?
So I have an Xbox 10.
So the question is this, Pat.
Yes.
Are you basically alluding to the day it comes out, Pat's got to get the news?
The day it comes out, I'm buying one.
You're getting one.
Absolutely.
The day it comes out, I'm buying an iPhone.
All right.
Now, why is this?
Yeah.
I support the brand.
That's it.
I don't care what the product is.
I support the brand.
Now, would the let's let's take you back a little bit.
Would the young hustler, entrepreneur, 23-year-old Patrick?
Tell me why not.
One, he didn't have money.
He didn't have money.
That's number one.
Number two, all I needed was a phone and a texting method for me to drive whatever I need to to whoever it is.
Today, we have multiple media stuff that we're doing.
I need whatever that's going to be the fastest to be able to allow me to do other things because I got so many different things.
So every time the processor gets faster, I'm banking on a newer processor.
So it's a little bit more technical with my answer.
The 23-year-old, 23-year-old out there watching this who has student loan debt and is struggling to make income, or maybe you're just a normal person, or even if you're doing well, I'm not just relegating just people who are not doing well.
You don't have to run out and get the new iPhone.
If you're not a social media content creator, CEO, take a couple months, take a year.
I think one-year-old phone isn't what's the right thing to do.
With Apple, it's never what the right thing to do is.
It's what the cult-like following is going to do.
Cult.
Well, it's emotional with Apple, and that's the connection that's very emotional.
For me, it's all function.
Like, if I'm on a non-Apple device, I'm wasting 50% of my time because it's just slower.
I don't know how to use it.
It's frustrating.
So for me, it's pure fun.
Were you a Blackberry guy?
Yeah, I did used to like the Blackberry just because you could send emails and text, and you know, I remember one time I got to tell you a story about Blackberry.
So remember Next Tell Blackberry?
Yeah.
The Walkie-Talkie Blackberry?
Oh, yeah, I can see it.
So one day at the Chinese theater, Exorcist comes out, the movie.
I don't know if you guys remember The Exorcist movie.
Like the original?
Way back?
You don't remember when they brought it back in LA?
Like the Chinese theater?
The original Exorcist was like in 1980.
Yeah, 1980.
So I go to my dad, I say, Dad, there's this movie coming out called The Exorcist.
What do you think about it?
My dad says, don't screw around watching this movie.
I said, why is that?
He said, I'm telling you, don't go watch this movie.
I said, Dad, my dad never says don't go watch a movie.
But he still happens to tell me, don't go watch this movie, Exorcist.
I said, what's up with The Exorcist?
He said, well, back in the early 80s, I went to UK to do a certain training for Max Factor because my dad's a chemist, so he makes makeup.
So he said, I went to UK for a Max Factor training.
He says, one day I'm staying at the hotel, and I said, look, let me go watch a movie.
I asked the front desk clerk, I said, look, what's a good movie to watch?
They said, there's a new movie that came out in Farsi, they call it Jangir.
It's the name of it.
So he says, you know, Exorcist came out.
So he says, okay, no problem.
So he goes across the street, across the park to watch this movie.
He says, he says, I go to the theater.
He said, no one's in the theater.
I'm by myself watching Exorcist.
He says, I sit there, watch this exorcist.
I'm like, what the hell did I do watching this movie?
So he says, on my way back to the hotel, I had to cross the street of a park.
He said, I see this park.
The only way I can get to the hotel is I got to run through the park.
He said, Pat, I start running, running.
All of a sudden, I see this couple that are making out.
They see me.
I thought it was the Exorcist.
I screamed.
They screamed.
So I said, finally, I get to the hotel.
Long story short, I go straight to the bar.
He says, give me two shots of double tequila.
He says, I take two shots.
I went upstairs.
I left the lights on to go to sleep.
All I thought about was the movie.
So now this story comes back to me.
So a friend of mine says, you know, we're going to go watch The Exorcist.
There's two parts of the story.
So I go and I.
So you didn't listen to your dad.
No, no, no.
Of course not.
Of course not.
So I go watch it first while my friend Fernando Lasso, who lives in Ecuador right now.
Shout out to Fernando Lasso, one of my groomsmen, by the way.
Fernando.
Fernando Lasso, Conejo.
Conejo means rabbit, right?
That's what his nickname was, Conejo.
So I go watch this with our buddy Conejo.
And Conejo says, before we watch The Exorcist, we have to listen to this recording.
I said, what's this recording?
This is a die-hard Christian guy, Fernando Lasso.
He says, This is how when I was in Ecuador going to school, this is how people who worship the devil, this is the kind of music they listen to.
I said, bro, turn this crap off.
He says, no, but just think how crazy it is.
I don't need to listen to this stuff.
He puts it in for 15 seconds.
I listen to it.
They're reading the Bible backwards.
That's how creepy this thing is.
I said, what is the matter with you?
He says, we have to get into mood before we watch this movie.
We have to get into mood before.
I said, you are absolutely crazy.
So we go sit in and watch the movie.
It's myself, a guy named Mauricio and Fernando Lasso.
So we watch it.
We leave.
First of all, the movie was out of control, terrible.
But one of my friends, meaning scary.
No, no, no, but scary.
So my friend Saul Lopez goes to watch the movie.
And I know he's going to go.
And I ask all my friends, what time is he going to the movie?
So I go into the movie theater just to see him.
I know where he's.
He does no clump right there.
I grab the next walkie-talkie.
I see where he's sitting.
I say, Saul Lopez.
Let me tell you what happened with Saul.
Saul jumps up.
I see, though.
I wish we had camera back then to see the reaction.
He jumps up that night.
He knew I'm in the parking lot.
He comes in.
He says, There's no way I'm sleeping alone that night.
True story.
That night, four of us slept at my sister's apartment on the floor because Saul didn't want to see that.
Saul, if you're listening to this and watching this, you know I'm telling the truth.
You know I'm telling the truth.
But that's the exorcist story.
I don't know how the hell we got to the exorcist.
Well, because you couldn't have done that on an iPhone, right?
You needed that Blackberry device to see.
I mean, if I had an iPhone, I would have seen the reviews and I would have never seen The Exorcist, but it is what it is.
Oh, that's the whole thing with the Blackberry, the Walkie-Talkie deal.
Yeah, exactly.
Which was pretty cool.
I'm getting a little sign here with the Exorcist, and your dad started with the Exorcist.
Isn't your phone ring the one?
That's so crazy you say that.
Well, last night, my son finally made me change it.
He finally ironically, so we haven't even spoken about it.
Can you send me a text right now?
This is what I had to change it to because my son said, Dad, I can't stand listening to that thing.
It scares me, Tico.
Tico doesn't like scares.
It wasn't.
One, two, Freddy's coming for you.
That's my ringtone.
Okay.
But now it's changed.
It's classic.
Lifting.
The animals.
House of the Rising Sun.
House of the Rising Sun.
So he was a little disturbed.
Why'd you select that?
I'm a crazy fan of House of the Rising Sun.
And, you know, don't let me be misunderstood.
The animals.
I mean, they were legit.
By the way, a lot of great movies have played that song, The House of the Rising Sun.
There is a house.
Oh, sure.
And Sam.
So it's a great song.
Yes.
Okay.
Thank God this isn't a karaoke show.
Okay.
Of all time.
Yeah.
I mean, Phil.
Of all days, of all times, last night, your son, Tico, said enough enough with the Nightmare on Elm Street.
I got a text from Mario.
Tico's sitting right next to me.
We're having a conversation.
He says, Daddy, you got to change that ringtone.
It's too sweet.
It's goosebumps over here.
I changed it yesterday because for the longest time we had Nightmare on Elm Street.
Anyways, by the way, we got to give a shout out to Freddy Krueger.
I mean, he's got to get it.
He has scared the living crap out of many kids.
Do you remember the first time you watched Nightmare on Elm Street?
Well, yes, and I think movies were 10 times more scary in the 80s.
I mean, they just were, I mean, they just, I don't know why.
Is it because we were kids or is it because they were scary?
I think because we lived in, or I grew up in a rural environment.
So after you see the movie, it's all dark and cornfields and stuff.
And you think Freddy Krueger and Children of the Corner are actually there.
And there were fewer distractions.
You can't get on your cell phone and social media and distract yourself right after that movie or calm yourself down.
So I don't know, but they were freaky back then.
Although I hate scary movies in general.
I don't even watch them.
Hate them all.
I almost want to tell a story about Nightmare on Elm Street, but I don't want to tell it.
It's that bad, but maybe I should tell this story.
It's a pretty bad story, by the way.
Okay, let me tell this rabbit.
Now, this is a crazy story.
Let me ask the audience: did you want to hear it?
This is a crazy story.
I should almost not tell this story.
Guys, do you want to hear the story if you tell me?
You're threatening not to tell the story.
We'll come back to it.
I don't know.
I think we're on topic right now.
I think this is the time.
All right, let me tell you the story.
So here's what happened.
Okay, it's crazy.
I mean, people just say, I don't want to tell it.
I don't know.
Okay, I'll tell it.
Okay, let me tell you what happens.
The only thing I'm thinking about is people are going to say, what the hell does this guy do here?
So if I go to a hotel room, I want to go to sleep.
Okay.
There's nothing worse than a neighbor that's blasting music at 2 o'clock in the morning.
So I'm on a business trip, and there's these two people that are next to me blasting their music.
And when I go on a business trip, I room up with Mario.
Mario and I get a room together.
I always have a roommate when I go on trips, right?
So I noticed they're not stopping it.
They're not stopping it.
They're not stopping it.
I said, look, we call downstairs.
We say, hey, our neighbors are playing music.
They call them.
They slow down.
They blasted it again.
I said, no problem.
I have the solution on how to turn off the music.
You know what I do?
I get the soundtrack song of Nightmare on Elm Street.
The doors are attached.
I put the phone under the door.
You know, the doors are attached.
Of course.
And it goes, one, two, Freddy's coming for you.
And then the sound of a girl comes out.
I see you.
I see you.
I'm coming inside your door.
Do you want to play with me?
You want to play with me?
You see that one?
I've told you.
You want to play with me?
So next thing you know, you see these girls screaming.
They totally start.
They come outside.
They're knocking on everybody's door.
Everybody's door.
They're knocking on.
Someone's in here.
You know what they did?
They left.
And we went to see very simple story.
And we murdered him.
But thank you.
Thanks to Nightmare on Elm Street and Freddy Krueger.
He was.
People are saying you've told this story, Pat.
If I have told this story, to overshadow what they were playing, too.
No question about it.
Yeah.
Okay, so let's get into a couple other things.
My guy JJ goes, what the hell is Pat on about right now?
You got a little bit of a shot.
Pat's on a twisty little vibe, guys.
Just roll with it.
But there's a lot of stories.
There's a lot of stories that you do not know about this guy here.
So, which one do you want to get into?
Two sheriffs shot point blank execution style in California.
Disturbing new video shows a 31-year-old deputy tending to her partner who's 24 years old as she hides them both from behind a column after a man fires a gun at the 2LA County Sheriff deputies sitting in their patrol cruiser Saturday night in Compton.
Reward money now, $175,000.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Sunday condemned protesters for reportedly yelling death to police outside the hospital where two Los Angeles County Sheriff Police Department deputies are being treated and in critical condition after being shot.
Have you seen the video, by the way?
Yeah.
Kai, have you seen the video?
If you got the video, for people, if they've not seen it, this is the visual.
Okay, just so you know.
So they're in their car.
This person that's walking up, originally, they had no plans of doing anything.
He's about to walk by.
Then all of a sudden, he pulls out his gun and he starts shooting.
Okay, in the 20s.
Are the windows open or no?
From this angle, it looks like it's open, but it may not be open.
The cop that the person shot at got a 26-year-old kid.
She's 24 years old.
She's hospitalized, not in good conditions.
Trump said, if either one of them dies, if either one of these cops dies, he says this person's going to be getting the death penalty.
And, you know, for that to be taking place, then the local sheriff in L.A. came out and said, hey, LeBron, since you really, lives really matter to you, why don't you match the $175,000 of donation that we got told LeBron?
This was just said last night.
So what are your thoughts?
You're in L.A. right now.
What are your thoughts about that?
So disturbing on multiple levels.
This is sick.
It's unbelievable.
It's very unsettling.
But I think almost as bad is the fact that these protesters get into the hospital.
Here's a quote.
According to the Sheriff's Department, the protesters were blocking the entrance and exit of the hospital emergency room, and one of them was yelling, We hope they die.
I mean, here's the scary thing for me.
This is so organized, right?
For protesters to be on the spot, to A, know where the hospital is, to get down there, to be in front of the hospital, to have these types of chants.
There's a big thing brewing here that's quite scary.
LeBron's probably not going to do anything.
I doubt if he's going to match that.
Probably would have done it right away.
Did you hear that the Black Lives Matter blocked the Lakers bus yesterday?
And there was something going on in Florida as well.
So LeBron seems to be in the crosshairs of both sides trying to get his attention.
But look, I hope that, I mean, there's not much else to say.
Trump even took heat for saying that.
How can that be a controversial statement to say that these guys need to be brought to justice immediately and have a death penalty attached to the sentence?
You know what's my biggest challenge with LeBron?
By the way, I've been in the U.S. since November 28th, 1990.
What's special about November 28, 1990 is that's the year where the finals were Lakers against the Bulls.
So I watched Michael make that shot over Sam Perkins where he goes up and he switches for no reason and comes up left-handed saying Sam Perkins was trying to block my shot.
As if Sam Perkins with a six-inch vertical leap can block Michael's shot, right?
Who is high most of the time, by the way?
You ever see Sam Perkins play?
That guy is.
He's got a good left-handed shot, by the way, the three-pointer.
He's to hit him.
Sam Perkins ball.
But I've been a Laker fan for 29, 30 years now.
It's the first year I'm now rooting for the Lakers.
You know why?
Here's why.
To me, Michael, if there was a political issue, he would say, I'm giving a million dollars to black university or black college, and I'm giving a million dollars to a charity of a police department or sheriff.
And he would talk about how the cops protected him so well throughout his career, right?
There's nothing that's unifying about LeBron James.
The only thing unifying about LeBron James is anybody that agrees with him.
That's it.
You have to be a BLM supporter for him to unify.
If you're not, you won't hear anything from him.
Big difference when a guy that's the face of the league is treating the politics that were just purely one-sided.
And if he says, it's not my responsibility, it's not on me, you're the face of the league.
You call yourself the king.
The king dictates what direction the NBA goes.
100%.
And everything good and bad that's going on with today's NBA is because of the king, because you are the king.
So, you know, I would love for him to come out.
I'd love to be wrong.
I'd love to be wrong.
But I highly doubt he's going to come out and support the situation.
You know, Michael had the great quote.
He goes, Republicans buy shoes too.
So he, you know, had business interests at the forefront of most everything he did as well.
Michael was very savvy, very smart.
That's why he stayed neutral.
But so does LeBron.
LeBron's media company is doing very, very well.
I mean, he's.
Spring kill.
Yeah.
They're going to kill it, by the way.
Yes, they've come to Hollywood and they've been very, very successful.
So you would think somebody like that would maybe want to straggle the line a little bit more because personally, I look at LeBron as a social activist that also plays basketball.
I'm not the other way around.
No, I look at his basketball as being secondary.
I agree with you.
And it's so sad because they're going to walk to the finals, probably, and they'll probably win it all.
I mean, the thing that's going to, I don't want to get all sports on you, but I mean, their free throw shooting is horrendous, right?
So that could cost them down the road.
But he has a chance to seize this mantle of being the only guy to win three championships with three different teams and lead them all the way, and he's going to blow it because he's offending more people than he's generating excitement.
But the thing I will give him credit for, I don't think he really cares.
Doesn't seem like it.
Yeah, I don't think he knows who he is.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, he's dropping F-bombs on social media, the whole thing.
Not that he knows what he's doing.
I don't think he knows what he's doing.
I think he knows who he wants to be, and he could care less if he's losing half the audience or not.
Hey, Pat, one of the men.
Do you have a problem with that, though?
I don't have a problem.
Know who you are and you know what you want to be and you stand for something.
What's wrong with that?
Yeah, for me, I get it.
I like people that are willing to, like, for example, do you remember when the Jesse Smollett thing that took place?
Juicy Smollett.
Do you remember when that took place?
Of course.
Do you remember the first time they asked Trump about it, what Trump said?
No.
Do you remember what Trump said?
To the tune that he didn't believe it or something?
No, not at all.
He believed it at first.
Oh, that's right.
He said, We got to catch him.
This is not fair.
We got to, you know, justice needs to be served.
He defended Jesse Smollett.
Yeah.
And there's no way in the world he would support Jesse Smollett right after finding out the story.
His immediate reaction is to do what?
Support.
He's not like that.
So no matter how much people say that Trump is divisive, Trump is not as divisive as LeBron is divisive.
Hey, I'll say one more thing.
I think this NBA bubble is putting these guys in a very weird environment.
You listen to Doc Rivers' comments.
I mean, Doc, stick to basketball right now.
No one really is looking for you to become a political activist.
And that's all he seems to be doing as well now.
But I think you're in a hotel room.
Maybe your wife's there, but not your kids.
Some of your family.
Your normal routine is out the window.
You have 18 to 20 hours of downtime a day.
All you have is your phone and social media.
I think that's adding a little fuel to it.
And it's going to, you know, go another month, too, if they make the finals.
Are you telling these NBA players they should shut up and dribble?
I'm not saying that at all.
I think I'm saying the bubble is affecting them.
And I think they're having more time to not be around normal society where you might have a little bit more open mind about things.
Well, everyone's dealing with some sort of COVID bubble right now.
They're literally dealing with the bubble.
But I think everything is so amplified right now.
And I mean, my biggest problem, like just for me, okay, so if you don't, if you don't find what happened to the police officers fucking disgusting, then you're on the wrong side of the equation here, ladies and gentlemen.
Like that is disgusting.
So the people that, for whatever reason, support that, you're hurting your cause here, gentlemen, or ladies and gentlemen.
Let's see if LeBron's tweeted about it.
I haven't even checked.
I mean, if he has tweeted about it and saying something, I would.
Especially it's his town.
It's his city.
Nope.
Not one tweet.
Not one tweet about it.
He should.
Not one tweet about it.
So the biggest problem, I'm just going to say one thing.
The problem these days is everything is so polarized.
It's this or that.
Your BLM or your Black Lives Matter or your Blue Lives Matter.
You're red or you're blue.
You're MAGA or your BLM.
It's why can't we all just be a little bit of just American?
A few comments here to respond for both of you guys, what you've said.
One, I don't mind athletes being sharing their opinions if it's sincere.
Like, for example, Cap, he knelt and he says, here's what this is.
Well, there was a lot of, you know, hypocrisy behind his movement that what he did, mom's, you know, white, he's half white.
And, you know, then he wears the pig socks while he's playing in Miami.
I mean, look, now you're playing with fire.
You're talking about people that escaped Castro.
So, you know, but Ali, when Ali did it, Ali also got along with everybody on both sides.
Ali was still likable when him and they were going at it with a couple different people.
I don't have, I don't, he was actually, you would be his biggest enemy when they would do interviews.
He would he would always stand up.
But at the same time, he was partying with everybody.
You know, Ali was good with everybody.
Ali wasn't just one-sided guy when you read the stories about it.
If you go to his museum in Kentucky, Louisville, if you've never been, highly recommended.
We're doing an event there actually.
Sepala's and Vargas and Delvise and Kahindi and Mason.
They're doing an event there in January, which I'm looking forward to going to because I love the Ali Museum.
This is what I will say about this part here.
This whole message is not about LeBron.
It's not about Doc Rivers.
It's about these two sheriffs.
My concern is the following.
Here's my biggest concern.
Yesterday we're having a meeting here.
Okay.
And one of my sales reps asked me a question and says, what do you say when the person says this?
Okay.
And I said, what do you mean?
He said, what do you say if the person says this?
And they say, if you don't do this, I won't do this.
I said, the reason why this person is saying this is because they feel comfortable being able to say that to you.
What do I mean by that?
You know how you sit with somebody and somebody says, shut up, you know, and you don't like it.
You know how people say, shut up.
You know, it's not like a bad thing to say.
They're just saying, shut up.
I had a girl I worked with.
We're good till today.
She's one of the best right now what we do with the business.
She had a tendency of saying this very quickly to everybody.
And so one day she said it to me.
I said, Can I whisper something to you, just you?
And I said, Yes.
I said, Have I ever told you to shut up?
She said, Never.
I said, Please don't say it to me either.
I don't like the terminology, shut up.
Just don't say it to me.
She says, I'm so sorry.
I said, No, you don't have to apologize.
It's very normal.
I actually don't think you have anything negative to say about it.
But moving forward, I'm not going to say shut up.
You don't need to say shut up.
Let's have that mutual respect for one another.
She said, Okay, so the next time, you know, we're saying something, she's like, Oh, shut up.
She's like, I'm so sorry.
I said, No, just the fact that you caught yourself, guess what?
I respect the fact that you're respecting me.
Let me tell you what's going on here, what the bigger concern is.
People are thinking it's okay to shoot cops right now.
And that's a byproduct of politics.
People in California think it's okay to shoot cops right now.
So, as much as Garcetti is coming out and saying this stuff, you are indirectly making people think that they are doing something good to go after cops because it's a way of getting their 15 seconds of fame and they're going to be talked about.
And oh my gosh, BLM's going to say, oh, phenomenal, let's go defund the police, all this other stuff.
You have to be very careful what you recognize for.
If you tell your kid, kid, great job.
There's this book that was on parenting.
He said, the author of this book says, whatever you recognize your kids for and give attention for, they're going to keep doing it.
Meaning, if the kid is sick, you only hug your kids and tell them you love them when they're sick, they're going to keep telling you they're sick.
You got to hug and kiss your kids when they're doing okay.
You got to do good to them when nothing's going on.
But if you recognize them and you laugh at them saying a stupid joke to somebody and you think it's funny using bad words, they're going to keep doing it because it's a form of recognition.
California is indirectly promoting these types of behavior.
And it starts with Newsom and it starts with Garcetti and all that stuff needs to be stopped.
By the way, shout out to Newsome because Newsome did send a tweet out.
And one of the things I like about what Newsom did the last 24 hours, you guys know how I am about Newsom.
If he does stuff, I'll call him out, but I've got to give him respect as well.
And I know some of the people that are watching this saying, Pat, I cannot believe you're going to say this about Newsome.
Let me tell you what at least he did.
And whether you say it's good or not, here's what he did do yesterday.
He got up there and he says, a 31-year-old mother and a 24-year-old are fighting for their lives because of this cowardly, horrific act.
The perpetrator must be quickly brought to justice, praying for a full recovery for the deputies.
And then she has the name, and his wife and him are praying and are keeping their loved ones in their thoughts.
Listen, and he did that immediately.
Respect.
Good, respect.
Good free.
No, I'm giving Newsome reasons.
He's the governor.
He should.
Yes, he should.
I know you're giving him reason.
But what I'm saying is, and then on top of that, let me tell you what he did yesterday.
The fires are going on in California.
Trump flies in to meet with him.
He doesn't say, pulling off a publicity stunt, I will never meet with him if he comes in.
He says, no, let's sit down.
Newsome sat right here while Trump sat right here and Trump was being briefed on what's going on in California.
And Trump was listening to everybody.
And Newsome's sitting here.
Now think about how uncomfortable he is.
His ex-wife is dating his son.
Let me say this one more time.
Governor Newsom's ex-wife is dating his son and he still has the audacity to sit right next to Trump.
I respect, I know what his positions are.
I know where he's at with this, but I respect the fact that he's willing to do this.
You cannot, by the way, I hope he's realizing.
You can't out there and say, you cannot show up to church.
Oh, but you can go out there and protest that you cannot do that.
This hypocrisy needs to stop at the top because these guys are thinking it's okay.
And I hope this is the last shooting towards sheriffs and cops.
But unfortunately, if I'm a betting man in Vegas, I'm telling you, I don't think Celestin's.
Well, especially not in the next two months.
And when you consider in Chicago, did you see that story where 36 street gangs have formed a coalition to say that they would shoot cops on site if they were armed and stuff?
So the rhetoric, that rhetoric is so dangerous.
You know, I will say that too.
I think Newsom is open-minded when it comes to things like that.
And I don't think he hates Trump as much as maybe people think he does because he's actually praised Trump in the past.
At least he has the open mind to sit next to him and have this discussion.
I don't think Trump hates California.
That's the impression out there, too.
He has a house in Beverly Hills.
He loves California.
I think he loves Hollywood.
He loves aspects of it.
So he wants to help.
Now, the funniest visual of their two meeting was Gavin Newsom had a mask on and Trump didn't.
Right?
I mean, that just kind of summed up the differences right there.
Yeah.
Let me ask you two Californians a question.
If California was a stock, right, with everything that's going on right now, the homeless issue with the Newsome U-Haul Employee of the Year, the fires, the craziness, the shootings, are you buying California or are you selling California long term?
I'll go first.
Easy.
Buying.
It's a blue chip stock like IBM or like you would preach about Coke or McDonald's or something like that.
It's going to have maybe a downturn right now.
It's going to be rough, but you can't recreate the natural resources that state has, the weather, the climate, the palm trees, the coastline.
So I'm buying.
Definitely.
You're buying.
I'm buying.
I'm actually going to be surprised because you've been.
I love California.
I've known you for a few months.
Every time you've heard, I have fucking California.
It sucks.
It's burning down.
Well, no, no, no.
I am seeing what's going on there, and I'm very disturbed by it.
And I'm hurt by it.
And it's very disappointing.
It's a downward trend.
But long term, you're not buying.
Buying.
You're buying California.
I'm buying.
What say you, PBD?
I don't think I'm buying for the next few years.
Okay.
I'm shorting right now, and then I'm buying in the next few years, is what I'm doing.
Like an airline stock almost.
Yeah, and you know, for me, it's a couple things that you have to realize.
Number one is, you know, the reason why I'm banking on America, still buying for America is because the person running America still is someone that's advancing what America was founded on.
California, unfortunately, is going a different direction.
You know, I have Moral and Tikrin that are in California right now.
Yeah.
I said, how are things in California?
I said, she says fires in Pasadena are terrible, Arcadia, all this other stuff.
I said, how about homelessness?
Their reaction was like this.
Oh, Pat, they're everywhere.
I said, what do you mean?
Real quick, everybody, if you're in California or if you're around the country, would you buy California stock right now?
Are you selling California stock?
Well, Pat tells his story, chime in.
So they're saying it's everywhere.
Homelessness is everywhere in California right now.
We'll see what's going to happen.
Again, long term, blue chip, yeah.
Silicon Valley, but don't forget, man, people move.
You got to realize people move.
If you don't make the climate good for a certain community, they move.
Look what's happening with Hollywood.
You know, did you ever think people were going to do auditions in Austin and Atlanta?
Did you think a Tyler Perry, who's now officially a black billionaire, that's what he's one of the, you know, he came out.
There was some statistic that came out about, by the way, I'm a die-hard Tyler Perry fan.
I think Tyler Perry is a solid guy, what he's doing.
But I don't think California is going to have that big of an argument if they keep going the way they're going right now.
I hope I'm wrong.
I hope I'm wrong.
And I hope, Tom, you are right, but we'll see what's going to happen.
Yeah, we got 50-50 to sell, sell, sell, buy, buy, sell.
California needs a correction.
Let's talk about the fires.
How about we talk about the fires?
Okay, buddy.
So here's what happened, by the way.
36 people have died in California because of fire.
Okay, 36 people.
The number right now in the state of California is 4.6 million acres in California is on fire right now.
Kai, if you can bring up the video, 4.6 million acres.
That's a lot of acres, by the way.
When you buy a house, it's an acre, you're sitting on a nice lot.
4.6 million acres.
And specifically, if you go to San Francisco's orange sky, okay, just type in on YouTube, San Francisco Orange Sky.
Go to YouTube Sky Fire.
Go to videos.
Yeah, that's what it looks like.
But go to videos because the videos kind of gives you, go to the one that's two minutes and 29 seconds.
Go back.
Go back one.
Go to the Sky News one.
Yeah, right there.
That one right there.
Watch out.
The skyline of San Francisco looking more like an image from Mars.
The orange glow from wildfires miles away.
Tom, you're seeing the city's landmarks.
Not that bad.
Blocking out the sun.
The middle of the day felt like dusk, and it is unnerving.
I was wondering what time it was, and then I looked outside, and it looked like doomsday.
I mean, you could tell something is horribly going wrong.
And as far as going to work and breathing in all this pollution, it is definitely not.
It feels like the end of the world.
It's pretty scary.
Look at this.
Look what she says.
She's a die-hard California.
I'm a lifelong Californian, and it makes me weak.
Can I tell you to rage across the western United States, driven on by strong dry winds?
Burning more of California this year than ever before.
Watch this.
It's about to get the next part of the unprecedented number of fires destroying some whole communities.
It is the speed with which these fires spread that's especially alarming.
The people who lived in this neighborhood had barely any time to escape.
Sheriff's coming through, going.
Level three, get out.
Wow.
Get out.
And yeah, grab some papers.
Grab some papers.
Stuff.
And this is it.
This is what I've got.
Heartfelt, man.
Some didn't make it out.
Deaths have been confirmed in a number of states, and officials say that number will go up.
Watch that.
We expect to see a great deal of loss as a result of these fires, both in terms of structures and in terms of human lives.
It, as I mentioned earlier, could be the greatest loss in human lives and property due to wildfire in our city.
Tom, can you stop the video?
Thank you.
So, you know, these fires that's going on with California, for somebody that is from California, Tom, what do you got to say about it?
Devastating.
It's so heartbreaking.
It's unbelievable.
Those are human lives.
Those fires move so fast.
There's nothing you can do.
What are you going to do?
Get a couple tankers in the air?
You can't stop them.
You know, I live in Southern California in Manhattan Beach.
You look at the weather forecast, no clouds, sunny.
It's dark.
I mean, it's not as bad as San Francisco, but it's everywhere.
I've got a lot of experience with wildfires.
The Woolsey fire in Malibu a few years ago.
My daughter went to Pepper, just graduated from Pepperdine.
She had to run for her life to get out of there.
That thing came over the canyon.
Unbelievable.
And I live in Manhattan Beach, which is about 27 miles away from Malibu.
I could see flames when you look towards Malibu.
That's how intense these fires are.
But this is unbelievable.
The thing that's really upsetting is a lot of people want to make this only a climate issue, right?
But a lot of these fires are man-made.
They're arsonists that are starting these fires.
One guy was arrested for starting seven of them in Oregon.
And these things are.
These arsonists are falling out there, too.
Yes, or like these maniacs are going out there and starting these fires.
So when you see that woman that was talking and crying, I mean, your life is, they come through those small towns so fast, and then they'll encompass the city where there's no exits.
There was one town where they had to airlift everybody out there last week.
So it's unbelievable.
We just see the headlines and we see the smoke and we see the skyline with the orange hue, but man, it's really, really bad.
I think the question is, is it climate change or is it fires?
Like, does this have to do with the climate or does this have to do with California's not being responsible and figuring out a way to solve this ostopylogy?
Why can't it be both?
Why can't it be both?
So, answer.
So, if you think it is climate change, that's not what I said.
I think it's both.
I think climate change, things are getting hotter.
I think that is a factor, but arsonists.
My question, I don't have a major point because being in Florida, the worst thing that happens is a freaking hurricane maybe in September.
California is insane with these fires.
It's crazy.
My question is this.
The entrepreneur spirit in California is crazy.
Silicon Valley, crazy.
Billionaires, tech companies, things are happening.
The cloud, the software.
Why can't they figure this out?
Why can't something be done here?
Right.
Forget about another social media app.
Forget about another freaking cloud computing app.
Figure out these fucking fires or you won't have a state anymore, California.
You know, the climate does have something to do with it.
When it doesn't rain, everything's a tinderbox.
So any state.
But you're on the ocean.
You're on the coast.
Central America.
Once you get it.
Plus, the land is so expansive.
And then you got the trees, which is the kindling too.
It's maybe worse in Oregon.
So it's the whole West Coast.
I don't know if you can put everything in the shop.
Correct.
It's not just California, Oregon, Washington State, I want to say.
Why don't you put a bonus together?
Why don't you put a incentive together for the first person that does this?
We're going to be giving XYZ on the state of California.
Why don't you put an incentive program?
So the one thing I do like, I like the fact that Trump flew out and had the meeting with Governor Newsom and everybody in California.
One, it shows leadership from Trump's standpoint.
Two, it shows that Newsom, I mean, what choice does he have to say no to meet with him?
But he was willing to meet with him.
But now I'd like to see that meeting take place with Musk.
I'd like to see that meeting take place with the guys from Google.
Caltech.
I'd like to see that take place with Peter Thiel.
I'd like to see that take place with Caltech.
I'd love to see that with Jack Dorsey.
I'd love to see a Twitter campaign coming out.
I'd like to see a massive incentive being creative for the future.
Microsoft in Seattle, everything on the west.
Somebody come up with an incentive.
What kind of an incentive could you do?
Everything is incentive driven.
How can you not give the incentive to solve this problem?
Who's going to fix this, Pat?
Is the government going to fix this or entrepreneurship?
But the entrepreneur must have an incentive.
There needs to be a massive incentive.
Financial incentive?
That's what entrepreneurs are driven by.
It's either recognition or incentive.
Either make them be in the history books for doing something.
Like, how do charities raise money?
Your name's going to be on this wall.
You know, your name's going to be on this wall.
Legacy.
Yeah.
Give them a legacy or give them money.
Give them one of those two things.
That's what entrepreneurs are doing.
You give them a percentage of what the state doesn't spend on trying to put these fires out.
Hell yeah.
Yeah.
And here's the scary thing.
Every year it gets worse.
You know, 2016, 2017, this is happening.
And then we had all those rains in 2016 and 2017 where you're thinking this is done.
Yeah.
Right.
We're not having to deal with this anymore.
And it gets worse every year.
You think these lands burn and they can't burn again, but that's how big California is.
There's always more land to char.
By the way, where is Pelosi based out of?
San Francisco.
What has she sent about the fire?
Oh, she's been on the front line.
She's like holding a hose.
Haven't you seen her?
She's driving a helicopter, airdrops.
She's all over this.
Yeah, she's all over this.
Her hair looks great, though.
Her hair does look great.
So very impressive for so there's homelessness problem going on in California.
Cops are going to be fine.
And now we got fired.
Now we got cops being shot.
President Trump has to go on an emergency meeting in California.
I mean, just what a wonderful job that state is doing.
Just a great job.
But they're going to win a championship.
They're going to win a championship.
No parade, though.
We can't even do that.
L.A. will win a championship this year.
You got the Dodgers, too, by the way.
L.A. will win.
You, as a Miami Heat fan, you're saying zero chance to get it.
I'm saying, I'm saying, no, I'm saying.
To all the Miami friends that he has, I want you to unfollow him.
If you're a true Miami Heat fan and you love Adam, I cannot believe you just took a shot at the heat.
I'm saying.
All your buddies you party with our friend around.
You're going to get a text right now, just so you know that.
All his buddies are stirring the club.
Okay, but you didn't.
I said LA will win a championship this year.
That's right.
It could be the Clippers.
Many it could be the Clippers if they can get by the nuggets.
But let's not get too sportsy.
We're going to lose half our audience right here.
By the way, we're at 1.9,000 viewers.
We'd love to hit 2,000.
I think we've only hit that once.
Oh, yeah.
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Some guy goes, I'm following Adam right now.
No, please don't.
Okay, so let's talk about something weird here and something uncomfortable here, but something that needs to be addressed because it's been all over TV.
Cuties with Netflix.
Okay, cuties with Netflix, new movie that came out.
If you've seen this movie, Kai, if you want to put up the poster with Netflix, the two that we have, the original poster is that one on the right.
This one.
And Netflix.
So this is the original.
That's the original one.
What does Netflix make it?
This?
Oh, so the original is this.
Netflix makes this.
So Netflix goes with the provocative one, but this is the one that the original one, movie that came out, did well in the Sundance.
It did very well.
And then it comes to Netflix.
And here's what happens.
The trailer has nearly 12 million views.
Okay, by the way, if he can change the picture, I don't want it to stay out for too long.
The trailer has 12 million views.
It has 47,000 likes, 2 million dislikes.
Let me say this one more time.
The trailer has 12 million views.
Go to the trailer on YouTube just to see the stats as the most latest updated stats.
Cuties.
So the trailer has, you were right.
Yeah, QTs.
Oh, there it is.
Okay, so what number is it?
Okay, 12.1 million views.
It's got 48,000 likes, 1.9 million dislikes.
By the way, even that song that that girl sang, remember a few years ago, that girl had that one song?
Hey, Friday, and they say it's the worst song in the history of songs.
And poor girl got so many dislikes, it was the most hated video of the year on YouTube.
Do you remember that song?
Of course.
Sam always.
No, Let's stay on this topic.
We'll come back to Friday.
I know Adam really wants to listen to it.
Okay.
I never heard.
Yeah, it's where's it at?
1.2 million to 3.8 million.
That's about most hated video of the year history.
The ratio is a lot better.
She was likable, though.
I'd like reporting.
Only this girl can make people hate Friday.
Friday, the most likeable video.
Go back to the video.
Go back to the video.
12 million views, 47,000 likes, 48,000 likes, 1.9 million dislikes.
And 598,700 signatures calling for people to cancel their Netflix subscription in light of QTY's being added to its library of account.
By the way, good friend, Majosé Gaetan.
Okay, he's one of our co-founders.
He sits on, he's one of the field advisory board members.
He canceled his Netflix.
Wow.
Netflix lost $9 billion.
In France, where the film was released in theater on August 19th, QTS did not steer much controversy.
The movie won a directing award for Sundance Institute in February.
They called to remove the film.
Calls to remove the film have been amplified by supporters of a conspiracy theory that top Democrats and celebrities are behind a global child trafficking ring.
It's currently trending number seven on Netflix.
And then my film is a mirror of today's society, a mirror sometimes difficult to look onto and accept, but still so true.
We can't blame our children for what we value in our society.
Thoughts on the movie, Tom Zener, as a parent?
Yep, okay, as a parent with an 11-year-old boy, but not girl.
These kids are 11.
I have a 14-year-old daughter.
I think any movie that sexually exploits children in any way is bad, is evil.
I will say this: I wasn't offended by this as much as I thought I would be.
We talked about it a lot.
You hear a lot of puzzles.
Did you watch the movie?
I didn't watch the movie yet, but I did the trailer.
I watched a little bit of the movie.
I watched the interview with the director.
I thought I would be appalled.
I'm upset, but I'm not appalled.
I think 11.
The thing that really bothers me is I don't see that.
I mean, I live in LA.
I don't see 11-year-old girls.
My son is 11 years old.
I'm around these kids.
I don't see them at that age doing that.
I think the director had a unique upbringing in Senegal or wherever she was born and raised.
A very, very, you know, Muslim background.
Her mother did not look like she was, you know, supporting her in any way.
So this is highly personal, telling her story.
I think a lot of those, a lot, this is organized, I think, against Netflix right now.
Now, I'm a prude, you know, and I'm Christian.
I would be the one person that would be really sickened by this, and I'm not happy about it.
I'm not as offended as I was, I thought I would be, but I just think the age of 11 to even like paint that picture that these kids are sexual at that age is disgusting.
Well, let me ask you this question.
You just brought up a good point.
Kai, can you pull up to see what is it?
Is it a PG-13 movie?
Is it a movie that Tico could watch?
You know, because we have filters on Netflix where my kids can go watch movies that they want.
Is it allowed on them to watch it?
Or is it at least a, what do they have it as?
QD?
Rotten Tomatoes, 90%.
What does that mean, Peter?
I wouldn't be surprised that Rotten Tomatoes gives it 90%.
5% like this movie.
1.3 percent rating uh just see what it's uh is it a tv TVMA.
Or mature audience.
It is a mature audience.
Okay, go up.
What does a mature audience mean, by the way?
Like what age?
I mean, 13.
Just type in TVMA what it means.
I'm assuming 16 plus.
TVMA, what does it mean?
I think there's a space.
What does it have a free dictionary?
The TV program is intended to be viewed.
Okay.
Okay, fine.
So they have it for mature under 17.
So it's a movie for adults.
They want parents to see it, not necessarily kids to see it.
That's actually very good to know that that's out there.
Adam, what are your thoughts about it?
Yeah, obviously I don't have kids, but all my friends do.
I have a different opinion.
Obviously, it's disgusting.
I mean, sexualizing 11-year-olds is not anything that anyone would support.
It's not mainstream.
But I did a little research on this.
It served its purpose.
What do I mean by that?
This is a shock jock like Alex Jones saying, I believe something crazy and I'm just going to run with it and I'm going to serve her.
She did this for a reason.
I'm just going to read a few things.
This movie is supposed to make people feel uncomfortable.
It shines the light on this issue.
She says you have to watch the movie to judge it.
So my film is a mirror of today's society, a mirror sometimes difficult to look into and accept, but still true.
We can't blame our children for what we value in our society.
So what's my point?
She made this to make people feel uncomfortable.
She made this for us to speak about.
She made this to stir controversy.
Because if it didn't, now there's the problem.
If people did not speak up about this, if people were not appalled by this, if people were like, yeah, yeah, it was a good movie, and didn't say shit, then we'd have a problem.
The fact that so many people have a problem with it is a good sign.
I mean, that's a good way of spinning it, okay, to say that.
I get what this isn't me saying.
I'm not saying you.
I'm saying that's a good way of spinning it to say I made it so people would get pissed off about it.
Fine.
Okay, I understand.
Like Ann Coulter writes certain books with certain copies.
And Bill Maher asks Ann Coulter, do you just write stuff to piss people off?
Is that your business model?
She was asked the same question on The View.
She was one of the first people that said, Bill Maher asked her, who's the person that can win the presidency?
She says, today, Donald Trump.
Everybody started laughing.
She was the first major pundit type of name that went out there and said that.
So I think it's a good spin on what she's saying.
If that's her business model, fine.
That is a business model you can do today.
My concern is a little bit different of a concern.
Here's what my concern is.
So remember earlier we talked about in one of the episodes, Adam, you would remember this, where in politics, Tom brought this up.
Tom Ellsworth brought it up to me.
He said 44% of Democrats are going to vote Democrat.
You can't do nothing about it.
They just go down the ballot.
Done.
42% of Republicans are going to vote down the ballot.
You can't do nothing about it.
4% of Libertarians, Independents, Green, they're going to go down the ballot.
They can't do nothing about it.
That's 90%.
You got 10%.
You got 10% left.
That is the one that's going to determine.
And if it's 60-40, it's going to be a tie.
It's what he was saying, right?
Okay.
So there's a group of people that watch this video and watch this movie and they say, they're freaking disgusting.
This is terrible.
There's some people that are going to watch the movie and they're going to say, wow, very educational.
I liked it.
Good perspective.
I took a lot of people.
Like people in France, apparently.
There's going to be a group of people that watch it and they're going to say, there's going to be a group of people that are not going to watch it at all.
So there's no way in the world I would spend my time watching a movie like this, right?
Like me.
I don't watch the movie.
By the way, Kai watched it last night for 20 years?
Yeah.
Kai watched it on 1.5 to get a perspective on it.
But here's the problem.
There's 10% of people that are going to watch it that could potentially influence them to be thinking about something.
And let me explain to you what I mean by 10% of people that can be influenced something.
So you watch the show Cops.
If you watch the show Cops, how do you watch the show Cops?
You watch it in the show.
You try to figure out what you can do to skirt the country.
No, not you.
When you watch the show Cops, what do you say?
You watch the show.
I watch it for entertainment.
Entertainment.
Yeah.
But if I'm a criminal, you know how I watch a show cops?
I'm like, okay, got it.
Like game things in the NFL.
Yeah, like guys who went to prison, friends of mine who've gone to prison, I have a lot of friends that have gone to prison.
I've come out.
Obviously, I've interviewed a lot of people that have spent a lot of time in prison.
You know what they tell you?
Prison was a training camp to learn how to commit other types of crimes.
You go to jail, you only sold weed or you sold a couple things, but I went in, I learned how to do this master and this.
As much as she may have good intentions, there's certain, like, okay, think about it this way.
Is there a visual in your life as a kid growing up that you wish you never had?
Yeah.
You don't need to say it, but is there a visual you had as a kid that you wish you never had?
Do you have one?
I'm not asking what it is.
Do you have one, though?
Yes.
It could be a father slapping your mom in the face.
You wish you never had that.
Okay.
It could be a sibling getting smashed on the floor and somebody hit them with the knee.
It could be something sexual.
It could be something you saw that you wish you never saw.
We're never going to talk about it as adults.
We keep it in our minds.
That visual messed with you the rest of your life.
And you're 41 years old.
You wish you never had that.
I'm not 41.
You're 40 years old.
You're 39, about to be 40, right?
39, about to be 40.
Sure.
There are certain visuals we're better off not having.
This is one of them.
The world is a better place whether you watch this or not.
We don't need to have certain visuals be in people's minds.
That's the only thing I'm saying about making movies like this.
Well, then who is the villain?
Is it Netflix or is it the director?
And I'll tell you that.
I think if I had to choose, that's art.
That's what artists do.
So I'm not going to blame the director.
Okay, someone had to pay.
You're blaming the distributor.
Well, I mean, if there's blame to go out, and I think the rage right now is kind of focused on Netflix.
And I think if you look at the poster, I mean, they sexed those kids up to a ridiculous degree that, again, I have kids that age.
I don't see that.
If that was a 14-year-old, it would make more sense, but not at the age of 11.
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You know, it's hurt Netflix, hasn't it?
I mean, $9 billion, you know, they lost $9 billion, but does that bother them?
I don't think so.
Because they're worth how many hundreds?
$150.
I don't think that there's anything to Netflix.
If you ask me, Hastings is sitting up there and just going to say, well, this thing's going to pass us by.
We're going to be all right.
Here's my next follow-up question for you guys.
I asked you if you were going to buy California stock.
What are you doing with Netflix stock?
Buying is not going away.
Netflix is not going away.
You know what?
If I had to buy between Hulu and Netflix, I picked Hulu.
I like Hulu better.
I could live without Netflix easily, I think.
I could easily get it.
Could you live without Hulu?
No, because it has live TV.
That's how we get live TV.
Great market according to Go to Hulu.
Interesting.
And I think they do better commercials, if you ask me.
They do worse athletes, the best.
Damien Lillard and all these commercials.
It was phenomenal.
And with that fake agent, these classes.
Yeah, I love the marketing that they have over there.
So we'll see.
We'll see what's going to happen there.
Let's see what we want to hit up next.
You know what?
Let's hit up Navid Afghari.
Okay, why don't we hit this up?
Because I think, I don't know if you guys are following the story or not, but I want to hit this up.
And Kai, I don't know if you have the video or not.
If you don't, it's all good.
It's totally fine.
If you can just pull up the picture so we can talk about what happened here.
So and if you can go to my Twitter profile as well, just to show what happens.
So for those of you that don't know, for those of you that don't know, Navid Afghari is a wrestler in Iran, a national champion.
If you can pull up his picture so we know what he looks like.
He's a national champion in Iran wrestler.
Two years ago, he decides to protest against what was going on in Iran with 200 other people and his two brothers.
Okay.
So he goes out there and he protests.
And, you know, the economy in Iran is not doing very well.
It's challenging times.
Of course, there's the sanctions that the U.S. has put.
So these guys are having a hard time.
And he goes up against the prime minister, says, we need to do something in Iran because this is not going the right direction.
Long story short, he ends up getting arrested because he is a national champion.
He's a figurehead.
People know who he is.
He gets arrested.
They take him in.
They go and they put oil in his, not oil, alcohol in his nose for him to admit that he killed somebody.
So eventually to stop from being tortured, he says, what?
Fine, I did it.
Okay.
They announced just two weeks ago they're going to execute this guy, Iran announced, that they're going to execute him and kill him, right?
There's three brothers.
They decide to execute him, but the world's like, maybe they're not going to do it.
He's going to get 74 whiplashes and then get executed.
His other brother is going to get 74 whiplashes and go to jail for 52 years or 54 years.
His other brother is going to get 74 lashes on his back and go to jail for 27 years.
Okay.
This is what the charges were against these three brothers for simply protesting, right?
I go out there on Twitter.
If you can post my Twitter tweet that I put up, and here's what I said on Twitter.
I made a video about it.
Go up, A little bit higher, you're almost there.
You're almost there right there.
So I go up and I said, pause it, pause it.
And I said, those who live in a country with human rights rarely think about it.
And those who don't can't stop thinking about it.
Iran hasn't valued human rights for over 40 years.
If you agree with this, please retweet and tag Olympics.
Let's save the life of Navid Afghari.
My message here was directed to the Olympics.
The reason why it was directed to the Olympics was because Olympics can do something about this to say, if you do and move forward with this execution, guess what?
We are going to cancel Iran competing in the Olympics.
So I announced this.
Then if you go up there to a CNN article to see what the Olympics said, just type in Nafid Afghari, Navid Afghari in a search.
Go to search and type in Navid Afghari and type right there, CNN.
It just came up, CNN, first one.
Go on the second article.
Go on the second article.
And let's read this together.
Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afghari executed despite international campaigns.
So he was executed a couple days ago.
If you can make it a little bit smaller, Kai, so I can read it to the audience right there.
So the International Olympic Committee said it was shocked by the announcement.
In letters, Thomas Bach, the IOC president, had made direct personal appeals to the supreme leader and to the president of Iran this week and asked for mercy for Navid Afghari while respecting the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Statement said, it is deeply upsetting that the pleas of athletes from around the world and all the behind-the-scenes work of the IOC together with the NOC of Iran, United World Wrestling, and National Iran Wrestling Federation did not achieve our goal.
Fine.
So you went and you plead.
So I said tag Olympics.
We tagged Olympics on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, maybe 10,000 times.
I said, okay.
So they make this statement.
They reached out to Iran.
Iran doesn't listen to what the Olympics say.
Say, screw you.
We're going to execute him even though you like this or not.
Mother comes out.
If you watch your mother's speech, you will be heartbroken if you listen to what the mother says.
Now, here's a couple stats for people that are watching this.
Iran is the number two country in the world for executions.
Last year was 253 people were executed.
This is not the death penalty, by the way.
This is execution.
There's a big difference between execution and death penalty.
Execution is what do you call a German type of execution.
You know, and death penalty is a different kind of death penalty.
You go up there, you do.
Obviously, there's a form of execution, but you go through execution.
Out of the 253 people that were executed, 13 of them were live in person.
Let me say this one more time.
In Iran, 253 people were executed.
13 of them were live.
People came and saw a person being executed.
In the streets?
In the street.
It's a statement.
If you do this, this is what's going to happen to you.
They're the number two country in the world in execution.
Number one.
China?
You know who's the number one country in the world?
Saudi Arabia.
China's number one.
China's number one.
Iran's number two.
So then I said, okay, let me pull up the list of what countries have been banned from the Olympics.
Kai, can you pull up the history of countries that have been banned from the Olympics?
This is the list that we have.
Olympic countries banned from the Olympics.
The banning of the Russian athletes team, Rio Olympics, not the first time a team or country has been banned from participating at the Olympics.
Here's a timeline of countries that have been banned.
1920, Antwerp.
Five countries were banned due to the environment, the First World War, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary, and Germany.
Fine.
Paris, in 1924, the ban of Germany following World War II.
Makes sense through the Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary were allowed to compete.
1948, London, Germany, and Japan were barred for their participation in the Second World War.
Fine.
So Germany and Japan were barred.
1964, Tokyo.
South Africa was banned by the IOC for taking part due to its oppressive, how do you pronounce that word?
Apartheid regime, which say that.
Apartheid.
Apartheid, which is apartheid as what?
Like, you know, it's segregation.
It's another segregation, exactly.
Blacks and whites, the whole segregation.
Exactly.
So they were.
And by the way, that happened year after year after year after year.
So 64, 68, 72.
This goes on with South Africa.
You can keep going lower and lower.
So South Africa has been banned.
By the way, 1968, North Korea competed again in second GNFO in 1966, which meant they were suspended by the IOC, causing the nation to miss 1968 Olympics as well.
So 1968, Mexico, North Korea couldn't compete.
1978, 1972, Munich, South Africa, as well as Zimbabwe was banned from participating as other African countries threatened pull out if Rodeza took part.
Okay, 1976, Montreal, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa.
2000, Sydney, Afghanistan was banned from the Olympics due to its discrimination against women under Taliban rule, as well as its prohibition of sports of any kind.
And then you have obviously 2016, many Russian competitors were banned following revelations of state sponsored doping.
All athletes were not.
Okay, da-da-da-da.
Okay, you see all this stuff, right?
Okay.
So let's come to today.
Okay, Olympics.
You pleaded for an athlete to not be executed, and Iran didn't listen.
Now what are you going to do?
Are you now going to say, fine, you are banned from the next Olympics?
So now when you say that, some people say, well, that's not fair because you are making people's dreams not become a reality in Iran that are trained so hard to go become an Olympic winner.
Here's one thing you have to realize.
I have an agent that works for us.
His name is Morteza Al-Borzi, okay?
Phenomenal guy.
I met this guy when I was 23 years old.
He's a sweetheart of a guy.
He's doing very well for himself in our company right now.
Morteza Al-Borzi out of L.A. is a 8- or a 9-degree black belt.
Can you type in Morteza Al-Borzi black belt?
Morteza Al-Borzi black belt.
Morteza.
Spell it for us, Tukai.
Z-A.
You got it.
Actually, perfect so far.
He spells better Farsi than English, by the way.
So Al-Borzi, A-L-B-O-R, right there, it came up, right?
Morteza Al-Borzi, black belt.
Yeah, okay, perfect.
Press that and then go to images, okay?
This guy's been all over the place when it comes down to martial arts, okay?
Right here.
Right there.
No, you had it right.
Just go on that magazine that says masters.
Go on the magazine that says masters.
If you go back, that's him.
Al-Borzi, okay?
Eight-degree, nine-degree black belt.
He was in jail in Iran.
He's been one of the top Olympic trainers and judges, not judges, but somebody that trained the Iranian team for the longest time, right?
He escaped.
He came to America.
He trained here.
He trained a lot of students here.
Tens of thousands of students in Beverly Hills have taken his classes.
This kid, this man, has built so many young boys that became leaders.
Moral of the story is this.
If the Olympics are so serious about this movement, why don't you ban Iran and China of the next Olympics that we have?
Why don't we go to the United States?
Okay, well, I'll ask you this question because you're from there.
Wouldn't the regime in Iran right now look at a ban from the IOC similar to a public execution?
Like, they don't give a damn about promoting sports in Iran.
They just want to suppress their people, stay in power.
So that would almost strengthen them a little bit to say, we're still going to do what we do and execute people if we perceive that you commit these crimes.
They might embrace that because they don't really care.
Oh, I don't think that's how this works, though.
Let me tell you how this works.
Tom, how much longer are you going to tolerate California mistreating you?
At what level?
A couple months?
No, but at what levels is a breaking point for you?
I mean, by the way, this has got nothing to do with our relationship.
Whatever's asking you.
Right, whatever the answer is, it's out there.
All right, it exists.
Okay.
But could California push you to a breaking point of you saying you're leaving?
Yes.
I guess anything's possible.
Did that happen to me?
Could they push me out?
He left Colombia.
His family left Mexico.
Right?
I mean, how come we have 40 million immigrants in the U.S.?
How come people are leaving other countries?
I think Iran thinks their people won't do anything about it.
And they have to understand this whole sanction that Trump put on Iran.
Why did he put the sanctions on Iran?
Strengthen Saudi Arabia.
Okay.
Why else did he put the sanctions of Iran?
Because it's evil, maybe?
As a method of saying, hey, and then he supported the revolution of the people wanting to protest against Iran, right?
For what?
For maybe a fall of an empire in Iran that is not believing in human rights, not taking care of its people.
They're claiming what they're doing.
The people are afraid.
They're oppressed.
I mean, you're trying to get people to have some kind of a freedom.
This would be a certain statement that's being made to say, look, we don't support execution.
We don't support what you're doing because you're doing that.
Look, forget about the Olympics.
But I agree with you.
I think that's what they should do.
But would it have any effect on the leadership in Iran?
I don't think so.
Couldn't there be a coup?
Isn't there this a country where that could actually happen?
I couldn't see it happening really in North Korea and some of these other places, but don't they have the ability there to covert?
I mean, with the support of the U.S., with the support of Saudi Arabia, to flip this eventually?
Or is it too difficult?
To flip what?
The leadership in Iran, to get rid of these.
Of course you could do it.
I mean, of course you could do it.
It's not.
How is that done?
How is it done?
It's painful, and it's going to cost a lot of people's lives.
And it's going to be a lot of young lives.
This is why it's not the younger generation that doesn't want a revolution.
It's the older generation that's telling their kids, be careful.
Don't go out there.
Which I fully support.
Every parent would tell their kids that.
But the opposition, you know, when you look at, when you talk to a lot of, when you meet a lot of Persians, you'll hear a lot of people say things like this in L.A. They'll say, you know, I don't know why it is, man.
When I meet Persians, man, Persians are such good business people.
They're always making money.
It's not that they're making such good money.
It's the fact that the business people of Iran left Iran to come over here.
It's not that they are the business people of Iran left Iran.
It's not that all Persian people are business people.
Do you understand what I mean?
They said fraternity to make money.
It's that they left Iran to come over here.
The business people that left Iran took it.
The capitalists left.
Yeah, look, I got kids, man.
I'd love to one day take my kids to Iran.
And quite frankly, two years ago, I was going to go on a trip to Iran with a few friends and not publicize it just to go to Iran because I miss my country I was born in.
I wanted to go to the streets.
I was raised, all this other stuff.
But for me to go to Iran today would not be the smartest move to make, to go to Iran today.
There's a chance you would go to the business.
They'd be waiting for you.
They would be waiting for somebody like that.
I would love to set an example with a guy like you.
They would love nothing more than that.
But I would love one day to go there with a group of friends and say, hey, here's what it looks like, man.
Because it's a beautiful country, man.
The history of it is so beautiful to go to it.
But, you know, heartbroken when I saw that Navid Afghari was executed.
It's unbelievable.
How about his brothers?
What percentage of Iranians would love to see a coup?
A big part.
50%?
No, it's a big of that.
It's a big part of that.
Bigger than 50%.
That's a good question.
But here's the thing.
The only reason why that number could change is one question.
At what cost?
100%, 95% would love to see a coup.
But at what cost?
Then the cost is only 20% or 10% or 5% would like to see a coup with the cost.
I don't know if this makes sense or not.
You understand what I'm saying?
Like, what percentage of the world would like to be a millionaire?
Well, everybody.
Of course.
But what percentage is willing to work 80 hours a week for 10 years?
Well, not a big percentage.
So it's at what cost am I willing to go to?
Do we have any case examples of coups initiated by the people?
Obviously, we can't look at Iraq.
U.S. came in there and invaded them, right?
Or we can't look at Libya, you know, type of thing.
What coups have been successful over the last 50 years?
Well, I mean, a revolution flipped Iran 40 something years ago.
That was 40 years ago.
So since then.
The perfect example.
They have the playbook for it in Iran.
Kai, were you trying to say something?
Yeah.
We can't hear you.
Here's the mic.
A lot of the Eastern European bloc had revolutions when they broke.
When they broke up from Russia, you're saying.
Yeah.
Or the U.S.State.
Hey, Pat, were you surprised?
The Trump Spring is another one popping out in 2010.
That's a good point.
Just recent, 10 years ago.
Oh, yeah.
Look at Libya.
I mean, look at these countries.
Gaddafi.
Were you surprised they actually went through with the execution?
To me, personally, I was a little bit surprised.
Well, here's, did you see what Trump tweeted yesterday about Iran?
Type in Trump tweets and go to see what he said about Iran yesterday.
Middle of the night, by the way.
I don't know if you saw that or not.
Did you guys see that or no?
Have you seen what Trump tweeted?
Uh-uh.
Okay, so this is two days after the execution.
Go up a little bit to make sure it's not that.
Okay, you're good.
It's not that one.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
This is what Trump just said about Iran.
Okay, right there, right there, right there, right there.
Click on that one right there.
Okay, click on it so we can read the whole thing just yet.
According to press reports, Iran may be planning an assassination or other attack against the United States in retaliation for the killing of terrorist leader Soleimani, which was carried out for his planning a future attack, murdering U.S. troops and the death and suffering caused over so many years.
Any attack by Iran in any form against the United States will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude, right?
Okay.
That happens two days after the execution of Navid Afghari.
Okay.
So you asked the question, were you surprised?
Because you were surprised.
I'm not surprised.
Adam asked the question yesterday, which was a very good question.
You said something about, you know, don't you think Iran is trying to make a statement to say, hey, man, you keep bullying us and publicize us.
We're going to show you in a different way than that.
Trump tweeted, please do not execute this man.
Okay, thanks, Trump.
So you're saying Trump tweeted, please do not execute, and they did.
I'm just saying they're not going to listen to Trump.
Guys, I'm seven years old, looking outside my window, fourth grade, in fourth floor in Iran, on Chiyabone Hojet, and I'm seeing thousands of people marching down the street, flagellating their backs.
You know what flagellating is?
Yeah, self-whipping themselves.
But it's peeling the skin off your back, so it's leaving a trail of blood.
And they're screaming Mari Bad Ambrika, death upon America.
The messaging of what the media says to the Iranian people about America.
If you live in Iran, America is the worst, most evil empire in the world if you live in Iran.
It's their method of preventing their citizens to leave to come to Iran, come to the U.S. All propaganda, all propaganda, all propaganda.
North Korea, North Korea, Iran.
If you had a Michael Jackson shirt on in the 80s, you were the coolest cat on campus.
I'm telling you in Iran, if you had a Michael Jackson shirt on, that was like, if you wore a Calvin Klein or a Tommy Hilfiger shirt, you're the coolest guy on campus if you got a Tommy Hilfiger shirt.
So, yes, I think the majority of Iran would like to see it.
I just don't know if it's going to happen.
I'll say this: you know, they didn't listen to Trump's plea.
He begged.
I mean, hey, please, I mean, he was very respectful in that tweet where he asked them not to execute the wrestler.
I don't think they're going to look at that as bluster.
I think they believe.
I mean, after four years, he pretty much backs up what he says.
So, right?
I mean, a lot of times people think of what Trump's doing.
He's a maniac with tweets or whatnot.
But if they did something, don't you believe that a thousand times might be accurate as far as what the retaliation would be?
I mean, don't you think the Iranian leadership might hate Trump, but don't they think they respect him a little bit?
That that might be true, and they better, do you think he's kept him under his thumb a little bit out of fear?
Yeah, so my guesstimation is the following: when they retaliated after Soleimani was killed, do you remember what Iran did?
Do you remember what they attacked?
They attacked a military base that was empty.
Right.
Okay, if you remember that, they attacked an empty military base to say, Look what we did if you come after Soleimani, right?
And then they said, We're not going to attack.
But the guy in Iranian, the military, I think it's a foreign minister.
I don't know which one it is.
By the way, can you type in Iran foreign minister?
Guy's a genius.
If you've never seen this guy's interview, you got this is this is a strategist.
This is not a lightweight guy.
If you're talking to me, let me see if it's if it's a go to images to see, go to images.
Javed Sarif.
Go to images.
Yes.
This guy's legit.
Yeah, this guy is a, he is, if you've ever seen any of his interviews, he's not a lightweight.
Okay, he's not a lightweight.
Can I tell you something about this guy?
Who's my favorite guy on CNN that I was like, I love this guy.
I love this guy.
CNN, you're Farid Zakari.
Yes.
He does a show every Sunday.
Brainiac.
Brainiac.
This guy comes on the show quite often.
An Iranian foreign minister comes on the show quite often.
If you did not know all the issues that the United States has with Iran, he is very convincing.
He is very convincing.
Very convincing.
He did an interview on CNN.
He's very convincing.
And he is very strategic.
So my guess is the following: if they do attack, do you think Trump is dead serious about the counterattack to Iran?
Yeah, I do.
Do you think he's dead serious about how ugly it's going to be for Iran?
Yes or no?
Frankly, yes, I do.
Do you say yes or no?
He is known for his bluster.
However, with Iran, I think he's paying very close attention to them.
If Iran attacks a military base and one soldier dies, do you think Trump will retaliate?
I agree.
Do you think the exchange will be one soldier for one soldier?
Or do you think it's going to be a thousand soldiers?
He will make a point.
Perfect.
I think they won't do anything until there's a different president that's a little softer and easier going to be able to make an attack like that.
That's what I think.
Iran.
Yeah, because look, what did Iran do the day Jimmy Carter was no longer president?
What did they do?
The day Reagan became a president, what did they do?
What did they do?
They left off, I'm sure.
They released the prisoners.
You don't remember the release of the prisoners and Reagan gave the speech, giving credit to Carter and same thing.
But what Iran realizes, Carter's not going to attack us.
How about Ben Affleck did that?
Yeah, Ben Affleck did that.
Argo.
Carter won't attack us, but Reagan will.
So, you know, there is a part of Trump and Reagan that they have some similarities.
Where is Iran on the nuclear proliferation at this point?
With everything that happened with the Iran nuclear deal and Obama giving him a boatload of cash and then Trump pulling out, and then they said that they're going to start the nuclear proliferation again.
Where are they with them?
They got this one country, I don't know if you've heard of, called China, that's giving them $400 billion.
And China just doubled their nuclear powers that they had in China.
They doubled it.
Not a little bit.
They doubled it.
They're spending money into it.
And if they're befriending North Korea and they're befriending Iran, it tells you who China's allies are.
And it also, you know, the new access of you.
Well, and then the dynamic of the U.S. supporting Saudi Arabia like we are.
You know, troops, financial support right there to keep Iran in line.
So far, so good.
Yeah, I don't know.
Again, I'd love to see nothing more than to see Iran be free again.
And maybe I'll be doing some interviews on that topic here pretty soon.
But let's talk about, let's talk about Singapore, a new flight that came out.
That's Adam's type of flight.
That's my thought.
Singapore Airlines came out with a no-destination flight, meaning a no-destination flight to nowhere.
Can you pull that up, guys, so everybody can see this thing?
So these flights will take off and land at the same destination and will stay in air for around two hours.
Singapore Airlines plan comes after a survey by Singapore Air Charter showed 75% of 308 participants were willing to buy tickets on these types of flights according to the Straits Times report.
So by the way, this is not a joke.
This is not an onion story.
This is not a bumble.
What is that other word?
Yeah, this is a real story.
You know why they're doing it.
Why are they doing it?
They got to keep their status, right?
They're like 4,000 miles short of keeping that gold status for the next guess what else.
No, I don't think there's any reason to do that.
Adam, tell us your thoughts.
Adam's excited about this.
So you get on the plane, you do the whole, all right, everyone, instructions.
You put on the seatbelt, the face mask, if it comes down, you take off, you deal with the turbulence, you fly around in the sky for a little bit, you land in three hours.
Yeah.
There's one reason you go on this flight.
Why is that?
You know, you join the Mile High Club.
Is that what it is?
If I'm with my girl and I'm like, hey, baby, want to go on a little day trip?
I don't know.
We're on COVID.
We got lockdown.
What else we got going on?
Mile high club.
Do you disagree?
Well, what if my girlfriend said, I'm already in the club?
I've been on the club too, but we got to do this together.
So those bathrooms, unfortunately, are very small.
But that's what are you going to do?
Sit there?
Who's going on this flight and being like, yeah, I'll pay for the middle seat and I'll just sit here.
I'll tell you what, I bet you're going to be a good person.
That's a good service.
Singapore Airlines, good service.
I'm telling you, something's going on in the middle of the day.
So you're saying it's like a mile-high orgy going on.
That's what you're saying.
I don't know about all that, but I'm saying.
You're taking it to hold.
This is how bored people are these days, is they're going to get on a flight from my side.
I mean, have you guys used Singapore Airlines?
No, have you?
The treatment is another.
Really?
Yes.
Airlines used to know like loyalty how they treat.
By the way, this is Sam from Colombia who used to travel live with Pablo Escobar's cousin.
And he's been all over Singapore.
He used to go to Singapore a lot.
He used to go to Singapore a lot.
There it is.
Sheik J says spot on soy boy.
Yeah, what's up, Sheikh Jay with a beautiful picture of himself?
No, that's Trump.
He looks like Trump.
You got a lot of things going on.
So that's Singapore.
So I want to know how many people in the audience, by the way, we're at 2,100 now.
Much respect to our valutainers on the PBD show.
How many people out there are going to get on a flight, pay your couple hundred bucks, fly around in the air for three hours, and just return back to where you started?
How many people out there are getting on this flight?
Please charge me.
Give a little feedback.
What are they charging for this flight?
What's the wrong going rate?
$100, $200, $300?
Okay, so I don't know what that is.
By the way, Pat, I have a new demographic for you to promote your book to.
Tell me.
Flight attendants.
They have nothing to do on planes right now in the U.S.
We should make an ad for it.
Just flight attendants.
All I do when I'm flying back and forth from California is, you know, you see the flight.
They don't do anything.
They're in the back of the plane reading books.
That's all they do.
Are the flights still full when you come in here or no?
Kind of.
You know, the weird thing is there's no business travelers.
And if you've flown, you know, everybody knows this.
You're just used to business travelers, right?
Being 80% of a flight, and it's 0% of the flight right now.
So it's a different dynamic.
The whole flying experience is a little bit different right now.
But I have noticed that the flight attendants don't have to do squat.
They do nothing.
There's no service.
So they don't have to do anything.
But they're reading books.
They're always in the back reading a book.
Well, I think flight attendants probably read more romance novels than most like your next five moves.
That's what I think.
It's more 50 Shades a great type of a market than your next five moves.
If you work for an airline, what do you want to be thinking of your next five moves?
I think it's a good point.
I mean, there's no question about it.
I fully agree with you on that.
I'm getting a lot of nope, nope, nope.
No one's flying.
All right, so single.
No one's going on this.
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So again, no one on this channel has more nickname Soyboy followers, fans than you with your nickname Soyboy.
But let's talk about Warren Buffett.
How about Warren Buffett?
Okay.
Buffett campaigned for Obama and Clinton, but he hasn't donated or spoken out for Biden and no one knows why.
Buffett is now a longtime Democrat.
The CEO hosted a high-dollar fundraiser for President Obama's reelection campaign in 2011, served as his unofficial economic advisor ahead of the 2016 election.
Buffett spoke at a campaign rally for her secretary, Hillary Clinton.
The Wall Street Journal floated the theory that Buffett's silence could be due to his dislike of the virtual event format favored by Biden campaign.
Buffett's personal fortune has declined $7.3 billion in the past year.
Business Insider previously reported more in dollar terms than anyone else on the Forbes 100 of the richest Americans.
So why is Buffett not campaigning for Buffalo?
That's obvious.
Why is that?
The guy is going broke, man.
It's tough.
He can't even afford.
Yeah, struggling financially.
He's struggling financially.
He can't afford to even make an $18 donation.
He's tough.
He lost $7 billion this year.
I think maybe it's so stressful that he needs to go on a flight on Singapore area.
Hey, I got another theory.
He's 90-year-old, 90 years old.
Maybe he doesn't know there's an election.
No.
I'm kidding.
Buffett's telling you.
Buffett's on the age-bashing with this second time around.
No, no, I'm only doing it with on point.
He is on point.
I know he is.
I'm messing.
He's right behind Pat on the wall.
Any reason or no?
Any reason or no?
Buffett's on the wall where.
That's Milton Friedman.
Most people believe it's Buffett.
Buffett's got a way better head.
It's Milton Friedman.
Capitalism.
Capitalism.
So, but do you, do you read into it at all?
That's Morgan Freeman?
Who is that?
That's Morgan Friedman.
No, that's MLK.
Oh, okay.
All right.
Do you read into it at all?
At all?
Like, Buffett is not campaigning.
I think we're reaching here.
I think we are reaching.
Here's the point.
He can't decide.
I mean, usually.
I think we are completely reaching right here.
I think this is a reaching.
But I will tell you one thing.
You remember when Buffett went out there and campaigned, a lot of people during Obama were like, wow, if Buffett is saying this, maybe we got to just go for the reelection.
It was very powerful when Buffett came out because everybody sits there and looks at the Michael Jordan investment during our era to be who?
Buffett.
So if the richest guy who's an investor, not the richest guy in the world, but richest investor out there is supporting a Democratic candidate, why can't I?
So this whole thing, so I think it's a very strict, I actually think, I actually think a Buffett endorsement is worth more than Ellen DeGeneres, than LeBron James, than any of the celebrities all combined.
I think Buffett is worth more of an endorsement than all the Hollywood left celebrities combined.
Credibility.
I think so.
I think he's conflicted, realistically.
I really do, because who's his best friend?
Bill Gates, or one of his really good friends.
Bill Gates isn't going to waffle.
He's going to be supporting a Democrat.
Maybe Buffett looks at the evidence.
He looks at the tax plans and he knows the better choice is to go with Trump, but he supported the Democrat candidate for so many years.
He's friends with Bill Gates and some of the others that he can't come out and say anything.
That's a possibility.
I don't listen.
The guy has called for higher taxes on himself.
I don't think he necessarily cares.
I think we're reading into this situation.
I think, and I'll go back to what I've said before.
You know why Biden may win this election?
You said 15% chance.
I'm giving it a 50% chance, maybe 49% at this point.
It's not because people are excited about Biden.
Straight up.
Nobody I know is like, Biden, bro.
He's the man.
You got to see how he sniffs women and how he falls asleep in public.
You got to check this.
No.
This is a, this is a, either you're for Trump or you're against Trump.
And the reality is this: 42% of the country is for Trump.
46% of the country is against Trump.
4% are voting for Joe Jorgensen.
And 10% are still confused and then they're not sure what they're doing.
That's all this is.
Like Charles Fuchs said, I'm moving to Iran if Biden wins.
Good luck.
See, let's talk about that.
Let's talk about that.
Obviously, let's hope that that guy's joking.
But if he's not, good luck in Iran, buddy.
You really like defending as if he's being serious.
You think that guy's going to do it?
Everything is so polarized.
No, but listen, man, half of Hollywood said if Trump gets elected, they're moving to Canada.
They're still in Hollywood.
I mean, it's like the biggest thing.
I swear to God, if they do this, but there are a few that say, I swear to God, if they do this, I'm moving out of the state of California or New York.
$336 billion of wealth left New York, and they never thought it was going to happen.
Okay, that's a lot of money to have left.
So, you know, again, 39.6% capital gains.
Kramer was doing a story yesterday.
I don't know if you saw Kramer yesterday.
Seinfeld Kramer?
No, no, no, no.
Jim Kramer.
Jim Kramer is doing Mad Money CNBC.
And he says, well, you know, some people are saying that the Biden tax plan is a little bit aggressive.
And then he says, and he's trying to prevent himself from saying it.
Then in the middle of the sentence, just, it's chronically aggressive.
So he just kind of goes, meaning he couldn't even lose his credibility because he can't stand Trump.
So he didn't want to say anything.
But even he knows.
Jim Kramer cannot say.
Jim Kramer, by the way, data came back.
This is from Wall Street Journal.
Biden's budget to result.
Can you type this up?
Type in Wall Street Journal, Biden's budget.
They have to see this.
Wall Street Journal, Biden's budget.
There you go.
By the right there, a day ago.
Look at that article.
Click on that one right there.
I hope you can close the top.
Can you close it right there?
Biden's budget, Biden budget to result in highest spending in decades that he finds.
His proposal would total $5.4 trillion in new spending over the next 10 years.
That's a lot of money.
$5.4 trillion of spending over the next 10 years.
It's a lot of money.
So that leads me to what happened yesterday.
Can you go up to the Tim Kennedy tweet with Donald Trump before we get into this story?
Just type in Tim Kennedy, Trump.
Here we go.
But the one where he puts on my podcast.
Okay, right there.
Click on that one.
Okay.
So Tim Kennedy tweets out on my podcast with Joe Rogan.
He offered to moderate a debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
It would be four hours with a no-live audience, just the two candidates, cameras, and their vision of how to move this country forward.
Who wants this?
He tweets this out.
It gets 44,000 retweets, 234,000 likes, and Donald Trump tweets, retweets it.
And what does Donald Trump say?
Donald Trump says, if you can go to his Twitter account, go to Donald Trump's Twitter account, just all you have to do was click on Donald Trump right there, buddy.
Donald Trump right there where it says Donald Trump.
Kai, on the tweet, it says Donald Trump.
Okay, go up.
Keep going up.
Donald Trump retweets and says, I do.
Meaning, he would do it.
Keep going until you find it so the viewers can see it.
Donald Trump says, I would.
He's in, for sure.
So he's in.
So four-hour debate between Trump and Biden on the Rogan show.
Can you see it?
Would Biden agree to it?
Would Trump agree to it?
And if it did happen, is that the direction media is going towards?
Biden never, his handlers would never let him do that.
Trump in a heartbeat would do it.
I say do it as a pay-per-view and then have Bruce Buffer involved and then give the money to the winning side.
I mean, let's score this thing, treat it like a sporting event.
Trump would definitely do it.
That's his venue.
That's where he shines.
Four hours?
He'd love that.
I think he would love that.
So, Kai, maybe just go on Twitter, go on Google and try to find it and bring you back up while you're going down the pictures here.
So, Adam, what would you say to this?
Trump-Biden debate on Rogan for four hours.
Yeah, Biden still has no clue who Joe Rogan is.
So, he's probably Googling him right now and being like, oh, I don't even know this guy.
But 90, I did a poll on my social media on Saz Talks Money, and I said, Would you want to see this debate?
Would you want to see this?
Most polls I do are 60-40, you know, this, that.
Sometimes they're 80-20.
Do you know the results on this poll?
Take a guess.
85%.
85%?
Okay.
90.
Everybody would want to see it.
94%.
Hell yeah.
Wow.
That was the options.
Hell yeah, or maybe.
The people out there want to see a debate from Joe Rogan with Donald Trump and Sleepy Joe Biden.
They want that debate.
I'd like to hear our audience weigh in on that.
Would you want to see Joe Rogan host the debate between the MAGA man, Donald Trump?
What do you think about it?
Sleepy Joe.
What do you think about it?
Do you want to see it?
I think anything that gets more eyeballs on debates is a good thing.
I think anything that makes uninteresting, boring debates watchable and palatable, a good thing.
More people involved in politics is a good thing.
My first priority is good TV.
That would be incredible TV.
Ratings.
We're not ready to watch that.
It'd be amazing.
It'd be unbelievable.
I mean, look, these debates with the same moderators, Anderson, Cooper, somebody from PBS, you know, no one wants to see that.
Everything's packaged.
Joe Rogan would have them on their heels just because he's not learned in the political issues as much as some of these other debate moderators.
Go on YouTube.
Type in Joe Rogan.
Go on YouTube.
Type in Joe Rogan on YouTube, Kai.
Go to YouTube first.
We're getting a lot of hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
Kai.
We really have to work on this.
It's basic stuff.
Yes, yes.
Just type in Joe Rogan and then solve filters at the top and go to views.
Our audience would love to see this.
So watching it's not done right.
It's coming up.
Anyway, go to, oh, there you go.
Perfect.
Okay, there we go, Kai.
Okay, watch this.
Joe Rogan's most viewed podcast is with Elon Musk.
37 million views.
When he smoked that most expensive, if Rogan is able to pull off Trump and Biden, I'm telling you right now, that's a 50 million plus view.
debate that'll take place.
And that's why it'll never happen.
It's exactly why it'll never happen.
Because the part that we keep going back to about these things is the following.
When you're an agent and you have a manager, the manager's job or the agent's job or the guy that's the corner man is to protect who?
The fighter.
Whoever it is, the candidates, right?
How well does Biden look on TV?
Horrible.
How does he do on TV?
He stood us.
He's bad.
He's pretty bad.
There's no way in the world his marketing manager is going to allow this debate to be taking place.
And by the way, Trump tweeted it like this.
You haven't heard anything from Biden.
There's no way Biden would do it.
Never.
Not in a million years.
However, here's a couple things to be thinking about.
Number one, how did politics transition?
Like, go back 200 years ago.
When you read about politics, what were people doing 200 years ago to campaign?
Debates.
They would have open format debates, Lincoln Douglas, the famous debate that was.
Town Hall.
Yeah, town hall debates, exactly.
Then big-time newspapers.
Then after newspapers was radio.
Then it was TV with Kennedy Nixon when Kennedy crushed Nixon because Nixon didn't shave and he had a four o'clock shave.
Maybe it's time to go into podcast debates.
Maybe it's time that American people want to go like yesterday.
I'm on the phone with one of the top schools in South Florida.
Okay.
I'm talking to this lady.
It's actually a very good story.
I'm talking to this lady and I'm asking her questions.
She tells me about the private schools about $30,000, $35,000 per year per kid, whether it's kindergarten or senior, by the way.
And she says, I said, so tell me about the philosophies of the school.
She says, what do you mean?
I said, faith-based.
How do you feel about this?
She says, well, we're definitely not a faith-based, but we have a psychologist on campus that if your kids need to have some issues and they're having challenging times, our psychologists are willing to sit down and talk to your kids.
I'm like, great.
So psychologists are going to teach my kids character.
That's okay, no problem.
I said, how does your school feel about capitalism?
She says, you must be a Trump supporter.
I said, no, I'm a capitalism supporter.
I'm a die-hard capitalism supporter.
She says, well, what we do in our school is we will teach socialism and we will teach capitalism, and then we will let the kids decide which one they think is better.
I said, wait, what?
She says, yes.
I'm like, okay.
Then she continues as she's explaining all this other stuff.
She says, I said, you know.
Someone goes, must be American.
Must be what?
Must be.
Oh, that's also a good school in Florida, by the way.
So then I asked the question.
She says, watch this.
Then I asked the question, there's two schools that are hardcore like that.
One is Pinecrest, one is American Heritage.
Someone hit it on the nose.
Someone hit it on the nose.
We're up to 2.2.
Keep that thought.
Watch this though.
Watch this, though.
So then I asked the question and I said, so what are your thoughts?
She says, well, I have three kids going over here.
So what do you think about the school and then the philosophies in the school?
She says, I said, because on your Instagram account, your school, just so you know, follows NPR, follows CNN, follows UNICEF, follows the World Health Organization, follows everybody on the left, but it doesn't follow anybody on the right.
She says, who says that?
I said, your Instagram account.
So I go on their Instagram account and I show it to her.
She says, I can promise you our owners don't know this.
I said, what do you mean your owners don't know this?
She says, Patrick, I'm telling you, our owners don't have a clue about this, about the fact that they, by the way, that's crazy.
They just changed it all from yesterday till today.
Wow, that's activism.
Nice job.
So she said they changed it too.
Anyway, so I go and I look at a lot of this stuff.
So I said, why is it?
I'm telling you, we probably didn't even know about this.
That's our marketing department that does this.
So then she says to me, she says, Patrick, she says, I don't watch Fox.
I don't watch CNN.
The only thing my husband and I consume moving forward is all podcasts.
We don't consume any news anymore.
It's all podcasts.
I said, who do you follow?
Then she gives me your names.
I follow Mark Levin.
I said, okay, good.
I follow Stassel.
I follow Dan Bongino.
Don Bongino is a stud.
You know who that guy is.
So she says, but I don't follow any of the podcasts, anything.
And then in the middle of it, she snaps.
She says, oh my gosh, you're Patrick Bedavid.
I swear to God, my husband and I follow your stuff value.
She showed me the subscribership.
The point she made to me yesterday was what?
She said, we don't watch TV.
We simply listen to podcasts because podcasts are an easier way for me to get the news.
How many more people in America no longer tune into the news on TV?
This is why debate may need to be on podcasts, and I hope it happens.
Pat, I can support that statement so much.
You know, I considered myself such a media-savvy, TV-savvy individual.
I worked in television for 15 years on the news.
I thought that was the most important thing.
I really did.
And whenever somebody said, I don't watch TV, I thought they were idiots.
I thought they were either lying or idiots.
I turn on, I've cut the cord basically, all right?
So I've got apps, but if I go to direct TV, I find that to be archaic.
I find that technology to be so old, you know, where you can't go past the commercials or do things like that or rewind or anything like that.
I only watch the apps and get my news and things like that.
So I think the transition is real, is happening.
That's how Obama won.
I mean, he focused on social media.
And then Trump did the exact same thing and beat Hillary by focusing on social media.
This is where people are getting information, his podcast right now.
Here's the other thing about your story.
The scariest thing about your story was her admitting that they teach socialism.
Are you kidding me?
I love the fact that she was at least honest to me.
Holy shit.
I can't believe because I always wonder, where do these kids that love Bernie Sanders come from?
I mean, if you truly understand what communism is all about, how are these kids that are supporting him and so passionate about it, where do they come from?
But she just said it.
They're being taught in schools what socialism is.
I'm actually surprised they're learning one or the other.
I never learned about capitalism or socialism in high school.
Is that even a, is that even a, in a civic school?
Maybe you weren't paying attention.
Maybe I wasn't paying attention.
I don't, what class did they teach that in economics, government?
I never took an economics class in high school.
High school has economics, 10th grade.
I took economics in 10th grade.
And believe me, I didn't do well in 19th century.
I took it, but I took it in 10th grade.
I took American history.
You better say hi to her.
She might be listening.
Yeah, she might be listening.
That's a good point.
But you know what?
The fact that she was honest, I said, you know, just the fact that you're being that honest with me, I'm willing to come and take a tour to school because I'm looking at like seven, eight schools, and that's one of the schools we're looking at.
But I said, look, if a family's, if you're going to public school, I had this conversation the other day upstairs with the 70 people that were here.
Here's what I said to them.
I said, so many parents are not involved in the day-to-day stuff with the kids.
They're just not.
You let your kids go to school and you have no control of what the teacher is going to be teaching your kids.
We keep talking about the stuff, right?
So you got to be a little bit more involved in what the school is teaching.
If you are not teaching capitalism, I said, what programs do you guys have for entrepreneurship?
She starts smiling.
I said, I don't know.
I didn't tell a joke.
I'm actually being dead serious.
What programs do you have about entrepreneurship?
And then she shows me we have an elective.
I said, I'm not spending $30,000, $35,000 for an elective.
You know what else is crazy about that?
Do the math.
I mean, you almost have to be a salesperson if you're in that role of the lady you were talking to yesterday because you have two kids.
That's 35 times two times what?
Eight or 10?
That's a lot of money.
Compounded?
I mean, how much you would pay a school?
I mean, the wrong answers to a seven-figure mistake for that school.
Maybe more because you're donating the same amount every year.
You're kind of donating money as well to the school.
If you're a booster, hey, you do this, you do that.
So I don't know.
Look, it's just, all I can say is it's deeply concerning to know that these schools that are private schools are not focused on teaching capitalism.
And the people that can't afford to pay that kind of money are capitalists, most of all.
So, anyway, so let's talk about what happened in Beverly Hills.
Kai, do you want to pull up the video?
So apparently, Beverly Hills is becoming a hub for conservative rallies.
Go up a little bit, go up a little bit with the article to read the main point of the article.
How did Beverly Hills become a hub for conservative rallies?
So they're going out there protesting in Beverly Hills, 90210 Rodeo Drive.
And this is what just happened a couple of days ago.
Go down and click on that video.
There you go.
Click on the video.
And you can make it a little bigger.
Okay, go make it bigger and hit the audio so we can hear it, Kai.
Watch this.
Listen to that.
This is Beverly Hills.
Did you hear that?
Looks like the Jerry Springer show.
Wow.
You're talking about Beverly Hills.
I know.
One of the most expensive real estate.
Look at this.
Wanting to trash the American flag, dropping the American flag.
Oh, they got weapons, too.
Crazy.
Kai.
Where's Taggart from Beverly Hills Cop when you need him?
He should have been in there breaking that up.
You know, it makes sense that they're doing those protests there because it's, you know, you get the backdrop.
They're doing it right on Santa Monica Boulevard, right by the iconic, you know, fountains and the Beverly Hills sign.
And so you're going to get attention.
You're going to get the cameras.
You're going to get the dissecting opinion to it.
And it's going to be like that every single week.
They have these every single Sunday.
It's become part of Beverly Hills.
You don't even go to Beverly Hills anymore.
It's got to be killing business.
You know, business is horrible to start with in Beverly Hills, but why would you want to go down to a restaurant, one of the nice hotels, or have brunch or anything when that's going on?
Because it's going to be, it's a melee every single week down there.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Joe Biden's America.
There it is right there.
Oh, no, we're still, Trump's still the president right now.
That's what's okay.
We're still in Trump territory.
This is scary.
My friend had a gun.
How divided the country is right now is that you can't even just go have a peaceful rally.
We're going to fist fight.
Because you want to show you.
Can I give a dark twist to this?
I'm going to give you a dark twist.
You've had the Freddy Krueger.
You had the exorcist.
Let's give the crazy twist to this and tell me what you think about this.
Which side has more money, Republicans or Democrats?
You mean the party?
No, no, no.
The voters.
Which side has more money?
Well, the Democrats have more people, so volume, they might.
I'll say Republicans.
I'll take a guess.
Okay, well, maybe let me ask the question in a different way.
Okay.
Which sides unemployment is higher?
Democrat.
Democrat.
Left.
Which side's unemployed?
Unless that's a trick question.
I'm going to say the Democrats.
Which side has more people unemployed?
Democrats or Republicans?
I don't know.
You really say I don't know?
I don't know who is.
Can you actually pull that number up?
You actually say you don't know?
I don't know.
You say you don't know which side has more Democrats unemployed.
Okay.
Which side would like to raise taxes and tax the rich people?
Obviously the left.
The left or the right?
The left.
The left.
Okay.
Which side historically in the last few elections is willing to protest and riot and loot and get pretty ugly about it?
Which side?
Which side?
Left or the right?
Both.
You're going to say evenly?
I'll say both sides right.
No, no, you got to say which one's more than the other.
The left.
Okay, fair enough.
And this is coming from somebody that is a liberal.
You're not a left, but you're a liberal.
You're center left.
You are not a moderate, moderate left.
No question about it.
I will absolutely agree with that.
I'm with you all the time.
For all my friends out there, I'm not a freaking socialist.
I'm not a fucking Bernie Sanders.
Far further.
You wouldn't have the million dollars that you have if you didn't have the money that you have today, if you were.
So Adam's a very independent worker.
He comes in here, not the first, but he's the last to you.
That's what you say, because he is in Miami Time.
But here's the part: the part that makes me think is the following: There are those that know how to lose, there are those that don't know how to lose.
Okay, what do I mean by this?
Those who know how to lose, it's a very difficult thing to learn, to learn how to lose.
When you lose, you got to go out there and say, I lost.
It's very annoying.
It's public.
It's humiliating.
No one likes it.
No matter who you are, it's painful.
You have to go home to your kids.
You have to go home to your wife, to your spouse, and all the haters that you were trying to prove wrong, they're all going to come out and say.
That's their opportunity.
They're going to come out and say, well, I told you so.
I knew he was going to fail.
I knew he was a loser.
You have to put up with that.
And that noise is going to last a few months until the next time you go around.
In sports, you have one shot every 12 months.
He doesn't have it.
LeBron's, you ask him, give him a dollar and he asks for a change.
He'll give you three quarters back, right?
He won't give you four quarters because he couldn't win back in the days.
You remember that?
Remember that line?
Yeah, okay.
So till they came to the heat, and then Dwayne Wade bailed him out, right?
So you go and hear these stories, and then here's what you think about.
When Obama was a president, how many riots did you see?
I don't recall a lot of riots.
A lot of rights.
Why not?
If somebody was to riot, it wouldn't be the opposition.
How come we didn't have a lot of rights?
Record-breaking deportment.
I mean, we had more people getting deported than ever before.
You know, Reagan gave 3 million people amnesty.
Obama said he's going to give amnesty.
Never happened.
So many Mexicans and Latinos love Reagan because they got amnesty from Reagan.
What happened with Obama?
Never got it.
But how come there was no protesting and riots?
Do you think our country was as divisive as it was now?
No, if not more.
You think it was more divided in 2008?
Let me ask you a question.
How do you know we're divided?
Who's telling you we're divided?
I mean, I'm just looking at what I see.
But who's the point is you think it's divided because what the damn TV is telling you that we are divided.
Who the hell is the TV?
You're saying the media is hyping it up.
Of course, if you and I went out to dinner with 50 Democrats, 50 Republicans, whoever it is with our friends, we're going to have a good time.
No, kidding.
We're going to have a great time.
Or you go to a sporting event.
There's a battle in the stands.
I'm in Chicago.
When I'm in Chicago, I love going to Chicago because in Chicago, at a bar, I like going to a Chicago bar at 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock.
You can have a drink, have a great conversation, have a debate about sports because they love debating their sports and they love debating politics.
And you'll have the greatest debate, heated debate.
And you leave hugging a guy.
Yeah.
The bears.
In Chicago, you leave hugging it.
It's like, oh my gosh, John, I feel like I've known you for years.
You give a hug and you leave.
Screw you.
Screw you.
But the way the media is painting it out to people.
Totally.
So the reason why I'm giving this point is because you said something.
You said, America, welcome to Biden's America.
Oh, no.
It's still Trump's America.
They have to paint that during Trump, there is so much division that it's because of Trump.
And people buy it.
How come we didn't have this kind of division on the Obama side?
Because the media is controlled on one side, and the right doesn't riot the way the left riots.
And that's a fact.
Whether you like it or not, I've been a registered independent for God knows how long now.
And that's a fact to see that you don't see that much protesting, rioting on the right, nowhere near as you see it on the right as you see it on the left.
So they have to paint the picture as, look what a terrible job Trump is doing today.
And unfortunately, that's going to work with certain people.
That's going to work with a few people.
Maybe that'll flip a few people.
But come November 3rd, I don't know what's going to happen.
I don't think this strategy is going to be as effective as they think it is.
In the streets of Beverly Hills, for this to be taking place, I don't know about that.
You think it's 90% media?
100% media?
50%?
No, I don't think it's 90% media.
I don't think it's 100% media.
I do think it's 90% media.
Okay.
Yeah.
I think the majority of it is the media.
I think the majority of it is somebody in someone's ears.
Anytime I had an employee that all of a sudden turned against me.
Like, let's just say I don't, Tom and I, I'm not in Tom's ear every other minute, but somebody who doesn't like me constantly calls Tom and bashes me behind closed doors on a call to Tom.
I don't know this.
So Tom talks to this guy for three hours and I talk to Tom for 15 minutes.
If Tom comes to me, Tom's influenced a little bit, whether he likes it or not, because Tom's not on the PBD news network.
He's on somebody else's news network.
I don't know if you understand what I just said right there.
If you're on the call with somebody and you could, this is why I say the most important appointment of the day is which appointment?
I've said this for the last 15 years.
The first appointment.
Or the last appointment of the day.
The last appointment of the day.
The most important appointment of the day.
That's like they always say: who's the last person in Trump's ear?
Who's the last person?
The most important appointment of the day is the last appointment of the day.
This is, if you don't win the wife, you don't win the person.
It's the last appointment of the day.
So I think the media, unfortunately, for most American people, is the last appointment of the day.
And I'm going to say it's more than 90% because you can say, I'm not going to watch the news, and you can make that conscious effort to tune it out.
Don't watch the shows at night, don't watch the newscast, but you're getting it everywhere.
Right?
You're getting it from your Vanity Fair updates, your People Magazine updates, your daily show updates.
You're watching comedians on the talk shows at night, on the comedian, on the Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon, and everything.
It's the same thing.
So it's this subliminal message that just pounds you all day long about how divided we are.
Well, I got a conference call right now, 10 o'clock, and no one came to warn me.
So we got a 10 o'clock.
We got to wrap up.
That's crazy.
I have a call here.
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