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0:00 - Start
4:19 - Trump vs Biden Tax plans
14:17 - thoughts on Town Hall
51:26 - Mariachi band surprise for PBD's Birthday
59:43 - Bronny James (Lebron James's son) smoking weed
1:05:35 - Nancy Pelosi on CNN being pushed by Wolf Blitzer
1:16:47 - Hunter Biden controversy
1:30:50 - Elon Musk lowering prices on Model S
1:32:57 - What type of car person people are
1:38:27 - NBA & Sports viewership goes down
1:41:38 - China getting ready for war
I think it's been the longest break since we went live last time, right?
Since we went live on a podcast.
So we miss you.
I mean, I don't know about you guys, but I miss you.
Feels real good.
And on Friday.
It feels, you know, got a little extra buzz on a Friday.
A lot going on, too.
Yes, and it's been a while since we spoke to you.
It's good to be with you.
We got a lot of crazy stories to cover.
I got messages.
People saying, I thought you guys were doing it last night, Thursday night.
Won't you guys do it a Thursday night?
Well, there was supposed to be a debate last night, but last night there was a town hall.
A couple of town halls.
Two town halls.
Simultaneously, one on ABC, one on NBC.
The ABC was an advertising show.
They did more advertising for a town hall than I've ever seen.
So I'm sure they made a lot of money last night.
I did this for revenue.
And then NBC did theirs as well.
We'll cover that.
Lots of different things going on.
Gang, one of the bigger stories.
Senate to subpoena Jack Dorsey over blocking the disputed Biden article by New York Post.
We're going to get into that entire article.
What is it that's really trying to be blocked for people to read?
Is it true?
Is it not true?
We'll talk about that.
Adam's favorite love story.
The movie got $125 million.
My favorite movie ever.
It's the movie he takes on his girls when he takes them on a date and he gets that popcorn out.
True love story.
It's Coming to America 2.
To be loved.
Coming to America.
To be loved.
Oh, what a feeling.
Which should be the story of my life, you know, coming to America.
That is true.
But that is not Prince PBD shows up.
I'll be your semi-any day of the week.
The fake prince.
So I made a video about Disneyland versus Disney World, and I called that, you know, with Disneyland, Disney.
I got a response from the CFO of Florida, from the chief financial officer.
Good to know he's watching.
Yeah, he responded and he followed and he told me they're watching it.
And it was pretty interesting to see what that is.
We'll cover that maybe here in a minute.
Trump's video ad campaign.
We'll show Trump's and Bidens, and you tell us which one you like, and we'll bring down the numbers.
A company that's been the top performing stock of the Trump era is a green energy company.
Go figure.
From 2016 till today, they're crushing it.
Twitter came out with some new guidelines.
Elon Musk has, again, got weed on his mind.
We'll tell you why he's thinking about marijuana.
We'll unpack the Biden story, the Hunter Biden story.
Then we got what?
We got Kellyanne.
Say the name again, McKennany.
McKenna.
Say it again.
Say the name that McNeynye.
McKinny.
McEnany?
Yeah, little cutie.
She got blocked from Twitter, Kylie Manny.
Kayleigh McEnany.
Kaylee, just so you know, our buddy here, Adam, thinks you're cute.
So if you're listening to this, she's nice to look.
I can only see that.
She really is.
Yeah, she is.
I mean, it's almost distracting when she's up there talking.
Yeah, that is giving her credit.
She had that nice COVID glow about her.
She looks good.
Project Veritas came out with something crazy that I thought it was entertaining.
They're always finding some.
They're the modern day WikiLeaks.
Like when Assange and some of these guys were doing, they're kind of doing that in the States, except he's not in Russia.
They're the same people that found the Ilhan Omar ballot as well.
They're just more user-friendly.
I mean, it's more enjoyable to watch it.
They seem more comfortable on that.
Tom, you're from Minnesota, right?
So you voted probably for Ilhan Omar.
I go back every four years or every two years just to vote for her.
I probably pay the ballots.
I can't pay $100 for a ballot.
You're voting for those liberal dems in Minnesota.
I know you, Tom.
So, again, Tom, one thing we have to be very careful with today, we have to be very careful with not offending Adam because this show may be taken down.
So please, when we're taking shots at Adam, be gentle.
I just asked him.
I'll pat him on the back every now and then.
We have to be gentle.
Very, very gentle.
Yes.
And then we have Rupert Murdoch says Biden's going to win.
Pelosi and Wolf interview to me was so entertaining.
I just show that.
We got to show a clip of it.
Cuomo saying he's not going to be attorney general if they offer it to him.
Second term plans.
And the one thing I'm most excited about talking about today, believe it or not, is taxes.
Kai, why don't we get right into the taxes?
I think that's the first thing we talk about.
So an accountant broke down.
Remember when we did this tax situation comparing it?
And the main thing we talked about was what?
We talked mainly about capital gains, right?
Hey, 39.6 versus, you know, 23.
And then you said, well, who cares if I'm not selling the company?
I don't care if I'm selling the company or not.
And I said, you know what?
That's a very good point.
Why don't we look at all the different areas of what's going to happen with taxes?
So this organization, what they did is they waited.
They looked at both tax plans, Trump's and Biden's, and they compared every area of tax, whether it's corporate tax, whether it's income tax, whether it's capital gains tax.
And you'll be able to see how they're both going to be in place, whoever you vote for.
So tax policy is a hot button issue in the most presidential elections, even the current pandemic and social unrest.
I believe that the Trump-Biden contest will ultimately turn towards taxes.
We now have data on just what Democrat Joe Biden proposed entails.
Let's compare President Donald Trump's federal tax rate and Biden's proposed rates to see how wide the disparities are.
Keep in mind, these figures are for the higher maximum tax bracket for each of the four categories.
What you ultimately pay is your effective tax rate.
A blend of the different tax brackets.
Very important for people to know that they're showing worst case scenario.
Here's what you're facing.
Are you going to be in the ultimate tax bracket?
So let's go to the next one here.
What is AJC?
That's the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
I'm pretty sure.
So here's what you're looking at.
Let's look at one by one.
Corporate taxes.
Trump is proposing 21, which is where we are right now.
Biden wants 28.
By the way, 28 would be the highest in the world for corporate sales tax.
We would have the highest number one if Biden's 28%.
What was it under Obama?
I want to say even maybe a little higher than Obama.
35 is what I remember.
But we'll check that here in a minute.
Income and payroll taxes.
Trump's 37.
Biden's top line is going to hit 52.
Small business taxes.
Trump's 29.6.
Biden's is 39.6.
Capital gains, we already know, 23.8 versus 43.4.
So here's the thing: when they say taxes are only going to affect the rich, there is no way in the world taxes are only affecting the rich.
Oh, God, no.
So yesterday he said on the town hall, I don't know if you caught that, when George asked Biden, which George didn't really push the concept too much, but George asked Biden saying, Don't you think with the way the economy is right now, this is not a good time to raise taxes?
Like, don't you think we shouldn't be doing it right now?
I mean, we should wait a little bit before we raise taxes.
It's like, well, and he kind of, you know, didn't really give full an answer.
But this is what you're looking at.
If you're watching this right now, what are you thinking with these tax rates knowing this is where we're going when we vote Trump or Biden?
I think Biden is going to wait.
I think he'll wait till the second hour of his presidency before he starts raising taxes and get rid of everything that Trump did.
This is criminal right here: 52%.
How could you ever propose over 50% of what you make, you have to give away?
And that's a starting point.
Okay, that's where they start.
They go north from there.
And the other thing, Pat, is at the very beginning of this, this expert that did this report, he said, ultimately, I think taxes are going to decide the election.
Good.
Trump wins.
I hope he's right.
Period.
Tell me how you really feel, Tom.
Tell me how you really feel.
Adam, how do you feel?
Yeah, let me ask you.
You're saying that anything over 52% is criminal.
Criminal.
Criminal.
Whenever it's certainly wrong, unethical.
When's the last time taxes were that high?
God, I don't know.
I wasn't ready for a quiz.
I don't know.
When do you think it was?
Last time a Democratic paper.
Has it ever been that high?
Is this a stumper?
Is this a refugee?
I'm asking you.
I don't think it's criminal.
Are you asking because you know the answer?
I'm just saying taxes, as we've discussed on the podcast, were way north of that for the 1% for many, many, many decades.
So look, before everyone goes on the attack mode, do I want to pay more taxes?
Hell no.
Do I want more corporations to pay higher taxes?
Hell no.
But let's not act like there isn't precedent for higher taxes in this country.
No, no, no.
That's not the question, though.
The question is, you have two choices when it comes down to strictly taxes.
This is a logical conversation, not an emotional one.
Totally.
If you don't look at the names, and we don't call it Joe Biden or we don't call it Trump, moving forward in 2020, elections are not about human beings that can go out there and be empathetic or get out there and say, get them out of here.
Forget about names, right?
Forget about faces.
It's purely policies, okay?
You got these two policies.
By the way, it's not about Democrat or Republican.
Take all that names out.
Totally think out.
You got these two policies.
Which one are you voting for?
There's 100% chance I'm voting for the lower tax.
Okay, but give us the but.
There's no but.
Okay.
But that's not the only issue on the ballot.
But you said.
If taxes are the only issue on the ballot, if that's like, listen, do you go to the polls for taxes?
Then yes.
Then I'm straight up going to the bottom.
Let me ask you a question.
What is the one thing that is going to affect 100% of people?
Taxes.
Is pro-life proto-affect 100% of people?
No.
Is NRA going to Second Amendment going to affect 100% of people?
We hope so, but no.
It's not.
No.
Climate change.
Climate change is not 100% of people, right?
It's opinion.
But it's opinion.
This is also this guy's opinion, though.
No, it's no, no.
That's what it says at the top of the piece.
Disinion.
This is a plan that was proposed to them, and they looked at it.
This is not his opinion.
These numbers are not his opinion, correct?
But this article is.
No, I'm not looking at the article.
I'm looking at the numbers.
The numbers are not an opinion.
I want to pay low taxes.
I think we all do.
What I'm trying to ask you, and the viewers that are listening to this is we have to get to the following number and look at it from this standpoint.
For example, last night we were here till 1 o'clock in the morning.
Yeah, can I give you a shout out to your team?
Can we do that?
Can we deviate for two seconds?
You were here till 1 a.m. crushing it.
Yeah.
You had your whole team here.
You got probably four hours of sleep, maybe.
I'm going on fume.
You are.
I could tell.
Yes, I am on film.
How do you feel this morning?
I want to know how you feel.
I'm on film.
I want to know how you feel.
You want to talk about taxes.
Yeah.
We want to talk about taxes.
I don't know how you feel.
Here's what I'm trying to tell you.
Last night, this $3.5 million project that we've been working on for the last two years, two plus years, we finally launched it this Monday.
Okay.
We had to migrate.
We turned off all our systems last Saturday, 8 p.m., and we turned it back on on Monday at 8 a.m.
Right?
So it's 36 hours.
We were off, and we're migrating.
That's a few hundred thousand clients that are going from one system to another system.
Lots of security things that we're doing.
All this other stuff, right?
Last night we're sitting here in a room, and the thing with a new software is nothing's going to always be perfect.
I prepared everybody.
I said, listen, there's going to be glitches.
There's going to be bugs.
I've been saying this for two months.
I don't want any complaining.
We're going to get through this.
We simply want you to tell us what bugs you find.
So great.
We're having a meeting last night at around 5, 6 o'clock, and they're saying, here's what we want you to know.
This is what we're expecting.
I said, all I care about is the following.
I said, don't tell me about the problems we can't solve.
I'm only focused on problems we can solve today, right?
And because we need customer service, we're going to have four different Zooms we'll create.
One Zoom is for anybody to jump in that has any question.
From that Zoom, you go to three specific Zooms that's niched to what you want, whether you're submitting a business or it's licensing or whatever, right?
Okay.
So we went on.
People got on.
Hey, this is yours.
You go here.
Go here.
Go here.
Here's the point.
We made a decision to do something that 100% of people were affected by, not just one audience.
It was an issue that we made.
Here's what we're going to do.
This is what everybody's affected.
Everybody's being affected by this area of this business.
And that's what I'm going to, I'm not focused about the 5%, not the 18%, not the 42%.
What's 100%?
The 100% was the software.
They have an issue on it, right?
The one area out of all of these issues these political people are bringing up, whether it's Trump, Biden, both sides, left, right, CNNM, SNBC, Fox, the one thing that affects all of us is taxes.
And those are the numbers.
So if you say, if you're telling me that's the number one issue, it is the number one issue because it's the one thing that we're all affected by.
And the election always comes down to the economy.
For the most part, it always comes down to numbers.
And that's the other thing that when you think of how warped this country is right now and how whacked and just out of touch and just how messed up we are.
I mean, media people like to make money.
They like to keep their money.
They like to.
Can you pull back the taxes?
And the fact that they are just hammering this to the point, I mean, they're going to be affected.
Like you said, 100%.
By the way, you go for Biden, you also get the added bonus of crime, Antifa, higher state income taxes too.
But you know what?
Crime, Antifa, let's say that.
I'll set that aside because what I do know is the following.
Anytime I was tempted to do something stupid was when I was broke.
Okay?
Anytime I was tempted to do something stupid, I was broke.
Even the thought crossing your mind, right?
The more people make money, the lower the crime.
The better the economy, the better people do.
The less they think about even doing any kind of riots or robbing or stealing or anything.
If somebody's making money, they don't have any crazy thoughts.
My dad told me a long time ago.
He says, listen, man has to make money.
When the man of the household doesn't make money, he does stupid things.
He has to feel like he's providing.
If we get more people that feel like they're providing, we have less issues.
Those taxes get more people to make money.
You were going to say something.
Oh, no, yeah.
People become desperate when they don't make money.
Bad decisions.
And you compound that by tens of thousands and then a million people.
And then you got a real problem in your country.
You know, last night was fascinating.
I'm sure we'll talk about it.
Let's get right into it.
You know, NBC.
Okay, so throughout the day, you had all these B, C, D, E-list pseudo-celebrities that were upset at NBC.
You know, I did think that it didn't make sense to have them both going on at the same time.
If you want to make a rational decision, why not have the opportunity to watch one and then watch the other?
I don't think it made 100% sense to have.
But you're with them, so you're with Don Lemon saying that they shouldn't have done that at the same time.
You know what?
Yes, I am.
I think.
You know what?
I respect you.
You and Don Lemon agree.
I think it's a logical point.
I mean, this is a huge decision the country has to make.
And you had to make a choice last night.
You're going to go to the guy that you like.
I don't like to listen to Biden talk.
I don't like Stephanopoulos.
I don't think he's good TV.
I'm going to watch Trump just for the entertainment value.
Now, one side, I literally thought I was watching a deposition with Savannah Guthrie.
And I felt that, you know, she goes through NBC Tower all day.
Do you realize how many texts, tweets, DMs, emails she got yesterday begging her not to go easy on Trump?
I guarantee you she was bombarded all day from everybody she knows in the entertainment world, in the news world at NBC, and she carried that with her into the town hall meeting.
She was so adamant to make sure that she was pressing him, pushing him.
It was disrespectful to the president of the United States the amount of time she cut him off.
And I like Savannah.
I think she's a good broadcaster.
I think she was under so much pressure to be a bulldog last night that it came across.
And Trump handled himself great.
You know, he really did.
You know, he had some funny lines in there too.
And then on the other side, I thought it was like a retirement party.
You know, they're giving out the gold watch and your uncle's retiring.
Let's have a nice little fireside chat with Joe.
That's the impression I got from last night.
So you watched both or no?
Yeah.
You did.
I mean, I watched the majority of both of them.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right, I'll give you my take.
Trump, the two, I think Biden's town hall was maybe over an hour, hour and a half, maybe.
Kai, what's the time on that?
90.
What's the time?
Trump's was maybe about an hour.
It was an hour.
55 minutes.
So I got no.
I went through each debate.
I do as well.
I want to do that.
Like it was a freaking boxing match.
Scorecard.
Good.
Okay.
So the first 20 minutes, let's say half of the Trump town hall was just full-on a one-on-one with Savannah Guthrie.
Yeah.
And I said that he was on defense all night because she went in on this dude.
And, you know, what, and this is part of the frustration that people have with Trump, is that it's always, people are saying, she's like, yeah, well, what people, homie?
You know, I don't know if I got tested, you know, before the debate.
Yeah.
You don't know if you got tested before the debate.
Can we fact-check that?
Well, maybe I did.
Maybe I didn't.
So let me ask you: if someone says, did you do this and you didn't do it?
What do you say?
Did you do it and you did it?
Did you steal that?
Yeah.
What do you say?
No.
You say no.
Because if you didn't do it, you just say no.
That's Trump's style, though.
I mean, that's his style.
Point is, if he got tested before the debate, if he didn't have COVID, he just says, no, I got tested.
Well, you know how I feel about that myself.
I've told you how I feel.
You think he actually had to do that?
I think the day of debate he had COVID.
Yeah.
I think.
Well, based on his answer last night, I think it's pretty obvious.
I don't know basically how it's going to happen.
I listened to the answer how he gave it, but I've told you this from the day the debate happened.
I told you guys I think he had COVID the day he debated about it.
And you were basing that on maybe his throat, right?
He was coughing.
He was clearing his throat.
He just wasn't his normal reality.
No, he was not the normal himself.
I felt like he had it that day.
And then he said at 11.54, exactly two weeks before the next debate, which was last night.
That night he said at 11.54, I tested positive.
So if you're saying that at 11.54, you're timing it two weeks because the debate's going to be in two weeks.
He didn't want to say it earlier.
I think he had it the day he did.
It didn't work out anyway because he didn't do the debate.
But it ended up working out for Biden.
It ended up working out for Biden.
Let me give you my scorecard.
Okay.
So just off top, he was on defense for the first half of the night, for sure.
Next thing they asked him about, you know, getting COVID, he said, look, I can't be locked in my basement.
Cool, respect.
You got to open things up.
I get it.
He says he was, he goes, heroes want to hug me.
I got to hug them.
Questionable.
It's like, buddy, like, you don't need to be hugging random people at this point.
But he didn't say it like it was policy.
He's a people person.
Or someone comes up and gives him a hug.
Point is, if some random person that you don't know, you should probably not be hugging at this point or just run the risk of getting COVID, which, hey, Melania got COVID.
His son Baron got COVID.
Half his team got COVID.
All good, whatever.
They asked him, would you denounce white supremacy?
He did, but in a frustrated manner.
And then they said, you know, what about QAnon?
Now, this to me is unacceptable.
When they say, well, what do you know about QAnon?
If he's still weeks later saying, I don't know anything about them, homie, you said that three weeks ago, that you don't know anything about them.
You have three weeks to find out something about them.
If you're still playing the I don't know anything about them, either you're blind to this or you're not doing your research or you're not willing to answer this.
So he says, well, they like me.
And then he kept saying, but Antifa, Ben Antifa.
No, no, no.
But what he said is, he says, what I do know about them is they're against pedophilia, which I support any organizations that's against pedophilia.
I'm also against murder.
I'm also against rape.
I'm also against all that.
Cool.
I don't think that needs to be a.
He did say, look, we're in the middle of a V-shaped recovery.
Biden's talking about a K-shaped recovery.
He kind of waffled on the wear mask.
He says, look, you want to wear a mask?
You wear a mask, but I'm not going to impose it.
Wearing masks, cool.
He says he wants a stimulus package now.
This might be the biggest downfall of Donald Trump right here, that no stimulus is happening.
I think it's pretty clear.
We are two weeks out from election.
Oh my gosh.
No stimulus.
You are so funny.
Okay, go ahead.
Tell me why.
I mean, you just should.
Go ahead.
That's on Nancy.
That's on Mnuchin as well.
What do you mean it's on?
Okay, keep going.
It's on both sides.
Go ahead, buddy.
Go ahead, buddy.
They talked about corporate tax rates.
I respect that.
We just covered that.
He talked about his debt.
He says a tiny percentage of his net worth.
Sure, $400 million on three million.
The best line of the night, though, when he was talking about how he was leveraged or levered.
Yeah.
It's a beautiful leverage.
It's a beautiful leverage.
I'm under-leveraged.
You know, they pushed him on that.
And then I assume that's why you wore this shirt because Donald Trump says he's done more for blacks than any president since Abraham Lincoln.
So that's why I'm sure he's going to win the black vote this time around.
That's going to work out well.
But the nice part about it was a nice, older, lovelier, blonde lady came up.
And actually, this is my favorite part of the debate.
She said, what did she say?
You have a great smile.
You have a great smile.
I love it when you smile.
Did you see how much he smiled?
Yeah.
And literally, like, was you kidding me?
When you turn on the TV and everything is negative about you, you don't do nothing right.
One person says it.
That was the first time, and I'm not going to say the first time because it's one of the very few times where Donald Trump actually looked human.
He looked nice.
He looked happy to hear something nice.
He was on defense all night and he had to wait till the end of the night to hear.
I love your smile.
And what else did she say?
She says, you're very handsome when you smile.
Yeah, she also used to be a Democrat, I think, was her backstory.
The other thing, too, is you can't blame him because he's always on his heels because they're always putting him on his heels.
And I'll refute two things he said, and then you can take him, Pat.
A, why does he have to research QAnon?
I mean, is he supposed to go into a rabbit hole and investigate every conspiracy theory?
You say research?
Well, you said that they were.
You said they know who they are.
Yeah, he had three.
Tom, do you know who QAnon is?
I have a basic knowledge of him, but I don't know.
Do you have a basic knowledge?
I know.
You've heard of them.
I know who they are.
You've heard of them.
But here's the other thing.
He has a lot of people.
So you're saying the president has never heard of them?
He's not a fan of them.
Okay.
I don't think he's.
Did he say that, though?
Are you putting words in his mouth right now?
He did not say that.
I'm pretty sure he said he is a fan of them.
No, he thinks they're a fan of him, is what he said.
And if they're a fan of me, if they like me, I like them.
Do you have anything else you're saying?
I have stuff on Biden.
I have stuff on Biden.
Tell us what you're hearing.
Okay, so the first 20 minutes was just him blaming Trump for COVID.
I think we can all agree upon that.
They talked about tax rates.
He said he wanted to reduce it.
It was a difference of 35 to 21.
He wanted to meet in the middle at 28.
He called it a quote-unquote fair tax.
And the way that he justified that was a Moody's analysis.
He says it will create 18.6 million new jobs.
He talked about the V-shaped recovery versus the K-shaped recovery.
He says it's going to create infrastructure jobs, electric jobs made in America.
And he says the GDP will grow $1 trillion versus Trump plan.
These are Biden's words, not mine.
He says that Trump's tax cuts went to the one-tenth of the top 1%.
Biden's words.
A young black man came up and said, Look, what you said about blacks voting for Democrats, unacceptable to me.
So I want to know what you're actually going to do for black people.
Caught Biden off guard.
He had to answer it.
He said, generating wealth, education.
And this is something that I actually, even though I know you're not a fan of Biden, will 100% agree with.
And he said this.
He said, young black entrepreneurs, they can be just as successful as white entrepreneurs if they're given the shot.
And he says, startups, he's putting 500.
That's an offensive statement, by the way, first of all.
Hey, is it offensive?
Are you kidding me?
That's an offensive statement.
Who the hell are you to say white or black, man?
I think he's just basically saying anyone can do anything if they're given a shot.
It's very offensive because you've seen some of the stuff he said in the past before.
It's very offensive to say something like that.
Well, we got to find that young black man and interview him and find out if he was offended.
It's not about him being offended.
I'm offended.
You're offended.
I don't look at myself.
I sit at this table.
I'm from Iran, Armenian Assyria, with two white guys and one Jewish guy and one white.
I don't sit here and say, oh, I think I have the.
I just look at it as we're all human beings, man.
You don't need to tell me a black person has the same abilities as a white person or potential.
A, I'm with you, obviously.
I think anyone could do anything, but this was a young black man asking him, what are you going to do for blacks?
Well, they're on top of it.
It's not going to be good for entrepreneurs if he's president.
So, really, what he just told that guy is wrong because he's not going to have much of a citizen.
He won't be the entrepreneur CEO.
I don't think he is.
What else?
Again, keep going.
So, accumulating wealth, he did for sure waffle once again on expanding the court and packing the court.
He said, We'll see.
And then she pushed him.
No, this is Stephanopoulos.
Push him, and he said he will have a clear election, a clear decision on packing the court before election day.
So I think the media for the election came out.
I think the media should stay on him on that.
That's the one thing I give credit to George, by the way.
Yes.
He makes him think he can stack the court.
The gall of these people to think that they're going to change the Constitution or whatever they have to do just to get it on their side.
It's offensive.
It's disgusting.
Last few points, and then I'll wrap this up.
One thing I do not like about Biden is that halfway through his answer, he'll say, Well, anyway, I'll just cut myself off.
It's like, buddy, just finish your thought and move on.
Don't just cut yourself off.
Like, what are you doing, dude?
He did say that Trump created a toxic environment.
He's going to avoid revenge, avoid grunges.
He's going to not be vindictive.
And he's going to, quote unquote, listen to the other guy.
He said, matter of factly, we will have four to eight Republican senators that will work with Democrats.
He's got skills, quote unquote, and ways to bring people together.
They talked about fracking.
Not a major issue for me.
He did say that that will create significant issue for you.
For me.
Yeah.
For me.
But it's a major issue.
It is a major issue.
It's a lot of people for certain states that you need.
Well, they were in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This is a major issue for them.
So they talked about that for a while.
He talked about for fracking.
He's going to want to do that, but without pollution, without methane gases, without earthquakes.
He was all about jobs, jobs, jobs, green jobs.
And then last but not least, when they talked about foreign policy, he actually said Trump deserves credit, but not a lot.
He said America first equals America alone, that the Allies can't count on us.
And he did compliment the Israel deal.
Like, if he didn't at least compliment that, I'd have a major issue with that.
Like, you got to give respect to when people do good shit.
And I think that was good.
And he said, basically, Trump's BFF with thugs and 17 nations.
I don't know the 17 nations, but I assume they were in probably the G20.
They said that they trust she and Putin more than Trump.
So that's both sides.
Who wrote that article?
Time Magazine.
I don't know.
Time Magazine.
Is that who they wrote it?
Okay, can I show it with some liberal writers?
Can I go through some things here based on what happened yesterday?
Of course you can.
We can all go through.
We are very thankful for your analysis of last night.
I'm trying to give you both sides.
I'm trying to call balls and stripes.
And I appreciate the balls and stripes.
And, you know, kudos to Astros for winning last night, by the way, last minute home run, which was ridiculous.
I was hoping Dodgers would because I'd love to see Dodgers face Astros, but it's not going to happen because braves.
Anyways, that's a whole different conversation because our podcast here loves sports.
Okay, so here's what happened last night.
Here's what happened last night.
So you tune in comparing Biden and Trump.
This is what I saw.
When you go into the Biden camp with George, this is how the town hall got started.
Okay, so today we have some people here with us and they're properly social distancing.
I thought there was like 18 people in the room.
And we're going to get right into it.
Our first person here has got this question to ask you about COVID.
That's how it got started.
Totally.
Okay.
That's how it got started.
And he's like, hey, okay, I don't know here.
And then he went on a rant for like 10 minutes, and George never interrupted him, right?
This is how Trump's debate got started.
Before we get into the question, so can he tell me, President?
And how about this?
And how about this?
She's like, like absolutely for 20-something minutes, it was a debate between him and her.
Totally agree.
Okay, so if I'm sitting there, and by the way, let me tell you why it's the dumbest strategy that the left is using.
Tell me why.
Here's why.
I don't understand.
Like, you have to get strategy.
You have to understand the world of strategy.
You are not trying to do this show for Democrats.
They're already going to vote for Biden.
What the hell are you doing?
The people in the middle sit there, and you know what they do?
They switch channels and they go and they say, why are they pushing him the way they are?
And why is George sitting here with softball?
You know, softball, he just, here he go.
No, the people in the middle that determine the election are going to sit there and say, you know what?
He's right about fake doings.
I don't like the fact that they pushed him the way they did, but the other guys are being so nice to Biden.
I'm going to vote Trump.
That was beautiful.
Terrible strategy by the folks on the left to do it that way.
Because a person who is independent, what are independent voters like?
Let's actually unpack independent voters.
Why is somebody a Democrat?
Most of the time.
Because they're loyal to who?
Their family.
Meaning, if somebody says, I'm a Democrat, guess what?
Hey, mom, what are we?
We're Democrats.
Okay, I'm a Democrat.
Why are most people Republicans?
A couple reasons.
One, what?
They're either their family's Republicans or they make money and they're Republican or gun or pro-life or God or taxes or business, right?
Democrat, hey, I need programs.
I need social programs.
I don't think it's fair.
LGBTQ, pro-choice, environment, climate change.
That's why they're Democrats, right?
Okay.
Why are people independent?
Actually think about the process of being a registered independent.
Let's go through that.
This is very important, by the way.
In order for a person to be a registered independent, they were once a Republican or a Democrat that got sick of what?
Exactly what happened last night, which is what?
The games.
They finally got sick of it and they said, you know what, this Republican stuff, I don't know about this.
You know what?
This Democratic stuff, I don't know about this.
Independent thinkers are their own thinkers, but they finally said, I'm right here in the middle and I'm going to see what these guys are going to be doing.
The ones on the left lost the independent thinkers yesterday because they bullied one side.
It came across as being a fully bullied type of a situation what Trump went through.
So she started asking the questions.
First, focused on health.
How you doing?
I'm doing good.
Well, you sure you're doing good?
You know, tested positive on October 1st.
You tested positive.
Did you take the COVID test that day?
I believe he had COVID when he debated.
That part's not even a dispute for me.
I think he had COVID, period.
I think he just showed up to show up, but he had COVID.
His energy was down.
He was lethargic.
You think he had tested positive at that point or just had it?
By the way, I think in the next few days, Biden is about to test positive.
Biden's about to either test positive or somebody around him is going to test positive like Kamala, where he's going to come out with some kind of a story why he's not going to make the last debate because it's the responsible thing to do.
Even though George at the end said, are you planning on showing up to the last debate?
And he said, what?
I plan on being there, right?
That's what Biden said at the end.
I don't know if you copied that.
Biden's going to come out with a story.
There's going to be something creative happening here very soon.
Something that I think we can all agree with.
It's about to get really freaking ugly.
Dirty, no question about it.
Now here's the other part.
Stories go lore.
Even at the White House, 13 people tested positive, shaking hands, all this stuff, no masks on.
Guess what?
She's right because they weren't wearing any masks and it was just kind of hanging on.
All of a sudden, everybody got COVID, right?
And, you know, Chris Christie was in bad shape with COVID.
Chris Christie was in intensive care.
Chris Christie was 100 pounds overweight.
100 pounds overweight.
I think existing medical schools were 500 pounds.
But then she led to herd immunity, which I am for herd immunity.
You think that we're on the verge of herd immunity?
Buddy, there is nothing you can do but go into the herd immunity phase.
This whole thing about oh, herd immunity is not the way to go.
We're already doing herd immunity.
What do you think we're doing right now?
So, you're you're you think that's happening?
There's nothing this is not me questioning you.
I just don't, I'm not a doctor.
There is no much about herd immunity.
There's nothing you can do about herd, and the only alternative is shut everybody down.
What do you mean, six feet social distancing?
We'll do our best.
I washed my hands more than ever before.
I have like freaking 15 different sanitizers everywhere you go.
Your gay friend, you met on the plane, you changed your life.
Gay friend changed my life.
You're wiping everybody.
We're hugging each other.
We became best friends.
Jennifer was concerned while we're hugging each other, but we got along very good, right?
So they talk about herd immunity.
Okay, white supremacy.
He denounced it.
And he even got pissed saying, Why don't you ask Biden if he's anti-fuel?
That was raw emotion.
He was really kicked off.
So then QAnon, I don't know nothing about it.
I just know this.
You covered it.
I don't need to cover that.
Osama bin Laden, you know, somebody said something you retweeted.
He says, I don't know.
I just retweeted it for people to think about it and talk about it.
He shouldn't have done that.
Will you accept the peaceful transfer of power?
He says, he talked about the fact that 500,000 ballots were found in Virginia and 50,000 in Ohio, and it had his name on it.
He's like, well, I don't know about this.
And she kind of didn't have that part.
She lost in that part of it with the ballots because there are many ballots that are being found all over the place being dumped.
So that was kind of his win.
Travel ban.
Hey, he says, well, how come you didn't do the COVID-19?
It was spreadful.
And, you know, I think one of the people asked the question, so I did what Dr. Fauci told me to do.
I even did it before them.
Biden wanted open.
I closed it.
So that was cool.
That's a question on Fauci.
Yeah.
Since we're on this herd immunity, Fauci, all that stuff.
Let me finish this one to go to the next one.
Obamacare them.
They talk about Obamacare pre-existing conditions.
He says, I'm going to come out.
It's going to be much less expensive and much better.
I believe him that he's going to come out with a plan that's going to be much less expensive and much better and pre-existing.
You do believe it.
I do believe it.
For one reason.
You know why he's the one reason?
What do you think is the one reason?
By the way, do you know how much it costs to make a pill of Viagra?
How much do you think it costs to make a pill of Viagra?
Do you actually know?
Yeah, 20 cents.
Yeah, 20 to 60.
You got them for cheap?
I'll get them.
Hook me up.
I met with a guy here that wanted me to invest into this brand.
Good guy.
You met him the other day, about two months ago.
He was here.
And they're showing the profit margins in the Viagra product, right?
On how much money there is.
I believe Trump can go negotiate with these people about medicine way better than Biden can and tell them if you don't do this, I don't see Biden being the kind of person that if you don't do this with corporate, I think Biden, you know, it's not going to be that area because he's been in politics for 47 years.
I fully see Trump being able to negotiate with Corporate.
I want to let you finish, but I have a question on health.
I'll come back to that.
Yes, please.
Next stimulus, I think at first he says, I'm not for it.
Then he changed his mind saying, I am for it.
And she's like, wait a minute, you can't just change your mind.
Well, you know, that's called negotiation.
And now, Pelosi, which we're going to watch a clip here in a minute, Pelosi is saying, well, I don't need to call Trump.
Why would I need to call him?
And the wolf is like, you should call him.
I don't want to call him.
That's not how stuff works.
So the stimulus today is 100% on Pelosi.
No matter what he is.
And it's 100% political.
100%.
You're saying as of today.
As of the last five days, it's on Pelosi.
Okay, but it's been going on for five months.
And they're waiting two weeks before the election.
Not necessarily.
What do you mean, five months?
It's been going on since May?
Yes.
No, it's not been going on for five months.
Yes, it has.
For five months.
Second one?
This is the second one.
You know how long the second.
The first one passed a couple weeks later.
The first one passed away.
When did it pay?
Till when did it pay?
It paid till the end of July.
So what are you saying?
Since May.
But they didn't wait till the end of the day.
And you could sit there and say they're going to start.
You want him to say yes to a plan in May that's going to happen in August?
What are you talking about?
I'm saying that's when they can't calculate it.
Can I finish my thoughts?
You can't calculate it.
Can I just finish my thumb?
Yeah.
They rolled out the HEROES Act in May.
The first Act, the CARES Act, launched March 27th, I believe.
That was the CARES Act, as we know.
Democrat, that was a $2.2 trillion stimulus plan.
Democrats went big with a follow-up plan called the Heroes Act.
It was like a freaking $3 trillion plan.
That was in May.
Republicans came back end of July with the HELS Act.
It's been an ongoing filibuster.
It's been an ongoing negotiation.
These are the facts, though.
No, it's not.
Five months.
They rolled it out in May.
Are you saying Pelosi is not stopping this right now?
She's stopping it because she doesn't want thousands being sent stopping this right now.
Why the hell, if you're president, you're going to already commit to a next plan when your plan is in effect till the end of July?
Why would you even commit to a significant statement?
But you're saying that's negotiating for five months.
I'm saying that's when they rolled it out.
No, this is not a five-month situation.
Even Democrats are saying Pelosi is the Google Heroes Act.
Find out why they rolled it out.
You and May.
You just understand what I just said.
You're saying you're not going to approve anything.
Why would I approve anything when I don't know if things are going to turn around?
I agree with you.
Okay, then.
I agree with you.
So what do you mean five months?
All I'm saying is I'm saying that's when they rolled out their plan.
Rolling out a plan, and you said negotiation five months.
It's not negotiation.
When did they come?
It's two different things.
I'm saying, all I'm saying is you just changed your position then.
You said negotiation.
You said negotiated for five months.
What month are we in now?
October?
Yes.
October, September, August, July, June.
No.
Five months.
May would be five months.
That's when they rolled it out.
But you don't think they've been talking about it?
Buddy, you're.
Okay, let's call it four months.
Sam wrong.
I'm not trying to debate here.
It's a six-week negotiation for this.
It's going on longer than that.
It could be going on longer than that, but six to eight weeks max.
It's not a five-month situation here we're talking about.
Point is.
Pelosi's holding him back from this becoming a reality.
Okay.
And it's not.
New other things came up.
Taxes, they talk about stimulus.
They talk about Trump's tax return.
They talk about Hillary Clinton was the one that was really dealing with Russia this entire time.
This whole Russia hoax, this whole Russia thing, they put it on him.
The entire time was Hillary.
Things just came out, declassified the documentation.
And you know what the media is saying?
Zilge.
Why is that not a bigger situation?
Zilge.
Why is that not a bigger situation?
Why would they say it today?
Who does it help?
We got to get the facts out there.
But you're not going to fake it.
But did you even see when he said, when he said, when he said Hillary Clinton, Russia, do you know what she said?
Nothing.
That is a form of saying a thousand things.
Why isn't he talking about that more than he's talking about?
He didn't bring it up last night.
I forgot.
Of course he brought it up.
He got his job very quickly.
But he can't, it's not his, he's not the moderator, but he did bring it up to put it in there.
Then they talked about the, what do you call it, Supreme Court, which, by the way, she totally crushed it, if you ask me.
I think she's, and they asked the question.
They said, so at the beginning when Obama was president, you said this should not be the sitting president to choose who's going to be the Supreme Court.
And why did you change your position?
And he says, after the way they treated Kavanaugh, that absolutely changed my position because never in the history of politics has anybody been treated the way they talk about Roe versus Wade and what's going to happen.
And then black woman in blue addressed questions about Tim Scott.
He talked about the bill that's going to be good for blacks and what's going to do for them.
And then DACA, they talked about Dreamers versus DACA.
I thought that was impressive.
And then Biden, to me, was just COVID.
He gave a couple arguments that Trump didn't do it right, Oval Office, eight years, vaccine.
Kamala said she wouldn't take it.
Masks.
He said, this is the one thing that I didn't understand.
George is like, so, sir, but what would you have done differently?
He said, I would have gone and had a meeting with all the 50 governors and I would have told them, get your people to put on masks.
And George said, let's just say they don't listen to you.
Can't force it.
He says, then I would go and sit down with every single mayor and city council.
I'm like, dude.
He's making it up on the fly.
No, no, no, but the point is, if I'm George, I'm like, how much time do you think you've got?
How many mayors do you think we have in America?
Do you think you have time to go sit down with every mayor and convince him?
If the American people bought that concept, they deserve exactly what's about to come to them.
If you think this man's going to have the time to go sit with every single mayor and city councilman, where are you going to hold this meeting to talk to all these people?
Then he got the next one that they're talking about: $400,000 taxes.
This is not a good time to do anything with taxes.
Then the crime bill came up a little bit.
Then packing the court came up, which George held him accountable a little bit to that, but he still didn't give an answer at the end.
I think they are going to pack the court based on how he kept saying, it depends on how it's handled.
It depends on how it's handled.
It depends on how it's handled.
So essentially, if you watch Kamala and him to see how they both answer the question, they both left and out to say it depends on how it's handled.
And if you remember, Kamala gave all of us a clue.
Kamala gave all of us a clue when Mike Pence said, Hey, Kamala, I have a question for you.
You may want to tell all the American people.
Will you be packing the court?
And Yusuck Kamala is doing the smile thing that she didn't want to really, you know, give the answer.
And she kept looking at the moderator to save her.
And then he says, Well, no, no, but wait a minute.
I would like Kamala to give an answer to the question.
Hey, Kamala, are you going to be packing the court?
And Kamala finally said, Okay, you want me to answer the question?
You want me to answer questions?
Let's talk about it.
Do you know?
Yeah.
Out of all the judges that you guys elected, how many were African-American?
Zero, which is not true.
The number is not zero.
But she said it's zero.
So do you know what clue she gave the world?
Here's what clue she gave the world.
When it comes time to pack the court, they're going to use the fact that none of the judges were black African-American.
Watch when that takes place.
Remember when we talked about it?
It's not even a question.
They're going to stack the court.
No question about it.
They're going to pack the court.
And then fracking came up, transgender conversation came up, and he told a story about his dad when he was a boy.
He saw two boys kissing.
He says, Well, look, they love each other.
And then if you lose, it's kind of weird when he said that.
He says, My dad, one time I saw two boys kissing.
My dad said, What's wrong with that?
They love each other.
And then that was the framework for that.
Yeah, if you lose with America.
Did you guys catch the part?
Which says, well, George said, well, what do you think will happen if you lose?
What will that say about America today?
He says, you know, specific words.
It could say I'm a lousy candidate.
Did you catch that or a little human moment?
That's cool.
It could say I'm a lousy candidate.
Flat out.
He said it.
It could say I'm a lousy candidate.
And then he went into other things.
And then, do you expect to be at the next debate?
I expect to be there.
Data-wise, here's what the data look like.
Let's get some data.
On the Trump side, Trump was on a YouTube channel that had a million subscribers and million and a half subscribers and one that was less than a million subscribers.
Biden was on a YouTube channel, ABC, that had 9.6 million subscribers.
Biden's town hall got 2.5 million views, but Trump's town hall was on CNBC, CNBC television, and NBC News.
Combined, it got 4.4 million views.
Now, there's 2.5 million versus 4.4.
Go ahead.
There's a caveat with that.
You know, the TikTok crowd was all over this yesterday.
So they were doing whatever they could to skew the numbers, to making sure any kid, anybody with a TikTok account was going to the ABC site.
So that was a huge organized plan yesterday and probably successful.
They skewed the numbers a little.
Isn't it funny?
In 2020, now we don't even talk about TV ratings.
We go to the data of what people are watching online.
It's like TV ratings are irrelevant.
You know, and you even trust a Nielsen rating.
You know, there's a can I make a couple other points you want to say real quick.
Number one, you know, you watch Savannah and you watch George, and you're right.
I mean, they are performing to their own audience.
They want approval from that liberal crowd of media elite.
They could get fired.
You know, and so that's what they're doing.
The question about a peaceful transition to Trump, they keep asking about that.
Like he's some sort of military leader.
Are you kidding me?
He'll be happy to leave, I think, and put this all behind him.
Tom, you think he's going to be happy to leave?
If he do not know Trump, time out.
Time out.
You guys think you know Trump?
That's the whole problem.
Everybody thinks they know him.
I don't claim to know him personally, but I do know if he loses the election, he'll leave.
What else is his option?
What else is he doing?
You have nothing to do with the opportunity.
Trump is 100% right about Antifa.
Why isn't Biden saying I denounce Antifa?
Go to the video.
Their city's burning.
It's real.
It's happening.
He should.
Here's the other thing.
We haven't even mentioned this one time.
Biden spent more time talking about pelletized manure than Hunter Biden.
The biggest story of the day yesterday wasn't even brought up.
It's ridiculous that it wasn't.
And here's my final point.
And I really believe this 100%.
Joe Biden does not want to be president.
He's going through the motions because the Democrats have propped him up.
And that's his role and his responsibility.
And probably he thinks there's some residual benefits for him if he does.
He sees what Obama did with a book and having a presidential library.
He's probably owed to him 47 years in government.
He has no passion.
He never speaks from the heart.
That comment you mentioned that maybe I wasn't a good campaigner.
He's already resigned to the fact that he can't touch him.
I don't think deep down he wants to win.
I don't think he wants what's attached with that.
And that is he's out in three to four months.
They are dumb.
Just to clarify, who do you think doesn't want he doesn't want to win?
think joe biden doesn't want to be president i think he's running because he's talking about dude What are you talking about?
I'm making a point that what are you saying?
He's doing all this because he doesn't want to win?
And you're saying that you're making things a little bit too simple.
What do you mean?
I'm using your words, bro.
I'm telling you, deep down, I don't think he wants to go through everything that goes with being a president.
He's 78.
Where's the swan song going on?
Are you saying you think he doesn't believe he can be or you think he just doesn't want to do it at this point?
I think he partly that.
I think going through this campaign, how dirty it is, did he really want to go through this?
He feels a responsibility because that's who they put out there to run.
Okay.
It's not like he dominated the primaries and he knows he's going to be out after a few months.
Okay, so then what's his legacy?
Do you really think Kamala Harris is not going to replace him shortly?
Dude, at this point, you're just reaching for stuff right now.
That is not a reach at all.
You think he doesn't want to be president?
You think he's going to be quote unquote out in a few months?
Where are you pulling this from?
Reality?
So you think he's doing all this?
Politics and Tom.
Here's the difference between you and I, my friend.
I actually have the ability to call balls and strikes.
Yes, I'm not a fan of Trump.
But if he actually does something well, like the Israel Agreement, like taxes, I'll give him credit.
You have zero ability to even give Biden a little bit of credit.
I'm giving him credit.
No, you don't.
For sure.
He doesn't have to do that.
I'm saying he's human.
What evidence do you have that he doesn't want to be president?
The fact that he's running for president?
The fact that he's raising money?
Why do you need evidence when you give an opinion?
I said, this is my opinion.
Let me just throw out my opinion, no matter how wrong it is with zero.
So this is not what you do on podcasts.
Okay.
You could say you don't like him.
You could say.
But the fact that you think he doesn't want to be president or the fact that he's going to be out in a few months.
I've never triggered you with that.
Why does that just say that?
I'm just saying it's better to say that.
I'm going to start calling you typical Tom because it's the same shit.
You're just making shit up, dude.
And there's no you're saying that he doesn't want to be president.
I say, in my opinion, I don't think that's a good idea.
And you also said that Trump would be happy to leave office.
I don't think he'd be happy at all.
Do you know how much that would tarnish his legacy?
He wants to be there no matter what.
If he loses the election, what is he going to do?
Not leave his office?
If he quote unquote loses the election, he's going to pull every dirty trick in the book and say that it was fraud.
I cannot.
I tell you one thing.
When I was a sales guy and I was just running the sales office, I had an incredible life.
I just ran a sales office.
When I chose to go start a company and put my life and savings on the line, I didn't have a blast like I did back at running the sales office.
Running a sales office had a couple of responsibilities.
I had to go out there and find people, and I had to sell and find clients and take care of them and put meetings and speak and network and shake hands and tell me about yourself, tell me about your house, why do you have a painting of a chicken on the wall?
This was great, awesome.
You know, that's what it was, right?
It was easy.
It was fun.
I liked it.
Running a company, man, politics, contracting, lawyers, CPAs, accountants, you know, regulation.
You'll sit in meetings where you say, did I really sign up for this, right?
I do believe Trump, after becoming a president, is like, okay, now my parents are going to sit there and say, this freaking kid took it to a whole different level.
He became a billionaire, and now he's a presidential.
We never thought one of our kids were going to do it, but good for him.
He pulled it off.
Then, year, two years, three years later, he's like, I had a much better life than I did before.
Because imagine some of the things you do that makes you happy, okay?
Imagine some of the things you do that makes you happy.
What am I saying you do?
You just go outside and play basketball.
Makes you happy.
You know, you go out there and just kick it and do certain things.
Makes you happy, right?
Imagine the things that Trump used to like to do that made him happy.
He can't do them anymore.
He lost his life.
He can't do that.
That was, I want to go on WWE and everybody's, oh my gosh, Trump is here.
I want to be like Trump because I want to be a millionaire.
Those things are gone, right?
So I do believe the part about him not wanting that life and saying, I'm in too deep right now.
I can't do nothing about it.
So there is a battle that he's going through, whether, man, I could have had a better life if I wouldn't have done this mess.
I do agree with that.
He said that multiple times.
Do you know how much better my life was?
He's right.
Which, touche, but then again, just don't run for president.
You know what you're signing up.
No question about it.
Are you complaining because I'm president?
Zero.
I'm actually with you as well because to say, listen, you should have never done it.
Why'd you come down that escalator if you didn't want to do it?
Now that you're in a go-do.
So I think to him, that's what he's telling himself as well.
He's probably telling himself, you did this.
Let's get this done.
He's already in too deep.
I know he's in.
He wants to win the election.
Yeah, but I tell you, Trump had a much better life than any of these guys had.
Buddy, of course.
Much better life than any of these guys had.
Mary Time.
Supermodel.
How many pageants and real estate deals are you going to do until it's time to get it?
I get it.
So he wanted to go through the next phase of his life.
Yes.
How much different would your life be if you were just still a sales guy versus a CEO?
You're happy you're a CEO.
I would have much less gray hair.
I would have much better.
I have some here.
I have a great head of hair.
I would have a much different life.
It would be a little bit more.
Give me the pros and cons.
Much more time to myself.
I was here till 1 o'clock in the morning yesterday, and I have to be up coming here in the morning.
And I didn't get to see my kids last night.
I wanted to see Senna.
Senna and I have been getting very close lately.
I like Sena.
Senna the other night said to me, she said, because I came in, we were dealing with something, and they saw me get a little bit upset because I raised my voice on a conference call.
And I noticed they got a little bit like, what's the word, frazzled?
Is that the right word?
They were a little bit like, what happened right here?
And then I went upstairs to their bed.
I turned on the lights.
I said, hey, guys, can I talk to you?
He said, yes.
I said, I'm not upset at you guys.
I'm upset at something that a guy said they're going to do and they didn't do.
But I'm not upset at you.
Don't think for a moment I'm upset at you.
You didn't do nothing wrong tonight.
And like, oh, thank you, Daddy.
And so I kissed Dylan.
I kissed Tico and I kissed Senna on the belly.
Then Senna said, Daddy, can you please put me to bed tonight?
I'm like, are you kidding me?
Can I put you to bed tonight?
Melted.
Picked her up.
Melting right now.
I picked her up.
I took her to bed.
I laid her down.
He played her little song.
Okay.
And she's playing the music.
And you know that sound that she wants to go to sleep to.
Laid right next to her.
I rubbed her back.
I rubbed, played with her hair.
And then 30 minutes later, 40 minutes later, I went downstairs.
I thought she was knocked out.
Apparently she wasn't.
She came and says, Daddy, I'm scared.
Can you come upstairs?
I went back upstairs.
And then I put her down.
I laid next to her.
Let me tell you, man, I sleep like a baby.
I had no clue what happened that night.
I forgot all my problems.
I didn't do that last night.
I won't do that last night.
If I had.
What is this?
Happy birthday, Patrick Ben David.
Oh, you kidding me.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a surprise.
It's Patrick Ben David's birthday.
You are killing me.
We're on a podcast live and they do this.
Check this out.
Holy moly.
Thank you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to Penny.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to Penny.
Happy birthday to you.
You are amazing.
This was great, buddy.
One point.
You.
One.
What movie?
What movie?
Something with Selma Hayes.
Antonio Bandera said.
What is that movie?
What is it?
Let's go.
An amazing man.
I did not expect this.
I got surprised.
I got surprised with this one.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you, guys.
Appreciate you.
Freaking amazing.
Unbelievable, huh?
The show must go on.
I love the money.
Adam, you get credit for this.
Are you set this up?
Yes, sir.
You know what?
I translated some of the lyrics.
Sick.
Did you hear him?
Yeah.
In Spanish, they were saying Joe Biden does not want to be president.
That's what they said.
Is that what it is?
In a harmonic way.
Joe Biden doesn't want to be president.
Is that what it was?
It's an integer.
Yeah.
So let's.
Well, tell us what happened here, man.
What was this all about?
This is a surprise for yourself.
I love it, son.
I was trying to grapple with a debate.
The reason that I got heated with Tom, I was supposed to get crazy and storm off.
That was the thing.
Is that it?
I'm supposed to say Tom.
I was going to storm off and say, Pat, I can't do this anymore.
And then walk back in with the mariachi band.
That was the plan.
I teed you up perfectly.
Why don't you do that?
Yeah, let's do a picture on the podcast.
Let's do it.
So, here, let me put the hat on as well.
What a freaking classic situation here, man.
Or I was going to pretend that I had to take a piss.
Put the screen back on.
Happy birthday, guys.
Everybody on the chat, everybody, please wish Patrick Ben a happy birthday.
Do with the whole thing.
This is amazing.
Hey, thanks, guys.
Appreciate you.
Thank you.
This was classic, man.
We in here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Can we end on this or no?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tom, get in.
All right.
Let me get one of you got that one, Sam.
Let me come around on that side.
Two?
Come on.
Come on, Adam.
Come on.
Sam, you got it?
Because I know.
Okay, ready?
One, two?
Okay.
Can I get one of just Patrick, please?
Yes, sir.
Awesome.
Our viewers are like, what's going on right now?
One, two, guys, it's Pat's birthday.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Thank you.
Thank you, guys.
Appreciate you.
Seriously, thank you.
I'm seeing some love in the chat.
Everybody wish Louise.
Look at Luis's mustache.
Just got the mustache going.
Oh, that was classic, man.
This was great.
This was great.
So the podcast, everybody, hey, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mario, Jimenez, Brand.
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you, Tony, Justin.
That's Justiniano.
Thank you, everybody.
Okay, this was great, man.
So you were getting heated.
I'm thinking, like, did he know or no?
He didn't know.
I know.
Oh, you didn't know either?
I had no idea.
Okay, so he said loose lip six shifts.
Loose lip six shifts.
We got to keep it under who knew here.
Who knew here?
Me, Eric set it up.
Sam set it up.
Kai, I mean, you didn't know about it.
Sam didn't know about it.
Sam knew.
He knew about it.
Shout out to Nancy when she gets here.
She bought the sombreros last night.
SD Bent.
You want to know the hardest negotiation of my life?
I've done a lot of negotiations in my life.
I've had to settle $50 million estates policies.
The hardest negotiation was me negotiating with a freaking mariachi band at 6 p.m. last night.
I said, we're going to do this.
We got to have a mariachi band.
We want 500.
I'll give 200.
500.
Well, they're at 400.
Okay.
It's three guys.
No, it's going to be two guys.
Well, for two guys, we're going to pay less.
All right, what time are they going to be here?
Well, you ever dealt with a mariachi band trying to negotiate?
Shout out to Eric for implementing the mariachi.
We brought in a Marine.
We brought in a graphic designer.
I love it.
Kai, great job.
Legend 24.
Thank you.
Happy birthday, Pat.
Thank you, everybody.
I asked Mario, I said, when's the last time that Pat got surprised like this?
They said, no, you don't.
Forever ago.
Never ago.
Did you have any idea this?
No, zero clue.
I got to respect because I've been here all night.
I'm thinking I would know this kind of stuff.
Did you see us having little huddles yesterday?
Was anything?
Yeah, I saw you guys talking over there.
I'm like, maybe they're talking about content and things like that.
I saw that yesterday.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Unfortunately, not.
Okay.
All right.
Well, listen, this was great.
I'm like, he's a smelling something.
Everyone was worried that you know.
So the good news is I'm 41 for two more days.
Yes.
Okay.
I'll be 42 on Sunday, which we're going to a crazy place because we got a crazy meeting going on next week.
And it's the reason why we're not doing podcasts next Tuesday.
We're going to do the podcast next.
Is it?
Big debate is next week.
Thursday night is the night whatever.
But we're doing a live debate again.
Yeah, next week.
All right, guys.
Did you hear that?
Live debate Thursday night.
I can't see you.
Bring your attitudes.
Yeah.
So we're going to have a lot of things.
Happy B-Day, DVD, Soyboy Mafia.
Thanks, Doug.
Five bucks.
This was legit, man.
Soy Boy Strikes again.
This was legit.
Got to give you a break.
Happy birthday.
This was really cool, man.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
Okay, so where were we?
You were talking, Smack.
So all of that stuff was just an act.
Partial.
50-50.
Okay, all right.
Partial 50.
I do think that Biden does want to win, and I think that Trump wants to win.
So, yes.
But me going in on our friend Tom over here was a little bit more.
So maybe after the birthday, we got to go to at least a light story.
No, what is a light story that we can go to?
Hunter Biden, bro.
Let's go in on this sucker.
But then it's a life story.
Welcome to America.
Ice Cube.
Did you guys see the Ice Cube stuff or have you been following the Ice Cube stuff?
Yeah.
I think we got to address coming to America at this point.
Let me see here.
No, you know what?
You know what the viewership is?
How about Bronnie smoking weed?
Yeah, you want to go there?
I mean, I just.
What do you think about that?
LeBron's son got caught smoking weed on September 19th.
You want to talk weed?
What the fuck?
So here's the backstory on this.
So LeBron was in the bubble, right?
Three months.
Lakers won the championship, and you don't leave the bubble.
And he kept his family out.
His wife, Savannah, I think, came there for a little bit, but the kids didn't.
And LeBron's very close with his children.
I mean, no question.
But I think Bronze ticked.
I mean, I think that's a real problem.
I mean, was that an accident?
So what happened was Bronnie, his 16-year-old son, who's a basketball phenomen himself, was caught on Instagram, posted this little short little clip of him taking a little puff or smoking weed.
So that circulated.
They took it down.
But then the word is when LeBron got back from the bubble that he grounded him.
He didn't let him go to that eSports event with Odell Beckham.
There was just supposed to be this huge.
And Odell says, where's Bronny?
I don't know.
So the word is that LeBron grounded him.
But, man, you better nip that in the bud right now because you're 16.
You're representing that LeBron James brand, and you got a lot more to lose than to gain by smoking weed.
Do you think LeBron's a good father?
Yeah, 100%.
I think so as well.
And he had no reference point.
He didn't have a father, so I think he's trying to make up for that.
But I give LeBron credit for being a good dad.
I think LeBron is a ridiculous dad, is what I think.
I think he's a ridiculous dad.
No, and I think he wants to make up for what he didn't get and make sure that his children get attention.
I give him a lot of props in that area.
When it comes down to the conversations about who's a great father as a face-off league, I think LeBron's got that one taken care of to do his best to be a great family man.
Kai.
I also think it's a little bit difference of one thing about doing it, if it's like privately or whatever, but then posting it online.
I mean, you're stupid at that point.
But you know what?
It's going to come up later.
Let me tell you, I like his style that he never publicly embarrassed his son.
There's a part of that that I actually really like, you know, but I bet you privately, he probably got an ass chewing from daddy.
See what the hell you're thinking about.
That's a big punishment to not let him go to that event.
I mean, if you think about it, what gets bigger for a 16-year-old kid than being the face of this organization?
There's no question about it.
There's no question about it.
What do you do?
What do you do if I don't see Tico doing this?
Let's use Dilly.
Dilly, cool guy, playboy, seven years old.
Yeah.
You know, he's in high school.
He's a junior.
He's a stud.
He's a running back.
He's the Iranian Bo Jackson hanging out here in maybe in Florida, maybe Dallas, whatever.
You know, he's hanging out with chicks.
He's drinking.
He's 17.
It's homecoming.
He's 17.
You find out he's smoking weed.
What do you tell Dilly?
Dilly, you know, my approach would be a different approach.
For me, it's a lot of preventative before we get there.
It's not about when we get there.
If we get there, it's already too late.
I mean, I didn't do a good job having a conversation with them.
I'm going to tell them everything about drugs.
Remember, I talked to these guys about sex, about how babies are born at a very young age, and I talked to them about their dangling and their privates and all this stuff.
We're still trying to recover.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
Very early, because for them to be aware of it.
So for me, you know, there will be a couple conversations, and there's going to be benefit packages if you avoid certain things in life.
Meaning, if you avoid getting in trouble with alcohol, with drugs, with things like that, there's going to be levels.
One, it's going to be a card of your choice.
Then the next one's going to be an investment into your business, and the next one's going to be a house that you bought.
And that's the benefit of being in a family where you can make those kinds of benefit packages.
So what's going to happen with our kids?
I'm going to say, listen, you want to get started?
I'm going to give you a big stuff.
But here's the rules.
You can't do this, this, this.
If you don't follow those things, I'm good to go.
Here's what I'm going to give you.
And then you can do whatever you want to do with it.
Well, and two things on that.
Incentive is the best way to do it.
But number two, it's the example you said.
They see you smoking weed, it's probably going to happen.
You don't see that at home.
Yeah, we're probably not smoking weed tonight.
That's what I'm saying.
So we're probably not smoking.
So they never see it.
Yeah.
So you're saying that you're going to set the tone and then ramifications will be put in place.
God forbid something happens.
Yeah.
Listen, my dad wasn't there from 10 or 18 years old.
I saw my dad once every other week.
Okay.
So my dad and I have a great relation, but 10, 18, I didn't see my dad.
And then from 18 to 21, when I was in the Army, I may have seen him five days, you know, when I was in the Army.
So God, two and a half years not seeing that.
But if my dad was there, I was, you know, probably the biggest thing that my mom did, I got to give her credit for.
My mom would say, you may do bad things that I will never know about, but whatever bad you do, God's going to know 100% of the things you do bad.
So forget about me.
You can't fool me.
You can't lie to me.
You cannot lie to him.
He's going to know what you're doing.
Your mom said this.
My mom said this.
Fear of God.
She put the fear in God in me at such an early age.
Let me tell you, it is so effective.
It is so effective to put that fear of God.
I know your mom tried to get you to be a rabbi, but it just wouldn't happen.
I love the conversation.
So are you using that same tactic with your kids?
I say it more from the standpoint of we are a special family.
God's always protected us.
I've been in the fire many times.
I don't know why.
He's always been there for me.
He's always been there for the Ben David family.
He's always come through for us.
And I've done my best to be a great soldier for him.
And we as a family are a family that's going to do our part to be a great example during an era that's needed.
That's the conversation that we have.
We speak about things like that.
It's not more of, you know, fear of God.
It's not my approach.
My approach is, don't get me wrong, it's very effective what she did, 100% very effective.
But it also kind of eliminates a little bit of being loose.
So it made me want to be more pushing and challenging, but it was effective.
It definitely was effective with what she did with that part.
But okay, let's go into the next topic here we got going on.
All right, so I say we talk about Kai, which one do you want to go into next?
What do we want to go into next?
Do you want to go into, can you pull up what happened between Wolf and Nancy Pelosi?
Why don't you pull up that video, Wolf and Nancy Pelosi?
If you guys haven't seen this, by the way, I don't know if you guys have seen this or not.
If you haven't seen this, we talk about Joe Biden taking half the money of all of our buddy Hunter.
Yeah, we'll get into that next.
We'll get into that next.
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So this last week, Pelosi goes on CNN with Wolf.
And they start doing an interview.
And Pelosi, typically, when she goes on CNN, she's treated royally.
Nobody asks tough questions.
It just doesn't happen.
She looks very calm.
She looks very calm.
Like, hey, they're going to give me nice little questions, and I'm just going to blame it on Trump.
And they're going to agree with me.
And it's going to be good.
The American people are, because all these guys are Democrats.
They don't want Trump.
So I'm going to win here.
And then this is what, we're not going to watch the whole thing.
All it takes, the first 30 seconds to see what happens, and then we'll go on how it ends at the end.
So, Kai, if you want to press play.
Who are being evicted from their homes?
They can't pay the rent.
Many Americans are waiting in food lines for the first time in their lives.
Can you look them in the eye, Madam Speaker, and explain why you don't want to accept the president's latest stimulus offer?
Well, because thank you very much, Wolf.
And I hope you'll ask the same question of the Republicans about why they don't really want to meet the needs of the American people.
But let me say to those people, because all of my colleagues, we represent these people.
I have for over 30 years.
Go over here.
No, no, go over here.
And what I want you to do is I want you to go every time he talks.
I know what he's doing.
Keep going a little bit and find the next time he talks.
To them.
And their needs are not addressed.
Okay, right there.
Go back a little bit.
I understand that.
Go back a little bit.
Excuse me for interrupting.
Madam Speaker, but they really need the money right now.
And even members of the United States.
I understand that.
But even members of your own cause.
Even members of your own caucus, Madam Speaker, want to accept this deal.
$1.8 trillion.
Congressman Roe Conna.
For example, let me just quote RoConna, a man you know well.
I assume you admire him.
He's a Democrat.
And he just said this.
He said, people in need can't wait until February.
$1.8 trillion is significant and more than twice the Obama stimulus.
Make a deal, put the ball in McConnell court.
So what do you say to RoConna?
What I say to you is, I don't know why you're always an apologist.
And many of your colleagues apologists for the Republican position.
When has CNN ever been known for being apologized?
Go to the next part.
Of a problem that the president refuses to address.
But you do.
And that is.
And that is the coronavirus.
We know that there's a problem out there, but there are millions of Americans who have lost their jobs.
They can't pay the rent.
Their kids need the food.
That's right.
And that's what we're trying to get done.
$1.8 trillion.
And the president just tweeted, stimulus, go big or go home.
He wants even strength right now.
So why don't you dare you ask me to do that?
Why not work on a deal with him and don't let the perfect, as they say here in Washington, be the enemy of the good?
Well, I will not let the wrong be the enemy of the right.
What's wrong with $1.8 trillion?
You know what?
Do you have any idea what the difference is between the spending that they have in their bill and that we have in our bill?
Do you realize that they have come back and said all these things for child tax credits and earned income tax credits or helping people who have lost their jobs are eliminated in their bill?
Do you realize they pay no respect to the fact that child care is very important for people whose children cannot go to school because they're doing remote learning, and yet they minimize the need for child care about this.
Go back a little bit.
Obama, excuse me, God forbid.
Madam Speaker, God forbid.
I'm not an apologist.
I'm asking you serious questions because so many people are intended to speak to you if we speak right now.
Let me ask you this.
When was the last time you speak about this?
Let me respond to you.
Watch this, watch this, watch this.
When was the last time you spoke with the president about this?
I don't speak to the president, but his representative.
Why not call him and say, Mr. President, let's work out a deal.
It's not going to be everything you want, not going to be everything I want, but there are so many Americans right now who are in desperate need.
Let's make a deal.
What makes me amused, if it weren't so sad, is how you all think that you know more about the suffering of the American people than those of us who are elected by them to represent them at that time.
It is unfortunate that we do not have shared values with this White House and that they have in their bill, why don't you talk about in their bill a tax break for the wealthiest families in the country while they cut out the earned income taxes for the poor active?
It will be retrospective.
Here's what you wrote in a letter to Huss Democrats, Madam Speaker.
And I asked you to say as you know so many millions of Americans are suffering from the public.
But you quote two people who know nothing about the agreement.
There is no agreement.
But what the suggestions are is if there's some authority.
Please give equal weight to 12, to all of the chairmen of the committee who have written this.
But so many of your fellow Democrats in the House, they want a deal right now.
No, that isn't.
Problem solvers.
They all want a deal right now.
And here's what they're complaining about.
Because you wrote a letter to House Democrats and you said this, let me read a line from the letter you wrote, we have absorbed nearly a half a trillion dollars more of expenses, still within the greatest respect, 1.8 trillion dollars is a lot of money.
The American people need that money, a sap, because they're suffering right now and I i'm not saying it's perfect, but i'm saying it does now.
But I don't know, you don't even know how it's spent.
Why not?
Why not?
To the president personally, mr president, let's get a deal tomorrow.
Look, let me say this, the president has sent mr Minutin to negotiate.
That's what we've done with other presidents.
This isn't unusual with president Bush we had.
We did this quite a bit because that's how you negotiate, and then we should all trust it and let's hope they get more treatments, let's hope they get a vaccine and, madam speaker, I I certainly respect you, but I also respect Rocana, I respect Andrew Yang, I respect members of the Democrats who are members of the problem solvers.
They want a deal because so many people right now well, the problem solvers, by the way, don't have any earned income, tax credit or town tax credit in their proposal either.
But let's not go into.
You evidently do not respect the chairman of the committees.
I really wish you would respect the non-millions of Americans who can't put food on the table, who can't pay their rent, and we represent them, and we represent them, and we represent them.
These long food lines that we're seeing.
And we represent them.
We know them.
I'm just saying.
We represent them and we know them.
As we say, we know them, we represent them.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, as they say, always the case.
But we're not even close to the good.
All right, let's see what happens, because every day is critically, critically important.
That was.
That was very uncomfortable to watch, right?
So what are your thoughts when you see that number one?
And I don't care if you're left right blue green whatever, whatever you have to respect Wolf Blitzer for what he just did.
Yeah, straight up, I agree, I tweeted, I gave him love, I send a lot of.
I know a lot of people.
Oh, CNN doesn't do this, CNN does do that.
That's a full-on journalist right there.
Yeah okay, pressing the uh leader of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
Do you know what the Democrats are doing at this point, where Nancy Pelosi is?
You know what they're doing.
I'll use a sports analogy, they're running out the clock.
They could have sure, if they could have had a deal three months ago, four months ago, two months ago, a month ago, whatever you want to call it, they would have struck a deal.
Now we are within almost two weeks of the election.
They are trying to give Trump zero w's in the last two weeks.
Will Amy Coney Barrett be uh, named to the court?
I'm sure she will.
Does?
She deserve it?
Most likely.
Yes, that'll be a w for Trump.
They're not giving him the stimulus w I mean, and she's going to take the brunt of it.
She looks like an absolute fool yeah, but she's going to play the fool for the next two weeks.
You know she's got a reputation of having a temper, right that she goes off behind closed doors.
You could, you could see that she's seething.
She's really upset.
First time i've watched CNN in a long time and I thought that is good tv.
That was good tv because there was conflict.
Yeah, there's never conflict on CNN, it's you know, it's the same crap all the time.
So I thought that was amazing.
Wolf was phenomenal.
You just never see pushback like that ever and i've always liked Wolf and I always want to see that out of him and that was textbook performance there.
And then my mind always goes different directions when I watch things in the media.
Here was my initial reaction after I saw this.
We're two to three weeks away from the election.
The economy and the stimulus package is a huge deal.
It always is when people vote.
If this $1.8 trillion gets passed, there's a good chance Trump gets re-elected.
I mean, that is a victory lap he can take for one and a half weeks.
That's why the Democrats are stalling it.
My mind goes to this.
Is it better business for CNN to have their arch enemy Donald Trump as president?
And now in the final couple weeks, they're going to do some subtle, small things to maybe help him out.
You never see that.
Ever, ever.
That helped Trump, that interview, on CNN.
And my thought is, is CNN is relevant if their guy is in the office for the next four years?
Who do they rail against?
You know?
So I literally think it's better business for MSNBC, for CNN, to have Trump as president.
And you're going to see more of this in the final two and a half weeks.
By the way, just so everybody knows this, this is the most viewed video on CNN, maybe in the last couple months.
Just so you know this.
This is the most viewed video.
It got 3.1 million views in two days.
They don't get 3.1 million views.
It got 3.1 million views in two days, the most viewed video they've had in the last 60 days.
Crazy stuff to see something like that take place with Pelosi because American people are sitting there saying, finally, you're holding people accountable.
You know, that's one of the things that I liked and missed about John Stewart.
John, is it John Stewart?
I just liked his style, man, because he called Republicans out.
He called the left out.
He was just a guy that you knew he was going to go out there and not just be somebody saying, oh, yes, you're perfect.
The only person he acted perfect with was Obama.
When the two got together, it was like perfection.
He can't do anything wrong.
Outside of him, he held people accountable.
So let's talk about Twitter.
Twitter had a bad day yesterday.
Maybe the worst day of their career.
Twitter did not have a good day yesterday.
It's the kind of a day that you're giving the government the opportunity to come after you.
And it won't be pretty.
You're making it easy for them.
So here's what happened yesterday.
A story came out from New York Post about Hunter Biden.
And I'm going to kind of give the details about the Hunter Biden story.
Yeah, Wednesday.
And then from there, it came out Wednesday.
Today's Friday.
It came out Wednesday.
And then we'll go into how Twitter handled this.
So Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Alina.
Baturina, this is the story in New York Post, the fourth largest publication in America, newspaper, fourth largest, the richest woman in Russia, who is Elena, gave Biden $3.5 million, who's the widow of Yuri Lazovkov, the former mayor of Moscow.
Senate Republicans revealed in their report on the younger Biden's work in Ukraine.
Baturina is referenced in the 87-page report, which was released Wednesday, addressing her payment to Biden's investment firm in early 2014.
Baturina became Russia's only female billionaire when her plastics company Inteco received a series of Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor, it is said, and providing background on the businesswoman, meaning she worked the government to make more money, her and her husband did together.
The report described her involvement with Biden as a financial relationship, but declined to delve deeper into why the wire transfer was made.
The probe was found that Baturina sent 11 wire transfers between May and December of 2015 to a bank account belonging to BAKUSA, tech startup that filed bankruptcy in March of 2019.
Hunter Biden positioned with Batorina's natural gas firm, which paid him as much as 50K a month, created an immediate potential conflict of interest because his dad, now President Trump's Democratic opponent in November 3rd election, was involved in the U.S. policy toward Ukraine, the report says.
And then it continues to say, the 87-page reports notes two American officials, George Kent, former active duty chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, and senior department officials Amos Hutchstone, raised concerns to Biden's staff directed to Biden, respectively.
Despite the effort of these individuals, this appears to have fallen on deaf ears.
The report notes that Joe Biden's staff received, not publicly accused, but Burisma, owner Makulla, of corruption, even though he allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to avoid prosecution.
And former Assistant Secretary of State of European and Eurasian Affairs, Victoria Nolan, testified that confronting oligarchs would send an anti-corruption message in Ukraine.
And then it continues in 2014, the $3.5 million bank held under Rosemond Samant Thornton, an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden report says.
And then there was another 11 wires, more than $390,000, $240,000, a bunch of other things that came out of this story.
Pictures came out, he said, of Hunter Biden with the pipe next to him.
And then Donald Trump Jr. came out with a video yesterday that went viral.
So that story comes out, and Twitter knows about it.
On Twitter, if you went to share this story, your friend, the lady who you think is pretty, can you pronounce her name for us?
Kaylee McEnany.
Kayleigh McEnany posts this.
A new email from Ukraine executive to Hunter Biden asks Hunter to use his influence on behalf of the firm paying him $50,000 a month.
An email with subject urgent issue obtained by New York Post father, Joe Biden was in charge of Ukraine relations at the time, October 14, 2020.
That is two days ago.
This was taken down, and not only was it taken down, her account was locked.
Twitter has locked the personal account of White House press secretary for sharing news Democrats don't like.
This is what happened yesterday, right?
So everybody that tried to share the story yesterday on Twitter, Twitter wouldn't allow it.
They wouldn't allow it.
Back to back to back to back to back, they wouldn't allow it, okay?
So finally, the Senate came out to subpoena Jack Dorsey over blocking of disputed Biden article, moved by GOP lawmakers on judiciary committees, follow social media platforms.
Anyways, they went after him.
This is election interference.
We are 19 days out of election.
Never before have we had seen active censorship of a major press publication with serious allegations of corruption on one or two candidates for president.
Never.
They allowed the Russia article.
Nobody ever stopped any Russia tweets, even though all of it was allegations.
None of it was true.
Twitter did this yesterday.
Then finally, Jack Dorsey comes out and said, we made a mistake.
But at that point, it was too late.
Your thoughts?
I'll let you go first.
Well, this is going to be very interesting.
They're in a lot of trouble.
The Republicans control the Senate.
They are going to get him in front to testify.
They also locked the New York Post's account as well.
They literally locked New York Post's ability to send out more tweets.
This thing has legs.
The story is that Hunter Biden brought his computer in for repair, never picked it up.
They backed everything up.
They called the FBI.
Rooney Giuliani is saying it's five.
We've heard 5%.
We know about 5% of what's really on that.
And Giuliani used to be a prosecutor for the federal government, took down Ma, the mafia.
So he's all over this for the last five months.
It's time for these guys to face some really tough questions about something like this and get to the bottom of it.
And, you know, a little innocent thing they thought they were doing on Wednesday by blocking this thing could come back and really, really, I mean, do some serious damage because social media is a harmful thing.
And it's about time we start peeling back the onion a little bit and figure out what's going on with some of these decisions.
Adam, what do you think?
Get it all out.
Get it all out.
I'm surprised there aren't more stories and they didn't happen sooner.
A, how much of this is true?
Just a general question.
B, let's not pretend that Trump and his kids are completely innocent.
Breaking news, everybody.
Politicians do shady shit.
Breaking news.
Hunter Biden might be a scumbag.
Is that going to stop you from voting left, voting right?
Who knows?
Get it all out.
I haven't really followed Hunter Biden.
Anything I've heard about the guy is a scumbag Hall of Fame.
I mean, if you watch that Donald Trump Jr. video and he points things out, unbelievable.
Some of this stuff is pretty dirty, by the way.
He got a porn star pregnant and says, No, it wasn't me.
Didn't pay checks in.
And then they did a DNA testing and ended up being him.
And then his brother dies and he gets together with the brother's wife, which, I mean, then you're doing drugs and prostitutes in Russia and half the money that you bring in.
Apparently, they got to pay to Joe Biden.
Look, all these stories coming out like Joe Biden, like his any money you make of me being in politics, anything you make that's side deals, you got to pay me half of it, right?
Let's just say but let's just say the following.
Let's just say the following.
You ready?
Okay.
Say you and I, your girl says you're on your phone at night, okay?
And you think she's asleep and you're texting somebody.
She says, who are you texting?
So nobody, just a friend.
Let me see the phone.
If you say what?
No.
What do you mean's going on?
You're probably texting somebody you shouldn't be texting.
You understand what I'm saying?
Give me the phone.
No, why you want to see my phone?
You never trust me.
I've never had this conversation.
Exactly, right?
I don't know what you're talking about.
So the point I'm trying to make to you right there, you're already guilty.
Okay.
So there's a story coming out about Hunter Biden and the fact that Joe Biden did this.
No, don't share the story.
No, no, dude, you screwed up.
You should have let the story come out and say, oh, it's just another one of those stories.
The fact that you didn't let the story come out, you know what it tells the world?
That all of it is right.
To cover the crime.
First of all, Twitter or.
Well, wait a minute.
Who tells Twitter, don't let the story come out?
You tell me.
I don't know.
Are you telling me?
Are you saying that it's political?
I'll tell you.
Why would they not post the story?
Who cares?
The Biden campaign.
Who cares?
Why would you not let the story come out?
Who cares?
Remember, Twitter just has new guidelines.
Why did it come out with new guidelines?
Right before elections, you're coming out with new guidelines that only last during the last two weeks of guidelines.
Why'd you come out with the new guidelines?
Because Twitter helps which president, Trump or Biden?
Trump.
So now you come out with two guidelines that's only going to last during the election.
Are you going to get away with these guidelines after the election?
Who are you trying to help?
Who's calling who?
Who is calling who?
Who's calling Ku when they're using this?
Obama said Mark's a good friend of mine when he was running for office.
Why is it that Mark Zuckerberg gives his best advertising guy to Pete Butichic and then Pete blew up?
Pete's going to be a future rock star because he had Mark on his side.
You get a Mark or a Jack Dorsey nowadays on your side or the guys at Google, this is a big benefit.
So who called them to say don't let the story be shared?
And if who didn't, let's just, again, everything here is what?
Speculation.
Everything here is speculation.
But if you got nothing to hide, again, it goes back to strategy for me.
If you care so much about a story coming out, guess what?
It's true.
Versus the way you do this is what?
Let it come out.
And yesterday, even if it was brought up, oh, it's a non-issue.
It's not a big deal.
Yeah, and especially now, there's always going to be a next story where those things can be in your review mirror very, very quickly.
Or just devil's advocate here.
I don't know Hunter Biden from nothing.
Or could it just not be true?
And you're saying, do not put fake news out there.
Oh, buddy, stop.
You're saying that there's 100% chance.
You're seriously that naive, Adam.
Why are you seriously that naive?
Again, I put it out there.
How much of this is true?
20% of it?
50% of it?
100%?
By the way, how much of this do you think?
Let me ask you a question.
What did I say when Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend, Gavin Newsom's former wife, gave the talk at the RNC convention?
What did I say?
I said she was on Coke.
I said she's on something.
It could be Five Hour Energy.
It could be Red Bull.
It's on something.
You don't talk like that.
So this isn't for me like I am taking sides, dude.
This isn't like, oh, here's what's going on.
No.
When you want a story like this to be hidden, you're scared of something.
When you have 33,000 emails that you want to delete, you're hiding something.
Why are you hiding it?
Why are you hiding?
By the way, I'll give you the other one to make this very simple for you.
Trump doesn't want to show his tax returns.
Guess what?
You're hiding something.
There's a reason.
Yeah, so this isn't a left or right.
Not sitting here just saying, if Trump doesn't want to show his tax returns, I guarantee you, there's something the world's going to say.
Damn, this guy pays nothing.
There's something.
He's the only guy hoping this audit lasts forever, right?
He's loving it.
As soon as the audit's done, hey, the audit is going on.
I'm going to say this, though.
Again, I'm telling you, I agree with you that.
You know, you scoffed at this idea when I said it 20 minutes ago before the mariachi ban, but okay, if 5% of what's out there has come out, and that means 95%, and there's stuff coming out that doesn't make Joe Biden look good.
And no one knew this for 47 years.
No one knew this about him.
If more of this gets revealed, it plays into my theory that I don't know if he really wants to be president.
I mean, if he really ultimately wants everything that goes along with this.
I mean, it could get ugly.
I mean, you think the New York Post is backing down?
I mean, there'll be more stories this weekend.
Watch for it.
Can we do updated odds on who's going to win the presidency?
Well, I haven't changed my position, but go ahead.
Give us the odds.
I'm still the same.
You're at what?
85% he wins.
85% Trump.
I'm not changing my position.
Tom, you're at what?
You know what?
I just think.
99% where you're at.
No, no, no.
I'm not like that at all.
I think it all comes down to these swing states, and I think sanity will prevail.
And I think he's going to dominate the swing states like people don't expect him to.
He's going to dominate.
Well, look at the rallies.
Look at the crowds at the rallies.
There is unbelievable enthusiasm.
Chances he wins.
What's the number?
I'm going to say in the 70s.
Saying 70%?
In the 70s.
I'm still at 50-50, ladies and gentlemen.
Guys, what do you think in the audience?
Chances Trump wins.
100%?
Where are my MAGA people at?
50-50?
Is he losing?
Where are we at here?
Trump, 90%.
Well, let's all agree it's not 90%, everybody.
I mean, this is, we got some people out there that are completely out in right field, literally.
Listen, I tell you, man, I don't think people understand strategy.
I really don't think they understand strategy right now with what's going on.
Everything is helping Trump out.
The two town halls, how it was handled, that helps Trump out.
Twitter trying to help Biden by not letting that story be shared.
It's a story that everybody's talking about.
It helps Trump out.
You know what everybody did?
Let me tell you what 50 Cent one time did.
He was coming out with a record.
Okay, this is the record that blew up.
We talked about this.
We talked about this, right?
He says, listen, he pays a guy money to come and shoot up the studio he's recording in.
He said, they don't want this record to come out because I'm saying some shit that they don't want nobody else.
Boom, everybody wants to buy the record.
No kidding.
That was heavy stage today.
Of course, in the book with Robert Green called 50th Law, he says sometimes you got to do these kinds of things, right?
This is all helping your favorite guy in the world, Donald Trump.
I said, you know what needs to happen next.
Tell us.
Here we go.
I'm just putting the pieces together right here.
It's one plus one equals three.
What's that?
Trump's got to have someone shoot up the White House, bro.
They don't want me to run be president.
They don't want this album to come out.
Oh, he would run with that.
He would probably come out with an album drug.
Donald Trump with Ice Cube.
With Ice Cube.
If 100%.
With Ice Cube.
With Ice Cube.
PWA.
Presidents with Attitudes.
Straight out of the White House.
There's a motherfucker named Donald.
You don't want to be a MAGA?
I think you should do it.
Shoot up the White House.
They would actually crush it if they did that, by the way, if they came out with a song together.
Let's see.
What story do we want to get to next, man?
So I think, again, another story.
What's that again?
Elon Musk.
You want to do Elon Musk?
I mean, it's not really a crazy story, though.
It's just the fact that he did the prices at the price that he got.
You know, a funny sidebar to what we were just talking about, Rupert Murdoch, you know, saying that he thinks Joe Biden is going to win a win.
Rupert Murdoch used to own, does he still own the New York Post?
He either did or still does.
He owns the New York Post.
Doesn't he own Fox?
Yeah.
Well, Disney bought Fox, but he owns the part of it, yes.
Who owns Fox now?
Well, Disney owns.
Disney owns Fox.
But they still own Friday.
Bob Iger.
Fox News.
Bob Iger is the dealmaker that made it happen with everybody.
Kai, okay, you want to go to Elon Musk or to Elon Musk?
Go to Elon Musk.
You want to put the stuff up.
Elon Musk changes the price to the Model S to $69,420.
This is not the first time Musk is referenced on number 420 with Shimbalais's weed culture in 2018.
He infamously announced he's considering taking Tesla private at $420 a share, which got him in trouble with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The $69 reference perhaps isn't surprising for someone who's named his car Sexy, Model S, Model 3, Model X, Model Y, Sexy.
This guy's a genius, by the way when it comes down to it.
Funny numbers aside, this is the second time Tesla lowered a Model S price.
This week, just yesterday, the company reduced the price from $74,990 to $71,990.
Now you can buy the cheapest Model S for $5,570 less than you could just three days ago.
So he keeps lowering the prices.
So what's going on over here with Musk?
You know, I think it's great when you have a billionaire that has the sense of humor of a 13-year-old.
He amuses himself, if nothing else.
Now, it was a great strategic move.
It just shows you what a great marketer is, number one.
And number two, the reason he did it is because this competition, that other company that has these electric cars, lowered their price.
They got the federal tax credit that brought it to about $69,9 or $71 or something.
So he lowered it just a little bit, used these two convenient numbers, double whammy, gets the pub, lowers the price.
Brilliance.
$69 and $420.
Sign me up.
Are you going to buy a car?
Because I know you're in a market fan.
Only at that price.
Only at that price.
Are you really thinking about buying a car?
Yeah, yeah.
What car are you looking at?
What car are you looking at?
Tell us.
I'm looking at a Tesla.
You're not looking at like a Paycon or Gian?
I don't know what that is.
Those two cars, those are legendary cars in Iran.
You have to be from Iran to know what a PayCon or a Gion is.
You should know what a Renault is.
A Renault, right?
They still have those cars.
Pull it up.
Old one.
Hey, by the way, if you had a Lexus, would you ever trust it to drive itself?
I know people that commute into Century City from Manhattan Beach or into downtown L.A. on auto.
The car drives itself.
I would never do that in a million years.
Yeah, I'm still not coming.
Can you believe that car can even do it?
I can't.
I've never saw myself as a Lexus person.
You know how you look at people and you say they look like a Tesla?
Yeah, no, a Lexus person.
I just never, like, if you look at it.
But I was talking about Tesla.
By the way, let's look at everybody and say what kind of a car person they look like.
I'm going to tell you as well, by the way, here in a minute.
Let me tell you what Luis looks like.
Luis looks like a lowrider truck type of guy.
With a system.
Yeah, I see a system and low, you know, I see him with a car like that.
Kai, I see Kai with a car that makes a lot of sense, like an electrical Porsche.
I think he's got to be different.
But electrical Porsche, because it's, you know, saving gas, all this stuff.
But at the same time, it's hip as well.
I can see him in something like that.
Common sense kind of guy.
I see you like in an Audi.
I see you as an Audi guy.
Right?
Don't you see him as he's an Audi guy?
Don't you see that as an Audi guy?
It's funny as I don't like Audis at all.
I know you don't.
I'm just telling you, you look like an Audi.
I don't see him as an Uber guy, but I mean, it is what it is.
I am an Uber guy.
I'm a Lyft guy.
I'm actually a Lyft guy.
He's better now.
Shout out to Daryl Maury, who Ubers everywhere.
What do you see, Sam?
Should I think about what Sam looks like?
It's got to go fast.
I know that.
Sam, Sam, I can see Sam in like a Corvette Z06 type of thing.
I can see Sam in a nice sports car fan.
When you see Tom Zenner in, I don't even want to hear him.
What kind of minivan is Tom in?
Very cool.
Tom, Tom, I see Tom.
I was going there, but I'm just not going minivan.
But I do see Tom in like a nice, one of those big Range Rovers.
I see Tom as a Range Rover because he's a big guy, muscle.
You know, I see him a Range Rover guy with the family in the back, and, you know, Dash has got his, you know, skateboard in the back.
Like, Havana's got her stuff, and, you know, they're doing their thing.
But I see him as a – now you want to – What about you?
Now you have your truck.
I think you got to say what I look like.
I don't get to say, because if you tell me, I'll let you.
I'll pick it up.
I'll tell you what it is.
Here we go.
You look like that poster from the 90s.
You know, that really cool one with the spiral driveway with nine cars.
Oh, with the nine cars.
Nine garages.
I take that.
I see you in one car, buddy.
What's that?
And you know that car?
Let's see.
You're not driving it.
You have a driver full-on.
You're no longer pet.
Yeah.
He's no longer driving.
It would be better for me not to die.
Old school limo, old school, like coming to America.
Like that.
Old school, bro.
We're keeping it Iranian.
Town car.
Iranian chic limo.
Smells like cigarettes.
No, no.
Leather.
Classy.
Van.
Classy.
Classy.
I think you should do a Maybach and have some drive you.
Like, what kind of car would the sheikh get work done?
What kind of car of the chic of Iran would he be in?
Rolls-Royce, but he would sit in the back.
That's where I want you.
Yeah.
In the back.
I don't want you driving.
Probably the next phase.
I probably need to do that because driving is not a good idea for me to do.
I got pulled over the other day.
So I got pulled over the other car.
Who texts you the second you have a car?
Yeah, you always do because I hit a car, they hit me.
So this car hits the tire, and we get out.
The car is trash, and they hit my tire of the truck.
And the tire ripped the whole thing out of the side.
I'm like, I feel bad for you guys.
You hit me.
We're so sorry.
The tire ripped everything.
Nothing happened to the car.
But the other day I'm driving with Mario and I make a U-turn, and I don't even know what happened.
All of a sudden, the cop was a morning.
I'm getting pulled over.
By the way, I was about to race this guy next to me.
He was Revan.
So he's Rev. I said, I think I'm going to go to the bathroom.
I'm going like this.
And next thing you know, boom, cop pulls me over.
And I look at the cop.
I said, what are you pulling me over for?
I'm confused.
He says, I'm sorry.
He says, what am I pulling you over?
He says, first of all, you made an illegal U-turn.
You changed three lanes.
You didn't signal once.
You were speeding.
You were peeling out.
You were about to race.
You're lucky I don't have my gun because you were speeding as well.
That's what I pulled you.
I said, that's fair enough.
Here's my license.
And then the other guy and I start talking and we start cracking up with the other cop.
We're having a great conversation together.
Then the guy comes back.
He says, Listen, you're the best guy we pulled over today.
We just gave you a basic fix-it ticket.
You don't need to worry about it.
They waived all the other five stuff.
I got one thing.
Here's the crazy thing about being pulled over.
The less you care, the less they want to give you a ticket.
What are you going to give me a ticket for?
I really don't care if I get a ticket.
But the way, you know, they were cracking up.
What is it about the not caring?
Is it like you'll pay the 200 bucks?
It's not a big deal.
Who cares about it?
But at some point, what happens to your license?
Does he get too many payments?
It's been suspended a couple times.
It's been suspended a couple times.
That's when you keep driving or no?
It's not suspended right now, but I did drive before when it was suspended once, and I didn't know it was suspended.
I was going to meet a client.
I was taking one of my agents with me, and the cop pulls me over, says, You need to get out of the car.
I'm like, I'm getting out of the car for what?
He says, Sir, you need to step out of the car right now.
I get out of the car.
He pulls me to the side.
He says, You know, your car is suspended.
We're taking it right now.
And in the middle of me being pulled over, he gets a call.
They said there's a shooting five miles down.
He says, Stay right here.
I have to go to.
I said, Of course, I'm going to wait right here.
I'm like, I'm not waiting, right?
I went.
We had to go to court.
I drove with Mickey.
Drove me to court to Palm Springs for me to fix my suspended license.
I couldn't drive for six months.
So that's my that goes back to your story when you tell your kids that your family's protected.
You need to get a five-alarmed car.
Here's your next hire, Pat.
He's a fixer guy.
He's a driver.
He's a fan.
He's a family.
He's packing heat.
He's got a gun.
I know the right people there as well.
You hire the guy, you pay him a good amount, fair amount.
You keep him loyal.
You know?
Are you making a recommendation?
Are you sure?
I got some people that I can meet.
They happen to be in Florida, so we got to wait till Florida.
You got some people for me in Florida.
People say here that I'm going to be, my car is a tricycle with Kai.
I'll jump on that one, guys.
I got my tricycle packed in the back, baby.
By the way, so did you guys see that?
This is this is it's sports, but it's also political.
Did you guys see the finals viewership?
What it was?
The NBA Finals viewership.
Check this out.
You're going to make me.
So the NBA finals are historically awful numbers.
Kai, if you want to pull the article up so everybody can see it.
Game one of the finals was down 45% over last year.
Game two was down 53%.
Game three was down 56%.
Game four, 42.71%.
Game five, 51%.
And the last game where the championship was won was down 51%.
The average viewership numbers of 7.45 million is the lowest number on record.
We're talking from 18 million people watching the finals to only 7 million people watching the finals.
By the way, the regular Sunday football game is 11 million.
NBA is down to 7.4 finals.
Adam, finals is what we're talking about.
And then Daryl Maury steps down.
Ted Cruz and Mark Cuban won at it again.
I don't know if you guys saw the exchange between Ted Cruz and Mark Cuban.
That's amazing.
Yeah, this was an interesting one that was on the morning brew this morning.
Stanley Cup lines 61%.
Preakness stakes.
You know what?
We're in a new world, everybody.
You're going to see all major sports championships move digital.
Amazon, YouTube.
It's done.
It's not working anymore.
No one wants to watch stuff with commercials.
Now, the NFL is an anomaly.
Okay, the NFL is its own beast because the top 10-rated shows every year are NFL football.
What is it with NFL that's so attractive?
You know, I think more than NBA.
It's an event.
Women like it, and you got gambling.
Gambling sucks people in.
Fantasy leagues and people have money riding out of these games.
It means eyeballs.
Yeah.
How much of it do you think this has to do with bringing too much politics into 20%?
20%.
You don't even think it's a big of a deal.
I think it's a deal.
I think they have the perfect storm.
It's that.
It's basketball in October, and people not used to that, and the whole, just everything.
Pandemic, add it all up, and it was a disaster.
Okay, so everything was down.
Stanley Cup's down 60%.
Preakness down 56.
NBA Finals down 49.
Down, But look what's up.
This is weird to me.
PGA toured non-major CBS.
That makes sense because there was nothing else on.
WNBA Finals.
WNBA Finals was up 15%.
PGA championship final round up 3%.
Why was the WNBA finals up?
I have no idea.
Well, I think you watch it.
You're like your community.
All four of my friends, it's up 15%.
It's up 15%.
I mean, you know.
So it's bigger than NBA.
Have you ever watched the WNBA finals?
Highlights?
Oh, okay.
So you've seen some of the highlights.
Yeah.
But never the finals.
Never watched the full finals.
Have you ever watched the full game?
Never.
I have.
I support my friend Diana Taurasi.
I have.
Well, she's a beast.
She's the best.
She's a beast.
I have to support her.
You know Diana, huh?
I know her well.
Yeah, she's nice.
She's a Manhattan Beach.
She's great.
She's legendary on how she is.
Okay, last thing we touch.
You want to touch China last?
China coming up talking about their potentially wanting to go to Red Alert.
Yeah, I think we should.
I think we should spend a minute on that.
Yeah, China president tells troops to prepare for war.
Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered his elite troops to do as much during a Tuesday military base visit.
On Wednesday, CNN Translated Report from Xinhao, the Chinese state news agency, quoted Jinping directing the troops to focus their minds and energy on preparing for war.
This news comes as tensions increase between U.S. and China over the coronavirus pandemic, trade issues, and CNN report on Monday that the White House approved Congress to proceed with the sale of three advanced weapon systems to Taiwan.
U.S.-Taiwan relations have improved, but China objects to the transaction and considers self-governing Taiwan as part of its territory.
Thoughts?
Scary.
You know, that was the number one trending story on VTPost.com.
I mean, that got a ton of views.
I mean, there's just something frightening about the fact that that guy is not into hyperbole, really.
If you go in front of your military and you say prepare for war, I don't think that's subliminal.
I think that's what he's telling him.
The biggest question is, who's the enemy?
Who are they going after?
Should we assume it's Taiwan?
Is there something else?
It's what I said a couple weeks ago with all this.
This is a toxic mix, which what we have going in our country where we don't know who our enemy is.
It makes us extremely vulnerable, where we get sucked into something and it takes on a life of its own.
But that one's, keep your eye on it.
What do we always say about China, that they're not the type of country that's going to come out and fight you?
Yeah.
They're passive aggressive.
Proxy.
Right?
They'll do proxy war.
But they don't like you messing with what's their, what their, you know, their territory, this Taiwan.
Do you remember when Trump's first week in office, first week in office, he called the president of Taiwan and he says, I'd like to have a, you know, talk with you, keep open dialogue.
China went off.
You do not do this.
You do not disrespect.
This is, you know, stay away from Taiwan.
Trump slowly backed away and then re-engaged with China again.
And then, you know, so on and so forth with the trade war with China.
They don't want you talking to Taiwan.
They don't want you selling arms to Taiwan.
That is like literally red alert for them.
Don't be talking to Taiwan.
And I mean, we've heard China come out and say a lot of things.
When have we ever heard them say, ready for war?
Ever?
Yeah.
So the Taiwan thing is a big deal for them.
We might be thinking in America, who cares, Taiwan?
That's huge for them.
Yeah, this is all going in a direction where this could mean a lot of different things.
This could mean a lot of different things.
I mean, election right now, you know who Taiwan wants to be a president.
China wants to be president.
China's leaning towards Biden.
They are hoping Biden wins.
If Biden wins, a lot of China's problems goes away because they can do more deals than they were doing before.
That is what they're leaning on right now.
Here's something.
I'm just curious.
Out of everybody that's watching this right now, who is Armenian or Assyrian?
I'm just curious to know.
I've never asked this question.
I'm curious to know that the 3,069 people that are on with us, a last-minute podcast we call on a Friday morning that wasn't in the calendar, wasn't scheduled.
If you're Armenian or Assyrian, I want you to say you're Armenia or Assyrian.
I'm actually really curious because, you know, the stuff, the challenges in Armenian Azerbaijan is not going away.
It's not getting pretty at all.
It's getting worse and worse.
I don't know if you're following it even more on what's going on.
I had a video that was sent to me the other day.
There's no way in the world I'm going to show it.
It's so disturbing.
It shows the exact stories of what you would hear from what the Turkish Empire did to the Armenians.
I'll show it to you privately in the video.
I'm not going to show it here on the podcast.
I don't think it's appropriate for you to see it, period.
It's very, very uncomfortable to see it.
Very dirty things are going up there.
You had yesterday Pompeo came out and said, we feel the Armenians can handle it by themselves.
Turkey's backing up Azerbaijan.
You got 90 million people going up against 3 million people, Armenia.
I contacted, I spoke to the head of press of Armenia of Pashinya, Nicole Pashin, who's the prime minister.
They reached out to us.
If you are Armenian and you're listening to this podcast, or you're Assyrian or Armenian, we spoke to folks from his camp.
I wanted to fly out to Armenia to go interview him.
And I wanted to go visit Artsakh.
That's what I wanted to do.
I wanted to go visit him.
But this week I'm gone.
I may do it in the next week or two.
But if you are somebody that is Armenian and Assyrian and you would like to see an interview with myself with Nicole Pashinian, not the president, Armen Sarkisian, they've already reached out.
We had the interview scheduled to be done on Monday.
I don't want to interview the president.
I want to interview the prime minister, Nicole Pashinian.
If you want to see that interview take place, I want you to go on Twitter, tweet at him.
I want you to go on Instagram, Instagram him, and let him know why he ought to consider being a guest on Valetame with us.
I watched all the interviews that he's done.
I think the biggest one's got a few hundred thousand views.
I not only want to do the interview with them, but I've also made a commitment that if they agree to do the interview, we will match up to a quarter million dollars, dollar to dollar.
If they want to do an interview, I want to bring awareness.
We'll end up raising a half a million dollars.
Anything people put up, dollar to dollar, I'll put up a quarter million dollars.
I want to raise some money.
I want to raise awareness.
I want the world to know what's going on with Armenia.
And I want to put that interview on value tame.
So if that's something you want to see happen, I want you to go message PM Pashinian.
I want you to go message him on Twitter and on Instagram.
And Kai, if you want to put the link to Pashinion's Twitter account for them to go out there and do this, we want to see that interview take place.
I think the world needs to hear what is really going on there from his point of view, his optics.
It'll be a one-hour long-form interview and type of an interview he hasn't done yet.
It's not a short-term, quick, give me a 30-second answer or one-minute answer.
I want a long-form interview because the world needs to hear from him directly, and media is not giving him the right platform to have a long-form interview.
You want to see it?
Go do that.
I've already committed to what I'm going to be doing up to a quarter million dollars will raise and we'll match for anybody that puts up money.
We'll do that.
So, having said that, go ahead.
I just have one quick thing.
Did you see the rally in downtown LA that you're going to be doing?
Yes, I did.
Peaceful LAPD came out and said it's so impressive that the Armenians held a peaceful protest.
It was massive.
Yeah, it was massive.
It was massive.
It was all over the place.
And I think Kim just announced that they gave some money.
I spoke to a friend who's the producer of The Promise, Eric Israelian.
He's working a lot behind closed doors.
There's a lot of people that are working.
We had a conference call yesterday with Aram Hamparian, who was ambassador.
We've had him on before.
But I'll say that part.
And by the way, if you're with us so far, you've enjoyed it.
Put it in your calendar.
Next week, Thursday, 7 p.m., we'll start for the debate.
And it's going to be a four-hour long form tap of deal.
And I'll have some friends here with us as well.
So put it in your calendar to join us on the debate night.
It'll be the last debate that we'll do together.
But I think our buddy here, Tom's got an update for us.
Okay, so Pat, I appreciate everybody going to vtpost.com.
You know, get your news every single day.
Jeff Bezos, so they had Amazon days this week, Amazon Prime day, right?
That's right.
Okay, and huge success.
We're going to have a couple stories up there about it.
The fact that the money it makes, I mean, Amazon Prime, you think about Jeff Bezos, you think about Amazon making so much money, but they really do help smaller businesses.
I mean, the amount of money that some of these mom and pop shops that have products on Amazon is staggering.
But you know what's more interesting than that is Jeff Bezos' net worth.
And we're going to post a story right now.
I want everybody to go to vtpost.com and watch this story.
So, Adam, you'll dig this.
His net worth went over 200 billion again this week.
Okay, because of Prime, the success of Amazon Prime.
So we wanted to just break down what $200 billion is, what it looks like, what it can buy you, stacking dollar bills.
What you're just going live right now.
I'm going to post this story right now.
Guys, you're going to be fascinated by $200 billion.
It's mind-boggling.
We'll tell you how many McDonald's franchises you can buy.
You know, other things like that.
So here we go.
I'm going to publish it right now.
So go to vtpost.com, check this thing out.
And I think you can.
Didn't publish it yet?
Yeah, it's a fun read for a Friday where you can see this.
Put it on the main page because it's not right now.
I just see it on VT Post.
Do you see the story or no?
Okay, I'm going to go under business.
I'm going to put the link for you guys to see.
By the way, VTPost.com, a new site for busy people.
If you haven't gone there yet, this last week, we had nearly 100,000 people log on original users to see the content that we have on vtpost.com.
Tom's doing a phenomenal job with 20 stories a day.
If you haven't gone yet, go to vtpost.com to see today's story about what $200 billion.
$200 billion.
It should be up there now.
Okay.
And then outside of that, we will see the rest of you with us next Thursday night, 7 p.m. Central Standard Time.
We're going to have some unique, potential, unique friends and guests that'll be here with us.
Put in your candle.
We'll see you there.
Meanwhile, between now and then, have a wonderful weekend, everybody.
