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This is my whole entire point, is that you take the most obscure song.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
You just have a different song.
I mean, listen, I understand what mood.
Okay, we're live.
I just want you to know if you just joined us.
This is the 25th podcast episode we're doing.
If the last 15 minutes were live, this would be a bad situation if the last 15 minutes were live.
We were having a little too much fun.
Adam telling us his pickup lines, which may be for a different episode that we'll do.
Anyways, we have a lot to cover today.
A lot of crazy things happened last two days.
I'm going to show a video I did about voting, just so you know where my values and principles lie.
This is a video I did April of 2014 on how I felt about the voting system and how I think we should change the voting system.
We'll get a chance to watch it hopefully on 1.5.
Still relevant?
I think it's important for you because some of the stuff I was watching myself, I'm like, okay, that's extreme.
But it's good to see it to kind of see what happens.
You evolved.
I think you'll see when you see where I was at at that time.
But I actually like what he had to say, what the 35-year-old PBD had to say.
I actually like what he had to say.
I like that guy.
He's a good guy, that guy.
He's a good guy.
Okay, we're going to talk about age.
Ages.
Like, what ages do we get to do certain things in America?
Being a president, being a vice president, Senate, House, sexual consent, smoking, alcohol.
I guarantee you, some of you guys are going to learn numbers about age and consent, certain things that you never thought were legal.
We're going to talk about today.
Alibaba's singles day that they had, they had a decent day.
We'll let you know how that compares against Amazon.
Bill Ackman makes another massive bet on new COVID-19 surge.
The last time he made this bet, Kai, the last time he made that bet, he made a lot of money.
But he's doing it again, and this time around, he's doubling down billionaire.
You'll see where he's going with it.
Pfizer's CEO, the day after they announced the vaccine, you will not believe what he did with his shares the day after they announced the vaccine.
I mean, it's shocking when you find out what he's seriously.
It's shocking when you find that.
And I'm curious to know your thoughts about it.
Ammunition backlog over a billion dollars.
Adam's been concerned every day lately.
Have you guys noticed that?
Adam's been complaining about ammunition backlog.
Yeah, okay.
I mean, mine's on back order for months now.
I got to get my guns.
I need 10 more.
That's why he got his numb chucks out.
You need 10 more guns.
No, no, no.
Adam's going to get away with anything by just being charming and smooth.
Listen, I don't think it's a good idea for you to shoot me right now, because don't you want to live a long life and enjoy, don't you want to do?
I got something to tell you, the day that you shoot me and kill me, you will die the next day.
This is what happened.
That's exactly the line.
That's podcast, what is it?
Episode three or two, I think it's one of them.
We talked about genius.
My premonition.
Governor Abbott welcomes major stock exchange to Austin Nasdaq.
They're having conversations right now.
Kai, did you get the story about California Newsom on what New York and California is doing?
Is it in there or no?
Is it in here when I go to it?
Okay, George is doing a recount, But by hand, Biden's buddy is saying that we should shut down the economy for six weeks, which is a brilliant idea, obviously.
Tesla selling to kilo bottles for $250.
Where is that article?
That's the article I want to really talk about.
The one that talks about, let me see where you have it.
Nearly 80% of Americans say Biden won White House, ignoring Trump's refusal to concede.
That's Reuters, which is a big number.
We'll talk about that as well.
I do not see where you have that, Kai.
Is it under politics?
At the top of the page where it starts with Republican.
Can you read it?
You just read it.
You're talking about you're looking for the 80% number?
No, no, I'm talking about how California and New York are telling you how to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Oh, I haven't seen that.
Have you seen that?
It's absolutely berserk.
Oh, there's only 11 minutes.
You don't have it here.
I'm talking about my governor.
Be careful.
I apologize.
Oh, it's at the bottom of the page where it says Paula.
Well, we'll get into it.
I want to do it.
Bottom of the page.
Bottom of the page politics.
Matter of fact, I don't mind getting into that, but I think it's a good idea we get into.
Let me see here.
I want to get into that right off the bat.
Anyways, why don't we get into this?
Why don't we start the story off with telling everybody why you look so fresh this morning?
Oh, I look so fresh this morning because I woke up this morning.
I said, I don't know why.
I just want to look good for Adam today.
It's just a commitment I made to myself.
You know, why don't you do that for me every day?
I do it every day.
Sometimes it's a white t-shirt, sometimes it's white shoes.
It's pretty consistent.
Let's talk about looking fresh.
Tom Rook, the Kangal.
He's bringing it back to the 80s.
You know what?
He's doing it.
When I don't have to spend any time on my hair, it saves me 10 minutes.
That's awesome.
10 minutes.
Wow.
Minimum.
So let's get into it.
Alibaba.
Let's start off with business.
Alibaba.
Okay.
All we think about is and hear about is Amazon, It's all we hear about him.
We talk about Amazon all the time.
If you want to give it to me, if you have that.
Alibaba's single day that they have.
Is that yours or mine?
Mine.
Okay.
Alibaba's singles day, which is Amazon's prime day, right?
Alibaba's singles day post-virus ends up doing $56 billion.
Let me say that one more time.
Singles Day does $56 billion in a day.
Amazon, for their prime day this year, they did $3.5 billion.
$3.5 billion versus $56 billion.
We're talking 16 times is what they did.
Singles Day was created by Alibaba, execut Jack Ma and Daniel Zhang as a foil to Valentine's Day.
The date 11-11 was picked because it looks like bare branches, single and unattached.
We feel even lonelier now.
Alibaba kicked off sales a little earlier this year as of 12:30.30 a.m. local time.
Consumers spent $56.3 billion on products to move all the products around.
Alibaba's logistics arm prepared 3,000 chartered flights and cargo ships, 3 million logistic workers, and 10,000 mobile lockers to get this done.
What do you think about it?
I mean, $56 billion against $3.5 billion.
You know what?
I don't begrudge these guys how rich they are.
You know, Bezos and Jack.
By the way, how is Jack Ma only worth $40 billion?
He just crossed $100.
No, he did?
He just cost $100 billion.
You know, when you see a picture of Jack, you kind of get the idea why he wasn't getting a lot of dates on Valentine's Day and he had to create this.
But hey, brilliant.
He's getting dates now, though.
Oh, my God.
Can you imagine?
Hey, here's a little fun fact about Singles Day.
Just the amount of bras they sold on the first day, 1.6 million bras.
How many did you get?
If you stacked them up, it would be three times higher than Mount Everest.
Isn't that unbelievable?
That's a lot of bras to move in China.
They sold 1.6 million bras.
Just on the first day.
And I think this hit 100 billion, because they can do it longer.
It's more than just one day.
They go and go and go.
I think it's a great sign that the economy is strong.
If China, China, where they started the virus, is doing this well with their economy, I think is a good sign.
But it also reflects on the fact that the pandemic, people are shopping from home more.
Those are staggering numbers.
The logistics of what you just talked about, the amount of planes and how these guys coordinate this thing.
We get ticked off if our Amazon delivery is 15 minutes late.
Can you imagine what's going on in these warehouses where they have to, like, you know, maybe that's why it's so hard to work for Amazon and they run such a tight ship?
But I think it's staggering.
I think it's unbelievable.
And I hope it's a sign of good things for the economy if China's having this much success.
Always reassuring when there's 1.5 million bra selling.
It's always a good thing.
But what are your thoughts about this numbers?
A lot of titties are being thanked on Singles Day.
Protected.
Yeah, protected.
Good for them.
I mean, speaking of Jack Ma, what was the big news from him last week that he launched the largest ever IPO ever?
Well, exactly.
Well, the Ant Group.
I'm not sure necessarily sure it flopped.
Was that what the final news flopped?
What actually happened?
Did it happen?
I'm asking you.
It didn't happen.
It didn't happen.
No, he was launching it.
And then what?
Well, the Chinese government kind of stepped in.
It didn't happen.
They stopped it.
Poor Jack Ma.
I mean, so how did his wealth go from 40 billion to 100 billion overnight then?
I thought it's called your company that's 56 billion in a nice.
It's all because of the Alibaba.
The net Alibaba.
The list came out yesterday.
He's now on the list of $100 billion net worth.
It's him.
It's Gates.
I think it's Zuck.
It's Musk.
And one other one.
I'm missing one other one.
Musk, Zuck, Gates.
Morning Puffin?
No, it's the Renault guy.
It's the Louis Vuitton.
What is that?
Oh, yeah, no, my God.
By the way, how high will that get in our lifetime?
Will we see somebody at 500 higher?
You think Bezos?
In our lifetime?
In our lifetime?
100%.
You think we'll see a trillionaire?
In our lifetime, who's the youngest?
He's 40%, so let's just say he lives to 90.
He's healthy.
He takes care of himself.
50 years, in 50 years, I think we could see a trillionaire in 50 years.
But there's also a good chance if Biden gets re-elected, if he gets elected for the first time, that Bezos could be a millionaire.
Well, that's an interesting one right there.
It'll take more than I think it'll take AOC for him to be a millionaire.
We need an AOC for him to be a millionaire.
I think Biden's not going to make him a millionaire.
Anyways, okay, if you're watching this and you're enjoying it, why don't you share this with others and push a thumbs up for our buddies at YouTube for the algorithms to kick in?
Because I know we're just getting warmed up here with the stories.
I really want to get into this California, New York story, but I think we lead into it.
Let's hang tight for it.
Let's talk about Bill Ackman here.
Let's talk about Bill Ackman and we'll go into the vaccine situation.
So Bill Ackman, billionaire, made another massive bet on the new COVID-19 surge.
I hope we lose money on the next hedge.
Ackman told the Financial Times conference on Tuesday.
We're in a treacherous time generally.
And what's fascinating is the same bet we put on eight months ago is available on the same, is available on the same terms as if there had never been a fire on the probability that the world is going to be fine.
Bill Ackman just placed another big bet against the credit markets as coronavirus cases surged nationwide.
The billionaire has said he bought $8 million worth of insurance that will pay off if companies start defaulting on their debts like they did when the coronavirus shut down the economy in the spring.
The bet is nearly identical.
His now famous hedge in late March, in which he turned, he bought $27 million of credit default swap, CDS, which is what they used to do in the movie, The Big Short.
He bought a $27 million credit default swap that netted him a staggering.
You ready?
He bought $27 million in March that turned it into $2.6 billion is what he did.
He's banking on the economy, taking a hit.
When Ackman took his profits on March 23rd, there were just over 10,000 new cases of COVID-19 nationwide.
On Tuesday, new cases were just shy of $140,000, a dizzying number that has stoked fears of a second lockdown.
What are your thoughts on this?
Biggest thing was, you know, he came out in mid-March pre-lockdown.
I mean, what was the big event that happened that the world was like, or America was like, holy, what's going on?
NBA locked us or NBA and all that.
And when the NBA shut down, everyone was like, what the hell's going on here?
That was like, I think March.
Yeah, that was the whole 10th, maybe, give or take.
Fair enough.
Yeah, that's he came out, I want to say, March 15th, 16th, 17th, right, like second week in March.
And he basically, his first thing he said is, hell is coming.
It was like the lead story on CNBC.
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman has announced hell is coming and basically called on Trump for a lockdown.
This is pre-full-on lockdown.
And the dominoes fell.
And clearly the guy was right because COVID exploded at that point.
He placed the correct bet.
Has been called the what, the single best trade of all time.
And this is what a hedge fund guy does, right?
I mean, you buy a business.
$17 million into $2.6 billion that quickly.
That's insane.
Do you think there's something shady going on there?
No, no, I'm not.
I'm just thinking it's a great move.
You know, he's brilliant.
I saw something coming, obviously.
Here's the deal.
I mean, stay in your lane, though, bro.
I mean, you know, you don't need to be telling the president what to shut down.
Okay.
If you want to get rich, you're an opportunist.
You're brilliant.
I have no problem with that whatsoever.
Here's the problem I have.
His quote after this latest round of shorting, he goes, I hope we lose money.
Yeah, right.
Okay, don't be disingenuous about it.
I mean, you're in it to make money.
If you're so concerned about, hey, I don't want this virus to take off and more people to die and get sick and blah, blah, blah, then donate the money you made the first time.
Okay.
You're a capitalist.
You want to make the money.
You got the opportunity.
Say, I hope we make another $3 billion.
Don't be like this.
Okay.
It makes it a lot better.
He's playing both sides.
He wants to be nice, but also make a couple billions.
He's protecting himself.
Yeah, you know what?
I also don't like the fear that he's throwing out there, too.
Oh, it's coming.
It's coming.
Back in March when he made that first bet, there was only 10,000 cases.
Are there more than that now?
Has it gone up?
I haven't seen the latest stats.
Are there still 10,000?
No, I'm joking.
It's like, you know, one or four million.
So anyway, you know, it's going to work.
The timing for him is perfect.
If Biden holds on to this, it's all setting up for him to double.
What did he bet this time?
He put on how much is that?
$8 million?
Is that all he did?
So he didn't go $27 million again.
I don't know.
Okay, this one is 30% as big as the last one, I think.
Yeah, 30%.
8 million.
Yeah, exactly.
What are you doing?
If you just put another 27, if 27 turned into 2.6 million.
He's not as confident.
Yeah, that 8 million, if it did the same thing, it would turn into $800 million.
That's what it would do.
That $8 million to $800 million, 100x your money in the span of a couple months.
30 million for the year.
He already 100x his money the first time around.
Imagine going doing that again in the span of months.
But I tell you, I think if he's going from 27 to 8, I don't think he's as confident about the fact that he's going to be as bad.
If you're that confident, you would put 54.
You would put 100.
You just made 2.6 billion.
Why don't you put 100 of it?
Who cares what's 100?
You know, here's my biggest problem with it, though, because, okay, he's successful doing this.
It's working.
A lot of people have seen the big short movie.
There's going to be a lot of people jealous that Dave didn't think of this, that have the ability to do it, that are in the financial world.
What's to stop them from creating a frenzy that another wave is coming so they can make a billion dollars?
Because the media will run with it.
They love these stories that the country is falling apart, is ready to shut down again, that the COVID virus is taking over everything.
So watch for that because there's going to be a lot of people that are jealous they didn't think of it.
If you're watching this, what do you think about it?
What do you think about a guy betting 27 million bucks to turn into 2.6 billion dollars right afterwards?
What are your thoughts?
Is that okay?
Are you comfortable with that?
I'm curious.
If you're watching this, comment below.
But let's get into the next story.
The next story to me, it's, I mean, guys, this is very weird.
Pfizer's CEO announces the vaccine, cashes out 60% of his stock on the same day the company unveiled the results of its COVID-19 vaccine trial.
Let me say this one more time.
This is not a typo.
Pfizer's CEO cashes out 60% of his stock on the same day the company unveiled the results of its COVID-19 vaccine trial.
So they announced the vaccine, how it did, the 90% efficacy, all the stats that they gave us, and he sells 60% of the stock on the same.
Wouldn't you keep it if you think the company is going to be going up?
Wouldn't you be thinking if the market responded, Disney went up, everything went up except for those Zoom stocks, the companies that were relying on the pandemic to stick around?
Albert Borola sold 62% of his stock on the same day.
The drug maker announced the COVID-19 vaccine trial.
Borola sold $5.6 million of his stock on Monday as part of his predetermined trading plan, adopted August 19.
His stock sale was carried out at $41.94 a share.
The 52-week high for Pfizer was $41.99, so $0.05 less, which means the CEO cashed out his shares at close to their highest price this year.
Pfizer and his German partner, BioNTech, on Monday became the first to post positive results from late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trials.
I mean, he has to know when he makes this move that it's going to hit the media and they're going to run with it.
So I'm sure he has some sort of excuse.
Well, you got to understand, here's what I was doing.
Here's the thing.
But as far as optics goes, this looks like the classic case of insider trading, right?
I mean, this has insider trading, not even so much insider.
He knew this was going down and he just exited.
I mean, it hit the first time.
It was a high for the year, $41.94.
He sold it $41.99 and he just got out.
I mean, what more could there be other than insider trading here?
You know, I got two thoughts on this.
Number one, like you said, it was predetermined in August that he was going to do this.
But number one, I'm suspicious about everything regarding the timing of this announcement.
Politically, all right, when it came out, you know, just conveniently a few days after the election, how it happens to help one individual, and then, you know, how this breaks that day.
But here's the other thought I had when I heard that he made $5 million on this.
More than $5 million.
He sold $5.6 million.
Yeah, $5.6 million.
Holy crap, is he underpaid for developing the vaccine that is going to stop a pandemic?
He is only making $5 million.
Okay, remember when everybody was talking about Bill Gates, you know, kind of like manipulating this whole thing, wanting to be involved in finding the vaccine to make billions?
How do you only make $5.6 million for coming up with the vaccine to stop COVID-19?
I think he should have made 10 times that.
To come out with that vaccine.
Yes, yes.
You know, hey, look, he did it.
He was the first one out to market.
There's no way he could be that stupid to come out and, you know, to do anything that could get him in trouble financially.
So sometimes these deals, because it says here, he sold $5.6 million in stock on Monday as part of his predetermined trading plan, adopted August 19th.
So on August 19th, they didn't know that the market was going to, or Pfizer was going to announce the vaccine on this specific day.
So was that a predetermined date that they were going to sell it on this specific day?
Or could he have sold it later on?
Because if you're optimistic about the fact that the vaccine is going to do very well, isn't it fair to say that Pfizer's stock is about to blow up?
And if Pfizer's stock's about to blow up and go from $4,194 a share, which is what he sold, if it's going to go to $80, that's what?
That's $12 million for him.
If it goes to $160, that's $24 million for him.
Why is he cashing out at 5.6?
Now, here's the other thing.
Sometimes when you see this, maybe there's a divorce going on where the wife is forcing to sell shares because you have to pay the other half, but that's not it.
This is a predetermined, this has got nothing to do with personal life.
This is a contract Monday as part of a predetermined trading plan adopted August 19th.
Okay, I got two thoughts on that.
Maybe in August, they didn't know they'd be first to get out.
Okay, so that's what I'm saying.
That's what I'm saying.
And the other thing, too, is there might be a bonus for him if they were first.
He gets 10 million new shares, you know, that he can hold on to now and watch the stock price rise.
So I'm sure there's some sort of incentive for him as a CEO for them to be first.
I tell you, I mean, if you're a CEO, think about it, Adam, you're a CEO.
You're a CEO of Pfizer, okay?
And you decided to work with Pfizer because they have great product, blue pills, whatever they got.
But let's just say you're a CEO of Pfizer, okay?
And you know more than anybody else that your vaccine is about to come out.
You know all the testing you've done.
You know what's coming out.
And you know what kind of a blockbuster announcement is going to be if you're going to be the what?
First.
Pfizer is going to be on every single paper, Times, Post, Washington, New York, L.A., everything is going to say Pfizer, Pfizer, Pfizer.
Pfizer's CEO for one day is the most famous man in the world.
In one day, he's the most famous man in the world.
You didn't know the name, Albert Borla, as of the day before they announced it.
You didn't know the name.
Hell no.
Nobody knew the name.
Except for the people in the industry knew the name, but most people didn't know the name.
You know this is coming up.
Aren't you having a conversation with the guys who say, look, can I hang on to my shares?
Do I have to sell my shares?
Can I not sell my shares?
Can I sit on these shares?
Can I just hang tight?
Because the scariest thing is when somebody's putting a bet on a, when you're going through a transaction, and let's just say you want to sell something.
Sometimes the buyer will ask you, do you want to keep some of the shares yourself?
If you say, no, I want to sell 100% of the shares, but I'm really optimistic about this business, guess what the buyer says?
How are you optimistic?
But you want to sell 100%.
But if you say, no, I'm cool, I'll let it roll a little bit.
What does the buyer say?
Okay, good.
He's also vested with us.
He's got skin in the game.
I mean, he's keeping some of it, but wouldn't you keep the shares for another six months?
He sold 62% of his stock.
I actually agree with Tom here.
$5.6 million.
Nothing.
Very low.
That's why my idea was like, well, he's made more than $5 million.
Exactly.
Well, you got to realize, CEOs don't make as much money as you think.
Founders do.
CEOs is not the same as a founder.
And especially in Europe.
They're not like American CEOs.
Unless if you're a CEO of Tim Cook, Apple, things like that, different story.
You know, the gravy train is not going to stop for him for a long time.
A couple reasons why.
Abe, do you know that when we get the vaccine, we're talking about, will you get the shot?
It's two shots.
All right.
It's not just one.
You have to go back and do another shot in three weeks.
This is a two-part deal.
And the other thing, too, is I saw a story today where the vaccine they're hoping is going to last for a year.
So this thing is going to be around for much longer than a year.
So Pfizer, if they're the first ones out there, if they can prove this thing and people trust it, they trust this vaccine and it's working and the testing all shakes out.
I mean, you know, it's going to be raining on him for a very long time.
I mean, that's.
You're saying the vaccine is only going to last a year?
Well, more than likely.
No, no, no.
Yeah, the vaccine is going to last a year.
So then you're going to have to get it again.
Just like the flu shallow.
You can get it every year.
So then it becomes a continuous thing we do until this thing goes away and we don't have it anymore.
Well, that's the same thing as a flu shot, right?
I mean, you don't get it once and you're done.
By the way, you mentioned we had never heard of that CEO.
When you Google Pfizer, CEO sells stock, that phrase, 59 million hits come up.
Exactly.
That's how many people checked him out after that story.
That's exactly the point.
So imagine, as of the day prior to that, nobody knew it.
Day next or 59 million people are searching this guy's name.
But that goes back to my initial point.
He has to have a story to tell, knowing that this is going to be the breaking news that comes out.
Yeah, but here's the other thing, too.
It's brilliant because what are we talking about here?
The election results.
Something like this, if something nefarious was going on, could kind of slide under the cracks a little bit because people are so desperate to find this vaccine and have something on the market that's working.
And we're talking about Biden versus.
I actually don't know if there's anything nefarious going.
I'm just thinking myself that this is just a, you know, if it's contracted that you have to sell on that day, he's screwed.
So if it's something that he had to sell it on that same day, he's sitting on saying, shit, I wish I could keep this for another three more months or six more months, right?
So if he could have negotiated it, great.
If he couldn't have and he sold it, then I don't know if it's a good move or not.
So the bottom line is if it's predetermined trading, they say on August 19th, you have to sell on November 10th.
That's the day that you're going to be able to do that.
So then the big question is, could the announcement have come a day later or did it come on that date for him to capitalize on a higher 15% raised stock price?
Let me tell you, if this vaccine takes off for Pfizer, that 41 is going to go to 80 in no time.
Guys, don't forget what happened to Zoom.
We didn't even know about Zoom.
We knew about Zoom, but we didn't know about Zoom the way.
And all of a sudden, shares went from $60 to $500 in six months.
You know what, $60 to $500?
That's like saying this $41 is going to go to $350 in the next six months.
You know what's $350?
If this thing goes to $350, that's nearly 9x.
You know what's 9x of $5.6 million?
That's a $50 million payday.
Sure.
$45 million payday.
He left $40 million on the table.
Yeah, I would actually be pissed that I had to sell.
That's what I'm saying.
If he had to sell something.
I'm reversing course on this.
This guy should actually probably want to hold on to this.
All right, we'll see.
Exited $65 million.
If there is something shady going on, I am sure it's going to come out in the next few days.
But if not, man, if it wasn't a contract, a little bit of a bad sign.
It's like a case of reverse insider trading.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like I said, screwed on it.
Are you saying this is called outsider trading?
Is that what you would call it?
All right.
Well, he's on the inside.
So let's talk about, let's talk about California, New York.
Let's talk about California, New York, too, the coolest governors we got in America that, you know, the other day, I don't know if you heard what Newsome said, not Newsome, Cuomo said.
Cuomo said, if I wasn't a governor, I'd love to deck him in the face.
I'd love to.
Yeah, Cuomo said this about Trump.
What was the country accent?
Wait, you didn't see this?
No.
Cuomo said, have you seen this or no?
See if you can find it.
Cuomo punched Trump.
Go to YouTube and type in Cuomo Punch Trump.
Pat, what was that country accent you just used for New York Times?
It was like a Buffalo accent.
This is definitely not New York.
I thought it had like Alabama in a nutshell.
Does freaking Ross Perot make some threats over here?
Cuomo punched Trump.
Go up.
He just made that allegation.
This is, do filter, filter it out by week.
Filter it out by week.
This week, left, left, left, right there, week.
Let's see, Andrew, going to punch in Trump in the face.
Yeah, there you go.
Riasa.
Do the 53-second one.
And I hope, you know, okay, do the 53-second one right there, reaction to what it said.
And then fast forward.
We want to end tonight on Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, trying to be the most masculine Cuomo on television.
He announced he was thinking about punching Donald Trump this year.
Sounds pretty tough, right?
Punching the president of the United States right in the face, and he would have done it if he hadn't inherited his father's job as governor.
Watch.
I needed him to help New York.
That was my job.
If I wasn't governor of New York, I would have decked him.
Period.
I mean, he was attacking me.
He was attacking my family.
He was anti-Italian.
He was every nasty thing.
You know, you, if I take away that word governor for 24 hours, I would have had a field day with him.
He's on a rap.
He's on steroids.
Look at his face.
That's a Reid rage.
Oh, my gosh.
That's just hilarious.
But a part of that to me is New York, the attitude of New York for him to say something like that.
I'd say he'd punch him in the face, though.
He'd say he would have decked him.
What does deck to mean?
You tell me what deck means.
Put him on a deck and have a cup of coffee.
What does deck mean to you?
It could have been in the chest.
It could have been in the nuts.
It could have been a kneecap.
He could have turned it in.
Isn't it a bad thing?
Is it in the nuts?
There is a phrase called you're reaching.
You are fully reaching right now, buddy books.
What the hell is that?
I've never seen a punch phrase for you.
I've never seen two sons.
You know what my sons say?
When they punch each other, they punch and they aim at one place.
Face.
Face.
What do you mean I'm gonna raise some fighters over here?
I'm gonna kick you in the shin, a.k.a.
Do you have a problem with him saying that?
I have no problem with him saying that.
Because Trump said way worse than that.
I'd punch him right in the face.
He said a hundred times.
Did I tell you I have a problem with him?
I know you're protective of your community.
Did I say I have a problem with that?
I'm just protective of the fighting community.
I mean, I'm trying to have UFC go out.
Oh, my gosh.
I've never heard anybody say deck.
He didn't say he's going to deck him in the fight.
You want your pillow fight.
UFC pillow fighter.
If somebody says I'm going to deck him, all of you in here, what does he mean?
I'm going to deck him.
Luis, what is that?
Does it mean face or shoulder?
Eric, honestly.
Punch in the face.
Punch in the face.
I mean, even Norway, what is I'm going to deck him?
What are you doing?
Why are you going to try Norway?
Because Norway doesn't deck people in his face.
Okay, I was expecting him.
Oh, my gosh.
To be honest, I was expecting him to be like, I'd smack him right in the kiss, something like straight up in the face.
This is the kind of stuff you say while your sober community grows.
It's coming like that.
You make that your community gets more loyal to you.
I wish he would have said something a little more plagued.
Yeah, I thought I wanted to see some like that.
I'm just saying, the way that we built it up, I thought, oh, shit, he's about to say something off camera.
I'll deck him.
Off-camera, off-record.
I guarantee you he said what you want him to say.
Not what I want him to say.
I thought he was going to be.
Here's the craziest thing.
Let me tell you guys the craziest thing that many people think I'm crazy for this.
I love watching him and his brother on camera together.
I can't even tell you how much I love.
I can already see.
Like, you know, I have a lot of friends who are on all sides politically.
I have Muslim friends.
People think I'm Muslim.
Half the time I have to explain on Instagram, I'm from Iran.
Oh, you know, love to the Muslim community.
And I'm like, I'm not Muslim.
I hate to disappoint you, but I was born and raised in Iran, right?
I got people from all sides.
Can you imagine Thanksgiving at the Cuomos?
Actually, think about that.
I actually think Thanksgiving at the Cuomo's would be so entertaining.
Everybody is talking shit, taking shots.
You know, Yak, you do this.
You're this fan.
What are you talking about?
All you did is being a governor.
You're on TV.
You work an hour day.
They're non-stop.
So they're hilarious.
The governor had a funny line when he was talking about all his sisters, and he included Chris into that, right?
Did you hear that the other day?
He lumped him into his group of sisters.
He goes, I got all these sisters, including Chris.
So that was pretty funny.
You know, here's the other thing, too.
Do not bet against the fact that when Donald, if Donald Trump doesn't prevail in this election, which he still might, if he doesn't, if he doesn't, I could see him setting up a pay-per-view him against Cuomo.
I could see the fight.
I could see it happening.
Who's going to fight?
Trump versus Cuomo.
Trump will put it on pay-per-view.
Cuomo will kick the shit out of that guy.
You can't disagree.
Cuomo, disagree.
What?
He's one of those classic people.
Do you have any point?
You can jump off the Trump train.
Fighting a guy who works at any point.
You just can jump off.
You just accuse him of not even being able to get him.
You got to get off and push somebody in the face.
You got to get off and stop.
You don't think a height advantage means something in a brawl?
6'4 versus 5'3?
You know what?
Cuomo is?
5'3?
5'3'5'5?
He might be 5'5.
That guy's at least 6'5.
You know what I'm saying?
soft.
He lives up in, where's the capital of New York?
Schenectady?
Rochester?
It's not even New York City.
He's not even in a big salary.
Andrew.
Andrew is.
Oh, he's 5'11 ⁇ .
5'11-6'1.
He's 5'3, and he's reaching over here.
By the way, let's just see some of these heights.
Chris Cuomo is 6'2, by the way.
Tucker Carlson, 6'1.
Cooper is 5'10.
He's not 5'10.
I've seen there's no way in the world Anderson Cooper's 5'10.
Pelosi, 5'5.
Apparently, everybody on Google is two inches taller.
These are lies across the board.
Don Lemon's 5'9.
He is not 6' Baron Trump, 7'4.
This is ridiculous.
Who is this guy?
That's you saying it, buddy.
That's my guy.
So, anyways, let's get - let's, by the way, if you're watching this, if you're watching.
I guarantee you.
Hang on a second.
Let's ask.
Let's ask.
If Trump, Donald Trump, Sr., fought, Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, New York governor, who would win the fight?
Thumbs up, Trump wins.
Thumbs down, Cuomo wins.
I'm actually curious.
Thumbs up, Trump wins.
Cuomo, hang on.
Yeah.
Cuomo wins.
Now, just give the ages.
Give the ages.
How old is Andrew Cuomo?
Andrew Cuomo, I'm going to say he's probably 65.
How old do you think he is?
Yeah, he's in his mid to late 60s.
He's 62 years old.
He's 10 years younger than Trump.
He's been over 12 years.
He's not in good shape.
Trump's 74 years.
We thought he was 74.
Trump is 74.
What is Trump's age?
12 years?
You know what?
What are you talking about?
Hey, by the way, before this fight that they have, I would demand a drug test.
Trump's 70.
Because I guarantee you, he's on Royds.
Cuomo, that was a Royal Drugs.
Trump's also on Reids.
How do you think he beat the COVID so quickly?
What are you talking about?
Listen.
Listen, we went from politics to steroids.
We've had plenty of steroids conversations.
You're talking about decking people in the face, Pat.
Which way, what direction are we going here?
Listen, decking people in the shoulder.
They would never get to the station.
I'm going to deck you right in your shin cap.
I'm going to deck you.
Right in your chest, Kevin.
I cannot believe.
He said he would deck him in his shoulder, not the face.
Listen.
Okay, all right.
So let's check this out.
Trump would pump that fight, though.
He would hype it up.
That would be pretty good.
He would hype it up.
But check this out.
By the way, for the right pay, do you think he would do it?
For the right pay, you can't rule it out.
He's going to owe a couple hundred million bucks when he leaves office.
Yeah, he's going to need the money.
Anyways, by the way, I think it would be a terrible fight.
I think it would be one of the worst fights of all time to watch Chef.
It would be a horrible fight.
You know all these like, what do you call these exhibition fights they do?
They all suck.
They're terrible.
They're not real fights.
Yeah, it's terrible.
How tall was Mike Tyson, by the way?
5'10, 5'11, 100.
Okay, same height as our guy Cuomo here.
Have you seen Tyson's ties?
Do you know what Tyson's ties look like?
Yeah, they look like Tyson Dylan David's ties every day.
That's exactly it.
Tyson's ties are nuts.
You know that quickness with the hip flex?
Anyways, let's talk about Thanksgiving.
So Thanksgiving is around the corner.
Folks, if you live in New York and California, we have to warn you, you have to do Thanksgiving right if you live in New York and California.
So you cannot screw this thing up because people are going to come to your house and some bad things could happen.
Kai, do you want to pull up what the guidelines are for, do you have both New York and California?
Okay, so you want me to read all of this?
I needed like a basic one pager.
So here's.
Huh?
I'm still trying to find it, buddy.
I'm telling you guys.
The point is there's a lot of freaking rules.
Okay, so I don't know.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's Kai Lude over there.
All right, here we go.
Here we go.
So this is California or is this New York High?
The first one you're giving me?
Okay, California, three household max limit.
Must gather outdoors.
Social distancing must take place.
You must wear masks between bites and drinking.
Less than two hours, no singing or shouting.
This is your Thanksgiving in California.
Let me read this one more time.
By the way, this is from their website.
This is not a joke.
When I saw this, I said, it's for sure a joke.
Let me read this again.
Are you guys hearing this?
I'm flabbergasted by this.
So you can have a maximum three-household maximum limit.
Okay.
Must gather.
That includes your house limits.
You can only have two house limits.
So you bring your mom, dad, kids.
That's it.
Two more.
I can have two more of those.
Must gather outdoors, not indoor.
Social distancing must take place.
You must wear masks in between bites and drinking.
Less than two hours is what you can spend time with your family.
Look at the look on your face.
No singing or shouting.
What do you mean?
No singing or shouting.
Can you control F to see if that is BS that it says?
No, right there.
Rules for singing, chanting, shouting, outdoor gatherings, singing, chanting, shouting, and physical exertion significantly increases the risk of COVID and blinding transmission because these activities increase the release of respiratory droplets and fine aerosols into the air.
Because of this, singing, chanting, and shouting are strongly discouraged.
But if they all occur, the following rules and recommendations apply.
All people who are singing or chanting should wear a mask, covering at all times while singing or chanting, including anyone who is leading a song or chant, hence they're talking about the church because these activities pose a very high risk of COVID-19 transmission face where coverings are essential to reduce the spread of respiratory droplets and everything.
I mean, this has got to be pathetic, right?
By the way, that's California.
So let me get your reaction first on California.
Go ahead.
Okay, by the way, playing of wind instruments is strongly discouraged.
Okay, go back to a mad jazz flute aficionado.
Yaz flute.
Hey, here's the thing with yourself.
You know, listen, this is funny to a point, but these are actual elected officials who spent a great deal of time on this.
I'm petrified for the future of California and New York, and I am not joking.
These people will subtly, like little surgeons, little psychosurgeons, is all they are, one step at a time, normalize it.
Oh, we're not going to let you sing.
Oh, you know, take a bite of stuffing, put your mask back on, chew quietly, don't sing, don't go to church.
These guys are serious about jacking all our freedoms, and that's not a conspiracy theory.
If they went through that much time to write in that great detail, they're sick people.
There's something wrong with that.
I mean, it's so anti-American on every single level, and it speaks to fear and it speaks to panic and it speaks to we know what's best for you.
Let us protect you every second of the day.
These are your people, Tom, in California.
These are your people.
How do you live there?
How do you do?
I don't know.
I don't know.
You live there for how long?
Six years?
When are you getting out of there, man?
Enough's enough.
It's unbelievable.
It truly is unbelievable.
The other day.
No, I'm serious.
I mean, I'm being serious.
Like, when is enough enough that you're going to leave?
I think we've hit that point.
So you're out.
Well, look, I'm not here to make any big announcements, but I mean, how much more can you take?
How much do you can't take anymore?
The other day, I mean, you guys saw this: that one city council member in Los Angeles wants to turn the LA convention center right next to the Staple Center into a homeless shelter.
By the way, there's no showers, there's limited bathrooms.
When there's no, by the way, every day at the convention center is booked for the next five years.
How are you just going to truck all the homeless?
Could you imagine what they would do to the convention center?
It would be destroyed.
It would be done.
Garcetti says, I need a little bit more data on this, but I think for the time being, we'll keep them in four-star hotels because they do take over hotels and just move them right in.
Sick.
You know, it's unbelievable.
Same thing in New York.
Moving to California.
Why would you want to leave California?
You get a free hotel.
These things are obviously a freaking joke.
These rules.
This is not a joke.
But I wish it was a joke.
I get that.
I get that.
The fact that they're trying to enforce these rules are the joke.
I look at this two different ways.
Number one, who's actually going to follow this?
This is a birthday.
No singing on my birthday.
Some people will.
There are Californians that will.
I look at this as not about who's going to follow it.
That's not the point.
Who's going to follow it?
Yeah.
I look at this as they have to put something out, right?
Like, they can't just be blind to the fact.
Now, how are they going to enforce this?
Are the Thanksgiving police going to be knocking down your door like the Gestapo, being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, how many households we got here?
Did I see someone singing?
Oh, take that stuffing out of your mouth.
Put a mask on.
I don't think they're going to tell me how they're going to enforce this.
I don't think that's even a possibility.
The way I look at it is they're probably saying, we got to do something.
We got to say something.
This is super extreme.
I agree.
But they can't just be careful.
Be smart.
That is them saying.
They're not saying be careful, but in government legislative terms, it's absurd, no doubt.
However, they need to say something.
Tucker Carlson was on with Adam Kroll and they said, if the police show up, just say you're staging a rally, and that's perfectly fine.
You're peacefully protesting in the backyard.
You're peacefully protesting.
What happens if it's 20 degrees in New York on Thanksgiving?
You got to be outside.
That's California.
What you just saw right there is California.
They're talking about California specifically.
I'm going to give you New York guidelines right now.
That was just California.
But that's all you think about.
That's all you think about.
You just think about that's it.
No, I gave you two sides of the coin there: that it's absurd, but they have to say something.
Let me tell you what is absurd if they enforce this.
Right now, you just want to put a guideline, fine.
If you enforce this and there's video footage, game over.
You're going to see some crazy stuff happening in California.
If they enforce it, I pray that they're bright enough and have enough social intelligence, EQ, emotional intelligence, to not go enforce this.
Because if they do, the amount of fire they're going to get from people from this is going to be absolute insane in the state of California.
Totally agree with me.
Here's what Cuomo said: My personal advice is: the best way to say I love you this Thanksgiving, the best way to say I'm thankful for you is to say, I love you so much.
I'm thankful for you that I don't want to endanger you, and I don't want to endanger our family, and I don't want to endanger our friends.
So we'll celebrate virtually, he added.
But this is my personal opinion, which is fine.
He can have an opinion.
It's not a lot.
Just Cuomo speaking, deck, the guy that decks people on the shoulder.
Tyson, this is Tyson.
Deck people on the shoulder.
That's that guy.
If you travel to one of the 41 states or territories on New York's travel advisory, you will need to quarantine for two weeks when you return.
However, the governor added you can go where you want as the travel advisory is not a ban.
And their current guidelines that they gave: 10 people curfew, 10 p.m. curfew for all bars, restaurants, gyms, and liquor stores, 10 p.m.
Curfew.
Curbside pickup or delivery, okay.
No alcohol to go.
Indoor and outdoor gatherings at private residences limited to 10 people.
So New York's given a specific number, it's 10 people.
California is saying three households, including yours, which they're really saying 12 people.
Yeah, four times three.
So that's New York.
What do you think about that?
I think Newsom is seriously, he has mental issues.
I mean, the level of detail that was on that California list, the New York list was a little bit more practical.
I mean, it had some level of sanity built into it.
What's the point of?
I mean, at least their gyms are open.
At least gyms are open in New York.
They're not even open in California.
At least they can stay at a gym till 10 o'clock or go to a bar till 10 o'clock.
We can't even do that in California.
You talk about enforcing the laws, Manhattan Beach.
Every weekend, the yellow windbreakers are out on every street corner in downtown.
If you don't have your mask up over your nose, they've got clipboards.
They're yelling at you.
They are moderately enforcing.
Now, there's no way you can go into people's homes.
I mean, there might be a stand-your-ground situation if they try to do that.
But it's just, the thing that really kills me is each week there's something new.
And they keep talking about COVID cases.
And all I can say is I have a different mentality when it comes to it.
I believe that we need to do whatever we can to protect the people that are most vulnerable.
But everybody else, just be smart and have some common sense.
My wife's entire family tested positive for COVID, and they're all fine.
They all were ready to go after a couple, two or three days.
They live in Missouri.
Don't worry.
You know, and then you hear about all these athletes, you know, that test positive and they're back playing in a week or less than that.
So the hysteria has gotten so out of control.
Now they're using the holidays.
Wait till Christmas rules come out.
I mean, agree, this is absurd.
I don't think there's any way that they can enforce it.
I totally agree that it's laughable.
It's laughable.
It's laughable.
But let's just look at some of the other stuff that's out there.
I get it.
10 million COVID cases.
We've just crossed 10 million in the United States.
These are facts.
Really proud to say here in Texas, we are leading the way here, baby.
One million cases crossing Texas.
We're number one.
If you ain't first, you're last, way to go, Texas.
The whole protecting people, yes, I think we can all agree young, healthy, vibrant people are not the ones that are at risk.
But the concern is you show up, you want to give grandma a kiss.
It's Thanksgiving, you start singing la la sis boomba, boom, grandma dies.
That's what people are concerned about.
La la sis boomba.
Yeah, I mean, that's a Thanksgiving song around my house.
Point is, it's not so much the young people, the Kailudis of the world, this crew over here, but they show up, they come home for Thanksgiving, they see their family, they give grandma a kiss.
Now you're going to grandma's funeral.
That's the concern.
Is that immediate?
Kiss, death, burial?
I mean, move on?
Yeah, I mean, not immediate, but I mean, are we going to play the game that old people aren't dying to play?
Yeah, but why can't play that game right now?
No, not playing that game at all.
But why can't we determine whether grandma should come over for a kiss or not?
Why do we need to do that?
Do you want to kill your grandma, Tom?
Go ahead.
I'm just letting you know that's the concern.
Like, as much as I think that these rules are a freaking joke and there's no way to enforce them, and it is absurd and it's laughable.
We're having a nice chuckle about it.
I get it.
COVID's real.
10 million cases, million in Texas, where we are.
And they need to have some sort of guidelines.
By the way, let me tell you one thing.
Let me tell you one thing when you say Texas has the most cases.
I called Ricky and I said, Ricky, go get your COVID test.
You and your wife.
No.
Okay.
I call Ricky.
Ricky says, let me find one.
I said, dude, let me just tell you where we go.
There's one pretty much, there's 15 places within a five-mile radius you can go take the COVID test.
He calls her and says, Pat, there's none.
I said, what are you talking about?
He says, there's none.
I said, Ricky, go find.
I'm getting upset at this point.
I drew on, Ricky, I'm thinking he's not being resourceful.
He just kind of doesn't want to go take it.
He says, Pat, I'm telling you, there is none.
I said, Ricky, find a place.
There's got to be one.
Do you know Ricky and his wife had to drive three hours to the closest place to get COVID tested?
I believe it.
In California, Bakersfield.
In California.
Yes.
I thought you mentioned that.
So, no, no, but the point is, California hasn't made it as easy to take tests as Texas has.
Texas is made so easy.
So you want to go get, bro.
Over here, every time, yesterday, one of our guys, their kids in school, something happened.
One kid had a temperature, 101 temperature.
You know who I'm talking about.
He had a 101-degree temperature.
Kid was at 103.5 this morning.
He's doing better now.
But they took a right off the bat to get the kid tested.
You know how long of a drive it was for her?
Five minutes.
When he got tested, negative, came back home.
California, they don't have them everywhere.
So as much as people say, Texas is leading the way.
Yeah, Texas has also made it accessible.
Not all states have made it as accessible, as easy to go take the test as Texas has.
Texas has no problem you're going and taking the test.
So question for you.
But they go out and say, oh, cases.
Cases.
Yeah, because Texas has done a phenomenal.
Nobody gives the credit to say great job to Texas for making it very easy to go get tested.
A lot of states are like, I probably just have a flu.
I don't need to go get tested.
You may have had COVID.
Nobody knew about it because you didn't go get tested.
In Texas, you're going to know because at least you have it available because a state like Texas wants to make it available for you, but they get shafted every time they do something like this and they get the black eyes.
Same thing nationally too.
If they're so precautionary in California, I mean, you live in California.
You got a lot of people there.
Obviously, your whole family's there.
Why are they so measured, precautionary rules, regulations, and they don't have testing?
You know, you're saying accessibility.
How big is Bakersfield?
Can you go to Bakersfield, Kai?
I think the population is a little bit more than a million function that Ricky lives in.
250.
I don't know the Bakersfield population.
What's Bakersfield population?
Bakersfield population right there should come up.
2020, 390.
Kern County, go Kern County, Kern County, K-E-R-N County.
Good luck spelling that guy.
K-E-R.
No, he'll get this.
Kern County.
There you go.
He's improving a lot, by the way.
912.
912,000.
That's the 11th largest county in California.
Almost a million people.
And he had to go to Glendale to get COVID tested.
What the hell are we talking about?
So, is that a function of California?
Is that a function of the governor?
Is that a function of Kern County?
All of it.
What is that?
I put it all on California.
You got 11th largest county.
You're making that difficult for me to get tested.
It's 275 a pop that the insurance pays for, right?
You just go and say, I have the symptoms.
You take it.
Insurance pays for the 275.
You got tested.
How do you not have it in a county that's the 11th largest county in California?
How do you make it so difficult?
And the places you go to, guess what they say?
We have COVID testing, but you don't get the results for 14 days.
14 days?
It's ridiculous.
You go to CVS.
Oh, we do.
I did a COVID testing for CVS.
I did it twice.
Yeah.
You know how long it took for me to get my results?
20 minutes.
CVS?
No, no, CVS.
17 days.
Oh, wow.
I went to the local office.
By the way, what do you call these places?
What do you call these ER places that they have?
Urgent care?
No, no, you know which ones I'm talking about.
You see all over Texas.
Plastic surgery places?
No, they have that as well.
But the ER place right here.
Three hours.
Just want to let you know, negative.
So every time I'm getting tested because they want me to get tested regularly, you're negative.
You're negative.
Three hours.
So why is there such a disparity in three hours in certain places?
Three weeks in other places.
I don't know.
I couldn't tell you.
I am not the governor of California.
I have no desire to be the governor of California, but they can do things to improve the testing, and they're not.
And Governor Abbott gets a lot of credit.
No wonder NASDAQ is looking to move in their headquarters over here.
That's a great segue.
Because Texas attracts businesses.
Musk is looking to come back here with bigger projects.
You know, Rogan just moved over here from California.
And now you got Governor Abbott.
Shout out to Governor Abbott, low-key guy.
You know, he's not a big social media guy.
He's not a big person on social, but he welcomes stock exchanges to Austin.
Texas Governor Abbott will, on November 20th, host representatives from the major U.S. stock exchanges, considering whether they will relocate their data centers from New Jersey to the Lone Star State amid the threat of higher taxes.
Love these higher taxes.
You know, what you vote.
Andrew Cuomo, Phil Murphy, De Blasio, our friend Corey Booker, good friend of the show.
You know, test me, bro, as we said before.
You know, they could make a power move and be in Texas in no time.
I mean, you did this yourself.
I mean, you're a case example right here.
Yes.
California was testing you, testing you, testing you.
And you said, you know what, enough's enough.
I got to move.
Tom, you know, he just announced that he's going to be moving to California pretty soon.
He's going to make an announcement.
Hopefully, he stays in the USA.
I know there was a concern, but I want you to stay.
We all want you to stay, Tom.
But at what point do you have to just say, fuck it, I'm out?
I'm just going to repeat what I say pretty much every time on this podcast.
How are we become so stupid as a country?
I mean, there are governors that are just smarter, that are just doing it better.
DeSantis in Florida, your guy here in Abbott, in Texas.
Also, keep in mind, these two states don't have state income taxes, and they still have to find a way to make the state thrive and do well and attract other businesses.
I hope NASDAQ moves.
I was shocked to learn that New Jersey is the one capitalizing on all the tax money on these transactions on Wall Street.
Are you kidding me?
Did you know that?
I mean, you think of Wall Street, you think, you know, New York City, but New Jersey.
And so it makes total sense.
I hope one of them, because it's going to break the dam.
If a big, high-profile, iconic brand, company, institution, something like NASDAQ, were to actually move to Texas, everybody would think it's okay.
And then it's going to, then you're going to see some real issues for these states like California, like New York, and especially with a president who is in lockstep with these governors to just do whatever they can to make your life miserable if you just want to go about, you know, trying to bring back the glory days of 2019.
Doesn't that seem like a long time ago now?
Well, just to be clear, these are the data centers or data centers, not the actual exchanges.
So they could be anywhere for that matter.
It's just, it's where they're housing.
Yeah, but you got to realize.
I mean, you are making it seem like it's not really a big deal.
No, that's not what I'm saying.
That's the customers that are paying a quarter of a percent per financial transaction, averaging 10,000, a minimum of 10,000 electronic traits each year.
So this data center is the one that you want to be over here.
You want the data center in Texas.
Definitely not downplaying that.
I'm just saying.
It's not like the NASDAQ is physically moving.
No, no, no, no.
New York Stock Exchange isn't physically moving.
That's where the cost is.
What's moving to Texas, which is what Abbott wants.
Good for Abbott for doing that.
I applaud him.
Respect.
By the way, if you guys are following this right now and watching this, and you heard this whole segment, we went through California against New York.
California's guidelines are you can't have more than three household gatherings at the house.
No singing, no chanting.
You have to wear a mask outdoors.
You can't even have the Thanksgiving at your house.
You have to be outdoor and between bites and drinks.
You have to put a mask on if you're not.
How many of you that are watching this, if you were living in California or New York, are going to follow the guidelines that the state says?
If the answer is yes, put thumbs down right there.
Push that thumbs down button.
If you're saying, hell no, I would not follow the guidelines.
I'm still going to have a happy Thanksgiving.
I just may not invite my grandmother to say, stay home to be safe.
Press the subscribe button.
If there's no way in the world you would entertain any of these guidelines, you're still going to have it.
I'm actually curious.
Right now, we're showing 23 thumbs down.
We're showing 30,200 subs.
Let's see what this goes to.
Let's see what people are going to say about this.
Go ahead.
I have a different question for you because obviously I think we can know where our answers are going here.
And I'm on the side of thumbs up for sure.
You asked this question before.
I think it's a good question to pose again.
Better state for entrepreneurs.
Better, where would you rather be, New York or California?
You posed that question at one point, did you not?
I did.
The results came in, I think, tied.
Did they not?
50-50?
Yes, they did.
Has that changed at all?
I was in the money for the weather.
If they were that similar, right?
They did.
They came.
Believe it or not, I would take New York or California.
You want me to tell you why?
Yeah, exactly.
I tell you why.
Because I don't think, to me, it has nothing to do with weather.
Of course, I love the weather in California.
Of course, my family's in California.
Of course, all of that stuff.
I think people are starting to realize how I'm wired.
It's very simple for me.
My wiring.
My family took them a while to understand this.
I go where my values and principles are protected the most.
California, my values and principles are not protected.
New York is more lenient than California, believe it or not.
California on the taxes list is the 50th worst in America.
Texas is 42nd.
For hire earners, you're saying.
Period.
Taxes, period.
California is 50th worst.
New York is 42nd worse.
And you're even seeing the way Cuomo says it.
Cuomo says, what?
Here's my opinion.
This is what I think you should do.
He's not enforcing.
Newsom is saying, here's what we're going to do.
It's a big difference in spirit.
Garcetti is demanding.
Not a fan of de Blasio at all.
I think Garcetti and De Blasio are twins.
They're very, very similar.
One may be 7-4 and the other guy is 5'10, but they pretty much are twins.
But I think Cuomo has a little bit more appreciation for his billionaires, his entrepreneurs, his job creators than Newsom does.
I think Cuomo understands business models.
Obviously, you have the Hollywood liberals in California that are obviously very outspoken.
I mean, these are, you know, these are your people's.
How do you literally write down on paper that take a bite of food and put your mask on?
It just, it defies common sense.
It's just so weird to think that you could be that weird.
Yeah, that's right.
You know, to write that down.
That's crazy.
So your vote is for New York.
You're staying in California.
Well, I say they're both completely in the toilet, so I'll take the better weather.
Yeah.
Guys, I'm going to take Florida on this one.
I'm just, you catch me there at South Beach.
I'll be around there.
You gave me two options, you fool.
I got you.
Manipulated.
You dirty shoulder.
Moving forward.
I'm going to deck you right now.
Every time I go deck you, I'm going to say Scott's about to hit you in the shoulder.
That's it.
You got it.
I'm going to deck you.
Put your shoulder out there next time.
I'm going to deck you.
Put some shoulder back there.
So let's look at some stats here.
Let's look at some stats here.
Let's look at some stats here.
Let's talk about voting.
Okay.
I did a video years ago, and I want you guys to watch this and be very transparent about what I think.
You may say, Pat, fully extreme.
Disagree all you want.
I won't be offended by it.
I was 35 when I shot this, and I was fully.
My mind hasn't changed much based on that when you see it.
It's very extreme.
I'm telling you, it's very extreme.
But you have to watch the whole thing for you to be able to say fine.
But before we get into it, before we get into it, I want to set this up.
Let me give you some of the ages that we have in America on what you can do, age, like what age you need to be to do different things.
You want to be a president?
How old do you need to be?
35.
You want to be a VP?
35.
Senator, 30.
Congressman, 25.
We just had the youngest congressman ever, by the way.
House of Representative, I'm sorry, 25.
We just had the youngest, by the way, just so you know, we broke the record.
The youngest just won.
Have you seen this young kid?
Good-looking guy.
Have you seen this kid?
Young kid.
Type it in.
Youngest, House of Representative.
I think he's 28, maybe 27.
Type it in.
He broke a record.
No, it's not.
He beat AOC.
Yeah, he beat it.
It's a good-looking 25%.
What is North Carolina?
That's the one.
25 years old.
Right there.
The dude in the wheelchair.
Yes, the dude in the wheelchair.
Youngest, 25-year-old.
North Carolina representative, Republican Madison, 25-year-old.
Congratulations to him.
In the wheelchair, to what's his name?
I want to give a proper shout out.
Madison.
Madison Cawthorne.
Cawthorne.
Props to you, brother, Madison Cawthorne.
If you know him, send him this message, this video here.
So, 25 years old, okay.
Sexual consent.
There you go.
Watch this.
What was that first one?
Sexual consent.
Okay, got you.
Let's go to sexual consent.
This is the one that fully flabbergasted everybody in this room.
Okay.
Out of 50 states, when you think about the right A to consent age to have sex, the legal age to have sex, what number do we think about?
I guess 16, 18, something like that.
I think about 18.
I've never thought about 16.
You guys think about 16?
Luis, what do you think about?
18?
18.
What do you think about?
18.
16.
You think about 16 too?
Both of you are in the 16 candidates.
No, no, I'm going to retract that.
Cut, cut, 18.
18.
Right, buddy.
You're saying 16 now because you saw the stats at the beginning.
Kai, what do you think about it?
In Norway, it's always been 16.
Norway's always been 16.
Okay, so check this out.
If you didn't know, now you're going to know.
Can you pull up the states on what age you have to be to have legal sex without getting arrested?
Check this out.
Okay, watch this.
Watch this.
Go up a little bit.
All of these states, Alabama is 16.
So is Alaska.
Arizona is 18.
Arkansas, 16.
California, 18.
Colorado, 17.
Connecticut, 16.
Meaning, a 50-year-old can have sex with a 16-year-old and you are not going to get arrested.
Whoa, where are you getting the 50-year-old thing?
So the legal age to have sex, 80% of the states, is 16.
Some of the other ones is 18.
Okay.
Next, criminal responsibility.
Okay.
Criminal responsibility.
State by state.
33 states said no minimum age of criminal responsibility.
For federal crimes, the minimum age of criminal responsibility is 11.
Driving, 14 to 16 years old, you can drive with a permit.
16 to 17, restricted license.
18 unrestricted, which, by the way, you said it earlier today.
Are you comfortable with 16-year-olds driving a car?
I don't know.
I know what I did.
The moment I passed my driver's license, I know exactly what I did that minute when I got the car.
When I think of how difficult it is to drive and everything you have to know, 16 is too young.
Okay, so that can be debated, but it's 16.
Gambling, 21.
Drinking, 21.
Working, 16, 17.
Marriage, 18.
Nebraska is 19.
Mississippi's 21.
Meaning in Mississippi, you can be married.
21 years old.
Yeah, Mississippi.
Nebraska is 19.
We're learning stuff.
Retirement, 62 to 67.
Leaving school, 16 to 19, you can choose to leave.
I don't want to go to school anymore, mom.
I'm dropping out.
Smoking, they changed it.
Eric was devastated.
Smoking, 21.
Cigarettes and wheat is 21.
You ready?
Voting is what?
18.
Let me get this straight.
You mean to tell me I'm not allowed to drink until I'm 21 years old.
I am not allowed to smoke wheat or cigarettes until I'm 21 years old.
I'm not allowed.
I'm not allowed to gamble until I'm 21 years old, but I'm allowed to vote at 18.
Or you're allowed to die for your country at 18.
And serve in the Army or the military.
It's absolutely pathetic to me if you think about it.
It's absolutely pathetic to me when you think about it.
I think the voting system needs to be changed, my opinion.
I've been saying this for a long time.
Now, I'm not a U.S., I'm not a, I wasn't born here.
I'm from Iran.
I came over here, completely different perspective I have, but I shot this video six years ago.
To be exact, the date, if you pull it up, guys, so we can pull up the video date.
It is April 15, 2014, which is what?
I look like I'm smoking weed right there.
Legally 35.
Thanks, Kai, for getting that picture right there.
I'm wearing a Babe Ruth jersey, but let it, do you have it on 1.5 speed, by the way?
People are voting less than 2008 presidential election.
We had 61.6% of eligible voters show up.
And in 2012, we had 58.2% show up, which has dropped by roughly 3%.
And, you know, the subject of voting keeps coming up.
And I said, we need to do an episode on it and put some ideas together.
And I'll put these ideas for a while, but today I'll present it to you because, look, we've had a lot of people that have fought very hard with us to get African-American with civil rights to be able to vote or women's rights.
We come along such a long way, but I think we can even improve it even more today than before.
So let me get right into it.
Let me get right into it.
The program I'm going to be talking to you about is called Earning the Right to Vote, Earning the Right to Vote.
The reason why it's called Earning the Right to Vote, I'm an immigrant.
I came here from Iran to America.
America was willing to open the doors and allow our family to come here.
In Iran, we didn't have freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of many, many things for the enterprise.
And so in America, they offered that to us, but I didn't come and feel entitled to all of it.
I felt as an immigrant, I had to give back and earn the freedom that America gave me.
So the program's called Earning the Right to Vote.
First one, point number one.
If you pay $8,000 in income taxes the prior year, you get one vote.
So what if somebody pays $10,000 in income taxes?
You get 10 votes.
What if somebody pays $100,000 in income taxes?
You get 100 votes.
Well, you may say, Pat, that's not fair.
The people who are paying more taxes get more votes.
I simply took the system on how public corporations or companies who have outstanding shareholders and outstanding shares on the system they use.
And this is how it works.
The company can have 1 million outstanding shares, but only 100 people own the 1 million outstanding shares.
And the way they allow to vote is not based on the 100 shareholders.
If one person owns only one share versus a person owns 100,000 shares, which one has more to say, more of a voice for this company?
Obviously, the person that has 100,000 shares.
And I feel our voting system should be the same exact.
Why do you contribute to society more?
You ought to have more of a voice on what our voting is going to be to somebody who does not.
And if you want to have more of a voice, you ought to pay a little bit more into the income taxes.
That's my idea on point number one.
And it would be a salary cap with 100 shares, 100 votes.
You can't go above 100 votes.
Kind of like how NFL has a salary cap.
That's the way we put out 100 votes.
And the age part with this, it has nothing to do with 18 years old, 21 years old, 25 years old, 30 years old.
If a 16-year-old kid who worked at Baskin Rock last year and he made $15,000 and he paid $2,000 in income taxes, he ought to have two votes.
Yes, you do.
23-year-old kid who's completely healthy, unable, doesn't want to get into the bank.
You pay well at Basketball.
He's not going to go to college.
I would rather hear from the 16-year-old kid who's paying income taxes and contributing to society than a 23-year-old kid that is undecided, wants to stay home, family, pays for all his bills.
He doesn't want to give back to society.
I'd rather hear from the 16-year-old.
Point number two of the ideas I have in place.
If you serve the military, whether you pay any taxes or not, you get a vote.
But you need to complete boot camp and AIT, advanced individual training.
I think military is a good thing for a lot of our younger boys to go into because it disciplines them, teaches us a lot about independence, toughness, fight, freedom, honor, a lot of good things.
I think it'll do a lot of good things for the country, period.
But if somebody in the military paid $15,000 in taxes, he would get 15 votes because his numbers would still seem to go higher.
But if somebody went into the military and didn't pay any taxes, you're still getting one vote because you served the military.
Point number three, public service, police officers, fire.
Like strange, you went off the D.
I went off a few other niggas to you.
They've put their life on the line, similar to military.
If you're willing to put your life on the line and go fight fires while your wife is at home wondering what's going to happen to you and you got two little ones, you want to put your life on the line for me?
I mean, you have more than earned the right to vote.
Same with police officers.
And so you get an additional vote if you are serving for public service and putting your life on the line.
You absolutely get the right to vote as well because of what you're doing.
Number four, job creators, nonprofit or profit.
If you create a job that pays $120,000 over a four-year period income, so if you hired somebody and they make $40,000 a year and they're with you for three years, you pay them $120,000, you get one vote per job you created for our economy.
One vote per job you created for the economy.
And the limit on that is also 100 votes.
If you created 100 jobs, you have 100 votes to vote for any kind of things that we're coming out with.
Point number five, retired people that paid over $10,000 in life taxes, they automatically get to vote because they've already put into the economy, they've put into the marketplace, they've put into our country, they've contributed to society.
So they get a vote no matter what.
The number is $10,000.
Number six, anyone with a four-year degree, whether you have paid into taxes or not, if you're willing to stay disciplined, go to school, get educated, you ought to get a vote.
And for a master's degree, two votes.
And for PhD, three votes.
So if you have a bachelor's, if you have a master's and you have PhD, you ought to be able to have three votes because you have disciplined and you've gone out there and finished education more than some of the rest of us.
And we want to hear from you more because you're willing to put your head down and read the books and educate yourself.
I think we need more people to go out and educate themselves, like the people who stay disciplined to get their four-year degree, eight-year degree in their PhDs.
And obviously, this whole thing would be needing to have an ID to go out there and vote, but we know we have more time for your husband when you're voting.
This is how it could look like.
If somebody made $60,000 last year, they pay $10,000 in taxes.
That's 10 votes.
If that person also has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree, they get two additional votes.
If they served in a military before, that's an additional vote.
That person could have realistically 13 votes to vote for an election because of how much they've contributed to society.
But this is a disclaimer at the end, but it has to do with illegal immigrants because we have this whole debate with Amnesty and I've been interviewed on this before.
You're about to like this.
So many times people say, oh, illegal immigrants, you know, they ran across the board, we need to do this, we need to do that.
Honestly, if I'm a father and if I'm living in a country where I see it's not the best thing for my kids, or if I see what's taking place in Iran or Mexico or any of that stuff, and I gotta provide, I'm responsible for my kids.
I would go across the border to come to America to provide a better life for my kids.
Wouldn't you?
Think about that for me.
I would too, but if you look at immigration, the whole purpose of immigration is to bring the best talent in the world to our country.
We are leading in immigration because the best talent from China, from Europe, from everywhere, they are still wanting to come to America.
It's not as ahead of a lead as we used to have at one point.
Right now, it's dropped a little bit, but we bring the best talent.
So we have 11.7 million illegal immigrants living in America.
Roughly 400,000 of them were deported last year.
And out of that 11.7 million of illegal immigrants, they paid a little shy of $11 billion in taxes last year.
So what do we do with the folks who are illegal immigrants living in America?
This is my opinion.
These are my ideas.
I think if one is an illegal immigrant, but they did any one of these things we talked about.
If they went out there and they actually paid $1,000 in income tax, it's on the tax ID number.
If they went out there and actually served the military, they're willing to serve the military.
If they're willing to go out there and serve the military, they're willing to become cops, police officers, they're qualified.
They're willing to go out and create jobs.
They're willing to go out there and get a degree and get educated.
If they're willing to do these things, I say we need to allow and give them the right to go out there and take a quiz because they need to take a test to know the history of America with a president.
There's certain things that they need to know about.
But I think their votes ought to count as well for what they do to society.
They play a very, very important role.
There's no reason why we should not have illegal immigrants being able to vote as well.
There are more people that are illegal immigrants that are contributing more to society than somebody with society.
Why not let them be heard as well if they're willing to earn the right to vote by contributing to society?
So, what we did is we went to the streets and we won a couple college champions.
You'll see a logo on one of the best.
You don't need to listen to all of them, but watch the first second guy will shot some of these subjects such as voting and politics.
And here's some of the answers we got.
All right, so first question is: how would you improve the current voting system in the United States?
I was going to say maybe more parties, but it'll probably complicate things.
It'll take too long, probably for things.
What I would do is make a vote that the people put when they go to the booth and vote.
Make that the one that counts, not the one that takes place behind closed doors when it goes back to media officers.
And the analysis, popular vote, really matters is electronic votes.
Shout out to Mario doing the interviews, by the way.
Different areas.
Encourage more people to vote.
I would make it more convenient for people to vote by decreasing the super PACs.
Probably better informed people.
Encourage people.
By the way, he went to UCLA campaigns.
I don't know that people like me don't really want to.
They're too lazy or they're don't know how to, even though it's really easy.
Prefer for there to be better access to voting booths as far as politically.
You know, we got the Republicans, the Democrats.
You can pause it.
I think it's a good thing.
You can pause it at this point.
Okay.
By the way, I hope we don't get flagged for using the video of Valet Timothy from six and a half years ago.
I hope these guys are not going to come after us.
So tell me about this guy's thought.
The level of detail is staggering.
Staggering.
Here's my first thought: We have poll workers who can't count to one.
How are they going to count to 33?
No, but there's some great points in there.
It clearly shows that we just witnessed it.
You know, things are messed up.
You know, I think there has to be some sort of changes.
When TikTok can, you know, help decide elections and influence people to the level that they do, and these kids are armed with votes and maybe not armed with the knowledge that they might need, something is askew.
And the only way anything would ever happen is the party in power found a way that it benefited them.
Then they would then, you know, make it happen.
But how long did it take you to come up with that formula?
Were you working on it for a long time?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
By the way, I've been talking about that since I was 30 years old, but I've never put in video.
I've been talking to them.
If you work closely with me, they tell you Pat's crazy ideas.
That I've proposed to our guys for a long time.
I think every single thing about a company, like just say I don't like something Starbucks does.
Who the hell am I to tell Starbucks what to do if I don't know share the company?
If I own more shares, I should have more say.
If I don't, I shouldn't.
What's the difference between that and America?
But in America, it's like, no, even the person that doesn't own shares of Starbucks, who doesn't contribute or do anything, should have say.
No, they shouldn't.
You shouldn't have any say in it.
In a household, if you're not paying rent for the house I'm living in, you got three roommates.
Adam, you've ever had roommates?
Yes.
If you got three roommates, you ever had a roommate that never paid a bill or never paid anything living with you?
Yeah, a little bit.
Do they have any say in how for you to set up?
Are they bringing groceries to the table?
Are they paying the utilities?
They bring nothing.
Why the hell are they still living with you?
If they're not, will you let them say anything about how you should shift the way you set up your house or apartment?
Good, good analogy.
You would never let anybody tell you what to do.
Who the hell are you to say anything?
All I'm saying is, let's pay some taxes.
Why don't you go pay some taxes?
That's all it is.
Have some skin in the game.
Go pay your taxes and let's say what you're doing.
It makes total sense.
What about what about a mandatory age for you?
Where are you at as far as voting?
I could care less about age.
I really could care less about age because to me, it's not about age.
I know 16-year-old kids, I'm being dead serious with you.
I know 16-year-old kids more responsible than 30-year-old kids.
This kid came over here from Colombia.
Sam came here from Colombia at 14 years old.
His father passed away.
He comes to Colombia, independent.
Who's paid your bills the last seven years?
Who has paid your bills the last seven years?
That guy should have had a vote since he was 15 years old if he paid into taxes.
Well, according to your plan, he'd have 12.
What I'm trying to say to you is: I don't care about age.
I care about you paying taxes.
The pain of paying taxes, you ought to have a voice.
Democrat, Republican, Independent, I could care less.
But now you have skin in the game.
It's not at all.
It's all based on taxes, is what you're saying.
I didn't just say taxes.
You didn't see taxes.
That's education.
If you get a degree, you have votes.
If you serve the military, you have votes.
If you want to be a firefighter, you have votes.
It's skin in the game.
Dude, firefighters.
We sit there and we see firefighters.
We think it's just a regular.
I one time got into a market.
I remember this Kevin Pearson guy years ago.
If he hears this, he's going to be shell-shocked.
I remember his name because that was like 17 years ago.
And I went through the market of firefighters for a span of six months.
I worked with these firefighters.
And it was a bunch of these guys, all studs.
You know how many of them went through a divorce?
Every one of them had a divorce.
It's a rough life.
It's tough for personal life.
It's tough for parenting.
They go through challenges.
They lose friends.
They're burned legs, body parts, coming home.
These are not easy jobs.
Everything we're talking about, bashing cops.
You go talk to a wife and a son who lost their dad on a front line doing the work.
They got shot.
Then go ask him what it feels like to be a cop.
You think that kid wishes his dad wasn't a cop?
That kid wishes his dad had a regular job working at Staples or a different place.
These people deserve the right to have.
So for me, it's not about just taxes.
It's about earning the right to vote so you can have say.
If you're looting, if you're going out there fooling around, ruin what this great nation is all about.
You should have zero say, zero vote, nothing, if you're not contributing to the society.
Zero.
I mean, I mean, the level of time and effort that you do to even come up with this completely wild and outlandish plan is actually incredible.
It gives us some deep insight into your mind.
I mean, obviously, it's very complicated, and we don't know how many votes a certain person would get.
It is complicated.
I mean, is it fair to say that that's not getting implemented anytime soon?
However, I do, with an amazing level of respect, the fact that you care that much to take the, because that wasn't easy to come up with.
I mean, how much man hours it took you to come up with that?
That's what we need more of.
People who care that much saying this is what it needs to be.
I'm not even talking about left, right, you know, center.
I'm just talking about you care that much.
This is what it means to be an immigrant from Iran to you have no voice there when you can earn your voice, go to the army, become a businessman, become an entrepreneur.
You know, one thing that I'm happy to see, I mean, to that, we just had the highest voter turnout since 1900 in America.
So whatever you want to say about we would not have had the highest turnout since 1900 if we had to check everyone's ID.
There's no way in the world this would have been the highest.
You realize, no way in the world this would have been the highest if we all had to see the ID.
Zero chance.
That's what you think it came down to?
No, I don't think that's what it came down to.
It's absolute math.
It's not maybe.
It's not 99% accurate statement I'm making.
This is 100% statement I'm making.
If we had to check 100% of everyone's IDs who voted, we wouldn't have had this many votes.
So how do you vote without ID?
Mail imbalance?
What do you mean?
That's just how you don't have to have an ID.
No, you just drop it.
What do you mean?
You just drop it.
How'd you do it?
I mean, they had my name on the ballot.
They had my ball in the ballot.
But did you show your ID or no?
I had a mail-in ballot.
No.
So you didn't show it.
So how did they know you sent it?
And nobody knows.
Somebody else has to say that.
Because you're saying have to show up with it.
There is no way in the world.
Listen, a decision this big, a decision.
You know what this would do, this system?
Look, a lot of people are saying, I'm conservative.
I absolutely disagree with Pat.
I love that.
Some people are saying, screw the snowflakes.
Fine.
Some people are saying, I'm a conservative.
I partially agree with some of them.
Some people are saying I 100% agree with Pat.
The whole point is, I don't care whether you agree or not.
Start the damn conversation.
I don't care if you agree and you want to break the whole thing down.
Go do it.
Start the conversation.
There's no way.
And by the way, Adam, for yourself, you know a lot of people would see a program like this, and you know what they would say?
They would say it's so extreme.
But you know what's crazy?
That's exactly how they live their lives.
Let me say this one more time.
A lot of people would see this thing here and say it's extreme.
But that is exactly how they raise their kids.
That's exactly how they live their lives.
You and I just talked about somebody in your life where you said, you know, they had their kids ever again.
That'll be the last time.
If I get a feeling that you're just thinking because I have money and you want me to pay every time, we're done.
It's not going to happen again.
We'll hang out.
You ain't going out with me again because I know you're thinking I should take the bill because I have money.
I don't play that game.
Because everybody ought to have a skin in the game.
This is not a radical idea.
People live this life.
Voting-wise scares the shit out of them in case if we go in this direction, which that part I understand because a lot of people will lose their votes.
Yeah.
And the people that conceivably could be in power here very, very shortly, this is the last thing they'd want because this worked out very well for them, how it just happened.
And to think that we're not even seriously considering changing how this voting is going.
So how many votes would you have in the PBD voter system?
How many votes would you have?
I don't care to have a record-breaking voter tax.
I'm not asking.
You know how many people votes would you have personally?
No, he's saying in your formula.
I don't know.
Yeah.
I have no idea how many.
I'd be limited at 100 because I'd reach my limit.
I wouldn't have more than 100 votes.
Listen, if I pay $50 million in taxes, I'm not getting 50 million votes.
I'm only getting 100 votes.
So there's a cap at 100.
So there's no abuse.
So a billionaire cannot say, I got 17 million votes.
No, you don't.
You only have 100 votes.
But I would want you to max out your votes.
Go get to 100 votes.
I would encourage you to go get your 100 votes.
Go become a 100-vote person so you can say, my vote is 100 votes.
Have pride in it.
I'm a 100-vote person.
I voted.
Then people would say, damn.
They'd have to print a lot of people.
Then I would recognize you in America.
I would say, wear the shirt that says, I had 100 votes.
People are going to say, that guy's 100 club.
Damn.
Adam's part of the 100 club.
Legit.
Dog.
Good for you.
Now the person says 10 votes.
Good for you, bro.
10 votes.
Now, four votes.
How'd you have four votes?
I got my PhD, phenomenal.
And I got this.
Okay, phenomenal, man.
Congratulations to you.
It becomes a real recognition.
How many of you, I just voted.
Why do you think the vote doesn't matter to them?
Because you didn't earn the right to vote.
You just got voted because you hated somebody.
It's not how voting should be.
Voting should be great freaking job.
Good for you.
And if people take some pride in voting, they could also lose the right, right?
Didn't you say by rioting and things like that, you could lose votes?
Yeah.
Interesting, amazing thought formula here.
By the way, if you're watching this, if you're watching this and you guys are saying it's lagging, YouTube had problems yesterday lagging.
They do today as well.
They had issues.
Our T1 line is solid right now.
Everything is solid on our side right now.
YouTube had a lot of issues yesterday.
You can go on Twitter and see their account on what they said.
They're doing the same thing again today.
But those of you guys that are still with us, great.
If you missed any part of it, we'll repost this as well, short clip for you to see.
We have the recording, right?
So we can post a recording for them to see it without any of the glitches, all that stuff.
Okay, thank you for your patience.
But watch this.
I'm curious.
If you listen to what I pitched right now with ideas and you agreed with 80% of what I had to say, push the thumbs up button.
If you didn't, put the thumbs down button.
If you have opinions that you want to share with me personally, send me an email.
I want to hear from you.
Actually, send me an email specific and let me know what's going on with some of the ideas I said.
Because again, going back to me, you don't trust me to drink until I'm 21.
You don't trust me to smoke weed or cigarettes until I'm 21.
You don't trust me to gamble until I'm 21, but you trust me to vote at 18, having never paid any taxes, and I have the right to vote, problematic.
We shouldn't celebrate that record-breaking people turn out to vote.
That's no celebration.
We should celebrate a record-breaking amount of people pay taxes.
We should celebrate a record-breaking amount of people created a job.
We should celebrate a record-breaking amount of people served the military.
We should celebrate a record-breaking amount of people went and got a bachelor's degree.
We should celebrate the record-breaking amount of people that became cops and firefighters.
We should celebrate service, That's what we should celebrate.
The more we celebrate that, guess how everybody thinks at that point?
Service.
The basic thing about how you teach dogs is what?
Dog pees outside.
What do you do?
You give him a treat.
Good job, buddy.
Awesome job.
Come here.
Here's a treat.
Phenomenal job.
Dog goes and does everything you ask him to do.
You give him a treat.
When we become kids, what do parents do with us?
Good job, buddy.
You did your chores.
Great job.
You can watch some TV.
You can play some video games, right?
Whatever we incentivize kids, adults in America, they're going to do that the rest of their lives.
If you incentivize me sitting home and collecting checks, I'm going to be doing that.
If you want me to just stay home in California, you're going to put me at a four-star hotel.
You said, wow, four-star hotel.
Really?
Why wouldn't I want to be homeless?
You're incentivizing that.
It's pathetic that this even has to be explained.
The concept that this has to be explained is what's really pathetic about it.
The idea that this is somehow a controversial concept is what's pathetic about it.
If we got a country, give us 10 million people.
Give us a country the size of, I don't know, give us a land the size of Texas.
Give us a country the size of Florida.
Give us 20 years.
Look what happened to our country.
Let me say this one more time.
If we had a country where we set up the guidelines, our Constitution, our values and principles based on the way we want to do it, give us 20 years and see what would happen.
We'd be the hub of innovation around the world.
We'd be the hub of the best talents around the world.
We would create and solve every problem in the world if we had the right values and principles that we could create.
Not this nonsense stuff to try to please everybody.
Yeah.
And we're just at the beginning of a four-year cycle of it.
It's kind of sad.
Let me ask you, Pat.
Again, kudos, shout out to even your train of thought here.
But we talked about 16 and 18 year olds drinking, smoking, voting, driving, all that.
You know, I would say 90 plus percent of high school students, 16, 17, 18, are just in school.
They're not working.
They're not working at Baskin Robbins.
The majority, right?
I mean, obviously, some kids are working and doing like little part-time jobs, not paying much in taxes is my point.
Fair point?
Sure.
Okay.
The question I have is: doesn't that sort of disincentivize them, meaning they have not paid any taxes?
They're 18 years old.
So the next time that they'd be able to vote is at age 22.
So now you have a six-year span, four to six-year span of our youngest minds, our high school students, our college students.
I'm not talking about whether they're liberal, conservative.
That's five plus years of them being completely disengaged in politics.
Isn't that sort of no, you know what it does?
What is that?
Here's what it does.
It makes it that much more special when you get the right to vote.
You celebrate that much more when it's not a handout.
You celebrate the vote.
A father takes a son and saying, I'm so proud of my son.
He earned the vote.
A mother takes her daughter and her son saying, I'm so proud of my kids.
They earned the right to vote today.
And it's emotional.
Parents cry.
Kids will cry.
I earned this vote.
Versus, ah, here's who I'm going to vote for.
Because somebody in school hates such and such, I'm going to vote for the other guy.
That's what I'm going to vote for.
You think they vote logically?
You think 18-year-olds are going to vote logically?
You really think 18-year-olds were logical?
No, but okay.
Again, I love your idea here.
But here's another problem.
Yeah.
You're 18, you still haven't paid anything in taxes.
Yeah.
You go to college.
Okay.
You're taking out student loan debt.
I mean, your daughter just graduated from college, right?
Peppergrind.
I assume she has not had a job per se.
So you go to college, you're there for four years, you still have not paid any taxes.
You've taken on debt.
Now you're 22.
Well, you know what?
Fuck it.
I want to get my master's.
I want to go get my doctorate.
Get it.
Now you're going to school for another two years, four years.
So now you have a lot of 25-year-olds who have still never voted.
Didn't you get it that a bachelor's degree gets a vote?
Yeah, but until you're 25, a bachelor's degree takes 22.
What are you talking about?
21.
You get one vote.
Of course.
I don't care if you've ever paid taxes.
That's millions and millions and millions of people that don't get to vote until they're age 25.
But if they don't, I was paying taxes at 16 years old.
What age did you pay taxes?
First time you ever paid taxes.
Yeah, probably 18.
I don't know.
Okay.
Yeah, you earned your vote.
$1,000 in taxes.
That's it.
You earned your vote.
I'm proud of you.
You earned your vote.
We ought to be proud of our 16, 17, 18-year-old kids who earned.
We ought to celebrate people earning their vote.
Let me say this.
It's a celebration.
It's a recognition.
It's a milestone.
A man, a woman should have on the wall.
In my lifetime, I've had 13,000 votes.
In my lifetime, I've had 628 votes.
It's a celebration.
Okay.
Last year, I had 62 votes.
You're a shareholder.
I own a piece of America.
I'm proud to be American.
I love this country.
I have skin in the game.
I'm with you.
Dude, the reason that I have so many questions on this isn't because I'm like, well, I think this is.
No, I know.
I know you're not.
Because it's such a fascinating idea.
It's such a fascinating school of thought.
Such a fascinating way to even think about it that I'm asking these questions because I'm thinking, hmm, well, what about this?
What about that?
Because it's sparking some things that are going to be a bit of a bad thing.
So Takar Truth says, yeah, let's ruin democracy, Pat.
Great.
Go more.
Go deeper into it.
Tell me what you mean by that.
Voting should be based on meritocracy.
16 here as well.
Raul Castillo.
Raul Calito, are you paying taxes?
I pay taxes at 13 years old.
Had a work permit to work as a minor, Patrick Keiller.
I have no problem with the age paying taxes.
I could care less about the age.
I care about the habits.
So can you vote at age 13?
You can pay taxes?
Adam.
Could you vote at age 13?
I could, because a 13-year-old will understand the pain of paying taxes.
I wouldn't care if a 13-year-old voted.
They paid into the system.
If you're 12 years old, you own a share of a company.
I don't care if you own a share of the company.
You have say.
What do you want to vote for?
You have say.
To me, you know how they say the brain is not fully functional until you're 25 years old.
You've heard this saying before.
Some of them say it happens at 30, some say it's 25 years old.
That's why even if Rogan says he doesn't believe kids should smoke, he says, you shouldn't smoke weed until after 30.
What a point.
Don't smoke weed until you're after 30 years old.
That's so ridiculous.
But no, it's not about so ridiculous.
What he's trying to say is he didn't start smoking weed until later on in life.
He was not a smoker early on.
He started later on.
So it's logic.
He's gone down a dirty path.
It's a logical processing to say brain be informed.
But if you're 14 years old and you've already experienced what it's like to pay taxes, you've had the pain of being independent.
Listen, I trust you more than a 25-year-old that's got a silver spoon in his mouth, never had a job, is a schlep sleeping on everyone's friend's couch and bitches and complains about mommy and daddy and the fact that he wants another $1,000 from his rich dad.
Yeah, that guy shouldn't have a say.
Where does this factor into bloated government and big government?
Because this ain't an easy system.
There's going to have to be the most ridiculous, in-depth system to count the votes.
You did paid this taxes and you got your doctorate and you got 13 votes, but then you failed the class.
And the next thing you know, you got to go back to school and then you only get 14 votes.
It's a slippery slope here.
Again, I commend the thought process here.
It's ridiculous.
It's absurd to see your brain in action.
It's just, there's a lot of people who are going to be able to do it.
Johnny just paid five bucks.
He says, by the way, some of you guys pay 20 bucks, 15 bucks, 10 bucks.
I saw it.
I'm trying to catch up to you.
PBD's on a roll.
I'm 100% in.
Tell me where your new test country is.
Erica Wittemeyer.
Man, I want to recognize the other guys.
We didn't catch you, but we will next time.
Love the idea of Johnny Van Johnson, but voter fraud would be even worse if votes weren't correlated to population 101.
I don't think so.
I disagree.
I think it'd be a lot easier to do that because it's data.
It's data.
If you have the data to show you worked, you have it.
If I can show my tax, here's how much I paid it.
IRS would know how much I paid in taxes.
It's data.
It's automatic data.
All of that is trackable.
See, it's easy to track who's a shareholder.
That's not hard to do.
It's easy to track who's giving their opinions on a shareholder call because you know who.
It's a document that everybody has who's a shareholder.
At the end of the year, the government could print out a system to say, this year, this is how many votes you get, Adam.
Who do you want to vote for?
Yeah.
And there's people that just say, you know what, I got 100 votes.
I've qualified, but I'm not going to vote.
That's okay.
Don't you think there's just two different types of people in this country?
People that want to be, feel they should be incentivized to do things that you've earned the right to do something like vote and everything else.
And everybody else that thinks that, hey, it's my privilege.
It's my right.
I can do whatever I want.
I can do that.
Look at California.
We spend way more time trying to figure out what you can do in between bites of a Thanksgiving dinner than something practical like this.
And there's no way that there's any – the sad thing is there's no way for any hope for this because the Democrats would never want something like this.
How do you count dead people then?
You know, let's get all the kids coming in there to vote that don't even know what they're doing.
Yeah.
No, the chances, just so you guys know, I'm not pitching this to see that this is going to be passed in the next couple of years.
The chances of this passing, the chances of this passing is more likely in a different country than in America.
The chances of this passing.
They would call you a racist for even coming up with the idea.
I would love to debate anybody who calls me a racist.
I'd have such a fun time with them if they call me racist.
What country could you see this happening?
Any country that wants to compete with America because America is getting so soft that, look, here's how competition works.
Let me tell you how competition works.
Competition works the moment you notice a nation getting arrogant, be ready.
The moment a nation gets arrogant, be ready.
Be ready.
It's interesting times coming around the corner.
The moment you get arrogant, cocky, in sports, in business, what do arrogant people do?
They no longer wake up at the same time.
They no longer have the same fire, the urge.
You know, I'm interviewing a guy yesterday.
He says, what's going to make you more fired up today because you have more money today than before?
How is that fire still going to be?
I said, you don't know who I am.
I'm more fired up today than I've ever been in my life.
And you guys both know who I'm talking about.
Our buddy here.
I said, I have more fire in my belly today than I've ever had in 42 years.
I'm more fired up today than I was at 23 years old, than I was 25 years old.
I'm so fired up.
Because you got 100 votes now.
I've had 100 votes since I was 26 years old.
I've had 100 votes for a long time.
My 100 votes is not a recent thing.
You said you look like a million dollars.
What did I tell you?
I've looked like a million dollars since I was 27, 28.
This is not about looking like it.
This is about knowing and thinking like it.
This is logical reasoning.
You don't have to agree with it.
I'm not telling you this is going to pass.
I'm not telling you, you know, the chance that I can't even run for office.
I can't run for president.
I can't run for anything.
I'm not born here.
But all I'm saying is if a country took this idea and their foundation from the beginning is like this, that's a dangerous country.
Everybody would wake up saying, I can't wait to earn my vote.
And I wish you had the choice to go to a country like that.
I wish there was something.
Do felons get a chance to vote in your country?
You're paying taxes?
Yeah.
Yes, you do.
You're a felon.
Yes, you do.
You know why?
Can a felon own a share of Apple?
Yeah, of course.
Of course, I don't care if you're a felon.
You get to vote.
Because there's skin in the game.
I don't care about felons.
I don't care about, to me, it's skin in the game.
You pay taxes.
You're a felon.
Totally understand.
You screwed up.
Hey, Batfrey should have never done that.
But you came out, you got a job, you paid $3,000 in taxes.
You have a vote.
100%.
Color doesn't matter.
Discrimination doesn't matter.
I don't care what color you are, what nationality you are, what religion you are.
It goes in a way of what Socrates said, and more with not only a knowledgeable voter, but service or helping community as well.
Now we have people voting because Cardi B said to vote for Biden.
That's pathetic.
And it's true.
It's 100% true.
He's right.
Yeah.
So, so, and it would, you know, that's that WAP vote.
Check this out.
Let's go into the conversation I was having with you guys yesterday about the guy that I talked to.
What's this guy?
Yeah, so, so, so I was telling you, I was talking to Peter Schweitzer yesterday.
And if you guys don't know who Peter Schweitzer is, Kai, you want to pull up on Google who Peter Schweitzer is?
Peter Schweitzer is there you go.
Peter Schweitzer, he is the former William J. Casey Research Fellow at Stanford University Hoover Institution.
Okay, Peter Schweitz.
He's written a lot of books.
Go to Amazon so we can show the books.
He's written a lot of different, just type in right there, Amazon on the bottom, right there.
Third one is him.
There you go.
You can do that as well.
So he's written a lot of books.
Now, obviously, it's one-sided.
He wrote Clinton Cash, which affected the last election.
And that book got, I don't know how many thousands of views, reviews.
That affected Clinton because everybody talked about Clinton Cash.
Profiles and corruption.
He breaks down everybody, left, right, middle, everybody, McConnell family, everybody.
And the recent one is Secret Empires.
I asked him a question yesterday.
I think we were having this conversation.
I said I want to bring it up today.
The question was: who are the most powerful organizations or individuals in America today?
And before you guys answer it, I actually want to hear from you as well that you're watching this, and I want you to rank this.
So hear me out when I'm saying this, because I want to hear you rank these in the comments section.
Okay, so Adam, if you're ready.
Kai, I want to hear from you as well.
You were in it, so you can't play along.
Luis, I want you to think about the answers here as well.
Eric, you too.
I've forgotten, if that matters.
Yeah, I'll tell you right now.
You told me.
I asked him a question.
I said, who are the most powerful people in America today?
I said, number one, the president of the United States.
Okay.
I just said, not in a list.
I'm just saying.
Yeah.
This is one is President of the United States.
Second one is billionaires.
Third is universities.
Fourth is social media companies.
Fifth is mainstream media.
Who's the most powerful?
Let me read it again.
Presidents, billionaires, universities, social media companies, or mainstream media.
Once again, presidents, billionaires, social media companies, universities, or mainstream media.
From first to last, who do you say is the most powerful to the least powerful?
His answer was shocking, and I agree with him.
First or last?
Who would you say?
I'm going to step out because I know the answer because I was in the middle.
But I'll have some comments later.
Okay, you go ahead.
Who's from the most powerful to the least powerful?
Most I have just off the top of my head here: most powerful right now in America are social media companies.
Okay, so social media for you is the top.
I would put number two, media.
For some reason, I feel like the president, according to this list, would be last, although I would disagree with that.
I got billionaires and universities coming in at three and four.
You got billionaires third.
You got billionaires third.
University's third.
Okay, university's third.
Fourth.
And then president last.
Yeah.
Okay.
President's last.
What do you say, Luis?
Who's the most powerful?
Eric, who's the most powerful?
So I'm kind of going that way, but I'm going to flip the one and two.
Let's do media.
Mainstream media first, then social media.
Then social media.
Okay.
All right, cool.
I like that.
Eric, what do you say?
I think it's social media, then it's media, then it's universities, then it's billionaires, and then there's the president.
So you guys are identical.
The two of you are identical.
Kai, who do you have?
And he's a conservative.
I say universities or social media first, then universities, then media.
then billionaires, then the president.
Hey, hang on.
So social media first, then universities.
Mainstream media.
Then mainstream media.
Billionaires, and then president.
Okay, so here's what he said.
Okay, here's what he said.
And we got a lot of different people here, you know, energized with Andres, Royal Family.
Ryan Lynn says MSM, social billions, college presidents.
That's it.
So MSM's first, then social media companies, then billionaires, then college universities, then presidents for Ryan Lynn.
Juan Guzman put social media and billionaires are the same thing to him.
Okay.
Ron Harris says Illuminati.
Great.
We went to a completely different direction there.
But okay, I'm going to give you a shout out.
All right, so here we go.
Here's what he said.
Number one at the top, social media companies.
Okay.
Most powerful.
Yeah.
Most powerful.
Zuck is the most powerful non-elected company.
In the world.
In the world.
Not just non-elected.
He's the most powerful in the world.
Wow.
Zuck is the most powerful.
If he ran for office, he dictates everything.
He is the most.
So he said socialists first.
He said universities are second.
He said presidents, Congress, third is what he put.
Fourth, he put mainstream media.
Fifth, he put billionaires.
He says billionaires are irrelevant today.
He says no one cares if you're a billionaire.
There's so many of them.
Billionaires don't matter anyway.
They used to 30 years ago, but they don't do today.
There's a lot of billionaires.
If I read the Forbes 2000 or Forbes one, you would know 80% of the names if I read the names to you.
Okay?
So social, universities, president, MSM, then billionaires.
Okay.
Thoughts, number one.
What a scary list.
It's completely horrifying.
And I'll tell you why.
Because you look at number one and number two, and you could put media at number three, mainstream media, if you wanted to.
Three of the five, 60%, don't entertain other thoughts than their own.
They will shut you down if you have a conflicting opinion than them on social media.
And don't think they don't know their power either.
They know exactly how powerful they are.
They just showed it.
And the other thing, universities as number two, if that's what he says, that's scary too, because they're not allowing any other thought.
In liberal arts universities, you are not allowed to have a conflicting opinion of him.
And if you look at the numbers of people that professors in college, it's like 35 to 1 when it comes to a conservative versus a liberal.
13 to 1.
13 to 1, Washington Today.
Okay.
And not only that, but they're militant.
They won't just, hey, I disagree with you.
I respect your thought or something like that.
They will shut you down.
They will attack you.
So to me, this is a very, very frightening thing.
And they're only getting more powerful.
Yeah.
Adam.
Yeah, I think we all agreed that social media was number one, especially these days.
I mean, we're seeing, you know, in Congress just last week who had to show up.
Zuck, Jack Dorsey looking like ZZ Tops.
How do we say the CEO of Google's name?
How do we say his name?
Anyone?
Sundar.
Sundar Pinchai.
Thank you for that, Kai.
Our 22-year-old who's able to vote these days.
Social media number one, I think, you know, that's a scary situation.
Universities, number two.
Why are universities number two, you think?
Because they're training the next crop of people that are coming out to believe what they believe.
What percentage of Americans go to university?
25%?
The ones that are the cultural elites that end up on the coast that dictate everything that's going on in this country.
We got a point.
It's the people that end up.
I mean, think about it.
Right now, the ticket to getting a nice job is through what?
A degree.
So if you get a nice degree, it is changing, but it's been like this for a while.
Universities, as of right now, has extreme influence.
Are we saying that it's the universities or the products of the universities?
Meaning, like you go to Harvard, you become a, you know.
No, it's the universities, what they're training you, the culture.
I'm sure that's what he said.
It's a cultural thing with professors, what they're doing.
You're saying it's the teachers.
The professors.
I mean, where are you going?
What is a university?
It's the professor.
Like, you know, you are going to be taught by a professor on whatever he or she thinks.
Well, these days online, it's hard to get influenced as much.
And then what, president was number three?
President was number three.
Where was number three?
Where was president, you know, 50 years ago?
Probably first place.
Number one, right?
And he lumped Congress into that at number three.
Yeah, he did.
He said Congress.
He specifically said Congress and president.
Well, thank God that, you know, the president doesn't have ultimate say.
You know, Congress is not a person.
But the point is, the point is the president is no longer the most powerful man on the planet.
It's no longer.
That's no longer the case.
Guys, Twitter is censoring the president.
Think about what I just said right there.
Twitter censors the president.
Twitter dictates what the president can say and not say.
Who has the power?
President?
President can't tell Twitter, hey, show what I have to say.
That is, right there, you realize who really has the power.
There ain't no president.
And to even document that more, when the president can actually showcase the power he has, it's through social media.
I mean, that's where Trump has his most power when he's communicating to his base through social media, which even further illustrates how powerful it is.
People are saying audio is lagging like crazy.
What's the story?
They're saying audio is lagging like crazy.
I'm not sure.
Is it matching with the video or no?
Is there a little bit of lag?
That's what they're saying.
But anyways, okay, let's continue.
So interesting take.
Kai, can you pull up what Biden's camp is saying they're going to do when they become president with COVID-19?
I don't know if you got that article or not.
This is pretty interesting because this is what they're considering doing the moment Biden takes office.
Their recommendation is, I don't know if you have it.
I emailed it to you.
I emailed it to you to kai advaitimen.com.
It is something I sent you.
Kai, I don't know if you're seeing it or no.
I have it right here.
If I can send this to you, it's on Daily Wire or CNBC.
If you go to CNBC, type in Biden COVID Advisor says.
Biden COVID Advisor says, COVID Advisor says.
Yeah, there you go.
Go to that right there.
First one.
Good.
Biden COVID Advisor says U.S. lockdown of four to six weeks could control pandemic and revive the economy.
Okay, go a little higher.
Let's read this.
Dr. Michael Ostraholm, which, by the way, if you guys don't know who he is, he was the first guy that came out on Joe Rogan.
He got like 20 million views.
Coronavirus advisor, the president elect Joe Biden, said a nationwide lockdown would help bring the virus under control in the U.S.
He said the government could borrow enough money to pay for a package that would never cover lost income for individuals and government during a shutdown.
We could really watch ourselves cruising into the vaccine availability in the first and second quarter of next year while bringing back the economy long before that.
Go a little higher to see if there's anything else below.
Go a little higher to see if there's anything Dr. Ricky Professor.
Okay, so four to six weeks.
What do you think?
Four to six weeks, Adam, shutting it down.
Four to six weeks.
I mean, obviously, we're trying to avoid another shutdown.
That's something that's what they're saying to do.
Well, I mean, sometimes I'm going to play devil's advocate here.
COVID is back.
We've been saying that.
It's not been gone.
No, meaning it was going down over the summer.
Boom, they've been saying it that once the fall and the cooler weather happens, COVID's back.
I mean, Trump's been saying we're rounding the curve, rounding the curve all over the campaign.
In my opinion, that swung a lot of voters being like, dude, what are you talking about?
Numbers are going up.
What I assume they're thinking is sometimes you need to take two steps back in order to take 100 steps forward.
Yeah.
So if I don't think anybody wants a lockdown, anyone who's like, yay, a lockdown, yay, more masks, yay, awesome, the economy.
But this just comes down to numbers.
If it's going to cost us more money and more stimulus to keep fighting this pandemic and the numbers just don't justify, the end zone justify the means if we have to lock down for a month in order to be freaking free and clear quoted.
You're cool with 40%.
I'm not saying I'm cool with it.
I'm saying if these are what experts, not talking heads like us over here, experts are saying, we might want to consider listening to experts on this.
Obviously, our gut instincts are going to be like, another lockdown.
Oh, my God.
But if this is what it takes, we need to do something about this because how much money is the pandemic costing us because our economy is not fully functional?
The answers are whatever the media decides to tell you that day.
I love how people that voted for Biden tell us that COVID is back.
How the hell do they know?
Are they the doctors?
How do we know this guy isn't a quack?
All right.
By the way, I'm embarrassed.
He teaches at the University of Minnesota.
I think it is the most harmful thing he could possibly say.
I think it is dangerous.
I think he should be disbarred.
I think it's terrible what he said.
Another lockdown would destroy this country.
I mean, to an economic degree that I don't know if we'd be able to get out of it for a long time.
And here's the other thing, too.
Biden is a puppet.
He will do what everybody tells him to.
He's already been documented to say that he would shut down the country if science told him to or if he was encouraged to.
So can you read the tea leaves where this is going?
It's headed in exactly that direction.
And you know what?
Do we really know COVID is back?
Yeah, positive tests are back.
Are people dying more?
Is it a fatal disease?
I mean, are ICU units really that overwhelmed right now?
Apparently they are.
We don't know that.
We don't know it.
The media is saying it.
We don't know it's true.
Let's just take the hospital's word for it.
Don't go to Texas.
Go all this, all show all.
And if you can make that bigger, Kai, be good.
Have you guys talked to doctors like in March, April, May that are actually in go to death?
Yeah, go to death.
So death is not up.
Cases are up, Adam, if you think about it.
So do me a favor, put them side by side.
Like put another page side by side so we can go to it.
So go to another page and put the same exact search that you just put up.
COVID cases.
Just type in coronavirus cases.
Yeah, there you go, like that.
And go to it.
And then change from Texas to all, show all.
So look at that.
So can you make this smaller and put it right next to the other one?
Because I want to compare the two, make it smaller and make the other one.
Yeah, so go to COVID cases, COVID cases, so go to death.
Because this is how you measure this.
Like if the cases are up, but death is down, it just means it's not as deadly, just so everybody knows.
Yeah, go a little more left and then change it from cases to death on the left side.
Yeah, so if you look at that, can you make that a little smaller, Kai?
Or no?
Can you?
Okay, let's just look.
That's fine.
That's fine the way it is.
Okay, so if you look at this right here, this is what you see.
So here it went up.
Cases went up.
So death, this is cases?
Okay, cases went up, death went up right at the beginning.
We had no clue what we were doing.
Then death went down June 13.
Cases flattened.
Okay.
Cases went up.
We had one big day here.
Then it's pretty much been flat, even though the cases have been going up.
You don't see a spike going up.
So you realize the more cases go up and death stays flat, you know what it's saying.
It's not as deadly.
That's what it says.
I don't know if that makes sense or not.
So if cases are going, look how bad, it's the worst it's ever been with cases, right?
Look at over here.
It's the worst it's been with cases, but death is flat.
You know, so if this spikes, then that means the rate of how deadly it is is deadly.
But if cases are going up, it just means kids are going back to school.
September kids started going back to school, October, November.
You know what?
Kids are around each other.
By the way, in my kids' school, they just shut down high school.
High school has to go home because three kids got COVID.
So they shut down the whole high school.
So they send the high school home in Texas to private school, but everybody else is still going to school.
But high school, because they're playing around, they're together, they're playing sports, whatever they're doing, they shut it down, right?
So, but you know what?
The data doesn't show more people are dying.
The data shows we're getting more cash.
I get it.
My question, what I'm saying is this: what would you rather have?
We shut down.
We don't shut down.
GDP grows at 2%, right?
Yeah.
We shut down for a month.
GDP grows at 10%.
What would you rather have?
That's not a realistic option.
How's the GDP going to grow over a lockdown?
I don't think that'd be like saying, would you like to have a shutdown in the country, but you're guaranteed to have a winning lottery ticket?
Or would you rather not have that?
Well, the GDP is bad.
And no other way around it.
GDP in the second quarter went down 34%, right?
It went back up 35% in Q3.
My question is: if we lock down, but GDP is able to grow because they get a hold of this.
No, no, no.
GDP doesn't grow if you lock down.
GDP only grows if you send free money out.
That's how it would grow.
Okay.
So we're going into more.
Well, there's going to be another stimulus package.
It's not going to get approved.
If the Senate is owned on the other side, there's still going to be a stimulus package.
It's just the size of the size you think, not the side change.
It'll be at least a trillion dollars.
Yeah, $800 million.
$800 billion.
Yeah.
Okay.
But all I'm saying is, if experts, not talking heads like us over here, you're saying that a potential lockdown.
You're forgetting this.
Listen, just so you know, lockdown benefits me.
Let me tell you selfishly.
So a lockdown benefits me tremendously.
More money in the stimulus benefits me tremendously in millions of ways.
We had the biggest month in the history of the company when there was lockdown.
Selfishly, it benefits me.
But it crushes restaurants.
It crushes small businesses.
Do you know how hard?
So let me give you a little bit more perspective.
So you know when you start a business, how hard is it to keep a business running and flowing?
You know how hard it is?
Very hard.
Very hard.
You know what's even harder?
When you go out of business and try to start another one.
When your business goes out of business, what's your next move?
What's the first thing you do when your business goes out, goes out of business?
What's the first thing you got to do?
Try another one, I guess.
No, you get a job.
You go get a job to save money because all your savings was in that business.
So the only reason you went out of business because you ran out of money.
If you have money, you would have never ran out of business.
Yeah, but these businesses that are operating at 50% capacity.
Yeah.
Okay.
If they continue to operate at 50% capacity.
If you shut down, they're done.
Their margins are so thin capacity.
Not if there's PPP.
With stimulus, how much stimulus are you going to give them to stay in business?
If it's for a month.
If it's for a month.
I've been looking at office space left and right.
You know what landlords have been saying?
We're giving 25% discount for people that are struggling.
25%.
They're not saying, hey, it's okay.
It's 25%, 25%.
The other business that took a big hit, his business didn't take the 25% hit.
The other guy took an 80% hit.
So you took an 80% hit on revenue and profits, but you're getting the 25% savings on the lease you got to pay.
You're out of business, buddy.
It's just basic stuff.
What kind of business are they possibly doing at 50% capacity?
Let's just.
Because you're desperate.
You need any kind of money to try to stay afloat and you're trying to make your business stay live with your savings.
Your life is a good thing.
You're saying if there's one month of lockdown, I'm posing a crush.
Yeah, it's crushed.
And they give you money.
They give you money.
They're not giving you enough money.
$800 billion is nothing.
You're saying $800 billion.
They're saying it could be $1.5 trillion.
That's nothing.
To who, though?
What do you mean?
To everybody.
A lockdown is a horrible thing.
How do you keep a business going on?
For one month here, guys.
Not talking about for six months.
Do you really believe shutting down the country is a good one right now?
I mean literally.
Airlines got crushed.
Good news, we got vaccines coming out, stocks went up.
It's good.
People are excited phenomenal.
You want to shut down for four to six weeks and, by the way, you know how you shut down the economy for 90 days.
You know how you shut down the economy for 90 days.
Guess how you shut down the economy for 90 days.
First, you convince people to agree to four to six weeks.
That's how you shut down the economy for 90 days.
Do you understand what I just said?
Here's how you do it.
You're saying it's a slippery slope.
No no, here's how you do it.
You shut down the economy for four to six weeks, but the case is all stirred there.
We need to go.
We're almost there.
Let's go four more weeks yeah yeah, that's what they did last night.
That's exactly what's happening in California.
That's what they do every single week and every single month.
Man, i'm not saying we should do it, I know.
You're saying, if the numbers advocate tom, you know who also doesn't know you.
You're saying, it's no matter what.
I can't.
I can't control myself when someone is advocating to shut the country down.
It makes no sense.
I'm i'm uh i'm i'm, i'm with you tremendously on not doing that.
I think what needs to happen.
Look, when we're having a conversation about New York, what'd you say?
You get perspective.
Your perspective was what, you wanted your grandma to die.
Okay, you don't want your grandma to die if they come to thanksgiving.
So what did I say?
I say, are you guys still gonna have the gatherings?
Maybe you don't invite your grandma.
Maybe you go to the grandma, you check on them and you leave.
Right, maybe some people are not gonna do that.
So the grandpa, like the other day, Tico was sick.
Okay, he had a flu, 100 degrees.
He likes to sleep with his papa.
I went.
I said, you're not sleeping with papa tonight.
He says, why not?
Because your dad's a Democrat.
can be involved in individual people's lives.
That benefits them.
A shutdown is beneficial to them for that reason.
For what?
How does that mean?
They got elected.
Because they're more dependent on the government.
They'll want the stimulus.
They'll want everything that the big government wants to provide for you is what they think that they'll need.
So you're saying that he wants to do that so people are more dependent on government.
It has nothing to do with China.
I don't think Biden wants to have a shutdown.
I'm asking you, you don't think there's any part of this that he wants to actually control the virus?
Here's the last thing I would say.
I'm not saying the virus isn't out there.
I'm not saying it's not bad for people that are susceptible to it.
Do you know anyone personally who has died from it?
I do.
I know a 91-year-old, a 90-year-old.
I don't know anybody other than really, really extremely old people.
And I don't know anybody that it has really truly affected their day-to-day.
The phone system is offline right now?
The phones are, yeah.
I'm working on it.
So, but that doesn't affect this.
Okay, got it.
Okay.
Got it.
So, look, I don't know what's going to happen.
I don't know what this is all about.
I mean, people cannot figure it out.
Thank God we have Dr. Zenner over here to talk about huge issues yesterday.
Yeah, they had huge issues.
They're having issues.
It's all good.
I mean, it's all good.
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