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We are live with Bid David podcast episode number 28 with our buddy Adam being back.
Adam, we missed you.
I mean, a lot of people, man, I'm sure you saw the commentary.
People were crying.
They were emotional.
We're glad to have you back.
And we have a humanitarian in the house, a former Navy SEAL dog trainer.
Mike's been on before.
He had some strong opinions, and we wanted to bring him back on the podcast.
Mike, how you feeling?
How you doing?
Fantastic.
I appreciate you having me back on, and I love that you launched this.
I think it's a great platform for you to be on.
I appreciate it.
I thought for sure you were going to show up with a mask on today.
I thought for sure you were going to be disappointed that not everybody has a mask on.
Where's your mask?
What's the story with the mask?
I bathed in hand sanitizer before I came here.
Where's the hand lotion?
Hand lotion.
Is there anything else?
One minute in.
Pat won't say, I got a hand lotion.
Thanks all for doing this.
If that goes missing, don't be surprised.
Yeah.
So, Adam, how's the soyboy community doing?
Give us an update on this.
We're great.
We're great.
We made Mike coffee.
We didn't have any cream or any sugar or anything like that.
She spit in it on house, so I just put my finger in it.
Mike's got a nice fresh.
So by the way, Soyby Mafia is strong.
We're out there, and we're ready for January 20th.
Okay, well, that's good because this is the last podcast we'll do.
We won't do one on Friday.
Tomorrow's obviously Thanksgiving.
We'll do one again next week.
Thanksgiving to everybody out there.
So between now and next week, obviously, happy Thanksgiving to you.
This is going to be a special one because we've got a lot of things to cover.
Obviously, Adam is in a very good place right now.
He's excited.
He's getting ready to collect his debt.
all the money that he's my your bets your victories from everybody yeah i think eric was the first person that paid off a part of the dominoes are falling yeah Yeah, because some of the Trump administration, they're saying we'll start working with you guys on giving information.
How are you feeling right now with this whole Biden administration that you're going to have?
I'm just, I'm trying to bridge the gap here.
You know, we've had a lot of divide in the country.
I think it's just time we can all sit here.
You know, I know you're a staunch liberal.
I'm a hardcore conservative.
Look at us.
We can get along, Mike.
Sharing a cup of coffee.
It's a beautiful thing.
But I think it's, you know, politically speaking, you know, Trump's started to not say what I don't watch what I say, watch what I do.
He started the transitions.
So I've had a lot of bets, a lot of monetary bets, a lot of lunch bets.
And Eric, former Marine, friend of the show, making moves over there.
He bought me my first lunch yesterday.
So the dominoes are falling.
If a Marine does it, that means everybody's following.
He buys you lunch.
By the way, you know what I like what happened the other day?
You know how The Rock was the sexiest man ever by People Magazine, whatever was Sexiest Man Alive?
And they gave it to Common, I think, or they gave it to somebody else.
Common?
Yeah.
You know what The Rock said?
He says, I'm not conceding my position.
I'm still damn sexy.
I'm not conceding my position.
Can you pull that up?
He says, I'm not conceding what you thought was.
Is that a shot at Trump?
Of course it's a shot at Trump.
But just the whole idea about doing that, you know, I'm not giving it up.
And everybody was saying The Rock is not willing to give up his position.
He's the sexiest.
He's no longer.
And he says, yeah, The Rock jokes.
He's not.
Dwayne Johnson.
Michael B. Jordan.
Michael D. Jordan.
All right.
That dude's a stud.
Common is a little washed.
Kai, go up a little bit so I can read it.
Dwayne Johnson refuses to concede Sexiest Man Alive title to Michael B. Jordan.
Okay, so there you go.
Now it's Michael D. Jordan.
Adam, when are you going to be on that list, man?
Honestly, like, you know, you got to make a run at it.
I got to keep trying.
I got to use my hand sanitizer.
I got to use my hand cream for a while.
Lotion, specifically lotion.
For someone like that.
I got to get there.
I see you as a hand lotion.
When Mike gives it up, when Mike's willing to concede Sexiest Man Alive, let me know.
Let me ring the bell.
That might be a while.
But more importantly, Pat, how you feeling, man?
We got Thanksgiving coming up.
I think your dad's coming to town.
That was a big thing whether he's coming, whether he's not coming.
Let the people know, the people that love you, how you feeling.
Well, one of my dad's coworkers at the place of a couple hundred employees got COVID a couple weeks ago, and they find out about it.
So my dad calls me and says, What do I do?
I said, Go get tested.
He got tested.
He got the results two days ago, negative.
Fully excited, made it here yesterday.
He's here.
My daughter was on top of my dad's back the entire time.
Four-year-old wouldn't leave him alone.
I mean, they love this guy when he comes in town.
So we're definitely looking forward to Thanksgiving.
It's going to be a special one for our family.
But thanks for asking.
A lot of social distancing at the family.
And we do a lot of social distancing tomorrow night with guests coming over.
So it's going to be an interesting one.
But let's get right into it.
We got a lot of things to cover.
Obviously, Dow surges above 30,000 for the first time.
Adam has a reason why he thinks it crossed 30,000.
We really want to hear Adam's thoughts on why it crossed 30,000 for the first time.
Apple Security Chief offered iPads as a bribe for gun permits.
Prosecutors allege.
I mean, that's got to be, I can't wait to get into that story.
Apple Security Chief offers iPads as a bribe for gun permits.
$70,000 worth of iPads will get into that.
Best Buy continuous coronavirus drives driven gains, but warns that it may taper off.
Tesla goes above $500 billion.
Facebook is reportedly planning to woo Joe Biden by rolling out a new vaccine and climate change features.
Germany moves to close the gender gap by requiring companies to put women on executive boards.
I know for a fact Mike Ritland's got strong opinions on that one and the move to go that direction.
I think Mike led the charge to make that happen.
He did actually.
Completely reformed that way, I think.
Bitcoin reaches three or high of $19,000.
And then politics in California, the madness continues with restaurants halt outdoor dining, which is nuts.
Legality of things by elected officials will get into that.
New York governor Cuomo will receive an Emmy.
Trump pulls troops from Afghanistan.
Trump was supposed to go after nuclear sites.
Biden transition moves quickly after Trump agrees to share resources.
India bans more Chinese apps.
At least somebody is still doing it.
We'll talk a little bit about Sidney Powell, a little bit more about what the vaccine's going to do.
And then some Trump loyalists and Top Pentagon posts after purge two weeks ago now leads transition to incoming Biden administration.
NBA players meet with the Pope.
14-hour lines to get in and out burger.
I mean, I can go on and on.
Jelaine Maxwell got COVID, and Dr. Dre is coming out with a new album.
She didn't get COVID.
Jail staffer got it.
Staffer got COVID, but she's being quarantined right now.
I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't make it.
I just want you to notice she may not make it out.
She's hanging in there, from what I understand.
She's hanging in there?
Okay, touche.
All right, so let's get right into it.
Apple security chief offered iPads as a bribe for gun permits.
Prosecutors allege.
Thomas Moyer allegedly promised to give 200 iPads to Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office to get four concealed carry licenses, according to Jeffrey Rosen, district attorney of the Bay Area County, where Apple is based.
The charges are part of a broader probe into the sheriff's office.
Two high-ranking sheriff's office officials, Underchief Rick Sunk and Captain James Jensen, were indicted on a charge of requesting the bribe.
The two men requesting the bribe, the two men held back on issuing the permits until Moyer agreed to donate close to $70,000 worth of iPads, says Rosen.
The donation was pulled back at the 11th hour when our search warrants into this probe began.
What are your thoughts on this, Mike?
Well, first of all, so that's 50 iPads per license, right?
200 iPads for four licenses.
That's a good way to put it.
I mean, so to me, I think it just highlights the hypocrisy of companies like Apple or Hollywood or what have you, and that they try to get things that they don't want you to do.
It's the same thing with politicians that have bodyguards that want to strip Second Amendment or cancel concealed carry or have all these different bans and things of that nature.
When the reality is that people want what they want, whether it's iPads or permits or to be able to carry guns or whatever.
But it's just that classic rules for the not-for-me type of mentality that I think drives a lot of people crazy and just builds resentment.
Adam, what do you think?
So I've got a point and then a question for you because I want to kick it back to you.
So, I mean, I'm just going off of what our good friend Thomas Moyer, who's the employee of Apple over here.
His employee, I'm sorry, his attorney says, look, there's two different stories going on here.
There's two completely different stories here, and you're mixing them into one.
First story is, yeah, we were looking to donate some iPads to the sheriff, to the sheriff's to the people of the sheriff's office.
Cool.
All right.
And we were also applying for a license to carry license.
You are completely conflating these two things.
So whether that's just lawyer speak, we all know what lawyers do kind of just conflate two things.
If that's lawyer speak or if it actually was a pay-per-play, a quid pro quo, a term that we've all learned over the last few years, if it was one of those things.
So who knows?
This is obviously an interesting story to bring up.
Apple, did they pay for this?
Was it a bribe?
What was it?
My question to you is though, let's say this was crony capitalism almost.
I want to kick it back to you.
I know that you obviously love capitalism.
You stand for it.
You got a capitalism tattoo, basically.
But crony capitalism is something that you hate.
So where does this fall on the capitalism, bribe, crony capitalism chart in the PBD world?
Well, remember who started it, though.
You're talking about the politicians.
The local guys said, if you give us XYZ, we will give you XYZ, right?
So it's started by the politicians.
There you go.
So the politicians are the ones that are coming in saying, if you give us this, we'll give you this.
And then the capitalist is tempted to think about whether he's going to do it or not, right?
So whether he's going to make that decision to say, I'll give you the iPads.
What the hell is $70,000 for me to give to you?
But I think it's bigger than that.
I think it's the hypocrisy part that's the most unattractive thing out there when it comes down to anything to do with it.
If you ever think about issues you had with your dad, why did you have issues with your dad?
Your dad's smoking a cigarette and saying what?
Don't smoke cigarettes.
Your dad's drinking alcohol saying what?
Don't drink alcohol.
These guys are saying guns are bad, and then at the same time, they want a license to carry.
These don't go together, especially in the county that they're in.
Another thing I would say, you know, to debunk or at least debate the lawyer is I would say, okay, you're offering to donate these objects, right, or these iPads.
What other institution government-wise have you offered to donate iPads to, right?
And if there's like nine other parts of the government where this guy from Apple has offered to donate where he's getting jacked shit from them, then I would say, okay, you have a point.
If that's the only group that he's offered to donate iPads, and I'd say, dude, that's not a coincidence.
Smells fishy is what you're saying.
Yeah, I mean, he's got a great point, though.
He's got a great point, because now I don't know if they're going to investigate or not, because if Apple's the biggest employer there, that employer is probably doing the most for that county.
If an employer is doing the most for a county, they're kind of forgiving a little bit.
It's like, hey, listen, if you screw us up, we're the one that's given to a lot of charity a lot of stuff locally.
And Apple's not known for giving money to charity.
Apple's never been known for being someone that gives money away.
Never, historically, never.
Steve Jobs was never known for wanting to give money away.
Well, I guess here's the question, and you would know this probably more than most, and we've had an experience.
How difficult is it to get a concealed license?
In New York, it's almost impossible.
New York.
Yeah.
Because this is in California.
I mean, so same thing.
Sorry, I meant California.
Those two states are.
Both two states are almost impossible.
Well, let me put it this way.
When I was an active duty Navy SEAL in California, I couldn't get a concealed weapons permit.
Active duty Navy SEAL, you cannot get a concealed weapons.
Like right after 9-11, if I applied, and I knew a lot of guys that did that all got denied, I didn't even do it because at that time, and I'm sure it's still the same way, is that you have to pay, and it's hundreds of dollars to pay to apply for the permit, whether you get it or not.
But also, I mean, this is something most people don't realize, is that even, you know, and this gentleman, the same way, is that every base in America as an active duty military service member, you can't bring a gun on base.
So I can go there and shoot rockets and automatic machine guns and sniper rifles and lasers that'll take your eyes out and things of that nature, call in close air support, but I can't have my pistol in my car driving on to base.
So who's creating these rules?
What is that?
Well, Bill Clinton is responsible for that one.
During his term, he made a national mandate or an executive order, rather.
Why it hasn't been rescinded is beyond me.
So I would still blame all subsequent presidents that haven't rescinded it.
However, California and New York are unquestionably the two hardest states to get concealed weapons permits, and it starts with the governor.
The reason that I even asked that question is because we recently had Jara come here and that assumed, was that the class that she was teaching?
Yes, she was.
This license to carry permit.
And Jara, who's been on the podcast, she's an awesome gal.
It seemed pretty easy to get it here in Texas.
Freaking Kai's carrying right now.
In California, you got to give 200 iPads.
In Texas, you just got to buy one beer.
It's a very different case.
Preferably that you bring your beard to the license.
One beer and we'll give you a license.
They want to find a reason to give you a license to get it.
Well, this makes the story a little more understandable now.
It's like you can't even get one.
A freaking Navy SEAL over here can't get one.
Meanwhile, I get it.
It's becoming a little clearer.
But I will tell you, though, what got me thinking is what Mike said, which is, has this happened more often?
You know, is there, hey, we'll give you 50 iPhones.
We'll give you 20 iPhones.
We'll give you 80 iPads.
Is that a method of currency of exchange to get favors?
That's interesting if you think about it.
I think even more.
By the way, everybody knows I'm a Tim Cook guy.
I'm a guy that actually likes Tim Cook's style of what he does.
But at the same time, if this is common where some of the leaders at the bottom are doing it, Tim Cook may not even know about this.
Well, more likely Tim Cook ain't authorizing this kind of donation.
Of course not.
Of course not.
How many employees does Apple have?
Is it 400,000?
Mike, you were saying.
Well, I was just going to say, you know, to me, the biggest point is, you know, contrast that to any other donations that Apple has made.
Like Patrick said, they're not known for doing that.
So, you know, whether they're doing it on a regular basis or not, I would be real curious to know, you know, have they made iPad, iPhone, iMac donations to other government entities where they're not trying to get something from them.
And again, if there are a number of those cases where it's not a quid pro quo, where they're not scratching their back, and I'll give you this for that and whatever, then I would say, okay, you have a case that you could separate those two.
But if this is the only instance where they've donated that amount of equipment to a government agency and it just so happens to be the government agency that they're trying to get concealed weapons permits, I mean, that's a hard thing to separate.
Here's a fun question.
Obviously, quid pro quo has been a term we've all become familiar with over the last few years.
Is that a term you were even familiar with in your Navy SEAL days?
Is that something?
That was actually the first three words I learned.
I didn't say dad.
I was a baby.
I was milking my parents from the start.
Tell you what, Dad, I'll give you this.
Yeah.
You were looking for that license to carry permit at zero years old at Fetus.
That's right.
Strap.
How about you?
I think this leads me to a very interesting next topic that we have to be talking about.
I don't think they're talking about it enough.
Is what's Biden going to do with guns and Second Amendment?
Is there going to be a buyback?
You know, as president, Biden will, they say, Second Amendment, he will ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, reinstate the Obama-Biden policy to keep guns out of the hands of certain people unable to manage their affairs for mental reasons, which President Trump reversed.
Biden will enact legislation prohibiting an individual who has been convicted of a misdemeanor, hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor because of hate or bias in its commission from purchasing or possessing a firearm and the online sale of firearms and ammunitions.
Biden will enact legislation to prohibit all online sales of firearms, ammunition kits, and gun parts.
Let me read that one more time.
And the online sale of firearms and ammunitions, Biden will enact legislation to prohibit all online sales of firearms, ammunition kits, and gun parts.
So, you know, Mike, obviously you're in this world.
This is what you do as a Navy SEAL.
Now you're training dogs and you're one of the best at it.
You know, people, I think you were on 60 Minutes.
I don't know what it was, years ago when they did a show on you with 60 Minutes.
2014, 2012.
2013 when they did that.
Yeah.
What are your thoughts?
What do you think is going to happen with the Biden administration?
So to me, there's a couple of things that it kind of depends on, which is, first and foremost, is whether or not the Senate remains in Republican majority.
And I think that's really the biggest key to whether or not he has the ability to do any of these things, because through or via executive order, I'm not aware or of the understanding that he can even do that by himself.
So to me, I think it just highlights how important the Georgia race is.
And I also think, even if the tables were turned, I think an all-Republican government would be equally slanted that way in not a good way.
I think balance, having at least one of the three branches of government should be opposed.
So that's first and foremost.
But from an industry standpoint, that's devastating if that does happen.
I mean, in terms of canceling jobs and curbing markets, the firearm and ammo industry is pretty significant in this country, as most people are aware.
So if he tries to do that, he's going to create a lot of enemies, ones that he probably already has.
But I think that that's going to have impacts on people that are maybe a little bit unforeseen in some of the support roles or transportation or just the supporting mechanisms of the firearm and ammunition industry.
Because it's not just that.
There's gear, there's training courses, there's hunting lodges.
I mean, there's a lot of kind of subsequent industries that I think are going to be impacted by that.
But to me, what's frustrating about it is this is coming from a guy that the two most famous kind of SOPs, if you will, the standard operating procedures is grab a double-barrel shotgun and blast it in the air.
And then also saying, why don't you just shoot the guy in the leg?
Like both of those things highlight just how woefully disconnected he is from people that carry that for a living.
And I have strong opinions about this government-wise across the board, is that one of the biggest problems I think this country has is that so many of our high-level decisions are being made by people that know absolutely nothing about them.
And it's not just firearms, it's everything, whether it's transportation, it's energy, it's foreign policy, it's firearms, I mean, you name it, is that you've got people making decisions about things that they just don't know anything about.
And I think As it relates to firearms, if you want to understand not just how they work, but the impacts that they have on society and the principles with which people that carry them for a living adhere to, you should ask them.
Same thing with, say, Border Patrol, was that you should ask Border Patrol, hey, we want the border secured.
You tell us what you need to do that on firearms.
You should talk to police officers and to professional soldiers, people that carry firearms for a living, and ask them what they think.
And I think more policies need to be driven by subject matter experts and not people that just think that they know what the deal is.
And I think that that's the case here.
Yeah, I think it's a perfect segue for where I can chime in on this.
Speaking of asking the experts, you know, I've been guilty of acting, in my opinion, rightfully so, very emotionally on the gun issue.
I'm from Miami, South Florida.
Over the last few years, we saw what happened in Parkland.
I know kids, like, I know the parents of kids who have gone to school there, Parkland, and literally kids were murdered.
The nightclub in Orlando, where the guy went in there and just shot up a gay club.
Sandy Hook was just so sad for me.
I mean, I remember, I don't know any of those kids.
They were kindergartners.
What was that?
Under Obama administration, obviously, that was in 2013, I want to say.
I just remember crying, just like, what the hell happened here?
Obama said that was the angriest he's ever been during his tenure as presidency.
So what's my point of saying all this?
That I've been guilty of saying, we got to do something about the guns.
This is fucking ridiculous.
This is ridiculous, ridiculous.
But I'm not an expert on guns.
Like, this is not my wheelhouse.
But as just an American citizen, seeing what happened, I mean, obviously, Las Vegas, mass murders over there.
And Colin Biden, the list goes on and on and on.
So as just an American who gets emotional, and I think everyone should when mass murders happen, you know, I've been guilty of saying, well, we got to do something about the guns.
We got to do something about the guns.
We got to see the guns.
So where do you find the balance in being a weapons expert, former Navy SEAL, someone who knows their stuff, to someone who's just like obviously acting emotional, just being like, you know, I'm not saying that the Second Amendment should be repealed, nothing ridiculous like that.
But, you know, mentally handicapped people or people like accused of a hate crime here or any of these issues that Biden's pointing out.
What's the answer, I guess, is what I'm saying.
So to me, it's actually pretty simple.
Is that, first of all, you said it is that emotion is being brought into it.
And that's the first way to screw up a decision is to let emotion drive it.
So that's number one.
Number two is that there are so many other statistics that nobody's talking about.
And that doesn't justify deaths via guns.
But from a data standpoint, when you're talking about quote-unquote mass shootings, you're talking about less than 2,000 people a year.
Now, if one of those 2,000 people is your son or a niece or a nephew or whatever, somebody that you know very well, that's going to give you some heartburn.
But take malpractice as an example, or for a tit for tat, because malpractice is 10 or 20-fold the amount of people that die.
Who is screaming about something needs to be done to where there are more mitigation protocols put in place to keep people in hospitals from dying?
Nobody's talking about that.
Opioid deaths.
50,000 or so Americans every single year die from opioid deaths.
Why isn't the liberal left screaming about something has to be done?
Because a lot of those are kids, or teenagers, or people that get into their parents' percocets.
Nobody's saying a word about that.
Tit for tat, number for number swimming pools, right?
On average, about 3,500 kids drown in swimming pools every single year.
Do you need a swimming pool?
No, you don't.
Nobody's saying anything about that.
More kids die drowning in swimming pools than they do in mass shootings.
Now, that's not to discount the fact that kids shouldn't be shot up in schools.
So that's the first thing, is that there's a huge disparity between the selective outrage of people as it relates to data.
And there are dozens of data points that are far more drastic and worth worrying about than kids being killed by mass shootings.
In the last four years, how many mass shootings have you seen covered in the media under a Trump presidency as it relates to the years of Obama?
Very, very few.
Why is that?
I don't know.
What I can say is that it doesn't seem like it's A, just a coincidence, but B, and I think more importantly, is that the history of this nation is built on our ability to exercise that freedom, that right in terms of bearing arms.
But if you look at, say, back 60, 70 years ago, you could order weapons from Sears and have them mailed to you.
It wasn't uncommon even back as early as the 70s where kids would have rifles in shotgun, rifles and shotguns in racks in their trucks in the parking lots.
There were no problems.
In high schools or whatever?
In high schools.
Not the high school you went to.
He's just talking high school.
Probably not in South Florida.
But a lot of high schools taught weapons safety.
Western High, taught weapons safety.
So to me, the two biggest factors are society, and I'm not blaming one.
Say that one more time.
We spoke over you.
A lot of high schools taught.
Yeah, many high schools back in the 70s and early 80s, up until about 30 or 40 years ago, taught weapon safety in high school.
That's freaking sick.
Why wouldn't you do it?
Right.
Well, I mean, it's like with anything.
You teach how to be offensive and defensive in terms of driving.
You go through driver's advice.
Do you think that's something they need to bring back to the high school?
1,000%.
You know what, for me?
Weapons training?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
It's a piece of equipment.
It's a tool no different than anything else.
Because I'll tell you right now.
They teach how to use a banana, no?
Like with condoms.
They teach how to use how to put a condom on a banana.
The old banana in the jailpipe.
Thanks, Hawthorne, for the hand cream.
The old banana in the tail.
So just like with everything, is you need to understand what the piece of equipment is.
And there's, let's say that this table has a hammer, a chainsaw, a firearm, keys to a rider truck.
Every one of those things can be used to kill people.
So even in the hypothetical where you had the ability to completely remove every single firearm in this country, okay, well, I'll use a hammer.
Imagine any grown man walking into a school with a 24-inch steel chainsaw and no firearms with the ability to defend against that guy.
I mean, that's an absurd amount of damage that could be done with that.
You could rent a truck and drive it through a parking lot or through a schoolyard recess area during recess and do a research.
You think anything can be lethal if you put your course.
Yeah, it's the intent, right?
It's the tool.
Again, just you could reduce it down to the surgeon.
But guns obviously are the best weapon.
I don't think so.
Really?
I mean, let me ask you this.
Do you think, right, with no training, would you be better with a firearm or with a truck?
Let's say there's a festival or it's the Fort Worth Stock Show, right?
So if you had an AR-15 and body arm and all your mags jammed and ready to go, even though you, I'm assuming, don't know a whole lot about how to operate that, or you jump in an F-250, right, with a lead foot and you decide I'm going to go mow some people down at the Fort Worth stockyards or the Texas State Fair.
How many people are you going to kill with that?
I see what you're saying.
So it's not about the firearm itself.
Well, hopefully there's like protocol in place, like, for instance, you can put guards up with guardrails that you can't drive through.
A gun, you can tell you that.
Right, right, but that's quite a minute.
There's a lot of places you drive a car that there's a lot of traffic.
If you really wanted to kill somebody, you could easily do it.
And here's the reality: that just like at TSA, right, is that at some point there isn't a protocol, there isn't a mitigation factor.
You're creating choke points where if all these barriers, well, guess what?
People have to line up to get through those barriers or those checkpoints.
There's always going to be an area that's a weak spot where if you wanted to kill a ton of people in a variety of mechanisms, you would be able to do it.
So, while I understand the emotion-driven outrage that people have because it's face value, you see a picture of a seven-year-old cute little girl that you know got shot in the back of the head while studying English.
Like, that's a shitty deal.
There's no two ways about it.
But what you don't see is the 3,500 kids that drowned.
Where is their picture?
Where is the 50,000 kids that died from opioid overdoses that nobody's showing their picture or having a ticker that says this is how many kids have died from opioids on every single media channel?
When you talk about just that disparity, it's enormous.
And the last thing I want to bring up, and then I'll get off my soapbox, is human trafficking.
All right, there's an average of about 200,000 kids in this country that get roped into sex, slave, or human trafficking.
That's 200,000, right?
Where is anybody's outrage with that?
Where are their pictures all over the media?
Where is the, hey, there were 3,700 kids that went missing today on the side of CNN or on the ticker?
That's nowhere.
Why not?
Are those kids not important?
They are, but they're not on there.
So why not?
So you've got a number of not that 2,000 is a small number.
And again, if it was my daughter, would I be upset?
Of course I would.
But when you contrast it to all of the other problems and you look at the bandwidth that's dedicated to stopping this problem when there's huge, far bigger fish to fry, to me, it's just a lost cause.
And I think there's also enough people in this country that are absolutely going to give you the come and take it mentality of saying, who's going to enforce it?
Go ahead and ban them.
Come get them and see what happens.
Because whether it's you or it's a politician, somebody that decides that they're going to say, these are illegal, are you going to go take them from a guy like me that's barricaded in my house?
How many police officers are going to show up and get smoked in a situation like that before the guys that you're tasking with enforcing it are saying, you know what, I'm not doing this shit anymore.
I got a family to feed.
So it's a much, much more difficult task than just making a rule.
You know, if it was as easy as making a rule, you wouldn't need to do it because there's already a bunch of rules that say shooting people in those capacities is already a felony.
So what's your take on all this?
No, no, what's your take?
It's not my take.
I want to hear from you.
What is your response to what he just said?
Don't worry about what I have.
Nothing.
No, I'm on the same page with him.
I want to know your respect.
On the exact same page.
Based on what part of what he said can you argue?
I'm not trying to argue.
I'm not going to let you go.
But I want to know for somebody like you, based on what he just said the last eight minutes, how are you processing what he said?
I'm 0% trying to argue with an expert on this.
I have more questions than points on this, straight up.
I told you what my point was initially that it's very easy to get emotional, like you said.
Right.
A seven-year-old getting shot up in English class.
Who sits there?
So I guess here's my question to you.
How can you take the emotion out of it?
I get like the opium, the opioid thing.
Like, well, you know, if you're 16 years old and you choose to down a bunch of pills, you made that decision.
If you're sitting in English class or during a nightclub, you're sitting in Vegas, you're not making a decision to take a bunch of pills.
You're just living your life.
So I'm asking you, like, how can we take the emotions out of this?
How can we use more logic?
And most importantly, what protocols can we do?
Because I feel like it's a good idea.
Before you answer that, going in circles.
Before you answer that, if you're watching this, you agree 100% with what Mike said, put thumbs up.
If you disagree, put thumbs down.
If you disagree, thumbs down.
Explain why you disagree with what Mike just said the last five, six, seven, eight minutes.
Go ahead, Mike.
So to me, it's not about my level of expertise on firearms.
To me, that's completely irrelevant, right?
To me, it's 100% about I have the ability to remove the emotion before I start thinking of it.
And that has to be self-regulated, right?
Is that I can't make you control your own emotions.
And that's one of the biggest byproduct negative byproducts of cancel culture is that when you say that offends me or I don't like to see that or whatever, you know, what I don't understand how people don't realize is you are by default handing over the control of your emotions to somebody else.
Like that is a weak position to have.
Totally agree.
Right.
And so this is no different to me is that, you know, don't be spoon-fed by the media and just see, well, that's on TV, so that's what I should be worrying about.
Like that's step one.
Number two is think objectively about everything.
Again, I'm not a pool expert, right?
I know how to swim.
I'm not a swimming pool expert.
I'm damn sure not a brain surgeon, but I can look at data.
And I think that really is kind of the crux of all of this: is that look at data because data is not an opinion.
It's not a gray area.
There's nothing to argue about it.
Is that this number of people died from this?
This number of people died from that.
And then just like ER nurses and doctors do is they triage is to say, okay, here are our 10 biggest problems in this country.
Number one is heart disease.
Let's talk about that because that's killing the most people.
Again, it does not trivialize the fact that all these other people are dying from these other things.
But if you're trying to get the most bang for your buck, it has to be done that way.
And that can only be done by people that have the ability to regulate their own selves that way.
Politically speaking, like we see here in another story, that they freaking run out of ammo.
Gun sales are up, and there's not enough bullets to fill the guns.
And you brought up, you know, under the Trump administration, we're not seeing as many sensationalized media stories.
Well, I think, here's my question: though, I think under Obama administration and certainly what we're seeing under Biden forthcoming administration, gun sales skyrocket.
Like you talk about the industry, you brought up like how many people work in this industry and jobs and all that good stuff.
Under Trump, sales have gone down significantly.
For firearms?
For fire.
Yeah, it's again, I don't know that when a Democrat comes into office.
Do you have the stats?
I would have the stats because I have data right here.
Over the last year, gun sales have gone up significantly.
To the roof.
Like you're talking about being sold out and they have nothing.
Since the election, they've got to be.
And by the way, here's what you got to be thinking about.
2 million guns.
What's magical about this is he's saying end the online sale of firearms and ammunition.
Biden will enact legislation to prohibit online sales of firearms, ammunition, kits, and gun parts.
The online gun and ammunition industry in the U.S., statistically, according to ibisworld.com, is $2 billion market size.
There's 2,473 businesses who do that with 12,326 employees who do that, 12,326 jobs who do that.
So the question I got for you is a different question.
I know what you're asking him.
I want to ask you, based on what he explained, and he reasoned with you, you have the ability to reason.
How are you processing the information of what he just said to you?
No, I'm processing it very logically and with math.
Like you pointed out the swimming pool example.
More people die, more kids die in a swimming pool than getting shot up.
So again, I started this entire conversation off with it's very easy to act emotionally in these situations.
You don't have emotions when kids get shot up in Sandy Hook.
Go check yourself into a doctor, buddy.
But that shouldn't drive your decisions on how to fix it.
But would you agree that something can be fixed?
Like, for instance, the big debate after Vegas was the bump stock debate.
They stopped the sale of bump stocks, whatever the hell.
Bump stocks.
Right.
So, I mean, again, that makes that.
I'm in bump stocks so people can see what it is because Adam needs to know what a bump stock is.
Banning bump stocks and suppressors and a certain round of magazines, all those things do is make, and no offense, but they make people like you feel better about what their politicians are not doing.
It's really all it is.
And I'll tell you why: is that air rifles, as an example?
This is something a lot of people, even in the gun industry, aren't that familiar with, that are not serialized.
They're not regulated by the ATF, but they have up to 50-caliber size munitions that they can shoot with.
These are, you know, there's no gunpowder.
You can make the bullets yourself with a 3D printer or a basic tool in die shop.
You can machine these types of weapons.
It's completely unregulated, but it wouldn't matter if it was because they're all, it's like the MacGyver doing shit in your kitchen, is that all of these materials are readily available enough to be able to make them.
And so that's half of it, right?
Is that by trying to ban this stuff, it's not going to fix anything.
The other thing is that alcohol, right?
Prohibition.
Did that work?
No, it didn't.
Why didn't it?
Because people decided, you know what, it's worth, even though I may spend 10 years in prison, I like drinking booze that much that I'm willing to risk it, right?
I'm going to make some moonshine in my toe.
But that's just booze, right?
So now imagine you're scared for your life.
You've got a crazy ex, or you live in a neighborhood where it's getting shot up nonstop, is that you're going to do what you have to do to protect your family.
If you were to ban, and again, looking at data, if you want to ban something that's going to try to make an impact, you'd need to ban handguns.
85, 90% of all deaths related to firearms are committed by handguns.
So nobody's talking about that either.
That's by far the biggest market share in terms of people that die.
But my last point is that let's just say hypothetically that you had the ability with an all-democratic government to ban every firearm in existence.
You have to get rid of the ones that are already here.
But also what you're going to do is create an immediate, overnight, and incredibly lucrative black market for firearms coming through Mexico.
It's very easy to get.
You want to talk about military weapons grade.
I mean, they have explosives, they have rockets, they have grenades, they do some gnarly stuff down there.
Guns are basically illegal there.
They have no problem getting all that stuff.
Well, if they can get people and drugs in this country almost unfettered, which the liberal policy is about to change where they're going to have the gates wide open at this point, if you don't think that banning guns is now going to create a cartel network that's now funneling weapons into this country, you are incredibly naive because it will, because they're businessmen, right?
They work in things that they make money and not just drugs.
So to me, it's a lost cause.
Can you do something about it?
Yes, you can.
What you can do is teach kids how to respect and operate firearms and also use a nuclear family setup to give kids some semblance of respect for life and respect for everything.
To me, that is the difference between now and 70 years ago when guns were way easier to get a hold of.
I'll tell you right now, 70 years ago, our grandparents didn't have gun safes.
They didn't have fingerprint-activated handgun safes under their bed.
They had shit laying around.
They had it in the box, in the glove box.
All over the place.
But what they did is they taught every one of their kids to not mess with it the same way that I'm assuming.
Do you have kids?
No, not yet.
All right.
So I have kids.
You have kids, right?
Do you have a kitchen block with knives in your kitchen?
Plenty.
Do you have power tools in your garage?
Plenty.
Right.
So do you let your kids mess with those or do you teach them to respect them?
Exactly.
they kill each other with with the kitchen block 24-7.
Could they grab a hole saw out of the garage and punch a four-inch circular hole in their brother's cranium?
Yes, they could, but they don't because you teach them not to mess with that stuff and how to respect it.
So that's what needs to happen.
By the way, you see, this last 15-minute discourse, the entire country needs to listen to.
This last 15 minutes.
It's so powerful this last 15 minutes on the angle of one.
And by the way, I want to continue on this because since we're already good mother, let me give a quick shout out to Good Mother.
She's given $20 twice.
First was saying happy Thanksgiving.
Second time, she said the problem is the mommies and the government trying to take care of people and the daddies letting them destroy our country.
That's what she had to say.
And then we had another person that just came saying $5.
Seriously, children, quit the soy boy nonsense, grow up and become real men if you want adults to take you seriously.
Okay, so that was by also Good Mother.
She's still going at it.
So let me go back to what you asked about.
Good mother sounds like a what we can.
She actually is a woman.
She sends messages on Instagram.
She's probably sent you messages as well.
Good mother, why don't you send a message to Adam so he knows who you are?
So you can email us.
You ask what we can do about it.
You ask what we can do about it.
And, you know, he said a couple different things.
One thing you got to be thinking about is the following.
Everybody here grew up with a parent who had a, what's the word?
Who had a who was a stickler about something, right?
What was your mom or dad a stickler about?
What were they sticklers about?
Like it's the weirdest.
It's the best job possible.
No, no, no.
I'm talking about like, never leave your shoes outside.
You know, why are you leaving the soap over here?
You know, you have to do this with your...
Turn the lights off.
Turn the lights off.
What else was it?
What things did you have?
Clean the freaking dishes.
What did your parents lose their minds over?
What did your parents lose their minds over?
Do you remember what it was?
What was yours?
Not closing doors.
Not closing doors.
Waking my dad up when he was taking a nap.
Waking your dad up when he's taking a nap.
Because that was pretty crazy, right?
What else is it?
Tell me.
Turn off the lights.
What do you have, Eric?
Every time I had to do a task, if I didn't do it right, the first time he would get really upset.
He'd be like, do it over again, and they'll never fucking make me check it again.
That's your dad.
Shout out to your dad, man.
I like your dad already.
How about yourself?
Anything you had?
Because you come from a very loving family.
Don't run away when it's time to whoop your ass.
My dad was an aggressor.
You're going to take this ass beaten.
Here's the point.
Do not run away.
Here's the point.
The point I'm trying to make to you is now as adults, there are certain things our parents did that haunt us.
Okay.
My mom would say, she would say, if you bite your nails and you drop them on the floor, your parents are going to fight.
Do you want mommy and daddy to fight?
My mom would say, if you chewed gum after the dark, you chewing the devil's ear.
Now think about this.
Excuse me.
I'm 42 years old today, right?
I chew gum and not have to throw it away just because my mom told me when I was six years old, if you chew gum, after the dark, you chewing the devil's ear.
Who the hell says stuff like that?
An Armenian mother does what they do, right?
They scare the shit out of you.
What's the point?
The same way our parents scared the hell out of us is what the media is doing.
Whatever the media chooses, chooses to make their main MO to drive nonstop emotion out of you and I, they're going to do it.
It doesn't matter what it is.
If it's to say, are you seeing what these people are doing with the guns?
All it takes is one incident to say, this is why we have to ban guns.
This is why we have to ban guns.
I've never seen anything about pools.
I've never seen anything about driving cars.
I've never seen anything about knives.
I've never seen anything about opioids.
You don't hear it when he's talking about it.
And I think the part that made a lot of sense is the following.
This is something, Adam, I think you ought to agree with.
You have a show called Sauce Tucks Tox Money, and you do a great job with your show that you have Sauce Tucks money, okay?
And you have certain principles, six principles that got you from being a party guy in Miami to being a millionaire in your 30s.
And those six tools, can those six things help anybody out?
Can anybody learn from that?
Agreed.
Now, Adam, let me ask you this.
How many kids in high school should learn those six things?
Like, which one of those six things do you think they need to start teaching at ninth grade, eighth grade, seventh?
All of them.
All of them.
Okay, so now watch this.
Here's stuff that we don't learn about in school.
We don't learn about marriage.
We don't learn about what it is to be married to somebody that you got married for the wrong reasons.
We don't learn about taxes.
Nobody tells us how to pay the least amount of taxes possible.
All they talk about is rich people don't pay taxes.
Why don't you teach me how to pay the least amount of taxes?
Like teaching somebody how to get the least amount of speeding tickets or how to get the least amount of felonies, misdemeanors.
There's nothing wrong with teaching me how to pay the least amount of taxes by going out there and starting a what?
A business and having the ability to write off.
They don't teach you about money and they don't teach you about guns.
Why don't you teach me about guns?
Why don't you sit there and train me?
My challenge would be: if we ran a country, here's what I would want.
If we're running a country, if we are running a country together, my ideal situation would be the number I would be tracking is how many people we have well trained.
I want well-trained kids.
You don't want to join the military?
No problem.
You do have to take a gun class.
You don't want to go in the U.S. Army.
I'm all about some boys that are undecided like me to go in the military.
I think it'll straighten you up, and it did to me.
Army is one of the best decisions I ever made.
You served the military.
Thank you for your service.
You were in the Marines.
If I don't go in the military, I'm not Patrick Blake David today.
I'm somebody else.
But if you don't want to go in the military, no problem.
You got to take a 90-day course on how to use guns and how to use them properly and how to learn.
Go learn it.
Basic stuff.
Why?
Because the more trained people we have, the better it is.
When I got my license, driver's license, we take a what?
A driver's license course.
You get a permit and you get a gun at 16, and then you get a car at 16 years old if you choose to do, right?
I think the stuff Mike talked about here was so powerful.
The part that concerns me with all the things that we covered here today is there's been a everything is now about messaging, right?
You know how that one video shows a hundred different news stations, they're all using the same script.
You ever seen that video that shows all these different guys using the same script?
So they have a certain messaging board that goes says, guys, this is the line we're going to use.
This is their line we're going to use, and everybody uses it, right?
Okay.
Buying back guns.
We're going to pay to buy back guns.
We're going to get rid of these semi-automatic weapons, which they have no clue what is a semi-automatic weapon, right?
We're going to try to get rid of bumps.
We're going to try to get rid of all this stuff.
This is the consensus based on all the media that comes together.
This is what they talk about and they say, here's what my question is going to be, what is really going to happen if they decide to push hardcore to do get guns back and buy them back.
What do you think the people are going to do in America?
Do you think they're just going to say, okay, cool, let me just give it back to them?
Or do you think there's going to be a reaction?
I think there's going to be, it's going to be measured based on how into them you are.
You know, for the average guy that has, you know, maybe a pistol and maybe a shotgun and is like, man, I don't want to get wrapped up into pushing the envelope and whatever.
He'll probably turn them in.
Then there's going to be the people at the other end of the spectrum where they're fanatics about it.
And I'll tell you myself as an example.
Like, there's a few guns that I have that aren't worth having anymore that if they said, hey, we're doing a buyback, I'd be like, sweet.
Here's the five ones I don't give a shit about.
You can take them back and I'll take my thousand bucks or whatever.
How many guns do you have, Mike?
Enough.
We'll just put it at that.
More than a few dozen.
No, I'm not a fanatic about it.
I mean, I have a handful of pistols, a handful of rifles, a handful of shots.
But what do you think about these people that have 30, 40, 50, 100 freaking guns?
Well, I mean, same thing with watches, with shoes, with vehicles, with houses.
You know, to me, America should be this.
It should be free, right?
And whether or not you think I should own anything is no more your business than whether or not I think you should own whatever the hell you own.
I don't care what you own.
I think you should own whatever you want.
To me, freedom, and I've said this on a number of times, people are going to laugh.
I think freedom is like being pregnant, right?
And that sounds ridiculous, but the reality of it is you can't be kind of pregnant or mostly pregnant or almost completely pregnant, right?
You either are or you're not.
And with great freedom comes great responsibility.
It's big boy rules, and you've got to learn how to manage that, right?
But I would much rather live in a society where shit's dangerous and people have the autonomy to make decisions the same way that I think kids should be raised, is give them the ability to make mistakes.
Don't micromanage them and decide everything for them because it builds resentment and it creates sneakiness.
For anybody out there that has kids, the harder you are on them, what happens?
They find a way around it the same way they do in prison, the same way they do in SEER school, the same way they do in boot camp.
What's not allowed in prison?
Cell phones, drugs, cigarettes, ass rape.
Guess what happens in prison?
All of those things.
Damn.
So, well, bear with me.
We live in a society where we have elements of our government that are trying to say we're going to control you as stringently as prison.
But guess what?
If in a prison-like environment, you can't keep those things out of prison where it's as controlled as you can possibly control a group of human beings.
How on earth do you logically try to reason with people and think that you're realistically going to be able to do that in a somewhat free society?
It's not going to happen.
It's the prohibition moonshine analogy right there.
Like when there's a role, there's a way.
Right.
Or let's take meth, right?
Methamphetamines.
All 50 states, methamphetamines is a federal felony, right?
Except Oregon now at a certain amount.
The other 49, right?
You, with $300 at any gas station in any state within about 25 minutes, you can get a hold of some, right?
Well, it's illegal.
It's a federal felony.
You'll spend a lot of time in prison if you have it, but it's still that easy to get a hold of.
What makes anybody think that guns are going to be any different that way?
Like, if people are that into drugs or to booze or to whatever it is that they want, ivory.
You know, ivory is illegal.
People have ivory.
I mean, it's just pick anything that is illegal and show me where it actually doesn't exist.
I challenge anybody listening out there, show me one area, prison or otherwise, where something is a banned federal felony, where with a few hundred dollars and a couple hours of your free time, that you can't get a hold of it anywhere in this country.
In a democratic society, I assume you mean.
Even in a socialist or communist or, you know, take China.
It's the same thing.
You think black markets don't exist there?
Like they run a way tighter ship than we do.
Guess what?
You can get anything in China, right?
So show me, even like nobody wants to live like China, but even in China, you can get anything there, right?
So how are you going to do that here?
You're not.
Human nature dictates that people will find a way.
I'm going to use another Jeff Goldblum.
No question about that.
Life will find a way.
This is now.
This is Jurassic Park.
You're bringing Jurassic Park.
I'm doing it again.
Maybe a big thing for Jeff Goldblum.
I think you had a Jeff Goldblum reference recently with the budget.
There's a resemblance there.
No, With the glasses.
Yeah, where are the glasses at?
With the glasses, maybe somewhere.
Well, this is what you were saying.
No, but that's life will find a way.
People will find a way.
I mean, human beings are the most ingenuitive species by a lot.
That's why we're where we're at, right?
But that applies to everything, not just for the good, for the bad.
Look, again, look at prison, look at gangs, look at POW camps in Vietnam.
Look at the shit that some of those guys were able to pull off, right?
Being tortured every day, being chained to a wall, and they still managed to pass notes to each other.
I mean, people will find a way around everything.
It's just, you know, to me, the answer is, it's the adage, you catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar.
Like, instead of trying to outlaw everything, teach people how to do it right.
You know, I mean, and that's with everything.
It's not just with guns.
It's with how to conduct yourself, like Pat was saying, like how to do taxes, how to treat your spouse, how to do basic human things that you should learn how to do that people aren't being taught in elementary and high school.
Well, look, let me say, Mike, I actually listened.
I used the two ears in my head.
No, not emotional.
I took this segment and this opportunity to learn something here.
And I appreciate what you have to say.
And it's opened my mind on this topic for sure.
I appreciate it.
So much respect for Leonardo.
By the way, good mother gave you five bucks.
And she said, leave Adam alone.
He's at least asking questions because he's curious.
So good mother's on your side.
Do you feel like I'm just going to be?
I'm not looking for sides.
I'm just trying to get a little bit of a double.
Good mother is trying to support you here and you're taking shots at her.
Good mother, I'm not jumping on Adam.
We're just talking.
Do you feel like we're doing good?
No, not even a little bit.
We're having a lot of time.
Honestly, this has been such great banter on this topic.
But let's talk about what you were talking about off camera regarding when's the last time we heard anything about terrorism, ISIS.
Why don't you talk about that a little bit?
Well, I found it interesting that leading up to the 2016 election, we were inundated with ISIS.
I mean, again, it's what the media decides to show you, right?
And I think that that speaks volumes, right?
Is that a scared public, the masses being frightened by something makes them tend to vote or at least have the opinion of certain people can handle it better?
And I think that that was probably a tactic.
It was pretty often where, you know, on nightly news, pick-pick a program where you would see a map of Syria, Iraq, and there's red and green versus what ISIS holds versus not or whatever.
And now four years or almost four years into the Trump presidency, when was the last time, whether it's leading up to the election or even in the last couple of years, where any of the media has ever portrayed any negative aspect to what's going on foreign policy-wise or ISIS terrorist-wise?
There's been zero.
To me, that's an interesting thing because the 2016 election, like most of what we were talking about going into it in 2012, even more so.
That drove a lot of the debates, a lot of the policy, a lot of people's voting positions was foreign policy.
And now it's basically void.
The media is void of any foreign policy discussions whatsoever in the last couple of years.
And to me, that's worth talking about.
Regarding ISIS, you're saying.
Regarding everything.
I mean, because there's been attacks in France, where terrorists have gone into cathedrals and sliced the throats of.
Well, that was very recent.
Right.
That was covered.
Not really.
I heard all about that.
On what channel?
I mean, that was out there a few weeks ago.
I mean, out there on the 8th.
How much time was dedicated to that versus everything else that you hear?
Well, let me just say this.
Clearly, I mean, would you agree that ISIS and the caliphate was a way bigger problem in 2015 than it is now?
Well, I mean, I thought that was what, I mean, and kudos to Trump.
No, I mean, he figured it out.
No, I mean, I don't even know if it's necessarily a media thing more than just an actual fact thing where we defeated ISIS.
Let me ask you this back in 2015, how was your life impacted by terrorism other than what you heard on the media versus now?
I mean, valid point.
I don't think most people in America are getting beheaded on the weekend, you know, and an ISIS beheading.
However, but it was more prevalent, more rampant five years ago.
I think you heard about it a lot more.
If you think that there isn't still a bunch of terrible shit happening in Iraq and Syria and Kurdistan and everywhere else right now, it is.
Dude, Mike, no freaking doubt.
Was there drama going on in Afghanistan and Iraq and Yemen?
And is there still fights being going on?
No doubt.
But are you saying that over the last five years we've done nothing to defeat ISIS?
No, we absolutely have.
My point is, is that what you're hearing about it, though, is almost non-existent.
The same way, what are the stats that now all of a sudden you were like, holy shit, I wasn't aware of that, swimming pools, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Opioid deaths.
Those are all things that have been taking place year after year, human trafficking, same thing.
You haven't heard about any of that.
Those data-wise impact our society and our children, the next generation, far greater than coronavirus does, you know, from a lethality standpoint.
I mean, hands down.
Children, for sure.
Right.
But you're not hearing about that.
You didn't hear about that.
So is your ultimate point here that a lot of this is media sensationalism?
100% it is.
Okay.
You know, you would have known about 200,000 human traffickers.
You would have known about 3,500 kids drowning and so on.
Why doesn't the media cover human trafficking?
You brought that up a few times.
Why is that not a topic?
That doesn't seem like a political topic.
I mean, from my perspective, I think that there are enough people that are in the hierarchies, the upper echelons of hierarchy at some of these media groups that are complicit to it because they're probably involved in it.
That's what I think.
Hold on, back up.
Yeah.
Unpack that last part.
It's exactly what I said.
To me, I can't come up or rationalize any other excuse as to why with that kind of data, that nobody is saying anything about it other than the fact that they're at least okay with it.
I mean, you tell me why it is.
I would pose the same question.
Those numbers, I mean, look it up, right?
It's on government websites, the amount of people that are trafficked.
In fact, I took a screenshot of it on the way over here.
But are they talking about it?
Is it across the board?
Meaning, are they bringing it up more on Newsmax and OAN and Fox versus CNN?
Not NBC.
You don't hear it on any of them.
So it's not necessarily like if you're a liberal Democrat, you're into raping kids.
But if you're a conservative, you're not like, which tells me that you're saying that it's just up at the top, power begets.
I don't know how else you would explain it.
Is this QAnon stuff or what is this?
I don't know anything about it.
I'm not a QAnon guy.
I'm not a tinfoil hat guy.
I'm not an Alex Jones guy.
To me, I'm an emotional patriot as it relates to where my emotions get fed into it.
That's being passionate about this country.
What is that tinfoil stuff with the QAnon stuff?
I don't know.
I mean, you're asking the wrong guy.
Legitimately, I don't know how much of it is.
Okay, I got you.
I'm not sure.
By the way, maybe Adam needs to go on Alex Jones and they need to do something together.
Why don't we have Alex Jones here on the show once?
You and Alex would hit it off.
Do you think we can get Alex Jones around here?
I think we just have to make a phone call.
We just haven't made that phone call.
We call a 1-800 QAnon.
He shows up.
How does that work?
Okay.
I mean, again, say that.
I'd love to see the two of you guys go at it, man.
It would be so entertaining.
I have a lot of questions, Radio.
I'm sure you do.
Okay.
Dow surges above 30,000 for the first time as investors cheer transition to Biden administration.
What a nice title that article sets as investors cheer to Biden administration.
U.S. stocks jumped on Tuesday as a start of the transition to Biden administration, spurred another rotation to cyclical stocks.
Dow Jones Industrial Roads about 30,000 for the first time, River Boeing led the benchmark index higher, followed by Chevron and J.P. Morgan.
The new record caps a benchmark rebound from the start of the pandemic when the overwhelming bearishness dragged the index as low as 18,213 in March.
So why, Adam, are we over 30,000 with the Dow?
I mean, this is exciting stuff.
I'm not going to get into the political.
Do I think this is all Biden?
Clearly not.
Do I think this is a lot of Trump?
Some of Biden?
Some of Janet Yellen?
Some of the people being obviously stimulus.
This is this is this was how much of this you think is Trump, Biden vaccine.
Oh, vaccine, for sure.
What would you put at the top of the list?
Why we're at 30,000.
Why we're at specifically 30,000.
Why we're at 30,000?
First and foremost, I would put the trillions of dollars that we pumped into the economy over the last six months for sure.
That's number one.
I mean, number two, so it's fake.
What you're saying is it's fake that it's over 30,000.
I'm saying that it's a little inflated.
Inflated.
Okay, fine.
A little bit.
I'm saying stimulus.
I'm sorry.
I'm saying vaccine.
Clearly, if there were no news of a vaccine, let's not forget.
COVID's still here, and it's actually getting more rampant and widespread throughout the country.
I mean, they said in the fall and in the winter, the numbers would go up, and that's exactly what happened.
But the fact that there's they, who said they?
People have been saying they, everyone, the media, left and right, okay?
Um, experts, Fauci, whoever you want to put on that list, they've been saying, watch out for a second wave.
We've heard this a million times.
Um, does Trump get a credit?
Sure.
Does Biden, you know, not spooking the market and picking super leftist progressives, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, to be on his cabinet and going with a little more sensible, moderate veterans like Janet Yellen get credit?
Sure.
Do vaccines, Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca get credit?
I don't think this is a one-man show.
But most importantly, so if we want to give credit, credit can go all around.
What I want to convey to the audience is beginning of the year, I'm not sure if you're a big stock market guy.
I'm not like a massive stock market guy, but that's, I'm with it.
I believe in the stock market and the power of compound interest.
I'm a huge advocate of it.
January, where was the Dow?
The Dow was at 28, 29,000, somewhere hovering around that number.
March, where did the Dow hit?
March 22.
18, 2, 18, 18, 2, ridiculous.
Where are we now in freaking Thanksgiving?
30 freaking thousand.
So all of my investigators.
That's exactly what Trump said was going to happen.
Okay.
Yeah.
Trump said exactly that the Dow is going to go above 30,000 before the end of the year.
And they said, you're out of your mind.
Well, he said that in April.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, he called it.
Yeah.
So I mean.
But I wonder, what I'm wondering is how much of it is how much of it is vaccine?
How much of it is Biden?
How much of it is Trump?
That's what I wonder.
Because, you know, it's very hard to say, well, it's because of Trump, really?
Because, you know, what we said after, you know, Trump got elected and he won and Hillary Clinton conceded, what happened to the market the next week?
Two weeks, boom, it went up.
And they said that when Trump got elected, the stock market would crumble.
And it went up.
It went up.
Yeah.
So what I'm trying to say to you is: so if they say the credit is Trump, the market went up.
Okay.
But now this time around, they say Biden won.
Now, it's obviously not over with, but if Trump is sitting there and saying, listen, we're going to work with you and start sharing resources, they're kind of heading the direction of saying we're willing to share resources.
Now, he's still tweeting away saying 92% of the survey from Newsmax says that I shouldn't concede and I should still hear, but it's Newsmax.
Newsmax is, of course.
Zero credibility.
92%.
Not zero credibility.
Newsmax is going to be one-sided.
It's not about zero credibility.
It's like CNN is going to be one-sided.
MSNBC is going to be one-sided.
It's not zero credibility.
What side are they going to say?
It's like, what are your kids going to say about you?
All good things about you.
That's my dad, right?
So, but at the same time, market goes to 30,000 after Biden gets becomes whatever you want to call a president-elect.
What are the investors saying?
Are they saying they're optimistic?
Because it doesn't make any sense because the Senate's not over with.
And anytime all three is on one side, like the point I'm trying to make, so many things are going on where trends don't add up right now.
When I mean trends don't add up, you've got a guy that goes campaigning, no one shows up, guys are showing up to honk the horn, 50 people are showing up, another guy that's showing up to rallies, 60,000 people are showing up, 25,000 people have to be kicked out, and the other guy wins.
It's very weird, and he breaks Obama's record, he breaks everybody.
How the hell does that happen?
And then now we don't have fully results on who's the president.
We don't have full results on what's going to happen in Georgia.
There's so many uncertainties.
What are investors excited about?
What are they excited?
There's no certain answers right now.
So here would be my question as kind of a different angle to view it.
And I don't know if there's a way to analyze what these figures are, right?
But if it goes from 28,000, 29,000 to south of 20,000, and then in a matter of months goes back later, I would be real curious to know what the figure of 401k and low-level, just regular investors, what the percentage of whale-size market share owners have now versus six months ago versus 12 months ago, right?
So there was a huge transfer of wealth from my perspective.
And I'd be curious as to whose hands it went from because it seems like the average everyday citizen got out of or lost their ass in a lot of these markets.
And then now it was picked back up by bigger guys.
That's what I would suspect that there's at least some element of that to it.
What do you mean that the average citizen lost their ass?
So like the people that see the stock market starting to crumble and they get rid of whatever and the stock market goes below 20,000 and now all of a sudden some of these guys, I mean, there was one story of a hedge fund guy in New York that made like $6 billion in 18 hours or something like that because he goes down to 20 Bill Ackman.
So it goes down to 18 and now these other bigger players scoop up all this, you know, all this market share at a much lower price and now it's back up to 29.
Again, I'm not necessarily insinuating anything.
I would be curious to see if there is a disparity or a huge contrast between what it was in terms of the breakdown, the percentage of how many different people owned certain shares at 28,000 a year ago, what it went down to at six months ago, and then what it is now and see what kind of difference there is because I would bet that there's a difference.
No, valid questions.
Just a couple points.
55% of Americans own some sort of stock.
So flip a coin whether this even relates to you or not.
Meaning, you know, Wall Street, if you're investing in Wall Street, you got some stock.
If you're on Main Street, you don't have anything, 401k stock, what have you.
You know, you brought up a point that I actively listened to about not letting your emotions get the best of you when it comes to guns and listening to the facts.
If you're an investor out there and you panicked and freaked and let your emotions get the best of you, I agree.
In February and March, and you sold, like Pat said that he knew many people, wealthy people, that freaked out and sold.
Six months later, the joke's on you, buddy.
I learned this lesson in 2008 when every, I mean, I just entered the financial services world in 2006, 2007.
I went from a broke-as-a-joke party club guy to made six figures at 27 years old.
I was like, holy shit, what do I do?
All this money.
And I developed a save that money mentality because I saw everything around me crumbling, crumbling, crumbling, crumbling.
And then people were asking, how much money did you lose in 2008?
I was like, nothing because I didn't have any freaking money.
But I rode the Obama 10-year bull run, which, you know, obviously a Trump bull run, you know, coupled that.
And I learned my lesson that if you're going to invest, this is a long-term game.
If you're like a famous line is, you only lose if you jump off the roller coaster.
The roller coaster is going to go up.
It's going to go down.
It's going to go left.
It's right.
You're going to get whiplash and all that.
You only lose if you jump off.
So, you know, I'm very, you know, 80-20 stocks to bonds, but as you get older, to all our older listeners out there, I would encourage you to just take a more, you know, balanced approach and not have 80% stock and freak out that your retirement's gone.
Have a little more stabilizing force and hundreds of people.
100 minus your age.
100 minus your age is the formula.
100 minus minus your age.
Okay, so if you're 40, what are you saying?
60 equities.
60, 40.
I'm a little more aggressive.
I'm still 80-20.
It's fine.
That's fine.
But point is 80-20, 20, 40, whatever.
Your age matters.
Your age is a thing.
So the Bill Ackman thing that you brought up, he placed a bet.
You know, this is the big short movie.
We all saw that.
You know, he basically shorted the economy.
He told people that hell was coming.
He made a big bet on the economy.
He's doing another one right now.
We covered that earlier.
What's my point?
What's my point here?
You talked about emotions.
I let the emotions get the best of me in the gun debate.
I try not to let my emotions get the best of me when it comes to the economy and the stock market and my money.
We love you being emotional, Adam.
It's just, you know, you're an emotional human being and you're not a robot, and we love you for it.
So that's just all there is to it, man.
So, but yeah, I mean, 30,000.
We'll see what's going to happen there.
I mean, the question now becomes, over the next four years, is it going to hover around 30,000 with the Biden administration or is it going to get close to 40,000?
Where do you think it's going to go?
What's more likely?
Let's hear about it from the comments.
What's more likely, going to 40 or hovering around 30K?
In my opinion, if this vaccine comes out and there's one more stimulus package that happens in January, I think we're going to enter the roaring 20s.
I really do.
I think vaccines here, COVID's in the rearview mirror, whether you agree with Biden politically or not.
What's changing, though, to go in the roaring 20s?
That becomes a question.
What is the difference?
Okay, so a couple of things.
I think Obama set this trajectory after 2008.
Obama didn't set a trajectory.
You have to realize when you keep saying Obama set a trajectory, Obama came right after a stimulus package.
No, no, no.
Recession, you mean?
Obama came after 28, 2008, where the mortgage bust, the boom, whatever bubble just took off.
And all these mortgages in America, no income, no assets, big short.
The market took a massive hit.
All you had to do was just to make a couple right things for the market to come back up.
Market's not going to go to 4,000, 5,000.
It was only going to come up.
So it's not like it was a Obama economics, like a Reagan economics that the market was.
It's going to come back.
No, it was just coming in, doing a couple things, and the market came back up and not ruffling the feathers.
And it came back up.
I don't think Obama doesn't get credit, but Trump does.
I'm not saying Trump or Obama.
I'm just saying what Obama did wasn't a Obama never met with Paul Ryan, the guy that was running his finances.
Obama never sat down and had a conversation.
He did it one time, and Paul asked him a couple questions.
They never had a meeting again.
Paul's like, Obama never meets with me.
Paul Ryan in the House, you know?
Yes, Obama wasn't a person that was about economy.
That was not Obama.
Obama's not an economy person.
Obama was more of a person that gave you a sense of, okay, he's there.
He's by himself.
He's poised.
He's good on the news.
The way he speaks is calm.
It relaxes you when he talks.
He doesn't kind of feel like the end of the world.
Trump gets on and speaks.
You're thinking we're going to go to war.
And we never went to war.
Obama speaks, you're like, we're not going to go to war and we won't war.
There was always conflicts taking place.
I'm asking you under Biden, there's still a lot of things that we forgot about that were issues a year ago.
Brexit was still an issue.
Brexit is still not done.
China is still an issue.
The tariffs are still an issue.
Iran is still an issue.
Russia is still an issue.
Venezuela is still an issue.
Oil is still an issue.
Debt is still an issue.
$24 trillion national debt is still an issue.
Obama care is still an issue.
Tax is still an issue.
All of these things just disappeared and they were under the blank, you know, under the rug because of a pandemic.
This is all coming back.
So if all this stuff is coming back, you're saying the next four years, it's going to go to 40K?
I'm saying, I'm not saying 40K, but what I am saying is all those issues, you know, go back 20, 30, 40, 50 years.
So you're saying there's more issues now than there were 20 years ago?
By a mile.
By a mile today.
And at the same time, add all of that stuff with social media.
The entire conversation you had, Mike, has been what?
How do you control your emotions to not add social media to it, which means our emotions are at the highest level non-stop.
So it's not, you know, sometimes when pre-social media, we were like this.
Oh, my gosh, I can't believe what they said.
And they went back to regular life.
You didn't check the news 150 times a day.
Today, you check the news 150 times a day.
It's called checking Facebook.
So your emotions 20 years ago were like, oh, my gosh.
And you come back then.
Now it's like, oh, my gosh, you want good.
Oh, we'll go to sleep.
Oh, my goodness.
That's what we're going through right now.
So you add all of that stuff together.
I don't know.
I'm just curious to know what's going to happen over the next four years.
Closer to 40.
Are we going to dip down to 25?
Are we going to stay steady?
Are we going to print more money?
Is it going to be fake market going up, more stackflation?
Powell said he's not lowering interest.
He's not raising interest rates.
He's going to keep it at negative 0%, which means till 2023, rates, home property values, probably going to stay the same.
They're going to have to eventually raise the interest rates.
When they raise the interest rates, what's going to happen to real estate?
Economy has to take a hit.
There has to be a hit to be taken.
You can't go 0% interest rate from Powell for the next 20 years.
That's fake economy.
We have a fake economy.
And Powell said it six months ago that he's not raising the rates till 2023.
What does that mean, not till 2023?
So I don't know.
My guesstimation is that not a lot is going to change and shit's going to hit the fan in 2024.
I think the next couple years is not actually going to be crazy.
I think the next couple years are going to be relatively the same.
Maybe it's going to go up a little bit.
Maybe it's going to go down a little bit unless we have another massive crisis.
But I think 2024 is going to be a scary.
Let me ask you this.
Man, you're going through water today, dude.
You're making me thirsty.
That's what soyboes do see you.
Let me ask you this.
Yeah.
Hypothetically speaking, COVID, here's my opinion, then I'm going to toss it back to you guys.
COVID never happens.
Yeah.
Right?
The Dow was at 29.
It would have been at 30,000 already for sure.
Trump, in my opinion, without COVID, would have probably been re-elected, okay?
In my opinion.
He would have beaten Sleepy Joe for sure without COVID.
I think between COVID, the media, and just Trump tweeting.
An interesting question.
He was going to lose.
Do you think Biden would have been the candidate if COVID hadn't hit?
I think Biden would have been the candidate.
I don't think there was anybody out there that could beat him.
I don't think Elizabeth Warden was doing it.
As much as I like Andrew Yang and some of his stuff, I don't think he was winning.
I don't think Bernie was going to, you know.
Yes, the answer is I think Biden would have been here.
But the point is, Trump clearly lost.
He's going to be moving on.
My point is this.
We would have been at 30,000.
Trump would have been here.
We wouldn't have had this stimulus package.
In your opinion, if Trump was still president 2021, where would that have gone?
Because those issues are still going to be there.
China, everything would still be there.
I don't disagree.
I absolutely don't disagree.
But I think what would have happened is the following.
I think the moment Trump gets reelected, China would have sat there saying, we have to now negotiate with this guy because we cannot handle four more years.
We've got to go figure out a way to sit down with this guy and get these tariffs under order.
What does he want?
Let's negotiate with him.
Number two, I think if another four more years, Iran's economy couldn't handle it.
There's no way in the world Iran's economy can handle four more years of what they've gone through.
They would have to come up and say, let's do something.
What the Iran's economy did is saying, just hang tight till the next election.
This guy's going to be out.
We'll be able to get what we want from the U.S.
And it's going to be Biden.
Hopefully, if it's Biden, we'll get that $150 billion.
Everything's going to work itself out.
Just be patient, right?
So those two would have to negotiate with Trump.
Now, they don't have to.
There is no urgency anymore.
Remember, Reagan gets elected.
What's the first thing Iran does?
Releases who?
The hostages.
The hostages.
The day, the moment he gets elected, and who does Reagan give credit to?
Carter.
Carter.
You gave credit to Carter, did you not?
I never gave credit to Carter, but Reagan gave credit to Carter, meaning Reagan's trying to be the guy that's passing the tour.
He doesn't want to say, hey, I'm the guy that's scared of me.
Of course, they were scared Reagan was going to do something.
And Reagan said, I'm going to attack you.
But he says, listen, I'm going to give it to Carter.
It's all good.
He did the right way.
He won Carter's people over, got 49 out of 50 states.
I think right now, the leverage, the urgency, if Trump was elected, a lot of those guys are going to say, oh my gosh, if this guy's going to be here, dude, we got to figure out a way to get along with them.
Send somebody to go meet with them.
Send somebody to go meet with Pompeo.
Send somebody to go meet with Pence.
We have to do it.
Urgency officially went down to zero.
There is zero urgency today for those guys to have to do a deal today.
And by the way, here's the other part.
Every time Trump said, Powell, you got to keep the interest rates lower.
You got to keep the interest rates lower.
I've never been a fan of that.
I've never been a fan of that.
When it comes down to taxes, here's my philosophy with taxes.
What do we owe?
Well, do you want to delay this for next year?
You want to pay it off this year?
What's it looking like?
Like this.
I'm going to have to eventually pay this $400,000.
Yes.
Paid anyways.
Paid right now.
Let's get knocked out of the way.
I don't want to delay headaches of future.
I want to get it knocked out of the way today.
It's just my philosophy of what I do when I go through taxes.
Now, China, Iran, all these other guys are saying, we're fine, guys.
Don't worry about it.
These next guys are going to work with us.
They're not like Trump.
They're going to work with us.
We're going to get exactly what we want.
And they are.
China's going to get exactly what they want.
So temporarily, market may do well.
Long term, China got stronger the next four years.
Iran gets stronger the next four years.
Russia got stronger the next four years.
Temporarily, they took a hit.
But you're officially seeing China is going to come make a comeback of being the talk of town.
And do you really think they're going to take him to the tribunal role and hold China accountable for what they did with the coronavirus and releasing it to the world?
What do you think is the percentage of U.S. led by a Biden to go hold China accountable?
What do you think it is?
Well, if he includes allies and uses multilateralism like General Mattis said to use rather than America first, I would hope that the world would do this with allies together rather than trying to do it alone.
Do you actually think Biden's going to go out there and encourage other nations to go up and hold China accountable?
Let's say if Biden must have let us see.
Do you think he's going to do it?
Are you leaning towards yes or no?
I mean, obviously, I don't think Biden is a tough guy, and I don't think he's going to like hold, you know, but let's give the guy a shot.
Let's see what he does.
But yes or no?
Do I think he will?
I'm not sure.
I don't know.
My gut isn't saying he's going to go get him or he's not going to do it.
I would hope he does and I hope the world would join up as allies.
By the way, if you're watching this, what do you think is going to happen?
If you think that Biden is going to hold him accountable, China accountable, put thumbs up.
If you actually think, if you think Biden's going to make China stronger, put thumbs down.
If you think China is going to be stronger, put thumbs down.
If you think he's going to work with China and hold him accountable and take him to courts and get all these other countries that are disappointed with him, like India right now, that comes out and India says we're banning more Chinese apps as part of its digital campaign to pressure Beijing.
Indiana bans 43 more Chinese India, bans 43 more Chinese apps in New Delhi's latest move to pressure China and the online industry as tensions fester following a deadly border clash between the neighboring countries.
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued an order citing growing concerns about data security and blocking the Chinese apps, effectively restricting China's access to one of the largest and fastest growing online markets in the world.
Tuesday's actions bring the total number of Chinese app bans to India to more than 170 apps have been banned in India.
170 Chinese apps have been banned in India.
The bans are what some Indian politicians have called a digital strike against China after a June clash along their disputed border in the Himalayas killed 20 Indian soldiers.
So the point I'm trying to make to you is: do you think these guys are going to come out and they're going to say, no, China's been trying to abuse their relationship with America.
They've been trying to get all this intel, you know, all these made-in-China plan, which one of their plans was to come in, infiltrate, will invest into your business, but you got to give us all the rights to your technology.
And if we recreate it in China, you want zero of it.
It's ours.
So give us all your inventory of what you're creating.
This is what their plans have been.
You think Biden's going to hold them accountable?
I highly doubt that.
I think China's celebrating right now.
I think China's celebrating right now.
So short-term victory, long-term loss is what I foresee taking place there.
And by the way, if you're listening, I'm not telling you the market's going to take a hit.
I actually think the market's going to go up the next couple of years.
I don't think the market's going to take it.
My prediction is the following: my prediction is: cases are up.
Cases are up.
I may be wrong.
Cases are up.
Boom.
Inauguration.
Cases are down.
Record-breaking cases are down.
California has made the turn.
You know, New York has made the turn.
The Biden administration approach to the way the pandemic is handling is: look at the confidence in America and the market's going to go up.
And if they sustain this market going up the next couple of years, and in 2024, re-election time, if Powell continues the 0% interest rate, the market's not going to take a big hit.
If there's not a big strike, there are probably going to be a reelection.
I don't know if it's going to be Biden.
It could be somebody else coming into office whether Kamala takes over because I don't know if we can have an 82-year-old president.
And we don't even know what's going to happen with this South.
A lot of people are comparing a Kamala Harris to a Lyndon Johnson type of person where, you know, John F. Kennedy is no longer with us.
Biden's no longer going to be with us.
Kamala's going to be the president.
And then maybe her intentions are going to be to drive a little bit more progressive.
We don't know that.
All I'm saying is I don't think there's going to be a crazy thing happening to the market the next couple years.
I do see the numbers, the data, the fear tactics of COVID going away effective January 1st.
That's my prediction.
And what part of that has to do with the vaccine?
A big part of that has to do to, say, America's calmer, more civil, less rights, less protests.
And you're going to see videos of showing Trump administration.
Look what happened to the streets.
You're going to show Biden administration what's going on in the streets.
But what they're not going to show is they're not going to say Trump's administration.
Here's what happened in the streets.
The folks on the opposite side riot, loot, hurt businesses.
But on this side, when they lose, the opposite side doesn't go right and loot.
They just take the loss and they say, we can't just don't take our guns, leave us alone.
We'll go about our business and we'll come back.
I think that's what's going to be shown.
And America, the average voter that's in the middle is going to say, dude, I don't know what the hell is going on.
But all I know is when a person like on Trump is a president, there's rights.
When a person like Biden's president, there's no rights, and I'm more comfortable.
I just want my kids to be safe.
This is why I like it when a Democrat's in office.
I think that messaging, if the marketing is right, you're going to see a lot of that messaging taking place in 2021.
Again, I may be wrong.
I'm simply making a prediction of what I foresee taking place in 2021.
You're still at 5%?
I am.
But that 5%, Adam, 5%.
I would never take a 5% bet.
5% bet to me is like, it's done.
But my 5% bet is Sidney Powell, Giuliani, if they have anything, show the damn thing already.
But I will tell you this, and I told you this the other day, and I'm not changing my position.
If you lose, there's nothing worse.
Like we teach our guys, because we have a very competitive environment.
You've seen it.
Of course.
But prior to conventions, I always teach our guys one message.
And I've been doing this for 18 years.
I talk to our guys about how to lose.
I talk to them.
Specifically, when I know who's going to lose, I will talk to our group and I say, let me explain to you, sore losers.
Let me explain to you how you're supposed to lose when you lose.
And I'll show a video.
I took our guys to Breakers and I showed the last stance.
I said, look how Jordan lost to Detroit Pistons.
Look how Isaiah Thomas lost to the Chicago Bulls.
That guy didn't make it on the dream team because of this guy.
If you lose, lose.
If you lose, don't bitch about it.
Just move on.
I hope, fair for what he's done up to this point, Trump, voter fraud, all this other stuff.
Fine, fair.
If you think that's what's going on, fair.
But I hope when it's final and it's done and it's lost, I hope it's, we lost, let's see what we can do the next four years to compete.
Because if you don't do that, it doesn't look good on your legacy.
If you lose, you lose, man.
By the way, you have to realize, policies-wise, which we think I'm leaning towards, policy-wise?
You think I'm leaning towards a Biden administration policy to make China stronger?
What do you think I'm leaning policy-wise?
What do you think?
Okay, I'm pretty public about it.
I'm not holding it.
I'm a capitalist.
I want small businesses to have some protection.
I want them to be fine.
But at the same time, if you lose, you got to make your move.
If you don't, it's not a good look for you legacy-wise.
It's not a good look for you, legacy-wise.
Yeah, nobody likes a sore loser.
Back to the point of what's going to happen.
I do really think that so much of it rides on the Senate race, though.
In terms of the general public, that's not.
No question about it.
You're right.
Because the general public, to your point, of Biden's in office, everything's calm.
That's the hood ornament or the peacock feathers that 85% of society that doesn't watch news 25 hours a day realizes.
And so that's why I think a guy like Biden wins versus Trump.
I mean, it's no different than, say, going into a brain surgeon's office.
You got one guy that's this nice, calm, smooth talking, makes you feel super comfortable about the surgery.
And then this next guy, his hair is on fire.
He's talking about how dangerous it is.
But let's just say hypothetically, the guy with the hair on his fire, the guy with his hair on fire is a much better surgeon.
You're going to feel more comfortable with this other guy if you don't know shit about surgery.
I think that that's happened largely here is that most people just want to be put at ease.
Where that only works is if the Senate remains in Republican hands, because a lot of the protections you're talking about maintain that status by having a split government that way.
I agree.
If they don't, then I can see.
So to me, I agree with your assessment.
If it stays that way, I think the market will go up because everybody's like, shit, Biden's doing a great job.
Everything's, you know, because there's that.
You think if it's all three, market takes a hit.
I do, yeah.
Okay.
So I don't disagree there.
I don't disagree with you there.
But my perspective is more coming from the optics of how the media is going to sell it regardless of whether they have all three or two out of the three.
I think the way it's going to be sold is, look how peaceful America is.
You know, they sold America first.
Now it's more, you know, America's back.
And what's really back with America being back?
Is high taxes back?
What is back?
Is going back to war back?
Is it sending our troops back to war back?
What is back?
We're going to find out what is really back.
That's what we want to know.
What is back?
So I don't disagree with you there.
By the way, if you're watching this here right now, recently somebody came up to us and we get sponsors that come up to us and they say, Patrick, we'd like you to sponsor us and all this other stuff.
And Adam will go through, me and Mario and Adam will sit down and say, no, 90% of the time, what do we say to people that want us to sponsor them?
Thank you, but no, thank you.
90%, we turn them down.
But this last time, I'm totally surprised that I'm saying yes to this, just so you know this.
So these guys come in and Adam says, Pat, there's this company called Hawthorne.
And I said, who's Hawthorne?
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But the soap and all this.
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So I took it home.
Okay.
This was about a month ago.
I take it on myself.
Okay, let me see what I'm going to do here.
First day I didn't use it.
Second day I didn't use it.
Third day I didn't use it.
Week later, Adam asked me, Pat, have you used it yet?
I said, buddy, I'm going to get to it.
So finally I use it.
Okay.
The day I used it, what did I tell you the next day?
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I didn't just tell you I like it.
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Hand cream.
And the smell, by the way, you know, sometimes you get these scents and they're terrible.
This thing smells actually really good.
And it's manly.
Even a shot.
I've never used hand cream in my life.
Let me tell you.
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Can you hear that?
Can you hear it?
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Last time, I put hand cream.
Moisturizer.
But what does it smell like?
Smells like a spa that you go to.
Smells very spa lights.
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Can I be honest?
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I got it.
There you go, buddy.
But you've used what?
The shampoo, the conditioner, the tea?
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So that's a shout out for Hawthorne.
Anyways, let's continue.
So we've covered a lot of different things here now, topic-wise.
Let's talk about this whole Biden transition moves quickly after Trump agrees to share resources.
Transition officials started reaching out to agency officially Monday night and migrated President-elect's transition website over to the government service.
Washington president-elect Joe Biden is moving quickly to take advantage of government's resources for his transition to White House after Trump administration ended a 16-day stalemate and announced its intention to begin cooperating with his team.
Mr. Biden's advisors are making plans to meet with courier officials at executive agencies to review hundreds of pages of briefing materials and get up to speed on the inner workings of the federal government.
Transition official began reaching out Monday night immediately after they sat down.
They said, we're willing to work with you guys.
So what are your thoughts?
Is this a sign of it's done?
We're conceding.
I mean, come on.
I'm asking you.
Look, in my opinion, Trump's going to be on his deathbed at 90-something years old saying, we won.
They stole it from us.
No, it's fraud.
That's my opinion on Trump.
I think he is a sore winner and a sore loser.
He talked about landslide victory, 306 electoral votes, landslide, we ran her off the table, and now he loses by three, same exact margin.
Very ironically, and he's calling it fraud and all that.
So in my opinion, Trump himself will be tweeting the rest of his life that this election was stolen from him because he is ingracious in victory and ingracious in defeat.
And there's certain things that I agree with Trump that he's done.
Like you're seeing Middle East peace deals happen, much respect.
I think that's happening because of Trump.
So I'm not immune to the fact that Trump has done some good things, but being gracious, not one of them.
So clearly, the, what is it, the GSA, the General Services Administration, has received notice that, like, look, bro, you can deny this to the day you die.
It's time to move on.
And what's happening is the country is moving forward.
Elections are being certified in Pennsylvania, in Michigan.
Things are happening.
I'm getting paid my barbecue bets over here from a former Marine, Eric Galera.
This was bound to happen.
So to all my Trump friends out there, cool.
You can go down with the ship, respect.
But at some point, you know, Biden is going to be the president.
And these are the first steps to implement that system.
Yeah, so my take is it seems that way.
But I will also caveat that with, you know, if there's one thing that Trump is masterful at is making you think he's going to do one thing and then he does something else.
Sometimes he's super predictable.
I don't know if that's the case right now or not.
There is some of the elements of his behavior to me that are very unexpected.
You know, not taking hardly any questions.
The few times that he does put statements out, he's super calm.
He's not saying much.
You know, he still has some tweets going out that are textbook him.
But he's acting differently than I would have expected given this case.
Now, as it relates to the election, to me, I think the bitch of all of it is that there is a pretty significant group of people in this country that just like you said, just doesn't add up.
Like, you know, is that accusing or saying I identify 100% like this was a sham election?
No, but it without question rattles a lot of the confidence in elections moving forward.
And just thinking of like, like you said, I mean, it seemed pretty disparate in terms of the amount of support for Biden versus Trump.
And I travel a lot, you know, delivering dogs and working with departments and things of that nature.
And even during all the corona shutdown stuff, I was still moving around quite a bit.
And to me, that's where you see a huge disparity between Biden's support and Trump's support all over the country.
It seemed like most of the country was vehemently and just adamantly behind him and were really, really charged up about it.
And it was quite the transverse on Biden's side.
So to me, I don't anticipate some crazy evidence thing.
I really do think if they had something pretty concrete, it would be out by now.
But I could be wrong.
I mean, the one thing that's throwing me for the biggest loop here is him shit canning the Secretary of Defense and some other key people with no real reason to do it other than something that just doesn't really make sense other than he's not going out without a fight at some point.
I mean, because that Secretary of Defense, the key factor that they disagreed on was over the summer was quelling the George Floyd riots with the U.S. military.
And his Secretary of Defense said, no, absolutely not.
I'm against it.
Trump was for it.
As soon as the election happens and it looks like it's leaning Biden's way, now all of a sudden he shit cans him.
Why else would you do that unless you had a specific reason to with just a couple of months left?
So is that Mark Esper, who was a.
Yeah.
So, you know, to me, that's an interesting move.
So allow me to speak of support.
And what we've learned in this lesson election is that just because some people show up or a lot of people show up in crowds doesn't mean you're automatically going to win.
Okay, let me unpack that.
Trump has received 74 million votes, the most ever in a loss for an election.
Biden has received almost 80 million votes.
So that's a 6 million vote disparity.
So, all right, it's not a million.
It's not 2 million.
I think Hillary Clinton won the general by 3 million.
Okay, so one of two things is happening.
Either 6 million freaking fraudulent votes were cast somehow.
Cool.
If it's going to be proven, go ahead and freaking prove it.
What's your face, Sidney Powell?
You've been talking about the hype for months now.
Go ahead and prove it.
Well, weeks now.
If not, at some point, just like, bro, we lost.
There's nothing worse than, I'm going to use a sports analogy here.
Well, you know, we could have beat those guys.
You know, we were on our home court.
Our fans were cheering for us.
The balls were deflated.
And, you know, the ball, you know, the flate gate or the refs had it out for us.
Tim Donegay, your boy.
You know, we were on the second night of a back-to-back.
And it's like, at some point, the excuses, you know, don't add up.
And you just lost, bro.
There it is.
You lost.
You lost to Sleepy Joe.
That sucks.
He said it for weeks prior to the election.
If I lose to this guy, I might just have to leave the freaking country.
So I hope he stays.
I don't think he needs to leave the country.
But at some point, you can throw out the fraud stuff and the fraudulent and the rigged and all that.
At some point, if the evidence is not there, like you said, you just got to admit you lost.
There it is.
Look, I'm going to tell you, for me, if it's time to move on, it's time to move on.
America's looking like an idiot to other countries around the world and are laughing, saying, look at these guys can't even figure themselves out.
They're telling us we're not a democracy.
They can't even concede or move on or find voter fraud, all that other stuff.
Now, having said that, having said that, do I think something happened in this election?
Adam, you keep saying things like, well, we keep saying to crowds and all this stuff.
That's not what matters.
Give me one example that that's not mattered.
Give me one example of a person who won where 50 people would show up to this guy's rally.
You give me one example where people, one example where Obama's going out there campaigning for this guy and still not helping him out.
You give me one example.
I've said this a million times.
Show me an example where crowds were getting together or not getting together during a freaking pandemic.
What I'm trying to do.
1919, sure.
What I'm talking about.
How about the riots and the celebration for Biden rallies?
Bullshit.
I think that was bullshit.
Bullshit.
When I saw that, it was bullshit.
Hold on.
No, the day that they were showed up, though.
I think they were idiots.
Right, but they still showed up.
I'm not happy they did that.
That's the hypocrisy at the high school.
I totally agree.
And all the people said, when they were asking him, saying, what do you think about people showing up?
Well, this is emotional when you win.
People want to do that.
There's super spreader events, but then what the hell is that?
That was a super spreader event.
Hypocrisy at the high school.
I totally agree with that.
I'm saying to you, what I'm saying to you is, my point is, you can't have that many people excited to show up to Trump rallies that they showed up, and then no one's shown up to the other one, but the other one wins by a landslide.
There's something weird there.
That's all I'm saying.
I don't know the data.
I don't know what's going on.
I'm not saying, and I've seen all the videos on both sides.
I've seen Sidney Powell and Tucker Carlson say, hurry up and tell us something.
I agree.
Either show something or be quiet because it's not helping anybody.
All you're doing is dividing America more.
And by the way, she's supposed to show something today with Pennsylvania, I believe.
She's Georgia today.
She's supposed to show, she was on Lou Dobbs.
Can we talk about this Sidney Powell character for a second?
Can we just actually talk?
So I knew that this chick was full of shit when Tucker Carlson called her out.
When Tucker Carlson, who I believe is probably the best person going on conservative media, I don't know if you guys agree or disagree.
I agree.
I find him to be highly credible, obviously biased, skewed.
He's mostly objective.
Again, I think he's the best person out there on conservative media.
When he's calling you out saying, uh-uh, something doesn't add up with this chick, something was up.
Couple that with the fact you have Giuliani, who, I mean, can we talk about what a fall from grace this guy has had?
You know, being featured in the Borat movie, you know, maybe, maybe not, you know, to his literally face leaking, coming out there with conspiracy theories.
But if that's the metric, then Biden is in the same boat.
I mean, how many times has he stepped on his dick in the last six months?
No problem.
Big dick, step on that thing.
So, but the most, you know, ridiculous thing.
You're still getting the tattoo of Biden, you know, on the side of your head.
I'm sorry.
I'm sniffing you.
I'm going to get a Trump stand.
I can totally see a Biden tattoo on the neck, sniffing your ear.
He needs to have a mustache for that.
He's a die-hard.
But the fact that, let's not look over this, who is she going after the most, by the way?
The Sidney Powell.
Who's she going after the most?
She's not even going after Biden.
That's not even, he's in the rear view mirror.
She's going after a dead Hugo Chavez that's been dead for seven years now.
And the next person she's going after is the governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, who is a staunch Trump supporter, Republican.
She's accusing him and the Secretary of State in Georgia for fraud.
She is a QAnon conspiracist, and she is throwing some ridiculous, baseless, conspiratory things out.
You've been through dropping that whatever.
She's a QAnon supporter.
You've been saying she's a QA supporter.
I think QAnon is a bunch of bullshit, and it's getting overhyped, and it's conspiracy theories.
And these people are obviously frauds.
You're dropping, like, let me tell you the one thing about one thing about that word conspiracy theory.
It's not about, it's not teach me something.
It's about, you know, the fastest way to shut up anybody is to tell them they've got a conspiracy theory.
It's a new method of doing that.
Oh, it's a conspiracy theory.
And then they'll use that on titles.
Conspiracy theorist, dot, dot, dot.
They use it against Rogan.
They use it against Jordan Peterson.
I did an event one time, a year and a half ago, with Jordan Peterson, President Bush, and Kobe.
Media writes an article.
Oh my gosh, you know, these guys are having the right wing all this.
Kobe Bryant's team's calling, what the hell is going on?
President Bush's like, listen, this is what happens when President Bush shows up.
This is what happens when Jordan Peterson.
I talked to the guy.
I'm like, why are you lying in this article here?
He says, well, they're willing to.
I'm like, you know what?
I wanted to get to the lawyer's side to say to get the lawyers and my mom.
I'm like, no, we're not going to do that.
What conspiracy theory?
Every time somebody you disagree with, you can't just drop the word conspiracy theory.
How many times have I used conspiracy theory?
You use QAnon a lot, which is...
Yes. Yes.
And you did.
But you said to him.
I did not say that.
Yes, you did.
He says, are you a QAnon guy?
And he says, I don't even know what QAnon is.
Let's clear the air here before there's a conspiracy theory on my conspiracy theories.
The only time I have ever used the word conspiracy theory is regarding QAnon, which is a conspiracy theory.
You've used QAnon on QAnon a lot.
There we go.
Is Antifa a conspiracy theory?
No, Antifa exists.
But are they pitching conspiracy theories?
I don't know much about Antifa.
Maybe you should kind of look them up a little bit.
Why?
So is the whole thing what Antifa does and BLM does, is there a conspiracy against?
I'm sure there is.
Okay, so what I'm trying to tell you is if you're going to do one side, it's both.
I disagree.
I look at it and say BLM is unhappy about certain treatments.
Fine, make your argument.
Let's go talk about it.
Antifa is anti-fascist.
They think AOC is a capitalist.
Antifa thinks AOC is a capitalist.
Which is a joke, right?
QAnon's coming out and saying what they're saying.
Prove it.
Prove it.
Okay, listen.
There's a difference between what you're saying about Antifa thinking that they're anti-fascist and they're against fascism and capitalism.
QAnon there's human trafficking taking place within powerful people in politics.
That the Democrats or Hillary Clinton, this is Pizzagate, where the guy showed up to try to shoot up the freaking pizza parlor because they were thinking they were keeping kids in the basement.
There was no freaking basement.
They also think that there's someone pulling the strings, the deep state, that Q is a person, and these people are struggling.
I don't disagree with that.
And Trump is speaking in codes.
I don't know.
And there's childs being raped and they're drinking children's blood.
That's a conspiracy theory.
I don't disagree with you on whether they're right or wrong.
But for me, to be honest with you, from my end, I don't mind somebody digging a little bit and trying to connect the dots and seeing if there's something there.
And let us go do research.
And if there is proof, if there's not, no problem.
I'm very confident.
Sidney Powell has how long to not be a conspiracy theory.
What have I told you about Sidney Powell?
What did I tell you about Sidney Powell?
She doesn't prove this shit.
It's embarrassing as well.
No.
Absolutely embarrassing.
Either prove it or stop saying anything.
You're making the administration look like fools.
To me, it's that way with all groups, right?
BLM, Antifa, QAnon, Sidney Powell.
With every one of those, they're making significant allegations.
My take to all of them is I'm not going to believe any of you unless you show me the data and prove what it is that you're talking about.
Show me the statistics that back up what you're bitching about for all of them, right?
And if you don't have any proof, then I'm not interested.
That's right.
Just leave it alone.
So if you got it, prove your point.
If you don't get it, I think it's ironic that the day.
Can you prepare that one video, Kai, with the gym?
Just prepare that video.
I want to show that.
Go ahead.
The day that Sidney Powell came out there and she called out the governor, Brian Kemp, this is two days after Tucker called her out.
And this was the day that Chris Christie said this is a freaking embarrassment.
Yeah.
Boom.
Trump distanced himself from her saying, well, you know, she's not part of our legal team.
We're going to let her go.
Yadada yada.
That's what she was talking about.
People are getting paid and people getting paid under the table, all this other stuff.
She's talking about Governor Kemp, a Republican of Georgia, getting paid.
Right.
So, okay.
By the way, let me ask you this.
What if it's right?
You don't think that happens in politics?
I'm asking you, do you think it happens?
We just found out Apple is giving away, they're asking for seven, what is it, $70,000 worth of iPads for four license.
You don't think politicians are going around saying, if you don't do this, I'm not going to do this?
No doubt.
Do I think it's shady as well?
Do I think Governor Kemp, who's been, again, I'm not a fan of Governor Kemp, who has been staunchly a Trump supporter, has secretly been taking money under the table, and he is part of this Dominion voting software thing against Trump.
That seems like you have our courage.
If you have proof, prove it.
If you don't, leave it alone.
If you got it.
So if she says that, she can't prove it.
It's embarrassing.
She's either like the most informed, smartest person on the planet or an absolute ridiculous person.
There's no gray area there.
She's either completely correct.
By the way, don't forget these people were getting on saying, Peter Schiff saying, I know for a fact there was collusion with Russia.
Don't forget for a fact.
What fact?
The dossier was written by Hillary Clinton.
What for a fact?
Like you're, you know, the flip-flopping on the messaging is the left, this is their masterplay of coming out and saying, I know for a fact this has happened.
And I know for a fact there was collusion with Russia.
No one's talking about Russia anymore.
Silence.
So, but I think...
Peter Schiff said that?
You don't remember Peter Schiff saying that?
You don't remember what?
Peter Schiff is a big time capitalist, though.
Is he not?
Not Peter Schiff.
Adam Schiff.
I'm sorry, not Peter Schiff.
Adam Schiff.
My apologies.
No, no, no.
Adam Schiff.
They're not related.
Adam Schiff.
I'm glad you corrected that.
Adam Schiff comes out.
Adam Schiff comes out and says what he says.
The point is, my thoughts are, you got something on Russia?
Prove it.
Took three years.
Nothing was proved.
But this side kept saying, no, but there is.
But there is.
But there is.
Three out of the four years of the guy's administration was wasted because everybody thought he did something with Russia that never happened.
Three out of four years.
Every single time you turn it on.
I know for a fact.
I know for a fact.
Nothing was proven.
So now, when somebody does the same play that they're using, they're getting upset.
But again, for me, both sides, left and right, this is the reason why I went from Democrat, Republican to independent.
I've been in registered independent now for nine years.
I'm a registered independent.
It feels good to be independent, doesn't it?
I love being a registered independent.
I wish there was a third party.
I think there's a big movement of people who would love to have a third party.
I would love nothing more to have a third party get strong, but we're not there.
I'm shocked George Jorgensen didn't win the election.
She's got a good message, terrible marketing.
My message doesn't change.
I can see you being a third party kind of a guy.
Is that right?
I don't know.
I mean, the one thing that I will say about whether it's me or anybody that, and I'm not putting myself in the category that has any business running this country, but I think anybody that would be a good fit doesn't want to do it.
They don't want to put their family through it.
And that's what's keeping most of the people out of it.
I mean, from my standpoint, anybody that wants to be a senator or above, that should automatically fucking disqualify you.
I almost think you have to be a narcissist to want to go through that to get to that position of power.
I actually really like the way that I was on a grand jury here in a small county in Texas where one of my properties is at.
And the way that they do it there, very small, small county, there's a checklist of, you know, you have to have lived here for so many years, not a convicted felon, paid taxes, you know, just basic productive member of society stuff.
And they take that pool and it's your civic duty to submit, I think it's five or seven or maybe ten names of who you think should be on the grand jury in that county for a six-month period.
And so they tally all that up and, okay, here are the 30 people that got the most votes.
We bring you in, separate, you know, who's the best out of that.
To me, like that's a, you know, in terms of wiping the slate clean and completely, you know, getting rid of campaign finance crap and all of that stuff is do it that way is that part of your civic duty is that if you're elected, whether it's, you know, Congress areas or even for senators or even in the highest spot in the land, is that you're nominated for it.
I think that that's a good way to fix a lot of this stuff because to me, when every or almost every single Congress, Senate, any high-level federal politician before they go into office is worth X.
And when they leave, it's 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 times that.
That is a fucking problem.
And it's one that with that system in play the way that it is, all of the things that we're bitching and arguing about are never, ever going to change when that is the status quo in our entire political structure.
Respect.
Respect.
Okay, while we watch this video here, by the way, a couple shout outs.
Yochanan Markovitch just gave $100.
Maybe.
Maybe because he's gave $100 and hashtag Trump2021 is what he said.
It's pretty hilarious.
We got another $5.
Jesse P.S., a good friend who did Pizzagate, he admitted it was a joke, but people still believe it.
Guy gave $5, and then Mary just gave $5 with a nice little emoji.
I think that was directed to you, Adam.
So having said that, let's take a look at this video.
So here's a situation, which is a Buffalo, New York business owner who stood up to Cuomo's lockdown and sheriff and health department shows up and this is what happens.
Kai, do you have it on 1.5?
Okay, this is what happens.
Take a look.
We're asking to build your compassion side.
I know your text here.
You know, our text dogs here and you're guys in paychecks.
Well, some of these people actually work for their money and they don't want to lose their lively buttons.
I've lost friends who killed themselves.
I've seen clients die because they've lost their lives.
I'm sorry to hear that.
I know you are.
And I'm just a pair.
I'm asking for you to guys have some compassion for the people that have lost everything.
We can have compassion for our people.
Okay, well, you need to go have compassion off the parking lot.
This is private property.
It's private property.
Listen, man, this is private property.
You're not wanted here.
So do your jobs.
Well, no, no, your job is to remove people that are not wanted.
We're running.
They're not.
It's my own unit.
You're just doing that job.
There we go.
You should hope you're wearing mouths.
I'm not going to have mouths come.
Don't worry about my health.
My health is in your business.
I'm meant to be wearing a mouth because if you don't get mouth, then wipe me off.
It's the law.
Okay, then, but then take me to jail.
It's not the law.
They take me to jail.
Show me the law.
Show me the law.
I got the leaf.
Now you're trespassing without a warrant.
That's the pistol trendy.
We're not trembling.
You're right.
It doesn't matter.
Get a warrant.
Go get a warrant.
I'm trusting.
Yes, you do.
Come back with a warrant.
Don't write a law.
This is terrible.
I've seen this happen.
This is horrible.
The sheriff seemed like reasonable people.
Where did you have a report from?
Is it just her by herself?
Who reported it?
Who reported it?
You know what?
I don't know.
Yeah, it's anonymous.
She's being very reasonable.
You need to know who you're accusing.
You got to get a warrant.
It cannot be anonymous.
You've got to get a warrant.
You're not going to get the file of the Constitution.
It doesn't matter.
You don't circumvent or subvert the Constitution.
That's the way it works.
Call the noose.
Okay, Mets, you need to leave.
Get out! Get out! Get out! Get out!
Yeah, pretty intense.
Get out! Get out! Get out!
To me, the biggest problem with this whole thing...
You can pause it right there at this point.
They end up leaving, by the way.
To me, the biggest problem with this whole thing is the sheriffs, right?
It's their job to understand what is legal and not and what the protocols are.
Put a mask on.
He says, it's not the law.
Right.
But as it relates to warrant, private property, whatever, like it, it is 100% their job and responsibility to regulate that stuff.
And those guys are just standing there with their hands in their pockets and having no idea what to do.
But let me ask you, are they there because they're there or are they there because somebody told them, go there?
I mean, to me, I don't know, but it really doesn't matter.
I mean, to me, they should know how to deal with that.
They should know, ma'am, do you have a warrant?
No, you don't.
Then you need to leave.
Or she doesn't need one.
Here is the documentation that says that she.
I mean, that's their job is to understand the law and enforce it.
So if those guys don't, how are citizens going to do it?
You're going to see more and more of that stuff as I agree.
I agree that there's going to be more of that going on.
Adam.
Yeah, it's just sad to see there's just everything a part of that.
I mean, she is a government bureaucrat, right?
I mean, who is she?
She's just following the rules.
She's just following the rules.
She's being ordered to go.
She says, I don't even know who complained about you guys.
I'm just showing up.
It's an anonymous complaint.
I don't know what was going on there.
It's sad to see that's even what's going on there.
I assume that those types of people who act that type of way are more in the Blue Lives Matter category.
Yeah.
I would assume.
So now they're kind of going against the sheriffs a little bit.
So it's a story with that too.
To the point.
I mean, to me, the sheriffs aren't doing anything, though.
I'd be curious to get their take on it.
But to me, one of the issues that I think this highlights is the disparity between government employees and capitalists, entrepreneurs, business owners, et cetera.
You've got a woman that doesn't work for a business, so she's getting paid.
The organization that she works for gets a certain budget irrespective of how good of a job they do.
She has no perspective on what those people are going through.
And she's, ah, these are just the rules.
And one of the nice things about a lot of law enforcement in this country is the autonomy that they are given in terms of discretion as it relates to giving people tickets or not.
And to me, that's a good example of where that can be exercised and it wasn't being exercised.
But again, to me, it's just the whole thing is unfortunate.
It's embarrassing.
And like I said, I think you're going to see a lot more of that.
And by the way, with this whole thing going on, Cuomo's getting an Emmy.
He's being awarded an Emmy for the way you're going to be able to get it.
What do you take on that?
Look, I think he said, this isn't for me.
This is for the people of New York that deserve this.
If he actually, what he should have done is say, thanks, but no thanks.
I'm going to decline this Emmy.
This isn't a freaking show.
I'm not here to win an award.
I'm here to.
He would have won so many cool points with that, but he didn't.
He took it.
It's up to his house.
I mean, do you agree?
Oh, my gosh, that would have been amazing if we would have done something like that.
Let's wrap up with this.
L.A. County restaurants halt outdoor dining, the three-week halt and outdoor dining at restaurants, wineries, breweries, and bars in Los Angeles County.
Appreciate to go set to go into effect Wednesday night as scheduled after withstanding multiple challenges today.
A Superior Court judge ejected a motion to block the ban and motion proposed at the Board of Supervisors failed to receive majority votes on Tuesday morning.
A judge dismissed the challenge to a health order, et cetera, et cetera, meaning restaurants are now shut down for three weeks.
So then a restaurant you and I went to with Shonda and Tom and Teekrin when we went to the place in Manhattan.
Very cool.
And we ate outside outside, right on the deck.
And when we went and ate at Rafi's place outside.
My favorite place, Rafi's place.
Both of those places are officially shut down.
That's so funny.
You can't do that.
That's so messed up, man.
How do you handle that now?
I don't understand what the plan.
This is outdoor dining.
This isn't indoor dining, right?
Just to be super cool.
It's outdoor dining.
Why would outdoor dining, why would there be an issue with that?
Is there anything proven that outdoor dining, the whole point was to eat outdoors, right?
I can understand if you're in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it's negative 10 degrees, why you want to eat outdoors?
If you're in Manhattan Beach, California, and it's 70 and sunny, why you couldn't be outdoors?
I just don't get it.
It doesn't add up.
This is an overreach by government.
Dictator Newsome is clearly in Garcetti, your friends.
This is a travesty, and it really actually really sucks.
I think it's 12 shades wrong, which I'm sure that surprises everybody listening.
That's my take on it.
But to me, it just highlights, again, kind of what we were talking about, whether it's guns, whether it's drugs, whatever it is, is that to me, great freedom, great responsibility is that it should be up to you to decide how you run your business, who you have over for Thanksgiving, all of that stuff.
And it's across the board.
If you want to wear a mask, wear a mask.
If you're that worried, that things are that dangerous for you, then stay home.
I mean, between Grubhub and DoorDash and Instacart and Uber Eats and everything else and Amazon, you don't need to leave your house.
And if you're either at risk or that worried about it, then stay home.
But to tell other people, this is how you're going to run your business.
And again, it's always by people that aren't running a business, that aren't worried about a bottom line, that don't have overhead, or at least that matters, that you can go billions and billions into debt and it doesn't mean anything.
And then on top of that, you have those guys that aren't even adhering to the own rules that they're putting in place.
It leaves a horrible taste in everybody's mouth.
It breeds resentment against that stuff.
And again, it's just, there's going to come a tipping point.
And what I would say, my last point with that is that a lot of people kind of scoff at the, you know, it's just a mask or it's just two weeks to slow the spread or, you know, nine months later, it's just this.
It's just that.
To me, everybody should have a clear understanding of their own personal constitution of when enough is enough.
And then also, what are you going to do about it?
Like, have you ever thought, is there a point at which you're going to say, you know what?
No, I'm not doing that.
Like, is there an amount, a time, a duration, a level of restriction that the government would put on you to where you would say, you know what, fuck you, I'm not doing it.
Damn.
Is there one, right?
Is there one?
Most people ask that question.
Is there one?
So give me a specific example.
No, I'm saying, what is your boundary, right?
Like, people talk about, you know, psychology, boundaries are healthy.
What is your government boundary where for you personally, you're going to say, you know what?
Not fucking doing it.
Yeah, I don't know if I have a specific example, but I do have libertarian tendencies.
Like, look, man, you know, I'm going to do me, you do you.
I'm not going to tell you what to do.
I'm not going to tell you how to do it.
Is there a limit for that?
Is there a limit where the government can cross the line where you're kind of like, this is a little too much for me?
Yeah, I mean, any bureaucratic bullshit that I have to do, you know, look, it's all very complicated out there, whether you're doing your taxes, your 401k, you're signing up for health insurance, all the paperwork.
It's just so freaking complicated.
I wish things were a little more simpler and easier to do.
So I tweeted this a couple days ago.
By the way, that's a very good question that we can get into for 20 minutes.
I sent this to Newsom a couple days ago.
Go down.
Newsome sent out a message.
Go up a little bit more right there.
He said, COVID update, this last week, California has an unprecedented rising cases.
Average daily test, 198,000, average test positive, 35.5%, average daily test case average, 11,005 now.
Hospitalization up 77%.
ICU up 55% over the last two weeks.
And I said, could it be due to a weak immune system from a lack of exercise?
Could it be due to constantly selling fear from the top?
Maybe you ought to think about opening up gyms and maybe you ought to think about selling hope.
What do you think, Gavin?
And, you know, you hear the messaging of so much.
The other day I did a video on coronavirus, and what I want to look at what strengthens your immune system.
You know what it said?
Mayo Clinic said what strengthens your immune system is exercise.
Today they're saying there is no link between exercise and immune system.
And WebMD, you know what WebMD said?
There is a link between having a positive outlook of the future and your immune system.
So if somebody's telling the future looks bright, things are going to be all right.
We're going to be able to figure this out.
Your immune system gets stronger versus somebody saying the end of the world is around the corner, all this other stuff, your immune system gets weaker.
So the two things that we need to strengthen our immune system is exercise and selling hope is not being done by the city.
Power positive thinking.
The complete opposite is being sold by California, Newsom, and Garcetti.
The other thing, so the immune system is 99.7%, you know, across the entire spectrum of the population, it's 99% effective at defeating the coronavirus, right?
The vaccines aren't that effective.
So if you're putting that amount of billions of dollars in time and research and manpower and all this into vaccines that are less effective than your immune system, if the government is so hell-bent, Joe Biden included, on handouts, then why not distribute a package to every individual that from a vitamin supplement standpoint helps improve their immune system the same way?
Why is there not some focus on that?
There's none.
Sleep, exercise, eat healthy, right?
I mean, eat healthy is cooperative.
But you're on people.
Can you tell the freaking sun in Addison, Texas to show up?
There is quantifiable data that shows vitamin and mineral deficiency in a direct relation to COVID kicking your ass, right?
So if you're deficient in vitamin C, vitamin D, magnesium, things of that nature, then your immune system is weak and it's going to hand you your ass a lot more.
And those are very cheap, easy supplements to get a hold of.
By the way, if you've enjoyed us having Mike Ritland on, push that subscribe button and the alert button.
If you really enjoyed him being on here with the perspective, push that.
If you want to see him come back on the show again, I mean, you're in Dallas, right?
We're not far away from each other.
I slept in my car outside your house.
That's what it was.
That's who it was.
I was wondering who that was outside.
I felt safer, by the way, with a Navy SEAL guy who's a dog trainer.
I said, everything's going to be all right.
But Adam, why don't you tell us about the product launch we're doing this Friday?
Give us an update on what's going on.
This is a big deal, right?
I've been asking you for a while.
Lots of new products.
Look at the new products.
This Friday, coming on Black Friday, we have up to a 50% off sale.
Pat, let's see some of these products that you've got going on.
We'll take a look at this one here.
This is a wireless Valutamin headset.
We got chargers and speakers at the same time.
We have stuff that you'll put right next to your office while you listen to the music presentation, shirts, Nike shirts.
What I think that you said you'd be willing to do, correct me if I'm wrong, is when this stuff goes on sale after someone purchases, you're going to be FaceTiming people, calling people, seeing how they like the stuff, seeing what they got going on.
No question about it.
You're going to do that.
I would say the first 20 purchases over $200, I will FaceTime them myself.
First 20 purchases over $200, I will FaceTime it myself and we'll have a conversation together.
And this is going to be one.
This is going to be Friday.
We're talking about this.
Black Friday sale.
I know we have a ton of I Am an Entrepreneur shirts.
You're going to be signing.
You're going to be gifting those out.
Yes.
Possibly on the next podcast, we can gifts for some of the.
What site do they need to go to to be part of the not pre-order, but the pre-launch.
So pre-launch, it's vtstores.com slash YT, right?
Is that what it is, Kai?
Go down.
Vtstores.com.
Just VTStores.com.
Go to Lil LauraCon.
VTStores.com.
Go to Lil Laura.
Who's that?
Good-looking guy in the picture.
Put first name, email address, submit, and you will have the email sent over to you.
So when we're doing the launch, you'll be the first because it's a one-time thing we're doing.
It's going to be a Black Friday deal that we'll do, and then the merch will go out.
And then from there, the merch goes out.
And then I think when people get the merch, we're going to want them to take a picture with the merch, tag Pat.
I love how Pat's going to be receiving the best pictures.
I mean, that's like a phenomenal picture.
Kai and Nancy are famous for doing these things.
You look concerned.
I look concerned.
I'm like.
Brilliant picture to you.
Anyway, are you excited about this?
People have been asking you about products for a while.
I am ecstatic about this because, you know, the other day I called the cops because the local area, someone was going to be able to do it.
Because Mike was sleeping outside your house again.
Yeah, it was.
But I kind of wish Mike was sleeping outside.
But I called the cops the other day and they showed up.
There was this kind of weird guy who following them around and he shows up.
Cops show up and the dispatcher tells the cops to call me, give me an update.
The cop calls.
And I said, yes.
He says, well, let me tell you what we just did.
Here's what we did.
We found out this, this, this, this, about the person you were concerned about in the community was calling us.
I said, yeah, sure, that's great.
I said, thank you.
He says, can I ask you questions?
Yeah.
He says, why do I recognize your voice?
I said, I don't know.
He says, I said, do you watch value tame?
He says, you got to be kidding me.
My daughter and I watch value taintment all the time.
And he goes about telling me this story, this cop, which is always great when a cop in your local community is a value tainer, right?
You feel safer.
But the point is that value tame logo, when you see it in the streets, no matter where you walk, we go in the airports, we go in the mall, we went to Manhattan Beach.
Oh, yeah.
No matter where we go, people, the value tame community of free thinkers, capitalists around the world is getting bigger and bigger.
And I love seeing folks sport this.
And when you run into each other, it's a certain level of camaraderie.
We had one of our guys, Danny Nissan, who was in China doing a deal, runs into another guy wearing a value tame shirt.
They take pictures together.
They send it to me on Instagram saying value tainers all over the world.
So it's great to see the community growing.
Wouldn't happen without you guys.
So cannot wait to see you guys get the merch when it comes out Friday, first thing in the morning.
Go to vtstores.com to be part of the launch.
And having said that, Mike, it's been a bless having you back on, buddy.
This was great.
Your perspective is ridiculous.
I appreciate it.
Some taught me some stuff.
Somebody in here commented and said, I think Mike closed Adam on getting a mini gun.
Yeah, on a mini gun.
Well, I have a money gun in the office over there.
I'm not sure if you've seen myself.
I'm your first pistol.
How about that?
Wow.
How nice is that?
Look at that.
Teach me how to shoot.
Teach you how to shoot it.
Wow, look at that.
From a Navy SEAL.
Navy SEAL.
I guess.
Navy SEAL is going to teach you how to shoot.
That's a ton video, right?
That is a good video, right?
Democratic sheep over here is going to learn from.
Before you get too excited or maybe more excited, the gun does shoot dildos.
He's definitely more excited.
Well, if I know anything, Mario will join me on the shooting screen.
We'll have some fun.
I will leave that up to you guys.
Happy Thanksgiving to all everyone out there.
We wish you a happy turkey.
I hope you enjoyed the social distance.
And when you're eating the turkey, make sure you're six feet away from it and just follow all the guidelines and the rules.
Say that again.
Have your masks on.
Follow all the guidelines by Cuomo or according to our lovely fans.
I'll be eating sheep instead of turkey.
So much respect to all my people out there with all your funny comments.
Push that subscribe button, guys, and we'll do this again next week.
