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We're officially live with podcast episode number 31 back with Tom and Adam today.
Gents, how are you?
It's good to see you guys.
You doing good?
Get that together.
By the way, Tom, you guys missed it.
Tom was just saying that Leonardo DiCaprio was the greatest actor of your generation in the last 20 years.
I did say that, yes.
What movie?
Favorite movie of his?
My point is that any role he's in, he's so believable.
I mean, I was just talking about this with my daughter the other day.
I was going, you know, the dude gets so much pub for the young models and everything in Titanic, but man, when you think about it, he is a great actor.
Catch me if you can.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Everything he's been in.
I mean, the list is long.
The one where he carved or crawled into a bear carcass, whatever that one was.
I wish that was pretty legit.
He got the Academy Award.
That was pretty legit.
And that was his first.
Remember how he held the Academy?
Do you remember how he held the Academy when he won?
What'd he do?
You don't remember this?
Here's how he held it.
Have you seen a picture of the game?
You mean the trophy?
Joshua?
He hail this card like this, and he looked at the Academy like this.
You don't remember that?
With the middle finger sticking out.
I don't know what he's doing out here.
Because all these years they never gave him one.
Anyways, he had me at Blood Diamond.
Seen Blood Diamond?
Blood Diamond.
Yeah, of course.
I've seen Blood Diamond.
To say that's his best?
I like the fact that you never choose the best of anybody.
Really, you got a lot.
Lucky you do that.
Okay.
Pat is on fire today, ladies and gentlemen.
We got a lot of people.
I don't know.
Pat is on fire.
We're ready.
We got a lot of stuff to cover today.
A lot of stuff to cover today.
The reason why we're talking about the DiCaprio, let's get this knocked out of the way.
It's a big announcement.
He's officially going to be a daddy at 46, and a mommy is 23.
That's one of the reasons why we're talking about it.
Are we breaking the news here?
Is that what you're talking about?
And what were you saying?
You were saying, how in the hell did he all these years never get anybody pregnant?
That's what you were talking about.
This pull-out game is strong.
There you go.
It is what it is.
Something I'm not good at.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
All right.
All right.
That's what happens, man.
When you get three kids and two more on the way, I have not mastered that ability.
Here's our topics today.
Goldman Sparks, Florida's effort to become Wall Street South.
Goldman Sachs planning on leaving one of their divisions to go to Florida.
We'll talk about that.
Oh, yeah.
Dwayne Johnson's tequila company on pays for record-breaking first year of sales.
That includes beating Clooney, right?
I think he's kicking Clooney's butt right now.
Would you be willing to take the COVID shot for $1,500?
That's what they're talking about.
Kyle, we'll give you $1,500 to take the COVID shot.
You're going to do it, Eric.
Sam, will you take the COVID shot for $1,500?
Eric's doing that.
The government's trying to bribe you to take the COVID shot.
That's comforting, too.
Yeah, very much so.
Silicon Valley elites are moving to Florida, but VCs told the mayor that a state law needs to change before more would relocate.
A slap in the face, LA restaurant owner.
A video we'll share with you that's going to be pretty epic.
Heartfelt video.
Restaurants unite against mission, coronavirus restrictions.
NASDAQ C seek a board's diversity rule that most listed firms don't meet.
Rashida Jones, named president of MSMBC, becoming the first black leader of cable news network.
And then we got Trump talking about plans of a made-for-TV exit on Air Force One from the White House to a rally on inauguration day, hoping to pull viewers from Biden.
It's kind of like what LeBron James did leaving to Miami times a million.
The announcement.
Senators behind a bipartisan $908 billion COVID stimulus plan say they're close to an agreement, which is good news for many.
Sanders criticized it.
Matthew McConaughey, unfortunately, is getting pushed around a little bit in Hollywood for slamming Hollywood's hypocrisy over 2020 election results.
Trump to sign a first-made executive order.
He plans on running 2024.
COVID changing the quarantine time.
There's a Logan Paul Mayweather fight coming up, Logan Paul.
You got to respect those guys.
And for those of you, there were people that were very concerned about Comey never getting a job again.
Comey officially got a job as a professor at Columbia Law School.
I know you were concerned about it.
I was going to say, like a doorman somewhere, you know, a bouncer.
We'll talk about that.
So that's what we have.
And on top of that, and on top of that, we got some interesting topics that I sent you.
Do you have all of them?
I sent you two other articles, by the way, if you want to get them ready for China.
But before we do that, Kai, here's what I want to do.
Why don't you just pull up the first video of the lady who runs a restaurant in California, Sherman Oaks, California, not too far from me, an hour away from you, hour and 15 minutes away from you?
Sherman Oaks, California.
Who this happened to her.
And you're going to feel, I mean, this video on Twitter has already gotten 9 million views.
Her GoFundMe right now, what is her GoFundMe at right now?
Has it crossed $200,000?
I think GoFundMe was at $10.
It was $150 yesterday.
It was, yeah, when we did the video yesterday, it was $107,000.
Let's see where it's at now.
Second one.
There you go.
$164.
Okay, good for she's the one in the middle.
And here's what happened to her.
Play the video.
Take a look at this, folks.
She runs a sushi spot.
So, this is my place, the Pineapple Hill Grill and Saloon.
If you go to my page, you can see all the work I did for outdoor dining, for tables being seven feet apart.
And I come in today because I'm organizing a protest and I came in to get stuff for that.
And I walk into my parking lot, and obviously, Mayor Garcetti has approved this.
Adam, have you seen this?
I have not seen this.
Okay, this is good.
Tom, you've seen this.
Okay, watch this.
Oh, damn.
This being set up for this being set up for a movie company.
A movie?
Movie.
Movie.
But watch, watch what happens.
I'm losing everything.
Everything I own is being taken away from me.
And they set up a movie company right next to my outdoor patio, which is right over here.
How do you justify that?
And people wonder why I'm protesting and why I have had enough.
They have not given us money and they have shut us down.
We cannot survive.
My staff cannot survive.
Look at this.
Look how far apart they are.
Tell me that this is dangerous.
20 yards.
Yeah.
But right next to me as a slap in my face, that's safe.
This is safe.
50 feet away.
This is dangerous.
Mayor Garcetti and Gavin Newsome is responsible for every single person that doesn't have unemployment, that does not have a job, and all the businesses that are going under.
And we need your help.
We need somebody to do something about this.
Yo, that's more powerful than if they had scripted it.
Oh, I mean, she is so good.
There is no.
You feel the pain.
When I first saw that, I was so mad.
I mean, I could not believe what I was watching and hearing.
I could not believe it.
And it brought it all to life.
Do you know how much she spent renovating her deck to get it ready?
$80,000, $80,000 she paid to renovate that.
I know so many stories like that.
Garcetti is such a prick.
I just can't even believe it.
When you heard his reaction to this, my heart goes out to her.
That's all he said.
No thoughts, no offer to assist them in any way.
It's the beginning.
They are trying to legislate fun out of people's lives.
I really believe that.
I think they have chosen the restaurant industry to demolish it for some reason in some of these states.
In California, for sure.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Manhattan Beach, you know, we were talking about that last week.
These guys are smart because, you know, same thing, you can't have outdoor dining there in every restaurant.
There's a lot of great restaurants there, and they all have outdoor dining.
They've designated all their outdoor decks as public parks.
So now you can get your takeout and go sit out there.
So they found a little loophole, and I'm sure City Hall's ticked off about it.
I'm sure LA County's not happy about it.
But man, she's a star now.
She was on Fox yesterday.
She was as compelling on Neil Cavuto's show yesterday as she was there.
I mean, she is going to be the face of this movement from coast to coast.
Michigan, watch what's happening there.
New York, same thing.
It's just the beginning of what's going on.
So three quick things.
How do you, number one, how do you not feel for that lady?
I mean, I don't care whether you're where you stand politically, mask, no mask, left, right, up, down.
The lady's pouring her heart out right there.
If you don't feel for her, like you're missing something going on in your life.
So yeah, I got the chills just watching her.
That's number one.
Number two, the outdoor dining thing, really?
California is that absurd that they're shutting down outdoor dining.
Like we all had lunch.
We were in Manhattan Beach.
There's a big difference between indoor dining and social distancing and all that and outdoor dining.
I mean, that I've said the same thing continuously.
I don't understand why they're shutting down outdoor restaurants like hers, especially when she set up a specific area for people to eat.
And I mean, the hypocrisy of setting up a movie company.
I mean, you couldn't, again, couldn't have scripted that any better.
And then here's, I guess, my third point.
You said that the mayor responded.
It's on you, buddy.
It's on you to make a move now.
After seeing that, that is a tangible example.
Are you just going to sort of be like, oh, my heart goes out to you and give the standard quote?
Are you actually going to say something to that specific situation?
Because there's a case example of how you are messing up, buddy.
I'm sure there's a million different case examples, but that is now live in effect.
You ever been to a funeral?
You ever been to a funeral where a person, you know, you go to funerals and then there's funerals.
What I mean by that is you go to funerals where everybody's very amicable.
And it was kind of like, yeah, hey, you know what?
Sorry, man.
I'm sorry.
Hey, you know, all this other stuff.
You ever go to a funeral where somebody is crying and you fully feel the pain with zero acting, no drama.
You ever been to somebody?
You brought up a story like that last week, I believe.
Yeah, I mean, you go to funerals like this.
That's what happened.
That's her funeral right there.
That's the small business's funeral.
You just saw that.
But she's slap in the face.
Of course it's a slap in the face because it was caused by something that could have been prevented.
That's the stuff that's annoying.
That's when politics gets in and gets dirty.
That's when somebody like that takes a hit.
But by the way, what people don't realize is, you know, you can only go so far doing this.
We're going to keep showing this stuff.
Every time a video like this comes up, we're going to show it.
And we should.
How much money did she raise?
200 grand, I think, something $160,000.
Is that a lot of money?
For her, yes.
In general, check this out.
That's after 9.1 million views.
She only raised $164,000.
So that means you need to have a video go viral like this to be able to raise that kind of money.
How about the rest of the people that don't get this kind of exposure?
How about the rest of the people that don't have a video like that that gets picked up and goes on TV?
How about the rest of the people?
How about those guys?
How about the people that don't have a platform and don't go communicate and they don't get picked up by anybody?
How about them?
Nobody talks about them.
You think they're going to be able to raise $200,000 on $160?
No, they're just having to shut down.
Now she's going to make it.
She's going to be okay because $80,000 she spent on a dick, she's getting that back and more.
And she can shut down for a couple months and pay some of her workers and say, guys, let's just kick back.
She'll be known as the restaurant that did that.
But she is the people who go there.
But how about the rest of the thousands that nothing can be done about?
I have an idea.
I'm going to throw this out there right now.
Why don't Value Tainment, why don't we do a telethon like they do after a big disaster, after a hurricane?
We should do a telethon for the restaurant industry.
We could raise them tens and tens of millions.
I think that's a great idea.
I would actually be very open to that for getting, but we would need to collect the stories.
I'd want to get people from across, I'd love to be able to do something like that because for me, my concern isn't her.
She's fine.
She's officially fine.
She's officially going to be going to be known as what?
The restaurant.
So you're going to go eat there intentionally just to do what?
I want to support your business.
She's famous, right?
But the rest of them are the ones that are going to take a massive hit.
That's not going to change.
Why is it that the restaurant industry, you said that you thought that the restaurant industry was single-handedly being singled out?
I can't answer it.
What is it about?
They have to answer that because they have singled it out.
And I'll tell you what, there's a couple tipping points coming up.
Wednesday, there's a strong, powerful group of restaurant owners in L.A.
I mean, it's a great restaurant city, and these guys are ticked off.
So they went to L.A. County, and the judge told the county that by Wednesday, you have to come back here and prove that there's contact tracing, that this is dangerous, that you actually have the data to prove that outdoor dining is spreading COVID.
So Wednesday is the day to watch because if they can't do that, the judge might just open up the outdoor dining for everybody.
Here's the other thing I say.
It's going to lead to violence.
Look what's happening in Michigan, the way Whitmer is shutting down restaurants and everything right there.
Those people don't play out there.
I mean, they have militias.
Remember, they almost tried to abduct the governor.
They had a collaborative plan to kill her.
It's going to kill.
Let's do it, Tom.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Let's kidnap her.
Right.
And when you see that pain on her face, multiply that by probably a million people around the country that work in the restaurant industry.
She literally said on Fox yesterday, she had two employees, family members, or new two people that committed suicide, that killed themselves since this began.
Someone is homeless because of this.
And this is just in her little small circle.
And they don't give a damn about it, which is just disgusting.
You said a million people that work in a restaurant industry?
It's not a million people.
You know what the number is?
It's more than that.
It's 30 million people.
It's not a small number.
10% of Americans work in the service industry.
10% of Americans work in the service industry.
You're talking about bars, restaurants.
Everything.
You're talking about 15 to 30 million.
They say as high as 50 million at one point have contributed towards that industry.
Like we've all worked in that industry.
I've worked in that industry.
You worked in the industry before.
Of course.
You know, Pat, the other thing, too, is it's not like these restaurant owners.
They tried to do it.
That guy in Staten Island.
You know, he called his bar an autonomous zone and tried to keep it open.
The city went there.
He raised 80 grand, by the way.
He did.
He raised some money, too.
But they're playing with fire because they're all dictated by licenses, liquor licenses, right?
And things like that, food and beverage licenses.
The state can shut them down so easy.
So it's not like they can just go to the bottom of the street.
This is very important for you to repeat one more time.
Folks, pay very close attention to what Tom just said right there.
Say what you just said one more time.
Right, because if they want to protest and say, screw you, government, we're just going to open our doors and we don't care.
The state can just shut them down because they all have liquor licenses.
They have licenses to serve food, to have outdoor dining areas.
So the state has them, man.
They really do.
That is mafia at the highest level.
Their doors stay open contingent on the licensing being.
And they yank them in a second.
They pull them right away.
But something to add, you know, we've talked about this recovery and obviously the stock market has bounced back.
And then some, is it the V-shaped?
Is it the K-shaped?
What kind of is it the U-shaped?
Is it L-shaped?
This is a clear indication of this K-shaped economy where the rich get richer and people that work in the insurance business or the financial services business or anything where you could work from home, you'll be okay.
You can work from home.
But anything that you need to get out of your house.
You can't, yeah.
And work in the service-based industry, whether it's restaurants, bars, clubs, all that, cruise ships, anything travel-related, hospitality, that's the bottom half of the K-shaped economy.
And those people are struggling right now.
And that's why Congress needs to freaking act and get their act together and pass this trillion-dollar bill.
But that's not going to solve every problem.
Think about these people, man.
They also live in California where rent is high.
Taxes are high.
It's a desperate situation.
It's crazy.
The two places that are taking the biggest hit is New York and California.
Those are the two places that it costs to living is out of this world.
I lived there for a long time.
You know what it is to live in California.
It's not cheap living over there.
It's very expensive to be living over there.
So that leads me to the next story, which is Goldman Sachs.
So here's Goldman Sachs.
When you think about Goldman Sachs, you only think about one state.
You think about one city.
New York.
New York City.
You don't think about anything else?
It's New York, Goldman Sachs, right?
New York.
Goldman Sachs and Elliott Management Corp. are breathing new life into the decade-old idea of converting the Miami to West Palm Beach corridor into a southern hub for finance and investing, a notion that would have monumental implications for the area's development.
Now, Goldman is weighing a new Florida hub for its asset management on Wabillionaire Paul Singer's $41 billion hedge fund.
Elliott Management Corp plans to move its headquarters to West Palm Beach according to people familiar with discussions.
Trailblazing blazing moves by industry giants could open a floodgates of other firms, many of which have been hesitant to leave the center of finance, financial universe for the promise of better.
Can you imagine if these guys make the move?
Look, Carl Icon recently decided to relocate his asset management to Florida.
Ken Griffin Citadel plans to open an office in Miami according to a person with knowledge of his plans.
You know, Elon Musk just told a few friends that he's leaving California for Texas.
Elon Musk is telling his friends in an interview a few months ago, he said, no, I'm not leaving California.
Just recently, his friends, imagine you're having dinner with your friends saying, Elon, are you ever going to leave California?
Yeah, I'm thinking about moving to Texas.
And friends are saying, man, you know, Elon's thinking about moving to Texas.
They're thinking there is no consequences, but people are going to be leaving.
What happens if a Goldman leaves to Florida?
We talk about this every week.
We're shocked at a company's moving.
And then it's every week there's a new one.
And it's a bigger one.
And it's a higher profile one.
These government leaders in Sacramento, California, and is Albany the capital of New York?
Is it Albany?
They must be so myopic and so stupid and not have enough people around them to challenge them on anything.
This is a crisis of epic proportions for these states.
It's as big as the pandemic, if you ask me.
When you have companies leave, because the pandemic is eventually going to end, right?
There's going to have a vaccine.
Things eventually will slow down and get back to normal.
You have these companies bolting.
I mean, multiply this tax revenue year by year by year.
And then you have these high earners that aren't paying individual income tax into the state.
And why wouldn't they all move to Texas and Florida?
There's no state income tax.
I mean, I cannot believe that they aren't treating this like the crisis that it is because it is only the beginning of the market.
What do you think Cuomo's thinking behind closed doors?
What do you think he's thinking?
I think he's thinking about his book.
I think about the next interview he's doing.
I think that, yes, I do.
Cuomo's very aware of this.
He begged and pleaded, look, I'll cook you dinner.
Remember that quote?
Yeah, I remember that.
Look, come over.
I'll cook you dinner.
Don't leave.
Cuomo's aware of this.
I don't think he's immune to this.
But at the same time, you know, this is this decades-old, breathing new life into this decades-old idea.
This is not a new idea of New Yorkers basically thinking about coming down to my family.
Yeah, but now they're actually doing it.
Relax.
I got you, Tom.
Tom's fired up.
This is nothing new.
I feel like they've been playing hopscotch for a while.
Look, born and raised in Miami, I've lived in Miami my entire life.
I know a lot of people that basically, I mean, half my friends have been like, yeah, man, I just couldn't do it in New York.
Especially when they have kids.
Especially when they have kids.
You could be single and have a time of your freaking life in New York City.
Run around.
You meet a girl, you meet a guy.
Next thing you know, you have kids.
You're thinking, I'm living in a freaking shoebox.
I'm paying $5,000 a month here.
What the fuck am I doing?
Hold on, for five grand a month, I can get a sick house on the water in Boca Raton or in West Palm or in Miami and Fort Lauderdale or whatever.
And I feel like for years, for decades, people have been sort of playing hopscotch with, you know, what's the jump rope game when you're kind of like thinking about going, thinking about going.
Next thing, double dutch.
Thank you.
Who was that?
Eric, you're thinking about doing double Dutch.
Boom, pandemic happens.
And then they're thinking, dude, I've been thinking about this for years now.
I'm talking about just individuals.
Forget about corporations.
We can talk about corporations as well.
They've been thinking about it forever now.
And now that the pandemic happens, they're like, screw it.
What do we have to fucking lose?
So here's a question.
Here's a question then.
What keeps people?
I get what keeps people in California.
I totally get it.
I mean, if you've been there, we went there.
The weather, we're hanging out with Shauna.
Listen, the weather, I lived there 20 some years, beautiful weather.
What keeps people in New York?
Well, look, number one, there's still, you're talking about individuals or corporations?
You need both.
What keeps people in New York?
Talent.
It is the financial corporations.
Okay.
Talent.
Talent beyond.
Like, I live in Miami.
You cannot compare the brain power and the talent in New York versus Miami.
Miami's got a lot of favorable things going its way.
Clearly, the weather, the weather, the weather, the weather, the low taxes, the fun, the sun, all that.
You'd be very hard-pressed to find a very intellectual conversation going in Miami, bro.
That's not going to happen for the most part, bro.
Like, there's just not that level of brain trust in Miami.
It's changing, though.
It's changing.
What else is keeping people in New York?
I mean, look, no doubt.
And Jerry Seinfeld did a thing about this where he's like, look, you could say that New York is dying and nobody's coming back to New York.
New York is still the best city in the country, in my opinion, straight up, as far as like, but what?
Why?
Dude, I mean, when's the last time you just hung out?
Don't get me wrong.
Listen, I love.
I love, but I'm asking you, why?
My favorite thing to do in this world, and you're talking about somebody who's born and raised in Miami, loves Miami.
If there's one place I could live year-round, it'd be Miami because I just can't take the shit.
But my favorite thing to do is just put on some earbuds and just walk around New York.
So here's a question: walk around New York.
For vacation or to live?
For vacation.
Okay, so I'm saying, why do people live and stay in Miami?
That's a good question because 12 years out of the year, 12 months.
I say we have some.
It's culture.
That's what I was going to say.
I was going to say culture.
Culture.
And then everybody, the belief that you are in the epicenter of the world.
I mean, New York is where everything happens, or at least it used to be.
So I think that kept people there.
Feel of fear of missing out, you know, professionally if you live somewhere else.
It's just not the same, or it hasn't been.
I mean, the buzz and the excitement of New York is a lot of people.
I think if you look at the look at Cuomo's attitude, look at Trump's attitude.
Look at New York's attitude, right?
There's an attitude about New York.
It's very attractive.
The attitude of New York.
It's like, no, here's what I'm going to do.
And we're going to figure out a way you don't like it.
You can make it there.
You can make it anywhere.
A very unique attitude about that attitude does not exist in Miami.
I'm telling you.
But what I'm trying to tell you is, I've done business with people from every state.
I've done business with people from every state, every religion, pretty much.
You can think of it.
I've done business with everybody, right?
There's something very unique about doing business with people from New York.
I love doing business with people from New York.
The way they are, you're going to know very quickly if something's going to happen or not.
It's not like, well, can I get you something?
Would you like to see that?
Hey, Mary, can you get us something?
It's like, so listen, you know, when I look at what you got going on and what we got going on, I think there's something here.
What do you think?
How about we do this?
I think it's really only it's just a very simple, open conversation with them to have.
But that talent is transferable to any market.
You take that talent to a market like Florida.
You got a big upside.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Big upside, right?
And so you go to Florida, a state with no taxes, weather year-round.
Yesterday, we're looking at checking out the weather last night in Palm Beach, 64 degrees.
It hit 47 yesterday.
People are freaking out.
Palm Beach.
They're freaking out.
Wow.
Iguanas are dying.
They're freezing.
That's the point.
Iguanas are dying.
They're freezing, right?
Yeah, real story.
I know you're telling me this.
But 46 in New York is like a huge.
Tom, we got COVID.
Tom's got COVID.
46 in New York.
So, you know, people don't think anyone's going to leave New York until they do.
Yep.
That's really what it's all about.
And then there's a gallop behind them.
You know, a couple other things.
Now, with all these people and all these corporations leaving New York, what's going to have to happen?
They're gonna have to raise taxes for the people that stay there, right?
I mean, isn't that logical that it's gonna even get worse?
Yeah, Adam, you know, I'm with you, man.
As far as like hanging out in New York, there's nothing like it.
The last time I was in New York was in February, and that was right in the beginning.
I would say like a week before the pandemic.
And I already noticed it was different.
I really did.
I think the Belasio has done such damage to that city.
I mean, they need a mayor like Giuliani to come in there and restore that city because that was New York in the 70s and the 80s.
Giuliani of the 90s or Giuliani of today?
The 90s.
There's a big difference, Tom.
That guy's a mess right now.
By the way, if you're watching this, you're listening to this.
What do you think about it?
What keeps people in New York?
What keeps people in New York?
Why don't people want to leave New York?
I mean, obviously, the slow, slow, what the pandemic did, it exposed states like California and New York in a big way.
Pandemic was not good for California and New York, by the way.
No, horrible.
Horrible for those two states.
Can I make one last point?
Sure.
And I really truly mean this.
I believe you look at these two states by far handling the pandemic the worst.
The worst situation, the worst stories we hear are in California, New York.
I believe that Cuomo thinks he's a rock star.
I really do.
The interviews, the books, I think he's thinking of what's next.
You want to think for him.
I truly believe he's thinking more about what's next.
And I think the same thing about Newsome.
I don't think they care enough about what's going on.
They're thinking about their next move.
Newsom's thinking about being president.
Cuomo's thinking about being a rock star and whatever else is coming up after.
And they're neglecting things that are happening right now because they're so selfish.
Who do you think will be president first?
Who has a higher likelihood of being president?
Cuomo or Newsome?
Newsome.
I go Cuomo.
Tell me why.
I think he's got a broader appeal.
I think, look, you think that Cuomo's hand, New York's handling the pandemic worse.
I think between Garcetti and Newsome, they're a freaking disaster.
New York, in essence, this is where the pandemic started.
All right.
So think about people are living within like shoeboxes of each other.
Like, that's a lot harder to deal with.
People are living on, living, on, living on people, right on top of people, versus L.A. is completely spread out.
Like, you can eat outdoor, no problem.
Weather's fine.
You can deal with this.
New York, it's freezing.
You're living on top of each other.
Totally different beast.
Totally different beast.
And so you're saying Cuomo before Newsome.
I'm just saying.
Do you think America is ready for a single president?
Is he not married?
He's not married.
What's going on there?
You can read into it.
I'm not going to talk about it.
I don't think he's got the Lindsey Graham thing going on.
Is that common knowledge?
What's up with Lindsey Graham?
The Lindsey Graham thing?
Oh, you know what the Lindsey thing?
Put it this way.
I wouldn't be shocked if Lindsey Graham was one of those 25 guys hanging out in a Hungarian org.
You think so?
Oh, yeah.
You think he parties in Hungary?
So go back to it.
So do you think America's ready for a single president?
Look.
Do you think America is a family?
Let me tell you.
By the way, listen, I think the things that are going on in America right now proving that you're ready for a crafty president.
So yeah, a single one will be fine for America.
True, that's horrible.
Trump, that's crazy.
I agree with you, Tom.
So, so, so, wait a minute.
I'm actually asking a serious question.
When John F. Kennedy was running, everybody said, Is America ready for a Catholic president?
And the answer was, what?
Yes.
Is America ready for a Barack Obama?
Yes.
Is America ready for a woman to be a president?
Is America ready for a single man to be a president?
Yeah, well, as far as a single man, let me tell you something.
The guy's going to have no shortage of ladies being like, Look, you know, I see your.
That's not what I'm asking you.
I'm asking you, does America care?
Do you care if you're president single or America doesn't care?
Do you care?
Do you care?
I care less.
Do you care?
Last.
Do you care?
No, I don't.
I'm not going to be competent.
Wait, clearly you care.
No, no, I'm asking you.
Clearly, you care.
I tell you, it's not about me.
There's eight men in here.
Not one.
We all said, we all said no.
But what about you?
You think you're going somewhere with you?
No, you're going somewhere.
You think women are going to be saying 100% yes?
I don't know about that.
It's going to be like, I don't know.
I think how can you relate to me if you don't have a family?
Has he never been married?
He's been married.
Okay.
What are we talking about then?
He's got kids.
He's not married today.
Wow, who gives a shit?
He's smart then.
He picks up legal.
So what you're saying is you don't give a shit.
If you're watching this, by the way, I'm asking you this.
If you really don't care if the president is single, put thumbs up.
If you care for the president to be married, put thumbs down.
They've all acted like they were single anyway.
I got my friend Vince.
You know, Vince.
He just, I got a random text from him.
He said, Lindsey Graham definitely putts from the rough.
That's for sure.
Shout out to Vince Richardson.
That's my guy.
How would Vince know, though?
Vince has got some inroads.
He knows what's going on.
Maybe he's hosted the party.
Vince is in touch with the people.
He knows what it is.
Vince is in touch with the people.
But I don't think bottom line is, I don't think anyone cares about this.
Well, look, the reason why I'm bringing this up, I'm bringing this up because Bloomberg is single.
And he ran, and nobody brought it up, and it wasn't a topic.
It wasn't like something, hey, you know, is anybody, you know, going to bring that up?
And it was never brought up.
No.
But quite frankly, Bloomberg, man, on the debate stage, he was.
God, he was a puts.
He had charisma.
He had swag.
Maybe the most style.
You could tell.
He had all sorts of energy.
You agree with me, right, Tom?
Bloomberg.
He had what Trump was.
He's a damn good mayor, though.
By the way, that comment right there could be used.
If he was running today, they would use that for what he said.
He's got charisma.
Mike Bloomberg, if you want to pay me for that quote, you can reach me at ValueGame and Media.
Okay, so Dwayne Johnson's about to be a billionaire, just so everybody knows.
Of course, he's already making $80 to $120 million a year as an actor, highest paid actor in the world.
But on top of that, his Terra Mana is preparing to sell 300,000 nine-liter cases and ship nearly 400,000 cases in its first year comparing Johnson on social media to George Clooney.
Randy Gerber and Michael Meldman sold their tequila brand to spirits, giant Diago.
Diageos at 175,000 cases a year, reportedly for a billion dollars.
Our entire Terramana team and myself are quite pleased and humbled that the brand is experiencing this incredible off-the-chart success, he told Forbes.
But we also recognize there's much more work to be done.
We're building a mana-fuel legacy brand, and I'm in for the long call.
So what do you think?
You know what?
Here was my first reaction.
Copycat.
This is boring.
Another superstar A-list actor trying to gravy train off George Clooney and Randy Gerber's success.
Then you peel back.
You know, Ryan Reynolds did it, right?
He had the gin.
He had Aviation Gin.
He sold that for $610 million.
There really is some money in this spirits business.
But then I peel back and I see what The Rock is selling this tequila for.
And he's selling a bottle between $29 and like $39.
And Casa Migos is like, if you can get it on sale, it's like $46.
It's expensive.
It's a lot of money.
So I give him all the credit in the world now.
I'm a fan.
He flipped me.
My initial thought was, man, do I really need another A-list star that thinks he's a tequila distributor?
I mean, I found it boring.
I found it cliche, actually.
But, man, he's killing it.
It also shows the power of The Rock because I haven't seen one commercial for this company.
I haven't heard one ad on the radio.
So it's all his social media that's driving this thing.
And it just shows the power that whatever he touches, you know, it's going to explode.
And it's unbelievable.
That thing is self-retending.
I have not tasted it.
I never even heard of it.
Never even heard of it.
Terramana.
Never heard of it.
You know, there's this one app called Instagram.
Yeah, it's crazy.
And if you're on this Instagram, there's this guy named Dwayne DeRock Johnson.
Don't follow him.
And he has like 200 million people that follow him.
I know.
And he posts videos of people that buy his tequila every day.
And he posts like 10 of them and people having it and celebrating.
You've never heard of this before.
I haven't.
I haven't.
So The Rock is a big deal, by the way.
Who's The Rock?
He is this good-looking actor who's got swagger at the highest level, alpha yet FSC.
You're a fan of The Rock.
I think he is the kind of guy you root for, you cheer for.
You bring up The Rock quite often.
You want to see this guy win.
You do.
Listen, you cannot teach charisma and have it at the level this guy's guy.
Do you think it was a bad move that he came out and did his whole anti-Trump thing?
No, I don't think.
I think because he's planning on running, he just told you which side of the aisle he's going to run when he runs.
That's all he did.
He's going to be a Democrat.
What that told you is when he runs, he's going to run as a Democrat.
Oh, you think he's going to run?
Do I think he's going to run?
Wow.
Okay.
How old am I right now?
42?
42.
How long of a bet you want to make?
You want to make a $10,000 million dollar bet?
Excuse me.
A $10-year million-dollar bet.
I'm not betting against The Rock.
I just want to know.
guy's gonna run in the next 10 or 20 years and he's it's gonna make a note Guys.
Circle back in 20 years.
He'll be 42.
Well, let me tell you this.
Listen, there are certain guys, there's certain things that you just see.
He's the kind of guy, anything he touches is going to turn to gold.
Anything he touches turns to gold.
That's The Rock.
He went to wrestling.
He became the face.
And, you know, they were trying to make him the bad guy.
And he came out.
He says, I'm not playing the bad guy.
I'm only playing the good guy.
The other night we're sitting here doing the Lego.
Where is the Lego, by the way?
Did we put it apart?
Oh, my God, the Lego.
Did it break or no?
No, we have to show it, but somehow we got to show it.
By the way, you can't carry it.
Only Kai can carry it, okay?
So we sat here.
You just got sat down saying we sat here trying to, what do you call it, break the world record.
This is pretty.
Are we moving from The Rock?
We're done with the Rock.
No, I don't know.
Still on the Rock.
It's still on the Rock.
So we're trying to beat the world record, right?
Tom, we were so close.
So the world record for this is by four scientists out of Germany.
They did it in two hours, 51 minutes, and 47 seconds.
Okay.
How many piece Legos?
7,500 pieces.
It's the biggest piece of it.
It's like a little as you want.
No, it's only four.
Shout out to your friend Katie Stutz.
Yes, Katie Stutz.
That's right.
You said it good.
But you know how long it took us to do it?
Three hours?
We didn't do it.
Oh, yeah, three hours.
Yeah, yeah, Tom.
We didn't do it in three hours.
Okay, check this out.
Look at this.
Bring it in.
Go ahead, Kai.
Where are you going with this?
Bring it in right here.
Just put it right here.
Oh, my God.
This thing haunts my dreams.
Watch out, watch out, buddy.
Okay, this right here took us.
This is Kai, ladies and gentlemen.
So again, this is Kai, ladies and gentlemen.
The world record is two hours, 51 minutes, and 47 seconds.
Jesus.
Okay.
This thing took us not four hours.
Not five hours.
Not six hours, not seven hours.
I don't believe you'd put more than a couple hours into it.
Well, for me, I was in and out of the house.
I was in and out of Zooms and I was in the middle of the day.
I went to dinner and went back to the house.
It got to the point where we sat there.
We said, guys, I mean, at this point, people are going crazy.
Adam's knocked out, right?
So we watch a movie.
I'm curious at this.
And we watch Man on Fire.
You ever seen Man on Fire?
Have you seen Man on Fire?
Have you seen Man on Fire?
Eric, you've seen Man on Fire?
Is it a romantic comedy?
It's not a romantic comedy, so you haven't seen it.
No.
So Man on Fire is with Denzel Washington.
I think it's Dakota Fanning in it and a few other people, right?
Who's the bad guy in the movie?
Who ends up being the bad guy?
Mark Anthony compromises his own daughter to get a $10 million check or something like that, right?
And I said, why would you even play that part, right?
Why would you even say yes to that role?
Why would you do that, right?
The Rock said, I'm not playing the bad guy.
I'm a good guy.
I'm a hero.
That's who I am.
That's his identity.
This is who I am.
He goes, plays it, does movies, crushes it in movies, does all this stuff.
Now comes out with tequila.
At the end of the day, the only thing that's going to be left for this guy is one thing.
Totally.
To be the president.
That's what I agree because he takes over.
When he goes into something, he's not content being great.
He has to be the best.
So there was nothing left for him to accomplish in wrestling.
Nothing.
He was the best, and he couldn't top it.
And then what more can he do in acting?
I mean, there is such a gap between him and anything else.
He's not going to own a studio.
He doesn't want to be a producer.
He's laying the groundwork for some sort of run.
He has to.
He's thinking about it.
Why wouldn't he do it, though?
And I think he's doing it from the heart.
I think he really thinks that he could do a good job.
Does he have your vote, Tom?
Is he running officially?
I don't know.
I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it.
Democrat, Tom is thinking about everybody in suspense by saying I'm not sure yet.
Here's what I just want to point out.
I just want the audience to realize what just happened.
Pat started with The Rock, shifted gears, brought up the Lego piece, brought up the Star Wars, brought up Man on Fire, Mark Anthony, and tied it all together into why The Rock would not play the bag.
That was masterful.
I want you to know that.
Because I'm like, where is he going with the Star Trek and Star Wars?
I have to give a shout out on how incredible.
I'm just saying.
99% of this is happening.
You see this part right here?
This one little tiny part?
That was me.
Took me 15 hours to put this together.
We learned a lot about you doing this Lego.
Oh, good.
By the way, Adam spent one hour just color coordinating one of the bags.
One bag.
Color coordinating.
Hey, by the way.
I was a setup guy.
What do you think he's going to do with the XFL?
Can he actually turn that into a recession?
I forgot that he did.
Because he's involved.
He probably can.
I think he could.
Yeah.
I think he could.
I think he could.
Can we reveal how long this thing took to?
No, no.
By the way, the video is coming out here soon, and I'm going to probably give away five of these when the video comes out.
You have to see the whole thing.
I don't want to give the time on how long it took us.
But it took us a minute.
All I can say is we did not break the record.
No, I had to cancel all my weekend plans, literally, to build this.
So for the rest of you that are watching this, do you think he will run and do you think he will win?
The rock.
Do you think he will run and do you think he will win?
Let me give a shout out to a couple people that gave some here.
Let me pull this up pictures.
Let me see.
I thought I just saw a couple people say a few things.
Yeah, we had the, I'm a podcaster out of New York.
Love the telethon idea and would be happy to help.
This is Cafecito Break.
What you talk about, Telethon for the Small Businesses.
Great to hear that.
Maybe email us so we keep that on the list with you in case if we do that.
Jillian Tesseria said, Tesharia said y'all should address the viral video, Proven Voter Fraud in Georgia.
Kai, have you seen a viral video, Voter Fraud in Georgia?
What are your thoughts on the voter fraud?
I love the show.
Tom, Jillian.
Do not touch that.
And then we had another person said, Adam, Michael Mintz wants to know where the hell is the Soyboy Mafia shirts?
Where is it?
Where is it?
People are asking for it, so we got to make sure you work on that.
Eric's on it.
We got to work on that, and we got to get an update on that.
Okay, I don't want to break this.
Kai, you ready to take this back?
Yeah, take it.
Any final thoughts on this Millennium Falcons?
I'm giving him most of the time.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
Pat went out to dinner, came back.
Mario came in.
Three conference calls, these Zooms.
This is the MVP right here.
Kai.
Kai was the MVP.
Hands down.
I was the LVP.
I was there for, I said, you know, I kept it.
I set my expectations.
What is that on the back?
Is that set up like that or is it breaking it?
No, no, no.
Oh my God.
It is like that.
By the way, do you know that if you do set a Guinness Book of World record, you have to spend like $550 or $600 just to get into the book?
The reason I know this is because I tried to do it.
Shonda has not let me live it down.
She goes, hey, whatever happened to that $500?
How'd that go?
Because I wanted to set a Guinness Book of World Record with my radio partner when we had a radio show.
We go, let's set the record for talking the longest, uninterrupted.
So we looked it up and we were going to do it for a radio gimmick.
I paid the money.
$600 or something in 2003.
We paid $8,000 because we had to have an, what did they call it, adjudicator?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We paid eight grand in Reno.
We broke the world record for the most checkers players in one room.
We have it outside.
Are you really in the Guinness World?
We're in the book.
We're in the background.
That is awesome, man.
I mean, seriously, if you go up front today when you're leaving, go to the front on the wall, you see a Guinness book.
Can you go grab that thing and bring it?
That's a great stunt to set a world record.
All the way in the front, on the wall, the trophy they gave us for breaking a Guinness Book of Records.
Because that validates it, man.
If you're in the book, you did it.
What we tried to do with the Lego, we definitely failed miserably.
The record was not broken.
Did you win the record, though?
Oh, man, we did not.
The record was definitely not.
We spent the money, though.
How to spend the money.
All right, let's talk about vaccine shots.
Let's talk about vaccine shots.
Let's talk about the vaccine shot.
Folks, question for you.
So they're now coming up with an idea.
They're scared that a lot of people want to take the vaccine.
You saw President Bush Obama and Clinton came out and said, we'll take the shot on national TV.
And then you saw Ivanka Trump.
Came out and said she would also do it on national TV to get people to want to take the vaccine.
And then this comes out.
Would you be willing to take a COVID vaccine in exchange for a $1,500 stimulus check?
Americans are eager for one-time stimulus checks while the U.S. government is working to get COVID vaccine vaccinations to the American public.
Now, one proposal from former Congressman John Delaney aims to help both sides by providing stimulus checks in exchange for getting vaccinated.
The goal, a reach to 75% vaccination rate faster, which could save both lives and the U.S. economy.
Sending Americans $1,500 in exchange for vaccinations could cost $380 billion, which Delaney admits is a lot of money.
In comparison, the first stimulus check sent by governments this far has been $270 billion.
However, trying stimulus checks to vaccinations would actually be the most effective strategy.
Here you go.
We broke a Guinness Book of Road.
Seriously.
Nice job.
This was six years ago in Reno, Nevada, when we broke the record.
How many?
I don't even remember the number.
Hundreds?
It was hundreds.
Yeah, it wasn't that big of a number.
That record can last like if somebody wants to break the record, this can need to be broken.
But we did get this, and we're in the book, and they did a video on it, which was kind of cool.
So going back to it, Adam.
Yes, sir.
Tom, government gives you $1,500.
You're going to take the shot.
How soon do I have to make a decision?
Right now.
I'm in.
Okay, so you're in.
I'm in.
Sarcastic?
Not sarcastic at all.
You're in.
Yeah.
You.
What the hell do the two things have to do with each other?
I'll make up my own mind if I want the shot.
You don't have to pay me.
Keep them separate.
Could.
Okay, fair enough.
Kai, $1,500.
Are you taking it?
Probably not.
So what's your split?
What's the not?
20% or is it?
No, it'd be a time sake.
Like, if I could take it a year from now and I could kind of see how today's doing it.
I'm saying today.
Yeah, not Kyle.
Is it taxable?
Is the $1,500 tax?
No, it's to you.
No taxes.
No taxes.
Vaccine.
You would think about it.
You think about it.
Would you take it?
Would you take it?
I'm already eight and a half to take it, so might as well get it.
So 400.
I shouldn't ask him.
If Obama's taking it, if Bush has taken it, let's just scare you.
Ivana Trump's taking it, Vanka.
This is Trump's doing.
We got to give Trump credit for making this a lot.
We're going to take this on TV and all this other stuff.
How the hell do we know the difference between the shot and the placebo?
We know nothing on the shots and the placebo.
So I don't put a lot of weight on it.
I think they're going to fix it.
You think they're going to fix it?
By the way, just so you know, there's no way I'm having the presidents, if I'm the government allowing the three presidents to take the real vaccine shot on national television, I would never let that happen if I'm the U.S. government, ever.
Really?
And if I'm running it, I would never do it.
What are you talking about?
There's a small percentage of reactions to.
I would never make that kind of a reckless decision.
You know, today the first shot started on the 20th.
Yeah, UK, 90-year-old lady.
Hey, can I ask you a question?
Come down.
Did they do this with polio, with measles?
Do they have to bribe people to take it?
I mean, this is crazy.
By the way, if you're watching this, thumbs up.
Yes, I would take it.
Thumbs down.
Hell no, I'm not taking it with the $1,500.
Smash the thumbs up if you say, I'm looking at it right now.
We got $440.
Thumbs up.
We got 16 thumbs down.
Smash thumbs up.
If you would take it for $1,500, smash thumbs down if the $1,500 wouldn't make any difference for you.
This thing makes me sick, to be honest with you, because everything is politicized now.
There isn't one part of your life that isn't politicized.
Sports, entertainment, culture, going out to dinner.
There isn't one aspect of your life.
You can't escape it anyway.
And now the government is involved in paying you to take a shot?
This makes no sense.
And who are you, Delaney?
What?
I've never heard of you.
Why are you?
You ran for president.
I know we did.
And I never heard of him.
You know who he looks like?
Do you ever see Prince's Bride in Vegas vacation?
Kai, pull up the comparison shot there.
He's got it.
I told you who he looks like.
He looks just like John Delaney.
Wallace Sean, the guy that was the blackjack dealer in Vegas vacation.
Janging 500.
That guy.
When you see him, you'll know what I'm talking about.
That's John Delaney right now.
Oh, dude.
You just did John Delaney too.
I did it, man.
Look at Delaney.
Princess Bride.
That guy killed it.
You tell me that's not him?
That looks like him.
But that does kind of look like him.
Yeah.
Go to the other one.
Yeah, I want to take advice from him.
Yeah, no, thank you.
Okay, I can see some of that.
Anyway.
So seriously, what do they have to do with each other?
Look, you don't.
A, obviously this hasn't passed yet.
B, you could say, look, I'm good.
I don't need to do this.
But if you were going to take the vaccine anyway and they're going to give you $1,500, you just won the jackpot.
There it is.
I mean, not a bad idea.
So you don't get the stimulus if you don't take the shot?
Is that what this proposal is?
No, You get it.
He's saying.
He's saying, as a one-time stimulus check, I'm going to give you $1,500 to take it.
Henry Leonardo just gave $5 and it says, it's all crap.
I think he wanted to say crap.
Those presidents are politicians who tell you that they're even checking.
They're taking a real thing.
I'd only take it because I travel.
That's what he said.
Okay, I don't want to take it.
You know, good point.
If they're going to prevent you from not being able to travel, you know, you would take it.
You know what?
Can I make one quick point?
I think the masks really help preventing colds.
I haven't gotten a cold.
I wear a mask every day.
I think there is some benefit to wearing the mask.
Hold on.
Especially if you travel a lot.
Just a random thought.
I thought you were an anti-masker.
I'm not the anti-masker.
I mean, we're in a pandemic.
I think it makes sense to wear the mask without a doubt.
Tom, I'm not like, you're flipping on me.
Well, look, I'm a good test case.
Because all this plane, you're like, I don't even know who you are anymore.
I thought you were this right-wing extremist, like unreasonable.
Like, now you're this masked guy.
You're sleeping in Airbnbs.
Take it from here, Adam.
I can't even do this anymore.
Tom, I don't know who you are anymore, buddy.
Shonda is rubbing off on you.
That's what's going on.
Man, cold.
I think there's some benefit to it.
Ladies and gentlemen, Tom just came out and said, mask work.
This is amazing.
This is uncomfortable.
So can we talk about a couple things that just came up with, let's stay on that Miami thing because Silicon Valley elites are moving to Miami, but VCs told the mayor that a state law needs to change before they would relocate.
So we talked about earlier companies from New York relocating to Miami, right?
We talked about Goldman Sachs, Carl Icon, some of those guys, right?
And one of them moving to Palm Beach, the $41 billion hedge fund.
What's his name?
Hi, Carl Icon.
Paul Singer.
No, no, Paul Singer.
$41 billion moving his stuff to Palm Beach.
But here's an issue with Miami.
And Miami Mayor, you've interviewed him before.
Mayor Francis Horace.
The mayor of Miami spent at least part of the weekend on Twitter trying to convince Silicon Valley tech workers and investors to hang up their fleece vests and move to South Florida's growing tech hub.
Tech's migration to Miami has been happening for a while now that while Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanyan making the move to South Florida a few years ago, but it's picked up steam as more people work from home, particularly during the pandemic.
But even as tech investors depart from Miami, full-on migration hinges on the city's ability to track top companies' talents.
And candidates might not come as long as state allows companies to use non-compete agreements.
A non-compete is part of an employment contract where the worker agrees they won't take a job at a competitor and start a rival business for some time after leaving the company.
So there's an issue with that in Florida.
Yeah, of course.
For non-compete agreements.
Do they have that in Texas?
In Texas?
No, you're fine in Texas.
In California, it's an issue.
It's not an issue.
Non-compete.
Non-compete doesn't have a lot of weight in California.
In California.
No.
But it doesn't.
Miami, it's huge.
Or in Florida, it's huge.
That's the point.
That's the whole point of the story, right?
So these guys are talking about that's kind of hurting us, you know, all this other stuff.
So, what do you know about it?
I know you were just talking to a staff.
I tried to get Mayor Francis Juarez on the phone this morning.
He was busy, but I was speaking with his communications department.
We can get him on when we'd like.
A couple different things going on here.
Number one was Miami was the number one top city for small business in 2019.
So they've laid the groundwork for being very small business friendly, very entrepreneur-friendly, low taxes, you know, sunny weather, all that going on.
Mayor Francis Suarez is leading the charge on this.
For someone who's lived and worked in Miami, I can tell you the non-compete is a very big deal.
Like, I thought that that was sort of a universal thing, but this is a very Florida-centric policy, apparently.
And that's something that's going to have to be rectified if all these big wigs and Silicon Valley type people are considering moving to Florida and specifically South Florida.
No one's moving to the panhandle.
But in that tweet, I don't know if we want to pull that up, Kai, if you have that.
He said, let's talk.
Let's talk about this.
So he's open to this.
I mean, if there's somebody who is business-friendly, entrepreneurial-driven, and willing to make it a wheel and deal and make business happen, it's this guy right here, Francis Suarez.
Shout out to you, Francis.
He said, How can I help?
DM me.
He's sliding his DM.
I'd be happy to DM me and we'll set it up.
So I did not know that this was such a non-big deal in California.
It is a big deal in Florida.
Everyone who's considering moving jobs asks about a non-compete.
But in California, I guess you can just kind of come and go as you please.
We'll see what they can do.
I read some of this thread.
It's interesting.
He really does interact with these tech people in Silicon Valley.
A couple things.
Number one, if you're super rich, at some point you want to have some fun.
There is no fun to be had in Silicon Valley.
These guys want to get the hell out of there.
They want the hot chicks.
They want to have fun.
I think that drives a lot of this.
I think they're bored.
The other thing is, how can not some of these engineers and really smart tech people in Silicon Valley be a little bit more on the conservative side than these radical lefts that are running the social media giants out there?
I mean, at some point, you can't agree with everything that that company does and you want a fresh start somewhere else.
Third thing is, if there is a serious issue with the non-compete in Florida, Ron DeSantis will fix it.
I mean, that guy's a smart governor.
He's five steps ahead of everybody else.
If it means more business for the state of Florida, and in this case, a lot more and a lot more revenue, he'll change it.
Watch for that to be changed in a couple years.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised either.
By the way, he's a guy that's also wanting to run in the future.
He's a guy that's very ambitious to want to run for office.
Yeah, and he's already said, I will never do a lockdown.
He's already put forth legislation that will make it a huge felony to riot anywhere in Florida as well.
So look what's happening right now.
I've been saying this now for a while.
If California and Texas had a baby, the baby's name would be what?
Florida.
Florida.
It's that simple.
You take the best of California, you take the best of Texas, you combine it together, you got Florida.
If I was the governor of Florida, if I was the governor of Florida, I would out-recruit the governor of Texas like never before.
If I was the governor of Florida, I would out-recruit.
I'm surprised that Florida doesn't out-recruit Texas.
I am so surprised that Florida doesn't out-recruit Texas to get the businesses to move to Florida.
They have more to offer than Texas does.
What do you think?
I know a lot of people disagree with this, but between those two states, you've got the top two states competing.
Nevada's kind of tough.
Nevada's kind of tough to be recruiting to Nevada.
I get that.
It's a good place to be.
A lot of Californians are going there.
But I think Florida is going to be, especially with what's going on right now, a lot of these guys going from, because typically California, when they leave, they go where they go to Nevada or they go to Texas.
New York Territories.
Exactly.
Or Arizona.
But now O'Hanyon's going from Silicon Valley.
Think about where Silicon Valley is all the way to the complete corner.
That's where they're going.
They're changing corners from one end to the other.
Welcome to the East Coast, John.
Yeah, exactly.
Welcome to the East Coast.
Do you think part?
I mean, these guys are smart.
DeSantis is smart.
So is Abbott.
These are smart governors that know what they're doing.
Do you think there's a little bit of them that are thinking, if I recruit too much, it could flip my state a little bit?
I mean, if you look at Arizona, the influx of Californians into Arizona has had an impact on how that state votes.
But that's a different recruiting.
That's a different recruiting than it is for recruiting like Nevada and recruiting like I was thinking about going to Arizona for a long time.
So I went to Phoenix.
Okay.
We went and looked at homes in Phoenix.
There was a place, I don't know what it's called.
Paradise Valley.
Paradise Valley.
I talked about it, right?
No, but I knew that's where you would go.
No, community.
That's the only place you went to this place.
And by the way, no, I mean, it's like a beautiful place.
You go to this community, you're going to get a home for like $4 million, okay?
But you get the home for $4 million.
They go pick up your groceries for you.
You simply call the concierge.
You live in a community.
They go pick up your groceries for you.
They have a spa in the community.
They have massages in the community.
They have everything in the community.
And then you have your own house, gated community, gated house, in a gated community.
The place was beautiful.
And then I came back and said, why would I go to Phoenix?
What for?
What am I going to go there for?
If I'm a golfer, I get it.
If I got something, I get it.
But if I have a choice between them and Nevada, why would I go Phoenix over going to Nevada?
I'm not going to have to pay the tax if I go to Texas if I go to Nevada.
So what Phoenix is attracting is different than what Nevada is attracting.
Phoenix is attracting Middle America because it's cheaper to go there.
Let me go there.
What Nevada attracted is business owners.
By the way, the whole Tony Shea story, like Zappos went there, and his move was to move Zappos to headquarters being there.
And a lot of other businesses moved to Nevada because of taxes.
This is different.
Phoenix is very different than Nevada, Texas, and Florida.
Quick shout out.
Chris Puckett donated five bucks.
He says, I've worked for Google, Facebook, and Yahoo.
Couldn't have done that with a ridiculous non-compete.
Silicon Valley would not exist without this.
To eliminate the non-compete.
Exactly.
He's saying it wouldn't happen.
You know, those governors have to be like big-time football coaches the way they recruit, man.
Just all-out warfare.
Just go for it.
Good analogy.
I actually agree with Tom.
You've used the word recruit, recruit, recruit.
I mean, that's what you do in your business, but I've never really heard governors recruiting until I started hearing you say it so often.
I was in the state of California.
Rick Perry was coming to California recruiting businesses.
Rick Perry got on the radio saying, if you run a business in the state of California and you're sick of the politics, you're sick of the regulation, you're sick of the taxes, call me.
This was five months ago.
Did that really trigger it for you?
Are you kidding?
Well, then we met with him.
We sat down with Perry.
He took us to Rangers game.
We spent a whole day with him.
We spent time with him and Nolan Ryan and Don Nelson, Don Nelson's son, Donnie Nelson.
Yeah, and we sat in the box, and Perry sat down with my wife, Jen, and talked to him.
And Nolan Ryan, Jennifer, used to play softball with Nolan Ryan's daughter.
So next thing you know, we're sitting there having a conversation together.
Then we met with Mayor Masso of Frisco, who was the Frisco is the fastest growing city in America.
He was a three-term mayor.
I think he was there for like eight or 12 years, crushing nine years.
Cowboys have their first steps.
That's right, that's right.
That's right.
And then PGA moved to Frisco, by the way.
PJ headquarters is officially now in Frisco.
And then we're like, wait a minute, this guy is a great.
And then when you come here to visit Texas, you should have seen how they treated you.
They got gifts for our kids.
They knew our kids' names.
Every single thing was detailed the way they recruited us to the state of Texas.
It was beautifully done.
I think Florida's missing an opportunity.
I don't know if Florida wants all the businesses to go there.
But if they did, Florida should have 10 more Fortune 500 headquarters over there than they do right now.
Why would you say that Florida wouldn't want the business?
I don't know.
I don't know.
It's a purple state.
Why wouldn't you want more people to want to go there?
But I think the emphasis has got to be on recruiting talent.
By the way, you know why Florida would also be a great business.
Here's what I would focus on if I was a governor of Florida.
I would focus on businesses, Fortune 500 businesses that do a lot of business with Europe and international.
Well, Latin America.
That's the gateway to Latin America as well.
But what I'm saying is Europe.
Europe.
Specifically.
There's a big difference between being in Dallas to go to London than it is to go from Fort Lauderdale to go to London.
That's why New York City, you go to where?
London?
Boom?
Easy flight, right?
LaGuardia or John, you know, any of those airports, you're going over there, okay?
Florida has that opportunity.
Those types of Fortune 500 companies are moving to Florida.
Easy.
Boom.
Take a flight.
You're in Europe.
Why wouldn't you do that?
So, anyways, I think Florida's got a big opportunity for recruiting if they capitalize on it.
But we'll see what's going to happen.
Here's an idea.
We've got to look into this Florida thing.
Florida, what?
Just we got to look into Florida.
It sounds like a nice place to go.
Yeah, we got to look into that.
I would consider it very, very seriously considered.
I think we should look into it.
I got to contact you.
I know the challenge with you is the one challenge we have with you is we were talking about this this weekend.
Adam, for whatever reason, is in love with the nightclubs and Addison.
Adam is like, God, the single place that you're going to be talking about.
The bottled blonde and the dirty brunette.
I cannot believe it.
The gecko.
Weddings.
You guys went to weddings this weekend at the gecko.
Shout out to the Cafe Gecko.
Addison.
At the Millionaire Club or something.
When some of these private jets land, that's where you need to be partying.
No, you can see me at a bodego club live in Miami.
That's about it.
Don't you think there's an age limit when you no longer want to go to nightclubs?
I've hit it.
Going to the night.
Tom, you hit that like 15 years ago, bro.
Well, I'm older than you.
So I probably did hit it 15 years ago.
Where the thought of going to a nightclub is just like too much work.
Adam's the other way around.
The thought of not going to the nightclub is miserable.
I don't get to a nightclub in the next day.
Adam's here seven days a week.
Is that a night?
I'm going to freak out.
I'm going to freak out.
Adam just likes the idea of walking up with that gate, the velvet rope opening for him.
Did you say walking in with the Hungarian?
No, he's a special code word to me.
That's what I was partying.
You know how if you're South Beach Royalty, if you could walk up and you could be like, hey, look, at these 25 Hungarian guys there with me, they're going to come.
Adam came to the bottom.
Did they come in the club?
If you can get a bunch of dudes in the club.
Adam asked me if you spell orgy with a Y or an IE.
I had to correct him on that.
I wasn't sure.
But Tom New.
Tom New.
Tomorrow.
Tom tried to set me up, buddy.
Oh, yeah, you wrote that story, all right.
All right, so let's go.
I couldn't be more excited about that.
Let's go.
By the way, pull up AOC sweater.
We got to get this to people.
You guys got to order this sweater.
You guys got to order this sweater.
I mean, here's AOC saying, tax the rich, selling a $18 sweater for $58.
Talk about hypocrisy.
That's ridiculous.
Do you see this?
Let me get this straight.
So you say tax the rich.
This sweater, no joke.
This sweater is an $18 sweater.
It's the cheapest sweater you can potentially put on your Shopify store to sell.
And she's selling it for $58.
Tax the rich.
You think low-income middle America is going to go out there and buy a $58 sweater?
Kai.
It's also sold out.
If you look, all of them are sold out.
The point I'm trying to make to you is the following.
Her community is supporting a $58 sweater.
I have an idea.
Tell me.
I have an idea.
We come out with a sweater.
VT logo on the bottom.
It says tax the bitch.
They know who.
They know who it means.
They tax the bitch.
Value tainment.
And what would we charge for that sweater, by the way?
12 bucks?
58 bucks.
Let's see.
Let's see who.
I'd like to know.
No, no, we should put $57.99.
That's under contact.
Does anything scream democracy more than this?
She's selling a t-shirt.
She's branding or a sweatshirt.
She's branding it with her initials, for God's sake.
I'd like to see that debate that you're putting together.
I know you're working on this.
I would easily.
You're working on a debate.
Can you reveal it?
Do you want to reveal it?
Should I reveal it?
You want to reveal it?
If people want to go on Twitter and say this.
We'll see if the audience would be down for this.
So, Pat.
How many guys would like to see a debate between AOC and Candace Owens?
Imagine a debate between AOC and Candace Owens, okay?
And we do it pay-per-view style.
AOC, Candace Owens, they debate on the stage 90 minutes, okay?
And there's a moderator, and they go.
Maybe it's got to be more than 90 minutes.
I think it's got to be like two-hour debate.
Well, there's a round two.
Yeah.
Round one, round two.
Potentially in the moderator.
My friend Byron and others can ask questions.
I would be willing to pay both Candace Owens and AOC each $100,000 if they're willing to do that debate.
I'll pay each $100,000 if they want to do that debate.
I have a feeling Candace Owens would do it without even thinking about it.
But I have a feeling AOC would turn it down without a town.
I also think after the debate, after the debate, in the Nate Robinson, Jake Paul, Logan Paul.
Oh, you have some ideas with that.
Logan Paul and Floyd Merritt.
I think they straight up fist fight afterwards.
We had them in the ring.
Byron Dell had an idea.
They want you to reveal it, though.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm going to throw Byron under the bus here.
Here you go, buddy.
Maybe they do some mud wrestling afterwards.
That's just an idea that our good friend put out there.
Is it still a thing?
We're going to make it a thing.
We're going to make mud wrestling great again.
That's what we're going to do, Tom, here on Valutainment.
But, you know, look, we have it.
Like, it's like a debate.
By the way, who would like to see that debate?
Who would actually like to see that debate?
Debates, fights, $100,000.
Potentially a mud wrestler.
AOC knows she would be exposed.
She would be dressed down and destroyed.
What it is.
Who's the favorite?
Who's the favorite debate?
Let me ask you.
Oh, it's not even a question.
Oh, you think Candace is the favorite?
Okay.
By the way, if you're watching this, if Candace Owens debates AOC, who wins the debate?
Oh, I'm talking about the fight.
Oh, mud wrestling.
No, that's a different story.
I think AOC.
She's in AOC.
Yeah, that's a different story.
She's from the streets.
Yeah.
So Candace Owens, AOC, who wins the debate?
Well, it's got to go round per round, right?
Well, who wins the debate?
Tell me who wins it.
I think Candace Owens probably has a better message, right?
Better message.
But who do you think wins?
I think, look, I think that's going to be pretty even, Steven.
I think, I think.
Wow.
I think it's the.
Can you order that shirt for him?
Order that sweater for him.
Soyboy Mafia and AOC collab coming your way.
I think if you did that, I think AOC would win the actual.
Guys, thumbs up.
Candace Owens wins.
Thumbs down.
AOC wins.
Thumbs up, Candace Owens, thumbs down AOC.
The biggest problem you'd have is this was a two-hour event that Valutainment was hosting.
What are you going to do for the other hour and 59 after AOC taps out after one minute?
She would want nothing to do with Candace Owens.
She would run in hide.
But she could sell her sweatshirt.
She could wear that.
You know, think the sales.
Be a good marketing branding idea for her.
Come on the Valutainment debate.
She would get killed.
The question is: what would it take for him?
I'll buy sweaters that says tax the rich.
Tax the.
Did you see what Candace Owens did?
Who was it, Rihanna?
This guy, Collab Connections, put 10 bucks.
He says, I'll buy both sweaters, tax the bitch, and tax the rich for 58 bucks each to watch the debate.
Nice.
I think we could pull this off.
I just don't think AOC would do the debate.
I don't either.
I don't think she would.
She sells sweaters but won't do a debate?
No, I don't think she would do that.
Where do you see AOC in the next 10 years?
10 years.
Running.
Running.
El Presidente.
Oh, yeah.
El Capon.
We need Rock to beat her in the primary.
Rock and AOC run together.
He's the president.
She's the vice president.
Does America vote?
He would never do that.
Does America vote for that?
He would never do that.
Why do you say that?
Because he's not politically on the same side as AOC is.
But that's why he's bringing her for a big tent.
Yeah, but he would not go with that.
Anyways, so let's skip through this.
By the way, oh, some people said they think AOC would win the debate.
Surprisingly, so a lot of people said AOC would win the debate.
All these liberals.
Yeah, this is interesting.
A lot of people are saying AOC would pull it off over Candace Owens.
Okay.
Interesting.
I'd love to see that debate.
Again, I gave my offer.
I'm probably going to go tweet it on again on Twitter as well.
And if anybody wants to retweet it, I'd love to see that happen.
I think it'd be pay-per-view type of stuff.
And we can even do profit sharing for both of them.
Nice.
Literally.
Whatever we sell, we would do profit sharing as well.
I'm very open to it.
Like a real socialist idea?
I would actually share the money?
I would actually do a socialist idea.
For ARC.
Yeah, we would do profit sharing sales.
And Snoop retweets you.
You better tag Pat this.
Oh, we would have Snoop as a commentator.
Snoop a loop.
Bring your green hat.
So, so, by the way, Logan Paul and Mayweather said they're going to fight each other.
Snoop says, I'm ready.
Hopefully.
Who's winning that fight?
Who's winning that fight?
What do you mean who's winning that fight?
Oh, my God.
Look, let me put it.
Logan Paul is 60 pounds bigger than that guy.
Let me tell you another crazy prediction here.
Logan Paul is one day going to run for office.
Unbelievable.
Logan Paul is for people who underestimate a guy like Logan Paul.
You do not underestimate guys like that.
The guy's brilliant and he's learning and he's young.
And he's got to be mid to mid to late 20s.
He's attractive.
His personality is attractive.
He's not afraid.
He likes the heat.
He likes, you know, he can get in there.
I think the guy's got a big upside in his life.
25 years old.
This guy's got a big upside in his life.
His brother, too.
Jake.
Jake is a little bit more, not at his level.
Not at his level.
No, it's different personalities.
Jake's a little too chippy.
Logan, to me, is a little bit more composed.
You're a fan.
But you know what I think?
I'm a fan of any.
Here's a mother that raises these two boys to do what they're doing.
For some props to the mom to be able to.
The other day, Logan was celebrating seeing his brother knocking out Robinson.
I like seeing that.
I like those stories.
But I think this guy's got a big upside in life.
A very big upside.
IOKai lunch.
Why is that?
I bet on Nate Robinson.
I thought Nate Robinson was going to win too.
I think Jake can really fight.
I think that was awesome.
There Tom goes again, agreeing with me.
You know what?
He warned Nate Robinson.
He says, do not let your children watch this.
Please, I'm begging you.
Do not let them watch their daddy be embarrassed.
He was saying that before the fight.
He was legit.
You know, if you look at the social media followers of Logan, I mean, he's got four YouTube channels, one with 20 million plus, one with 5 million plus.
Okay, so these guys, there's an end game to this because making these videos is hard work every day.
Big kidding, that's a lot of fun.
And by the way, he's doing it with the vlog.
Vlog is not easy.
Yeah.
Here's the other thing.
When you think about the poll that these guys have, they grew up in Ohio.
They grew up in Cleveland, moved here.
Jake Paul was originally on a Disney show.
He tried to be a legit actor.
Then he was making so much money on social media.
So Dash, probably three, four years ago, was watching Jake Paul YouTube videos until we kind of saw him and said, hey, enough of this.
But he thought Jake Paul was the man, right?
So we found out where Jake Paul lived in West Hollywood.
He lived right behind Fred Siegel's.
So we went over there.
We would go to his house.
There was a crowd there every day just to see.
I mean, tourists from all over rivaling Hollywood Boulevard.
Fans, a couple times he'd come out and people would go absolutely bananas.
24 hours a day, seven days a week, camped out at his house, security, the whole thing.
And people from all over the world.
So these guys have an incredible poll.
But this whole thing, just look at the marketing behind this.
The pay-per-view numbers that they're going to get is going to be insane with his ability to promote to his YouTube audience.
And the other thing I think is I think Floyd Mayweather will injure him if he wants to.
I mean, he has no idea what taking a Floyd Mayweather punch is going to be like in your face.
He'll hit him 10 times in the face before Logan Paul even throws a punch.
Who will?
Mayweather?
Mayweather.
They're not in the same league.
Mayweather's one of the top 10 boxers of all time.
Yeah.
He thinks he's the greatest of all time.
Mike Taika.
I also think this is the future of boxing.
There's no personalities in real boxing.
Look at it.
We have to recycle Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. to get any sort of pay performance.
Okay.
Be honest.
Did we not have fun that night?
I mean, seriously, that was a pathetic fight we watched.
I mean, by Tyson Jones.
But we had a great time that night.
And that was such a sham that they called it a draw.
Yeah, it was a sham.
I saved the lunch.
That was Vegas, though.
That was all Vegas.
You know what?
It's going to be Tyson and Holyfield next.
Yeah, I saw that.
By the way, Meyer Davidoff just gave $100 saying Invictus Pharmacy loves to listen to Pat's podcast and value Timmy.
Keep it up, fellas.
Thank you, Meyer Davidoff.
Invictus Pharmacy.
There you go.
There you go.
By the way, just so you know, Adam's ready to take the vaccine shot for $1,500.
Just want you to know he is ready.
So let's talk about something serious.
Let's talk about something serious.
So, John Ratcliffe, which I'm sure you know who John Ratcliffe is, he's on the Trump's administration, you know, talking about security and what's going on with China.
He writes this article.
Okay, Kai, can you put that article up?
He writes this five days ago on Wall Street Journal.
Okay.
Five days ago, he writes this on Wall Street Journal.
If you got it up, just put it.
Kai, just go on Google, type in Ratcliffe WSJ.
Type in John Ratcliffe, Rat WSJ.
It's with a T, but that works.
It's Rat Cliff.
Rat Cliff.
Yeah, T. Ratcliffe.
You're going to get Cliff from Frasier from China.
And then put China.
Put also China in the title.
Put China.
There you go.
You might not be able to get Chinese.
Okay, then maybe it's not that easy to find.
Go to the one I sent you.
There it was right there.
Article comes out talking about what China is working on.
Okay.
And when you go through this, it's pretty epic on what he explains.
I sent you two links, Kai, for you to pull up.
Okay, before you guys pull this up, I'm going to ask you, before you guys see this year, I want to ask you, what do you think is the biggest enemy to U.S. the next five to ten years?
What country is the number one enemy to U.S. in the next five to ten years?
Who do you think?
You think it's China?
Do you also agree with that?
I think we're our own worst enemy, number one, but then as far as a foreign enemy, it's China.
Okay, who's after China?
Who's after China?
As far as defense or as far as competition, as far as Russia's up there, Russia's up there for what?
Defense or economy?
No, defense.
Defense Russia.
Outside North Korea just because of the psycho cards.
So recklessness is where you put up there.
Okay.
So where do you think Russia ranks in world economy, GDP-1?
Not in the top 50.
Maybe not in the top 20s.
Not in the top 20s.
What do you think Russia ranks?
They're number 11.
Russia's number 11.
Okay.
Do you have the link I sent you, Kai?
Okay, go to that one right there.
Go to that one right there.
Watch this here.
So this is the top GDPs worldwide.
Okay, this is from Investopedia, so it's not just any opinion.
U.S. is number one at U.S. nominal GDP is $21.44 trillion.
And the GDP is the same, right?
But look at China, where China's at next.
Their GDP is $27.31 trillion coming up.
China's experienced exponential growth over the past few decades, breaking the barriers of a century-planned closed economy to evolve into a manufacturing and exporting hub of the world.
China is often referred to as the world's factory, given its huge manufacturing.
And they're projected to get there, you know, the way the numbers are going right now to pass up U.S. in the next handful of years.
Okay, they've already passed up in GDP, not nominal, nominal GDP, U.S. is ahead.
And then go to number three.
Then you got Japan.
Then you got Germany.
Keep going down.
Then you got India, who's coming up aggressively.
Then you got UK, then you got France.
Then you have Italy.
Then you have Brazil.
And then you have Canada.
You do not see what?
Russia in the top 10.
Russia's number 10, 4.21, number 11, 4.21 trillion.
Canada is ahead of us.
That's unbelievable.
That's unbelievable.
California is way ahead of us.
That's the point.
Canada is ahead of Russia.
If you would have said that to somebody, they would say, what are you talking about?
Now watch with China.
Do you know who has the largest Navy in the world right now?
China.
Do you know who has the largest army in the world right now?
China.
Do you know what China is doing right now with their military, with their soldiers?
They're putting genes, they're putting, what do you call it?
They're testing their soldiers to become super soldiers.
China's doing that.
So not just steroids.
Not just steroids.
They're testing their soldiers.
They're putting additional stuff into their soldiers for them to become.
It's like gene testing they're doing with their soldiers for their soldiers to become super soldiers.
China's doing this.
Now watch what happens.
Yesterday, Tucker does a show talking about a video that went viral that was given by a professor of China, and he's given a message in China.
He's given this message in China.
China immediately take this video down.
But before they take the video down, the U.S. gets a hold of it.
And they translate what this speaker had to say.
First of all, pull up the speaker, pull up the video of his.
Let me first explain who he is.
Go back to introducing who he is.
So what is that?
9:13?
Go all the way to the beginning.
Go all the way to the beginning.
Here's who he is.
Don Shang is the vice dean of the School of International Relations, Renmin University of China, Vice Director and Secretary of the Center for Foreign Strategic Studies of China.
This talk was given what?
Maybe a week and a half ago, okay?
Say 10 days ago.
Can you go to the part that you want to say and maybe first put the speed at 1.25 because he talks a little bit slow?
Okay, then keep it at 1.0.
Just stay with me here and try to read below because he's not speaking in English.
Adam, try to stay here on the bottom.
If you guys want, I can read it for you.
But we'll go through this here together.
Look what he says.
Matter of fact, I want to read it so everybody can see it.
You can put it on the audio.
That's fine.
This guy.
By the way, he's becoming the next Tai Lopez of media.
Every time you watch something, he comes up.
Okay, just try to read it because it's tough if I read it and go back a little bit.
Kai, did you put it on 1.0?
What speed do you have it on?
Leave it at 1.0.
No, no, it's too much.
That's what he says to you about Biden and Trump.
Are you kidding me?
are they doing this many commercials now a day on youtube back a little bit we missed it look at them all in masks though We've been utilizing the core power of the United States for the last 30 to 40 years.
Since 1970.
It's powerful right there.
Wall Street can't fix Trump.
Why?
Very awkward.
Trump had a default on Wall Street, so there's a conflict.
But I won't go into detail with you.
I may not have enough time.
The U.S. China trade where they Wall Street tried to help.
And I know that my friends in the U.S. told me that they tried to help.
I know that, but they couldn't do much.
Another thing Biden was elected.
By the way, guys, I'm translating all this, so I'm not reading anything.
Go back.
This is not a joke.
Go back.
Pause it real quick.
Okay, this is the one thing I don't want to joke about on this podcast.
It's very, very important.
This part, you guys have to pay attention to what he's saying, okay?
But now we're seeing Biden was elected.
Just read the captions.
The traditional elite, the political elite, the establishment.
They're very close to Wall Street.
So you see that, right?
Trump has been saying that Biden's son has some sort of global foundation.
Have you noticed that?
Who helped him Hunter Biden build the foundations?
Got it?
There are all these deals and all this.
Okay, pause right there.
So pause.
Who's he talking about?
Got it?
Who's he talking about?
Dad.
He says, no, no.
This is not China.
This is talking about China.
We did.
We helped them.
Okay, so watch, continue.
We use an appropriate way to express some goodwill.
This is my personal understanding based on my limited professional background.
If we understand the matter for the perspective of the international political economy, I think there's a tactical and political value in it.
Now we are opening the financial markets means major concessions, for the purpose of opening up your financial markets is to hold tight to the big thigh of America.
Right, you hold on United States, don't dump me in that case.
Can you understand it that way?
I understand it the other way around.
I'm happy to think that this could be another explosive theory.
I'm happy to think that opening the financial markets is precisely this sort of decoupling of the United States opening up the financial markets, and that's exactly what decouples is, in a sense, why we're giving such a hard time in many of these places.
Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Kerry Mayim.
Does he get into what I want you to put up or no?
Okay, so so this is something you have to watch on your own, because there's a part where he talks about saying, we have people on the inside in Wall Street, we have people on the inside in politics.
He says we have people on the inside all the way at the top of the U.S. Government, China does.
We have people on the inside at the top of the U.S. Government, China does, right then.
So while then he says Trump was a problem for them.
Trump got in the way for them.
Trump didn't help him out, but Biden's easy to deal with.
Biden's gonna be easier to deal with because we're back to being able to do what we wanted to do all these years.
Here's the problem.
Let me give you the problem here.
He validated what happened with Biden and who helped him out.
This guy's validated it that that took place and there was relations between Biden and what do you call it?
China, and this is Hunter and Biden.
Of course, Biden and China.
Hunter Biden's not doing anything with China without Joe Biden.
Hunter Biden cannot do anything in China without his father, Joe Biden, and he said that in interviews.
Hunter Biden asked the question by.
One interview asked Biden a question saying, do you think you would have Have been able to get this board seat without your father?
Hunter Biden's answer.
This is in a live interview.
You know what he says?
Probably not without my father.
Hunter Biden said this in an interview.
Okay.
Where am I going with this?
Here's where I'm going with this.
Let's just say China has a million and one different dirt on Biden.
Let's just say they do.
Let's assume they do.
Let's play that card.
If China has a lot of dirt on Biden, if they do, how do you negotiate with Biden?
You use it against him.
Actually, think about what I just said right there.
If China, who is growing the way they're growing right now, and they're about, do you need water or you're good?
And they're about to be the number one GDP economy in the world.
Their military is ridiculously grown.
For the longest time, they kept saying, we're not military.
We're not military.
We're not military.
Now they're investing into their military.
They're gene testing their soldiers.
They have the biggest Navy.
They're doing all the stuff that they're doing over there.
They're the best at bio-warfare.
They're the best at cyber warfare.
They're the best at it.
They're going in that direction.
What happens if China has all the dirt on Biden?
So imagine behind closed doors.
How do negotiations go?
How do you negotiate with them?
What do you say?
Simplify, what do you say?
Hey, you know, I just want you to know.
You know, I interviewed this guy from the FBI.
What was his name?
Whitehurst.
Is it Whitehurst?
Okay, so this is the only guy in the FBI that ever sued the FBI and got a $1.4 million check.
The only employee in the history of FBI that sued the FBI and President Clinton and got a $1.4 million check in 1993.
He's the only guy that's ever done it successfully.
Okay?
And he got ousted.
I said, who's the most powerful person in politics?
John F. Kennedy.
Remember one question I asked him, John F. Kennedy, Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, or the mafia?
He says, oh, J. Edgar Hoover.
He says, FBI is the most powerful organization in America, more than the president.
I said, really?
Yeah.
I said, how do they do it?
He says, here's how we do it.
He says, you go and you just say, look, you know, like, you know, you got to do this.
You know.
You know, you know what I mean.
You know?
Don't even have to say it.
You got to do this.
You know what I'm saying?
So he says, that's all we say.
And they know.
And they have to do exactly what we want them to do because they know, we know.
You think China's going to use that card against Biden behind closed doors and saying, hey, Joe, you know, we know.
So we kind of need you to do this.
Do you think that's what's going to happen?
I think it's already happening, probably with how he's stacking his cabinet with a little help from China.
You have to keep that part in mind, man.
This is the kind of stuff.
Because now here's the other part.
You know what's the other part?
How long does it take you to do research on somebody online who's pretty active on social media to know which way they lean politically?
How much time does it?
Not 10 minutes.
I'm being serious with everybody here.
Not long.
How long will it take you to research somebody online?
It could be a minute.
Could be a minute.
Okay.
I agree with you.
Could be a minute.
Okay, fair enough.
How much can you learn about anybody if you know their enemy?
I mean, you can learn a lot.
What can you learn about them?
How long can you learn about anybody if you can learn who their number one enemy is?
I see where you're going with this.
Okay, so where am I going with this?
Here's where I'm going with this.
In the next three, six, 12 months, you know what mainstream media, I predict, is going to do?
Here's what they're going to do.
Mainstream media is about to sell us who the real enemy is over the next four years under the Biden administration.
And I don't think they're going to sell China for being the number one enemy.
I think they're going to make Russia the number one enemy, potentially Iran, which Iran is an enemy.
I don't know if they're a number one enemy because Iran reports to who?
To China.
Okay, don't forget that.
China is bailing out Iran.
China is investing into Iran, which means Iran owes who?
China a favor, okay?
China's playing Africa.
China is playing everybody right now is what they're doing because they have money.
They're playing everybody right now.
Media is going to try to sell us that somebody else is the enemy.
Russia is not a top 10 economy.
Russia is not a top 10 economy.
You just saw the list right there.
It's not going to be any of those guys.
China is ahead so far, it's not even funny what they can do today.
And this is just getting started.
They're just getting warmed up.
The momentum that was going on, when people say, why are you supporting a Trump this and Trump that?
I said, dude, I don't support a Trump, this Trump that.
What I supported was one thing.
I wanted to see how China was going to react if we went with the sanctions and the terrorists for four more years.
I wanted to see what was going to happen to Iran if you went with the sanctions and the terrorists for a couple more years.
That's what I wanted to see.
Because there's one person they couldn't negotiate with, and it was Trump.
They couldn't buy him out.
He was the one guy they couldn't buy out.
Now, I hope I'm 100% wrong.
I hope I'm 100% wrong.
I hope I'm 100% wrong about all of this.
But if I'm not, China is going to make a lot of advancement in the next four years because they're going to be able to ask and say, hey, Joe, just so you know, you know we know, right?
Yes.
We need you to put this person on your administration.
Joe, you know we know, right?
We need this person to get a job at FBI.
Hey, you know we know, right?
This person.
What do you think they know?
What do I think they know?
Yeah.
What do you mean, what do I think they know?
If they have done all the business dealings with China, if they have done all the business dealings with China, the Biden family, guess what they know?
All the business dealings they did with China that would have hurt him in the election.
And they can say, we will release everything and ruin your life.
And if you don't think we know more, we know everything about your son.
You know what happened the other day?
Facebook got caught.
Did you guys hear about what Facebook got caught with?
Okay.
Kai, just type in on Google, Facebook, camera, Instagram.
Did you guys hear about this or no?
Yeah, a little bit.
Okay.
Facebook, Instagram, camera.
Okay.
Facebook, Instagram, camera.
Okay, just, this should be a couple days ago.
And go to news.
Go to news.
Fresh.
I just lost it from 40 different states.
Okay.
A story came out.
Facebook, there you go.
Bloomberg.
Okay.
This is not just any site.
Facebook accused of watching Instagram users through cameras to learn more about him.
By the way, this got even deeper in the last few days.
Read the story, though.
So Facebook is being sued again for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras.
So think about this.
You're sitting in the bathroom.
You're on your Instagram again.
You're checking everybody else's picture.
They're watching you.
You're laying next to your girl.
While you're on the stage.
You're laying in bed next to your girl, and you're on your Instagram, and you're showing her a picture.
They're watching you, okay?
And you know what they said?
Oh, it was a glitch.
It wasn't intentional.
It was accidental that this happened.
Okay.
You know, I used to be the guy that would be like, oh, come on, guys.
When people put a sticker over here on the camera, you know which camera I'm talking about?
You remember when Apple back in the days, they would put the sticker over there?
People are watching.
I'm like, dude, are you freaking out of your mind?
I'd be the first one to say, dude, what is wrong with you?
You know, lawsuit Bloomberg.
This is not an opinion.
This is lawsuit Bloomberg, right?
Okay.
This stuff is happening.
A lot of these conspiracy theories that we thought were conspiracy theories are not becoming conspiracy theories.
They're becoming factual.
Wow.
So if China has access to the best hackers in the world, what do you think they have on their cameras?
What do they have access on their cameras?
Do you think they can tap into Hunter Biden who's constantly losing his laptops, left and right, leaving him behind?
What do you think they have access to?
Let me tell you, when J. Edgar Hoover would go and talk to John F. Kennedy and Bobby and would say, hey, we just want you to know this is what we got.
And a mafia who had control over Hoover, they went to Hoover and they said, hey, we know you're a cross-dresser.
Because back in the days, that was a big deal for it's not today's times.
We're talking about years ago.
They said, here's what we know you do, Jadger Hoover.
If you ever talk about the mafia, we're going to have a problem.
So back then, they played the same game Hoover played against Kennedy.
The mob played against who?
Hoover.
Hoover.
Yeah.
China's about to play that card against Biden.
If they do, buddy, this isn't about you and I anymore.
This is about fundamentally what they're going to try to do to the idea of America because there are some.
China is one of the most competitive groups of people, and they want to beat the number one country in the last 150 years, and that's U.S. They're also patient, and they're also strategic.
And they also have the media on their side here because CNN has already come out and said that they ignored the Hunter Biden story, which goes along the lines of I honestly think, and Adam's going to jump all over me again.
I don't think Joe Biden wanted to win this election personally because I think he's smart enough to know what's out there, what can be revealed in all this.
And that's why I think he'll kind of fade away.
But you know, the difference between China and the U.S., again, is we think our enemy is the other side.
You know, the Republicans think the enemy is the left.
The left thinks the enemy is the right.
We spend 50% of our time fighting amongst ourselves when we should be putting all our time into looking what's happening at the people that really do hate us and do want to take what we have and do want to change us.
And that is going to be our undoing.
And it's starting to happen.
And then when you have a complicit media and a complicit social media, and especially something that can be manipulated by our real enemies, we've got real problems.
Obviously, I think Joe Biden wanted to win.
I don't think you'd do all this to not win.
You know, ironically, you use Joe Biden's go-to quote that we are not the enemies of each other.
We need to come together, whether you're on the left or the right, we're all Americans, that whole thing, blue state, red state.
Clearly, China is a major issue.
Clearly.
If they truly did, and I'm not saying that they don't.
I'm asking a question here.
If they truly did have something on him, why would he run?
Meaning, he has to know, like, as much as you want to say.
Wait, what?
Wait, wait, wait.
Okay.
Wait.
If he did something illegal.
Yeah.
If he did something short.
Then you missed everything I just said.
Obviously, I heard everything.
You missed everything I just said.
Okay, what did I miss?
So ask the question again.
Why would he run?
Why would he run?
Did you just miss everything I just said?
No, Pat.
But ask your question.
You're saying that he's a pawn for China.
Wait, wait a minute.
You're saying why would he run if they know everything you know?
Because they can tell you, you better run.
Don't worry, you will win.
Look, we're at a point right now.
Is it fair to say that, is it fair to say that.
You're going deep.
No, I'm not going deep with this.
Is it fair to say, at this point of the game, is it fair to say that America has meddled in a lot of other countries' elections?
They say that.
Yes or no?
They say that that's not.
We can't sit here and be like, I'm not sitting here being naive and a fool about it.
Is it talking about that?
It's not there is talk.
There's proof.
There's proof that there's been America's meddled in other countries' elections.
Okay, because America said, I think that's a good.
The reason why other countries cannot stand America sometimes is why?
Power.
Because we've meddled.
Because we meddled.
Okay.
Do you think Russia's meddled in other people's elections?
For sure.
Do you think China's meddled in other people's elections?
Do you think Iran's meddled in other people's elections?
Quite frankly, what do you need to meddle in other people's elections?
Actually, what ability do you need?
It's one ability.
What is the ability?
Information and hackers.
You need proper hackers and proper digital marketing guys.
These days.
Yeah.
I mean, prior to 2000, that was not.
But there was a different method of doing it back then.
Today's a lot easier to understand it back then.
You need some 22-year-old kids who understand Facebook codes.
Need some guys who are 18-year-old kids behind closed doors who know how to hack into the Pentagon system.
It's not that complicated for these guys.
It's very easy for them.
Very easy.
You know how you play basketball and you're effortless and all this stuff you do?
It's very easy for them, effortless.
They can hack into any system they want.
It's easy for them.
So when you say, if this is the case, why would Biden want to run?
You miss everything I just said.
They would want, if you're China, think like China, think like the enemy.
Actually, think like the enemy.
Let's think like the enemy.
You're China.
It's 2018.
This crazy competitive guy who's not afraid of you says, I'm putting tariffs on you.
This guy that says, if you don't do XYZ, I'm putting sanctions.
This guy out of nowhere comes out and says, wait a minute, you had Huawei, CFO, daughter in Canada doing deals with Iran, and I told you not to do business with anyone with, what do you call it, Iran?
Huawei, you decide to do that?
The CFO, the daughter, she gets arrested.
No problem.
Sanctions on Huawei, sanctions on China, sanctions on Iran.
And if anybody does business with Iran, you can't do anything with U.S. 22 countries or give or take say, Iran, we can't do any business with you.
Iran takes a massive gas prices go up.
The government of Iran says for one day, gas price is going to be this much.
Just protesting in the streets because Iran cannot drive.
We have to do what we have to do.
You know how hated Trump was for what he did?
So now you're China and we're the enemy.
The three of us are representing China.
Imagine we're on China's board.
The three of us.
We're strategic.
No one knows about us.
We're behind a closed type of speakers.
We don't want any attention.
We're strategists.
How do you, what list?
Think, think like you're China and you're behind closed doors.
How do you take down America to become number one?
Who's the number one enemy you have now that you got to get rid of?
Trump.
How do you get rid of him?
We know how to do it.
How do we get rid of him?
Who owes us the most favors?
Who do we have the most dirt on?
Biden.
There you go, buddy.
It's not just Biden, but it's a list of people.
He's one of them.
But you go from the top and you work your way down.
And typically, you need to have the people at the top that owe you the biggest favors who has the most influence because that's the easiest ones to go through.
By the way, you sit there and you're thinking like, I think I want to be right.
I'm hoping I'm 100% wrong.
I don't think I'm wrong.
I'm hoping I'm 100% wrong.
But this is the dirty part about politics: that you deal with this.
So you think from 2019 beyond even because Biden was considering running in 2016 when Hillary kind of boxed him out at that point.
You remember that?
He was thinking about running back then.
Kai.
Huh?
Who also passed away?
Timing wasn't good for him.
But it was somewhere.
But there's conversation behind closed doors where Obama's went and sat down with Biden and said, it's Clinton's turn.
You can run next.
But right now, let Clinton come to the business.
But so in those four years before he ran, you're saying that's when the shady dealings likely occurred.
No, that's not what I'm saying.
The shady dealing's been going on for a while.
Even while he was vice president?
What are you talking about?
That's the whole thing with Hunter.
What was caught as he was getting favors when Biden was the VP?
I thought a lot of that was in Ukraine, China as well, you're saying?
Of course.
Hunter was taking advantage of his last name, being Biden.
But this is the part.
So if he's fearful of these stories being leaked, like we're leaking it right now, people, people are talking.
We're talking about it.
No, no, no, no.
But there's a big difference.
You're saying that the mainstream media.
There's a big difference between you saying, I think Johnny hooked up with Mary versus Mary coming out and saying he hooked up with me.
Gotcha.
Okay.
Mary is China.
The smoking gun.
Yeah, Mary's China.
Mary's going to come out and say he did hook up with us.
And if Biden would have, let's say, hypothetically lost, right?
Like, because he, if Biden would have won.
Taking you back to 2019, he didn't win Iowa.
He didn't win New Hampshire.
Trump's next four years would have been a joke compared to the first four years.
Meaning, it would have been the hardest four years of his life if Trump would have won.
It would have been the hardest four years of Trump's.
So meaning if there was a different candidate, Bernie Sanders would have been the candidate.
No, Bernie Sanders cannot be bought by China.
That's my point.
You're saying that China.
China didn't want Bernie Sanders.
China doesn't want Elizabeth Warner or Pete Buttigieg.
These are nobodies to them.
China wants Hillary.
China wants Biden.
China wants, huh?
They want the political elite.
They don't want any of these other guys.
Can you imagine what an easy mark Hunter Biden was for China?
I mean, a guy that just is morally compromised, where you could just throw easy money at him and you own him.
Because you would think at some point Hunter Biden would think, man, this is a little bit too good to be true.
These boards really want me sitting on them and collecting this type of check.
There has to be something else involved.
It's unbelievable how much info they probably have on him.
Played right into it.
Look.
Crazy stuff, man.
Yeah, the stories are, this is nothing new.
Churchill was the most hated guy in UK.
But even the people at the top who hated Churchill knew there was only one guy that could go up against Hitler.
It was only Churchill.
Let me say that one more time.
Churchill was hated.
He was hated tremendously.
He was an obnoxious guy.
He was annoying.
He was Trump's times 100.
You have to realize, Churchill was a true believer at the highest level.
The stuff that this guy did at a young age, how many books did he write?
How many things, the things Churchill accomplished in his lifetime?
There's a very few people that are at his level, by the way.
Very few people.
And he was cocky.
He was arrogant.
He was confident.
He was every single word about an annoying person he can put up.
Churchill was Trump times 10 is who Churchill was.
But they knew only one guy could go up against Hitler, and it was him.
And what happened?
Saved the country.
We'd be talking German right now, you and I. Our language would be German right now.
With Cassie Strutz and that whole crew.
Exactly.
That's the point.
The Germans, you know, they would be ruling the world today if it wasn't for a guy like Churchill.
So you have to be very careful with personalities like him, like a Trump.
You have to be very careful with personalities like him to not emotionally dislike person.
It's such a hard.
Yesterday, I'm doing an interview with this girl.
Dropped that gorgeous girl.
I was trying to introduce her to you.
Like, this is a girl you guys have.
Oh, where did you hook me up?
No, she had a boyfriend already.
I'm like, dude, I want to introduce her to you.
So she's interviewing me.
I think she's out of Canada, Toronto.
I think her name is Mariana or something like that, right?
And she's interviewing me, and she asks a question.
She says, how do you make your decisions with being able to be reasonable without letting your emotions get involved?
Number one question I ask you all about.
When she teed you up right into your wheels.
I thought like she had talked to you or something.
I'm like, do you hang out with Adam?
Obviously not.
So she says this question.
I'm like, okay.
It is very, like for me, listen, I did not like when Obama came out with Obamacare.
I didn't like it.
The reason why I didn't like it is because it was forced.
If we would have waited a year later, we could have possibly had both sides and had a different kind of a program.
It was forced.
Let's get it through.
Let's get it through.
It's not going to be tax.
And then all of a sudden, health insurance industry gone.
My insurance for the employees went up to the roof 40% one year, 40% next year, 40% next.
I'm like, dude, this is ridiculous what we have to pay to employees.
But I won't sit there and say Obama doesn't know how to play the game of politics.
I wouldn't say Obama's not suave.
I can set aside policies versus personality.
Trump's personality can be annoying.
Trump's personality can be very frustrating.
Trump's personality can be unattractive.
This guy thinks he's better than you in everything he does in his life.
If Trump played you in basketball, he would probably think he's better than you.
He probably thinks he's going to be better than you, Matt.
That's Trump's mindset.
It's unattractive to a lot of people on the opposite side, right?
But at the same time, you want somebody going up against China?
Who do you want going up against China?
If you got the number one enemy in the world being China, who do you want going up against them?
What kind of a personality do you want going up against them?
Somebody that China fears or somebody that China thinks they can get anything out of?
That's strategic questions.
You know, those are things that you have to sit there and think about and say, well, you know, I don't know.
You know, I may want to have this guy go out there and sit down and have those conversations with me.
Anyways.
What do you think they're gearing up their military for?
Japan?
Just owning that part of the globe or coming all over.
The South China Sea is obviously a big thing that they're concerned about building.
I think they built islands.
Listen, why do you buy life insurance policy?
Because you're planning on killing yourself next day?
No.
Why do we buy auto insurance?
Because we're trying to kill our, you know, go into a car accident next day?
Just in case.
There is just a just-in-case situation.
It's just to tell you, okay, come on.
Come on.
Come on.
You want to go?
Let's go.
Come on, U.S. Come on.
See what we got.
See what we got.
Test us.
And then see what's going to take place.
Very big.
Yesterday I interviewed Saddam Hussein's sons double.
For real?
Body double.
Yeah.
Yesterday I interviewed Saddam Hussein's sons double.
Uday.
I don't know if you remember.
Uday and Kuse.
Uday Hussein.
Not the younger one, Kusay.
Yeah.
The little ones are hiding out and die.
They died July 22nd of 03.
They died.
So they died three years before Saddam got killed in December of 06.
But anyway, so I'm interviewing this guy named Latif, who's Uday's double.
Okay.
And you're sitting there hearing the stories of how they play these games.
Oh my gosh.
It is a dirty game how these guys play these games.
But half the battle is what?
You better know what I'm capable of.
China's trying to tell the world, try us.
Try us in cyber warfare.
Try us in bio warfare.
Try us in direct warfare.
Try us in innovation.
Try us in technology.
Try us in manufacturing.
Try us.
They want the monopoly.
They want it all.
They want it all.
And they got nearly a couple billion people of inventory to be dealing with.
FYI.
When you're talking about a company contract.
And quoting Joe Biden, we're so focused on fighting with each other that we're missing really who the true enemy is.
And China's just sitting there.
Excuse me.
Is there any solace in knowing we can beat them in basketball?
I actually don't think that's even going to happen.
I think even basketball, China's going to not in the game of basketball, but I think controlling the NBA.
That's right.
Not in the game of basketball.
I think China knows because, look, LeBron just got paid, what?
Two years $85 million.
You know what happens if NBA was being played in China every day?
You know what his salary would have been?
It would have been two years, $200 million.
LeBron would have been $100 million.
If Howard Stern's making a $100 million contract for seven years, they're about to sign him at 60-some years old.
You don't think LeBron's worth $100 million?
Well, yes, if we're in China.
Can you imagine if they say we're in China now, next superstar is coming up, they're getting a $10-year billion dollar contract.
Yes, if you're in China, that would happen.
So imagine behind closed doors, Adam Silver and these NBA owners are saying, guys, when it comes down to China, let's not talk a lot of smack about China because you could be the first to get a billion dollar.
I'm actually being that serious with you.
Yeah, you know that's true.
So you got that big of a market.
You saw what happened with Daryl Murray and the Houston Rocket.
There you go.
Exactly.
And Harden still didn't show up yesterday to practice about that.
He's holding out.
So you guys got, if you, for one second, underestimate the power of China, you are naive.
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You want me to do sponsorship with a skin product?
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The box sits here for how many weeks?
It was there for a couple of weeks.
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By the way, last night you texted me, texted to me a little too late.
I didn't try it out last night.
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So let's talk about Trump to sign America First executive order on COVID-19.
And maybe out of that story, I'd much rather talk about Trump confirms he'll run for president 2024.
And he's talking about a big launch.
I don't know if you guys heard about this or not.
He wants to go out with a bank.
He wants to go tell the world on the same day when, what do you call it?
A Biden is going to.
So Trump is reported planning a made for TV exit on Air Force One from the White House to rally on Inauguration Day, hoping to pull viewers from Biden.
President Trump is planning a made for TV exit.
Sources told the outlet that Trump is planning to fly to Florida on Air Force One to stage a rally at the same time Biden's sworn in at a socially distanced inauguration in D.C. that would break with Inauguration Day traditions designed to showcase the stability of U.S. democracy.
Biden said last week that he personally didn't care if Trump attended his inauguration, but Trump should go to demonstrate a peaceful transfer of power.
And Trump has plans for the next four years to bash Biden on a daily basis and make his life a living hell for the next four years to show what they did to him.
Trump wants to return the favor back to Biden.
And then afterwards, he wants to run 2024.
And he's planning on running and campaigning for office the next four years.
What are your thoughts?
Let me get this straight.
Hold on.
Yeah.
Trump lost the election.
He's leaving?
I don't understand yet.
It's an if.
Hold on, Tom.
What's going on here?
He's already planning on going to Mar-a-Lago, and he's already planning on doing this Air Force One thing.
I think he needs to make sure that he actually doesn't lose this election first.
I don't like the fact that he seems like he's conceding.
I don't like that at all.
I think he's disappointing me.
I think he needs to try to hold it together, Adam.
You've shown your true colors too easily here.
I think he needs to keep fighting.
I think he's got this thing.
I know you're at 33%.
41%.
4041 last time.
Tom's at 41%.
You know, if he somehow loses, I don't know how he would lose.
But if Trump somehow loses, this is the Trumpiest move ever in the middle of an inauguration making it all about Trump.
Forget about America.
Forget about an inauguration.
Forget about a peaceful transfer of power.
Let's make it all about Trump.
Let's make it all about everything Trump.
Forget about America.
Let's just take a look at it.
What's your point, though?
What's your point?
This is just, it's obvious, like, in all seriousness, if you lose, you lost, bro.
Like, this is like, just if Georgia does a recount, you know, he's making fun of Brian Kemp now.
If Arizona does a recount, he loses.
Pennsylvania does a recount.
At some point, you know, Rudy Giuliani, I know he's doing a great job right now.
If he has no evidence and he has nothing, no merit, and he loses every single case, and you actually lose, they count every legal vote, and you actually lose.
At what point are you just a sore loser?
At what point?
At what point do you say, look, as an American, I believe in American democracy for the good of the country?
Betterment of the country, yeah.
For the betterment of the country, good luck with freaking Sleepy Joe.
I lost, but I'll be back in four years.
This is not about me.
This is about America.
But, you know, I'll see you in four years.
This is not about me.
But if Trump, of course, Trump does not have that in his body.
Everything's about Trump.
So even on Inauguration Day, he's going to make it about himself.
I think he's going to rent the Goodyear blimp, fly over the inauguration, and moon everybody.
I think that would be one of the things he's going to do.
It's not a grown-up move.
You know, here's the thing.
When you think of Donald Trump, he, and I wrote this yesterday in VT Post, he named a 747 after himself, casinos after himself, a gold-plated hotel after himself, a university after himself.
If you don't think he's going to do something unorthodox on Inauguration Day, you don't know Donald Trump.
He definitely is.
Here's a key phrase.
Joe Biden says, break with tradition.
Screw tradition.
They broke with tradition by harassing him for four years.
And whatever had taken place in this last election with voter fraud, quote unquote, that's breaking with tradition where we don't count every vote.
Okay, that's the biggest break with tradition.
The other thing, too, is, can you imagine how happy CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times and everybody else would be if Donald Trump did decide to run for the 24 election and declare it right away?
They'd actually have something they could cover.
They'd be relevant again for the next four years.
And finally, I think Trump's into doing things that have never been done before.
And I think him coming back in 2024 to say, I told you so, it would be the easiest mess for him to fix and to clean up.
And I think he kind of is attracted to the scenario of let Biden bury the country and himself and he'll come in and save the day in 2024.
Okay, let's process this.
Let's process this on his decision to not want to show up, okay?
Not want to show up and do his own thing.
Number one, breaking tradition.
You're right.
The tradition was the sitting president doesn't get criticized by the former president that he replaced, okay?
Well, Biden, Obama broke that tradition because for four years, all Obama did is trash Trump.
Every single day, he had an opportunity to talk bad about Trump.
He did it regularly.
Not something Bush did to him, but something he did to Trump.
And a lot of Democrats said Trump was doing the same thing to Obama.
I mean, he wasn't.
But Obama was doing that to Bush all the time.
Every time something came up, Obama would say, well, I inherited.
He's going to have a very good relationship.
But wait a minute.
But because of Bush, not because of Obama.
Because of Bush, not because of Obama.
They have a great relation because of Bush.
You're saying it's Bush only, not Obama.
Of course it is because Bush not once said anything negative about Obama.
But Obama said so many bad things about Trump.
Bush never said anything.
The ironic part is Trump likes to say that he inherited a mess from Obama.
Obama legitimately inherited a message.
Did I say Bush?
Did I say that?
No, I'm saying that's what Trump said.
Yeah, but I didn't say that.
I constantly say he inherited a mess.
He inherited a mess.
I let you finish.
I'll let you finish.
Okay, so my point to you is Obama broke the tradition of trashing the current president.
He couldn't help himself.
And Obama kept doing that over and over again.
And when Trump tweeted and said, Obama has to be the worst president of all time and on Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon, he was reading the tweets, mean tweets, and Obama said, at least I'll go in the history books as a president and drops the mic.
And then at a dinner, Obama makes fun of Trump for 20 minutes while Trump was at the dinner and sitting right in front of him.
So I'm sorry, buddy.
This is the Obama caused a lot of this.
Before Trump was even running.
Obama caused a lot of this to himself.
Okay.
So he didn't do the classy thing himself.
So let's take tradition on.
That part's canceling both sides out.
That's gone.
Forget about tradition.
That part's gone.
Here's the next one.
Why doesn't he want to be there?
Is it a business deal?
Meaning, does he want to go do splash media company?
Here's what I'm doing.
I'm going to compete with CNN Fox, all this and stuff.
I don't know.
I mean, let's just say he does that.
Is he going to build a $100 billion company over the next five years?
I don't think so.
Is he interested in taking his net worth from $3 billion to $20 billion?
What the hell is the difference?
What is the difference between being worth $3 billion and $10?
And no one would believe it anyway.
No, no, but the difference, what is the difference between being worth $3 billion and $20 billion?
Nothing.
You still get to go do the same thing.
$17 billion.
No, but what is the difference?
You still get to buy the $200 million home.
You still get to go to all the nice restaurants.
You still afford a $747 private plane for yourself.
You still, it's the same thing.
You say life's going to be good either way.
Life's going to be better at three or so.
Is he trying to get that additional $17 billion?
What the hell is that going to do to his legacy?
I don't think that's what he's going to do.
So then it leaves me to what?
Is it a Trump thing that he doesn't like losing publicly and is trying to save face?
Okay.
I for sure see that because I don't think he likes losing at all.
So he's going to try to save face.
But he's lost many times in his career.
He's lost a football league that he had, and he bought Herschel Walker, and he lost that.
He had Atlantic City.
What he did over there?
He lost that.
Airlines?
Casinos, airlines, stakes.
But nothing like this.
Trump University.
This is like you lost, not your company, not your real estate.
This is the best.
But he's lost.
He's lost many, many times.
He's also lost many, many times.
So you don't become who he is without having lost many times.
And he's sitting there saying, this guy's a billion-dollar in debt.
He's lost many, many times.
Okay.
Or, here's the last one.
Here's the last one.
Or he really believes America's exceptionalism and the American dream could potentially be lost.
And he really sees these other guys as enemies that could empower China a lot because he learned a lot in the last four years of what China's dealings are and what other countries are really doing.
And he's such a firm believer now that his number one enemy is to go up and make sure America stays at the top and stays as that country.
I said, maybe.
These are the things.
I didn't tell you what I know.
What's what?
I said, these are possibilities of what's really going on.
If it's the one that's about me, Zee, I know I got four minutes.
I'm good with that.
If it's about me, well, then he's going to lose.
Legacy is not going to be good to him if it's about me alone.
If that's at the top.
If it's about we and it's about his true beliefs that he has, that he wants to go out there fight for that part of America, well, then legacy is going to benefit him if he makes it and he wins 2024 and he goes back and we see how much advancement China makes over the next four years because here's the reality of it.
If during the Biden administration, China becomes number one, that's on China, that's on Biden's legacy as well.
If during Biden's administration, China becomes number one, it's going to be the easiest thing for Trump to come in.
Saying during his reign, China took over and became number one.
Then Trump's going to come in to say he's the only one that can go up against China.
Again, I'm setting this up.
I don't know if this is the case or not.
All I'm saying is, if that's the reason why he's doing what he's doing, more power to him.
If it's for me, it's not going to be.
And by the way, there's some jokes online talking about, I think you brought it up saying, imagine if Trump and Trump run.
Trump Sr. runs as president.
Trump Jr. runs as VP.
That's like nepotism at the highest level if that was to ever take place.
But no one knows what's going to happen the next week.
I think that was your prediction.
That is my prediction.
I believe it will happen because he wants to keep it going forward.
He wants to save the Republican Party for the long term.
And he can blame Pence a little bit too.
He can say, hey, that didn't work.
Oh, I actually think Pence needs a Pence.
I think he definitely needs to.
That's where I was going to do that.
I don't think two Trumps will be able to do that.
It's like double.
What do you need double Trump for?
You need something of evangelical Christian.
By the way, look at DeMartino Booth.
When we had DeMartino Booth here, what'd she say?
She said, you know, she respects Pence a lot.
She doesn't respect Trump.
So a Pence is, if you have a Trump Trump, what am I voting for?
You need a different VP.
But we are talking about Donald Trump.
It's the reason Biden picked the Commonwealth.
Well, right now, Trump Jr. is about to become the president of NP, not NPR, what's NRA.
He's about to be the president of the NRA.
That's what he's working on because their family supports a lot of these beliefs.
I got to give one pushback on one thing.
And Touche, you're right about Obama.
He tried him.
At least Obama had Trump to the White House.
Look, man, let's be grown-ups.
I don't like you.
You don't like me.
Cool.
You've trashed me.
But at least he had him over to the White House.
Bro, there's a big butt.
Adam, please, there's a big butt.
Stop it.
How much hard time did the media give Obama for eight years?
Zero.
Zero.
Every article was: is Obama the greatest president of all time?
Could Obama be one of the greatest president of all time?
Voters are saying 62% believe that Obama is the greatest president of all time.
How much of that have you seen?
Anything.
For what?
He got a Nobel Prize three months after being a president.
What did he do?
So media.
What does that have to do with Trump showing up to everything?
Because for four years, all the media did is trash this guy non-stop.
It's non-stop, embarrassing, and humiliating him for four straight years.
Russia was a hoax.
The dossier was a hoax by Hillary Clinton.
No one covered it because it's not necessary to cover.
You know how pissed off anybody would be if they manipulated and played games like that with you for four years?
I don't care who you are.
You could be the biggest saint in the world.
That's going to bother you.
So tradition-wise, it is what it is.
But everybody broke a little bit of tradition here the last four years.
Ain't nobody a saint.
Not on the left.
Not on the right.
No, I think he needs to show up.
Oh, no, no.
I think he needs to show up.
But I understand why he's doing it.
I think he needs to show up.
But I think I understand why.
Like, if you were in here, his ear, you'd be like, look.
First of all, if I were, my approach would be a different approach, but I'm not Trump.
I can't speak on behalf of a human being.
How the guy's wired.
The guy's been like that for 74 years.
When people say, what advice would you give to Trump?
Nothing.
The guy got to where he got at 74 years old on his way of thinking.
You are not going to be able to tell the guy what to do.
And by the way, he can't win either way.
They'd hammer him if he went.
So, anyways, having said that, I really enjoyed today's podcast.
By the way, a bunch of people gave $100 today.
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You gave $100 twice that.
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A lot of people I know that do it, including Peter Schiff, and obviously the pharmacy that gave up the other number that gave up.
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We're not going to do any other podcasts this week, but we will do it next week.
I know many of you guys are asking about us doing this on a daily basis.
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