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First of all, I saw a comment yesterday saying my favorite part of the podcast is when Kai comments.
Well, actually, it's a lot of fun.
Are we live on 21st century?
All right, we are officially live, episode 33.
We have Danielle DeMartino Booth back here with us and Adam.
Yes.
And we have Kai for another couple hours before he takes a nice little, how many hour flight?
What is it from here to Norway?
It's going to be 17 hours from the time I leave to the time I leave.
18 hours from here to go to Norway, which is going to be exceptional.
So Daniel, how are you?
Norway is going to raise interest rates for the first time.
They're going to be the pioneer central post-COVID central bank to raise interest rates.
So enjoy yourself, Kai.
You're going to the land of the frugally, fiscally frugal.
Go.
Are they the only ones that are raising interest rates?
The news hit the wires this morning.
The Norges Bank is expected to be the first.
I love how Danielle goes right to interest rates, right to Fed.
Not enjoy Norway.
Merry Christmas.
Well, he's got that too.
So let me ask you, how are you feeling?
We haven't spoken for a while.
Just kind of give me an update on how you're feeling from last time to this time.
Economy, Biden, election, everything that's going on.
Where are you at with all that stuff?
Well, I mean, so I'm happy that we've got past a certain few milestones, if you will.
But right now it's a foot race.
I'm watching the foot race.
I'm watching the foot race between the vaccine dissemination and how that trickles down into an economic rebound and the immediate damage that the economy is withstanding right now.
So it is, it really, everything's going to key off of, I think, how Christmas gatherings go.
And I mean, it really is that Christmas gatherings, like meaning if there's another super spreader, Thanksgiving super spreader event.
I mean, we had 3,800 deaths in the United States yesterday.
We've never seen a number like that.
The Census Bureau reported today that there are 5 million Americans who are not working because they're sick with COVID.
I mean, these are strange statistics that are coming out.
But if we pile onto this Thanksgiving super spreader another one at Christmas, we could theoretically go back into recession in the first quarter.
Jesus.
Well, I have a prediction.
Yeah.
I think everyone is going to spend Christmas together.
I don't think anyone's.
And then I think doubling down on that.
Everybody is?
I don't think everyone's still going to do Christmas together?
Yes, yes.
Are you?
Are you doing your traditional Christmas deal?
Well, it is up in the air whether or not we bring my mom into Dallas.
Okay, so that's the only thing you're changing.
What are you changing with Christmas?
Are you going and seeing mom and his family going to go?
Yes.
So you're not changing anything.
I'm doing Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa.
I'm doing it all.
And then we're doing new readers of you.
You want it all.
But, I mean, I'm not seeing my 85-year-old grandma.
Like, that's not the same.
Would you typically go see her?
She would be around.
Yeah, that's the thing they would.
So that's what's changing.
Keep the old and the sick away.
That's not very nice to say that way.
No, no, like keep them safe.
Keep them away.
Keep the old away.
They're not necessarily sick.
Just keep the old away.
Keep the old?
Yeah.
That are more susceptible, maybe.
The sick or health issues.
You know what?
I mean, we may compromise.
I mean, Nana's pretty good about it.
You know, she can sit over in the corner of the room with her mask on and enjoy the festivity.
You're going to put Nan on the corner.
So you may.
You're thinking maybe.
Maybe.
She's got her own place to stay in the house.
Of course.
She can sequester away.
You're putting grandma on the corner.
Text, text.
Nobody puts grandma on the corner.
We all know that.
Come on.
So you could put grandma on the corner.
What about you, Pat?
You got some big Christmas stuff.
I listen.
Here's what I was trying to do.
I got a 14-bedroom house in Lake Tahoe.
And we all did.
And we were going to bring all our field advisory board together, and we're going to spend, what do you call it, four nights together, okay, at Lake Tahoe.
At Christmas.
We were.
And then I get an article that comes out from Guardian saying the fact that Lake Tahoe shut down, Heavenly shut down, the slope shut down, everybody shut down.
You can't have more than 10 people in the place.
And I called the guy.
I'm like, listen, this just came out.
He's like, I saw this.
I said, we can't do it.
Don't even worry about it.
He refunds the thing.
So the guy was a stand-up guy.
They ended up doing the deal.
And we now looked at other places to where we want to go to, whether we're going to go to Florida, all this stuff.
I called the guy, and I told you this the other day.
I called the guy, and the guy tells me, the brokers tell me, focus, if you're going to go get a place, focus on red states if you're going to go anywhere, because red states are going to leave it open.
Blue states are going to lock down.
So he says, if you want to go to New York, not a good idea.
You want to go to Vermont?
Not a good idea.
You want to go to Colorado?
Stay away from Colorado.
You want to go to these places.
So typical Aspen, Lake Tahoe, New York, Vermont.
These places that I said, so what's left?
He says, you're looking at Florida.
Florida, Florida, and Florida.
Florida, Florida.
And honestly, it's Florida and Florida, Florida.
So we're most likely looking at Florida.
And it's not going to be the 25, 30 people that we would have done.
It's probably only going to end up being 12 of us.
Why not Alabama, West Virginia?
Well, I looked at Alabama.
I looked at Alabama.
Let's go red.
If we're going to go red state, let's go red.
Alabama would have been amazing.
Yeah.
Don't knock Orange Beach until you've tried it.
I'm sorry.
Is that the Redneck Riviera?
Yes, it is.
Yee-haw.
I know all of you.
I can totally see you going there, by the way.
I can't see it.
I know like Jesus in Florida and the panhandle.
I went to Florida State.
Shout out to all my Florida State Seminoles out there and FSU.
But, you know, I know about the panhandle, but I'm a South Miami, South Florida kind of guy.
Got it.
Well.
But you know, I mean, look, in defense of, in defense of blue states, which, okay, I've never said those words.
So there's a first.
Mobility trends in states with high positivity rates of COVID, very red states have come cratering down.
So a lot of it is the NANA discussion, the grandmother discussion that we just had.
A lot of states, if they follow their local news, they're not relying on governments.
They're not relying on their local officials to tell them how to behave.
They're choosing for which, you know what?
A lot of red governors have said you can make your own decisions.
Exactly.
You can be as prudent as you want to be.
What do you think about that?
And we have seen a lot of Americans do exactly that.
Yeah.
And make their own choices to not be mobile.
Their economies get hurt just the same.
Yeah.
So not necessarily the same, though.
You're saying Florida gets hit the same as California?
No, I'm saying when I'm saying states like North Dakota, again, Wisconsin.
I'm trying to think of other red states that have been really hit hard by COVID, where there are no restrictions and yet the economic growth has slowed appreciably.
But I mean, you can, I mean, look, the blue states have taken this too far.
I'm so sorry.
But I mean, here in Dallas, we get the same kind of benefit of being able to eat outdoors for a long part of the year.
You don't shut down outdoor eating in LA County.
That's just excuse.
In LA.
In LA, it's just a lot of people.
Yeah, it's just crazy.
LA, New York, a bunch of different places.
Well, this week, I think it's safe as well.
Well, New York, you can't.
I mean, there's a ton of snow on the ground.
You can't exactly get out of here.
I'm not sure if you're a sneaker outdoor eating in New York this week, for sure, with the blizzard.
Well, I mean, the blizzard.
Talk about the blizzard.
What the hell is going on?
12 to 24 inches more than all of last winter combined in the span of a couple days.
Okay, but before we move on to that, because I want to see some pictures of the snow, I used to live there.
Before we move on, the Wall Street Journal showed data that showed that restaurant indoor eating was responsible for 1.4% of COVID transmissions, and indoor family gatherings were responsible for 74% of COVID transmission.
So there's, as long as 1.4% is restaurants, which is attributable to restaurants.
I mean, as long as you're not going to be able to get the same thing.
And then what was the other number?
74%.
74% family gathering.
That's crazy.
So they're saying that.
You're getting more COVID from being around your family than being around strangers at birth.
So they want you to go out, eat, drink, be married, just don't do it in the house.
In Seoul, look, they never closed the restaurants in Seoul ever.
They just emptied out.
Yes, they emptied out half the tables.
You know about South.
They emptied out half the tables.
Social distance.
They social distance.
They put their masks on.
And business didn't skip a beat.
I mean, that's how you kind of do it.
So when you see Cuomo and de Blasio trying to put the last nail in the coffin of New York, it makes, I mean, you cannot close the 21 club.
It's just something like that.
And 148 employees that went with it.
I'm going to ask Pat a few questions.
COVID and business related.
So let me set this up, and then I'd love to get your response on this.
Number one, we've seen, you've done an episode about COVID, masks, you've done all that.
You've also done another episode recently where you interviewed business owners, right?
So I think I saw that 40% of all COVID deaths are in nursing homes, something to that effect.
We understand that COVID is real.
For all my deniers out there, it is real, but it's not as lethal as we initially thought.
People are certainly getting sick.
But kind of like what Danielle said when you did your episode, we've seen these businesses, these small businesses, these restaurants.
Danielle send 1% of COVID cases attract to restaurants.
I'd love to see that.
But they're restaurants.
Restaurants.
And this is going to be getting bars.
You've seen it.
So meaning bars is higher.
Right.
And plus, a bar is, the reason bars are so much more transmission petri dishes, it's because you've got loud music on.
You tend to have a younger crowd, and they're yelling over the music to talk to each other.
And they're closer together because they're talking about things people talk about in a bar.
Yeah, there's a big difference in a restaurant and a bar.
That's a lot different than restaurants, you know, than tables that are spaced out six feet apart, blah, blah, blah.
Much different environment.
What have you seen?
You know, speak to that, to what you've seen with your episodes you've done with COVID.
I think it was last week you interviewed the restaurant owners.
Some of them have gone viral.
Look, here's what you have to realize.
Okay, so raising kids two different ways.
One way, extremely disciplined.
You better do this, you better do that, you better do this, you better do that.
Okay.
What is the benefit of raising your kids disciplined?
They're going to pick up some of your habits.
What is the risk of raising your kids very disciplined?
They may rebel against you, okay?
What's the benefit of raising your kids and just saying, dude, just do what, you know, like, you know, what do you want to do?
Kevin Hart's like, I want to live with my mom.
My mom was so disciplined, I couldn't stand it.
It was all about God, Bible, all this stuff.
I don't want to live with you.
I want to go live with my dad.
He says, I go live with my dad.
My dad's like, okay, all right, what are you going to do?
I'll see you later.
He says, he never checked on me.
He never saw what I was doing.
He says, I had nothing going on.
He said he didn't care what time I came home, what time I woke up, if I went to school, if I didn't go to school, if I did school, my dad could care less what I did.
He says, you know what I did?
I did I wanted to go back and live with my mom because I wanted some order.
So what's the point here?
If you live with a parent that is not overbearing on you, what's the benefit?
You get to do whatever hell you want to do.
What's the disadvantages?
You get to screw up and do some stupid things that something could ruin your life for the rest of your life.
Okay, so what is the happy medium here?
I think that's the real thing.
What is the happy medium?
It's the happy medium a little bit to say, look, dude, just keep your word with me.
Let's have a relationship.
What do you want to do?
Pat, I want to go out.
No problem.
You want to bring your guys.
You want to do something, some do it over here.
That I want to go with these guys.
A little bit of give and take with the kids so they can go and do a little bit of rebel and do what they want to do.
But at the same time, you have enough relation where you can have trust with them.
Okay.
What is going on today, as far as policies go, is you better listen to me or else.
Dude, people are going to rebel.
What are you talking about, state of California?
You're trying to lead your voters, your citizens, in a way that you know what's right and they have no clue what they're like.
They can't think for themselves.
What do you mean they can't think for themselves?
That's the mom in this case.
I think California is being a mom.
I think New York's being a mom.
And I think all they're doing is they're losing it.
They're losing people to other states.
Oh my gosh, they're losing people.
Yeah, we're not those states.
That's simple.
The exodus from New York had already started for the past few years.
This is pre-COVID.
So, I mean, things were going in the wrong direction.
I mean, I was, when you compare New York under Giuliani, under Bloomberg, to what it's been under de Blasio, again, pre-COVID, night and day.
You don't want to walk past heaps of garbage on a hot summer day.
You just don't.
You're welcome in New York.
And pay extra for the privilege.
Well, can I just follow up with you on that pat?
Yeah, I like the analogy.
But give me the dad, the Kevin Hart dad state where, hey, do whatever the hell you want, buddy.
But like, there is some downsides to that.
Tell me what state is doing that right now.
That's what I'm asking.
What I'm asking you is tell me one state that's doing that right now.
That's just, hey, do whatever the hell you want.
What state is telling you don't wear a mask?
What state is telling you don't social distance?
What state is telling you don't be.
No, it's not Florida.
I'm going to Fort Lauderdale.
I hope no state.
By the way, no, wait a minute.
The house I was renting in Florida, you know what the lady said?
I'm getting a good-sized house.
The lady said, you can't have more than this many people in the house.
Not even visiting.
Right now, Fort Lauderdale County has a rule going on right now.
You can't have more than 10 people in the house.
That's Fort Lauderdale County.
It's just what they announced.
So it's not even tracked.
No, what I'm saying to you is too straightforward.
So that's a local.
Florida's telling you to wear masks.
Florida's telling you to be responsive.
Florida's telling you to be social.
They're not requiring you.
But what do you want to require me to do?
You can't enforce me anyways to wear a mask.
You can't tell me you better or else you're going to get arrested.
Well, here in Texas, if you're in a public place, it is mandated that you have a mask on.
Really?
Yeah, Danielle, explain the Texas local risk.
But if you would say, public areas.
But if I go to, okay, I'll go to a restaurant, okay, that I go to regularly.
I'll walk in without a mask in this restaurant, okay?
And they're like, okay, cool.
Come on down.
And I'll go sit in the corner.
They don't bother me.
I'm good to go.
There is that little bit of, look, we get it.
Go sit over here.
Now, if I go to Yardhouse, you know what the guy Yardhouse will say?
He's a valuatainer.
Because like, what's up, Pat?
You know what I got to do?
You got to put this mask on.
So I'll put the mask on and I go in.
We know the restaurant you go to.
You're like the But if you talk to small business owners, which you have, but a lot of small business owners are relieved by mask mandates in public places because they know that they're going to get more customers to come through the door if they know that they're being rigorous in public places.
So I tell you what we did.
Here's what we're doing.
At the front, when somebody comes in who's an employee, you get a chance to wear a wristband.
Okay, what do the wristbands say?
What do the three wristbands say?
Green, yellow, and red.
What does red mean, Kyle?
Red means don't come near me, no handshakes.
I'm six feet, don't like completely quarantine.
Stay away.
Stay away.
When you wear that wristband, okay, what does yellow mean?
Yellow's kind of cool with handshakes a little bit.
Fit, you know, elbow.
Elbow.
And what does green mean?
Green means like, I don't care, right?
And guess what?
Green means I've got immunity.
Yeah, but if green meets green, Grey's like, what's up?
You're great.
How you doing, man?
Everything good?
Good.
But if you see red, hey, bro, everything good?
Yeah, everything good.
So you respect it.
So what happens?
That's a safe space.
And we choose to do that as a company.
I thought when the leadership team made a decision to do that, they brought it to me.
That's a genius idea, guys.
Run with this.
I love it.
It's even better than what you do.
And I thought that it would wane, but every morning, every single employee here has to take their temperature.
Yeah, so every morning.
But that's it.
Like that's mandatory.
That's a business thing that we made a decision.
It's a great idea to make people feel safe.
So what I'm saying to you is no state is being fully irresponsible, saying go at it and do whatever the hell you want to do.
No state is going to that point.
Yes, Florida may not be, you know, at a state level.
Yeah, on a state.
Localities, as you mentioned, Fort Lauderdale, they're making sure that people want to continue to come.
But guess what that means?
What that tells me is the governor is saying, Danielle, I trust you.
What do you want to do with your locale?
Do this.
Here's what we're going to do in Fort Lauderdale.
Awesome.
Here's what we're going to do in Broward County.
Great.
Here's what we're going to do in Miami.
I respect it.
Go for it.
They're empowering the local leaders to make a decision amongst their constituents.
What they're saying is, here's, let's hear them out.
This is what we're going to be doing.
Now, I've got to tell you, I was in the Miami airport recently, and that was freaky.
I mean, I thought I was going to take a bath in my sanitizing.
Really?
What was going on?
What was going on?
Well, nobody had on their green bands, but they were all acting like it.
And they were just all into each other's business.
Well, that's what happens in my, oh, double kiss, double vezos, bezitos, give me a camera.
That was, I mean, I was like, get me on the airplane because I'll be safer inside of that tin can than I'm going to be in this airplane.
Outside.
Yeah.
You know, the other part of it.
That's culture.
That's, I was about to say cultural thing.
Venezuela.
I lived in Venezuela.
Venezuela.
When I see Amor, Amor and I see each other, it's a kiss on the cheek.
Okay.
And Amur is a 50-year-old man.
I'm a 40-year-old man.
Kiss kids.
Okay.
Culturally, Middle Easterns were a little bit different.
But you can't go to an American and say, hey, Mr. Jones, how are you?
Hey, everything good and you do one of these hugs.
That's just not going to happen.
You're giving them like a borad in her Middle Eastern community.
It's like, you know, this is great.
But they've done actual studies of the country of Italy and found that because they were so touchy-feely, culturally, that's why it was bad there.
Yeah, I don't disagree.
I don't disagree.
And they had to learn how to show affection differently.
I got to tell you something what happened last night, which was very interesting for me.
Yesterday, you know, we chose the book winners, whoever bought the books at the beginning.
We did something.
And yesterday we had a private webinar for these guys and it was spending an hour with them and just questions, you know, back and forth.
People from different parts of the country.
One person was even on.
She was chosen and she bought the books.
Didn't speak a lick of English, but she was on because she's a diehard value tainer because she reads it with the captions on the bottom.
Nice.
But she's a, so we're sitting there talking.
And one of the guys, I said, tell me your story.
So I go to one of these guys and he listened to Tuesday's podcast.
He says, I've been watching you since I was in high school, 17 years old.
I said, okay, so how many years?
Four or five years.
Okay, cool.
When's your birthday, September 23rd?
Tell me what's going on.
Well, I run this business.
You know, makes money selling products online.
Okay.
And he says, ever since, he says, I went to Ohio University on an entrepreneur program, full ride.
When I went there, I joined the entrepreneur club that they had on campus.
160 students were part of this entrepreneur club.
And when I went there, I said, how many of you guys run a business?
He says, none of them.
The only one that did left.
He says, I'm out of here as well.
So he leaves Ohio University, goes back.
He lives in Vermont, I believe.
And he's sitting there.
He says, for the last eight months, I've been running my business, selling online.
I said, how you feeling?
I said, how you doing right now?
He says, I'm an only child.
He says, I listened to the podcast what you said about being an only child.
You know, I grew up being an only child.
I said, okay.
I said, are you one of the weird ones?
Are you one of those guys where people make fun of you and you're a little bit weird, a little bit different your entire life?
He says, yes, and I'm in that club as well.
So is my son.
It's a little bit tough when you ask you.
You're 20 years old.
You're at a rough age.
It's very hard because you're trying to figure yourself out.
I said, but how you doing being by yourself right now?
He says, Pat, miserable.
This kid was suicidal yesterday.
Okay.
So I'm talking to this guy and I said, hey, I just want you to know everything's going to be all right.
Like, don't overreact with what's going on right now.
Things are going to get better.
I said, you got to go out there and talk to people.
You can't be just isolated like this all by yourself.
He says, do you remember this reaction?
I said, you can't be like this.
How many minutes did he cry?
Honestly, how long did he cry?
I don't know.
You know when you on the Zoom.
For everyone to see.
In front of everybody, this 2021.
I'm feeling like my body hurts a lot watching this guy.
Like, this guy is ready to just like, what is life worth?
He's asking those types of questions.
We're having this conversation.
And then I'm sitting there saying, okay, I see him.
I see my son.
My son is kind of like his personality where he's going to be a techie type of guy.
And I'm like, yeah.
And I'm looking there saying, dude, this kid needs to know everything's going to be all right.
But the guy's isolated.
You got no relationships.
You got no people around you.
You're being told what to do.
You're following the laws.
You're thinking you're being a good citizen.
But I can't sit there and say, How you guys?
Like even here, the other day we're talking, right?
So you're going through an issue.
You're going through an issue and you say, hey, Kai, what's up?
How you doing?
Yeah, you know, it's just, you know, it is what it is, man.
My girl and I just went through a bad breakup.
Oh, bro, I'm sorry to hear that.
That I'm sorry to hear that took 20 pounds off your back.
Yeah.
Somebody heard you out.
A little bit of empathy.
So I think the part I'm trying to say is you're being a disciplined dad.
What's the price?
Extreme rebellious.
You're being a too liberal dad.
Hey, your kids can go out there and do stupid things.
I think there's a part of it we have to also understand that people need to be around people.
There's got to be a little bit of camaraderie.
Follow rules and guidelines.
But I'm sorry, man, to sit around being isolated.
There's a lot of consequences to that as well.
And that generation, I mean, that generation is the first generation to grow up completely where you don't have to converse, where you can do, you can text your entire life.
And that's, but I mean, but you never learn, you know, how relationships work if you're doing everything in a vacuum on a business.
But here's a guy.
But here's a guy that was pre-pandemic, but during pandemic, he's followed the guideline and he's been locked in a basement for eight months to make sure he is being a good citizen, right?
And he says, I'm in Vermont.
Vermont's extremely liberal.
I have to follow the guidelines they got here.
He says, I'm thinking about leaving this place.
I said, you got to be around people, bro.
I said, you got to be.
I'm not telling you to go party, get hammered, get drunk.
I said, you got to be around some people.
You got to go, you know, be around some people to talk to them.
We need relationships.
We need interaction.
We need camaraderie.
We need a release.
I can't tell you how many executives.
It was 2012, 2013 when I was building a business.
And at one point, I'm like, we're about to go out of business.
I have no clue what the hell I'm doing.
We're about to go out of business.
I put my half a million dollars at 29 years old into the business that I had saved up working in the financial industry.
I'm like, dude, this is what we're going to do.
And then at 2012, I'm like, I'm running out of money.
I got $13,000 in the MAC, 2011, 2012.
I'm like, I can't talk to my wife because she's pregnant.
She had the first miscarriage.
We just talked about it earlier.
You know, apparently Adam just found out for the first time that 74% of first pregnancies, you have a miscarriage.
And one of many things you don't know that they don't tell you before getting married, which there needs to be a book saying 200 things they don't tell you prior to getting married.
Actually, I don't think 200 would quite cover it, Pat, but okay.
That's a good starting point.
Written by DVD.
I know it would need to be a man and a woman again because it's the person.
I smell it.
So you sit there and you're thinking this and you're like, okay, so you know, a miscarriage.
So I'm sitting there, like, who do I talk to?
I can't talk to my dad because my dad's going to be like, I told you, you know, you shouldn't have done this.
You can't talk to your friends because your friends are like, well, we knew this was going to be hard.
Why'd you do it?
You can't talk.
You can't talk to anybody.
So you know what I said?
I said, dude, I wouldn't have hired a therapist.
You did?
Oh, absolutely.
I found this guy.
He was terrible, but you know what he was good at?
Just listening?
He never said anything.
I tell you, every time he's like, so how was your week?
Yeah.
So I would go for one hour just bitching.
I'm telling you, not one time did he give me advice.
He said, okay, I'll see you two weeks from now.
Okay.
That was funny, Jose.
But you needed a sounding board.
You needed a sounding board.
You found a sounding board.
I found it and I would leave the place.
I'm like, what a freaking stupid job.
This guy sits there.
Seriously.
And you went back over.
But I went back because I just needed that release of an hour sitting telling a person.
I remember one time I did relationship issues and all, and correct me if I'm wrong, Danielle, women just want to vent and you just have to listen.
So I remember I would always try to solve my girl's problems.
Well, look, you tell that girl that this is how you want to operate and you tell her you're not going to stand for this.
No, no, we want it to listen.
We don't want your business.
And I just realized all I have to be is like, no way.
Get out of here.
Stop it.
No way.
Go on.
Like, that's all.
That's all.
Listen.
You are a qualified therapist.
You're in the wrong business.
You should go be a therapist.
But the difference with you is, the difference with you is.
You actually are curious, so you would not be the best therapist because you ask questions.
Yeah, yeah.
But for him, he's just kind of like, hmm, got it.
Okay.
I'm thinking of, I'm smelling a meme coming up right now, like Tony Soprano insert PBD's head, the therapist.
Yes, he's already working on it.
It's already a lot of people.
What did that do for you?
The point I'm trying to make to you is that's, I understood isolation in a level of a business where I can't go complain to my wife because my wife is dealing with certain set of issues on her own.
I can't go to friends.
I can't go to family.
I can't go to my sister.
I can't go to my buddies.
I can't go to my board.
I can't go to my carries.
I can't.
You can't.
So in a situation like that, you need somebody to go.
So now think about how many people are going through that right now with COVID.
Oh, gosh.
Think about how many people are going through that right now in COVID.
In the last week, 885,000 have filed for the money.
Tell us what that means.
Instead of the 815.
So last week we had a spike up in jobless claims to 845,000.
Oh, my gosh, what's happening?
Well, it's probably a temporary blip because California shut down, blah, blah, blah.
Just an anomaly.
So economists this week were saying, you know, when the data hit at 7.30 this morning, they were like, it's going to go back down to 815,000.
Instead, it popped up to 885,000.
And when you add up all of the different programs that were legislated because of the CARES Act, we've gone from 19 million in one week to 20,5 million this week.
All the people in the United States collecting unemployment and insurance budgets.
That is something that a lot of people, that gives a lot of people shame.
They don't want to talk to people about it.
And they'll isolate.
Because economic hardship is something that by definition, you don't want to talk to people about.
You don't want to talk to your close ones about.
I'm struggling.
You know, Christmas is coming.
I can't afford to put trees underneath it.
And so, you know, it's this is, I really am hoping that 2021 brings in, you know, you were a successful entrepreneur once.
You lost your business.
You know what?
Here's a program.
Instead of paying you to not work, here's a program to help you jumpstart your entrepreneurial life again, start a new business again because now people can come to you.
I want to see this, I don't want to become a nation of five stocks in the S ⁇ P 500 that are out in Silicon Valley and big box retailers.
There's no soul there.
And what's it going to do to the entrepreneurship of this country?
Because that's the backbone.
Small business is the backbone.
So, I mean, I want for our politicians in D.C. to pull their heads out of the sand.
Go there, Daniel.
Go there.
And put some programs out there that reskill the workforce.
Okay, fine.
So all the retailers are closed.
You know, brick and mortar.
Fine.
Get a new skill.
Do a new job.
Spend, if you want to spend trillions of dollars, don't do the new green deal.
Why don't you fix the potholes and the falling bridges and repair the infrastructure nationwide?
And by the way, the 100-plus thousand oil and gas workers who've lost their jobs, they're ready to work tomorrow.
I mean, I want to see our politicians be smart and help people who want to start businesses and have good work ethics be able to find opportunities instead of paying people to be isolated and sit in their homes and collect unemployment.
So is this what's the difference between what essentially you're suggesting versus what's going on in Congress right now?
Right now, they're thinking about a $900 billion stimulus, $600 stimulus check.
$60, $1,200.
What are your thoughts on what they're proposing?
Again, there are 10 million Americans.
So of that 20 million-plus pool of Americans collecting unemployment insurance, about half of them are gig workers.
They're contract workers.
They're self-employed.
They're people who don't qualify for state unemployment insurance programs.
They don't pay into the unemployment insurance fund.
So they never qualified for jobless claims in the first time.
In the first place, the CARES Act extended jobless benefits to this big chunk of the workforce.
I mean, we've become a gig economy in many ways.
All of that expires on December the 26th.
So the only thing that-the only thing that this bill is doing is it's going to extend that.
It's going to extend the rental eviction moratorium.
Because you read about, I mean, right now, there is a lot of the people who are at risk of being evicted are single working mothers.
I mean, you have to have family to fall back on to take in you and your kids.
And there's probably going to be a six, $700 stimulus check in there as well, which will give a boost to the economy, but it's not going to address any of the fundamental underlying issues.
And that's what.
It's a band-aid, is what you're saying.
It is a band-aid.
That's all it is.
But what could they really do in a situation like this when both sides are kind of divided?
And the fact that we can't even get these guys on the same page to agree on just send a check.
You think they're going to sit there and negotiate on how to get people to make this money in a way that it's not just a handout being given to people?
If they haven't gotten a reality check, because unemployment is going up again in America.
So if people aren't really angry this close to the election at the people in Congress who have been fighting and backbiting this whole time instead of doing their jobs, then something's completely wrong.
I mean, this is the stuff of, this is a different kind of uprising that you're talking about because a lot of these people have not lost their incomes by any of their own doing, as we've just been talking about.
I agree.
As we've just been talking about.
So look, Georgia is, you know, I have to say, the Georgia runoff elections on January the 5th, I'm going to say this out loud, they're more important than the presidential election.
They are.
They're that important.
How close is it?
Right now it's neck and neck.
For both races.
For both races, and there's money pouring in.
A couple hundred million dollars.
There's money pouring in from all over the country because these two races are effectively a referendum on socialism.
So if you keep the Senate red, then you can negotiate, I think, for smarter programs.
If you get this blue wave and the Senate flips to the Democrats and the Democrats control the House and the Senate and the administration and they start to legislate in universal basic income, again, these are programs that are designed to pay people to not work.
Well, go there.
No pride in that.
We go there.
Why?
No, no pride in that.
Say it's January 6th.
We wake up.
Liberals win both.
So now it's 50-50 with the tiebreaker going to Kamala Harris, right?
Say that.
But all of a sudden, Kamala Harris has power.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And Kamala's more left than Biden is.
More way.
Some call her further left than even Sanders, but let's just say she's more left than Biden is, right?
Let's just keep that part.
January 6th, they win both.
What happens?
You get chatter about the new green deal.
I mean, you're talking about.
Tell me chatter versus execution because chatter has been going on.
Do you think things are executed?
Of course.
So give me what things would be executed.
I mean, we are talking about health care for everybody.
We're talking about universal basic income.
We are talking about the idea of paying people to be out of work forever.
And that is just so anti-American.
We are not, we have no reason to vote socialism into law and kiss our economy goodbye and watch China rise up.
Because I can guarantee you that if China is in any way interfering with this election, it is pouring money into those two Democratic candidates.
Period end.
Full stop.
Because if we go socialist, that is the nail in the coffin of capitalism.
And we can kiss our reserve currency status goodbye.
The greenback will no longer have hegemony on the world stage.
All of these things.
And we get inflation, by the way.
And we get inflation because we stop worrying about debt and deficits when people running the country don't think that there's any consequence for a $10 trillion 2021-2022 spending spree.
So it's basically dogs and cats living together.
Anarchy.
But let's go there.
Okay, let's just say it happens, okay?
And let's just say that.
Do we have to?
No, I want to go there.
Let's just say universal basic income passes and Andrew Yang becomes a, you know, a...
He's already said he's potentially running for mayor of New York City.
No, no, whatever.
Okay, so is a half dozen other people we can name.
Yes, yes.
But by the way, he's a credible name to run.
Let's just yes.
He's reliable.
So valuable is the right word.
But let's just say we're there.
January 6th happens.
And then at this point of the game, everyone calls Biden.
Now that you have it, AOC, you know, the whole defense, we got to make climate change a part of that budget.
Next is a universal basic income.
It's next Medicare for all, healthcare for all, unemployment benefits extended, you know, extreme regulation, extreme censorship.
Everyone, a possible court packing that we can raise it from 7 to 9 to 11 to 13 to 15.
Let's just say we go there.
The sky's the limit.
But let's just say we go there.
You know, the part that I want to ask, and I ask Larry Arn, who's the president of Hillsdale College, which I don't know if you're familiar with Hillsdale College.
They're one of the oldest universities.
It's conservative.
You know, they've had some incredible people that have gone to that university.
And they get also a lot of criticism because they're in Michigan.
I think they're in Michigan.
Kai, can you check to see where they're based out of?
I think they're out of Michigan, so they're dealing with the governor, Whitmer, all that other stuff.
The question I ask is, the Reagan quote, thank you.
The Reagan quote, which is what?
We're all one generation away from losing our freedom.
Okay?
We're one generation away from losing our freedom.
That's true today.
Well, that's what I want to ask.
Is it that scary to say, oh my gosh, we will never have what we had here because once we go, here's the tipping point, you can't ever go back to it?
Or is it just another time where people are just overly panicking and using their panic to make sure people vote on the right?
Okay, I'm going to play Socrates here for a minute.
Have you ever seen any government program rolled out that was then rolled back?
Great question.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
And you are.
By the way, can you ask that one more time?
No, no, no.
It's very important.
Can you ask that one more time?
Have you ever seen a government program rolled out that was not rolled back?
Do you mean Social Security, Medicare, Medicare?
I mean, there's 81.
You try canceling Social Security.
There's 81 different.
They try to talk about what you're saying.
I'm not even talking about that.
I'm talking about the 81 different social programs.
And under the Obama administration, you had the quietest, stealthiest expansion of the social safety net in U.S. history because the Federal Reserve slammed interest rates down to 0% and allowed the company, the company.
Country.
If we ran it like a company, it would be a different country.
No doubt about it.
But allowed the debt to be run up magnificently.
So that set the stage for where we are.
But none of those programs have been even reformed, much less rolled back.
And you're delivering a message to children.
You're saying all that student debt.
Let's just take that $1.78 trillion.
Let's just expunge it.
I mean, how does that make people like me feel who had to work their asses off to pay off their student debt?
Not so good.
But you're teaching young Americans an un-American way of life.
Is it something you think that they would implement all the above, meaning cancel Social Security, Medicare for all, new Green Deal?
So here we go.
Here's my follow-up question so I can set you up, Danielle.
A, I don't, in my opinion, maybe some of that gets done.
I don't think all of it gets done.
I'd like to hear you say.
It's because of the House.
Okay, and that's my next question.
It cannot because of the House.
But that's my next question is where do the midterm elections come into this immediately?
The midterm elections are already in play because they have dragged their feet on this stimulus bill in the dead of winter.
So how is it?
It's not in play, though.
You have to go back 20 years to find as slim as a majority as we have right now in the House of Representatives.
There was a quiet GOP revolution heading into this presidential election.
You have to go back 20 years to find a Congress with a slimmer, and it was a GOP Congress at the time, but they had the slimmest margin.
Pelosi's got an even slimmer margin than that.
So independents, moderate Democrats are going to be easily swayed if you start to see some of socialism type light legislation passed.
You're going to see Democrats and independents cross the aisle and vote against a lot of people.
That's good.
I think that's healthy for America.
That's what people don't appreciate, is the House is not locked.
Because of the slimness of the majority, because so many seats in the House of Representatives flipped to the GOP.
Even senators like my guy, Joe Manchin in West Virginia, he's already come out and said, look, I'm a red state Democrat in West Virginia.
I'm not just going to toe the Senate line.
I'm going to.
So I think that's something that is going to be very unique.
I think we understand that Biden is going to be the president.
I said it.
I think people are going to be willing to negotiate and broker deals and cross the line.
Yeah, but what I'm thinking is that you do all that.
But it's a whole different dynamic than what we've been used to.
Here's where I'm going to.
Here's where I'm going to.
What leverage does the right have if they win Senate?
So you come to the negotiating table.
What leverage do you have?
What's your leverage for that two years before midterms?
The Republicans?
The Republicans.
Well, you're not going to be able to do that.
You don't have a ton of leverage, right?
What leverage do you have?
But remember, Biden ran on a platform that he was going to be a president of the entire country.
Everyone says that, though.
And then Obama said that in his campaign as well.
It's going to be if Kamala Harris doesn't gain the upper hand.
Well, she will, though, because if Senate wins both, then she will.
If it does.
If it does not.
But you just said, what if the Senate stays red?
No, no, no.
Okay, I'm sorry.
So what I was trying to say is, say they lose the Senate and it's 50-50.
Then it's a crapshoot.
What leverage do Republicans have?
Very, very little.
What would it be?
Actually, what would it be?
You're at the negotiating table.
You're Republican.
Well, you know, we're not going to pay.
Wait until 2022.
We'll show you.
Okay, no problem.
We'll wait.
Well, that whole thing you're saying.
That they have.
So your midterms will be decided the minute any kind of legislation gets passed.
You just said what social program has ever been reverted back away.
So you've got two years to pass anything you want to pass.
So what leverage do you have?
Whatever you pass, I mean, Obamacare passed, and then Trump tried to do anything to it.
What happened to Trump?
You don't care about this.
Jimmy Kimmel coming out and saying, you know, this and everybody coming out.
You are like a terrible human being.
Talking about trying to reverse Obamacare.
The risk, I think, is that if you get this blue wave, so you're anticipating massive deficits and rising taxes.
I mean, you could put the economy into a tailspin.
What kind of taxes, when you say rising taxes?
At the federal level, capital gains taxes?
Think about all of the gains people are sitting on in the stock market right now.
And what would happen, what the trickle-down effect would be.
I mean, we ran a graph at Quill Intelligence a few days ago that shows that CEO confidence lags the S ⁇ P 500 by one quarter.
In other words, CEOs make decisions about headcount based on where their share based on where their stock is trading.
So just imagine the short-term thinking, you mean?
Very short-term thinking, but yet they're the ones that are in charge of the pink slips.
Let me ask you a question.
You said something, and I don't want to skip over that.
You said massive deficits and also taxes.
I think taxes isn't the whole point of tax increases to limit the massive deficits to try to balance budgets.
Oh, I do.
Tell me about that.
It will be an apples and oranges situation.
Complete apples and oranges.
You will have billionaires pick their asses up and leave the country.
Think about the exodus to Florida and Texas and the number of companies in the last week that have relocated to Texas.
You're saying not only leave.
Bye-bye.
And what happens to those people?
Do they not pay taxes?
Do they renounce their citizenship?
Like go there, as Pat likes to say.
What happens if they leave the country?
These Americans that just, I'm out.
I'm going to.
I mean, you can.
Frickin Norway would.
You can renounce your citizenship if you want.
If you're an expat, you still have to file taxes in the United States of America.
You get a credit in the country in which you live.
So where are they going?
Why wouldn't they just go to Puerto Rico at that point?
You're still in America, but you don't have to pay income taxes.
Okay, now you've stumped me.
I can't do the Puerto Rican.
I stumped Danielle DiMartino Booth.
What?
I think I alarmed those.
I think it's a 420-state thing that they have.
You only pay 4% in taxes for $20.
I have friends in Miami that have gone to Puerto Rico straight up.
Puerto Rico has become a tax haven.
A lot of private equity guys, hedge fund guys.
That's what he's saying.
Yeah, that's what he's saying.
But other countries, you're saying that in the You're getting me ready for my Saturday evening bar mitzvah.
I'm just letting you know.
You're getting me in the news.
So then let's transition into the next.
By the way, we got a lot of different topics here to cover.
I haven't even told you any topics that we have.
Retail sales dropped 1.1% November, biggest in seven months.
Facebook.
And October was revised down to a negative.
I saw that.
Yeah, Facebook accuses Apple of anti-competitive behavior, which we'll talk about.
Tom Cruise lost his mind, which maybe we'll talk about.
Adam is so excited about his story.
You got to hear that.
You got to hear this.
Will CEOs mandate employees to take vaccines?
72% in the survey said they're open to it.
Bitcoin cracks 20,000 for the first time.
23 today.
23,000.
Massachusetts regulators slammed Robin Hood for being reckless and focusing on uneducated investors.
Biden's thinking about getting Iger on as an ambassador as well as Katzenberg and Iger's pretty excited about it.
It's a true move.
And open to it.
And then you have Republican North Carolina State Senator Trump should invoke the insurrection, which is a little bit strange to want to invoke that.
Texit strategy will cover that.
Trump's Mar-a-Lago neighbors are taking legal action to try to force him to live elsewhere.
Pete Buttigieg, transportation, what do you call it?
Secretary.
Yeah, secretary.
And then a few other things that's going on here that we can cover.
But I want to talk about Texit.
What do you think about the idea of Texas?
Texas.
So let me give some color to it so we can cover how this conversation came about with Texit.
The word Texit, succession, and Texas are being mentioned more frequently and by actual politicians.
The Supreme Court's dismissal of the Texas lawsuit against four other states regarding presidential election has alone stars of state Republican Chairman Alan West suggesting a U.S. split.
Earlier in the week, Texas State Representative Kyle Biederman tweeted out that he plans to file legislation to give Texans a vote for Texas to reassert its status as an independent nation.
The movement for Texas to leave the Union has been dubbed Texas.
Thoughts?
Well, A, I'm against it.
Period end, so I'll put that out there.
That being said, if you're talking pure economics here, our borrowing costs would likely be lower than the nation as a whole.
We have one of the most diverse economies in the country.
Dallas itself is the number one commercial real estate market in the nation today.
We are the largest exporting state in the nation.
We export more than California.
We're the second largest economy in the country.
And we have an infrastructure that is second to none in terms of the capacity and capability of being economically independent as a nation.
We do.
Texas does.
Texas does.
Yes, if you're asking me on paper, why won't it make sense to do?
Like, what would be the negative?
Like, you know, the whole Brexit, you're looking at Brexit.
If you have a Brexit, you know, with a citizenship, you can go live in Norway.
You can go live there.
You know, if you do Brexit and you can't do that, so a lot of people that are working take it, it's going to hurt some businesses.
People in London are going to take it.
Headquarters are going to move out of London.
They're going to have to go elsewhere.
So when you actually go deeper into Brexit, you kind of see the pros and cons of it.
And I know it's 51.49 type of number that they're talking about, 5347.
So there's an argument.
Anytime it's that number, both sides have a reasonable argument why they want and they don't want to do it, right?
Why would be an argument for Texas to do it?
You said those benefits, but why would be the benefit for them not to do it?
Why should they want to stay in the union?
What's the benefit?
Okay, okay, okay.
So why are companies relocating from California to Texas?
They want to be part of the United States of America, but in a business-friendly state.
Got it.
So they don't want to be isolated.
They don't want to be penalized for, because you know that Great Britain will be, there will be penalties as head.
Sure.
But that is not.
Companies are not relocating to Texas en masse because they think Texas is going to secede from the United States of America.
It doesn't happen that way.
I totally agree.
And I'm a patriot, by the way.
So I like our flag.
I stand for our flag.
And again, my boys go to a military academy.
They stand for the flag.
Texas benefits by being part of the United States that is attractive to be in.
It makes our economy roar.
It gives us, you wouldn't have the same dynamic if Texas was not part of the United States.
You wouldn't.
Let me ask you.
Plus, I can't wait until the economy of Texas is larger than that of California.
So I want to stick around just to see that.
You said something the other day, and something that you even said, great analogy or metaphor.
What do you have?
The two parents, right?
One parent is super strict, one parent is super lenient.
Something that I'm hearing with different opinions and a quote or a saying that I think reverberates is, the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle, right?
Where if there's two different opinions, the truth typically lies somewhere in the middle.
So for me, when I hear Texas wants to secede emotionally, I'm thinking, that's treacherous.
That's ridiculous.
That's treason.
You're going to leave the United States of America.
That's why we fought the Civil War.
That's freaking ridiculous.
Like you, you know, blasphemous, like emotional.
Logical, you know, you pointed out something the other day.
It's like, well, you know, maybe for lower taxes.
And it's like, at what point does it make sense?
Like at what point would you say, I can't deal with this anymore, tax-wise, whatever.
But again, I'm going to just revert back to the truth is somewhere in the middle.
So I know you have an interesting opinion on this, but for me, emotionally, it's so absurd to even think about emotionally, but logically, it's like, well, there might be some benefits.
Here's how I process this, Danielle.
This is how I process this.
I think the best thing that happened to coffee drinkers after they were paying five bucks to Starbucks is coffee bean.
I think Dunkin' Donuts started becoming a great thing because their coffee was, what, 99 cents a buck 19?
More Dunkin' Donuts in New York City than Starbucks.
There you go.
Yeah, that's right.
So then you saw McDonald's came out.
Remember when McDonald's came out with the coffee like six years ago, five years ago, I was like, go try to McDonald's coffee.
It's ridiculous.
Starbucks drinkers are like, dude, this is actually good.
McDonald's coffee.
I don't go to McDonald's, but I go to McDonald's for coffee.
Who won it?
Who won there?
The consumer won, right?
The reality is who won is the consumer, right?
And Starbucks had to get their act together.
Okay.
So you work for a company and they say, well, our benefits, we offer this.
Well, we're not going to offer those benefits.
We're not going to give you 401k and match, and we're not going to give you health insurance.
You go figure it out.
Then it's okay.
Oh, you know what?
No, we are going to offer 401k.
We are going to offer health insurance.
We are going to offer it.
Okay, great.
So this is.
You're saying competition.
That's why Amazon hires people so quickly.
They're going to pay them $15 an hour and give them health insurance on day one.
There you go.
So the point I'm trying to make to you is who is America's competition locally?
If people in America want to leave, where do they go?
I think there needs to be a place for America to want to leave.
Like, for example, right now, what America has is say the two state senators, Georgia, goes left.
And Kamala is essentially a major decision maker in America.
No more ribbon cutting.
No more ribbon cutting, right?
If that happens.
What do you mean by ribbon cutting?
I mean, she's got a, she has a sort of position.
You know, she has a vice presidential position.
You mean like actual things that she changes?
She's one of the most powerful VPs we've had in a long time.
She becomes one of the most powerful VPs.
She becomes one of the most powerful people in the world.
Yeah.
This is not a joke.
She's both Georgia seats.
Yes.
Yeah.
So she is now, you know, the second most deciding job.
She's a top five most powerful person in the world.
So it's going to be Biden, G, Putin, and she's top 10.
Joe Biden is true to his word about being a moderate and being a president of Florida.
Which I don't think is going to happen.
I don't think it's going to happen.
I don't think it's going to happen.
So here's how I process it.
The only way I process it is, okay, Oracle's moving to Texas.
Great.
Better than where they are right now.
Elon Musk moved to Austin.
Great.
Joe Rogan moved to Austin.
Hewle Packard moving here.
Goldman Sachs is moving their trading side to Miami.
You got not Carl Icon, the other billionaire.
Carl Icon also moved to Florida.
Yes, Peterson.
Paul Singer.
Paul Singer moved over there as well.
Okay, great.
So that's moving from a state you're not happy to another state.
I'm all about.
But now, where do I go if I'm not happy with the country?
When your federal income taxes are going up.
Now, federal income tax, where now you're paying 60%.
If federal income tax goes to 60%, now where are you going?
So federal income tax goes to 60%, top line revenue.
You're making a million bucks.
You pay 60% of that.
You keep 400 of it.
Your tax dollars are going to bail out all the blue states that they're going to be.
100%.
So now watch this.
So you make a million.
Somebody goes, oh, that's so much money.
You're not making a million.
You're really going to end up making $400.
And then if you live in a state that's charging another 10%, so then you're going to end up being stuck with $300,000 income, give or take, say, $30,000.
And the whole U.S. economy will slow down as well.
So your property taxes are going up no matter where you live.
So if that happens, where do I go?
Do I go to New Zealand?
Do I go to...
Hey, New Zealand is a rock star.
I know they are.
That's why you go.
Do I go to New Zealand?
do I go to Panama?
Do I go to, you know, Canada?
I mean, there's always Canada.
Well, if you don't mind the cold.
Do I go to Canada?
Where do I go?
So I think that the way I'm processing it, I'm processing it as I think it would be actually a good thing for the American voters if Texas became a country because now you have, and Texas is a big land, plenty of room, plenty of room to expand.
It's not a small place.
You got a lot of, if you drive in Texas, you can drive for six hours and you don't see nothing.
You can drive for a while.
And you're still in the state of Texas.
And you're still in the state of Texas.
So meaning there's plenty of room for expansion.
There's plenty of room for all of that.
There's a couple more questions.
Yeah, go for the process.
Yeah, I've got a big old hole to poke in what you're doing.
Here we go.
Here we go.
A couple different questions.
Go for it.
All right.
So number one, if you're like, oh, I'm a Texan now, no more America.
Okay.
Number one, first question that comes to mind, what happens to Electoral College?
Because Republicans cannot win the Texas.
Of course.
How many 30?
Okay.
I agree.
All right.
So Republicans will never win a presidential election ever again without Texas.
I agree.
Okay.
What happens to people who are living in Texas who are like, dude, I want to live in America?
I mean, I get it.
You have the choice then.
Cool.
I'm an American now.
So what happens to everybody in Texas?
Are you no longer American?
You are no longer American.
I'm just Texan.
That's it.
I'm not a member.
I'm not a citizen of the United States.
I'm not American.
I'm just straight up Texan.
Like, how far do we go?
Like, what happens with elections?
What happens with Electoral College?
What happens with I'm American?
Uh-huh.
And what happens to all of those federal dollars that the state of Texas gets to handle its social programs?
And what are the carrying costs and the overhead Mr. Businessman of running a country?
I think we're forgetting something here.
Here's what we're forgetting.
I think we're forgetting that the innovators and the job creators sometimes just want to be left alone.
And the innovators and job creators want to go to a place where they can continue to innovate and job create without being suffocated.
You know, the idea of suffocation to someone who wants to be free is very, very important.
I mean, if you've, I lived in Iran.
You know, can you imagine telling your kids, never tell anybody we're Christians, okay, when you go out there, don't tell people you're Christians.
Just say, I don't know what religion we are.
You know, don't tell anybody you're Christians.
When you go out there, be careful when you do.
Can you imagine having to give your kids, you already tell your kids, don't talk to strangers, don't talk to this, don't talk.
Imagine all the stuff that you tell your kids.
Add 40 other things they have to tell your kids when they go out there.
If somebody pulls up the mother, the Hezbollah pulls you, if this happens, if that happens, if this happens.
Okay.
So eventually the job creators in Iran, you know how people say, oh, Iranians are so rich.
Oh, they're such great business people.
It's not that they're great business people.
It's the business people that left Iran that came here.
The ones that are not business people, some of them decided to stay.
They're the top of us are like, I'm getting the hell out of them.
I'm getting the hell out of here.
So it's not like all Iranians are great business people.
The business people left Iran and they came and they went to San Francisco.
I've been Iranian for nine years.
He taught me all about running a business.
There you go.
They're great business people, right?
So the point I'm trying to make to you is I think the job creators are not that worried about it.
I think the people that would worry about it are those who have the jobs, those who have family in other states, those who love the idea of America.
But if the idea of America, say America, what is the idea of America?
Actually go there.
What is the idea of America?
And if we go in the direction with Georgia, all this stuff, then the idea of America is no longer the idea of America.
It's still named America, but it's no longer America.
So that's the point I'm trying to make to you.
When I come to America, I didn't come to America.
You could take the name out and you can say there's 50 countries in the world for you to choose from to raise your kids in.
All the names are, you don't know it's Sweden, Norway, Mexico, anything.
It just tells you the benefits of each state and what freedoms you have.
You don't say, I want to go, oh, it's a beautiful name.
I'm going to go to America.
No, you say, I'm going to go to this country with these benefits.
Which one is this?
I'll reveal this state.
Oh, it's America.
Okay, I'll go to America.
That's how families made the decision.
They don't just say, I love how great of a name America.
People come to America for the idea.
So if the idea that the founders came up with is no longer relevant today, what the hell am I doing living in this idea that's no longer relevant?
I'm going to go to another place that now is saying these are the ideas that we have in our country.
Are you saying that at the end of the day, this all comes down to taxes?
Everything?
No, I didn't say that.
Texas, taxes, taxes.
No, I didn't say that, buddy.
I didn't say that.
Listen, it's not taxes.
It's not just taxes.
I want to be left alone.
I want to be able to have an opinion.
I want to be able to say something.
You totally disagree with me and say, you have no clue what the hell you're talking about.
I want to have discourse.
I want to sit down and be comfortable knowing that I can have an opinion that's a political thing.
You can't do that in Texas now, but part of the United States.
Can't you do that in Florida?
I can't do that anywhere for that matter.
If it's based on the ideas that America was started on, yes.
Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of Second Amendment, freedom.
If I have those ideas, then yes.
So I think, look, you know where I'm looking at moving next.
It's not like I'm sitting here telling you I'm going to be a Texan the rest of my life.
So I'm not, all I'm saying is I actually think it's very good for Americans if Texas becomes its own country.
So you would vote for Texas to secede.
Is that what you're saying?
I don't think you heard what I said.
You say it'd be good for Americans.
Okay, guys.
Let's play Domino one more time.
This is a terrible idea if Georgia doesn't happen and we don't flip all the way to the other side.
Okay.
It's a terrible idea.
But if Georgia happens and it's 50-50, you got Kamala Biden, two years to add a million and one social programs that you can't say nothing about.
And they're not going to sit there and say, you can't do anything for me to increase court packing.
I can increase it to 9, 11, 13, 15, and own that forever.
So Rovers.
I'm going to push back.
You have to understand that five people is not a heavy majority.
The House is not insured.
The House is not bright blue.
The House is a shade.
The House is purple.
Let me ask you a question.
How often do you notice that like Supreme Court, you know, the Supreme Court folks that we have, right?
Trump brought how many of them in?
Three of them in.
How many of them voted for them to go do a recount with the other four?
How many of them?
How many of the three?
None.
Zero.
What's the point?
Republican justices will vote based on certain values and principles.
Their loyalty is to the values and principles.
Many times Democratic justices will vote on their loyalty of their party.
It's a big difference on values and principles.
I don't know if I'm making sense on what I'm saying here.
I see where you're going.
You're saying one of them is a constitutional purist.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
So a constitutional purist is going to be like, look, I appreciate you, Trump.
Thank you for putting me in.
But dude, I don't agree with you because it goes.
We just had a real live test.
Yeah.
That would say that.
So that's respect to these justices for saying, sorry, buddy.
Of course, but that's not the case with folks on the other side.
Well, they don't have the majority.
You're saying that.
But it doesn't matter.
Historically, they're always going to vote against Republican.
The Supreme Court you're saying?
Yes.
So if you go to Congress, historically, historically, more right is open to, well, you know what?
I think it's fair.
Let's talk about this.
Then left is to say, I'm willing to reason with you.
The right is willing to reason more than the left is willing to reason.
The left is not willing to.
You can sit there and give an argument.
They're not going to sit there and say, you know what, Pat, you're making a good point.
You know, yeah, you're right.
You know, I'm not going to pass this bill to raise capital gains to 39.6 because it's going to hurt the economy.
Nope, I'm going to be loyal to my party.
It's a difference between loyal to your party versus loyal to certain values.
So I am going to throw something else out there.
There is one overriding factor that motivates all politicians because remember, the Democrats used to be the party of the people.
And that's changed.
Who gets more money off Wall Street?
The Democrats.
So there is one overarching theme that we're leaving out here, and that's lobbyists and money.
But here's also what you're leaving out.
The other part you're leaving out is who is the source of delivering the messaging of that to the American people, the media.
Who controls the media?
99% is the left.
So if the messaging is going from that direction, I can spin the story.
Like an article came out the other day saying Biden's approval rating of the people today is above 60% by the hill.
How do you measure that today?
Above 60%.
So imagine if I'm somebody that doesn't follow politics and I'm like, you know what?
I knew I voted right.
Look, people like this guy already.
This is great.
So the naive voter is just going to be like, okay, good.
Oh, okay.
The naive voter is going to say, oh, all right, got it.
So yeah, the Democrats have historically been for the people who are maybe not the wealthiest, but why are they getting money from Wall Street?
Oh, they're getting there because they're trying to control them.
So they're not going to do it.
It's all on messaging.
Everything is on messaging.
But I do think that the banks have a lot.
I think Jamie Dimon is, I think Jamie Dimon is one of the most powerful people in America.
I really, really do.
And I think that the big banks, yes.
And I think that the big banks would not cotton to socialism in America.
Why did they vote that way, though?
Oh, they, if you listen to an interview that Jamie Dimon made, he basically said, he basically said what Biden is saying, that he's going to stay down the middle.
Right.
So.
Which happens, by the way, as long as the Senate doesn't flip.
Danielle, there is, say, again, it goes back to the argument of, you know, you're working with somebody and you're being more than reasonable with this person.
But that person, no matter what you do for them, they don't think you're reasonable.
No matter what you do for them, they don't think you're reasonable.
When do you win with this person?
You never win with this person.
Oh, you never win.
There's no winning with this person.
So meaning, as much as Jamie Dimon may be the most powerful person in America, as much as, you know, Biden campaigned on, I'm going to be the president for all the people, not just, you know, the left, you know, I'm going to be this, which was a great message.
Obama gave the same as well when he gave this DNC speech in 2004 saying, it's America's not about the black and the white and the LG.
It's about the LGBTQ community.
It's about the farmers.
It's about those who believe in the guns.
It's about, you know, and he gave this message like, oh my gosh, this is awesome.
And then he becomes president, never meets with Paul Ryan, and everything goes politically on one side.
So messaging and execution are two different things.
I agree.
All right.
So for me, all I'm saying is I'm not pitching.
All I'm saying, my domino, my domino on why they ought to consider it as an option is if Georgia goes full left and that goes that direction, I think people ought to hear the argument of why that may not be a bad idea to consider.
Not saying to do it.
I think it should be on the table to discuss what it will look like.
You like accountability, not just competition.
That is what it is, bro.
It's not I like accountability.
I like competition.
I like competition a lot because competition is good for me.
I need competition, okay?
Because if I don't have competition, then how am I innovating?
How am I getting better?
How am I listening?
If you don't have competition, you actually don't listen to people.
You don't listen to your employees.
You don't listen to your partners.
You don't listen to your family.
You don't listen.
You have to have competition.
Competition is a very healthy thing for you.
You need it, right?
And now we've got one in five American companies.
It's the walking dead.
So as much as we talk about Made in China 2025 and China is going to be bigger than the U.S. by 2025.
It is if we do all these things.
Yeah.
As much as we talk about that, but here's the question.
Let's just say China passes America.
How many Americans are going to wake up and say, that's it?
I'm going to China.
Nobody.
It's not going to be, I'm going to China.
Yeah, but all four of my kids take Mandarin in case we ever have to deal with them.
There's a difference between dealing with them.
There's a difference between dealing with them and moving.
Would you move your family to China?
Okay, so there's a difference between communicating and doing that, right?
Okay.
So all I'm saying is if something happened to America where it flipped far, far, far in one direction politically, what's your plan B?
Where are you going?
I hear Wuhan is lovely this time.
Right.
Especially.
Oh my gosh, you just said that again, out loud.
So let me give a quick shout out to a couple people.
Roger, the seeker 2020, Roger Varr had to pay $25,000 exit, 25% tax to be released from citizenship.
He was the Bitcoin early promoter.
$50 was given by Sean Nicholson.
How will Biden's U.S. deal with current trade war and rapid deterioration ties between Australia and China and other gender trying to punish Australian by using Australians' heavy reliance towards Chinese trade to try to hurt Australians?
Maybe we'll go to that here in a second because the guy gave 50 bucks.
We'll go to that.
And then we had Sean Nicholson that just gave 99 cents.
He just wanted to make sure he winked that atom, which that's just love right there.
You can't even get a dollar.
And then let me get a couple of people.
Do I make a dollar out of 99?
Greasy Wise said Danielle needs to come back more often.
We love Danielle.
And Colin's motto said, PBD, can you shout out Officer Fuller for giving me a ticket for not completely stopping at a stop sign in the middle of nowhere with no traffic around?
Okay.
Officer Fuller.
We need local revenue here.
We've got to generate revenue in localities.
Buddy, so what do you have to say about the China-Australia deal with Biden?
Look, again, I think that people cannot discount the fact that, I mean, I spent 10 days in Australia.
I gave a speech over there.
It is an amazing country.
Beautiful people.
Dynamic economy.
All dependent.
Not all.
That's too strong.
Very dependent on China.
Australia.
The biggest port in Australia.
China has a 50-year lease.
An island I stayed on.
China owns.
I mean, the buildings that have gone up, Chinese developers.
So for Australia to lead 116 countries, 116 countries, demanding that the World Health Organization investigate, launch an independent inquiry into the origins of the virus, for Australia to be in the lead.
They knew that they were putting their economy at grave risk.
And boy, have they gotten some blowback.
Huge blowback.
I mean, forget wine.
Don't get me wrong.
Love Australian Shiraz.
Lovely gut and yum.
But forget the wine.
China's now crossed the line and said coal.
So, I mean, they're talking about hitting the Australian economy where it hurts.
Australia is a staunch ally of the United States.
Staunch, staunch, staunch.
Biden has initially said he's not moving those tariffs on China.
Oh, you heard what he said yesterday, though.
He says, I'm going back and I'm open to the idea of having to remove tariffs to grow the economy.
So he's willing to entertain the ideas.
Is that a bad thing?
Is that a bad thing?
Okay, wait, No, Now you're having two different conversations because the tariffs have hurt a lot of our manufacturers.
Yes.
Very badly.
But I'm not talking about the efficacy of tariffs or not.
I'm talking about standing behind Australia and defending Australia in the situation, given the fact that for the first time in 30 years, they're in recession.
So they're on their knees and still standing on principle, standing up against China.
So, I mean, I take my hats off to Australia right now that they're doing something.
They're being kind of American.
I hope it can stay that way.
Where's the United States in on this WHO?
I know we pulled out or Trump pulled out.
Is the United States weighed in on the United States was not part of the 116 countries independent inquiry.
And what are your thoughts on that?
Do you think they want to hold China accountable?
United States.
I think it had more to do with the fact that whether we were in the WHO or not.
But I absolutely think that an independent inquiry still needs to be done.
Yeah.
And by the way, why isn't anybody asking about vaccines in China?
You've got an entire country that's up and running, and nobody's talking about the vaccine in your life.
You're saying that they're not taking the vaccine in China?
I'm saying that they've probably had a vaccine and have all taken it.
Check, because YouTube had this issue the other day.
Are you seeing stuff online YouTube is down or no?
Speedtest.net, Sam.
Let's see if it is.
We're not even on the Wi-Fi.
This is Wi-Fi.
We're not even connected to Wi-Fi.
We're connected directly.
This is Wi-Fi.
So we're hardline.
We're T1.
Yeah.
Ethernet will be 300 or 400.
Are you seeing it signal?
I'm hearing it and I've seen it, but it just goes back and forth.
So it goes back and forth.
It's in, it's out, it's in, it's out.
It says can hear better.
YouTube has sound because the commercial before your video has sound, but when you go into your videos, it has no sound.
So no, it's not down.
Are we back?
Are we back?
Yeah.
I mean, we'll just go right now.
Say that again.
It's got a tune.
We just don't have to live stream.
It says we're back up.
No, no, we're going to.
Okay, all right, let's go back to it.
So you were saying, how come we're not talking about the vaccine?
And the question I asked you is: what do you think about the CEOs?
72% saying they're open to the idea of mandating vaccine for their employees.
Again, you're asking me a business question.
So if this is something that hinders revenue generating capacity, then you can do whatever you need to do in order to run your business.
But there's no but.
I didn't say but.
I said you're running a business, not a country.
I mean, Americans have free choice to do whatever they want to do.
You have a free choice as to where you want to work as well.
So then, how do you mandate that?
Does it become does it infringe upon your liberties that some companies have dress codes?
Well, no, what I'm saying is, but this is This is, well, because let's just say, I mean, I got employees.
I go to my employees and say, guys, moving forward, everybody's got to have a vaccine shot.
For me to say it without the state saying it, you want me to go to my employees and say, guys, if you don't take a vaccine, you can't work.
Again, it depends on the business model.
If you're some company that everybody's working from home and you haven't taken a hit to your sales or your profits, there's no reason to say, but if you are in an environment, if you run a meat packing company and you've had outages,
if you run a manufacturing line, if you're Ford Motor Company and you keep having to shut down your production lines, your assembly lines, because of COVID outbreaks, and if that's disrupting your ability to conduct business, then I think that it is within your purview.
Well, so as a business owner, so if it's 72%, the problem that I'm having to this is the word requiring.
And you bring up a good idea with like meat packing companies, for example.
I didn't go there.
That means 28% are saying, no, no, we're good with it.
So what happens?
Like, walk me down this path.
What happens to the actual employees?
Hey, guys, you know, there's 100, 200, 500 people here.
You're all now required to have a vaccine.
We're, you know, you got to pay for it yourself or we're doing it for free, whatever.
Remember, there's no liability in this relief package.
There's no liability protections.
So what happens to the employees that say, no, I'm good?
Do they get fired?
So you're doing CYA.
You're saying, look, as an employer, if you get COVID, you can sue me.
Because the Republicans and the Democrats couldn't come together and agree on liability protection for either customers or so.
If you're an employer, you have to cover yourself.
So if you want to make sure that your work environment is COVID-free, because any employee can sue you if they get COVID in their work environment, you can't have it both ways.
So on your resume, if you're looking for a new job, do you have to put that on your resume?
Yes, I've been vaccinated.
Here's my qualifications.
That's a weird thing.
Are you going to fire?
Like, are you going to, if you have 100 people here at home, 20 people, you're going to fire people that are like, how does that happen?
Listen, let me tell you.
The other day I said this and people started laughing.
I said, nowadays, it's like when you meet somebody, I asked the first question, you good with handshakes?
Are you good with this?
You tell me where you're.
I'm good, whatever.
And they'll say, okay, this, this, that.
I said, nowadays, you know, if you're willing to hug somebody, you're far right.
If you're a handshake person, you're Republican.
If you're a fist bump person, you're center right.
If you're an elbow person, you're left.
If you don't touch me, don't hug me, you're far left.
You can tell politics nowadays with a handshake.
It's a body language.
So then this is where I go with this.
This is where I go with this.
Here's the next part.
The next part then becomes there is an element of this that is about it's becoming a religion.
Meaning, you know, do I have to be, we only hire people here that are pro-life, pro-choice.
We're only hired people here that are Christians.
We only hire people that are this.
We only hire people that are atheists.
You can't talk about it.
No, no, no.
Hey, no, let me just go there for a second.
Let me make my point.
I can only work over you if you believe in this.
You can only work over you for believing that.
What do you mean I have to take a vaccine to work at your company?
What do you mean I have to take a vaccine to work at your company?
I don't know about that part.
Now, if I'm a doctor, I get it.
If I'm a doctor, sure, because I'm dealing with people, so maybe I got to be safe.
If I'm in the military, you're government property.
Whatever they want to do to your body, they can do because you're officially government property.
So you don't have a choice when you join the military.
You chose to get that $600 a month or $800 a month, whatever the military pays you for an E1 nowadays.
I don't know what an E1 pays you nowadays.
E1 salary is nothing.
You have to do whatever we tell you to do.
In return, we're going to give you this, this, this, this, that, but whatever shot we gave you.
For an employer to come out and say, if you don't take the vaccine, you can't work here.
I don't know.
So just think about that.
So, okay, so there's a middle ground here, Pat.
If you're not going to get vaccinated, then you're going to agree to never sue me.
Meaning, you're going to have to sign a waiver or free of liability for me.
Employee.
Full liability expenses.
I'm fully good with that.
I'm okay with that.
I'm actually fully okay with that.
Because if you say, yeah, I don't want to take the vaccine, no problem.
It's totally fine.
But if you do get something, then you have to know that you can't ever sue me and something happens to you.
I'm good with that.
But then how about the other people that do take the vaccine and they get it from the person that didn't take the vaccine?
Can they sue you?
So the employees.
Well, then you go sue the vaccine maker.
But I'm being sue.
And the vaccine maker is going to say, well, it's not 100%.
It's 95%.
It's 96%.
That's why we left the 4% to protect ourselves in that.
But you never did answer my question.
If you're Ford Motor Company, if you're Tyson chicken and you have to stop business because everybody has to go quarantine, even if it's just seven days, is that fair to the employer?
If I have to quarantine for seven days.
If you have to shut assembly lines down, if your workforce is out because they've been in contact with people with COVID, so you have to close business.
Your sales are going to go down.
Your profits are going to take a hit.
Is that fair to the employer?
Well, then I think, no, then I think the option would be to, you know, the option would be, would the government allow you to say, whoever works here gets paid at this level.
If you work from home, you're going to be a consultant.
You get paid at this level.
That's happening.
Yeah.
Pay cuts for working from home.
That's already started.
Yeah, pay cuts working from home is happening.
Speaking of vaccine and COVID.
Yeah, by the way, at some point, we're going to have to get to Tom Cruise.
But do you understand what I'm saying?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
My point is the fact that you can't, you're not going to win everybody.
There's no way you're going to win everybody.
The person that loses here is the CEO.
The CEO doesn't win.
Correct.
The CEO is the one that loses.
It's a no-win proposition.
It's a no-CEO is losing no matter what.
And if you're a CEO, because I would just be a customer service rep. I'm ready to just answer phones.
But if you're a publicly, Patrick, David, how are you?
Awesome.
Give me $15 an hour.
Just do that without the shot.
But if you're a publicly traded company, what do your shareholders say about you?
You're just being customer service rep right now.
What do your shareholders say to a CEO because he's unpopular?
They say too bad.
It's your job to maximize shareholder returns.
100%.
I don't have a problem with that.
But I think what happens is this forces more people to triangulate and socialize amongst each other and say, you see, I disagreed with the CEO.
Now there's a division in the company.
Now you don't have the culture.
Now you don't have cohesiveness.
Now you can't make advancement.
Now people are dropping the ball.
Now people are clickish and the clicks are coming together and saying, I told you he wasn't right.
I told you she wasn't right.
And then you have all this other stuff that comes with it.
And it's not like it ever happens at our company, but I'm sure some people experience some of this stuff.
Yeah, I'm just kind of throwing.
I'm speculating.
All of my employees are remote.
I wouldn't know.
I don't want to know.
No one really wants to go to Tom Cruise.
Let's talk about Tom Cruise.
Let's talk about Tom Cruise.
So Tom Cruise, who is famous for, you know, not doing a lot of interviews, but when he does interviews, Tom Cruise has a tendency of, you know, not holding back.
You know, whether it was the Oprah Winfrey one Kyle was talking about when he was jumping up, saying, I love her.
I'm in love.
I love her on the couch, all this stuff, you know, acting like a kid.
He needs to be on a couch.
He's kind of, anyways, vertically killed.
That's interesting.
By the way, if you ever said that to his face, he'd be very pissed off.
Sorry, I'm sorry.
Please publicly.
I'm sorry, right?
In high heels, I'm taller than you.
Have you ever seen him with Matt Loward the interview where they're debating Ridland and Brooks Shields and all that stuff?
You ever seen that or not?
Let me tell you, there's a part of him.
There's a part of Tom I like a lot.
He's a fiery dude.
No, it's not the fiery dude.
You know, when he says, do you know what Ridland does?
Do you know what these drugs do?
Have you actually looked at what these drugs do?
He says, Matt, you need to do your research.
No, you got to go because you're the journalist.
So there's certain things he takes that I like what he says.
But he had a meltdown a couple days ago and it was recorded.
And here's what it sounded like.
And I think Kai has the recording.
Let's see if he has the right one.
We need a visual here, for heaven's sake.
No, they don't have a visual.
It's just a recording.
One of the employees apparently recorded him losing his mind.
Let's get a picture of a modern-day Tom Cruise, though, Kai.
Let's use it some visual to it.
Put one we can use so they don't come back saying you use the wrong one.
Pull up the story because he's out there.
Okay.
Let's hear this.
All right, here we go.
Yeah.
You got the audio?
Audio.
Because of us.
Because they believe in us and what we're doing.
I'm on the front with every fing studio at night.
Insurance companies.
Producers.
And they're looking at us and using us to make their movies.
We are creating thousands of jobs, you.
I don't ever want to see it again.
Ever.
And if you don't do it, you're fired.
And if I see you do it again, you're fing gone.
And anyone on this crew does it.
That's it.
And you too.
And you too.
And you.
Don't you ever do it again.
That's it.
No apologies.
You can tell it to the people that are losing their homes because our industry is shut down.
It's not going to put food on their table or pay for their college education.
That's what I sleep with every night.
The future of the fing industry.
So I'm sorry.
I'm beyond your apologies.
I have told you, and now I want it.
And if you don't do it, you're out.
We are not shutting this movie down.
He's not messing around.
Is it understood?
If I see it again, you're fing gone.
And so are you.
So you're going to cost him his job.
And I see it on the set.
You're gone.
And you're gone.
That's it.
Am I clear?
Do you understand what I want?
Do you understand the responsibility that you have?
Because I will deal with your reason.
And if you can't deal with it.
It's like the scene from Tropic Thunder.
I will.
You know the scene I'm talking about.
Tropic Thunder Tom Show.
When he plays the super agent.
Patrick, do you think he's requiring the vaccine?
So when you hear this, how do you process it when you hear this?
What do you think?
What was the infraction?
So apparently, they were a little too close when they were the editors.
They were a little too close.
It was less than six feet, and he lost it.
I got to agree with Tom on this one.
Okay, maybe not in the manner in which he completely had a freaking meltdown, but understand what he said.
I'm the one that this falls on.
I got to deal with the insurance companies.
I'm creating thousands of jobs.
Me, But the reality is, if he wasn't so over the top, he actually has a point here.
All these people are worried about.
He should have said, I'm creating these jobs.
Please stop.
He should have said like that.
If he didn't have that meltdown, we would not be talking about him.
But this is very Tom Cruise-ish.
Look, look, he does have truth to what he's saying.
The movie industry has suffered great.
I mean, if there's okay.
Yes.
Here's a shout out to Gavin Newsome.
Here's a first and last.
Wow.
He wants it.
Go for it.
Go for it.
He is looking forward to this money.
He has boy of the year.
He has deemed studios in LA to be essential and allowed them to stay open.
Congratulations.
Okay.
How's that food at French Laundry?
By the way, they just got a $3.5 million PPP loan.
I think they just got it.
Big, big loan.
A restaurant?
No, they just got his business got $350,000, his vineyard.
And I think French Laundry got a massive check as well.
What if French Laundry just get a check on?
Go to French Laundry, PP, $2.4 million.
One day, PPP funding.
17 times more than the average restaurant in the Bay Area.
They got $2.4 million.
French Laundry is what they got.
So Gavin Newsom in the wine valley.
So here's a question for you.
By the way, just so you know, five of his staffers quit this morning.
Tom Cruise, word just came out an hour ago.
Five of his staffers quit this morning.
Right before we went live, five of the staffers quote from the, what do you call it, the set.
But there's a couple of ways I process this.
Number one, the way I process this is this guy's putting his own money on the line.
He's paid all the whatever things he has to do to make it right.
He spent $500,000 of his own money to make this movie.
Because he's also the producer.
Yeah, he is.
So he's putting his own money on the line.
So there's a couple ways you process.
Some are saying, oh, some are speculating saying this was intentional.
He said this because he wants to be seen and heard responsible.
You know, some are saying he did this intentional, the recording to leak because, you know, he's trying to use it to promote the movie that's coming out.
I don't know about that.
I don't know.
What I will tell you is there's one thing about Tom Cruise.
The guy loves what he does for a living.
And the guy loves working.
You're hearing a guy that is sick of not being able to do his art and his craft that he loves.
Just so you know, Scientology, I interviewed one time a guy named Mark Keedley.
Once I interviewed that guy, I got emails from the headquarters of Scientology.
Okay.
I got blocked by many Scientologists after I did it.
I just did the interview.
And if you watch the interview, you would see me challenging Mark Keedley on what Scientology Church did to him.
So it's not an interview of Mark's like, no, I'm successful.
I'm a millionaire.
I'm this, I'm that.
I'm like, where did you learn that work ethic from?
He says, yeah, I guess I know where you're going with this.
I probably learned how to work off from being part of the Church of Scientology.
I said, so where you worked, anywhere I've worked, people have said, I've never met somebody that works this art.
Anyways, the moment I touched Scientology, blocked from a bunch of different people out of Scientologists.
Okay.
And I got messages.
You set that aside with Tom Cruise?
This guy's a stud and a half.
He jumps out of airplanes.
This guy's a freaking stud.
He does his own stunts.
He's a stud.
He's not a media, you know, he's not coming out saying, hey, look at me.
I don't even know if he's got an Instagram account.
I don't think he's on Twitter.
I don't think he cares if you know what he wears, what he does.
He doesn't care to show to the shows.
He still never won an Oscar.
One of the best actors of all time to have never won an Oscar.
This guy's done.
He had me at Hello.
You know, you had me at Hello.
He did Jerry Maguire, which he crushed it.
He did the Top Gun.
Risky business.
Forget about those movies.
He did a few good men.
He did the Rainman.
And when he did Rainman, Dustin Hoffman won.
So many of the people that did movies with him won.
But this guy's never won something.
He's going to be one of these guys.
I keep kidding me.
He's going to get a lifetime achievement award.
That's pathetic.
The guy is a brilliant guy.
He's 60 yet.
How old is he, Kai?
He's got to be up here.
I'm guessing he's late 50s.
Yeah, but you know what?
You're also guessing that he's more in shape than anybody else in here in his late 50s.
He's 58.
He looks great.
He looks great.
He's stressed out, though.
No doubt about it.
He's stressed out.
But that's a stressed out of a person to me.
But what was he saying?
Go back to your responsible.
Be responsible.
I'm on the phone with insurance companies at night.
So you're saying CEOs should not require vaccines and yet they're talking to their insurance companies about bringing their workers back into the office.
Yeah, but he lost five staffers.
So meaning there's a risk for whatever position you take.
The point I'm trying to make to you is everybody's.
He's going to replace them in five minutes.
But I know he's going to replace them in five minutes.
It's the annoying face of trying to replace somebody that's doing a job that you got to go and say, put it out there, find somebody, wait a week, qualifying background shit, two week later.
I got it.
It's not an easy thing to do.
It's time.
It's the three weeks that you don't want to take with the set people being there, right?
So, but here's where I'm going with this part.
Here's where I'm going with this part.
Look who ended up seeing like the dick here, the asshole here.
Who?
Tom Cruise is the asshole.
He's the CEO.
The CEO of the project ended up being the asshole because he's trying to do what's responsible and still the world is saying, what a freaking asshole, you know?
What a freaking asshole this guy is.
And he doesn't care about this and doesn't care about that.
You don't think he has pressure that no one knows about?
You think the pressure he has is money pressure?
You think he wakes up in the morning and says, I got to pay my bills.
You think it's that pressure?
Or you think it's the pressure of, let me do my work and my art and go back to being one of the guys.
Please be responsible.
People are relying on us to send their kids to college.
People are relying on us to put food on the table.
He was, I mean, I will defend a lot of what he was saying because he was saying the industry is using this filming as a benchmark to see, to measure the efficacy of opening up filmmaking again in a bigger way where we are representative of something bigger than just this movie.
He said that.
He spoke for employees throughout.
He sounded like an ambassador.
He sounded like a pissed off ambassador saying we're going to set the tone for a moment.
He has a really creative usage of the F-word.
I mean, he can use it in many different ways, grammatically speaking.
I tell you one thing: if you ever listened to how we spoke in the military, you know, you would like, you would think we had an obsession with the F-bomb.
It was every other word was so, you know.
That's why they say cussing like a sailor.
Yeah, you know, you know, sports, military, I'm sure you're on the set.
You're ticked off.
I mean, you guys seen Christian Bay, you ever saw Christian Bay lose it?
You ever seen Christian Bay lose?
So you think about the people that have lost it.
Chris Berman lost it once.
Does anybody here know what the F they're doing?
Does anybody know their job?
Berman?
You've never seen Chris Berman lose?
I would show it if YouTube wouldn't censor, but you don't know.
Bill O'Reilly.
Bill O'Reilly.
Let's do a lie.
Let's do a lie.
You ever seen Glenbeck lose it?
He's notorious.
Okay, yes.
You're right, Karen.
We should do this.
All you rich people.
Shut up.
You've never seen that?
Oh, my.
Did you see if you guys are already like cutting?
Did you, the Rick Santelli thing?
CNBC?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I saw Rick Santa.
That was with Andrew Ross.
Of course, yeah, yeah.
He says, there has to be a better way than this.
There has to be.
And then the last guy says, so how's that working out for you?
How's that working out for you, Rick?
But you know what?
I respect him for being able to push the ombre with his own co-workers.
You know what this all reminds me of, this every single meltdown?
Speaking of Tom Curtis.
Tell us.
I want the truth.
Yeah.
I want the truth.
And he doesn't have an oscillator.
And he doesn't have an Oscar.
How do you not have an Oscar?
I want the truth.
Dude, I've been looking for that for 42 years.
I want the truth as well.
So it's been a lifelong mission.
Lifelong mission.
Okay, so is that enough to get Tom Cruise out of our system?
Is that the time to do it?
I'm going to satisfy.
I'm happy to be able to.
I got to just finish it up.
I'm happy to hear Kaiko.
I got to throw someone under the bus here.
I have to.
Kai?
I got to throw Mario under the bus.
I love Mario.
Watch.
I think it's Mario that's shutting down today's Chinese.
Watch.
He's going to pull the T1 line.
Mario was here early this morning.
Watch.
Mario's about to walk in.
He's about to walk in with a CCP shirt on.
We have our pitch stories.
Danielle was on Zoom yesterday.
You walked out of the meeting.
I'm left with Eric and Kai and Mario.
I'm like, all right, guys, let's wrap up what stories we want to do.
I go, hey, I think we should cover this Tom Cruise story.
It's pretty big.
Mario's like, no, I don't think that.
I think maybe that's a different something.
I go, you know, like, I think it's a pretty big story.
I think people are going to be interested in it.
It's Tom Cruise.
No, no, no, no, we're going back and forth.
You cannot have a female in the room who pauses the volleyball scene in Top Gun and say Tom Cruise and not talk about it.
I'm sorry.
You got to go there.
Okay.
Top gun.
Is he a top 10 best-looking male actor of all time?
Would you put him as a top 10?
I'll let Daniel.
He looks like he's in your Danielle.
Not to my Tommy boy.
Well, isn't the top 10?
Let me put it this way.
The fact that he's a badass makes him more attractive than he actually is.
I so agree with you.
I so agree with you.
Yeah, I think he's a badass.
Look, I give him a pass on this one because I think of him as a CEO, frustrated, annoyed, trying to do the responsibility.
I give him a pass because he was speaking for the employees who want to work in this country.
I respect him.
He's capitalist for him.
So no negative from me about Tom's here.
To wrap this story up, Tom Cruise on Mario.
You don't want to do the Tom Cruise story.
Fuck it.
We won't do it.
He's like, all right, we'll do this.
Hello.
Sorry, Danielle.
Family-friendly show here.
Yes.
Oh, this is a family.
Dude, her four kids watch this show.
What are you doing every single time you do this, man?
Now, I'm imitating Tom Cruise.
And remember, her kids speak Mandarin.
You have to understand, be very careful.
You spoke Mandarin, I would have said that.
All right, so let's talk about Facebook against Apple.
Facebook accuses Apple of anti-competitive behavior over privacy.
By the way, this is very interesting when you get into it.
Facebook, Tom Sorry, Wednesday after shot firing another shot in a month-long standoff between the two tech giants over Apple's planned privacy changes on iOS 14.
Apple is behaving anti-competitively by using their control of the app store to benefit their bottom line at the expense of creators and small businesses.
Full stop.
Facebook vice president for ads and business product Dan Levy told reporters the world's biggest social media company ran full-page ads and major newspapers criticizing Apple's plan, which will limit apps' ability to gather data from other phones that will be used for targeting advertising.
Apple said in June that such activity will require a pop-up notification asking iOS users for permission to track your UCross apps and websites owned by other companies, which digital advertising firms expect most will decline.
Facebook and Apple have also tangled over commission fees.
The iPhone maker charges apps.
Listen on iOS devices with Facebook again aligning itself with small developers most affected by this policy.
Thoughts?
Well, we all saw what happened with Apple and Epic Games and Fortnite and everything with that.
And that was something we've covered on the podcast many a times.
But something that a theme of this podcast that we've had this entire time is competition and holding other states or countries accountable.
To see Apple and Facebook go at it.
I freaking love it.
Two legitimate monopolies, right now?
Yeah, exactly.
All right.
So we said that Apple is on the verge of what, 45% of the time.
46% of smartphones.
Facebook.
Yes.
Facebook is currently dealing with antitrust lawsuits.
Biden's trying to get him to break apart with WhatsApp and Instagram.
You know, Amazon versus Walmart.
Who's winning that one?
For me, I'm not trying to get too in the tech that they're taking out full-page ads.
Like to see Apple and Facebook go at it.
I can appreciate that.
The question is: who's more powerful?
Who's an actually more powerful company, Apple or Facebook?
You know, my mom hat is on right now.
And I think privacy is a big issue.
So you're going with Apple.
I think you should be as private as you want to be.
Yeah.
And I think you should know if somebody's infringing upon your privacy.
I don't think that that should be something that you have to find out by watching the social dilemma.
You're like, whoa.
No, no, no.
I think privacy is a bigger issue than what we appreciate.
And I think people like the kid in Vermont who's been holed up for seven months.
Somebody's following him.
Somebody's tracking everything.
And they're preying upon his weaknesses.
Yep.
They are.
They're infringing upon his privacy.
I see what you're saying.
So they're bringing up the videos that he will, you know, take him to the rabbit hole of the videos.
Yeah.
They're praying.
So I think privacy, I don't think that's something that America has explored deeply enough.
So I'm curious, if you're watching this right now, who are you defending?
Are you with Danielle on Apple?
If you are, smash the thumbs up button.
If you're saying no, I think Facebook should be allowed to target whoever they want to target with their ads because if they don't, they're going to be hitting some revenue issues.
Put thumbs down.
But thumbs up for Apple, thumbs down to defend Facebook.
I'm curious to know what you guys will say about it.
Adam, what are your thoughts?
On this topic?
I just love to see these two companies going at it.
I don't know if there's any clear-cut answer here.
Oh, come on.
These are moral issues you're talking about.
You put so much time into creating opinions about these issues.
Adam, like seriously.
This is something where I just think I love that these two companies are holding each other accountable.
I like it.
We're going to have to get you some children.
I would like some, Danielle.
Okay.
I think you're going to make an awesome.
I'm still thinking about Tom Cruise, bro.
I think you're going to make an awesome.
Well, he's not going to help you make children.
Yeah.
No.
No, that's not.
He is in your top 10, though.
No question he's in your top 10.
That's impressive.
Who's number one, though?
Who's number one?
DiCaprio's probably going to be a top three.
He's probably a top three guy.
Freaking guy.
You know, he's kissed only one girl in his life.
But okay, so let's go back to this Facebook.
Clooney.
Oh, okay.
Period.
Cool.
There you go.
Clooney gal.
Cool.
Yeah.
George Crony.
I think there's something about Robert Downey Jr. with the, you know, it's very, very cool and different.
Denzel's a freaking badass guy.
That's just like a dance man.
Yeah.
I don't know about you guys.
So how do we go?
I talk Facebook, Apple, you're going to sexy men.
Like, what is up with Adam today?
You're all over the place.
Like, you've been salivating.
You've texted.
I got six emails this morning waking up saying Adam wants you to cover Tom Cruise.
It's the holiday season.
So we covered it for you.
Let's get that out of your situation.
He already said he's celebrating Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah.
So he's like the happiest guy in the room.
Maybe we should take a look at his search history and we'd understand.
Well, no, it would be what's the other one?
Just ask Facebook.
What is the other one that we were talking about last time, the search history?
What's that one company where you get five bucks for people or whatever?
What is it?
This is OnlyFans.
OnlyFans, your website.
That's where you go a lot.
Okay.
The girl I was talking to in Miami, it turns out she was an OnlyFan account.
And now I'm just.
Maybe she was hoping for you to be her OnlyFan.
Maybe that's what it was.
I don't know.
That's a play.
I don't know.
Let's go back to Facebook.
Are you familiar with that?
She can help with the banking department, by the way.
She's got the right equipment.
Yes.
I agree.
Just FYI.
Are you familiar with this OnlyFans situation?
No.
You don't even know about it.
AOC is a good idea.
Please tell me because one of my children might be.
Anyways, continue.
Kids are going to see now.
Danielle's a PG, you know, a PGA.
Bother.
If you don't say, they're definitely going to go to it.
AOC has come out and said now officially that sex work is work.
Yeah, she tweeted that yesterday.
She said sex work is work.
Sex work is work.
Pardon me?
So basically, she tweeted yesterday saying sex work is your working.
Does she know how sex workers in many ways are recruited?
You know how bad she got trashed on Twitter legally when she said that?
She got crushed on Twitter yesterday, but she got a retweet from Adam, which was God.
You're about to get, I'm about to hit the eject button, Mr. Tom Cruise.
You don't know what direction I'm going over here.
I see three.
Don't even liking AOC's tweets.
I'm not liking her tweets.
I'm just, and actually, you know, you've seen the shirts that she has taxed the rich.
Did you hear the shirt that I made?
Something I know rhymes with rich.
Yes, tax the young lady.
So Facebook, Apple.
Let's wrap this up with Facebook Apple before we go to the next topic.
Yeah, what's going on?
This is actually a big deal.
Let me explain to you why.
Let me explain to you why.
So small business.
So two arguments on both sides.
Arguments on both sides.
Okay.
Who has the bigger monopoly?
If you ask it.
That was.
You say Facebook?
Yeah, that was the good conversation.
Who has the bigger monopoly?
Facebook or Apple?
Who has more power?
You say Facebook.
What do you say?
I don't know.
I mean, with the whole 46% of smartphones.
I'm here.
okay okay so the monopoly is but they're not talking about breaking up apple We are talking about breaking up Facebook.
Can I make my point?
Go ahead, Mr. Bethany.
To go to Facebook, you have to pick up the Apple iPhone.
To go to Facebook, you got to pick up the Apple iPad.
To go to Facebook, you got to pick up your Apple Mac Pro, you know, whatever you want to call it.
You have to go all roads lead to Apple.
Okay?
46%, right?
Buddy, that's a lot of roads.
Dude, you're forgetting apps, music, beats.
You're forgetting iWatch.
You're forgetting Apple Watch.
You're forgetting.
You're forgetting so many different things that these guys are just dominating the market with.
Plus, if you send someone a text and it comes up green, they make fun of you.
We forced Eric.
Yeah.
Have you switched it or not?
Did you really switch it or not?
Oh my gosh, that scares me.
I interviewed the guy with 30 million subscribers who's the number one tech guy on YouTube that talks about all these different things, phones.
That's coming out.
I can't wait for the viewers to see it.
It was a great conversation.
He's a genius.
But going back to this, okay.
Apple is pushing their weight around, man.
And it's a scary thought.
It's a scary, scary thought.
And Facebook has to be very careful because Facebook needs Apple.
And if Apple wants to make Facebook's life a living hell, they could easily do it.
So Facebook has to be very, very careful because all roads don't lead to Facebook.
All roads lead to Apple.
That leads to Facebook.
I have to go to Apple Town to find Facebook.
I don't go to Facebook Town to find Apple.
To that part, Apple has to, Facebook has to keep in mind.
The other part, where Facebook is right, what Facebook is saying is right.
Let me give Facebook side.
Okay.
A small business owner doesn't have a lot of money to advertise.
Small business owner is not advertising a million dollars a month.
A small business owner is advertising $1,000 a week, $2,000 a week, $5,000 a week.
For them to not be able to target the audience to their city, you know, location, streets, demographic, all that, dude, you're so now I have to spend four times the amount of money to find the niche market that I want to find because now I can't get targeted ads.
So the advertiser stops.
If the small business owner stops advertising to the targeted market that they have, that small business owner now takes a hit.
So I understand why Facebook is siding with the small business owner, but they also have to realize the King Kong in this situation is Apple.
You have to watch how you talk to Apple.
It's that simple.
It's called free enterprise and competition, bro.
You're going to push them around.
You have to be very, very respectful when you're dealing with Apple.
It's that simple.
And Facebook may sound like they're a caring company, but this also has to do with their shareholders.
Absolutely.
But what I'm saying is I like the angle they took with their focus on the small creators, small business owners.
I mean, my gosh, right now in America?
Sure.
Exactly.
I mean, that's good PR.
I get it, but no, you're right.
In terms of who wears the pants, you're absolutely right.
If they were scared, like you're saying, they need to be careful.
Why are they taking out full-page ads in newspapers criticizing them?
Isn't that the exact opposite?
That putting their shit out there and saying, nah, buddy, we're going to come at you and we're going to put you in all the major publications.
And we don't care what you have to say because we're going to put it out there.
What's their thought process there?
If they were.
So by the way, just so you know, most of the audience voted for Apple over Facebook is what the audience said here.
So yeah, did you have, did you have to turn your mic on because I can't hear you?
No, my only question there was, because Apple obviously has been taking a big, like their big marketing effort in privacy.
Yeah.
Where they're marketing that we're big on privacy, so then limiting the consumer and essentially protecting the person from somebody overstepping their bounds.
My question for you would then be: regardless of is Facebook or Apple the bigger monopoly, who is overstepping their bounds more, Facebook or Apple?
Because you know the whole when people say they have their phone there, they talk about cat food, and then suddenly they're seeing cat food commercials.
Like even though Facebook's not even remotely open or active on the app, it might be lingering on the back.
Well, that part is a different story.
The whole thing with Instagram got caught watching you with their camera and then they said, oh, we're so sorry.
I have a problem with that.
That's a different story.
That's a good question.
But that is what, at least kind of how I understand that that's what they're trying to limit of basically saying that you have to enable.
I think there's other ways.
Look, I think there's a happy medium.
Targeting.
If I'm targeting you based on what?
Some of the targeting, I think the small business owner only helps them out.
No, yeah.
But the targeting of camera, all that, listen, that's a criminal offense.
That's the stuff that should go to court.
You're recording what I'm doing.
What are you talking about here?
Exactly.
No, that's a crime.
That's a situation.
Sounds a situation.
By the way, you know what happens if you work at a retail store and you know the peep stuff, they would put cameras.
Some employees got caught.
You know what happens?
That's a federal offense.
You're going to jail when you're putting the camera in the changing room.
Oh, yeah.
So that's pretty much what they're doing.
They're putting the camera in the changing room, except it's my bedroom.
Not okay with that.
Instagram got caught with that last question.
Yeah, remember we had a conversation with my buddy Joe, and he said to ask you, oh, if you go to Norway, you're going to go to the, what was the word?
It's like, you're going to go to the slopes or with some weird word.
You're like, oh, yeah, of course.
In the gym.
I don't recall any of that.
Okay.
You don't remember what he asked?
Something in Norway?
You're right, Adam.
And then he's like, dude, something popped up the other day on the.
Oh, that's a good question.
Let's talk about Trump Mar-a-Lago real quick.
Last story, we got 12 minutes before we wrap up.
President Donald Trump's neighbors, Mar-Lago, are taking legal action to try to convince him to leave.
Trump's Florida neighbors are not happy with him wanting to be their permanent resident, according to Washington Post.
Neighbors reportedly wrote a letter to Palm Beach authorities and the U.S. Secret Service saying Trump had no legal rights to live there full-time, citing legal precedent over from an agreement that Trump signed in 1993 when he sought to turn what he had been a residence into a private club.
Under the terms of the agreement, no guest is permitted to stay in the club for more than three non-consecutive day periods during one year.
According to the post, the letter says Palm Beach authorities should promptly notify Trump he is not allowed to live in Mar-a-Lago to avoid an embarrassing situation in which a former president had to be evicted.
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Danielle likes this story a lot.
Opinions, Adam?
Thoughts?
I'm trying to get Kai this thing over here.
Okay, about what did he say to Epstein?
Oh, I like him.
He likes young girls.
Yeah, sorry.
What do you say about what they're doing?
Kai, do you have an opinion on this?
You look like you want to say something.
Yeah, I just sent Kai something.
Yes, I do have an opinion.
Go ahead, Kai.
You can interject.
Check your text, though, though.
Tell me if you know that one.
If he's signed in contract, then I don't think there's too much he can do.
I mean, obviously he'll probably try to fight it, but if it's signed, it's signed.
Here's where I think Trump should live.
I think Trump should live in the state where he received the highest percentage of the votes.
That's where I think he should move.
No more Mar-a-Lago.
I'm sorry.
You need to go to your base.
So he needs to go to either Wyoming, Alabama, West Virginia.
That's his people.
That's where he needs to go.
If he loves those people, he loves them so much, that's where I think he should live.
No more with Mar-a-Lago.
I think, and I'm not even saying that disrespectfully.
I mean that you love these people.
Go live there.
Stop it.
What?
Stop it.
Hillary Clinton, she won the most votes in New York.
She moved to New York.
Yeah.
Obama?
Yeah, I read this church.
I voted.
We could say that I could vote against your guys.
I think Trump should go live in West Virginia.
That's where I think you should go.
No more Mar-a-Lago for you.
Double down.
I want to double down.
When I was at Breakers a couple months ago, I asked a lot of people.
I'm like, so how do you feel about Trump being here?
How do you feel about Trump being here?
How do you feel about Trump being here?
It was mixed feelings on what a lot of people said.
Some of them who were on the higher ups, they said, look, we kind of don't mind him because he increased the value here.
And a lot of people want to move here.
I want to look at Trump's house that's on the market right now for $135 million.
Went through the realtor who's a very good friend with Trump for the last 32 years while I'm speaking to him.
Steve Wynn called.
We're having a conversation, all this stuff.
So we look at the beautiful home, $70 million of art in there to be able to get the audience to be more excited about wanting to make a bid on this $135 million home.
So there are those that say he did very good for the city, okay, to bring Mar-a-Lago and do what he did.
There's those that say when he's here, roads suck, transportation, I can't get through.
There's a three-hour wait because when he wants to go to the beach, the Secret Service goes, and I'm so sick of it because I can't take my ride.
If I want to get home, I don't make it on time.
There's only one way for me to make it home.
It takes me two hours to get home.
So there is, because if you've been to Palm Beach and know how the city is, you literally only can go there from a couple different places.
It's not like they're so like trying to get off trying to get off the freeway in New Jersey.
Understand what they're saying.
I actually understand what they're saying.
Don't forget, Jared Kushner and Ivanka bought a house on one of those islands down there.
So there's a part of it that I understand for how the community is being affected by it.
The other part of it is the guy's, the guy's, he's going to go want to live wherever he wants to live.
If we just say he can't live in a place, you know, he's going to find a way to revoke this and figure out a way to live anywhere he wants to live.
The guy has enough money to go buy a house anywhere, but he likes Palm Beach.
He likes Mar-a-Lago.
Who knows what's going to happen, what he's going to do.
I hope when whatever I say right now, I hope whatever takes place next.
As Biden, you got the Electoral College came out, you know, December 14th that they came out.
Oh, it's official.
It's this, it's that.
Okay.
Finally, McConnell came out and Putin called and all these guys are calling.
Okay, so we're going in this direction.
I hope, I hope, I hope that both the media, like the other day, Jake Tapper came out and said, what thinks Trump's done good?
Okay.
He actually said a couple things that Trump has done good on his administration.
Sort of sarcastically, but he did give him credit in the beginning.
He did give him a little bit of credit.
I hope there's some of that going on because, you know, that could also calm him down for him to go away and just kind of do his own thing.
Okay.
Out the media also doesn't constantly poke the bear over and over and over again, which I don't think that's going to stand.
I don't think that's going to happen.
I don't think he's going to calm down.
Number two.
Let me give the number two.
I hope he does a little bit in the transition.
I don't think he's going to because he and his base fully believe there was fraud, which there's a lot of proof of it.
You can see a lot of proof of it.
But in court, it didn't hold weight.
And to be able to have your proof go to the next level, you got to be able to get the justices to side with you.
You got to be able to get some of these governors to want to turn things around.
You got to be able to get some of these local justices.
And unfortunately, it's battle after battle after battle.
He keeps saying that.
We keep saying proof.
And there's a lot of people out there that believe that there was fraud.
Cool.
I respect your opinion.
But at what point, when every single court says, no, no, there wasn't, at what point was every single state governor, secretary of state?
How many people?
At what point did they say, all right, like, you lost?
How many liberal fans of Hillary Clinton who love Hillary Clinton can you convince that she lost the election to Trump?
How many?
So there's actually a number on that.
30% of people, 30% of Democrats were thinking that there was illegitimate.
30%.
Okay, there you go.
75% of Republicans.
So more than double.
That's normal, though.
That's not a big number.
What do you mean?
30% of Democrats basically said, no, it's illegitimate.
We don't believe that Trump's the president.
75% of Republicans now.
Said what?
That it's illegitimate.
Yeah, I saw that.
I saw that.
Okay, so that's not even close, is what I'm saying.
But that just means they're more true believers of Trump than they were true believers of Hillary, which makes sense to me because Trump is a bigger personality.
But at what point?
But at what point do you say, all right, like the Supreme Court, every single court, every state court?
Every four years, somebody loses, and whoever loses, it's emotional.
Give it time.
Okay, so you won't.
So you're saying a lot of it is an emotion, not logic.
I think everything right now, quite frankly, if I was the die-hard Republican fan right now, if I'm the diehard Trump guy, you know what my number one focus is if I'm a diehard Trump fan?
Georgia.
That's my number one focus.
If I'm a die-hard principles of the right, your number one priority ought to be Georgia.
And he shouldn't have called into question the integrity of Kemp.
No, the integrity of elections.
Yeah.
Because you're going to have a harder time getting out the vote in Georgia because of this.
Yeah.
In my opinion, final thought here, he was calling it a rigged election in 2016.
He somehow won.
Right?
Now it's another rigged election in 2020.
He somehow won.
We'll see what's going to happen.
I hope they don't bother him with him wanting to live in Mar-a-Lago.
If he wants to live in a place like this, I hope they let him or you know, West Virginia's got a better song than Palm Beach.
I don't know a song in Palm Beach that goes as good as the one from West Virginia.
West Virginia.
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