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So we gotta say, shout out to all the people out there just trying to make it through another year in their life.
Yeah, you're thinking 20 bucks.
Are we live or no?
Okay, we are officially live with episode number 36 of the podcast.
Obviously, last night was a very, very, yesterday period was a very eventful, strange day.
So we got a lot of things to cover.
I know you got strong opinions.
I know you got some opinions on what's going on.
I know some is going to be that people expect.
I know some it's going to be surprising to some people.
So I'm glad you guys are joining us, gang.
Lots of topics here.
Before I kind of get right into it, let me just kind of tell you what topics we got to cover.
Obviously, yesterday, the Capitol Hill attack, the woman getting shot and killed.
Tim Cook got his salary that he just got.
We'll cover that as well.
Jackma missing.
Some new reports are coming in saying he's laying low.
There's some opinions on that.
Amazon buys 11 jets.
Apple's modifying their executive bonus plan based on environmental values.
Norway, right now, 50% of all the vehicles sold in 2020, believe it or not, were all electric.
And then Electoral College came out.
Trump had some comments to say about it.
Twitter suspended Trump's account.
I cannot believe Twitter suspends a president's account for 12 hours.
Facebook follows suit.
Pence breaks apart with Trump disagreeing with him.
And then obviously the sweep of Democrats taking over Georgia and a bunch of other things.
So having said that, what are you thinking?
How are you feeling right now?
What's on your mind right now, Adam?
There's so much going on.
I mean.
How you feeling?
You woke up today after everything you saw yesterday.
You know, I walked in kind of this morning a little swaggy, right?
You said I had a glow going on.
You were glowing.
It wasn't the tan from South Beach.
You know, I got to give credit to Paul Strounder over here, our production coordinator, guru.
Snuck up on him.
We debate all the time.
But you might think that yesterday was, you know, I'm so excited the Democrats won Georgia.
Joe Biden is now the president.
Is he not?
But yesterday was a sad day, man.
Yesterday, I don't think there's anybody that is happy with what happened yesterday.
I think yesterday was probably one of the, probably the darkest, saddest day of the Trump presidency.
You know, people say Charlottesville or the, you know, the march on Charlottesville.
They say that that sort of has been the darkest day.
Maybe some stuff with the hurricane in Puerto Rico where he was Kobeing some paper towels out to the people.
But yesterday was just sad, man.
What a dark, dark, sad day.
What a horrible way to go out for Trump.
I really thought that he would go out a little more classy, but there was no class in what happened yesterday.
You know, it was unbelievable to watch it in real time and to kind of like just follow it.
You know, we have a news site, vtpost.com.
So we're following this and we're doing stories.
And it's getting worse and worse by the minute.
It was surreal.
That is one way I would use to describe it.
You know, and then yesterday just has a tendency to bring the worst out of so many people.
And were they fueled on by what was going on in that rally?
There's so many people that have gotten into Washington, D.C. this week.
Over, what, close to 2 million, 1.5 million?
I didn't even know that.
I didn't even know that there was that call to arms or that many people that were there.
When you look at some of the videos beforehand with Rudy Giuliani, with Donald Trump Jr., it's disturbing to see some of the stuff they were saying.
You can imagine how this gets these desperate people riled up and they do stuff.
But no matter what happens, these images from yesterday are going to be here forever.
And they're terrible.
I mean, when you look at them and you think of what this country stands for and you see these people that are posing and taking selfies and get past four lines of barricades to break into the Capitol building, it's just, it was a terrible day.
It was sad.
But for me personally, it helps me move on.
It really does.
I mean, you can put that behind you now and say, for better or worse, we have a new president.
These are the circumstances, and we all have to deal with it.
And that was a terrible way.
It tarnishes his legacy.
I'm sure we can talk about that some more too.
But it was surreal.
And you're just past the point of saying, I could never see that happening.
Like you mentioned, could you ever imagine a sitting president having his Twitter account blocked?
And now nothing surprises most Americans anymore after yesterday.
It's just, it's numbing and it's time to move on now.
It is just time to move on.
Was there any other way that he was going to go out?
Like we talked about this yesterday.
I don't think anyone else.
Who does Trump care about the most, first and foremost?
Yeah, but there's no problem.
He wanted that to happen.
I would think Tom.
He's been calling for January 6th for two months now, saying he incited.
Yeah, but I think some of that loves their country.
I don't think you could deny the fact that he loves his country.
Go back to my question.
Okay, cool.
He likes his country.
He loves his country.
Cool.
We all do.
But who does Trump care about the most?
That's obvious.
Himself.
Of course.
We all know that.
I mean, that has nothing to do with, you know, rioters getting into the Capitol building.
And they.
Who's that?
What's your point with that, though?
That should be louder.
What's your point?
We've been waiting.
Chime in, Pat.
What's your point, buddy?
I mean, this is a gift we got from the future.
I mean, we can go so many routes with this.
I don't know if we're going to jump right in this and go into this.
Let's get right into it.
Okay, that's the first story we'll get into.
Give us your thoughts, Pat, and then we can kind of do a little roundtable discussion on really basically what happens.
I mean, first of all, I don't know.
Yesterday was just absolutely out of control, but I'm going to give you my perspective, and it's going to be long-winded.
So I'm going to go for a few minutes here and share with you where I'm at.
So, okay, so you know, election happens, coronavirus.
Okay, some can speculate and say that was used to politicize and shut us down.
And yesterday I interviewed a guy named John M. John Berry.
John Berry.
Great conversation.
90 Minutes.
He's the guy that wrote the book, The Great Influenza of 1918 and 2004, and it became a top seller.
His first book, I think he's got stuff on the Library of Congress.
He's a very legendary writer for Washington Post, New York.
He's written it for everybody, pretty much, right?
And he was there in the 90s.
He's a guy that was born in 1947.
So he's been around politics for a long time.
While we're doing the interview, it was at the peak.
Like, that's when the girl got shot while we're doing the interview, right?
And he says all this stuff, you know, well, let me tell you, Trump this, Trump that he's full-on Democratic.
He calls out Trump the entire time while we're doing the interview.
And in my mind, you know, here's how I process this.
Okay.
Both sides use the same strategy and tactic, okay?
Both sides.
The left protests riots, but the media said it's peaceful protesting.
So you have to know, to me, it goes to the number one cause of this flare.
I'm looking at who instigated this the most.
That's where I go to number one.
Is the number one instigator Obama?
No.
Although Obama, under his reign, every time you said anything, you're racist.
So that's something that came back a lot under Obama.
We didn't have that a lot with others, but he came up under Obama.
Anytime anybody said anything about Obama, they said, well, because he's black, right?
And you're being racist about it.
Okay, fine.
Is it Obama's fault?
Was Obama a guy that was divisive?
Maybe a little bit because he's a community organizer, but at this level, absolutely not.
So then you continue and then you say, okay, is it Trump's fault?
Of course, everything rises and falls on the leader, which is Trump.
But at the same time, Trump's a fighter.
So Trump's somebody that's been fighting like this his entire career.
It's nothing new what Trump's doing, right?
To me, everything falls on the media.
Everything to me falls on the media.
The media told a different story on one side and told a different story on the other side.
So you got yesterday a veteran who was in the Air Force, I believe, 14 years.
She did four tours, who's standing there.
She gets shot, falls.
The guy grabs her.
He doesn't know what's going on.
He sees blood in his hands.
And later on, two hours later, she ends up dying.
They have a business in San Diego.
She lives in San Diego.
She's a pro-Trump supporter, comes out.
Think about the people that came out to support that thing.
They're doing the right thing and they're walking into Capitol Hill.
You know, and others are saying, well, this was all Antifa.
It wasn't pro-Trump support.
It was Antifa that was there.
No, no, no.
This was Trump supporters that went into the Capitol Hill.
There's nothing about it that wasn't Trump supporters.
Here's the other part.
You know how people say, you know, Republicans don't play as dirty as Democrats do.
Okay?
I don't know if you've ever heard that saying before or not.
Republicans aren't willing to go to places that Democrats are willing to go.
Democrats will go and say, community organize, protest, rally, little bit of rights, make some noise, ruckus.
It's okay.
Oh, they're angry.
They're upset.
Do you blame them?
You would be also upset if you were them, right?
But because whatever you say, it's kind of like, you know, I have a friend of mine who, a stepfather and a son and a wife, right?
So the wife, his wife, has a son, but it's a stepson to him, right?
So anytime he tries to discipline the son, the mother says, what?
You were too tough on him.
You don't talk to him like that.
And he's like, dude, I can't develop your son.
I can't do anything.
I can't be a man of the household because anytime I try to discipline your son, you'll always come in and protect what?
The son.
So the sons are what?
A baby.
And the son always goes to who?
Mommy.
Okay.
Anytime the rioters or protesters on the left came out in the streets and they were protesting, guess who the mommy was that said, oh, they're just upset.
Why are you so the media would say they're upset?
Do you blame them?
But yesterday when Republicans do it, oh, why are they doing this?
This is an atrocity.
The only difference on why yesterday was an atrocity is you do not go to the Capitol Hill, which represents your country, the Constitution, everything that was eloquently written years ago to give you freedom, and you go into that house, you don't do that.
In a family, siblings can fight all day long.
You cross the line and you disrespect the parents, you just cross the line, buddy.
That's a problem.
If siblings are Republicans and Democrats, they're fighting, fine.
The parents, the forefathers that built this country, that's Capitol Hill.
That's our history.
That's what we stand for.
You guys cross the line.
So now you're going out there sometimes and you're rallying, right?
Let me tell you, you know, here's what they're doing.
They stole, they did this, and they did that.
Fine.
There's a part of me that believes there was voter fraud.
There's a part of me that believes there was voter fraud because of 100%.
Why is it all of a sudden you shut it down at 10:30?
I'm sorry.
Oh, we're going to stay last night until we vote in the electoral.
I don't care how long it takes.
Really?
How come you didn't have the same mindset on voting night?
Why didn't you say I'm voting now?
We're going to stay until we figured out 3 o'clock in the morning.
Hell or high, we're going to stay here with my attitude on that night.
What state?
Georgia, what time did Pennsylvania shut it down?
How many states?
Oh, we're not going to do it.
We're not going to stay up.
Why aren't you going to stay up?
Why are you not going to stay up?
How come you didn't have the same thing?
I agree with you on that.
My point is, how come you didn't have the same level of enthusiasm?
So where is the skepticism?
Where does the skepticism come in?
My skepticism.
At what point does losing every law?
No, hang on.
No, no, no.
Hang on a second.
No, but wait a minute.
Why did you shut it down at 1030?
There is skepticism in there.
It's very fair to be skeptical.
Have they answered those questions yet?
Of course they don't have to answer the questions.
What do you mean they should?
Who has to answer the questions?
The lawmakers.
We're going to need to count till tomorrow.
What do we say about it?
Nothing.
Media is not controlled by the right.
It's controlled by the left.
So they have, again, the mommy says, oh, they have to count.
Oh, they have to count.
Oh, it's so much pressure right now for them.
They're going to probably need, for two months they were telling us they're probably going to need 30 days to figure everything out.
No, you didn't.
Why'd you need that additional 30 days?
Every single damn time you can figure that one out until tonight, of course, you're going to piss off an audience.
75 million people are pissed off.
You're wondering why they're pissed off?
Why don't you stay up that night until you figured it out?
Here's the other thing that pisses me off about this whole thing.
So I'm at the airport the other day.
TSA says, oh, we don't need your, this guy's talking to me.
He's rolling his S's, which is totally fine.
So he's rolling his S's and saying, sir, I just have to tell you, moving forward, you don't need to show your boarding pass.
We don't need your boarding pass.
All we need is ID.
Because nowadays, technology is advanced and the ID can say a lot.
And I said, yeah, we should do that for voting as well.
Well, that's a different story because when it comes down to that, your racial.
I'm sorry.
Wait, wait.
What's a different story?
If you need my ID to get on a damn flight, which is just a flight, what's more important?
Who the president is or a flight?
Why don't you use my ID to vote?
I guarantee the results will be different.
There is so much hypocrisy today in America.
Now, let me bring you back.
So I just went left, right, left, right, left.
Someone's pissed off on both sides with me right now because of what I'm saying.
But this is how I'm wired.
Bring it back to the way it was yesterday.
Okay.
Yes, there was voter fraud.
100% there was voter fraud.
Even if it's low, high, there was voter fraud.
At the levels, I don't know.
I believe there was simply because of that night, you didn't count until the end of the night.
So there's nothing that anyone can convince in your mind that there was not fraud.
Bro, let me tell you, if everybody-just on the Democrat side?
Every, of course, it's just on the Democrats side.
No Republicans.
Because they control.
It was the cities that was the cities and states that was controlled by the left.
Of course, it's on their side, right?
Historically, if you're asking me, I'm going to say both sides.
But historically, voter fraud's always been on the left, not been on the left.
Is this the only year that the Republicans did not have voter fraud?
No, I'm not telling you.
They don't do it either.
I tell you, they do.
But this year around, who do you think mail and ballot helps more?
Republicans or Democrats?
Clearly, Democrats.
Tell me why, though.
Tell me why, though.
Well, they were promoting mail and ballot.
But tell me why, though.
Because there's a freaking pandemic.
I asked you a question yesterday.
I said, when you voted, how did you vote?
Mail and ballot?
But what's the big deal?
And I said, did you have to show your ID in print?
And you said, no.
I don't think I stopped on that.
But you didn't have an answer for it.
No, I had a mail and ballot.
How did I know that was you?
I FaceTimed Nancy Pelosi.
Do you understand?
Thank you for voting.
But do you understand the stupidity of that?
I don't trust it.
I don't trust that.
If you need my damn ID to get on a damn flight, you need my ID to vote.
I don't trust that.
So then you're saying that no mail and ballot should ever exist?
No, I don't.
I think you have to go in person and vote.
Yes, I do.
No matter what.
I do.
Because you want to accurate.
What about early voting?
What about it?
Accuracy important to you.
Of course.
Is it?
Come show up.
Come show up.
So one day?
Come show up.
Why can't we vote for a month?
I don't care if we vote for six months.
Why does it have to be one day?
I don't care if it's people can't get off of work.
Hear me out.
I don't care if it's six months.
In India, they take like a month to vote.
Did you hear what I just said?
Yeah, I mean, I don't care if it's six months.
I want you to show up.
I want you to show up and give me your ID.
That's what I'm asking for.
I'm not asking you for anything more than that.
One day is stupid.
How am I going to take one day off?
Would you trust it if someone can figure out some freaking technology and we can vote from our phones?
No.
You need to show your face.
That's it.
Bottom line.
You have to be there.
Dude, how do you check into an airline, an airport?
You have to physically be there to get on the floor.
Okay, then great.
You want to physically vote, physically show up and vote.
I don't know, Pat.
I do know.
I don't know.
Now, the other side is this way.
What happens if you're out of town?
What happens if you're military and you're out of time?
You got six months.
And you're freaking air six months.
You got six months.
You have to fly home to vote?
No.
Put a voting boot over there and have somebody go and show up and say, here's who I am.
Here's my favorite.
Why can't you take a copy of your ID and send in a copy?
Because I can do that for you.
And I can just take.
You think that's going to be.
Are you really this naive, though, buddy?
Yes, I am.
You are really this naive.
Honestly, though, you're really this naive.
I'm just saying, what are the reasons?
There's people that can't get ideas.
There's people that can't afford ideas.
They can't go to the BMV.
They can't do anything.
If you're talking about mailing ballots, higher chance of manipulation, you are naive if you don't buy into that left or right, period.
Let's set that part aside and let's go to the other side.
Trump.
Trump's a sore loser, period.
There's other ways of losing.
I've lost publicly, and it sucks.
No one likes it.
And for me, I bet with you telling you where I was at voting wise.
So it's not like I'm sitting here telling you you lost.
Fair.
By the way, I fully understand his pain.
I fully understand his agitation because he's a guy that's accustomed to winning.
But he became the Pistons, not the Bulls.
He became the President.
They won't shake hands.
He became Isaiah Thomas by doing this.
You don't do that.
You lost.
You disagree with certain calls?
Say it.
I didn't like the calls the referees made tonight.
Fine, say it.
And finally, yesterday he says what?
I totally disagree with the outcome of the election and a fact bear me out.
Nevertheless, there will be an early transition on January 20th.
An orderly, orderly transition.
He came out and he said orderly transition.
He said he said that last statement.
Yeah, yeah.
Orderly transition on January 20th.
Okay, great.
How's this going to look on his legacy and how do we move forward?
Okay, now let's talk about the moving forward part.
I mean, I'll stop right here because if you guys got anything to do with that, I think we can turn here.
Just going with, I've covered a lot.
Sure.
You know, you are naive if you don't believe there was fraud.
There was voter fraud and there are facts that back that up.
But you don't.
But where are the facts?
That's what I'm saying.
That's not my job.
And I'm not going to hear to do that.
I'm going to make a point.
The point is you can believe that there's voter fraud, but you can also believe the election wasn't stolen.
Those are two different things.
Okay, that's fair.
And you have to get past that.
I mean, yes, there was voter fraud, but like Pat said, he is a very, very sore loser.
There is a double standard in the media and without a question.
And I think each day it chips away a little bit more where you cannot look at the media as the media, at least as what you thought the media was.
They are not.
They're not there to report everything that happens.
I mean, all it was last night on CNN and some of the, you know, is a victory lap, you know?
And here's the other problem we have right now.
Don't lump everybody that maybe supported Trump, voted for Trump, or is a conservative or a Republican as being a person that jumped over those barriers and took selfies on Nancy Pelosi's desk.
You know, those people are.
What's that all about?
What the hell is that all about?
And you know what?
I got a problem.
I feel bad the woman was killed, but you break into the Capitol building, you're putting your life in jeopardy.
I mean, these guys are trained to make sure that doesn't happen.
She should be in jail if she wasn't killed.
I mean, really, everybody that stormed in there should be in jail, will be in jail.
They're such idiots.
And here's one last thing.
You can't.
I think they're going to jail.
They have to.
I mean, their faces are visible.
The FBI.
Nancy Pelosi said last night or this morning.
She said, we're going to find who was and they're going to be.
And I hope they do.
I hope they prosecute them as far as you can.
It's all on tape.
It's funny, those people.
And I'll turn it right back over to you.
I know a lot of Trump supporters are anti-maskers.
Buddy, if you're going to break into a freaking, the Capitol building, put on a mask.
You know, and nobody can be objective anymore.
You can't look intelligently at two sides of a thing and just come up with your opinion.
You have to go hard left, hard right.
There's nothing in the middle.
I happened to scroll through Facebook last night, which was a huge mistake.
And how many people are out there saying, defriend me or never talk to me if you voted for Trump?
See?
And, you know, it's just, I look at what happened yesterday as a horrible thing for this country, but I also see some things.
Did you hear that Nancy Pelosi and was it McConnell or one of them like fist bumped last night or Pence?
It was Pence and Nancy Pelosi after everything got done.
They kind of did an elbow bump.
I want to see these people communicating and talking with each other.
And, you know, here's one last thing.
You can be objective about all this because you can't just go to the card and say that was Antifa that did that.
Were there Antifa members interspersed into that crowd?
Absolutely.
There are pictures of some of those guys inside with a hammer and a sickle, right?
I mean, that is the tattoo.
So clearly they were part of it, but it wasn't them.
Yesterday was just the big ending to what we've seen.
And it was just the perfect storm in a toxic mix.
And now it's just time to move on and hopefully recover as a country.
A couple of things, and I appreciate what you're saying, especially the Facebook comment.
Like anyone who's like, if you voted for Trump or if you voted for Biden, we can't be friends.
Like if there's anything that this podcast does or anything that we do here is we can disagree, we can debate.
But at the end of the day, it's like, hey, man, love you, buddy.
We're good.
We're good.
Exactly.
Paul Strader over here I talked about earlier.
Him and I have conversations all the time.
We just said we were getting coffee right before the show.
He was making his avocado salad at 8 a.m.
And I said, hey, man, we disagree, but I love you, bro.
And that's what this country needs more of.
You said something yesterday that was completely powerful.
We need an enemy that we can focus on, not ourselves.
Common enemy.
We need a common enemy, whether that's Iran, whether that's China, whether that's Russian hackers, whatever the hell it is.
We got to stop fighting amongst ourselves.
I get it.
You love Trump.
You're a Trump supporter.
You're an Obama-Biden guy, whatever, whatever.
But we can't be fighting amongst ourselves.
And hopefully this is going to be the tipping point where it's like, damn, this could get very ugly unless we clean up our act.
And that's what this country needs.
You know, the last time the Capitol was invaded like that?
And I'm using the word invader.
1814.
1814.
And you know, this was the first time Americans did it because who did it in 1814?
It was the freaking British in the War of 1812.
This is the first time Americans have ever invaded the Capitol.
You don't do that.
And these are people who believe in law and order and Blue Lives Matter.
But let me tell you, what caused that, though?
What caused that?
You have to also understand what causes that.
Look, if my son, Dylan, who's a pretty chill guy, all of a sudden he punches my oldest in the face, why did he?
Dylan won't go punch you in the face.
Frustration, agitation.
Dylan won't go punch you in the face.
Dylan will only punch you in the face.
Tico punch you in the face.
Oh, Tico, we had one time one of our guys who used to work over here in the pool, he threw him in the pool.
He shocked him right in the nose.
Shocked him right in the face.
Shocked him right in the shoulder.
32-year-old.
I said, what are you doing?
He sucked him in the face right in the shoulder.
He sucked him in the face.
That's Cuomo Brothers.
Shocked him in the face.
He said, but that's Tico.
What's the point?
Why did you react that way?
What I want to know is why'd you react?
We had an incident this weekend where a lot of our guys reacted to a kid that disrespected certain places.
The question is, why did people react that way?
Why did we get to this point?
And who's responsible for that?
Who is responsible for that?
You know, who is putting the fire into it?
I do believe there's a part of it that is Trump.
And I do believe a part of it is the media.
And I believe a part of it is the left.
There are certain people right now, just so you know, worldwide, that are celebrating, that are sitting there saying, oh, yeah.
Yeah, our enemies.
They're celebrating, saying, look at these clowns.
They want to make fun of us.
Putin, she.
Look what they're doing.
Khomeini.
Look at these guys here right now.
Look what these.
Okay.
So you remember when Houston Astros got caught cheating?
Who remembers that?
Yeah, it's a year ago.
What did they do to the trophy?
Did they end up keeping it?
Oh, yeah.
They ended up keeping it, right?
Absolutely.
But how do you think it's going to look on the resume for the rest of the day?
Just like all the guys that don't get into the Hall of Fame.
Pete Roses of the World.
You think the guys from Dodgers were happy about it?
You think the guys from Yankees were happy about it?
You think the guys were happy about it?
No, they're not happy about it.
Okay.
Yes.
Let's say they cheated.
Fine.
Let's move on, see what happens here, and then show up again, but not this way.
To respond this way, man, you're not representing your community the right way.
So now here's the other part as well.
Everybody right now is it's all about the positioning game.
So you're watching everybody.
It's all about it.
People don't even know what's going on right now.
The other part is positioning.
So what is positioning?
Positioning is there's going to be different types of people that are positioning.
There are those right now that are positioning to say, well, I'm younger.
I'm going to be running in 2024.
Dude, I need Trump on my side to come show up to my rap.
The Josh Hawley's of the world, the Ted Cruzes of the world.
Of course.
Great.
There are those that are sitting there saying, dude, I'm going to have to do business with these guys.
I'm never running for office.
I'm just going to stay congressman or senate.
I got to align myself with who?
Pelosi, Schumers, and Mitch.
You know, these guys are the world.
So those are the guys that, you know, some of those guys are aligning with them.
Maybe a Pence, maybe some of those guys, right?
Maybe Pence wants to run, but he wants to say I'm more for the Constitution than I'm for Trump.
And then there are those that are aligning themselves right now to say, dude, all I need, I just need a job with CNN or Fox.
That's all I know.
I'm serious.
Some guys are saying right now.
Or a lobbyist position.
I need a lobbyist position because those guys make some good money.
But everybody's right now posturing with their position.
So some of the people are saying things that they don't really believe in.
They're just saying it because it benefits the position they're solving for.
I don't know if that makes sense or not.
So it's talking basically of their next five moves.
That's amazing.
That's exactly what they're thinking.
But somebody has to talk about the truth and get people to realize what's going on.
For us, we're just kind of sharing our thoughts.
Go ahead, Tom.
You know, extremism is a very bad thing.
And no matter what side you're on, and if you're a far-right Republican and you're an extremist, you're looking for someone to blame right now because that's human nature.
That's what they're going to do.
They want to find an outlet, you know, to say, oh, see, it's their fault.
And they're going towards Mike Pence right now.
That's who their scapegoat is.
That's who they want to blame, that he didn't have the courage to stand up and do that.
I don't blame Mike Pence.
You know, I don't think he had the power to do it, number one.
And I don't think he's that type of person.
And I don't think you can put that type of responsibility on one person when X amount of votes were cast for Joe Biden.
And now you're asking one guy to stand up just because he was told to.
So I don't like the way the extreme right is blaming Pence.
Here's the other question I have: Was yesterday the beginning or the end?
Was yesterday at the point where we see we've hit rock bottom.
We can only go up from here.
Maybe we can find some common ground, work a little bit together.
If Republicans and the conservatives have a problem with who's running this country, and most of them do, you got a chance to do something about it in two years.
Or is that the beginning where people are just going to grind in, dig in, and make things even worse?
I'm hoping and I'm praying that we can move up.
Well, I think that's a great question.
And I think it depends on where Trump goes from here.
I mean, clearly these people, and I'm talking about the extremists, are hanging on his every word.
I mean, a lady lost her life yesterday because she is that victim.
But she wasn't an innocent victim.
She was a QAnon supporter.
Not that that means you should die, but like she had some far out there.
Man, you go into the Capitol building, you're taking a huge risk.
100%.
But let's talk about Mike Pence for a second.
Let's talk about Mike Pence.
Stay on this question.
If it's around this question, if it's around this question, stay on this question.
If it's not, move on.
Well, the question is, where can we go from here?
Again, it revolves around Trump.
I don't think so.
You don't think that's a problem?
I don't want Trump's.
How do you mean?
Let me explain.
Be cocky in your predictions, okay?
Confident in your preparation, humble in your victory and loss.
If those who won, the victorious group comes out cocky, you're going to drag this shit out.
This is not on Trump.
Trump officially has no control.
If you're saying if Biden starts acting cocky, not just Biden, the left, the media, Biden, if they act cocky, you're putting salt on the wound and you're going to piss people off.
Define cocky because I want to understand.
Let me explain.
I beat you.
Like, you knock a guy out.
Beat your ass off.
You don't get in the guy's face.
You knock them out.
Step back.
Exactly.
And then you go and say, hey, man, you good?
Is everything good?
Hey, man, I feel like you're going to have a fight.
Dude, you walk out.
Listen, I understand.
Law sucks.
I've lost myself.
Dude, I hope just, I respect your fight.
You know, I respect it.
You move on, right?
Okay.
Win with class.
Yes.
So now, obviously, Trump is not losing with, you know, to say, oh, he's losing with class.
No, he's pissed off.
He thinks what a fraud happened.
Fine.
But he's not the winner.
He's not the winner.
Jordan, when he won, he's still had class.
We won.
Okay.
Class.
Hey, I want to give respect to the opponent, blah, But he won.
The winners are in charge right now, not the loser.
The loser officially has no control.
What can he do?
Nothing.
He's done.
He does another rally like this.
Let me put it to you this way.
If he entices people to go out there and do another rally like this, do not be surprised if he's 100% banned from all of social media like Alex Jones.
And do you think that's valid?
If he does it to the point where you're getting people to be hurt, it is a very good argument to be made if you go to that level.
I don't run those companies.
I'm freedom of speech.
So to me, it's about freedom of speech.
And I'm not about, but you cannot use your speech to create war, you know, stuff you can't do.
Especially a starting point.
No point.
So there is a tipping point where he should be banned from social media.
Well, first of all, like I said to you again, if I'm going on social media and saying, like if I said right now, you're upset about it to all the Second Amendment folks, crap your guns, let's go to DC.
They should shut me down.
Yeah, okay.
They should take that video down.
That's not a, what am I talking about?
Exactly.
I mean, that's how real cool stuff.
I think he has three tweets he, quote unquote, has to delete.
And if so, they'll put his account back in the next 12 hours.
If not, they apparently are going to shut his account down for good.
I think, look, he's not going to listen to anybody.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I think there's one person he will listen to.
I think there's one person he will listen to.
Who's that?
I think it's only his wife.
I think he will listen to him.
Do you think he's actually going to listen to her?
I think he absolutely listened to her.
I don't think so.
I think, let me tell you why.
I think he absolutely, you may want to turn off your Mike Kai because everything you're drinking, we're hearing.
I think he will listen to his wife if his wife sits and says, look, I just want to let you know, you're making it harder on my kid, Baron, and you're bringing a lot of negative attention on him.
And if I have to choose between you and my kid, it's my kid.
Okay.
And I think you're crossing the line.
So you may want to calm down a little bit.
But that's just my process.
I got to tell you, I 1,000% disagree with you on that point.
I don't think he's going to listen to Melania.
I don't think he's going to listen to Ivanka.
I don't think he's going to listen to Don Jr. or Eric or whatever the other kid is.
I don't think he's going to listen to anybody else.
I don't think there is a person he will listen to more than his wife.
You're talking about somebody, back to the Mike Pence thing.
You're talking about somebody.
Has there ever been a more loyal vice president than Mike Pence?
This guy ate a shit sandwich, a Trump shit sandwich, and was like, man, that tasted good, guys.
Get on the train.
And he threw Mike Pence under the bus.
Said, what did he say exactly yesterday?
He said, basically, Mike Pence is weak and he won't do what he has done.
That was in the heat of the moment when this thing has happened.
You're talking about someone incredibly loyal that you just throw under the bus in your final day.
Yeah, but he throws everybody under the bus.
Okay, that's my point.
Okay, but let me.
Everybody goes under the bus.
Let me take a counterpoint here.
We all know that his ego drives everything.
The most important thing to himself is himself.
I believe he is concerned about how this looks.
I mean, in his statement, did you notice one of the things he said?
In his statement, he referred to himself as having the greatest first-term presidency in the history of America.
I mean, even in his release where he's conceding essentially and saying that there's going to be a peaceful transition, he's also putting the spotlight on him and saying, hey, this was the most successful first term ever.
So someone has to be in his ear.
He has to listen to someone and say, it is time now to pull back a little bit.
You know, you can only hurt yourself more at this point.
And his legacy will be destroyed forever if he continues to do this.
Now, the problem is there's a certain fringe element that hangs on his words and are looking for marching orders basically from him.
So he has to be very, very careful.
He has to be because he has true believer followers.
Look, them and Kennedy's had true believer followers.
True believer followers will go through the wall for you.
And he has to take that power responsibly.
He can't be throwing that weight around telling people to do whatever because people will move on his words.
So when you're somebody like that, you have to be very, very careful.
He has to be very careful where he is.
Are you suggesting that he's going to all of a sudden have grace and willingness to listen?
I mean, you're talking about somebody, and I don't mean this like.
You know what's the best thing he can do?
You know what's the best thing he can do?
Lay for a little while.
Lay low for six months.
Pull a jack ma on us.
Lay low for six months.
If he loves his country, he needs to do that.
And I think he loves his country.
Listen, we can all have wishful thinking here.
But this guy is an egomaniac, narcissist, and he's made it to that.
Everybody whoever becomes a president does.
Cool.
But he ain't laying low for two days.
Yeah.
Nobody becomes a list.
He ain't laying low for six months.
Ain't nobody becoming a president who isn't narcissistic, ego, all that other stuff.
No, I disagree.
You can have a big ego, but you don't necessarily need to be a narcissist.
Oh, anybody that becomes a president, you have a little bit of thinking you're better than everybody else.
And that's needed, by the way.
But not a fighter.
I don't see that as a smart guy.
He needs to get away from the dialogue of the election with Stolen.
That's not getting him anywhere.
I mean, that's all he's going to ever say the rest of his life.
He'll be on his deathbed saying that.
Yeah, if he does that, he ain't changing patterns.
Yeah, he ain't changing.
Sorry.
I didn't say he is or he's not.
I didn't say he is or he's not.
And I don't think he, look, you know, our buddy Tim Grover wrote the book Relentless, right?
The trainer?
Tim Grover?
Yeah, he wrote a book called Relentless.
And he's a great guy.
I mean, he's got very good mindsets.
You've interviewed him?
Yeah, very good guy.
I've spent a lot of time with him.
So, you know, one thing he says in Cleaner is cleaners don't apologize for their position, right?
The cleaner is a cleaner.
Here's who I am, let's just say, right?
You don't go.
What do you mean by cleaner?
He has cooler, cleaner, you know, and closer, cooler, closer, cleaner, and cleaners, like Jordan's a cleaner.
And he would, in the book, he says LeBron's a closer.
And then he changed after coming out and getting some criticism saying LeBron's a cleaner as well.
Anyways, you know, Trump is a cleaner.
He's not going to come out and all of a sudden change and do all this other stuff.
He's just not going to do that.
You don't have to like or agree with a cleaner.
Usually cleaners are hated.
But what does a cleaner mean?
Cleaner means I'm doing it my way.
It's a Frank Sinatra type of thing.
Here's who I am.
I did it my way.
Whether you like it or not.
He's in that category.
You know, when I sat down with Mike Ditka, you know, it was one of the things I didn't like when I interviewed.
Mike Ditka?
I sat down with Mike Ditka.
You know one of the things I didn't like?
I didn't like the fact that he got to a point.
It was not the interview I liked because he was apologetic about some of the things that he did.
He was like, well, you know, I probably couldn't have done this.
And I probably, I'm like, I'm like, dude, that's not, that's not.
You were Mike Ditka.
You know, you're Ditka.
You're the guy that, you know, say, hey, it's a corridor, buddy.
Go make a phone call to someone who cares.
And then the guy said, I'd rather talk to him.
I know I'm smarter than that idiot over there.
You know, there was something about Ditka that was this.
You know, all this stuff.
Yeah.
So, you know, the part about Trump, is it going to change?
I don't think it's going to change.
But I think America is bigger than.
You know, LeBron comes out and says, we need to retire the Jersey 23.
Hands down.
No one should ever wear the Jersey 23.
They go to Mike, and Mike says, I appreciate that.
He says, but the NBA is bigger than one player.
I'm just one player.
And look who's wearing 23.
LeBron.
He's six now, isn't he?
No, he's 23.
He's back to 23.
You know, Trump did do some good things in his first term.
It's all going to be washed away unless he peels back a little bit.
And I think he will.
I mean, if you monitored him a little bit yesterday and then compared it to his statement overnight, he's not a bona fide idiot.
He's a narcissist.
He's an egomaniac.
He's not an idiot.
Will he show up to an inauguration?
Hell no.
I think here's, I'm going to make two predictions, okay?
Two predictions.
Number one, by the weekend in the news, it's all the COVID super spreader from this, okay?
That everybody there yesterday is taking COVID to the rest of the country.
That's all the media is going to be talking about, probably starting Saturday.
That the mob has now infected 5 million more people with COVID.
They're going to take that and they're going to run with it.
My other prediction is you're going to find some of these people that stormed into the Capitol building and were arrested are going to ask Trump for a pardon.
Watch for that to happen.
I guarantee you, some of these nut jobs are going to be doing that and thinking that Trump can pardon them.
They were so comfortable when they got inside that Capitol building.
When you see these pictures, they had no comprehension of what's going to happen to them down the road.
I mean, these are serious, serious felonies.
They're looking at a decade in prison.
They're laughing.
They're doing selfies.
You know, they stole stuff out of Pelosi's desk, right?
The guys that got his feet up on there.
One dude stole a podium.
I mean, literally took it out of the Senate chamber.
So, two predictions.
Those things are going to happen.
I happen to agree with you.
Where the hell were the police during all this?
Where the hell were security guards?
Where were the armed guards?
Like, when the BLM did their protests over the summer, you've seen the image of these guys on the steps.
Now you have the contradiction over here of cops, like literally, literally taking selfies with some of these protesters, graciously walking them out.
The image that, I mean, Kai and I were looking at this: the one, one black police officer without a fucking gun and trying to find his baton, being chased up the stairs of the Capitol.
Kai, I don't know if you have those images, but that was, I mean, you have a mad mob coming after a police officer, and while he is being raced up the stairs, it's like, what is happening?
There were four barriers.
This guy right here.
This guy had no one idea that people were going to break into the Capitol.
I don't blame this guy.
I mean, he's just like, give some audience.
Give him a little bit of audio.
Not a lot of audio.
A little bit of audio.
The only weapon he found was this thing on the floor behind him.
Bring out your gun, buddy.
Look, you have all these guys.
This mob coming after police officers.
I don't believe this.
Blame this police officer.
He was doing the best he could.
Buddy, you have a gun?
Does he have a gun or not?
Yeah, but what are you going to do?
Start shooting people?
Yes.
If they're coming after you, you know that this were black people or Muslim people.
There shouldn't be this level of responsibility on one security guard inside the penalty.
They're coming after him.
Halt.
The planning was horrible.
They did a terrible job.
Our police.
What's going to happen?
One guy.
What's going to happen to that guy?
What's going to happen to that guy right there?
His face is everywhere.
What'll happen to him?
Who is that, Charlie Dennis?
Assaulting a police officer, breaking into a federal building.
I mean, these people trashed congressmen's offices.
Stole stuff out of Nancy Pelosi's desk.
All right, so we got two more police, three more police.
Where the hell have they been?
Yeah, but Adam, they weren't expecting this to happen.
You can't.
What do you mean, Tom?
Of course they were.
No, they weren't.
They were 100,000 people to break windows and storm the Capitol.
You yourself said it's never happened before.
Why would they think it would happen yesterday?
I don't blame those cops inside the building.
It was the planning of the city, you know, to not anticipate this and have the National Guard on standby or have cops from Maryland there or whatever else they needed.
They were undermanned.
It's just, honestly, it's just sad that this is what it's come down to.
Like, I wish, and I'm not a Trump supporter.
We all know that.
I wish that he would have gone out graciously.
I've done some great things.
You know, we've made America great again, the whole spiel, but my time has come.
You know, I'll be back in four years.
I love you guys.
You know, Biden's your guy now, but I'm going to kick his ass in four years, come out like lose graciously.
There's an image right now of, I posted on my Instagram, of day one of a beautiful picture outside the Capitol with the flags and everything, and day whatever it is, 1422, whatever it is, and the Capitol literally on flames and burning.
And that's the indelible image that's going to be stuck on Trump's legacy.
And again, not as a Trump supporter, I wish it didn't happen like this.
But this is not a good look for this guy or anybody that's been supporting him.
Let me ask you: if you're watching this right now, if you're watching this right now, what caused this?
This is my question for you.
What caused this?
We talked about this earlier.
Do you think media is the cause of this?
Do you think the left is the cause of this?
Do you think Trump's the cause of this?
So, meaning media, left, Trump.
If you think it's Trump, if you think it's media, press thumbs up.
If you think it's the left, push thumbs down.
If you think it's Trump, comment on Trump comment section, say Trump.
I'm curious to know who you think this was because for us, when you watch this, I want to know who is the number one.
You know, the domino.
You know, you ever seen the guys that put the domino and all of a sudden one, you tip one of 50,000 dominoes.
Yeah.
I want to know who was the first.
I don't want to know the third or the fifth or the second.
I want to know what caused things to go bam.
Let me ask you this.
Yeah.
Because I want to understand where your question is.
What do you mean by is it the media?
Is it Trump?
Like, clearly, this is on Trump not conceding.
And then the media runs with the fact that he's not conceding.
What led to this?
What led to this?
What led to yesterday?
Yeah, what led to this?
What led to us being here?
What would the media have to do with that?
Let me upload.
I'm asking you a question.
Yeah, I want to know.
What are you talking about, buddy?
I mean, we just talked about that a minute ago.
I gave you my explanation why.
It's okay.
What does this video represent?
What does yesterday represent?
What does it represent?
It represents united or divided?
Divided.
How did it become divided?
What did you do?
What caused us to be divided?
I look at my parents when they got a divorce.
I asked, what caused them to be divided?
And I would sit there and I would watch my mom's aunts bitch about my dad, and I would watch my dad's mother and brothers bitch about my mom all the time.
So who created the division?
Family behind closed doors.
We're stoking both of them.
Oh, she's not doing this.
She's not a good wife.
He's not a good husband.
Finally, they're like, screw it, man.
I'm going to please my family.
They got a divorce.
Yeah, this stuff doesn't happen because of one day or one hour.
It caused the division.
This has been four or five years in the making, maybe six or seven.
It's the influx of social media.
It's people being able to comment and communicate about anything and take sides and forge enemies and go against each other.
It's the media stoking the fire.
It's Trump doing his part, no doubt.
It's the far left looking at an opportunity to take advantage of this situation.
It's a perfect toxic cocktail that came to a boiling point yesterday, and that's what you got.
You know, I appreciate what we're saying here.
And clearly, media being dominated by left, center of left people.
But the media has been around for 100, 200 freaking years.
Never been.
The media's changed.
Okay, never.
It's not.
No, we've never had a president like this.
So we can, I mean, has the media changed that much in four years, eight years, ten years, 20 years?
Yes, it has.
Never been a chance.
Why has it changed so much?
Because you have Trump calling the media the enemy of the people.
It's all fake news.
So there's enough blame to go around.
No doubt.
No doubt.
But you have to look at the top, and there's one person out there that has caused the majority of this.
You can't just say Trump.
You can't say it.
But you can say Trump.
Just so you know, a lot of people agree.
A lot of people commented saying Trump.
More commented agreeing, saying it's the media, and fewer commented saying it's the left.
So number one so far right now is media.
Then it's a tie between left and Trump based on what I'm seeing with the comment section.
A bunch of people commented.
So I don't know.
I think I think, so here's my question for you.
I asked the guy yesterday.
I said, so how is CNN MSMBC being held accountable for saying Russia, Russia, Russia for three years?
How?
Wasn't true.
They're not.
Never happened.
Just move on.
So the guy that walked in on the cop, what's going to end up happening to him?
He should be arrested.
Should he be arrested?
He's going down.
Do you guys all agree that he should be arrested?
Should he be arrested?
Yeah, not just him, but everyone behind him, too.
Fine.
What I'm trying to tell you is they should be arrested, right?
Okay, fine.
If he gets arrested, are you going to say, oh my gosh, I shouldn't have arrested that guy?
Are you going to say that?
No.
Okay.
Trump got suspended from Twitter yesterday and Facebook for 12 hours.
Right move or wrong move.
I'm good with that.
You know, he knows the rules at this point.
I think it was the only thing they could do.
Right move or wrong move?
I think it's the right move.
Even his saying right move.
Right move to slow it down.
Right move to not entice?
Right.
Okay.
All right.
If he tries to do something, if he tries to do something, they're just going to stomp him.
Okay.
Watch this.
But wait a minute, guys.
Look where I'm going with this.
This is my point I'm making to you.
That guy should be held accountable.
Yes, we all agree.
Trump held accountable for his tweet, shut it down for 12 hours?
Yes.
How the hell is the media being held accountable?
Zero.
Who's getting fired?
Who's getting fined?
Who's getting shut down?
Who's shutting down CNN for 12 hours?
Who's shutting down MSNBC for 12 hours?
Who's shutting down Fox for 12 hours?
How come they don't get a shutdown?
Why don't we get a shutdown for these guys for 12 hours?
For one day, CNN is off.
Fine.
Advertisement's gone.
Why don't we do that to them?
You're talking about accountability.
There is no accountability for the media.
There is no accountability for the media.
What is it?
Because they hide under the opinion section.
You're the news section?
Yeah, you're a journalist?
Where's the accountability?
I'll tell you what.
I learned something from you.
Remember yesterday I said, oh, there's a lady that got shot, and I heard she was 16 or something like that.
Yeah, you corrected her.
And I said, listen, I made a mistake.
Apparently she was not underage.
I had some bad news.
I apologize.
I retract my statement.
But real news organizations have to apologize when they make a mistake.
You were in the media.
You understand that, right?
When do you have to apologize?
But you know what?
That ship has just sailed.
That's not what the media is anymore.
Here's an analogy I would use.
Over the last four, five, six years.
This was an inferno yesterday.
But leading up to that, you had some people that dried the grass around there.
You had some people that brought some kindling.
You got some people that brought some logs.
You got some other people that brought some loose paper.
You got the media that poured fuel all over this.
And then Trump takes a lighter, boom, or a match, and it goes.
I mean, there's so many people that are responsible for what happened yesterday.
You cannot just say it's one entity or one person, but it's where we're at as a country right now.
And I hope we're smart enough to figure it out and move on and move past this a little bit.
Listen, if you're running a company and there is fraud internally, or there is a falling out, or there is a issue that all of a sudden happens, an event.
Like, you know, I was out of town once and we had an issue that happened here about a year and a half ago, two years ago.
And I'm like, what the hell happened?
Camera, conversations, everything.
We did investigation.
We found out who it was.
We had to make a decision, right?
And we made the decision.
I bet that was scary for that person to face you.
Yeah, but the point is, the point is, I wanted to find out who started it, not who was involved.
If I come and slap you in the face, you're probably going to react.
I'm not looking for the reaction.
I want to know who started the whole thing, right?
I think the media needs to be held accountable.
And unfortunately, I don't think nothing's going to happen to that.
How do you hold the media accountable to him?
Take them off for 24 hours.
Who's taking them off?
Oh, dude.
Suspend the media for 24 hours.
Who, though?
Who's responsible for that?
That has to be from the top.
FCC.
Wait, Hang on a second.
Hang on a second.
How much is social media facing backlash?
How much is social media facing backlash right now?
Oh, they're talking about breaking up Facebook.
Okay, well, section 230.
Where have you heard anything being held accountable for the other guys?
I agree with you.
Okay, why don't you do it?
How can you go up there and say, how is Adam Schiff being held accountable saying Russia 100% guaranteed happened?
How is he being held accountable?
Our comments like that are not.
But he faced re-election.
I don't know.
Yeah, but that's great.
CNN is not facing reelection.
Pat, one thought on that.
But either as Fox, either as MSNBC, all of them.
I just told you, put all of them in there.
I agree with your idea.
Yeah, for sure.
Put a fine.
Here's the question.
No, let me ask you.
What you're doing, who opposes that?
But the government does.
Let me ask you.
Now, the government's going to start finding the media if they don't like what they say.
That's a slippery slide.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
In the NBA, what happened to Magic Johnson when he tried to recruit players away to the Lakers?
What happened to him?
How big of a fine was it?
A million dollars.
Half a million dollar fine.
Okay, you can't be doing it.
When he was talking about, hey, Paul George, he did this, I think, on Jimmy Kemmell's show.
I don't know who it was, Fallon or Kimmel, one of those guys.
He's like, hey, no, I'm not going to try to recruit Paul George.
Well, you know, if I know, and I do one of these things.
Wait, okay, you got it.
Tampering or tampering.
Okay.
These guys are tampering.
No problem.
Fine.
Fine them.
Fine Hannity.
Find Cooper.
I'm with you.
Find Matt.
I'm with you.
But let's go through this.
Let's go down this rabbit hole.
Who's doing the fining?
The Congress?
The president?
The same way there's an association.
The same way there's an association.
The same way there's a method to the madness of accountability.
You do it the same way.
These guys are making big dollars.
If you're making big dollars, hey, you're in the NBA.
You say something to the referee, you're getting fined.
It's just basic protocol.
If you ever say anything to the ref, what happens?
35 grand, 25 grand, 50 grand.
Great.
It's a form of accountability.
And then the players say, I wasn't going to say anything because I'm not going to give my money up to the association.
Great.
I like that.
It's a form of accountability.
I've got one more solution.
And this one is practical and we can actually do it.
I have a lot of family members that'll come to me.
They're scared.
I mean, I guarantee a lot of people watching this podcast right now are scared from what happened yesterday.
I mean, that's a troubling scene.
Those scenes are horrible.
People are freaked out.
Here's what I tell them.
And here's what I'm telling you.
Peel back on the media.
Don't watch it.
Peel back on traditional media.
They are only going to stoke it further for you.
No matter.
Even if you believe in one side and you only watch CNN or MSNBC, it's going to make you really angry.
If you're a conservative, you only watch Fox, it's going to make you more mad.
Why don't you bring it close to yourself?
What you said to us yesterday is because sometimes when conservatives say that, people say, well, you're going to still go watch Fox and you're going to go.
Yeah, but if you subject yourself to only one message, you're going to hate the other side more.
To a family you even said.
That's right.
To a family member.
Yes.
I said, just peel back from Fox.
Don't just go and watch Fox.
Get headlines.
Go to VT posts so you can know what's going on in the world, but peel back on your social media.
Do not engage and pull yourself back from the regular media.
I guarantee you, the people that are most troubled and are having anxiety from yesterday are the ones that really consume a ton of media.
You got to get away from it because they're out to damage and destroy you.
So I hear you on that.
I just have a different approach.
I watch Fox.
I watch CNN.
I read Wall Street Journal.
I see Business Insider.
I read USA Today.
A lot of them are apps on my phone.
I like getting different perspectives.
I saw something, I don't know if it was a daily show or whoever said it.
It said, if you turn on CNN, it says, Trump supporters storm the Capitol.
You turn on MSNBC and it says, angry mob ransacks the Capitol.
And then you turn on Fox, it says, but Hillary Clinton's emails.
So like, you're going to, every media outlet is going to come with a different story.
So do you just like do what I did for the last two weeks when I was in Miami and just bury your head in the sand and be like, dude, I don't want to see nothing.
I'm just going to be getting drunk for the next two weeks and just vacationing.
Or do you say, look, I know what I'm getting from CNN.
I know what I'm getting from Fox.
I know what I'm getting from MSNBC, but let me see all sides.
And that's something that I've done is I want to see what Tucker has to say.
I want to see what Cuomo has to say.
I want to see what Larry O'Donnell has to say.
I want to see different perspectives.
And that's how you can form your own opinion.
I think I do agree with you.
Sometimes you do have to kind of take immediate detox.
I know you've talked about that before, but you can't do that the rest of your life.
You have to, you know, see what's going on out there.
So anyone who's out there and only watches MSNBC or only watches Fox, you're doing your brain a disservice.
Yeah, I say peel back.
I mean, and don't listen to only extreme views because it's just going to mess with your mind even more.
And that's why you should be watching this podcast because you're getting it all over.
Well, let me give a quick shout out because a bunch of people were, I'm trying to catch up.
So much was given from the beginning, and I want to make sure these guys get the shout-out.
Good mother said the children in the media and crazy, the children in the media and crazy women have made a terrible mess of things.
People are super mad, and it's going to only get worse.
She gave five bucks.
Aaron Delgado gave 20 bucks.
He didn't say anything.
Good mother.
People can't afford an ID.
They have no business voting for anything.
Joseph Cole said, Adam, I was wrong, and I admitted Biden won.
We went about it the wrong way, and yesterday was a very sad day.
Soyboy Mazda.
Shout out.
Good for him.
Wow.
James Burnett gave $5, and he says he's so indoctrinated, he can't even see the chance voter fraud because your side won.
He's talking about you.
So Jason Rapizarta, what are you to do corrupt voting machines?
They have two machines in five minutes in front of the Senate.
Okay.
Jason, he continues.
Okay, this is a different guy.
Chad Williams, Pat, even though we don't all feel the same way right now, thank you for making a show that actually doesn't fall completely hard right or left.
We will get stronger.
Great.
Keep this in the truth, Patrick.
Rick Howell.
Ryu Kiritio, this is what happens when people don't feel like their voices are heard, when the courts refuse to hear evidence, except the BS machine ones and drop them to procedure and Supreme Court gives a two-line rejection.
And then we have Trump doesn't need to do anything.
The people will gather whether he is in or not.
People are mad about the fraud.
Good mother.
Good mother, though.
Good mothers in the house.
All those men in the building, and the only person to get shot was a woman.
PSYOP, this is what the country do when the regime change.
Ask Iraq.
This is Joseph XFX 426.
Good mother back at it again.
She says it's the responsibility of universities.
And look, a lot of people are upset.
A lot of people are frustrated.
Here's my favorite comment.
Shout out to Luis La Callo.
He says, dear aliens, now's the time to show up.
You got you, Luis.
Respect.
And to all the people out there, and we addressed this earlier, stop it with the this was all Antifa.
Just stop, bro.
You look ridiculous.
Yeah.
Was some Antifa all up in the mix, the guy in the Viking costume?
Sure.
So is it fair to say that Biden's the president?
Is it official?
I'll go last.
I'll go last.
Yes.
I'm paying up.
What are we all owe?
What do we all owe here?
So if Biden's president, that's one lunch.
That's two lunches.
That's three.
That's five.
You can't even buy one Bitcoin without it.
You can't even buy any Tesla stock.
You got to go.
Here you go.
All right.
Stay up on the podcast.
Don't ever come back and say Pat doesn't pay for it.
Patrick Ben David just paid me $1,000.
That's $1,000 for you.
Thank you.
Of all fake money.
Feels good.
Feels good.
This is really fake.
It's real money.
This is actually your marker and find out what it is.
So you got your money.
Save that money.
But with that being said, obviously, Georgia happened, and you got Democrats defeated Osoff defeated Purdue.
And then you have Warnock, who defeated Loeffler.
By the way, I have a lot of friends of mine that went to Morehouse.
So Warnock is a Morehouse graduate himself.
Shout out to all my friends who went to Morehouse.
This is a very big victory, believe it or not, for Morehouse University because, you know, it's an elite university.
They develop leaders, and these types of victories give a lot of credence and credibility to university.
So what do you think about what happened with Georgia and what's going to happen now?
Okay, so Georgia is really, really interesting because you watch the fallout from this because a lot of people are blaming Trump.
They're blaming Trump for this should have been a slam dunk.
This should at least been a layup for one Republican to be elected in Georgia.
Yeah.
I mean, a Democrat hasn't been elected a senator in the state of Georgia since 97.
1997 or 96 was the last time it happened.
Now they blame Trump because all his talk about the election being stolen and voter fraud made a lot of people feel like, why vote?
I mean, it's already predetermined.
So there's some credence to that argument.
And some top Republican officials are really pissed off at Trump and they blame him for this.
Now, there's another side that blames the Republican Senate because they feel if they had approved the $2,000 stimulus checks, if they had gotten those checks for two grand out, game over, one of them wins.
The other blame game that's going on is Loffler ran an uninspiring campaign.
They weren't really thrilled with what she did.
And then Purdue was actually running ads talking about some insider trading situation that he was involved in.
So harping on some negative things.
So you have the combination of bad campaigning on the ground, the fact that these $2,000 checks didn't get out.
It was only $600 because McConnell and his boys prevented that from happening.
And then Trump's constant harping on fraud, on fake, on steal, led a lot of people to not vote.
We're talking Georgia.
Sorry, I've been counting my money for the last.
Thank you for that.
That's respect.
There's no chance.
No way.
There's no way the Republicans should have lost both seats in Georgia.
No chance.
Like, that is a buffoonery.
Do you agree with him, though, on who's responsible for it?
He said there's a few things responsible for him.
Yeah, he said Trump.
He said the Senate's because they didn't approve the $2,000.
You know, so it's the $2,000.
The $2,000 thing, I think, that came in in the last week or so, tail end, but that's important.
Oh, I disagree there because they've been talking about that since the summer.
Not 2,000, bro.
They talked about $1,200 at one point.
They've been going back and forth on the stimulus for months now.
I don't think the 2000 thing.
Trump floated the 2,000 thing himself.
He won.
Here's what happened in Georgia.
Who's the governor of Georgia?
What's his name?
Brian Kemp.
Okay, he was a massive Trump fan.
Trump got him elected.
He's been behind Trump the whole time.
He ran against Stacey Abrams.
Stacy Abrams is a huge voice in Georgia on the left.
Lots of influence.
Lots of influence.
Cool, cool, cool.
He's been saying he's been, obviously, because there's been an election there, stoking the flames of what's happening in Georgia.
They've had three recounts in Georgia.
They did a one by hand recount.
He still lost.
One, two, three strikes are out, Trump.
And again, they're talking about being a sore loser.
He lost in Georgia, and he blamed it on Brian Kemp.
And you had the Secretary of State of Georgia come out and make an impassioned speech being like, somebody's going to get killed.
Somebody's going to get killed talking like this.
So when you're talking about a rigged election, you're talking about you need to win these seats in order to take back the Senate.
And they should have won at least one.
Are you kidding me?
David Perdue, are you kidding me?
And you're saying it's a rigged election.
You're having people, the Trump's attorney in Georgia, what's his name?
Lynn Wood.
You've seen this guy?
Yeah.
Coming out basically saying, don't vote unless these senators come out and do something about this rigged election.
Like one thing that you said at the beginning of this was: whether you agree or disagree, the Democrats had a unified plan.
Republicans have been fractured.
Whether it's the Lincoln Party over here or whether it's Trump making fun and picking fights.
If there's one thing we understand, if you're going to win elections, you've got to be unified.
And the Republican Party is not unified right now.
Whether you agree with Democrats or not, they were unified behind.
We are beating Trump.
The Bernie Sanders wing, the AOC wing, the Elizabeth Warrens, they came to the center with the Joe Manchins and the Bidens of the world.
And they said, look, we're going to beat Trump.
And they've had a unified message.
Trump fractured.
And look, there's no way that they should have lost freaking Georgia.
And they did.
Okay, so what happens now?
Let's talk about what happens now.
They lost it.
What happens now?
They own all of it for two years.
It should not be like that.
What happens now?
Like if you were to say, so you go into the mind of a Democrat, okay, just go think like you're a Democrat right now.
What are they doing right now?
What are they doing right now?
Which plans are they going after right now?
A, I don't think that the Democrats are as unified as a lot of people think they are.
They have huge fractions right there.
And yet your squad and some of those people are really pissed off that they're not included in the cabinet.
All eyes to me are on Joe Biden.
How are you going to handle this?
Are you going to take this advantage that you have and try to ram everything in?
Or are you going to be a little bit more sensible?
I will say this.
I was impressed with him yesterday.
He was less radical with his statements than Obama.
Did you read Obama's reaction to yesterday?
I mean, my God, I mean, it was completely over the top.
You saying Biden?
No, Obama.
Obama had comments about it, too.
All the past presidents did, but I thought Biden was measured.
I thought he was all right.
And you know what?
So far, look, I'm so grateful that he hasn't put any of these really, really radical lefties in serious cabinet positions or positions of influence yet.
So I'm watching Biden to see what he does with this.
Don't try to ram every crazy idea that's been floated out there in the next two years.
Now, the other thing I say is I just give props to our founding fathers because they put a system in place where we can do something about it in two years.
So I think you got to suck it up and deal with whatever it is that's going to happen for the next two years.
But you got a chance to make a difference, you know, starting with these House Representatives elections coming up.
But it's, Biden, I'm praying that you're a sensible, have a voice.
What will he do, though?
Give me, by the way, Obama yesterday said history will rightly remember today's violence at the Capitol incited by a sitting president as a moment of great dishonor and shame out of our nation, but we'd be kidding ourselves if we treated it as a total surprise is what he said.
And Biden said, I call on President Trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution and demand an end to on this on this stage, to this siege.
So what's going to happen?
Go specifically.
Here's specific meaning.
The only thing that matters right now is getting the economy back and not freaking out about COVID anymore.
I mean, as serious as it is, and it's a huge problem, there has to be a legitimate plan to get the country open and running again.
You even look at Andrew Cuomo in New York.
Now, I don't like him.
I don't agree with him, but he's doing some things to open it up.
I just saw yesterday the governor of Minnesota, a Democrat, Waltz, opening up bars, opening up restaurants, coming back, having a plan.
The worst is California.
I live it.
I know it.
It's terrible.
But Biden cannot take advantage of this to put further hindrances on everybody in this country that's already suffering.
I think that was a big part of what you saw yesterday, too.
A lot of those people that have lost a lot of things and have nothing, you know, they've lost their job.
They have no hope, ran to Washington, D.C. and went a little nuts.
But we have crossed a point now where there has to be a plan to get the economy going and figure this thing out.
So your number one is economy.
You have to realize, guys, this is deeper than that.
The Democrats have a genie now in a bottle, okay?
You make a wish.
You got a lot of things on your side.
House, Senate, and presidency is yours, okay?
Have we forgotten about packing a corporate?
Have we forgotten about that?
Have we forgotten about capital gains going back up?
Have we forgotten about taxes?
Have we forgotten about censorship?
Have we forgotten about breaking apart companies such as the Facebooks of the world?
Have we forgotten about what's going to happen with Amazon?
Have we forgotten about a federal minimum wage?
Have we forgotten about what's going to be their first thing that they're going to say, guys, let's go get these Obamacare?
What's the first thing that they're going to come out and say, let's get these things?
Sanctions on China, sanctions on Iran, nuclear.
There's a bunch of things that they're going to do.
How much is going to get done in the next two years?
So I have maybe a different opinion on that.
Look, the margins are razor thin.
So there's going to be like my guy, Joe Manchin, in West Virginia.
I don't see him just toting the company line on increasing taxes or an example or anything with the Second Amendment or anything like that.
So the margins are super thin.
I mean, Kamala Harris has a deciding vote in the second.
Everything will be voted on the left with her.
But I don't think it's going to be as 50-50-50-50 as is projected.
Here's my concern.
Because all those things, whether it's taxes, whether it's infrastructure, whether it's minimum wage, whether it's Obamacare, those things will be left to debate.
Here's my biggest concern.
We all saw what happened in 2000 when the election was delayed, Gore, Bush, Bush, Gore, what happened, what happened.
And then it took Bush, you know, longer than expected to become inaugurated.
What happened?
And then obviously 9-11 happened.
Here's my biggest concern, at least initially.
We were hearing rumblings that Iran was trying to fly a plane into the Capitol, right?
Our enemies are laughing at us right now.
Russia, China.
Yeah, but what are they going to do?
I want to know what are they going to do?
What my concern is that Trump is not going to actually give Biden's team all the information that he would actually need to run smoothly and that something very ugly can happen.
I don't think that not matter.
I don't think that matters.
How does that not matter?
Let me explain to you why that doesn't matter.
Something like 9-11 happens that doesn't matter?
Let me explain to you why that doesn't matter.
Here's why that doesn't matter.
Okay.
America's bigger than one guy.
You just have to understand.
America's bigger than one guy.
When a transition is taking place, all the information of the transition is not on one guy.
It's on everybody and the people around them.
Okay, then those guys are going to transfer the information to Biden.
Of course.
So it's not, this is America.
He's already not holding out.
He's already holding information.
He is not everything.
The information.
The city alone can fix it.
Remember that.
Again, you're being sarcastic.
I'm trying to be serious to your answer.
I'm being serious.
The information will be given to the next guy, Biden.
They're going to be all right.
I'm not worried about that part.
You guys are getting away from the point.
Okay, let me ask the viewers.
Maybe I'm going to ask if yours are going to say something else.
Look, Dems have it all right now.
Gang.
They have the Senate, they have the House, they have presidency.
What do you think they're going to go after and say?
Because today they're waking up saying, we got it all.
What are we doing?
What do we want?
Do they go press the court?
Right now it's what, 6'3 is on the right?
Is that what it is?
So the Paris?
Yeah, no, no, no.
Supreme Court.
Yeah, 6'3.
6'3.
6'3 is scary, and 6'3 is not five years.
6'3 is not two years.
6'3 is 30 years, 20 years.
So a long time, right, that you're looking at.
So do you go attack that and say, let's bump into 11, let's bump it to 13?
Do you go after a Medicare for all?
Do you go after Second Amendment background checks, heavy training?
Do you go after taxes raising it?
Do you go after what do you think they're going to go after now?
They have to move.
Where do you think they go?
What's your biggest thing?
I'll jump into yourself.
Abortion is one thing.
Okay.
So that means abortion means packing a corporation.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think that's probably okay for you.
There you go.
I agree with that.
What do you mean abortion?
Roe v. Swade is the law of the land.
Yeah, but the Supreme Court is 6'3 right now.
So if they wanted to kind of make a move, they could.
But who would make a move?
The Supreme Court's not just going to bring up a case.
But the right could bring something up.
So, for them, they're not thinking right now.
They're not going to have a majority in Congress.
They're not thinking right now.
I just told you that this Supreme Court could be like that for 10, 20, 30 years.
So, it's more important than presidency.
They have to bump it up to 11 or 13 and put two or four of their own guys in there.
I don't think that's going to be the top priority.
Okay, I hope I'm wrong.
I hope I'm wrong.
I think they're going to go after some pretty aggressive things because I think they might be thinking in a couple of years things could flip.
So, I think it's Paris Accord for sure.
Taxes are a given.
That's already done.
How high will it go?
Well, we already know it's going higher.
And then, based on their reaction to COVID, we got to keep everybody safe.
We got to raise more money to give people more money.
They're going to keep going higher and higher and higher.
Health care?
I mean, I think anything that they can get their hands on, you know, he's going to be very ambitious.
They always talk about a president's first 100 days.
I think they're going to throw some things out there now that they have the handcuffs off and they can basically say and do anything they want.
And then they have the media, you know, presenting that message and pounding it home to everybody every single night.
They might go a little nuts here in the first two years.
Well, I mean, let's just go off what Biden said he wanted to do.
Clearly, they're going to re-enter the Paris Accord.
Let's talk about what is going to happen, not they may pack the court, they may do this.
He said he's going to re-enter the Paris Climate Agreement.
Don't check that off the box.
They're talking about a federal minimum wage increase to $15.
I fully disagree with that.
Certain cities, sure.
Federally, uh-uh, I think that's a horrible move.
That's a scary thought.
Taxes will increase potentially if you make more than $400,000.
That's part of his economic plan.
Potentially, capital gains tax.
We talked about that.
What I think, and this is a good thing, in my opinion, you know, remember when Trump took office in 2016 or early 2017, what's the first thing he did?
He went after Obamacare.
Yeah.
He went after Obamacare.
And everyone said, what a dumb move to go after, trying to go after health care when you had a layup going after infrastructure.
I think Biden is going to recognize that, and he's going to go after infrastructure, clean energy, green.
I don't think he's come out and he said he does not support the Green New Deal.
He does not support Medicare for all.
He's come out and he said that.
So Biden has looked, especially with his cabinet positions and especially with his proposals and his positions, he has looked very moderate.
I know all the crazies out there think socialists, communists.
What's going to happen with China?
I think he's going to continue what Trump has.
He said part of his plan.
He's going to continue what Trump is doing with the tariffs.
But I think it'll be reassessed, clearly.
I think he's going to do what China tells him to do.
I think he's not going to be overly aggressive on doing anything.
What are you laughing at?
No, honestly, what are you laughing at?
I just don't think he's going to do what China tells him to do.
So you think, so, okay, so what does that mean, though?
Do you think tariffs are going away with China?
Not anytime soon, no.
What's not anytime soon?
It's 30 days, six months, 12 months, 18 months?
A couple of years.
When is late?
Two years?
I don't know.
Do you think we should keep the tariffs in China?
I do think we need to keep the tariffs on China until China starts giving us the ability to go and investigate what happened with coronavirus and Wuhan.
So do you think China is actually going to give us the ability to go investigate?
Yeah, if you want.
China?
If the U.S. makes you a half a trillion dollars of revenue of tax revenue that comes your way because of import-export, yeah, of course.
We're your number one customer.
Yes.
We want to know what happens so this doesn't happen again because if we open up the airports of travel from China to U.S., we want to make sure you don't do that to us again.
So why didn't Trump initiate that already?
What?
Why didn't he do that?
An investigation into China.
For him to start an investigation in China right now is impossible to do it right now.
Why?
Because it's not done yet.
What's not done?
Nothing's done yet.
Nothing's finalized yet with coronavirus.
Meaning it's saying when corona's done, what?
No, when this thing is going through right now and everything, when the dust settles, they have to go do a major investigation.
Six to 12 months from now.
They're going back and forth, and the other day China was negotiating of how much the world can come and investigate and do due diligence on what happened with coronavirus.
They're negotiating to give you limits on how much limitations you got.
That's China negotiating with the U.S. right now.
They're negotiating with the World Health Organization on the kind of restrictions they want to give you to come and investigate what happened there.
Yeah, I do think the tariffs are a bad idea if China's not being held accountable.
Let's talk about a common enemy.
And this is something that you've addressed a few times.
We've got to stop fighting amongst ourselves.
Look at us.
We have different opinions, but we're talking.
We're meeting in the middle.
We're dapping each other up.
Who are our common enemies that we should be specifically focusing on?
China's number one enemy.
China's number one enemy.
Iran's got to be up there.
And Russia's got to be someone you always have to be careful with.
Anyone that has a nuclear bomb pointed at us is our enemy.
So North Korea, number four?
Who's the top five?
I think North Korea.
China, Iran, Russia, North Korea.
And one of them, I'm going to say, is an ally, but you have to be very careful with, that is maybe not an ally, would be Turkey.
What about the Germans?
I'd be very careful with Turkey.
You know what's going on?
Keep them close, but I'd be very careful with Turkey.
Turkey is a very, very interesting dynamic right now.
They're part of NATO.
You've got to be very careful.
They're aligned with Azerbaijan.
They're in bed with the wrong people.
They're in bed with enemies of U.S. You got to be careful with them.
Got to be careful with them.
Venezuela, it was sad but ironic when was it Maduro or whoever in Venezuela said, look at the United States.
Like, this is who we're supposed to be taking the lead from.
Are you freaking kidding me?
When Venezuela is saying that about us, we've got to clean up our.
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So, okay, so that's that topic.
You guys didn't say you didn't go too deep into the court packing.
You said maybe, maybe not.
You don't think it's going to happen.
You're thinking they're going to push forward maybe a little bit, but you don't seem like that's going to be a priority.
I just don't think that's going to be like a top, top priority.
So how high do you think capital gain is going to go?
From 20%.
It's at 20% right now.
How high do you think they'll take it?
What did he say he was going to put it to?
32?
What do you say?
Has he given specific numbers?
Yeah, well, we addressed that, didn't we?
I don't think he said specific numbers.
I think what's going to happen is the progressive taxes, it's going to get rid of the 33, I believe.
It's going to go straight to 39.
Well, listen, something that I'm convinced of, whether it's Biden, whether Trump won this thing, taxes are going up in the future.
They've been way higher than that.
Also, if Trump would have won, he would have raised taxes.
I'm not saying that Trump is in the future.
Taxes are going up.
So we may as well do it now.
Stock market, actually.
Whether it's now, five years, 10 years, 20 years now, with all the debt that we have.
So do it now while restaurants are going out of business.
I'm not saying to do it now.
All business owners went out of business.
Are you saying words in my mouth?
Are you saying do it now?
I hope they don't do it now.
But what I'm saying is that they're not going to be able to do it.
Potentially, yes.
Yeah, I think they'll do it.
I don't want them to be.
It's not like I want higher taxes given.
Higher taxes are coming regardless.
I mean, anybody that voted for Biden voted for higher taxes, period.
I don't think you're wrong with that.
By the way, let's talk about Jack Ma.
Yesterday we talked about Jack Major.
Two days ago, we talked about Jack Ma being missing.
And then some stories came back and said, no, he's not missing, but he's laying low.
This guy from what show was it that we were watching?
He said, you know, I've interviewed him, obviously, multiple times, and it's not the CNBC.
It's not that he's missing, but, you know, it's not that I spoke to him.
But at the same time, he's not missing.
I think he's laying low, and he's laying low at this place.
So he was very safe.
And it almost seemed like they were trying to save the stock from not taking a big hit and just kind of playing, not the stock, the reputation of Alibaba from taking a big hit.
But they're saying he's not missing.
He's just laying low.
It turns out he's kept himself out of the limelight intentionally after the speech he gave in October that appeared critical of China's financial regulators, who has in turn shut down the record-setting initial public offering Alibaba's sister company Ant Group.
More recently, they offered a company to revamp its business.
Prior to Faber's report, the Wall Street Journal noted, it isn't uncommon for Chinese billionaires to disappear from the public eye for long periods during legal and regulatory investigations.
That's what we know today.
Whether he disappeared or not, we don't know.
They don't like the word disappeared.
Never forget where we are in America today.
You could say whatever the hell you want.
You could talk as much crap as you want about Trump, about Pelosi, about Schumer, about McConnell, about Ted Cruz, about Lindsey Grant, whoever you want to say stuff about Tom this, Pat this.
Hey, you don't got to go in hiding.
You can show your face proudly no matter what you say, unless you're a proud boy.
But in China, you speak up, your ass goes into hiding.
Look at Jack Ma, the richest man in China is now, quote unquote, laying low.
Something tells me he's in a re-education camp learning the communist manifesto of China.
The thing that's surprising to me about Ma is he knew he was committing some sort of corporate suicide by doing this.
By giving this speech, he had a chance to read over it a few times before he delivered it.
He had to know something was going to happen to him.
China needs Jack Ma.
He is a piece of collateral for them, for the rest of the world to see, hey, we can produce one of the richest people in the world.
He built this huge tech company that's insanely big.
But the rule in China, no matter how big of a pop culture sensation you are or how famous you are or how rich you are, you can't be bigger than the government.
And I think that was his problem.
He got a little bit too big, and they're putting their thumb down on him now.
But I guess he'll eventually resurface.
I don't know.
Are they going to restructure his company and chop it up?
I'm not sure.
But it is pretty fascinating how he was able to build that type of wealth in China.
We'll see what will take place with that.
All I know is over there, you do not call out the government, period.
He's just kind of similar thing to what you guys just said.
You know, the interesting part about what you said briefly in today's podcast on what happened with Iran with the alarming threat to fly a plane into capital investigation.
They got a recording, a threat heard by multiple air traffic controllers in New York to fly a plane into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday to avenge the death of Iranian terrorist Gassam Soleimani is being investigated.
CBS reported Wednesday.
Audio of the threat, which was obtained by CBS News, went as follows.
And it was a digitized voice recording.
We are flying a plane into the Capitol on Wednesday.
Soleimani will be avenged.
The threat heard by American air traffic controllers was made Monday, the one-year anniversary of Soleimani's death.
So, you know, it's unclear who sent the threat.
CBS reported Wednesday morning.
While the government does not believe the warning of the attack is credible, it has been investigated as a breach of aviation frequency.
CBS has learned.
While the government does not believe the warning of an attack is credible, what do you mean while the government does not believe the warning of an attack is credible on a one-year anniversary?
You best believe it's a credible source if they're saying it on a one-year anniversary.
Don't just say, oh, it's just somebody playing a brag.
It's so funny.
You've got to take this stuff seriously.
So what do you think is going to happen here with this?
Well, we've talked about this before, about basically the mindset of the leaders of Iran.
Do you remember what I said about it on the video that we did 11 and a half months ago?
Remember what I said will happen?
Kai, do you remember what I said will happen?
You said something anniversaries.
Watch what he said.
What did I say will happen with this Soleimani?
They're very like with rituals and important anniversaries.
You know what I said?
I hope you go watch that and see what was said.
Here's what I said.
I said the day after, if Trump loses and Biden gets elected, that day they will plan their attack.
I said that they, they know Trump's no longer in, Biden's in, they will plan their attack because they're not afraid of Biden, but they're afraid of Trump because Trump took out Soleimani.
They're going to avenge Soleimani.
There's no question about it.
They're going to avenge Soleimani.
That is not going to be a problem.
I have a little bit of different opinion.
I'd love to hear that.
I think it's a diversion tactic.
I think you keep this revenge for Soleimani out there.
We're going to kill Trump.
We're going to fly planes into your Capitol building.
keeps conversations off about them getting what they need to build a nuclear bomb or getting Joe Biden to be favorable to them going forward.
I think this is an awful lot of talk, you know, with not a lot of action.
I'm not saying they're not capable of doing it or I'm not saying they're not pissed off or they're planning something.
My opinion, it's a little bit more political than just we vow revenge and we're going to do it no matter what it takes.
Because there's a lot at stake here with what they're trying to accomplish, with the relationship they had with Obama, which I'm sure they'll think will continue with Biden and how Trump treated them the last four years.
Yeah, I mean, we talked about this a few episodes ago about Soleimani.
We addressed this.
I know you've got some very strong.
You said they're very proud people.
Like they're and they with very long memories.
They're not just going to let this.
Praise for impact.
Yes.
Praise for impact.
You took out their number two guy.
It's not a regular guy you took out.
You took the guy that was poised to one day replace the leader of Iran.
Like this is a guy that could have been the president, strategic, connected.
Guy had boots on the ground, connected with the soldiers, connected with everybody.
And Iraq, he had so many strong connections, and he was a strategic guy.
So you take a guy like that out.
Yeah.
Like when they took out the nuclear scientists, their number one nuclear scientist.
He must have had a good reason to do it.
I mean, Trump doesn't have a reputation of taking out potential foreign leaders.
I mean, there must have been some serious reasons why they had to do it at that point.
No, I know.
I don't disagree.
I do think there was strong reasons to do it.
I just think they're also going to have strong reasons to say we're coming back to retaliate this.
What's going to happen with this?
I pray to God nothing.
Well, here's the one thing, at least with Trump, he would warn them.
Hey, you try to do anything about it, you're going to regret it forever.
I don't see Biden making that similar threat.
What's your prediction with Iran over the next couple of years?
They're going to do something.
And do they fear retaliation?
Meaning, are they like, holy shit, if we do this, we're going to have USA, NATO, Israel, whoever come after us?
Do they fear them at all?
Well, who has Iran's back now?
Russia.
Who else has Iran's back now?
What is it, China?
China's got Iran's back.
You know, China, you know how much money China invests into Iran?
Have you seen the number?
Do you know the number?
No, tell me.
It's a $400 billion number type of thing.
We're not talking small number, right?
Yeah.
So, you know, yeah, they're protected now.
When you're protected like that, you've got to be very careful if you go after them because the protection is by people that are potentially the top threats to U.S.
So you don't mess with them.
So they feel a little bit more like, oh yeah, I'm going to call the Gambino family on you.
Oh yeah?
Okay, come on, say something to me.
It's like that.
They have protection now.
When you get protection, you push your weight a little bit.
Say something.
What do you got to say?
Go ahead.
So they're playing a little bit aggressive.
And plus, China has loyal comrades because they pump so much money to them.
They're indebted.
They have to take their marching orders from whatever China tells them to do.
What's China and Russia's relationship these days?
Do you know?
I don't know.
I mean, I haven't read anything about it lately.
I'm sure they're cautiously, you know, watching each other.
They're on the border.
Yeah, there you go.
China and Iran approached a massive $400 billion deal.
This is July 17, 2020.
China is going to give Iran $400 billion.
Why is China investing into Iran?
So let me tell you, man, you've got to— Humanitarian.
Yeah, very humanitarian.
Now, of course, that's what it is.
Humanitarian.
So, you know, again, Iran, hope this is a false alarm and nothing happens with it.
But knowing them, they have a memory that they're going to come back and want to do something about it.
I hope I'm fully wrong when I'm talking about this.
Amazon ended up buying a few jets.
Any thoughts on that?
Amazon decides to come out and buy.
First of all, like Kai said yesterday, great timing because everything's on sale right now.
You know, jets, you can pretty much take one from some of these airlines.
Amazon buys 11 jets for first time to ship orders faster.
Amazon said Tuesday that it bought 11 jets from Delta and WestJet Airlines to boost its grow delivery network and get orders to shoppers faster.
The company said it's first time it has purchased planes for its delivery network over the past couple of years.
Amazon has been leasing plays to planes to build its fleet.
Seattle-based Amazon has been working to deliver most of its packages and rely on UPS, USPS, and other carriers.
Amazon said 11 planes.
The 11 planes they bought, all of which are Boeing 767-300s, will be converted to hold cargo instead of passengers.
What are they thinking?
What are they doing?
It's all logistics for them, moving this much freight.
Did you know that they moved over, what was it, 1.5 billion packages just over the holidays?
I mean, when you stop and think about it, when you can order something on Amazon and it's to your house in an hour or two hours, it's unbelievable.
But yeah, those are some big planes.
I think the timing of it's just interesting because I think the price of planes has drastically gone down.
So they were able to buy these things at a little bit better bargain.
But, you know, it's just like when you go by an airport and you see all these FedEx planes.
Now you're just going to see Amazon planes, you know, docked and everywhere.
The number one vehicle I pass is an Amazon delivery van.
I mean, probably 15 times a day.
They're everywhere.
And it's funny because it's been this slow build.
It's just like kind of all of a sudden, I've just been noticing how many of them there are.
But yeah.
Well, it's fair to say I know who's stuck.
I'm definitely shorting, and that's FedEx, UPS.
They can't be happy to hear that Amazon is now buying their own jets and we're going to be doing their own thing.
So because they've been leasing these other planes or using them, so their business is going to see a major decrease.
Amazon during COVID came up like no other.
And Elon Musk is apparently right behind Jeff Bezos about passing about three passes of his wealth.
Crazy.
Bezos gave $3 billion.
Record-breaking gave $10 billion to climate change.
He committed to $10 billion.
$10 billion more?
Or is this the original $10 billion?
No, he committed $10 billion, but he actually had to spend it last year.
So his net worth probably reduced by $10 billion.
And Elon Musk is $3 billion behind him right now.
Being the richest man in the world.
The funny thing is, here's my opinion.
Kai, can you pull up the time has like a current $100 billion this year alone.
Do you think these guys care?
Are they keeping scoring?
Would it bother me up?
It would totally bother Bezos if he wasn't number one anymore.
I think his girlfriend would be pissed off at him.
Of course.
Of course.
You know, Musk is funny because he says he doesn't really have any big spending habits.
He doesn't really care about the money.
That's at least what he says.
By the way, he just sold three more homes in California, one for $26 million, one for $6 million, and one for $2.5 million.
So he sold all his homes.
I think you wrote about it in VT Post.
Yeah, so he had six homes.
He had three in Bel Air.
He sold them for $62 million.
Then he sold another handful of homes that he had in LA for like $42 million.
So he wanted to not own any homes.
He's going to rent this house in Pacific Palisades $355,000 a month.
I saw there's a story on VT Post on that too.
It's sick.
So why not, man, when you got to come to town that place?
$355,000, not $350,000, $355,000 a month, Kai, because it's a big difference.
Now, what's it to him?
$4 million on a year that he made $100 billion.
You know, the funny thing is, where could Elon Musk's wealth be one year from now?
It could be maybe half of that.
Yeah, what I was saying is I said he can go from first place to ninth place in no time because Tesla could have a major drop off if something happened to it.
Well, he was Let's check out this list.
Jeff Bezos, $186 billion.
Elon Musk.
That's a little bit off.
That's off by a day.
Go up to the top, guys.
When is this from?
It'll usually say that.
First trillionaire will be back.
As of 5 p.m. Eastern of yesterday's trading day.
Oh, it is real time.
Yeah, it is real time.
All right.
So he's closing.
Isn't that funny?
It's like a scoreboard.
It's like scroll down just a little bit.
What's the one's batting average?
You think they log on to CBS?
You think they're like, let me check to see what I'm ranking today.
Or they probably laugh at it going, how bamboozled.
It's just like bamboo.
What do I go?
Back to bamboo.
Kai, go down the list.
We got Jeff Bezos.
We got Elon Musk, number two.
We got Bernard Arnaud from France, number three.
That's LVMH.
Bill Gates, number four.
Zuck, number five.
Jean Shanshant.
He's new on the list.
Poor guy.
China.
Larry Ellison, number seven.
Buffett, number eight.
Bezos.
He's got the next big Google Boys at number nine.
Let's get into an electric car.
Kai, that's the top 10.
Where is our friend, Jack Ma on this list?
Go to the 50s.
He's 51.
Do you think over 20?
Pat.
57.
Okay.
Is there money in space exploration?
Is that a big deal for what Bezos is doing?
There has to be, I would imagine, to be the first one out there.
You know what's crazy?
It's all in mining asteroids.
That's where they're saying.
Like the minerals and the metals that are on those floating asteroids in space.
They're so rich.
That's where they say if you get to that point, it's game over.
What's in those asteroids, Kai?
Minerals.
You have minerals, you have metals, things that we know and obviously don't know.
And all of that gets used to technology.
I mean, values.
Leave it to our 22-year-old brainy ass.
As soon as somebody and I said there must be.
I mean, it's the only thing I know about it.
It's because he had a good teacher.
It's because he had a good teacher.
Well, he has a library.
Shout out to my senior year high school teacher, Mr. Mulligan.
You know what I find fascinating about Kai?
He doesn't have any sort of European accent.
You speak like you've lived in America your whole life.
Did you learn English at a very young age?
His mom's from Cali.
My mom's American.
Mom's from New York.
I'm Secrets Out now.
Yeah, that's why.
Kai, give us a little Norwegian before we go into the next story about all the sexy.
What does that mean?
What do you say?
That is where the ladies at.
No, that is not.
Where the nurse is at, y'all.
You know, there's some languages that are sexy and some that aren't.
You know, like, are you trying to say that Norwegian isn't sexy?
Well, I said that's borderline.
All right, John, let's have a sexy conversation.
Darrell Hammond, you know, the comedian at SBS Saturday Night Live.
I saw him, we saw him perform one time.
He did Bill Clinton.
Me and Sean will laugh about this joke 15 years later.
So he's up there.
Yeah, you know, he's just kind of like chill.
He's like, yeah, you know, I'm German.
My wife's German.
It's not the sexiest language in the world.
You know, my wife, when she's feeling a little frisky, you know, she'll come up behind me and go, Dogen Speaking, Hawkinschmogen.
Not sexy at all.
Not exactly getting you in the mood.
Not real sexy.
Oh, my gosh.
Germans.
So I know.
Did you guys notice Adam was down a little bit yesterday afternoon?
I don't know if you guys caught that or not.
It was a little bit down a little bit yesterday afternoon when the news came out about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
I saw him a little bit.
But you seem opportunistic.
You seem like there was, in a prior podcast, you have given Kim some love.
So what do you think about Kim and Connie getting divorced?
Is that official?
Well, I mean, that's public info.
It looks like it's happening.
Do you know how many kids they have together, by the way?
Is it four or four kids?
Four kids together.
Yeah, four kids.
Together.
Wow.
Yeah.
You know what I found interesting yesterday?
I saw Adam's changing the way he spells his name.
It's K-A-D-A-M.
Soft K. Cat him.
Cat him.
Getting ready.
Keeping that K crew together.
Catamasni.
Shout out to the Koya.
Koy Boy Mafia.
Koy Boy Mafia.
No, but honestly, what do you think about it?
Well, I told you the conversation I had, the last conversation I had with you.
Were you surprised when he got the word, or did you have some Kai told me?
He broke the news to me.
He said, Guess who's getting a divorce?
He goes, I'll give you three guesses.
I was like, he's like, big news.
I go, Melanie Trump, number one.
And who else did I guess, Kai?
I'm trying to think.
I guess someone else.
I don't know who it was.
And he goes, I'll give you one more guess.
And he's like, this hits close to home to you.
I said, oh, damn, Kim and Kanye.
But I told you this.
We all know that one of my best friends, Chris Humphreys, married to Kardashian.
I was with Chris last week with his new girlfriend.
We were in Miami.
I was in the wedding, the whole thing.
And the last conversation I had with Kim, she says, I envisioned myself as an Elizabeth Taylor.
Elizabeth Taylor was married how many times?
Eight times.
Eight or nine times.
So basically, I was like, oh, this is the last conversation I had with her, however long ago.
And she said, like, I'll be married a bunch of times.
So this is now number three, and she'll be going on number four.
The question is, who's next?
Yeah, right?
Yeah.
She seems like the type of person that likes to be married.
You wouldn't think you'd get into a relationship, have four kids, and not think it would last for a while.
So, but, you know, he's kind of gone off.
I mean, she's been with him for almost nine years.
Yeah, for sure.
That's long for her.
By the way, you know, Elizabeth Taylor married Richard Burton twice.
Yeah, exactly.
Married, divorced, married.
Pre-mix?
Yeah.
So you're saying there's hope for my buddy Chris.
Well, no, what I'm at.
So here's a crap.
72.
Here's a 72.
Crazy, crazy, crazy question.
Yeah.
And see what you say to this.
Who do you think she will get remarried to?
Who do you think she'll get married to?
I know who it won't be.
Who?
A white guy.
Okay.
So who do you think she'll get married?
Yeah, I went there.
Who do you think she'll get married?
Need a name.
Okay, so a question to the audience out there.
Would you be interested in marrying Kim?
Here's the catch.
You got to pay for her kids.
You got to raise her kids.
You got to deal with Kanye as the stepdad.
Why do you have to pay for him?
She's got nothing.
I'm just saying that's the catch because who's going to be like, oh, yeah, I'll take down Kim.
I don't think she needs your money, though.
I don't think Kim is marrying to because she needs your money.
The kind of girl that doesn't want a man who's like high-profile and bringing the heat.
She's going to want somebody that's got strong personality.
Okay.
It'll be an athlete or performer, maybe someone that's definitely in the public eye in a big way.
Ronnie James?
10 years.
I'm not sure.
Maybe.
See, I think she's gone past the athlete thing.
She did the athlete thing, the Reggie Bush, Chris.
She's gone to the rapper thing.
I think she's going to go more the political prestige.
She wants to be a lawyer.
She's a little bit more clout.
You know, like not the rapper kind of clout, the politician, the investor, the billionaire kind of clout.
I think she's thinking next level.
Just don't think.
Elon Musk type of life.
An Elon Musk type.
I've got one.
There you go.
Obama divorces Michelle.
He marries Kim K.
Now, that's a power couple right there.
That kind of mentality.
I don't think Obama's going anywhere, by the way.
I think Michelle runs the pants in that family.
However, I do think that's the type.
Don't say that again.
You're just offending me.
I went there.
I do think that that's the route that she would go.
A black high-up politician who, like a Michael Steele, who's the former RNC chair, a Van Jones.
Who else we got on?
Yeah, people are saying that on social media.
They're throwing her with Van Jones.
Really?
Yeah, they're like hoping it happens.
That'd be a good reality.
She's going to capitalize on it somehow.
She's so smart.
But I think she has made a little transition where she really does want to make a difference in the world.
She's sprung a few people from the world.
Are you a fan?
I am.
I'm a fan of Kim.
Anybody that can.
I'm not like, there's a difference.
I'm like, I like Kim.
I've hung out with him.
Certain hours not to call you because you're watching Keeping Up with Kardashians.
That's what I was basically claring.
I don't watch that stuff.
I don't like it.
I mean, if I'm with a girl and they're watching it, yeah, I'll watch it.
But I'm not a fan like that, but I actually am a fan.
She was a friend at one point.
So, like, I like her.
Are you bad?
I'm rooting for her.
Yeah.
Are you rooting?
She's not rooting against her.
There's a whole family.
I'm rooting for him.
I mean, if you don't like him, don't watch him.
I've never watched Keeping Up with Kardashians once.
I don't even know what the show is like.
Dude, you're Armenian.
What are you doing?
I know one time I was at a restaurant called Kate Mantellini in Woodland Hills, and I'm sitting there, and it was Chloe and Lamar that said, what are these guys doing?
Oh, we're shooting, Keeping Up with Kardashians.
Oh, that's cool.
I used to eat there like five times a week because it's right next to the office I had.
But I am a very big fan of seeing her kick some major ass.
I just am a fan.
I'd love to see Kim make a major come up constantly.
There's something very attractive, not even looks-wise.
There's something very attractive about her personality.
Very.
The way she carries herself, the way she does the interviews, the way she conducts herself.
I don't think that family is going away, and I'd be so curious to know what their next move is.
Did you?
This is actually a perfect culmination of politics, pop culture, rap, business.
Did you hear what Kanye called Chris Jenner?
Yeah, I did.
Chris John-un.
Chris Jong-un.
She's the tight ship.
That's pretty clever.
Chris Jong-un.
He said that on Twitter or he said that publicly or what was that?
Publicly.
I think it was on Twitter.
Yeah.
Pretty ballsy.
So what happens to Kanye?
You're saying his days are numbered.
So, I mean, he called out his mother-in-law, who's the El Hefe.
All right, so we talked about Kim.
What happens with Kanye now?
Because I don't know if you know this.
He didn't win president.
Sorry.
Heartbroken.
He's a genius creator.
I think he gets, you know, he's got that place in Montana just creating songs, albums.
Go back to that.
I mean, he's not probably looking for a big high-profile relationship, and I would doubt that he has any struggles in flying women in when needed.
But he did say one good girl is worth a thousand bitches.
So I think a guy like.
He did say that.
I think a guy like Kanye maybe feels like he got overshadowed and he's going, man, I've done some things in my life, and it's all forgotten because I'm with this crazy family.
I got a prediction.
I just thought of it.
I think this Trump Kanye 2024 thing is happening.
It's happening.
They're both going to be single.
They're both going to be divorced.
And they're going to end up together.
Maybe that last part was a little far-fetched.
However, the other part I think is, I think they're going to be.
Trump and Kanye got a nice little bright future for you.
It's kind of like the ebony and ivory version of Frank Sinatra.
He's got a bigger upset.
Who's got a bigger upset?
Kim or Kanye?
Kim.
Not even close.
Not even close?
Not even close.
Really?
Yeah.
Really?
Kyle.
Do you agree?
Do you guys agree or no?
I think she's got more mass appeal than Kanye.
I don't think I've seen it.
She's got some more ass appeal.
You know, I don't believe you've never watched one episode of Keeping Open Kardy.
I've never once watched it.
Jen never puts it on the TV.
I've never watched it.
Moral watches it.
Moral likes it.
Technically's a huge fan.
Techron, I couldn't tell you, but I know Moral's always talking about, you know, she.
Well, she's Armenian.
She's Armenian.
She's a fan of that.
She can use as her model J-Lo and A-Rod.
Who would have ever thought they would be together?
And that seems to kind of work.
You mesh these two superstar brands.
By the way, somebody said, who do you think she'll be with?
Somebody commented The Rock.
Another person said Mike Tyson.
Somebody said Lynn Wood.
Lynn Wood, who he would, she would end up with Meek Mill.
Interesting.
Someone said.
She was spotted doing something with Meek Mill.
Someone said Jack Ma, Jeff Bezos, Pete Diddy.
A Jeff Bezos type.
Who else we got here?
Hillary Von Miller.
Von Miller's available.
Yeah, Von Miller.
He just had a bad breakup.
I think she's done the athlete thing.
She's get it.
These guys' times have numbered.
I think at this point in her life, by the way, she just turned 40 in October.
If The Rock hadn't just got married, I could actually see that.
Combining those two brands changing the world.
I think that's the level that she's on.
I would be sad.
That's the level she's on.
If her and Rock were together.
You know, The Rock married an Armenian.
He's got an Armenian wife now.
Really?
Yeah.
So you like Testrono.
Getting ready for Kim.
Yeah, I think I don't, I mean, look, Kanye's upside.
What's his upside?
Another album?
Right?
Like, ain't nobody.
He has nobody's voting for that guy.
I think Kim can attach herself to a high-profile person, whether it's a must-type, a rock type.
And I would not be far from that.
You send her a text.
That's her number.
You know, you should tend her a text.
I see.
Me again.
It's been like a decade.
Sorry about the number.
Sorry about the news.
You need anything?
Have you thought about Bitcoin?
Crazy.
I don't know.
No, I think we'll go.
Okay, what's the last story here before we wrap up?
So the last story.
How about your boy Tim Cook?
His salary.
Yeah, Tim Cook.
Okay, so we got Tim Cook here.
Tim Cook, his salary is surprisingly low.
He earned $14.8 million in 2020, not counting stock awards.
Okay.
$40 million salary 2020, according to a 2020 proxy statement that Apple filed with the SEC.
Cook earned a base salary of $3 million in addition to $10,731,000 in incentives awarded for his performance.
Apple's performance exceeded the target performance goals for net sales and operating income, leading to a total payout of 179% of total payout.
Opportunity for Cook and other Apple executives.
Cook also received $1 million in other compensation for a total of $14.7 million.
That included $17,100 into 401k contributions, terminal insurance life payment, and $115,000 vacation payout, security expenses, and the amount of $470,000, $432,000 in personal air travel expenses.
Apple requires Cook to use a private airplane for security reasons.
In 2019, he took home $11.5 million.
So that means it's a raise.
However, we looked at it yesterday.
Over the course of 2020, Cook's net worth climbed to over $1 billion.
Overpaid or underpaid?
He's probably either perfectly paid or underpaid.
One thing the board turned him down on, he was negotiating.
He wanted to get a new iPhone 12 and those fancy pods.
They couldn't afford it.
They're just too expensive.
They would not throw that into that incentive package.
You know, he should create a CEO school.
He should do one of those masterclasses.
He is really a great CEO, if you ask me.
He stays under the radar screen, doesn't get too political.
You know, you don't look at him and you think he's radical one way or another like some of these other CEOs.
His parents live in the same house that he grew up in in Alabama.
You know, he's on the board of directors of Nike.
There's just a lot about this guy that I don't like or that I like about him.
Here's a funny story about Tim Cook.
Apple was trying to recruit him.
These headhunters were reaching out to him in the late 90s.
He hung up on him.
He said he had one five-minute conversation with Steve Jobs, came over there, came running, and never left.
So it's interesting because he was kind of pretty successful in the tech industry and they were trying to get him.
He had no interest in it until he had a conversation with Jobs.
This was also when Apple was struggling because he came in and helped with the manufacturing and the logistics arm, but they were struggling.
So he came in and then obviously Steve Jobs did his thing and he convinced him that this would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
No, that's cool.
That's a good story.
You look at Tim Cook, you don't think baller.
You don't think self-serving.
You just think a really solid smart company.
I've kept saying this.
I'm a big fan of him.
Adam.
I mean, he's the CEO of the biggest company in the world.
I mean, what's bigger than Apple?
Amazon?
Walmart?
What's bigger than those guys' market share?
It's competing.
Walmart's not in the number, but it's Apple and it's Amazon.
Okay.
Gay, like, awesome.
You're the number one CEO.
That's like, I mean, no one ever talks about that, but like, for the gay community, they should be.
For this open, you know, gay CEO, Fortune 100.
Gangster.
Yep.
You know, he's a billionaire.
It's like the salary, whether he makes $10 million a year, $20 million, or $14 million or $17, it's like irrelevant.
But the most important thing that he is getting is his $17,000 401k match.
That's great for him.
Congratulations.
I know that's a big thing.
What kind of life insurance coverage do you think he's got?
They said term life insurance.
What do you think amount of coverage a guy like that should have?
$100 million?
Should have?
You're only doing it for taxes, by the way.
Yeah, we just talked about that.
State planning taxes.
$100 million.
Yeah.
$100 million?
$50 to $100 million.
Minimum.
If I was him, I'd have more, but you need to get it underwritten.
But say how much $100 million?
Listen, to me, there's not enough life insurance to get for a rich person.
Get as much as you can get.
If you can't get it, get it.
I'd probably get a quarter of a billion dollars of life insurance from him.
But why term?
Why he has to?
Yeah, why wouldn't he?
He should have an IUL of some sort.
He should have a permanent type of an insurance policy.
Tim, listen, if you're listening, we've got a couple of life agents out there.
That's where you're going with this?
Okay, I got it.
I see where you're going with this.
You know, the greatest words in business required to fly on a private jet.
If you could get that into your contract, if you're anybody, I don't think it gets any better than that.
By the way, I support it.
Totally.
You saw yesterday Romney was flying over to D.C. and he got heckled on the flight.
Ridiculous people video recording him.
What did you think about that?
I mean, number one, why are you flying in a commercial flight on the way to DC on January 6th?
Like, if there's any day that you bust out your credit card and you spend some money on a private flight, it's January 6th on the way to D.C. during the Stop the Steal march.
But I know we can show.
Basically, he got heckled, ran up on in the airport, and then on the flight, people were shouting like crazy, traitor, this, that, the other.
You know, you got to hand it to Romney.
He's a man of conviction.
Whether you like him or not, he is doing what he believes.
There's a picture of him just sitting there.
You don't think he's a man of conviction?
Would you expect to see a U.S. senator doing that?
That is kind of funny.
Put your mask on.
Don't tell me what to do.
Please put your mask on.
It's required by law in the circle.
I'm standing six feet away.
I'm sorry.
It's required of this.
Okay, I'll tell you what, because you know what?
I'm going to go ahead and do it because I want to have a chat with you.
Why aren't you supporting President Trump?
I do support things President Trump does.
I think I agree with.
You're not supporting him.
I'm sorry, I do agree with many of the things he said I don't know if it's for, and I support those things.
Are you going to support him in the fraudulent vote system?
Why not?
Because I got a chance to hear my remarks and impact it.
It's going to be a real long flight.
I'm sorry, can you say that again?
It's a long.
You hear the guy said it's going to be a real long flight.
Kai, do you have the flight footage?
I'll follow the Constitution, and I'll explain all that when we meet in Congress this week.
Well, you haven't supported him, and you didn't even support him in the election.
No, I did not.
Why?
For reasons that I explained at the time.
You were voted in as a conservative to represent the conservative constituents.
Period.
Actually, that's not how the Constitution works.
It is.
You're voted in to represent us.
You work for us.
Am I wrong?
I work for the people of Utah.
Exactly.
And I am from Utah.
I voted.
I know.
There's a lot of people that didn't vote for you.
Just sitting at the bottom of the stairs.
You're fucking gate, bro.
This guy, Mitt Romney, just sitting at the gate.
You admit it.
You know it.
Wow.
I'm impressed.
They didn't want you in there anyway.
So to be honest with you, I wouldn't be surprised if you weren't.
If you weren't even aware of that, you're not going to be able to do it.
Just think about the fact that he's even entertaining the conversation.
I think it's amazing.
I'm impressed.
I have respect for him.
Go to the video of him on that plane.
He's got better.
He could not have.
Here's a video of him on the plane.
But you know what?
People are too empowered.
Have a little respect for people that are in public office.
Are you a fan of Middle East?
Well, now I am.
I was impressed by that.
And like that.
You know what?
I thought there was nobody out of central casting that could have been a better president than him.
When he was running, he looked like a president.
He acted like one.
I don't know what happened, how he didn't win.
Well, he ran against Obama.
No, There's a story behind why he didn't win.
On the third debate, he could have brought up Benghazi, but his advisors told him that you're not getting good support from single women, so do not push him Benghazi too much.
And he didn't.
He backed down, and he lost the debate.
He lost the election.
That was impressive.
Do you have the one with the planes?
If you go on, just go on YouTube, buddy.
You're stressing yourself out.
Go on YouTube, type in Romney, Romney Plain.
Plane.
There you go.
Right there.
Second one.
Second or third one.
Who's she?
A nurse.
She's a nurse for State Farm.
Here's Romney on the flight.
Is he at least not flying in first class?
Is he just in a middle?
Is he in a middle row?
What's he doing?
He doesn't even have first class on that plane.
This looks like at the back of the plane.
There's no way.
Wait, wait, which one is he?
You don't see him.
That's a Delta flight.
It's a small plane.
Wow.
Anyway, they're on the plane.
They're just talking trash him the whole time.
Buddy, get a first-class seat.
Sit in the front at least.
I mean, fly the plane or something.
Sitting in a middle row and middle seat row 26.
I mean, he's being responsible to taxpayers' money.
Guys, 2024, who's the leading candidate for the Republicans?
Ted Cruz.
Sarcastic or serious?
I mean, based on everything he's doing right now, well, Trump is number one, clearly.
Oh, you're saying Trump is number one?
Yes.
Trump.
Donald Trump Jr. or Mike Pence.
Oh, my gosh.
Imagine Trump Jr. and Pence debating.
Guys, I mean, I still think it's Trump.
I think Ted Cruz does have a chance.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't think that Don Jr. has anywhere near the swag, the credibility, or anything that his dad has.
Just because his name is Don Trump Jr., I don't think he's got it like that.
He's got a built-in base, number one.
And I think his dad is done.
I think there's no more politics after yesterday.
You think he's done?
Done is politics, for sure.
I think this wasn't good.
I think he's coming back, bro.
That guy is looking at old-ass sleepy Joe Biden who's 78 years old.
Trump says, I got more vigor than that guy.
I'll be back in four years.
Let me tell you, the left is going to have three years to come out with new laws and regulations to prevent Trump from doing what he did last time.
They're going to have three years to have private conversations with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, everybody.
Say, if this happens, you have to shut him down early so it doesn't create momentum.
So the left will prevent momentum from happening by striking up deals with Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.
That's my prediction.
I think they have three years to protect him.
Because right now what the left has to do in the next three years is to eliminate potential candidates.
Whoever that is, you have to start early, not late.
And whatever you need to do, you need to do the next two years because you can control all sides.
But doesn't the right need to do that also?
No, the right, you're going against Biden.
You don't have anything.
Biden ain't running again in four years, dude.
Biden's going to be 82 years old.
So what do you think?
Limping along.
First of all, he's acting like he ran this time.
What do you mean?
Wait, what does running mean?
He's sat home.
There is no running.
He did every.
Come on, Pat.
He did every debate.
Knock it off.
There was no campaigning.
Every debate.
There's two debates.
Oh, my gosh.
He did everything.
He did all the primaries.
How many of them?
What do you mean?
There was like 17 in the primary.
That's like five flights.
Oh my thing.
Four.
You might have to go to the bottom of the bottom.
He's getting yelled at on the flights.
That's a lot of stuff.
Stop it.
Stop it.
Guys, you're on the bottom.
He worked seven days.
Listen, you're underselling.
He worked seven days.
It was a hard seven days.
He kicked ass.
Meaning, he didn't run.
So he's not going to have to be running.
Like, there's no running going on with the new strategy.
Again, you don't have to, if you're running against Don Trump, you don't have to run that hard.
Like a ham sandwich could have beaten Donald Trump.
If there's no COVID, he would have won slammed down.
He's so naive.
If there's no COVID, it would have not even been close.
COVID and the shutdown and the restaurant and the economy, all of that is what hurt.
I'm with you on that.
Okay, that's not in his control.
It's not in his control.
Okay, so he would have been a two-termer.
He would have been a two-termer president without COVID.
But I'm saying to you, I got a thousand bucks says right here that he ain't a two-termer, right?
Based on COVID, I said.
I agree with you.
It's $1,000.
Yeah, and I bet the $1,000 with COVID.
So I knew even with that, I'd be.
All right, before we wrap up, Tom, you were at 30% 48 hours ago.
Where are you now, Tom?
Just give it to me straight.
I'm at 30%.
It's not January 20th.
I need evidence of Biden in the White House.
Out of control.
30%.
I'm standing with it.
Okay, Pat, you were at 5%.
Are you at least at 4% now?
Are you still at 5%?
You paid the thousand.
Where were we at?
If I paid $1,000, I should tell you where I'm at.
Tom.
Tom's at 30%.
To all my friends out there who still think that Trump 100% is going to win.
100%, bro.
Trump 2021.
No, no, no.
No victory list.
Still at 100%.
Let it go.
I'm not even taking a victory.
I'm asking my friends out there, do they still think Trump is 100% going to win?
To the MAGA folks out there.
Is Trump actually still going to win?
Let me give the last shout out to our guys here that contributed to this one of the most contributed podcasts we've ever had.
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Rick Howell.
Interesting.
Good mother, Adam already making excuses and placing external blame for the new administration failing to protect the people.
Rick Howell again, Dems next two years, same thing.
Same thing.
It's not what Biden is going to do.
He will sign whatever given to him.
It's what the Congress is going to do that's going to make the biggest changes.
Josh Danneker, good point.
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Oh, that's crazy.
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I think you guys are missing the point of the elections.
This was a sting operation.
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Keep it up, fellas.
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