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Feb. 4, 2021 - PBD - Patrick Bet-David

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Bet-David Podcast | EP 37

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	It up.
	Light it up.
	And Paul, you better have some opinions, Paul.
	This is like a tryout.
	I'm ready.
	You got the UCLA because he's got a mic.
	Tryouts, buddy.
	Mario, you got a mic as well.
	Mario's got a mic.
	We got to talk to Mario and say, Mario, tell me who wins the Super Bowl and why.
	Yes.
	Wow.
	By the way, isn't the Super Bowl this weekend?
	Yeah.
	This weekend.
	So we have to.
	Today's Thursday.
	Yeah.
	Is that not on the Super Bowls this year?
	We've already started.
	We're already live, Adam.
	We're already drunk.
	We're already here.
	We are officially live, everybody.
	You know how long it's been?
	How long has it been since the last pod?
	It feels like years, but how long has it been official?
	Tell us.
	I want you to tell us.
	How long has it been?
	I think it's been since early January, before all the drama.
	I want to say, here we got in the notes.
	Last time, according to our buddy Kai, last time we were together on a podcast was January 7th, which is what?
	Exactly how long?
	It's been four weeks, give or take, since we did the last podcast.
	So I think we got a lot to share.
	A lot of you guys have been sending messages.
	I know you got a bunch of soybo and mafia type of messages that's been sent your way.
	Where the hell are you guys?
	Where are you?
	What was the one that was sent to you yesterday?
	Give us a second.
	Oh, this guy was like, all right, enough's enough.
	The jig is up.
	Like, we need an explanation.
	You demand an explanation.
	Where the hell have you been?
	Where have you been?
	So, Pat, let me tee this up for you.
	Where the hell have we been?
	Yeah.
	So, so, first of all, listen, man, you know, I got to tell you, if there's one thing I've missed is the podcast because this is a way of us talking, you know, issues, different things that's going on.
	Have fun.
	It's entertaining.
	It's community.
	People are involved.
	The last four weeks, a ton has happened.
	January 7th was what?
	What date was January 7th?
	What day was January 7th, Paul?
	That was the day after the insurrection, I believe.
	So if we look at January 7th, it's a Thursday.
	It's a Thursday.
	Okay.
	So January 7th, prior to that, I had an event January 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.
	I had an event with around 400 or 500 people that came to Dallas, right?
	We had a great event.
	It was phenomenal.
	It was fantastic.
	Came out better than we expected.
	Just a great turnout.
	And we came out the gates.
	We had a great January, up nearly 80% January over January over last year.
	It's been a good year.
	It's been a good year.
	2021's been a great start.
	Despite all the challenges.
	Here's what happened.
	January 8th, I'm going to dinner with Moral and Tecran because they treated us to this place called Knife.
	Is there a place called Knife in Dallas?
	Is there a place called Knife in Dallas?
	I think it's Knife in Dallas.
	Let me tell you, Knife, if you're listening.
	Food was absolutely delicious.
	And guess who got the bill?
	Moral and Tecran got the bill.
	So I got to give a shout out to Moral and Tecran.
	And this was a nice kind of a restaurant.
	Who's like my favorite couple in Dallas?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, listen, I think it's everyone's favorite couple.
	You get to know those guys.
	I'm the godfather of their son, Daniel.
	That's right.
	So, and I'm Team Dante because Dante and I have a connection together.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So is Sam, our friends.
	So, so, anyways, we go to dinner.
	I come back.
	I get in the car that night in Dallas.
	It felt like it was five degrees, and it was pretty cold and windy.
	Come home, I'm shaking.
	I said, I don't know what's going on in my body.
	The next day, I go get tested, and I test positive.
	Okay, boom.
	So, here we go.
	So, COVID.
	So, I had to quarantine the entire time I'm quarantining.
	I got a wife who's four months pregnant, carrying.
	We have to move.
	We have the movers coming in.
	We have, you know, the state sale.
	We have the 18-wheeler coming and grabbing the stuff that we're moving.
	We have to go to the office.
	We have to go drag this stuff out of the office, put it in the truck.
	Jenna's getting the play scored away that we're moving out here.
	Everything is going on.
	Perfect timing.
	Perfect timing is what it is to kick off the year.
	And at the same time, we are officially in Florida.
	We've been planning this move to Florida for quite some time.
	We just made the announcement.
	This is official.
	So if you're asking, we are officially back.
	We are officially in Florida.
	Do we want to tell them what city we're in?
	We can't tell them what city we're in.
	We are in Boca, Raton.
	That's where we are.
	We are in Boca.
	For now, we're in Boca.
	That's where we are.
	We are involved in the world.
	We're 45 minutes north of Miami.
	We're about a half hour south of Palm Beach.
	Yep.
	I know you visited at Mar-a-Lago recently, you know, a potential 2024 candidate.
	Not going to happen here.
	I'll see.
	We're trying to talk about the rules.
	We'll see.
	We will talk a lot today.
	We got a lot to talk about today.
	So, anyway, so the COVID thing happened, and I think something happened to you as well with the COVID situation.
	Yeah, I mean, I didn't get it at the knife with Moral and Tigris.
	You got it with going to the nurse.
	He went to the ER with the nurse.
	Was there a nurse involved?
	So go ahead, tell us about it.
	Obviously, a nurse involved for sure.
	That's my niche these days.
	I got it probably partying in South Beach over New Year's.
	I thought it was literally.
	Yeah, probably.
	I don't know.
	Or I might have got it with Dallas with the rest of the crew because there was like four or five hundred other people we know in Dallas who got COVID.
	But I think the moral of the story is this: we've been talking about COVID and this pandemic.
	How was it for you?
	Since, you know, for months and months and months.
	But how was it?
	Like, I mean, you've read all these things and you don't know what people tell you how it was for the future.
	We've had conversations.
	You know, it's kind of you kind of need to go through something before you can kind of give your opinion.
	Yeah.
	So we've been talking about COVID and businesses that are shutting down should remain open.
	Should they not stimulus checks this and that?
	And I think we can agree COVID's not fun, right?
	Like you lost 10 pounds.
	I had I went from 246 to 226.
	246?
	20 pounds?
	246 to 226 one week.
	You lost 20 pounds in a week, Pat.
	Let me tell you, when I saw my dude, my abs, I looked like a Calvin Klein model.
	Oh, damn.
	Six, four and a half Middle Eastern Calvin Klein.
	My abs were out.
	I'm like, this, you know, Calvin Klein likes the extremely skinny guy.
	Yeah, cocaine.
	I lost.
	So minus that.
	Yeah, no.
	So, yeah, I mean, for me, I just couldn't eat.
	I simply couldn't eat.
	So I couldn't keep anything down.
	So I could barely eat anything.
	The only thing I could eat was chicken noodle soup.
	But I did every single one of my conference calls, every single one of my Zooms, every single one of anything and everything I had to do, everything was done.
	And no one knew about it.
	Right.
	The only people that knew about the fact that I had COVID were people that work on a daily basis, my board, and that was it.
	Not even the kids.
	The kids didn't even know.
	No.
	Not at all.
	You were living in the other room at your other wing of the house.
	I was living at four seasons, and I was quarantined at a room all the way on the other side.
	No, nothing.
	Yeah.
	Zilch, zero.
	I couldn't have contact with those guys.
	And we did it the right way.
	You know, I live with our nanny who's in her 60s.
	I didn't want to have her anything.
	Nothing happened to her.
	Nothing happened to Jen.
	Nothing happened to the kids.
	So it was properly done.
	And now it's been a while, so everybody scored away and it's good to go.
	But again, going back to it, the most annoying thing about COVID is it's going to take time away from you.
	That's it.
	For me, I mean, from my experience, when I'm noticing from everybody, it's just it's going to take a week or two away from you.
	And it's frustrating.
	What was the worst symptom you had?
	Yeah, so basically, I got back to, I was in Miami.
	I got back to Dallas.
	A couple days later, I started feeling weird.
	For those of you that have not had COVID, here's my story.
	I had three days that I was at a Friday after work.
	Obviously, Paul, our friend over there who's behind the scenes, he's like, Gecko, you ready for the gecko?
	That's our Friday night spot in Dallas.
	Shout out to the greatest bar in the history of bars, the gecko.
	They don't need an advertising budget.
	Just listen to the podcast.
	You know, we're sending people to gecko.
	Killing it.
	And I said, I think I'm going to sit this one out, guys.
	I don't think it's time for the gecko.
	And that's when Paul knew something was up.
	If we're not hitting the gecko on a Friday night, so that was that?
	That's a big deal.
	It's a big deal.
	By the way, did Paul ever end up going on a date with the girl from Gecko or no?
	But he did buy her boyfriend dinner out of respect.
	Yeah.
	So much respect.
	Much respect.
	I respect your girlfriend so much.
	Never call her back.
	He also showed her his Ron Burgundy outfit on Halloween.
	Hold on.
	You really don't?
	We're going to have to.
	We got Mario here.
	That's Mario's voice.
	Mario.
	You're asked the elephant in the room over here.
	Oh, my goodness, Mario.
	By the way, Mario is going to give us an analysis on who's going to win the Super Bowl this weekend.
	Oh, I can't wait to go to this Deepon Super Bowl.
	I'm really excited.
	I'm sure you can.
	Kai aged and got a great tan and looks a little bit.
	Kai gave me a promotion.
	Kai said I had permission, but I missed Kai.
	Kai will be back in the next one.
	Here's what most people don't know.
	Here's what most people don't know.
	Mario was a spelling B champion or expert or something.
	He won something in spelling B. Anytime I want to spell anything, I go to Mario for a while.
	He's the guy.
	I'm telling you.
	Mario is a ridiculous speller.
	I don't know where that gift came from.
	No, no, no.
	But we're going to do it today because today he's going to do the search in English, not in Kai's Norway adding the additional 16 and whatever else.
	Kai has a Viking keyboard.
	You're not going to parank us.
	So tell us, what's the worst symptom?
	So basically, I had three days that I felt like I just got the shit kicked out of me by like jumped in high school.
	Three days sitting in bed doing nothing.
	No cough, no cold, no symptoms, no fever, no nothing, no smoke.
	And then I was good to go.
	So basically, I had to shoot, like you said, the show goes on.
	I had to shoot my money episodes.
	Sales talks money in my apartment.
	I had to do the business in the apartment.
	I had to do Zoom calls.
	Thank God for Zoom.
	Thank God for FaceTime.
	Thank God for technology.
	And, you know, a week later or 10 days later, I tested negative two times.
	And now I'm back in Florida and we're having a good time.
	There you go, buddy.
	There you go.
	Yeah, but I think the bigger story here is maybe the lessons that we can take from all this.
	Something like this, let's give both sides of the coin.
	It should not shut down the entire freaking U.S. economy or the world.
	That's one side of the equation.
	Like, let's not shut things down.
	Gyms, bars, restaurants.
	Like, we get it.
	But at the same time, we're young.
	We're in our early 40s, you know, maybe in our 30s, 20s, what have you.
	But we do need to protect older people.
	You pointed out Mario at 20.
	Mario's not in his 20s.
	No, no.
	Just so you can say anything.
	There's only one person here in his 20s, and it's not Mario, but go ahead.
	And the person back there that remains to be named might not be here.
	But older people, I can see why they're like, holy shit, they're going to make it.
	So it is real.
	The people who are, it's a scam damn.
	It ain't real.
	I ain't wearing a mask.
	It's like, grow up, guys.
	Like, there's people in the society that depend on us taking this seriously.
	But for the most part, 99% of us, we're going to have a shitty week or two and move on with our lives.
	But the biggest question is, I think these days is, can you get it again?
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	What have you found out?
	I mean, we're going to find out if you can or cannot.
	I mean, can you get flu again?
	Of course.
	Can you get bronchitis again?
	I hope not.
	Can you get, you know, I mean, of course you can get it again.
	So, you know, the idea of that you can't get it again is a bit of a myth.
	I think you can't get it again, but it is what it is.
	And by the way, if you've had it yourself as well and you're watching this, why don't you comment below and tell us what was the worst symptom that you had?
	That was mine.
	That was his.
	And by the way, we were almost not going to do today's podcast because we are barely getting the office settled.
	And as you can tell, the wall is still green on this side.
	That wall is not going to stay green.
	The wall's painted black here.
	We got our buddy Joker and Batman here.
	Hawk won't fit in this because it's just he's 9-3 and did this alone.
	Yeah.
	Eight.
	We got a lot of different things that we had to do.
	We should address that.
	This is a temporary office.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	We just moved to Florida.
	We've been unpacking.
	We've been moving.
	We've been hustling.
	We kind of targeted this day.
	Shout out to you, Eric, Mickey, Mario, working day and night, getting this whole place set up.
	I mean, seriously, the team worked their tails off.
	They did a lot.
	Making sure this thing came together and everybody else that was on the outside working, doing their part.
	Obviously, this was a very big thing.
	Shout out to this guy right here.
	I mean, first and foremost, this guy locked in the leaves.
	No question about it.
	He has to go meet with these beautiful realtors that he's falling in love with.
	It's tough.
	It's tough out there to be Mario.
	But the team's here in South Florida.
	We're here now.
	So watch this.
	Mr. Zex.
	I lost 35 pounds when I had COVID.
	Okay.
	What else have we got?
	Okay.
	What was like your head situation?
	Like for me, my head was the worst thing, and I was bedridden literally for eight days.
	And yeah, that was like I couldn't, I couldn't hear my phone.
	That's our friend Paul, by the way.
	Paul, aka the gecko.
	That's my best friend.
	You must have had it worse than anybody from myself.
	You had it the worst.
	Yeah, I had it pretty much.
	Were you the first one like eight months ago?
	I started this COVID movie.
	You kicked this thing off.
	I started the Soyboy Mafia movement.
	You started the Dallas COVID.
	I started.
	Congratulations.
	Nice.
	Shout out to Eric Galera.
	He's here.
	He's a former Marine.
	He's a stud.
	He's been, you know, making things happen over here.
	He's masked up.
	He's muffled up.
	But shout out.
	And there's some kind of shady guy behind you.
	I don't know who that guy is.
	But Pat, let's get back to you.
	You've been planning.
	You know, you wrote this Wall Street Journal best-selling book, Your Next Five Moves.
	So you're the guy who knows about making moves.
	You started off in California.
	You were there for 20 plus years.
	You moved to Texas to really grow your business for five years.
	You've been planning this move to Florida for, I assume, at least a year or so now.
	No, I'm going to have to say, yeah, March of last year, it started.
	Because the moment the pandemic started, I watched how California, because we were supposed to go to Greenwich and go to New York.
	That's what the plan was.
	So we looked at a lot of stuff in Greenwich.
	We looked at a lot of stuff in New York.
	I love that area.
	I love the dogfight, the competition, the energy of New Yorkers.
	It's a beautiful place to be.
	Or we were going to go back to California because California is all my contacts and my friends, my family, relationships.
	And then it was Dallas.
	And then last minute, because we love going to the Breakers regularly, we love the Breakers.
	And I said, how about Florida?
	So then Jen said, why don't we go take a look at Florida a little bit more?
	We did.
	And then we started looking at homes.
	We said, let's look at schools.
	We looked at five, six, seven schools.
	We fell in love with this one school.
	And then finally, we said, you know, let's make the move.
	Because I've said this before, and I'll keep saying this.
	If California and Texas had a baby, it's Florida.
	Simple as that.
	California weather, you got Florida weather here.
	California's got earthquakes.
	You got hurricanes over here.
	Texas has got no taxes.
	You ain't paying taxes here.
	Florida's a little bit purple, which means you got left.
	You got middle.
	You got right, which is great.
	We're reasonable here.
	Exactly.
	What I'm trying to tell you is a little bit of everything.
	And if you like New York, you'll like here because most people from New York are leaving to come here.
	So all of that combined together led to what it is today.
	We're leaving the headquarters, obviously, in Dallas.
	We're not moving to headquarters of a PHP.
	That stays put in Dallas.
	And here, this is purely a value tamement headquarters that we have.
	This is not a PHP.
	Well, you've been operating PHP, your financial services company, and Valutainment out of the same office, same headquarters.
	For a long time.
	For five plus years now.
	Now they are officially.
	They need room to have more employees.
	And we were kind of valued was getting in the way in PHP.
	So those two.
	We were the loud crazy roommates.
	They're trying to get away from it.
	Let me tell you, I went there this week.
	I was there this Monday, right?
	I went to Texas this Monday.
	All morning, I was with them.
	We had our awards ceremony.
	You got to give a shout out to MVPs.
	Okafor, Suazzo, Ricky and Erica.
	Let me see if I can remember everybody.
	I'm going to miss one.
	Sopho was MVP, but I'm missing one.
	Oh, Phelp was MVP.
	So shout out to him.
	Are you going to forget about my mother?
	We give these guys statues, 60 statues, bust.
	It was just ridiculous what we did.
	But when I walked in, it was very quiet.
	Like you can hear whispers.
	You know how people go typing like, you could hear all this stuff right when I walked in.
	And then I realized the reason why it's so quiet, because all the loud mails of Valutainment were all gone.
	You weren't there.
	You alone count for 19 people.
	You really think the amount of noise Adam makes should equate to 19 average human beings.
	Would you agree with that?
	It's 18 to 19.
	I can't tell you how many times people get.
	I'm constantly being told to be quiet.
	I've never been told speak up, buddy.
	I've never heard that.
	Especially the ping pong games during working hours.
	Those were always.
	Did you end up being ranked first place before you left?
	Oh, this is number one thing on my resume right now.
	Who's beat you the most, though?
	Out of anyone.
	So, number one, I was number one ping pong player in all of the company.
	But who's beat me the most?
	Yeah.
	Was you?
	Really?
	It was you, yes.
	So who's who was?
	You also would not stop playing unless you beat me.
	Like one time we had 20 games in a row.
	Let me tell you one time.
	I'm trying to go home to make it to dinner, right?
	And we go one game.
	No, one more time.
	Okay, we go second game.
	One more time.
	You remember how many times you beat me in a row?
	I think it was like 15 or is it something like that?
	You beat me 13 games in a row.
	And by the way, at this point, I had no clue you can switch playing ping pong.
	We're sweating.
	Pat's shirt.
	It's coming on.
	He calls his wife.
	It's going to be a late night.
	I got a big business meeting.
	Finally, I think we played four more.
	I won two out of the four, but realistically, out of the 17 games, you beat me 15 to 2.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, we're going to see what's going to happen here.
	I've hired a full-time trainer, former Olympian ping-pong.
	Late at night from 10 to 2, I get trained by Sega.
	I think John Stamos and Entourage.
	Yeah, that's exactly pretty much what's going on right now in the backyard.
	So, anyways, are we ready to get into some topics here?
	Yeah, I don't know.
	Are we done addressing the elephant in the room?
	We're here in Florida.
	We had COVID.
	We've been waiting to move.
	We're appreciative of all the support we've had from the value tainment community, all the valutainers out there asking us what the hell is going on here.
	By the way, if you're happy we're back, smash that subscribe button.
	If you're happy that this podcast is back and you would like us to go back to doing this two times, maybe three times a week, smash that subscribe button.
	Before we move on, you got to give a shout out.
	To who?
	To my best friend in the world.
	Who's that?
	Tom Zenner.
	That's right.
	Where the fuck is Tom?
	Tom is not here.
	Tom, we miss you.
	By the way, Tom, shout out to Tom.
	Tom's doing a great job with VT Post.
	Very, very good job with VT Post.
	Of course, he's writing.
	He's doing it.
	And Tom is all the way on the West Coast.
	He's in California.
	It's a challenge to make a move like this because kids are in school, et cetera, et cetera.
	It's not the easiest thing to make.
	You know, a lot of times, singles, you move, you move.
	When you're moving kids, you move in schools, you move in relationships.
	You move in friendships.
	You have no clue how hard it was for me to move my cats.
	Oh, I do.
	I mean, your cats were going to a private school in Addison.
	And one thing you guys don't know about Adam is Adam was in love with Texas.
	Adam was in love with Texas.
	I might have stayed just for the game.
	Nightlife of Texas.
	There was a very special connection you had with the nightlife in Texas versus Miami.
	That's true.
	Obviously, they don't compete together at all.
	And Dallas's nightlife is here.
	Miami's.
	Dallas nightlife is the best in the world.
	Miami's bright.
	Incredible.
	It was tough, but shout out to Tom Zenner.
	He'll be back popping in every once in a while.
	We're going to have other guests here as well.
	Schedule is being set up.
	We're going to have some of the old friends coming back.
	You're going to see Danielle.
	You're going to see Udell.
	You're going to see a whole new slew of people that want to get on the lineup because we're in Florida.
	Biz Doc wants to make a comeback.
	He's not going to make a comeback.
	He says, I watched the last podcast.
	I'm coming to go to war against Adam.
	But it's going to happen.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Exactly.
	I know.
	So anyways, let me give one last thing.
	Just to make this round circle all come together.
	You said that you went to the Breakers and you said, all right, you and Jen, you fell in love with Florida.
	Yeah.
	40 years ago, today, my parents went to the Breakers and they fell in love.
	And that's where I was conceived.
	And now, 41 years later, it is my birthday.
	And it all has come full circle at the Breakers.
	It all goes down.
	And I've never been to the Breakers since.
	It's breaking up.
	Do you realize rule of thumb?
	You don't do your birthday.
	I do your birthday.
	Why is that all about?
	I'm just saying, I'm bringing up the break.
	So bring it.
	Bring it.
	What are you doing?
	He couldn't wait.
	Can you go, Greg?
	What are you talking about?
	Are you freaking kidding me?
	Sorry.
	I didn't know that.
	Bring it to you.
	That's like a throw-in.
	Bring it to her.
	I'm supposed to be a bad person.
	I just had to talk about the break.
	I didn't want to have a business.
	Are we not giving you enough love?
	Are you not getting enough attention at home?
	You bring a mariachi.
	Let me tell you what our mariachi guys from Dallas wouldn't show up, but we got you a couple different unique things here if you got it.
	Well, we got some soy milk.
	I think it's appropriate for all of us to have a shout out, soy milk.
	This is for you.
	Should I chug this?
	I might just bring this up.
	On behalf of the entire crew, do we have the rest of the stuff?
	Okay, it's going to be here in a minute.
	Freaking Adam couldn't even wait this happened.
	I didn't know you really, you know.
	I just wanted to talk about it.
	I don't think we know.
	Let's talk about the timing, Adam.
	Not the right timing.
	Guys, I'm out of here.
	My apologies.
	You're killing me here.
	I'm not even trying to.
	I was talking about breakers.
	You talked about the breakers.
	Okay.
	All right.
	Fair enough.
	You're talking about breakers.
	Do you have it or you don't have it?
	Sam, if we don't have it, we'll wait.
	It's okay.
	Don't worry about it.
	Let's just do it.
	It's cake and balloons, guys.
	Adam already announced his birthday.
	We want to get his cake and balloons.
	No, we don't need any cake and balloons.
	Okay, well, while you're.
	But shout out to Doug.
	He gave five bucks at the Soy Boy Mafia.
	I appreciate it.
	We had a guy here.
	Adam said, gave 35 is a PBF.
	Search online for the unsuccessful.
	Okay, hang on.
	There we go.
	Happy birthday to you.
	Oh, my God.
	Happy birthday to you.
	One, three, guys.
	One, two, three.
	Happy birthday to you.
	Happy birthday to you.
	Happy birthday, dear Adam.
	Happy birthday to you.
	Thank you.
	Wow.
	Adam Sawstick, how you feeling, man?
	Feels great.
	Feels great.
	I couldn't ask for a better birthday present to be one-on-one with PBD on our first podcast.
	It feels very great.
	And I got my soy boy protein over here.
	I'm going to chug this out.
	You're going to get hammered on your soy milk.
	We're going to take shots of Silk Matt.
	Happy birthday, Adam.
	Send him some love.
	Send him some love.
	Okay, there you go.
	Okay, we can move this.
	No, Leave it, man.
	It's appropriate.
	Scott, say, I want to make sure you know the entire time.
	We appreciate you.
	Okay, thank you.
	I want this thing to stay right here.
	Love you, buddy.
	We love you too, bro.
	100%.
	The entire team.
	I didn't mean to ruin the surprise here.
	It's all good, bro.
	We knew it's your birthday.
	I wanted to just move on to the business.
	We're going to go to lunch today.
	We're going to do dinner.
	You're going to be treated today, buddy.
	Come on.
	Thank you, guys.
	Thank you, guys.
	And it's a kosher, too.
	Yeah.
	It better be.
	It freaking better be.
	So, are we ready?
	We're ready.
	Let's get into it.
	Okay.
	Paul Mario.
	We're going to come to you for advice as well and counsel as well and feedback.
	We're going to need to.
	Be ready to give your research.
	I'm ready.
	I know Mario's done a lot.
	I've been training all night.
	Mario's done a lot of research last night.
	Okay.
	Oh, my God.
	All right.
	So, first of all, Adam said, Adam Braysik, shout out to you PBD.
	He gave $35.
	I have research online, but have been unsuccessful.
	Can you please post a link to the greatest general in history story that you referenced?
	You know, honestly, the book is a small book that John Maxwell has.
	It's a blue book from like 20 years ago.
	Adam, can you do me a favor?
	Send me a message on Instagram.
	And if I don't respond back, send it again two or three times.
	So it comes up.
	And I'll personally go try to look for it and send it to you.
	And I'll send the link to you from Amazon.
	Send that message to me.
	I'll try to find it for you.
	And then, Adam, you're just getting a bunch of love from everybody.
	Thank you, guys.
	You know, if you love Adam and you want to give me a shout out, you know, I'll put the link below for his Instagram account.
	Go give him some.
	One of our friends said, happy soy boy day.
	That's great.
	Seriously.
	I mean, this is, they got to make it official here in Florida.
	Okay, so from the last time we spoke till today, Capitol, that's insurrection.
	Craziness.
	We have Joe Biden is no longer president-elect.
	He's our president.
	He's the guy.
	He is the president.
	I know you have a nice painting of him on the wall.
	So he's the president.
	From that moment till today, Jack Ma resurfaced.
	Okay, he went away.
	He resurfaced.
	Retrained, re-educated.
	GameStop, you know, Wall Street bets.
	You know, they went up against, you know, Wall Street, and it wasn't pretty.
	You know, Melvin Capital lost a lot of money.
	Seth Cohen, and those guys have to give him $2.75 billion and bail him out.
	And it was just not a pretty situation that took place, right?
	And then Trump's getting impeached second time from last time to this time.
	Biden's cabinet's official.
	Janet Yellen is the first female treasury secretary.
	It's in.
	It's locked in.
	Pete Butichic is the first openly gay cabinet, confirm me, and youngest transportation secretary in history.
	All of this stuff has happened in the last four weeks.
	Some of it is old story.
	We don't need to really talk about it.
	Some of it we'll cover right now as well.
	But let's go to a couple different stories that we have going on right now.
	That's maybe business, and then we'll go into some of the other political stories, sports.
	We'll cover all of it.
	So first one I think we ought to get into is Uber.
	Uber agrees to buy alcohol delivery service, Drizzly, for $1.1 billion.
	Okay?
	$1.1 billion.
	Uber agrees to buy them.
	Founded in 2012, Drizzly has become the leading on-demand alcohol delivery service in the U.S. and is available in 1,400 cities.
	The purchase could help drive people to see Uber's app more often.
	Uber Eats has been a key segment to Uber's business amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which has dramatically reduced the number of people leaving their homes.
	During this time, during this time, our business has been seeing growth, extraordinary rates.
	Uber CODARA said on CNBC, Drizzly said it had more than 300% growth this past year.
	The deal is expected to close within the first half of 2021.
	Uber said it anticipates that more than 90% of the consideration to be paid to Drizzly shareholders will consist of shares of Uber common stock and the balance will be in cash.
	So a 90-10 split is what they're doing.
	At the same time, Uber has offloaded some of its more cost-eating transportation segments.
	The company last May transferred its electric bike and scooter business jumped to line.
	Uber also sold its self-driving unit, Advanced Technology Group, to its startup competitors, Aurora Innovation on December 7th at a valuation of $4 billion at the same time.
	So what are your thoughts about this Drizzly and $1.1 billion purchase by Uber?
	So yeah, this is, I'm glad that you started with this.
	So if there's anybody that can speak about the advantages of using Uber, it's the guy that hasn't had a car in freaking 10 years.
	So, well, right now I'm carpooling with my mom for the next week until I move into my apartment.
	Shout out to your mom.
	It's the coolest mom out there.
	She's cool.
	She's cool.
	She's groovy.
	I feel like I'm 17 years old again, you know, carpooling my mom.
	But I Uber everywhere.
	And let's talk about what Uber is focusing on and what Uber is basically deleting from their focus.
	So you got Uber.
	By the way, we tried to take an Uber package the other day.
	People are coming in town.
	We need to give them their keys.
	Seven people who work at Value Taint couldn't figure out how to order an Uber package.
	So in Uber, here's what you have.
	You can take an Uber.
	All right, I need to go to my friend's house.
	I'm taking an Uber.
	You can go Uber Eats, right?
	You want to order in food?
	You're staying in.
	Everyone's there in COVID.
	You're ordering in.
	You got Uber packages.
	Hey, Clarissa, Leo, they just got in town.
	We got to give them their keys.
	Send them the keys in a package.
	You don't have to go drive over there.
	Wink, wink at Mario.
	They'll send them the package.
	That's easy.
	They got Uber groceries.
	So they're competing with the Instacarts of the world.
	And now they're basically saying, look, we got liquor too.
	So they're basically saying, listen, work at home, eat at home, drink at home, party at home.
	Everywhere you need to go, just we got you.
	Uber.
	What do they not have?
	Thank you, buddy.
	Move that out of there.
	Thank you.
	It was cutting Mario's head off there.
	We want to make sure.
	You got to see Mario.
	This is actually pretty interesting.
	They stopped their e-bike focus.
	They stopped their self-driving component.
	Yep.
	And this, I had to reread this like three times.
	The flying taxi unit?
	What the hell is that?
	They announced it was selling their flying taxi business called Elevate.
	Was that?
	Was that?
	Is that, am I reading that correctly?
	Flying cars?
	Yeah, flying cars.
	What is this?
	Back to the future.
	This is going to happen?
	I mean, what do you think is going to end up happening?
	I mean, I don't know.
	I feel like Elon Musk is going to take over that business.
	Who knows what that?
	This just this move with Drizzly specifically for a billion bucks, 90% in shares, 10% in cash, makes complete sense with their focus of, you know, staying at home, ordering in, ordering packages, getting your liquor.
	So that's my take on it.
	What are your thoughts?
	So, first of all, just so you know, during the pandemic, at the peak of the pandemic in April, do you know how much the sales of Drizzly was up?
	You guys know, what do you think it was up during April, May?
	How high do you think their stock went up?
	Sales coming in.
	Sales coming in, not stocks.
	Percentage-wise or percentage-wise?
	135%.
	700 to 800%.
	Is how high they were.
	Explain that.
	Why do you leveled around 350, 350% for the rest of the year, pretty much?
	And you heard, you know, in this article I'm reading, it says, you know, they've seen growth, so, you know, growth of 300%, et cetera, et cetera.
	So why?
	Well, people stayed home and they had drinks.
	They're depressed.
	Let me get a drink.
	Let me get a second one.
	Let me get a third one.
	And then, boom, let me order.
	Let me order.
	Let me order easy access.
	I can just go get it.
	It's going to come to me.
	And so that showed what direction potentially the world is going to.
	So Uber's sitting there saying, wait, if people are ordering liquor the way they are right now, why don't we own that business?
	Are they assuming there's going to be another pandemic?
	Are they assuming it's going to be more work from home?
	Are they assuming this is the direction that things are going to go?
	Working from home, et cetera, et cetera.
	I don't know.
	But they definitely made the right move.
	This is a very, very smart, strategic purchase that they made.
	And I think this is going to be benefiting Uber in a big way for a very long time.
	This isn't going to be a small business here.
	This $1.1 billion business that they bought, look at this $1.1 billion business, how quickly it's going to end up being a $20, $30 billion business.
	Oh, you think so?
	Oh, buddy.
	You know, listen, alcohol ain't going away.
	You know, breakups are not going away.
	Depression is not going away.
	People being depressed.
	Stealing bad celebration down birthdays.
	It's not going away.
	We're trying to convert people to drinking soy.
	Yes.
	But Drizzly is not going to be able to do that.
	Look for my new line of soy-based alcohol that's coming out.
	It'll be on the Value Attainment Shop.
	Check that out at Value AttainmentStore.com.
	Paul, do you have any opinions on Drizzly?
	Let's see what Paul wants to say about Drizzly.
	I do think it's a good idea.
	Anything deep?
	Tell us outside of a good idea.
	Do you have any deep thoughts on this topic?
	I do think it's a good idea.
	Guys, that's Paul's Garfield.
	I don't think I have anything deep on Drizzly.
	It's not a moment right there.
	Here's the freaking bottom line.
	You have the choice of ordering liquor into your house, the couch, or going to the freaking get-go.
	We all know where you're going.
	You're going to the bar, you're going to the get-go.
	You're not a stay-at-home drink.
	I don't get it.
	Yeah, look.
	You go hit the streets.
	I think it all depends on what state you're living in.
	I think in certain states, it's really going to have a huge impact.
	Like places like Florida and Texas, where places are open, I don't see it having as much of an impact versus California where everything's closed.
	I could see that having a huge impact.
	Or if you're up north in the winter, and if you're in New York, Minnesota, if it's Connecticut, you're going to be able to do it.
	I like that.
	That's a good idea.
	You went deep.
	You went deep.
	Good for you.
	All right.
	So Parler, CEO fired by the board.
	Parlor has terminated CEO, John Matzi, according to meme Mart's memo Mart sent to staffers that has been obtained by Fox News on January 29, 2021.
	The Parliament board controlled by Rebecca Mercer decided to immediately terminate my position as CEO of Parliament.
	I did not participate in this decision.
	I understand that those who now control the company have some communication to employees and other third parties that have unfortunately created confusion and prompted me to make this public statement.
	Matzi wrote that over the past few months, he has been met constant resistance to his original vision for the social media platform, following Amazon Web Services' decision to shut Parler down for failure to moderate egregious content related to the January 6 capital rides.
	Thoughts?
	Yeah, you know, I'm going to bring up a couple points here, and then really I want to get your take on this because you're a CEO of a company, a founder of a company, and I want to get your opinion on this.
	You know how old this guy is?
	The founder of Parlor.
	Late 30s?
	He's 27, 28 years old.
	That's pretty impressive.
	Very.
	Okay.
	28 years old.
	You're the CEO of Parlor.
	How much do you think this guy's worth?
	Well, at the peak or at the low?
	Right now, I don't know.
	I checked his net worth.
	I don't think it's an accurate net worth you read.
	Really?
	There's no way the net worth is accurate.
	His net worth collapsed probably 70, 80% in the last 90 days.
	So what?
	I think it's gone down in the last 90 days.
	What did it say his net worth is?
	10 million bucks.
	Okay.
	No, he's probably worth a number like that because the company went all the way up to $750, $750 million company.
	Is it a public traded company?
	No, no.
	I don't know if it's all I'm saying is as far as the way they were valuing their company was around being half a billion to a billion dollar company.
	Wow.
	So from that to the drop-off, it's a completely different story.
	But what do you think about them firing him?
	The bull?
	I have, I listen, you're the CEO of a company.
	You're a founder of a company, right?
	I mean, all I've ever been is a VP of sales at a company.
	I've never founded a company.
	What does that entail when you found a company?
	You're the CEO.
	I assume that you have a major hand in selecting the board members.
	And then they say, hey, buddy, Pat, hit the road.
	What does that feel like?
	So that means he doesn't have control of the board.
	That means they own more shares of the company potentially than he does.
	So it's not like he is the founder, the CEO.
	That means he raised money to the point where, matter of fact, let me look at Crunchbase.
	Can you look at Mario?
	Pull up Crunchbase and type in Parlor.
	Go to Crunchbase, Crunchbase, and then type in Parlor.
	And Parlor's with an E. You think it's with an O, but it's with an E. Parlor.
	Let's see how much money they've raised.
	Parlor, do you see it?
	Okay, type in Parler.
	He just told you it was with an E, Mario.
	Did he do O?
	Yeah, he went O.
	Okay, Parlor.
	He's shown us his O. Kai was texting me.
	Okay, so go to click on Parlor right there.
	I go up a little bit.
	Go up the other way.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Founder 2018, Angel.
	Okay, keep going up.
	Up.
	Up.
	So they haven't raised money.
	Wait, okay, number of investors, two highlights.
	Click on that to the right, right there.
	Rebecca Mercer, Angel, Angel.
	Okay, click on Robert Mercer.
	See how much he gave.
	Are they disclosing it or no?
	Go up.
	Go up.
	Robert Mercer.
	It says undisclosed amount.
	Okay, undisclosed amount.
	Then go to the next one.
	Go back and see if we can find out if Rebecca's number is public.
	Interesting.
	Why would you make it undisclosed?
	And this is also undisclosed.
	They're not saying it.
	Same thing.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Walk us what you just did here.
	Okay.
	So go to another company.
	Go to Robinhood.
	Okay, talk on Robinhood for selecting Robinhood.
	That's in the news right now.
	Yeah, Robinhood.
	So you go to Crunchbase.com.
	Crunchbase.com.
	What is Crunchbase?
	Crunchbase tells you the raising of money, the organization, details about, like right there.
	Look, if I want to find out Robinhood, how much money they've raised, click on total funding amount right there.
	Wow.
	And then it tells you every time they raise money.
	So go down the first time they raise money, all the way down to the first round.
	They raised.
	Okay, so you have to have the free trial.
	Okay, they raised $323 million a year and a half ago, July 22nd.
	Series E.
	So E means D, C, B, A, four rounds prior to it.
	Ironically enough, two days ago, three days ago, they had their $2.4 billion.
	$2.4 billion.
	$2.4 billion.
	In the middle of the whole game.
	So then if you want to find out who it was, click on the number six.
	Click on convertible note Robinhood right there.
	Let's see who was the people that were involved.
	It's big names.
	It's not small names.
	Sequoia Capital, Ribbit, New Enterprise Associates, Index Venture.
	I mean, they got it, and recent Hurowitz.
	I mean, they got the main guys that are putting money with them.
	Six investors came in with $2.4 billion.
	So people.
	In the middle of all that.
	But listen, all of this stuff that people are saying with Robinhood, look, you can say all you want about Robinhood.
	You can say anything you want about Robinhood.
	Take shots at him all you want.
	Last Thursday, they had 175,000 new people that downloaded their app.
	And last Thursday, they had more people using Robinhood than all the other brokerage accounts combined.
	Let me put this together.
	Last Thursday, after all this heat, after all this being trashed by AOC, Musk, everybody that trashed them, right?
	Last Thursday, they had more people on their app than anybody else, all their competition combined, right?
	Let's name the competition with their computer.
	E-Trade, Short Trade, Scott Trade, Rob, Vanguard, all of them.
	So Robinhood is bigger than all these guys now.
	Now, I didn't say bigger.
	Traffic, more people.
	Remember, it's a free platform.
	So the market is not the market of higher echelon.
	It's more $500.
	I'm going to buy one stock.
	I'm going to buy 10 stocks.
	They're quantity, not quality.
	They're quantity.
	And maybe some quality.
	They're starting to get quality.
	You're not going to just stay quantity for too long.
	You start off with quantity.
	Robin Hood is no joke at this point.
	Robin Hood is a $25 to $30 billion company.
	These big guys, these Schwabs, these E-Trades, Scott Trade, these Vanguards, these Fidelities, they got to be a little bit nervous with this new guy.
	Let's stay on Parlor, and then we'll go to that here in a minute.
	So I'm Parler.
	Let's talk about Parler.
	So I don't know how much those guys bought from the company.
	I don't know when somebody comes in and they give you money, the next step after agreeing to give money, guess what's the next thing that's talked about?
	Control.
	Controls.
	What controls I have.
	So what is controls?
	Your salary, your bonus, how much money you can spend without our approval.
	If you want to spend $100,000, you don't need our approval.
	If you're spending a penny above $100,000, you need to get the approval.
	That can be a quarter million, a half a million, and that can go up as the company is growing and you're doing a better job.
	The controls could be what other things you can do outside.
	The controls could be a lot of different things when you're raising money, right, with a company.
	I don't know the controls of this guy.
	I have no idea.
	I don't know how he set himself up.
	If he's 27, 28, he could be smart.
	He could be brilliant, but he's not that experienced to know what controls matter and what controls don't matter.
	You hear the saying, when a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with the money.
	The man with the money leaves with the experience.
	He just left with the experience.
	Wow.
	Profound.
	That's literally exactly.
	That's exactly what just happened.
	He just left with experience.
	So now they're firing him.
	What the hell does that mean you're firing him?
	Does this mean you have somebody in mind that you're going to recruit that's going to be able to get the web services up and Parlor is going to be back up?
	So for some of the people that are parlor, like pro-Parlor community, this could be a good thing because if the board is firing him, maybe they think if they bring somebody from a Google, maybe they think if they bring somebody from another company to make the company be more independent right in the middle, maybe they bring a former executive from Amazon to bring, maybe they think that connection is going to get Amazon to say, fine, we'll go because the person that's now running the company is a former executive of Amazon or whatever.
	Now we feel a little bit more comfortable.
	I don't know.
	But if you do make a public firing of a CEO, you do not look good if you don't have a plan afterwards.
	Gotcha.
	I don't know if that makes sense or not.
	Of course.
	If you just fired me, you better have a plan.
	So if within the next week, Parler's board doesn't have a new guy, gal, leader, that's going to be running it, that starts showing progress.
	What was your point about firing the guy?
	What statement did you want to make?
	Like, what was the motive?
	Parlor's down.
	Nobody's downloading the app.
	They don't have AWS.
	All the other web services don't want to give him the business.
	They keep saying, oh, we're going to come out with a new web server.
	Oh, something's going on.
	If you don't have a replacement, you're going to look like a fool yourself.
	So the board's about to look like a fool if they don't come out with a replacement.
	This is not just him looking bad.
	The board's also going to look bad if they don't bring somebody that's going to make the company go back to being.
	Let me ask you a question on that.
	Do you think that companies are being put in a position to maybe a pressure position to make these type of decisions to make the masses maybe feel better about their company?
	How do you think they're processing decisions like this?
	Because a lot of it has been happening the last few weeks on decisions being made that are made by others.
	So that's a great question.
	So this leads to Robinhood, right?
	You're talking about Robinhood.
	So what does the name Robinhood mean?
	What does the name Robinhood mean?
	Steal from the man from the rich gift to the poor.
	Steal from the government.
	Remember, Robinhood cartoon was never steal from the rich.
	It was steal from the tax stealer, which is the government.
	People get this confused.
	They think it's stealing from the rich.
	The rich was the government.
	That's what it meant.
	So it's not steal from the rich.
	The rich creates jobs.
	The government who forces tax on you is who they want.
	Robin Hood wanted to get money back from.
	Not the small business owners that were selling bread and but Robinhood never went and tried to take money away from the people that are creating small businesses.
	That wasn't the idea.
	Robin Hood was trying to take money back from who?
	The big government that's bullying the average guy that doesn't have any control because of regulation, right?
	Okay.
	People imposing taxes.
	Yeah, so Robinhood started off as a great idea.
	It was purely accidental.
	It went from what it was.
	I mean, you did a great video on it yourself just a couple days ago.
	It went from what it was.
	Hey, this is for average investors.
	You're not going to have to pay anything.
	Just come over here and do your trades.
	Beautiful story.
	And it grew.
	And it got the attention of a lot of different people.
	Lots of big names, lots of Hollywood people, lots of celebrities.
	You keep seeing videos and advertisement from these guys that keep doing their thing.
	But eventually, when you raise $2.4 billion, your boss is no longer the customer.
	Your boss officially changed.
	When all of a sudden you go from your customer is Middle America, but your owners is Wall Street, you're conflicted.
	Oh, yeah.
	Big time.
	Big time.
	So who are you loyal to now?
	Who do you have to listen to now?
	Who can fire you now?
	Who can say, you know, you got to get out of here now?
	You're sitting there saying, well, these guys, this company is at $30 billion.
	My net worth is now XYZ.
	What do I do?
	How do I keep them happy?
	How do I keep the consumer happy?
	I gotta make sure these guys are happy One day he said When he shut down I said no trading You're talking about Vlad Yeah Yeah, I mean, you think people are naive when Elon Musk's asking those questions on Clubhouse and he's just grilling him 16 minutes and going back and forth.
	I mean, you don't think people are naive that what happened there, but it's not the point.
	The board, the founder starts with a vision.
	And the vision is, here's what we're doing this company for.
	The board, the buyer of the company, when they come in and they're like, listen, we love your vision.
	Keep driving a company.
	But we like profits.
	That's what we like.
	Okay.
	So if you want to focus on profits, so the relationship between those two has to be set up in a way where the vision and the cause doesn't change.
	If the vision and the cause changes, you could potentially lose your customers that you already had.
	Although that's not happening on Robinhood.
	But today you're living in a different time.
	You're living in a time right now where you're seeing a parlor, you're seeing a Robin Hood.
	Two different stories.
	Parlor founders, maybe the guy that came out saying, we got to go against Facebook.
	We got to go because freedom of speech.
	We have to have people to be able to say whatever they want to say because that was his message, right?
	That's what we're going to do.
	But the money guys are like, listen, that's great.
	We just gave you 10 million bucks.
	We just gave you 50 million bucks.
	I'm sorry.
	Give us our $50 million back.
	I don't have that kind of money.
	Now we're changing it.
	So to change it, we have to bring somebody that's going to be a little bit more reasonable, a little bit more digital.
	Someone who probably gets along with big tech a little bit better.
	You kind of have to do that today.
	You kind of have to do it.
	You got to follow the laws today on the social side.
	So one day I had a group of people in my office and I wrote a map.
	I said, the Democrats are brilliant.
	They're so brilliant.
	And I was having this conversation last week, I think, with Robert Kiyosaki.
	I think it was.
	I don't know who it was.
	Somebody was having this conversation last week.
	Yeah.
	And I said, Republicans chased money.
	Democrats chased influence and control.
	Period.
	Let me say that one more time.
	Republicans chase money, which was what?
	Man, let me just make money and leave me alone.
	Okay.
	It's a traditional business that you go to that you don't have influence, but traditional business that you go to.
	Are you talking about politically or actual independent, like voters?
	I'm talking politically and power player billionaires.
	This is what I'm talking about.
	Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
	Democrats said, no, we have to control voice.
	So what did Democrats billionaires start buying?
	LA Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine, et cetera, et cetera, right?
	Then what do they do?
	Amazon Web Services.
	Now it's the biggest.
	They're killing it, what they're doing.
	Amazon, Facebook, Google, you know, Twitter, go through all of them.
	Endorse all of these guys for Republicans now to compete on the media side.
	You know how long it's going to take for them to compete in the media side?
	Decade.
	Two decades.
	Not one decade.
	No way.
	Two decades.
	On the media side.
	On the media side, it's going to take two decades for them to even have a shot.
	And by the way, two decades from now, you think it'll be 50-50 even?
	No way.
	Two decades from now, it will still only be 70-30.
	Where do you think it is now?
	Oh, I think it's 98 to 2 right now.
	That big.
	Give me on the right what the media has.
	One channel.
	You got Fox, you got Newsmax.
	You got Newsmax is not.
	Newsmax is not at the level.
	You don't put those guys at that level yet.
	As far as an NBC is not a bad thing.
	You do not put them at that level.
	By the way, if you look at right now, it's MSNBC, it's CNN, it's Fox, then you got CBS, ABC.
	All those other guys are all on the left.
	They're not on the right.
	So this is a little bit more of a long-term strategy that folks got to sit down and kind of think about on what's taking place.
	You can't just sit there and say, Let me tell you, this is not fair and this is not this.
	No, it's not called not fair.
	It's called competition.
	And it's called, you know, some of the strategies that you had, Republicans on your side, kind of didn't help you out.
	And if you don't start making some changes right now, you're going to have to behoove and you're going to have to bow down to whatever they have to tell you because they control.
	That's just what's going on, period.
	So there needs to be a major, like, you know, I'm on a flight back with a guy, Jerry.
	I'm trying to sleep because I had three hours of sleep that day.
	There was an award ceremony.
	I'm trying to sleep.
	A couple days ago.
	A couple of days ago, but Jerry's got great stories, phenomenal stories.
	And he's telling me, you know, 1967, he started working for Bell.
	And back in the days when ATT had a, what do you call it, a monopoly because ATT pretty much controlled the market and the government had to come in and break up ATT because you could only buy a phone system from one place.
	So ATT would come in and they would say, hey, you know, you got three plans.
	Which one do you want?
	I don't like any of these.
	No problem.
	Okay, cool.
	Good luck.
	So can you imagine there is nobody else that's coming to your house afterwards?
	So the government said, you can't do this.
	So they broke them apart.
	Then they became different companies.
	Anyways, he finally said, he said, you know what's the one thing about Democrats against Republicans?
	He said, what?
	He says, Republicans compete against each other.
	Democrats unify, even if they hate each other.
	You have to give them credit.
	They are united, even if they hate each other.
	There is more going on today with all these businesses, Parlor, Robinhood.
	It's more political than people even realize today.
	This is no longer about just doing business today.
	It's not.
	It's a complete different game.
	So a 27, 28-year-old that's going in.
	And, you know, the Zucks of the world who started Facebook, Zuck's brain is also a different kind of a brain.
	It's not a regular brain.
	It's, you know, in the Gates brain and the Jobs young brain.
	Those brains are wired in a different way.
	To compete nowadays, you need to be ready.
	And you need to have influence from many different places, especially in the social media game.
	Let me, something that's on my mind since we're going to go back to the parlor CEO, he's 28 years old.
	Zuck's probably in his late 30s now.
	You said a quote a little bit ago.
	You said, show me two people.
	The man with money meets a man with experience.
	The man with the experience walks away with the money.
	The man with the money walks away with experience.
	You know, we have an audience who are in their 20s, 30s, 40s, what have you.
	Give us, you founded PHP.
	You were how old?
	30, 31.
	Okay, 31.
	But up until that point, you were a big dog at your former company.
	I was doing good.
	Okay.
	You're now 42 years old.
	42.
	Walk us through PBD, founder, CEO, 30 years old versus PBD, CEO, founder, 40 years old.
	And use that analogy between money and experience because now you have both.
	Back then you had little, right?
	You had some money, some experience.
	If PBD, when he was 30, meets PBD when he's 42, what happens?
	Well, let me ask you a question.
	Trump's 74 when he becomes 72, 71, when he becomes president.
	Does he have a lot of experience?
	Of course.
	Does he have a lot of money?
	Yeah, sure.
	Does he have as much experience in politics as politicians have experience in politics?
	Probably not.
	It doesn't matter how much experience you got in business or in wealth that you have.
	If you go enter a field that you don't have experience in, you will get schooled.
	Gotcha.
	Experience and money, like experience in one place doesn't mean that that experience bleeds into every other thing that you do, right?
	And so what happens when you do that?
	The biggest thing that changed from the 31-year PBD to 42-year-old PBD is asking counsel and then processing for myself.
	So, hey, I don't have all the answers.
	31-year-old, I have all the answers.
	You don't have all the answers.
	42-year-old, you know, hey, what do you think?
	What happened here?
	What happened here?
	What should we do here?
	What do you think about this situation?
	So it's a little bit more of asking for counsel than I know exactly what I'm doing.
	By the way, both is needed because you need a little bit of, I know where I'm doing.
	We're going to go take over the world.
	You need that drive and the fire to go out there, right?
	That level of determination.
	But the experience comes with, hey, we're about to do this.
	What do you think about this?
	I would take this angle.
	Tell me why here.
	Okay, interesting.
	Let me go ask Johnny.
	Johnny, what do you think?
	Bobby said this on the board.
	So it's a little bit more wanting to get counsel rather than I know exactly what I'm doing.
	Trump got into politics, became a president, did what he did four years.
	He said everything he said he was going to do.
	He did it.
	And then, but he didn't win allies on the left.
	And you don't have to win 100% of them.
	Not 1%, not 5%, not 10%.
	You need them.
	Especially today, you need them.
	In the business world, you do as well today.
	Because all this stuff about Wall Street Bets, well, Wall Street's bets, you know, here's what they're going to do.
	They're taking down Wall Street.
	Really?
	What kind of context do they have?
	Because Melvin Capital, Seth Cohen, Citadel, Citroen, all those guys have to do is make 5'10 phone calls in D.C.
	Then they create new regulation.
	Then they create tougher barrier to enter.
	Then they're able to target companies like Reddit because they have the contacts all the way at the top, which is politicians.
	It's a different game today than it's ever been before.
	It's always been like this.
	Don't get me wrong.
	You've always had to have an element of this.
	But today, you got to be ready to compete in the next level.
	So are you saying that the Wall Street Bets, Reddit community are not as powerful as they're somehow being made out to be?
	Because I'll give you a quote.
	You know, Chamath Palapatiya, very smart guy, potentially running for governor of California.
	Brilliant guy.
	He's out there.
	He's talking about everything.
	You know, he's said things like let the big airlines fail, companies fail.
	I agree.
	He said, oh, you do?
	Because we could talk about that.
	I fully agree with you.
	You did a four elements of capitalism episode.
	I fully agree with that.
	Freedom to fail.
	You talked about that.
	Freedom to buy, freedom to try, freedom to sell, freedom to fail.
	Freedom to fail.
	He says Wall Street Bets is now officially the number one hedge fund in the world because they are a democratized and decentralized platform.
	And this is his opinion, obviously.
	I don't disagree with that.
	Everything what you just said, I don't disagree with that.
	But here's the issue.
	Who was the most famous people in the world four months ago?
	Most famous person in the world, powerful person in the world four months ago.
	Well, maybe Trump was four months ago.
	Four months ago.
	What happened to him?
	Goodbye.
	What happened to his Twitter account?
	What happened to his Facebook kickout?
	Peace out.
	When's the last time you said, let me check on Trump's tweet?
	Here's what Trump said.
	When's the last time you heard?
	Best two months of my life.
	By the way, you know what's crazy?
	Not for CNN.
	They're down 44%.
	So is Fox viewership.
	Yes, yes.
	44.
	In the last 30 days.
	In the last 30 days.
	That's a scary thought.
	30 days is a long time for businesses.
	All of a sudden they're wishing that Trump would tweet something.
	What are you going to do?
	Joe Biden's the greatest of all time.
	No one cares.
	People want media's that, right?
	So they're now taking a hit.
	MSNBC is taking a hit.
	They're firing people.
	They're letting go of people.
	They're trying to get into market for somebody to buy them.
	They don't have money.
	CNN has on a money.
	They can't sustain this for too long.
	That's why Bezos was talking about buying CNN.
	This is not sustainable long term.
	So, yes.
	So are you saying that they wish they still had Trump as a president?
	Because obviously CNN has done everything in their power to get Trump the hell out of office.
	Now you think that they're sort of regretting that decision for ratings purposes, for money purposes?
	What was your question when you started your question?
	We were talking about Wall Street Bets and influence and power.
	And you got the Melbourne Capitals away from the business.
	So what I'm trying to tell you is if the government can team up against Trump and take him down, who the hell is Wall Street Bets?
	Yeah, okay.
	I'm with you.
	Who is Wall Street Bets?
	You know, it's 7.2 million subscribers.
	By the way, for me, you need a Trump.
	You need a Wall Street Bets.
	You need an AOC.
	A check on the other side.
	You need all of this.
	When you eliminate and you make the other powerful, the other also becomes weaker.
	You need all of these guys.
	Just like you need a strong Republican Party to compete with the Democrats.
	You don't need socialism.
	You need it.
	Just like you need a strong Democratic Party to combat with the Democrats.
	Yes, you do.
	I think you need an Obama.
	You need a Trump.
	You need a Ted Cruz.
	You need some of that.
	Now, trying to unify these guys today.
	Like, I wouldn't mind seeing him 20% come a little bit more center.
	20% come a little bit more.
	Both sides.
	Oh, yeah.
	20% right come to the left a little bit.
	Left come to the right a little bit.
	You know, a little bit more.
	By the way, you know the whole executive orders?
	Yeah, Biden.
	Okay, do you want to pull that up?
	Do you know who has, who has, who has, you've seen this already, the set, I'm assuming, right?
	Mario, before you bring it up, let me just kind of read this.
	Let me just kind of read this.
	If we're going to go political here, Pat, I got to do one thing first.
	You got to go to the bathroom?
	No, I got to get a little soy on that cup.
	This guy's going to go to the bathroom.
	I swear we're done.
	Oh, my God.
	Okay, so take a look at this.
	Take a look at this.
	So our buddy Biden becomes president, right?
	When he becomes president, he goes on a executive order frenzy, right?
	Big time.
	And he said in an interview, I think it was last year when they asked him, they said, what do you think about executive orders?
	He said, I think executive orders, if you do it without asking the other side, you're a dictator.
	What's the difference between a dictator and someone?
	So this is, he says this in an interview.
	You can see this.
	It's everywhere.
	When was that interview?
	Less than a year ago.
	Wow.
	Is what it was, right?
	Give or take a year ago.
	So he becomes a president, day one, executive order.
	Paris climate change.
	Ending ban on U.S. entry from majority Muslim countries.
	Requiring mask wearing on federal property, coordinating a government-wide COVID-19 response, incorporating undocumented immigrants into census, refusing, refocusing on climate crisis and canceling the Keystone Excel permit, which was massive.
	Mandating ethics pledge for government appointees.
	Polling funds from border wall.
	Pausing federal student loan payments.
	Strengthening deferred action for childhood arrivals, promoting COVID-19 safety in domestic and international travel, expanding access to COVID-19 treatments, establishing the COVID-19 pandemic testing board, guaranteeing unemployment insurance for workers who refuse work due to COVID-19, facilitating delivery for stimulus payments, empowering federal workers and contractors, reversing transgender military ban,
	reinstating COVID-19 travel restrictions, promoting Buy America agenda and reliance on private prisons, initiating plan to combat climate change.
	By the way, I'm not done.
	Reestablishing Presidential Council on Science and Technology.
	We've got like 10 pages.
	I mean, I can keep going.
	Reinforcing Medicaid and Affordable Health Care Act.
	Okay.
	35 executive orders, seven memorandums, and three proclamations.
	And if you pull up the history of who's had the most executive orders, this is what you would find.
	Okay, go up.
	So here's the leaders in executive orders.
	Biden, okay, go up a little bit so I can read exactly what the timeline.
	Biden's flurry of executive orders standouts.
	In his first two weeks, President Biden has signed more executive orders most recent presidents did in their first month.
	He has signed nearly as many executive orders as FDR did in his record-breaking month.
	So FDR did 30.
	Biden did 28.
	Look who's third.
	Obama is third at what?
	16.
	You take Trump out, who's fourth?
	Truman.
	Truman.
	Now watch this.
	Why did I say if you take Trump out?
	Here's why.
	The left typically likes to enforce through force.
	We're doing this whether you like it or not, is the left, right?
	The right wants to...
	Truman was a Democrat.
	Yes.
	Eisenhower Republican.
	Now watch this.
	Trump is at 12.
	What does that say about Trump?
	Trump's not a Republican.
	People don't realize Trump was never a Republican.
	Trump is independent.
	Trump was a Democrat for most of his career.
	Now he's a Republican for the last however long decade of his career.
	Trump still did 12 executive orders.
	That is an independent.
	You look at the rest.
	Bush, 7.
	Clinton, 6.
	G.H.W. Bush, Sr., 2.
	He was just like, I'm not even having any executive orders in the first 30 days.
	Reagan, 5.
	Carter, left, 7.
	Ford, 5 on the right.
	Nixon, 5 on the right.
	Johnson, left, 7.
	Kennedy, left, 7.
	Eisenhower, right, 6.
	Truman, left, 13.
	This tells you about how they look at executive orders.
	So what does this have to do with what we were talking about earlier with, what do you call it, with Wall Street bets?
	If the right people want to just go out and create a new law and push Wall Street bets around, they can easily do it.
	You know why?
	Most of these guys on the left were funded by Wall Street.
	So if you get funded by Wall Street, you have to kind of realize, just like the company we talked about, Robinhood, which is what?
	You campaign for the little person, the small people, the people that don't have the money, but you report to who?
	The people that gave you big money.
	Of course.
	Wall Street people.
	They give you the big money.
	There's no different here.
	You campaigned, we got to help the, but you have to report to the people that funded your campaign.
	And if you don't make that phone call and the campaign people call you and say, hey, listen, we gave you this much money.
	Here's what you need to do here.
	We need a law.
	We need Barrier to enter.
	need somebody to go look at wall street bets and investigate and we need somebody that's how this thing works I am fully on Wall Street's betside.
	I'd like 100%.
	What do you mean?
	Of course you need to 100%, but you need contacts.
	So hopefully these Shamats and Musks and all these other guys are so on their side that they protect them.
	Hopefully.
	That's what they need.
	Shamat has basically come out and said that he's on this team and he donated.
	Yeah, half and a half million bucks.
	Yeah, he did.
	Fine.
	Yeah.
	So, with, I mean, I don't know how much time you want to spend on Biden's executive.
	We have like 12 pages just on.
	Go for it.
	You know, I went through some of these, and let me give you, I guess, my perspective on this.
	I went, there's probably four pages.
	I don't disagree with a lot of these things.
	Yeah.
	You know, so let me give you two sides of the coin here on Biden.
	Number one, he came out there and he said, what's the quote that you said?
	If you do too many executive orders, you're a dictator.
	Orders, you're a dictator.
	Yeah.
	At the same time, he's just reversing a lot of what Trump just did.
	So Trump came in, reversed a lot of what Obama did.
	Obama, some of the other presidents can do the same thing.
	Totally with him.
	But he's doing it more than what's the one thing in common with who FDR when he was the president in 1933.
	What do they have?
	They had a crisis.
	They just got out of the Great Depression in the middle of the Great Depression.
	Now they're in World War II.
	So Biden, because again, this is in the first month of the presidency, right?
	This is what this stat is.
	Trump came in and there wasn't a lot to, quote unquote, change.
	He did it, you know, in my opinion, a lot of it out of spite, a lot of it of like, well, Obama did this, I'm doing this.
	Yeah.
	Biden is coming in a lot of his mask mandates, you know, executive orders on climate crisis.
	You know, obviously he's no fan of big oil.
	A lot of it is COVID-related executive.
	Why don't you ask the other side?
	Well, that's my next point.
	Why don't you ask the other side?
	Why don't you just say, hey, guys, if it's not that big of a deal, why don't you ask him?
	I don't know how that works within Congress, but yes, his whole life.
	If it's not a big deal, why don't you ask him and sit down and say, guys, here's what I want to do.
	What do you think about that?
	And let them say we disagree.
	Okay, I'm going to do it anyways.
	How long does that take, though?
	Because politically, it could take weeks.
	It's freaking years to get stuff done.
	He's like, let's get it done.
	Listen, for me, here's like my approach.
	You know, Tico and Dylan get into it.
	Okay.
	Did you guys try to address it with each other?
	No, I don't want to talk to him.
	I can't help you.
	Talk to each other.
	Get in a room and figure it out.
	Then come out and still do the executive order.
	I'm good because now you can say, What?
	Look, I went to the room and I talked to him.
	We tried to talk about it.
	They didn't want to talk to me.
	Okay, cool.
	The people are going to say, you know what?
	Fine.
	But you at least made what?
	The effort that, hey, here's where we are.
	This is what I want to do.
	You know, you can't drop the word unity and not do that.
	So, for example, if your campaign, Jimmy Carter's campaign was what?
	Human rights.
	Okay.
	And he targeted two countries, Iran and Cuba.
	Okay.
	Human rights.
	Late 70s.
	Late 70s.
	Human rights.
	Human rights.
	If that's your campaign, you better advance that campaign.
	Trump's campaign was what?
	Build a wall.
	Build a wall.
	But it was build a wall.
	Build a wall.
	Build a wall.
	Guess what?
	He started building the wall, right?
	That's what I need to do.
	Taxes, build a wall, et cetera.
	He said what he's going to do.
	Great.
	If you say unify, you got to unify.
	So then don't say unify.
	Obama said what?
	Change.
	Change to what?
	Change of philosophy?
	Change of what?
	Obamacare, healthcare.
	Guess what?
	He kept his commitment of, I'm going to go out there and make change.
	Now he got up and said, it's not going to cost you a penny.
	We're not going to tax you.
	You can keep your plan if you want.
	That was not the truth.
	It wasn't a true.
	But he did make drastic changes, scary changes for some people on the other side, but he kept his commitment.
	You can't say unify.
	Is that basically your point here on Biden?
	Is that you saying, I'm going to be the president for all the people who are going to be able to do it?
	Let's just say you're a center-left guy, et cetera.
	Okay, great.
	Show a little bit.
	But now he's coming in as a dictator.
	Now he's essentially.
	He's coming in on what he called the dictator, not what I call a dictator.
	His interpretation of a dictator.
	I never said he's a dictator.
	He said he's a dictator.
	That's what Biden called himself.
	Is it the fact that You don't agree with some of the executive actions, or just the fact that he's making executive actions regardless of what the actions are.
	You understand my question?
	Is it, I just don't like that he's doing executive actions, or I don't like exactly what they are.
	No, listen.
	There's a little bit of both.
	If Trump came out and says, I'm going to do all executive orders, and you do, well, you said you were going to do that.
	Yeah.
	So, just you said you're going to do that.
	Then do that.
	It's all good.
	We knew he was going to do that.
	So the people who voted for him, guess what they wanted?
	A bunch of what?
	Exactly.
	Executive orders.
	And he did it.
	This guy didn't come out saying, I'm going to do a bunch of executive orders.
	Gotcha.
	Okay.
	He did say a couple, but he didn't come out saying, like he said, climate, you know, day one, I'm going to do Paris Climate.
	Minimum wage.
	He did say those things.
	Totally fine.
	Yes.
	But this many, little bit, little bit.
	It's aggressive.
	It's a little aggressive on what's aggressive.
	So again, the parlor, the Robin Hood, the amount of executive orders, somehow, some way, they're all tied to each other.
	This is all tied to each other, somehow, some way.
	Okay.
	Let's go into the next one.
	Let's go and talk about Amazon.
	Okay.
	Amazon, Jeff Bezos, decides to step down as a CEO.
	So Jazzy is his replacement, Andy Jazzy.
	Jazzy joined Amazon in 1997, the Euro One Public, and quickly moved out the ranks.
	He's a close confidant of Bezos and has led Amazon Cloud Computing business since 2003.
	The cloud CEO helped build AWS into a massive unit that generates over $40 billion in annual revenue.
	AWS is also the de facto leader in cloud computing.
	By the way, AWS, we just talked about $40 billion in annual revenue.
	Okay, exactly.
	De facto leader in cloud computing.
	Over 30% of the market share is officially AWS.
	Adam, over 30% is officially AWS.
	Insiders say Bezos, undoubted, unbounded trust in Jazzy, who was promoted to AWS as senior vice president to CEO in 2016.
	The people who have worked with Jazzy, who turned 53 last month, described him as genuinely a nice person who nevertheless sets high standards and expectations for his people and expects them to rise to the challenge.
	Jazzy takes AWS service role in powering so much of the internet economy and his role in keeping it to the top in the cloud market very seriously.
	So Andy Jazzy, new CEO of Amazon, and Bezos moves to be an executive chairman of the board.
	What are your thoughts about this?
	I mean, just the names alone.
	If you're a 90s guy, you're going to appreciate this reference because I know you'll appreciate this.
	I'm hearing Jeff Bezos and Andy Jazzy.
	All I'm thinking of is like DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince and Will Smith.
	Hilarious.
	And Jeff Bezos being Well Smith and Andy Jazzy coming in as DJ Jazzy Jeff playing the one.
	That's a scary thought right now.
	Yeah.
	There he is.
	That's a scary thought.
	But what do you think about this?
	What do you think about any thoughts on this?
	Well, a couple different things.
	So number one, first and foremost, let's start with the top.
	Let's start with this founder.
	Let's start with the CEO.
	What's Bezos going to be doing?
	What's Bezos' next five moves?
	What's his new moves are going to be?
	It says there, Bezos still says he'll still be involved in important initiatives.
	I don't think Bezos is just retiring and just going to kind of go live in San Trope and eat $40 Euro lobster rolls in Monaco.
	If something tells me he's going to be working, doing this thing, taking on important initiatives, part of that is going to be philanthropy.
	I mean, don't forget his wife, Mackenzie Bezos, who's like the 20th richest person in the world, just because she has Amazon shares, she's become famous why over the pandemic for giving billions and billions away for philanthropic efforts.
	Cool.
	So that's what's going on in the Bezos household.
	And we know Tom Zenner was new, the girlfriend of Bezos, and somehow Tom Zenner is in this story.
	But Jazzy, let's talk about this guy, 53 years old.
	He's going to step in as CEO when what, Q3 of 2021?
	You were most impressed by the fact that what you said, 40%, what was it, 30% of their total revenue was AWS?
	What was that static?
	Market share.
	Market share of cloud today is controlled by AWS.
	Is that what's a monopoly?
	45%?
	50%?
	50% plus.
	Because remember, iPhone, smartphone is 46%.
	Okay, so iPhone Apple is 46% of the marketing.
	It's very close to being a monopoly.
	Very.
	You're very anti-monopoly.
	Oh, it's not good for the economy.
	Yes.
	At all.
	Did you play Monopoly as a kid, by the way?
	I never played Monopoly as a kid.
	I played many times.
	And Mario's witnessed me play Monopoly many times.
	It's a great game.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Speaking of Monopoly.
	I'm pretty sure they don't follow the rules the whole time when it gets late in the game.
	What does it do?
	Does Pat Chief start putting keys on the table?
	It's all negotiation.
	It's all negotiation.
	So if you allow, because there's different rules you can play by.
	If you allow negotiation to take place between the two owners, then it is what it is.
	Okay, so you don't play by the rules.
	You're doing some other stuff.
	We play by the rules.
	But there are different rules to the game of monopoly when you play.
	Okay, what does that mean exactly?
	So when you sit down and you're playing with a group, the group can dictate the controls and the rules to the game of monopoly.
	What's that word dictate mean in this thing right here?
	So you say, hey, guys, what do we do when negotiating this?
	Well, we need a third approval or not.
	Or you say, there's many different ways to play Monopoly.
	And if the four players agree on the terms, you agree on the terms.
	Okay.
	But you do that.
	It's got to be agreement.
	At the beginning, at the beginning, when everybody's at the same level.
	You don't create new rules at the middle of the game.
	You agree on it at the beginning of the game.
	We had one night we were, where were we at?
	We were in Georgia.
	We were in Georgia, Atlanta, and it started and it ended.
	It was a pretty epic night.
	I fell asleep.
	I think it ever ended.
	We would have recorded that.
	I wish we would have recorded that.
	But go ahead.
	Give me your thoughts on this year.
	No, I mean, we were talking about a monopoly.
	So they're not a monopoly level yet, this AWS, right?
	Not yet.
	Okay, but they're trending in that direction.
	They're at 30% of market share.
	The way they're grown right now, they'll get there.
	And this is, you know, I'm not exactly the tech savvy guy shocker, but I started hearing more about this AWS.
	Why?
	Let's reference back Parlor, right?
	They shut down Parler from Amazon Web Services.
	Who else are they shutting down?
	Well, how much, this goes back to your initial topic, control.
	What kind of control do they have?
	Who's Parler going to put in as CEO of the new company?
	Are they going to have a good relationship with DJ Jazzy Jeff over here?
	I think he's going to be able to make a phone call like you talked about with Melvin Capital.
	Some of these guys, hey guys, we got to get back up to business.
	We're a legitimate company.
	What's going on here?
	But bottom line is Bezos ain't going nowhere.
	I think he's going to be doing more things like looking into purchase CNN.
	So the question becomes: here's a few questions.
	I'm reading a book right now called Motive by Patrick Lincolni.
	Patrick Lincolni, if he comes out with a book, you got to read his book, especially if you're in business.
	Five dysfunctions of a team, five temptations of a CEO, ideal team player.
	The guy writes books.
	Everybody needs to read it, especially if you're in the business world.
	So everything to me is motive, right?
	So whose playbook is Bezos following today?
	He is following potentially a Bill Gates playbook of nonprofit.
	That's what I'm going to do.
	Okay.
	Fine, maybe.
	Let's just say there's a moving forward.
	Moving forward.
	Yes.
	What he wants to do.
	The difference between him and Bill Gates is what?
	He's a little bit more of a flamboyant guy than Gates'.
	Gates was a true qualified nerd, qualified nerd.
	Not flamboyant at all.
	Zero flamboyant.
	Bezos today looks buff.
	He's got a chest.
	He's got biceps.
	He changed.
	You know, when you have money, you can make yourself look any way you want to be.
	He's a lot less nerdy.
	He's wearing leather.
	Little TRT.
	Like some stuff's going on over there, right?
	So what is his motive?
	I don't know.
	What is his motive?
	Does he have any different aspirations four years from now, five years from now, 10 years from now?
	I don't know.
	Does he want to run one day?
	I don't know.
	Does he want to run for office one day?
	I have no clue.
	He did say he's going to be the executive chair and he's going to work on nonprofits and contribute to Washington Post.
	So why Washington Post?
	I don't know.
	Now, let me take a completely different angle here why I love this story.
	Here's why I love this story.
	Listen, more younger people need to be inspired by these stories.
	Two days after he took his final exam to get his graduate degree, Andy, two days after, he agreed to go to Amazon.
	Jazzy.
	Jazzy.
	You know what he told him?
	Put me anywhere.
	I don't care.
	I'm just happy to be here.
	And that's 97.
	We're talking about.
	It's a rocket ship analogy.
	Yeah.
	It's like, dude, just, I'm just glad to, I don't care what rocket ship.
	I don't care what anywhere.
	Let's go play ball, right?
	Let's go play ball.
	So he goes in.
	What does he do?
	97, 94.
	Amazon got started in 94.
	He comes in at 93.
	Young buck, young guy, what do you need from me?
	You know, and two years ago, he got interviewed on CNN.
	If you guys have never seen this interview with him on CNN two years ago, the lady asks him, look, you've been able to do this.
	You've been able to do that.
	You've been there from day one.
	You've done this.
	You've done this.
	You've done that.
	Is there any aspirations of you being a CEO?
	You know what his answer was?
	He says, I just can't see Amazon being rammed by anybody else but Jeff Bezos.
	So no, I don't have any aspirations.
	Good answer, right?
	Two years later, he's the CEO, right?
	It's a three-minute video.
	If you've not seen it, it's a great interview to watch.
	It's three minutes.
	So he's a likable guy.
	He's a leader.
	To me, he is following the playbook of who?
	Two, three different names I'll give you.
	One is our buddy that bought the Clippers.
	What's his name?
	Steve Ballmer.
	Ballmer.
	And he's fine.
	He fought Microsoft.
	He worked his way up under Bill Gates.
	Ballmer, Paul Allen, Tim Cook.
	That's the playbook.
	He's a number two.
	He's a great number two.
	But he is about to be a very rich number two.
	If Bezos's ex-wife became the 20th richest person in the world, he's about to become a top 100 in no time, representing a $2 trillion company.
	You think they're going to pay this guy a few billion dollars?
	So what does this tell you?
	Here's what it tells you.
	Listen, let's talk a little bit of business.
	Let's talk a little bit of business.
	Every once in a while in your life, you will meet a man or a woman that's different.
	Something about them is different.
	You will feel it.
	You're going to feel it.
	And you're going to say, I don't know what it is about this guy or this girl.
	It's just different about this guy or this girl.
	They inspire you.
	They think big.
	They keep their word.
	They're driving.
	They're excited.
	They want to do something that's never been done before.
	There's that energy that you feel, right?
	And the longer you're with them and you witness a level of consistency of this, that's not just trash talking.
	You know how, you know, watch what I'm going to do.
	It's not hot air.
	No, no, it's not hot air.
	They're delivering results.
	It's continuously going in that direction.
	You have to do whatever you can to be a right-hand person because long-term, you're going to be locked in if you do it right.
	So in this situation, you got a guy that came in and says, this guy needs my help.
	Dude, tell me what you want me to do.
	I'm going to help explode this company.
	And he now is an intrapreneur.
	Okay.
	Never been an entrepreneur.
	He's an intrapreneur about to run a $2 trillion company, 1.7, 1.8, whatever the number is, a $2 trillion company, and he's replacing Jeff Bezos.
	What a beautiful story.
	What a beautiful situation to have.
	A young guy that goes from there to being where he's at today, still young, 53 with this kind of responsibility.
	Just tells you, by the way, this camera keeps moving.
	I don't know what's going on here.
	Something's going on here with the camera.
	I know you guys are addressing it.
	So yes, I am all about this.
	I'm supportive of it.
	I'm excited for him.
	I hope you guys can.
	I have one question for Jazzy Ball.
	Yeah, of course.
	So if he was listening to the podcast right now and you were on his board giving him advice on how he could possibly mess it up and what to be careful with, are there any things you would prepare him for or tell him?
	No, I would need to be an insider to know, to give any kind of counsel here.
	I am not qualified in this situation to give him counsel because he's been there since 1997.
	The only thing is kind of like, look, sometimes when you replace a big character, you're always compared, you know, to that character.
	It's very difficult.
	It's not an easy situation.
	And sometimes I am sure they've hired the right executive coaches and psychologists and therapists to get him to understand what to say and what it really means.
	You're not getting this position because you have to be Jeff Bezos.
	We're not expecting you to be Jeff Bezos.
	You're not wired to be like Jeff Bezos.
	Like it's very hard to be Tim Cook.
	Everybody's constantly going to compare you.
	But whoever did that with Tim Cook did it the right way because look at Tim Cook.
	He's got his own identity now.
	He's done a great job with the company.
	It's a replacement game, you too.
	Yeah, it's a replacement game.
	But it's more about, buddy, you're not here to be me.
	You're here to keep the culture together because that's very important on Amazon.
	We have a culture.
	We got to keep this together.
	We have a vision.
	We got to keep driving for the vision.
	You got to keep using your abilities that were great.
	You just have more responsibilities now.
	And we're entrusting you to take this company to the next level because we believe it's you.
	So it's more that side.
	It's late night pressures that's going to come.
	And now everything's on you.
	And for somebody that decides to be a CEO, you can turn down that position.
	By the way, there was a guy a couple of years ago that everybody thought was going to be the CEO of Amazon.
	What was his name?
	What was the name of the guy that was supposed to be the CEO of Amazon?
	It's right here.
	Jeff Wilkie.
	Jeff Wilkie was supposed to be.
	Jeff Wilkie was supposed to be the CEO of.
	Where does it say Jeff Wilkie, by the way?
	I don't see it.
	It says note.
	Note.
	I don't see it.
	Check this out right here.
	Yeah, there was another guy that was supposed to be.
	Oh, okay.
	Jeff Wilkie was supposed to be the CEO of Amazon.
	And guess what he did?
	He just said, I don't want to do it.
	Wow.
	No, I don't know.
	I just think life happens.
	Let me take my $100 million.
	But it's not even that.
	You don't know the whole story.
	You don't know.
	I've worked so hard.
	I've been away from my kids.
	One of my kids is now using drugs.
	I got to get in to save my family.
	I just don't want to work like that anymore.
	I want to be around my family.
	I don't want to be the face.
	I don't want attention.
	I don't want to be on board calls grilling me on CNBC.
	I just don't want that.
	That was you.
	You did it.
	I'm good.
	I'm worth 200 million bucks.
	I'm worth 50 million bucks.
	I'm worth half a million.
	I have no desire to do it.
	Give it to somebody else.
	Many times these positions are turned down by the person that they want to give it to.
	Yeah.
	You understand what I'm saying?
	That the person they want to give it to.
	And he says, no, I just don't want to be a CEO.
	I don't want that kind of responsibility.
	I got to give a shout out to, well, two things.
	I'd like to circle back to Mario because I know he's starting his own YouTube episode on the importance of being a number two.
	So you can probably weigh in on that.
	But let's talk about being a CEO for a second.
	Street team.
	Never forget street team.
	You know, this is actually a pretty funny story about Pat.
	And Eric, you were there, and so was Mickey.
	No, Mario was there too.
	A couple days ago, we left.
	I mean, we've been working crazy hours.
	We're getting here early.
	We've been staying late.
	We've been setting up the office.
	We've been on a move.
	Pat left probably like, you know, he said, I got to go have dinner with the fam.
	I got to go see the fam maybe around eight o'clock.
	Around 11, 10, 11 o'clock, we all go to Pat's house because that's where Eric's car was.
	And we were all just kind of catching rides and carpooling doing our thing.
	And we get to Pat's house.
	And, you know, it's gated.
	So we go in the gate.
	We park the car.
	We're making our moves.
	Pat gets out of his car that's sitting in the driveway.
	He goes, hey, guys, what's up?
	Pat, you've been sitting in the driveway for what it seemed two hours on a phone call.
	We thought you went home already.
	I'm still in the Shelby.
	In the Shelby.
	Like, we thought the car was parked.
	We thought we were just getting the car, make a move.
	All right, cool.
	I'm high beaming you.
	You're not even noticing it's me.
	You're not.
	He's like, you know, looking at a completely different angle.
	I'm lost.
	I told him.
	I said, I bet you're Pat's awake in the kitchen sitting there following up on messages.
	But here's the point.
	As a CEO, you get the glamour.
	You're the Jeff Bezos of the world.
	You're the PBD.
	You're making the money.
	You're the big shot.
	What people don't see is the fact that it's freaking 10 o'clock at night.
	You're still sitting in your car two hours later, parked in your garage.
	You probably haven't even walked in and said hi to your family yet because you're on, I assume, an important phone call if you haven't even gone in the house yet.
	That's sort of, I mean, you did the video that went viral, the 90 Seconds of an Entrepreneur.
	But is that kind of what you're talking about?
	Like the other side of like, oh my God, people have no desire to be that.
	Look, I know a lot of talented, capable people who have no desire to start their own company.
	Zero.
	I had a lot of people in the former company I used to be part of, I looked up to, I admired these men, many of them, a guy named Rich.
	I admired a lot of these guys who could have started a company, but they never did.
	Why didn't they?
	Is it capability?
	Is it capacity?
	Is it that you can't run it?
	Is it you're not smart enough?
	Absolutely not.
	It's do you want that life?
	Yeah.
	And it's a different life.
	There's a big difference between being, you know, a person that's, you know, behind closed doors, you're making good money and you're good, but you don't have the highest level of pressure that comes to you.
	You can still make three phone calls above you that the pressure is on them.
	And you simply share the pressure versus, boom, all the pressure is with you.
	It's a different kind of a pressure.
	It's not for everybody.
	Look, this is why when you talk to certain, like Elon Musk said, you want to be a founder?
	You want to be a founder of a company?
	Okay, perfect.
	Here's what it looks like.
	You're going to have no life.
	Okay.
	You're going to work 80, 90, 100 hours a week and you will have no life.
	Everything comes to you.
	You will have a lot of sleepless nights because you have to make the right decisions.
	You have to get up in the morning and you have to figure out what you need to be doing.
	And it's ongoing, non-stop.
	That's what it is.
	It's the life.
	By the way, let me give you another thing.
	The life of a head coach.
	You think a head coach is an easy job in sports?
	Every day.
	Are you kidding me?
	You got to be there at four o'clock studying this guy's playbook.
	You just lost a player.
	You got to replace this player.
	There's only five quarterbacks on the right now that are free agents.
	And you're 62 years old, urban Meyer, heart issues, you know, pressures coming to you.
	This is a film.
	Yeah, studying.
	It's not an easy, but it's not for everybody.
	It's not for the only place you look good is once you win.
	And then they say, you're a freaking G. Good for you.
	There's a book that's called The Hard Things About Hard Things.
	I think it's written by Horowitz's son.
	I don't know his first name, but it's also Horowitz.
	The hard things.
	Go search The Hard Things About Hard Things on Amazon if you can, so people can see it on the screen here on the big screen, Mario.
	The Hard Things About Hard Things.
	He talks about how he built this.
	This is David Horowitz?
	David Horowitz.
	Yeah, I think it's David Horowitz.
	Ben Horowitz.
	Who wrote, oh, Ben Horowitz.
	Okay, David Horowitz.
	Okay, right there.
	Go to the bottom, right there, this book.
	If you haven't read this book, phenomenal book.
	You know what he explained?
	You read this book.
	Is this the father or the son?
	Son.
	This is the son.
	I gotcha.
	So you read the book.
	By the way, he's a $3.5 billion guy.
	Type in David Horowitz Network or Ben Horowitz Network.
	I think he's a three.
	Things may have changed a lot.
	He may be higher or less, but he's up there.
	He's a guy that killed it himself.
	They hit Forbes.
	2.8, right there, Business Insider.
	Okay, Forbes, whatever there.
	Yeah, he's up there.
	I don't know what the number is.
	Go up?
	No, it doesn't show the number.
	Anyways, he's done very, very well for himself.
	When you read the book, he's the co-founder of Anderson.
	He's a big hip-hop guy.
	Big hip-hop guy.
	Big hip-hop.
	He doesn't look like a hip-hop guy.
	He's a big hip-hop guy, right?
	Well, you're a big hip-hop guy.
	You're a huge T-Pain fan.
	He's 1994.
	You're a huge T-Pain fan these days.
	You're so funny.
	I'm going to buy you a drink.
	Oh, what is his new song?
	What?
	But you know what he says in the book?
	Here's what he says in the book.
	He actually outlines all the ugly truth about building a company and how many times he almost went out of business before he sold it for a billion or whatever he sold it.
	The hard thing about hard things.
	The hard things about the hard things, right?
	So it's not, it's for every one guy that almost made it, for every one guy that makes it and is like at the top, that cemetery is filled with a lot of people that could have and should have and something happened and they didn't make it.
	It's not an easy game.
	So, you know, congratulations to this guy for doing it.
	Yes, I mean, some people don't like him.
	Some people say, I don't like the fact that he's doing this because he's the reason why Parlor's out.
	So I got to text him.
	You're talking about Andy Jazzy.
	Yes.
	There's some people that don't like him right now because he forced Parlor out.
	So if you want to know who forced Parlor out.
	This is the guy.
	This is the guy.
	Wow.
	Okay.
	This is the guy that had the influence of doing that.
	So now he is the face of Amazon.
	So again, it's interesting stuff going on over there.
	Let's talk a little bit about oil.
	I don't know if you heard or not, but possible Exxon-Mobile Chevron merger, the biggest merger of all time.
	The chief executives of ExxonMobil and Chevron spoke about combining the oil giants after the pandemic, shook the world last year, according to the people familiar with the talks, testing the waters for what could have been one of the largest corporate mergers of all time.
	Such a deal would reunite the two largest descendants of the John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Company, which was broken up by the U.S. regulators in 1911 and reshaping the oil industry.
	By the way, FYI, if Rockefeller's wealth back in the days before he died, if you compare it to today with inflation and everything together, you know what his net worth is?
	$340 billion net worth.
	He'd be number one.
	He'd be number one, right?
	He'd be combining Rockefeller was a combined company market value could top $350 billion.
	Exxon has a market value of $190 billion while Chevron 164 together, they would likely form the world's second largest oil company by market cap production, producing about 7 million barrels of oil and gas a day based on pre-pandemic levels, second only in both measures to Saudi Aramco.
	Think about it.
	That's a pretty big number right there.
	So what are your thoughts about this?
	You know, I did a little research on this.
	And number one, just how massive Saudi Aramco is, $1.7 trillion company.
	I think the only company that's big as them is Apple as far as market share.
	But here's actually something pretty interesting.
	You know who the biggest company in the world was in 2006, most highest valued company in the world, 2006?
	Walmart?
	No.
	Who?
	Exxon.
	Exxon.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	So now we're talking about them struggling so bad that now they might potentially, because this is all just sort of hearsay initial talks, having to merge with Chevron just to compete in the marketplace right now.
	Because under an Abid administration, do you think they're going to be pro or against energy and gas and consumption?
	100% anti-I mean, Biden, I did an episode about, you know, Biden's going green.
	I mean, he's clean energy, green jobs.
	Yep.
	So this is all just initial talks right now, whether Exxon and Chevron.
	But, you know, 15 years ago, Exxon was the big dog.
	Energy was the big dog around the world.
	And now who are the big dogs?
	Tech, Apple, Amazon.
	Obviously, Microsoft was there then.
	Tech is now the big dogs around the world, and energy is clearly plummeting.
	Well, Tesla as well, they're making a big energy with all their solar and all that electric power.
	Tesla is tech, big data, and clean energy, not traditional big oil, you know, Exxon, Chevron, that type of energy.
	Yeah.
	When are you getting a Tesla?
	When are you getting a car?
	You see the Panamero electric car?
	That car is pretty ridiculous.
	We have the I-8, and that wasn't that.
	I did have the I-8, and I love the I-8.
	I don't know if you've seen the IX.
	What is the BMW I-8, the doors open up on this side?
	Pull it up, Mario.
	I like the I8.
	Did you drive the I8?
	Yeah, I drove to pick up your dad one time at the time.
	Yeah, it was actually pretty good.
	I mean, it wasn't really that fast.
	It was 16, like 3.5 seconds, 4 seconds.
	It was faster than my Saturn.
	Yeah, it is faster than your Saturn for sure.
	So the I-80.
	You drove this for a while.
	Yeah, this is the electric BMW?
	Yeah, I had this for two years.
	That's the one.
	The white and the blue, right out of Mission Impossible.
	It is.
	It's a car.
	It's an IC car.
	So you had an electric car.
	It's right there.
	That's exactly what I had.
	I had that one right there.
	I would charge it every day and I'd worked out.
	What was that like?
	What was that life like?
	Let me tell you, I don't even know why I got rid of this car.
	Why did I get rid of this car?
	You ended up getting, I think it was the Orange Lambo.
	The Avenador?
	Yeah.
	What?
	Oh, I got the Don.
	I got the Rotel.
	I don't know why I got rid of this car.
	This was a phenomenal car.
	It was actually a very good car.
	It was a very good everyday car, is what this was.
	Very good, everyday car.
	But you had to charge it.
	There was no gas stations.
	No, it's gas.
	It was a combo.
	It was a hybrid.
	It was gas and electric.
	So if I had the electric, great.
	If I didn't, I could get the gas as well.
	Can I ask you a question on the merch?
	By the way, I kind of like that.
	Believe it or not, I kind of like that.
	The hybrid approach.
	Yeah, I kind of like that because there wasn't enough chargers and I didn't have time to go stand somewhere and wait for 15 minutes, 20 minutes.
	I'm like, dude, how long does it take you to fill up your tank?
	Yeah, five minutes, not even, whatever.
	minutes how long does it take you to charge your entire i don't even know that's it's a It's a while.
	It's not like a minute or five-minute thing.
	You got to sit there for some time, right?
	So something like this, you go in and it's hybrid or worked out.
	Some days I forgot to charge it.
	I'm going to go to the gas station and take care of that.
	Go ahead, Mark.
	Yeah, a question for you.
	A little speculation, just a question.
	Let's go a little deeper.
	But the BizDoc did an episode last week, I think, on Tesla.
	They talked about maybe Elon's planning doing energy gas stations.
	Do you think if on these oil companies and they're thinking next moves strategically, they're merging in order to maybe take on the next big thing?
	Do you think that could be a possibility?
	I think they're unifying right now because there's a lot of enemies.
	The next, let's just say Biden and Kamala go eight years.
	Let's say.
	A lot of people are saying it's not going to happen, meaning Kamala is going to be the face because Biden may not make it past four years health-wise.
	We don't know.
	It's just pure speculation.
	But say they go eight years.
	Can you imagine eight years of anti-oil agenda non-stop?
	You have to pivot.
	Remember that one episode we did about General Motors where Tom put up the picture saying that General Motors' website, even though they only sell 3% of their cars are electric, you know, on their website, the only car they had on General Motors' website was a CO standing next to their only electric car, even though they only sell 2% to 4% of electric cars.
	Their website says what?
	Wow.
	Electric cars.
	And they said by 2025, I think Cadillac is going 100%.
	2035, 2030 or some number.
	I don't know if it was 2035 or 2025, but it was in the next 50%.
	They're basically saying the next handful of years, they're going to be able to get a lot of money.
	Cadillac is going 100% electric.
	So this doesn't matter.
	Was it just Cadillac or their entire fleet?
	It was Cadillac only first, and then they're going.
	Yes.
	So if you look at numbers, Exxon's share fell 29% last year.
	Chevron fell 20% last year.
	The stock index of U.S. oil and gas companies was down 57% at one point in 2020.
	You know, you have to also, the challenge with Exxon and Chevron goes, these guys thought oil was going to be around forever, and they took a hit.
	By the way, these oil guys, executives, you know what kind of money they make?
	Ridiculous.
	They go golfing two, three times a week, making a million dollars, two million dollars, half a million dollars.
	Regular executives who are not even working, making that kind of money because they think this is going to be around forever.
	And unfortunately, this happens in many newspapers.
	They're getting fat and lazy.
	Radio.
	Oh, are you kidding me?
	Of course they're getting fat and lazy.
	You can't go like this forever.
	And Elon Musk is officially forcing Chevron and mobile, Exxon, to get back to work.
	And Elon Musk is forcing these guys who've been kicking at golfing three, four, five times a week to get back to work.
	Because if you don't, your business model is no longer working today.
	Well, I mean, right here, it says it was, was it Exxon, which was America's most valuable company seven years ago?
	This isn't 100 years ago.
	With a market share of more than 400 billion, nearly double chevrons.
	All right.
	Exxon has fallen from its heights following a series of strategic missteps, which were further exacerbated by the pandemic.
	We all remember back in March, oil went to $0 a barrel, right?
	What was going on right there?
	But here's the biggest point right here.
	It was removed from the Dow Jones industrial average last year for the first time since it was added as standard oil in 1928.
	It's a scary thought to be.
	So 90 years ago, it's removed from Dow Jones.
	For the first time in 90 years.
	Since 1928.
	So that alone ought to tell you what direction this is going to right now.
	This is not a joke.
	Like these guys are, you know, I don't know if they're sitting there panicking right now, but I think they're saying, listen, man, we know we can't stand each other.
	You're Exxon, you're Chevron.
	Look, let's just kind of team up because we have a common enemy.
	Let's just come together and try to make this work and be on the same team together.
	What do you say?
	Great.
	So it's not going to be that pretty, but it's not a bad move that they're making.
	So we'll see what's going to happen there with this.
	By the way, let's see which one we go to.
	Well, you brought up the fact what might happen in the next four to eight years.
	You want to talk about it?
	This might be a good segue for odds.
	2024 candidates?
	Yeah, I mean, we have it right now.
	Go for it.
	2024 candidates.
	Okay.
	Eric, do you have an opinion on this?
	On who do you think is going to be 2024 Republican candidates?
	Who do you think?
	I would love to see it, and we'll see if it happens.
	But Dan Crenshaw and Tulsi Gabbard, VP.
	A combination, and I think.
	On the Republican side.
	Yes.
	On a Republican ticket.
	Her being the VP, I think, would be because she's, you know, pretty moderate.
	And I would like to see that happen.
	I don't know.
	Two military people.
	By the way, how did you come up with that?
	Have you just been thinking about it?
	I just thought speculation or personality.
	I like that their logic is somewhere or something.
	No, no, no.
	It's just me speculating.
	I feel like.
	It's an interesting combination you just proposed.
	I actually fully kind of endorse where you're going with this.
	This is a Republican, a reasonable, moderate Republican.
	If you guys don't know who Dan Crenshaw is, he's the guy with a patch on his eye.
	Pete Davidson on Senator Live made fun of the guy.
	He had to retract that.
	And now Dan Shaw Crenshaw has blown up.
	By the way, not a Trump guy, Crenshaw.
	I mean, he's voted with him in Congress.
	I think he's in the House.
	He's not a senator, right?
	Who?
	He's a Congressman.
	Congressman.
	So he's in the House.
	He's not towing the company line, so to speak.
	He's got his own opinions.
	Right.
	They're both congressmen.
	Yeah.
	And well, Tulsi Gabbard is no longer an active congresswoman.
	I think she's no longer in office right now.
	By the way, if you're watching this, who do you think?
	Who do you think?
	2024 candidates?
	I'm curious.
	I want to hear from you as well.
	Who do you think, if you were to pick candidates in 2024 running, who would be on your list?
	But go ahead.
	You were saying something.
	No, I do like the fact.
	I think this is what this country needs, a Republican, a moderate Republican, and a moderate Democrat coming together and running under one ticket, saying, guys, we don't have to be so extreme.
	It doesn't need to go socialism all the way to the left.
	The AOC doesn't need to be a candidate.
	We don't need to have a, you know, what we won't call names, but whatever Trump was doing all the way to the right and, you know, the conspiracy theorists and the QAnon and the two people, like, we need to, again, get back to center.
	Paul, who do you think?
	Do you have anybody in mind?
	Well, I've heard about Donald Trump Jr. being a possible candidate, Donald Trump.
	Tulsi Gabbard was actually Kareem Abdul Jabbard.
	Yeah, same guy that would say Don Lamon.
	Don Lamon.
	What's your good friend's name?
	Juicy Smoulay?
	Juicy Smoulier.
	Yeah.
	Tulsi Gabbard.
	Mario, who do you have?
	Anybody or no?
	Not really.
	No idea.
	Do you know the odds?
	No.
	Do you know the odds?
	You got odds for me?
	Yeah, I got some odds for you.
	I mean, I got some odds for you.
	Do you know who is the highest odds, like most likely candidate?
	Nikki Haley?
	Who do you think it is?
	The highest odds today?
	Best odds.
	Yes.
	Rand Paul would be another name.
	The Sanderson.
	Listen, listen, Gabbard.
	Relax.
	Who do you have as the highest odds?
	Okay, highest odds.
	This is according to a betting website.
	Okay, number one, best odds.
	You want to guess?
	There's no way they're going to have Trump as the highest odds.
	You sure about that?
	Is he the highest odds?
	Trump, plus 800 as a wild card, plus 800, right?
	So the lower your number, the more likely.
	So, for instance, right now.
	You bet $100, you win $800.
	Exactly.
	You know who the favorite is in 2024?
	Who?
	Like the favorite.
	You're going to tease me how much $4,500.
	Oh, baby, I'm going to tease.
	Favorite odds.
	Okay, so the favorite right now to be president in 2024?
	Yeah.
	Kamala Harris, plus $450.
	I'm with that.
	Biden, plus $600.
	Okay.
	So meaning they project Kamala Harris is more likely to be president in 2024.
	What is that?
	Coffee.
	Okay.
	Coffee.
	It's a T.
	No, no drink coffee.
	It's a T.
	Oh, it's a London Fox.
	Okay.
	Come here, Pat.
	You need a little soy for that?
	Good, buddy.
	Keep going.
	So Kamala's highest plus $450.
	Biden's plus $600.
	Trump's plus $800.
	Number two, Nikki Haley at plus $1,200.
	Mike Pence at plus $1,600.
	And then we have Ted Cruz at plus $3,300.
	Senator Josh Hawley at plus $4,000.
	Mark Cuban plus $2,500.
	So he's got better odds than Cruz and Haley.
	As a Republican.
	As a Republican.
	Your boy, Dan Crenshaw, plus $5,000.
	And your boy, Donald Trump Jr., plus $5,000.
	So that is the most likely to least likely candidates.
	And then you have GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	She's also the news.
	Plus 10 billion.
	She ain't going to be president.
	If you know who that is.
	Yeah.
	No.
	For your betters out there, though.
	So let me give some names here.
	Let me give some names here.
	What you got?
	Abbott.
	Kai won.
	Texas.
	Yes.
	Let me tell you why.
	Okay.
	Abbott.
	He's done a good job.
	He's a friend during the pandemic.
	No, he's done a good job during the pandemic.
	Forget about France.
	I'm saying he's done a good job during the pandemic.
	Okay, Texas.
	Number one, I wouldn't put him number one.
	I'm just saying putting him on the list.
	I know Kai's got a list here.
	Kai's got Trump, Haley, Cruz, Hawley, Pence, Cotton.
	But I think Abbott is one seriously to consider.
	Texas.
	I think the other one is DeSantis.
	Let me tell you why, DeSantis.
	Watch this.
	The NBA playoffs last year, what was their main campaign?
	What were they campaigning?
	The entire time.
	They were the NBA bubble of social justice.
	But what was it?
	What was everybody wearing?
	Everybody was wearing what?
	Social justice.
	Black Lives Matter.
	Yes, right.
	Okay.
	So a liberal organization decided to hold their playoffs in a conservative state ran by a conservative Republican DeSantis, right?
	So the NBA playoffs go there.
	Super Bowl goes to Florida.
	They're right now trying to bully Japan, saying if you don't get your act together, we will gladly hold the Olympics in Florida.
	Yes, in Florida, because we know how to do it, right?
	So you got to give credit to DeSantis, okay?
	And DeSantis is not a pushover.
	He's solid.
	He can hang in there and he's a pretty strong guy and he's got good argument to give on what they've done.
	Young guy, too, is probably in his early 40s.
	And watch this.
	Can you imagine if he does and somehow Cuomo gets involved, he will crush Cuomo.
	He's going to say, all your guys came to me.
	All your business people came to me.
	So that would be a beautiful.
	I'd love to see the stage of Cuomo going up against DeSantis or seeing Abbott going up against Newsome.
	I'd love if Newsome runs and these guys somehow get on the same stage.
	Newsome might not have been governor.
	You know the other day.
	We're watching McGregor.
	We're watching McGregor fighting against him.
	I'm like, what a wood.
	What did I say to you at this time?
	I'm so pissed.
	I'm like, I don't even, I wasted my disgusting.
	I was so disgusted by it.
	You wanted him to win.
	You got a guy.
	You think you're going to, you're going to.
	Anyways, it's just very frustrating.
	This is upsetting you.
	I'm a fan.
	I'm a fan, but the money, you got a couple hundred million dollars from proper 12, and you go in there.
	Either don't fight or fight.
	The guy's face.
	He's so exciting.
	You wanted a Khabib McGregor.
	I wanted Khabib McGregor, and that's not going to happen.
	Khabib made fun of him, saying this may never happen again.
	Right?
	And even Dana said, it may never happen after what just took place.
	And then he had the drug stuff that came up, which is six-month suspension.
	That's a whole different story.
	Drug stuff.
	Conor.
	Conor had a...
	Yeah, I think Connor got suspended.
	Kai, can you verify this?
	I think Connor got suspended for six months or something like that.
	Yeah.
	So, so your sleeper is.
	I'm a little bit of a guy right there.
	Your sleeper.
	You called Mario Kai.
	No, no, I actually Kai's texted.
	Oh, okay.
	You're basically saying your sleeper is DeSantis.
	If he can pull off, I think, so Abbott, DeSantis, Pompeo, I don't know if he's a guy that could be a president.
	Let me throw another curveball for you here.
	Let me throw another curveball for you.
	I don't know if it's going to happen this year.
	Maybe it's going to happen in the next eight to 12 years, maybe 16 years.
	Kushner's a genius.
	Ivanka, I think, can run.
	People love her.
	And even the left respects her.
	Are you saying Kushner or Ivanka?
	Are you saying they're running out of time?
	Either or.
	Either or.
	Because remember, Kushner's not a Republican.
	Kushner's a center-right, center, sometimes center-left.
	And Ivanka's not fully a Republican.
	Ivanka's a center-right is where she's at, and she can go on the view, and they're very respectful to her, Ivanka, the way she is, right?
	So, Abbott, DeSantis, Trump, Ivanka, Kushner, Tim Scott, which we've already talked about.
	I love what you said with Tulsa Gabbard, Dan Crenshaw.
	Sure, he hasn't had enough publicity online, on media.
	You know, the whole thing that happened with Saturday Night Live was good.
	I'm going to throw a crazy curveball in there.
	Crazy curveball.
	Because, you know, the usual suspect everybody throws.
	Here's a crazy one.
	That would be so interesting.
	And by the way, I'd love to see Cuban get in it.
	I told Cuban this four years ago.
	I told him four years ago when we said that.
	I said, I said, so what's your, you know, I'd love to see him get in it because I think he pisses off both sides.
	I don't think Cuban is a Democrat.
	I don't think he's a Republican.
	I think he is center left.
	He's not a Republican, but he's center, like slightly, like just a little bit left, okay, is where he is at.
	Center left on certain issues, center right on certain issues closer to economy.
	Okay.
	But I don't know why I would love to see Tucker Carlson run.
	Tucker Carlson.
	You don't even know how much I'd love to see him run.
	You don't know how bad I'd love to see him run.
	Really?
	I'd love to see him run.
	No support from the left, though.
	Zero.
	Yeah, I don't know if.
	He's made no friends.
	Well, no, wait a minute.
	He's also called out Trump.
	He's called out the right.
	He's called out things that the right has done.
	So you have to know that there's an element of the right that also doesn't like Tucker.
	So it's not like he is.
	He'll get up there and say stuff.
	Like, dude, what are you doing?
	Are you a Republican or are you Democrats?
	He called out what's her name really badly.
	What's her face?
	The Trump lawyer, the QAnon lady, the yeah, Hardcore.
	What was her hard again?
	I don't even remember today.
	What was her lady's lawyer's name?
	Sandy Sidney, Sidney Powell.
	Sidney Powell.
	Sydney Powell.
	He's the first one that was like, yo, Sydney, show us the proof.
	Yeah.
	You're talking about a whole big game.
	You're talking Hugo Chavez.
	You're talking Dominion.
	Yeah, a little bit too much.
	That's what I'm trying to tell you.
	What I'm trying to tell you is, I can see that if he was to get in.
	Now, here's a challenge why a guy like that may not get in.
	You know why a guy like that may not get in?
	Because a guy like that is about to be a free agent, and he's probably going to land a $100 to $150 million contract.
	So him running could cost him $150 million.
	Take the money, buddy.
	That's probably what's going to end up happening.
	The reason why some of these guys, like imagine Bill O'Reilly never ran.
	Why?
	Maybe a little bit of personal life.
	I don't know.
	Some of these guys never ran.
	But you can, I think we've experienced that there's a big difference between winning your primary in the Republican Party versus listening to this.
	That's from Jen?
	Yeah.
	Thank you.
	You know what that reminds me of, Pat?
	With the Tucker Carlson pick is a few years back, and this didn't end up a success story, but there's other names that can't come to my mind.
	But in the NFL, Matt Millen, who was a former player, he was a color commentator, and then he had no front office experience, but then he jumped into the GM role of the Detroit Lions.
	But to me, that'd be kind of a similar thing where it's like you watch it and you're studying, you're analyzing it, so you have a better maybe understanding than a lot of people from inside.
	So you have a nice outside perspective, but then you don't necessarily have all that experience, but sometimes that could work for you.
	So I kind of like that philosophy.
	Yeah, I don't know.
	I like him.
	Something about him I like.
	You know, like, here's what's crazy.
	And people get upset when I say this.
	There's something about Chris Coleman I like.
	I don't know.
	There's something about Jon Stewart I love.
	I'm so glad he's back on Twitter, by the way.
	Jon Stewart just got on Twitter.
	I don't know if you guys heard or not.
	He's officially on Twitter.
	He was never on Twitter.
	He gets back on Twitter.
	And if you guys have, like, go on his Twitter account so we can see what he says.
	You're a fan of Jon Stewart.
	I'm a fan of Jon Stewart because I saw.
	He's left.
	No, he's not.
	He's center left.
	He's center left.
	He called that Nancy Pelosi on his show and made her look like a fool.
	And he went up there and fought for the firefighters from 9-11.
	I mean, that's what I'm going to work on.
	I don't know if he's left.
	I don't know if he's as left as you think he is.
	I think he's center left.
	But I think we need him.
	I think go to Twitter.
	Go type in John Stewart.
	Just type in Twitter on the top.
	No, no, no.
	Just with Jon Stewart.
	Okay, go to Twitter and type in Jon Stewart.
	Two T's.
	Ooh, so you guys are in the same community.
	Twitter.
	Got it.
	Got it.
	So, Kai, Mario's making you look good today, Kai.
	If you watch, you know, Kai somewhere in America.
	He's Kai somewhere right now.
	Mario is celebrating.
	You said type in, go to his account, Jon Stewart.
	I'm not sure what his account is.
	Oh, my gosh.
	I can't believe it.
	Somebody help us out here on maybe he's not on that.
	No, he is on there.
	He's 100% on there.
	He just has a unique right there.
	The dog all the way in the bottom.
	That's him.
	Yeah, believe it or not, that's him.
	Click on that.
	Okay, 1 billion followers.
	He's following one person.
	And the one person he's following, I think, is Wendy's.
	Is it Wendy's?
	Arby's.
	And he trashes them on a tweet.
	But go back.
	We have the tweets.
	Go back.
	Okay, so he puts up on the 31st.
	I believe compromise is the heart and progress demands concession.
	So to the right, in exchange for universal healthcare, I will allow all the future.
	Mario, what are you doing?
	I'm reading.
	Mario, what are you doing?
	All future space leaders to be non-denominational.
	What compromise do you propose?
	Remember, there are no bad ideas.
	Unity.
	The stuff he says.
	Yes, I've come back on you, much like one of your nasty, nasty sandwiches, Arby's, right?
	Because Arby said that thanks for whatever.
	So if I do really well on here, I get to be president.
	Yes?
	And he's got 485.
	It's Mocky Trump.
	Yeah, I think it's cool, though.
	I think Stewart, you know, I don't know if Carson's going to run or not, but I think that kind of a personality would be very interesting.
	By the way, eventually Shapiro is going to run.
	Yeah.
	Eventually, Shapiro is going to run.
	It just may not be in the next 15 years.
	Eventually, he's going to run.
	But I think we're going to have to hear that.
	I think we would do a disservice if we didn't address the most likely leading contender other than Trump himself is Nikki Haley.
	She's a reasonable person.
	Let me just read a little bit of what people said.
	Here's what people said.
	DeSantis and Gnome, okay?
	Tulsi and Jocko.
	DeSantis and Tulsi said Amia.
	Madison Tulsi said Dennis McGriff.
	Marilyn Joseph says Candace Owens.
	Ian Wynn says Patrick B. David 2024.
	How about Patrick B. David Soyboy?
	PBD Soyboy.
	Campaign.
	We got to put that 2024.
	This will be ours.
	We got to make our face on a milk carton.
	We'll get Nancy on that right now.
	Nancy, we're going to need my face on a milk carton.
	Okay, Tulsi, Tulsi, Tulsi says Priyo Men Roy Shanley.
	Tulsi, Trump and Tulsi, Trump and Tulsi.
	Shapiro on Crowder, Shapiro and Crowder, Mark Cuban.
	Doesn't matter who's president in 2024.
	And you got Ted Cruz, Tulsi, Crenshaw, Haley, Tim Scott, Syndium.
	Tulsi has been demonized and ostracized by the Democratic Party.
	By the way, this is what's needed.
	Meeting more people talking about you in different platforms.
	Tulsi's made herself so relevant in different people.
	Want her.
	This is very good.
	It's a good time to have momentum because she's got three years to create that kind of momentum.
	It's actually a very good sign that other people are saying this.
	Who else got?
	PBD and Sauce, Urban, Jock.
	Okay, so we got more.
	Anyways, a lot of people are saying, you know, different names, but you said the leading candidate, okay, one person, your Brando Commando, gave $5 and said, I got Republicans, Matt Gates.
	Okay.
	No way.
	Good looking guy.
	You're not a fan of Matt Gates.
	He's Shonda's cousin, by the way.
	So Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Greg Gabbitt, DeSandis, Democrats, Kamala Harris, Newsome, Bob Iger, Mark Cuban.
	Good list.
	Bob Iger, Newsom.
	When you say someone like Iger, see, I'm thinking who can get out of the primary and actually win the general.
	Someone like Bob Iger can.
	Someone like Nikki.
	Can Bob Iger.
	Okay, so Haley could be president.
	Can Bob Iger could be president.
	Yes.
	And he wants to, by the way.
	Okay.
	Democrats like him, smart business guy, traditional conservatives.
	You know, I don't know if he'll have the MAGA community.
	Nikki Haley.
	He's left.
	Okay.
	Yeah.
	But his family parents are left, and he grew up one of the reasons.
	We've all seen you could do great.
	Like Ted Cruz can do great in the Republican primary.
	That guy's never going to be president.
	I'm sorry.
	Matt Gates.
	You got to understand from someone who kind of views himself as center left.
	I'm looking at these names and I'm saying there's no way Matt Gates is ever going to be president of the United States with what he's done and pissing off people on the left.
	Just like someone like AOC is never going to be president because no one on the right would ever vote for her.
	So you need to have someone who could reach out to the other side and get votes.
	That's what Trump was able to do in 2016.
	Biden took some votes from Trump in 2020.
	Obama was able to do that in 2012.
	Big tent, baby.
	So Ted Cruz, I don't see it.
	I don't see Trump Jr.
	I do see a Nikki Haley.
	I do see even a Tom Cotton.
	I do see a Tulsi Gabbard.
	I see what you did there.
	Yeah.
	I got a name for you guys.
	Here we go.
	This just started percolating in my head.
	This is a little out there, but stop it.
	He's got different experiences, which I like.
	Ice Cube.
	No.
	I thought you were going to say John Elway or something because of how diehard of a guy you are.
	Ice Cube's running a business.
	He's in multiple platforms.
	I got someone for you.
	He's a person.
	Kanye.
	Kanye.
	He's going to be the guy.
	But Ice Cube is rational.
	No.
	And I think he grew up probably on the left.
	He's got more conservative principles now.
	He's kind of all over the place.
	He's polarizing in a good way.
	You ain't got no job.
	You ain't got no place to go.
	It's Friday.
	Ain't nobody going to FC.
	I'm going to get you high today, but I can see that shirt, though, straight out of the White House.
	Straight out of the White House.
	I'm telling you guys, this is a marketing boom.
	Marketing.
	Yeah.
	Marketing.
	Pat, I don't know how much time we have left.
	One hour ago.
	We're talking about.
	One hour ago.
	News just came out and it's trending on Twitter.
	What's going on?
	Jeff Zucker, CNN president, is going to be stepping down by the end of the year.
	Oh.
	Jeff Zucker from CNN is going to be stepping down.
	Our friend that was recording all his conversations.
	What was it?
	Who's that?
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's announced his plans to step down one hour ago at CNN.
	Okay.
	So he is stepping down.
	What is the guy?
	Oh, Veritas.
	Project Veritas.
	Project Veritas.
	What's the guy's name from Project Veritas?
	I don't know the guy's name.
	O'Keeffe.
	O'Keeffe.
	James O'Keefe.
	Yeah, he had a recording of their calls that he had and he made it public and people listened to it.
	So I don't know if that's the case.
	I think CNN is taking a massive hit.
	I think that's what I was going to say: what's the upside for him staying?
	Trying to, I mean, ratings are going to be lower for news media over the next four years with Biden.
	He's just not, people just obviously don't give a shit what he has to say as much as Trump, whether you like Trump or not.
	You listen to Trump.
	I think he said, listen, I dealt with the Trump era.
	I'm out.
	Let me just take my couple hundred million and keep it moving.
	But we're talking about odds here.
	Yeah.
	We're in Florida.
	We talked about DeSantis.
	We talked about the NBA bubble.
	What's this weekend?
	It's Super Bowl, baby.
	Mario, who do you got?
	Tell us.
	Who should we be betting on?
	Uh-oh.
	I don't bet against GOATs.
	Wow.
	Well, we got straight up.
	We got the real goat versus the biggest.
	I'm going to go for Tom Paratti.
	So you're saying Brady's going to win it.
	Yes.
	So Tampa Brady.
	You're going to put Brady against Mahomes.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	It's going to teach a young buck a lesson.
	You think so?
	That'd be twice.
	He lost in the playoffs, by the way.
	Paul, what are you saying?
	Yeah.
	I'm rooting for by the way, Paul actually knows sports.
	Paul actually knows sports.
	I'm rooting for the Buccaneers.
	I think they have a puncher's chance, but the Chiefs are the better and more consistent team.
	Did you hear about the whole COVID thing with the Chiefs?
	Yeah, the Barber.
	The barber got COVID and he cut 20 guys' hair.
	And they all, do you know the players have to test negative five days in a row to play?
	Five days in a row.
	And Pat Mahomes got the haircut with the barber as well.
	Unbelievable.
	Yeah.
	That's pretty crazy if you lose because of a barber.
	I mean, that barber.
	Guys from Vegas are going to go find this barber and he's going to say, damn it, you cost me 20 million bucks.
	I think they would push the Super Bowl.
	I think there was zero chance they would.
	Oh, really?
	Bro, the Super Bowl is being played in Tampa this weekend.
	I don't know what kind of balls.
	If half of the Chiefs are out, they're going to push the Super Bowl.
	By the way, who else has said what you just said right now?
	Probably no one.
	I don't know.
	I've never heard of it.
	They're not going to push the Super Bowl.
	No, you can't physically.
	If you lose half your team, because it's not like a replacement.
	Buddy, that's your responsibility.
	You should have followed the guidelines and been a little bit more responsible.
	I get that part, but you can't play the Super Bowl with half your team and you can't just say it's a tie or whatever.
	Do you understand the amount of preparation they put into having the freaking Super Bowl three days from now?
	I get it.
	But everything that they're doing.
	You showed all the sports league about flexibility.
	Wasn't that what you put in your bench?
	I mean, then that we have like a million players.
	You want a team for?
	The Super Bowl is going to be this weekend, homes.
	You will lose.
	Listen, Halls.
	Ivan Johnson, Halls.
	You will lose.
	So, Eric, you got anybody or nobody?
	Okay, Sam, you got anybody or nobody?
	Who?
	The Bucks.
	Bucks?
	Who do you have, Paul?
	You said the Chiefs?
	Chiefs, but I'm rooting for the Bucks.
	Okay, who you got?
	Well, I'm going to use your words to prove my point here.
	What's that?
	Okay.
	Tom Beardy's the goat.
	Yeah.
	Patrick Mahomes, the baby goat.
	Patrick Mahomes, they're the favorite.
	KC is favorite minus three.
	Yeah.
	We're talking about odds.
	Patrick Mahomes, what did he do this past offseason?
	He signed a new $500 million extension, right?
	Half a billion bucks almost, whatever it was.
	Biggest ever.
	Here's I'm going to use.
	Give me a guy with experience.
	The guy with money.
	The guy with the money is going to walk away with experience.
	The guy with experience is going to walk away.
	Got the Bucs.
	I'm rooting for the Bucs.
	Tom Brady, that's my guy.
	In college, I skirted by by running book, and I took Tom Brady's first Super Bowl 2001.
	Patriots were plus 14 points.
	This is obviously under the Belichick era.
	They beat the Rams, the greatest show on turf.
	So I haven't gone against the Super Bowl.
	By the way, let me ask you, if you're watching this, push thumbs up if you got the Bucs.
	Push thumbs down if you got the Chiefs.
	I'm actually curious.
	Push thumbs up if you got the Bucs.
	Push thumbs down if you got the Chiefs.
	To be clear, comment, don't push the No, no, no.
	Smash that button right there.
	Not comment.
	No, no, not comment.
	You want them to?
	I want them to do it.
	I don't care if it's a negative comment or not.
	I don't really know what to do.
	But you want them to hit the thumbs down.
	I want, because that's how I can track it.
	I see right now $7.95 to $7.
	Where do you see this?
	I'm, buddy, right here.
	Okay, so 795 to 7.
	Okay, so more people think the Bucs are going to win.
	Really?
	I think everybody's just rooting for Tom Brady, but if you actually look at the logistics, this is going to come down to pass rush.
	Whoever generates more of a pass rush is going to win this.
	All right there, Matt Millen.
	This guy's going deep over here.
	Yeah, well, look, in the NFC championship game, though, another concern, Tom Brady is having a lot of turnovers right now.
	Listen, we all know our community ain't come here for the sports.
	Pat, we just got to get to the point.
	Give us your prediction Pat Mahomes, Patrick Bet David, who you got?
	Let me give you if both happens.
	Let me give you if both happens.
	I'll kind of give it to you from a different way.
	If Mahomes wins, that's like Kobe always wanted to face LeBron in the playoffs.
	Yeah.
	You know, Kobe, if Kobe goes in the finals, if Kobe goes in the finals against Jordan and beats the Bulls, there's always that argument.
	Yeah.
	The reason why LeBron, for the rest of his life, is going to have the argument of you're not the greatest is because, you know, six, LeBron, Jordan, six championships, six for six, all this stuff.
	There's moments in history that you have to really capitalize.
	This may be Mahomes' most important game of his lifetime.
	For legacy.
	Purely for legacy.
	Because if Mahomes beats, I just got the chills.
	If Mahomes beats Brady, the chances of Brady going back to the Super Bowl, slim to none.
	At this pitch.
	Running it back.
	I'm not going to say slim to none.
	I'm going to say 10%.
	Here's why.
	Who's the most pissed off person in the world this weekend?
	Probably Bill Belichick.
	No one's more pissed off in the world than Bill Belichick.
	Nobody is more pissed off than Bill Belichick.
	You did this without me, bro.
	He's got $60 million to play with.
	He's going to put a team together.
	Okay.
	He's got a $60 million salary that's got opening to play with.
	He's going to put a team together that's going to scare the hell out of everybody.
	Belichick.
	Belichick.
	You don't give Belichick $60 million budget for a year.
	Why does he have $60 million?
	That's the number.
	Salary cap.
	Salary caps.
	He's got $60 million.
	Watch what this guy's going to come back with, which means what?
	Brady's the most hated player as competitor, competitor, because he keeps winning.
	Nobody likes Jordan.
	Nobody likes as a competitor.
	Nobody likes Kobe.
	Everybody liked Kobe when he retired and was shooting 27% from the field.
	Oh, we love Kobe.
	Yeah, because he's not going to beat you anymore.
	You hated Kobe 10 years ago.
	You love Kobe now, right?
	They still hate Brady because he's still in the Super Bowl.
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	If he beats Brady, fast forward 10 years from all the Stephen A. Smiths and Max Kellermans and Skip Bayless, they're all debating on TV and they're going to say, but the last time Brady went to Super Bowl, he lost to Pat Mahomes.
	And that's why Pat Mahomes is now the GOAT because he beat the prior GOAT.
	And Brady has to sit there for the rest of his life listening to those interviews.
	So for Mahomes, lots of pressure.
	For Brady, a lot of pressure because Brady knows Mahomes can take it away from him.
	So they both have a lot of pressure.
	A ton.
	My prediction.
	Here's my prediction.
	Whoever gets sacked two times in the first quarter loses.
	Okay.
	Whoever gets sacked two times in the first quarter loses the Super Bowl.
	Very simple.
	If Brady gets sacked twice in the first quarter, he's going to lose.
	If Mahomes gets sacked two times in the first quarter, he loses.
	What's your analogy?
	You got to shake the guy up because there's so much pressure.
	Shake him up.
	Sack him twice in the first quarter.
	Then you have a shot.
	I think that's my prediction.
	I may be wrong.
	Mari, were you trying to say something or not?
	Yeah, that'd be my prediction to say.
	So give us a final score.
	Let's do it.
	I don't know.
	I think, you know, last week when Brady won, Tampa Bay had a solid defense.
	So I'm, you know, KC.
	So I'm kind of a, I'm going Tampa-based defense, believe it or not.
	I'm going Tampa-based defense wins the championship.
	That's my bet.
	So I could be wrong.
	Know that my bet is Tampa-based defense gonna win the Super Bowl.
	So, again.
	I hope you're right, Pat.
	I hope you're right.
	But you better respect this Mahomes kid.
	He's likable.
	He's crazy.
	He's a great teammate.
	They love him.
	He's a good captain.
	He's a good face of the league in every possible way.
	The NFL got so lucky having a Mahomes.
	So lucky to have a Mahomes because the NBA is the NFL is locked in the next 10 years.
	Just because they have a good face.
	Mahomes is such a great face for the league.
	So if he wins, I won't be upset.
	But I'd like to see, my prediction is Tampa-based defense is going to win this thing.
	Paul.
	How far is Tampa Bay from here?
	Asking for a friend?
	Probably less than four hours, three hours away.
	Yeah.
	All right.
	So with the last thing, by the way, let me do one more here to see if the odds changed or not.
	Yeah, it's still, people are saying Brady's going to win.
	Hey, if you enjoyed today's podcast, smash that subscribe.
	We're back.
	We're back.
	We are back.
	I don't know how many times we're going to get back to it, but we are back.
	And, you know, we're going to mix things up.
	And depending on how this does and it grows, we will increase the level of commitment we put into this.
	Don't get me wrong.
	We had a lot of fun.
	We enjoyed this ourselves.
	I've really enjoyed this.
	It's a very busy time of my life right now.
	These guys know how busy I am because they see me every day, what my life looks like.
	Mario yesterday came in at 11.30.
	What I look like yesterday when he came into the house?
	Phone to the right, leg extended, face down, knocked out, listening to audiobook.
	I was listening to the motive, knocked out on the couch because I'm trying to finish this audio, but I'm gone.
	I said, why don't you wake me up?
	He says, Pat, I went.
	I had two tangerines.
	I opened the fridge.
	I walked around.
	It got noise.
	You still, I kept saying, Pat, Pat, Pat.
	You still didn't wake up.
	You needed some sleep.
	I woke up.
	You know whose fault it was?
	You know whose fault it was.
	What's that?
	Oh, go, no.
	Go ahead.
	I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and everything was about notes.
	Notes.
	Strategy.
	Strategy.
	Notes.
	From 4 o'clock, I couldn't sleep.
	You know who?
	I blame your friend Jerry on the airplane.
	Didn't let you sleep.
	Jerry.
	You know what?
	Oh, by the way, I got to give a shout out to a friend, Ruth.
	Two people I got to give a shout out to.
	And I know, like, Ruth, I'm at the beach the other day celebrating Tico's birthday.
	Tico turned nine years old, my son, my first son.
	Man, I love this guy.
	Patrick Jr.
	So proud of a man on what he's doing and who he's becoming.
	But turned nine years old.
	The other day, Dylan says, hey, dad, people in school ask me if my daddy's rich.
	What do you say?
	I said, you don't go bragging about if your daddy's rich or not, but they're asking.
	I said, no, our family's business is our family's business.
	And Dylan says, so I said, what are you going to say if they ask you?
	Well, if they ask me, I'm going to say, we keep those kind of information to ourselves.
	Ben Turas, Tico says, Tico says, yeah, but I don't know if I'm comfortable with that because if they ask, I want to answer because I don't want to lie.
	I said, Tico, what would you say?
	My dad has money, but he's very modest.
	You realize the first time I used the word modest, I was in my late 30s.
	Like, what do you mean modest?
	You know, nine years old.
	Nine years old.
	He says, my dad's modest.
	But shout out to Ruth.
	We're at the beach.
	I'm hanging out with the kids, celebrating Tico's birthday.
	Mario's there.
	Melva's there.
	You know, Mickey was there as well, I think.
	Yeah, Mickey was there as well.
	And all of a sudden, I start talking to this family because the kite I was using, all of a sudden, this husband and wife are sitting there.
	They're concerned because the wind is moving.
	Boom!
	Comes down crashing.
	They thought it was going to hit him.
	I missed him by like six feet.
	And so they're like, okay, I'm glad it didn't hit us.
	I said, no, it's all right.
	It's cool.
	So we start talking today.
	We exchange phone numbers.
	Then I walk away.
	This lady is nursing her kid and sitting there with her family, with her husband, Jonathan.
	I think that's his name.
	She's got a 12-year-old, a nine-year-old, a five-year-old, and a three-month-old baby.
	This lady that's sitting right there.
	She says, you have one other fan here.
	I said, oh, I look at her husband.
	He says, no, Ruth, probably late 60s, early 70s.
	She says, I listened to the entire podcast and what you guys say.
	And I promise, Ruth, before I forget, Ruth, shout out to you.
	She's from upstate New York, an hour north of New York, is visiting her niece here.
	just had a very pleasant conversation with the family.
	If Ruth, you are listening.
	Shout out to you.
	And the last shout out I do want to give is, I posted this on Instagram.
	I just kind of want to say this here is because as a kid, I was growing up.
	I got a call last week for my sister and she said, Luther al-Khase passed away.
	I call him Uncle Luther, but Luther al-Khase passed away at 95 years old.
	This is a Syrian man who was very successful.
	He owned country clubs, golf clubs.
	He lived in a beautiful home in a cul-de-sac right next to Stoom Dog with a birds, what do you call it, cage with collection of birds and his jaguars parked outside in a basketball court, a tennis court, a pool, jacuzzi, you know, just the whole thing.
	This is like, this was a guy I looked up to.
	And at young age, every summer I would go to his house.
	Once my dad would take me there and I would watch him.
	You know, wouldn't speak to him because he was Luther, but I would watch him.
	He had a picture of himself and Al Gore in the billiard room.
	He had a picture of himself as an entire family, like 30 of them, all dressed in white.
	And he would sit there and debate his kids.
	Why did Jesus do this?
	Why do you think that's going on with this?
	Who's going to win the championship?
	I disagree with you.
	He would constantly inject debate in their family, right?
	And I looked at him.
	I said, what does this guy do, dad?
	He's a business owner.
	I said, one day I want to be like him.
	From that age, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, every time summertime, I'd go see him and I joined the military, didn't see him again.
	But I said, I'm going to go be successful because if this guy ran a business, I'm going to do the same thing as well.
	You know how he started his business?
	This is how he became a millionaire.
	What a great story.
	He's at a bar.
	This is the myth everybody says.
	No one knows the 100% truth, but this is the story.
	He's at a bar.
	A guy on the side of the bar says, hey, man, I got a big load.
	I'm trying to move up to Russia, but I need a massive truck and I don't know how to do it.
	And I'm willing to pay premium for it.
	And he says, man, let me see what I can do about this.
	At the end of the bar, a guy is selling him a massive truck, not a bigger than 18-wheeler to move stuff.
	And he tells the guy, how much you're selling your truck for because this guy's going out of business.
	He gives him a dollar amount.
	He goes to this guy and says, how much are you willing to pay me advance?
	The advance he gives him ends up giving him enough money to buy the truck.
	He takes the truck, moves the stuff to Russia, makes his money, comes back, starts a transportation company, and leaves Iran on time when the two-man was only a few dollars, a few two-man, a dollar, comes here with the money, becomes successful, runs a business.
	He's got the best, best man, everybody in his family, so accommodating.
	These people have treated me royally.
	His son, Vladimir, when I was a kid, I was part of a organization called the Century City, New Century City Basketball Association, where they brought trouble teens, you know, from Mara Sabatrucha, from Blood, Crip, you know, everybody.
	And we would play basketball.
	And he was our coach.
	So he kind of brought kids together and he would play with us.
	Not on his son, Ladima.
	His son, gotcha.
	And I wasn't at the best phase of my life at that time, 14-year-old Knucklehead.
	And he injected belief and he was patient, this entire family.
	So two years ago, I'm so glad this happened because he needed to hear it from me.
	Two years ago, we're at Rafi's place, maybe a year and a half ago.
	Mario, either you were with me or Tikran was with me.
	We were at Rafi's place and I spot him.
	So I get up and I go to him.
	Paul may have been you.
	I don't know who was with me.
	One of you guys was with me.
	I go up to him and his daughter is there and Jackie and she's like, hey, how you doing?
	You know, all this stuff.
	And I said, Uncle Luth, I have to tell you something.
	I think you have to hear it from my mouth.
	He says, what?
	I said, you changed my life.
	I am who I am today because of you.
	You inspired me when there was no example of massive success in business and life.
	I love my dad.
	He shaped me to be a man, but in business, I never had it.
	You were it.
	Because of you at a young age, you inspired me to become who I am today.
	Without you, I am not where I'm at today.
	You see tears in the guy's eyes.
	Really?
	I said, look, you probably have impacted so many people, but I wanted you to hear this from my mouth.
	And he remembered you.
	And he, of course, remembers me.
	We've had many conversations.
	He starts getting emotional.
	He sits down and walks and I go back and have my dinner.
	And then last week I get a call from Paulette saying he passed away.
	So proke my ho, my spirit was broken for a day because this is one of those special Assyrian leaders amongst other leaders.
	And, you know, I look forward to replacing and setting a great example for that community.
	So I just wanted to give a shout out to the entire Al Khase family.
	I love you guys.
	May he rest in peace.
	My condolences goes out to you and your entire family.
	The Assyrian community lost an incredible leader, but his example is going to develop so many great leaders to represent around the world of what other young Assyrian leaders can do.
	So shout out to the entire Al-Khase family.
	And those of you guys that don't know who he is, it's important to me.
	I wanted to take this moment, this platform, to give that shout out to the family.
	I appreciate you guys that stuck around to listen to this.
	Had a good time on the podcast here with everybody.
	Again, can't wait to do this again.
	I think we have a schedule for next Tuesday.
	What time?
	So the challenge with it is we're debating whether we do 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
	So let me ask you guys this question because this is what, since you guys are here till the end and you're pretty much the true valuatainers that are here with us at the end, do you want us to do it 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time or 9 a.m. Eastern Standard Time?
	Here's the difference.
	I want to do 8 a.m.
	Okay.
	I want to do 8 a.m.
	So 8 a.m. means 5 a.m. California.
	9 a.m. means 6 o'clock, California.
	But the content that we talk about, it's worldwide.
	So some of you guys are Europe.
	Some of you guys are Saudi Arabia.
	Some of you guys are Dubai.
	So we got people from all over the world.
	Do you want to see 8 a.m. Eastern or 9 a.m.?
	If it's 8 a.m., press thumbs up.
	If it's 9 a.m., put thumbs down.
	I'm curious which one you want to see.
	So let's take a look here.
	8 a.m., 8 a.m., 8 a.m., 999, 89, 88, 88.
	So everybody can see that.
	Is it possible to do a poll on Instagram?
	I tell you, it's looking like it's 8.
	More people are asking.
	Oh, by far.
	Are you seeing it or no?
	Yeah, I'm looking at copy.
	Are you looking at it?
	It's more 8 and 9 a.m.
	8 a.m.
	Andrew said you'll lose West Coast.
	I'll probably lose you for an hour and you'll join me at 6.
	So here's what I say we do.
	Here's what I say we do.
	Based on what a lot of people are saying, 8 a.m.
	Next week, we will test Tuesday, 8 a.m.
	Fair?
	Got it.
	Next week, Tuesday.
	Am I in town next Tuesday or no?
	Z said we're confirmed for that.
	But the following week, I'm not here at all.
	So we're not going to do podcasts two weeks from now, but next week I'm here the entire week.
	Post on Vitamin and Instagram.
	Okay, so we'll figure it out.
	So next week, we're for sure Tuesday, Thursday.
	Yes.
	Okay, so next Tuesday, let's lock it in.
	8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, 5 a.m. West Coast Pacific Standard Time.
	Good?
	So you just got it.
	Next Tuesday, we're testing.
	Eastern.
	So that's an hour earlier than we usually start.
	We're going to test it.
	And we're going to say data's going to tell us what's going to happen.
	Lock it up, Adam.
	Say that again.
	Lock it up, Adam.
	Yeah, so that's what we got here.
	Again, hey, guys, if some of you guys were newer, smash that subscribe button.
	Thanks for joining us for the last couple hours.
	Really enjoyed.
	Looking forward to getting back to this.
	Adam, happy birthday to you.
	Thank you, bro.
	Thank you.
	Special, special shout out to you with your birthday.
	Take care, everybody.
	Bye-bye.

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