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Zenner is back, and we are, this is what, podcast episode number 47.
I think it's fair to say a lot's happened in the last week since the last one we did.
We haven't been on in one week?
It's been about a week.
And, you know, I hope Biden made it up the stairs by now.
I think he just sat there.
Can you put an escalator on Air Force One?
Here's the crazy thing.
Honestly, the first time you saw that, what was your reaction?
First time you saw that?
Did you believe it the first time you saw it?
We saw it together.
I thought it was fake.
I thought it was a joke.
You thought it was fake.
I was cracking up.
And then I was like, holy shit.
To be honest, I think the one Kai showed me was a little doctored already.
Yeah.
Not the one that Trump was sending line drives in.
You know, that was fake.
I hope you didn't think that was.
Oh, I thought Trump was actually the person that did it.
Conspiracy theorist.
That was a pretty weak editing, too.
Wasn't that kind of a lame little?
Yeah, and the ball kind of came in.
What'd you think about when he saw it?
You think, you know, everybody around the world was sharing it.
Snoop was sharing it.
You know, people in the NBA were sharing.
It was just hilarious.
But what are your thoughts?
My thoughts are a gentleman that old and he didn't break a hip?
I mean, come on, the slightest little bit.
The slightest little bump and you're going down for the count.
You know, everybody stumbles on Air Force One.
I will give him that.
A lot of presidents have had some issues on it, so it doesn't surprise me.
It's the first of many.
I think he might have to start driving.
I don't think he can fly in that thing because of the danger because of the steps, unless you can put an elevator for him.
I mean, seriously, those are not easy steps to navigate.
And he's not getting younger.
So they need to be careful.
He needs an escort.
We're going to see more footage of that happening, though.
Do you think we're going to see?
Do you think that's going to happen again, or do you think that's the last time to him?
For him?
You think he's going to trip again?
Yes, I do, because it's happened to every president almost at some point.
I think he's going for the record, though.
I think he wants to be the all-time.
Well, I mean, he's had such a good run over the last 60, 90 days.
He said, listen, I'm promising 100 million shots in American's arms in the first 100 days.
You know, the guy.
He did it in 58.
He took down somehow Donald Trump.
He passed a big stimulus bill.
He's on fire.
The only thing that can break this man down is stairs.
I think he's going to have a press conference and tell us what he's going to do.
Yeah.
All right.
But his biggest fear.
You got to appreciate the number one moment in that whole thing.
It wasn't the stairs, it was ridiculous.
The rather you're left, right, up, down, like that was absurd, hilarious.
But he got up, you know, dusted himself off.
Still did the salute.
Yeah.
Was that a comedy act?
How'd you process all that?
When I saw that first, I didn't believe it.
I'm like, oh, they're playing another, you know, some editor out there is getting creative.
And I'm like, no, he did fall three times.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the next thing, you know, everybody sending me a message.
Did you see it?
Did you see it?
I'm like, yeah, I saw it already.
I thought it was pretty funny.
It's always funny when a successful, whoever powerful person has a moment like that.
I think the world likes it.
What's the number one embarrassing moment that comes to mind that you can think of?
Number one.
Of anybody?
Yeah, just like a president, a president, a big, big-time public figure.
I'm assuming you're going to give us a Trump story.
Not a Trump story.
No, no, no.
What's yours?
I'm asking you.
I don't have a file of it.
I have the most hilarious one.
Let's hear it.
This was George, the original George H.W. Bush, when he was meeting with the Japanese constituents.
And in the middle of lunch, he's just like, oh, God.
No, he didn't.
Pukes on it.
That was in George W. Short.
You can't show it?
No, you can't show it.
If it's on the news, you can't show it.
What about just a picture?
The point is, the guy barfed on.
That's crazy.
It'd be like me throwing up on Tom Zetter right now, which I've attempted to do multiple times somehow, but I've held it.
Well, how about we do some good news instead of what you just did right now?
We're going to throw up.
I don't know where that came from, but.
That was the most embarrassing moment.
We went from Biden tripping to President Bush throwing up.
And I remember that.
A Japanese delegate.
Tripping bars.
Now that you're talking about it, I think the funnier one was when the guy threw shoe at President Bush, the son.
That was good.
That was awesome.
And he was pretty cool.
He was pretty good.
You could tell he used to box back in the days.
Okay.
All right.
So good news.
Here's some good news.
Krispy Kremes, just announced.
If you, Adam, specifically you, if you show your vaccination card, Krispy Kremes is willing to give free donuts for the rest of the year.
Anybody that goes to Krispy Kremes and shows their vaccination card, you're going to be given free donuts for the rest of the year.
Okay.
What do you think about that?
I think there's definitely someone that's like, I was on the fence about this whole vaccine, but you're going to throw in some Krispy Kreme?
I'm in.
Like, there's, who's the one?
The first thing that converts anybody.
Do you think all cops in America are like, I'm getting my vaccination card?
I want to know who the first person, like, there's someone on the fence, but they're going to hear that news and they're going to be like, let me tell you something.
There is no doubt this is going to convert some people.
A free donut?
Hell yeah.
Take a look.
Are you being sarcastic?
No, I'm not.
I'm being 100%.
I need a serious alert for me because you can't tell sometimes, but I need a button.
I am being serious.
What's your point?
Have you seen America?
It is unbelievable how out of shape this country is.
You get reminded of it every now and then.
Go to Costco, walk around.
You'll see how out of shape this country is.
So I do believe that the Krispy Kreme incentive will work for them.
It's a brilliant move because you go in there.
How can you just get one?
You leave with a dozen.
And the final thing is, I could never afford to do it because gas is so damn expensive in California.
If I drive five miles, I'm broke.
I mean, I cannot believe the gas prices.
It's the gas prices.
What is it right now?
It's over four bucks.
Jeez.
Okay.
What is it here in Florida?
Under three?
Okay.
Yeah, but it used to be five bucks 10, 15 years ago when the whole oil thing was going on.
So four bucks is bad, California, but they just added a gas tax last year.
So you know that.
Here's what I think.
I think the fake ID business used to be very good back in the days.
I think the fake vaccination card business is coming back.
I think you're going to see some guy saying, hey, I get you a fake vaccination card for $50.
Go to Krispy Kremes to get free donuts.
Well, there's already fake COVID test results that are out there in the guy.
I know a guy.
Adam surfs the black.
His name might be Sam.
I don't have to search too far.
I go right over to my Columbian friend over there.
He looks proud.
Get out of here.
Sam, way in our city.
Are they really selling fake COVID results?
So people that are working and they want to take a break, they just go get a fake positive test on their outfit.
That's the opposite direction you thought people were going.
You thought people wanted to show a negative result so they can get back with their lives.
These are people showing fake positives so they can take a positive.
For example, somebody's been fake positive for four weeks.
Maybe it's sponsored by Dr. John Doe at Down the Street.
We're looking at a new diagnosis I had in June.
I think that answers your question of people will go get a vaccine for a donut.
If they're getting fake vaccines so they don't have to work, they'll go get the donut.
Wow.
Wow.
I think they should implement a rule where, like, if you run a mile, you can get something free.
Like, we're rewarding fatness and sloppiness and sloth.
Free donuts.
Why are you upset by that?
That's your side of it.
Why are you offended by that?
Look, maybe I ate a little too many carbs this weekend and I'm feeling guilty and I'm projecting right now.
I'm just trying to be healthy during the week.
So tell us about how this Saturday you partied on Miami.
They shut down Miami.
They curfew shit.
What happened this week, Bob?
What a shit show.
I mean, we're going to get into this topic right now.
Tell us, tell us what happened.
Okay, I'll just give it to you from my personal experience, and then we can kind of go deeper.
I remember being at this place called the Soho House, which is sort of a local.
I mean, they're in every sort of major city, New York, LA, Chicago.
Private club for meeting.
It's a private club.
$4,050 a year membership type of thing.
Yeah, a little bit cheaper, but in certain places.
But point is, we were there hanging out.
It's just a weekend chill out, locals.
And people start passing around like alert.
Did you see this alert?
It's probably 4 o'clock in the afternoon at this point.
By the time we're getting alerts on our phones, text messages.
So you start clubbing at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
No, we're just very impressed about this.
We're at the beach.
We're at the beach.
This is not a party scene.
You're hanging out by the pool.
You're having a beach.
You're having lunch.
It's nothing crazy.
And there's alerts going on.
They're saying that the entertainment district, like the heart of South Beach, is shutting down at 8 p.m.
Shutting down.
So we're all like, I mean, we have dinner plans.
It's the weekend.
Now, would you mayor shut it down?
Because there's a couple mayors.
There's specifically the mayor of Miami Beach.
His name is Dan Gelber.
Not Mayor Suarez.
He's the mayor of the city of Miami.
And then there's a different mayor, mayor of the entire Miami-Dade County.
So this was specifically Miami Beach.
And in my opinion, this was certainly a necessary move.
Like, look, you're in California.
You know that you've been on lockdown for a full-on year, and everyone hates Gavin Newsom because, I mean, they're recalling Newsom because he's too way too far left, way too locked down, you know, precautionary measures.
You know, people have been praising Florida and our friend, friend of the show, Ron DeSantis, for keeping Florida open and keeping jobs and bringing business.
But this is sort of the ugly side of staying open.
So it's the perfect recipe when you have, you know, an open state, cheap flights, spring break, stimulus, pent-up demand.
Everyone's coming to South Beach.
And in this certain pocket of neighborhood, it's the party scene.
So, in my opinion, what they should have done differently was not announce it at three, four o'clock on a Saturday.
Oh, by the way, bedtime's in four hours, everybody.
Are you freaking kidding me?
They're already out there in the streets having a great time partying.
Say, starting tomorrow, Sunday, this is what we're going to be implementing.
It's too late already.
Yeah, but it's they rolled it out horribly.
And I mean, people are, look, people have been on lockdown for a freaking year.
You're telling me you're getting a $50 flight to Miami Beach, and usually the hotels are $400 a night, and you're paying $150, and you're coming down with your buddies, and you just got another $1,400 in your stimulus.
Because these aren't spring breakers, these aren't like 20-year-old college kids.
It could be 30-year-old grown men who are just, yo, I'm trying to get out and get it in.
Women, men.
And look, you know, masks, social distancing, that's not even a freaking thing going on right now.
You know, it's hot out.
Were you wearing a mask?
Were you being socially responsible at the club?
Of course.
No, no, no, I'm actually being socially responsible.
I know.
Were you wearing like a nice look at him?
I'm just, am I trying to hang out with 10,000 people like at a freaking concert?
No, but am I social, like, look at us right now.
Am I wearing a mask?
No, but it's not to me, like, you know, you're, you know, it's a messed up situation when were you wearing a mask is like the 10th thing to bring up, right?
Like, were you wearing a mask?
It's like, there's so many other things going on here.
So, and then there's the ugly, ugly, ugly side of all this where people are getting arrested.
Half of, I think there's a thousand arrests over the last few weeks.
Half of them are out of state, people from out of state.
Thousand arrests in the last few weeks in Miami.
Yes.
And half over 50% are from out of state.
So, these aren't locals getting loose.
Crazy people like Tom coming in from California trying to live it up.
Yeah, can I have a shot at this?
Go for it.
Go for it.
What a coincidence.
It's a red state, right?
Where all these arrests are happening.
Push back.
It's a purple state.
This is like the most purple state.
It goes from red to blue quite consistently.
We'll call it red.
I'm going to look at this a little bit differently from a different perspective.
Maybe somebody in the media or somebody that's a little bit more skeptical of things.
This thing seems staged to me.
This isn't just a coincidence where 3,000 people can't handle their alcohol suddenly on Saturday night.
So they got to start jumping on cars and looting.
No, this is planned.
I mean, I think the chaos is when you see chaos like this in this country now, there is some level of organization to it.
I'm not saying 100% what you mean, organization.
It's not a coincidence.
They keep branding it as spring breakers going wild.
Like you said, these are not spring breakers.
They can't afford to go to South Beach.
There's no college student in the country that says, hey, man, I'm going to spring break on South Beach.
They just don't do it.
They go to Fort Lauderdale.
They go to Destiny.
They go to Fort Myers.
They go where it's cheap, right?
Where the booze is cheap, the hotels are cheap, and where there's other college kids.
These are adults.
This seems to me that it's a little bit more organized and not a coincidence that people are just happy to go bonkers because the country's finally open.
It's been open in Florida a long time.
They were partying on New Year's Eve and New Year's here in Florida.
So I don't think it's, I don't think it's that.
I really don't go deep, Tom.
Go deep.
Go deep.
That's about as deep as I want to go.
Meaning, like, who's organizing this?
I have no idea.
I'm going to stay with the fact that I think it's more organized than a random thing that just happened to break out.
Politically organized?
Are you saying like social activities?
Well, let's face it here.
Here, let's face it.
So, let's just say, give some credence to Tom's point, right?
For the sake of debate and conversation that we'll have.
I want to have that.
Okay, who would do that?
Just think about why would they do that and who would do that?
Who ended up getting a ton of praise during COVID at the end?
Not at the beginning.
At the beginning, who was God of the crowd?
Cuomo was unbelievably more responsible than anybody else and Newsom.
How's Cuomo looking today?
Not that.
Cuomo and Deshaun Watson are in the same place right now.
What the hell is that story, by the way?
Yeah, that's a very weird story with what's going on there.
Anyways, he keeps them back.
Actually, Cuomo's in a different place than Deshaun Watson, but similarities.
They're just going after ESPN wrote an article about Deshaun Watson.
ESPN typically protects players, right?
Because they tell them they hit him yesterday, and it wasn't a I don't know if you read that or not.
It's like 12 different stories.
It's unbelievable.
So when you look at Cuomo, then he gets there, and then all of a sudden, DeSantis is everywhere.
And Abbott didn't get the credit at the CPAC to be someone that could run for office, whether he does or not, that's on him.
But the leading candidate right now is DeSantis.
So you have to, if you think the same way Twitter silenced Trump and everybody silencing Trump, and YouTube is saying we would consider in the future bringing Trump back and lifting the suspension.
Google's thinking about lifting the suspension.
Twitter said there's no way in the world.
And now Trump is talking about the fact that he may start his own social media company that's been in the talks.
We'll talk about that here in a minute.
DeSantis is a leading candidate.
You got two people that are leading candidates for 2024.
One is Pence, one is DeSantis.
And Trump is the wild card because no one knows what he's going to be doing.
Nobody knows what he's going to be doing.
So if there is some credence to that, you have to kind of give a black eye to the state of Florida.
And this is one way of doing it.
Now, it wasn't as big as people thought it was going to be.
If that was the case, I think there was a better strategy of doing that.
But to go back and say you're shutting down at four o'clock is kind of weird.
It's kind of like it's as if like, you know, criminal activity is happening.
Shut it down, panic.
It was too much of an abrupt reaction by the Miami beach mayor that's different than is it Suarez?
Francis Suarez is the city of Miami.
He's the city of Miami.
This is Miami.
Did you bail?
Did you leave?
Or did you stick around and see somebody?
No, look, I was at, I took a mask on.
He stayed there.
I took a boat to a different part of town.
I played Joe Biden.
I'm in Joya.
Shout out to my good buddy Marco and Chris Procello.
Those guys have a gorgeous place called Joya.
It's across from Fisher Island.
Gorgeous place.
Very local scene or New York tourists.
Definitely not spring break.
And people got the biggest problem was they shut down all the highways.
So if you're like I have a, you couldn't get to the freaking beach.
So if you live in Miami Beach or you're staying in a hotel and you're like, yeah, I was just downtown Miami in Wynwood and I had dinner.
I saw a family.
Good luck getting back to you.
What are you talking about?
It was so freaking poorly planned.
And then you add on top of that, like they're shutting down streets.
And then all the cops are being moved to the entertainment district based up between 5th and 16th Lincoln Road.
It's all three blocks, Ocean Drive, Collins, and Washington, if you're familiar with South Beach.
And they're just partying going on like crazy.
So all the cops are going over there, shootings.
Shootings.
Yeah, people are shooting bullets up in the air.
It was stupid.
So I do, here's what I'll say, the positive.
I do actually applaud your mentality thinking, what was it planned?
Well, what's going on?
In my opinion, this was just fluke.
Idiots just.
No.
You're telling drunk people.
Absolutely not.
You're telling drunk people.
Look at the video flag.
At 4 o'clock.
Not drunk people.
Drunk people.
What do you mean?
I'm telling you, they're out there partying like a bunch of people.
You don't think people can act drunk?
That is not the action of drunk people.
People get drunk in every city.
People get drunk in Maui.
They don't do that.
All right.
They get drunk in the Hamptons.
I'm going to ask you one question.
When's the last time you went out and partied and drank in South Beach?
It's a very special grandfather.
I have done it.
Okay, when's the last time?
But I don't know.
I mean, a while ago.
The point is, these people are drinking.
What happened?
They're at freaking wet case.
Okay, this is the first time people have been out partying in a year.
Pent-up demand are talking about it.
But then do you have a desire to go to jail and get arrested?
I haven't been able to party?
Look, the problem was, wasn't so much that they were partying and drinking.
It's that they're like, oh, yeah, now you got to go back to your hotel.
They're like, what are you talking about, bro?
I'm here on vacation.
No, no, no.
Go back to your hotel.
I think there's some people that were probably in that mode.
No, they're like, what?
I'm in the middle of having a great time and you want me to go to my hotel at 7.30, buddy?
Not happening.
And those people are like, fuck that.
Case study.
You take Sam with you, a camera.
And take him to South Beach.
All of you guys get drunk and see what happens.
I'm going to go.
I'm going to go over here.
I'm sorry.
So we got enough news on my.
Can I tell you guys a situation with Mario and Tom last night, Tom Ellsworth?
So yesterday, Mario and Tom come over.
It's 11 o'clock.
We're sitting.
We're having a conversation.
Miami's playing the Pacers.
You know, Sabonis gets his six foul.
Just a fluke of a foul.
It's overtime.
They're supposed to lose the game.
Miami hits a couple threes.
Next thing you know, it's over.
I'm knocked out at this point.
It's like midnight.
Because, you know, watching games in Florida, I got to tell you, it's not right now.
Games go until midnight.
So you got to be ready.
If the Lakers are playing at 10.30, that game's going to 1 o'clock in the morning.
It's really not worth my time to watch until 1 o'clock in the morning.
Anyways, I'm hearing that Mario's telling Tom about an investment he made.
My gosh.
By the way, one thing about Mario, the guy can keep a straight face when he's pull a prank.
He's got a serious side, a very serious side, but he's got a side that he pulls prank.
You got to give him credit.
So Mario says, you know, I recently messed into a company.
I said, I'm like, wow, Mario messed into a company.
I'm quietly listening to it, Mario.
And Tom's like, really?
What kind of money?
He says $10,000.
He says, I invest into a CBD company.
And Tom's like, wow, that's great.
So tell me about the company.
It's a Christian owner.
It's a Christian owner.
He says, what's the company called?
It's called Holy Smokes.
So they're going serious.
And I'm sitting there just trying to hold myself back because I know Mario's pulling a prank.
So Tom grabs the phone.
He's online.
And we're like, is Tom looking up Holy Smokes Christian CBD?
And this goes on for a while until eventually Mario and I just couldn't hold ourselves.
I started cracking.
I almost peed my pants, but I thought it was hilarious.
So, Tom, we all want to know: did you actually Google Holy Smokes Christian CBD Company or not?
How many of you, if you're watching this, BizDoc, you follow his content, Tom Ellsworth, who actually thinks Tom Googled Holy Smokes Christian Company CBD?
By the way, if a Christian person ever wanted to start a CBD company, that's actually a great name, if you think about it.
Fantastic now.
HolySmokes.com, you know, a weed for Christians.
How is that not already our taken?
Yeah, right.
Mario URL.
Maybe Mario's actually doing this and we don't know anything about it.
He's raising money on this set.
And this was his way of getting attention out there.
Anyways, okay, so Miami, it is what it is.
We talked about a bunch of different things.
We'll be down there this weekend filming.
Will you actually be down there this week?
We're going to go film.
When are you going?
Tell everybody when you're going.
So some people may be out there.
It's a Saturday or Sunday.
Saturday, two to four o'clock.
Saturday, two to four o'clock.
Okay, that's not really Saturday night in the morning or a.m. P.M.
Okay, P.M. in the afternoon.
Because we want the light.
Okay, so we got a lot of stories to go through.
We got a lot of stories to go through here.
Why don't we go through the feud between Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders?
He's making too much money because I think Elon Musk had gotten what, $2.4 billion of subsidies for Tesla, and he got $5.6 million of subsidies for SpaceX.
And they're going back and forth.
There was a feud.
And Elon really didn't say much, but Sanders pretty much trashed them, right?
This last week, it got a little bit ugly where they were going back and forth on Twitter.
If you want to bring this up, Bernie Sanders started off by sending this tweet.
He said, We are in a moment in American history where two guys, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, own more wealth than the bottom 40% of people in this country.
That level of greed and inequality is not only immoral, it's unsustainable.
Okay, that's his first tweet.
Then you have Elon Musk that responds saying, I am accumulating resources to help make life multi-planetary and extend the light of consciousness to the stars.
Sanders responds: Space travel is an exciting idea, but right now we need to focus on Earth and create a progressive tax system so that children don't go hungry, people are not homeless, and all Americans have health care.
The level of inequality in America is obscene and a threat to our democracy.
Thoughts?
Well, he's a quack.
I mean, I look at the words.
He is who.
Qualified Bernie is quack.
Progressive tax system.
Okay, three words there.
So there's no homelessness.
We have a progressive tax system in California.
Have you seen the homelessness there?
There's a progressive tax system in Seattle, in the state of Washington.
Homeless is completely out of control there.
You know, Bernie has a brand that he has to sell, and he's an anti-capitalist guy.
So he's got two people square in his crosshairs.
It's Musk and it's Bezos, and it's perfect for him.
He can rail on them constantly.
But here's my problem: is it greed?
I mean, it's not like they're stealing money.
It's not like he's an oligarch or ogliarch or whatever the word is in Russia, where you're giving an industry essentially, and then you just steal all the money.
These guys have started a business from scratch, essentially, invested everything they had and done very, very well for themselves.
I'm curious to see if Bernie Sanders ever orders anything on Amazon.
Do you think he doesn't just, because he can't allow himself to, to not support Amazon?
Do you think Jeff Bezos has gone and pull up his profile to see what kind of things Bernie Sanders orders on Amazon?
Can you imagine?
Hey, Mary, can you pull up Bernie Sanders' profile on Vermont and tell us what he orders?
You know, I guarantee you he doesn't drive.
He doesn't drive a Tesla.
I know that.
Do you know what car Bernie Sanders drives?
Is it the AI?
Which one is it?
The Audi?
No, I think he used to have one of those.
Now he drives the Subaru Forrester.
Is that still a thing?
I can actually see him in a Subaru.
I think that is more fitting for him to be aligned with his message than it is.
The Audi.
Here's my final thought on this.
And this is completely unproductive, what he's doing with this Twitter feud.
It keeps his brand alive because he does have a brand.
All right.
This is him.
Okay.
We all know his background.
Here's a better idea.
Why don't you go spend some time with these guys and mine their brain a little bit instead of trying to get all their money?
I mean, they solve every other damn problem in this country.
I mean, compare the government's United States Postal Service with Amazon.
Who's a little bit more efficient when it comes to delivering products?
Okay, maybe there's something to learn from Bezos.
Or, you know, looks like we're going to solve the high-speed internet problem for the whole world thanks to Elon Musk.
Treat these guys as your allies.
They're brilliant.
Learn from them.
Tap their resources in their mind and figure out a way to help the entire country instead of just trying to make a money grab constantly.
Adam.
Yeah, you know, I actually have some pretty strong opinions on this topic.
So just for a second, let's pretend that we don't know either of their names.
So Bernie is B and Elon's E.
We don't know.
One guy's like, look, we got some major freaking issues here on Earth in America.
Wealth inequality, whether you're on either side of the aisle, is a real thing.
You know, billionaires are getting wealthier.
Talking about United Healthcare, universal health care, education, a living wage on a minimum wage, infrastructure, fossil fuels, clean energy.
And he's just kind of, you know, that's what quote-unquote person B is talking about.
And then the other person's like, yeah, but Mars, bro, Mars.
And he's like, dude, what are you talking about?
Mars?
Like, let's focus on, we got major problems.
We got a pandemic going on right here.
Can we just focus on Earth for a second?
And he's just like, listen, man, Mars.
So it's funny because I do respect Elon Musk.
I'm not a fanboy or anything like that, but like, the guy's.
Execution of where you're going with this.
Go ahead.
Okay, the guy's a beast.
Yeah.
The point is, it's so easy to be like, Bernie is a quack.
Bernie's a socialist.
He's an idiot.
One thing I know about Bernie, one thing I know about Bernie, whether you agree with him politically or disagree with him politically, the guy clearly cares.
Clearly cares.
He empathizes with what the hell is plaguing our country.
Whether you believe with his tax premise or whether you believe in socialism or not, the guy cares.
You think he cares like the way you think he cares?
I think, where are you going with that?
Like, you meaning you think it's all an act?
You know how I think he cares?
Here's how I think he cares.
Do you remember the movie, what was that movie, Paul?
Tom Cruise, Catherine Zeta Jones, Tom Cruise is a star, and he's performing, and Catherine Zeta Jones is that.
The Rock of Ages.
You know, she's like the local politician.
What is the name of that movie?
If you remember this movie, comment below.
It's like a rock of ages.
He's a rock star, Tom Cruise.
Is that the movie?
Yeah.
I've seen that, but yeah.
You've never seen that.
Okay, let me see what the name of it is.
Anyways, in that movie, in that movie, what's the premise of the story?
Do you remember that movie?
No, no, no.
The premise of that story, is it Tom Cruise?
The premise of that movie, man, I have to figure out exactly what it is.
Is it this one?
Okay, anyways, the premise of that movie is the following.
So Catherine Zeta Jones keeps coming and screaming, and I cannot believe you're doing this.
You know, this person is bad for the community.
It's not Rock of Ages, something else.
He's terrible for the community.
You know, he's turning our kids into, you know, rock stars, and our kids are now smoking weed.
And she keeps doing this and showing up over and over and over and over and over again, right?
And eventually, what the hell is wrong with this woman?
What do you have against Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise in the movie?
Every time he performed, this would keep come up.
Every single time he performed, Rock of Ages.
Every time he would perform, this would come up.
Eventually, at the end of the movie, I'm ruining it for everybody who hasn't seen it.
He's performing.
She shows up.
He leaves the stage, spots her on the other side of the rail, walks across, goes up to her, kisses her, and walks off, and she just knees buckle.
And what happened?
She fell in love with him years ago.
He didn't end up being with her.
He left her, broke her heart for her entire life.
She flipped against him.
And she used to be one of those groupies that was crazy about him, right?
I think Bernie's Catherine Zeta Jones.
I don't think she's in love with Elon Musk.
No, I think someone in his life offended him so bad that he's made it a mission to get after all these rich people.
Whether it's a rich uncle, whether it's a rich dad, whether it's a rich friend, whether it's an ex's rich dad that, you know, he just didn't like Bernie, somebody there offended this guy.
Because if you look at Bernie, can you go to a young Bernie Sanders?
I wonder what he looked like.
What does a young Bernie Sanders look like in his 20s?
You know, young Bernie Sanders, click there, go to images.
Young Bernie Sanders.
Okay.
I mean, you can tell this guy was a, yeah, he was an interesting guy.
But just looking at what this guy looks like, he looks like a young Rudy Giuliani.
Okay.
You had to be here to kind of know what that means.
But the moral of the story is, I think someone offended him and he got upset and he's doing what he's doing.
You guys see, he's got, you're basically saying he's got some deep-rooted.
Oh, buddy, it's so deep.
None of us know about it.
The guy got married in the Soviet Union.
He went to Soviet Union for his honeymoon.
I mean, somebody got a hold of this guy very, very early.
Were you going to make another point with this where the other guy's the same space and this guy saying we got promised?
I mean, that's just sort of the overarching theme here.
I mean, all you have to look, one thing, this is actually pretty interesting.
So Elon Musk, as much as he's a capitalist, you know, a lot of his wealth comes from this corporate welfare, from these government subsidies.
He's got $5 billion in subsidies.
So, you know, just using Bernie's words, he says, what a hypocrite.
Elon Musk has received billions in corporate welfare from U.S. taxpayers.
Now he wants to stop 30 million Americans who lost jobs from receiving $600 a week in unemployment.
While his wealth has gone up $50 billion.
This was back in July.
More recently, every time Elon Musk pokes fun at government assistance for the 99%, remember, he would be worth nothing without the $5 billion in corporate welfare.
Elon Musk loves corporate socialism for himself and then rugged capitalism for everyone else.
So he does have a point there.
Okay, Elon Musk does get billions and billions of corporate subsidies.
There's a very easy argument for that.
There's a very easy argument for that.
So many years ago, I asked the follow-up question.
I said, okay.
So say you raise taxes from 30% to 40%.
Take whatever each percent is.
Right now, by the way, FY, if you're listening to this, let me tell you what announcement was just made that I think everybody needs to know.
If you are having any kind of capital gains, anything going on with major tax events, make sure it happens in 2021, not in 2022.
Because 2022, get ready to force taxes to skyrocket in ways you've never seen before.
My prediction, I could be wrong.
I'm just telling you.
2022, 2023, and it's not going to change till 2024, 2025, probably 2025 is when the taxes are going to go back to normal.
2022, taxes are going to the roof.
Let me give you a couple hints on why this could potentially happen.
So number one, there's an article that came out this morning with Morning Brew, okay?
And they talk about how the wealthiest 1% of U.S. households fail to disclose 21% of their income, according to a new study done by who?
IRS researchers.
Makes sense on who would do that research.
The top 1% is failing to disclose 21% of their income, okay?
So what do they do?
Some of these incomes are automatically reported to IRS, but other income stream can slip by the agency's auditors who sophisticated strategies, including with sophisticated strategies, including what?
Which help the top 1% of it.
Offshore accounts, pass-through businesses, LLC.
They want to target LLCs.
LLCs for years have been what?
Pass-through businesses, which means what?
It's a partnership popular with family firms, investment funds, real estate businesses.
They're perfectly legal, but since their income isn't taxed at the corporate rate, it's easier to hide.
And some politicians want to raise taxes on LLC.
Catastrophic, because that's small businesses that are doing what they're doing.
These are not billionaires.
It's a small LLC that we're talking about, right?
But watch what it ends up with.
Enforcement isn't also what it used to be, okay?
Audit rates have slipped over the last decade.
As the IRS lost 15,000 staffers, the agency commissioner Charles Reddick, Brace for Impact, asked Congress for more funds, arguing for every $1 spent on enforcement, the returns are $5 to $7.
So it means we're going to go auditing more people.
Collecting unpaid income taxes from the 1% could bring $175 billion into the Treasury annually?
That's the study.
Now, when you read this, what do you say?
There's two ways you can read this article.
One is what?
Oh, okay, yeah, let's go find this money from these rich people.
And the other one is what?
If there's any job you don't want to increase, it's what?
Auditors.
It's what you don't want.
I mean, I've been audited every single year.
I'm at a different place.
I'm constantly going through.
I spend a few hundred thousand dollars.
I have to do that because of what I go through.
Totally get it, where we are.
I'm not disputing it.
I totally understand what they, there's a need for their job.
But if they're going in this direction and the sale is what?
For every dollar you spend, we make what?
$5 to $7.
Now, if the other side, if the Congress is being sold this concept by the agency commissioner Charles Reddick, which is controlled by who right now, the left, buys into this and says, yeah, that makes sense.
They get a bunch of auditors.
What are they preparing for?
They're going to raise taxes next year.
It's going to be announced this year and how it's going to be.
It'll be into effect 1-1, 2022.
The people that are the people that backed up this administration are telling them, whatever you're going to do, don't do it this year.
Let me make my sales this year so I can be okay.
But then start it next year if you need to, because if they don't, then in the midterms, they're going to get destroyed because they didn't keep their commitment of raising taxes.
Because that was one of the things Biden campaigned on.
When Biden was going out, he was saying, what?
We're going to raise taxes.
We're raising taxes.
We're raising taxes.
And they said $400,000.
Now it's family households above $400,000, which means it's really what?
$200,000.
If you're making $200,000 or higher, you're most likely going to increase your taxes.
Corporate tax is going up.
We talked about this last week.
This is the point I want to make to you with Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders.
10 years ago, nine years ago, I did a video.
I did something having to do with taxes, but this is the question that I asked.
So you got a billion dollars, okay?
A billion dollars, you have to choose between two people getting this billion dollars.
And the goal is to turn this billion dollars into $10 billion.
That's the goal.
You're investing a billion dollars to turn it into $10 billion and create more jobs.
Who do you trust more to take that billion dollars to turn it into $10 billion versus a billion dollars that's going to be wasted and nothing happens to them?
Do you trust putting it into the hands of an entrepreneur and innovator like an Elon Musk, or do you trust putting it in the hands of a government guy?
Who do you trust?
If those are the two options, I'm going with Elon.
What other options do we have?
Giving it to the people.
UBI or something like that.
Oh, that's right.
Well, okay, then let's ask that question.
If you give it to the people, so you got three options now.
You give it to an innovator, you give it to the people, you give it to the government.
Who duplicates that money the most and creates the most commerce?
Commerce.
Who creates the most commerce?
Creates the most commerce.
Commerce, jobs, economy.
So jobs or commerce?
It's the same thing.
The more business there is, the more employees you need.
Elon Musk will do the best with jobs.
Perfect.
Commerce, if you're giving people thousands of dollars, they'll go spend it and do what's best for their family.
Oh, actually, that's not how it works.
The more money you give to the people, the more you get their level of intensity to lower to rely on what?
To rely on the government.
So if you give it directly to the people, the people are going to keep coming back to the government.
It's like starting allowance too early with high money.
You're now expected to be given higher allowances.
That's just the expectation.
They're going to keep coming back to you.
So we know the highest return is going to be where in an Elon Musk type of a person.
And I'm not saying specifically Elon Musk.
Who am I talking about?
Small business owners.
Put the money into the guy that's creating a job and saying, government, I don't need you.
I don't need you to pay me for anything.
Let me go create a job.
You put the money into the government.
The government's going to say, what?
We need more IRS agents.
We need more this.
Let me create a new department.
Let me give this money to this.
Let me do this research.
And all of those researchers goes away wasted and a billion dollars of tax money went nowhere.
And then you give to the people, you're just telling them in about six months from now, you're going to come back asking for more.
In about six months from then, you're going to come back asking for more.
I am turning you into a victim if I keep giving you free money.
If I keep giving you free money, that's what happens.
So going back to the argument between these two guys, this is a philosophical debate.
I want to tell you about a conversation I had yesterday with Dan Price, but I want to first go to Tom because I think Tom's got something to share.
You know, why can't we just say, Bernie Sanders, you are wrong?
I mean, people are afraid to say it.
He's wrong.
I mean, you keep jacking up taxes like this, and that's your only agenda is to just try to squeeze the wealthy a little bit more.
San Francisco is an unlivable city right now.
Unlivable.
I mean, if you were to go, and I have, if you were to be in the city of San Francisco and see for your own eyes what it's like, you would not believe it.
A few weeks ago, I had a drive through downtown L.A. to get to the children's hospital.
Dash was getting his boot off his foot after breaking his leg.
And literally driving through downtown, you could smell downtown L.A. You could smell it through closed windows of your car.
It's really, really bad in some of these cities that believe that taxing your way to solve every problem is the solution.
And I just wish we could maybe it'd be okay to say, hey, Bernie Sanders, you are wrong, you know, or maybe just an objective person to say, no, you're incorrect.
Same thing with Dr. Fauci.
I mean, it's these guys that have been in these positions for so long, they can get away with saying whatever they want, and we're supposed to take it for gospel because one's a doctor, one's a senator.
But, you know, and $185 billion that you're talking about, the IRS would get in newfound revenue, where would that go?
I mean, how long would that even last?
More auditors.
Right.
More government employees.
Right, but I mean, and they said they'd find $185 billion.
How long would that even last in the Treasury?
The other tax bill that you have to watch is that one that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie want for the Uber wealthy, where they think they can generate about $3 trillion over the next 10 years.
But they're coming after that money.
They see it out there.
Oh, it's going to happen next year.
Listen, it's going to happen next year.
And by the way, the reason why it's going to happen next year, they have to do it pre-midterms.
They have to do it pre-midterms.
FYI, if I'm a Democrat and I'm a Democrat that I have Biden and Kamala on my team, and I have to worry about keeping AOC Sanders happy and Elizabeth Warren, if you don't do the tax plan next year, when can you do the tax plan?
Let me say this one more time.
If they don't drive their tax plan next year, what happens?
When's the next time they're going to get an opportunity like that?
A year after the midterm.
There's no way they'll have that because they're going to lose the House and they're going to lose the Senate.
Right now, it's 50-50.
All it takes is a couple, and the House is making some momentum.
People typically get upset at midterms and it flips.
It goes from all, you know, typically you'll see a Republican have control of all three.
They only have two years to impose your philosophies.
Two years later, you lose one of them, House or Senate.
Then you can't go as aggressive.
They're going to impose this in the next 12 months.
It'll most likely happen in 2022 when it happens.
Midterms, they're going to say, We told you we were going to do this.
We did.
Then they'll all be united.
Joe, Kamala, Elizabeth Warren, Sanders, AOC, all of those guys from different camps.
They'll be united going into 2024 because they want to continue this for four more years.
So that's what I see happening here.
And that's one of the reasons.
So, remember this: here's a couple targets: Florida, major target.
The state of Florida is going to be targeted hardcore, okay?
Hardcore is going to be targeted.
DeSantis, public enemy number one, right now.
Number two, Texas is going to get destroyed.
They're going to be hitting Texas nonstop.
Okay, and by the way, Texas is not as right-wing as people think it is.
Texas is going more to the center and it can be flipped, just so everybody knows.
They got people like Beto over there.
They got a lot of superstars over there, Florida that's coming up.
You know what's the next state they're going to target?
You're going to see Tennessee being there.
You're going to see Nevada being there.
Any of the states that are no state taxes are number one enemy right now because it's working, because it's working.
People are moving there.
It's enemy of the state, number one.
So you're going to see a lot of articles talking about terrible lifestyle, terrible living, not the funnest, not this.
All these statistics and research done by the government that they get to control whatever kind of data that they want to control to sell their points.
The challenge with this is the following.
Yesterday I talked to Dan Price.
I don't know if you remember Dan Price.
Can you pull up Dan Price?
If you see who Dan Price is, if anyone's going to remember this guy, I think it's going to be you.
Pull up the article.
Don't go to images.
I know this guy paid everybody the same salary.
Yeah, he paid everybody the same salary.
So I got to tell you how this thing went yesterday, okay?
Just how this thing went yesterday.
FYI, if you guys didn't know this, when this guy did his news talking about that he's lowering his income from $1.1 million to $70,000 and he's going to pay every single one of his employees $70,000.
You ready what happened to that story?
500 million interactions on social media and NBC's video becoming the most shared in network history.
Besides from that, it was the most read article on New York Times for the week, front page of Reddit two days in a row, front page of MSNBC, front page of NBC, front page of ABC News, mashable, trending article on Upworthy, BuzzFeed, trending on Twitter for two days, trended on Facebook for three days.
That story.
What year was it?
2015 when that came out.
Okay, this is Obama era.
Obama, years prior to that, gave him a recognition as the Entrepreneur of the Year himself.
It was the SBA Entrepreneur of the Year Award presented to him by Barack Obama.
Okay.
So now watch what happened yesterday.
It's very important to hear this story because, first of all, I will plotted him to coming on.
I told everybody, I'm not sure why this guy said yes, because I was surprised that he said yes.
So I told him, I said, first of all, kudos to you for saying yes to this.
And I said, I appreciate you for doing this because it's a case study for the rest of us.
Rush Limbaugh bashed this guy, trashed him.
He said he's going to go out of business.
That's the ultimate socialistic story, et cetera, et cetera.
Well, fast forward to today, his business is doing $45 million a year and a net $4 to $5 million per year.
So he's got a 10% EBITDA, what he's got.
$4.5 million profits is a solid profits that he's got.
So we're talking yesterday, and I said, so tell me how you're doing this.
He says, well, you know, I had an employee that was making $35,000.
I went outside.
I see him smoking cigarettes.
He's stressed out.
He calls me out.
He says, Oh, you care about his money and tell her, look at all this.
We're not making any money.
And that hurt me for three days.
I thought about it.
I came back.
I said, guess what?
I'm paying everybody $70,000.
His executives were furious.
They left that he had.
Did he have to take a pay cut?
The executive?
Of course they did.
Everybody took a pay cut.
His brother ended up suing him, I think, in 2015.
We didn't talk about it yesterday.
And, you know, this guy was a genius Christian guy who memorized the Bible in fifth and sixth grade.
He would go to contests, grew up in a very conservative family, right?
So as we're going through the conversation with him, I asked him a question.
I said, let me ask you.
So you ended up giving your $70,000 income to everybody, including yourself.
He said, yes.
He hated Peter Thiel.
He called Peter Thiel out nonstop.
He was not a fan of Elon Musk, a fan of AOC, a fan.
He called AOC the future.
He was a fan of Sanders, a fan of Sanders, and he was a fan of Bezos.
I said, what do you think about Biden?
Give me one word that you think about Biden.
He said, please.
He says, please, like, please.
I said, what's the one word you think about Trump?
He said, who?
So that's kind of where his position's at, right?
I said, let me ask you a question.
He says, what's that?
I said, since you're doing $4.5 million a year, $4.5 million in net, I said, you know, if you wanted to sell your company in merchant account services, you get 20 to 40x, which means you're a $100 million guy.
He says, he goes like this at first, right?
I said, what percentage of the company do you own?
He says, I own 100%.
I said, I think that's unfair.
I said, I think you should, I said, how many employees you got?
He said, 200.
I said, I think you should follow through and give 200 of your employees each and a half a percent because you're right now worth $100 million.
Then he backtracked.
Well, it wouldn't work.
Why wouldn't it work?
Well, because of this, this, this, because if we were to do it, you know, I would never sell the company to anybody because if somebody that bought the company, they wouldn't have to agree to pay everybody $70,000.
I've never laid off anybody.
I've never fired anybody.
And that just wouldn't work because we're not $100 million companies.
I said, no, you're a $100 million company.
You got $4.5 million of profits.
What do you guys do with the profits?
Well, we talk about it.
And then it led to the conversation being, I said, so let me get this straight.
You call all these guys scam artists because he says capitalism is a scam.
He says, you also bought into it.
He's telling me, like, you also bought into the scam.
It's a fascinating interview when this thing comes out.
I said, so why wouldn't you give equity to everybody?
He says, there is no value in equity, but you want 100% of it.
If it's $70,000, give it to everybody.
I said, what's wrong with the way the system is in America?
The capitalists can make money.
I don't mind you being worth $100 million.
I said, but I want you to follow through.
He says, well, think about it.
It's a good idea.
I'll think about it.
I said, no, it's not fair.
You're worth $100 million.
Why not take that $100 million and share it with everybody else?
Everybody's worth at least a half a million dollars.
Do that, right?
So, and then he started talking, all these rich people, he called that Bezos, he called that Musk.
He called out all these guys.
We just need to raise taxes.
I said, what do we need to raise taxes to?
He says, I'm okay if we go to 90%.
I said, you want to say, we need to raise taxes on rich people up to 90%.
I said, what country has it worked?
In America.
We did it before and it worked.
That's true.
I mean, not that it worked.
No, it's true that it happened, but it was Hollywood million-dollar earners, et cetera, et cetera.
In the 30s.
That's when communism was on the uprise and they thought communism was a way to go.
Yes, exactly.
So that was kind of, hey, let's increase the taxes.
Didn't work.
It's not worked in any other country, but he's saying this.
I said, can I ask you a question?
How much money you gave to charity last year?
I'm not going to answer that question for you.
I said, I'm just curious because you sound so charitable.
How much money did you give to charity last year?
What's the point here?
Bernie Sanders is telling others how to live.
And go look at how much money he gives away.
You tell me who's made a bigger positive impact for the world between the two.
It's not even one is creating, the other is regulating.
Let me get this straight.
One is creating opportunities, getting us to think and find ways to improve.
The other one is sitting out there saying, we got to tax this guy more and slow him down.
So if you and I had a choice of having 10 Bernie Sanders and 10 Elon Musks in the world, which one makes the world a better place?
10 Elon Musks or 10 Bernie Sanders?
I'm curious.
It's not even a question.
I'm curious what you think because your argument is the fact that one is talking about, let's go on space, and the other one is talking about, let's fix the problem here.
What would you say?
Yeah, I mean, clearly Elon Musk.
Why, though?
Tell me why.
Jobs, productivity, commerce.
I agree.
But that's not, at the same time, Bernie Sanders can have some valid points.
It's not like it's a zero-sum game where it's like, you either go, Elon or Bernie, do I agree with taxing the wealthy and doing universal health care and all that that Bernie wants?
I'm not talking about, though.
I don't agree with all of that.
But do I agree that income inequality is a problem?
Do I agree that 67% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and something needs to be done?
Even economists.
It's the richest country in the world.
And almost 70% of our people live paycheck to paycheck.
But whose fault is that, though?
We have so much of, like, here's the challenge, man.
Let me tell you what the biggest challenge is with this.
And it's very frustrating that we have a hard time.
Like, when I get a call and they tell me what my son did wrong, okay?
Like, let's just say I get a call from school and they tell me what my son did wrong.
I got a great relation with the school in Dallas, Prince of Peace.
Phenomenal.
Shout out to Ms. Porter.
I trusted that woman a lot.
She did it the right way, okay?
And we put all our kids there in private school.
Phenomenal place.
We had a great time with them.
When we left, one of the biggest factors that we didn't want to leave Dallas was the school.
We loved the way they took care of our kids at Prince of Peace.
And we're trying to find something like that here, right?
But when I get a call and an email would be sent and the teacher would say, here's how your son reacted today.
He did this, this, this, this, that.
I said, great.
So I'd get on a call.
And I would notice, this teacher's reasonable.
She's got a good point.
How do we work together?
And then I would say, you can tell my son this, you can tell my son this, you can tell my son this.
It'll work.
And can you please give me feedback when I come home at night?
Guess what?
I'm going to talk to the guy and I'd sit down.
Hey, Tico, can I talk to you?
Hey, Dylan, can I talk to you?
Hey, Senna, can I talk to you?
And we would work to do what?
To have discourse.
To improve, to sit down and figure out ways to improve, right?
And figure out a way on what we can do to make it a better place.
I don't mind the criticism that we give to individuals like Elon Musk.
Nothing wrong with that.
Give it.
I have no problem with that.
But one is creating.
The other one is regulating.
One is sitting there saying, how can we make something better?
The other is sitting there saying, how can we slow this down?
One is saying, we kind of have to pay attention to space on what's going on over there because I don't know what's going to happen over here.
The other one is saying, let's just fix whatever we got going on today.
One is thinking outside the box.
One just wants to constantly tax and regulate nonstop.
Tax and regulate nonstop.
If we go into that direction, it's going to be very, very problematic the direction we're going right now.
And what's so funny right now is that tweet right there got tens of thousands of retweets and likes.
People are actually agreeing.
That's what's scary about it.
What's scary about it is that people are sitting there saying, oh, wow, this totally makes sense.
Yeah, we should do this.
Let me ask you.
Elon is breathing.
Is there some common ground?
Like if Elon Musk and Bernie Sanders actually met, is it all or nothing?
You either got to be full-on capitalist or full-on social, or could there actually be some, well, I see your point here, but you got to understand if you tax this, okay, cool.
I never considered that.
Like, walk me through what a conversation and actually some discourse to find some common ground would be.
How do you do that with an unreasonable person?
Who's unreasonable?
You think Bernie is reasonable?
I'm not saying that he's unreasonable.
I'm not saying he's the most reasonable person.
No, I'll say that he's unreasonable.
That would never work.
You don't think he'd be willing to listen.
Elon Musk can come to that table objectively and probably go back and forth and maybe give a little bit.
Bernie Sanders has a brand.
And that's why he gets millions of likes on his tweets because people think there might be a little trickle-down effect and they'll get some of that money from Elon Musk.
That's all they care about.
You know, just spread it out.
So it's 0% Bernard.
No, but Bernie has a 0%.
Buddy, Bill Clinton was reasonable.
Yep.
Okay, you could sit there and Newt and him figured out they'll go.
Okay, what's the guy's name that was the House of Representatives under Reagan?
What was his name?
Tip O'Neill.
They sat down.
They fought it out.
But it was reasonable.
Tip O'Neill, the one thing Tip O'Neill knew that everybody knew about Tip, they had in common.
They loved America.
Bernie doesn't love America.
Bernie loves Russia.
Bernie loves Karl Marx.
Bernie loves socialism.
You don't think Bernie loves America?
Absolutely not.
Really?
Okay, now we're about to go into a nice conversation here, Mr. Adam.
What is America to you?
Go ahead, sweetheart.
Loaded question.
What is America to you?
It's not a loaded question.
No, no.
It's very simple for a guy like Danny Ryan.
I'm asking you.
If you're asking from an immigrant, I mean, or I'm asking you, buddy.
Adam Sausnick, what is America to you?
The freedom to come and go as you please, to do what you want, to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, to hopefully create what you want to create and defend the purpose of America.
Do you think America is at the pinnacle?
Like, when was America?
No, stay on your point.
Keep telling me what you think America is.
I'm actually curious.
You're basically saying that Bernie doesn't believe any of that.
No, you're not hearing what I'm saying.
I'm asking you a question.
Just go with me.
Like, imagine this is foreplay and just let me lead.
Okay?
This is a conversation.
You can imagine that now, Patrick, conversation.
Foreplay.
You're turning me on.
Yes, I am.
So hopefully the audience is being turned on.
So the audience likes good dialogue.
What else is America to you?
So far, everything you said, I agree with you.
What else is America to you?
Hopefully, a shining city on a hill that our good friend Ronald Reagan would talk about.
And I think the problem is it's becoming not as much, and from a Bernie Sanders point of view, not as much that shining city on a hill.
Let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you a question.
Yes, if I'm in Iran, I'd love to be in America.
No, that's not.
But if I'm from Norway, I'm thinking, I don't know, maybe I stay in Norway.
This is not about Norway or me.
I'm asking you, buddy.
I'm focused on Adam.
Give me one of the most loved, admired, adored presidents of all time on both sides of the aisle that they love him.
Both sides of the aisle.
It's a very easy name.
Yeah, Lincoln, obviously.
Okay, but give me one that's in the last hundred years.
JFK.
JFK.
Sure.
If I have to say.
Moderate Democrat.
Who would you say the favorite right-wing to the left and the favorite left-wing to the right?
Who are the two names?
JFK and who's the other guy?
You're saying the two people that Democrats that were willing to tolerate the Republican and Republicans that were willing to tolerate the Democrat president.
Can somebody help me out here?
Which one was there?
JFK's one.
And who's the other Republican that was loved?
Reagan.
Okay, those two names.
Okay.
But let's say JFK.
JFK did two things.
He lowered the taxes and he told them, I'm not lowering the taxes just to lower taxes.
I'm lowering the taxes so you can capitalize right now and go make money to take care of your families.
What did JFK say?
He said, don't ask what your country can do for you.
Let's ask what you can do for your country.
Okay.
So then he said, we should go land where?
On the freaking moon, baby.
Do you realize everything of what JFK say Bernie Sanders doesn't stand for?
So a Democrat who is listening right now, your buddy Bernie Sanders hates what JFK stood for.
Let me say this one more time.
So JFK, who's a star, comes in.
He says, oh, let's go land on the moon.
This guy's a freaking nutcase.
Dude, what are you talking about?
Land on the moon.
That doesn't matter today.
We should land on the moon.
Why?
We should go land on the moon.
What for?
Because the 13-year-old kid needs to believe we can land on the moon, and he believes.
Because the future innovators of America are just being born today, and we need to inspire them.
We should lower taxes.
Why lower taxes?
It's not fair.
We should raise taxes because we need help.
We need social programs.
Don't ask what the country can do for you.
Ask what you can do for your country.
Bernie Sanders.
Who cares about going on the moon and going to space?
Who cares?
You should tell about what the country should do for you.
We should raise taxes.
Dude, he would hate JFK today.
Forget about Trump.
Enemy, the state number one for Bernie is JFK.
So you got to be kidding me.
So you say you love America?
You don't love America.
You don't love America.
You love the ideas that you would want America to adopt, but that's not America.
That's Bernie America.
That's not America.
So, Adam, this is such a critical thing here because philosophically, when one idea shifts, there are certain, like you ever heard the thing in too deep?
You remember how you say, you know, when you're in too deep or the tipping point of being in too deep?
Like, for example, let's just say you and I are going to a club, okay?
We're driving a car.
And I say, Adam, let's go out.
We're going to go my friend's van.
You get in a van, okay?
The guy says, hey, guys, let me tell you, something just happened right now.
What's that?
I got 100 pounds of kilo in the back.
And everybody, can you guys just grab a gun right now?
The cocaine I just got right now.
You know, I just got it from this guy.
It's in the back of the truck, dude.
I'm like, these guys are chasing us.
I don't know what the hell to do.
It's a red light.
Okay.
One guy says, dude, I'm getting out.
You're in the car.
What are you going to do?
Talk and roll.
Are you going to get out?
Are you going to stay in the car?
Honestly.
There's guns.
There's 100 kilos of the car.
You and I are going to go.
We're going to Miami.
We're on our way to spring break.
We're going to go to Miami.
I go into the car with one of my friends.
One of my friends brings his friend that I'm not friends with.
This guy, all of a sudden, I find out he's got 100 kilos of cocaine on the back.
Yeah, I'm getting an Uber.
I'm good.
I'll meet you.
One guy gets out.
What are you doing?
There's a red light.
One guy says, dude, I'm out.
What are you doing?
Probably leaving with that guy.
Okay.
But if you don't get out and he goes in and the three cars pull up, you're officially in too deep.
What's going to happen there?
Give me the best case scenario.
What's the best case scenario that happens if the bad guys are chasing you?
If the cops chase us?
What's the best case scenario?
What's the best case, not worst case?
Cop a plea.
I mean, you get arrested.
You maybe try to get a lighter sentence.
You get free.
But no matter what, you're in too deep.
Right?
You had the chance to get out at the red light, but you didn't.
Very simple.
We are at the red light.
And people can get out.
And they better get out because they're going to get arrested.
And some crimes on your credit will hurt you for the rest of your life.
Certain decisions have consequences, not just one year.
Certain decisions have decades of consequences and setbacks.
America has to be listening up and realizing you need to get off the bus right now.
Sounds juicy, sounds exciting, sounds energetic.
Bernie gets fired up and lit up and fires everybody up because he's got more energy.
And people are like, oh my gosh, I believe what this guy.
AOC gets it up.
She's fired up and people are like, oh, she's so persuasive.
But I'm telling you right now, the rest of the world has experienced this.
It doesn't work.
Get off the bus.
We have to highlight who we want to see as heroes because we want kids to be like them.
Bernie does not love America, buddy.
Not the way you do and your center left.
Not the way you do.
Not the way I do.
Not the way anybody loves America.
Bernie doesn't love that America.
Yeah, I think it's okay to say, like me personally, I'm offended by Bernie Sanders.
I find him very offensive with what he says because what he's saying is wrong.
I mean, this country has proven that the way they do it has worked.
It's why people sacrifice everything to come here.
And I'll tell you the people that are most offended by what's going on in this country and the Bernie's and these progressives of the world that we have right now.
It's immigrants.
It's people that have come to this country to start a business, to have a chance at freedom, that did it the right way.
And they see this.
I mean, they're offended.
I have a really good friend, very good friend.
I was with him on Friday night, who's from Bologna, Italy, speaks fluid Italian.
You'd think you're in Italy when you're with him.
Great businessman.
He imports stone directly from Italy, does a very, very good business in the United States.
But he's disgusted by what's going on here.
And think about it.
Guys like him, you know, they left their whole family there.
They came here to start all over because of what America was.
It was that hope.
It was that dream that you can do anything here and the government will stay out of your way.
Okay, that's what America is.
And now they're trying to do everything they can to get in your way.
And it's offensive.
And Bernie is wrong.
Adam, you want to please?
Well, look, give us the argument.
I just want to set the record straight.
I've never voted for Bernie.
I'm not a Bernie bro.
I'm not a Bernie supporter.
But I think it would be wrong to dismiss everything he ever says and just unequivocally say he does not love America and he hates America.
Because some of the math, I'm not, again, I'm not supporting Bernie.
I'm giving the other side to his argument.
There's no one here supporting Bernie, so someone's got to do it for this argument.
You know, some of the numbers he talks about: seven out of 10 workers are living paycheck to paycheck.
Billionaires over the pandemic, 660 billionaires, their wealth went up over a trillion dollars.
The 50 wealthiest Americans have more money than the bottom half of our society.
The top, like Bernie always says, the top one-tenth of one, the one percent have more than the 90% of our entire country.
So CEOs are making 320%.
This is a Dan Price reference, 320% more than the average worker.
So if I'm an average worker and I make $45,000 a year and I'm thinking, man, I got two kids.
I can't get ahead.
I hear taxes may go up on the super wealthy making $400,000.
I'm making $45,000.
This guy, Bernie, sounds like he knows what he's talking about.
Again, I'm putting myself in the shoes of the person making $45,000 a year.
Nobody is.
It's an intoxicating argument, is all I'm saying.
Here's the thing.
How many parents?
Okay, remember the story I was telling about TikTok and the kids if they go to school, teacher says certain things.
That teacher is making $45,000 a year, by the way.
But she chose to.
He chose to.
Nobody told him to be a teacher.
That's what you chose to do.
What I'm saying to you, you have a choice.
That's your choice.
Okay.
You chose to choose cash and career.
Okay.
And by the way, there's benefits to being a teacher.
I mean, there's a lot of benefits to being a teacher.
You ain't doing it for money.
All good.
For the record, I think teachers should be paid more.
That's just my I don't disagree, but I also think 50% of teachers should be fired, and the other top 20% should get a 50% raise.
But I do think half the tenure bullshit.
They should get fired.
I think half the teachers should be fired.
They need to be treated like we get treated.
If I don't do the right thing, I get fired.
And I think teachers should be fired as well.
So let me give you a bit of a terrible thing.
You're going somewhere with Bernie.
I'm going somewhere with this because you're talking about seven out of ten people are living paycheck to paycheck.
Okay.
All of these percentage, the top one percent owns more than da-da-da-da-da.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
I all get those.
This is Bernie's argument.
But that's not an argument.
Those are statistics.
Somebody just said something right now.
The guy gave five bucks, and Bishman said, PBD, you and Bernie both love America but have different ways to solve the problems in America.
To say someone doesn't love America because they disagree with BS.
I disagree with you, Bishman, because to me, America is just a name.
Okay?
To me, America is an idea.
So if you don't love the ideas of America, you don't love America.
That's what it means to me.
Okay?
Because America, to me, if they change the idea, I don't like America.
I don't know if this makes sense to you guys or not.
It's very simple.
Like, you know, you can flip if somebody changes their views.
For example, let's just say you loved your cousin, okay?
You sincerely love your cousin.
And your cousin was a guy with values and principles.
Your cousin flips.
He goes and becomes a drug dealer.
He goes and kills a few people.
And he does.
Do you, you don't stand for the same thing.
The values and principles change.
I'm sorry.
I'm not going to sit there and say, hey, go have my kids hang out with you.
So let's go back to the 70% of people that are living paycheck to paycheck.
Yes, that is statistic.
The question then becomes, how we go about fixing it.
There's two ways.
You have to put the pressure on the people to take responsibility, or you put the pressure on who?
The government.
Or you put the pressure on rich people.
In this situation, he wants to put the pressure on who?
The rich people.
On the rich people, not on the government, not on the people, on the rich people.
That's not what JFK would have done.
And he's a Democrat and the most loved and adored Democrat of all time, okay?
Himself.
He would have put the pressure and said, hey, why don't you do something about it?
I was watching an interview yesterday of the Shah with BBC.
Okay.
And this is a point where Iran's coming up.
They're about to pass up UK.
Okay.
And he made a couple predictions.
That interview was so powerful.
I don't know who shared it with me.
I'm so glad this one guy.
It was 27 minutes.
And he said, I am begging, the words he uses, I'm begging America to stop relying on oil.
He said this in 75.
He says, I'm begging America to stop relying on oil, the West to stop relying on oil.
But he says, one of the problems with UK is what?
You know what he says?
One of the problems with UKs?
He says, you guys are too lazy.
You take way too many sleeping pills.
You guys are too lazy.
You don't work that hard.
He says, if your government got the average worker to work one hour more a day, your economy would change.
He says, I'm not saying five more hours.
If they work one more, he says, if you work 30 minutes more a day, your economy would change.
Rather than a Bernie Sanders saying, no, stay home.
It's not fair.
It's mental issues.
You're having, we all have mental health.
I have mental issues.
I have mental issues my entire life.
I have emotional issues.
We all have mental and emotional issues.
None of us are robots.
But rather than saying that, he said, hey, Johnny, question for you.
What's your dream?
I want to be able to live X, Y, Z life.
Great.
When do you want to have that?
10 years.
Why don't you, for the next 10 years, start a side gig, make the money, save the money, invest the money the right way.
10 years from now, go leave your journey with your wife and kids.
Why don't you do that?
But we're not talking about that.
It's we can solve your problems.
Anytime the government comes in using the word help, run.
Who said that?
Not Reagan a long time ago.
Go ahead.
That's okay.
One last point here is, you know, just like Bernie Sanders is popular with what he says, but just because he's popular doesn't mean he's wrong, right?
And he is wrong.
And there's evidence that, okay, you just take money from the rich and you hand it out.
I'll give you a perfect example.
A story we've already done today at VTPost.com.
Bank of America has done some research and some polling to find out what people are spending their stimulus checks on, right?
The $1,400 has already gone out.
Can you pull it up?
Yeah, it's one of the stories on VTPost.com right now.
You know what they're finding?
People are spending it on shoes and apparel.
I mean, that is one of the main things.
So there's no direct correlation between what Bernie's saying and that the country gets better.
There is ample evidence of the opposite.
And that's why I am so offended by his message, because it doesn't work.
And it's become almost to the point where you're not allowed to say that because you don't care or you don't have feelings for people.
That's not true.
And I just, he's got.
What does it say?
It says the newly somewhat rich by $1,400 corner terms.
Combined spending on parallel athletic footwear jumped 19.5% year over year for the week.
Ending March 12th, one a recent comparison.
How about the fact that with the same parameters, that spending was up 13.2% a week prior, stimulus payments began to hit consumer by the account March 12th.
Other avenues for spending, including addressing vision correction concerns and this, formalmojo.com Paul responded, if I can, I'd also like to pay off my credit card debt.
It's small and maybe get on a utilities and phone accounts.
See, people can be responsible.
The money is okay.
Interesting to see this thing taking place where the money's going to.
I mean, all they're doing is making Nike richer.
So Phil Knight is sitting there saying, send more stimulus checks.
There's also been some other stories.
We covered this on the podcast that millennials are putting money in the market.
Yeah, 40-something percent of millennials are taking their stimulus checks and putting in the stock market, some absurd number.
And then the second stat, hold on, hold on.
In 2009 and 2020 were the only years that the credit card debt has gone down in America, meaning people have took their stimulus and paid off credit cards.
That's not because of stimulus.
That's because of shutdowns.
Partially started.
That's because of shutdown.
But the first point you just made, that's what I agree with.
Okay.
Like, you see what you just did?
We're making heroes of the kid that's taking money, investing it, thinking long-term.
That's not what Bernie's doing.
No, but that's not what Bernie's doing.
Bernie's solution is, let me solve it for you because I can solve it for you.
Not the entrepreneur and not yourself.
You're not good enough to solve this on your own, 70%.
I don't think you can help yourself because I'm more elite than you.
I'm smarter than you, but I'll help you out.
Don't worry.
Do you know what an insult it is to think that you are the one that can solve my problems and not me?
It's an insult.
That's the highest level of eliteness versus to say, I think you can do something about it.
I think you can do something about it.
You think I can do something?
I think you can do something about it.
We need more politicians saying, hey, American people, I think you can do something about it.
I believe in you.
Here, I have one last thing.
And for both of you guys, do you think maybe Adam has a different perspective on things because he's lived in Florida and Texas, where you haven't lived in a state where you really see an overbearing government and extremely high taxes and what that does to day-to-day life?
Is that a possibility?
Do you think that maybe I think to flip it, when you said, have you partied in Miami before and you kind of spooked him?
I think that's a very fair assessment to put it on you.
You've not lived in other states to kind of get a feel of what it looks like when there's overregulation.
correct you've lived in a i live in florida my majority of my life Heaven on earth.
Not saying you're not well traveled.
You've been all over there.
I've been all over.
All over the world.
My favorite city is New York City, by the way.
I would say that as well.
I don't dispute that.
I think Florida, although Florida is starting to become one of my favorites.
To visit.
But yeah, everything comes down to perspective.
So I agree with you on that.
I mean, like I always ask you, when you move in LLA, when you move in LA, you rail against California, you rail against L.A.
No, you love it there.
Your family loves it there.
They're supporting California.
That's what I'm saying.
Like, you love it.
You take the good with the bad.
Just a quick point on our friend Elon Musk.
And this is more of just a teeing it up for you.
You know, he's been speaking of Bernie and Elon and this whole, how this whole conversation got started.
You know that Elon has been very much in favor of UBI.
He's come out and said, I don't believe in bailing out companies and helicopter payments to wherever.
I actually believe in giving money to the people, UBI.
Elon Musk has said this.
So it's very ironic because there's some parts that Bernie, and this is why I asked that question.
What's his challenge?
What's Elon Musk's challenge with that?
If you're asking me, ask me the question.
What's the challenge with what Elon Musk thinks as well?
That we need UBI.
Okay.
Where are you going with that?
What's the challenge with Elon Musk?
Go ahead.
He thinks he's smarter than the rest of the world.
Yeah.
Like he thinks.
Well, he is.
No, I don't.
I disagree.
He thinks that of course he is smarter to be worth a couple hundred billion dollars.
But he thinks people cannot make money on their own to go find solutions.
Survivor of the fittest, man.
We've been surviving for a very long time.
We figured out a way how to survive past these animals and these animals, all these animals we're all afraid of.
Guess what?
We won.
Just so you know, the lions, all the tigers, the bears.
But you're laughing about it.
You realize we won.
We won.
I don't know if you realize we overcame all of that.
We overcame all these viruses without having any solutions.
We figured it out.
We figured out all these solutions.
We forget.
We figured out how to create something like this.
I don't even know how to create something like that.
We figured out how to create this.
How the hell do we figure this out?
A lion didn't figure this out.
We did.
We figured out how to put this tripod.
What the hell is this iPad doing in front of me?
I'm looking at myself talking.
There's 3,000-something people watching.
How the hell do we figure this out?
How do we figure this out?
How do we figure all these?
How do we figure this out?
How do we do this?
Human ingenuity.
What I'm trying to tell you is we have to trust in the human ingenuity.
Just because Elon Musk says UBI, that doesn't mean we're all sitting here saying, well, because Elon Musk said it, it's right.
I don't agree with that.
So anyways, having said that, let's continue.
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Okay, Putin challenges Biden to debate after the president calls him a killer.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reacted to President Joe Biden calling him a killer by challenging Biden to take part in a conversation with him broadcast live online.
Putin told a Russian state television reporter, I've just thought of this now.
I want to propose to President Biden to continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it basically live, as it's called, without any delays and directly in an open, direct discussion.
It seems to me that would be interesting for the people of Russia and for the people of the United States.
Biden said he thought Putin was a killer.
Russia recalled its ambassador to the United States in response to the remark.
After issuing his invitation, Putin said he did not, he didn't want to delay.
I don't want to put this off for long.
I want to go this taiga this weekend to relax a little so we could do it tomorrow or Monday.
We are ready at any time, convenient for the American side.
The Russian leader also said he wished Biden good health.
I would say to him, be well.
I wish him good health.
I say that without any irony, without any jokes.
Adam.
The truth is there was some irony and full-on jokes there with Putin.
Look, there's two sides you can kind of look at this.
There's the side that it's like, bro, what are you doing?
Like, you don't put your shit out there and just like reveal your hand and completely disrespect a world leader.
You kind of do it behind closed doors or you have a little more diplomacy or tact.
But then there's the other side that's like, let me just spit the truth and actually say what the truth is.
Putin is a killer, whether it's on the micro level or the macro level.
micro.
He's poisoning his dissidents or pointing people, poisoning to speak out about him.
He's former KGB.
On a macro level, he's invaded other countries.
Ukraine.
What's the city in Ukraine that I'm thinking of?
The main area in Ukraine that they're fighting about?
Help me out here.
I don't know.
Not Kiev.
What is it called?
I don't know.
The place in Ukraine.
Anyway.
He's gone into Ukraine.
He's done foreign affairs.
So the point is.
Which direction do you want to go?
Do you want to have diplomacy?
Do you want to have tact?
Or do you want to tell the truth?
And for me, Biden has to have a balance of both.
Am I completely turned off that he would say something like this?
No.
Do I completely agree that he went this direction and called out Putin on TV?
Not as much.
But what I do know is after the reality show President Donald Trump, a Putin-Biden argument debate on TV would be reality TV of the highest magnitude.
So we'll see where this goes here.
But I'm not sold on either direction of what Biden went here.
You know, I think the comment calling Putin a killer just shows how naive Biden is when it comes to foreign affairs.
I mean, there was just nothing to gain with a comment like that, especially someone like Putin who would eat his lunch just on every conceivable level.
You know, the way he's manipulating him now with the comeback.
You don't want to challenge a guy like that because what if he is a killer?
What if he is that crazy?
I mean, these guys can do hacks at the drop of a hand.
He could probably shut down our electrical grid if he wanted to.
I think a little bit more tact in dealing with Putin would make a little bit more sense.
You know, you talk about Trump being the loose cannon, but he didn't really have any outburst like this.
You know, most of it was, now, some people didn't agree with how he dealt with North Korea and got a little bit too cozy with him.
But I don't know.
Was he trying to be funny?
Was he trying to be light?
Was he trying to be tough?
I just didn't think there was anything to gain by what Biden did, and I think it's completely backfired on him.
Well, here's the thing.
Once you become a president, you have to understand one thing is John Gotti.
You know who John Gotti is, right?
Okay.
When I interviewed Sammy de Bulgarvano, I asked him about John Gotti.
I said, John, another guy I interviewed, A-Light, said the fact that John Gotti never killed anybody.
He would always other people kill people for him.
And Sammy stops me and interrupts, like as if, and Sammy was like, they're not in the best place with John Gotti, but Sammy interrupts and just kind of says, let me tell you something.
You crossed John Gotti.
He was capable.
He says, you know, he was capable of doing anything.
I don't know if I've ever seen him kill anybody or not.
The story about the dentist, I don't know.
But you don't want to cross John because he was capable, right?
Would you consider John Gotti a killer?
Yes.
What if he never killed anybody, but he told other people to kill people?
Is he considered a killer?
I think so.
Absolutely.
So if you tell somebody else to kill somebody to defend your territory, would you be considered a killer?
I think so, yes.
Then every president is a killer.
Okay?
So if that's the qualification you just made, you just send troops to Syria, you're officially qualified killer.
If that's your interpretation, okay, on where you went with that.
Trump would be like, what do you think?
America's so innocent?
Yeah.
Famous lie.
What I'm trying to say to you is once you become a president, you have to know you're in the gray area for four years.
You're the commander-in-chief.
You're the commander-in-chief.
So if you can't sit there and be like, oh my gosh, he's such a this.
You're not an angel when you become a president.
You can't be.
Nobody is.
Not a single one of our presidents ever has been an angel.
Some have higher morals and values, some less.
But the reality is you have to be willing to call the shots.
Now, was Putin one before he became?
Possibly.
And that's the reputation with KGB.
Possibly.
KGB.
90%.
When I'm saying possibly, I don't know.
I've just read the articles and it says that he was.
Do you think Putin's a killer?
I think I've told you this when Trump was president.
I think Putin's the most brilliant strategist, president, powerful person in the world today.
It's not the U.S. commander-in-chief, just so you know this.
I put Putin at number one.
Putin is a genius strategist.
Not more than she right now.
Would he be?
No, she has more power.
Putin is a better strategist.
Putin to me is a street-trained.
This is the right guy you want.
Here's the analogy for Putin.
By the way, Crimea was the city in Ukraine.
Putin's, you know, if you're playing a poker game and we all have a hand, Putin's playing with like a pair of sixes, like an offsuit three, you know, maybe like a jack, you know, like a 10.
Like there's no hand.
Yeah.
But he makes you think he's dealing with like pocket jacks and pocket queens or something.
You know what country has the most nuclear weapons right now?
America.
Okay.
Can you pull up nuclear bombs real quick?
Is it Russia?
Can you just pull it up to what the leader's bulletin says?
I like data.
That's what I like.
I like numbers and data.
Countries with most nuclear.
There you go.
Click on that.
Nuclear.
Click on that.
Put the list.
Hopefully it's as updated as possible.
Is there a way to go leader's bulletin?
Okay, Russia right there.
Look, look, look, go back up.
Go back up.
Kai.
Russia, 6,375, U.S. 5,800.
I think you don't want to screw with Russia.
Okay, just so you know, China's only got 320.
Let's face it.
If Russia wanted to destroy the world and just leave an island called Russia, he could do it.
But isn't one enough?
They would be, you know how they say, like, why is American military so strong?
Well, you know, a strong military prevents war.
Prevents war.
Exactly.
Like a strong government.
Let me go back to what Biden said in this interview.
Okay.
He's talking to Stephanopoulos.
Okay.
They're going back and forth.
They're talking about a bunch of different things.
But he says, he will pay a price.
We had a long talk, Biden says.
He and I. When we, I know him relatively well, and the conversation started off.
I said, I know you and you know me.
If I establish this accord, then be prepared.
Stephanopoulos says, so you know Vladimir Putin.
You think he's a killer?
I do.
Okay.
You'll see that Putin is going to pay.
Okay.
This is what Biden says.
He continues, walk and chew gum at the same time for places where it's our own mutual interest to work together.
Okay.
So he then says, I looked at him in the eyes and says, I know who you are.
Okay.
What do you mean, I know who you are?
Like, I know who you are.
So he's saying this about Putin about a private conversation that he had with him.
You tell me what other president, prime minister of another country will trust having a private conversation with Biden moving forward.
So one, there's recording of you 10 years ago, 15 years ago, talking about if you don't fire that lawyer or that whoever it is, we're not going to give you the money.
That's recorded.
That's on video.
Billions of people have seen that.
You know which ones I'm talking about?
You know which one I'm talking about?
Where he's sitting there?
So he said it.
Biden?
Biden.
When he says Ukraine and what are they doing?
Yeah, the Ukrainian leaders.
He's going to cut him off.
If you don't fire this person, we're going to cut you off.
You're not going to get the money, right?
So we know how this guy works.
So in this game, not only did Putin win, but America lost.
Because officially no one in the world is going to trust talking to Biden off camera.
The safest place to talk to Biden right now is only one place with cameras on.
And guess who's going to do it?
Nobody.
The only people that are going to do it is they'll talk to his administration.
Here's the other part.
Say you're an advisor.
You're like Biden's Jim Baker, James Baker, you're Biden's whoever.
Just pick one of them, right?
Karl Rohl.
You're Biden's any of those names.
What do you think you're telling Biden?
Know what I'm telling Biden?
Bro, seriously, just kick back.
You know what I mean?
Let her do the talking.
Let somebody else do the talking.
Dude, nothing.
And when you're walking up the stairs, we're going to turn off the camera.
When you're going out there having any kind of questions, cut it short.
We're going to see you have another meeting.
We're going to keep telling everybody you got a meeting.
Just don't do any of this publicity stunts.
When a guy publicly calls you out to a meeting, it's like this.
Say there's a thousand, high school lunch cafeteria, 100 kids are there.
And you tell me, you know what?
F you.
I'm like, what?
Oh.
Okay.
Meet me behind the bungalows after school.
Okay?
Nice.
Yeah.
Meet me.
Meet me behind the bungalows after school.
And I said, okay.
100 kids just saw me.
3 o'clock comes.
You're behind the bungalows.
I'm going home.
Who am I the next day in school?
Coward.
No, no, I'm a coward.
Putin called Biden to go behind the bungalow.
Everybody went to the bungalow looking forward to Putin to see Biden there.
What do you think are the chances of Biden saying yes to Putin?
Honestly, zero?
One in what?
One in a thousand?
One in a million?
One in a billion?
Is it more?
Are you saying that just because Putin called him out, he should do it?
Oh, I don't think if you don't do it, you got, first of all, when in the history of diplomacy have you seen another person saying, I want to have a live conversation with you with the world watching.
When has that ever happened?
Never.
When has that ever happened?
So one, a person has the audacity to say that because they know you're going to say what?
No.
I'm not coming.
They know you're going to say no.
They know you're going to say no.
Of course they're going to say no.
So now you turn it down.
And it's not like it's a podcaster saying, hey, Biden, I want you to come for a few.
Nobody gives a shit.
It's not like it's a congressman.
It's not like it's a mayor of UK.
It's not like it's a senator.
No, no.
It's the currently most powerful man in the world just called you out to a duel.
I got a big problem with it, to be honest with you, because you've got to know what your audience is and who you're talking about.
Can you imagine the level of training that Vladimir Putin has had as the head of the KGB?
Can you imagine the negotiating skills, the mental games that he can play with people?
He's toying with Biden right now.
And it just shows a naivete that's a little bit troubling to me in the first couple months that he's doing this.
The other thing he said the other day that was troubling is he referred to Kamala Harris as President Harris.
I mean, he's making a few stumbles and bumbles here that are playing into the narrative.
Well, there's a joke there.
I figured you segue there.
She is the president.
Well, no, I'm saying it's playing into a narrative that a lot of people foresee happening, where this is segueing into, you know, is he even capable of having these discussions?
I think he thinks he can get away with some of this grandiose bravado and it's going to slip off to the side.
But I mean, Putin just went right at him and just toyed with him on this.
I think, you know, as much as I do not think that Biden is a classic strategist or anything like that, there has to be a conscious effort to say, look, under Trump, he was clearly cozying up to Putin.
I mean, whether you agree with Trump or don't agree with Trump, he would not call out Russia or Putin whatsoever.
He was cozing up the dictators with Kim Jong-un.
He was making enemies.
How many wars did we have?
Did you go to sleep ever warrying?
How many wars did we have under Trump?
This bad, terrible human being, how many wars did we have?
How was diplomacy under the city?
How did we have under Obama?
No, how many wars did we have under Obama?
One.
Was ISIS a war in Afghanistan?
No, that happened under Bush.
Every day you turned on the news, it was ISIS.
You forgot?
Like, how old are you?
You're 40 years old.
We're the same.
Every day we saw ISIS.
How many times you heard ISIS during Trump?
How many times you heard about people dying?
All you heard about is protesting and riots.
All you heard about his problems here.
Look, you know, if you watch my podcast, I got a lot of Trump people that can't stand me right now because of what I've said on the last few comments.
But I'm consistent with my views on what I believe with this.
But if you're going to give the argument of war, give the argument of— I didn't give the argument of war.
You brought up war.
I'm just saying he was cozing up the dictators.
Well, that's why do you think that's what you're doing?
Why do you, though?
Why do you what?
Why do you build those relationships?
So you don't have wars.
Okay.
You don't make peace with your friends.
Lincoln.
In his book, Lincoln on Leadership said the fastest way to eliminate an enemy is to what?
Turn him into a friend.
This is the greatest president of all time.
There's some genius in it.
Maybe he read that book.
Maybe Biden needs to read that book.
Maybe Biden needs to go by Donald T. Phillips' book called Lincoln on Leadership and read one of the rules of Lincoln.
Let's send him a copy.
Yeah, let's send him a ton of people.
He's dropping off at the White House.
So all this stuff you're saying, listen, I'm not sitting here saying Trump is the GOAT and all this other stuff.
No, at all.
I'm not saying that.
I'm not saying that at all.
All I'm saying is, in this area, I have gone to sleep worried about war for 10 years of my life.
Let's say eight years of my life, because first two years, you don't even know what it means.
But three years old in Iran, you kind of know some shit's going down, right?
When you go out there, your parents are explaining, that's what happened over there.
It's not cool.
It's scary.
And that fear didn't go away for a long time as a kid.
You're always like paranoid, right?
When I got to the States, I went to the army.
You know, it went away a little bit, and then it's kind of gradually gone away because America 9-11 kind of brought back a little bit saying, this shit can get pretty bad.
But I love the fact that we have a strong military and we are where we are.
Okay?
I love the fact that you don't wake up in the morning hearing about Osama bin Laden.
You don't hear about ISIS, which credit, that was an Obama thing.
But you don't hear about ISIS.
That went away under Trump, fully.
Hosam Salaiman, he should have never done that.
What did you hear about Iran retaliating?
Nothing.
They were afraid of him.
Now, Iran doesn't even want to sit down and have a conversation with Biden's people.
Why?
They would have never done that with Trump.
So there are ways you have to know that a human being that may be the way that he was, you were safer during that time.
Just telling you.
So this approach here, you just pissed off the most powerful guy in the world.
I'm telling you.
And the worst kind of wars you want is proxy wars.
And that guy's a genius at proxy wars.
Genius at proxy wars.
And not only pissed him off, offended him.
I mean, I think the last thing you'd want to call Putin is a killer.
I mean, literally.
I mean, I think that's the one word that he would be most upset about and be planning some sort of response.
This is me just throwing this out there.
Are we saying that we cannot piss off Putin at all?
No, not at all.
We can't act.
Say some shit to Putin?
Is that where we're at right now?
Yeah, but whatever.
We can't say service about what killer, bro.
Bro, if you call somebody a killer, diplomacy's gone.
Listen, Conor McGregor goes and does his shenanigans with who?
Mayweather.
Mayweather doesn't give a shit because Mayweather wants what?
The payday.
He got it, $300 million.
Connor got what?
$100 million.
He tried to do the same thing with Khabib.
Do you know what happened with that fight?
He called that his religion.
He called that his family.
He called that.
Do you know Khabib wasn't fighting Connor?
He was defending his philosophies.
And guess who was on Khabib's side?
A guy named Putin.
You know what he did to Connor?
Do you know what he did after he beat Connor?
He jumped over the cage, chased other people.
His people got in.
You don't call out certain people like that.
Biden called that the person that's the most sensitive with words like this.
You have to be very careful with that.
Oh, you think Putin is sensitive about that?
Not sensitive.
Sensitive in a way where, like, you know, mom jokes in America, people tell mom jokes.
Yeah, it's not.
Try to tell a mom joke to an Armenian that doesn't sit well with an Armenia.
I'm actually being very serious with you.
I don't like mom jokes.
I will never tell mom jokes to you.
You mean like those yo mama jokes?
In my lifetime, I've never told a yo mama joke to anybody.
I did it the other day here.
I would never say it to you.
I would never say it to you.
You can say it.
You're saying there's certain lines you can cross with certain people.
You tell a Yomama joke to an Armenian.
The Armenian has no clue what the hell you're talking about.
He's like, what did you do?
Like, I'm telling you, it's very...
What did you say about my mama?
You can't say an Armenian.
You can't tell an Armenian Yomama jokes, right?
Now, an Americanized one, maybe a different story.
You just crossed the line with a guy like this.
So we're going to see what's going to happen.
We're going to see what's going to happen with that.
By the way, quick shout out with Kanye West.
It came out that he's the richest man in the world, $6.6 billion.
Richest black man.
Richest black man in America.
In America.
Yes, $6.6 billion.
Then it came back and they said Forbes King came back and said, well, it's not really $6.6 billion.
It's $1.8 billion.
Robert Smith is really still the richest black man in America at $6 billion Vista Equities.
Then the Nigerian Alico is worth $11.8 billion.
But the reality is the Yeezy brand is valued at $3.2 to $4.7 billion.
Let me say that one more time.
The Yeezy brand is valued at $3.2 to $4.7 billion.
You know, the other day he announced his shoes at $200.
You know, it's sold out by 7 a.m.
Fully sold out by 7 a.m.
Can you imagine how crazy that is?
People bought the shoes and flipped it for $400 the same day on eBay.
Okay, so what do you think about what Kanye has got going on?
Okay, this is a really, really fascinating story.
I think the person that's probably offended the most is Jay-Z.
As hard as he's worked, how many different things he's involved in and to think that he has to look up to Kanye West on wealth.
I guarantee you this is pissing off Jay-Z in a big way.
I also find it also very ironic that he has elevated himself, allegedly, to being the most wealthiest or the richest black person in America from shoes, right?
That he's had for what, seven, eight years?
And Michael Jordan has built a much bigger brand with shoes, owns an NBA team, and he has passed them up that quickly.
By the way, Michael is Nike.
Yeezy is Adidas and Gap.
Now, that was a brilliant move, putting their shoes into Gap and getting kids exposed to it young.
So now, if you peel back a little bit here, there's some smoke and mirrors going on with this stuff because I think it was Bloomberg first that reported this story and then Forbes carved it up and chopped it up and said, it's complete BS.
You're not worth $6.6 billion.
So remember what happened with Kylie Jenner, right?
When Forbes put her on the cover as being the first or the youngest self-made billionaire female in the world, right?
And then it came out a little bit later that maybe Chris Kardashian had been fudging some of that and they felt that they got used a little bit.
So Forbes is incredibly pissed off, I think, at the Kardashian family, even though Kanye is exiting it, you know, eventually here.
I think this has something to do with a little bit of payback, you know, to go back there and look at that story and try to discredit it because of how they were burned with a Kardashian number in the past.
So I think there's some of that with Forbes involved here and Bloomberg and Forbes you look at as the Bible, as the gospel when it comes to personal wealth like that.
They've got a cottage industry of ranking the richest people in the world.
But this has got so many layers.
It's fascinating.
It's the Kardashians.
It's shoes.
It's Nike.
It's rich.
It's Adidas.
But I think there's something to be said about a personal battle between Forbes and Chris Kardashian and the extension of her and that family.
You're into this story.
I just find it really live.
I find it ups and downs and curves.
With Kanye, I'm not saying she's a gold digger, but she ain't missing with a broke socialist, uncapitalist type of person.
I mean, when's the last time you shop at the gap?
The fact that he's bringing the gap to relevancy.
Next thing you know, he might do a deal with Abercrombie and Fitch.
I feel like it's the 90s again.
But obviously a brilliant dude, polarizing guy.
And go get your money, Kanye.
Obviously, he's single now.
So I don't think he's going to have a shortage of suitors.
Is Kanye a semi-genius?
Would you put him as a semi-genius?
Yeah.
Me personally, I would, just with his creativity.
I mean, he owns that brand 100%.
He owns the whole thing.
And he's got final say on all creative decisions.
So I think he is a genius to come up with a brand that sells like that.
Now, we don't know what the volume is, right?
They might produce a pretty low number, so it does sell out rather quickly, which I'm sure is the case.
But he is a genius.
He's created this.
I think he's got confidence of the highest magnitude that even most people are like, oh, you're crazy, bro.
He's like, yeah, I am.
That's right.
And he just embraces the craziness.
And, I mean, he's been to, he's got mental anxiety, you know, all sorts of stuff going on.
But, yeah, I think, you know, musically, music's sick.
His ideas.
You can't tie that guy down.
I mean, Kim, who knows what happened with that.
By the way, I think Kanye is battling with something right now.
This is my opinion.
Okay.
I tell you what he's battling with right now.
Tell us.
I think he's battling with what has he experienced today.
So think about it.
Here's a guy that's produced some of the greatest hip-hop songs.
He's crushed incredible albums where the world would listen to it.
He has done well as an entrepreneur.
He's married the modern day Marilyn Monroe, whether you like her or not.
Kim Kardashian is the modern day.
I don't know who you put ahead of her as a Marilyn Monroe.
We've talked about this before.
So at what level hasn't he reached, who has he partied with?
Who hasn't he partied with?
He's been to the Trump.
He's been to the White House.
He's met presidents.
He's met prime ministers.
He's on everything, right?
I think he's at a point right now where for him the battle is, do I continue being this famous, powerful person, making money, making products, or do I go after purpose?
I think this guy can really have a massive impact in the world with how he himself grew as an individual.
And I don't know what's going to happen with that, but I own a domain called Kanye Khan.
Okay.
I bought for him, Kanye Khan, that I would love for Kanye to be a guest on the podcast, even here, or on Value Taint, to interview him, because there are some questions I want to ask him that no one's ever asked.
And I'd like to be able to ask that of him.
And I want to kind of go deeper on the way he processes issues and how he views certain things.
But in order to get that domain, I'd love to have a sit-down with him.
Anybody who knows how to get a hold of this man, I'd love to have a meeting with Kanye.
I think the world would appreciate.
I don't think the right interview with him has been done yet.
I don't think the right interview has been done with him yet.
He's been on a lot of different platforms, but the right interview has been done with it.
I once won $9 from Kai.
Was it $9 or $1?
I don't know what $10, what was the number?
$9.
$9.
I won $9.
Not $10.
No, $9.
Yeah, Kai loves giving me money.
Kai wouldn't betray me.
Kai loves giving me money.
It's a threshold.
But that wasn't a bet.
That was, if I say it, that's not a bet.
I never said I'm betting you.
It's a safe.
Was that the Joe Rogan?
Yeah, Joe Rogan.
He thought it was going to be bigger than Elon Musk.
I said, I don't know about that.
I just think Kanye needs, and Joe did a good job with that interview.
I just think I have philosophical questions for this guy, not just entertaining questions.
I want to go deeper like this.
Well, he'd probably want to be challenged too by that.
Yeah, I want that kind of a conversation with him.
But listen, more power to him.
You brought up purpose with Kanye.
I mean, you've clearly seen some sort of shift over the last few years with Kanye, that it was all music, and then it turned into fashion.
And over the last, really, couple of years, it's been church and politics.
And, you know, he used to come from Chicago and doing his thing with Jay-Z in New York and, you know, in the studio doing his thing.
Now he's living on a freaking ranch in Wyoming and he's doing Sunday churches and Kanye's Sunday service.
And obviously he was running for president.
Major air quotes going on there if you're listening just audio.
I think he's finding his purpose.
And I think.
I don't think he's joking wrong when he says he's running for president, by the way.
I think he's that sick in the head.
He'd think he could actually run it.
He's not sick in the head.
I don't think he's sick in the head.
I think he's that much driven by purpose.
I don't mean sick in the head in the negative way, but like crazy enough.
Oh, I see.
Okay, I got it.
Here's the other thing.
Once he aligned with God, you know, having his Sunday services and he supported Trump and he wore the MAGA hat, you know, he got turned on by the mainstream media.
So they're throwing out there that, you know, bipolar depression, that, you know, all the mental aspects of is he crazy, this kind of thing.
Yeah, he's crazy rich.
That's what he is.
And I think he's really toying with the media exactly how he wants to.
I would imagine, and you can already tell that it's going to be, at least on paper, or at least the way it looks, is going to be an amicable divorce with Kim.
I mean, it looks like, you know, with that many kids involved and that much money that they're going to get through this thing pretty peacefully.
So yeah, I think the media now, because of where he's aligned himself, you know, just with his Christian values and the fact that politically he's not just buying into everything that the left wants him to, he's going to be targeted and he's going to be painted as kind of a villain.
So you got to like read through some of these headlines in mainstream media.
Yeah, I mean, wish him all the best.
Are you a Kanye West fan?
I've, yeah, I would say I've always been, and Jennifer's always, Jennifer always with you.
You know, he's a very talented guy.
I've watched, I watch every one of his interviews, whether he did the Ellen DeGeneres one where he stood up and people are like, what the hell is wrong with this guy?
Whether it's the Big Boy interview, whether it's the Elon Musk interview.
I just like the way this guy thinks.
I think people like that have to be properly interviewed on the way they process issues.
I think the world can learn from that.
And by the way, I think Elon Musk also is another guy that we have to get deeper on the way he thinks.
There's a chippy side to them where it's like, you know, you poke and it's like then the magic comes out.
Like, I think there's, anyways, I think there's a part where they need to be interviewed specifically with Connie.
So I'm curious to know what's going to happen with that.
And every time there's an interview out there, I just enjoy every single one of them because the guys are fascinating.
So a couple of things.
Spain, real quick, I don't want to be on this for too long.
Spain tests out a four-day workweek.
Spain has introduced a government approved four-day workweek trial with an aim to promote a better work-life balance.
Spain joins a number of countries like New Zealand, Sweden, and Japan to promote a longer weekend.
They argue that working longer doesn't always mean working better.
The goal is to enroll 200 companies to participate in the test run with up to 6,000 workers.
The proposal, a three-year trial running starting this fall to shorten work weeks, which will cost nearly $60 million.
Microsoft piloted a four-day workweek experiment in Japan in 2019, closing office on Fridays and found employees who sold nearly 40% more for the company while it reduced overhead spending costs.
Similarly, New Zealand, the wealth management company, New Zealand Perpetual Guardian, noticed a 24% improvement in work when it allowed employees to work for 32 hours per week instead of 40 hours, cutting their pay in 2018.
Thoughts?
Okay, I have the same thought as the Shah of Iran would.
So they're going to work more?
Four days a week?
They're ramping it up?
Isn't it normally?
Isn't it normally three days in Europe?
That's what it seems to me.
That's the perception that the Europeans give, that they take six weeks off to two months in the summer that they worked.
Sorry, Kai, you can refute all this and probably some of it's a stereotype.
But when I heard four-day workweek, I'm going, holy crap, they're increasing their workload.
Anyway, I like that study, though, because if Microsoft did it, they tried it, and it looks like it did have some success.
I don't know.
I'm a fan of people coming to the office and working for the most part in a corporate environment.
I think it's not going to work how we've had to do it the past year.
I think a lot of companies are realizing that.
And we'll see.
It's a big case study here.
It's a test, a big, you know, experiment.
And I don't know.
I don't think it's going to work.
I don't think it's a great idea.
I think something that the pandemic has certainly brought to the forefront is the work-life balance.
I think a lot of companies are, you know, I think companies, again, something that I think this, a theme of our entire freaking podcast is, You know, sensibilities using being reasonable and not being too far right or too far left.
And I think, you know, your standard come to the office five days a week, 40-hour work week, that's it.
You're nine to five and you're leaving 459 and you're part of the 459 club.
I think that's sort of an archaic model.
At the same time, I think certain companies like Salesforce and certain Silicon Valley companies that are saying, Yeah, we're working remotely for the rest of our lives, all good.
I think there does need to be a better work-life balance.
And, you know, if a midday freaking siesta is the cure to that, or a 32-hour work week, or Tim Ferriss's four-hour work week, you know, to be a little ironic, or if it's, hey, I'm working freaking 80-hour work weeks, but I love what I do and I work from home.
The key to work and life is a work-life balance.
So, if you can kind of find the middle ground there, life is work-life balance.
I think so, dude.
You're like a philosopher.
I am.
I feel like honestly, I feel like if I smoke weed and listen to you, I would appreciate you.
Well, why don't we do that?
Why don't we do that?
Why don't we do that?
Okay, why don't we smoke that?
Well, you got to do me a favor.
You got to bring some of that initial foreplay we had in the middle.
Is Spain right here or are they wrong here?
I think it's a test.
Let's find out what's going to happen.
The reality of it is, Spain is already, you know, destroying their entrepreneurs to the point where the former prime minister president left the country because they raised the taxes to God knows what levels where he said, I'm going to go live in a different place.
They have so much data on countries like this that it doesn't work.
They keep doing it, and they keep doing it over and over and over again.
So, you know, if they want to test it out, but I like the way they're doing it, they're doing it with 200 companies, only 6,000 employees.
It's only costing 60 million bucks.
Let a test, see what happens.
As a CEO, do you have like a nope, this is the way it should be?
Because you've got people.
No, I have guys that don't want to run at the highest level, and I'm good with that.
The only thing that would upset me is when a person says they're going to do something and they do something else.
Just be true to what your vision and your goal is.
It's very simple for me, not the other way around.
I'm about the weight behind your word.
Today, I produced a video.
It just went out this morning at 8:45 Eastern Standard Time.
The title is 15 qualities to be part of an inner circle, right?
I have certain things people ask me, How can I be part of your inner circle?
I said, Here's a video, man.
I'm just going to tell you what I stand for.
If you can meet these 15, cool.
If you don't, I don't have a big inner circle.
I have a small one, and I don't let a lot of people in for specific reasons.
So, you get to choose where you want to be.
If Spain wants to do it this way, great more power to them.
If it works out, phenomenal.
If it doesn't, doesn't.
But sometimes, you know, the reality of it is they have tested this before.
And Spain, if there's anything Spain needs, is a little bit of the other side, not this side.
Yeah, exactly.
And it's funny because the microcosm here is, you know, you look at this, two big stories this past week: Spain wanting to have people work, you know, from home, shorten the work week, et cetera.
And then you look at that Goldman Sachs story in the United States where those junior-level associates there had to like go to the CEO and complain because they were working up to 120, no, 100 to 110 hours a week.
And then the CEO said, Hey, anything over 90 is a little bit over the top, man.
We got to give you a few hours off from Friday night to Saturday.
So that just shows the difference, right?
Wall Street's killing her.
Dude, don't go work at Goldman Sachs.
You know what's in volume?
Done.
Why are you working at Goldman Sachs?
They're doing it to become a senior level executive where they're going to make 15 million.
Don't do it.
You don't want to make 50 million?
Don't do it.
Stop bitching about it.
Nobody told you to make 15 million.
Go work at B of A. Go work at a different place.
Don't go to Goldman Sachs.
I love the fact that my guy, Goldman Sachs, picks up the call on Sundays.
I love it.
That's why you do business with him.
I'm a guy that works sometimes on Sundays.
I'm sitting by the pool.
I'm looking at the yachts and I'm making a call.
Hey, can I talk to you?
I like the fact that he'll pick up my call.
And if he makes 10 million a year, does it bother me?
Not at all.
And I guarantee you that CEO is pissed off at this because it makes him look bad, number one.
And number two, he'd be thinking, you guys spent all this time putting this PowerPoint together and rallying this little protest when you should have been working.
I bet he was really secretly annoyed.
Two things.
Okay.
Go ahead.
I want to say two stories.
You got eight minutes.
Usually countries are graded on their what? GDP.
That's their level of productivity.
Gross domestic product.
Gross domestic product.
I actually interviewed a guy from the Kingdom of Bhutan.
Familiar with this?
His title is like the Secretary of Happiness.
You would interview somebody like that.
In Bhutan, they don't necessarily use GDP.
They use GDH, gross domestic happiness.
How happy are the people that live in their country?
It's just a different way of doing things.
But one of the things I always say is the big three in life is health, wealth, and happiness.
Without health, you've got nothing.
You need some wealth.
This is my philosophical views coming again.
But happiness is very good feedback you just gave right there.
Very good feedback.
Put a thumbs up if you thought that was one of the most magical moments Adam's ever had on the podcast.
Double thumbs up if you want to move to Bhutan.
Yeah, exactly.
GDH.
Okay, so real quick, real estate.
Then I want to touch on Trump's social media stuff and then we'll wrap up.
The reality of real estate market, article written by Tom Zenner.
Go to VTPost.com to read other articles.
And by the way, we have a VT post, Insider, for a dollar a month.
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But the reality of real estate market, there are 1.39 licensed realtors for every house sold in the U.S. Pretty crazy when you think about this.
Go a little lower to show the data here.
Go a little lower when you look at this data here.
So what was it?
More licensed real estate agents than total number of houses for sale nationally.
Think about that.
More real estate licensed agents than total number of houses for sale nationally.
Couple that with the record low interest rates and the strongest housing boom in 15 years.
And it becomes understandable how this could happen.
Here's the data all the way at the bottom.
If you look at it, all the way at the bottom.
It's an unusual year in real estate sector the economy.
So strange, in fact, that 1.5 million members were listed.
And the National Association of Realtors, while there were only 1,040,000 homes for sale across the United States, a 26% decrease from the previous year.
Insane.
It is a seller's market.
Sell if you can.
If you're thinking about selling this year or next year, sell this year.
Okay.
I may be wrong.
This is just an opinion.
I am not a real estate expert, but I'm telling you, if you're thinking about selling in the next couple of years, sell this.
This is a great point.
I'll back it up with some data.
36% of the houses sold last month nationally sold above asking price.
36% nationally.
The sellers got more than they were asking.
And here's the other thing.
Every single market has gone up except one, San Francisco, down.
People are bailing on San Francisco.
It's the only major market where the cost of the business.
Pelosi is probably so pissed off right now.
Why would you guys leave San Francisco and disappoint Nancy Pelosi?
Heartbreaking.
Do you have thoughts on this?
Are you good to go?
You want to go to Trump?
You got five?
At the end of the day, I think it's going to, just in any business, specifically real estate, it's going to be the 80-20 rule.
The top 20% of the realtors are going to do 80% of the business, and the other 80% are going to fight for the scraps of the 20%.
That's just the same in any sales business.
Same in someone else's company that you're rocking today, I assume.
80-20 rule.
This is my philosophy right there.
So there's a million freaking realtors.
By the way, honestly, you're on fire today.
No joke.
Water on me today.
Okay.
Trump hints at launching his own social media platform.
And the first subscriber is Adam Sausnick.
Former President Donald Trump has teased the launch of his own social media platform, but did not provide a timeline or offer any further details regarding the potential business venture.
I'm doing things having to do with putting our own platform out there that you'll be hearing about soon, Trump said on Fox News Contributor, Lisa Booth's debut podcast on Monday.
Trump's senior advisor Jason Miller also previewed plans for the new platform over the weekend, saying that the former president will be returning to social media in probably the next two to three months.
After being banned from Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms, Trump has taken to releasing statements through his post-presidency office and political action committee in recent months.
What do you think is going to happen with Trump launching his own social media platform?
I know you're a name.
I know you're a big data guy.
Well, it's not Parler.
Is that not what it is?
No.
Well, I heard that the site is going to flag any statement that turns out to be true.
You're so fast.
So anything that comes out there, if it's true, they're going to flag it and be like, wow, Trump told the truth.
That's crazy.
So those statements will be flagged.
You're so famous.
I would like to know our good friend Jason Miller.
He says, we'll be returning to social media in probably in the next two to three months.
Yep.
Two to three months.
So, and we also have our other friend Alan Lickman, who does not think that Trump is going to be running for president in 2024.
He's off of social media completely.
So if he has any chance of ever winning presidency again, he's going to need some sort of social media platform.
And this might be the key.
But Tom.
Okay, here's a guarantee.
This is a prediction for me, which is also a guarantee, which means it will happen.
Mark this one down 100%.
This social media platform will be made out of solid gold.
Okay?
Like everything else he does, he'll have a gold plated.
The logo or something will be gold.
Here's why I don't think it's going to work.
It's like the gold toilet.
Yeah.
Or the gold faucets.
That's Maradona.
The gold faucets on his Boeing 757, which is rotting at an airport hanging right now.
Okay, it's not going to work.
And I'll tell you why.
Because you don't rush something like this out.
You're already giving people two to three months to prepare to not provide a platform for him.
AWS or wherever he's going to have to go.
You know, there's going to be some people that are going to be against this.
It was all the Miller's comments were clichés.
It's going to be the hottest ticket in social media.
We're going to redefine the game.
A lot of high-powered meetings are going on at Mar-a-Lago.
He had no details, no facts.
Nothing here makes me believe that he's going to have his own platform.
Meanwhile, there's been a COVID outbreak in Mar-a-Lago, and the whole thing shut down from what I hear.
Wow.
That's not false.
That comment is not being flagged.
No, no.
That comment is not.
It's not going to be sympathetic for them in the middle of a pandemic.
By the way, we're not in the middle of a pandemic.
We're on the back end of it.
Tail end of it, yeah, because of that.
Spring break, and mind me.
And the way Krispy Kreems is doing, it's going to be done in no time.
So are you excited for Trump's new social media?
I'm excited about strategies.
That's what I'm excited about.
I'm curious to know what the next 5, 10, 15 moves of Trump is.
Well, you've been very outspoken that you want him to curate the next set of leaders.
Like, you want him to have sort of like a Trump university, a Trump influence the next generation.
Yeah, the challenge is everything's been surrounded around him.
Now it's about does he develop other leaders and teach them how to become, you know, the same way that he went from where he was at to being a pretty well-known figure, the most well-known figure in the world.
I mean, everybody around, he had so much influence that let me tell you what happened to different businesses.
Okay, check this out.
If you haven't felt the itch to check Twitter 24-7, skim your preferred news site or keep cable news humming in the background, President Trump left office, joined the club.
A few months into the new Biden administration, news consumption has significantly declined, according to Washington Post.
CNN lost half of its primetime viewership in the key 25 to 54 demographic in the period of President Biden's inauguration on March 15th.
Let me say that one more time.
Half, half of primetime, 25 to 54.
That's a 30-year span, 25 to 54.
That's where the money is.
That's where the money is.
Online, from January to February, unique visitors to New York Times' website dropped 17%, while Washington Post clocked in 26% decline.
Washington Post does this article, and they say we're down 26%, okay?
So you know there's credibility there.
Trump's dramatic time in the office was like San Francisco in 1849 for media companies that covered politics.
The New York Times, check this out, this stat.
The New York Times started off his presidency with 3 million paying subscribers.
By the time Trump was out, how many subscribers do you think they had?
Double.
7.5 million.
More than double.
Look at the kind of money he made.
New York Times.
CNN has its best year ever in 2020 and drew more viewers 25 to 54 than Fox for the first time in 19 years in Q4.
Throwing the onset of global pandemic, then door-bursting subscription deals, and news companies were inundated with traffic, right?
Following with this.
But now, New York Times warned last November that subscriber gains would start to slow down once number 45 left and it's investing more resources into games and cooking and other stuff.
And then on the bottom line, it says, with DC going from house of cards to C-SPAN 2, the focus is shifting from filibuster to stunks.
And, you know, he goes into talking about other stuff here.
Here's the reality of it.
This guy gets eyeballs.
No matter what anybody says, this guy gets eyeballs.
And what's going to happen with the social media side?
If it's just around his name, it's going to fail.
If he goes and hires the smartest and the brightest and overpays these guys and brings a killer team that's done this before and recruits some talent away, then it's got a shot.
But it's not going to be if he just gets his people that are, he's going to need some real solid engineers who have done this before with Facebook, with Google, with other platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter.
If he draws those people in, which I'm willing to bet there's some out there, and he brings a couple hundred of them on board and he brings the right money behind him to do this, I think this can have legs.
But he's going to have to find the hosting services that's going to want to back him up.
You hit the nail on the head.
Yeah.
And you asked the perfect question.
Is he willing to not make this about himself?
Anything he's ever done has had Trump's name on it.
I literally can't think of anything that he's done without his name.
Trump's a bunch of people.
There's university.
So, like, for him to go out there and start talking about anything other than Trump, I think, is very foreign to his nature.
I don't think it's in his DNA.
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