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We're officially live for episode number 52 with a special guest, Adam's best friend in the world, Ricky Aguilar.
How you doing, Ricky?
I'm doing good.
How about you guys?
Very good.
Very good.
I'm excited to be here.
I was saying, you know, there's a special bond between the two of you guys.
There's a special bond.
It's like stepbrothers.
It's like Will Farrell and John C. Riley over here.
You know the scene where they're like hitting themselves with shovels and killing each other and bearing each other?
Yeah.
That's us, Ricky.
But in the end, did we just become best friends?
Yes, we did.
That just happened.
I think it's important for us to say that it was Ricky's birthday yesterday.
So happy birthday, Ricky.
Happy birthday, guys.
You know, for everybody that's following the podcast right now, why don't you put Ricky's Instagram account below?
Go wish Ricky a happy birthday.
Give him a follow and wish him a happy birthday on his Instagram account.
How young?
How young are you now?
33.
33?
33.
Same age as Jesus, bro.
It's a magical age.
Yes, it is.
It's a magical age.
What were you doing when you were 33, PPD?
Where were you when I was?
I was running the company and I had no life.
I was going 100 and 100 hours a week, non-stop.
Well, what's changed?
Nothing's changed.
33, 42.
What's the freaking difference?
Nothing's really changing.
Where do you see our friend Ricky when he's your age?
Give me the vision 10 years from now.
I think Ricky's one of those guys that he can be a generational leader to impact the Latino community.
That's what I think Ricky can do because he is extremely relatable.
He's not the guy that comes with a degree from schools, not like you.
He's not a three-point AGPA with you.
What did Adrian's?
Adrian was like, well, 40% of the time.
Adrian was like student night award.
I mean, that guy's a brainiac.
Well, it wasn't Ricky.
That wasn't Ricky.
He's Mexican as well, bro.
You'd like my husband.
I went to a California-funded facility, but it was not college.
That's right.
You did.
Yeah, something tells me you were working out in the yard quite often.
Yeah, by the way, many years ago, many long ago.
Funny story.
The other day, I hold an emergency Zoom with our leaders.
No joke.
Look at him laughing.
I'm not even kidding.
So I said, guys, we've got an emergency.
We're doing this video, whatever we were doing the other day.
So everybody starts getting on, getting on, getting on.
Ricky gets on.
I said, Ricky doesn't have a shirt on.
I'm like, no joke, no shirt on.
I'm like, Ricky, you okay?
He says, yes.
I said, what's going on?
He says, I'm getting a tattoo done.
So we had to wait.
We had to wait for Ricky to wrap up his artwork before we shot the video.
It was a very interesting moment.
How many tattoos you got?
Well, I'm fully covered.
You're tired.
My arms, my legs, yeah, my back.
When does it stop?
It probably won't.
Okay, but Ricky, do us all a favor.
Don't touch that beautiful face, bro.
No, I won't.
You put something on that face.
You're not going to pull off a Tyson.
No.
What do you think about all these like Gen Z hip-hop like trap rappers with tattoos on the face?
What do you say to these kids?
You know, you know, it's funny because I actually thought about that.
I thought about it probably about a month ago.
I think that it's making them millions of dollars right now.
And then I'm thinking that what's going to end up happening later on down the road when they have their families and they're grown is they're just going to remove them.
Well, actually, 50 Cent removed some of his tattoos.
Because his face?
No, no, no, no.
He removed, because he said businessmen don't have tattoos.
So he removed some of his tattoos.
So I think that's what they're going to end up doing.
But you're doubling down.
You're getting more.
Yeah, but I'm not going to go.
For example, I have my sleeves done.
Yeah.
But you can't, my sleeves are three-quarter sleeves.
So see, they start right there.
So anytime I can always be in business attire, and I'm never going to not, you know, and I make it a point to not go.
So you're like business in the front.
Right.
Party in the back.
Party in the back.
There you go.
You go to Hawaii.
Ricky walks around in Hawaii without a shirt on.
I mean, it's just, it's ink everywhere.
They probably think he's Samoan of some capacity.
Yeah, it's funny.
It's funny.
I got bad news for you, bro.
I don't think you're going to be able to be buried in a Jewish cemetery.
Probably not.
I don't think that's going to be able to happen because you can't have tattoos.
How did you get yours, though?
What's the story with your tattoos?
My tats?
Yeah.
Oh, man.
It's, you know, the penitentiary, bro.
I was in California.
And, you know, some rough stuff happened.
No, the last person that's going to get a tattoo is you.
I don't see you getting a tattoo.
I'm not anti-tattoo.
I'm just not pro-tattoo.
You know what I'm saying?
There's things.
I'm not like, I would never, but I'm just, there's nothing that has inspired me.
If I did get a tattoo, the one thing I thought about was like the yin-yang sign.
Not like the yin-yang twins, but the but leaning to the left, like the slightly left.
Got it.
Slightly left.
Got it.
So people are going to try to paint me as a leftist, Marxist, communist.
Well, let me ask you a crazy question.
Here's a crazy question, but we got a lot of different topics.
Of course, I want you to go down.
Let me give the list and then I'll ask a crazy question.
We go through that.
So we're going to have a good time.
President Trump dropped 298 spots in Forbes ranking, according to the magazine on the world's billionaires.
Kim Kardashian is officially a billionaire.
Tim Cook says he doesn't expect to be running a company for a decade from now, meaning he's not going to be there.
And his strategy on dealing with Biden will be the same as dealing with Trump.
Then we got a story about Goldman Sachs predicting a big evolution in the way Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are regulated.
Goldman says it.
Dalio says it.
Yellen, your best friend, says it.
Something's going on there with crypto and regulation.
Amazon is snapping up the disused shopping malls and turning it into fulfillment centers.
Amazon has a quota.
This is a great story.
I can't wait to get into this one.
Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave each year.
Employees say that's a big reason Amazon's culture feels cutthroat.
The fact that they're okay with people leaving, yet some people think it's cutthroat.
We're going to talk about that.
JP Morgan Chase, CEO Jamie Dimon, says remote war can undermine the character of a company and lays out the bank's plan for the future of the office.
He also says economic boom fuel by deficit spending, vaccines could easily run into 2023.
Tesla assures China, the cameras and the cars are being turned off.
You know, China's freaking out with that.
Where is Kamala?
Two weeks since being named border Cesar, Harris still hasn't visited the border.
Okay, we're going to show you a couple videos here that's going to be absolutely difficult for you to watch if you haven't already seen it.
Another story with Putin.
Putin signals, signs a law allowing him to run for two more terms as Russian president.
It's a tough law for him to pass.
Why would he sign a law like that?
But he ended up passing.
It's a sexy law for that guy.
Relocations from San Francisco to Texas and Florida jumped 30 to 46 percent in 2020.
In close consolations with partners and allies around the world, Biden administration will weigh 2022 Beijing games for U.S. Caitlin Jenner is reportedly considering a run for California governor.
Adam wanted to know if you would vote for Caitlin over Newsome.
We're going to talk about that.
I don't know if you saw the lizard in the store in Thailand.
We'll talk about that lizard, anti-capitalism protester that takes a beating, fallen.
It's a very difficult video to watch because his ribs.
You're going to see this kid fallen?
Have you seen this or no?
His ribs.
You're going to react to the ribs.
And what happens after that?
Pat had a rough reaction.
Yeah, yeah, there was a reaction.
And Big Short, one of my favorite guys.
Yeah.
When he talks, I'd like to see what this guy has to say.
Michael Burry.
Michael Burry from The Big Short quits Twitter, disappointing his Legion of Retail Traders, Superfans, and Pierce Morgan to Tucker.
Trusting Markle is like believing Pinocchio.
Pinocchio.
She's spinning future kings of England.
Now, you guys were having a debate earlier.
Yes.
The debate was, is there a communistic country?
Help me out with that debate right there if there's a country around the world that's communistic or not.
Well, apparently, if the name itself, if they name themselves communists, that's not good enough for Adam.
You know, he says they're not a communist, even though it's what is the Republic?
The people's Republic of China, also known as the CCP, the Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of China.
So, apparently, that's not enough.
You know, they don't identify as communists, even though they're communists.
But let's define it, actually, because let's define what is 100% communism.
What is communism?
Should we look it up for our followers?
What is communism?
What is communism?
The definition of communism, correct me if wrong, is there's zero private ownership.
What is zero?
Everything is controlled by the communism.
Okay, so yes, a political theory derived from Karl Marx advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
So, essentially, a classless society.
A hundred percent tax.
Yeah, okay.
Now, there is two sides to communism, right?
One is control, they tell you whatever to do, the other one is on the business side, economically, a political political, right?
Yes, China is politically communistic.
Economically, they're still allowing, but at the same time, notice also what's happening with China lately.
If you get a little too big, what are they doing to Jack Mazza?
You're getting a little too much voice.
Hey, hey, hey, give us control back of this.
So, at any point, the difference between there and here is they can at any point come and take control of any business they want to.
You can't say nothing about it.
They can come in and do it anytime.
We've seen what they've been doing with Jack Ma and everything they're doing with the ant group.
All they love.
I totally agree.
All they love.
Well, but the thing is that you said that communism doesn't exist.
Venezuela did that.
There's actually videos where there's a man because I was speaking to Vanessa right here, which is a credible part of the altitude team.
And there's a video where I think it's Chavez or Mahuro.
He's literally going, he says, What is that?
Oh, they sell jewelry.
Take it.
What is that?
They do this.
Take it.
That's communism.
That's communism.
So to say that doesn't exist, actually, I think the champion.
Oh, just happened.
Whoa, so the communist guy on the right side, on the right side.
So to say that it doesn't exist.
Oh, I'll get it.
There it is.
Okay.
So to say that it doesn't exist.
That's the biggest guy we've had in this chair, maybe.
That's what's going on.
You know, it's crazy because we've seen it in action.
As a matter of fact, the champions of communism are from Venezuela.
Yeah.
Right?
I mean, even Venezuela is an absolutely different.
Venezuela did communism the right way.
Did they?
Yes, because they ruined the country.
How do you get the richest, one of the richest countries in the world with oil and literally ruin it?
You know, they have more money than they have more oil than the United States have more oil than Mexico.
By the way, Mexico is to a certain extent have a socialist president right now, which is Amlo.
Pull him up first.
And he's, and that's just insane.
You know, pull it up first, the other side.
Ricky, let's switch that comfortable.
Sounds good.
So let's switch that because if that's the one that drops, yeah, okay, so let's do that.
That's much better.
I knew it.
That was a brilliant move on your end.
Gotcha.
Six o'clock in the morning.
He was here sitting here.
I was there.
I said, all right, Ricky's going to make his point on communism.
Drop it low.
Drop it low.
So look, let's skip this part.
Look, are either of us fans of communism?
No.
Okay, I was just simply saying that even China, one of us votes closer to communism than the other, that's for sure.
One of us, okay, you want to go that route?
All right.
One of us also votes closer to QAnon than the others, but we'll be okay.
No.
Look, one thing we should establish from the get-go, Ricky, let's do that.
Is I like things in moderation, right?
If you're too far to the right fringe, I don't fuck with you.
If you're too far to the left fringe, I don't fuck with you.
Yeah, I like to keep things in between the 40s as if our friend Pigram Beckian is listening.
This is something we talk about all the time.
Keep it between the 40s.
Maybe you move the ball a little bit to the left, maybe people to the right.
Anyone that's hanging on the goalposts, like people who used to maybe be on this show, I can't get down with.
I'll call out an AOC just like I'll call out anyone on the right.
No, Rubio's not all the way to the right.
Right, no, Cruz isn't all the way to the right.
No.
Who is all the way to the right?
Who is all the way to the right?
I mean, that's a good question.
Who is actually all the way to the right?
On the Louis Gomer from Texas.
Louis Gomer.
All the way to the right.
He's very far right.
Hold on, Let's talk about who's far right that actually has a voice.
AOC has a voice.
Omar has a voice.
Listen, she's playing the game.
Bernie Sanders is playing the game.
Bernie Sanders has a voice.
He's playing the game.
You can't get mad who has a voice on the right.
You have a strong voice and a strong opinion.
He's a radical people who listened to.
You have a strong voice and you have a strong opinion.
No, I'm not going to get mad if people want to follow Ricky Akilo.
No, You got a strong voice.
That's not what I'm saying.
My question is: who is influential on the right that is far right?
Influential.
Not some person that you know that everybody watching us has to go look up.
You don't have to look up AOC.
Everybody knows who AOC is.
She's playing the game.
I get that, but what I'm getting at is that who's radical, far right that is influential?
Who's far right that's influential?
Who's very, very far right?
A well-known figure that's on the that's far is Lindsey Graham far right?
Lindsey Graham?
No, I don't think he's very far right.
Is he a voice for I think our friend Donald Trump had some far-right tendencies that he is not very far right, especially socially?
Maybe he's got some authoritarian qualities, but he brings out people on the far right.
So the authoritarian or he just was speaking for the Americans that are tired of the BS?
Which one is it?
That's a different question.
A little bit of both.
Well, listen.
By the way, if you're watching this, help us out here.
Who would you say is the person that's most on the far right?
Somebody said Ben Shapiro, but he's not a politician.
He's not a politician.
He doesn't have a fairly bad leader.
Because he called that Trump this way.
Who would you put as far right politicians?
As a matter of fact, Ben Shapiro in 2019 or 820 was the number one target of the all-right.
So you can't.
Of the alt-right.
Oh, the alt-right.
So all-right isn't even far right.
They're off.
That's even worse.
That's even worse.
So that's what I'm getting at.
Ben Shapiro was.
He didn't even vote for Trump in 2016.
Like a David Duke, and not that he's a far right.
I'm getting at the sauces that you have to dig for those people, and they're not even big known figures.
The far left has a lot of.
Mitch McConnell?
I don't think any of these are extremely far right.
By the way, that makes a very good point, by the way, because if you think about it, let's put a chart, right?
Okay, you got, let's just put a chart here.
Okay, I'm going to put the line here in the middle.
This is a simple, independent person.
Okay.
I'm going to put the libertarian here.
Okay.
I'm going to put the libertarian here.
I'm going to put the Democrat, say, here.
Okay.
Let's put socialist here.
Okay.
Let's put communist here.
Is that fair?
Yes.
Okay.
Let's put Republican here and then far right here.
Okay.
All right.
Where would you say, if we say this is the independent, right in the middle?
Yes.
Okay.
Libertarian, we got plenty of them.
Rand Paul is one of them.
Let's put Rubio, let's put Cruz here, Republican.
Let's put Trump here.
Yes.
Okay.
Agreed.
Where do you want to put Obama?
Obama's here or you put him a little bit here?
I would put him in the middle between Democrat and socialists.
Okay, where do you put Biden?
I think he's a Democrat.
I think so.
He plays a role in the world.
I think so as well.
AOC.
100% between socialists and communists.
Sanders.
Same thing.
Who do you put over here?
There's nobody, big figures.
You put like a Jeff Sessions there, Jeff Sessions.
Who's that?
What do you mean, who's Jeff Sessions?
No, no.
Adam, we're talking about people that have a voice.
Jeff Sessions does not have a voice.
Does not have a voice.
I'm talking about it.
Anne Coulter's very far right, yeah.
Okay, so now let's talk about the police.
But she's not a politician.
How about Dinesh DeSouza?
This is the comments that's coming up.
Candace Owens.
Candace Owens?
She's right, but not far right.
No.
Got it.
It's interesting.
It's interesting to see.
Well, thank goodness that there's not people very, very, very far right that we can't.
Thankful of that.
You know what's crazy?
People think the far right is, we won our gun rights, right?
We were pro-life, right?
Well, they're pro-life, pro-life.
Believe in the future.
And I was fighting liberty.
I'll kill you if you're not.
No, no, but how is that far right?
It's crazy that everything's got pulled so to the left.
You can look at regular conservative values are now far right.
You know, like if it was some type of nationalist type thing, you know, it's insane.
So who's far right?
I'll tell you who's pulled so left.
I'll tell you how regular conservative seems like it's far right.
Trump's ear.
What's his guy's name?
Steve Bannon.
Steve Bannon, Breitbart, a little bit, but there was also the other guy, the bald guy.
Jesus, what's his name?
The fact that you're thinking is not a big name.
No, no, no.
You have the graphic.
It's crazy.
Let me explain to you what I mean, Adam.
People that are here think that this is the middle.
And it's Steven Miller.
Stephen Miller.
People that are here think that people here are far right.
I don't think that's the same thing.
Meetings between Democrat and socialists.
They think Republican conservatives are right.
Republicans are far right.
It's not.
So to them, if you go, the line is here, independent.
The left has pushed the left, the line.
Where are you?
This is where they're at.
Where are you on this chart?
I'm 100% Republican conservative.
But where on this chart?
If you had to, I'm right here.
This is where I'm at.
100%.
Where are you?
Pat's under the pen.
He's always said that.
Well, I don't want to speak for Patsy.
I'm a register independent, but I'm probably more here libertarian.
Because to me, to me, it's go ahead.
Okay.
You're here, you're saying.
I'm right here.
You would say that I'm somewhere around here on certain things.
But fiscally, I'm closer to God.
I don't think you're here.
I think you're here.
I think you're to the right of Democrats.
I think your mansion.
I think that's exactly what I mean.
Who have I been saying for a year that is like my favorite politics?
I think that's who you are.
I think that's who you are.
And in certain areas, I think you go on the right.
But if it comes down to this question, I asked him the other day.
I asked him a question the other day.
I said, as much as you hated Trump, I got to correct you.
I've never used the word hate.
Fair enough.
As much as you dislike Trump.
And you look at the character.
I said, if Biden were to come out.
I heard you ask him that.
100% tax rate.
Right.
Okay.
Would you still have voted for Biden?
You said what?
Anyone that comes out with 100% tax rate, I would not vote for it.
So then the question would have become what percentage would have been the one that would have been the tipping point.
Well, is this marginal tax rates?
Is it over a certain amount?
I mean, what's going up?
You're talking about wealth taxes.
You're talking about wealth tax, corporate tax, capital gains.
You're talking about the state tax, every tax.
There isn't a tax.
There's a whole new tax.
They don't hold back.
There is no tax that is not being taxed.
Everything is going to be.
Well, we covered this last time.
Taxes are the lowest they've been in history over the last couple decades.
But the point.
In the 40s, 50s, and 60s, taxes were absurd.
Taxes are under Republicans.
I did as well.
I did my monthly private webinar yesterday with the, what do you call it, the folks that are from around the country, say 40 different countries, CEOs, entrepreneurs that run their businesses.
I said, pay very, very close attention to taxes.
So many times we work and we're not even paying attention to taxes, right?
So many times we vote, we don't pay attention to taxes.
I agree.
See, to me, taxes are what's really going to hit everybody.
Right.
Because it's logic, right?
Emotion is, I can't believe what he said.
I can't believe what she said.
I can't believe what he did.
I can't believe what happened there.
This is not fair.
That shouldn't be happening.
That's emotion.
90% of the time, people vote emotionally.
Yes, correct.
They don't vote.
I agree.
Vote logically.
I think taxes is something people have to pay very close attention to because the direction these guys are pitching could affect countries around the world as well, not just the U.S. You said that you were going to do a board episode on taxes.
We got a paper on top of paper with articles on taxes that we're looking at right now.
I'm not going to do it for the next couple weeks, but I'm going to be doing it because when I do a topic like that, you got excited about that.
This is 100%.
Even when we talk about it.
100%.
Was Byron on the show?
Byron was on the show when we were talking about the money.
There were some things you weren't even necessarily familiar with and how high the taxes were.
Well, no, when I went back and looked, but when I went back and looked at the numbers, what 90% tax bracket was at $200,000, which is today's $2.5 million year income, we're not talking about 90% taxing $20,000 people today.
They're talking about $2.5 million of income back in whatever year.
Nobody with very few people made Hollywood actors, Reagan.
Yeah, people so motivated.
But the point I'm trying to make to you is the fact that the number was a number that touches a small, small percent.
I haven't paid myself $2.5 million.
I don't know.
I don't pay myself $2.5 million salary.
These guys know how much I get paid.
My CFO told these guys how much I get paid, right?
So the point is, my money comes from a different place.
It doesn't come from my salary.
So mathematically, it may seem like, but they were doing 90% tax and it's such a great, but you know, if we can get to 90%, we can get there again.
Doesn't work that way.
You got to tell the full story.
I want to go dig deep to do the full story.
It may require me to read a couple books before I do this video because that's a topic that I think we need to pay very, very closely.
Unfortunately, when you put a title taxes, guess how many people want to open it and watch a tax video?
Right.
Hell, nobody wants to watch a tax video.
I got to almost put like, you know, what do you call it?
The sex, drug, and rock and roll and taxes.
I have a great idea.
Yeah.
Actually, we have to do something.
Think about it.
Kai's actually thinking sex, drugs, rock and roll, and taxes.
The only certainties in life: sex, drug, rock and roll, death, and taxes.
There it is.
Let me ask our friend Ricky, you know, because this is talking about being a moderate.
You know, I'm from Florida.
In Florida, we're very literally nice.
Exactly.
It is very nice.
We're a very purple state, meaning we can go left, we can go right.
We kind of keep things in the middle.
We got, you know, I went to college in Tallahassee, which is in the northern part in the Panhandle, very more conservative part of the state.
Lived there for four years.
Down in Miami, a little more liberal, but a lot of Cubans who are Republican.
So there's a mix of everything.
So we're not too far left and too far right.
So even tax-wise, there's no state income tax.
I mean, obviously, this is a big topic that we talk about right here.
There's no state income tax.
There's no city tax like in New York City or anything like that.
So for you, that does very well for yourself.
Congratulations.
I see the numbers.
I see the numbers.
You could smile now.
Happy birthday.
You live in California.
Yes.
You make a very high income.
I do.
At what point is the taxes too much for you to say, you know what?
I can't deal with this crap.
I'm paying 40% federal tax.
I'm paying 13.5% state tax.
I don't know if there's a tax in Bakersfield for just a bit.
But this is a legitimate question.
No, no.
Luckily, we're very blessed that Kern County is a conservative county.
It's ran by conservative.
You live in a very liberal state.
Right.
Yeah, you're right.
You know, that's a good question.
I've never experienced that.
So I'd be very hypocritical for me to sit here and give you the answer to that.
So what would be too much?
Gotcha.
Right?
Because that's something actually you guys know that, you know, Pat's my business coach as well.
So that was something I would consult: like, hey, what point is it time to go?
Because he has the experience in that.
So, but, but, I mean, even 40%.
I mean, for people watching, 40%, that means for every dollar you make, they're taking 40 of it, 40 cents.
Not necessarily true, but go.
Well, what do you think?
It's because it's marginal tax brackets.
It's first.
Yeah, but when you start $50,000, you're going to be about California.
Yeah, okay.
When you start adding the state tax, it's not marginal anymore.
Effective tax.
Of course.
I mean, you're talking about it's a whole different ballgame.
But the point is, you pay a lot of taxes.
But for some reason, bro, you've stayed because there's benefits you're getting of being in California, whether that's, you know, loving the.
Right now, it's just because that's the majority.
95% of my business is there.
Well, that's my point.
There's business, there's economic.
There's Skiing in the morning and then go on the beach in the afternoon and the whole thing.
California is a beautiful state, but at what point is enough?
That's true.
It's a good question.
Well, I mean, the exact premise of what you're saying is what the California politicians use to say nobody will ever leave because it's like the whole the way you kill a frog is what?
You don't just go to 112 degree temperature and you put him in boiling water, put him slowly, but surely you kill him out.
He doesn't know he's getting killed, right?
However, today, there are a lot of people in California who are aware of what's going on and are leaving.
Since 1990, three and a half million people have left the state of California.
The percentage on the data.
Matter of fact, since we're doing this, I was going to go into immigration with Kamala, but let's go into the stats about that, though, for sure.
We're about to percentage.
Don't worry about that, bro.
We're going there.
Let's talk about relocation from San Francisco to Texas.
Specific city that they're talking about is San Francisco to Texas.
So if we look at that on page number six, relocation from San Francisco to Texas.
Bahinas.
Bahinas.
Relocations from San Francisco to Texas, Florida jumped between 32 to 46 percent in 2020.
Fox business.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated migration from the U.S. in 2020 compared to 2019, but particularly from large urban areas like San Francisco and New York to Sunbelt metro cities like Austin, Dallas, Charlotte, according to a study published by the CBRE Real Estate Group.
A summary of the study notes that many of those who left these cities may return once the pandemic is over.
About 135,000 more people left California in 2020 than moved in, making the third largest migration loss in state's history.
Several large California companies, including Oracle, Hugh Packard, and Enterprise, moved their headquarters to Texas.
These are big companies, by the way.
Yes.
To move your headquarters to Texas in 2020.
And Tesla's Elon Musk moved to Houston in December.
Tech executive, including Palantir chairman Peter Thiel and former PayPal executive Keith Rabo recently moved to Miami as the city's mayor, Francis Suarez, attempts to court the big tech players to South Florida.
Suarez nicknamed Miami the capital of crypto and capital of capital in two separate Tuesday tweets.
We were at the event.
We were at the event when he said those things.
Yes.
Ricky, your thoughts.
It makes sense.
I mean, it makes sense for them.
Why would you want to stay in San Francisco where they literally have a map, a crap map, right?
Where they have a map to where people take the most craps in the city.
And so you can walk around it.
San Francisco has.
Yeah, did you know that?
Kai, go to San Francisco Crap Map.
Oh, did you bring us the map, bro?
I got to know what it was.
It's a ship map.
So we're looking to bring out crap map, San Francisco, images of crap in San Francisco.
Look at the first one.
Yeah, it's a so you.
But that's not true.
Go to the second one that shows you right there.
Right.
Where the homeless are taking.
Unbelievable.
So they have a crap map.
Poop maps.
Yeah.
This is ridiculous.
You didn't know they had it, Pat?
I had no idea.
I surprised.
I had no idea.
That's where you can go to take care of that.
That's crap or something.
No, brother.
No, no.
That's where they're doing.
They're handing out needles for the drug addicts so they don't pass HIV to each other, whatever the case may be.
How far is this from Silicon Valley?
How many miles?
An hour, give or take?
Yeah, I have a team up there, so it's about an hour.
About an hour, hour and a half maybe at the most, depending on traffic.
So going back to...
So what you're saying is you're not surprised.
No, 100%.
Well, forget about, does it say 32 miles?
San Francisco, Silicon Valley, 32 miles.
So fast driving, it's 15 minutes.
Especially back forward.
So with traffic, it's about an hour.
But so to answer your question, though, Pat, it doesn't surprise me, first of all, because of the conditions.
San Francisco used to be a beautiful, it's still a beautiful city, beautiful sites.
But when you live there, you're dealing with these things.
It's different to go there for the day and go with your family to live there, right?
That's number one.
And then on top of that, number two is when you're dealing with, you know, They did the $15 an hour minimum.
If you run a business, you can't afford to pay people that plus workers' comp plus that plus have a profit, right?
So, yeah, it only makes sense that people are leaving San Francisco.
As a matter of fact, in Bakersfield, where I live in Bakersfield, California, we had a big migration of people from San Jose, San Francisco, Vallejo, Salinas moved on to Bakersfield because the housing rate was a lot cheaper and it was affordable to live.
So now I'm not surprised that they're moving to Texas.
100% makes sense.
If you live in California, you'd understand why they're moving.
By the way, give you crazy statistics.
I was doing a video yesterday about moving to Florida, why I chose to move to Florida, et cetera, et cetera.
And the video actually gives you reasons why I chose to move to Florida.
It's coming out probably, what, next Tuesday to come out, right?
One of the stats that's absolutely staggering is the following.
How many total homeless people do you think we have in America?
Total in all of America?
What do you mean over-under?
Yeah, give me an over-under.
How many total homeless people?
First, let me give you total U.S. population as of right now.
I think it's 330.
I'm going to say 350, but U.S. population is at 328.
In 2019, it was 328.
Let's say it's 330.
Okay.
At 330, how many homeless people you think we have in America?
I would say I'm going to go with a million, Pat.
Okay.
What do you say it is?
Two million.
Okay.
So both of you are off.
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which is the HUD, 580,000 homeless people in America, which, by the way, you figure there's probably more, but that's the number that they have registered, right?
Let's just say 580,000 people that are homeless.
You know how many of that 580s from California?
160, give or take.
160.
One fourth of it.
A little more than one fourth of all the homeless people in America are from the state of California.
Do you know during the pandemic, just in the city of LA, not California, homelessness increased 20,000 people in the state, in the city of L.A. 20,000 people in the state of homelessness.
So are you surprised that people are leaving California to move to Texas or Florida?
I mean, how confident was Suarez at the dinner the other night?
How confident was he?
Got a shout out to Francis Suarez, mayor of Miami.
The guy's swaggy to begin with.
I saw his picture.
Oh my God.
The guy's a supermodel.
He looks like a supermodel.
I saw him.
We took a picture of him.
I've interviewed him before.
He's just a solid dude.
But when you're the mayor of Miami, you're already in a strong position to begin with.
You're the freaking mayor of Miami.
But now, during the pandemic, everything that's been going on, do you know how much confidence and swag you can develop?
You can play offense right now.
You can play offense.
You can recruit.
You can say, listen, what the hell are you doing in California?
That's right.
He took a shot at New York, no problem, saying, look, they're already a mess and they're trending in the wrong direction.
Come on down to Florida.
I mean, his famous tweet was to the big tech.
How can I help?
Yeah.
How can I help?
And he is helping.
Like he said, he wants Miami to be the capital of capital.
So maybe the pastoral, let me ask you a question a different way.
What does he lead, Pat?
I'm sorry.
What does he lead?
What way does he lead?
Center-right.
Center-right.
Got it.
Center-right.
As a mayor, it's not really too much.
Like, listen, somewhere it says Democrat, somewhere it says conservative, but I would put him as a center-right guy.
Okay.
I would put him as a conservative, socially liberal.
Yeah, that's the best way to put it.
But here's a question for you.
Here's a question for you.
Here's a question for you.
Say pandemic is over with.
Pandemic is over with.
Everything's back to normal.
Everybody got their vaccines except Ricky and a couple other people, right?
Let's just say the vaccine's got everybody being comfortable, right?
Except for a small community.
That's not going to get the vaccine shot.
250% of Republican men.
Unless if they force the passport ID, there's going to be some people getting arrested because some guys are just not going to do it.
It's just going to be, you're not going to be able to get everybody to get the vaccine.
But okay.
Let's just say most people get the vaccine.
Fine.
What percentage of people are going to move back to California?
That's the question.
The moment somebody moves out, what percentage is going back and saying, okay, things are clear?
Does the settle?
I'm moving back to New York.
I'm moving back to California.
What percentage will go back?
So the most important question on things like this is how much of this is permanent?
How much of this is temporary damage control?
What do you think?
I mean, look, this is all just sort of speculation, but I think if you're moving, you're making that decision to move your family, especially if you have kids, if you have a family and kids and you move, you're gone.
If you're a single guy, you know how many single people I know that have moved out of New York into Miami?
Literally every single friend I know.
Where are you from?
Where you from?
From where you live?
Where you live?
Oh, I was from New York.
I'm just down here for a year.
It's a lot easier to, you know, if you have flexibility, if you're single, keep it moving.
Obviously, you know, I've been living on Short for the last 10 years.
If you've got family, you've got kids, you got to roll them in school and you're maybe buying a house, you're gone.
That's it.
A lot of people from California move to Nevada or they move to Arizona or they move to Tennessee.
Some people, obviously, to Florida.
I would say the vast majority, let's say 80%, are gone.
Maybe 20%.
80% are gone.
If your family is with kids, you agree?
No, no, I agree with you.
I actually agree with you, Adam.
We got a first.
Ding, ding, ding.
Can I get up?
I know.
I think that what ends up happening is that, like, for example, I travel a lot.
So I get to see a lot.
When you don't leave California, you don't realize how with the laws and all this, how bad it is until you go to another state.
You're like, you can do that?
You're like, yeah, we can.
How much you pay in taxes?
Oh, wow.
You start opening your eyes to a different world.
So I think that once you open your eyes to a different world, you realize that schooling is better.
You realize that your Second Amendment is not being infringed on.
You realize that, you know, the government is just kind of leaving you alone.
Do your thing, build your business, and we're going to leave you alone.
You know, you go to red states and it impresses you.
You're like, I can live like this.
In America, you don't really, in America, in California, you don't realize how much of a chokehold you have until you leave California.
You don't realize that you can't do this.
You can't do that.
You can't do this.
You can't do that.
We can do this.
We can't do this.
You can't do that.
Until you go to another state where they're like, we don't really care what you're doing.
Just don't kill anybody.
We're good.
Just don't kill anybody.
Well, I think obviously the pandemic exacerbated all of this because now it's acceptable to WFA, WFH, work from home, work from anywhere.
It's completely acceptable.
So if I asked you a year ago, two years ago, Ricky, what are the chances that you're moving to Mississippi?
You'd be like, bro, like, zero.
No.
Now, if you can work from anywhere and you can own guns and work from anywhere and be left alone and low taxes, you might consider living in a state that in a million years you would have not considered 100%.
Not to call out our Mississippian friends or Alabama or whatever.
You know what's hurting some of these states?
Here's what's hurting some of these states.
So for example, say Twitter says, moving forward, nobody ever has to come into the office, right?
I'll say, I want to work for Twitter.
Okay, great.
Work for Twitter.
But I want to work for Twitter living in Texas, living in Nevada, living in Nashville, living in Tennessee, living in Florida.
But I want to work for Twitter.
Twitter says, no problem.
You're hired.
You're a coder.
So I live in Florida, but I work for Twitter, but I don't pay the taxes of the state.
It doesn't matter who's paying me.
I'm paying the state tax of where I live, which is what?
Florida.
So a lot of these companies in Silicon Valley and New York who went out there and started saying what?
Oh, we're hiring people virtually.
You don't have to be here.
They actually hurt the state.
They're actually hurting the state.
It's the state that they're based in.
Of course, because you pay taxes based on where you live.
You don't pay taxes based on where the company lives.
In some cases, they've also said, I know at least early on, they said, oh, you won't have a Silicon Valley rate if you don't live there.
So they're paying proportionately, depending on where you live.
Sure, they are.
In that sense, it's saving them money possibly.
To get, but watch this.
But what does that do?
Think about what that does.
Again, who does that hurt?
Wait, whether they go lower or whether they go out of state, you know who else that even hurts even more?
People living in America because I can now hire people.
If I'm going 100% Zoom, why the hell am I paying U.S. rates?
Why wouldn't I go higher engineers out at India, out of Philippines, out of Armenia?
These places are producing some of the best engineers.
Why am I even paying full price here?
I'm not going to pay full price.
So, a big part of New York and California, what they did, they indirectly changed the business model on how even Silicon Valley and these financial companies are working.
This is not as small of a thing as people think.
The consequences of certain things you do, sometimes the side effects take a decade to experience it.
I think this is going to be a side effect that's going to take five to ten years for us to really see what happened.
You're going to sit there and say, What the hell?
For example, you go to Glendale.
Where are Armenians at?
They live in Glendale.
Where are Syrians at?
They're in Torlock.
Where are Venezuelans at?
Maybe Orlando.
Miami.
A lot of them are Orlando, Miami.
Where are a lot of Cubans at?
Okay, you'll say Miami.
Where Puerto Rican?
Where are Dominicans at?
Where are Irish at?
Where are Italians at New York?
Why?
Because once one community moves to a place, they typically tend to stay there unless if you treat them what?
You know, you treat them bad and then they leave, right?
So they have to know this could be a shift taking place right now.
And some of it is not done by politicians, believe it or not.
Some of it is done by these corporations who are leaning far to being, hey, you know, you can work from home, do whatever you want to do.
They're hurting the state just as much as the policies in the state are hurting the state.
Right.
But do these corporations actually care about the state?
They care about their company.
Well, but here's the thing: there used to be a time where you would be like, hey, you know, you know why I want to have my headquarters in New York?
Why?
Because New York has the best what?
Talent pool.
Right?
You know, I don't want to live over here.
Why?
Because now, guess what?
The talent pool is everywhere.
The talent pool is everywhere.
So you can no longer say, I'm in New York because the talent pool is in New York.
Nope, that's not the case anymore.
Isn't that like the best thing for capitalism, though?
There's no restrictions.
It's a fantastic thing for capitalism.
It's a beautiful thing for seven states, but it hurts states like New York, California, and Illinois.
Well, New York can either adjust or fall by the wayside.
They're not going to adjust.
They just impose another $4.3 billion of taxes.
They're going to have a lot of decisions to make, obviously.
And by the way, they just impose another $4.3 billion of taxes by Cuomo, and they have to impose it.
There's nothing they can do about it.
The state's going to go bankrupt if they don't get that $4.3 billion.
So Cuomo's people are sitting there saying, if you don't raise this $4.3 billion, guess what?
How the hell are we going to get?
We need this money here.
So he's in a pickle himself.
He's in a lot of people.
I'm surprised they haven't recalled him.
Cuomo?
Him?
Yeah.
You know, a lot of people in California are just waiting to see what's going to happen with Newsom before they leave.
Like, I know a lot of people have their finger on the trigger.
They're just like, okay, if we don't recall him, we're out.
Because he has two more years on his term.
But I know a lot of people that are like, you know, they're just waiting.
They're just waiting to see what's going to happen with this recall.
And if he gets recalled, they're out.
Listen, I hope he doesn't get recalled.
I hope somebody from a little bit more libertarian independent gets elected so they can change the policies.
I hope everybody's sick of it.
I hope everybody is sitting there saying, listen, man, we try to get a lot of people.
Temporarily, the recall was temporary.
We're Democrats.
We're thinking about your future governor, potential governor.
No, that's not even, that's not even, that's a true engine.
That's not even.
That could be your next governor.
No, it's not.
It's not very much.
Would you rather have Caitlin or Newsom?
No, none of them.
Well, if you had to vote.
No.
No, I don't even want that.
That's bad.
She's a Republican.
No.
She's running as a Republican.
Caitlin.
Okay.
That's the irony behind it.
You think that the community is going to vote for him?
If for her.
For her.
Get it straight.
For her.
If they were to become.
Versus Newsom.
Well, because remember, Republicans are bad.
Republicans are anti-gay.
Remember, supposedly, according to everybody?
Not according to her.
Well, according to everybody, that's the way it is.
Forgetting that Obama was open against gay marriage and Trump came into the office supporting gay marriage.
So, you know, it's kind of funny how the news knows how to, you know, spin things.
But that's kind of Caitlin Jenner's story.
I'd rather go to the Kamala Harris.
Okay, fine.
I'd much rather go to the Kamala Harris.
But Caitlin Jenner is considering running for governor.
Yeah, I mean, listen.
As a Republican.
The question then you have to ask: if we have Pete Butichic, which is openly gay mayor, and looking at the smart guy.
Look, super smart guy.
Look at the kind of responsibilities he's being given.
Is America ready for a Caitlin?
I don't know.
Maybe California is.
But I want to show this guy.
Can you pull up the videos of what was shown?
I'm almost certain Ricky's seen this one here.
We can make this bigger.
Okay, so this was just shared last week.
Border Patrol video showing children being dropped from border wall.
Now, watch, it's a little disturbing for parents.
If you're watching this, just take a look at this.
Go ahead, Kai.
Took him all the way up to the wall to the game.
Look at that.
How old is that kid, by the way, Ricky?
Three and five.
Oh, they said it's not three and five.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Look at the one.
Boom.
How far is that drop?
Six feet?
No.
Oh, no.
No, 14 feet.
Holy moly.
So 14.
It's like them dropping Dylan in Sena from a 14-foot wall.
Look at the kid is still laying on the ground.
Yeah.
I think they dropped the little one next.
I think that's the five-year-old.
And then I think that's the three-year-old, if I'm mistaken.
Oh, buddy.
Or something like that.
Or the other way around.
Yeah.
And they throw whatever package they gave.
And by the way, Pat, here's the reality behind things.
And then they ran.
Here's the reality behind things.
This happens every day.
They just happen to catch it.
This happens every day.
You know, I live in the middle of the day.
No, of course not.
Especially right now.
I live four hours from the border.
I lived in Mexico.
I went to school in Mexico.
You know, we're very familiar with what happens in Mexico.
One thing is to, and by the way, not by, and I mean this with all due respect, not by white-washed Mexicans that watch the news and think they know.
Right.
We have family there.
We have family in Tijuana.
We have family at the border, Mexicali.
We know what's going on.
We go visit there.
We go, our families, the Mexican families, like for ours, our grandparents, doctors are there.
Like, we're always there.
We know what's going on.
The Mexican community knows what's going on with the Mexican community, right?
So to me, it's interesting.
You know, not, because it is your right, it is your right to have your opinion.
I think it's very interesting when non-Mexican people want to have an opinion on what's going on with the border when they have no family there, no direct connection, no fun cajes what's going on.
You know, it's like me having an opinion on a country that I've never lived in.
And then, you know, like when I want to know about a certain country, I ask the person, like I talked to your sister, Panada, tell me about, you know, what's going on in Iran, what happened?
You know, I talked to you about it.
You know, I don't know, right?
And I could try to read articles all I want that are edited by somebody else that has also no freaking idea on what's going on and think that they know what's going on.
So, you know, the reality is this happens all the time.
And the Mexican community, we knew this was going to happen.
We knew it.
And on top of that, it's music to the cartels.
It's music to their ears.
They said, open borders, let's go.
It was the stupidest thing ever.
You know, everybody wants to seem like they're, you know, everybody wants to seem like they're woke and thinking that that was a good idea was a horrible idea.
Tell us why.
33% of women, okay, so the more South you live over the border, the women are being raped and murdered.
So 33% of Mexican women are being raped.
35% are being murdered after they're raped.
Okay?
So when they're coming up by coyotes, 33% of the women are being raped.
By coyotes who are crossed by the colours.
By coyotes.
Or of all of Mexican women.
No, no, no.
I'm sorry, migrants.
I'm sorry.
Thank you for correcting me.
Thank you for correcting me.
The women that are coming up to the border, they're being raped by the coyotes or by fellows, migrants.
Okay.
And then that number gets worse the more down south you go.
For example, if you get to the states of Chapas, Yucatán, Cancun, people that are migrating, the more south they come up.
Salvadorians are notorious.
By the way, shout out to Salvadorians.
I love them.
To my compatriot Salvadori, my close friends.
But Salvadorians, notoriously, immigrant Salvadorians hate Mexicans because when they're crossing, they go to Guatemala and they get treated normal.
They get into Mexico, they have a rate, give or take, of 80% of their women being raped because now they're in Mexico illegally.
So they have two options from the federals, federal, the federal police, state police, and the military.
Can you show the map so everybody can see?
Map of South and South America.
South America.
So what ends up happening, it's actually Central America.
Central America.
Central America.
So what ends up happening is that these agencies are giving them one of two options.
Either A, you have sex with me or I arrest you and I deport you.
So they've already done the traveling.
See, there you have Guatemala, right?
You have Belize El Salvador.
So they have to go through, they have to go to, especially Salvadorians.
So they go to Guatemala, they're cool, right?
Because they're neighbors.
But once they're coming from where?
They're coming from El Salvador.
Imagine you're in El Salvador.
You're trying to bring your kids or your family to U.S. You have to go through Guatemala.
And you also got to go through Mexico.
Right.
So what ends up happening, you go to El Salvador, right?
And you go to Guatemala.
They have to go through Mexico.
But remember, the Salvadorians and Guatemalans are entering Mexico illegally.
So once they come across against a law enforcement agency, Mexico is corrupt.
So you have one of two options.
Either A, this is going to happen, or B, we're going to arrest you in the Portuguese.
So that's why illegal immigration hurts Hispanics.
It hurts them because our women are being raped and a lot of them are being murdered.
I have a girl on my team.
She's no longer with us anymore.
She's doing a different career.
But she sat in front of me.
She's like, I have trust issues with my boyfriend.
I'm like, why?
What happened?
She was breaking down.
She was from El Salvador.
She was 15 years, 16 years old, raped by five different men in Mexico.
So it's like, it's people like, they watch the news and yeah, we should open the border to everybody.
You don't know the damage you're doing to these people.
And on top of that, people seem to think it's not just your Uncle Juan that wants to come Molans.
It's the human traffickers, the organ traffickers, the child traffickers, the sex traffickers.
There's more people in trafficking than there's people that want to come work.
Does that make sense?
So people only think one category.
My uncle Juan that wants to come Molans.
No, my boy.
Behind him is six other traffickers of different organizations.
It's not just your Uncle Juan that wants to come Molans.
Does that make sense?
But the media will never say that because they need the votes.
And Mexicans, typically Hispanics, are very emotional.
When you touch, right?
And then what's the excuse of me?
My parents came here illegally.
Your parents came here illegally.
Oh, so does that make it right?
Should I not care about these people now that I understand how it works?
Should I just keep my mouth shut?
Or should I be an advocate for the truth?
The truth is, our women are being raped and they're being killed.
And these kids are being trafficked.
They're grabbing kids and they're taking the organs out of them and selling them in the United States for people that are dying, old people that are dying that are rich.
They can afford these organs.
So it's like, you just saw it happen.
By the way, that's one image.
Play the other video with the kid that got yesterday.
They abandoned him.
Yeah, they happens all the time.
None of this is new.
But we know this.
Have you seen this?
Yes, I have, with a 10-year-old kid.
Who was the guy that found the kid?
Can you fast forward a little bit?
The border control.
It looks like it.
Looks like a truck.
It's a 40.
Yeah, I'm more than like you see in the, more than something.
Look at this.
Body camera.
No, I'm coming.
No, I'm coming.
They can rob me, they can rob me.
They can rob me.
Do you want to?
Ok.
Ahorita, ahorita, ahorita vamos.
This happens all the time.
This happens, and we know it.
The Mexican people know it.
The ones that actually sit there and understand what's going on.
That's why so many first-generation, now first-generation Hispanics are turning conservative.
And they're because we're not sitting there in front of Unidición listening to Jorge Ramos talk about how evil the border is.
We know what's going on.
The guy's just turning a blind eye.
The idiot knows what's going on.
But of course, you've got to get the ratings up, right?
And you've got to get the ratings up by talking about what gets people emotionally.
He cares about his career.
He doesn't care about the Mexican people.
You know what I mean?
It's a sellout.
Let me ask you, Ricky.
Forget about just for a second the U.S. border because as I'm looking at the map, and anyone can see this right now, if you're coming from Honduras or El Salvador, that ain't a short walk.
No, brother.
To go through all of Guatemala, to go through Mexico City to even make it to the border of Texas or California, Arizona is a ridiculous trek.
So walk me through the process of someone who's leaving El Salvador because this is not a U.S. issue at this point.
This is a Mexican.
This is a Mexican issue.
This is a Mexican issue.
Here's a hypocrisy, ready?
Here's the hypocrisy.
The Mexican president, when the first caravan came up from Honduras, had the entire military at the border to stop them.
It's funny.
They talk about Trump is bad and racist because he wants to build a wall, yet the Mexican government sent all the military done to South Mexico.
Why doesn't Mexico build a wall?
They have a wall in the South?
Kai, can you pull up the video where the Mexican military was holding back the caravan?
Mexican military holds back the caravan at the southern border.
Watch the hypocrisy.
Okay.
So at the southern border.
Let me see if there's a images.
Let me see.
Okay.
There it is.
The go down.
All of them.
All of them.
But there's a border there.
They had to cross.
That's the Mexican military.
Well, Guatemala blocks thousands for U.S.
The hypocrisy.
The freaking hypocrisy.
Here we are met at the American government, but yet here's the.
Watch out with the channel.
Watch out with the channel.
So here's, yeah, right there.
Like, for example, any of those pictures right there, right?
Guatemala blocks Guatemalan security forces.
What border is that happening?
The Guatemalan border.
Because remember, they got to go.
Guatemala and Mexico.
And then they're digging out.
This isn't even a U.S. issue at this point.
No, it's everything.
So at the end of the day, isn't this a Mexican issue?
Every more than anything.
Every country's sovereignty is being violated.
Not just the American one.
But of course, Jorge Amos is not going to tell you this.
Unidición, Don Lemon, AOC won't tell you this.
They're not going to tell you this.
So let's see.
Give us some solutions that you think.
Because obviously it's a problem.
Whether you're Republican, whether you're a Democrat, whatever you are, it's a freaking problem.
And whether it's Obama, whether it's Trump, whether it's Biden, no one's figured out the solution.
Give us the solution.
Look, in your opinion.
Here's the reality behind things.
The reality is this.
Every country needs to take care of their people.
Okay?
So maybe, maybe, to a certain extent, they got to get better at electing the president and start being so emotional.
The reason that this president, like, for example, the president of Mexico, Amlo, he's a socialist.
He's a Bernie Sanders of Mexico.
How did he get voted?
Emotional.
Mexico is rich.
So is Venezuela, by the way, with oil.
Well, they used to be.
But with the oil, right?
So what ends up happening, you've got to stop voting emotionally.
You know, a lot of people like to blame America for the problems in other countries.
We didn't tell them to vote the way they did, right?
Like Madulo Chavez, we didn't create Chavez and Maluto.
They created themselves and then people voted for them because they spoke nice.
Everybody likes to blame America for other countries' problems.
I have this conversation with liberals all the time.
Oh, Venezuela's going to say, oh, it's because of America.
No, bro, it's because of them.
Yeah, I agree.
Okay, it's not our fault.
No.
Okay, stop it, right?
I don't know who would think that it's America's fault that people are voting for.
Many do.
Many people are doing that.
Many people are voting.
Many people are doing it.
Many do.
I don't know many Americans who know what the hell is going on in Mexico.
Many people do.
What are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
You know, Americans who are very vocal on Honduras elections.
There are a lot of Americans that say that's the work of America.
America did that to Venezuela.
America did that to Venus.
Jorge Ramos took that stats.
No, I don't.
And that's why he says that's why we have to take him.
Right?
Harmay Ramos is on Univision.
He's a Don Lemon of...
What's his approval ratings among Latinos?
Bro, they love him.
They love him.
Oh, he is.
I'll put it to you this way.
I said it the other day, and I'm going to tell you guys right now.
Pastors no longer have priests and pastors no longer have power over the Hispanic people.
Jorge Ramos, Jorge Ramos.
You don't know who he is?
You know who?
I know who he is, but the audience should see him.
So now, pastors and priests no longer have power over the American.
With the J, with the J.
Yeah, with the J. Jorge Ramos, right?
This is a sellout.
This is a sellout.
So anyway, but Latin Americans love him.
Latinos.
The old school ones.
The first generation, like myself, no longer do.
So his approval rating amongst our generation is going down.
But a lot of people like him.
So give us some solutions.
Back to the solution.
So, so I don't know if there is a solution, but here's the reality behind things.
People, here's, here's, here's, here's, look, bro, I lived in Mexico.
Like I said, I lived in Mexico, when school in Mexico, you know, just small periods when I was there with my dad.
Okay.
People in Mexico, they're going to show you images of like bad.
We can show you images of people living in Tentan LA and make it seem like that's the whole United States.
Okay.
People in Mexico don't starve to death.
People in El Salvador don't starve to death.
People in Guatemala don't starve to death.
That's just the truth.
And some of the viewers may not agree because they watch too much news.
Okay?
But they don't start.
I have family there.
I have aunts that are missionaries that live in those countries.
People don't starve.
They're not Africa.
Hold on.
Hold on.
It's not Africa.
They're not starving to death because they still have social programs because they have money because oil, the United States gives them money.
So they're not starving.
You don't see with kids, their ribs coming out.
You just don't.
So the reality is the solution is stay in your country until you can fix your papers and then come.
Because it's too dangerous of a road to take.
You're going to be the chances of you being trafficked, being killed or raped are too high.
But of course, they're never going to show those numbers on the news.
But, brother, let me ask you.
They're not starving to death.
I'm trying to work towards a solution.
Not that we're going to figure out a solution here.
Why are all these people leaving their countries?
There's got to be obviously a lot of corruption, a lot of gangs, a lot of murders that even want to leave.
I don't know many people that want to leave their country unless there's something going bad.
Pat's family would have never left Iran if Iran was still run by the country.
War-torn, bro.
It was war-torn.
These countries are now war-torn.
Okay, but why are they still leaving though?
Because if there's an opportunity, they wouldn't leave if they lived somewhere in a lot of them in the Middle East.
They wouldn't take the routes.
People are staying there.
But these people are leaving droves for a reason.
Because it's only two countries.
Because there's only two countries up.
And if you're saying, come and we're going to take you, of course, you're going to leave.
But it's nothing new, bro.
Like you said, this has been going on for years and years and years.
Because if you offer it, my family, my family in Mexico, none of them would ever starve to death.
Never.
Why?
In Mexico.
I'm asking about Honduras.
It doesn't matter.
Look, the news might try to make it otherwise.
Let me ask you a question.
You asking, what's the solution from the standpoint of the country of Mexico or what's the solution from the standpoint of America?
All the above.
No, it's a different question.
If you're America, there's only one solution, in my opinion.
What's that?
You need to invest in these countries so that people won't leave their country.
Bro, they're too corrupt.
The government's a corrupt.
Okay, so what do we do?
Who keeps voting them in?
Emotional immigrant.
But that's nothing to do with America, bro.
That's something that people in Honduras are.
So you know what the cold-hearted answer is?
Stop voting for those idiots.
Dude, I mean...
No, no, no.
That's...
No.
No, I'm sorry.
That's the truth, bro.
But who's talking?
It's not like I'm involved in Honduras politics.
Who's voting for them?
No, but we have to think about.
Okay, so go back.
Look at it from the perspective of us, stuff that we have control over.
We don't have control over a corrupt government, president, how they make their money.
You can invest as much money as you want into a country like that.
You can put $20 billion into Iran.
Iran's not changing their philosophy until there's a revolution.
So you can say, oh, let's invest $100 billion into Iran.
Iran still hates America, not Iranians.
The Iranian politicians at the top.
Yeah, they still hate America.
They don't sit there, wake up, and saying, let's figure out a way to get better with the West.
Last time that happened was when the shot was around, right?
Okay.
Question becomes America, not Mexico right now.
This is a topic of America.
What can America do to prevent a lot of these things happening?
When you say, hey, we got to take care of the people that are coming across the border and give them a place to stay at, you're saying, come on down.
Come on down.
So words have consequences, especially when you're a president.
Here's Kamala Harris.
An article came out from New York Post.
Where is Kamala?
Two weeks since being named Border Cesar, Harris, Border Czar, Harris still hasn't visited the border.
President Biden named Harris on March 24 to head up the diplomatic effort to reach out to the leaders of Mexico and Central American countries about the flood of immigrants, migrants, saying she speaks for me.
But so far, she has only phoned Guatemalan president Alejandro Yamatei and Mexico's Andres Manuel Lopez Abrador to discuss root causes of the crisis.
Instead, in her first two weeks as czar, she has traveled to Connecticut, Chicago, and home to California over the Easter weekend and has presided over swearing-in ceremonies, touted the administration's coronavirus stimulus package and COVID response, visited vaccination sites, lunched with the president, attended a cabinet meeting, and held listening sessions with faith leaders and small business owners.
Her public schedule showed.
Asked at the White House briefing Wednesday about when Harris might travel to the border press secretary, Jen Psaki said, there is no trips on the schedule.
I don't have any trips to outline or preview.
What our focus is on is solutions and ensuring we have more beds.
We're making the processing more efficient and effective and that we are addressing this in a human way that keeps these kids as safe as possibly we can.
She said of the surging numbers of accompanied minors showing up to the crossing.
Okay, at the crossing.
So here's one thing.
Look, say what you want to say about Bill Clinton.
He showed up.
Say what you want to say about Bush.
He showed up.
Crisis happened.
He's there the next day.
Say what you want to say about Trump.
He showed up.
He showed up.
He's like, hey, what's going on over here?
What the hell is going on with even showing up?
You know, if this is the kind of a crisis that we're having right now, why don't you go see for yourself?
Why don't you go show some support?
Why don't you go support some of the guys that don't have the easiest job?
It's not the easiest job to be the guy that's finding the kid.
That's not an easy job right now.
Their job at the border is not an easy job.
So, U.S., okay, let's see the reason why people are coming to America is what?
Because America is still the greatest country in the world.
So people want to come where?
To America.
Okay.
You don't see people coming from Canada down here as much as we got people from Mexico or El Salvador coming up here.
People don't go crossing the border from Canada the way they are crossing the border here.
That says a lot about Canada.
Good for Canada, for being a neighboring country.
Mexico, a different story.
Can you really influence politically making these calls?
I don't know.
I don't know how much you can do that.
The way Trump did it was the following.
If you don't fix it, there is tariffs.
If you don't fix it, there's more tariffs.
If you don't fix it, there's more taxes.
That got the attention of people very quickly.
Okay.
We're like, okay, listen, let's get this together.
So why don't you say, hey, Mexico, if you don't fix the border issue that you are causing for us, here's a tariff.
It's very simple.
Now, I'm just telling you what we're going to do to you.
This is the tax you got to pay us.
You still don't want to fix it?
Another tariff.
You still don't want to fix it?
Another tariff.
Do you remember when Trump said Mexico is going to pay for the wall?
You know what was the most disappointing thing?
That Americans were upset about it.
What are you upset about it?
Why are you upset if he makes Mexico pay for the wall?
What's the big deal?
Why are you so upset that you're defending them?
They should pay for the wall.
We're not going over their border.
should pay for the wall, right?
This isn't something where you're, look, so let's just say you're President Biden or Kamala Harris.
Okay.
Okay.
Would you say this is a pretty urgent issue that's taking place today?
Is this a pretty urgent issue?
Yes.
Is it?
Okay, is it how urgent is it right now what's going on to Texas, Arizona, and California because they're on the border?
How urgent is it?
It's a pretty big damn issue.
It's a pretty big issue today.
What is the biggest issue today?
Number one by far and away is COVID.
But COVID has already been solved because we have no, what I mean by that is the fact that we have the, what do you call it?
We have the vaccine.
We have some progress that we're making.
So it's not like we're in the process of making that better, right?
What even brings more COVID if you got hundreds of people, thousands of people that are around each other in different facilities?
If COVID is your number one, why don't you pay attention to the border?
A lot of these people coming from Yaya.
Of course they do.
That they could create a bigger spread.
I don't know, man.
I think for me, I like the fact when you say, well, it's been very quiet, you know, ever since Biden got elected.
You don't hear a lot of different problems.
Yeah, I kind of want you to go there, ASAP, and sit down and see what's going on.
You're the president, man.
We're paying you to go do your job.
And this is an issue that we're facing right now.
All you got to do is get on that Air Force One plane of yours with a few hundred Secret Service guys.
Go out there and see what's going on.
Make some tough decisions.
Let's move forward rather than sitting there saying, well, you know, I don't know what we're going to do here.
If we put too many tariffs and they're going to say we're doing what Trump did and I want to be compared to this, forget about it.
I don't think they're playing offense to figure out a solution.
Well, you know, he's reconsidering to build the wall, to continue the wall.
He has no choice because people are now saying that it worked.
Right.
People are now saying maybe we do need it.
So that whole concept about a wall calling him racist.
Yeah.
Now people are starting to realize maybe we do kind of need a wall.
The part, Ricky, my challenge is the following, which there's a part I agree with you here, is, which I don't know, you may agree with what I'm going to say, but I think where you're going and saying, why are people leaving Mexico?
What can Mexico do?
What can this do?
Central American countries.
Listen, you're America.
You know, if you're America, impose some tariffs.
Go ahead.
Hey, Mexico, you don't figure this out.
I'm not lifting the tariffs.
And these tariffs are going to stay for six months.
And by 90 days from now, if I don't have a resolution and a report showing me what exactly you're doing, guess what?
We're raising the tariffs again.
And within six months, if you haven't done XYZ, tariffs are going up again.
I'm going to put a tier of tariffs with timelines on them.
I'm going to say 90 days.
By 90 days, you need this.
Between now and then, 10%.
90 days to 180 days.
If you don't meet that, it goes to 20%.
180 days to 270 days.
If you don't meet that, 30%.
270 days to 360 days.
If you don't meet that, 40%.
Guess what?
I want to get this done because that creates a level of urgency tied with deadlines.
Let's get to work.
We want to help you.
We want to be able to accommodate you, but at the same time, this is an issue because you're throwing your proms at us, and we don't want to do that.
We don't want to see videos like this.
This is heartbreaking.
You know what's one of the common things I threads I read here with people commenting below?
Parents saying, I can't even watch that video.
Comment.
If you look at it, if somebody's saying, I can't even watch that video.
Somebody comments, we got Juan Garcia gave $5.
He said, as a Hispanic parent, so heartbreaking to see those images.
Jorge Ramos is a Hispanic puppet for the left.
Shout out to Ricky for keeping it real, right?
You're getting people that are watching this saying, this is tough to watch.
This is not easy to watch.
And it's happening.
And what are you doing?
You're going to different events?
Yeah, I don't know about that.
That doesn't show leadership.
You know what the most disappointing part about it is today?
Yes, FYI.
FYI.
Yes, Pat.
This doesn't help.
You know the whole thing that they're saying Kamala is going to be president?
This doesn't help her re-election stuff.
Go ahead.
You know what the crazy part about it is, though?
It's what I'm really disappointed in.
A lot of my friends are watching this and are going to watch this.
Is how many of you guys, and I'm going to say this to you, to my, I'm talking to him about to my friends that supported Biden.
How many of you guys voted for him because Trump was a racist?
And because that's what they used to brainwash you.
And then on top of that, how quiet you are about what's going on, get it in our face.
It was never this bad.
Our people, our people that carry our, forget about the skin cutter because I don't believe in division.
They carry our culture, our country right now, are literally going through this.
And how many people are quiet about it?
I mean, it was a daily post.
Trump is racist.
Trump is racist.
Wall is racist.
Trump is racist.
But now everything's good because the racist guy is out of the office, according to them.
It's just insane to me.
Like, it's so disappointing as a Mexican hardcore.
I have a centenario on my chest, which is a 100th anniversary of Mexico.
It's a coin they make every hundred years.
I lived in Mexico.
My dad lives in Mexico.
I have property in Mexico.
I go there often.
My family's there.
I just went to school there.
I just went and buried my uncle, my grandmother, my uncle.
I'm a part of, I'm a Mexican citizen.
I have a dual citizenship.
I'm not a whitewashed Mexican that lives over here, watches the news, and reads a couple articles and thinks they're woke.
I'm very objective.
I remember when I was living there, I was 18 years old and I lived there.
I was there for a year.
One of the times I lived there, we would actually party, right, with my friends that were, and by the way, with families that are well off, that they were going to cross.
I remember vividly, I was there, we were at a bar.
Okay, I still remember it's called Desvan, right?
And it's no longer there, Desvan.
And I'm from Itracon, which is a very, it's a very dangerous state to be in, right?
So it's torn in the cartel war.
And there were three of them were going to go illegally.
And we're like getting on, we're getting drunk the night before because we're partying for them.
And they go up, they all three got caught.
They came back and we threw a party because they were back.
These are not starving people.
So when you're sitting there and you're a Mexican that lived here your entire life and you don't even know where your parents are from and you want to have an opinion on this when you don't know what's going on then there's the stupidest thing ever because you you let the news rile you up i was there i saw them leave the town with well-off families they just want to go just do something better go experience another country it's it's almost like a vacation to some of them i don't want to say that about all of them it's It's unfair for me to categorize everybody like that,
but I know my fair share of people that had no need to come down here, and they're coming down here.
And everybody over here wants to feel bad because the news is making you feel bad when they're pretty good where they're at.
So, you know, let's just talk numbers real quick.
And I'm not against immigration, by the way.
I want you to know, obviously, we're immigrants.
You're against pro-legal immigrants.
I'm pro-you not getting raped and trafficked.
Okay, so be very upon that.
Okay, just quick numbers for you while we before we move on.
Because you brought up, you know, this is not a good look for Kamala if she's going to be the immigration czar, border czar.
So let's just talk numbers.
Let's talk approval ratings.
Biden's approval ratings for his handling of COVID and the vaccine, 75%.
That's very high.
That's insane.
Very high.
Meaning that he did nothing for it.
The previous administration created the vaccine.
That's the fact.
Sure.
So own it.
So tell people to get vaccinated then if you're Trump.
No, he didn't.
I'm just saying.
No, I'm debating.
I'm going to just finish my point.
I'm an independent thing.
Biden also, when Biden came into office, because obviously they were talking about his plan when he was campaigning, he was saying this, that, the other.
Oh, we're going to put together an action plan.
And then as soon as he got elected, he said, basically, it's just got to run its course.
Okay, there you go.
Listen, let's just talk numbers for a second.
His approval rating becomes a good question.
He just made a very good point, just so you know that.
When they asked him, I have a plan when I get elected, I'll tell you about it.
When he got elected, he said, we just have to let it run its course.
There was no plan.
Okay.
Yeah.
But go ahead.
He's got 77 approval ratings.
75% on COVID.
Border Patrol, situation of the border in the 40s.
So if you're looking at numbers and if Kamala is the person that's going to be the border czar, you can walk and chew gum at the same time.
You can handle COVID and do well and get vaccinated and do everything, but also get Kamala's ass down to the border and make this situation go away and fix this problem.
So I don't know if the wall is the solution.
I think it's more policies than wall because there's something called, tell me if you're familiar with this, Title 42.
Yes.
So tell me, I don't know if I know that I'm familiar with the Title 42.
I don't know the ins and outs of it, but there's basically a policy situation that Trump implemented.
Biden came in with an executive action and removed it.
So listen, part of being voting for Biden or being a Republican is that you can have tough love.
You can love your kids and say, bro, you got to do better here.
Your report card sucks.
So my advice to Joe and Kamala, whatever, is keep doing what you're doing on COVID.
Things are getting better, but get your act together when it comes to the border because this is a humanitarian disaster.
But hold on.
It's deeper than that.
The man hasn't done anything in 42 years, 47 years.
Why would you have an expectation of a vote for a person that's never done anything?
Literally, you've got a video.
Hold on.
You can't say he's never done anything.
Are you serious?
Okay, you're right.
Mass incarcerate blacks in the 1990s.
I like what you're doing here.
You're using the propaganda.
Gotta get it.
Oh, it's propaganda or they're on the books.
Who won the election?
That's beside the point.
We're not going to go there.
No, we're not.
No, we're not.
I hope you brought cash in.
No, we're not going to do that.
We're not going to go there.
Did you bring the cash, Ricky?
I believe in you, bro.
We're not going to go there.
We're not going to go there.
Okay.
No, no, we're not.
Because we're not.
So the point is this.
Here's the reality behind things.
Trump in his 40s brought Manhattan out of ruins.
That's the truth.
When he was in his 30s and 40s, it actually brought him in and said, what can we do to fix Manhattan?
He brought Manhattan to where it's at, right?
Well, to a certain extent, he brought it.
Trump brought Manhattan to the bottom of the country.
Are you serious?
They sat meeting.
Trump is the person who's in the middle of the meetings where they had city councils where he was helping them rebuild.
He says, do this, Let me build here.
Let me build here.
He's the one that brought life to it.
Right?
Or am I wrong?
If I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong.
You don't have to agree with me.
I don't think Trump was the sole reason Manhattan is what it is.
Okay, you don't think he was the biggest influence for it?
He was the biggest voice at the time.
I think he did his fair share, but I think there's a lot of freaking people that of course.
I'm not saying that.
I'd say Rudy Giuliani.
Everything needs a pioneer, right?
He was a pioneer for it.
Sure.
Okay.
Right?
Did our forefathers get the country to where it's at right now?
The living forefathers.
No, they fought to get rid of the British, and then they established the Constitution, and we're here now.
But we had to continue that legacy.
Okay, okay, that's what I'm getting at.
Okay, so what I'm getting at is that the man has already had previous success.
What has Biden done?
He hasn't done anything but enforce a few laws that go against mass incarceration.
And then what did Kamala Harris actually known for lock up a brother?
That was her nickname.
So why would you have any expectations for people who have done nothing for the communities to begin with?
And then expect them to go into office and want to have expectations for them.
Go Biden, your president.
It's like having a dog biting you and then saying, don't bite me.
It'll bites you when it's adopted.
And then we're like, don't bite me when I own it.
This is the second thing that we talk about.
What's your point?
My point is, why do you have any expectations?
You should have known this happened.
So it should have zero expectations for the president of the United States?
Why would you if you already knew the track record?
No, no.
You're a smart guy.
No, okay, let me clarify.
Even if your expectations are low, you should have a significant story.
Hold on, let me clarify it for you then.
Let me clarify for you then.
Okay.
Democrats that voted for him that are not happy in what he's doing should not be surprised.
You already know he has nothing going on for him.
There's different issues, brother.
No, there's different issues.
There's COVID.
There's immigration.
Yeah.
There's taxes.
There's policy.
Which he sucks at all of them.
He doesn't care.
Tell me one category he's doing good in.
He's doing good in Texas?
COVID.
He's doing good in COVID?
75% approval rate.
It doesn't matter what ignorant people think.
The question becomes, who started it?
He said, we got to let it take its course.
So Trump should have owned it.
Trump should get out there and tell people he already did it.
I started this thing.
He did.
Get your ass back.
So why did 50%?
Kind of like remember, man.
Remember when I was last time I was on the podcast and she said, what was her name?
I don't know.
She's like, why doesn't he reject white supremacy?
I said, yes, he did 26 times.
Remember when I said that?
Okay, publicly.
He's already publicly saying to do it.
So what are you talking about?
He hasn't talked about it.
He's not a person more often than that.
He's not the president anymore, and they took him off of every single social media.
Let me ask you, do you listen to what Trump has to say?
Not everything.
You respect what he has to say.
I respect what he has to do.
So in certain categories, listen, Ricky.
Yes.
I want you to go get vaccinated.
No, sir.
I'm an independent thinker.
I don't solely follow one man.
I can like a lot of what he does without liking certain things.
Okay.
That's what happens when you're an independent thinker.
Well played, sir.
Okay.
All right.
All good.
By the way, he did tell people to get a vaccine, but he said I came up to expedite the process of vaccine, not Biden taking credit for it.
Trump is what made it happen within nine months.
If it wasn't Trump, it would have been 18 months.
Because even Fauci said it's going to take 18 months.
Whether it's Fauci, whether it's Trump, whether it's Biden, this is a team effort.
No, no, you can't.
You can't.
You can't do it.
But it's not a freaking team effort.
You cannot do that, buddy.
It's not a team effort.
Fauci said 18 months.
He said nine months.
So it got done in nine months.
Give the guy credit if he did.
I'm giving him credit.
No, no, it's not.
This is this.
Trump implemented a plan, made it happen.
Fauci's telling people to wear him.
Tampa Bay won the Super Bowl last year.
Okay.
Because of who?
Because of more than Tom Brady.
Yeah, because Tom Brady showed up and then he led the team.
True.
Yeah, okay.
But there's people out there making tackles.
There's people out there catching passes.
There's people out there blocking.
It's not just Tom Brady, bro.
It's not just Trump.
It's not just Biden.
It's not just Fauci.
It's a rhetoric.
It's a team effort.
You got to be kidding me.
No, it's not a team effort.
You're so naive to say something.
It's not a team effort.
You're so naive to say something.
It's all Trump.
Trump made it out.
It's not itself.
Trump made the vaccine.
He distributed the vaccine.
He was there with the beakers and he's making the vaccine.
What are you saying?
Can you get this guy a cookie, please?
Just give me a goddamn cookie.
Bart Broadway.
Okay, okay.
So it says it's a team effort.
Did the Venezuelan people ruin Venezuela?
It's a team effort.
It wasn't Maludo or Chavez.
I'm sure they had a team.
It wasn't Hitler?
What are you saying?
It's a team effort.
Is it a team effort then?
Hitler didn't pioneer it?
Hitler didn't pioneer that?
Carl Mergent in Pioneer Socialism?
No, I'm not.
There's a driver at that point.
There's a driver.
You freaking agree.
So who's a driver?
He's not the one making the goddamn vaccine.
Oh, boy.
He did it.
He said, make the vaccine.
Let's go.
So did Hitler create the AK-47s and the tanks and the bombers?
He was the driver of the bus.
Okay, there were other people involved.
So the gas chambers, did Hitler make them?
Or did he drive them?
Dude, I don't even know.
Who no, no, who made him?
That's such a dumb comment.
No, it's not dumb, bro.
It goes back to what you're trying to say.
All right, let's skip this.
We're done here.
It ended well.
You guys good?
Give yourself a good dank.
Let's go to the next side.
A little update from the polls here.
Adam's approval rating has risen to 4% here on the Twitter chat.
By the way, if you're enjoying the dialogue right now, listen, this is what I like.
I like banter.
I like debate.
That's how we learn.
If we sit here and all of us agree on everything, nobody learns.
This is how I learned.
This is how my board meetings are.
This is how my meetings are.
And it's working very well, specifically today.
And we're still friends, by the way.
I love this guy.
Yesterday he tells me, happy birthday.
Like, we have a great relationship.
This is the way America should be.
No, it should be.
100%.
We can disagree.
Yes.
And still have lunch afterwards and be good.
We still got an hour and nine minutes to go, guys.
I do want to tell you, I want to give a shout out to a couple.
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Okay, hi, Pat.
This is Ramiro Gonzalez, $10.
I'm trying to launch an app three to four relatively big players in the market.
My biggest competitor just raised $2 million.
Is there anything you'd recommend when going up against a Goliath?
I made a video about it, Ramiro.
You ought to go watch it.
Okay.
$4.99 was by Heavy Hall mercenary saying Candace Owens is the furthest person right, is what he says.
AG just gave $10 to give $10.
Thank you.
Troy Glow just gave $25 just to give $25.
Nelson J, $5.
Thank you.
Sanchi gave a 200 ARS.
Per cue, crack Adam, hablano, Español.
Okay.
I have no clue what he just said.
Crack ass Adam speaks to Spanish.
So I demean no vibe.
$5, AG.
Mr. Clean Ball guy's back.
I tweeted what he said last week, by the way.
Fantastic.
Have Adam Google how much taxes were paid in 1964.
Click on the Revenue Act of 1964.
It's the first link.
Red the impact.
I'm curious.
I'm going to look it down myself.
PBD, thanks for the quote on Twitter.
You got a buddy.
Chad Williams, $10.
When I went through LA pre-COVID, had a buddy take me through Skid Royal.
It was literally like going through the going to the third world.
Worst about it is mass mental health problems and business owners stuck behind tents.
Interesting.
Chad Williams.
And by the way, Chad Williams is a guy that will go left or right when it comes down to commenting.
He still gave the five bucks on that.
Let me see what else we got here.
Chad Williams, another $5.
What about Rock running for president?
We've talked about that before in the past.
Yimi Marino gave $50.
Amen.
Preach.
U.S. Media Universion and Talamundo are sale sellouts to Hispanic community, spreading lies to the Democratic Party.
That's based on your conversation.
Ruben Ramirez, Ricky, what were the best advantages of growing up in the streets?
And what would you say to someone who's looking to become a legitimate businessman and entrepreneur?
What were the toughest obstacles?
Maybe you want to answer that, bro.
Oh, what was the toughest?
Growing up in the streets.
I grew up, some of you guys don't know.
I grew up in East Bakersfield, which is the second biggest barrio in California outside of East LA.
Actually, the founder of the California's Mexican Mafia is from Bakersfield.
He grew up six blocks from where I grew up in Bill Street.
So there's a lot of heavy influence there.
I think the number one thing would be to get away from those people, right?
Which is associations.
Get away from people that have that mentality.
And by the way, let me make one thing clear because a lot of my friends are watching.
A lot of my friends that grew up in the hood with that I love very much.
And some of them are still there.
Some of them are out.
But it's limiting my association with the people that had the mentality that I used to have, right?
And then limiting my visits to the neighborhood.
I'll go now to go cut my hair, to go buy things, but I don't go to visit anybody there anymore.
But that's number one.
Number two is when you know you, and I'm just going to give him a shout out because you've interviewed him, you're friends with them.
I read the book by Robert Kiyozaki, Bridge Dad, Poor Dad, to help me change my mentality to understand what it is to be a business owner and then find a proven mentor.
You know, in this case, I was able to, first of all, my brother got into business.
Then Alejandro, my brother, Alejandro, shout out to my little brother, Alejandro, into this business because I come from a family of entrepreneurs that were in financial services.
So then, you know, from there, I was coached by Hector and Erica El Torojat.
Shout out to them.
And then Jose Marina Gaitan, which is the older brother, older brother, sister to Hector and Erica, and then Pat.
So it's finding proven mentors and then staying within that association.
I think to me, my number one thing is association.
You're going to be a direct reflection of the five people that you're on the most.
Your income is going to be a reflection of the five people that you're around the most.
And a lot of the reason that I'm passionate a lot about the things that I'm passionate about now is because Pat kind of brought light to it.
So what ends up happening is that you're kind of in the dark on a lot of things.
A lot of subjects that you're in the dark.
And so somebody says, hey, have you looked at this?
All they got to do is point a finger for you to look at.
And then you're like, wow, I did not know that.
Right.
So that's kind of the road that I would say to take is, again, to break it down.
Number one, get away from associations to have the same lifestyle.
Number two, start really self-developing.
Number three, find a proven mentor.
You know, anybody's winning a mentor that you admire, that you know?
I mean, they could be a priest, it could be a pastor, you know, for us as Dudley on the spiritual side.
Find a way out and stick with that community.
That would be my point of view.
By the way, to tell you how much Ricky has influenced the Latino community in his surrounding area, this is just the beginning of what he's going to be doing with his impact.
Because this messaging coming from somebody like this who grew up there, the level of credibility he has to say, here's where I was.
Here's who I was.
Here's what I did.
Here's the proof.
This is what I believe today.
We ought to change or else.
Well, I've told Ricky this a million times.
This is a lot of what the Republican Party needs, especially.
No question about it.
Like if you see a guy like this, rather than the male, pale, and stale crowd that you see when they're lining up on the Trumpet pictures, this is someone that I think people can get behind.
This is someone that even a Democrat can say, you know what?
This moment I'm not going to do that.
But you know what?
I think to a certain extent, though, the suit, the suit, I'm going to send something to Kai real quick, Pat, if you don't mind.
Go for it.
I think that sometimes, a lot of times, what is it called?
The suit may fool them.
So I'm going to send somebody.
Why don't you just take your clothes on?
No, no, no.
I'm not going to do that.
We're not going to do that.
The people on the crowd are going to be a little bit more.
I'm actually going to send this.
I'm going to send this to Kai.
Maybe Kai can do that.
While you're doing that, let me ask you a follow-up question while you're doing that.
Maybe Kai could pull this up real quick so people know what I look like without a shirt.
Not completely, just, you know.
So the male model picture?
No, no, So respect to you for what you're doing, bro.
Real talk.
You talked about limiting your trips to the body of limiting your trips of the hood.
Obviously, you're associating yourself with PBD and the Del Toros and the Gaitans.
Respect to them if they're listening.
Sapala, everyone.
Oh, 100%.
Yes.
Sepala market.
Love those guys.
Yeah.
You're talking about limiting.
What kind of backlash are you getting from your people saying, bro, you sold out?
No, you're not with us anymore.
You know, that's shit.
I suspect you're seeing stuff like that.
Yeah, you know what?
You know what the crazy part is?
I don't, because I'm not around them, I don't hear it.
So when you go around them, oh, you think you're better than me now?
No, no, actually.
Oh, you think you're there?
No, actually, you know, surprisingly enough, bro, surprisingly enough, when I do, like, I go get my compader owns a barbershop.
So I go cut my hair in my neighborhood two, three times a week.
And when I get a curve.
You're getting a haircut two or three times a week.
Put it back up.
Yeah.
So, yeah, of course.
So that's what I look like without a shirt.
So I'm completely, and that's the way my damn near, you know, 75% of my body looks.
I'm completely tattooed and I have my murals.
You know, I have my roosters on your hat.
The roosters, where I'm from, it's big on the rooster world.
So my family were raised.
Yeah.
So this is how I look.
What about my shirt on?
I took my shirt on my back.
I'm having my back completely tattooed as well.
I grew up in the neighborhood.
So anyway, point is that to answer your question, though, no, I don't get a lot of it.
I'm a country.
I can see that.
But here's why, though, because his arguments make sense.
There is credence behind it.
When there's credibility and weight behind your word, people have to listen.
Okay.
No matter how much a person doesn't like a doctor, if a doctor's got the credibility to say for the last, you know, like Ron Paul would get up and say, I've done 4,000, I've delivered 4,000 babies, right?
If he tells you about delivering babies, guess what you have to say?
I never delivered a baby, you know, 4,000 of them.
You got credibility.
You only have the history you got.
You got to kind of listen.
By the way, if you're listening to this, if you're listening to this and you like what Ricky had to say today, it's his birthday today.
I'm going to put the comment below with the link to exactly his Instagram account.
Go give him a follow and send him a message and stay in contact with them.
I just put the link right there.
You ought to see it.
Go real quickly and follow him and give him some love.
It's also in the description.
Okay, perfect.
So we got to both places.
Sabatimani family is watching Paul Man.
Good to have you guys.
Oh, shout out to you.
10 bucks.
By the way, Jack E just gave $5 specifically to you and said, Patrick, are the rumors true that Adam is planning to run for president of Chaz?
Is that in Seattle, Chaz?
That's good stuff.
It's hilarious.
I got a few other people here.
Adam, follow up.
Adam, follow up.
PBD's preaching and recently learned from people from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Levin, corrupt governments.
Juan Garcia, five bucks.
Mass legal and illegal immigration is bad.
It hurts wages and salaries against many immigrants.
Don't assimilate to rules and culture of America.
As a Mexican, I can honestly say Mexico is a failed culture.
$10, Serafin.
Then we got a few other people that just gave $5.
I wonder what he means by that.
I don't understand.
Mass legal or illegal immigration is bad.
It hurts wages, similar to what you said.
And salaries.
And many immigrants don't assimilate to rules and culture of America, meaning they're coming here.
They don't say, oh, I love America.
No, I meant the other one said I feed another one, the one before that, or after that.
Where he says that Mexican culture is failed.
I don't know what he meant by that.
Mexican, as a Mexican, I honestly can say that Mexico is a failed culture country.
Mexico is a failed culture.
I don't know what it is.
If you want to elaborate on it, Sarah, we'll come back to it.
Yeah, a little bit more specific.
Sean Ellis gave five bucks.
Trump has had this fix with Remain in Mexico in the wall and ending catch and release.
But Biden flipped all of those.
And now we have a non-stop flow of 20 years.
Some guy, $5.
Illegal immigration costs U.S. taxpayers $116 billion per year.
And we got Woods Dog.
We got a few other people here that said what they said.
But let me get back to, okay, Mexico needs to send its military into Central America and conquer it.
The U.S. better stay out of it since they don't care.
Expand the fatherland.
NC Styles, $5.
All right.
That is what it is.
Wow, that's a father.
That's brutal.
He's talking about taking over the countries.
All right, so let's talk about Amazon.
Let's talk about Amazon.
Let's talk about what Amazon did here.
Page four, if you want to go to it, go to page four, Amazon.
So a few things going on with Amazon.
I'll read both of the stories and you tell me your thoughts on it.
One, this is a business insider story.
Amazon is snapping up disused shopping malls and turning them into fulfillment centers.
Malls that buckled due to e-commerce or suffered during the pandemic are being given new life by the very entity that precipitated their decline, Amazon.
Last year, Amazon was reportedly in talks with Simon Property Group, the country's biggest mall owner, to convert many bankrupt JCPenneys and Sears department stores into fulfillment centers.
50% of mall-based department stores could permanently close by the end of 2021, according to Green Street.
Let me read that one more time.
About 50% of mall-based department stores could permanently close by the end of 2021.
That is half of malls close.
Amazon's signature prime delivery depends on its national network of more than 100 fulfillment centers and roughly 1 million workers to get the packages to customers' front door within a day or even an hour.
What do you think about the strategy that Amazon's taking, Adam?
I mean, this isn't a news story.
We've covered this, but that malls are closing and the Amazon fulfillment centers are taking over.
And it's just, it is what it is.
I mean, the reality is these malls, these retail shopping has been declining for years and years and years.
Online shopping has risen and risen.
And it's a natural progression.
Who else is going to go into these what they call anchor stores, these Sears, these Macy's, these JCPenneys?
Who the hell is going in there?
There's been some ideas about freaking theme parks going into these type of things.
The reality is, is one door closes, another door opens, and Amazon is just going to fulfill, literally fulfill that open location.
No, I think I agree with Adam when it comes down to that.
I mean, you know, here's what it comes down to.
You know, I'm kind of split on this.
I was having a conversation with Vanessa earlier before we started here.
She worked at an Amazon warehouse.
We'd like to hear what she has to say.
Yeah, you know, I'll actually be, you know, but it's, you know, she was saying how the workers get treated or whatever the case may be.
I think it's a double-edged sword.
So let me, let me, let me, let me explain what I mean by that.
As far as Amazon is concerned, do I like a lot of people don't like, you know, Bernie Sanders made everybody hate Amazon.
I love Amazon.
Amazon saves you a trip for possibly getting in a car accident, right?
Because it'll bring you to do your stuff your next day.
So now parents can spend more time teaching their kids.
They don't have to go to, I have to go to run their store.
You can just order to be there the next day.
I think Amazon has really upgraded our quality of life in many different ways on a capitalistic sense.
Because again, you know, if I'm doing homework with my kid and I need and I need, you know, toilet paper, I can literally just order it online while I'm helping them.
It gives you more time at home with your family.
It gives you more time to work on your business.
I know I use Amazon.
I order from Amazon out of 30 days, probably about 25 of the days, right?
So it helps you with your, it just helps you different in different in different areas.
Now, it is the richest company in the world now.
And I'm kind of a little bit.
One of, one of.
is it i know amazon was bigger than was it market cup i think I think Apple's at $2 trillion.
Amazon's at $1.5 million.
But it's still massive.
Yeah, so I like it.
I like the idea of them going into fulfillment centers because it's making your life easier.
Like you said, it's progression.
Now, there's been a lot of complaints about how it treats its workers.
That's kind of, you know, I'm concerned about that.
So I want to tell you, let's go into that next story.
I want to hear from Vanessa real quick.
So tell us about you.
Worked at Amazon before.
Yes, I did.
I was a fulfillment worker, this warehouse in Doral.
That's Miami, basically.
And it's funny how you say that they want to make our customers happy.
And I'm all about that.
But I'm wondering how they would treat their employers in these new facilities that they want to replace the most because honestly, in my warehouse, at least, they didn't treat me with respect at all.
The managers?
Yeah, the managers didn't respect us at all.
Can you tell us?
Tell me more about that.
What do you mean by that?
I mean, they wouldn't, they would actually disrespect us.
Like, for example, very basic thing.
If I need to go to the restroom, I just go.
But for them, it was like, oh, okay, well, you instead of five minutes, you took seven minutes.
That's our write-up.
Or for example, yeah.
Or for example, if your back hurts because you've been lifting boxes all day, okay.
Instead of taking you to a less heavy duty section that we do have, instead of boxes, just envelopes, they would write you up for that too.
Or suspend you for two weeks.
It's just not, I don't know how the new idea is gonna become.
Hope he's better, to be honest.
But in my experience, there's no respect at all.
And do you think that's something the overall sentiment from workers?
Was that your experience?
Does your friends have similar experiences?
What's your take on that?
The entire warehouse, because I don't like to talk about any company, but then my entire warehouse felt the same way that I do.
I know that 100%, at least from the associate level.
That was my position, associate.
When it becomes to managers, of course, you're like the king and the queen.
I don't know about the corporate level because I never got to a point I really tried, but that's the only thing.
They don't let you to go.
I don't know how managers got to managers, to be honest.
Interesting.
So you did not have a good experience working for Amazon.
No, sir, whatsoever.
By the way, if you heard that strange noise, that was Paul's stomach.
He's hungry.
That's what that sound was, Paul.
I caught it.
Paul looked at me as if I caught it or not.
Your stomach is growling.
Very interesting to hear that.
Let me get into the next part on this.
Is it fair to say that you like working at Value Attainment a little bit better than Amazon?
I'm in love with this job.
Okay, there we go.
Damn.
By the way, I noticed you took a break.
Let's make sure we run it.
Vanessa, you took a break.
We love, we love six and a half minutes.
Everybody loves Vanessa.
You gotta give everybody a lot of people.
But let's go back to it.
Let's go back to what they're saying here.
Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave each year.
Employees say there's a big reason Amazon's culture feels cutthroat.
Business insider.
One of the key piece of Amazon's review process, a metric called unregretted attrition rate, URA, which represents the percentage of employees managers aren't sad to see leave the company, whether they part ways voluntarily or otherwise.
Even the most senior executive at Amazon, including incoming CEO Andy Jazzy, closely tracks URA according to the internal documents obtained by insider.
Jazzy, for example, has a 6% goal for URA, which means he's expected to replace 6% of his team through unregretted departures on what appears to be annual basis.
The internal document shows Jazzy and other top executives also kept track of the current unregretted rate, a running tally of the percentage of employees the company is not concerned about losing and current gap to go, which is the number of employees it needs to see leave each reach its targeted URA.
Adam, I'll go to you for that.
This is such a like I just felt wow when I read this story because are you familiar with the word attrition?
This is basically essentially losing business or losing employees.
And I remember being in the hospitality and nightlife sector in Miami when I was in my 20s, you have a lot of turnover, whether you're, you know, it's a, you're a bartender, your club, a hotel, front desk, you have a lot of turnover.
It's a very high turnover type of business.
So you're constantly bringing on new people.
It's sort of part of the game.
And then when I got into financial sales and financial services, something that I learned was attrition.
Like, all right, if you've got 100 companies you're working with or 100 agencies, because I have a financial wholesaler, you say, look, your attrition rate can go up year after year.
You obviously want to keep people on, but you're naturally going to lose clients.
That's just sort of your attrition rate.
So I'm familiar with this word attrition.
I'm familiar with turnover.
But this is a new term I've never heard before, bro.
This is unregretted attrition rate.
Unregretted, meaning we don't give a F if they leave or stay.
It's unregretted.
We don't give a shit, essentially, if these people go.
And apparently their number, their goal is 6%.
So they put a number to it.
I mean, don't be shocked by Amazon using data and metrics.
Their number, their magical number is 6%, where they're like, look, if 6 out of 100 people leave or quit or gone, we're good with that.
If it's 10%, 20% is a little too high for us.
But this is a terminology I've never heard before.
You are a unregretted attrition rate.
I've heard of it.
You're very upset about it.
I'm not.
I'm more just.
She used to work at Amazon as well.
No, but shout out to Vanessa for everything she's done.
But this is, we're learning.
I think, let me just slow it down for a second.
We are learning more about Amazon.
I'm going to let him take over.
Of course we're going to let him take over.
He's been taking over all day.
He's a guest.
His birthday.
But this is a very new terminology and Amazon does.
I very caught it.
I think, no.
I think that they just put a name to something that every company does already anyway.
I don't think I'm not surprised by it.
I'm not offended by it.
I'm not going to like, oh my God, I can't believe it.
You should.
Doesn't seem high at all, though.
No, it doesn't.
But the reality is, I think that they just came up with the terminology and metrics for things that companies already do anyway.
And they just shine the light on a reality.
And emotional people, that's why they don't get very far because they don't know how to control their emotions.
Well, look and say, oh, my God, this is horrible.
When in reality is, well, what's your dating turnover rate?
Right?
Do you have to like everybody you date?
Should you marry everybody you date?
No, people, companies don't need to marry everybody.
I'm with you.
I'm 100%, brother.
I think what we're in agreement here that there's turnover.
I talked about it in hospitality.
For me, it's the unregretted.
Basically, they don't like, look.
Is there some people in your life that left that you're so happy they left?
Yeah, of course.
Do you regret it?
No, I'm good with it.
I'm so excited.
So it's unregretted.
The fact that they put up behind it.
The fact that they had the audacity is what kind of blows you up.
Not even audacity is the fact that that's what they called it.
They could have just called it an attrition rate.
I think they won't.
I think they want to.
I think they want your job.
Hey, I'm good with that.
That's busy.
Okay.
But then you have people like Vanessa that found a job she absolutely loves, to use her words.
Right.
Versus a job that she's not.
Okay, Apple watches.
She hated it.
Okay, well, unregretted, what was it?
Unregretted attrition rate.
Vanessa, did you regret leaving?
Absolutely.
So she didn't.
You don't regret leaving, right?
You don't regret leaving?
Yeah, no, that's what I'm not saying.
I don't regret leaving.
Okay, then so she's she's she found it.
Unregretedly?
She unregrettedly left.
Okay.
So it's unregretted on both sides.
So a couple things.
Let me agree here.
Let me say a couple things to this story here.
Number one, when she says what she says about Amazon, I have a lot of people that also say they love working at Amazon.
I've also heard a lot of people tell me they hate their managers.
They love working for Amazon.
They hate their managers.
I've heard that many, many times.
That's probably in a lot of companies.
But what I'm trying to tell you is like, I'll go to a yard house here.
The waitress here is not going to be the same waitress as the waiter in Addison who took away from the money.
Shout out to Jason.
Jason, I miss you.
Shout out to Jason.
You not miss Jason?
I miss Jason.
Jason is a guy, you know, we just, so I'd go in there, Arnold Palmer already.
Pretty much the only reason I'd move back to Attica is for Jason Chair.
It's Addison.
And a couple of nurses.
And the nurses are everywhere now.
Shout out to my nurse.
Yeah, Jason was one of a kind.
But here's the point.
So that's one part.
By the way, I'm not discounting Vanessa.
I had a bad experience at Amazon.
All I'm saying is a manager can make a company look terrible if you don't track what some managers are doing to their people.
I had a call the other day with the VPs.
You were on the call when I said, moving forward, look, we're getting some people that are, you know, hey, if you're going to abuse and not do the right thing for your guys, we're going to get involved.
It's not like, hey, it's okay.
No, we're not going to let that happen because that's what makes a company look bad.
A company sometimes looks bad because they weren't able to inspect something that was happening in one place.
Believe me, I run a company and I see a lot of the problems come up and sometimes like, man, how come we didn't know about this earlier?
How come we didn't know about this earlier?
This is so you have to reward the people that are doing a good job.
But stories like that happen all the time.
As far as the 6% URA that you're irate with, and I'm sorry to have you feel the way you feel.
You seem very frustrated.
I mean, your face is red.
I don't know why you're so upset.
This is what Ricky does.
I'm telling you, I think we need to bring something here to kind of calm Adam's nerves.
Something tells me we'll bring something in that'll call mine.
But let me say, you're going to bring the drinks again like DeMartino.
But anyways, let me say this to you.
Watch this.
Watch this.
Adam, watch this.
6% is Amazon's.
You know, the legendary COO who everybody wanted to emulate, and they swore by this guy.
Books were written by this guy.
Everybody studied this guy.
A guy named Jack Welch said every year we have to fire the bottom 10% of our employees.
And you know what people said?
What a genius guy.
This guy's a genius.
What a brilliant guy.
We should do it as well.
Every year, December 31st, who's our bottom 10%?
I think Joey made the cut.
Billy made the cut.
Bobby made the cut.
Mary made the cut.
No, Mary, you're going in there.
Mary's definitely going.
You guys are, listen, this didn't work out.
We wish you nothing but the very best.
We hope you find a place that's going to be better for you.
And we want to give you a one-month severance.
All the best to you.
Wish you nothing but the best.
Great.
Boom.
You move on, right?
People thought it was a brilliant idea for this to be done 70s, 80s, 90s.
But today, oh, God forbid, Amazon says a 6%, not even 10%.
You do that.
I think it's not a big deal.
And I applaud Amazon for doing it.
I think it's the right thing they're doing.
I think the media is spinning it again.
And they need somebody to take shots at right now because they're trying to force Amazon to agree.
Did you see Jeff Bezos came out?
You know, I agree with the raising of the corporate taxes because companies should be paying more in taxes.
Okay, and they're kind of using him now to say that because if he says it, you know, it's okay, kind of like how they used Buffett years ago when Buffett said, it's okay.
I'm not paying enough taxes.
I should pay more than Biden.
Obama said, if Buffett said it, and everybody said, well, Buffett said it, we got to vote for it.
If Biden, if Bezos says it, we got to go for it.
Do you think Pesos is worried more about raising of corporate taxes or do you think he's more worried about Amazon being unionized?
Of course he is.
So he's kind of sitting there and say, man, I'll say this on stage and I kind of tweet this shit out and tell you that.
But listen, you cannot let me be unionized.
If you're going to help me on the union side, I'm willing to support you raising up the taxes.
I don't care about paying a little bit more because I'm going to make my money on the other place.
Anyway, so there's a lot of that speculation going on.
On one end, we got to trash Amazon to be able to, you know, get what we want from them.
On the other end, Amazon is also sitting there saying, leave me alone on the unionizing side.
But to each a zone, all I'm saying is 6% is actually not a big deal.
It's a reasonable number.
I thought for sure, honestly, I thought for sure Amazon's number would have been the 20%, not 6%.
I'm not even kidding with you.
I thought for sure it would have been the 20% number, not a 6%.
Which means what a rewarding company they are, to be doing something.
What a nice company it is, right?
Yes.
Sorry about your experience.
Not saying it didn't happen, because I've heard that before as well.
But sometimes managers...
I've heard it's bad, but for me and my entire health is bad.
I hope it gets better.
FYI, I agree.
I was at an Army unit, okay?
At an Army unit, my sergeants were impeccable.
I love my guys.
But there were guys that came from another unit, same exact base, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, came to 326, and they were bitching about their sergeants that they had at this other place, at this other unit.
Like, you don't even know what they do over there.
They don't care about your health.
They don't care about this.
They don't care about that.
They're true, but it's not how Army was all at the 101st.
So we have to also kind of keep that part of mind.
You got something on my, are you trying to say something?
Yeah, go ahead, Kai.
Some two cents here.
So with Amazon, I think, because I actually came from a warehouse background as well in Norway.
You look like a warehouse, you know.
Shout out to our warehouse.
By the way, it's good to have him back.
It's good to have him back.
I was going to give him a shout out, but you know.
No, Sam did a great job, Stephanie, so that's for sure.
But back to the warehouse.
The challenge was every time I told him to write something, he wrote it in Spanish.
I'm like, just write down.
Every search he would do on Google was in Spanish.
But go ahead, Kai.
So in warehouses in general, because I worked in one as well, and it was the same issue kind of or complaints that were mentioned by Vanessa.
Obviously, logistics companies in general, they work on a very tight schedule.
They have times shipments got to go.
If the truck leaves late, you're losing hundreds of thousands, which accumulate to millions.
They said in traffic, they lose millions a year because things come late, bada, bada, bada, it's a ripple effect, right?
So I understand that there's efficiency and how they optimize it as much as possible.
And at that point, unfortunately, in many ways, the weakest link is the people not working fast enough because you can, when you have thousands of employees and they work 1% faster, 2% faster.
Are you kidding me?
It's the book Toyota's Way.
We read Toyota's Way three years ago.
This is what it's all about.
Toyota does that.
McDonald's does their speed on how quickly they're able to do the fast food.
This is business.
It's accuracy.
I mean, you've got to be.
So in that sense, that that can be a lot of complaints because obviously you want to find a balance of being as efficient as possible, but also not being outright disrespectful, this, that, the other.
Yeah, sure.
Of course.
100%.
Of course.
However, just to add some two cents on them moving into the shopping centers.
Nothing about you is two cents.
You're always a nickel.
But go ahead.
You're a little bit more than two cents.
Go ahead.
So what this does is this gives them a high command.
I'll tell you, Adam, just wait and see here.
So with Amazon moving into.
With Amazon moving into malls, they're now moving into the last mile delivery.
So now they're closer to Americans.
Because with Walmart, there are super centers everywhere.
Within 10 miles of 90% of Americans.
Of course.
What do you think they're competing with?
Exactly.
Which can never get them.
I agree.
Do you think they would ever open up a retailer?
They're not going to be able to compete with Walmart?
Do you think they would ever turn these?
What do you think they're doing?
This is to be able to compete with.
This move is exactly to be able to compete for retail, like to walk into an Amazon store like you would walk into a warm-up.
I don't know about that yet.
Jeff Bezos has said multiple times he'll only do it if they can do something new, which they did with the he will eventually do it.
He will eventually do it because, listen, sitting at home, you're going to be bored out of your mind eventually.
You got to get out and do some stuff.
You got to see some people outside.
Yeah, actually, the pilots.
I've learned a year, so I understand.
I need to get out more often.
Anything.
So they're Go stores, which they have some places where you don't have to do the cash register.
You just go in, you grab what you want.
The cameras take a picture, they charge it to your Amazon account.
Why don't we leave?
So this pissed off somebody.
Can we show this anti-capitalist trying to climb the JPMorgan Chase building and see what happened to him?
Because I think Ricky's really curious to know what happens to this guy.
Yeah, I saw it, but I don't know what I don't, I didn't, I didn't really follow the story.
So here's a gentleman who decides to climb the wall.
Do you have it or no?
Watch this here.
So watch this.
They're spraying JPMorgan Chase's building.
Is this in New York?
Where is this?
Addison.
No, that is.
Texas.
No, no, this is New York.
Watch.
First of all, good for him so far.
So far, he's looking good.
All right, buddy.
It's about to get interesting in about seven seconds.
Six.
Five.
Four.
Three.
Two.
One.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my God.
That's not blood, by the way.
It looks like blood.
It's not blood.
It's ink.
No, that's how Antifa bleeds.
Black blood.
Wow.
It's a pretty bad situation there.
Okay, press pause.
Ricky, thoughts?
God.
Oh, my God.
You know, I got a lot of thoughts about it.
I think that I think a lot of people were so spoiled here that people don't understand these anti-capitalist socialist people don't understand how bad other countries have it.
And they come here and they want to do these stupid little protests like this.
By the way, you know, how many cars have been bought by people that couldn't afford them cash that Chase funded?
They gave them a loan.
How many business has it been started because of Chase?
How many houses have not been bought because of Chase?
I mean, it's just crazy to think that people would actually go against a corporation that literally allows you to fund your dream.
Well, if your dream is to own your first car, Chase will fund it.
Your dream is to own a business.
Chase will fund it.
You know, if obviously you have to fall into some requirements, you want to own a home, Chase will fund it.
It's crazy how people would literally want to bite the hand that feeds them.
It's amazing to me.
But, you know, these socialists, people with socialist ideas are just, oh, man, they're a special breed.
Adam, what do you want to say about this?
I mean, I have a lot of respect for Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase.
And that guy's an idiot.
And you're going to scale a wall or scale a building.
And I hope he's got good health insurance.
Hopefully, maybe he's on Obamacare.
I think these people, Pat, you know what we got to do to them?
We need to give them a one-way ticket to whatever country that has socialism.
I would love to start that foundation.
It would be called the one-way foundation.
You want to send them to Venezuela?
Wherever they want to go.
Except here.
Yeah, go to Scandinavia, wherever you think the socialist country is.
Let's send you over there.
I mean, if it's so great, right, America is so evil, just go.
Give us, go.
We'll have you jump on the plane.
We'll have the flight attendant retrieve your passport and then just take off.
Just take off and then we'll make sure we call the embassy out down there, let them know that you don't need another passport because you have no intention of coming back to such an evil country, right?
To this evil empire, right?
Just go.
Just take off.
We don't need you here.
I mean, people like that obviously are not engaging in any type of transaction that makes anybody money, right?
Because they're anti-capitalists.
So they're costing the country money more than they're creating.
So they don't have no business here.
Let's talk about the Olympics.
Let's talk about the Olympics here.
In close consolations with partners and allied around the world, Biden and his administration will weigh 2022 Beijing Games for U.S.
This is Associated Press story.
The State Department said Tuesday the Biden administration is consulting with allies about a joint approach to China and its human rights record, including how to handle the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics.
Human rights groups are protesting China's hosting of the Games, which are set to start in February 2022.
They have urged a diplomatic or straight-up boycott of the event to call attention to alleged Chinese abuse against Thibetans and residents of Hong Kong.
The Beijing Winter Olympics opened February 4, 2022 to China, and China has denied all charge of human rights abuses.
It says political motives underlie the boycott efforts.
Both the Internal Olympics Committee and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee have set in the past they oppose boycotts.
Thoughts.
Yeah, well, I think, number one, there's two sides to this.
China is committing human rights atrocities against the Uyghurs and I guess Tibetans as well.
But I think that everything that's going on in the Uyghurs, which is basically the west side of China, the west side?
Where Ricky's from.
That is a true thing that's going on.
There is human right abuses going on in China.
It is happening.
But if I'm Biden or if I'm the Biden administration, I have to have a bigger perspective here and win the war, not the battle.
Battling over whether or not we should compete in the Olympics is BS to me.
It's like that's not where you should be fighting your battle here.
We have a massive situation going on with China with the trade war and everything that's going on and tariffs and everything that's associated with China and competing for the top spot in the economy.
This is not the place that we want to have the war go down over the freaking Olympics.
So pick and choose your battles if you're Biden.
And yes, they are committing human rights atrocities.
That is true.
I'm no fan of China and what they're doing, but this is the stage to basically voice your concerns.
That's my opinion.
Do you boycott or do you not boycott?
I do not boycott.
No, no, no.
Meaning, America.
Should we keep Olympics in China, Beijing 2022?
Yes.
We should.
Yes.
And people around the world should comfortably go to China in 2022.
Even the coronavirus that's been documented that came out of Wuhan three years later.
If this is where the Olympics is scheduled, is this the Winter Olympics?
What is this?
The Winter Olympics.
So something that I've come to terms with is multilateralism over unilateralism.
If multiple countries, if NATO comes out and if a squad of countries and says, look, we're the EU, we're Australia, we're Canada, we're United States, we're this, this, this, and this, and we're all coming together and saying, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.
But to go at it alone, unilateralism, which Trump sort of coined, that is not the look that I want Biden doing.
So if a collective effort says this is what we are all doing, I'm in favor of that.
Going at it alone against China.
Who right now is against it?
Kai, who right now is against it?
Who's right now against it about having the Winter Olympics in China?
Ricky, do you have any thoughts on this?
You know, I'm kind of torn, Pat, when it comes down to this because I think that what ends up happening is that, you know, I have a lot of friends that are Chinese, right?
And, you know, they're good people.
You know, they're not bad people.
These are people that are very loving and smart, smart individuals.
And as a country, you know, I don't know if you, do you, do you, I guess what we're trying to do is who are we punishing by boycotting it?
The people or the country or the government?
I mean, we're by boycotting this, we're saying that we don't agree with something.
So what is it that we don't agree with?
I mean, how are we so comfortable taking other material?
Why are we comfortable buying other stuff for a cheap break?
Now you don't want to host the Olympics for the biggest distributor of goods in the world?
I mean, that's kind of contradicting, right?
We haven't won the trade war that we won.
We just won.
We didn't win anymore.
I'm sorry?
We won the trade war?
We didn't win the trade war?
Trump didn't win the trade war?
I don't think there's anyone winning.
Trump didn't win the trade war?
No.
He didn't.
Tell me how we're going to do that.
That's not the conversation.
I'm going to stick to Pat.
I don't think there's been any winners in this.
I'm going to stick to Pat's conversation.
So the question becomes, we're okay doing business with them.
We're okay taking their stuff.
We're okay having our things made over there.
But now you want to boycott the Olympics?
Kind of crazy to me.
I mean, I don't like a communist country anymore than anybody else does, but I think it's contradicting as much dealings as he has and his son has with China, which are recorded, him being a, what is it, CEO, CFO, or chairman of one of the Chinese companies that paid him, I don't know how many millions of dollars.
Now you want to go act like you're mad at them?
I'm not with it, bro.
You know, pick a side and stick to it.
To me, it's a couple different things.
To me, one, it's I don't know about, you know, maybe we flip and give somebody spot for 2022 and let the world calm down with China for a decade before we bring Olympics back to them.
I think it's a little too sensitive.
It's like, you know, it's like a divorce that happens and Christmas is around the corner and you still expect the mom and dad and everybody to come together and have spend Christmas together.
It's just, it's a little fresh.
It's a little fresh for us to do it.
Let's give a little bit of time to get everybody to come together.
Maybe a year from now, we'll come back and do this.
We just had the world shut down because of China.
Let's face it.
That's true.
had the world shut down because of one country's lack of responsibility that somehow, some way, a virus comes out of there and the world takes a hit because of it.
Economy, jobs, restaurants, lives, people, loved ones, careers, well, all this stuff that's happened the last 12 months because of one country, and yet we want to keep it there for 2022.
I'm not saying we permanently boycott it.
I say, you need a couple years.
Give it a couple of years.
I want to postpone them.
I don't want to postpone the Olympics because it is unfair for the athlete.
Listen, you know, I watch when I see it, like when you were telling me the story the other day, you told the story.
To me, I took the story in a different way because I looked at you as my son.
Not that you're my son.
We're two years apart.
When he told a story about, you know, you, when the way Adrian said it, he was emotional because of how much he loves you.
He said, look, we're living in Colorado.
Adam wants to make a career in being a comedian.
He wants to go out there and be a comedian and wants to make it into the NBA.
So he's going out to play and ball all this other stuff.
He starts playing basketball with these guys that are Denver Nuggets, guys.
Then they say there's an open tryout.
It's a D-leaque, whatever the league was for you to come through.
So the same day you're going to go to the tryouts, you tell Adrian, look, just come and pick me up at nine o'clock.
I got a flight at one o'clock.
My dad's paying a flight.
I haven't seen this guy for four years.
I'm going to go to Vegas and spend time with him, right?
The story you're telling.
So I'm just kind of like really curious with the story.
So haven't seen Pops for a few years.
You're going to go see him in Vegas.
Your dad's obviously not here with us today, but you're going to go see him in Vegas.
But you're not like, I'm not going to make it to the NBA.
Let's face it.
I'm just going in there, seeing what happens.
So you go, and then you text Adrian, you're like, dude, you won't believe it.
I made it past the first round.
Okay.
What are you talking about?
Yeah, I'm going to the next one.
So pick me up at 10 o'clock.
And then you go and you play.
You're killing it.
And you make the second cut.
Dude, what are you talking about?
Dude, I'm still not going to make it.
Just pick me up at 11 o'clock.
You're going, you make it past the third.
Just pick me up at the fourth, you know, fourth.
And then you make it past fourth.
You throw some lops, dunks, all this stuff that's happening visually.
He's selling it to me on what happened to it.
And then finally, you're one cut away, Shaun C. Billips' nephew apparently made it.
I don't know who he cousin makes it.
And it could have been you.
You're one cut away from playing for being on a roster of the Denver Nuggets, having your own base basketball cart, Adam Sausnack, okay?
And then all of a sudden, you run out and you say, I can't do it.
You're running out to go see your dad.
You chose dad over your sport.
You're running out there.
You see Kiki Van Evanaway.
He says, kid, what are you doing?
You can actually have a shout out.
It says, listen, I'd love to do anything with the Denver organization.
Give me your number.
You exchange numbers.
You get on the flight.
You go to Vegas.
You're sister or dad and your dad says, what?
What are you doing?
You should have gone to the trials, right?
But you wanted to go spend time with your dad.
So what's the moral of the story?
These kids have been training for years to go to the Olympics.
We cannot punish them.
It is not fair to punish the people that have been training.
They're at the parents that took the kids to tryouts to practice the endless hours of clothes, driving them, traveling them, investment.
It's a lot of pain.
So the athlete cannot take the hit.
So we can't cancel it.
We simply have to relocate it to a different place.
But we have to tell China, listen, it's sensitive right now.
It is sensitive right now.
We're not canceling you.
We are postponing you.
Let's let the dust settle.
We'll come back 10 years from now and consider giving you the next slot when it opens up.
Maybe in 2026, but just not in 2022.
So let's pick a place that's done this before, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Let's pick a place.
There's plenty of places that have done the Winter Olympics before.
Pick a country.
Maybe it's last on the list.
Bring them up right now.
That's 20 years from now.
Give them that slot.
And then let's give them some of the commerce that people trust a little bit more, that they've handled COVID maybe better than some other countries have.
Let's say, let's go over there.
Okay, let's go over there.
And by the way, then the challenge even becomes some countries that don't even want the Olympics to come to them.
Japan may say, we've done it so right.
I don't even want you to come into us.
I get, of course, and I don't blame them.
But you have a pool of countries that would say, we'll take it.
I guarantee you there's 10 countries that would love to take them.
I guarantee you Salt Lake City may sit there and say, look, if you want to come out here, we'll figure it out.
If you want to go to New York and you want to go to what's that city in New York where they practice Lake Placid.
Yeah, Lake Placid.
There is options.
I just think it's sensitive.
There's one group that I've been to Lake Placid, the whole illusion place.
I've been there before.
The one community that cannot take a hit is the kids, the athletes, the parents.
It's so emotional, man.
It is so emotional.
Because we don't know if they'll make the cut the next year.
Exactly.
It's four years.
Four years is a long time.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime type of thing.
Exactly.
Exactly.
So, anyways, we'll see what's going to happen with that, but that's my thoughts.
But Biden doesn't have a history of caring about people anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
Don't offend Adam like that.
Adam, just a little bit more.
To chime in, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
It's a great story.
I totally agree.
It's your story.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
One cut away from the nuggets, Summer League team.
But if we do do this, it needs to be a collective decision.
Biden can't be the one making this decision.
And something tells me that I don't think it's going to happen.
China does need to pay a price.
By the way, there was just a report that just came out.
WHO, I don't know how much stock you put into them.
They came out and they said there's a very, very high likelihood that the COVID-19 virus came from the wet market, not a lab.
Thoughts?
Do we really want to go there, buddy?
I just want to know your thoughts.
I mean, first of all, who funds the World Health Organization?
That's why I, well, no, China does, not us.
They're number one.
We're number two, right?
And Trump even pulled out, right?
So I'm like, I don't even want to do anything.
But, you know, Biden's kind of coming back out.
A quote-unquote independent report.
I don't know.
We'll find the, I mean, Kai, maybe you can find the report.
I just want to know the percentage of this.
I would love if China wants us to really believe that.
I would love to open up social media, give freedom of speech, let people go in there and investigate from both sides of the aisle.
Let us send some independent researchers there and talk to the folks there and see what we can investigate.
Until that happens, I don't believe any stories that come out.
That's where I stand with it.
I don't care if it's World Health Organization, CDC, I don't care if it's anything, ABC.
I'm not buying it.
I'm buying an independent organization from both sides of the aisle that goes in audits.
Do you know what's the biggest change?
You know how you said, you know, 50% of Republican men don't want to take the vaccine.
Why don't they?
Let's ask the question.
Why don't they want to take it?
Why don't 50% of...
The key word is distrust, probably.
So where does distrust come from?
Where does distrust come from?
Bitten screwed over him to him.
I don't think it's screwed over.
No, I don't even think it's screwed over.
You know where my distrust comes from?
Let me tell you where my distrust comes from.
Here's where my distrust comes from.
If somebody's watching this right now, people say, you know, Adam, soy boy, Adam, this, or Adam, that.
Dude, I love talking to people who are opposing opinions.
It's my favorite people to talk.
You're respectful.
You're amicable.
We can sit down.
We can have a conversation and we enjoy it and we go on and it's great.
Vanessa's here.
She gave her opinions.
I don't care if she agrees or disagrees.
I love having her here.
We have that kind of an environment.
It's a safe space for us to have opposing views clash.
Who learns?
God willing, the audience says.
Right.
Today's session was great.
I didn't know about that.
I didn't know about that.
I bet somebody today saying, dude, you got to go watch that immigration debate at the class.
So you're learning.
Here's the problem, why half of Republican men that you're saying don't want to take the vaccine.
Because the opposing argument has no voice today.
The opposing argument has been vilified.
I contact Paul Offitt to say, why don't you come and do a debate with somebody else that has an argument on the other side for a vaccine?
I contact all these guys.
You know what's the first thing they say?
No.
I'll give you 10 grand.
No.
I'll give you $20,000.
No.
I don't know.
So even when the, what do you call it?
The fair is taking place, and Robert De Niro is at that one fair, and he's like, Hey, you know, the movie festival, and the vax thing got pulled the day before.
Well, we just decided it wasn't something that we wanted to do.
And Robert was like, Why you should watch this?
It's actually good.
Silenced, right?
When an opposing argument is silenced, you lose credibility.
Yes.
So, for me, when that is taking place, I have a problem with that.
Okay, so when you're going back and saying, What do you think about World Health Organization saying this, this, that it came from a wet market, not the lab?
I'm hearing one argument.
Allow the other side to go do their own investigation and then let us, the audience, go through the arguments and see who we want to believe.
Let us do it, not you.
Yeah, no, no, I agree with you.
I think, I think that, you know, going back to what Pat said is, you know, when you're canceling the president of the United States, the one that actually helped create the vaccine, I'm noticing that you're more of a community guy.
You're not more of a, you don't believe in leadership too much, right?
You believe in communities.
I believe in communities too, but I'm a big believer in leadership, that leaders are the ones that drive things.
Obviously, because I lead an organization, I should lead one of the best teams in the company.
And I'm very blessed to say that because I'm honored to work beside professionals that are all leaders.
I think that when it comes down to a subject like this, we have to really take a step back and analyze the whole thing, right?
For example, what's your opinion on it when it comes down to what Pat was saying?
What's your overall opinion on it?
On whether the COVID was created in the lab or in the wet market?
The bottom line is we don't know, but I'm trusting you.
No, no, hold on, hold on.
But what's your opinion?
I think there's a high likelihood that it came from this wet market.
It traveled through Animal through a bat.
But am I dismissing the fact that China probably did something?
No doubt, China covered it up.
No doubt.
I mean, we're not even going to play that game.
China covered it up.
They didn't let the world know this was happening.
They didn't shut down airports.
So they kept it under wraps.
Was it created in the lab?
I don't know.
So Pat said one time something very interesting.
He says, when somebody goes too hard the other side, the consequence is going to rebound the other way.
So for example, he said that Clinton created a Bush.
A Bush created an Obama and Obama created a Biden.
But a Biden is pushing so hard, so fast that he's, you know, these other guys subley did it.
Like, Trump didn't, he was not subtle about him pushing people back.
Neither is Biden.
So, you know, so he's pushing so hard that we just have a huge distrust.
First of all, because he's made comments and racist comments before, which they're documented.
He called a certain community predators and then locked them up.
Like, there's so much distrust with him and everything that he says that it has nothing to do with this place.
It has nothing to do with the vaccine and everything to do with him.
But if Trump created the vaccine, what does it have to do with Biden?
No, no, I get that.
But you don't believe that, though, because you just said it's a community.
You said it's a community.
You got to make a choice on what you believe.
So you're crisscrossing here.
No, I'm not crisscrossing.
You gave Trump props for creating the vaccine.
Yes.
But now you're saying we don't trust Biden because he's distributing the vaccine.
Right.
So which one is it?
No, no, I agree with you.
The thing is with me is I will not take that vaccine.
Okay.
Because you distrust.
No, because I distrust the government, period.
Okay.
Right?
Because they've lied to us multiple times.
They've covered things up.
Trump was ahead of the government for four years.
You don't understand.
I'm not a totalitarian when it comes down to that with Trump.
I told you earlier.
I like a lot of things that he did.
It doesn't mean I fully agree with him, right?
I don't agree with the vaccine.
But hold on, though.
But do I understand that he had a responsibility to the world to come up with the vaccine?
Yes, because the rest of the world are scared.
He needed to find a solution for the people that are scared.
Do I fully believe that he thinks that that was the proper solution?
No, but he could come out and say it.
No, he couldn't come out and say, you don't need a vaccine.
You're going to be all right.
He can't do that as a world leader.
He can't do that.
So therefore, us that we support what he stood for, we can read between the lines and understand that he has a job to do, but this is one of the things that we're just not going to go with.
I don't know if that makes sense what I'm saying or not.
Does it make sense or not?
Did I confuse you?
Or did it make sense?
We know that argument.
No, no, I'm asking you that.
I'm with you.
We're good.
So we know how to read between the lines.
Okay.
As a world leader, he needed to do something like that.
Right?
Because everybody else was going to follow.
It doesn't mean that us don't know how to read between the lines.
We don't, we just trust.
I don't, I just, anything that the Biden administration touches, I don't trust it.
I don't care what it is.
If they blink too many times, I don't trust them.
I just don't.
I just, you know, oh, we're not going to tax the middle class.
Now that they're trying to.
If I said the same thing about Trump, anything that Trump does, I just trust.
Anything he does, I just trust.
That's fine, bro.
Am I fair to say?
Because I've never said that.
But you're going very far right.
No, no, I'm not going far right.
No, there's anything.
Everything has been lies.
Everything's been a lie.
How do you trump it and go?
It's like having a dog bite you multiple times when it's in the kennel, right?
And you're getting ready to adopt it.
And then you're surprised when it bites you when you adopted him.
The dog's bit many times already.
Many times in every category that you can imagine, right?
He was side by side with Robert Bird, which, oh, I left the KKK.
No, is that after LBJ?
It was not okay to be a racist, bro.
So you had to switch in order to vote in.
You didn't leave the KKK.
You just wrote a book about leaving the KKK, how you regretted it, because we were progressing into a world where being part of the KKK and a racist was no longer acceptable.
So you have to.
Who was part of the Kazakhstan?
Robert Bird, Senator.
Robert Bird.
The one that died, and then they give it Obama and Clinton, he gave him a stand-up ovation.
He was in the KKK, openly KKK, right?
But as time progresses, LBJ with the Great Society Act, which literally single-handedly caused father absence in the minority community.
You cannot, oh, it's because we want to help.
No, you don't want to help.
You want to enslave.
And you want to break the core of the family foundation.
So I just don't trust him, bro.
It's just years of lies and coming in and undoing.
And look at our border.
Look at the things that was going on with COVID.
He's not going to the border, right?
And it's a crisis.
He's lying about the taxes.
What am I supposed to do?
Sit here and trust anything he says?
I just can't, bro.
Okay, so you distrust anything that he does.
Fair enough.
Let me read this to you about what happened with China.
Taiwan accused China of trying to bribe Paraguay with COVID-19 vaccines to make it stop recognizing Taiwan.
This is a story from Business Insider.
Paraguay is one of the 15 nations that still recognize Taiwan as independent, and it is in dire need of vaccines.
China has long insisted that Taiwan is part of China, though Taiwan has operated as its own country for decades.
On Wednesday, Joseph Wu, Taiwan's foreign minister, said that China has sought to use the turmoil to pressure Paraguay into swearing publicly that Taiwan was part of China.
He said the Chinese government was very active in saying if the Paraguay government is willing to severe diplomatic ties with Taiwan, they will be able to get quite a few million vaccine doses from China.
Let me say this one more time.
The Chinese government was very active in saying that if Paraguay government is willing to sever diplomatic ties with Taiwan, they will be able to get quite a few million vaccine doses from China.
He went on to say that the Taiwanese government had reached out to Japan, the U.S., and India to ask for vaccines in an attempt to bat away from Beijing's advances.
Last month, China's foreign ministry said it was providing 69 countries with free vaccines and it was selling vaccines to 28 nations.
Look, I mean, these guys are just pushing people around.
And half these stories you read, like, is it true?
Is it not true?
You're probably leaning towards what?
Yeah, it's probably true.
And then the Tesla story with China, let me just bring it all together.
Go to page five.
Yeah, the camera.
So now they are saying that Tesla is doing what?
And Tesla comes back and says, Listen, we want to reassure you that China, the cameras and its cars are turned off.
This is a Fox business story.
Tesla has taken to social media to ensure customers in the country that the cameras installed in their cars are turned off.
All Teslas have eight external cameras that are primarily for their driving assist features, but can also record video.
While the Model 3 and Model Y have also a camera installed near the rearview mirror that can monitor the cap.
And it was reported in March that Tesla has been banned from Chinese military complexes due to spying concerns.
Tesla has begun to use the interior camera in North America to gather data on driver's awareness related to the use of its full self-driving features.
Elon Musk said that the several early access data beta testers were barred access to the latest version of the software for not paying sufficient attention to the road.
They are so paranoid.
Okay, they want control, control, control, and they don't want others to do to them what they're doing to the other nations.
So interesting.
They want to spy on everybody else, but they don't want it to happen to them.
And they know when you're doing it to them.
Very interesting culture that they have there.
But Tesla is going to play ball.
I mean, they're not going to, they're eager to obviously get into China and sell their cars there.
So Elon Musk is going to, who's a true capitalist, I applaud Elon for everything he's done.
But if he's going to get into China and try to make some money, he's going to play by their rules, don't you think?
Yeah, you know, yes, absolutely.
And absolutely, I agree with you there.
We're going to see what's going to happen with those guys on the story.
Hey, what's man, let me see this here.
Give me a second here.
We got some.
Ricky, while we're waiting, just in general, how are you feeling now?
You're 33 now.
You're here in Florida.
You're here for how long?
Oh, I'll be gone today.
That's it.
You're in, you're out.
You're in, you're out.
So, 33 years old yesterday.
Yes, 33 years ago.
Pretty crazy, man.
Pretty crazy.
So, 33 years old yesterday.
What are you doing to celebrate for your birthday, bro?
This stuff's all
Mira que amaneció Felicidades Ricardo
Happy birdio.
Happy bird, happy bird, Ricardo, happy bird, que los com plas felis, y que los bua complin.
Que los si vas compliando hastalan.
Yo siemí muy buer días.
Yo Ricardo es a muy en especier en Es Companions El Rey.
Erica just text me.
I asked Erica, what's Ricky's favorite mariachi song?
She said El Rey.
I don't know what El Rey is, but there we go.
Y mi parabra stre tengo corno i reina ninadie que me compenda.
Pero sigo siendo el rey Me enseñó que mi destino Rodila, ro di la.
Despue di coniero.
Qué noay que yigar el primero.
Si noay que saber dear.
Vundidero y si ninero.
Ago siempre lo que quiero.
Yimi balar y no tengo todo di reina.
Ninadie que me compenda.
Pero sigo cien Gracias.
Gracias.
Felíz combiados ricardo.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Gracias.
Gracias.
Happy birthday to you, buddy.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
What is awesome?
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
Thank you so much.
Okay, Ricky, what are you going to wish for?
Oh, it's going to be for you.
What are you going to wish for, bro?
Hopefully, one day Adam comes to his senses.
I don't think so, Ricky.
I don't think so.
Did you expect that?
No, I did not know that.
I had no idea they had Mariachi in Florida.
You know, there's a lot of Mexicans out here.
You got to support them, bro.
Yeah, I know.
They came across the border.
It's easier these days.
You are so funny.
Thank you guys so much.
I appreciate that, man.
You guys have no idea how much I appreciate it.
That's so freaking good.
Happy birthday, buddy.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
It's so awesome.
Again, gang, if you're following this, we put the Instagram account of Ricky below.
Go follow him.
Give him some love.
If you enjoyed the discourse that we had today, make sure you do that.
Look, I mean, we got a lot of different topics to choose right now to wrap up with.
A lot of them.
Let's give a shout out to Kim Kardashian finally being a billionaire, right?
Kim Kardashian, shout out for being a billionaire.
You know, Adam, I think more for you, you've spent some time with her.
What do you think about her becoming a billionaire now, Kim Kardashian officially?
Wow, congratulations, Kim.
You know, I've hung out with Kim a lot.
I've hung out with your future governor, Bruce Jenner, Caitlin Jenner, a lot.
And she's a classy gal.
I mean, she, I mean, she's more than anything going to influence all those Instagram models.
You know, there's hope for you too, ladies.
You can twerk your way to the top, no problem, whether it's a sex tape, whether it's business, whether it's social media.
You have to throw that in there.
Good for you.
I'm just saying, we're stating facts here.
So, congratulations, Kim.
Yeah.
Got nothing but love for you, girl.
Yeah, you know, I'm going to be honest with you, as far as how they started.
I'm not a fan of that.
I think it's a bad example to women, but, but, however, I will have to say that congratulations to her and her family for capitalizing on it, right?
They didn't just live that 15-minute of fame.
They were actually, they were actually able to create an empire.
So, you know, like I said, I'm not fond of it because of how they started.
I don't want my daughters to ever look up to that example.
But as far as what she was able to do, and becoming a billionaire, becoming a millionaire is not easy, let alone a billionaire.
That takes strategy.
That takes making the right decisions.
That takes, you know, it's a whole different level of mindset.
So, for her to be able to do that, congratulations to her and her family.
No doubt.
Before I forget, in honor of Ricky's birthday, it's a great idea.
It's also Mickey's birthday.
Is it Mickey's birthday?
It's also Mickey's birthday.
Mickey!
Ricky!
Mickey!
Happy birthday!
Quick shout out to obviously Value Tamement, but Tambiang, Valutéma Español.
It's a new channel that we launched.
Yep, that's true.
So I know you might have some say on that channel.
But shout out to our friend Eric Ikigalera, who is heading up the channel with that.
But shout out to Valutaine Español.
If you speak Spanish and you want to see Pat speak in Spanish on entrepreneurship, it's Valutaine Español.
So all the content's being translated into Spanish.
And shout out to Eric.
He's doing a phenomenal job.
Eric's doing a phenomenal job on a lot of different ends.
I'm a big fan of Eric.
Yes.
His level of work ethic right now.
Former Marine, the guy's kicking some major tail.
Proud of Leo Roy, those guys, what they're doing.
But Valutame in Spanish, we may be having Ricky do something with Valutema Spanish.
We had the conversation together, you and I. Where were we talked about?
Were we in Hawaii?
I think we were in Hawaii.
We were in Hawaii when we talked about that.
So it's going to be exciting to see what happens.
Stay tuned for that.
I'm so excited for that.
But having said that, gang, it's coming close to 11 o'clock.
Here's what I may do next week.
I may do next week on Tuesday.
Okay.
I mean, I don't even know if the building is going to be okay with this, but I may do next Tuesday.
Next Tuesday, I may reveal the bike I just bought.
Oh, my God.
I may bring it here.
So if you haven't seen it yet, it's a ridiculous.
This weekend, I just, I got, I better show it to you.
But when you see it, it's freaking.
What time's your flight today, by the way?
That's a five.
Okay.
So if I go there, you know what?
We may, I may even take you to show a couple homes that we're looking at.
I may take you with a bunch of people.
Yeah, we got time.
Yeah, we got time.
Shoot, your flight's at five?
Yeah.
Okay, so I can't show you the bike, but I'll okay.
We'll do something.
We'll talk about what we're going to do with that.
But anyways, next Tuesday, you may want to join the podcast because next Tuesday, I may pull up the entire bike here.
We're going to bring the camera on to see it.
Listen, it is so ridiculous how beautiful this bike is.
I mean, you were the first person that saw one.
Yeah, I was there when you bought it.
It's a ridiculous brand.
I just swiped his credit card and took out a $50,000 bike.
It's so funny.
The guy's like, you're going to put it on the comments.
Yeah, just put it right on the card.
But when you see the bike, it's sexy.
It's gorgeous.
It's beautiful.
And it'll be revealed next Tuesday.
That bike and Sim Kardashian do have a lot of similarities, if you know what I'm talking about.
Well, this one is more on the front, not the back.
Yeah, well, we'll see.
I mean, we'll definitely take different angles for you to be pleased with that.
But there's a bigger surprise after that.
There's a bigger surprise after that, which will be pretty crazy, Ricky, what's going on.
But anyway, no, Next Tuesday, don't miss the podcast because I'm going to put it right there and we'll show the whole thing next Tuesday.
Having said that, Ricky, thanks for watching.
Thanks for coming out.
Everybody, we've enjoyed this.
It's good to see you.
Really, really enjoyed.
This is America.
Independent, Democrat, Republican, having a conversation.
You're going off, chat.
So let's meet somewhere in the middle.
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