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Because today's episode, number 57, podcast episode 57.
Who was it?
Wood Sauce and Sapala.
Saucy.
It's been an interesting, busy week, to say the least.
It's crazy back-to-back to back to back.
Speaking of backs, how you feeling?
How's your back?
Sapala's got a package.
Well, Sapala's got a backage.
What's going on?
Because of squats you were doing yesterday with the belts.
Messed up.
RedCon 1 Jim.
Appreciate you guys at Bell Squad Machine, but I was on the floor for a majority of the time there.
I got to go to Redcon.
He reached out to me, and then I got a call from Bernard Carrick saying, when are you going to go to Redcon 1?
So I think Bernard's coming next week.
Is he coming next week?
I think he's scheduled to come.
Bernard, is he scheduled next week or now?
Okay, so when we do, he's going to be here, and then we're going to go pay a visit to Redcon 1.
I hear nothing but good things about what Singerman set up over there with his gym.
Constantly hear about good things about it.
Great environment.
Now we understand why Sapala's back is a little iffy right now.
He had a nice little massage late last night.
Try to get him back in the group.
But why is your back hurting?
You've been working on the business.
We've been spending 16 straight hours talking with the SLS that we had.
It was a great event we hosted at the break.
It was phenomenal.
We had a great time.
We had people came up from all over the place, all over the world, and spend a day and a half with them, finding out where they ride with their businesses.
But it was great.
We had a good time.
Fantastic time.
I got to tell you, I got to give you a quick shout-out.
Tell me.
Quick shout out.
So, you know, I've been in Valettainment for a year.
I've known you for going on nine years now.
I've seen you speak.
I've seen you speak publicly.
But never in a setting like this.
Meaning, like, obviously, we do the podcast together.
We do episodes together.
We, you know, shoot the shit.
Everything.
I've seen you.
But I've never seen you because of the pandemic in the last year.
You haven't had the opportunity to speak in front of crowds.
I got to tell you, man.
Super impressive.
The way that you interact, like what's awesome is like anyone can kind of deliver a speech.
All right, you have your PowerPoint.
We're next page.
Let's go.
You know, a lot of people are good at that.
Obviously, you're good at that.
But it's the Q ⁇ A, the dialogue, the reading the room, the, you know, all right, cool, what's your issue?
And then processing the issue, breaking it down.
When you, there's no notes.
There's nothing to check your references.
You just, you talk to like something.
I mean, I can give you a bunch of different references, but the one Asian lady, the millionaire, the one in the back.
She makes $811,000 and she wants to get to a million.
And you broke her down.
Yeah.
And you essentially diagnosed her that you're like, look, you're a great salesperson.
Maybe you're not a great sales leader.
And she actually admitted it in the end.
But stuff like that is what I'm saying.
That's beyond a PowerPoint presentation.
So what I got away from the SLS conference, number one, how you marketed it was completely by word of mouth.
There's no advertising.
There's no marketing behind it.
It's just simply a relationship.
And the reason why Patrick can share that, you know, as his, by the way, last time I was at the Breakers, you appointed me as a CDO of PHP.
And Mike Taylor sent me this.
Let's get a zoom in on that, baby.
We got Got two Sepalis here.
It's too amazing.
That's cool, man.
That's crazy.
And that's the picture breakers.
That's right.
I just noticed that.
That's what you were talking about.
Got it.
Great.
Hey, look right here.
I got a picture of a soy mill right here.
A little soy action.
But it was to the point where we're so blessed and grateful for those of us at PHP to have you as our CEO, because to see you rock a room of 100 entrepreneurs that are clapping every 30 seconds about what you're saying and the case studies that you're breaking down and the and speaking from the heart and from, more importantly, experience and proof of running a successful business.
You know the, the effect, the effect the the, the guesstimate enterprise value that you helped affect in the business community, based on the attendees over there.
We guesstimate around, based on leaks and opportunities.
We guesstimate around 50 million dollars of enterprise value was created because of SLS.
Yeah, so there was a guy that said different numbers were thrown around, but it was pretty interesting when you were you doing an interview with them.
What they're saying to you, awesome.
Okay, let's get into it.
We got lots of topics to discuss, a lot of topics to discuss, as SNS, Simon AND Schuster flat out came out and said, look, 216 employees apparently came out and said we cannot publish Mike Pence's book.
We shouldn't be, you know, publishing any of that stuff.
And the CEO stood up and he says, no, we're going to be publishing because we want to hear both sides.
We're going to talk about that hopefully, here in a minute.
Cancel culture, yes, the cancel culture I talked about.
Can we give a little reference when we go to it?
Elon Musk trolls Jeff Bezos for losing NASA contract to SpaceX.
And he said, Bezos can't get it up.
What a, what a thing.
You got to say the fact that Elon Musk is probably the number one troll in the world.
He's got to get a troll of the year award because no one does it better than he does.
Well, there was someone that was a better troller you know that than him.
Yeah well, who Bezos, or who else?
Well Trump, I think, was a the best trollery.
I think Trump wrote the manual is king trolls.
And then now look, there's no black and white, it's gray area.
Okay, fair enough, fair enough.
Tesla's Bitcoin stash grows to $2.4 billion when they put a one and a half billion dollars into it, meaning they made an additional 900 million.
Nice, nice little chunk of change they made.
Uh, why are Americans, American workers, harder to find?
We'll talk about that.
China's Huawei says sales are down 16.5 percent amid Us sanctions.
Uh, bitcoin is a future.
Chief Sean Caulking to become the first Nfl player to convert 2021 salary into crypto.
Uh, then you have Apple increases its spending in the United States by 20 alphabet sets, profit record plans, 50 billion dollar buyback, which you know a lot of times.
When you talk about buyback, they get a heat, they get heat companies get heat, but they want to do a 50 billion dollar buyback.
How Samsung's dynasty, the heirs, will pay an 11 billion dollar inheritance tax.
That's going to be a record of all time.
An 11 billion dollar inheritance tax does it make sense?
Is it a good thing?
Is it a bad thing?
Connor makes 600 million dollars on tuesday.
He actually makes Makes only $200 million.
He was one of the third, I think, that he made.
The three partners split the $600, but not a bad payday for Connor on Tuesday to make $200 million.
The trailer files a $100 million lawsuit against Jake Paul's match, pirates, those who were pirating it, showing it all over the place.
It's going to be interesting how that turns out.
Podcast subscription frenzy.
People are now charging to listen to their podcast.
We have to talk about what Biden did yesterday with his speech.
There was a lot to be talked about with his $6.35 trillion.
When you add all of it up, we'll cover that.
Governor Newsom to face recall election as Republican-led efforts hit signature goal.
Kai, did you get the email I sent you just a minute ago or no?
Did you get it or no?
I want you to go if you, ah, shit, that email probably left on my computer.
I sent a bunch of links to you to pull it up that will cover.
I'm going to have Mario go get it because we have to look at some of the data that was sent over.
And then let's see what else we got here.
Let's see what else we got here.
Biden wants to spend an extra $80 billion on IRS enforcement.
Which one do we want to go with?
Which one do we want to go with?
How about we talk about Joe Rogan, what he said on his podcast about vaccine?
Go to page 10.
Let's start off with Joe Rogan, what was said on his podcast, and what some folks from the Biden administration responded to Joe Rogan.
So Biden officials call out Joe Rogan over vaccine comments.
Did Joe Rogan become a medical doctor while we weren't looking?
This is a business insider story.
Joe Rogan took heat from a pair of White House officials on Wednesday over his opinions that younger Americans shouldn't get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Rogan said he was not against vaccines in general, but he didn't mention that the director of the CDC said hospitalization among young people were up.
And in Michigan hospitals, COVID-19 units are packed with younger people.
The New York Times reported Dr. Anthony Fauci, President of Biden's chief medical officer, advisor, and the director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, criticized Rogan's remarks.
Kate Bettingfield, Biden's communication director, also criticized Rogan, saying, I guess my first question would be, did Joe Rogan become a medical doctor while we weren't looking?
Adam, what do you have to say about this?
So look, if you ever watch Rogan, which I'm a fan of, I think we're all a fan of Rogan, respect his work.
And Pat, I think you can appreciate this.
This is the beauty of being a comedian, is that anytime Rogan's under sort of hot water, he'll just like, look, I'm just a dumb comedian, man.
What do I know?
Look, man, I'm just shooting the shit.
I'm shooting the what I'm just a dumb comedian.
What do I know?
That's an amazing defense mechanism.
Like, I used to do comedy.
So anytime I'm in hot water, I'm like, look, man, I'm joking, probably.
Okay.
Like, I don't take things too seriously.
I'm a comedian.
So do I actually agree with Joe Rogan on this?
I actually do.
I actually do.
I think young, healthy people don't necessarily need to get vaccinated.
That's my opinion.
Obviously, Fauci would probably disagree.
And I'm sure if Joe Rogan gets some backlash over this, I'm sure his defense mechanism will be like, look, man, I'm just a dumb comedian.
What do I know?
I'm just a caveman with a microphone kind of a thing.
You've heard him say this before, right?
You've heard him say this before.
Look, what do I know?
Anytime that, you know, especially with politics, because he's, I'd guess that Joe Rogan is sort of middle, center, left-ish.
There's stuff down the right.
Like, he can kind of, he's a libertarian, I would say.
I think that's something that I'm learning to be more akin to.
Your buddy Joe, Joe Rogan.
Joe Rogan.
Yeah, not necessarily Joe Biden on this one.
But I think at the end of the day, that's his opinion.
He's sticking to it.
And he's just a dumb man.
What meeting caveman?
What's wrong with him saying that?
What is wrong with him saying, I don't think should take it?
Is that unacceptable?
Is that against the law today to say your opinion is, I don't think younger generation should take vaccines.
Last comment I want to turn over to our sergeant-in-arms over here, Matthew Zapolla, is if you're the Biden administration and you're working this hard and, you know, his approval ratings on how he's handling the COVID rollout is actually well north of 60%.
Well, anything over 50% in this country these days are doing a good job and his approval ratings are hovering in the low 50s.
I think the last thing the Biden administration wants is a big name voice saying, well, you don't necessarily need the vaccine.
I mean, come on, come on, come on.
So if you're the Biden administration, you're not doing them any favors.
So I don't think they're going to cancel Joe Rogan.
Even Spotify said, look, we're keeping the episode up.
I think they were very clear about that.
But at the end of the day, he's not doing the vaccine rollout any favors.
So I think that's something that they're probably not happy about.
But there's no canceling.
What is it with vaccine that they can't have opposition?
That's the biggest concern.
What is it with the vaccine community that has a hard time having opposition?
Do you know every single debate has an opposition?
You tell me what debate doesn't have an opposition.
This is what you conform to.
Let's go to all the debates.
Give me all the debates.
Pro-life.
Debate.
What's the debate?
What's the opposite?
Pro-choice.
Pro-choice.
Pro-life?
Oh, it's a life.
Life starts.
Conception starts at this level.
Okay.
Do we have a problem with that debate?
No.
No.
Do we have a problem with Second Amendment debate?
No.
Do we have a problem with debating, you know, the budget for military shouldn't be a trillion and a half dollars?
It should be less.
It should be more.
Do we have a debate?
How come there cannot be a debate about vaccine?
How come the vaccine debate is so sensitive that if you say something, God forbid somebody gives an opposing idea, all of a sudden everybody flips?
You know, for me, I never even paid attention to this vaccine debate until all of a sudden I noticed you're silencing an opposing argument.
That's what got me more interested.
I never cared about this debate because to me, God knows how many vaccines I got in my body being in the military.
Our bloody, if you want any kind of vaccine, we got them here.
I got a supply vaccine in my body here.
Were you posted a debate with Kennedy Kennedy?
Yes.
But the point is, why?
What are you worried about?
What is your concern?
Because you say vaccines are not 100% accurate.
There's not like 100%.
There's not going to be any issues.
You saw what happened with Johnson ⁇ Johnson.
You saw like even my nanny took the Pfizer vaccine.
She was down for a week.
And she's been with me for 10 years.
She's never been down.
She was down for a whole week.
Second time she took it, not the first one, the second one.
My dad took it.
He was fine.
Nothing happened with my dad.
He's 79.
Knock on wood.
He took it as well.
But I'm not sitting here debating whether it is good or it is not good.
I haven't taken it.
My kids haven't taken it.
My wife's not taking it.
We don't have any plans anytime soon to take it.
It's not in our strategy right now to want to take it.
But the question is more than what Rogan said.
The question is, what are you worried about if somebody disagrees with you?
No, we have to get 100% of people vaccinated.
You're not going to.
You're not going to get 100% of people vaccinated.
And if you do, let's just say it gets to a point where you get 100% of people vaccinated.
Guess what that means?
What is it?
Is that going to be through influence or force?
Most likely force.
Influence.
There's no way it's influence.
If you get 100%.
If 100% of Americans have to get vaccinated, you think that's influence, meaning everybody charges.
I agree with you.
Anything with 100%.
So that means you have to agree with me that the right choice is pro-choice.
You have to agree with me that we have to take everyone's guns away.
100% of people have to agree with me.
The only argument that people demand for you to be 100%, vaccine.
I just don't want to do it.
If a person doesn't want to do it, if a person says younger people shouldn't do it, these people are panicking.
Oh my gosh, what have they done?
Buddy, relax.
All the people yesterday in the house when Biden was giving a speech, they're apparently taking the vaccines.
How come the place was empty?
If you're so confident about your vaccine working, so why was the place empty yesterday?
Left side of the city.
I wanted to see if they have said they don't want to have a.
I think it's optics.
It always comes down to optics.
You have a full-packed room.
Then you're a hypocrite.
Then you're a hypocrite.
Then why do I trust you?
Then you're right.
If you don't even trust the vaccine that you're telling me to get, because you guys are not, why you want me to trust it?
You don't trust it.
Okay, so let me actually ask you a question.
It sounds like it's more than an argument, like a debate.
Like, what's the reason that you're not getting the vaccine?
Have you gotten the vaccine?
I have not gotten the vaccine.
My wife's not getting the vaccine.
My kids are not getting a vaccine.
So what's the vaccine camera vaccine?
Because we have a choice.
And so that's what I want to understand.
Is it just because you have the choice and you want to exercise that choice?
Or is there something behind it?
Well, a couple of things.
Our personal pro the way we processed it, you know, at that time, my son was nine.
And last August, I got COVID.
My son got COVID.
We kicked its tail in three days and Sheena hasn't had any, she hasn't gotten it.
Oh, you got it and your son?
Yeah, our nine-year-old son.
Jojo.
Nine-year-old.
The nine-year-old.
He's now 10.
So our nine-year-old got COVID.
Yep.
Yep.
We both got it.
In school or from you or how'd that happen?
Most likely from me.
Okay.
Most likely from me.
And our two-year-old, it's fine.
My 25-year-old son, fine.
My now 20-year-old daughter, they're twins.
They've never gotten COVID.
You know, they had roommates that got COVID, but they're fine.
So, you know, we're also studying boosting our immunity.
There's other ways to combat COVID, which is boosting immunity, getting out in the sun, raising your vitamin D levels, taking all sorts of vitamin C, elderberry, you know, increasing that, which America, south of a certain parallel, I'm not sure exactly what parallel in America it is, but south of a certain parallel, we get plenty of vitamin D.
But, you know, the fact that we have to get it by force, what Patrick was saying, I don't agree with that.
The second part, my take on this is amazing how powerful now the podcast has been in American landscape.
Now a podcast is on the radar of the president.
Yo, Rogan, not bad.
You are now on the ear of the president, making sure that he checks your opinions on things to make sure you're not damaging the country when it comes to your opinion on the vaccine.
But for the most part, we love choices.
That's America.
That's freedom.
I love coming to Florida.
I'm from Chicago.
I love coming to Illinois or to Florida from Illinois because here I'm in the gym without a mask.
I'm here walking around without a mask.
I'm here.
And they just announced, guys, breaking news.
You can now go outside without a mask.
CDC.
I'm going to finally do it.
I'm going to finally do it.
If you're vaccinated.
Yeah, okay.
If you're vaccinated.
Then I guess I got to keep my mask on.
But Pat, do you have any strong feeling?
Well, I know you do.
Like, why are you it's my initial question was this is more than just a debate for you.
You have some principles as to why you don't want your family to get vaccinated.
It's so simple.
But you got your dad.
My wife believes in the flu shot.
I don't take the flu shot.
I'm okay with not taking a flu shot.
When's the last time you had a flu shot?
I don't even, I couldn't even tell you.
Put out the military, huh?
I don't even know.
Maybe I took one five years ago because we went out and took a flu shot.
I couldn't even tell you.
I may have gotten it three years ago.
I just haven't gotten a flu shot.
But Jen changed.
Jen got it last year.
She got it last year.
It's not like, you can't tell us now.
It's just, hey, the choice.
Hey, yeah, we talk about with the kids.
Hey, we got another one on the way.
What are we going to be doing with this?
We're probably going to make some adjustments on the vaccines.
Doesn't mean they're not going to get the vaccine.
The baby's not going to get the vaccine.
No, the baby's going to get the vaccines.
But some of them we may change a timeline from 18 months to 36 months.
We may change a timeline from 18 months to five years.
And that's the risk we're taking as parents.
That's the risk that you get to take as parents.
Everybody raises their kids in a certain way.
No matter how you raise your kids, there is a risk.
If you're too disciplined, there's a risk.
If you're too loose and lenient, there's a risk.
If you inject faith in your kids, there's a risk.
If you don't inject faith in your kids, there's a risk.
If you let your kids eat whatever they want, there's a risk.
If you don't let your kids eat whatever they want, there's a risk no matter what you do as a parent.
I'm not sitting here looking for perfection.
So sometimes when government officials get up there and they talk as if they, even a Fauci, how many of Fauci's statements have been accurate?
Let's go measure all his statements.
Look, how many doctors, like if somebody comes to you right now and says, you know, one of our associates, she called me, good friend of ours.
They called.
She had cancer, okay?
And a husband calls me, good friend.
We have a conversation.
He's emotional.
This is a military guy.
He's a tough guy.
He's a strong guy.
You know who he is.
He's a tough guy.
And he says, I don't know how to handle it.
We're just having a conversation together.
So two grown men, emotional conversation.
I'm trying to give as much support as I can because I love this guy.
But I said, how many doctors has she spoken to?
One.
Let's go get a second and a third.
Are we going back to it's a bad idea to get a second and third and fourth opinion?
Apparently, the last 12 months, the only opinion that matters is Fauci's.
Why can't we get a second opinion and a third opinion and a fourth opinion and a fifth opinion?
I subscribe, get a second, third, fourth, fifth opinion.
When you go to a Morgan Stanley advisor or a Merrill Lynch advisor or a Goldman advisor, what do they typically say?
If you say, I already have my money managed under XYZ, great.
Most of our clients do as well.
But what we've noticed is with folks who have been around longer and they have a bigger estate, they typically get a second or third advisor to have a second or third opinion, just like a doctor gives you a second or third opinion.
We're just supposed to sit there and say, oh, first opinion, Fauci, he's right.
Fauci, March says masks don't work.
Now you want to tell us masks or now you want to tell us put two on it.
Make up your mind.
You've been wrong as well.
So don't act like the people at the top have been right.
This whole judgment about they think they're perfect and they forget when they were wrong, but somebody else gives an opinion.
Oh, they have to be 100% right.
No, it's hypocrisy at the highest level.
And this is not even a vaccine topic.
This is more of a topic of, you have to listen to me because I know what I'm talking about and you don't.
No, you don't fully know everything you're talking about.
Hell, I don't know what I'm talking about all the time.
I'm wrong also.
I have certain things that I say in a podcast or an interview or video.
Some of my videos I watched from seven years ago, I disagree with today.
Your own.
I'm telling you, I watched my own video from seven years ago.
I said, I disagree with you today.
You were immature.
You've changed.
You're more mature.
You have to look at it this way.
And I sit there and adjust.
What era are we living in?
At what age are you going to know everything?
80 years old?
70 years old?
90 years old?
When?
Socrates died?
He says, the only thing I know is what?
That I know nothing.
What are we acting like everybody knows and we're afraid of debate?
The only thing I trust is a good debate.
It's the only thing I trust.
There's a very famous proverb written by King Solomon.
My people.
He's your uncle.
He said, without counsel, purposes are disappointed.
But with a multitude of counselors, plans are established.
So back to the second opinion, third opinion, fourth opinion.
If you only have one opinion, you're setting yourself up for failure.
To have the ability to look into the matter and get a multitude of counselors and opinions, very valuable, especially for such a big decision like this or anything else.
Speaking of opinions, we want to get our audience feedback, whether they're getting the vaccine, whether they are not.
Where are we at with that?
Okay, yeah.
With our people out there.
Gank, if you're getting the vaccine and you're okay getting the vaccine, put a thumbs up.
Smash that thumbs up button.
Don't worry.
We don't know the algorithms where Fauci's following our podcast to find out if you got it or not to start sending you messages.
If you have gotten the vaccine and you're comfortable getting it, press thumbs up.
If you haven't gotten the vaccine and you're not comfortable getting it, press thumbs down.
Right now we're at 173 over 2.
Let's see what happens to those ratios.
Can I ask you a question?
Yes.
So I'm going to tell you a story and then I want to get your opinion on this.
So I haven't got the vaccine.
We have all got COVID.
Even young, young, handsome, young buck over there.
Have you gotten it as well?
Everybody here has gone to COVID.
It's the COVID clan.
Sam, you got it as well, right?
Everybody's gotten the COVID.
I've had to come in the office with masked gloves, but I don't know anything about that.
Anyway.
That's so funny.
So there is sort of a freedom to, once you've had COVID, you can be like, all right, like I had it.
It kicked my ass for a few days, out of the office for a week or so, but I'm back.
But here's my question to you.
When I moved, because I was living in Dallas for six months, now I'm back home in Florida.
You know, I didn't see my mom for a long time.
And you have no idea how good it felt to know that my mom, my grandma, my stepdad, my aunts got the vaccine.
I mean, they're all in their 70s and they're older.
That felt good for me.
Like, you know, we're all in our early 40s-ish.
Shout out to early 40s for Apsabala, right?
40s groups.
So maybe, you know, young healthy, back to Rogan's point, maybe young healthy people don't necessarily need to do it, especially if you've had COVID.
But it does feel good knowing that your loved ones, especially your older loved ones, are vaccinated.
That does feel good.
And your dad got vaccinated.
That must feel good.
You know what feels good for me?
What feels good for me is that after hearing all the debates, you, as the individual, made the choice to get the vaccine.
Hence, my dad or my nanny.
You made the choice.
That's what feels good to me.
That's what I support.
I don't support doing it or not doing it.
I support research.
You're comfortable?
Go get it.
Salute.
More powerful.
If your dad was anti-vax, I'm not getting it.
I would have thought about it.
I would have thought about it.
No, no, I would have given him information and said, dad, look at this data.
Look at this data.
Look at this data.
But to enforce or force or enforce like through guilt, you'd be able to why aren't you doing it?
You don't care about this?
Not going to do that.
It's your choice.
You go do it.
What about your family, man?
My parents got it.
Our nanny got it.
They're the ones the most fearful about COVID-19.
Every time I travel, they're always worried about me making sure I'm quarantined.
But I can't say that.
I don't have a doubt in the back of my head about what's in it.
I worry.
My dad was down for a week, and I was concerned.
He's 81 years old.
He's about to turn 82.
So I'm worried about it.
He just got admitted last week to the hospital for heart failure.
He got out.
They want to do an open heart on him.
And versus taking medications.
I said, listen, 81, 82, they're not going to do open heart surgery on an 81-year-old man.
That's too thin at that time.
Is he taking blood thinners or not?
That's the tough part if you do it at that time.
Correct.
Yeah.
So again, look, I don't know what it is to be 79.
I only know what it is to be 42.
And everything else is to get as much intel from folks who are younger.
When I sit with a 14-year-old, I say, tell me what it's like to be in high school today with social media.
Tell me.
What are the biggest challenges?
What are you going through?
How many fights?
Are there gangs?
Are there drugs?
Do you see guns?
Do you see alcohol?
Are your teachers allowing you to put your phones next to you in classroom?
How many of your classmates have phones?
Are you texting while you're in classroom?
Are you using calculator when you're doing math?
Why am I doing that?
I don't know what it is to be 14 in high school.
So I do what?
I ask questions.
I don't know what it is to be 79.
What are you thinking about when you're 79?
You're probably thinking about death more than a 42-year-old is because more people around you are dying.
I don't know what it is to be that.
So I want to understand your position.
Then I want to try to provide as much intel.
I'll give you my opinion if you want it.
And then from there, you got to make the decisions and I salute you.
Can I still be doubtful like he is?
Yes, of course.
It's my family.
It's my dad.
It's my mom.
It's my people I love.
Why wouldn't I be concerned about them?
But at the same time, to sit there and act like you are 100% correct and you're telling me this thing 100% works and you're not putting a little bit of doubt to say we don't know exactly what the 10-year ramifications of this is.
How are you going to tell me you know?
Okay.
You know, the one side says Republicans, well, you know, the vaccine, Trump got it done in nine months.
He did.
He did.
But what was Fauci's argument against that?
If there's one thing you don't do is you don't force to speed up the process of getting what?
Vaccines earlier.
Okay, now we do.
Now they're trying to use it as a victory.
And Biden's like, you know, first 90 days, I've got 100 million people and 200 million vaccine shots have been given.
Really?
I wonder if in three years there are side effects.
Who you blame now?
Well, Trump shouldn't have expedited the process.
So you don't, everybody's trying to take the victory for what happened.
The reality is, I'm more comfortable if you say, look, we have three choices today.
One choice is don't get the vaccine.
Okay?
And God forbid, if you don't, if you get COVID and you're young, maybe you'll be okay.
But if you spend time around somebody that's elder and they get it from you, God forbid, if that nine-year-old was his dad, then what happens at 81 years old?
He doesn't know, right?
There's a risk.
So the argument is: if you don't get COVID and you're young and you're healthy, the people you may hurt are the people that are elderly around you.
So we suggest you consider getting the COVID vaccine.
Great.
Thank you.
Allow me to make the choice.
Number two is what?
You're not even thinking about it.
You just go get the COVID shot.
But the third one is: look, we also have to know that there is a risk.
We don't know what's going to happen five, 10 years from now.
So to the community that's worried about not taking a vaccine shot, we're with you as well.
We also don't know, but sometimes we have to take a risk.
And today, based on the research that's been done by medical experts, doctors, hundreds of researchers, FD, everybody that's done their part, they feel very confident that this is going to be okay long term based on the testing they've done.
But we can still be what?
Wrong.
There's still a 5% risk.
Having said that, is it better off if more of us take vaccine shot today?
Yes.
The odds are better in our favor as a nation if we take the vaccine than if we don't take the vaccine.
You know what that allows me to do?
I'm sitting there saying, great, you know, let me go take the vaccine.
I'll make the choice.
But this, we know it all and you don't mindset irritates the hell out of free thinkers.
This whole idea about if you don't, you're this, stop it, knock it off.
I've been thinking for myself for 42 years.
Some of them have been bad.
Some of it has been good, but I've done pretty okay for myself.
And if I make the wrong choice, I'll live with it.
That's on me.
But don't act like you know everything and I don't.
Lots of these positions changing is frustrating to those who like to think for themselves.
Question for you.
I think, and you touched on this, that everything gets so politicized, especially Fauci said this, and Trump said, you don't need the mask.
And then Trump is the one that actually got the Operation Warp speed and got the vaccine done.
But then he's, you know, a lot of Republicans won't do it.
And then Biden came in and he's taking credit for the vaccine and he's rolling.
So everything gets so politicized.
And don't you think there.
By the way, the voting is 58 said they're comfortable getting the vaccine.
62 said they're not getting the vaccine.
So if it's happening, I respect that.
Phenomenal.
Totally fine.
Go ahead.
So everything gets so politicized.
Wouldn't it be prudent for something like this?
Okay, did Trump take the vaccine?
Yes.
Okay.
Did Biden take the vaccine?
Yes.
Do you think they see eye to eye on the vaccine?
Yes.
So why wouldn't they do some sort of a joint statement?
So, for example, I think Biden, Obama, Bush, I'm not sure about Jimmy Carter, but the living presidents all came out and said, look, we took the vaccine.
Here's what's up.
This is something where I think our country on something like this would have loved to hear more from even Trump in that group saying, look, it's the five president living president of the United States.
We all took the vaccine.
We're on the same page.
Three Democrats, two Republicans.
What's up?
Why wouldn't you give credit to expedite the process?
If you want me to get involved, why don't you give me credit in your speech that you gave yesterday saying, on behalf of my administration, we'd like to thank Trump's administration, Pfizer, Johnson, and Johnson, the doctors, Anthony Fauci, who expedited the process to get this.
For us, when Reagan became president, and the day he became president and prisoner of war were released by Iran, he gave the credit to who?
To Carter.
That's a classy move.
Now, would Trump have done that?
I don't know.
Zero percent.
I'm saying to you is I think there's a reason why we are where we are today because a part of it was also we didn't give any credit before.
So this whole idea of giving no credit has been kind of going on for a little bit while even Obama, Obama, for the first four years he was there, he bashed Bush nonstop, non-stop, non-stop, non-stop.
I inherited an administration.
No one in the history inherited this Bush administration policies.
Inherited.
We had to hear this inherited word a million times that it was all Bush's fault, right?
Now they're best friends.
Why?
Are they best friends because of Obama or because of Bush?
A, because of Bush.
And I think Michelle and Bush are close.
I don't know about Barack.
But what I'm saying to you is Bush was a guy that's like, look, this is your show.
It's not my show.
The rest of them haven't done that to the next show.
Obama definitely hasn't allowed Trump to be Trump.
When Trump became president, he was bashing him nonstop.
So look, what Trump is doing to Biden is what Obama did to him.
So Trump is looking at Biden like, listen, you were part of the Obama camp.
You trashed me.
Why are you expecting me to build you up?
You never built me up when I became president.
So I know you're going to go to the Trump camp.
You got to go camp prior to that as well.
I think a lot of it, and just shout out to the Bush legacy.
They're just a classy operation.
Even when George H.W. Bush came in, he wrote a nice note to Bill Clinton.
George W. Bush wrote a nice note.
Credit goes to Prescott.
Credit goes to Senator Prescott.
That's right.
That's just a classy operation.
And this goes back to my initial point: everything's so politicized, everything's so polarized.
President Bush comes to our events.
Classy operations.
He comes to our event.
He speaks.
Him and I do an interview together.
We're sitting in the back seat.
We're sitting in the back.
There's 20 Secret Service agents around us.
Him and I are having a 45-minute conversation.
He's telling me all these great stories.
Just a great experience with him, right?
Comes up.
We have a blast.
We're laughing.
He's telling jokes.
Everybody afterwards, the most common thing people said to him is, you were the antichrist to me because of my parents said about you, my grandparents said about you.
I cannot believe how much I like you after today.
And then two weeks later, I get a nice handwritten note from him.
Thank you for the invitation for me to be on your event.
That's crazy.
Like, that's the kind of stuff they're like, somebody raised these.
He didn't have to do that.
No, he didn't have to do that.
That's not right for office.
He wrote you a personal letter.
By the way, ask me how many speakers we've invited have sent me a letter.
How many?
None.
He's the only one that ever sent a letter.
No wonder you're the president.
So these are the things that you kind of pay attention to and you give credit to.
So more power to him.
Anyways, the vaccine debate to each his own.
You know, let's keep researching.
I'm not sitting here telling you I won't take the vaccine.
All I'm telling you is as of right now, I'm not.
I may six months from now, 12 months from now, 24 months from now.
When I feel comfortable enough to want to take it and go talk to my wife and my kids about it, great.
Till then, it's on halt.
That's our choice.
Whatever your choices, you want to take it.
I salute you.
More power to you.
Anyways, let's continue.
We have Jack Hussell who gave $50 and he said it all comes down to trust and the experts have given the people zero reason to trust them.
And this process, this way, this is getting pushed is very uncomfortable.
When something gets pushed this hard, you have to question why no vaccine for my family and I.
Well, Jack, more power to you.
That's your decision.
That's your prerogative.
Thank God you're living in a country that you still have the choice to do that and you're not being forced to do that.
How about we take a lighter story with what happened between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, page two, the can't get it up story?
Here we go.
Elon Musk trolls Jeff Bezos.
Maybe bring up the tweet, Kai, for losing NASA contract to SpaceX, and he says can't get it up.
This is an immediate story.
It's talking about rockets, right?
Yeah.
Earlier this month, NASA announced that it has chosen Elon Musk SpaceX to bring its next astronauts to the moon, perhaps as early as 2024.
The contract is valued at $2.9 billion.
That didn't sit well with Blue Origin, the aerospace company, founded by Bezos, the Blue Origin, and a third bidder called Dynetics field protest, not Dianetics.
Dynetics filled a filed protest with the government accountability office claiming NASA changed the bidding rules late in the process.
News of the filing seemed to Delight Musk, who took to Twitter on Monday to channel his inner middle schooler by saying Bezos and Blue Origin can't get it up.
LOL.
Such schoolyard humorous old hat for Musk, who last June tweeted to inform his tens of millions of followers that it was 69 days after 420.
That is Elon Musk for you.
There's a tweet, by the way.
They took it down or no?
Where's the tweet?
Okay, oh my gosh.
Adam, thoughts.
You're like, I've been very vocal on what Elon Musk likes to do in his sexual life and banging aliens and all that kind of stuff.
It's kind of his fantasy land.
But he's a child.
Look, everyone kind of you can kind of go different directions.
He's a child at heart, clearly.
He's a dreamer.
He's a visionary.
I love that.
Yeah.
I love being child at least.
He's an ape here that can't get it up, giggity geeky.
Like, what?
Billionaire, $100 billion talking shit to a fellow richest man in the world.
Sopali can't get it up.
Tweet that out.
Got him.
69, 420.
Like, what?
This is the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world.
So I think what we are seeing here is this is watching MJ and LeBron go at it in their prime.
Bezos and Musk.
That's a good point, right?
Like, everyone's like, who's better than LeBron?
Who's MJ, though?
Who's MJ, though?
Ooh, ooh.
Well, I mean, Bezos is older, and he's been doing it longer.
So I guess in this situation, and he is richer, 90% of the time.
He goes back and forth, though.
So you kind of got to go MJ.
So you're saying that Musk is MJ?
When am I stopping?
When am I stopping?
When we stop it.
When we stop talking now, oh, my gosh.
So you're saying that.
Okay, I'm just, I don't know, Pat.
I don't know if Elon Musk is MJ or LeBron.
I don't know.
So you're what I'm saying is we're watching two Titans go at it in their MIT.
I think it's great.
You know who's winning today?
Us.
The world is winning.
We're winning, man.
This is great to see.
69 time, 420.
Speaking of 420, what are your thoughts on this, Apollo?
Yeah, when I'm looking at this, back to your analogy.
I think that currently right now, I think Musk is MJ on the rise because he's battling Bezos.
Here's why.
Because when MJ was coming up, he was a great scorer, and then he was great this aspect, and then he improved another aspect of defense, a three-point shot, all these different things he had to have.
Solid mid-range game, MJ.
But when you're looking at Musk and these guys going back at it, didn't he just file something with the SEC like a couple months ago, talking about he was the new title was Master of the Universe?
Yeah, J.K.O. King.
Yeah, yeah.
That's what entrepreneurship is all about.
You should be having fun.
You should be playing loose.
Things are so tight and tense and so much pressure on your shoulder.
Hey, why not?
Pat, so do you agree with my MJ LeBron announcement?
Yeah, look, here's what I think, man.
I think, you know, as much as Twitter has divided America, Twitter is also entertaining America.
It's always there's a show to watch on Twitter because Twitter, take Twitter out.
Take Twitter out.
Where do you go and say that?
Take social media out.
Where do you go and say, can't get it up, right?
Like, how long after that news came out?
Do you think Elon Musk tweeted can't get it up?
One hour later?
30 minutes later?
20 minutes later?
That's the advantage.
That's the positive side of social media where you get to say what's on your mind right now.
And then maybe the day later, like, I probably shouldn't have said that.
But you get to see that part of immediate reaction for someone.
To me, it's entertaining.
And to me, it's competition going back and forth.
Kai's trying to say.
Two and a half hours later.
Two and a half hours later after the announcement was the tweet was posted at five.
Yeah.
And he responded at six.
That's what I'm saying.
I mean, that's the part that's kind of like, you know, if you didn't have it that way, you'd have to wait two days.
Elon Musk makes an interview with, you know, such and such magazine, and he said that this person can't get it up.
You know, it's like, now it's like immediate, here's what he says: this guy can't get it up, and we can send a box of Viagra to Cialis or Viagra to Bezos.
What would be funny is if Bezos goes to work this week.
You know what I would do if I was in that situation?
If I'm Viagra or Cialis, I would get in at that topic.
I would get in and I would say, that's why we're here as is.
And your spokesperson or Viagra YouTube jump in there and says, Mr. Bezos, we're here to help.
I don't see Bezos going to be able to do it.
By the way, that would get so much like story to Viagra and Cialis.
But, you know, to do that, there's regulations, FTS.
I'm sure there's something behind it as well.
You asked the question: where else would he talk about this if there wasn't?
So you know where he would do it.
One week from tomorrow, he'll be on Snow.
Elon Musk is hosting Saturday Night Live next saturday night.
What do you think of it?
They're not too happy about it.
Well, they are not too happy of the of the more liberal.
Well, let me read it.
Let me read it.
That's a perfect transition.
SNL cast members signals they're unhappy about Elon Musk hosting.
He's not the first to cause a steer.
This is CNN Business.
In a surprise move over the weekend, saturday Night LIVE announced that business mogul Elon Musk will be hosting the NBC variety show on may 8th.
Some SNOW cast members didn't seem too excited about it.
In an instagram story, cast member Bowen Yang wrote, what the f does this even mean?
As a caption to Musk tweet from over the weekend which read, let's find out just how live Saturday Night Live really is.
This isn't the first time the show has steered up the conversation over its host choices.
The biggest controversy regarding the host came in 2015, when SN announced that the that Donald Trump would be on the show.
The news came out uh, while Trump was running for president, after he made remarks saying that many Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists.
Hispanic groups asked the show to revoke the invite and a Latino group even offered five thousand dollar bounty to anyone in the audience willing to disrupt the show.
So why are they unhappy about Elon Musk going on SNL?
What's the big deal?
Maybe don't.
They don't think he's entertaining.
I don't know what they think it is.
Look, I don't know why BOW AND YANG, and I actually I think he's a pretty funny guy.
Well look, I think one thing that's going to be undeniable, when Trump came on and Elon Musk came on, where am I going with this?
Pat ratings?
You know people are going to be tuning in.
I couldn't.
And i'm a huge fan of SNL.
I used to do stand-up comedy.
I'm a I love.
I used to be that 13 year old kid glued to my tv, Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Norm Mcdonald I was raised on that kind of stuff.
So I still.
You know, if i'm not going out on a saturday night these days in South Beach maybe i'll, a lot of times i'll just watch SNL, you know, on the reruns or whatever, but huge fan of SL.
But this is look with Elon Musk.
I think this is what we?
This is why I think maybe he's more of a Lebron than a Jordan.
With Elon comes controversy right.
He's controversial, he'll tweet things.
He's unabashedly a capitalist.
He'll say some shit.
He'll 69 a joke.
He'll he'll be an eighth grader.
I actually think he'll be quite hilarious on sl, but there's some people that obviously he rubs the wrong way.
So if you're, do you know who Bowen Yang is like?
The person that doesn't want him?
Do you know who that is?
He's a gay Asian, a Gaysian.
That's on the.
I'm gonna coin the coin.
I don't know if it's pretty good.
He's a pretty agent on the show.
Yeah, and you know, maybe he's not a fan of Elon Musk, I don't know, but he's hilarious and and, and you know, I don't know the backstory there, but I can think of a script.
I think about the the Doge, The Doge Father.
Enter The Doge Father.
A little dog comes out.
They're going to have fun with it.
Okay, how about this?
How about this?
When's the last time you watched SNL?
Like, watched SNL?
Eddie Murphy.
1986?
No, no, no.
Eddie Murphy when he came back two years ago.
So it's been two years since.
I don't watch it.
But I'm going to watch this.
Can't remember.
Can't remember.
Are you going to tune in to see Elon Musk at SNL?
I will tune in.
Bingo Bango.
Now we got it.
I will be committed.
I think this is something we'd like to hear from our audience as well.
But here's what I will say.
Here's what I will say.
Okay, so they're upset that Elon Musk is showing up, right?
Now, imagine how upset the Oscars are for what happened to them this weekend where nobody cared about their ratings.
So TV ratings, Oscars slumped to an all-time low.
The Hollywood Reporter says the 93rd Academy Awards drew 10.4 million viewers on Sunday.
That's a steep drop.
You ready, folks?
Folks, from 23.64 million.
Let me get this straight.
23.64 million people watched the Academy Awards last year.
This year to only 10.4.
The 56% decline in total viewers is keeping with those for Grammys, which both 51%.
Goldman Globe, 62%.
SAG Awards, 52%.
You think this woke approach is working, Goldman Globe, SAG, Grammys, and Oscars.
Norm Land took home the coveted Best Picture Award while Anthony Hopkins, who was asleep.
And Francis McDorman won best actor and actress in leading role.
Anthony Hopkins, I watched your father, by the way.
I watched him.
It was an okay movie.
Obviously, he killed it.
He typically kills it no matter what it is.
He wins.
He's asleep.
They can't even get a hold of him.
He went to sleep because he thought he wasn't going to win it at all.
Okay.
The guy's knocked out and he wins.
And Oscar Hopkins' victory was an upset over Chadwick Boseman, who died in August after a private four-year battle with colon cancer.
Boseman was nominated for best actor for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
This year brought barrier-breaking wins, including the first woman of color to win best director and best black woman to win, the first black woman to win the best makeup and hairstyling.
So what's the point here?
Here's the point.
Do you remember when Ricky Gervais hosted the gosh?
Did he host?
He opened it.
No, I know.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, I mean, that's what he called it.
I know the famous speech in here.
But that's a host.
That was his monologue that he went up and he says, just when you come up here and, you know, thank your agent, thank your God, take the trophy and get the, you know.
And everybody the next day was talking about this, right?
He says, I don't even know why you invited me.
He says, oh, here we go.
Let me see.
Oh, my gosh.
Let's start off with this.
And yes, to accept this.
So he went about, that brought eyeballs.
I watched the Oscars because of Ricky Gervais.
I watched it because he was hilarious, right?
Called everybody.
I'm not going to watch it with Jimmy Kimmel.
I'm not going to watch it with these people going up there and just giving their same old rhetoric one after another, after another.
And just this validates that SNL should be happy because it's probably going to be their biggest one they've had in the last 12 months for having this guy.
And probably the last time SNL had the most viewership, I'm willing to bet it's going to be either Murphy, Chappelle, or Trump.
I'm willing to bet.
It's one of those openings.
So we're going to see what's going to happen with Musk.
I think SNL should be thankful.
SNL should be thankful that a guy like Elon Musk has agreed to come.
I think it's going to bring eyeballs that you don't typically get.
And as well as the Oscars should invite somebody like him or somebody crazy like him to get up and be a host and talk shit to everybody.
Because no, like Espies, who was the best Espes host of all time?
Give some of the best Esps hosts of all time.
Was it Drake?
Drake killed him.
Oh, God, Drake was awesome.
You know, by the way, he took a shot at Draymond Green's podcast.
He says it's sad, right?
Peyton Manning got up there and he says, you know, the swim team has done such a great job.
Matter of fact, they're doing such a good job that Kevin Durant is thinking about joining them.
My camera went on Durant.
And then it went on Westbrook.
But Peyton, what do we like?
We like it when the host is taking shots at the athletes, at the actors.
No one wants to watch somebody say, how amazing you are.
Like, you know, I get uncomfortable.
You know how the whole thing even got started?
Well, let me tell you, the event was great.
I'm not a fan of that.
I'd much rather just go past it.
It's the fun part.
It's the shot part.
It's the hey, it's this happened, that happened.
That's what the audience kind of wants to see, right?
They don't want to see, you're so amazing.
You're so great.
Hollywood show, it should be.
Well, you know, we kind of saw what happened there.
If, what did he say?
Gervais said, if ISIS was to start a show, not a show, if ISIS was to be the next Netflix, believe me, you'd call your manager saying, let's try to get on the show.
Call your agent to get on a show there.
He took a shot at Apple.
He took a shot at Tim Cook.
He took a shot at everybody.
Both SNL, Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes, they desperately need to bring back an entertaining host who will make fun of them because that's what America and the world wants to see.
However, going back to the vaccine conversation we had at the beginning, unfortunately, there's a community today that does not like to hear opposing ideas.
I sent this tweet out earlier, yesterday.
Went to sleep, woke up.
Next thing I know, I'm getting a bunch of private messages from people.
Hey, Pat, I agree with you.
I can't really say anything, but I can't even tell you.
The people that messaged me DM me, okay?
I put this tweet out yesterday.
I said, let's cancel walking on eggshells.
Let's cancel the inability to entertain and opposing idea.
Let's cancel forcing everyone having to agree with us.
Let's cancel judging people for a mistake they made 30 years ago.
Let's cancel extreme sensitivity.
Let's just respect one another.
What a concept.
How hard is that to do?
What a concept.
You know what was the most interesting thing about this simple concept?
People disagree.
Really?
The people that actually disagree are the ones that entertain me the most.
When you go down there and read some of the ones that they disagree with.
By the way, for whatever reason, I mean, if you go down there to read some of these, you'll see the disagreements they make.
But anyways, that's my thoughts on Oscars.
What do you think about Oscars being down 56% decline?
Much like you and not.
Oh, sorry, Matt.
No, no, go ahead.
Go ahead.
No, I was just saying, much like you and SNL, I don't watch the Oscars.
You out of everybody doesn't watch the Oscars.
The Soy Boy.
I'm not for sure.
You were sitting there with a notepad and pen ready to take notes.
So this is a dumb question.
The Oscars are for movies.
Is that what it is?
Okay.
Like, I don't watch movies.
I just don't.
I don't know why.
You're not a movie guy.
I used to be when I was a kid.
I love the movies.
I had my running top 10.
I love the movies.
I just don't watch movies ever.
I don't go to the movie theaters.
I canceled Netflix.
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He shows his chest hair.
There's a lot of chest bucks.
Yeah, there's an appearance by Ricky Aguilar.
There's a big chest hair performance.
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That's true.
That's true.
I just don't watch the Oscars.
I don't know, but I would watch it if there was an entertaining host or some controversy.
I would.
I'm just not a movie guy, but that's my opinion.
Would you?
I would watch it.
Bill Burr got up and he said a couple things.
And by the way, you know what was crazy?
That Bill Burr wasn't himself when he was hosting a couple months ago.
Even himself wasn't himself.
He was so worried.
A Bill Burr, who doesn't give a crap, he was worried about what's happening.
He's worried about getting cancer.
He was worried about what's going to happen.
I say, like, I'm walking on eggshells.
Like, no, man, just let it make the, let's go.
Like, take some shots.
Tell some jokes.
Let's have some fun.
Let's go through it.
You know, it's got to be that kind of an environment.
Rock the boat a little bit.
That's what happens.
You know, and by the way, a great sales meeting.
You know what's a great sales meeting?
That's what happens.
Let me tell you what we're going to do to you.
That's what makes it exciting.
You need a versus.
You ever been to an insurance conference?
We would like to take this moment to thank John and Mary for a wonderful job they did this last year with the way just me even acting, I guarantee we just lost 100 people, right?
You go to these insurance conferences, you know, these conventions they put.
I'm like, put all the knife away.
People are going to slip their risk committing suicide, how boring this thing is right now.
Now, when you host an assurance conference, you also tell people to put away the knives, but it's not going to be a good thing.
Because security things are thrown around.
Yeah, you should see Sappala and Ricky Aguilar going at it.
I mean, Titans.
I can't wait for our conference at the MGM Grant.
I mean, we have one coming up in May, but the one in August where we have Mike Tyson on it.
He's going to be at our sales guy.
Mike Tyson to see the heat of Pete.
Let me tell you what Trump said to the Oscars.
Here's what Donald Trump said to the Oscars.
Donald Trump sees us on Oscars low Oscar rating to bash telecasts.
He says, don't be so politically correct and boring.
That's bash deadline.
Apparently, that's called bashing.
If you say, don't be so politically correct and boring.
Donald Trump's office emailed a statement to reporters Tuesday in which the former president bashed the Oscars, noting its low ratings and suggesting it return a host to the proceedings and change its name back to Academy Awards.
What used to be called the Academy Awards is now called the Oscars, a far less important and elegant name.
Had the lowest television rating in recorded history, even much lower than last year, which set another record low.
If they keep with the current ridiculous formula, it would only get worse if that's possible.
Trump said, go back 15 years.
Look at the formula they then used.
Change the name back to the Academy Awards.
Don't be so politically correct and boring and do it right.
Also, bring back a great host.
These television people spend all their time thinking about how to promote the Democratic Party, which is destroying our country and cancel conservatives and Republicans.
That formula certainly hasn't worked very well for the Academy.
As President Trump only took to criticize on the telecast, including last year when he bashed Oscar voters for giving best picture to Parasite at a rally, he said to the South Korean film, What the hell was that all about?
We've got enough problems with South Korea, with trade.
On top of it, they give the best movie of the year to them.
Was it good?
I don't know.
So there you go.
Even Trump had something to say about the Oscars.
Well, shout out to my wife, baby, my boo-boo, Sheena.
She's a big Korean anything.
Korean dramas, Korean face masks, Korean skin products, you know, Korean barbecue.
And we did check out Parasite.
It wasn't a good movie to be able to say, oh, you know, it warrants the Oscar.
I didn't think it was a good movie.
I don't think it was an Oscar worthy type of movie.
But when you're looking at what he just said here, you know, people want to be entertained.
That's why people check out to go see a movie because they want to be entertained.
They want to check out of the current reality.
And I think with the platform that I've seen and to see what happened to Kevin Hart a few years ago, because he was taken out because of tweets he did 12 years ago when he's a comedian.
And just to see what these type of things have gone, we haven't watched anything on Sunday nights for a very long time outside the fact that we do conference calls on Sunday nights.
But there's no desire for me to be able to break off from my current schedule versus spend time with my family or our business and want to say, I want to watch these awards.
Do you agree with Mr. Donald Trump?
I agree with Mr. Matt Sapala.
That's my guy right there.
Do I agree with Trump?
I think, look, whether I agree with Trump, well, I don't watch the Oscars, so let me just say that.
But look where Trump's mind is at right now.
He's not worried about trade.
He's not worried about policies.
He's not worried about climate.
But this is not.
He's worried about the Oscars.
No, he's not worried about Oscars.
He's worried about cancel culture silencing an audience.
That's what he.
If that's what you took from it, you're the kind of person that when you read scripture, you need 15 people to translate it for you.
You may interpret it.
Can any of you guys read Hebrew?
I can read you.
Can you actually read Hebrew?
Yeah, I can read Hebrews.
Honestly, you can read Hebrews.
You went to Hebrew school.
Did you watch Passionate Christ?
With Mel Gibson?
Yeah.
I did.
Did you?
You know, did you understand the language or no?
I can't speak Hebrew.
I could read it.
But was it?
I could read it.
I can't understand the language.
There's a difference.
I thought it was spoken in Aramaic.
Yeah, that wasn't it.
It was Aramaic and Assyrian.
But Guy wants to say something.
Go ahead.
I think there's obviously one notable thing to mention as well: what movies really came out last year.
I think that's a big thing for obviously the Oscars have been going downwards, but a big part of it is what movies came out last year.
So I got a question for you.
Say no movies came out last year, but Kevin Hart was hosting.
Would you tune in?
Say no movies came out last year, but Elon Musk was hosting.
Would you tune in?
Say no movie.
No good movies came out last year, but Ricky Gervais is hosting.
Would you tune in?
Say no good movies came out last year, but Dave Chappelle is hosting.
Would you tune in?
Say no movie.
You understand what I'm saying to you?
No, no good movies came out.
A good host makes a show.
This is why people spend money to bring a great host to any event.
And MC makes a concert, and MC makes a wedding.
You ever been to a wedding where the MC is like, okay, make some noise for the bride and the groom.
Okay, awesome.
All right.
All right, everybody, get up.
And let me tell you, we got them coming up.
Period.
The family on the left right ran.
Oh, my gosh, what's going on with this guy?
You ever gotten up?
You're like, what's going on with this host?
Kind of makes you move.
We went to a New Year's Persian New Year party at our friend's house, Nader.
Okay.
Just met Nader.
Very, I love this guy, man.
He's just a classic guy.
And we're there at his house in South Florida, Satfil, Audita.
Beautiful home, Harbor, the whole, anyways.
And we're, you know, standing around.
It's me, my wife, she's pregnant.
She's got no desire to stand up.
And I said, babe, we're going to stay for one hour.
We'll leave at 10:30.
I promise you.
We left at 2 o'clock in the morning.
Next thing you know, music is playing.
All this stuff.
They bring these four dancers, girls, four dancers.
What do they do?
They're the ones that come and grab your hands and we're running.
Jennifer's like, dude, I'm pregnant.
Jennifer is dancing Persian music.
I'm dancing Persian music because somebody's livening up the place, right?
Now, imagine if that wasn't there.
You're not dancing that now.
I tell you, I'm not dancing that night if they don't bring me out.
You need a good host.
So, yes, even though we didn't have any good movies, a host would have changed the show.
You were going to say something, man.
No, I was wondering if you were doing the quick story.
I was at a wedding.
This was probably.
At what age did all your friends start getting married?
What age?
Late 20s, early 30s.
Okay, late 20s, right?
So one of my friends who's my college roommate.
Shout out to Nicarito if he's watching this right now.
He's a wedding crasher story.
I was invited.
Although I have crashed many weddings, but he was one of our first friends to get married.
I think we were like 27 years old.
And he ironically married a girl from San Antonio.
So everyone flew to San Antonio.
We're all broke.
No one's got money.
You're 26, 27 years old.
No one's got money.
So he's got no money.
We're all getting married.
This guy.
You're getting married or wrong.
No, they're all like he, we all go to the wedding.
Yeah.
You know, we're staying at the La Quinta.
It's nothing fancy whatsoever.
You know, he didn't have a band.
He had like a one San Antonio Mexican DJ press and play.
This guy did not have the it factor at all.
It was a cash bar.
Like, come on.
Like, again, just very low-budget wedding.
And I mean, by 11 o'clock, people are like, dude, this is the worst wedding ever.
Like, people are like, Adam, you got to get on the mic.
You got to.
And I was doing stand-up comedy at this time.
They're like, dude, you got to go do something, bro.
Like, this guy's wedding's the worst.
So I go up to the DJ who basically, he was the DJ and the microphone.
I was like, hey, buddy, you mind if I take the mic and take over?
like gives me the bro I go alright put this song on So, Uncle Luke.
I go, everybody, circle up.
Circle up.
And I just completely hype this party.
I'm like, Grandma, get your ass on the dance for grandma.
It's okay.
I got the bachelor.
I'm freaking the grandma.
I'm getting the bridesmaids going on.
But I hyped it up.
So what you are saying is maybe I do agree with Donald Trump.
You got to get a good host.
Yeah, you got to get it.
To get the party.
There it is.
I came full circle.
But a host is important.
What I really took away by what you just saw, what you just said right now, is the Oscars should hire you next year.
I think you're applying for assistance.
So I see.
I'd hype it up.
You're applying for.
I'd call out the left.
I'd call out the right.
There you go.
Take my application.
By the way, last point.
Yeah.
The wedding was supposed to end at midnight.
We stayed till two in the morning.
I believe you.
We break that down.
You're a hype guy, though.
You're a good host.
You're a hype guy.
Yes.
Okay.
What story do we want to go to next?
Let's see what story we got here.
Let's go to Biden wanting to spend an extra $80,000 for IRS to enhance enforcement.
What like a dear thing to do.
Let's cover that right there.
Very sweet.
Page eight.
Is that $80 billion, something like that?
Biden to seek an extra $80 billion for IRS to enhance enforcement, the Hill says.
President Biden is expected to propose giving the IRS an additional $80 billion in added authority to order to facilitate his plan to target high earners to avoid paying taxes, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
The enforcement is a key part of Biden's plan to pay for social infrastructure legislation, dubbed the American Families Plan.
The effort is expected to cost at least a trillion dollars and is aimed at reducing inequality by making investments in affordable child care and paid family leave, free community college, and other issues.
The Times reported that administration officials believe the IRS crackdown could raise as much as $700 billion over the next 10 years, paying for a chunk of the planned bill, citing two sources close to the issue.
The Times reported that the added money and authorities provide the IRS would go along with new disclosure requirements for those who own businesses not organized as corporations and wealthy individuals who could be hiding income.
So spending $80 billion to hire more IRS agents, what are your thoughts on that, Adam?
I think Kai, did you get that email from Mario or no?
Okay, good.
Go ahead.
The one thing that I'm seeing here is the return on investment.
And that's where my mind is at.
Whether this is a good idea, a bad idea, I think we can have that debate.
And I'm open to hearing obviously different sides of the suggestion.
But if he's saying that he's going to propose an $80 billion investment to make back $700 billion, you know, I learned from, I don't want to give you too much kudos and too much praise, but you did at your trip at the SLS, you talked about the incentive trips and that if you're going to incentivize your sales force with trips and gifts and cars, that you need to make at least 5X on your money, right?
That's how you've done your math and your ethnicity.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Just taking some notes.
So I'm taking some notes, and I kind of do want to go to Bora Bora one day.
So, you know.
But I'll settle for Vegas in August.
I'm good with that, whatever it is.
But the point is, if he's looking at it, saying, look, if we put in 80 billion and we can get out 700 billion, Joe Biden might just have a good idea in his hands.
Whether the idea.
I'm assuming you're going to get $700 billion.
You know what happens when you make an assuming.
So I'm just looking at the return on investment.
What do you think, Matt?
When you're looking at this, I think there's some improvement, obviously, to the IRS because just with us filing our paperwork, the IRS, just as a business owner, there's such a lag time in getting a response back from the IRS, let alone the enforcement of certain things.
But when you're looking at enhancing enforcement, anytime a tax plan goes through, they call it the AAFAIA, accountants, attorneys, financial advisors, insurance agents, employment plan.
Because it keeps, you know, it keeps such a great point.
You know, it keeps everybody wanting to connect.
AAFAIA, attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, investment advisors act, employment act, to keep them in connection with their professionals to make sure that they're using, there's a difference between tax evasion and tax planning.
And so if there's certain legal ways to make sure you have your money in ways that's not being whacked in taxes, and it's legal, you just got to find the right people that know how to apply those certain things.
So sure, he's going to spend this 80 billion.
Is it a pretty lofty expectation for 700 billion?
I think so.
But do I think that the infrastructure of the IRS needs to be improved?
Because even for us, it's just simple business people just to try to get certain things.
Like, for example, when Sheena and I got married, they didn't get our marriage license and all that stuff intact.
And they tried to tax us individually versus married finally jointly.
And they're trying to get us for X Mona Dallas.
It stayed in our credit report for a minute.
And it was annoying to get that off.
It was an error on their part.
We finally got the error from the IRS.
So certain things just need to be improved with the IRS.
I'm not so sure it's going to really happen here with enforcement, though.
Yeah, I think the direction they're taking you.
I told my accountant, I said, so what do you think about the tax plan?
He says, well, we're pretty excited about it.
He says, because the more money they spend on IRS, the more money we make.
He says, the more you guys get audited, the more we have, you have to pay the fee to us.
So there goes the $200 to $400 an hour that they're paying us.
So he says, for us, for our business, quite honestly, this helps us out.
Accountants, big accounting firms love it anytime the IRS hires more people, right?
Now, what happens as well with IRS hiring more people?
They also get people to spend more time away from work producing to do audits, paperwork, accounting, all that other stuff.
So that money and time also goes away from doing what you're doing.
Are there people?
Because what they're starting to say now is if you have your money in offshore accounts, they're now categorically calling you a greedy whatever, whatever.
Now, here's one part.
I don't have my money in offshore accounts.
All my money is in America.
I'm America.
I'm pro-America is what I am.
But if a guy wants to put his money in another account that's offshore, I don't consider that being a crook.
I don't consider that a scam.
I don't consider that a con artist.
I consider that a creative accountant that's telling him to, here's how you're able to save money.
A story came out that said, do we have the story or no, Kai?
A story came out talking about how, if you know what direction I'm going with the story here, a story came out talking about how, you know, people are being recommended how to, oh, the tax, how advisors are going to be getting their clients, billionaires are going to find ways to avoid paying the taxes by getting creative with offshore accounts.
So Biden wants to touch up on those who are also going to go to offshore and put their money elsewhere.
Anyways, I mean, if you're trying to get more tax money and audit more people, the more money is spent on the IRS, all this means is, folks, the chances of you getting audited in 2021 and 2022 just went up.
So Brace for Impact.
You're about to get audited.
Can you comment?
You said, look, I'm pro-America.
I keep my money in America.
I don't have offshore.
We called it creative accounting.
Give us some insight when you've got, you know, a nice chunk of change out there.
Why you said, all right, I could do stuff offshore, but I'm not going to.
And why people do and the incentive.
I don't judge it, though.
Like, for example, people say, why would you leave California?
Why don't you stay in California, go run for governor?
I don't want to stay in California.
We got Major Williams, who reached out to us.
You know, Major Williams, the gentleman that's run for.
He's running for governor.
Listen, we're going to give him the platform.
He's going to come out here.
We're going to have a great conversation with him.
I cannot wait.
And because what I like about his approach, when we talk about adding the tourist tax, he watched a video.
He immediately added to this website that, hey, we are going to be doing the tourist test.
So I'm excited about it.
Wow.
He added it.
Yes, he added it.
He's going to do California tourist tax and lower the taxes.
He's a validator.
He's a vaccinator.
He's on here.
We're excited to have him.
But I moved from California to Texas.
Why?
I thought it was a better place for me to be, both for business, for family, for safety, for many different reasons.
I felt I was more welcomed in the state of Texas than I was welcomed in the state of California.
So then I went and went and moved to work to now be in Florida.
I love Texas.
I love Florida.
I want to raise my kids here at this point of our lives.
Okay.
So somebody may say, why would you leave Texas to Florida?
I chose to move to Texas to Florida.
If I talk to a billionaire and he says, I got $100 million in an offshore account at the Caribbean or whatever it is.
Great.
More power to you.
What does that save you?
$20 million a year.
Okay, great.
Phenomenal.
The guy met a COVID who bought Beeples every day for $69.3 million lives in Singapore, right?
We were doing our taxes the other day.
A couple of weeks ago, we're doing our taxes and it's going through.
How much do you have here?
There was hundreds of disclosures that we have to answer on what we have.
In Singapore, you don't answer that.
Nothing.
If you have lower income taxes, you go and you go about your business, right?
Guess what?
That's pretty attractive.
Now, some industries could move to Singapore.
Other industries that need people cannot move to Singapore.
If your business is more online and you can do it being online, like if you're in the crypto space, digital space, e-commerce, you can be in Singapore.
But I can't be in Singapore.
I like being here for my business.
I'm not going to judge the guy that went to Singapore.
A lot of podcasts move their podcasts to where in America.
Do you remember what the movement was?
What state everybody?
No, no, no, no.
Puerto Rico.
Oh, yeah.
Because of their program that they came up with, which I think it's called 420 program, which means you only pay 4% of taxes for 20 years.
Federal is only 4% taxes for 20 years.
So podcasters are like, look, I'm just running a podcast.
I don't have to be in California for podcasts.
I don't have to be in New York for podcasts.
It's me and three employees.
Why do I need to be in New York or in Texas or California?
A podcaster moves to Puerto Rico.
What are you going to do?
You're going to judge him for moving to Puerto Rico?
No more power to you, buddy.
You go out there and save your money.
So anytime you do these kinds of things, what they don't realize is the world is filled with smart people who are going to find creative ways to minimize having to pay taxes.
The world is filled with it.
And what people don't realize is you can go try to tax people as much as you want.
Here's what's going to happen with corporations.
Corporations never pay taxes.
Let me say that one more time.
Corporations never pay taxes.
What do you mean, Pat?
Okay.
So Biden just said in his speech said what?
Do you know that 50% of corporations paid 0% in taxes and they made $50 billion?
I went to the CEO.
Yeah, I went to the whatever, right?
They paid no taxes last year.
Okay, yes.
You raise your taxes, corporate taxes.
Corporations are still not going to pay taxes.
Well, what do you mean?
Let me explain it to you.
It's very simple.
Corporations pay lots of money to accountants to address the tax issue.
The accountants who are best at what they do, they educate their clients the best.
And corporations, in order to make that money, because how many pennies are in a dollar?
100.
If we make taxes 90%, how many pennies are in a dollar?
10%.
100%.
If we make taxes 0%, how many pennies are in a dollar?
100.
If we make, you understand, no matter what you do, there's only 100 pennies in a dollar.
And the margins for a company, what margins do companies have to run on?
Say 10 or 20%.
No matter what you do, the margins are the margins.
So if you decide to increase corporate tax rate and hire $80 billion worth of people to work for the IRS, corporations will not pay taxes.
They will either raise the price of the product, the price of the service, hire less, get rid of some of their commercial property, which means real estate industry will take it.
It doesn't matter.
Corporations will not pay the taxes.
The tax gets passed down to the service they offer goes up.
The burger is not going to be $6.
It'll be $10.
The pizza is not going to be $9.99.
It'll be $13.99.
Okay.
The soda you were buying, like the other day, I went and bought a piece of bazooka gum.
You know those people, the bubble yum, bubble gum, whatever they are?
You remember those bubble yums, right?
Of course.
You know what it was 20 years ago?
49 cents.
You know what I paid for the thing?
$2.59.
I'm like, I looked at it.
I said, how much was this?
$7.11.
$2.59.
What for?
You mean to tell me this thing's price has 5X'd in the last 20 years?
Yes.
That makes no sense to me.
Well, it makes all the sense in the world.
Corporations don't pay taxes.
They don't pay taxes because there's only 100 pennies in a dollar.
No matter how nice you want to look, they're not going to pay the taxes.
They're going to pass it down to their customers.
The customers end up paying the highest price.
Whatever you're buying today, folks, it's about to go up.
Whatever you're buying today is about to go up.
The same thing can be said about raising wages.
Let's get to federal raises $15 an hour.
That's right.
So the same is going to happen.
The customer is going to pay for that.
There's almost so much you can hit a company with.
And I see both sides of that argument, but when I see people demanding a $15 an hour wage, $31,200 a year, you still can't live on that.
You can't even buy the average house.
And we looked at a report about what the average income you need to make to buy the average house per state.
In Illinois, it's $54,000, $60,000 you need to make a year to buy the average house in Illinois.
And we're talking about all of Illinois.
California, six figures.
You need to make six figures to buy the average house in California.
So $15 an hour will not save you.
It'll help you up a little bit, pull you up a little bit, but it's not going to help you achieve that.
The challenge is in that.
The challenge is to encourage people to learn new skill sets.
100%.
The challenge is to learn new skill sets.
Okay.
Matt, in the last two years, what new skill sets have you learned?
Adam, in the last two years, what new skill sets have you learned?
YouTube, social media, marketing.
Your channel is about to be 100,000.
You guys got 87,000, 88,000, 7-figure squad.
That's crazy, bro.
Crazy.
Seven-figure squad.
So, Joe, you learned YouTube.
You learn social media.
What other new skill sets have you learned?
I learned how to be a good boss to employees and a good driver, sales leader to $10.99.
Very different dynamic.
Correct.
What else have you learned in the last two years?
Kai, what have you learned the last two years?
I'm going to come to you next.
What have you learned in the last two years?
I learned how to manage my time better.
I know how I've learned how to be a better salesperson and be a better leader.
And I've learned clearly everything.
I'd never done a podcast before.
Social.
I've done this.
I've heard it.
Video.
Social.
Teleprompter.
Pat taught me how to use Twitter a couple weeks ago.
He said, I got to get on that.
Point is, I think where you're going here, if you're not improving, you're slowly done.
Is your value team and economics episode doing better now or better five months ago when you started?
Better now.
Night and day.
Is that a fair assessment?
Yeah, I'm getting better.
I'm more confident.
I'm more.
What did we do to make it better?
Do we hire some people?
We hired some people.
Do you have a team that's helping you out?
Shout out to my guy, Marcelo.
Do you have a team of editors that are helping you out?
Yeah, for sure.
Did you kind of make the set a little bit better?
Did we figure out ways to make the set better by studying how to make the set better?
Yes.
Kai, what have you learned the last couple of years?
Skill sets, new skill sets that's helped you increase your value in the marketplace.
I mean, obviously, YouTube, social media, not only leading, but also managing people now, events, running events, preparing for events, research, content creation.
It's a lot of stuff.
A bunch of different things, right?
And then on top of that, every week when we're doing this stuff, we're learning new things, right?
Okay, if you want to increase your market value, forget about the $15 an hour.
Go learn five new skill sets.
Go learn how to do something.
I mean, that's the best solution to fight against minimum wage.
I didn't hear one time somebody talking about yesterday when Biden spoke, go learn a new skill set.
Boom, zero.
Let's go improve ourselves.
Let's put the onus on the person rather than it's unfair, it's unfair, crisis, It's unfair.
It's unfair.
Stop telling me how unfair it is.
Tell me, challenge me.
Put the onus on me.
Challenge me to get better.
Yes, I understand there are certain things that happen.
When he said, he said something yesterday, it's not people's fault that we send a check to them.
It's not people's fault that they lost a job or they lost a restaurant.
I agree.
It's not.
It's the government's fault.
It's the policies of states like California and New York that decided to shut everybody down in Illinois.
How come Florida didn't take the similar hit?
How come Texas didn't take a similar hit?
How come some of these states didn't take?
So what you're saying is you're right.
It is not their fault.
It's the politicians' fault.
I agree with you.
He himself said it's our fault.
Correct.
But he didn't say it.
He didn't say it.
He just said, it's not your fault.
It's the virus's fault.
It's not the virus's fault.
Crisis is going to happen for a long time.
It's the politicians who lead that state's fault who don't know how to manage a crisis.
Okay?
Cuomo was supposed to be the next president just 11 months ago.
Newsom was supposed to be the next president just 11 months ago.
Now, if you look at what just happened recently, if we can go to page seven, go to page seven with this recall in the state of California.
Some people just a few months ago were saying they don't think this is going to be taking place.
Well, now, Governor Gavin Newsom to face recall election as Republican-led effort hits signature goal, LA Times, propelled by growing voter frustration over California's response to COVID-19 pandemic, Republican-led drive to remove Governor Newsom from office, collected enough voter registration to qualify for the ballot state official reported Monday, triggering for only the second time in state history a rapid-fire campaign to decide whether or whether to oust a sitting governor.
Recall backers submitted more than 1.495 verified voter registration equal to 12% of all ballot cast in the last Gober national election, meeting the minimum threshold to force a special recall election, according to a tally released by Secretary of State Shirley Weber.
Two and a half years ago, Newsom won the governor office by the largest margin in modern history, capping the telegenic Democratic steady rise to the pinnacle of California politics that began in 1996 when San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown appointed him to the city's parking and traffic commission.
So when you do that, this is what happens.
What are the voters in California responding to?
To the way you managed a crisis called COVID.
Now the people get to vote.
Kai, can you pull up that article I sent to you?
Pull up that article I sent you.
This is interesting to look at.
And this kind of leads me to the next two links that I sent to you.
That's the Reuters one.
Well, let's not go to Reuters yet.
First, go to the Newsome article that I sent you that shows what percentage of Democrats supported and didn't support.
But anyways, Adam, what do you think about this?
I mean, with Newsom.
Yeah, I mean, what there's a couple of different lessons here.
Number one is a fall from Grace.
I mean, he had the largest margin of victory since when did they say since 96?
So you're talking about a guy who was beloved.
You know, I don't want to use that term too loosely, but very liked.
And now even Democrats are like, yeah, dude, this guy, I mean, come on, man, not so much.
And I think ultimately your point is crisis management.
How are you handling a crisis?
You're going to be dealing with the crisis no matter what state you're in, no matter what country you're in.
How do you respond to that?
Like how many times?
It's kind of like, you know, you can fall, you get knocked down 10 times, get up 11.
He mismanaged this crisis completely.
I know he was the, I know we joke he was the U-Haul employee of the year and that he was, what's the laundry, the restaurant in San Francisco he was eating out.
He was telling people.
So what caused this?
So what caused this?
One is hypocrisy.
You're telling me to stay home, but you're at French laundry.
Okay.
You're telling me not to put any parties, but you're going to a party with 350 people with no one wearing a mask.
Okay.
You're messing with Elon Musk and you're telling him they can't work what Elon Musk calls you out.
Then you eventually say, okay, you guys can get to work and then Elon Musk leaves.
You have the number one podcaster in the world, a guy named Joe Rogan.
end up losing him.
Okay.
You got a guy whose oracle is sitting there.
The guy's upset, so he, you know, has plans of leaving.
You got companies that are wanting to leave their headquarters to a different place.
You got a city like San Francisco that the world loves going to to stay for vacation, one of our favorite places to go to.
Now it's a mess.
There's a website saying what places poops sitting around when you're walking the city of San Francisco.
There's a poop watch website for San Francisco.
How pathetic is that?
Crazy.
And you're the governor, not the mayor, not a congressman, not a senator.
You're essentially the president of the sixth largest economy in the world, and you've screwed up the last 12 months.
And you were so excited to impeach the president twice.
Guess what?
Now it's coming back.
Now it's coming back at you and you don't like it.
And here's what he had to say yesterday.
If you can pull up his tweet, I send a tweet to you as well, Kai.
I don't know if you have it.
His tweet says the Republican recall.
By the way, I want to actually watch that video as well.
So hold the video.
We'll go to it in a second to raise the volume.
I want everybody to watch the video as well.
Yeah, but hang tight on that video.
You can actually, yeah, the Republican recall threatens our values and seeks to undo the important progress we've made from fighting COVID to helping struggling families protect our government or protect our environment and passing common sense gun violence solutions.
There's too much at stake.
He doesn't get a lot of likes.
He gets a ton of comments.
Not enough tweets.
Can you flip the screen?
There you go.
To do it that way.
If you can make that screen bigger and play the video.
And tell me if this is a motivational video or scaring the hell out of you video.
What kind of a movie is this?
Watch this.
Go ahead.
I knew some anti-vaccine QAnon extremists, violent white supremacists like the Proud Boys who attacked our nation's capital on January 6th, and the same right-wing Republican politicians who supported Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the election.
Of course, paid for by the Republican National Committee.
Instead of helping fight the pandemic, national Republicans are coming to fight Californians.
Stop the Republican recall.
It's a power grab.
Nah, who's behind it?
So where is the responsibility?
Why are they not going after other liberal states?
Why are they coming after you?
Okay.
So, Matt, what do you think about this?
So to answer your first question, it is a fear-based type of ad campaign.
Kai, go back to the main article, please.
Go ahead.
You know, when I was stationed in California as a United States Marine, we love California, Southern California, Southern California, Dana Point, Newport Beach area, San Diego.
And one thing that's always befuddled me as I was growing my business.
I got out of the military, started growing my business in California, is Chicago's got some horrible traffic.
But LA, damn.
Yeah.
That is some traffic out there.
And all I'm thinking, when I think about one word, when I think about California, I think one word, I think bottleneck.
So many things are bottlenecked over there.
It's sadly, poorly run.
Nobody trusts the public school system there in California.
Everything's about the private school in California.
You know, when you think about these businesses and even parts of Hollywood, who's also recruiting people out of California is Tyler Perry.
He's recruiting Hollywood to shoot movies in his Georgia location.
Yeah, beautiful campus, by the way.
And so when you're thinking about that, you have this great opportunity.
I think you mentioned something a lot when you're coaching us, PBD.
You said you forget what it's like to be the new guy.
I wonder if you forgot what it was like to be that new guy in 1996 when he was appointed the Parking and Traffic Commission.
I wonder what it feels like to be just a normal citizen again.
Because sometimes when you have that element of power and you're sitting there in Sacramento, you're sitting there as a governor, number one in charge, you kind of forget what it's like to relate to the brand new person there struggling in that LA traffic.
My thoughts.
I can see that.
What are you saying?
Anything else?
You know, being that I'm a Florida boy, born and raised in Miami and I lived in all throughout Florida, I actually had this conversation with Ricky and last time when we had dinner, and I basically completely understood why he's so anti-Democratic party, where I was like, dude, we're my point is this.
There's a big difference between a Florida Democrat and a California Democrat.
Just like there's a big difference between being a California Republican and an Alabama Republican.
So I think part of the problem in this country is that when you're so far left or you're so far right, the best ideas don't win.
The best ideas typically win in Florida because we're a purple state.
And people are like, well, you know, I could go this way.
I can maybe think this way.
And a 10% movement of the voting bloc could actually determine an election.
You could be the best Republican candidate in California.
And unless your name is Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's going to be very hard to win anything because I'm guessing 70% of the voting constituency in California is going to be Democrats.
So you have to convert 20% just to get to 50%.
So Kai, can you get to the bottom of the article that shows how many Democrats voted for this?
It's the link I sent you.
Is this the one I sent you?
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
There it is, right there.
Okay, flip the screen to go on the big screen, guys, instead of being on me.
Make it a little bit bigger.
Make it a little bit bigger.
Go Control Plus.
Doesn't do it.
Okay, there you go.
How California and different parties would vote on the Newsome recall.
As of March 30th, only 40% of likely voters said they vote yes to remove governor, while about 8 in 10 Republicans would vote to remove Newsome.
8 in 10 Democrats would vote to keep him.
And look at that.
All likely voters, 40% want this guy out.
15% of Democrats.
So that video they said about, you know, it's only Republicans, Republican funded.
No, 15% of Democrats in the state of California, they want you out.
79% of Republicans, I understand, want you out.
42% of independents want you out.
By the way, you know which of those three matters the most to get elected?
That's far and away independent.
Of course it is.
And 42% want you out.
They're not talking about that ad that they propose.
Republicans, this.
No, no, no.
42% of independents want you out.
So it's not a Republican thing.
It's an independent thing.
Who wins president elections?
Independents.
Correct.
Independence, the vote you want to win the presidential election.
Correct.
That tells you everything here.
Right.
So they can say anything they want with the videos and all this other stuff.
Nope, it's not just the Republicans.
It's like what you always talk about: that 46% of people are going to vote Democrat.
44% of people are going to vote Republican.
That's it.
Like, is that the number?
40, 40, 30?
I think it's 44, 42.
44, 42.
Point is that it's low to mid-40s.
You're locked in, bro.
You're not a free thinker.
It is what it is.
It's baked in the cake.
I don't want to hear what the other side has to say.
I don't give a shit if they're right, if they're wrong.
I'm voting for Trump.
I don't give a shit.
I'm going for Biden.
It is what it is.
And I think what our country needs and yearns for in any time that we talk about a third-party candidate, would you vote for The Rock?
Would you vote for McConaughey?
Well, may fucking be.
Because independent thinking is probably the best course of action at this point.
Because if you're just too dead set on an ideal and not, I'm sorry, on a candidate and not an actualized set of ideals, then you can't be swayed and your free thinking doesn't matter.
It'd be an interesting thing to see if The Rock actually votes.
I'm sorry, actually runs for president and how many votes he would actually bring.
You think he'd run in the Democratic platform?
I think it would be a Democrat.
I think he should probably have a Republican vice president.
Ooh, okay.
Pretty smart.
I'd like to see something like that.
By the way, shout out to the ROX younger stepcousin Matt Sapala for being here today.
Thank you, bro.
We're still far from cracking this thing over.
Maybe I'll come back into this.
Okay, so next story.
Let's talk about what happened with Erdogan and Biden's Armenian genocide.
I think that's a pretty interesting story that's being built up.
And I don't think it's going to go away because Turkey is not too happy about it.
It's on page seven.
Erdogan calls on Biden to reverse calling mass killings of Armenians a genocide.
This is an NBC story.
Biden's historic declaration on Saturday has infuriated Turkey, which has said the announcement has opened a deep wound in relations.
Ankara, Turkish president, recap type Erdogan called on President Joe Biden to immediately reverse his declaration that the 1950 massacres of Armenians and Ottoman Empire constituted a genocide.
A move he said was upsetting and diminished bilateral ties.
Biden's historic declaration on Saturday has infuriated.
We know that the NATO ally, in his first comments since Biden's statement, Erdogan said the wrong step would hinder ties and advised the United States to look in the mirror, adding Turkey still sought to establish good neighborly ties with Armenia.
The U.S. president has made baseless, unjust, untrue remarks about the sad events that took place in our geography over a century ago.
Erdogan said after a cabinet meeting and repeated a call for Turkish and Armenian historians to form a joint commission to investigate the events.
I hope the U.S. president will turn back from his wrong step as soon as possible.
If you say genocide, then you need to look at yourself in a mirror and make an evaluation.
The Native Americans, I don't even need to mention them.
What happened is clear.
He said in a reference to the treatment of Native Americans by European settlers, while all these truths are out there, you cannot pin the genocide accusations on the Turkish people.
Do you have any strong opinions on this yourself?
I'm just curious what you got to say, people.
Okay, I'm kidding.
So do you have anything on that or no?
I just, I wanted to obviously get your opinion on this.
Well, I think just stating facts, a million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
And obviously working for an Armenian, Assyrian, Middle Eastern, Iranian, and my friend Tigran and Moral, I've learned to understand this.
And being a Jew whose great aunts and uncles and great-grandparents were killed in the Holocaust, anytime you hear the word genocide or Holocaust, it brings up a sore subject.
So I know it's a touchy subject for all Armenians.
And this is actually whether you're a fan of Biden or not, something that I would assume you applaud.
Yeah, well, I did a video about it.
And I said, you know, kudos to them for doing it because this is a NATO.
This is a country that's part of NATO.
Turkey is.
And this is a country that's got U.S. military bases there that we kind of need.
It's a couple Air Force bases.
And this is a country that is the most powerful military in the Middle East.
This is a country that is both close to Russia and close to the U.S. Is this going to push them to get closer to Russia?
The good news is Turkey still needs America.
It relies on America for their commerce, for their business.
And within Turkey, there are people in Turkey that are glad this took place.
And they've publicly talked about it.
And Erdogan's tried to silence them, but there's a community that's saying, let's just get out there and say, we did this and let's get it over with.
So this is not a good place right now for Erdogan.
But let me give you a what if.
Let me give you a what if.
What was that movie that was Gruz Christian?
The promise.
Promise.
Phenomenal movement.
The promise.
Kirk Kerkorian?
Kirk Kerkorian.
He spent $100 million and I think the movie didn't make any money, but it wasn't a goal of his to make money.
He just wanted to make a very good movie, Christian.
Great actors.
If you've never seen it, it's fantastic.
But here's the biggest what if.
What if Biden turns on this?
What if Biden takes, you know, because sometimes Biden gets up there and says something and then AOC says something?
It's like, well, we do have to kind of change our position.
They are kind of right.
And then he backtracks.
If he does that, that's a different story.
Do I think it's going to happen?
I don't think that's going to be taking place for him to backtrack.
But I also don't think Erdogan is done with.
I don't think Erdogan is done with.
I don't think Erdogan is going to sit here and accept this.
You have to understand, if this gets all the way to the top and it's official, what comes next is reparations.
And reparations in a genocide, just like Germany have to pay.
It's like comps.
You know how you buy a house and you say this house is worth $600,000.
The guy says, no, this is a $750,000 house.
Show me the comps.
They pulled three houses next to you that just sold for $750,000 and the houses, one of them was smaller than yours.
Guess what?
This is a $750,000 house.
It's not a $600,000 house.
Then the buyer says, okay, fine, I'll pay you $750,000, right?
When it comes down to events like this, Holocaust, you know, the Cambodian genocide, the Armenian genocide, the Assyrian genocide, the Greek genocide done by the Ottoman Empire, there's going to be some comps being made.
And when these Armenian folks who are working at DC make these comps, this is not going to be a $50 billion reparation.
This is not going to be a $100 billion reparation.
This is going to be a massive number that Turkey is going to be forced to pay that's going to take them decades to pay, maybe 50 years to pay.
Won't be a small chunk of change.
It'll be close to a trillion dollars, I believe.
The number is going to be a big number for them to pay.
So Turkey doesn't want that to happen.
All the proof is now coming out.
And if that takes place, this will not only be a good look worldwide for Turkey, this will not be a good look for Turkey when it comes down to their pockets.
And the pockets is what they're also worried about tremendously.
History, pride, pocket, all that's going to come together as Armenians are going to go to DC next saying, now that you call this a genocide, here's what comes next.
So then they're going to be pushing to support a certain amount of, you know, because they are a NATO ally, all this stuff.
It won't be pretty.
The next two, three, four, five years are going to be very, very strong negotiations.
And I don't know how it's going to end.
I don't know how it's going to end.
Why did Biden do this?
What were her incentives and motivation for doing this?
Especially within his first 100 days.
He had to know he was going to face backlash.
He had to have counsel that said, look, if you do this, especially within your first 100 days, you're going to get pushed back by Erdogan.
They're a NATO ally.
Why did he do this?
Yeah, I mean, first of all, who does this help?
Republicans or Democrats?
Process it that way.
You already know the answer because I've spoken to this.
Obviously, it helps.
He's not going to do this that hurts.
Does this help Democrats or Republicans?
Who does it help?
You say Democrats.
Okay, tell me why.
Well, I don't think Biden is going to do anything to help Republicans.
But I mean, I don't know.
You probably have a different part of it.
Are you ready for this?
No one's talking about this part here.
Here's what it is.
Are there more Turkish Americans or Armenian Americans?
Hello?
Or more Turkish?
Way more.
Turkish Americans.
Okay, it's about 5x, the number.
Some say it's 3, some say it's 7.
Let's say it's 5x more.
How many Turkish Americans are offended?
I would assume a good amount.
Okay.
He just lost them.
Which means if it's mathematically Republicans won.
Because if you won, say, 200,000 Armenian votes, you may have lost 600,000 Turkish votes.
Turks now may sit there and say it was a Democrat who passed the Armenian genocide.
Armenians are going to say what?
It was a Democrat who passed the Armenian genocide.
So Armenians are going to vote even.
Some are going to flip and they're going to go from Republican, Democrat, and they're going to say what?
See, here's why I'm going to vote for who?
Biden.
Biden.
Because, you know, Armenian grandmas, mothers are going to say, the Republicans could never do this.
So that's the part, right?
And Turkish are going to say, I told you Republicans were on our side.
That's kind of how this stuff's going to be, because most people are not following politics.
It's just elementary, right?
So, in a way, voting-wise, the Turkish are offended.
So, they're going to go one side.
This is not an Armenian message here.
I'm just giving you a logical, mathematical one audience is sicker in America than one.
My question was: why would Biden do it?
Is it a misstep?
I don't know if it was a misstep, but he must have said, Look, I got 100 days to get this done.
I'm rolling out COVID.
I'm doing immigration reform.
Yeah.
I got to do everything with the border.
We've got 15 million.
We've got to get this Armenian judgment.
Why did he do it?
Here's how typically it could be.
It could be as simple as, hey, you want me to do this?
Like, hey, Bezos, why is it the day before him voting for union, Bezos goes out there and says, I support a tax increase.
And then the next day, Union didn't work yet in the state of Georgia.
Why?
Maybe something was happening there.
I don't know.
Maybe somebody agreed to do three other favors for him, but the one favor he has to give in return is to make sure the Armenian.
You don't know what's going on behind closed doors.
There's 50 different things on the table to negotiate.
You give me this, I give you this.
It's like exchanging cards and monopoly.
You give me electric.
I'll give you utilities.
I'll give you a railway.
I'll give you this Atlantic.
You give me Boardwalk for these three properties.
I'll give you Illinois.
There's 50 pieces behind closed doors that are being negotiated right now.
You just don't know what those negotiations are.
It's not like it's public.
So this may have been one of those things in there that he just had to go out there and make an announcement of.
We will never know.
Do you think this might just be me being naive or just me being a nice little soy boy over here?
Do you think that he actually did it because it was just the right thing?
No, I don't think so.
It happened.
I don't think so.
A million people were murdered.
It was a genocide.
It was a massacre.
I don't think so.
And I have very strong opinions.
I think it's the right thing to do.
You don't think he has?
No, I don't think so because I think Obama would have done it.
I think Obama's a nice guy.
I don't think so because I think Bush would have done it.
He's a pretty nice guy.
I don't think it's that factor.
I just think there's other things we don't know about and maybe will never know about until somebody writes about it in their book, like a Jim Baker that we'll read about 20, 30 years from now.
Just like, you know, the movie Argo came out when?
30 years after what happened at the event.
You can't do the movie because CIA rules, what, 30 years?
So certain things we're not going to know for, I think it's 30 years.
Certain things we're not going to know for a long time.
As an Armenian, very happy for it.
You're at least thankful.
Yeah, he did.
I made a video about it.
It's not about if I'm thankful.
I applauded him for making this decision, and I said, thank you.
I think it's a great thing that took place.
Just a side note on reparations: $1.3 billion was paid from America to Native American tribes between 1946 and 1978.
$1.6 billion paid to Japanese from America in 1988.
There you go.
But over $90 billion was paid to Germany and distributed over $91.9 billion to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
But this is actually extravagant.
And courts.com.
But that's a response to Erdogan, what he just said.
So what Erdogan is saying, the fact that we did pay reparations.
So yes, we did it.
We claimed it.
We addressed it.
And we're paying for it.
A lot of these casinos that are on their land, you have to pay them.
By the way, our Pocahontas, what's her name?
Elizabeth Warren, was able to get college scholarship because she said she's what?
Native American.
Native American, which is 11,000 Native American.
So which means a lot of our colleges and scholarships support Native Americans, right?
America has done that to support them because they know they banned up to what they did, right?
Okay, great.
So now, Erdogan, since you're a misstep, somebody in politics needs to go out and tweet out and give these stats to say, hey, here's what really happened.
So next time you make a claim like that to your people, make sure you know the data on what America did to support them.
They screwed up and they came back and said, we're sorry.
Here's what we're doing to make up for it.
Whether that's acceptable or not.
At that time, it was acceptable.
You're saying because he used that example about Native Americans.
Exactly.
Reparations.
He needs to eat his words for saying something like that.
Yes, that's exactly.
Now, watch this.
Let me show you something here.
Kai, pull up.
Pull up what happened to whose.
So the census came out with some numbers.
Every time census comes out, you also see what states won, what states lost.
Okay, the U.S. Census hands more House seats to Republican strongholds, Texas and Florida.
You go a little bit higher, go a little bit higher.
The number came out.
We have now 331,449,281 according to the Census Bureau.
7.4% increase over 2010, representing the second lowest growth of any decade in history, second lowest growth in any history, which means we're not making as many babies, which means not a lot of people are doing three, four, five babies.
A lot of people are doing one or two babies or two calves.
Who knows, right?
But if you go a little higher with the 435 seats we have in the house, if you go a little higher, go a little higher, go a little, keep going, keep going.
And I'll go do control plus to make that tighter so everybody can see it.
Go a little bit, control plus, bring it up.
Okay, so check this out.
California lost a seat.
Look at that.
New York lost a seat.
Left.
California, left.
Penn, left.
Ohio, left.
West Virginia, Michigan, Illinois, Michigan, left.
Illinois, left.
They lost, right?
Now, Oregon, left, picked one up.
Montana picked one up.
Montana.
Colorado picked one up.
Carolina, pro-business, picked one up.
Florida, pro-business, picked one up.
Texas, really pro-business, picked two seats out.
What's the difference between orange and blue?
Just to uh orange is lost.
Orange, you lost the seat.
If you look at the top, it says no change, lost one seat, gained two seats.
But does it say Republican or Democrat?
Or how are they breaking this down?
Well, no, you just know Texas and Florida.
You know, being in a that's why they're saying they're they're considering Florida a Republican state.
You're saying purple, but Reuters is saying Florida is a Republican state.
By the way, FYI, here's something to also be thinking about with this.
This measure, you know, when people say, well, no one's moving to other states.
No one's leaving California.
This says they are.
100%.
This says people.
This is the U.S. Census Bureau.
So all these nice people by Bloomberg that just came out like last week.
People are actually not leaving the state of California.
The Census Bureau, who's not Republican, Democrat, or Independent, is saying they are.
Okay?
Because the way seats are changed is by who's losing people to the other state.
If Texas got two seats, people are moving to Texas.
We're about to be moving.
I mean, PBD, I mean, this is not a small loss to the state.
No, it's not.
It's such a population decrease that you're actually gaining a seat to represent that population move to another state.
Yeah, there's no question about that.
There's no question about that.
And by the way, yesterday, when you look at Biden's speech, did you guys see Biden's speech yesterday?
Did you kind of go through a little bit of the highlights?
What'd you think about it from Biden's speech he gave yesterday?
State of the Union.
I think you can't help but recognize that, look, everyone thought, not even being political here, everyone thought that Biden was a bumbling fool and he's Sleepy Joe and there's no way he could get stuff done and he's got dementia and he put him in the old age home and a lot of people underestimated him.
He beat Trump and now who is he being compared to?
There's one comparison that he keeps.
Jimmy Carter.
No.
What do you mean, Jimmy Carter?
Don't say FDR.
He keeps being compared to FDR and the New Deal.
Whether you agree with that or not.
For overspending, yeah, he is.
You're right.
Okay.
He's being compared to FDR for overspending.
Okay.
Yeah.
The New Deal.
The New Deal change.
Highest increase ever since World War II.
And we didn't have a war.
But it's the highest point.
He did kind of have a war.
You said policy.
He said specifically, we're a nation in crisis.
We have the worst pandemic in a century.
I'm using his words, PBD.
Can I use, can I quote the president?
Fear-mongering nonsense.
This is true.
It's the worst pandemic in a century.
It's the worst economic crisis since the depression.
And quote unquote, I don't have to know about this one.
It's the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War.
All I'm saying is he is being compared to FDR because he's basically rolling out the 2020 version of the New Deal.
Whether you agree with the New Deal comparisons or not, that is the comparison he's getting.
Is it fair or unfair?
I don't know.
What do you think?
You know, when you're looking at it, you have too much vanillaization.
Did you wake up to vanilla?
Enjoy vanillaization.
My apologies.
I will never say that again.
Go ahead.
I forget the comparison.
The first thing I thought when I was watching the Biden speech, I was thinking about being an Oprah show.
You get a car, you get a car, you get a car, you get this, you get that.
One side of the aisle, steady ovation.
The other side of the aisle, sit down, nothing being said.
Check in their Facebook.
Check underneath your seat for a free book because everything is free on the government.
Everything we're going to be providing for you, this, that, raise $15, free college, all these different things.
That's the way I felt overall.
I was actually looking for some meat.
I was actually looking for something that would be helpful in my current situation as a first generation entrepreneur, immigrants, cash flow, millionaire, et cetera, et cetera.
But I was looking for something that I could actually find useful.
Didn't really find it.
But back to our early conversations about taxes, et cetera.
I think they played on her.
I think one thing that I'm learning, I'm learning, like we talked about improving, learning, growing, is that I think Biden's heart is in the right place.
I just don't know if his math is in the right place.
And I know you're a big math guy.
And what's the famous quote?
If you're young and you're not a Democrat, you have no heart.
If you're older and you don't, and you're not a Republican, you have no head.
You don't have a brain.
So I'd like to think that I'm someone who's got a heart and is starting to use their brain a little bit more, you know?
All right.
So I look, I think it's not a zero-sum game.
I think there's parts of Biden's proposals, because keep in mind, these are proposals.
They're not executive actions.
There's going to be votes on this.
I do agree with.
And there's some that are hard to palette, especially with the higher taxes and everything like that.
But I did want to draw some analogies and comparisons.
There are certain things that he's used that reminded me of Trump.
Buy American.
American first, right?
Jobs, Drug prices are too damn high.
China, you know, he said, I believe in competition.
We'll compete with China.
We don't necessarily need to have conflict, but we can't compete.
So there were parts of it that I actually were reminiscent of Trump.
The difference is when he talks, he's a little more palatable to most people, according to approval ratings.
But then there's things that I just don't agree with.
For instance, the $15 federal minimum wage.
I don't agree with it.
I don't necessarily agree with, like we talked about, taxing corporations higher.
What did you agree with yesterday?
With Biden?
Yeah.
I agree with the jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, especially with the climate and electric vehicles.
But what did he mean by jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs?
He said, quote, unquote, 90% of jobs that he's creating won't require a college degree, 75% of— Associate's degree.
Exactly.
So, again, I do believe his heart is in the right place.
But do you know what that means, though?
Do you know interpretation of jobs, jobs, jobs?
You know what he's saying.
Tell me.
What he's saying is the government's going to create those jobs.
What he's saying is give us the money.
We'll create the jobs.
Don't trust the entrepreneurs.
They don't know how to create jobs.
That's interpretation.
The interpretation to me is $1.9 trillion for COVID.
We already spent it.
We have to pay for it.
$2.65 trillion is the infrastructure.
Some say $2.32 true.
Some say $2.65.
Let's just say it's a $2.3, $2.5 trillion infrastructure.
$1.8 trillion families plan.
It's about a $6.35, $6 to $6.35 trillion infrastructure we're going to talk about, right?
How are you going to make that money back?
Where from?
Where from are you going to collect all these taxes?
Taxing the rich.
Where?
You're taxing.
You think the rich have $6.35 trillion to pay you in taxes?
Even if you tax them 100%, even if you taxed all the rich people in America 100%, you still wouldn't, if you took everything the rich people have, you still don't have the money to pay for that.
So, how are you going to pay for it?
I'm talking, you go take all the money away from Bezos.
Take all the money away from Gates.
Take all the money away, Zuck, take all the money away from Musk.
Take all the money away from Ellison.
Take everybody's money away.
You still cannot pay for this $6.35 trillion.
So how are you planning on paying for it?
That's why I said his math is not in the right place.
But what I'm asking you is, what did you agree with?
So maybe what you're saying, excuse me, maybe what you're saying is you agree with doing something to improve education.
Fine.
Maybe you're saying, let's do something to create jobs.
Fine.
Maybe you're saying let's do something to advance the economy.
Fine.
But you don't agree with that being done by the government rather than free enterprise.
Because historically, who has been better at creating jobs?
Historically, no one competes.
Entrepreneur.
No one compares.
No one compares.
Historically, who has provided better customer service?
Free enterprise jobs or government jobs?
Not the DPRV.
You should.
Not the freaking AMV.
Not the VA.
Historically, who historically cares about hitting deadlines?
Entrepreneurs or free enterprise?
Private or more the government?
Entrepreneurs.
I'm with you on this, Peter.
I'm with you.
But what I'm going with you is the message can sound very good, but it's cryptic if you don't pay attention to it.
It can sound very good.
I can get up there and say, I love you guys so much and all this stuff, but it's cryptic.
It's not necessarily the right thing, the right approach to take to help advance the economy.
Everybody's saying it's been a crisis.
It's been a crisis.
You keep saying it's a crisis.
Okay, let's say it is a crisis.
For whom?
Who has it been a crisis for?
Don't say it's a crisis.
Who has it been a crisis for?
Specifically, the working poor, the people who have to actually show up and work for them.
Who do they work for?
Who gives them a job?
Corporations.
The working poor work for who?
Small businesses?
Some people.
65% of jobs in America, give or take.
Some say 49%, some say 65%.
More than half the jobs in America that people have, they work for small businesses.
So who, for whom, did the crisis affect the most?
Small businesses, yeah.
Why are you hurting them?
Yep.
You're hurting them the most.
So unless if you're going to give 100% of people a government job, which that's a communistic regime, the only place where 100% of people work for the government is under a communistic regime.
In a government where 90% of people are working for free enterprise, that's a free enterprise, free market, capitalism type of regime, right?
Where you go out there and compete.
So you hurt restaurants, you hurt small businesses.
They were the ones that took the biggest hit with the crisis.
And now you're hurting even more.
Again, remember, corporations don't pay more taxes.
They simply pass that down to the people that are working for them that they can no longer afford to pay, or they raise the prices in what they're selling.
The customers.
Yeah, he even said a comment about unions created middle America in America.
Yeah, I saw that.
What the hell?
You said Wall Street didn't build America.
Middle class did, and the unions built the middle class.
What?
Go ahead, go ahead.
Probably the only thing I really agreed with is him because I'm a big first two guy.
He says, Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, no president ever said those words at opponents about time.
I'm a big first two guy.
That was pretty cool.
That's awesome.
What a great reality.
You're first to do something.
Yeah, no, first to have a woman vice president and Madam Speaker.
That's the first thing he said.
That was a very cool thing.
You know, when I'm thinking about all the things that are out for free, out for free, out for free.
You know, I was on Fox talking about free college, the American College Act, and how much we value things that we pay for versus things that we get for free.
For example, I come down to Florida, I got to rent a car.
You think I'm taking care of this rental car?
I mean, of course, because I don't want to have it dinged or anything like that.
I got to return it with full of gas.
But before I turn it in, I'm not trying to throw out all the trash that you accumulated in this car.
I'm not trying to vacuum it.
I'm not trying to change the oil and wash it before I turn in a rental car.
So, in other words, what I'm saying is we don't value things that we don't own.
We don't value things that we don't pay a price for.
There's no skin in the game.
And we're trying to give these kids, you know, free, you know, junior college for two years, you know, for those making less than $110,000 a year.
You know, in the military, we call that you got to serve our country first, and then we'll give you free college.
Yeah.
You want to serve our country for four years?
Great.
We'll give you $20,000, $50,000 for college.
And guess what?
Those that do that, they tend to value that education a whole lot more than people that tend to get it for free.
And so when they're trying to give away all these different free things, you know, I wonder what the proper stewardship or appreciation of that for our country would be.
And my social experience has been: imagine if we had our kids graduating high school.
Imagine a weird social experience.
We can say, listen, if you want some free stuff, consider working for the government for minimum wage.
Consider working for this organization, Peace Corps, American Bible Society, some form of big major nonprofit, American Cancer Society, and then we'll consider giving you free college.
But until then, no, nothing for free.
Yeah, I mean, it was the greatest free handout speech of all time.
If you want to go, I mean, that's what it is.
It was the greatest handout speech of all time.
That's just what you got to call it.
Everything was given away, and people who want that, they loved it.
People who want to be left alone and go out there and work don't like that.
It's that simple of a messaging.
And those who work for the government, who want to get re-elected, are sitting there saying, oh my gosh, we got people convinced they need us.
That means I'm going to get re-elected next four years to be whatever my job is.
Anyways, I wish we had another hour to go through this because we have a lot more topics to cover.
Maybe we'll do it on Thursday.
Today is Thursday.
Today, Thursday is.
Today's Thursday.
Oh, today's Thursday.
We got to close out tomorrow, Peabody.
Yes.
Alma, you're right.
Yesterday, what you were saying, it doesn't feel like a Thursday today.
Such a weird day.
It is.
Anyways, have a great day, everybody.
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