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00:00 – Start
02:48 – Taxes
05:19 – Foreign Military Bases in the United States
24:05 – Florida law seeks to rein in large social media companies
39:28 – Fauci “not convinced” COVID-19 developed naturally outside Wuhan lab
58:35 – Patrick calls viewers to debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict
1:16:06 – Navy charting new course after rash of problems
1:23:42 – Disney introduces a $100 sandwich
1:26:43 – Tim Cook defends Apple in Fortnite trial
1:31:40 – People are panic buying homes
1:37:04 – Netflix CEO gives $3M to beat Newsom recall
1:48:58 – Pelosi tried to sabotage Green New Del rollout over fears of AOC’s new book
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What happened?
By the way, episode number 63, this morning, I'm driving.
I rarely do this.
Drive?
I'm driving to the office and I'm watching videos, which you shouldn't be doing.
I don't recommend it to anybody.
I'm watching videos while I'm driving.
And I'm getting to the right lane, which is the lane to go into the office.
And I cut somebody off.
And this person gets upset at me.
And I put my hand up to say, hey, you know, I think I just cut somebody off.
The old coat of the road.
Yeah, I always do that because I've done it millions of times.
And the person I cut off was our friend Roger Vanessa.
Vanessa.
I cut off Vanessa.
And I'm like, is that Vanessa?
I think it's Vanessa.
Because she shook her head.
She went like, tell me what you're doing to something.
And then she slowed down and I went past.
I'm like, okay, I think she's still sitting in the car because she doesn't want to think I got found out, but I knew what's that.
Came and told you about it today.
So there you go.
No altercations.
No, no, there was no altercation.
What happens when your boss and CEO cuts you off?
It won't be the first time or the last time.
Listen, this is why I need somebody to drive me.
No, even if you should have a while.
I'm a big monitor.
I think I'm getting close to.
You can have a green screen in a car.
Yeah, I think I'm getting.
Here's the challenge: I like driving.
I actually enjoy it.
You know how there's people that enjoy it?
I enjoy driving.
Matter of fact, I've been looking for a good stick shift to buy, a sports car stick shift.
And you know, they're doing all this automatic stuff.
Everything's going more to automatic, automatic.
I want to know the best stick shift car race car to buy.
What the hell are you going to do?
I'm a suggestion.
What do you mean with the stick shift, Pat?
Tell me.
You get driven in, but you drive home because you'll be more relaxed on the way home.
Maybe you just do some calls.
I like that.
You can be really productive on the way in.
By the way, I always thought a great invention would be a secondary horn, right?
Because you got the main horn.
Like if there's just a little thing that goes on, someone maybe emerges and you just want to get their attention, just a little tap.
Just a light little thing, right?
So there's no road race.
Secondary horn.
Secondary horn.
You got to have two horns.
One's not enough.
Adam likes the old school horns.
No, no, You remember those very loud.
I can't do that.
No, no, no, Mini Coopers.
Yes.
I used to think I can see you in a Porsche.
I can also see you in a Mini Cooper, though.
Okay.
All right.
Mazda Miata, maybe?
Convertible type.
You know what I can see?
You know what I can see you in?
In the backseat of a car.
I don't want you driving.
It's been big.
I think you're established.
You should not be driving.
And the closer we get to it, I think I'm more convinced you're right.
Every cleaning thing.
Once you realize how much more productive you'd be for that 25 minutes, probably, you get another video shot.
I love driving, guys.
That's my biggest challenge.
I love to drive.
Anyways, okay, so let's get into it.
We got a lot of stuff to cover here.
A couple months ago, was it two months ago when we were having the episode with Byron Udell was in and we talked about taxes?
And then I said, I'm going to go do research on taxes.
Do you remember that?
You did.
I did notes, you know, 56.
This is just the stuff that made it here.
We shot a tax episode.
Okay.
For me, you have no idea how excited I am to launch this video.
Matter of fact, I got some fun facts for you.
I got some fun facts.
Are they fun?
I got some fun facts for you.
I'm actually curious to know what you'll say about it.
Okay.
You know some of them.
So some of them you can play along.
Okay.
But maybe others can play along.
Can you tell me who invented the IRS?
Who was the founder of the IRS?
I'm going to go with Ben Franklin.
He had so many great inventions.
Let me go with Benjamin.
Okay, so Benjamin, are you ready to be shocked?
Folks, if you're listening to this, don't Google it.
Don't search it.
I'm actually asking, and I'm curious to know what you'll say.
Who, during which president's administration do you think the IRS was founded under?
During which president's administration do you think the IRS was founded on?
My guest yesterday was very close.
You said Grant.
You said he was asking me.
Yes.
You know who it is?
No.
Abraham Lincoln.
Wow.
Is that the bar, baby?
Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln came up and they founded the IRS and they said we're going to raise, it was the first time ever we had federal income taxes.
Lincoln got up and said, listen, to pay off the Civil War, we have to raise taxes.
They came up with federal income taxes in 1862, but they said when we pay it off, guess what?
We'll get away with the taxes.
Do you think it's time?
Not yet, right?
10 years later, when they paid it off, the taxes went away.
Is that not crazy?
Exactly.
Whoa.
That's exactly it.
And they went away because they said we only raised taxes to pay off the war.
And it was a 3% tax for people making between $600 to $10,000.
And it was a 5% tax for people making over $10,000.
It was essentially the first progressive tax that we had in America under a Lincoln administration, right?
But it did go away.
Here's another fun fact for you.
War, the idea of war and taxes, there are so many correlations between war and taxes.
Property taxes, just so you know, property taxes is the byproduct of War of 1812.
Interesting.
The way they collected money to pay off for the War of 1812, the Star-Spangled Banner, was by coming out with a property tax.
Did not know that.
I don't know if you knew that.
I know, obviously, you pay a lot of attention when it comes down to tax time.
You're in the insurance business.
So you know a lot about it, but property taxes came from War of 1812.
Here's another one for you.
How many military bases, foreign military bases, do you think the U.S. has?
I'm going to take a wild guess.
I'm going to say 45.
45.
Folks, if you're listening, how many military bases do you think the U.S. has foreign?
Okay.
Kai, you know this number.
Sam, do you know this number?
How many military bases do you think there are foreign, U.S. military foreign?
You said 45.
I'm going with that.
What do you think the number is?
How many U.S. foreign military bases?
Folks, if you think you know the answer, comment below.
You will also be shocked here in a minute.
How many?
50, 51.
What do you think?
Foreign military bases?
I'll go with 55.
55?
What are you going to do?
He's sponging Wheel of Fortune.
He's good.
53.
The greatest training off my prediction.
You ready what it is?
It's like prices right now.
By the way, prices ride.
Now, Wheel of Fortune.
You ready?
800.
Whoa.
In 71 countries.
Now, here's a trick question to everybody.
You ready?
Everybody's putting you.
Somebody put 1,000.
Who put 1,000?
Greatest ever put 1,000.
Mark Bucci put 350.
Chicken Diner 13 put 800.
He probably searched it.
But you know what?
That's a good guess as well if you got it right.
Aratasov solely put 60 trillion.
Okay.
So I'm glad to hear that.
It's a high number.
Are you ready?
We got people all over the world.
Watch this once you hear this one, Tom.
So watch this.
If the U.S. has 800 military bases in 71 countries, how many military bases, foreign military bases, do you think China has?
How many do you think China has?
Oh, God.
I want you to actually guess this.
I want to guess it's fewer.
I want to say 300.
Okay, what do you think it is?
You guys want to take a wild guess?
Let me put it to you this way.
I guarantee you're not going to get it right.
I'm trying to help you here.
So you got to give a crazy number.
1,500.
Okay.
2,000.
Okay.
And let's say 2,000 years.
One.
They have one.
They only have one.
I knew it was last time.
Guy, can you pull up the only foreign military base China has and where it's at?
Folks, this is like apps.
People can't even comment on this stuff.
It's mind-blowing when you think about this.
China, foreign military bases, okay, go to where it's at.
Okay.
The Djibouti is what it's called.
Exactly.
Yeah, they like Djibouti.
That's exactly where it is.
Can you go to the military, where Djibouti is so people can know where Djibouti is?
Go to maps.
Okay, just go to MAPS.
Go to Djibouti right there.
It is the only foreign military base in the chokehold of the Suez Canal.
That is the only military base China has.
Now, here's another trick question for you.
You ready?
Yeah.
We're putting Jebudi.
Very poorly.
Okay.
Okay, by the way, you and I were doing poorly.
I just so happened to have gotten this research because I would have never guessed these numbers right.
Here's the next one.
Combine Russia, okay, Russia, France, and Britain.
Okay.
Okay, three of the superpowers in the world.
How many military bases do they have foreign between Russia, France, and Britain?
Do you know this or something?
I don't know, though.
Okay, so you can guess on this one.
How many do they have?
I'm going to guess.
This is not China.
So this is a different number.
I just want everybody to know this.
Combine one.
Combine.
Combine all three together.
I'm going to say it's a very low number dominated by Russia.
I'm going to say 16.
Okay.
What do you think it is?
I'm going with a niner.
90?
Nine.
Niner.
Okay, nine.
What do you guys say?
I'm going to say five.
Five?
Okay.
China threw everybody.
It's actually 30.
30.
It's actually 30.
Those combined together have 30.
Are you not blown away by this?
This is absolutely right.
You say the US is everywhere.
U.S. is controlling.
$800 million for whatever.
Because we're policing the world.
That's why.
But you're paying for it.
Exactly.
But you're paying for it.
That's the question.
And I'm a military guy.
I'm a pro-military guy.
I'm an army guy.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
There's that many military bases.
What's the point?
You know what happens when you're involved in too many people's marital problems?
You know who ends up becoming an enemy eventually?
That's a person.
Right.
You.
You know, like those moms that are too over-controlled.
How's this going?
How's that going?
Eventually, like, mom, just stay the hell out of it.
You know, U.S. is starting to become a little bit too 800 foreign military bases.
800.
That's a lot.
It's incomprehensible.
Watch what China is doing.
So, China, they have one, specifically one.
Why?
Intentionally?
Because they want to make sure they're getting their oil because most of the oil comes from there.
So they need that part, right?
But do you know what they're doing with the other money?
U.S. is spending fighting wars the old school way from the 50s, 60s, 70s.
All they're doing is bio, cyber, hack.
They're studying all of those ways, and they're using those resources.
So take a certain amount of time.
Creating viruses, doing their thing.
Fauci said it could be possible.
Apparently, Fauci a couple years ago.
He's a Fauci.
My apologies.
Fauci said it could be possible.
Tom calls him Fauci.
He goes, Fauci.
So the point is.
So the point is, so that's one area.
When you link military bases and taxes, they actually go together.
Here's another crazy thing for you.
You ready?
Yeah.
Okay.
This whole concept about withholding taxes, right?
Yesterday we were talking about it's not really a big deal.
We're like, we got to kind of come up with a better way of putting it.
Withholding taxes.
How long has that thing been around?
Withholding taxes.
And the first time ever where we withheld taxes, who was it under?
First time we ever withheld.
That's easy.
That's easy.
That's like 40, 50 years.
It was some Democratic president.
Give me a Kennedy.
Okay, Lincoln was the first person that came out with a withholding taxes.
You gave, essentially, what they did is they made the employer the tax collector.
The employer became the tax collector to see what they can do with the taxes rather than the IRS being the tax collector because they wanted to pay off the Civil War, which they did.
And the American people were okay with that because it eventually stopped.
It eventually stopped.
But 1862, they don't have the ADP system.
They don't have all the system that they have today.
It was simple.
The employer kind of paid it to the government, right?
Now, fast forward, so that went away.
Years later, guess who made it official to help the tax withholding system become a law?
Easy.
Lyndon Mainz Johnson.
Okay, you know who it is?
Who?
Milton Friedman.
Out of all the.
A Republican.
A Republican.
So you know what he's saying?
A Libertarian, Republican?
What was he?
I would say he's Republican.
I would say he's Republican.
By the way, later on in life, when he did this, it was in 1943.
He was younger.
He helped.
The reason why, he says, because we have to pay off the World War II money.
We just didn't have the money for it, right?
So they went from having, this is actually a very interesting fact here.
They went from in 1939.
How many people in America do you think filed taxes in 1939?
How many Americans filed taxes in 1939?
U.S. population at the time was 131 million.
20 million.
It's 50 million.
4 million people.
Wow.
There they go.
Three years later.
Three years later, 41 million.
They went from revenues being $900 million in $39 to five years later in 1943 being $43 billion.
So think about the amount of money they raised.
Yeah, but that probably won World War II because of it.
Well, but here's what happened.
The difference is when it comes down to taxes, the following.
Here's the difference.
The difference is the fact that when they came up with the taxes in 1862 under Lincoln, they said it's going to go away.
Under Wilson, under Woodrow Wilson, they came out with the 16th Amendment.
The 16th Amendment allowed people to make income taxes a law because before it was tough, you couldn't do it.
The 16th Amendment allowed politicians to go back because there was this one case, kind of 1894, I want to say, Charles Polak against Farmers Company of 1894.
Put Charles Polak, I think it's versus Farmers of 1894.
I think something like that.
Type that in, Farmers.
Okay, there you go.
Click on that.
1895.
I was one of.
So Charles Polak versus Polak versus the Farmers Loan and Trust of 1895.
When they came up with this, this, they were trying to tax the U.S. population 4%, 2% on $4,000 or more of income.
He said, no, you can't do that.
It's against the Constitution.
The guy went and fought.
Supreme Court defended him saying, you're right.
The Constitution says you cannot just tax people income taxes.
So later on, under Wilson, they made it a law.
The 16th Amendment allowed the government to just impose any kind of taxes, right?
Now, here's a kicker.
In 1913, when the Woodrow Wilson new amendment came up, what happened to World War I?
When did World War I start?
1917.
Okay.
We got involved around 1917, 1919.
Do you know the taxes when Woodrow Wilson first introduced the progressive taxes?
It was 1% for anybody making $0,000 to $20,000.
It was 2% for $20,000 to $50,000.
And it went all the way up.
The top marginal tax rate in 1913 was 7%.
7%, not 70%.
Four years later, the top marginal tax rate went to 67%.
And you want to know something crazy?
From 1917 till 1965, the top marginal tax rate never went below 67%.
It went all the way up to 94% is what happened to taxes.
Anyways, I mean, the whole concept of taxes, mind-boggling when you study what happened here.
Can I give you one number?
Sure.
Okay.
If you don't know this, jump in.
If you do, maybe don't.
But how many new IRS agents does Joe Biden want to hire?
Three times what we have today.
There's a number, exactly.
Do you know what it is?
I mean, this is unbelievable.
87,000 IRS agents, man, they are going to be going nuts.
You know, they want to dig back on all the tax evasion that they feel that people were guilty of as far as high net worth people.
So they're clawing after that money.
Trillion.
That's a lot.
It's a lot.
All to do audits.
I mean, they're going to be auditing like crazy.
So what were your biggest takeaways?
From what I understand, the tax correlation between taxes and war.
Yeah.
Can you pull up that link about who's paying more taxes, the 1%, the 5%, the 10%?
You know which one I'm talking about.
Kai, send it to you.
Number two, it doesn't seem like this is a Democratic high taxation thing.
It seems like Republicans were taxing too.
Yeah, but the difference is Republicans did taxes, assuming it's temporary.
Democrats made it permanent.
That's the difference.
And for specific costs.
Yeah, for sure.
So Lincoln said, hey, let's raise taxes to pay off Civil War.
Democrats said, uh-huh, Socialist Labor Party, the Populist Party, the Democratic Party.
What if we can make this permanent?
And they did.
When Milton Friedman agreed to the tax withholding system, the only reason he did was because he thought it was to pay off the World War II debt that we had.
He didn't think it was going to be permanent.
Obviously, he helped it become permanent.
Before he died in his memoir, he talked about one of the biggest mistakes he ever made is helping pass the tax withholding system.
Really?
And he said it was going to happen with or without him, but he helped that.
Can you pull up the numbers here, Kai?
Take a look at this.
So you know how we talk about who pays the most taxes in America?
You know, we say the 1%'s not paying taxes anymore.
This is an interesting chart if you make it bigger and flip the focus on them, Sam.
So this is the number of percentage of taxpayers, the bottom 50%, look how big it is, right?
Then you get the top 25 to 50%.
Then you got the top 10.
You look at the bottom 1%.
Very small community, right?
Very small community.
Now, who pays the biggest amount of taxes in America?
Look at the right.
The 1% pays.
Nearly the same amount of taxes as the bottom 50% pays.
Look at the 1% right there.
And then go to the next chart.
Go to the next chart that we have.
Go down.
I think it's a couple more.
Keep going, keep going, keep going.
Is it above it or below it?
Maybe it was above that, Kai, right there.
Make it a little smaller.
This shows over the years, is the 1% paying more or less taxes.
Look at that.
All the way to the left.
It shows you from 1980 to today, as the year goes by, the 1% keeps paying more and more and more taxes.
The top 5% is also paying more and more.
If you're in the 10%, you're the same.
Nothing's changed for the top 10%.
The top 25%, it's getting lower.
The top 50% is getting lower.
And a bottom 50%, it's definitely getting lower.
So this kind of tells you, when you get into it and you take a deep dive into the tax topic, you realize it is not as black and white as people talk about.
It's not like, hey, you know, Republicans do this, Democrats do this.
No, Republicans also raise taxes.
But there was an intention behind it with the payoff.
The Democrats looked at that and capitalized and said, let's make this permanent.
So again.
Did you get the feeling after doing the video that they could easily simplify this?
100%.
100%.
I think one of the biggest reasons why I did this video is to get people to just question.
Like what I want to see is the following.
Right now, look, we got 1,652 people watching.
By the way, let me just announce this right now.
Here's what we're doing today.
We got a couple new ideas that we came up with.
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For example, you put 10 bucks.
What's 10 times 10?
We're going to wire you 100 bucks.
You put 100 bucks?
If it's the best super chat question, we're going to wire you back, what do you call it?
$1,000.
Game, because this is not a money-making machine for us.
We're doing this podcast because we're enjoying this.
But at the same time, we want more people involved.
Look at the 1,690 people on it, right?
Okay.
Do you know how many people, like this video goes out in Value Taint.
Value Tamil's got 3 million subscribers.
How many views do you think the tax video is going to get?
Honestly.
It's going to be one of those that people share, right?
You don't think so?
I don't think so.
Ah, really?
That's the problem, what I think.
I think now, if I put a video of me, you know, going out there and jumping out of a plane, it's probably going to get a million views.
If I put a video with me and a couple mobsters, it's probably going to get 100 million views.
If I put a video about taxes and the history of taxes, it's going to get probably 100,000 to 200,000 views over the next 12 months.
Why?
Because nobody cares.
Nobody cares about taxes.
They're entertained.
They're watching Netflix.
They're watching sports.
There's a very small community of people that are sitting there saying this matters.
Here's the challenge, though.
Here's the good news there.
You know what the good news is?
If Charles Polak could do what he did and Supreme Court can go in his favor, if a story like this with Lincoln, which you're a smart guy, you went to a good university.
You did not know.
You're a smart guy.
You didn't know.
I'm a pretty well-read guy.
I didn't know this kind of stuff.
I'm sitting here saying, Kai has read half the books in the world.
He didn't know any of this stuff, right?
We're sitting here going through this data and we're like, I never knew about that.
Iris got started under Lincoln.
I never knew about that.
You mean to tell me it was only for 10 years and then he went away with it?
Yeah, because they wanted to pay off the Civil War.
I never knew about that.
That's what needs to be talked about.
The American people need to sit there and say, wait, what?
You mean to tell me federal income taxes went away?
Yes.
How?
Because we were living off of excise and tariff taxes.
That's what we were living off of.
It was 50 cents per ton of goods coming from out of the states, foreign, 50 cents per ton, and it was 6 cents per anything that was being exchanged within the states.
So there are ways for us to change our taxes where people from the outside are paying.
There are ways we can change our taxes and decrease it.
But right now, everybody's just kind of looking away being entertained, and taxes keep going up and we have no clue what the hell is going on.
Yeah, but it's so many social programs that once they have the money coming in, they just find new ways to spend it.
That's the difference now, right?
That's why these things will never be lowered once the politicians get a hand on it.
What do you mean by social programs?
Well, I just mean all the money that's going out, all the free money that's going out.
Look what's happened the last few weeks.
So, I mean, that's where the tax money is going.
That's why they want to keep raising the taxes.
It's not like that they're looking to cut spending, cut anything in the budget.
You know where the majority of our U.S. budget goes?
The majority of our budget goes.
Are you going to say military?
It is, though.
Defense?
It is.
Well, defense is not even in the top five.
Oh, okay.
What is it?
Number one is Social Security.
No, no, no.
Entitlement programs.
That titlement's not even in the top 20.
I'm just saying where our actual $20 trillion budget goes, where it's actually going.
The big three, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid so we can look at this.
If you look at, if you Google U.S. budget breakdown, by far and away, it's Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
It's not even close.
And then after those big three things, you have paying off our There's one that has like a pie chart, Kai.
If you're a bad person, go to the pie chart.
And then you have paying off our debt.
Paying off our debt is probably 7% to 8%.
Then you have the military.
And then all the social programs that everyone thinks about.
Look, healthcare, Social Security.
Defense is.
I think that might not even be right.
Go to a different one.
Point is the vast majority of our budget goes to old and sick people.
That's the United States.
Go up a little bit, discretionary spending.
So military.
That's just a military.
That's discretionary spending.
Just say overall.
Anyway, the point is, there it is right there.
Social Security, unemployment, labor, Medicare health.
Medicare and health.
Total mandatory spending that we have.
Yeah, but military is going to be different than that.
Here's the point.
The point is, if we keep going the way we are and nobody questions it, we're just going to keep coming up with new taxes.
Constantly coming up with new taxes.
And eventually, here's another interesting fact for you.
Here's another interesting fact for you.
Which president increased the national debt the most by percentage-wise?
I'm going to guess Lincoln.
He's responsible for all of this.
Give me a Lincoln.
But in this part, it's FDR.
It's 1,075%, which, by the way, was in 1930, you know, when he was the New Deal.
You know who's a second?
You should be able to guess it.
It's 1916.
Who was the guy with the 16th Amendment?
1913.
Who's the 16th Amendment?
Woodrow Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson.
He's second place.
He's second place.
Who do you think is dollar amount the most?
Obama.
$8.8 trillion.
You know who's second place?
Trump.
It's very interesting when you look at the numbers and see what's going on.
But percentage-wise, FDR and Woodrow Wilson changed the entire tax system in America, and very few of us sit there and study about it.
I don't know.
I just think there's an opportunity for us to learn more.
So when it comes down to tax summon voting, we're going to vote in a different way.
This segment has been sponsored by TurboTax.
If you have not done your taxes yet, TurboTax is a very good thing.
By the way, TurboTax is very thankful for even saying their name right now because some people actually think it is TurboTax.
It's actually not sponsored by TurboTax.
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No, no, no.
What's the green company?
The Green Lab.
H and R B. H and R Brock.
Yeah, no, neither one of them.
Okay, so we have to.
You know, the only thing that I'm still thinking about during that whole segment?
What's that?
That China's one base is in Djibouti.
One.
They got that Djibouti.
Yeah, there you go.
Djibouti, booty, booty.
We should send Adam to go do a segment on Man on the Streets in Djibouti.
I'll go about that booty now.
I'm sorry, Kenny.
I'm looking for that Djibouti.
Where is that Djibouti?
Anybody twerk?
Yeah.
I'm looking to do some twerk.
Are you up for it?
Can you say you're up for it if we send you there or not?
Yeah, if I'm going to Djibouti.
You may not have to make some.
You got the mix up.
Djibouti.
All right.
So, okay, let's go and see what story we want to go with.
Adam, for whatever reason, wants the Florida story, Kai, which is.
I think you want that story.
Do I want the story?
I asked you.
What story do you want to cover and what did he say?
I said Florida.
He also said pharma, but then he said Florida.
No, he likes what he said.
He says, honestly, I haven't really looked at the notes, but whatever.
Just pick a story.
I'm excited to have my coffee ticket.
Let's go.
All right.
So, Kai, you got to remind me about the super chat times 10 to see how that's going to go.
Yeah, do you want to repeat that one more time?
Because I was fine.
I don't understand that.
Anybody who does a super chat comment and we like it, at the end, we're going to pay you back 10 times of what you gave us.
So if you did a $10 super chat, we're going to get, like, for instance, right now, John Brothers raised taxes on Soyboy Mafia, $10.
I actually think, you know what?
Screw it.
John, you got 10 times that.
John gave me $100.
Make a note.
John Brothers just got $100.
We're paying $10.
Raise taxes on Soyboy Mafia.
John, text us your phone number to 310-340-1132.
We may just even call you.
310-3.
Hang on one second.
310-340-1132.
Text us, Kai.
Check the number.
Say I'm John Brothers with your number.
We may drop you.
I want to understand what just happened.
John.
John gave 10 by here.
He gave 10 bucks.
He says taxes on soyboy mafia.
We like the comment for no reason.
I'm giving him back 10 times for what he gave us, which is what?
10 times 10 bucks is 100 bucks.
He's getting a lot of money.
He seems like a little bit of a bad thing.
Started off his nation with 100 bucks.
Look at that.
And a funny comment about the soy boy mafia to tax that out.
Which you're offended by it.
I'm deeply offended.
Adam will take 60% of that.
Exactly.
Tax manager.
You think you got jokes?
We're going to tax that out.
He's going to take 94% taxes.
FDR.
He'll get 60 cents is what he's getting.
Anyways, all right, John, send us a text.
We'll send you that money.
Okay, so let's go to Florida.
Where are we at with Florida?
Page what?
Page six.
Okay, so did that kind of make sense to you what we're doing?
We're 10xing.
We're 10x in comments.
We're not taking whatever you give, and we have to like it.
We're going to be encouraging.
So Kai, you got to keep track of the comments because if you don't, then I'm not going to be able to track any of this stuff.
Just make sure you're tracking.
So people.
Okay.
Sorry, Florida.
Let's see what happened in Florida.
Florida law seeks to reign in large social media companies.
This is an AP story.
Standing at a lectern with a sign reading, stop big tech censorship, Republican Florida Governor DeSantis signed a bill on Monday that seeks to punish social media platforms that remove conservative ideas from their sites.
The new law will enable state to find large social media companies a quarter of a million dollars a day if they remove an account of a statewide political candidate and $25,000 a day if they remove an account of someone running for a local office.
DeSantis pointed out in particular to them, President Donald Trump being banned by Twitter while still allowing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to maintain an account.
When you de-platform the president of the United States, but you let Ayatollah Khamenei talk about killing Jews, that is wrong, DeSantis says.
This bill targets social media platforms that have more than 100 million monthly users, which include online giants as Twitter, Facebook, but lawmakers carved out an exception for Disney and their apps by including that theme park owners wouldn't be subject to that law.
Of course, because Disney is in Florida, DeSantis has to take care of this.
So anyway, so what do you think about this?
I'm going to go through your family.
Okay, here's my initial thought.
And I'm the only non-resident of Florida here.
So let me say this from an outsider's perspective.
And here's the thing.
There's one thing I think of.
DeSantis is starting his campaign for president.
I mean, I don't know how much meat this is going to have, but he wants to be the guy out on the fourth.
There's no Republican out there that you could think could possibly run in three and a half years.
Not one, not Trump.
I mean, he's laying so low, you don't even know what he's doing right now.
I mean, he made big news the other day because he hit a golf ball into the water on his golf course.
That was news the other day.
So, I think DeSantis is running for president.
I don't know how much meat this is going to have.
I don't believe that Zuckerberg and Dorsey and anybody is actually shaking over this.
They're not worried about this one bit.
I think it's on the surface, it looks good.
It sounds good.
I think there's a lot of vagueness in here, ambiguity in here that you really don't understand how they're going to enforce it.
But it looked good at the press conference, and it is especially effective if you're running for president in 2024, which this gentleman will be doing.
So, you think he's going 2024?
I do see huge announcements out of Florida every two months.
DeSantis is going to run.
I mean, he looks like a leader when he does this, and he's laying the groundwork of what his platform is going to be.
I think he's obviously eyeing the presidency, but it's a little too early to tell.
We got to get through the midterms.
I mean, we just got, I mean, Biden just got elected, what, six months ago?
Honeymoon's over.
Honeymoon's over.
We're breaking up with him.
Find someone to beat him.
Yeah.
I would happen to agree with that.
But I think I've been pretty clear about big tech, where even when Major Williams was here, I said, look, Trump's been banned from a lot of these platforms, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, everything.
Instagram, he hasn't made an Instagram post since the insurrection.
I think big tech is getting a little too big for their britches, to put it apropos speech.
And I think this is something that needs to be said.
Mark Zuckerberg's and Facebook's approval ratings are in the 20, 30%.
Trump's at 40%.
And I think this is something that's good for soundbites.
Like you said, I don't know how they're going to enforce this.
Who's going to enforce $250,000 a day?
How's that actually going to take place?
Send him an invoice.
See if they pay it.
Yeah, what's going to happen?
How are they going to actually pay?
How do they police this thing?
Yeah, how do they police that?
I don't know.
All I know is I love the idea.
You do.
And all I know is many of the federal ideas start at the state level, which means this may be an idea being started, not the state level.
When the next Republican president gets elected, he's going to say, we're making this federal.
And then boom.
Then the federal is going to get involved and saying, wait a minute, you just said you're a social media company, but now you want to ban people.
If you want to ban political people, you have to get approval by us because now you're involved with the government.
Here's what we're going to be doing.
Quarter million dollars a day.
It is smart.
When you explain it like that.
By the way, quarter million a day.
It's not quarter million a month.
That's $3 million a year.
Quarter million a day, which is $7.5 million a month, which is $90 million a year.
That's real money.
Just so everybody knows.
That is real money.
When did Trump get banned?
Kai, can you tell me when Trump got banned?
The day after the insurrection.
Yeah, the 23rd or something.
The 23rd he got banned.
Okay, how many days since the 23rd?
Do the math, Jan?
Five months.
Okay, five months.
What's five times?
It's been four months or five?
120 days, something like that.
120 days.
120 days on $75,000 is what?
What's 120 days?
It's going to be what?
$30 million.
Okay.
120 times 30,000, 120 times a quarter million.
That's real money.
$30 million.
So Twitter would be paying a $30 million fine right now.
Okay, I think they look at that as the cost of doing business.
I don't think so.
I think $30 million is a real number.
You don't think so?
I don't.
Ultimately, because if they can keep on doing what they're doing and not change, I think they pay $90 million a year to do that.
I do.
No, I disagree with you.
I think that when you start paying fines of $30 million, $90 million, whatever the numbers are, that's going to get someone's attention.
I think, look, big tech and their overlordness is definitely becoming a problem.
And if I'm a conservative and I'm seeing conservative voices being taken down, I'm rallying around this idea right here.
So big tech has been censoring conservative voices.
I think something that they did well was disclaimers, fact checks.
This has turned out not to be true.
I think that's all well and fair, especially when you're full-on lying or quote-unquote the big lie.
But to full-on censor somebody and say, uh-uh, the president can't be on this.
This voice can't be on this.
At the end of the day, this is America.
We do believe in the First Amendment, freedom of speech.
You can't just completely censor.
What I'm saying.
So what you're saying is you like what he's doing.
He's making noise and he's bringing attention to a topic that needs to be covered.
He has a valid point.
Because it's got a lot of people concerned.
By the way, we have another person here, Hodge's wife, that just gave $10.
I just like what she quoted.
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
Let me read that one more time.
That's a Ron Paul quote.
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
She gets 10 times 10 bucks.
Hodge's wife send us a text.
310-340-1132.
You're getting $100 a year.
Hodge's wife.
I like Hodge's wife.
Is Hodge getting any of that money?
Hodges' wife.
Hodgie's wife.
Hodges.
I don't know how to pronounce it.
I hope you're listening.
By the way, Steve Levitz just gave $100.
He wants to talk about the Israeli army.
He was in it for eight years.
Text us.
We may just give you a call.
Yeah, Pam, I think it's all going to come crumbling down for these social media companies.
I really do.
Because you're even seeing this, and there might be a segment later in the show.
Sasha Barrett Cohen, is there a bigger liberal person that's more socially left than anybody else criticizing Jack Dorsey for allowing the hate speech on Israel?
They're getting high on their own supply.
It's like a drug dealer that gets addicted to Coke.
They're going to be so arrogant, so cocky, so out of control.
Now, not much can happen until the Republicans get at least one part of the government.
If they take over the House in a year and a half, I believe behind closed doors, they are aligning themselves to go right after public enemy number one is the big tech companies.
I mean, you hear about it right now.
I actually agree with you.
And a lot more people are agreeing on both sides, by the way.
Yeah, and something has to be done eventually.
And I think this is a brilliant move by DeSantis because it shows strength.
It shows foresightedness.
It shows leadership.
And he can fall back on it when he's running for president.
And he might even be able to push this through in Florida because he gets his way here.
Good point.
Yeah.
That's it.
This guy is about to drop the.
I was going to say, he has a majority.
Hi, are you checking text?
When he says, have they responded already?
Okay, so I want to just call John real quick.
Go ahead.
You may want to give me the Vaitema phone as well so I can do FaceTime if we can get that.
If the phone line is working, I'm going to cut Adam off about seven more times, but go ahead, Adam.
No, it's hard to freaking argue with when DeSantis says when you deplatform the president of the United States, but you let the Ayatollah Khomeini talk about killing Jews.
That is wrong.
Who the fuck is that?
Who's going to argue with you?
Who's going to argue?
And they just put the pressure on him.
But here's the point.
Answer the question.
No kidding, right?
Meaning Dorsey answered the question.
Exactly.
They don't haul their asses in front of Congress.
Let me ask you a question.
How much does Sasha Cohen hate Trump?
Is it fair to say he cannot stand Trump?
Very fair.
Is that a fair standard?
Is it fair to say that he can't stand Giuliani with what he did?
Is it fair to say that he likes to go out there and mess with Republican politicians?
Is that a fair assessment?
For how many years?
And Democrats.
He's messed with Bernard.
I would say 90% is Republicans, 10% is Democrats.
Fair enough.
Okay, fair enough.
You know who we just went after a couple of days ago?
Who do you think he just went after?
He went after Jack Dorsey.
Can you pull up the story with him?
Because I don't have it in front of me.
Kai, if you can pull it up, just pull up any story.
Type in Sasha Cohen, Sasha Barron Cohen.
Let's not disrespect him.
It's fine.
Sasha Cohen, H-E-N, and Dorsey.
Just put in Jack Dorsey.
Dorsey.
There you go.
Dorsey.
He's going to be fine.
Okay.
All right.
Let's go to Fox News, New York Post.
Go to a New York Post story.
Go to a New York Post story.
So if you can make it bigger so the guys can listen.
Do me a favor, flip the screen.
Let's go on that real quick.
Flip the screen.
Sasha Baron Cohen blasts Twitter C over social media anti-Semitism.
If you're giving me the phone, okay, got it.
Sasha Baron Cohen blasts Twitter C over social media anti-Semitism.
Keep going up.
Kai, keep going up.
Keep going up, keep going up.
The surge in anti-Semitism on the streets is fueled by anti-Semitism on social media.
The Borat actor posted on Twitter on Saturday, tagging both the platform and CEO Jack Dorsey.
Why do you allow hashtag Hitler was right question?
He wrote, those who celebrate the Holocaust aim to perpetuate another, stop hate for profit.
Baron Cohen was apparently reacting to an anti-Defamation League report released Saturday that said more than 17,000 tweets use variations of the phrase Hitler was right between May 7th and May 14th in seven days.
That's 7,000 tweets.
And Sasha Baron Cohen is the same guy that doesn't like anything about Trump that goes after Dorsey.
So it's no longer becoming a Republican thing.
People are starting to realize the power of Dorsey and how one-sided they are.
And that's his homeland, Israel.
I mean, you could see how passionate it is about this.
How do you not have an algorithm that weeds out references to Hitler being a positive thing?
How is that not in place?
You know, they have an explanation that they have to make.
They have to talk about, where's Dorsey?
He hasn't responded to this at all.
How can he not say, I cannot believe that this has happened under my watch?
We've got to get this thing fixed.
Nothing.
You know what?
And he got a few likes from other celebrity, Trump Basher, I think Mark Ruffalo.
You know, there's a few other celebrities are getting on board as well.
Here's another one.
It's reprehensible.
It's unbelievable, actually.
This is a perfect example of why you can't just be uniformly left or right.
You kind of have to just use your actual mind.
And when you see something wrong, even if you're not a big fan of Trump or Giuliani or whatever the hell it is, when you see something wrong like this, you have to call it out.
Like what Jack Dorsey is allowing.
That's great.
By the way, here's the thing.
Let me tell you what I like.
I like the fact.
What just happened right now with Sasha Cohen to me is the following.
Sasha Cohen officially to me became a true believer that he really doesn't sincerely like the policies on the right, Republican policies, which is fine, but he has policies that he also believes in, that he wants to impose and is not afraid to ruffle the feathers of the organization that's helping his political party moving agendas.
Sasha Cohen to me falls in the category of a Jon Stewart.
He falls in the category of Bill Maher to me.
He falls in the category of somebody.
Tucker Carlson is not liked by Republicans all the time.
Just so you know, there's a lot of Republicans that hate Tucker, but they like Hannity.
They cannot stand Tucker.
So you're seeing a lot of this taking place, and I think that's exactly what we need today.
Yeah, and he addressed something that isn't just politically incorrect, right?
That he was offended by.
I mean, there are Jews being attacked right now in Los Angeles, in New York, all over the country, and this is fueling it.
He has a legitimate beef.
Dorsey has to say something.
He literally does.
I mean, on the heels of what was going on with Israel and Hamas, you know, for two and a half weeks is unbelievable.
And you can just feel the passion in that tweet as well.
He's not done.
I'm sure he's, you know, what else does he have to do?
He's retired Borat.
He's not going to be Borod anymore.
He said that at the Golden Globes this year.
So, you know, maybe he's going to be a political activist.
By the way, the super chat's going crazy.
We're trying to catch up with you here on what's going on.
And you guys keep bringing it coming.
There's Yara G, rest in peace to my father, Rafael Guerre, 10-643 to 523-21.
We will miss you and your carefree spirit.
Don't cry when I die.
Celebrate my life and party.
This is Yara Gave 10 bucks.
Guess what?
You are.
I'm going to give you 20 times.
I give him 200 bucks.
Make a note of a text it to us.
What a heartfelt thing right now.
Rescue politician.
Nah, man.
I just, I'm not running for nothing.
I'm just running for a YouTube channel here right now.
You're not running for tax elections.
I want to call a couple of these guys.
One of the guys who was in the Israeli army, if we can get a hold of him, that would be great.
Kai, if he can give me his number, if he texts us already.
And I wouldn't mind having somebody who got the argument of Israel to go up against the argument of Palestine.
There's a couple people that commented here about that as well.
Hank Tide, we are seeing your comments.
We'll get to you here in a minute as well as we're going through.
So let's continue.
Let's continue because we have some more topics to go through.
Okay, next.
How about we talk about you said, Tom, you want to win the story?
I said the Fauci bombshell.
Let's go to page nine.
Let's go to page nine.
Fauci bombshell, not convinced COVID-19 developed naturally outside Wuhan Lab, the Hill story.
Anthony Fauci, the director of NIH, a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and President Biden's chief medical advisor supporting open investigation into coronavirus.
Origin says earlier this month he is not convinced it developed naturally.
When asked about whether the virus originally naturally, Fauci said that he wants to look closer into the matter, according to Fox News.
I'm not convinced about it.
I think we should continue to investigate what happened in China until we continue to find out to the best of our abilities what happened.
Fauci says, speaking to PolitiFact Katie Sanders at an event, certainly the people who investigated it said it was likely the emergence from an animal reservoir, then that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else.
And we need to find that out.
So you know, that's the reason why I said I'm perfectly in favor of the investigation that looks into the origins of the virus.
He continued.
The White House has not prepared evidence to refute the lab leak theory with press Secretary Jim Pasky saying the Biden administration is concerned that the Chinese government was not transparent from the beginning.
Really?
Thoughts?
You know, Dr. Fauci, I'm going to say his name right, okay?
He loves himself some Fauci, doesn't he?
I mean, he loves being Fauci.
He loves being on television.
He loves being in the news.
He loves doing press conferences.
So I've got a suggestion for Dr. Fauci.
Go on Shark Tank, launch the Fauci flip-flops, right?
A little pair of shoes.
Summer's coming up.
Beach.
It'd be perfect.
He could make millions on it.
Here's my.
And by the way, Kai, check your email.
I sent you a little something that maybe we can pull up here in just a second.
Fauci flip-flops.
You know, Pat, Fauci, Adam, you guys know people like this, right?
They're overpaid and they know it, right?
I don't know if there's some sort of phrase for this, but people that know they're not worth the money they're being paid.
There are people like that.
They're C-suites, you know, people that have, you know, somehow gotten to high-ranking jobs.
They know they're really not quite good enough for, not qualified enough for, and they're making big bucks, so they have to seem like they're worth it, justifying it every single day.
That's how I look at Fauci.
He's the highest paid government employee, Numero Uno.
No one makes more money than him.
He's the highest paid.
He goes out there.
He's insecure.
I can read this guy like a book.
He knows he's not as smart as everybody is claiming he is and acting like he is.
By the way, when's the last time he treated a patient?
If you're going to be the number one doctor in the country, get the stethoscope out.
I want to see you in a lab cope.
Get under a microscope once in a while.
Be a freaking doctor.
Okay, not a.
By the way, Kai, did you find this?
Okay, he's going to pull something up here.
I have a new role for Dr. Fauci.
So when we're ready for that, Kai, I'll announce what I think Fauci should focus on going forward.
Okay, Adam, what are your thoughts?
I think when Tom hears the name Fauci, triggers go off.
He's just, that's Fauci.
And I don't think he's alone.
I don't think he's alone.
I don't think he's alone on the left or the right.
Okay, a lot of people feel the same.
Let me say something.
I am not pro-Fauci, but I am certainly not anti-Fauci.
I think he's had a tough freaking job.
I think when this thing manifested in China, there was nothing anything we've seen like this in 100 years.
And he was maybe a little over his head, but I think genuinely he tried to do his best job.
When he said back in March, we don't necessarily need masks, he came back and he flip-flopped on that.
And that's been held against him for a year now.
Turns out, maybe we did need some freaking masks.
And he had to end up.
We did.
And he had to reverse on that.
However, the bigger story here is this: continue to investigate China.
This isn't about Fauci.
This is about China at this point.
Whether China, whether he's overpaid or whether he's coming out with a new line of flip-flops is freaking irrelevant.
What's important here is investigating China.
You did an interview with a lady who came out and basically came out and said, I was a scientist working in a lab in Wuhan, and I can tell you conclusively this was invented in a lab in China.
And then what happened to that interview, Pat?
Yeah, that's what's crazy when I did the interview with the lady.
What was her name, by the way?
She was just on Tucker a couple days ago.
She was all over the news.
She came out and she talked about Kyle.
Are you looking up her name or no?
She was all over the news.
They were talking about, she says, This is a manly interview.
Remember that?
Yes, of course.
So we interviewed her.
And the interview in two days got a half a million views.
Then they took it down.
And we didn't understand why they took it down.
They also took down a Judy Mykovitz interview.
The big tech overlords.
Judy used to work with Fauci in the 80s during the AIDS pandemic that was taking place.
So, the biggest challenge I have with Fauci is the following: fine that you're saying now, yes, we need to look into it.
But why is the fact that so many other people said we need to look into it?
Why were they censored?
Exactly.
That's the hypocrisy to me.
So, you, how many billions of views was taken down just because people questioned the source of where it came from?
How many?
Actually, curious to think about that.
It got to a point that you didn't even want to post videos because they were striking, they were putting strikes on it, they were taking it down.
So, there's a part of it that a lot of audiences, and by the way, we look at our content on Valutaine.
We used to get a lot more recommendation than we do.
Our views used to be 75% by recommended from another video.
That recommended list is pretty much flatlined for us.
We don't get recommended anymore like we used to.
Valutaino's list on Valutaine, we used to be recommended on 75% of our views.
50 to 75% of our views were recommended.
We don't have that number anymore.
Why?
I don't know.
I'm not speculating.
I'm just saying about that, though.
And by the way, I'm not even going to the point of shadow banning or whatever people want to say.
If you want to do that, go ahead and do that.
Hey, audience, you know what I tell about the audience?
Get even more on notification.
Share the content even more.
That song, if you really want to see this stuff being shared, share it even more.
Be part of a group that we need to get this message out there more.
I don't think enough people are sitting there kind of saying this content makes sense rather than saying this makes sense.
Let me share it with 10 people.
We need to get the ability to share even more.
People need to be willing to share the content more.
But that took place to us last year.
I kind of sat there and I'm like, really?
Just because somebody said that this could have been from the inside in China.
So the silencing part concerns me.
I applaud Fauci for saying we ought to look into this.
Good for you.
But he should have said that seven months ago.
And he shouldn't have snuffed at it on the early days.
Exactly.
Because when Rand Paul, just a couple months ago, asked him the question, he laughed at the idea.
He laughed at the idea.
And now you're changing your position.
Look, John Kerry years ago was supposed to be the president.
I don't know if you remember or not.
He was supposed to be supposed to be the president until he got caught what?
Flip-flopping.
He was the ultimate flip-flopper.
Okay, the guy went to, I think he went to Yale.
I think he's one of those guys that went to all the right schools.
He was about to be the president.
He got a lot of heat for what?
One minute you're saying this.
One minute you're saying that.
You're saying this to the audience?
You're saying that to the audience.
It shouldn't have been Bush.
He should have been the president.
Flip-flopper.
Fauci's starting to flip-flop a lot, and people are getting pissed off.
Make up your damn mind with this.
Every politician flip-flops, though.
But he received that.
Hey, he just made the point.
Fauci's a politician.
He's not a doctor.
He's another member of the cabinet, if you ask me.
He is not a doctor.
He is a doctor.
No, he literally is.
Okay, I will give him that.
He's as much of a doctor as Doc Severanson was when he was the leader of the tonight show band.
No, he is a doctor.
I will give him that.
He went to medical school.
He is a doctor.
But act like one.
Okay, be a doctor.
Have an open mind.
I disagree.
I disagree wholeheartedly.
You want him to treat patients like he's not.
I don't.
I want him to share.
Dermatologist down the street.
Treat a patient.
If you're going to be the top doctor, I have high expectations for you.
A little bit more than just going which way the wind blows, which is what he does.
Look, he's a cabinet member.
The guy's been, the guy, again, I'm not pro-Fauci, but I'm not anti-Fauci like you.
The guy's been put in a tough position.
This virus came out of China.
He's been in the how long has he been there?
Through 40 years almost?
Which means it's time to go.
Okay, granted, I'm just saying he's been through Republican presidencies, Democratic presidencies.
He's been around the block.
He knows more than most.
So for someone who's like Rand Paul, who's a freaking eye doctor, to sit there and try to battle Fauci.
Is Rand Paul ultimately right?
I mean, what he's saying.
I don't know.
Well, if Fauci's now agreeing with us.
I think Rand Paul's been wrong more than that.
By the way, he's still a doctor.
Rand Paul, eye doctor.
It's not about.
A doctor of infectious diseases versus an eye doctor.
I mean, take Fauci's opinion over Rand Paul.
But also, it's okay.
So fine.
But here's a question.
Here's a question for you.
It's not about whether Rand Paul is right or wrong.
It's about the fact that what the hell is wrong with questioning anything.
I'm cool with that.
No, it's not.
Then if you are cool with that, Rand Paul is not saying he's right.
No, he is.
Rand Paul is asking and questioning.
Which is totally fine.
Which totally question.
Which you, which you, as a person who is responsible for the world relying on your opinion, the world was affected by a virus that came out of China.
Do you not think we need to go figure out what the hell happened in China?
Do you not think we need to go find out what the hell happened in China?
Rather than saying it's probably not done.
What do you mean it's probably not done?
By the way, here's another question for you.
How much money is the right amount of money to spend to find out if they actually did this intentionally?
How much infinite amount.
That's the point there.
Why?
Why is it so important?
Because it could happen again.
Because if it is true, if it is true, you know what this is called?
If this is true, you know what this is called?
This is not a gen. This is how many people got killed because of COVID.
What's the latest number because of COVID?
Millions.
What is the number?
Total death of a total number from COVID.
COVID total death.
3 million.
That's my guess.
What's the total number?
Not just U.S. worldwide.
2.6 million.
2.6 million.
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you realize?
Holocaust.
How many people?
6 million.
That was just Jews.
That's the number.
And total, it was 10 million, probably.
20 million.
You've heard 6 million to 20 million numbers.
Okay.
Armenian genocide.
Million people.
1.5 million, plus another half a million Greeks, plus another quarter million Assyrians, right?
Cambodia.
You want me to keep going?
You're going reparations?
Is that where you're going?
Are you kidding me?
Yeah, of course.
Are you kidding me?
If you did this, you need to be held at the highest.
Are you kidding me?
So here's what, to me, everybody needs to put their money up and say, what the hell happened?
And they need to be held accountable.
This is not, people don't, by the way, this wasn't even that deadly.
This was a 1% virus.
If this was a 5%, do you know what that is?
If this was, if this thing's R-Not score was even higher than what it is, you know what this could have looked like?
20, 50 million.
If the R-NOT score was higher.
Okay?
Yeah.
Which is the sherub, the fact that it spreads faster.
If it was higher and more deadly, dude, what are you talking about?
Like, a couple of us wouldn't be sitting here right now.
Do you realize?
Like, think about it.
You're not here right now.
I'm not here right now.
He's not here right now.
He's not here right now.
A couple of us wouldn't be sitting here right now.
So the point is, rather than saying it's Trump's fault, this is stop.
Where did it come from?
Let's go to it.
I don't care if it costs money.
Let's find out rather than sitting on the sidelines and saying, oh, let's get Biden elected.
Oh, let's get Trump elected.
Forget about all this politics.
What the hell happened?
Let's get to the bottom of this.
All this political games they're playing is getting old.
So the fact that Fauci's finally saying, we have to find out, great, put a budget behind it.
What's the budget?
Let's go.
If China wants to play ball and they did this, rather than sitting there saying, what are we going to do with the, what do you call it?
We have a lot of import that's coming from that.
We have 80% of pharmaceuticals that's coming from.
We have 70% of the chips that are coming from there.
Really?
So you're going to keep empowering these guys over and over.
If this is true, this is reparations at the highest level.
This is, I did it to you and I can get away with it.
You can't do nothing about it.
Yeah, and they're working on the next one.
It's an act of war, really.
I mean, they need to address it.
And we're going to allow people in the country to investigate.
But the point is, yes, we should investigate.
Of course we should.
Of course we should put a ridiculous budget behind it.
Not only the United States, the entire world should do this.
But the question is, is China going to allow people to actually go into the lab and then they're going to be able to do that.
Okay, fine.
Let's say they don't.
Let's say they don't.
Tax that ass.
What I'm saying to you, say they don't.
Okay?
Like, you know how people say, you know how there's cops will go to a house and they say, I know this guy's a murderer.
Well, you can't go on unless you have a what?
A warrant.
A warrant.
Okay.
What if they still don't let you in?
What do you got to do?
You're going to knock down that damn door.
And what if you can't do that with China?
What do you got to do?
Well, you're not going to do it.
What is knock down China's door?
Because what is our form of knocking down the door?
Spy.
What is it?
We're going to have to put taxes on that ass and sanctions.
You have to do it.
Of course.
You have to do it.
The world has to do this.
This can't just be the United States alone.
This has to be a global coalition to say— But I'm sorry.
Uh-huh, buddy.
We got to come in that door.
India is willing to do it.
U.S. is willing to do it.
Australia is willing to do it.
Canada is willing to do it.
The EU is willing to do it.
South Korea.
So put that thing together.
That's the point.
So if that's where we're going, and what I'm saying to you, it's if Fauci's gotten to this point, this is great news.
I like the fact that Fauci's gotten to this point, and I like the fact that the Spass, what's her name, PASCI, Saki, Saki, whatever her name is, Saki says not transparent from the beginning.
The Biden administration is concerned that the Chinese government was not transparent from the beginning.
You know what I'm sensing here?
Let me tell you what I'm sensing here right now.
One of the things America desperately needs right now, desperately needs right now is the following.
You know what 9-11 did?
Democrats went and helped chase down Republican kids.
Republicans went out and said, hey, Mary, what's going on?
I can't find my husband.
I'll help you.
Let's go.
People forgot about it.
People just said, what do you bleed?
Red, white, and blue.
Great, let's go.
Today in the world, 2.6 million people died.
You know what we bleed?
All of us?
Red.
It's not red, white, and blue right now.
Let's figure out who the hell was behind this.
How this took place.
And guess what?
Anybody, including that virologist that went and said this was a man-made, guess what?
Let's listen to them.
What's the statement in America when somebody gets charged with a crime?
What is it called?
Innocent till what?
Proven guilty.
Hey, you know what?
Let's hear what you got to say.
Tell us.
You know, and now people are basically saying what she said wasn't crazy.
I mean, you know, maybe you put that video back up on YouTube.
Here's the other thing to follow and watch is you're going to see the mainstream media, you know, echoing these same statements that maybe it was coming out of China.
And they're already starting to do it.
CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, NPR, they're all kind of doing the same thing when they mocked it and ridiculed it, you know, a year ago.
Now they're saying, hey, maybe.
Now, here's my problem with Fauci.
You know, I'm not a big fan, right?
I think he's the mascot of the coronavirus.
That's literally what I think he is.
But here's my problem with him.
People take their marching orders and their cues from him.
When he comes out with two masks and he's always got a fearful message.
That's what he's always throwing out there.
It's gloom and doom.
It's never positive.
You still see people driving around with masks while they're driving their car.
You see people walking outside.
No one around them.
They have their masks on.
Healthy looking people.
I saw Chris Paul yesterday wearing a mask when Coach Williams was talking to him two days ago and he's at the asylum.
I'm like, dude, what are you doing wearing a mask when he's about to go in?
He's playing.
He puts his mask on to sit on the bench.
Are you like serious?
Post-game interviews, there are masks.
They're spitting on each other, sweating on each other.
And that's my problem with Fauci because he just goes the way the wind blows.
But he's got a voice.
He's got a megaphone and people fall for it.
You talked about Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart has become famous in the last 10 years for doing what?
Speaking out on behalf of both sides.
First responders, though, from 9-11.
That's right.
So I have an idea.
What's that?
I think there needs to be a global public hearing, a coalition, a full-on testimonial testifying in front of a world response, global pandemic Supreme Court type of thing, and get out there and have people testify as to what happened globally.
Isn't there a global world court?
What's it called?
Anyone?
There's a name for it.
The global coalition court, whatever the hell.
Whatever it is.
Might.
Yeah, keep going.
People need to get out there and testify, just like that Jon Stewart does, and he's always in front of Congress testifying on behalf of 9-11.
There needs to be a unilateral triglyceride court, whatever the hell the word is.
And this needs to be out there.
Here's the question.
What percentage of this do you think was percentage, the odds that it was man-made versus a bat and Wuhan?
I'll say 80% or higher.
I mean, 80% man-made?
Yes, I think China's back there laughing at us and thinking about the next one that they can unleash.
Pat.
So if I do the call, I have to keep the phone here, right?
Is that what you're telling me?
Or no, it's going to be on there.
I'm going to say 10%.
10%.
10% that it was man-made.
But let me tell you what I mean by 10%.
I'm extremely skeptical.
But I'm not a, I'm skeptical, but I'm also not convinced it was 100% man-made.
I'm saying 10%, but to me, 10% is still a high number.
Yes.
I'm a one in 10 chance that this was man-made.
Why?
I think, honestly, Trump was negotiating so hardcore with them that they just said, watch what we're going to do to you.
I think this was a vendetta China had against Trump.
And if that's my 10% is that, though.
That's my 10%.
My 10% is Trump was getting in the way because all the other politicians had made it easy for China to compete at the highest level.
And Trump made it very difficult.
So they said, we got to get rid of this guy.
So let's throw a thorn in there.
You know, you're 10%.
But Kai, what are you?
Percentage it was man-made.
Go ahead.
Probably like 5.
5%.
You guys?
Percentage man-made.
I would say 5-2.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
I'm going to rational.
Go ahead, Sam.
What do you got?
I'm going to rationalize my 80%.
No, I said it's at least 50%.
50%.
Why wouldn't we ask the audience, guys?
Percentage that you think it was man-made.
Tom's at 80%.
Pat's at 10%.
I'm right around 5%, 10% as well.
I think 80% is a good time.
Let me ask you a question.
Wouldn't you be more 5% or 10% if the timeline was flip-flopped?
Now, government, Fauci, media is all saying it's a very good chance.
They weren't saying that at the beginning.
And then a year and a half later, they're saying no, it came from a bat.
That's crazy aggressive, Tom.
But that's all good.
That's your opinion.
What's your number?
I said 5 to 10%.
I said it.
That's where I'm at.
Let's get our audience in there.
Yeah, if you're watching this, a lot of people are saying 50%.
Yuri says 50%.
Kate Lemon says 100%, 100%.
Ryan Gibbs says 20%.
Angry Happy says 90%.
Joshua Tomer says 69%.
He feels like, I think he's a little single right now.
watching elon musk yeah so we got a bunch of by the way a lot of people are saying on the like on the high end I haven't seen anybody at 5% or 10%.
Everybody's on the high end.
Well, it is what it is.
That 69% is trending.
I think that's going to be the number problem.
I'm serious.
A lot of people are putting 69%.
It seems like he started a trend.
Okay.
So by the way, Anas, a couple people commented.
Anas, I see you.
I just want you to know.
Anas, I see you when it comes down to Israel and Palestine.
What I'd like to do is to get, what I'm trying to do is to get a few people from both sides to get on and talk about the topic because I want to hear somebody from the Israel side.
I want to hear somebody from Palestine's side.
Maybe even two and two to put them on to talk about.
Let me call somebody here right now.
Let me call somebody here right now.
So we have, do I leave it in?
Does it have to be in?
Yeah, you have to leave it in.
I don't think it's going to work because if I keep it from all the way there to make the call.
Then you have to just keep it close to the mic.
Yeah.
I have to keep it in and close to the mic?
No, no, no.
Then you have to do it this way.
Yeah, let me see this here.
Hang on.
We're going to call somebody who was a Israeli soldier for eight years.
So let's hear.
And then Anas, Anas still hasn't texted us his number.
Anas, can you text me your number?
Can you text me your number?
Let me see here.
All right.
So Steve Levitz.
Let's see.
Hello?
Is this Steve?
Yes.
Steve, how are you?
Mr. Patrick, how are you, my friend?
I am doing very good.
So, Steve, so you said you were in the Israel army for eight years?
Yeah.
I'm the one that sends you the toys for your family every Christmas.
Oh, man, you're so amazing.
I appreciate that, brother.
Thank you so much for doing that.
The kids appreciate it as well.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
So, so tell us, what do you think about what's going on with Israel and Palestine?
You were in the Israeli army for eight years.
Obviously, this is a very, very heated debate on both sides.
Folks from Palestine have strong opinions.
Folks from Israel have strong opinions.
What are your thoughts about what happened there?
Okay, my thought is the fact.
You know, I'm sorry, my English is not the best, but I've been there for, I lived there for 35 years.
Now I live in Orlando.
But I was there for eight years.
People doesn't understand.
I hate when people say, they see the news and they say, oh, free Palestine, free Israel.
People have no clue what's going on.
We're treating the Arab better than anyone else.
If Hamas will literally control the Gaza and then we take over whatever the dream to take over Israel, the Arab will suffer like nobody ever understand that.
People don't understand how we give.
We give them water, electric, they work with us.
I actually know the language.
I work with them.
I have millions of red Arabs and they even understand that.
The Israeli Arab especially, they understand what's going on.
If the Hamas will take over, they are done.
They treat them, they beat them in the street, they do whatever they want.
You cannot go without, you know, the cover on the head.
They will beat you.
You cannot.
It's like, they're going to make it like Iran, which you know better than anyone.
People doesn't understand how moral.
I never hit no Arab for no reason.
I never shot no one for no reason.
People doesn't understand what's going on there.
They're all about blood.
They're going behind school, the shooting, so we can shoot the kids and they can shoot it in CNN.
It's unbelievable what's going on.
Unbelievable.
I'm like, I'm in shock.
People just throwing memes and social media, Free Palestine.
They have no clue what's going on.
Are you saying that the Hamas believes in Sharia law?
100%.
Okay.
100%.
Continue.
Did you have a follow-up?
I just wanted to see if that's what he was trying to say.
And by the way, can you unpack that?
Unpack that for us and the listeners.
Okay.
So, for example, if you go now to, let's say, Gaza or Jericho, whatever, okay?
Yeah.
And just for example, you're going to ask a father with four kids.
Let's say he has two boys and two girls.
We ask him how many kids you have.
You know what I will say?
What?
Two.
He will never say four.
They don't count the girls.
They treat them like garbage.
They treat them just to clean the house, to have babies, and that's it.
They don't have a state.
They don't have a war.
They don't have nothing.
People don't get it.
They believe in Sharia because that's how they take the taxes.
That's how they take their money.
And people that meet, I was in Gaza, just Gaza, for one year and eight months.
I was four months of them undercover.
What I saw there, it's unbelievable.
They hate the head, the blood.
I wish I could just like YouTube my time on the army, which wasn't bad.
Steve, do you mind?
Do you mind if I three-way Anasen, who is on the complete opposite side, because he's got some strong opinions, and see if the rest of us can just listen to the two of you guys have a discourse here.
Is that okay with you?
100%.
Okay, Anas, I'm about to call you folks.
Hang tight.
I'm trying to get Anasen.
Give me a second here, Anas.
Thank you for your patience.
Let me see if I got the number 1929.
I 231-6308.
Here we go.
And who is Anas exactly?
I don't know who Anas is.
I don't know who Anas is.
Anas has got the complete opposite opinion than what Steve has.
Anas, can you hear us?
Yes, I hear you very well, Patrick.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing wonderful.
I appreciate you.
I'm on a three-way UN.
Hank tight for me.
Did you hear the comments Steve made?
Yes.
Okay, so hang on.
Before you bring in Steve, Anas, give us your bio real quick.
Let me bring Steve because it doesn't matter.
They got to know each other anyway.
So at this point, we know Steve's background is he was in the Israeli Army.
He was in the IDF.
So, Steve, can you take 30 seconds and give us your background once again?
You said eight years in the Israeli army.
Tell us a little bit more again.
Okay, yeah, I was eight years.
I joined the army when I was 18.
In Israel, you have to be three years in the army.
But I signed more when I became an officer for eight years.
I was almost two years in Gaza and the rest on Ramallah, on the Arab area.
I was a commander, 450 soldiers.
And I can guarantee you that we are the most moral army ever.
We give them food.
We give them everything.
We treat them good.
They're working with us.
Perfect.
Anas, can you give us your background?
Steve, thank you for that.
Anas, give us your background before you guys can go into...
I'm Palestinian-American.
I was born in this country.
I was raised in Palestine for a year.
So unfortunately, your guest, I think, he's kind of misinformed about a few things.
So number one, so number one, I'm going to be respectful here because he was respectful.
So I'm going to be respectful.
For example, we treat our daughters and sons the same way.
My family have a lot of daughters in our family.
And my uncle, he says that he likes his daughters more than his sons.
So I think he has to talk to Palestinians, number one.
But number two, I want to say something important, Patrick, is that as a Palestinian and as a Muslim, as a Muslim, I condemn killing civilians because in Islam we're not allowed to kill civilians.
It's in the Sharia law.
If someone could read the Sharia law, it says in Islam that we're not allowed to kill civilians no matter what.
And I want to tell this younger man here, this gentleman here, because he's a good man, he's educated, I hope, is that the Palestinians, they elected Hamas because there was elections in Palestine.
There was no elections recently because Israel and the American government and the Fatih Party doesn't want to allow for elections.
And if we look at the last one, because we say that Israel is the most moral army in the world, how know how many kids died, Pat?
Now, look, I don't care if it's an Israeli kid or Palestinian kid.
A lot of kids died.
You know how many kids got trauma?
And they say, oh, Hamas, they put the rockets down as the officer.
Can we see the evidence, please?
I've been asking the Israeli media and army to show us the evidence that if there's rockets in the buildings, show it.
But no, they didn't show it.
They just used the planes to punish the Palestinians for voting for Hamas.
And because they can't get to Hamas, Hamas is in the towns.
And Hamas, they're fighting face to face.
If Israel wants to really destroy Hamas, go into Gaza.
Go into Gaza and be men and go fight one-on-one.
Anyway, Pat, stay on topic, because I'm Palestinian.
I want to give you our side.
As a Palestinian and as a Muslim, I'm going to say on take.
I condemn the Armenian genocide and what happened in 1915.
Many Armenians were taken in by Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian families.
We took the Armenians in.
And we have to be straight here.
Israel was built on Palestine.
531 villages was destroyed.
11 cities was destroyed.
Yaffa, Haifa, Akka, Tiberias, Nazir, and Nazareth, all these cities are in today Israel, were once part of Palestine.
There were Palestinians who lived there and they were kicked out of their lands.
And this whole conflict started when the Israeli army, quote unquote, the most moral army in the world, stormed Islam's third holy site.
Can you imagine if a Muslim army stormed the Vatican or stormed Orthodox Christian church, how would the world react?
Can you imagine how would the world react if the Turkish army stormed the Orthodox or Greek church and they desecrated it?
So let's be straight here.
Let's be balanced here.
Now, I'm going to say on take.
If Hamas kills civilians, I condemn that 100%.
I condemn killing civilians 100%.
Because the rockets that they have, Pat, because Iran provides them weapons, but these rockets are not what you're calling.
They're not accurate.
And plus, Hamas warned them twice.
He said, if you keep touching al-Aqsa and evict Palestinians from their houses, we're going to respond.
And Israel didn't heed the warning, and Hamas responded.
Now, me, I'm not, I'm not here to throw Hamas or Elta Hamas.
Me, I'm here with what the Palestinian people are.
The Palestinians have been Gaza's under a blockade, that they can go in or out.
There are many smart Palestinians in this world.
There are many smart Palestinians in this world that are engineers, lawyers, filmmakers, all this stuff.
And they can't go with the full potential because Israel is putting a blockade on Gaza.
We're not allowed to have our own businesses in our own state.
Pat, but let me ask the question: if New York or Los Angeles was under a blockade because the people chose Donald Trump and Russia and China put America under blockade and they counted the calories that came in this country, how would America react if someone came to your house, Pat, and said, This is my house and it's my house, and because God said, How would you react?
You have the right.
America gave you the second amendment right to defend yourself.
The Palestinians are practicing the rights that God gave them, that Allah gave them the second amendment rights to defend their land, defend the West Bank, defend our holy sites.
Okay, and it's clear.
Let me be very clear about something.
If anybody in America attacks a Jew for no reason, even if he's from my own people, even if he's an Arab or a Muslim, I will beat the crap out of him and defend that Jew's rights because I'm a Muslim.
I gotta say something.
I gotta say something.
We got lucky here.
Steve, I'm gonna come to you in a second.
Folks, if you're listening in, we are probably the luckiest people to have gotten this to because you're both sounding obviously there's some emotion behind you, but you're both being reasonable and respectful to one another.
I appreciate that.
That's the valuement type of style.
Steve, I want to hear your response to what Anas just said.
Yeah, yeah.
Go ahead, Steve.
Sorry.
Okay, first of all, I think he's talking about misinformed.
I don't know where you're from in Palestine, which area you call Palestine.
West Bank, West Bank, okay, West Bank.
Yeah, I think there are many years.
But when you say Arab doesn't, just for example, if Israel were very mean, like everybody tried to, we can operate Palestine in a second.
We try never to shoot.
We're telling everybody where they're hamas.
You know, if I, God forbid, shooting, let's say I have 20 kids around me and I will shoot your house.
You wouldn't say, oh, there is kids behind Steve.
I'm not going to shoot him.
You will freaking shoot me as much as you can to protect your kids.
So when they're going to kindergarten and everything, they're shooting us, don't think that we're going to say, oh, wait, what are we going to do?
There is kids because that's what you guys want to show.
And second of all, Hamas didn't be nothing elected, really.
I mean, you have to be very naive to think that Hamas has been elected freely.
Nobody really asks a Palestine who to vote.
You know, everything, it's 99% vote for Hamas because that's how it's going to work.
And Fatak was supposed to come now to election, and that's why whatever his name is Maze, whatever, he did all the Abbas because the Abbas, yeah, because he wanted to, he didn't want to have election because he will be losing 100% he will lose.
That's what I'm saying.
We agree 100%.
I agree with you.
That's what he did.
That is a distraction like a lot of politicians.
You know, that's funny, Patrick.
What's ironic?
Tell me.
That all the leaders, the Hamasi king, that's selling all the kids to die.
You think I care about, I don't care about kids dying?
Yeah.
But you know where they are?
They're all in Vegas.
They're all in Dubai.
They're not even there.
They're just saying, go die for Palestine.
Go buy more buses than Israel.
Brother, with all the respect, the leaders of Hamas are in Gaza right now as we speak.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Leaders of us in Dubai.
I assure you, I bet you $1 million in Las Vegas, trust me.
And that's $1 million in Las Vegas.
Well, listen, gentlemen, I appreciate you for your time.
This was great.
Here's what we're doing.
I have a YouTube channel called Clash and Nash.
We talk about issues all the time.
Why don't you put the link in the description?
I could put it in my description.
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Here's what I'm going to be doing for both of you guys.
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I'm giving you 10 times back.
You're getting $1,000 for doing what you did.
And Anas, you gave 20 bucks.
I'm giving you 10 times back to that as well.
You guys were class acts.
Appreciate you guys.
Take care, guys.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Well done.
How awesome.
Amazing.
A lot of people.
A lot of passion intelligence and great perspective.
Folks, if you love this, smash the thumbs up button.
I thought I was class acting.
Give Steve and Anas some love on the commentary.
We're probably going to bring those guys back.
The way they give us their update, we're probably going to bring them back.
Okay.
Any takeaway from West Bank?
I think that's what value attainment is all about.
Two reasonable people with polar opposite perspectives having a conversation and you being the moderator and us all listening and hearing what the perspectives were.
I got to give it up to Steve and Abbas.
What was his name?
Anas.
Anas.
Total respect.
And you have someone who's Palestinian who had a perspective.
He said he's American, so maybe he didn't really spend a lot of time in Gaza.
One year.
He said one year.
One year.
And you have somebody who's spent five years in the military.
I speak the language.
I will say there is a big difference between the West Bank near Jerusalem versus Gaza.
Why asked the question?
Okay, exactly.
And Gaza is a lot worse than the West Bank.
And I will say, on behalf of Steve said this: he said, we could annihilate the Palestinians if we wanted to in one second, which is true, which is true.
I sent you something about that.
I don't know if you saw what my friend said.
Israel has the most powerful army.
This tiny little country the size of Delaware has the most powerful army in the entire Middle East, more per capita, more powerful than Iran, more powerful than Saudi Arabia.
They could destroy Palestine.
They could, but they don't.
On the flip side, they do have a moral obligation.
Israel being a democracy, people that believe they try to be a shining light in the city of a hill, much like America in the Middle East.
They do have a moral obligation to humanize the people of Gaza.
Steve said that they do not hold free and fair elections.
I agree with that.
I do agree that, especially in the West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas has been there for 15 years.
He has not had to face a re-election.
There's a lot of corruption going on, especially in Gaza, a lot of corruption.
But Israel, being the shining light in the Middle East, should do their best to have moral authority over it.
Here's where I come out of it.
Steve, that perspective was unbelievable.
Somebody in the UK.
Bush's going to be back.
Steve and Anas.
Unbelievable.
They're going to be back.
You know, here I'll say this: you know, I love all people that are peace-loving, right?
I think most people are in that camp.
I like Palestinians.
I love Israelis, the whole thing.
The wild card here is Hamas, right?
And I think if you listen to Steve, that's what he's talking about.
This is a terrorist faction that fights very, very unfairly and dirty.
And that's who, you know, is causing most of the problem.
I think Palestinians and Israelis could live a little bit more peacefully than people give them credit for.
But when you have a wild card factor like Hamas, and that's where you hear the passion and it really coming in, because when you see the stuff probably that Steve's seen, and he hasn't told us, you know, probably yet a fraction of what he knows, but it's unbelievable when you get the perspective from somebody on the ground.
Awesome.
I agree.
By the way, Julie Swanson just said, This is fantastic.
Wow, how lucky for us to hear this.
Julie, I agree with you.
She gave $5.
We're going to give 10 times back, which is $50 to Julie.
So far, how many people have we given them 10 times?
We've given away a couple thousand dollars so far.
We're already saving that money today on the PV podcast.
If you post a super chat that we comment on or we like, I'm going to give you 10 times back what your super chat is.
You give 10.
Steve just gave 100.
We give him 10 times back $1,000.
What time do we, or when do we send them the tax form for the 60% tax that they have to pay on that?
That'll be coming out next.
We'll get that right out to you guys.
Is it Anas?
Anas.
I want to say one thing to Anas out of respect.
He said, we are peace-loving people.
You know, they said that according to Sharia law, there's a lot of Jews being attacked.
We saw it in New York.
We saw it in LA just because they're Jewish.
And he said, I would tell my brethren, what the hell you're doing?
I'll beat the crap out of my own Arab friends, Muslim friends.
I was impressed with that.
Okay, that is the type of attitude we need.
I totally agree.
Like, if I had Jewish friends that were going around and beating the crap out of whoever, I would think, what the frick is the matter with you, bro?
Get it together.
That's the type of attitude you need to be talking to your own people about.
So respect to him about that.
I think you can get him in the studio.
Aren't they both in Florida?
One's in Orlando.
One's in Orlando.
And I got to tell you, Steve's a long time.
Steve's so good to me.
I mean, he's such a nice guy, man.
I mean, it's like this guy, the class is something else, man.
There's some guy tainers out there that are so respectful about what we do.
He's definitely in that category.
Okay, let's talk about Navy.
Okay, Navy says it's charting a new course after Rash of Problems.
This is a very interesting story because it six, because it also has to do with China and how China's Navy is slowly becoming very, very strong.
So Navy says it's charting a new course after Rasha Problems.
This is a Fox News story.
Embarrassing photos of rusty ships online have underscored delays in maintaining warships made worse by the pandemic.
The Navy's trouble have caused delays and costs of billions of dollars.
They come as tensions are growing in South China Sea.
Russia's Navy is emboldened.
Iranian speedboats are harassing vessels in the Persian Gulf.
The Navy fleet currently falls shy of 300 ships despite a stated goal of 355 ships.
The Chinese fleet now outnumbers the U.S. Navy.
Let me say that one more time.
The Chinese fleet officially outnumbers the U.S. Navy.
And the most expensive ship in the Navy history, meanwhile, is the newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford.
It has had problems with the system that launches jets and the elevators that move weapons, amongst other things.
It was supposed to cost $10.5 billion, but the price tag has risen to $13.3 billion.
And four weapon elevators are still not finished.
And the reliability of key systems is low, says Republican Senator Jim, chairman and ranking member of the Armed Service Committee.
What do you think about this?
Would China name it?
I'd say on the surface, this is very embarrassing.
This isn't like a headline where you're like, yeah, this is great.
Congratulations.
This is actually embarrassing.
But this will go back to your initial point: maybe it's time to update the type of warfare that we're investing in, right?
You talked about that we have 800 military bases around the world.
China has one in my favorite city in the world, Dabuti.
Djibouti.
Djibouti, my bad.
And maybe, just maybe, it's time for us to take a step back and realize, all right, maybe we don't need all this.
Maybe we need to reinvest and allocate that money into something a little more modern rather than your typical traditional assets.
So maybe this is a pause and reset for the U.S. Navy.
Just maybe.
You know, the one thing that steps out for me that scares me a little bit, you know, usually I wouldn't get too caught up because, you know, they have more, they have a billion people.
They're going to have more military members than we do, just sheer numbers.
But is it the synth, whatever's going on off the coast of Japan and in that area where there's a very, very volatile area with the islands that they're going to be eventually tussling over?
That's South China Sea.
Yeah, everybody has to take that very, very seriously.
So if you're talking about the Chinese Navy, I immediately go to that.
And there's a legitimate threat there.
So, you know, is it going to be a submarine battle?
Is it going to be two warships going at it?
Probably not.
You know, the war will be fought differently, but that's an area that kind of scares me.
So if you're talking about the Navy and their dominance and the importance that China's putting into it, I think of that region because we can't agree on anything.
We just fight amongst ourselves in this country.
China knows exactly who their enemy is every single day.
I agree.
As being an army guy, do you have any thoughts on the Navy?
I think I look at China as being so strategic that I ask myself, what is China doing investing in the Navy?
Like, why are they having so many fleets?
What for?
Is it because, you know, the surrounding nations?
Is it because of in case something happens at Suez Canal?
Is it because U.S. has ships out there and they're not comfortable about it?
What's their motive?
Why ships?
Because you know when you're, say you're playing a video game.
And so one guy, you know how you go out there and you're playing one of those race games, right?
And it says, you have this much money.
Do you want to invest it into a nicer car, into turbo, into better suspension, into better tires, into better whatever, right?
So you buy turbo and all of a sudden a guy comes in who's a 10-time champion, whatever, and he buys wheels.
You're like, why wheels?
Well, he's buying wheels for a reason because wheels, if you get better, let's just say tires, it's going to stick better.
So you're going to have better handling.
While you may have turbo and you may crash, but I'm going to have better in the turns.
So there's a reason why he's picking.
So I'm trying to see why is China investing so much money in their Navy?
If they're doing it, there's got to be a reason.
They're very methodical in what they do.
They don't just invest into anything.
Look at the military base.
They have one foreign military base around the world.
What for?
They're sitting there saying, we can use that money for military base better by doing it in a different way.
So if they're putting it into Navy and U.S. is sitting there falling behind China, there's got to be something that happens.
Let me ask you a question.
Yeah.
Obviously, we talk about China a lot on the show.
I mean, this is something we talk about and everything that's going on.
And, hey, you better watch out.
Hey, you better watch out.
China's doing this.
China's beating us in this.
Better watch out.
Freaking China.
In your opinion, what's China's Achilles heel at this point?
What are they not seeing?
What are they slipping on?
You want me to give you my opinion?
Yeah, your opinion.
If the world unites, China's in trouble.
I think that's their Achilles heel.
If the world unites, China's in trouble.
If the world realizes they don't, if the world finds a different place to produce chips, if the world finds a different place to produce the 80% of pharmaceuticals, if the world finds a different place to produce the AC, everything that they produce over there, if the world realizes they don't need China and that shifts from China to India, China's screwed.
By the way, India has more resources, more natural resources.
India has the same amount of people, give or take, 100 million less.
India is the education is getting better with the engineers that produce them, with the tech, with the direction they're going into.
India's got a lot of stuff.
Now, obviously, they're a decade behind China, maybe even two decades behind China, and they don't have the same infrastructure at China.
Maybe not two decades, but they don't have the infrastructure that China has.
But if all of a sudden the world gets behind India instead of getting behind China, I don't think China is going to be happy.
I think secretly, China's afraid of the world uniting, and China's afraid of the world leaning and giving the business to India instead of giving it to China.
I don't think they like that.
Yeah, I agree with you.
I think the threat for China is within, and it is all about the economy.
And, you know, China is ahead of India right now because they stole all our secrets.
I mean, that was part of their strategy.
They look at what we do and they copy it.
I think we could help India close that gap pretty quickly.
Like if we collaborated with them with our best and brightest and help them advance technology with everything that they're doing.
Look, and they have a much more progressive leader in that country that's an ally of ours.
Modi, you're saying?
Yeah.
Yeah.
But listen, that's what I would say.
I think they, if they think that for a second the world is looking at India and doing deals with India, they're not happy about it.
Well, it's not just India.
It's Taiwan.
It's the Philippines.
It's Vietnam.
It's Cambodia.
Everything in the South China Sea, Japan.
Yeah, all of that is fine.
And I'm with you there.
But India could be a direct threat.
A direct threat.
Look who they took shots at on Webo.
They took shots at India when India had the COVID stuff taking through.
The 400,000 cases a day for seven days.
They took shots at India.
They made fun of India.
The politicians at the top made fun of India.
Who do people typically make fun of?
Their number one competitor.
Exactly.
People that are in their head.
That's in their head.
I think India's in the head of China.
And I may be wrong.
Obviously, India has come out and banned a lot of the social platforms.
A hundred different apps have been deplatformed in India.
India and China.
When you're headed for a collision, when you have a billion people, you have power.
I mean, you just do.
So we'll see.
There's only two countries that have that.
So there's a direct battle going on for that.
Anyway, let's do a fun story here.
Disneyland is about to introduce $100 sandwich, okay?
Kai, if you want to pull up the picture here, if you have it, Disney is introducing a $100 sandwich.
So when I heard this story, I said, you got to be kidding me.
Disneyland's introducing $100 sandwich.
It's a Fox business story.
Yes.
What's the sandwich look like?
So here's what it is.
Real quick, we'll spend two minutes on this.
Disney Resort will come out soon, and they're opening up.
Anaheim, California Resort will have a new panini sandwich that will be debuting when Avengers Campus opens at Disneyland Adventures on June 4th.
The sandwich has an eye-popping price tag of $100.
To be fair, the sandwich is meant to be eaten by more than one person.
So what's in the sandwich that costs this much money?
It comes with salami, rosemary ham, provolone, and sun-dried tomato spread on toasted focasia and focaccia and can feed up to eight people.
The sandwich will also be available in single serving of 15 bucks.
Can we see what the sandwich looks like?
Can you imagine a $100 sandwich in Disneyland?
It does look good.
It's a panini.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I just kind of feel like I'm so at this point.
I'm getting hungry.
It's 10.30.
And I thought that was a quick story.
Any thoughts on that?
Yeah, I have some thoughts.
I'm looking forward to their $450.
It's a very controversial story here.
I'm looking forward to their $435 chicken nugget.
I mean, I heard that is amazing.
They also have a $200 hot dog bun, but here's my favorite.
The $130 parking fee.
Oh, wait.
They already have that.
You know, it totally makes sense.
It's really $100.
Well, it feels like that when you go there.
How much is it, actually?
You know, here's actually curious.
Can I give everybody the secret to do at Disney?
Yes.
You learned this when you lived out there.
Go to downtown Disney, right?
Where the bars are, you know, where the restaurants are.
Valet, right?
Okay.
And then just go in and have a drink before you walk into Disneyland so you can dilute the pain a little bit that you're going to feel walking around with your kids for the next couple hours.
That's our strategy.
Valet Park, drink before you go in, and then it makes it a lot more enjoyable.
By the way, I think it's a brilliant idea to have a $100 sandwich because it takes the sting off the increased ticket prices, the $12 bottle of water.
It just skews perspective.
How much is tickets right now, Disneyland?
Probably, what, $100?
I would imagine.
Maybe even more, bro.
Yeah.
I mean, they got to make up for some lost time.
Anybody knows?
Kai, do you have an idea or no?
Adam, I know you're big on that.
So we got Disneyland ticket prices or no?
I'm saying $150.
That's how this is.
What is it, by the way?
I'm actually curious at this point.
I think it's like $159, if you ask me.
I don't know why I think it's $159.
There it is.
Okay, $104.
It's the price is for a number of days.
One day is $104.
What are you looking at?
It's one day, tier five, one part per day.
Okay, $104.
Okay, not a bad price, if you ask me.
$98 a child.
Okay, that's what's expensive right there, but $98 a child.
We got a couple kids.
I'll tell you what, I'd rather do a $72 haircut than $100 sandwich any day of the week.
Wow.
Would you really, though?
Yeah.
So you mean to tell me you wouldn't want to have $100 panini with Kai, with Paul, with Mario, with Eric?
You wouldn't want to do that with your boys.
That's a man witch, right?
That's a man witch right there.
I'm good on that.
Okay, let's continue.
Let's continue.
Let's continue.
Tim Cook defends Apple in Blockbuster Fortnite trial.
It has nothing to do with money.
Page five, if you want to go to it.
So this was going on a few months ago, but the story's back.
He was in court this week in his first ever court appearance as CEO of Apple on Friday.
Tim Cook sought to defend the tech giant from allegations that it abuses its market power by touting it as a principal company with an obsessive focus on users.
The iPhone Maker's chief executive took the stand to wrap up Apple's case on his highest profile antitrust trial with Epic Games at the center of the lawsuits as Fortnite.
The highly, hugely popular video game made by Epic that was kicked out of Apple's app store last summer for flooring, flouting Apple's rules of digital payments by establishing its own system.
Apple gets 30% cut of many in-app purchases on iOS devices and does not allow alternative payment solutions.
Fortnite removal from the app store prompted Epic to sue Apple.
Apple is focused on doing what's best for users rather than any financial benefits.
Cook said, when asked by Epic's lawyer whether Apple is considering the revenue in excess of $100 million in commissions it receives from Epic and Fortnite, he said the user is caught between two companies.
It has nothing to do with money.
Do you agree?
Let me tell you something.
Yes.
Anytime someone says, this is an old adage, everyone knows this.
Anyone someone says it's not about the money, it's about the mother flipping money, okay?
It always is.
Yeah.
There it is.
It's about the money.
I'm going to make a prediction.
And as we all know, my predictions are never wrong.
Who predicted that Trump would stay off Facebook?
I have a hot winning streak right now.
Here's my next one.
I'm going to have to check streak.
Zenner.
Win streak.
Yeah.
It's recent.
Okay, well, you know, I'm a solid frontrunner.
Don't even get me started on Apple Zenner's predictions.
Apple is winning this lawsuit.
100%.
It's over.
They're in closing arguments right now.
There's no way they lose.
Apple wins.
100%.
By the way, that was the first time Tim Cook has ever appeared in court as the CEO of Apple.
Here's what I think he should do.
I think he should do an NFT on his appearance in court.
Sell that sucker to cover any court costs in case things do go sideways.
You know what?
I'm going to give you my personal opinion on this.
It's not based on anything about this court case.
I hope Fortnite loses.
I don't like them.
I don't like companies that build their games to get kids addicted.
And that's what they do.
So I got a problem with them.
I want Apple to win.
Let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this question.
Would Dash be upset with that comment?
Hell no.
Because A, he's never going to play it.
Has he played Fortnite?
Never.
He's never played.
Oh, my God.
He will not be allowed to do it.
Tell me why not?
Because we don't allow him to play games.
What if he's 28 years old?
Well, then I won't be there.
You don't know what Dash is.
Apple's going to be 28 years old.
When we met Dash, he was walking around.
When we met Dash, he was walking around the streets doing everything he wanted to do.
Freely.
Freely.
10-year-old kid just walking the streets of Manhattan Beach.
You don't think he's going to his homie's house playing video games?
Don't tell my dad.
Tom Zenner's a tickler for me.
Not being able to do this.
Tom, you know this.
You prevent your kid from doing something.
He's going to do it on the low.
I cannot wait to see.
How old is he right now?
13 or 14?
He's 12.
He's 12.
I can't wait the next 18 years to see the list of girlfriends Dash is going to have.
I'm actually being serious with you.
I've already gotten 10.
No, no, no.
But I'm looking forward when he's 18.
Tom's going to say, Pat, you want to see Dash's latest girlfriend?
Send me the picture.
I'm like, I'm not.
I believe it.
You know what I'm worried about?
I'm making a prediction.
Here it is.
Dash, don't listen to this podcast.
It's not good for you.
When you got Double D connecting, you got Dash and Dilly Boy over there connecting, Dash and Dylan.
Dilly got a scar this.
That's a difficult duo right there.
Dilly got to scar this.
You know what Dilly did to me last night?
He says, Dad, look at this.
I can raise one of my eyebrows.
And he started doing one.
He started doing one.
Just like that.
You have to see how he does it.
I'm like, where'd you pick it up from?
He says, no, I was looking at the mirror, Dad, and I can raise only one of my eyebrows.
Look at the way I do it.
He goes like this.
I got to post it to see it.
Is that smooth?
Smooth dude.
Hey, we're all in favor of our kids having more friends with private jets.
So I hope they can get together.
I guarantee you.
Dash and Dylan will get along just fine.
Two little pills.
They're wired.
We also have a friend that can do the little eyebrow thing.
Her name is Caroline.
She did the eyebrow drink.
Oh, she can do it as well.
She was giving Vanessa the one eyebrow.
I heard she beat you in ping pong, which was like...
She's a liar.
She's a little on liar.
I heard that you were considering cutting off your thumb in order to beat me in Ping Pong.
That's not the thumb.
It's the index finger.
This finger gets in the way.
This whole time, I thought it was the thumb.
This whole time.
It was your index finger.
All right, maybe we got to go live.
Maybe we got to go best out of five and we go live and I see to see who's a better player.
Let me do the play by play.
That would be a good idea.
You know, I get five points, but I get five points.
They start off with 5-0 and then we go.
I'm down.
He's actually down.
You're going to cut off your finger?
You're actually better than me by five points.
Would you agree?
It's 16, 4 to 5 points.
Four to five points.
1621, 1721.
It is what it is.
It is what it is.
But okay, so next story.
Next story.
Do we want to do the Netflix story or the KGB story?
Which story do you want to go to?
How about we talk about the buying home panel?
Go to page three.
This is good because the real estate people are going to love this one.
They're going to be like, well, yes, this is why you got to buy a house right now.
Yeah, right.
To all the realtors out there, this is a story for you.
People are panic buying homes as prices skyrocket around the world.
A CNN business story.
House prices have soared even as the world suffered.
It's worse slump since the Great Depression.
From New Zealand to the United States to Germany, China, Peru, the same phenomenon has taken hold.
Home prices are skyrocketing, and many buyers are panicking.
Amongst the 37 wealthy countries that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the OECD real house prices rose by almost 7% between the fourth quarter of 2019 and the fourth quarter of 2020, the fastest year-on-year growth in the past two decades.
In the United States, the number of sales existing homes reached the highest level in 2020 since 2006, according to the National Association of Realtors.
House prices rose 9% in 2020 and have continued to climb with the median price of existing home hitting a historic high of $329,100 in March.
In one staggering example of how frenzied the house market has become, the realtor Ellen Coleman received 76 all-cash offers on a $275,000 fixer upper in suburban square foot home sold $460,000 Washington, D.C. within three days of listing the property.
Let me say this one more time: 76 all-cash offers on a $265,000 fixer upper in D.C., the four-bedroom, 1,800 square foot home sold for $460,000, a 70% increase on asking price.
Ridiculous.
So this was a $275,000 fixer-upper sold for $460,000.
Which the amazing thing about that is you could understand it for a $20 million house, right?
Because you got a billionaire buying it and they don't care what's a few extra million.
But look at this thing.
This is a conservative house.
You know, this is nothing fancy.
What's the value going to be if the market tanks for them?
That was quite a risk.
And by the way, my sister and brother-in-law are moving to DC.
So I hope they can find a house.
It looks like it's really, really tough and competitive out there.
You know, I've heard of panic buying when it comes to toilet paper, when it comes to paper towels, when it comes to hand sanitizer, maybe plywood before a hurricane.
I get that.
But hey, honey, how was your day?
Well, I drove by a realtor's office and I picked up a two-story Rambler and a condo.
I'm stocking up because of the pandemic.
I don't get the panic buying when it comes to real estate.
I don't get it.
The only thing I can see is the fact that inflation is coming at crazy measures.
It's the only thing I see is that inflation's coming and they're getting to a point where Powell is sitting there wondering what the hell does he do?
He has to increase the rates.
But if he increases the rates, what happens?
He has no choice but to have to increase the rates.
How much longer can you go keeping it under 1% for this long?
You can't.
He has to increase it.
When he does, just so you know, it ain't going to be the same community as we have right now.
Inflation is going to go up, and some people are looking at it long-term as the best place to put it is real estate.
The people actually think about it.
The people I feel sorry for, and I'll let you go, Adam, is the people that got in this late as realtors.
I bet there was a lot of people that saw the frenzy in the real estate market and thought, I'm going to be a realtor.
They get their license, they get in late.
Yeah.
Right?
Because you got to have some context and experience, but you become a realtor in three months when the thing tanks.
There's going to be a lot of people on the wrong end of the real estate.
You talked about that there's a million realtors and there's 1.5 million realtors and there's only a million houses for sale, something like that.
1,435,000 realtors, 1,090,000 homes for sale.
So let me, you actually brought up a good point.
The panic buying on the toilet paper, the panic buying that we saw a couple of weeks ago on the gasoline, now we're seeing the panic buying of homes.
Just to read the headline again, people are panicked buying homes as prices skyrocket around the world.
Let me just read you a couple of the highlighted words that I've read just from this article: panic, frenzied, highest level, historic highs, skyrocketing, soaring, fastest growth.
That's never a good time to be going all in on a certain asset class.
I don't think people are buying houses because they're worried about inflation.
I think they're saying, People are buying now.
I got to buy.
This is time to buy.
We got to buy.
And they have no clue what they're getting themselves into.
Two-thirds of millennials basically had remorse or regret about buying a house.
Half of baby boomers.
Buying a house is ain't exactly all that it's cracked up to be.
You think that you're going to only pay your mortgage payment?
We talked about your big three expenses when it comes to having homeownership, your maintenance, your taxes, and your insurance.
And people don't account for that.
So pump the brakes if you're in the housing market.
I think that prices are going to crash over the next couple of years.
How much?
How big of a crash is it?
20%.
Oh, you think 20%?
Yeah.
You think 20%.
Yes.
In the next 12 months.
That's not in the next few years.
That's like 08, right?
I mean, not like 08.
08 was way more than 20%, I want to say.
And no, in some parts of the country, it was.
Like, I think in LA, Riverside County was a 60% drop-off that they have.
But in Texas, it was a 10 or 50% drop-off.
They didn't have a big drop-off.
So some states are going to be higher than others.
California usually takes it worse when there is a big drop-off.
You know, another thing here, too, is I think people were panic buying because of the lockdown.
And they're thinking, I got to have a home office.
Yeah.
Right?
I'm going to be, I'm not going to be commuting as much.
I'm going to be home.
But now the country's opening up.
You're not going to be working, hopefully, out of home, you know, unless China sends another virus over here, allegedly.
But so that's another reason they were fixing up their homes.
They wanted bigger home offices to work out of there, et cetera.
Okay.
All right.
Well, we'll see what's going to happen with that.
Easy, beasy.
We will see what's going to happen with that.
Netflix CEO gives $3 million to beat Newsom recall.
Not to beat Newsom, but to beat the recall.
There's a big difference, right?
So let's see why Netflix CEO is doing this.
So Netflix CEO gives $3 million to beat the Newsome recall.
It's a political story.
He is spending $3 million to shield Governor Newsom from a recall vote and demonstration of the enormous sums Newsom's allies could marshal in his defense, according to a state filing.
The massive outlay making Hastings by far the largest donor to the Newsom's recall campaign under California rules, Newsom can raise unlimited sums to fend off a recall effort that will likely land before voters in the fall.
While other governor candidates are subject to campaign limits of $32,400 per election in their direct accounts, the Hasting contribution can punctuate, also punctuates a dramatic reversal since Newsom ran for governor in 2018.
Hastings that year poured $7 million into a charter school-driven political action committee that supported Newsom's Democratic rival, former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villagrosa.
Interesting.
So he gave $7 million to Antonio.
Tech leaders had already signed on to a letter opposing the recall and pledging that their support to pledging their support for Newsome thoughts.
My thoughts are that he's probably thinking that if there's a Republican governor in California, it might be somebody like DeSantis that declares war on tech companies, which would directly affect him.
So he's going to do everything he can to prevent that.
You know, I live there.
There's no momentum for any candidate whatsoever.
John Cox is the former mayor of San Diego that's supposed to be one of the big names, throwing his hat in the ring.
He just put $7 million of his own money into his own campaign.
You don't see any ads.
You don't hear anything.
There's no energy for anybody, unfortunately.
I think, you know, Newsome got very, very lucky.
You know, California with all the tax revenue has helped him.
People have short memories.
You know, they're thinking, okay, it's better now.
It's opening up.
We'll just go with what we have.
Now, I read in the LA Times today that there's a chance because of the blackouts that could be happening this summer.
I mean, we're going to have a ton of fires again.
And then the grid in California has a real hard time keeping up with the electricity demands when the weather goes up.
If there's a lot of blackouts that could affect him as well, but in order for Newsom to lose, there has to be somebody that you want in there.
And I just don't see anybody having any momentum yet.
And by the way, he's not going to be the only one.
You have unlimited funds that you can use in a recall election.
There's no limit on your war chest.
JJ Abrams has pledged money.
I saw the CEO of the 49ers.
You got the labor unions, law firms sending big bucks Newsom's way.
So, but if you ask me about Reed Hastings, I think it has to do something with protecting his business.
Yeah, so you don't think our good friend Major Williams that you're on the podcast.
Love Major Williams.
You don't think he's a child?
He might be a chance.
Well, 2022, I think he also is thinking in the back of his mind.
That's a good story.
Well, it's just going to be tough for anybody.
And then you also got this guy, Meet Kevin, who came out there and he was a 20-point plan.
He's talking about running.
But basically, I think ultimately what you're saying is nobody has the wind behind them that has any chance of beating Newsom, especially when you have big tech rallying behind him and he has unlimited sums of money.
Whereas I guess other candidates are subject to canbaccate limits of $32,000 per election versus unlimited funds.
Money talks, baby, and it seems like Newsom's got the money.
I got a crazy question.
I just searched it right now to know this.
What do you think is the age to become a governor?
President is what?
30?
35, 30.
Okay, what's the age to be a governor?
35 is 80.
It's not.
It's not.
It varies by state.
FYI, okay?
Most states is 30.
Most.
The highest one, matter of fact, nobody has it above 30.
Just so you know, every state is highest 30.
What do you think California is?
34.
18.
Wow.
I'm telling you, California, Ohio, I'm looking at it right now.
California, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Washington and Wisconsin are the five states where to be a governor is 18 years old.
Which means, do you think a guy like Meet Kevin?
He's a hustler.
He's hungry.
He goes after it.
He's not afraid.
He's very good on camera.
Great, very well spoken, understands money, has strong opinions.
Do you think a guy like that could be a governor in the state of California?
A young guy like Meet Kevin.
If he's going against Newsom, zero chance.
Zero chance.
Against Newsome.
Tell me why.
Against Newsom?
Tell me why.
Newsom clearly has big tech behind him.
Okay, what else?
Okay.
So he called that Instagram, right?
He's calling.
He sent me a message the other day saying, hey, you know, I've been following your content.
He's been following Vali Timmins since 1,000 subscribers.
I said, listen, I love your stuff as well.
You're killing it.
So I followed him on Instagram because I like what he's doing.
I would love to see a young cat like that come up out of nowhere.
And by the way, whether he wins or not, do you know how much energy it takes to make a run for governor?
Like how much energy it takes all day, every day.
I think a young guy with a lot of energy.
By the way, my friend Steve just sent me a text message right now, okay?
And guess what the text message is about?
It's a text message he sent about Meet Kevin.
I got it at 1019, which is 30 minutes ago, right?
Meet Kevin.
And he says, I like what he's talking about with Newsome.
Now, Steve lives in California, right?
There are a lot of people that are hoping somebody like him comes up and makes a move.
And I think a young guy with a lot of energy in a state like California that's 18 years old to run for governor and he's got a few million subscribers, go at it.
I'd love to see what happens.
Let me clarify my statements.
Do I think he's got upside?
Sure.
But he should be Newsome.
Not this time around, not even close.
Well, here, not even close.
This time around.
Give me your percentage.
Like whatever.
A number less than zero.
This time around.
I'm not talking about four years.
I'm not talking about eight years.
Kevin, if you're talking about this time around.
I would tell you to go slash his tigers, but he doesn't have a car.
He doesn't have a car.
He would have to slash over drivers and balls.
He's in a knock on the young man, Meet Kevin.
I think he's a bad guy.
Kevin, I want you to take it as a knock.
I want you to take this clip and take it as a knock.
Go ahead, Kevin.
Go ahead.
I'd love to have him on your station.
He said no chance at all.
This time around.
Let me be a voice of reason once again.
Let me help you out.
Meet Kevin.
Flip-flopper over here.
Voice of reason.
Oh, I am a voice of reason.
Hey, listen, guys.
Meet Kevin has a legitimate chance, and I'll tell you why.
Because someone that can rally people on social media is like being a celebrity.
What happened the last time an upset happened in a recall election?
Celebrity wanted.
Look what happened.
Did you guys hear what happening in Huntington Beach this past weekend?
There was a TikTok birthday party on the beach in Huntington Beach, and every single jurisdiction in Orange County had to send cops there.
They arrested 1,500 people.
It was so out of control, and it was because of social media.
You telling me a guy like me, Kevin, couldn't get a little momentum going online, build it, turning it into an army of followers.
By the way, I don't know his policies.
Has he posted anything with his policies on this?
There's a 20-point plan.
Can you expect to pull up this ballot?
Let's just see what he has up there on his website.
I don't know his policies.
Let's click on that.
Let's go to the next one.
If he's interested in running for politics, I think he's got an upside.
Not against it.
Go lower, go lower, Kevin.
Okay, there it is.
Right there.
All right.
Let's see me, Kevin.
Go a little lower, go a little lower.
No state income tax on the first quarter million dollars of income.
Interesting.
Removes the California.
Okay, hang on.
Removes the quarter million.
No California tax return required, and approximately 5% to 7% flat tax on income above a quarter million dollars.
Okay.
Okay, fair.
Keep going.
Number two, homeless emergency housing for all homelessness within 60 days via emergency powers.
Medical and substance mental health is available three meals per day in Central Elizabeth.
No one lives on the streets in our state anymore within 60 days.
Okay, I vote for him right now on that one point.
I don't care about anything.
How much money he needs to do that, though.
To say that is a different story than coming up with the money, especially after you just told me that you just got taxed.
So future school, 14-year-old students have a choice to attend a future school, combines college, trade, high school, and financial education students, graduate results in partnership with small, medium, and large business throughout California.
Okay, cool.
I like that.
The future, the housing emergency.
We have unaffordable rents and housing due to a lack of homes.
Instead of 80,000 new units per year, California via emergency powers will build 500,000 new housing units per year for five years.
State will control all buildings and transformers.
Okay, fine.
Go to the next one.
The transportation emergency request proposals.
Private sector to solve transportation emergency.
Optional variable toll roads.
New roads in addition to existing roads with tolls.
Giving drivers the option to make a toll road or not.
More roads equals less traffic.
Okay, keep going.
Legalizing gambling.
Okay, we'll stop supporting tunnels and roads to new communities via construction boom.
Okay.
Six, legalizing gambling, legalize online and in-person gambling, build casinos throughout California, five to ten billion dollars tax revenue expected from construction bailouts.
Buildouts prevents returning to state income taxes.
Okay, and I think that that could be interesting.
I just don't know what the Indian reservation.
Like there's some challenges you're going to face with that.
Today, millions leave California to try vacation, gamble elsewhere.
Why not do this?
Yeah, I agree.
They're going right next door to him, which is where Nevada, right?
No more blackouts.
This is going to be a big one.
You were talking about the blackouts.
Can you tell the audience why blackouts are a big deal?
Because it shuts down, they do these rolling blackouts and it shuts down the energy.
Your electricity goes out.
It happened to us last week twice.
What does this mean, blackouts?
Like flat out blackouts.
Yeah, yeah, where they're in California.
Yeah, because there's so much pressure on the grid when the temperatures are up and people are maxing their air conditioning that they have to shut it down.
How long does it go out?
Hours generally, not much more than that, but hours?
Hours is a long time.
It's a long time.
So hours without AC.
Sure, absolutely.
So no more blackouts.
And plus, the power companies are responsible for most of these fires anyway.
It happens right underneath their power.
I lived in California, but that was six years ago, five and a half years ago.
I don't remember a lot of blackouts.
Five and a half years ago.
It's gotten worse with the fires.
Yeah.
All right, no more blackouts, more people plans.
Okay, future courts, small claims limits raised to $100,000.
New small claims advisor.
Legal somebody missing our courts.
Okay, nine, transforming the DMV and virtual IDs, virtual IDs, and registration with QR code.
I disagree.
The DVD or the DMV is awesome in California.
No change necessary.
It's perfect.
Why is he touching?
I'm joking.
Oh, my gosh.
I was going to say, I have like 20 stories for you from a DMV.
By the one time I was at the DMV and right in front of me, I'm like, is this who I think it is?
Was Dr. Dre.
We were in line for like 30 minutes.
We had a great conversation.
I said, so you also got to get a license.
Yeah, I can't get away with that.
I'm like, there you go.
So number 10, future policing and jails, instant focus on okay, 11 underground, handy person economy, current law criminalizes being a handy person, immediately create a handy person license providing a path to insurance and logo.
Okay, cool.
12 mandated local manufacturing employment and California HB1s, H-1Bs, future money and exchanges, gun safety, trading, trained gun owners are currently treated like criminals in California.
This is ridiculous.
Those who are trained and background checks shall have more rights in California.
Maximizing Biden's funding via schools and credits.
$30,000, $250.
Okay, got it.
Funding housing, $100 on reunion.
Okay, the carbon tax, first day to institute a carbon tax, incentivizing green energy, punishes but does not ban polluting industries.
Okay, the green wave, allowing traffic, alleviating traffic.
Go to the next one.
Day one executive action, immigration, homelessness, school and housing.
Go to number 20.
Let's see what number 20 is.
California Transition Bond or Merchant Transit.
Okay.
I mean, we'll see what's going to happen there.
He seems like he's got a plan.
So I'm curious to know what happens.
All I'm saying is, I would love to see some young folks with a lot of energy to go out there and push their way to run.
They're going to be bullied.
I'm not surprised if Meet Kevin's going to be bullied.
He's going to be challenged.
He's going to be pushed around.
People are going to laugh at him.
There's no way this can happen.
All this other stuff.
I also think on the flip side, he's going to also be able to create some momentum.
Yeah, there's a market for common sense right now.
And I think if you can speak that.
People might not admit it, but they will rally and support him.
All right.
I think it's interesting that when Major Williams is on here, you said, I have an idea for you.
You should start implementing the phrase, try me.
Yeah.
And on every social media post, he hashtag try me.
So shout out to Major Poole.
I would love to see more of those guys creating momentum and challenging the status quo.
Totally agree.
But the detect behind Newsom, he's not going to get recalled.
Yeah, there is one story I want to get into.
There's one story I want to get into.
Okay, there we go.
Pelosi tried to sabotage Green New Deal rollout over fears of AOC.
This is actually very interesting.
Go to page seven.
Folks, we got five minutes left.
I'm probably going to do one last one here because we've already done six or seven.
I said we're going to do one, two, or three.
You give a super chat.
Whatever you give, 10 times more, we're going to give it back to you.
I think we've already given $2,000.
$2,000 at least.
$2,000 we've given away.
So if you give $100, I like it.
I'm going to start leaving comments over here.
Go to page seven.
Go to page seven.
Say that again.
All these payments are being handed out in quarters, right?
Where's my quarters?
Where is Rick?
Where are my quarters?
Where is, by the way, Ricky's new episode is going out on Vietnam in Spanish here soon.
So if you like Ricky's stuff, we got five minutes before I jump on the Zoom.
So let's go through this.
Here we go.
Pelosi tried to sabotage Green New Deal rollout over fears of AOC new book.
This is a Fox News story.
How Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to sabotage the rollout of Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Green New Deal in 2019, because she was anxious about the new congresswoman's notoriety becoming actual power.
According to a new book about the insider Democratic politics obtained by Fox News, in February 2019, Pelosi called Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey the night before he was scheduled to help roll out the Green New Deal.
She asked him to hold off.
She wanted more substantive policy.
The politics weren't good right then.
Don't give the platform to Ocasio-Cortez.
She urged, anxious about the new congresswoman's notoriety to become an actual power, Edward Isaac Dover writes in battle for the soul inside a Democrats campaign to defeat Trump.
The Green New Deal rollout formally outlined the proposal in Congress for the first time and would mark a start on the path towards what AOC called a wartime level just economic mobilization plan to get to 100% renewable energy.
Cost estimates for the sprawling proposal ranging to the trillions.
Dover's book will be published on Tuesday.
So AOC was concerned about, I'm sorry, Pelosi was concerned about AOC creating momentum.
Yeah.
You know, she's old school, man.
This is my house.
Speaker of the house.
I finally found one reason to like Nancy Pelosi.
You know, she's going to laying the hammer down there.
That book has got so many explosive findings in it.
That's the book that has Obama ripping Trump, Obama swearing at the media.
Obama's got a pretty filthy mouth.
If you read this book, you're going to be blown away how much that guy swears.
That's what Trump will do to Obama.
Get him, get him in person.
Well, this is just a classic case of reality versus fantasy land.
Say what you want about Nancy Pelosi.
She's been doing this for 40 years.
At least she's living in reality where AOC is just fantasy land over here with her trillion-dollar Green New Deal.
And this is nervous Nancy basically saying, pump the brakes on AOC.
That woke cancel culture leftist movement on the left of the Democratic Party.
They don't exactly have a lot of substance to their numbers.
I don't think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been in power, what, two, three years now?
This is her second term right now.
And I don't think she understands how budgeting works, and that's the problem that she's going to face.
But she does have upside.
If she actually learns math, she's a dangerous political figure.
Oh, let me ask you a couple questions.
Who's more attractive, him or her or Pelosi?
I mean, come on.
It's not even a question.
Okay, all right.
Who's got a bigger following on Twitter?
Her or Pelosi?
It's not even a comparison.
Pelosi's at 7 million.
AOC, just so you know, I said Pelosi is what?
7 million.
AOC is at, come on, AOC.
Where are you at?
AOC is at 12.7 million.
Okay.
Who's better at rallying?
AOC or Pelosi?
AOC.
AOC.
Who understands social media better?
AOC or Pelosi?
Who's more marketable long-term?
AOC or Pelosi.
Who's a better salesperson?
AOC or Pelosi?
You want to keep going?
It's like you talked about with China and India.
You attack people who are threatening you.
Pelosi is clearly threatened by AOC.
Exactly.
And she is more marketable.
I don't agree with her policies, but she is a much better politician than Pelosi.
Although Pelosi is a dirtier politician behind closed doors because she's been around longer.
So she's got an entire playbook of seven, whatever, 50 years she's been into politics.
She knows all the playbooks.
New school versus new schools.
I still think AOC is going to end up beating her long term, if you ask me.
Well, yeah, I think Nancy's retiring after this.
It's clearly long-term.
AOC's got the upside.
Okay, so I think we went through it.
Gang, this was probably one of my favorite podcasts.
We've done a long time.
Appreciate Steve Anasi did a great job on the debate.
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Who's on Thursday?
Do we know who's on Thursday podcast?
We don't know yet?
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