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00:00 – Start
5:07 – Warren Buffet shared his 3 key takeaways with Ndamukong Suh while he shadowed him for several weeks
14:10 - Actor Ashton Kutcher warns that China could use TikTok to push ‘anti-US propaganda
26:48 – Announcement teaser
27:30 - Black Widow’ snags $80 million from its theatrical debut, $60 million from Disney+
35:47 - Conor McGregor is gone forever
56:32 - Cubans take to the streets in massive anti-government protest
1:08:20 – Viewer call in
1:31:13 – AOC Twitter
1:36:03 - Larry Kudlow says we are fighting for the soul of America
Steve Ballmer officially becomes a ninth person to be a $100 billion man.
I know you got opinions about that.
Jokovich just wins Wimbledon and claims a record time 20th Grand Slam.
You said U.S. Open today said.
No, USA Today claimed that he's the greatest tennis player of all time.
You should have something to say about that.
If you're watching this, maybe we'll cover it with you as well.
I want to know what you think about it.
And then he refused to, you know, during the applause, they gave applause to the person that invented vaccine and he asked them about it afterwards.
I don't know if we weren't going to cover it or not.
We may, we may not.
I know Adam doesn't have strong opinions about that.
Black Widow snacks $80 million from its theatrical debut, $60 million from Disney.
That's a scary thing.
Kai's got strong opinions about that.
That's what Kai's going to be.
Ashton Kutcher said some stuff about China and TikTok.
You definitely have to catch that one.
And then you guys got opinions about the NBA stars.
The game changing right now.
Some NBA players are saying, I want to go back.
I don't want to go to the NBA.
I'll stay in college.
It's a different world.
16-year-old kid just signed a million-dollar contract with overtime elite.
Jake Paul trolling Conor McGregor, he won't stop doing that.
There was a certain bond between Bezos, Branson, Musk.
Did you guys kind of sense that?
Like they're working as a team.
I thought that competitive edge was kind of gone.
Rogan getting a little bit more hate from Spotify employees.
Andy Jazzy's first email to its employees as Amazon CEO as a masterclass to memo writing.
Warren Buffett allowed Dominique Su to shadow him for several weeks.
The NFL star shared his three key takeaways.
We'll cover that as well.
And then U.S. mercenaries who assassinated a former president of Haiti claimed that they were hired as translators and plot to arrest president.
I have some data on this, which will go a little bit down the rabbit hole.
I don't even know if we should or we're not.
We shouldn't.
Kai sent a link.
I may forward it to you.
Larry Kudlow said something about red states and blue states.
And last but not least, what's going on with Cuba right now, which is absolutely a disaster.
But at the same time, it's a good thing to see the people fighting against the regime.
I retweeted something AOC said yesterday with a comment she made.
I wasn't happy about what she said, but we'll talk about that.
So having said that, we got a lot to cover here.
By the way, just an FYI, if anybody is from Cuba, if anybody lived in Cuba, if anybody can tell us what it's like to be under the communistic regime of Cuba, so the rest of us can get an idea about what it looked like.
I want you to give us an idea, and I'm talking about you lived there recently.
I'm not talking 40 years ago, I'm talking 10 years ago, five years ago, 15 years ago.
Give me a heads up, send us a message here, if you have.
We'd love to address that with you and, with that being said, let's get right into it.
So okay, out of all the stories we got, I said we start off with a nice little story with Warren Buffett and Dominique Sue.
How about we go into that story?
Okay, so Warren Buffett allows Dominique Sue to shadow him for several weeks.
The NFL star shared his three key takeaways.
Let's go into what his key three takeaways were of spending time with D-Man D-Myth the legend.
This is a business insider story.
So the Tampa BAY Buccaneer player said every meeting was a hundred times more valuable than an NBA.
The football player took three key takeaways from the billionaire that have underpinned his approach to business and investing ever since.
Those were to keep things simple, that's number one.
Focus on passions and people, that's number two.
And always read, learn and remain curious about the world.
Let me say that one more time, keep things simple, focus on passions and people, always read, learn and remain curious about the world.
The six foot four, 305 pound lineman also joked about his stage arm wrestling matches with Buffet in recent years.
No matter how many times we do it, I still can't beat him, he tweeted.
Must be all that Coca-cola.
Sue said in general, he tries to catch up with Buffet every quarter and he's gearing up for an investing career after he retires from football and wants his mentors' advice.
Thoughts, publicity stunt, and it doesn't work for me.
Okay, really it's a duo publicity stunt.
I am so not interested in this and i'll tell you why.
Okay, in Domikin, Sue.
What's he known for?
He's known for being probably the dirtiest Nfl player of our age.
Possibly okay dirty, minimum dirty okay nasty, like he could have ended careers.
He did not give a damn.
He's stomping on people's hands and he was a very dirty player.
Now Warren Buffett is trying to rehabilitate his image.
He's had a bad year.
If you ask me, every time he's kind of a lot.
I mean he, he's kind of getting branded as a guy that you'd be surprised if he can make his own oatmeal and get dressed in the morning.
Right he's, he's in his 90s, so I think this is an opportunity that he was thinking to rehabilitate his image a little bit in the public eye.
Um in, Domic and Sue went to the University University OF Nebraska.
So you're wondering where did this connection even come from?
But why do we care that Indomik and Su wants to be an investor.
How is he even?
He's not even relevant as a football player anymore, let alone someone that's going to branch off into the investment world.
I think it was just an elaborate attempt for both of these guys to grab some good publicity.
And then, if you look at this, I mean, Warren Buffett is a genius.
Okay, he's probably one of the sharpest people of the last hundred years.
I mean, you don't accidentally do what he's done.
He's unbelievable.
But all this stuff that even his three key takeaways had no substance to him.
They were so basic and obvious.
So I don't think this helped either of them.
I think if you objectively look at it, you can kind of see through it.
So I think if there's a publicity stunt that Warren Buffett wants to do, if that's what you're going with, you got to pick someone better than Indomikin Sue.
Like, that ain't exactly a headlight.
Like, if you're saying Tom Brady, you know, shadowed in Dominican Warren Buffett for the last few years, that'd be like, holy shit, there's a story there.
This is like, all right, he's a football player.
I get it, the Nebraska connection right there.
The biggest thing here is like this happened in 2010.
It was 11 years ago.
So I was like, why the hell is this even a story?
You hit the nail on the head, the Nebraska thing.
He was one of the best players ever to come out of Nebraska.
He is one of the dirtiest players in the NFL.
I don't know what, you know, why he couldn't clean up his act there.
What I will say is, I know you're saying that Warren Buffett's having a bad year.
I know you made a fun that he can't make his own oatmeal.
However, I think part of the problem with Warren Buffett is the argument is that he might be a little out of touch these days with today's investor.
Meaning, a lot of young Gen Z millennials are all about Bitcoin.
We keep calling him out.
Yeah, they're all about the Bitcoin or the meme style.
Even Papa when I interviewed him, he did not hold back from calling him out.
So, you know, it's funny.
A lot of that criticism came before the Bitcoin and crypto crash, you know, a few months ago because crypto's gone.
But the specific argument is you haven't outperformed SP 500 in the last 15 years.
So it's not even a Bitcoin thing.
Sure.
It's you haven't beaten SP 500 last year.
How does hanging with Indomikin Sue make you hip?
No, it does.
I think it was a Nebraska connection.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
I think to wrap this all up, to tie it over to you, if you have the opportunity to shout out Warren Buffett, you go freaking do that.
Boom, bottom line.
I mean, so I think, look, to get a little, you know, sportsy here, you know, a large percentage of NFL players go straight up broke within three to five years of retirement.
I think 50% of NBA players go broke within five years of retirement.
So if this is what it takes to basically say, hey, look, I'm playing in the NFL and I shadowed freaking Warren Buffett, one of the greatest investors of all time, arguably the greatest investor of all time.
Let me take some of these examples.
Let me take some of these lessons.
Bring it to the field and bring it to the play.
What does Warren Buffett do for fun?
Like, did he ever buy some?
I think he orders two Egg McMuffins instead of one.
Can you pull Kai?
That's a big day for Warren Buffett.
What does Warren Buffett do for fun?
What does Warren Buffett do for fun?
I think he actually has fun just doing investing.
I know he does money.
I think he loves to get involved.
I don't think he's like wakeboarding on the go on here.
Let's find out.
Go on this.
Warren Buffett's favorite hobby if you go down there.
You saw one?
Go back.
Go back.
Kai.
Go back.
Top thing.
Warren Buffett's favorite hobby.
Reading.
While reading Warren Buffett's approach to investing.
It's a hobby that she genuinely enjoys.
Okay, go back to the 25 things you didn't know about Warren Buffett.
Let's see what if we first stocky body was 11.
Keep going.
Go up.
Okay.
First stock he bought he was 11 years old.
He made $53,000 by the age of 16.
By the way, that's in a different era.
He was rejected by Harvard Business School.
Interesting.
Okay, keep going.
See what number four is.
We're looking for fun.
Kai, keep going.
Little faster, Kai.
He eats like a six-year-old.
He lived in the same house since 1958.
His father-in-law told him, cannot read that guy.
His father-in-law told him his father-in-law told him he would fail.
Nice.
That's always a good motivator.
People will pay millions to have lunch with him.
True.
Somebody paid $4.57 million like a couple years ago.
In 2013, Buffett earned $37 million a day, rough.
Nearly 94% of his wealth was earned after he turned 60.
Big motivator.
Never give up.
Keep going.
Wow.
Number 10.
He never tweeted before.
He's never tweeted before.
That's cool.
Keep going.
11.
Buffett owns 20 suits but has never paid for any.
He steals them.
He spends 80% of his day reading.
Fantastic.
Buffett will give an employee a million dollars every year for the rest of his life, his or her life, if they can guess the NCAA Suite 16 teams.
That's pretty fast.
There's a hobby right there.
He likes March Madness.
That's right.
That's a good point.
There's a good thing right there.
He ditched his flip phone for an iPhone in 2020.
2020.
He takes a dozen kids to Dairy Queen every Sunday.
Wow.
That's cool.
Buffett rarely emails.
Okay.
Keep going.
17.
He plays ukulele.
Buffett pledged to donate 85% of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to charitable foundations.
Okay.
He was awarded Olympics.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama.
Out of all investing legends, Buffett has the best track record for beating the market.
Impressive.
His face was on Cherry Coke cans in China.
In China?
Okay.
He doesn't follow anyone on Twitter.
He's a big fan of Breaking Bad.
Wow.
That's a good look.
Keep going.
Is that him?
What is that?
That's actually him.
That's actually the coolest picture Warren Buffett ever seen.
That's actually the coolest picture.
He likes to joke around.
Okay.
We know that.
He looks to a poem when markets decline.
No one can tell you when those will happen.
Laura's only going to extraordinary opportunities.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, when all about you are losing theirs, if you can wait and not be tired of waiting, if you can think and not make thoughts your aim, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, yours is the earth and everything that's in it.
Okay.
All right, cool.
Do we have another one or does it?
Can I make it?
Here's how your mind can play tricks on you and your eyes.
If you could go back to that list, Kai, go back to the very bottom of it.
Go back to number 25.
Take a quick glance at number 25 and then look away.
I literally, when I first saw that, I thought he looks to porn.
I thought that's what it said.
He looks to porn.
I'm going, wow, he's saying this morning.
Good for you.
No, I was saying, is that how business insider does their stories?
They wait for number 25.
So when Tom Zenner spent time with him, he noticed how much porn he watched.
That's probably what his three is.
I got to tell you, when I hung out with Warren Buffett, all we did was watch porn.
That's all we did.
I can actually see you doing that.
Pat was wondering what he does for fun.
I don't know.
There we go.
Okay.
All right.
So we looked at the Ubuntu Buffett back.
We have planned to learn.
What's that?
He plays Bridge, though.
Good for him.
He doesn't play bad.
I mean, nothing makes you seem more out of touch than I would have been a bit more.
You hang out with Indomikin too.
I mean, that's all you need to know.
There's like 200.
I feel like that's in touch.
You're hanging with me.
So let's continue.
Let's continue.
Gang, again, if you're from, if you lived in Cuba for at least 10 years, where you have memories of what that place was like, and it was recent, text us at 310-340-1132.
We'd like to call you and get perspective on what it was like to be in Cuba and why you and your family escaped Cuba.
Let's continue.
Ashton Kutcher had some interesting things to say about China.
And it's interesting to come from somebody that was an A-lister Hollywood star who's now a big business mogul who was once with Demi Moore and now with Mila Kunis, I believe.
Everyone knows who he is.
He's in the investment world.
And here's what he had to say.
Ashton Kutcher wants that China warns that China could use TikTok to push anti-U.S. propaganda and create a problem influencing young Americans.
He continues, this is a blaze media story.
During his time in office, former President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning these Chinese creators and owned social media platforms, insisting that the app would be used to spread disinformation campaigns, benefiting the Chinese Communistic Party and jeopardizing America's national security.
President Joe Biden, however, revoked the order upon taking office.
If I'm China and I want to use, I want to create a problem in that area of the world, specifically a naval problem in the South China Sea, I would probably want to utilize TikTok in order to influence the minds of Americans, Kutcher said.
In early June, TikTok quietly updated its privacy policy with regards to United States users, allowing itself to collect U.S. users' biometric data to include voice prints and face prints.
Now, Ashton Kutcher, to say something about China, what do you think about that?
It's unbelievable, actually.
Talk about almost going out of your way to canceling yourself, though.
Those are the two things you cannot do in Hollywood.
Inadvertently praise Trump, which he did, if you read between the lines, and then dog China.
He did both of them, which makes me think his investments are doing very, very well because he has the ability to have a platform and not really care what he thinks or what anybody thinks about it.
It probably means he's going to be doing the sequel, the next five sequels to Dude, Where's My Car?
Because it's probably going to be hard to get a major movie financed.
But I think it's very, it's very telling.
It's very interesting.
And you wonder what the next steps are.
Like, will there be any sort of action against him in Hollywood?
This is going to hurt his career.
Does he even have a career?
I don't even know how much he cares about doing movies anymore because he's not really doing them.
And he seems more, his brand is about a tech investor and being cutting edge with some of the businesses he gets involved in.
But look, he's got bigger aspirations for himself here, I think, for making these types of comments.
He's a visionary.
He's smart.
Maybe he's going to get a little conversation going, but this is going to hurt his career in Hollywood.
But I love what he said.
By the way, fun fact about Ash and Kutcher, Demi Moore and Mila Kunis, the two women he's been married to, they both went to the same high school.
Get out of them.
Yeah, they both went to Hollywood high, which is, what are the odds, right?
That's incredible.
What's the last movie Kutcher made, by the way?
What's the last big movie he did?
And that's a serious question.
Oh, you know what?
How about that one he did with Cameron Diaz when they went to Vegas and they got married?
That was at least 15 years ago.
That was 2008, I think.
Okay, I'm doing, so here we go.
So we have Vengeance.
He's doing self-production.
Okay, The Long Home.
It's a 2021 movie completed.
The Ranch TV series, which he was on 2016 to 2020.
Family Guy 2016.
Two and a half men 2011 to 2015.
Two and a half men as a majority of the men.
But he didn't have to do anything after that.
That's not a movie, though.
That's a TV series.
That was a Charlie Sheen's job.
Okay.
Made $2 million an age.
Men at work.
The last movie he did was Jobs 2013.
So this guy hasn't done movies for eight years.
2013.
2013 movie.
Yeah.
Not shows.
Crap.
No movie 2013.
And do you think he cares?
I don't.
Do you think he cares?
I don't think he looks at himself as an actor, number one, anymore.
Look, I'll give you my two cents on Ash and Kutcher.
The guy has come a long way since being on the 70s show or even on punk.
By the way, I love punked.
Anyone in the audience who's watching, let us know if you love punk too.
I thought he killed it at that, but he hasn't done that in a long time.
Look, he's transitioned from being just a Hollywood guy, a dude, where's my car?
I'm high as shit on the 70s show, to punking people to an actual Silicon Valley investor, big-time entrepreneur.
Here's some of the companies that he's invested in.
Uber, Airbnb, and he's all about Acorns, the investing app, which we've talked about from time to time.
So he's built credibility in the business world.
And clearly, he don't give two shits about going against Hollywood or certainly going against China.
And I got to give him props for actually calling out China and specifically, you know, in a roundabout way, kind of agreeing with Trump here on what TikTok's influence or soft power, sneaky power creeping in on the American youth may be happening and China's disinformation campaigns.
So bottom line, respect to Ashton Kutcher for what he's doing.
Former model from Iowa, small town in Iowa, too, by the way.
By the way, and while you look at this, this guy, he calls himself a fiscally conservative, socially liberal, independent, but leans towards the Democratic Party, has shown support to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, And this stays towards Republicans like Donald Trump.
So now here's – Sounds like my kind of guy.
Here's a question, though.
Here's a question, though.
This goes back to a conversation we once had.
Kai, you look like you want to say something.
Yeah, he also co-founded a company for against child trafficking.
By the way, he spoke about it to Congress, which went viral.
He's been active on that.
And that was against human child trafficking that him and Demi Moore started together, I believe.
This was years ago.
But think about it.
If you're going to marry a woman who's, I'm guessing, 15 years his senior.
I'm guessing.
Demi?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're going to grow up a little bit.
You're not going to be just a goofy 30-year-old kid just kind of joking around because a lot of people didn't take their relationship seriously.
Exactly 15 years.
She's 58.
He's 45.
Gotcha.
So you're going to kind of grow up a little bit faster than a typical 30-year-old whenever they got married.
And you're going to start tackling some real-world issues.
You're not going to be out in the club partying like a typical 30-year-old.
You're hanging with a grown-ass woman, Demi Moore, one of the most gorgeous women of all time, in my opinion.
And you're going to grow up and you're going to tackle some real-life issues, i.e. child trafficking and investing and China.
So again, respect to the companies that you mentioned that he invested in, he got in early.
So he made unbelievable killings in multiple guesses.
300, 300 mil?
PBD?
Guess his net worth.
2000 countries.
He's a 200.
Yeah, he's a 200.
Okay, exactly.
Yeah, but I mean, that gives you so much freedom when you've done that and you can have that platform.
He doesn't have to care.
He could fund his own movie if he wanted to do it.
There's a couple things I take away from this.
Number one, number one, there's a movement happening within Hollywood, okay, who are not Republicans, who are not Democrats, but they're worried the fact that this thing could go to socialism.
This thing can go to controlling what you could say and what you can't say, what movies you can and you can't make.
And it's him, Connor and not Connor, Matthew McConaughey, that are coming out.
Common sense coming out of Hollywood.
Common sense independent is like, listen, this is a little too much.
And by the way, even if Bill Maher went when, yeah, but Bill Maher is still left, though.
Bill Maher is a left.
Bill Maher is not these guys.
No, no, no.
But common sense is you're right.
Absolutely.
I totally agree.
Bill Maher is a left guy that's kind of like, what the hell are we doing?
Exactly.
Have you lost your mind?
Exactly.
And by the way, you know who else doesn't agree with the direction America's going right now that people would be surprised with?
A guy named Barack Obama is not happy with the direction things are going right now.
He himself is like, listen, man, you know, kind of temper it down a little bit with the social media.
He gave him two names the other day.
Sean Penn, very leftist type of guy.
Semi-socialist.
Yes.
Fan of Hugo Chavez, from what I recall.
And Conan O'Brien.
You know, more of a common sense jokester, but definitely the left.
I think Conan's a center guy.
Yeah, well, Conan's.
But they both called out the woke cancel culture out there.
Look, we talk about this all the time, not to get too political here.
Sometimes you need people on your team to basically say, look, I don't like what you're doing, rather than people on the other side calling you out.
Absolutely.
And that's what's happening in the Democratic Party right now.
But here's what I would tell you.
This is the other part.
This is the other part.
This is the other part that people are going to have to argue, and it's going to favor one guy.
I hate to say this, but it's going to favor one guy.
So just a few months ago, when Trump gave this speech at CPAC, and there were voter approval, people wanting him to run, et cetera, et cetera, he was at 50%.
Just this last week when he ran, I think he was like, he spoke to them.
I think he was 76%.
And second place was DeSantis 21%, right?
So he went from 50 to 70 and DeSantis 21, which they're talking about him and DeSantis president, VP, type of thing to go out there and do it.
Now, we'll see if that's going to take place or not.
Here's what I will tell you.
Take the name out.
Take the name out of Trump and just look at his policy.
Frozen, frozen.
No, it says it's not frozen.
I see you guys.
It's reconnecting.
Are we back, guys?
No, it's streaming live on YouTube.
Are we back?
We're back.
Can you guys, if you guys can hear us and see us, let me know if you guys can hear or see us.
I'm seeing a lot of comments.
Let me know if we're back.
Okay, we're back.
Okay, good.
Where did we pick off?
What I was talking about.
Okay, what's the last thing you heard me say?
I'm curious.
Tell me what's the last thing you heard me say.
What is the last thing?
I want to know what they heard me say here or last.
What's the last thing you heard me say?
Let me know.
And then time this guy so we can cut this later on.
What's the last thing you heard me say?
Just tell me what's the last thing you heard me say.
There's a short lag.
Okay, well, we're back.
Just what is the last thing you heard me say?
That's all I care about.
I want to know what's the last thing you heard me say.
Take Trump's name out.
Okay, so take Trump's name out.
Okay, far.
So take Trump's name out.
Let's take Trump's name out.
Okay.
And you go look at his policies.
And you look at what his policies did.
How many people on the left, center, and right are starting to realize, yes, he may have been a divisive guy.
Yes, he may have been a guy that was pinning everybody.
You know, he was doing what he was doing, battling against the mainstream media, all the stuff that he was doing.
But his policies made a lot of sense.
He called out TikTok.
Everybody disagreed.
Now, Ashton Kutcher is saying that?
He was handling the border very well.
Now we have issues at the border.
They don't even want to touch it.
We were doing okay with getting the vaccine to be expedited in nine months on how quickly he got a vaccine.
Fauci said it will take 18 months at the earliest to get it out.
His sanctions against Cuba that he put on nine months ago, saying if Cuba doesn't get it together, the entire world is going to be free.
We have to make sure the entire world is free.
And we have to let go of those political prisoners that Cuba has.
What do you think the Cuban people right now are protesting?
Here's the point.
I think there's a part of the current election, the process that we have that I don't agree with, and I don't know what it is.
Here's one of the things.
We vote more for personality than policies today.
If we took out the personality, mainstream media couldn't do what they do.
Let me explain.
If all we said is we have three things we're campaigning on, this is A, this is B, this is C. Take away personalities.
It's purely policies that we're campaigning on, right?
Who do you bash?
What do you bash?
Who cares?
The policies don't grab anybody by you know what.
Policies don't go out there and do what can sniffing somebody's hair with what Biden does, right?
If you just put it on policies, how do you trash the policies?
You can't say a person you can't pin them to.
You just have to say, that policy just kind of makes sense.
I agree with that policy.
So there's no more the rage emotionally against the personality you dislike because the media keeps talking about this guy's a bad guy.
This guy's a bad guy.
This guy's a bad guy.
So I kind of like the fact that common sense is starting to win.
A little bit.
Because long-term, bad ideas get exposed and long-term, great ideas win.
That's what's happening.
Here's the problem, though.
It's one thing to have these people at least call it out and reference it and acknowledge it.
But how do you get to the next point where something actually happens because of it?
They've just given way too much power to the far, far fringe left.
They are letting them get away with anything they want.
Anything they say is not challenged.
And that makes their job 10 times more difficult.
I think Trump should not run for president.
I really, because don't you, he's so polarizing and people hate him so much.
I don't run for vice president.
There's no chance.
Tom, I'll give you three seconds to retract for the good of the country.
Support DeSantis.
Oh, by the way, no, no, no.
It's either either a president or don't run again.
He ain't doing no VP stuff because he's already been out there as a front.
That'll never happen.
But if you truly care about the country, which he does.
No.
I mean, don't you think there's almost no chance for him to get elected?
He definitely brings out the worst out of so many people in this country.
Well, listen, I'm going to announce something this week.
I'm going to announce something this week.
If you see it on social, which you will, if you see it on my Instagram, you will.
We're going to talk about it on the podcast next week.
I'm going to launch something.
What I think is going to be a solution to help Unite America.
The idea is going to be crazy.
The idea is going to be nuts.
I'm going to put a lot of money behind it.
It's going to be public.
And you have to choose whether you want to see this thing become a reality or not.
And when you do see it, if you agree with it, help spread the message everywhere once the announcement is made.
I will be most likely making that announcement either this Friday or next Monday.
Sometime this week or Monday, that announcement is going to be made.
You will be shell-shocked what the announcement is about.
But if you do agree with it, I want to make sure the world hears about it.
Going back to this.
You know what's exciting about this?
The fact that people are voicing their opinions that they never would have.
The fact that Hollywood is voicing their opinion.
FYI.
You know why people and Hollywood actors are no longer intimidated by Hollywood anymore?
You know why?
Let me tell you why.
Perfect transition into the story of Black Widow.
Black Widow snags $80 million from its theatrical debut, $60 million from Disney Plus.
Folks, let me read that to you one more time.
Black Widow, okay?
Out of the 80 million, 60 million is from Disney Plus.
Black Widow has stolen the pandemic era box office crown.
The latest Marvel film scored $80 million at the domestic box office during its debut.
The most of any film release in the wake of COVID epidemic over the weekend, around 81% of the theaters were open to the public according to the data of ComScore.
Universal's F9, Fast and Furious 9, was the previous record holder getting $70 million over its three-day launch into theaters last month.
The film garnered an additional $60 million from Disney Plus sales, in addition to Black Widow tallied $78 million from international ticket sales.
Here's what this means.
Let me tell you why actors are no longer scared of Hollywood.
Here's why.
This is not the typical movie, you know, Hollywood thing that you're doing.
Netflix is coming right now.
They want Oscars.
They want academies.
They want grand, they want whatever it is that whatever they're giving away the awards for best movies.
Actors are sitting there saying, listen, man, Hollywood, those days of a handful of you guys having all the power in the world where you can't push us around.
You can't do that anymore.
You don't have that kind of authority anymore.
The days where Weinstein pre-Me Too movement, the days where Weinstein had everybody like strongholding everybody, strong arming everybody.
You can't do that anymore today.
So Hollywood actors are feeling a little bit more confident and liberated.
Hollywood, for the longest time, was almost a dictatorship.
Today, yesterday, I get back to the office.
I was in Uruguay land.
I come to the office first thing in the morning.
You know what's sitting on my table right now?
You know what's sitting on my desk right now?
A script.
A guy sends me a message saying, I love what you're talking about with da-da-da-da-da.
I got a script for you.
I'd love for you to invest into our script or buy your script from us.
Sitting over there.
We're starting to get more scripts than ever before.
What does this mean?
Person can have money, $1, $10 million, $50 million, $25 million.
Say, I'm going to do a movie.
Here you go.
And then you can go pitch it to who?
Others, rather than going and selling it to traditional Hollywood route.
So I think the Ashton Kutchers of the world and all these other guys are getting comfortable because you're seeing what happened with the Black Widow movie.
Disney Plus is $6.
Stay home and watch the movie.
No need to go to the movie theater.
Is it essentially becoming almost like a cryptocurrency type of decentralized platform?
It's not just in Hollywood anymore.
You got Disney Plus.
You got Netflix.
You got Amazon.
You can go down the whole freaking list on the Hulus and the Disney.
That's actually great enough.
And it's just not decentralized.
Now the Harvey Weinsteins of the world, to use your analogy, don't control Hollywood anymore.
Well, it's the studio.
It's a great thing for a lot of people.
It's the studios that don't control Hollywood anymore.
And by the way, Barry Diller, one of the legends who ran two of them, what, Paramount and Universal, I think.
He said last week that the movie business is dead.
He literally said out, he said, the going to the theater experience, the movie business is dead and it's never coming back.
Do you agree with him?
I 100% agree with him.
And you know, Netflix doesn't release streaming figures like this.
Disney, to say 60 million, that's uncommon for them to actually release that.
But that's unbelievable.
I would never go to a movie theater again.
I don't think.
I have no upside to going to a theater.
You just went to a movie.
Who's got the time for it?
What movie did I watch?
I don't know.
Didn't you go to a movie theater?
I mean, if I take the kids, oh, we watch Fast and the Furies.
I gave it a seven.
It was actually a good movie.
You gave the nine a seven.
No, I gave the nine a seven.
I gave the nine a seven.
I took the kids.
I hate when that happens.
You go home with a nine and you wake up at the seven.
I accidentally took the kids to Mortal Kombat.
I accidentally took the kids to Mortal Kombat.
Till today, there's not a day when I bring up movies where they don't bring up Mortal Kombat.
What do they say?
Well, you're the one that took us to Mortal Kombat, the worst movie of all time.
I say, I've taken you to 50 movies.
You've loved one of them.
The last thing we need is Dylan and Tico fighting.
We saw what happened earlier.
They had one of the most epic fights of all time in Aruba.
And here's what happened.
I'm not going to tell you the details of the fight, but they had a pretty big fight because Dylan threw sand in Tico's face accidentally, apparently accidentally.
I wasn't there to witness it.
Mario was.
So I walk up because Mari's like, you got to come here to the beach.
Dylan's running off.
It's pretty epic.
Crazy stuff's going on with these guys.
And you got to realize, Aruba's a very calm place.
The water has no waves.
Like, literally, there's no waves where we are at this Ritz-Carlton Resort.
I walk up and I go to the kids.
I'm walking back.
This husband and wife, good-looking couple in their 50s, right?
The kind that takes care of themselves.
You know, she's wearing the two Ps.
He's got the whole nice six-pack.
They said, you know, I got to tell you, we love your boys.
I said, really?
Tell me why.
He says, for the last hour, all we've been following is what your boys have been doing.
Your two sons, we can tell.
Those two are your sons, but the other two are not your sons, right?
I said, no, why?
He says, because the other two are too nice.
Two hardcores.
Because your two skins are good at it.
Then he says, for one hour straight, we've been following them and we love what they're doing.
The fighting, the words, all that stuff.
Thank you so much for giving us entertainment.
I said, well, they'll take a $100 tip from you.
Anyway, so we had a good time out there with the – Back to the – so they will not let the – They will not.
Mortal Kombat is done.
That's not going to happen.
Real quick, just a couple of little thing to add.
You talked about the movie studios, Paramount, and Universal and Universal.
But didn't Amazon just buy MGM?
Yeah.
Okay.
So that, I mean, there's another further example.
But they did it just for more content in their life.
There you go.
Here's how I don't go to the movie theaters like, period.
I think the last one I went to was like, I took my ex-girl to go see Winnie the Pooh, like back in the, like, three years ago.
Who are you dating?
She was 25, but, you know, she probably acted like she was five.
However, this is how out of touch I am.
No, she's not listening.
She's listening.
She DMs me every time.
She's got me blocked.
She's got me blocked.
This is how it is.
What was the best part of Winnie the Pooh?
When he got his head stuck in the honey jar?
Okay.
You got your hand on the cookie jar.
Anyway, here's how out of touch.
You're a high roller when you take your girl to a Winnie the Pooh movie.
Hey, by the way, you know, today's a lot of people.
I spent you for an Immortal Kompress.
I'm actually on food than on movie tours.
By the way, that story actually gets you closer to Soy Boy than further away.
Yeah.
Here's my point.
Let me finish my point and then I'm going to.
This is how out of touch I am with movies.
When I hear this story, Black Widow grows his $80 million.
I'm thinking, oh, shit, they came out with like the female version of the Black Panther.
Then I look it up and it's freaking white girl Scarlett Johansson, the Black Widow.
I'm surprised that's not canceled culture yet.
Stop it.
I'm just telling you.
Stop it.
I don't give a shit.
I'm just saying I'm surprised that there's people out there being like, black widow, white ass Scarlett Johansen.
What the hell's going on?
Folks, if you're listening to this, Adam's not lying.
Adam thinks, Adam thinks, if you don't know this already or not, Adam thinks Fast and the Furies is a continuation of Knight Rider.
That's how old school.
I love that.
Kidding me?
David Hasloff.
I loved it.
By the way, you should show the poster you have in your office of David Hasselhoff of Knight Rider.
They should see it.
I don't think people rather than that.
I'm going to say that's not a Knight Rider.
It's the Baywatch one.
It's the Baywatch one.
Sure.
David Hasselhoff's got it.
Okay, all right.
So, Ashton Kutcher, kudos to you.
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One, it gives us an idea if you do agree with him or not.
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Shit, we're getting that.
Yeah, we are.
We're getting close to it.
Tom, I'm going to give you a story.
Let's finish up the Conor McGregor story.
And while we're doing this, Kai, can you tell me folks from Cuba contacted you on community?
Go check community.
Folks, if you're from Cuba, you lived there in the last five to ten years, and you and your family escaped Cuba to come to America.
We would like to get optics from you on what it was like to live in Cuba and why you're so happy to be in America.
What does freedom really mean to you having left a place like Cuba to come to the States?
Senior boy, is Marvin from Cuba?
No, he's not.
Marvin's Honduras.
Marvin's Honduras.
I apologize to my Honduran friends.
I was just with him.
We had one of the best conversations ever.
Okay.
All right, let's go.
So, UFC 264, real or not, old Connor McGregor is gone forever.
Dustin Poirier is a top light heavyweight.
The UFC's 264 main event only lasted one round, but Dustin did plenty in his victory over Connor to prove he deserves the first title shot.
A Charles Oliviera is Poirier already the best lightweight in the world.
As for Connor McGregor, the misstep that caused a serious leg injury brought the fight to an abrupt end.
Is an elite version of Connor a thing of the past?
And where does he go from here?
Kai, can you pull up Grover's Instagram post about Connor?
Everybody must read this.
By the way, shout out to Tim.
He just sent me three nice Air Jordan shoes, each one of them.
Real sick shoes.
Like Michael's from the British.
His book just became a New York Times bestseller.
Sick book.
If you haven't ordered, you ought to do it.
Okay.
When Connor McGregor lost to Khabib, he was exposed by the limelight and has never found his way back to the true darkness that allowed him to win.
Winning won't accept this version of Connor because this Connor still thinks and acts like he's winning and winning knows he is not.
Let me read that one more time.
Winning won't accept this version of Connor because this Connor still thinks and acts like he's winning and winning knows he's not.
This loss to Dustin is about so much more than an injury.
If you've read Winning, you get this.
He hasn't taken that necessary bus ride back to hell.
Winners know that in order to repeat, they have to get on that bus along with all their demons and monsters and skeletons asking now what?
Connor can't answer them because that bus ride needs to be taken in silence.
Winning requires real talk or no talk at all.
The only thing you hear are the silencing of your heartbeat and the shortening of your breath as you approach hell.
You have no choice.
You can either commit to taking the bus ride to hell and fight your way back to winning, or hell will come for you anyway, snatch your heart out of your chest and make you watch it stop as you take your last breath and you lose forever.
That's the difference between taking yourself to hell and hell taking you.
One you can't control, the other you are done.
More in winning, read it.
There you go.
Thoughts to Connor.
I mean, dude, this guy's got credibility galore because this is exactly what Michael Jordan did year in and year out.
I mean, this is what Tim Grove is known for, working with MJ.
What do you think?
It's Connor done, though.
Do you think Connor's done?
Yes.
As an elite MMA fighter, there's absolutely no question.
You cannot even make the argument that he's not.
It's impossible to make that argument.
I think Dana White has a real problem because he doesn't really have a stable of stars outside of Connor McGregor.
That's why they keep doing what they're doing.
I mean, have you guys ever been to a live UFC fight?
Yes.
I mean, the energy is just simply off the charts.
I've been to two title fights in Vegas.
Absolutely.
Which fights?
Well, my friend is Ryan Bader.
So he fought twice.
Once he fought John Jones, and then he fought OTC.
He lost both of those, unfortunately.
But he's doing great in Bellator.
But Dana White has a problem.
He doesn't have any stars.
Now, it's not going to hurt the business.
They just brought in $175 million from a crypto company for their biggest sponsorship ever last year.
But you know what?
Connor McGregor is the next.
Wait for it.
Ronda Rousey.
That's all he is right now.
He's nothing more.
He's nothing more than that.
His next step is.
He's bigger than Ronda Harley.
No, no, no.
Timeout.
No, in the MMA, he's not.
His next fight is going to be against Jake Paul because it'll be for nine figures easy.
Dana White will eventually get behind it and have to promote him.
I think that's why he keeps him relevant in UFC so he can sanction that fight.
But you know what?
That's the one I'd watch.
I'm not interested in watching Connor fight in the UFC anymore.
He's not at that level.
He's not at the elite level.
You know, it's funny.
You brought up something last week when you said, look, if there's ever a time that Dana White makes a phone call to Dustin Poirier and says, look, here's a couple bucks.
Take this hit.
That clearly didn't happen.
He didn't get that phone call.
Well, first of all, I like the approach Connor took with the fight.
He started with the kicks.
I like the way he started the fight.
But the moment he went on the ground, Gerard was saying this yesterday.
This guy, to learn how to wrestle and be on the ground, I mean, you have to learn how to get out of it.
For four minutes, he was stuck, and Dustin wasn't even pounding this guy.
He wasn't even distributed.
But what happens when you're down there is you're going to lose all the stamina.
You can't last when you get the moment he got up, the last 15 seconds.
I don't know if you saw that or not.
The 15 seconds when he got up, did you see his energy?
Did you see, like, he was done?
Like, he didn't have the energy anymore, which means stamina is a problem.
I told the guys my prediction was if Connor wins, he wins in the first round.
If it goes past first round, Dustin wins.
No question.
By the way, if he wouldn't have broken his leg, his ankle, say that wouldn't have happened to his ankle.
I think we got the shit kicked out of him in rounds of the ball.
Oh, it would have been done.
And it's even worse, and he's a bloody mess.
But you know what?
His strength, you know, his success came from his feet.
So if he can't have that as a weapon anymore, I mean, he's broken his leg twice now with kicks.
So, I mean, his number one strength has been completely neutered from him.
So there's no way he can compete at that level because he's not a boxer or a wrestler.
Let me tell you something.
You brought up a good point here that I don't know where UFC goes from here because I would call myself a casual fan, meaning I don't know much about UFC, but if Connor McGregor's fighting, I'm going to watch it.
Now, without Connor, I don't know who I would give two shits about.
I don't think so.
He's going to watch out.
I get that.
I'm just saying, me.
I wouldn't go watch out.
But let me know.
Dustin Porter fight.
Not Belfast.
Billy McGillick.
But you're going to watch.
Let me explain to you.
I'm not.
I promise you're going to watch.
It's not happening, Pat.
Let me tell you why you're going to watch.
Here's why you're going to watch.
Okay.
Never underestimate the power of a Dana White.
What are we talking about here?
Like, when Dana had a couple guys step away, you forget who stepped away.
Like, you want to go back and look at the list of players.
Put down the greatest UFC fighters of all time.
Can you put them up?
Just put the greatest UFC fighters of all time.
I don't know where you're going with this.
Nobody's even close to drawing what Connor does.
Listen.
But I'm willing to listen.
Stop.
Stop.
Go, greatest UFC fighters of all time.
When Khabib stepped away, they said it's over.
Who's going to watch it?
Okay.
Keep going up.
Keep going up.
Dude, I never even heard of Khabib.
BJ Pembroke.
But that's the point.
Royce Gracie, keep going.
These are all killers.
Keep going.
Keep going up.
Keep going up with these names.
Keep going up with these names.
Keep going.
Keep going up.
I haven't even heard of these names.
Top five.
Anderson Silva.
Go to top five.
Usman is still in the game.
You got Liddell.
He hasn't been relevant in 10 years.
I know when they stepped away, they said the league is that the UFC is going to be boring.
Keep going.
Keep going.
7-6.
Khabib's gone.
Cormier's gone.
A lot of these guys.
Jordan St. Pierre was like gone.
But what I'm trying to tell you is the franchise keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Anderson Silva was a god.
John Jones, God.
This guy's had gods.
John Jones would come in in the press conference, would knock the other guy out in press conference.
I mean, you're talking about guys that sold out arenas where people would come from around.
You got to bank on Dana.
But this is about Connor right now.
It's not about Dana.
Listen, I'm a buy and hold guy with Connor.
I bought his best card.
This is his rookie 2013 tops, UFC Bloodlines, PSA 10, Gem Mint, and Auto 10.
This is Connor.
I'm a buy and hold guy.
The only thing that concerns me about Connor is when he plays the spouse and the religion game.
You cannot do that.
You become a target.
You cannot play that game.
I understand.
Like, Ronda Rousey sent a message right afterwards.
I don't know if you guys saw what Rhonda said about him right afterwards.
Can you pull up Rhonda's tweet right afterwards towards Connor?
Did you guys read that?
No, I didn't see it.
So Rhonda said this about Connor the next, just pull it up.
Let's see.
Yeah, pull up.
Is it this one?
Okay.
He said, I'm amazed that as soon as you hit the ground, you were already promoting the next fight.
I definitely wouldn't have had that in mind to do that.
The other fighters, UFC and the media, are lucky to have you.
I disagree.
Everybody in the world is lucky to have Connor McGregor.
Everybody is lucky to have Connor McGregor.
But to have that mindset where you drop, first thing you're thinking about is the next fight.
Are you a promoter or a fighter?
I don't know.
Are you still promoting to make money?
So my mind goes to a couple different places.
Here's a couple different places it goes to with Connor.
Some guy right now commented and says he's not gone.
Somebody said, let me read who it was.
It says, Scott Smith gave 10 bucks in.
I'll make the argument.
Connor was dominating their second bout.
Connor looked amazing in the third bout.
I don't know about that.
Maybe in the first 90 seconds, but the moment he was down, he was gone.
Connor ain't done.
He was gearing up to take Pacquiao.
Okay, I agree.
Here's a problem, Scott, and it's my opinion, amateur opinion.
Somebody can destroy my argument, but this is my argument.
When I was talking to Tim Grover, here's what Tim Grover said.
Tim is training Jordan.
And when he's training Jordan, Jordan decides to go out there and play baseball.
He says, I want to go play baseball.
Tim says, the entire conditioning has officially changed.
This is what he means.
He says, to prepare your body for baseball is very different than preparing your body for basketball.
It's a very different conditioning.
And it's going to take a while to do that.
What's the point?
To prepare a conditioning for boxing, Pacquiao, is very different than to prepare a fight in UFC.
Boxing, you ain't going to the ground.
Everybody knows Connor's a great boxer, but his ground game is not the best.
You're going against guys where you have to spend majority of your time working in areas where you don't do well with.
Tell what happened with this guy.
He's been choked out.
He's been, Khabib got him on the ground.
He doesn't do well on the ground.
He didn't want to go down when he beat DS.
How did he beat DS?
First fight, he lost.
He went to the ground.
Second fight, if you see that one scene, I don't know if you guys remember this with DS.
They're going at it.
He's punching DS.
He falls down.
He punched him the second time.
He falls.
Remember that?
He punches him.
He falls down.
Absolutely.
And Diaz is like, come on.
Come on.
Come get me.
Connor's standing up.
He's not going.
That message tells you, you come to the ground, I'm going to destroy you.
And Connor says, I know I'm not good there, but I'm good at stand-up.
So a stand-up game, he's God.
But if you're going against some of these other guys, let me make a point.
I'm going to ask you a question.
One through 10, 10 being the most, one being, I don't give a shit.
Here we go.
Where are you being a fan of UFC?
I'm a fan.
What number?
Eight and a half.
You're an eight and a half.
Yeah.
Tom.
I'm a 6.5.
I'm a 5.
And I go for the star.
Okay, meaning a guy like you who's an eight and a half, a nine and 10, they're going to watch UFC regardless.
Six and a half, maybe you're going to watch, maybe not.
A five, I'm only watching if a guy like Connor McGregor is fighting.
If pick a name is fighting, pick a name.
Dude, I never even heard of Khabib until like a year ago.
Dana White doesn't give a shit to have a fan like you.
What are you talking about?
No, by the way, he does.
The conversation isn't about Dana White.
Are you out of your mind?
Dude, let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you a question.
You want a simple question?
How much money have you ever made for UFC?
You.
Like 50 bucks.
When was it?
I bought one fight with Connor.
Okay.
Now you haven't made him shit, so who cares if he loses you?
You got eye buttons.
No.
You don't mean anything to Dana White.
You're not a spender.
That's the wrong approach.
It's not the wrong approach.
Okay, I hear you on that.
You're not a spender.
You're not a guy that's bringing revenues to the brand.
That's like David Stern when he was promoting the NBA being like, we don't need to expand.
We have our base.
They love the NBA.
They're buying CC.
But that's not what Dana White said.
But then he invested in Jordan.
He invested in Iris.
He invested in Shaq and Kobe.
You're making a mistake in comparing Dana to freaking David Stone.
What are you talking about?
I'm just saying, Daniel's a lot of people.
Do you know what part of the next one?
Do you know what part of the world UFC's fighting?
Can you pull up different countries UFC has had a fight in?
Give me a, what you just said right there was ludicrous.
Says you know nothing about what's going on with UFC.
I'm just saying.
But you can casual fans of the future.
What are you talking about?
You're not a spender, though.
You're irrelevant to UFC.
You're only thinking in terms of monetization.
I'm talking about you.
You are irrelevant to UFC.
Yeah, that's it, Dana White.
Me and you are ducks.
You are irrelevant to UFC.
Here we go.
You ready?
Okay.
U.S., Brazil, Canada, U.K., Australia, Japan, China, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Ireland, Singapore, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Argentina, Chile, Croatia.
Do you want me to keep going?
This guy's a global brand.
He killed an island.
You've been nothing.
Dana White woke up saying I better get Adam Sausage as a bad guy.
I'm like, what are you thinking right now?
Oh, my God.
How the hell can we get it?
Go back to watching Winning the Pooh.
Stick to your Winning the Pooh fight.
You know what?
This was good.
They should sanction it.
I'd watch two rounds of this.
I'd pay $50 for you two to continue UFC.
The question isn't about Dana White.
He's the best commissioner in sports.
As a matter of fact, I'd make the argument that he should be.
I agree with you.
He should do a two-year term in every sport and fix every sport while he's at it.
By the way, I spent a couple hours with Dana White one time, flew up, hung out with him in his office, did this long interview with him.
His office, I may have mentioned this before.
You can tell there's no HR department at UFC when you walk into Dana White's office.
It is flat out unbelievable what you see in there.
But let me bring this back to the topic.
And you two are both delusional, and so is everybody else that said Connor McGregor is relevant as a UFC fighter.
A, number one, there's no sport where hunger controls everything.
If you're not hungry, you are dead or seriously injured in UFC.
You are completely irrelevant, and you have no chance to fight at the highest level.
What does he give it?
In his mind, part of it's going, I hope this ends soon.
I hope I don't get hurt.
He's not the same guy.
He is not the same guy as a fighter.
That doesn't mean he isn't one of the top global stars in the country and he's not going to be relevant forever.
He's Elvis in a jumpsuit as a fighter.
You want to know why I'm right on this one?
Oh, my God.
Because if we were talking about any other fighter other than Connor, this story would have been done in five minutes.
You guys have lost your mind.
Other than Connor McGregor.
No one gives a shit.
You've lost your mind.
You've lost your mind.
I'm out of control.
Let me ask you a question.
I'll watch if Dust in the Diamond Borre actually fights Dustin Diamond from Saint By the Bell.
Rest in peace.
Let me put it in the middle.
I'll watch that fight.
Shout out to Screech.
I miss you, buddy.
Let me put it to you this way.
Let me put it to you this way.
Any game that is very good with their number ones is going to have people that are going to work like dogs.
They're going to work like military work.
Like I'm talking work work to go be number ones because they take care of their number ones.
UFC may not be an organization that's known for taking care of their number 80 or their number 40.
We know the criticism Jake Paul goes after him.
A lot of people have been saying what they've been saying about the fact that a lot of the athletes are not making money.
But if there's one thing UFC is known for is what?
They take care of their number ones.
Their number ones are going to make a lot of money, right?
You know how many people right now are sitting there?
This is what they're thinking.
How many people right now are saying that position for number one is wide open?
I'm going to go get it.
Same thing happens to great sports.
When Jordan left, who's going to replace Jordan Kobe came?
Kobe left.
Who's going to replace him?
LeBron.
LeBron's always up.
Yes.
Look what's going on right now with Giannis.
Giannis, 2-1, they're down, but he's got 40 points back to back.
The last time I walked in 1971.
Oh, by the way, I just thought of something.
What's that?
The guy, I couldn't even tell you his name.
Tua Tia Takataka Taka.
He knocked the shit out of Greg Hardy and he drank a beer out of his shoe.
I'm in on that guy.
Who's that guy?
Will you spend 20 bucks on that guy?
I'm gonna go save that money.
However, what's that guy's name?
Not the customer.
I know who's not.
Doesn't matter.
What's his name?
Dude, what's his name?
PBD, what's his name?
Nobody knows his name.
Exactly.
Nobody knows his name.
That's exactly what's happening.
Out of your mind?
Are you insinuating that there is...
Me and you, we each take a tennis shoe and we chug a beer.
We'll donate the money to charity.
First of all, if you're watching this, if you're watching this, if you're watching this, I'm actually curious.
Let's see what the audience.
Let me actually look at the ratio.
Let me actually look at the ratio.
So right now we got 390 thumbs up to seven thumbs down, okay?
How many of you think that Connor is not done?
Put thumbs up.
Connor's not done.
As an elite fighter, listen, as an elite fighter, he's going to come back and he's going to put on a fight and he's going to win again and maybe even have a shot at a title fight.
He's 32 years old today.
How many guys think he's going to make a comeback?
Put thumbs up if you think he's going to make a comeback and redeem himself.
Thumbs up.
If you say the guy is done, it's retirement time, put thumbs down.
What do you think on which one it is?
Me, last week when the fight took place, I commented.
I said the fan base is lucky to have a guy like this who see him fight at his peak.
And we've been talking about Connor the moment he got that $200 million payday from proper 12.
It's a different Connor.
If he's not willing to listen to a guy like Tim what he just said and go into that place to want to fight again, we ain't going to see the best.
The best days of Connor are behind him.
If he does go to that dark place and really want to come back and make a comeback and redeem himself, we may see Connor.
I don't know how you see it right now.
Let's see what the ratios are.
Couple quick comments when you're ready.
Number one, the guy's name that I didn't know was Ty Tiavasa.
Toy Avasa.
Okay, that's number one.
Number two, in case we want to write this down, where did that go?
Where did that go?
Where did that go?
The guy who said he's 41 years old and he moved from Cuba when he was seven years old.
I'm looking for your comment.
What number should he call if that's the guy you want to talk to?
You have it?
Okay.
Oh, you have that guy.
Hey, by the way, how old was he when he moved?
Seven years ago, he was 18 when he came to the house.
Okay, good.
And shout out to Tom Zenner.
They said, these are my three favorite combo, Pat, Adam, and Tom.
Thanks, Crypto Mike.
Shout out to Tom Zenner right there.
Okay, thank you.
Hey, by the way, the guy had some great comments as Khabib after this fight.
And he broke it down and said, hey, this is who Connor is.
You know, when he was on the ground.
Now, TMZ had a story where there was a side angle of a camera where he was actually threatened to kill Poirier's wife and him.
He's going to shoot him in the head in the middle of the next class.
He can't do that.
So Khabib's point is this guy is nothing but a low-rank punk.
You know, his true color.
That's what Dustin called him.
He said this is a dirtbag.
Dirtbagbag.
He said he's a dirtbag.
Now, these guys have legitimate hate for him.
And the last thing that Connor McGregor wants to do is step in a ring with Khabib.
When he threw that stanchion at the bus in Brooklyn or in New York City at Madison Square.
But you know what?
In Connor's mind, it's all promotion.
And I think everything is on the table when it comes to him.
Everything.
And that's why the next step for him has to be an event that he can actually win.
He has no chance of winning a UFC fight unless he's fighting a guy like Sarone or Cowboy, the last guy he beat.
But that's who he can beat.
You beat that guy like three seconds ago.
Believe it or not, the ratios is 53 think his best, he can come back and have a title fight.
35 think he's done, which means a lot of people are saying the best days of Connor are behind him, and we may never see him.
By the way, I don't know if this is something we can pull up.
I'd like to see the numbers pay-per-view revenue with Connor, without Connor.
I bet you it's a complete different show.
Sure, it is.
Okay, sure.
That's my point.
There is a guy that you keep forgetting about.
You keep forgetting about the guy at the top who is one of.
He's forgetting about the greatest promoters, instigators of all time.
The guy's going to figure out a way to do it.
FYI.
I think there's only one Connor, though, bro.
Oh, my gosh.
Stop.
He's that brilliant of a marketer.
You know what?
Let me tell you something.
One of the things that I've been talking about.
Pat, you fucked right here.
One of the things I respect about what Michael said.
Well, Michael was coming up and he was retiring and he was done.
And then LeBron comes into the league and they ask him about Jersey.
Why you wear number six?
Why don't you wear number 23 and all this stuff?
And LeBron said, I think we should retire to number 23.
Nobody should ever wear it again.
Remember what Michael said?
Michael said, the NBA is bigger than one player.
He says, I appreciate the compliment, but the NBA is bigger than me.
It's a bigger franchise than I am.
It's going to continue.
What does LeBron do?
He goes and wears number 23 right afterwards.
Okay, I'm going to wear 23.
By the way, he's changing again for next year.
I'm not saying that.
I'm not disagreeing that the U.S., I'm not disagreeing with you.
I'm just saying that Connor gets eyeballs and there's no one even close.
That's my only question.
We'll see.
We'll see.
I don't think I debate that, but we'll see.
Okay.
Do we have our friend there from Cuba?
Yeah, he's on the phone.
I need, is he on the phone already or no?
I don't have the phone.
Where's the phone?
I am to your left.
To my left?
My phone.
Oh, it's right here.
All right, let's see.
Is he on there already or no?
Watch that, Trick.
How old is he?
41.
Oh, it's a different guy that I saw.
David Corral.
Where is David Corral?
Do we know where he's based?
David, where are you based out of?
Where are you based out of?
All right, I'm texting him right now.
David, if you're listening to me, where are you based out of?
Are you Florida-based?
Where are you based out of?
I mean, we're going to read a lot of this stuff that's going on in Cuba, and then I'll come to David.
I'd like to get two different people's perspective.
Is he the only one that we have, or we have a couple of them?
West Palm Beach.
Okay, sounds good.
Do we have another one as well?
Look at the two, and I'll come to you.
David, thank you.
He's from West Palm Beach.
Let me read you what's going on with Cuba.
Let me read you what's going on with Cuba and then we'll go from there.
Go to page eight.
We got a lot.
I got three stories to read.
I don't know if I'm going to read all three at the same time, but I got three stories to read.
Okay, so let's go into it.
So, number one: a New York Post story.
Cubans take the streets in massive anti-government protests.
Thousands of Cubans took the streets Sunday in protest of the country's food shortages and high prices and with the coronavirus pandemic.
The anti-government protests in the capital of Havana lasted about two and a half hours before it was broken up when a few protesters tossed cobblestones at police, leading to several arrests.
We are fed up with the cues and shortages.
That's why I'm here.
One middle-aged protester said the Communist Party is suffering from its worst economic crisis in decades and has recently seen a surge in coronavirus cases, coronavirus cases.
Cuba President Miguel Diaz-Canel undermined Sunday's demonstrations while visiting the small town of San Antonio de los Banos, which has been plagued by power shortages.
I'm going to continue.
The next story is from the Independent.
Cuba protests spread to Miami as president threatens battles in the streets.
By the way, I landed in Miami last night, okay?
When I was in, what do you call it, Miami airport, when this was happening?
MIA.
Everybody, traffic was the worst I've ever seen.
Flags everywhere, honking the horn.
You see it all over the place, right?
Well, the Miami airport is just outside of Little Havana.
Of course, 45 minutes away, yeah.
So thousands of Miami joined protests in solidarity with the Cuban people rallying against the government because of food and vaccine shortages and rising prices.
Cubans in the thousands also protested on Sunday against the government of president.
Communist Party, we know that.
The country is also struggling with the sanctions imposed by the Trump administration after President Barack Obama tried to normalize relations with the country.
Sunday's protest was one of the biggest anti-government demonstrations in memory.
The Associated Press writes.
And the last story I'll read is the following.
Cubans denounce misery in the biggest protests in decades.
The rallies widely viewed as astonishing for a country that limits dissent, were set off by economic crisis, etc., etc.
So, here's a New York Times tweet.
Can you pull up the New York Times tweet?
Pull up the New York Times tweet, which to me is very, very, folks.
I don't know if you saw this or not.
Did you see the New York Times tweet?
No, I'd like to see it, though.
Here's a New York Times tweet.
Here's a New York Times tweet.
Tell me what you think about this.
Shouting freedom and other anti-government slogans.
Let me read that to you again.
Shouting freedom and other anti-government slogans.
Hundreds of Cubans took the streets in the cities around the country on Sunday to protest food and medicine shortages and a remarkable eruption of discontent not seen in nearly 30 years.
Let me look at proper English.
I'm Middle Eastern.
English is my fifth language.
So I took EFL, not even ESL, because ESL is second language.
EFL is fifth language, right?
Okay.
I've never even heard of that.
I haven't either.
Shouting freedom and other anti-government slogans.
Does that mean the word freedom is a form of an anti-government slogan?
Yes.
Is that how I'm reading it?
If you're reading it, or is my English off?
No, you're correct.
So New York at the time.
The Times is saying freedom is an anti-government slogan.
That's what they're saying.
Of course, that's what they're saying.
Well, the other thing that they were shouting for the roof, they were saying libertad, libertad.
Have you ever seen Scarface?
Yeah.
That's what they're shouting at the people.
No, the only thing.
And the other thing they were saying was, we are not afraid.
We are not afraid.
Freedom, freedom, freedom.
Yeah, but what I'm saying is that I'm saying yes.
The answer is yes.
Now, the only thing open to international being anti-government.
The only thing open to interpretation is: are they referencing Cuba, where it's a communist country, and freedom does mean anti-government?
Or is that the New York Times philosophy in general?
Because that is not an act.
Every word is thought out very, very clearly through there, okay?
Well, so what's your point with that, Pat?
I'm feeling.
He's saying the New York Times is saying freedom is anti-government and that they're going to transpose that same thought process here, which is what essentially they're doing.
Yeah, I mean, New York Times is saying the word freedom is anti-government, anti-Cuban government.
No, And other anti-government slogans.
The word freedom is an anti-government slogan.
Since when has the word freedom been a bad word to use?
Since when has that been like, hey, any of these stuff?
Like today, if you today, watch this here.
Question for you.
If today you see somebody with a truck with an American flag on automatically, are they Democrats or Republicans?
Republican.
Why?
Why?
They're more patriotic.
But why, though?
I'm confused.
I've asked myself that same question.
Why?
I get that.
Being Democrat is somehow seen as less patriotic.
Yeah, but what I'm trying to tell you is Democrats are afraid to carry their flags.
Because when you drive down, when you drive down a house, if you see an American flag, most people are going to say that house is what?
It's a Republican house.
Why, though?
Why are Republicans proud to represent their flags and Democrats cannot represent their flag?
Because why is that?
Why is it patriotic to say freedom is good?
Why is it such an offensive word nowadays that New York Times has got the kind of influence they got to say, hey, freedom is an anti-government slogan?
What are you talking about?
What are we talking about here?
I escaped Iran to be here for what?
For freedom.
You know, when I was in Germany at a refugee camp, you know who was there?
People from Albania?
People from Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia doesn't even exist today.
Yugoslavia, Poland, Czechoslovakia.
Now it's not even Czechoslovakia.
Czechoslovakia, all these other places.
All countries that were under Soviet regime.
And we were all there.
We all had one in common.
We were begging for freedom.
Everybody was afraid to claim their religion.
Everybody was afraid to voice their thing called freedom.
And today, freedom is an anti-government slogan.
Wow.
You know, two weeks ago on the podcast, we were talking about CNN celebrating China's 100-year anniversary of communism.
And this ties in with what I'm going to ask you right now.
You look at CNN, you look at the New York Times.
As Donald Trump used to say, they're failing, right?
The failing New York Times.
But CNN's ratings speak for themselves.
You cannot have a 40% dip in your ratings and not have some sort of economic disaster with a company.
They go hand in hand.
So are they being secretly funded by China?
I mean, is that where the revenue gap is coming from?
From Cuba?
No, I'm talking about liberal media outlets.
I'm just wondering, is there a fundamental story?
Cuba is funded by China.
Just so you know, Cuba is funded by China.
China has a chokehold on Cuba.
There is a power of China coming in to use Cuba as a platform to that.
That is already one of their chess moves that they're talking about.
That's their profile.
That's exactly what they do.
Let me ask you.
Ty, do you have two instead of one?
I need two.
I need somebody in their late 30s and somebody in their 20s to give me two perspectives.
Maybe I'm just not understanding this, okay?
But in my opinion, and I could be wrong, you're going to probably teach me something as someone who basically had their freedom or rights taken away in Iran.
Yep.
Shouting freedom, liberta, or against the government in Cuba, anti-government, anti-communist, you know, regimes.
Why is that a bad thing?
I'm not understanding the whether this was the New York Times, New York Post, Washington Post.
I'm not understanding that.
Why is it a bad thing?
Yeah, like shouting freedom while you're under a communist regime is not a bad thing.
I don't think it is.
What I'm saying is a bad thing.
The fact that New York Times categorically puts the word freedom as an anti-government slogan.
Anti-Cuban government.
It said anti-government slogan.
But they're talking about Cuba.
It's not about, but what do you mean talking about Cuba?
It says whole stories about Cuba.
Maybe I'm not understanding.
Let me ask you, bring that tweet back up.
Are you sincerely telling me you don't see messaging in the title?
You don't see any, you don't read into the story.
I don't, but that's why I asked the question for you to inform me.
I'm thinking shouting freedom and other government slogans, hundreds of Cubans took to the streets.
So I'm thinking this is a Cuban story.
I'm not reading into it.
I get that.
This is American.
You know what they could have done?
They could have done shouting many other things, but saying freedom and other anti-government slogans, other anti-government slogans.
What is wrong with shouting freedom?
Nothing.
But New York Times is calling that an anti-government slogan.
But it is an anti-government slogan in Cuba.
You cannot, it's okay.
So in New York Times.
There's protests.
Let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you a question.
Is New York Times anti-government or pro-government?
I guess they're pro-government.
Guess they're pro-government?
What do you mean you guess they're pro-government?
I don't have like that strong opinion on New York Times.
I think this is a story about Cuba.
I'm not reading into it.
That's all body.
But that's why I asked the problem.
But that's the problem.
That's why I asked the question.
I'm not reading into it further.
That's the problem with the fact that you don't realize the power of wordsmithing.
Let me tell you, there was a movie called Flash of Genius.
You ever seen the movie Flash of Genius?
It's the story about the intermittent, what do you call it, windshield wiper.
The guy that invents the intermittent windshield wiper.
If you've never seen this, you got to watch this movie.
Okay?
He invents it.
He goes, presents it to Ford.
Ford steals it from him.
They say he didn't come up with it.
We came up with it.
He shows it to Chrysler, Ford, to everybody.
They take it.
He gets nothing for it.
He goes against them for years, loses his marriage, loses his kids, loses everything.
Eventually, years later, he gets paid $28 million.
And everybody had to officially say that this man invented the intermittent windshield wiper.
He represents himself because he has no money.
He's so broke.
And he gets up there and he says, Ford says to create the intermittent, what do you call it?
The windshield wiper, all you need is four pieces.
You need this, you need this, you need that, you need this.
Meaning Ford's trying to say it's not a big deal.
He didn't invent anything unique.
He says, you're right.
But I got a question for you.
I'm going to use a few words.
Tell me if you've ever used these words in your vocabulary.
You ever used the word success?
Yes.
You ever used the word high?
Yes.
You ever use the word happy?
You ever use the word the?
You ever use the word there?
Like, yeah, where are you going with this?
He says, how come you never wrote a best-selling book just like he puts the book up, which is the all-time best-selling book of all?
It sold, you know, hundreds of millions of copies.
How come you've never written a best-selling book?
All the words in this book are words you know.
But the problem with you is you don't know how to put the words in the right order to become a bestseller.
The author here did.
What I did is I know how to put those four items together that anybody could have done, and I invented it.
I own the rights to it.
They need to pay up, and they need to tell because you've cost me my marriage, my family, my kids.
They need to say publicly.
There is power in wordsmithing.
New York Times has a lot of influence, and they know how to put words together to manipulate the agenda they're trying to impose to the average American voter that doesn't read into it.
And they say freedom, anti-government slogan.
And they say, yeah, you know what?
Freedom.
Yeah, people who say freedom, people who say freedom, people who say freedom, they're probably Republicans.
No, freedom is why America is the greatest nation on the planet today.
It could still change.
Freedom is the reason why America is so special.
Freedom of speech, freedom of enterprise, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion.
I can go on with all these different freedoms that they provide you, but now it's an anti-government slogan.
Let me just say this, as a writer, that is 100% part of the New York Times messaging.
That is what they do.
It's subtle, but it's consistent and it's constant.
They use the word freedom as an anti-government slogan.
If they were doing what you think they were doing, because it's a story of Cuba, they should have said shouting freedom and other phrases in Cuba that might be interpreted as anti-government, comma, go on with it.
But they didn't do that.
So that's the exact.
That was like a 50 words rather than four words.
Yeah, but there's no limit on Twitter now.
But anyway, that's exactly what they did.
They made that.
They do it all the time.
Yeah.
Let me call this guy here.
David, I'm calling you here from Cuba.
Let's see what David has to say on what it is to have lived in Cuba for 15 years.
David, if you're listening, I'm calling you.
And the next person I'm calling right after this is Rolando Gonzalez.
David, can you hear us?
I called him.
Do you want me to put him on speaker or what do you want me to do?
He's on.
David, can you hear me?
Yes, I can hear you.
Okay, David, so tell us, tell us your background, what you do, what's your experience has been with Cuba, how many years you lived there.
Give us a little bit about your background.
30 seconds.
Hey, Patrick, first of all, thank you.
Thank you for having me.
I came to this country when I was 18 years old.
That was six years ago.
I came by myself, no family, only a couple of friends in here.
I've been listening to you for a long time.
I started my business listening to you.
So I love this country.
And one of the reasons I love this country is because you have at least two sides.
And that's what people don't understand about Cuba.
On the news right now, they're saying that we are protesting against COVID and against food.
Nothing like that.
In response to Adam, what are they saying about that?
It's because the news over here, they don't want to discuss against the socialists.
And the only reason that we are protesting in Cuban is because of the communist regime.
Nothing else.
We have been for 62 years.
We have no food.
We have no liberty.
Nothing.
So right now we're tired of all that.
And I'm sorry for my English.
I learned that you're doing a great job.
David, tell me, are you in communication with your family in Cuba right now?
Yeah, so what they did yesterday, after the first day of everything going to the street, they shut down the internet.
So right now they got our entire country on shutdown.
So the only way that we can spoke with them is paying money over here.
I'm making a pay money over there, but they cannot share anything that is happening right now.
So I spoke with my mom 20 minutes ago.
They got on like on the smaller towns, they got on the center of the town.
Got the president on the speaker shouting like everything is okay.
This is a fall of the United States because embargo.
There is no embargo because they still have gas, they are millionaires, and the people from Cuba are hungry.
And they are ripping the people from the United States here because we have to send anything to help our moms and our family in Cuba.
Like, for example, Patrick, my brother is a doctor.
He used to make $40 in Cuba a month.
That's high salary.
How much money?
$40 a month.
Wait, let me get this straight.
Your brother's a doctor.
He made $40 a month, is the highest salary in Cuba as a doctor.
And just to put that in perspective, right now, a Tylenol, like 10 pills of Tylenol for headaches, is $100 in Cuba.
Wow.
It's $100.
So think, Alan, think about that.
When you guys talk about socialism and communists and the left-wing, and I'm saying this, I really like you, and it's really good to have Democrat friends because I have Democrat friends, and all that's good.
That you guys are good because we need two sides.
You know, sometimes we are too over ourselves, and it's good to have two sides.
But the side that is ruling this country, the Democrats, the main guys, they're all corrupts because they don't even want to talk about Cuban right now because a lot of Cuban voted for Biden because the same reason that you say because you don't like Trump.
And we don't like Trump either, but we know that this was going to happen.
If we have Trump right now on business, even though that we don't like it, he was going to put a better position again in Cuba.
And the reason that Biden is not taking that position is because they are trying to protect their agenda, like the socialist agenda that they get.
So my brother was a doctor.
He made $40 in Cuban.
So he had to go work five, seven days a week.
And after he finished saving lives with the motorcycle that he bought, making a bakery in our home.
So he has to go to the doctor, save life, and then come back and spend four or five hours making like small bakeries to sell.
We help him.
My mom helping everybody help.
And that's the only way that you can survive in Cuba.
Let me ask you a question, David.
When Trump announced the sanctions nine months ago that he put on Cuba where no American person can stay on a property in Cuba, I believe that's a Cuban-owned property.
When he put those sanctions to hurt the economy of Cuba, to hopefully have a revolution where the people would go up against the government, how did the people in Cuba feel about Trump's sanctions he posed against Cuba?
Patrick, 95% of Cubans know that that is good because they, even without that sanctions, they're still having bath drones for 62 years.
There's nothing new.
For 62 years, we have to send money from here to the Awaster Union, let's say.
So what they do is they take your dollars, the dollar that I make, they keep it, and then they give you some monopoly dollars to the people.
So right now, instead of making, if I send $100 in Cuba right now, they only give it like $80.
And on paper, that doesn't work for nothing.
So everybody in Cuban, don't let the news from here letting you otherwise.
Everybody in Cuban knows that we have to be harder with the dictatorship because even though these sanctions don't affect enough in the country, they only affect the people on power.
They got Jasmine Libiza right now, Castro Sons, Catros Daughter, everybody is flying out.
Raul Castro, he took a plane yesterday to Venezuela.
So I've been talking, I've been texting to your program like for four months, four weeks ago, Patrick, because I know that you do a lot of interviews to everybody.
I've been following for a lot of years.
And I hope in the future you can do something about this.
The main reason that we got this socialist influence on the United States right now is Cuba.
Cuba is behind Venezuela.
Military in Cuba is ruling Venezuela.
Well, first of all, David, thank you so much for giving us your perspective of where you're at.
I appreciate you listening to this.
Completely different perspective on what you said on what's going on with Cuba.
Once again, thank you for your time, David.
Appreciate you.
And Padrick, hello?
Yeah.
I'm listening.
Go ahead.
Yeah, just want to shout out to my people in San Nicolas Di Paradise.
They came out to the street yesterday, but they're in smaller towns.
People in Havana come away.
Big cities are still out.
And for my people here in the United States, I want to let you know this is what happened when you let people from the government take your guns.
This is what happened with the government.
It's too big.
All this is stimulus shake.
That's what they do.
They give you free money now.
And then when they take it apart from you, 10 years, 15 years from now, you have nothing.
So you cannot defend yourself.
And Padre, for the people that are saying that this is a civil war, this is no civil war because we don't have guns.
They are killing my people in the town.
My people have nothing.
Not even alcohol bottles with fire.
They got nothing.
And they killed a kid yesterday, 13 years old.
The police killed a kid.
And they shoot somebody on the face right next to my town.
So they are killing my people.
Don't let the news say otherwise.
This is like Hong Kong, like everybody says.
They are trying to say something different.
No, my people is out of the street.
We don't have guns.
We are trying to take the gun from the police, but we can't.
We don't have guns.
They got task.
They got everybody.
Everybody in the United States right now is asking for intervention military in Cuba.
We don't care what happened next.
We just don't want to take territory there.
For all that I care, take over Cuban and make Cuban the next Puerto Rico.
Even if you want to stay, even if Elon Musk wants to send Tela Factory and make everybody on Cuba work for the minimum salary, they can do that.
We Cubans are a part of that.
We don't care about the communists, the social immunists.
That's why everybody in Cuban is voting for Trump.
Because something different was every people here asking, oh, well, Cuban people vote for Trump because this situation.
Every immigrant that is right here in this country right now, we have been running from a left government.
Running here from the left.
Oh, my gosh.
Well, we are right.
It's tough to debate that.
Now, this is first time.
David, once again, appreciate you, man.
Thank you so much.
Have a good one.
Appreciate it.
Anytime.
What a perspective.
What a perspective.
Don't you think we really have to follow what our reaction as a country is in Cuba?
Other than saying we're monitoring it?
I mean, don't we have to step in and help these people at some point?
Not militarily, though.
The perspective that the media gives you, they tell you the reason why this is happening is because of coronavirus.
Jen, what's it?
Saki, what's her name?
Jen Saki.
She said it's because we need to send them more vaccine shots.
That's why they're protesting.
They're not protesting vaccine buddies.
This is not a vaccine protest.
This is not a COVID protest.
This is they're sick and tired of a doctor making 40 bucks a month in Tylenol cost $100 for 10 pills.
You kidding me?
And you heard what he said about the gun thing where police killed a 13-year-old yesterday in the city in the town right next to the town he was living in.
Completely different perspective.
I'm going to call the next person here, Rolando Gonzalez.
He's a mechanical engineer from Cuba, moved at 26 years old and has lived here for lived in Florida for the last 14 years.
So 40 years old, 26 years in Cuba.
Let's see what perspective he's got for us.
Two things.
How are they shut off the internet?
I mean, how horrific is that for everybody?
They can't even communicate.
And they took their guns.
So forget about having a coup.
How do you communicate?
They haven't had guns.
Rolando, how are you?
Hi, Davey.
How are you doing?
I'm doing fine.
I appreciate it you take this time.
Anytime.
So give us perspective.
What do you think about what's going on?
And if you're communicating with your family in Cuba, what did they tell you that telling you that's happening over there that the media is not telling us?
First than anything, I want to say thank you to you guys, Tom, Adams, Patrick, Kai, everyone's there for, you know, help me to tell the world what is happening in Cuba.
Shout out to Davey.
He explained a lot.
I think right now we are on big problems.
I be in communication with my family yesterday night.
They were able to use VPN to get access to WhatsApp.
And they don't know.
I'm from a small town.
They don't know anything about what's happening around there.
I begin to send them pictures to them.
And I'm helping them to put the other cell phones that they got through VPN also.
So they can be able to see.
The big problem is we don't have internet.
They don't have communication in between.
They chop down the light.
They're playing something now they call Plan Cacique, which is like taking out the communication, take the towns.
They mobilize regular people to fight on different towns.
Let's say if you are from Miami, they take you from Miami to fight to Fall Lord the people, and then they bring people from Fall Lord to find Miami.
Why are they doing that?
What's the reason for doing that?
Well, they say in Cuba, you have to go to military service.
It's obligatory, right?
So they prepare you for that, right?
So what they're doing is they say, oh, these people are from, you know, is people that got influence from the United States.
So let's going to put it, you know, let's go to bring us to what we need or social shit.
You know, and there is communication between both ways.
The problem is you are from a small town.
You don't know anything what is happening in the town next to you.
And they take you there.
When they put you there, you don't know what you're fighting for.
You know, you were training to fight, you know, an enemy from outside of the country, not to your own people.
That's what they're doing.
I sent Kai on the text a picture how they are like two policemen with a young kid that's 13 years old that they kill.
They got, I sent you another video there also.
You can put it after 2nd 40.
You can see how like six, eight people beating to each other.
It's crazy.
What the police is doing is totally run.
Let me ask you a question.
Who's creating this division?
Is there division being created?
It's the government.
It's the government.
So how are they pinning people against each other?
What's their method of pinning people against each other?
Okay, so they go to your home says, okay, we got an intervention and we need your be a part of this one because you are part of the reserve, right?
They take you, they put you in another town.
You don't have any news.
You don't know anything.
Like the same.
You was talking about that news there that was totally run.
It's the same with CNN.
Yesterday now, I always say, what is this?
They're getting the information so wrong.
They don't get the right information.
Everything that David said before was right.
He was totally right.
They're manipulating the information, going in and out.
And here, the left is doing the same.
Let me ask you this other question.
When you are somebody that lived in Cuba for 26 years, you've been here for 14 years.
You're 40 years old.
I'm assuming you got a family, right?
You're a family man yourself.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Yes.
How do you see what's happening in America?
Do you see any similar trends with what's happening here with what happened in Cuba?
Do you see any similar trends?
Oh, definitely.
Definitely.
I would say something pretty.
Shout out to Ben Shapiro Jetta that he says something pretty good.
Let's take the people who doesn't love America, send them to Cuba.
And let's bring the people who love freedom, bring them here.
Yeah, to do that, that's going to be absolutely impossible because AOC will have a very hard time selling her $20 sweaters for $60 in Cuba because even a doctor couldn't afford to buy her sweater in Cuba.
Anyways, thank you, sir.
One question for us.
Yeah, go for it.
Sure.
What's your name again, buddy?
Rolando.
Rolando.
Un pregunta.
Yes, sir.
Other than the COVID, right?
Obviously, that's changed the world.
What's different now between five years ago, 10 years ago, 20 years ago?
Socialism, communism, Castro, they've been there.
What's different now other than COVID?
Okay, first, you back like, let's say a year ago, you got two currencies there.
You can buy a list with that two currencies.
Now, you get paid on Cuban money, but you cannot buy on Cuban money.
You have to buy with dollars.
Then they say, no, we don't want dollars.
We want Euros now.
So basically, they're paying you in Cuban money, but you cannot go and buy, let's say, a beer or just like cigarettes.
So you're saying the one thing that has changed is the currency that's accepted.
Well, again, this is just because they want the people from the outside paid their things.
You know, let's say if I send now money to my family, they cannot, let's say I put it here, $130.
My family get $100, but they don't get $100.
They get it in Cuban money.
Same thing David said, by the way.
They cannot go to the store and buy food.
They're taxing them.
So let me ask you a question.
So if you wire money from here, if you send money from your Western Union to your family in Cuba, they don't get it.
No, no, no, no.
You don't do Western market.
You don't do Western Union over there.
No, they go out of the country.
They go out of the country.
It's basically, if you go to the government, you put like 130 here, you probably get like 80 there, but always they don't have money.
Rolando, let's say.
Rolando, who is covering the story on media?
Like if you were to say a certain podcast, a certain news station, a certain newspaper that's covering the accurate stories of what's going on in Cuba, who would you say?
Okay.
Okay.
It's a radio guy from Miami that make an interview to Joe Tuel, which is a musician from Cuba who live in Miami.
They're covering the history pretty good there.
What's his name?
What's his name?
Joe Tuel.
Joe Tuel?
He's from the group Orichas.
Yeah, Joe Tuel.
Can you write that down?
Let's write that down.
Y-Y-O-U-T-E-L.
Y-O-U-T-E L. We'll try to get a hold of you.
Sorry.
Well, Y-O-T-U-E-L.
Y-O-T-U-E-L.
Yo, Tuel.
Yeah.
Yo Tuel.
These people are covering the history pretty good.
I would suggest to go to Facebook and look for people who are posting videos, you know, and all the news here and saying, oh, this protest was just on Sunday.
It wasn't just on Sunday.
It was Sunday, Monday, and still doing today again.
What's that?
But we are getting the videos pretty late.
Ricky always talks trash about Jorge Ramos.
What are your thoughts on Jorge Ramos?
i don't like it i don't see any honestly i don't see any lighting um media at all You don't see any what?
You don't see any what?
Oh, you mean for Univision?
Yeah.
Like Latinos, Latinos, Latinos media.
No.
No Univision, no Telemond.
Let me ask you a question.
Why are so many Latinos in America not supportive of what you stand for?
Why are so many Latinos and media who escaped socialism, who escaped the experiences they had, why are they not supporting, you know, and I'm not talking about everybody.
There's a lot of people that are.
There's a lot of people in media that'll say it's not fair what's going on.
And by the way, that could be on the left and the right.
You heard what Rubio said yesterday.
You heard what the mayor of Miami Swada said yesterday.
He was out there protesting.
He was out there representing the people on Sunday.
The regime must end now.
This is not negotiable.
Yeah, this is not negotiable.
Why are so many people in media just kind of like, oh, you know, it's COVID.
It's vaccine.
Because first thing is Patriot.
Language is a huge barrier.
And a lot of people coming from Cuba, they don't speak English.
Even my English is pretty bad, but I can understand everything.
People don't speak English, so the only way that they have to see is whatever they see on media on Telemundo's universal powerful point.
I will say, guys, I know what you're doing.
I follow you guys, and I think this is pretty good the way that you're doing.
Honestly, I open Google every morning, read the news, and the other way that I do is just go to your podcast.
Well, that's great to hear, and we appreciate the support.
Rolando, thank you so much for giving us perspective on how things are going right now in Cuba.
And we wish you and your family nothing but the very best, man.
Appreciate you.
Thank you.
Thank you, guys.
Take care.
Bye-bye.
How interesting is that?
You're hearing about.
You know, it's crazy.
Somebody commented and they said, now, has this become a right-wing podcast?
Is what somebody said.
No, not at all.
What part of what we just did?
Do we know who Rolando is?
I don't know.
I've never met this guy.
Do I know who David is?
I've never met David Brando.
We're getting perspective of what they're saying.
But because the story and a narrative they're saying doesn't match what Telemundo, what Univision, and what CNN, or what MSNBC, or what some others are saying, this is automatically a right-wing versus a group of people that are independent thinkers.
Yes, you may be a little bit more center-left.
Yes, I may be a little bit more center-right.
Yes, you may be a little bit whatever different feelings that we have.
But automatically, look where identity politics goes.
You automatically go, that's what this person is.
That's what that person is.
So let me just say something.
I'm born and raised in Miami.
I've grown up with Cubans all over, like, born and raised in Miami.
I mean, I grew up, I lived up until moving up to Voca, a mile outside of Little Havana.
Tons of Cuban friends.
I know the mayor very well.
I have tons of Cuban friends.
And this is nothing new, meaning they've been, they came here in the late 70s, early 80s.
Obviously, people came here in the 1950s after Castro, but people I know have been here for a long time.
This is nothing new in regards to, we've known what socialism and communism has done to Cuba and Venezuela for years.
What I think is happening now, where the COVID thing is, is one of the things that Cuba gets recognized for is their socialized medicine and socialized education.
And that is clearly falling apart right now.
COVID has exacerbated the problems that exist in communism.
Now there's food shortages.
Obviously, they turned off the internet, social unrest, high food prices, collapsing infrastructure.
Kai, I actually went to Cuba.
I don't know if we want to pull this up right now, but this is nothing new.
Miamians have been talking trash about Cuba forever.
So here's a good little story.
It's a nice facade of what's going on.
They got the nice cars, basically from the 1950s.
It looks great.
And this is the town center.
Kyle, we can just keep going.
But then you start driving around when you're in these cars and you see the actual infrastructure.
So I went to Cuba 2014, I want to say, under the Obama administration.
But basically, when you peel back from, you know, here's a guy, it was our driver, seemed like a happy guy.
But it seems nice.
It seems, what's the word that, you know, it's like a throwback almost.
But then when you actually get in the car and start driving around Cuba, here's what we saw.
You raise the list.
Volume, Kai.
All right.
So we're taking a tour in one of a 1960 Thunderbird.
And then we drive past this street right here.
People live there?
People live there.
That's what people live.
And here's what used to be a gorgeous building and then just crumbling infrastructure.
And that was my biggest takeaway from being in Cuba because we were there for 48 hours.
We had a good time.
You know, 12 Miami dudes having a nice time in Cuba for my friend Keith's Bachelor party.
But this is my biggest takeaway.
What's your point?
Here's my point.
The facade of communism looks great on the outside.
Nice, nice, you know, capital looks good.
You're in these nice cars.
Then you start driving into the neighborhoods.
My biggest takeaway is you see all these buildings that are gorgeous architecture, gorgeous, and then just crumbling, crumbling from the inside.
So we stayed in a nice hotel.
We're thinking, oh, this looks pretty cool.
No big deals.
It's nice here.
And then you start driving the streets and you start seeing the people that are going on there and the crumbling infrastructure.
And then you realize, oh, okay, that's what's going on behind the scenes.
Here, that building is an example.
I'll say this.
My heart goes out to every Cuban that's living in Cuba right now.
When you call your revolt and what you're doing, your uprising misery, you can understand what the conditions are.
And the government only makes it worse and worse and worse for them, taking their electricity, taking their internet.
So prayers for you guys.
And I'm hoping some people with money here at the United States, some influential Cubans, can do something.
I don't know what Cuban workers.
What he's trying to tell you is the fact that they're not even letting money get in there because they're taxing the money that's going into the system.
So they're not even letting that take place.
Anyway, so look, more power to Rolando and David for given perspective.
Now you kind of have an idea from people that live there and are saying what is currently taking place when they're communicating.
It's even hard for them to communicate with the people there.
Yesterday, AOC, go to AOC's Twitter account.
I don't know if she's already tweeted 40 other things.
We're not going to be able to find it.
But just go on Twitter, type an AOC, go to her, go straight to her.
Today's GOP, we are gutting the very Voting Rights Act King work for you.
You don't want to believe something?
There's a go up one more.
Like matter of fact, click on that one right there, the bottom one.
The one that says whites, it must be frankly said, okay, go up.
She says something else on the bottom.
Keep going right there.
The quote of King is not from an early work.
It is from one of his last words.
Where do we go from here?
Chaos or community.
If all sorts of folks who claim what MLK would do actually studies at work, they would understand he was a radical and an anti-capitalist too.
You know what's crazy?
She says that.
Now go to my Twitter account.
Go to my Twitter account and I retweeted her and I had my thoughts to say about this here.
Okay.
Go up and let me see where it's at.
There you go.
While the world is witnessing the people of Cuba protest against socialism and communism, you trash capitalism.
Terrible timing to bash capitalism, especially when you're the ultimate capitalist using your platform to sell $20 sweaters for $60, right?
So the point is, she has a platform to trash capitalism.
Young, innocent, naive people who have never lived in Cuba, who have never lived in Iran, who have never lived in a communistic regime before, look at that and say, oh my gosh, she knows what she's talking about.
Words have a lot of power.
And today, these words are influencing the younger audience to say, capitalism sucks, rich people suck.
Socialism is the way to go, right?
That's the direction we want to kind of pitch America to go.
The good news is that we're starting to see people like Ashton Kutcher, McCauley, some of these other guys are saying, I don't know if that's the direction we want to go.
Hopefully those people will rise up more and they'll push back some of these initiatives.
There's going to come a time, next 10 to 20 years, when she's going to run for president.
And I've already told you what my belief system is, what percentage it is.
The day she becomes a president, folks, be ready.
This is all I'm going to tell you.
The day she becomes a president, she is going.
If you fast forward between now and 20 years from now, how many followers do you think AOC is going to have in 20 years?
If right now she's got 12.5 million.
What do you think she's going to have in 10 years?
50 million?
What are you talking about?
In 10 years, how many followers do you think she'll have?
150, probably.
She's probably going to be 150 million follower person passing agenda like this.
What do you think is going to be the chance of her running?
Very, very high.
Brace for impact.
I had one of my employees, I was speaking to him.
I said, so house, family, house, kids, how's this?
He says, you know what, my wife and I made one decision.
What's that?
We're not going to have kids.
So why not?
So to be honest with you, we talked to the family about this.
This is a conservative family.
I said, why are you not having kids?
He says, Pat, with everything that's going on today, why have kids when we know whatever we do to raise the kids, the school, the media, everybody's trying to shape their way of thinking that we can't win that battle?
Did you see the video that I sent?
I don't know.
By the way, I think that's a horrible perspective.
It's not.
I don't know who said that, but it's not a problem.
But that's a decision a couple have to go.
Yeah, that's fine.
I don't know who said it.
I don't know why they said it.
I think that's a cop out.
First of all, I'm having four kids.
You think I'm sitting there agreeing with the guy?
What I'm trying to tell you is the fact that people are afraid of having kids because they're worried about how dangerous it is right now.
Like, if right now, if right now, you know, in the next 10 or 20 years, a person like AOC is going to be president.
You excited about it?
No, I wouldn't be excited about it, but that wouldn't prevent me from having kids.
Not saying you're not.
That's like a doomsday scenario.
It's like a prepper.
Whoever that is is like a prepper.
Not you, but there are a lot of people who are educated, smart people who are worried about what the future looks like.
The only reason somebody's not having kids today is because they're worried about the next 10, 20, 30 years.
Look, I get the guy's perspective.
I mean, look, yesterday, I'm flying here, and I get married.
I don't get it.
I guess a week ago, my daughter asked me, my daughter, Yvonne, asked me, hey, Dad, you think we're going to have to wear masks next year at school?
I said, no way.
Look at California's open right now.
It feels normal.
Everything's great.
There's no way.
Yesterday, they announced masks are mandatory.
I saw that.
And then they did an about face later, I think, and they said that every school district is going to be able to make that decision.
I was so depressed when I heard that.
I mean, they're coming after these kids again.
They've already robbed a year and a half of their life.
Literally, they've taken it from them.
The kids are never going to get it back.
Well, of course, they are going out masking.
They are going back to school.
And they were not in school.
Like, your kids were not in school all last year in California.
They didn't go back to school until April, and then it was like one or two hours a day, one or two days a week.
But at least for right now, school doesn't start until August, September.
Yeah, the plan is they're going back full time, but they better not be wearing masks.
That's all I can say.
But California can impose that on them if they wanted to.
It's that simple.
California can't say, you know, they're going to be not wearing masks or wearing masks, having to do that, and they have nothing to say.
You can't say nothing about that at all.
Larry Kudlow has a story that came out.
Let's go to page eight.
Here's what he had to say.
Larry Kudlow is with Fox Business.
He said, We are fighting for the souls of America, for the soul of America.
We are fighting for the very soul of this great country, and there's no better way to do it than to compare the ultra-blue state of California versus the ultra-red state of Florida.
California had some of the hardest COVID lockdown measures while Florida was among one of the first states to reopen way back in May of 2020.
California's economy has a 7.9% unemployment rate.
Florida is below 5%.
California has a 13.3% top income tax rate.
Florida does not have an income tax.
California has amongst the biggest homeless population in the country, though it has only 12% of America's population.
California has one quarter of America's homeless.
Let me read that one more time.
Even though California only has 12% of America's population, California has a quarter, 25% of America's homeless.
Florida is the America's freest state, according to Cato Institute survey, number one in fiscal freedom, number one in educational freedom.
Cato dubs California one of the least free states and flat out dubs it the most croniest state in the union New York Post columnist Kylie Smith Says, again, the most croniest state in the union.
Croniest means people who are able to buy politicians in that state to get any agenda they want to get past it.
Adam, you're a big Larry Kudlow guy.
What do you think about what he has to say about this?
Yeah, I actually, you know, he's on Fox Business.
He was at one point for a brief stint for like less than a year, Trump's economic advisor is on his council.
Look, you talked about being a wordsmith earlier about the New York Times.
Larry Kudlow did some wordsmithing here, especially.
Stats or wordsmithing?
Really?
Can I?
You call stats wordsmithing?
Can I say my point?
But you call stats.
Would you call wordsmithing?
I'm asking you a question.
Can I say my point?
You usually ask me, what's my point?
I'm about to get to my point.
I'm so talking about the stats.
Tell me, tell me that.
Here's my note.
Since you so rudely interrupted, sir.
Tell us.
I said, he's right, but it's over dramatic.
As an example, here's my problem with him.
Yeah.
The ultra red state of Florida.
Are you willing to say that Florida is ultra red?
By the way, today.
Texas isn't even ultra red.
Hear me out.
Today, today, many people would say Florida's more red than Texas today.
Many people would say Florida and Texas have switched in the last 18 months.
I don't agree with that.
However, I don't think I see the argument.
He may have been saying the government is ultra red.
But let's hear your brilliant point.
I think, look, as someone who has lived in Florida's all life, I think you would be willing to say DeSantis has done a good job here.
Marco Rubio, little Marco Rubio, Rick Scott, these are both senators, Republican senators.
I'm just keeping notes, buddy.
Keep nothing.
Alabama, West Virginia, Mississippi, states that no one's trying to live in, by the way.
When you move all youtame in, you didn't think, well, what's going on in West Virginia this month?
That didn't happen.
I definitely didn't think California and New York either, by the way.
Okay.
Exactly.
And the whole reason, look, the numbers are true.
I'm not debating that.
My whole thing was he's right, but it's dramatic.
It's a dramatic effect.
This is wordsmithing here.
The ultra-red state of Florida, no, this is as purple as it gets.
It's voted Clinton.
It's voted Obama.
It's voted Trump.
It's voted Biden.
Like, it goes either way.
However, I think Larry Kudlow has a major point here.
I'm in Florida.
I'm thankful living in Florida.
It's the freest state in the goddamn union.
Respect.
Now let's talk to a socialist over here from California.
Okay, go back to your point.
Yeah.
Wordsmithing stats.
I didn't say anything about the stats, Pat.
I agree with the stats.
I said he's right and he's true.
He's just over dramatic.
Okay, the over-dramatic part is really.
Which I disagree with.
Exactly.
That's my point.
But the stats tell a very and I agree with the stats.
I'm not questioning the stats.
The stats tell you.
Exactly.
I'm thankful to live in Florida and not California.
Let's talk to a California.
Do you know how many people I've brought over here?
Yeah.
And they've stayed here for a week, let's just say.
I went to a restaurant the other day, whatever it's called, Blue Moon, something, something.
It's right across Fort Lotto.
It's actually a real nice restaurant.
I don't know what it's called.
It's a nice restaurant.
You go pay lunch as like, you know, you pay six.
Blue martini.
I don't know what it's called.
Nice restaurant on the water.
So I'm there.
I'm leaving.
And I'm getting the valet.
This 65-year-old lady's outside with a mask on.
And she says, I cannot believe the level of irresponsibility of these people in Florida.
How do you guys dare walk around without a mask on?
And Dylan and Tico and Sena are right next to me, right?
And my dad next to me.
I'm like, really?
I said, ma'am, I'm so sorry you feel that way.
Where are you from?
I'm from California.
We are responsible there.
Really?
What part of California?
What do you know about California?
I said, I may know a little bit about California.
Where are you from?
Mission Viejo.
Do you know where that's at?
Yeah, I lived in California 24 years and SoCal.
Okay.
I said, you know what I've noticed about Californians?
She said, what?
I said, I've noticed in Californians, whether you're left or right, you're miserable today.
Why?
Because the ones who are on the left, who believe everybody should wear a mask, they think everybody's an idiot who doesn't wear a mask, and they're so bitter.
And the ones on the right are so bitter today because they don't want to be forced to wear a mask.
California has become bitter county.
And there's a lot of people that are bitter like yourself.
And nobody can make anybody happy in California.
That's why a lot of people, man, from your state, are coming to states like Texas and Florida.
Whatever.
What are the odds that she ran into you in the Valley line?
Come on.
So, anyways, what are your thoughts?
My thoughts are, hey, you know, I'm going to take the positive spin here.
12% of the population lives in California.
We have 25% of the homeless population.
We're overachievers.
I mean, we're amazing.
You know, here's the thing.
At what point do people with common sense and intelligence understand that it doesn't have to continue to be this way?
There are alternatives, and it starts with government.
And you know what?
We have the big election coming up here.
I don't know if we have a shot or not, but it's easy to take shots at California right now because we deserve it, and you don't see a lot of hope.
He's also very good at getting the attention.
He said that he sees Florida and South Florida replacing Wall Street.
I just don't see that happening.
Do you?
I mean, could you activate it?
It would take this state, state, like not state as a state of Texas.
It would take the state, the current state of economy in New York to stay like this for a decade.
If it does, it can happen.
But if it changes, if California and New York change within the next 18 months, let's just say Larry Elder announced yesterday he's running for governor for California.
I don't know if you heard that or not.
Last night, Larry Elders, you know who Larry Elder is, who helped flip, I think, black conservative.
He announced yesterday he's running for governor of the state of California.
David Rubin.
And Larry Elder's got a big following in the state of California.
He's got a big following, period.
He's obviously loved and hated because he's hated.
He's got a lot of people that can't stand what he stands for because he's a conservative in the state of California.
California is right now getting a lot of people that are going to be running.
If the politics in California and New York changes, there's no way that's going to be happening to Florida.
But if California and New York stay like this for another decade, he's absolutely right.
Florida will be the next Wall Street.
Well, I actually went down and did an episode for Value Tame and Economics at an event called ROI Miami.
And the whole theme was, is Miami becoming the next Silicon Valley?
And basically all these tech entrepreneurs, Wall Street type, Silicon Valley types, investors were, you know, coming to South Florida as their new haven to get away from what was going on in California.
It's ironic because there's another story here about the global venture funding.
They're basically saying, you know what the next Silicon Valley is?
Silicon Valley.
It's basically saying, sorry, Austin, sorry, Miami, but funding for companies in the Bay Area jumped 93% in 2020, which gave Silicon Valley its second consecutive $20 billion quarter.
It's still by far the largest tech hub.
So 10 years from now, maybe.
But right now, Silicon Valley is still the Silicon Valley.
All right.
So let's talk about the last story here.
We'll wrap up.
I really want to touch that Jokovich story, but to touch that story, we're not going to listen.
I want to touch it so bad.
I want to touch it so bad.
You have no idea.
I'm just going to give the business insider title is all I'm going to say.
This is all I'm going to say.
I don't know, Pat.
I'm not reading.
It's a business insider, which is a left-leaning newspaper website.
They're left-leaning inside.
No, no timeout.
They're left-leaning.
Business insider?
Novak.
Djokovic says he might refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus because the world, number one, is opposed to vaccinations.
That's the title of the Business Insider story.
If you haven't read it, I suggest you go read it.
Having said that, let's skip the story to the next story.
Let's talk about what our friend, Adam's best friend, Donald Trump, had to say about Facebook and Twitter.
He recently decided to sue those guys.
This is a Reuters story.
Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, and Google, claiming censorship.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against those guys, as well as their chief executives, alleging their unlawfully silenced conservative viewpoints.
A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of Miami alleged a California-based social media platform violated the right to freedom of speech guarantee by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Trump is seeking class action status for the lawsuit, meaning he would represent the interests of other users of Twitter, Facebook, Google, YouTube who allege they have been unfairly silenced.
He filed three lawsuits making similar allegations, one against Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, one against Twitter, Jack Dorsey, and one against Google, Sundar.
Okay, thoughts on this lawsuit?
I'm going to shock you.
Let's hear it.
actually i'm good with this i hope he i'm glad you are Yeah.
I mean, because you support this.
Meaning, if there's anything that I'm not a fan of, it's the big tech overreach that's happening in this country right now.
Conservative voices, they're running off to platforms like Parlor and other platforms that are happening right now.
I'd like to see where this goes.
At the same time, these private companies are going to basically say, look, we could do what we want.
I know Trump has not been a fan of Section 230.
Either is Biden.
Section 230 is the thing that's big up for debate.
But I'd like to see where this goes from here.
However, here's my prediction.
I know you talked about you don't want Trump to run.
You think he's going to run.
I think Trump is 1,000% running in 2024, but I actually do not think he has a chance unless he actually wins his lawsuit and can get on these platforms.
Without Twitter, without Facebook, without YouTube, without all that stuff, he doesn't have a chance.
Way too early to say he doesn't have a chance.
There's so many things that can change in this country.
My biggest takeaway from this is how he claims that Facebook was in cahoots essentially with the Centers for Disease Control and Fauci and to advance only the narrative that the defendants and Dr. Fauci subscribe.
I think you mean Fauci.
Yeah, Fauci.
By the way, he's 80 years old, by the way, and the highest paid government employee.
So there you go.
I want to watch that because now what are you hearing?
All you're hearing about is the Delta variant.
Yesterday, we already mentioned about the mask going back on the kids.
I'm worried about where things are going with COVID because they've used it in the past.
They're going to weaponize it again, and I'm scared.
What do you think, Pat?
I think, you know, Trump has sued 1,900 people prior to him running for president.
He's used to being litigious and suing people.
What that means out of his 1,900 lawsuits, like, is he going to win or make any kind of a headwave?
I don't know.
I don't know if anything's going to take place over there.
There's too many people that would love for him to not have the freedom to voice his opinion on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
And those people are on the left.
Now, somehow, some way, I will give you timing, and I'll give you a prediction here.
You ready?
I'm going to give you the craziest prediction here.
And I think I'm going to be right.
When did Pfizer announce that their vaccine is ready?
It was like right after the election.
Two days after the election.
You know when Trump's going to be free to have Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube back?
A day after election.
Midterms?
Not midterms.
2024.
He will be back on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in December of 2024.
That is my prediction, and I'm sticking to it.
And the people of power, no timing.
They've done a great job with this strategically.
Manipulative, dark, dirty, but they're going to play that card and they're going to say, yes, let's drag out this lawsuit.
Mr. Trump, you won, but December 2024.
And by that time, you're 78, which means for you to run at 82 will not happen.
That means we will never get a second term with the president.
You don't think that they're cunning and conniving to do something like that?
They're your friends.
Of course.
Yeah, so that's my prediction.
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Hopefully a lot of progress will be happening there.
Stay tuned to Thursday because you said you have a big announcement coming up on Friday.
This announcement is going to be made, and it'll be a topic of discussion.
We'll be talking about this a lot.
We're all excited to hear this.
It's going to cost me a lot of money, but I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is because I think this is something that's necessary for America to have.
