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PBD Podcast | EP 76

FaceTime or Ask Patrick any questions on https://minnect.com/ Patrick Bet-David Podcast Episode 76. Download the podcasts on all your favorite platforms https://bit.ly/3sFAW4N Check out the first episode of SporTZNow! - https://youtu.be/q7FtuOrakRU Text: PODCAST to 310.340.1132 to get added to the distribution list The Bet-David Podcast discusses current events, trending topics, and politics as they relate to life and business. Stay tuned for new episodes and guest appearances. Connect with Patrick on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patrickbetdavid/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/patrickbetdavid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PatrickBetDavid.Valuetainment About the host: Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of a financial services firm and the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurship with more than 3 million subscribers. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Your Next Five Moves (Simon & Schuster) and a keynote speaker. Bet-David is passionate about shaping the next generation of leaders by teaching the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and personal development while inspiring people to break free from limiting beliefs to achieve their dreams. Follow the guests in this episode: Tom Zenner: https://bit.ly/3jJ93CN Gerard Michaels: https://bit.ly/3fMja9z If you are a winner of the SUPERCHAT contest, please email: samuel@valuetainment.com To reach the Valuetainment team you can email: info@valuetainment.com Want Patrick on your podcast? - http://bit.ly/329MMGB #PBDPodcast 00:00 – Start 3:06 - Bezos Space Launch 15:07 - Elon Musk constrained by Tesla 24:15 - Elon Musk Exhaustion 29:32 - Space Jam 2 41:07 - Disney moving employees to FL 47:50 - Brandi Love/Transgender 1:01:03 - Drug overdose 1:09:23 - NY Mets Game 1:14:15 - CNN Interview 1:24:08 - DNC monitoring text 1:37:10 - Olympic Beds 1:45:53 - Yellen;Inflation FaceTime or Ask Patrick any questions on https://minnect.com/ Patrick Bet-David Podcast Episode 76. Download the podcasts on all your favorite platforms https://bit.ly/3sFAW4N Check out the first episode of SporTZNow! - https://youtu.be/q7FtuOrakRU Text: PODCAST to 310.340.1132 to get added to the distribution list The Bet-David Podcast discusses current events, trending topics, and politics as they relate to life and business. Stay tuned for new episodes and guest appearances. Connect with Patrick on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patrickbetdavid/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/patrickbetdavid Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PatrickBetDavid.Valuetainment About the host: Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of a financial services firm and the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurship with more than 3 million subscribers. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Your Next Five Moves (Simon & Schuster) and a keynote speaker. Bet-David is passionate about shaping the next generation of leaders by teaching the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and personal development while inspiring people to break free from limiting beliefs to achieve their dreams. Follow the guests in this episode: Tom Zenner: https://bit.ly/3jJ93CN Gerard Michaels: https://bit.ly/3fMja9z If you are a winner of the SUPERCHAT contest, please email: samuel@valuetainment.com To reach the Valuetainment team you can email: info@valuetainment.com Want Patrick on your podcast? - http://bit.ly/329MMGB #PBDPodcast 00:00 – Start 3:06 - Bezos Space Launch 15:07 - Elon Musk constrained by Tesla 24:15 - Elon Musk Exhaustion 29:32 - Space Jam 2 41:07 - Disney moving employees to FL 47:50 - Brandi Love/Transgender 1:01:03 - Drug overdose 1:09:23 - NY Mets Game 1:14:15 - CNN Interview 1:24:08 - DNC monitoring text 1:37:10 - Olympic Beds 1:45:53 - Yellen;Inflation

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	Are we live?
	We're live.
	We are officially live with episode number 76.
	We got 24 more to go for episode number 100.
	They say the first 100, you learn how to actually do a podcast.
	So we're still learning.
	We're still learning.
	Gerard, Tom.
	Have you guys ever been on together or no?
	You've always been somebody else, Phil Heath.
	Yeah.
	Once or twice.
	No, it's never just been Tom and I.
	This is the first time to do it.
	It's very attractive.
	Let's do it.
	Very attractive.
	Okay, so crazy stories.
	Crazy.
	We got a lot of crazy stories.
	We got anti-sex bets, the Olympics making, as if these Olympias cannot figure out a way to have sex.
	They found one good story for the base.
	Space Champ, which I have to say, I watched with the kids on Sunday.
	And I know you watched it last night.
	Have you seen it yet or no?
	No, I was just curious at what point did you walk out?
	Okay.
	So I'm going to give you very clear, you know, description of what happened with us when we watched it.
	Okay, cool.
	Probably one of the most uncomfortable interviews I've ever seen in my life was on CNN with Brian Stelter.
	I think we have to show that.
	It's something we have to talk about.
	And folks, I want you to make a decision whether you like it or not or if it's fair, but the guest was not holding back and it was disturbing, to say the least.
	Elon Musk says there's no way in the world Tesla would survive without him as a CEO.
	We'll see if you guys agree with that.
	I got some thoughts on that.
	Millennials are breaking away from their desk jobs and working remotely in places like Mexico, out of all the places, right?
	I guess if I was 20 years old, 18 years old, would I want to work at a, you know, from a home with my friends in Mexico at Masatlan?
	Yeah, it probably wouldn't be a bad idea, right?
	Yeah, totally in, right?
	Jeff Bezos is going to space.
	Literally, literally right now.
	Kai, you want to check to see if he's made it out there yet or not?
	Let's just keep checking on that.
	God willing, you'll stay there.
	Megan Fox, someone you're not a fan of.
	You have a very hard time.
	Hard is the key word.
	Yeah, so you and Megan Fox, you know, Gerard is infatuated the right word?
	I would drink her bathwater.
	Okay, that's enough.
	Who said that?
	Who said I would drink her bathwater?
	As the great Kevin Durant once said, I would drink her bathwater.
	Did he actually use that line?
	Yeah.
	Conservative porn star, Brandy Love, 48, is kicked out of Florida Republican Conference for high school kids because outraged parents complained.
	Okay, we'll cover that.
	We'll cover that as well.
	And then Bill Burr on CNN, they're effing treasonous, un-American pieces of shit.
	I mean, he just didn't hold back.
	This is Bill Burr saying that about the media.
	I mean, you have to, if it's gotten to a point where you have to kind of hold back from saying how you really feel, that filter is gone right now.
	CNN only makes news when people destroy them on air.
	Megan Fox, Bill Burr, in the same episode, this is like, I can't believe it.
	All right, let's start off with Elon Musk, I say.
	I said we're going to Elon Musk's card.
	Minute and a half to Jeff Bezos because it's a minute and a half.
	Can we see it?
	Can we at least take a look at it?
	Let me read that.
	Why don't you pull that up?
	Pat, on a scale of one to 10, how scared is Bezos right now?
	I say he's out of 40.
	I bet he is.
	I bet he's freaking out.
	This sounded good, you know, a while ago when he was talking to Laura and his girl about doing it and impressing her.
	But now that he's buckling in, come on, man.
	This Space Cowboy nerd is freaking out.
	I guarantee you.
	His ex-wife's thinking, I just should have held on a little longer.
	You seriously think people are saying they're hoping something happens.
	Yeah, I think so, man.
	Did you see what Tulsi Gabbard says?
	It's a do us a favor and stay there.
	Oh, I love Newsome Tulsi.
	Tulsi's like, do us a favor.
	Kai, can you pull up a video so we can see it on Twitter?
	Okay, is this it?
	Is this literally live right now?
	Is that what it looks like?
	Yeah, that's what the captain is.
	Are you just kidding me?
	Yeah.
	It's very phallic.
	This guy's taking a dildo in space.
	Open it up.
	Open it up?
	Open it up.
	Wow.
	Blue orchid, Texas.
	So it's going to go straight up and fall straight down.
	Three, two, one.
	Is there an audio or no?
	It's real for Bezos right now.
	Oh, my God.
	Do you guys remember the end of Austin Powers 1 when he goes to the outer space?
	This takes guts to get into that.
	There's no question about it.
	Johnson.
	That's an amazing view.
	Go, Jeff, go.
	Marko, Wally.
	How many flat earthers are tweeting right now that this is staged?
	Okay, so this is going to last.
	Tyler Irving's definitely watching this.
	He even put the testes on there.
	What's going on, Bezos?
	So they're going to burn all the fuel, and then that's when it starts coming down.
	It's going to go 62 miles up.
	Yeah.
	What do you mean?
	It's going to always be good when it starts coming down, Tom.
	That's the way it goes, bro.
	460.
	That's a cool sight.
	You think he's worried?
	Gerard, you think he's worried?
	I don't know.
	He's inside of a building that's strapped to a nuclear bomb that's going a thousand miles an hour.
	If you're not worried, you're probably not human.
	You actually think he's worried?
	I think so.
	I mean, this is uncharted territory.
	I mean, you can't prepare for this all the way.
	So I think a little bit.
	I think there's a reason why he brought people he loves the most.
	Who's in there with him?
	Let me just read who's in there with him.
	Let me.
	All right, Bezos, page four.
	This is actually happening.
	The richest man in the world is out there.
	He's in that capsule right there.
	Do you think the outside is ribbed for her pleasure?
	Now, Gerard, you either need to find a girl.
	You need some help, buddy.
	It's somebody.
	We thought it was Adam.
	It's Gerard.
	How does it be?
	Gerard's got Adam beat right now.
	Adam, if you're watching this, buddy, rockets for your entire life have looked like that, just so you know that.
	It's your mind that's screwed up right now.
	That all you see is a build over there.
	That's just a rocket.
	I can't think of one rocket I've ever seen in my life with a mushroom tip.
	Now it's Jeff Bezos' turn to make history with Flight Into Space.
	This is NBC News story.
	Just over a week after Richard Branson flew to the edge of space, fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos is set for a similarly high-stakes trip abroad, his own rocket.
	But unlike, keep it up, Kai, keep it up.
	Unlike Virgin Galactic Unity Space, the new Shepard rocket and capsule fly, autonomously without pilots on board.
	So there's no pilots on board.
	No, so they've just hit their max speed.
	It's leveling off.
	That's three times the speed of sound.
	Is this where the guy jumped out?
	Is this like the same height where that guy jumped?
	Well, they're 200,000, 212.
	Look at that.
	They're up there, man.
	Beautiful day.
	Okay, slowing down.
	What is the practical thing out?
	All jokes aside, what is the practical action?
	You know, why are they going through this billion-dollar space race?
	They don't tax in space.
	So it's like thinking, go live there for 181 days.
	You know, you're saving so much money.
	Are they going to look to mine on the moon?
	Are they resources short?
	They're going to charge 200 grand a flight for these things going forward.
	200G.
	By the way, did you know that the guy that paid $28 million to go up with these guys backed out?
	He didn't go.
	They had to go to plan B.
	They had to bring the 18-year-old kid that was on the next one.
	He didn't say why.
	I'm sure he pulled an Ashton Kutcher and his wife told him, You're not going.
	That's what happened with Kutcher.
	Yes.
	What happened with Ashton Kucher?
	Ash and Kutcher already paid for the next mission with Branson.
	Already paid for it.
	A couple hundred grand.
	And Mila said, You're not going.
	So he's not.
	So I said, Dude, where's your man card?
	I mean, come on.
	He's handing you a bunch of people.
	That truly Mila said, you're not going and he's not going.
	They had a conversation.
	She didn't feel comfortable with it, so he backed out.
	He's not doing it.
	If you got to lose your man card to anybody, Mila Kunis is an okay person to lose it to, I suppose.
	Best Mila Kunis movie.
	Best Mila Kunis movie has to be forgetting Sarah Marshall.
	I mean, I don't think there's anything.
	Oh, please, timeout.
	Friends with benefits with Justin Timberlake.
	Better than forgetting Sarah Marshall?
	Principal benefits is good, but it's not, and it's not Sarah Marshall.
	Let me tell you, Sarah Marshall is maybe it's got to go into the Smithsonian.
	It's one of those unique movies inside of you.
	Yeah, it's a it's a no one mentioned Black Swan.
	Oh, that was a good movie, too.
	Did you see that one?
	Yeah, yeah, okay.
	Yeah, so let's see here.
	Several other milestones may be set on this trip.
	Joining Bezos will be one passenger who stands to become the oldest person to reach space and another person who's the youngest.
	Wally Frank, 82, is a former test pilot who was one of the Mercury 13 women who underwent training in the 1960s to demonstrate that women could meet NASA standards for its astronaut corpse.
	At 18, the Dutch teenager Oliver Damon could become the youngest astronaut, rounding out the four-person crew as Jeff Bezos' brother, Mark.
	That's right.
	His going up with his brawl.
	You know, I think the scariest point for Bezos is when that parachute opens.
	You're dropping then.
	That's a long way to come down.
	So are they going to tell everybody right now?
	Do we see anything or no?
	They're going to release the video from inside after the fight.
	Some of them spinning around is going to come later.
	So right now, all you hear is them talking.
	That's awesome.
	He doesn't sound nervous, though.
	No, he doesn't, man.
	He doesn't.
	He's got $200,000 tickets to sell now.
	This is crazy.
	He's gone straight into sales.
	Let me ask you a question.
	If you're watching this, if you're watching this, and if you could afford it, thumbs up.
	$200,000 you'd spend to go there.
	Thumbs down, I could care less about going up there.
	Smash thumbs up if you would spend, if you had the money at $200,000 wasn't anything to you.
	Can you lower my audio by like 10%?
	If money wasn't an issue to you, would you spend $200,000 to go to space?
	Thumbs up.
	Thumbs down.
	I could care less about going to space.
	What's yours?
	Thumbs down.
	I don't like heights, number one.
	Okay.
	And I don't need thrills.
	I just don't need them in life.
	I don't need them.
	I get thrills other ways.
	I don't need to manufacture them by going up into space.
	I'm not into it.
	$200,000.
	I'd spend $200,000 to be weightless.
	I think, yeah.
	How much could Gerard bench in space?
	5 million pounds?
	He could lift that rocket.
	But would you want to do that?
	Would you want to go?
	Dude, yeah, I'm an adrenaline junkie for sure.
	So you would.
	Yeah, I think so.
	Kai, what's your what?
	David, I want you to think about it.
	Malin, I want you to think about Kai.
	Would you go 200,000?
	Money's not an issue.
	I would.
	You would.
	I wouldn't be one of the first people to do it, but like, I'd be maybe like 10 rounds in.
	I'd be careless.
	It's not only I could care.
	I hate roller coasters.
	They freak me out.
	I don't think I could make it.
	I just don't like the height.
	So you'd be the guy turning around, coming back top.
	Oh, you're damn right.
	I'd be raising my hand.
	Is it the roller coaster?
	Escort me down this.
	Isn't the audio is very loud, all in all.
	So lower at 10% total.
	It's a little too loud, if you ask me.
	Yeah, even for us.
	Okay.
	Is it the roller coaster that freaks you out, Tom, or is it the meth head running the roller coaster?
	See, I think I got a little more fake.
	I'll send this one out.
	If it's just commercialized and it's like a flight, let's do it.
	But if it's like this crazy tight spaceship, I'll send this one out.
	How funny would that be, though?
	And like, if this was so old hat in 50 years that they just have like old carnies running the running the rockets into space, yeah.
	There's like one guy with a Marlboro red hanging out the side of his mouth, like, hey, you ready to go up to Mars, but would you do it or no?
	Yeah, I would also have to wait for a couple runs.
	You would?
	But I mean, I like roller coasters and adrenaline, but that's risking your whole life.
	Yeah.
	I agree.
	You're going.
	You've got motorcycles.
	I would, I mean, to me, but I will tell you, I don't like tight spaces.
	I'm not a fan of tight spaces, but I would go.
	So, okay, so it landed back.
	That's insane.
	Then it came right back on that landing spot, isn't it?
	It looks kind of burnt.
	Fully.
	It needs a car wash.
	So it's coming back down.
	That's not that, man.
	That's it.
	Yep.
	Well, now they're on their way down.
	I think they got like three minutes where they get to do cartwheels and stuff.
	So we can get this in clear 6K HD, but every freaking UFO video that we see is like a dot matrix from an old school Game Boy.
	Come on.
	It's a hell of a steady cam they have.
	Yeah.
	I mean, there you go.
	If you would have said years ago, one day there's going to come a time where we can go to space for 200 grand a pop.
	I actually think this is going to be a business model.
	And I think.
	The next thing is who can Kai, can you lower the audio at this point?
	I think the next thing is how creative they get with this.
	Meaning, what else is going to happen?
	You know, now it's a publicity stunt.
	Now it's going to be like, who's going to be in it?
	What celebrity?
	Are they going to be able to pull a Kardashian, a Rock, a Ronaldo, a Messi, somebody that's going to want to go like, you got to market this thing for people to say, I want to go do it.
	Is a YouTuber going to go on there, make a video about it and get like, you know, 200 million views?
	And oh my gosh, you got to do it like at a discounted rate.
	What's going to be next?
	Here's what's going to be the next thing.
	Join the 30-mile high club.
	And you go up there.
	Couldn't you see some points?
	You just fired Gerard up right now.
	Now it makes sense.
	Now you're in it for sure.
	It's paid by the hour.
	I like it.
	Yeah.
	Folks, we were able to get.
	So by the way, just so you know, most people want to go.
	Everybody wants to go.
	I mean, it's a nine-to-one who wants to go and who doesn't want to go.
	Nine to one who says, threaten me again.
	I'll take this company private.
	Just one more time.
	Just one more time.
	Don't let me do what I want to do with my own company and I will pull the plug.
	I don't need the money.
	I will take this thing private.
	I'm going to give you a completely different perspective from what you guys just said here.
	He's playing with fire.
	And here's what I mean by he's playing with fire.
	So a company is like a government.
	You have to realize each company is like a government.
	It's got the people in the middle who are the best people to bounce ideas off of because they'll be like, okay, let me think about it.
	And then they're reasonable.
	Yeah, I don't know about that, Gerard.
	I don't know if I like that idea.
	And they'll sincerely tell you, I don't know if I like that idea.
	Are you talking about his fellow executives or yeah, I'm talking executives?
	Yeah, I'm talking like board, executive people you're working with.
	So you got the C-suites, you got the board, right?
	There's people on the board that are like, yeah, you know, we should actually consider it.
	You know what?
	Why don't we have a couple people run some numbers here and see what that looks like?
	If we were to make a half a billion dollar investment into dot, dot, dot, right?
	Then there are those that no matter what he says, they're going to say no to.
	Then there are those that no matter what he says, they're going to say yes to, right?
	So then there's gridlock on the board.
	When there's gridlock in the board, the founder, the driver, the CEO loses his or her mind when there's gridlock.
	This is why you're talking 51% rule.
	Or if your name is Mark Zuckerberg, you keep it at 26% and you're out of Delaware, which means you still have 2X amount of votes, which is 52%.
	So you can still have control no matter what anybody else says.
	Even though you're not a 51% owner, you can still set it up that way to have the influence, right?
	But at the same time, you have to know that the no people, the people that are just automatic no's, they're typically the ones that are more pro-government and more, you know, regulation, some of that stuff.
	Bureaucrats, they're bureaucrats.
	Yes, they're bureaucrats, right?
	So they're a little bit afraid of what could happen.
	So they're one step away.
	If you piss me off, I may not be able to do anything to you, but I know how to make your life a living hell.
	Okay.
	Which means going to who?
	Oh, they're litigators.
	They go right to lawyers.
	They go not to lawyers, buddy.
	It's the SEC.
	They go back to making his life a living hell.
	And these are people that he put on his board that would do that?
	Not necessarily he put on his board.
	So he can nominate some people to be on his board.
	Others can nominate to be on his board.
	You don't necessarily have everybody you choose to be on your board.
	I don't understand how that works.
	Can you give me like a two-minute on that?
	Okay, so let's just say you come in and you say, I'm going to raise a billion.
	I'm going to raise.
	Let's start a small company.
	Okay.
	It's the two of you start a small company together.
	But you're getting to a point like even yesterday, I'm interviewing Dave's Killer Bread.
	You know, Dave's killer bread?
	Great, bro.
	I'm interviewing the guy, right?
	They start the business.
	They go from doing 200 loaves a week to doing 500,000 loaves a week.
	He says, we don't have money to, because we keep running out of money.
	We don't know what to do.
	So then eventually Flower Foods comes in and buys them out.
	And now they're doing 10 million a week, loaves of bread per week.
	He gets $275 million cash deal.
	But out of the $275 million cash deal, he only got $33 million.
	Why?
	Poor guy.
	Here's why.
	Here's why.
	Because when you're growing, you don't have funds.
	So you have to go grow and raise capital.
	So you come, let's just say to me, and you say, Pat, we need about $10 million.
	I said, I'll give you $10 million.
	Great.
	In return, I want you to have a seven-man board seat.
	Out of your seven-man board seat, I want three seats.
	Okay.
	That's how it works.
	Gotcha.
	So you say, okay, so the four board seat, it's going to be what?
	You, Tom, and you pick whoever else the two are, and I bring my three.
	The goal with the money guy is to maybe win one more board seat.
	If I win one more board seat, you can come up with all the craziest ideas you want, but that doesn't necessarily mean that your idea is going to win.
	It's like a corporate filibuster.
	In other words, kind of like what's going on right now in Senate or Congress where it's like a blockade or nothing really gets.
	Oh, man, that's kind of a deal with the devil.
	So you need the money to run your business, but then they take your business from you.
	Yes.
	So it's not just a share.
	So many times people think when you're bringing a money person in, you're worried about the equity you're giving up.
	Now it's the control you're giving up.
	So Tasmanian devils like Elon Musk don't do well with control.
	But he has to understand you're not worth 50 million.
	You're not worth 20 million.
	You're worth $150 to $200 billion on Monday.
	You could be worth $120 million.
	Friday you could be worth $200 billion.
	The GDP of a small island.
	It's absolutely the GDP of a good-sized island, right?
	Okay.
	So if he goes in the offensive the way he is, he has to know all the money in the world, even if he's worth a trillion dollars, the government doesn't give a shit how much you're worth.
	Regulation has the government has a history of ruining people's lives who have a lot of money that think they can open their mouth and say anything.
	He has to understand that.
	And he has to make some friends.
	Or he's got to be willing to go all in.
	If he does go all in, if he does go all in, there are way too many people that would team up against him.
	There's a country that doesn't like him too much.
	And you know what that country is called.
	He went in thinking he can make a deal with them.
	And what did they all of a sudden do?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Bring your cars over here.
	We'll do a deal with you.
	We learn everything about what your cars are.
	out of here.
	We're good.
	We got to figure it out.
	That country's name is.
	Happy 100th birthday to the battle.
	That's right.
	All I'm saying to, all I'm saying about what he's doing right now.
	And by the way, another part.
	I'll give you another part.
	When you say the company would flop without me, okay.
	Now imagine you're the CMO of that company.
	You're busting your ass working 80 hours a week.
	The CEO says, the company would be nothing without me.
	Do you really want to work for that CEO?
	Well, keep in mind, they don't do marketing, though.
	What do you mean they don't do marketing?
	A form of marketing is putting your stores in the malls, and that's a form of marketing.
	Okay.
	A form of marketing is that video.
	You're doing advertising.
	No, no, I know that.
	But a form of marketing is you make a video for Instagram, YouTube, Twitter.
	That's all marketing, right?
	Imagine you're his CFO.
	Imagine you're his CRO.
	Imagine you're his COO.
	Imagine you're his president.
	And the guy says, you guys are not going to do anything without me.
	You think there's cohesiveness on the team right now?
	I think there's a certain part of a rift going on right now on that team because there's only so much C-suite executives can take you to say, dude, I'm going to go somewhere else to be appreciated.
	So again, the board is forcing him to pin himself against his executives.
	It's not a good look.
	I agree with you that they're probably pissed off and that they don't feel validated and worth what they feel they are when he says that.
	But I also believe it's true.
	There are some companies that the leader is so dynamic and so remember when they had.
	I would say it's not true.
	Okay.
	Keep going.
	Remember when they had a business?
	Man, I literally worked for one of those companies.
	Hey, remember when they had the situation maybe two years ago where they weren't producing the model, the E or whatever?
	And he had to go and save the company right there.
	Yeah.
	So it's a tug of war because he's right.
	And he is going to lose some good executives along the way.
	But I don't know.
	Don't you think that he thinks if I lost Tesla, I'll just go build another one?
	Yeah, but here's a saying, buddy.
	Like, this is how I, again, listen, Elon Musk is Elon Musk.
	I admire this man for what he's done.
	And God knows he's done more good for the world than bad.
	So we have to keep a guy like this sane to keep producing and solving many big problems because he vibrates at a level other people don't.
	But this is the one part to keep in mind.
	When you're good, talk about it.
	Promote it if you're good at something.
	But when you're great, you don't talk about it.
	Other people do.
	Other people do.
	Michael Jordan never went on talking about how great he is.
	LeBron, on the other hand.
	LeBron, on the other hand, is a different story.
	But Michael Jordan just went and showed you greatness.
	And then you said, this man is great.
	Elon Musk is great.
	You don't need to tell us.
	We know already you're great.
	All right, you just said something.
	You got to keep him, got to keep himself sane.
	He's going in there.
	He's working 18-hour days.
	He says he only sleeps four hours.
	How long can you keep that up before there's burnout?
	How long?
	Like, just because you're an executive doesn't mean you're not a human.
	And that's just one of the things.
	Yeah, there has to be, like, we expect these people to function at such a high level.
	You got a Ferrari, best car in the world.
	You keep it in the red for too long.
	The engine explodes.
	I don't disagree.
	But here's what happens, just so you know what happens if you're redlining it too much.
	You know what happens?
	Happened to me a handful of times in my career.
	When I'm pushing too hard, and again, this scares the hell out of some people.
	When I'm pushing too hard, my body just shuts down.
	You go to the emergency room, you get IV'd up, and people tell, you know, your body's purely on exhaustion.
	One time I was on a two-week road trip visiting all these offices, and I was going on two to four hours of sleep a night.
	It's just, you know, very difficult.
	When I came back on two o'clock in the morning, I don't even know what's going on in my body.
	I went to the hospital, and next thing you know, they checked me out, they put the IV in me.
	They said, sir, I said, is it my heart?
	He says, no, your heart is fine.
	Everything's functioning well.
	Your body's just telling, you are freaking exhausted, is what it is.
	This happens to athletes who are pushing the limits.
	This happens to military.
	This happens to business people.
	And he's testing.
	And by the way, eventually something's going to happen to his health.
	And that's what gets him.
	Like, you know, when a lot of these people, business people, they hit a wall and then there's a health issue and they're like, I better start paying attention to it.
	He's going to pay attention to it as well.
	But I think for him, you're not going to slow him down.
	Like, is someone going to sit this guy down and say, hey, Elon, I think you need to get seven hours of sleep to re-reach REM?
	He ain't going to listen to nobody.
	No, if you.
	You don't even think it's that, though.
	I'm talking about like when I get tired, you know, my patience is the first thing that goes.
	And this might be something tweeting two o'clock in the morning after 48 hours of working where he just doesn't have patience.
	He just doesn't have the patience.
	You know what I'm saying?
	For me, when I get worn down, you get the physical that you're talking about, but the mental drain is even worse where I just, I don't have the patience for something small that I would have been able to be like, all right, no worries about it.
	We'll talk about it tomorrow when I was functioning at a level I should be functioning at.
	11 hours later, I'm just like, dude, why would you even ask me something so stupid?
	Like you snap at something like that.
	The patience goes.
	I think if you read between these lines with his quotes, too, I think he feels trapped because he's built such I don't disagree.
	Yeah, I think he's built such a behemoth.
	He wishes he had that exit button.
	He knows he can't leave.
	He knows that company, A, it's physically impossible for him to leave that company.
	But if he could, and that's why he's doing Saturday Night Live, and that's why he's going over to Richard Branson's cheap kitchen the night of his flight.
	By the way, there's some great memes with Musk and Branson in that kitchen together, but he would exit stage left if he could.
	I don't disagree with that as well.
	Listen, sometimes, remember the last dance when Michael's going through his back-to-back-to-back, then his father, then the whole thing is just like, I just want to get away.
	Guy would be in a hotel.
	Remember that one scene where he's just sitting in the hotel and just waiting for the game?
	Just doesn't look happy.
	He looked miserable.
	Like, you're like, you wanted this your entire life now.
	But.
	Dennis Rodman, I need three days in Vegas.
	He had to come back.
	He had to come back and figure out a way how to deal with media and do it in a way where it worked for him.
	The second time around, if you ever watch Michael first time around media, second time around media, it's as if that year and a half got him to straighten out his relationship with the media and he learned how to deal with them.
	I think Elon's got to, you know.
	Step away.
	Yeah.
	I think he's got a maybe six-month hiatus.
	You just got to go away, bro.
	Just go do your thing.
	Spend some time with your kids, with your wife, with whatever you want to do.
	Keep it low, keep figure yourself out and come back out because the way he's going right now, I think he's going to, they're not going to let him go at the pace he's going right now.
	They're just not.
	He's going to show up.
	And he's got two other big companies that he's trying to run as well.
	Like if he takes some time away from Tesla, he still has, you know, the rocket company, and then he's still got his solar company, and then he still has his boring company and trying to save the world.
	He's a rock star, man.
	You know, he's the kind of guy that a thousand years from now, if we don't have Armageddon happen with dinosaurs showing back up, people are going to read about Elon Musk.
	And Elon Musk is going to be a Rockefeller chase type of a guy.
	He's a once-in-a-lifetime generation type of guy.
	We got to appreciate the guy when he's here.
	So, okay, let's talk about Space Jam.
	Let's go to Space Jam.
	Okay, I'm going to talk about Space Jam, and then we'll see what the article has to say.
	Page nine, if you want to go to it, and then we'll cover that.
	And you said, by the way, Tom, you said you've seen it as well.
	I have not seen it.
	You have not seen it.
	Okay.
	LeBron James sends a message to haters as Space Jam takes over box office.
	This is a New York Post story.
	LeBron Jam sends a message to the world as his new film takes over the box office.
	James took to Twitter to link an article stating, Space Jam, a new legacy, is set to finish the weekend at number one with a projected $32 million opening, beating out black widow.
	Hi, haters.
	James Road Kai.
	Can you pull up this Twitter tweet, please?
	Hi, haters.
	The sequel to 1996, Michael Jordan Let Space Jam, pulled in more than $13 million on Friday despite poor reviews.
	The movie, which reportedly cost $150 million to make, is also available on HBO Max.
	Other hoop stars who appear in the Space Jam sequel include Anthony Davis, Damian Lillard, Diana Terusi, and Clay Thompson.
	So having said that, Gerard, you watched it last night.
	Tell us about it.
	Space Jam, the original Space Jam is one of my favorite movies.
	And in fairness, I'm not a LeBron James fan.
	But I thought, okay, listen, it's a kids' movie.
	They can polish his image, right?
	And all this thing was the first 15 minutes were the most self-aggrandizing, arrogant thing I've ever seen in my life.
	Juxtaposing against the original Space Jam, where the first 10 minutes, 15 minutes were Michael Jordan joking about himself.
	It was self-deprecating.
	Right there, just the self-awareness of what you need to know.
	LeBron James being called king and showing why he's the greatest thing in the world, versus Michael Jordan cracking on himself.
	Right off the bat, that's all you need to know about the two guys and the way that they maintain their brand.
	But I watched it.
	I got all the way through it, and it had some unbelievably talented people.
	Don Cheadle, Ryan Kugler.
	The animation was terrific.
	Don Cheadle killed it, bro.
	It was like seven jokes.
	And I sat there after an hour and a half.
	And I felt like I was in some sort of mental gulag.
	I have no idea why I did this, 90 minutes of my life on this.
	And I said, you know, I'm not positive if this is true, but I think I can make an argument that Casey Anthony is a better mother than Space Jam is a movie.
	I think he didn't care for it.
	I'm not really in the, you know, I don't like ripping other artists and stuff like that, man.
	And, you know, $150 million, some unbelievable guys.
	That's great, but this was the single worst thing I think I've ever, this was the room bad.
	This was, oh, high mark level bad.
	This was, oh, man, I don't even, like, this should be classified as a war crime.
	This thing was horrible.
	How they're showing this to children.
	That's bad to you.
	Oh, my God.
	Now, Gerard doesn't have children, right?
	So it's not like you were sitting there with a couple of kids that might have been.
	All right.
	Doug it.
	So you have any thoughts on it?
	I have some thoughts on it.
	Number one, I think this is all spin, right?
	I think LeBron can come out and hey, haters, scoreboard.
	But you know what?
	If this was a normal times, that's not a good debut.
	$32 million is not a good Friday through Sunday debut.
	As a matter of fact, it's right up there with Robert Downey Jr.'s Doolittle.
	All right.
	He did the exact same damn thing in 2020, and that was considered one of the probably the biggest flop of Downey's career.
	So, A, you have limited releases right now.
	Okay.
	There's just not that many movies.
	There's not that many options out there.
	B, you know, if you compare it to what Michael debuted with, what Jerry Maguire was out at that time.
	I mean, there were some big, big movies and some competition.
	I give LeBron credit.
	Shows up at the finals with his own bottle of tequila that he's promoting, and he's got the movie.
	If he was in the finals, this thing would have done even better, right?
	Because that's a running commercial.
	But that was the plan, though.
	If you look at the date when it came out, the plan was he would be in the finals.
	Yeah, so I think this is a little bit of a disappointment, but all in all, it's going to do well.
	It's going to do a couple hundred million worldwide, especially when you bring in the streaming numbers.
	He just doesn't know how to have fun.
	He's like the least fun human being.
	Like the dude is A-Rod, man.
	Like, it's like so image conscious.
	He just, everything comes off as so canned.
	You were right.
	I felt like I was watching LeBron James propaganda.
	This was not a fun movie at all.
	So here's what happened with me.
	Kai, go back to the tweet that I sent to you.
	Like, go to that.
	So here's what I said.
	I responded back to him.
	I said, Jordan versus LeBron Space Jam.
	Space Jam 1 MJ.
	Budget 80 million.
	Box office, 250.2 million in 1997, not including inflation, no streaming, no social media.
	Space Jam 2, budget 150, box office, it would need to do $471 million to match Space Jam 1.
	No hater here, just simple data, right?
	That's what I responded.
	Okay.
	So now, two hours after this tweet goes out, I take the kids to go watch it.
	So it's myself and the kids and Mario and Carol.
	So we go to watch the, we go to watch the, what do you call it, the movie.
	And for me, the first 15 minutes just looked pretty much what you said.
	It looked like a documentary.
	It didn't look like a movie.
	It looked like how great he is, his highlight reel, all that stuff, right?
	And then the story starts, and it's the story of father's son, and you know, he's forced him to be a basketball player, and this guy's a gamer.
	And, you know, hey, I saw that part.
	The emotional connection about a father trying to get his kids to be like him.
	It's a very difficult position.
	It's LeBron James.
	This guy is the greatest basketball player in the world as of three years ago, right?
	I mean, he's changed the last two or three years.
	The greatest basketball player around the world.
	So the storyline was great.
	So I asked my kids afterwards, not gonna lie to you, the last 45 minutes, I was knocked out.
	It was the best sleep I had in a long time.
	Not to take shots at the movie.
	Just so everybody knows, I knock out 50% of the movies I watch.
	This is not like it's a Space Jam thing.
	It's a PBD.
	Was the theater full?
	Shout out to JP Sears.
	The theater was not only full, they clapped at the end.
	People stood up screaming.
	They love the storyline, okay?
	I asked my kids, what'd you think about it?
	They like Space Jam 2 more than one, but they don't know the whole history and all this other stuff.
	They don't look at it from that standpoint.
	My boys related to the story that has to do with them and their father.
	That's all they talked about.
	Because my son says he wants to be a scientist.
	So he's not trying to be.
	And I always tell him, buddy, I don't want you to do what your daddy does.
	What do you want to do?
	Right.
	So to them, it was kind of like that connection they made with the story.
	I thought the story was phenomenal, is what the story was.
	The writer is an Armenian writer, by the way.
	The guy who wrote the script as an Armenian writer.
	I thought the script was great.
	I thought Don was freaking insane.
	He's Don Cheating.
	He just crushed it.
	I thought LeBron is not an actor.
	I thought LeBron's commercials the first year he came out were better than the acting he did in this movie.
	And then at the same time, there's just a part of me that, you know, I go back and I think about a couple things here.
	Again, high haters, numbers here.
	I mean, what do you, buddy?
	First of all, Michael wouldn't do that.
	Here's the other part.
	Here's the other part.
	If I'm LeBron James, why didn't Kobe Bryant ever do Space Jam 2?
	What are you doing Space Jam 2?
	Like, what is the idea of doing Space Jam 2?
	I don't even, if I'm his marketer, if I'm his right-hand guy and I'm sitting there saying, nothing about your brand has ever been linked to Michael Jordan.
	Kobe's was.
	Kobe was trying to be like Mike.
	Kobe's the Gatorade commercial.
	Like Mike.
	I want to be like Mike.
	I want to be, you know the whole thing?
	Yes.
	Kobe was trying to be Mike.
	There's nothing about LeBron James that's like he's trying to be Michael James.
	Other than the number.
	Not his game.
	Well, it used to be six until Michael said, you know, he took a shot at LeBron saying no one is bigger than the NBA.
	And then Michael, LeBron's like, I'll take 23, right?
	Now, LeBron, do your own movie.
	What's Space Jam?
	So I didn't understand that concept.
	Like, are we supposed to expect Giannis to do Space Jam 3 in about 10 years?
	I don't know about that.
	I think LeBron secretly thought he was going to do a better movie than Michael.
	I think he wanted to one-up him.
	And I think that was dangerous.
	You know, by the way, they were also tooting their horn about, like I said, this is all spin, you know, with movie numbers.
	It's all it is.
	They were coming out and saying we beat Black Widow.
	Well, Black Widow's been out for three weeks and it did 80 million on their first weekend.
	Right?
	So there's no comparison there whatsoever.
	I will give LeBron credit for one thing.
	It's not easy acting on a green screen and with animated characters.
	I mean, if you're not a trained actor and then you have to try to pull that out off and make it seem real, I'm going to go check it out.
	Dash wants to see it.
	Neither was Mike, by the way.
	Neither was Mike was awesome.
	Michael was awesome.
	With Ryan Koogler advising you and $150 million on the Warner lot, you don't think it's something you can pull off?
	No, I'm sure he can, but I'm just saying it's not the easiest.
	If you're watching this, who watched it?
	If you watched it, did you like it?
	Did you not like it?
	Just out of curiosity.
	You know, if you've seen it and you liked it, put thumbs up.
	If you watched it and you didn't like it, put thumbs down.
	Maybe give us a score.
	Out of 10.
	Rotten Tomatoes, I think, has got a 4-2 or 4-3.
	I don't know what the score is.
	IMDB is a 4-3 here.
	This thing of ours just posted 4-3 on IMDb.
	What's your score out of 10 if you actually watch it?
	And right next to it, write down.
	I'm a LeBron James fan or I'm not a LeBron James fan.
	I mean, look, I like that he set the bar so low for success because my dumb internet videos have got like 34, 35 million views.
	So hi, haters.
	I'm crushing it.
	I'm killing it, man.
	So thanks, LeBron, for that.
	You know what else I saw regarding LeBron?
	You know, he's got that entertainment company, Spring Hill Entertainment.
	I heard that they're looking at a potential billion-dollar exit out of that thing.
	Like, literally, like, there's going to be a billion-dollar offer for that.
	I mean, him and David Carl.
	I don't know why an exit, though.
	Well, I mean, because someone's going to buy it out or invest into it or something.
	Not to pivot, but did you see Omaha productions with Peyton and Eli Manning?
	Yeah.
	The massive contract they just signed with ESPN?
	They're going to, like...
	An alternative Monday Night Football broadcast for ESPN.
	How much?
	Which is awesome.
	How much?
	It was the undisclosed, but they've got like 10-year contract to continue.
	Basically, they're going to be the production company for ESPN Plus.
	They're going to be the premium production company.
	What's the number?
	Did they estimate a number of $100?
	$100 million, $200 million, $300 million, a billion?
	I would posit it's $100 million somewhere around.
	So like $10 million auto-year type of a number is what we're talking about.
	Okay, so Mark said he's 8'10.
	Kids, 7 out of 10.
	I don't like LeBron.
	Whack, 1 out of 10.
	And, you know, this other guy's a LeBron fan put it down.
	Always.
	It is what it is.
	Did LeBron take like three shots in the movie, by the way?
	I was asleep.
	I'm indifferent.
	I'm a soccer fan.
	And yeah, LeBron played basketball for two seconds in that movie.
	He literally played basketball for like a second.
	Yeah, it was barely any basketball.
	So I fell asleep after the Tasmanian devil took the score from whatever it was to 450, 470.
	I knocked out.
	They didn't miss much.
	They won't.
	That's what happened with me.
	Hey, you can see Space Jam 3 with Brawny James in 10 years.
	If I'm anyone's marketer, if I'm representing a brand, I'm going to be like, buddy, don't do a Space Jam.
	Let's do completely a different story.
	You don't need to do it.
	That's Mike.
	That's MJ.
	Leave it alone.
	You cannot beat that guy's brand.
	Yeah, but when Warner Brothers wrote you a check this big, I was like, hey, can you make us relevant in these same thing?
	And if you're saying because those are actors, they could barely act.
	Why don't you get the actual family?
	I had to Google it if those were his kids.
	I was like, why doesn't LeBron's kids look like that?
	Listen, just because David has a great voice, he writes his own song, he plays the guitar, he knows how to woo woman, it doesn't mean you can talk trash to LeBron's family like that.
	But that was a very good point, by the way.
	It was a good point.
	Kai, you're replaced, Kai.
	Get out.
	David.
	Take his place.
	All right.
	So let's continue.
	Let's go to Disney.
	So Disney is moving 2,000 jobs from California to Florida.
	Here's why.
	One of the great things about America's 50th state federal system is that people can vote with their feet in response to different policies.
	The Walt Disney Company is the latest business to plan to move some operations out of California in favor of a lower tax state.
	Disney will move 2,000 jobs from its California headquarters to a new campus in Florida.
	In a letter to employees, Disney executive Josh DeMaro explained that the decision to relocate the jobs is partly due to Florida's business-friendly climate.
	The California Policy Center has documented an extensive list of celebrities and enterprises to leave the state due to its high taxes and unfriendly business climate.
	This includes major corporations like Yule Packard, Oracle, Palantir, Dole Food, Nestle, Toyota, and many others moving thousands of jobs out of California.
	Notable celebrities and entrepreneurs, including Elon Musk, Joe Rogue and Ben Shapiro, have left the state in recent years as well.
	Thoughts.
	It's just like everything else.
	You know, it's a slow trickle of negativity in California.
	And when this all first started five, six, seven years ago, when the country started to get divided, I thought, you know, no way.
	This is the United States.
	We're going to rally.
	I can't see this lasting forever.
	Things are going to turn.
	But you know what?
	It's just like everything else.
	A celebrity here, a company there, Disney 2,000 employees here.
	And I drive around LA right now, Pat.
	You won't even recognize it for what it was when you moved to the United States or even right before you left.
	It's the deterioration of everything.
	It's ugly, okay?
	There's no pride in keeping up the city anymore.
	There is graffiti everywhere.
	There's garbage everywhere.
	Underneath every bridge overhang, there's just tons of trash.
	Now the Winnebagos are lined up.
	And everybody is sick of the homeless issue.
	It's just gotten so out of control.
	For me, I'm going to myself, okay, what is going to be the tipping point for me?
	And here's what it is.
	I've decided, I think I know what it is for me.
	It's if Antifa comes starting to do what they did in Portland.
	If they turn LA into their next battleground, I will run from that state very, very, very fast.
	And I'm a little worried because they've already had a few little battles and things going on in LA already.
	But, you know, this is just another example.
	And you can't get more powerful than Disney sending out a statement that says Florida is business friendly.
	I mean, every single word in that statement was calculated and they were sending that missile.
	And they'll send more.
	They'll send more.
	This is the first wave of them going out there.
	Sponge videos to that one, Gov. But I got to tell you, man, I am not very happy about this because these people are the parasites.
	These people are the parasite Borg from outer space who find they consume all the resources in an area and then they suck it dry with their progressive policies and they come to a new area that's ripe without them and they're going to suck it dry as well.
	You think Disney is not going to bring their progressive policies to Florida?
	You think they're not going to bring their financial influence to the political system?
	I think I think they're going to be able to do that.
	But they already have them here.
	They've got 100,000 employees already here.
	2,000, 2,000, 5,000.
	Relocate the headquarters.
	Listen, let me, and they may, and it may happen, right?
	But you have to also sit there and ask the question, why are we leaving?
	Why are we moving, right?
	Why are we leaving?
	Look, I still remember Hiobanejo Jet.
	It's a street I was born on.
	I still remember Jam Hospital.
	It's the hospital I was born in.
	I still remember Gulbengian.
	First five years, I went to Gulbengian.
	It was a Armenian school.
	I still remember the Assyrian church I used to go to.
	I still remember going to Esfan on vacation with my family.
	The only vacation I went on with my mom and dad.
	I still remember Esfan.
	I still remember going to Bander Pal Avi and driving by Rasht, which now they've changed the name to the city, and we'd go there and have caviar.
	I still remember Tamusik, Hushang.
	These are all friends and family.
	I still remember every one of these guys.
	It's still in my blood.
	I am from Iran.
	I love the culture that we had during that time.
	Armenian, Assyrian, from Iran.
	Till today, it's in my heart.
	Every single time we think about Iran, we ask, why did we leave?
	I couldn't say anything.
	I was silenced.
	We were afraid.
	We were worried.
	If you told anybody you're Christian, if you don't, and you would sit there like, even as a kid, it didn't take a lot to realize this concept didn't work.
	Freedom is everything.
	This is why we go to America, the greatest country on the world, till today.
	I don't know what's going to happen 10 years from now, but till today is the greatest country in the world.
	So a lot of these guys that are leaving, here's what I'm wondering.
	If you've ever read the book by Bob Iger, what's the book called, Kai?
	Bob Iger's book is the Right of a Lifetime, right?
	He talks about how he's sitting with Murdoch, I think is in a book.
	Is he sitting with Murdoch?
	And he's talking about the fact.
	Murdoch asks him, so Bob, any plans of running for office?
	And Bob's like, oh, no, I don't want to do anything like that.
	And he says in a book, I was thinking about it, but I couldn't tell him.
	Because what if Fox News goes out there and finds out that I want to run?
	What they would run with it.
	I wanted to run.
	And he wanted to run as a what?
	As a Democrat.
	And governor, wasn't he thinking right away?
	No, no, he wanted to go straight to presidency.
	Straight up to presidency.
	He's a Democrat.
	He talks about why he's a Democrat.
	He talks about why he's a Democrat because of his parents.
	He's not a Democrat because he's a Democrat.
	He's a Democrat because he's loyal to his mom and dad.
	And it's a form of undermining your family if you're a Democrat, right?
	I'd love to see some of these guys who are Democrats who are leaving California and going to Florida.
	Not telling you to be a Republican, but it's time to become an independent.
	Kind of say, hey, these policies you guys are representing, I just don't support anymore.
	What the hell is the matter with you?
	Are you seeing that, though?
	There's empirical evidence in both Arizona and Texas that they don't.
	They relocate because those policies failed.
	And then they vote for those same policies in their new locations.
	It's asinite.
	But I think Bob, deep down inside, is a logical guy.
	I think the only reason a person wouldn't is pride ego of saying you were right.
	It's the only reason.
	But we all eventually get to a point where we sit there and we think there was an idea that we thought was good.
	We're eventually going to question it.
	I think some of the guys are going to start converting.
	Republicans don't help either, especially with what happened with the Brandy Love thing.
	But they do not help.
	They don't open.
	They don't welcome people in the world.
	Well, let's talk about that.
	Let's talk about it.
	I'm actually curious to know what you're going to say about this.
	Brandy Love, you brought the story up to me yesterday.
	I don't know who Brandy Love is, but apparently Brandy Love is one of your heroes.
	Pat just put me on Front Street.
	Gerard very popular.
	I can't grab Gerard's phone.
	It's risky.
	If I grab my phone, I have to be very careful when I take Gerard's phone.
	He snaps it out of my hands if I have his phone in my head.
	So, conservative porn star Brandy Love, 48, is kicked out of Florida's Republican conference for high school kids because outraged parents complain.
	Daily Mail.
	Brandy Love 48 attended the Student Action Summit with Turning Point USA in Tampa, Florida Saturday, and post for photos in front of exhibits and a Saving America tour bus.
	Love initially arrived at Tampa Convention Center as an enthusiastic VIP guest, but was suddenly kicked out for backlash against Christian organizers.
	Christian conservatives immediately began criticizing her attendance on social media, slamming her organization's decision to allow an adult film star to attend an event targeted at 15 and 16 year olds.
	She is capitalizing on the attention by selling t-shirts, poking fun at one of the conference's founders.
	She is selling shirts with the slogan, I trigger Charlie Kirk, on her OnlyFans website.
	So, what are your thoughts about this?
	Dude, this is the reason I didn't grow up a Republican.
	One of the wild things over the course of the last 15, 20 years, for anybody that's been paying attention to the political leanings of America, has been watching when we were kids, the Christian conservative of my youth was the Karen.
	The Christian conservative was the person that was judgmental, telling you what you couldn't do.
	They were the self-appointed arbiters of the zeitgeist.
	You can't do this.
	We can't have that.
	We can't show these people holding hands on TV, put the beds apart, blah, Then somewhere it shifted to this progressive left became the woke left, became the new arbiters of the zeitgeist and what's acceptable in a civilized society.
	And the Ivy League, it kind of comes from the Ivy Leagues.
	When the Ivy League switched from William F. Buckley to, you know, AOC, this kind of like they think they control us and like what we can and can't think and what we can and can't do.
	And this bothers me to no end because it's exactly what you said.
	If I'm leaving, if I'm leaving my home because the policies are so bad, right there, I'm open-minded to a new idea.
	And then immediately I go and I come to a new community.
	This is a community event.
	And the first thing they say is, you're not good enough to be here.
	You're not perfect.
	Get out.
	I'm like, screw these guys, man.
	Absolutely screw these guys.
	Also.
	What do you think, Gerard?
	I'm actually curious.
	I think I don't stand a chance in Miami.
	I got to stop drinking, boy.
	I think this is.
	I don't stand a chance.
	Transgender.
	That is unbelievable.
	I would never have guessed that in a million years.
	I'm asking you, Gerard, are you okay with that?
	Yeah, I got no problem with it.
	Let people live their life, man.
	What I don't like specifically in the media is if they're promoting her specifically because she's a transgender, I have an issue with that.
	I want to live in a meritocracy as much as possible, okay?
	But look, she's beautiful.
	I mean, there's no way to say she's not beautiful, right?
	I mean, we don't know what Photoshop is doing.
	I don't know, man, but come on.
	That's a swimsuit model.
	Okay.
	I mean, it is what it is.
	So for you, this you're totally fine with.
	I have no issue.
	What do you think about this?
	I mean, if you know the sports illustrated swimsuit issue, that's what you get.
	So I'm not offended by it at all.
	Now, Miss Nevada, I feel bad.
	Just alone started in porn.
	Would you have a problem with him?
	Come on, nobody knows.
	Nobody knows that.
	You don't think he had it?
	I'm still doing it.
	So the issue is that she is right now at this moment a porn star.
	Damn right.
	What if somebody was a weed entrepreneur?
	Should they be there?
	She should be there.
	Should not be there.
	She should not be there.
	No, this is not.
	Even if it's legal.
	Yeah, I'm telling you, he should not be there.
	What do you think of sex ed in schools?
	I don't trust teachers teaching anything these days.
	So I don't know.
	I mean, our kids are doing sex ed through a little private thing that we have in the school also, which I stay very, very clear of.
	I want nothing to do with those meetings.
	By the way, you know what I'm dealing with?
	So we get into town yesterday with the kids, right?
	Dash and Ivana are here.
	And just going to Dash, hey, Dash, what you got going tomorrow?
	You know, I might be heading out on a boat.
	So apparently, one of his friends from California, who's famous, I'll tell you who it is later, but apparently he's in town too.
	And it got ahold of him and said they might be taking him out on a yacht.
	He's 12 years old.
	And he goes, I might be heading out on a boat today.
	Really?
	Okay, well, let us know how that goes.
	Have fun in San Chrome Pennsylvania.
	Shonda was at the house a couple of days ago.
	And she's, by the way, she's freaking, what she's doing is amazing.
	I told that, Sashonda, if you ever move to Florida, ever, I'm going to be your agent.
	You can sell yachts.
	You can sell whatever you want to do.
	She'll crush it when it comes down to doing all this interior designing stuff with the house.
	She knows what she's doing.
	But she shows a picture of Dash.
	I say, Caroline, I want you to look at a picture of Dash.
	So she pulls pictures of Dash, and we pull, I pull young pictures of Brad Pitt.
	It's as if they're twins.
	No joke, his son looks just like Brad Pitt.
	Yeah, I've seen his wife.
	Yeah, so yeah.
	So look, I don't know.
	Not that Tom's not a good looking guy.
	You're very attractive yourself.
	I don't know about this story here.
	Quite frankly, it's a bit annoying when you think about the story here.
	Interesting statistic, by the way, 93,000 people died of drug overdoses in U.S. During the pandemic in 2020, a staggering loss of human life.
	Let me say that one more time, 93,000 people died of drug overdose.
	Okay, so now the question I ask immediately was, how many was the highest?
	The year prior to that right?
	Overdose death soared to 93,000 in the midst of COVID anti-pandemic US government reported Wednesday the provisional estimate by CDC for eclipses.
	The high of about 72,000 drug overdoses a year ago reached the previous year and amounts to 29.
	Increased lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions isolated those with drug addictions that made treatment harder to get.
	Experts said overdose death deaths are just one facet of what was overall, the deadliest year in U.S. History, with about 378,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19, with nationals saw the nation saw more than 3.3 million deaths.
	The estimate of 93,000 overdose overdoses translates to an average of more than 250 deaths a day, roughly 11 each hour, so 21,000 more than average last year.
	What does that tell you about isolation?
	Not good, not good at all.
	And those are just the numbers that are reported that can be directly, you know, attributed to it.
	What about the, the slow burn that you have, the cancers or some of the other things that come from the drug.
	It's an epidemic.
	It's so horrible and and the most disgusting thing when you think about this is BIG Pharma knows a lot about this thing.
	When you think about the opioids, and when you think, when you think they know they make Prozac right, an antidepressant, and they know there will be a certain percentage of people that will become homicidal and suicidal and they do not give a damn called acceptable risk yeah, and you know.
	Luckily the Purdue family is starting to pay.
	I mean, these are evil people.
	If you create these drugs that you know you get a little back injury.
	You start on Oxycontin and you can't get off it and it gets worse and worse and worse.
	I mean these drug companies are despicable.
	I didn't think we were gonna cover this one, because now you're gonna get one of my little rants here.
	But dude, this is like again, like my God, Almighty.
	The first thing that we did is we shut down the, the schools.
	We shut down the churches.
	We kept the liquor stores open.
	We shut down the gyms.
	We kept the freaking.
	Uh, we shut down outdoors.
	Outdoors, people couldn't go in the beach, they couldn't walk in the, in the, in the sand, they couldn't dip themselves in the water.
	You couldn't go into a pool.
	You could do nothing, nothing for your mental health, nothing.
	All you could do was sit there, bored and anxious, and get drunk.
	That's all.
	That's all I did for a year watching my money go away less and less and less, watching my credit score drop, having all the anxiety of people in your life thinking like that that they're buying into this media bullshit, no matter what numbers i'm trying to show them the the amount of stress I had, the amount of stress everybody had.
	You're losing your job.
	You don't know what's going to happen.
	There's a damn coup going on in in the government and all they give you is nothing but booze.
	And they sit here and they say, wear your mask.
	Wear your mask if it saves one life, if it saves one life, wear a mask, wear two masks, wear one over your eyes too, these freaking people.
	And then the first thing Biden does when he gets his office is he bombs people.
	We sat there for a year if it saves us one life, and the first thing he does he gives Raytheon a quarter billion dollars to drop bombs on people in Syria.
	But if it saves just one life, you know how many people we killed with this shit, man, and we're still going through with this kabuki theater.
	They're making people put masks back on now.
	It drives me out of my mind that we're even entertaining this.
	Anybody who looks at what happened over the last 18 months, I'm talking the Democrat politicians that did it, the Democrat voters that supported it, and the rest of us that allowed it to happen.
	If we all don't look at what happened and just feel an immense amount of shame, just shame that we allowed this to happen to ourselves, our freedoms, and our neighbors.
	Anybody who doesn't feel that shame, they're either a moron or a sociopath, and any one of them can screw off.
	Your opinions from here on out are void.
	I don't want to hear you.
	I don't care.
	I don't care if you don't like me.
	You're a moron, and I don't want to hear your opinion.
	You've lost any benefit of the doubt.
	I would say, I would say, you know, on the people who allowed this to happen, what market research do they have to look at to see if any of this stuff was real or not?
	Like, what can they look at?
	You know, the 80% of the majority, let's just say folks who just vote just to vote.
	They don't vote because they do a lot of research on politics.
	What the hell do they know about pandemics?
	What do they know about a virus?
	All they're sitting there saying, I don't want to lose my husband.
	I don't want to lose my wife.
	I don't want to lose my mom.
	I don't want to lose my dad.
	I don't put it on the people.
	I say, you know, the power of affirmations, man.
	Years ago, I grew up in an environment, Gerard, that for me, it was you can't do anything.
	We're not special people.
	Just try to do whatever you can to survive.
	There's no way, you know, we're meant to do anything special with our lives.
	All this affirmations weren't strong.
	Middle Eastern culture is not a lift up type of an environment.
	But affirmations, one day, a guy tells me, try this.
	So what do I do?
	I go get laminate my affirmations and I put it all over the place in my shower wall, in my mirror, in my car, in my wallet, in my backpack, in my computer.
	I put it everywhere.
	And my padfolio, it was everyone.
	And I read it non-stop.
	Eventually, I took my affirmations and I recorded with a sound and I just listened to it.
	It was five minutes on my drive.
	Every morning, I would listen to it.
	You know, be careful what you joke about or be sarcastic about because your spirit's going to have, we'll stop having faith in words that come out of your mouth.
	You know, I have met the enemy.
	It is I. Alexander the Greek.
	I would read these 30 every day, every day, five, 10, 15 times a day, until I started believing it.
	When I believed it, my confidence like, dude, it's over.
	You actually have a video on this.
	This is one of your better videos.
	But the point I'm trying to make to you is this is not the folks who fell for it.
	The ultimate affirmation the last 18 months is the media, Gerard.
	I agree and I disagree.
	And this is why.
	I agree with you up until a point.
	But when you had 800,000 people at some transgender rights protest in Brooklyn in the middle of the pandemic, 800,000 people shoulder to shoulder.
	And that was okay.
	That was okay.
	When you had the scientists, the quote-unquote trust the science coming out and saying these massive protests are okay because racism is a pandemic too.
	It's one or the other.
	Either you can have a million people marching in the streets or I can open my business.
	And the fact that we didn't do it, it's on us.
	Yeah, ultimately.
	Yeah, we did.
	Many of us did a lot of stuff about it.
	You make it seem like nobody did it.
	Maybe you did it down in Florida.
	I'm telling you right now, New York, New Jersey, the businesses they closed.
	Well, guess what?
	They're going to pay price for it and good for them.
	They're going to pay price for it.
	You don't think New York's paying a price for it right now?
	Dude.
	Everybody I'm talking to right now, everybody I'm talking to right now, New York, in Florida.
	Where are you from?
	New York, where are you from?
	Jersey?
	Where are you from?
	DC, where are you from?
	New York.
	Everybody.
	Everybody.
	You don't think California is going to pay per price for it?
	You don't think Portland, Oregon is going to pay a price for it?
	You don't think Illinois is going to pay.
	Matthews.
	What you're saying is instead of pushback, we just left.
	No, you can't do anything with pushback.
	Listen, you're very helpless.
	You cannot do anything when you're going up against folks in the government.
	You cannot do anything with it at that time.
	No matter how much your vote matters when they say your vote matters.
	Okay, so go back to the whole thing with what's going on with Cuba and Mexico right now.
	Go back to it.
	So why is Biden's camp saying, no, we're not going to let anybody come here with votes?
	Oh, but Mexicans want to cross the border.
	Anybody want to cross the border?
	Why is one okay and the other one's not okay?
	They think Mexicans vote Democrat and Cubans vote Republican.
	Democrats are Cubans are escaping an unbroken system and philosophy that didn't work.
	They're coming to America to see how great America is.
	Jen Sacchi won't even say the word communism.
	Won't even say it.
	Yeah, but what I think is, you know, elections have consequences.
	You've heard this a million times when they have consequences.
	I think what just happened recently, two events.
	One is a New York Mets game that you brought it up.
	Kai, can you pull up this video, please?
	One's a New York Mets game, and I want to show this to you.
	And the other one is John Kerry refusing to wear a mask, even though he makes everybody in the world wear one.
	Here's what happens at a New York Mets.
	Start it from the beginning and make it bigger, Kai.
	Mets and Yankees, by the way.
	Go all the way to the back.
	Watch this.
	So Mets and Yankees, this one guy, the security's asking him to take off the MAGA hat is what the security is asking him to do.
	And then watch what this other, not Caucasian, guy is telling him to do with the hat.
	Watch this.
	Well, the whole crowd, really.
	Do you imagine?
	Put it on!
	Put the hat ahead.
	Put the hat on.
	Put it on.
	Put the hat on.
	Put it on.
	Yeah.
	Yes, right, bitch.
	Those New Yorkers are so much charismatic.
	You know, there's other videos too.
	If you scroll down, you'll see a wider shot of it where the whole section is going nuts.
	The whole stadium is actually cheering for it.
	It's not, MAGA doesn't mean Donald Trump anymore.
	It means anti-this establishment is what it's turning into.
	It doesn't mean, I mean, those were clearly white supremacists, obviously.
	So, I mean, it's.
	That's a focus group right there.
	Go to the other video and make sure that.
	There's such a disconnect between the world our media tells us.
	Well, anyways, Megan Fox, go ahead.
	Okay, a follow-up to Gerard's rant.
	It's coming back.
	Sorry about the rant, but no, no, no, it was good.
	But what do we do now?
	Because they are going to do it again.
	Watch your media reports.
	Everything is now about the Delta variant, the numbers.
	It's coming.
	They're starting to make you wear masks inside again, whether you've been vaccinated or not.
	They're going to follow the exact same playbook, and they're going to rip it.
	And here's the other thing, too.
	They are going to use the Olympics as their biggest PSA for coronavirus.
	It's going to make its coming out party part due because there's not going to be any fans there.
	And then, look, you got these basketball players.
	One has tested positive.
	I think Bradley Beal, right?
	And then you got other guys that are in quarantine right now.
	Now, the gymnastics team, all right?
	That is NBC's bread and butter.
	I mean, everybody wants to watch Simone Biles, you know, the whole thing.
	But now the alternate has tested positive and she's been around her for a long time.
	And you know what?
	The USA Today, the LA Times, New York, they could not be happier.
	They could not be more giddy about it.
	The saddest thing about this is that there's a 50-50 chance this entire interview gets taken down now.
	We just did this with Beasley.
	We did 100,000 views in an hour, Cole Beasley.
	And see you later.
	Steve Reich.
	So, I mean, you got to stop saying that, though, buddy, because I don't want people to think that this is a channel that we do that because I don't stand for that.
	I know you don't.
	And what I mean by that is, but even saying it, we don't even need to say it.
	So whether they do or not, we are going to do our part and we're going to talk.
	There is not a one-sided story here.
	We're all sharing our message right now.
	If the populace agrees with it, disagrees with the let them have the discourse.
	There's nobody here that's given such a one-sided story where all of us are 100% on that we're encouraging people to not go do a decision that's going to jeopardize their lives.
	That's not what we're saying.
	All you're saying is my interpretation of what you said is question what the hell is going on and stop being naive.
	That's how I interpreted what you said.
	You're a man with passion.
	You're a man that's read your entire, you got very strong opinions.
	You come from an infrastructure with your family, which most people don't know.
	They're strong Democrats with strong lineage to a university, but your family's still together.
	Your sisters love you.
	You're a guy that off-camera is a great guy.
	So if YouTube wants to do that, that's on them.
	But I disagree.
	I think we are in a very, we're coming from a place of we're allowing the audience to make a decision for themselves.
	And if they like it, great.
	They don't like it, great.
	By the way, we're at 68,000 subs right now.
	We get to 100,000 subs.
	You asked me yesterday.
	I'd like to go to three times a week, but I'm not going to do it until we get to 100,000 subs.
	It just doesn't make sense for me to do it right now.
	If the audience wants more of this, we'll do it.
	If they don't, we'll shut the channel down.
	I don't wake up in the morning with the idea of wanting to do this message because I need more attention in my life.
	God knows.
	I'm at the office yesterday.
	You know what time I left the office last night?
	1 a.m., dude.
	1 a.m. in the morning.
	I didn't get house till 145.
	I didn't go wake up and sleep on my bed last night.
	I slept on a damn couch last night because I didn't want to wake up my kid and my wife.
	And I'm back at the office this morning.
	We're not doing this because I need another million dollars in a damn bank account.
	I'm doing this because I freaking love this country.
	And we're going to talk about it.
	People see it, they want more of it, great, support it.
	You don't don't.
	I'm okay.
	I trust the fact that the human people are eventually going to be able to make question themselves.
	Put the Brian Stelter thing when on CNN Kai.
	Can you put that up real quick?
	I mean, you have to realize, here's an author who goes on CNN to sell his books who's not necessarily a Trump guy.
	At all.
	This is not a, he hates Trump.
	And he, the channel that he's supposed to defend, go to the last two minutes.
	Go from, no, go from, go back, go back 40 seconds.
	Go from 240.
	Go from 240.
	Play this.
	I think it's important to mention also, you know, as long as I've known you, you never wanted to be political.
	You never wanted to know.
	No, I didn't want to touch this.
	But to me, freedom is that important.
	I told you this last time when we were talking, when we're over here, I said people are going to show up from the woodworks because I believe if your message is the right message, I believe the right people will show up.
	Listen, when we started our company, insurance company, we had 66 agents.
	I've never once sold insurance to any of my following, and I've never once pitched my company to anybody.
	I don't do it.
	Have I ever tried to sell you an insurance policy?
	No.
	Have I ever tried to sell you an insurance policy?
	I don't know if you have a license.
	Yeah.
	I've never even done that to people around me, right?
	But I'm going to tell you what happened.
	A couple times, certain events happened that I can't take credit for.
	There are certain things that happen.
	I'm like, there's no way in the world I get credit for this.
	No way in the world I get credit for this.
	And you have eventually certain things started to happen.
	I'm like, listen, either the power out there, whether it's God, energy, whatever you want, either somebody wants this to become a reality or they don't.
	I'm not going to fight it if you don't want it to become a reality.
	I'm just going to put my effort.
	The message that we have is getting millions of eyeballs.
	If people want it, they're going to show up.
	What's crazy is some of the people that I've showed you DMs where I showed you, these are well-known celebrities, drawing furious pushback from conservatives.
	The Biden administration officials are now looking at the next step as 91 million people remain unvaccinated and 43 states are seeing an increase in COVID infections in the last week as data variance, Delta variance causes cases to spike.
	Aggressive fact checkers.
	I mean, could there be a more scary phrase out there?
	I mean, I don't know.
	It's one of those stories that seems made up.
	I have some notes.
	I'm going to find them here in one second.
	You know, I thought we were living on the brink of fascism.
	But, you know, they're reading your text for your own good.
	Don't worry about it.
	These people are nuts, man.
	You know, who's driving this?
	Because if Joe Biden was president, say, when Clinton was president, if he became president in 1992, he wouldn't be doing this stuff, right?
	I don't think, I don't know how many original thoughts Joe Biden has right now, any real vision.
	Where is it coming from?
	Is there a group?
	Is there one person?
	Is it two?
	Is it five?
	Is it the radicals?
	Is it I don't know, man.
	I don't know.
	You know, but the way that they just outright political wrote this article originally, USA Today responded, saying the fact that this is not a true story, but they're not saying that it's not a true story.
	They're saying it's fact check Biden doesn't want to monitor private text for vaccine misinformation.
	This is okay.
	No, a little higher, a little higher.
	Okay, our ratings false.
	Our rating false.
	Based on our research, the client that Biden wants phone companies monitor people's text for explanation false.
	This is a misinterpretation.
	Kai.
	What are you doing, Kai?
	This is a misinterpretation of people.
	Kai, just stop doing what you're doing, buddy.
	Oh my gosh, don't touch the computer.
	This is a misinterpretation of DNC's effort to report disinformation.
	A spokesperson from the DNC said it has no ability to monitor private text messages and said that DNC shared this instance is a possible term of use of violation reported by the public to the SMS API companies.
	The Biden administration is not involved.
	I don't know how that means.
	Fact, by the way, go a little higher to read the dates.
	That people start doing crazy stuff.
	You cannot do that long term.
	It is not a sustainable model.
	History has proven when you do this for too long, people eventually snap.
	And it's not a pretty snap when they do.
	So it's not going to be a pretty thing for them long term.
	You cannot mess with this part.
	I have to have the freedom to sin.
	My kids, if I tell them, don't do it, here's how my daughter is, okay?
	I'll say, I'm not even kidding with you.
	Here's their wiring.
	I'll say, Senna, don't touch the, what do you call it?
	The remote control.
	No, no, the whatever.
	It's not slinky, the slimy stuff.
	I'm like, Senna, put the slime ball down.
	She goes like this.
	She just has to do it.
	I'll tell Tico, Tico, stop kicking your brother.
	He has to do it one more time.
	He just kicks him one more time.
	Dylan, stop hitting my back.
	He just taps it one more time.
	I mean, we're like that.
	It's just like, you know, so what are you going to do if you tell him don't do that?
	I mean, they're going to do it.
	So we don't change from being kids.
	So the game plan for me is the following: I'm going to treat you so good.
	I'm going to be respectful to you.
	I'm going to bring value to you that you want me in your life.
	I'm going to treat you so well that you want to stay my client for a long time.
	I'm going to take care of you that you want to stay with me as an audience.
	I'm going to be that's the only way.
	When you do it this way, history doesn't favor people like this.
	Yep, plenty of examples.
	By the way, this does not mean America cannot lose everything it has.
	I didn't say that.
	I never said that.
	Let me straighten that part out.
	This doesn't mean America cannot lose all its freedom it has.
	This doesn't mean that.
	This only means that if America does, another America is going to pop up.
	That's what this means.
	I interviewed the guy from 2034.
	What is him?
	Elliot Akerman.
	I think his name is Elliot Akerman.
	The guy's got a purple heart, silver.
	He's got everything, right?
	He said, history tells us that empires tend to self-destruct at 250 years.
	Where are we at right now?
	Oh, God.
	Where are we at right now?
	You know what we're at?
	249?
	No, just do the math.
	1776 plus 250.
	There you go.
	Give or take.
	So 1776 is what?
	Plus, what is it?
	244?
	244?
	245.
	We got five more years to go.
	Self-destruct.
	He says that.
	Empires at 250 self-destruct.
	We're still a baby.
	We still can't self-destruct.
	But the ideas that America was founded on were ideas that Rome was founded on, was ideas that Assyria was founded on, was ideas that many empires were founded on.
	And then there's money, wealth, bureaucrats, aristocrats show up, they spend the money, they do stupid shit.
	Then people take those ideas to a new country and they start it all over again.
	That's going to happen.
	Freedom seems to be temporary throughout history, right?
	Because it eventually attracts power-tripping people that think they are smarter than you and they want to impose their power control and thoughts over you.
	And people take it for granted.
	Ron, can I be a girl's man out in space?
	Is that a union thing?
	Dude, I'll do a union job in space, just cleaning it up and going through stuff.
	Anyway, so let's go to the next story.
	You want to do Megan Fox?
	You want to do Bill Burr?
	What story do you want?
	You tell me what story you want.
	You want to do the sex one?
	Okay, let's do the anti-sex bets in the Olympic village.
	A social media theory is soon debunked.
	Okay, page five, if you want to go to this.
	So, Kai, you want to pull up that video where the kid jumps on the bed?
	So, anti-sex bets in the Olympic village, a social media theory is soon debunked.
	The New York Times, competitors arriving at the Tokyo Olympics have discovered something unusual about the beds and the athletes' village.
	They're made out of cardboards.
	Organizers say it's the first time that the beds at the games will be made almost entirely out of renewable materials.
	But in the time of the coronavirus, when Olympic organizers worried about transmissions, are trying to discourage close contact as much as possible.
	The unusual bed frames have led some to suggest there's another motive behind them.
	Paul Chelimo, Colimo, an American distance runner, speculated on Twitter that the beds were unable to support more than one person and were aimed at avoiding intimacy amongst athletes.
	Soon, the beds were being labeled on social media as anti-sex.
	Ryan McClangen, a gymnast from Ireland, called the claim fake news.
	A video he posted on Twitter showed him jumping on top of his bed, demonstrated that it could only withstand, it could withstand vigorous activity.
	The official Olympics Twitter count reposted his video, adding, thanks for debunking the myth.
	Here's a video.
	In today's episode of fake news, Auto Begins, the beds are meant to be anti-sex.
	They're made out of cardboard, yes, but apparently they're meant to break at any sudden movements.
	It's fake, fake news.
	News.
	He's a gymnast.
	He only weighs 15 pounds.
	I mean, come on.
	By the way, is Brandy Love an alternate on any of the Olympic teams?
	She might just show up out there.
	You know, like these guys wouldn't be able to figure out to throw that mattress on the ground, right?
	But, you know, sex is such a big deal at the Olympics.
	They hand out condoms, right?
	You know, that's always a big story.
	160,000 they've handed out in Japan, and the record is what, 450,000 that they did in Rio.
	It would be interesting to find out what really does go on in those Olympic villages.
	I mean, that's a lot of condoms.
	What are you saying?
	I'm saying that there's a lot of sex that goes on.
	Are you saying like if somebody, if an Olympic athlete had an OnlyFans chance showing in their bedroom, like they would get millions of people that would buy?
	Is that kind of what you're saying?
	Are you saying a business model?
	I'm saying it would be fascinating to learn.
	I mean, they got a lot of downtime.
	They're all athletic, a lot of hormones.
	A lot of them are very, very attractive.
	I mean, you can see it makes sense, but you just, you don't associate that with the Olympics, but it's clearly going on in a very, very big way.
	It's a lot of condoms.
	I'd look at that and I would say challenge accepted, boy.
	I'm like, let's bust some boxes, baby.
	You know, imagine the Sumo wrestlers that got to sleep on some cardboard out there, bro.
	I look at that and I'm like, man, forget sex.
	That doesn't have the structural integrity for my lumbar, man.
	Like, first of all, who's still having sex on beds?
	This is 2020.
	Grow up, people.
	Like, you know, you got to find some exciting things to do here, bro.
	So you're saying it's fake news.
	You're going to find them on the counter?
	It wasn't me.
	I even saw me on the sofa.
	I think it totally makes sense.
	There would be a way for them to try to take any sort of fun and enjoyment out of life.
	And I can see the initial reaction as that's what they were doing, but there's gravity.
	They'll be all right.
	Yeah, you're going to stop.
	So you're not buying it.
	You're going to stop.
	Nah, I don't think it's an answer to that.
	Young athletic 25-year-old.
	It certainly wouldn't stop anybody because you just take it right off the bed.
	You throw the mattress on the ground.
	Is that what you would do, too?
	Yes, I'm an Olympic.
	I have a trained mind like in the Olympian.
	Yeah.
	Look, I mean, where there's a will, there's a way, right?
	I mean, you know, we could problem solve this thing together.
	This is, I got to tell you, man.
	The dumb stuff that comes out of the Olympics, like there's just, you figure they do this like every two years, right?
	There's a Winter Olympics, there's a Summer Olympics, and they just can't figure it out.
	Like, everywhere they go, they leave a wake of destruction in all of these cities.
	Like, they basically destroyed Brazil, right?
	Like, they just destroyed the place.
	Well, and even Beijing, they build all these venues and then they're never used again.
	Like, how many times do you need a Velodrome?
	Right?
	Hey, by the way, what's your level of interest in watching the Olympics?
	They start this week.
	The opening ceremonies are Friday.
	Listen, the other day I showed gymnastics to Dylan, and Dylan didn't let me change the channel.
	And it was women's gymnastics.
	I was so impressed by my son.
	It was one of those moments where I'm like, I'm proud of your buddy.
	And he kept saying, leave it that.
	Leave it that.
	I want to see that.
	That's my marquee event.
	So that's good news for NBC.
	It has 7,000 hours of programming.
	Oh, boy.
	It's a lot, man.
	7,000.
	7,000.
	What's going to pay for something like that?
	What's the number?
	You know, their profit in the last Olympics was $250 million.
	I thought their profit would be a little bit higher.
	The rights fees are probably about $3 billion per Olympics, I would imagine.
	Do the athletes get paid?
	It's amateur, isn't it?
	No, no, no.
	They're paid now for sure.
	No, they could be professional.
	Not a big number, though.
	Yeah.
	It's not a big number.
	Is it sponsors?
	What makes it worth four years of training to swim 50 meters?
	The elite or the gold medal.
	I mean, the way Girard said it, what is it worth me training four years to swim 50 meters?
	You know, that's a good point.
	You know?
	What is it worth?
	Are you kidding me?
	Cardboard beds.
	Are you serious for the rest of your life?
	Lifetime supply and cardboard beauty.
	And to be able to tell the story.
	There'll be no money.
	And this year.
	And the medical consciousness.
	And this year they get to put on their own medals as well.
	Oh, nice.
	They're not waiting for anyone to put it in.
	Hey, look, is that right?
	You know, I'm not a.
	Look, I feel, you know, then this kind of goes against my entirety of personal choice and freedom on this.
	Here we go.
	I got to tell you, the people that don't want to stand for the anthem, like, why are you representing your country?
	I don't get that, man.
	That, like, to me, that's the easiest opt-out in the world.
	Yeah, the IOC said they're going to punish them if they do it.
	We'll see because you know what's going to happen.
	I mean, these protests are already being formulated in the minds of some of these athletes.
	Whatever.
	I look forward to watching a World Cup Olympics.
	There's a few events I actually like.
	Okay.
	And by the way, you know what?
	People like Usain Bolt.
	You know that one scene with Usain Bolt where the ladies talk and say, I'm sorry, they're singing a national anthem.
	That's the national anthem.
	That was awesome.
	That's the kind of stuff that was like, by the way, he's a unifier.
	That's a man with respect.
	All these other guys, that's the kind of people that we need to see rise up during Janice.
	Janice refused to.
	I just found out about this.
	I sent you the tweet.
	He refused to allow the Bucs to make a t-shirt of him dunking over Booker.
	Yeah.
	Because he said it was disrespectful to people.
	I saw that.
	I was like, that's incredible, man.
	I saw it.
	And he's talking about, have you seen, they asked him, they're like, have you seen the block?
	He was like, nah, living in the past is ego.
	I'm going to go to the next one.
	Pull up the tweet what I said.
	Pull up the tweet what I said about Giannis.
	Giannis to me is the complete.
	And I responded to Stephen A. Smith yesterday.
	I'm like, what are you talking about?
	Like, oh, Chris Middleton should win MVP.
	No, he shouldn't.
	No.
	Yannis.
	Chris Middleton in one game.
	And right there, you just had it.
	Right there.
	I said, the NBA needs a new face, and Giannis is a total 180, the current face.
	How do you not love this guy's current attitude?
	I hope he doesn't change it.
	The league will attract new audiences and stop being as divisive of a brand as it's been the last few years.
	The guy who said it is a hardcore left-wing guy who said people forget Giannis literally jumped over Tim Hardaway Jr. and then Ali Hoop and then blocked the Bucks from selling a shirt about it because he thought it was disrespectful.
	He's really like this and has always been.
	That guy needs to be the face of the honesty.
	You know what?
	I have to disagree.
	Isn't that anti-capitalism right there?
	Not allowing a t-shirt?
	I'm teasing.
	I'm joking.
	I love the Barstall make money off of it.
	Not this guy.
	This guy's already doing good for himself.
	Pat, I did make this point last week and I stand by it.
	Tell me.
	I still don't think they're a shoe-in to win this thing.
	I think the Suns are going to know.
	I'm going to tell you why.
	My Sun's homers.
	What's the matter with this?
	You have to help.
	You have to free throws.
	I try to help.
	You have to.
	You can't.
	Oh, really?
	And that's why they're up 3-2.
	He's doing a hack again.
	You know what?
	Let's see what happens when the pressure's on top of him.
	Do you make free throws?
	By the way, did you hear Chris Ball's comment?
	Did you hear Chris Ball's comment?
	Yeah, that even he expects to miss some of them.
	See, that's the kind of stuff why people don't want to be your teammate.
	What kind of a comment is that?
	I know.
	He says, you know, even he doesn't think he's going to make the free throw.
	After you lose 3-2, what are you talking about with 15 turnovers?
	Yeah, but let me pull a PBD here.
	There's data out there, all right?
	The Suns shoot like 86% free throws.
	They do.
	That's four points of it.
	That's four to eight points that could be a swing in a possession-by-possession game these last two.
	I think it's going seven.
	That's my prediction.
	Oh, I don't think it could go seven.
	But here's what I will tell you.
	If they don't win tonight, it is a big mistake because the last game they barely won.
	If they don't win tonight, the Bucs, it is a big, big mistake.
	They would be the first team in NBA history, by the way.
	If what?
	They would be the first team in NBA history to lose game six at home up 3-2.
	Really?
	Yes.
	History?
	In the finals, in the history of the finals.
	They would be the first team.
	I'm going to do this last story before drinking.
	I got to call in seven minutes.
	So Yellen sees several more months of rapid inflation before easing, worries about housing impact.
	This is a CNBC story.
	Treasury Secretary Janet Dellen cautioned Thursday that prices could continue to rise for several more months, though she expects the recent startling inflation run to ease over time.
	She added that she worries about the problems inflation could pose for lower-income families looking to buy homes at a time where real estate values are surging.
	The Consumer Price Index, which measures costs for a wide range of items, increased 5.4% in June, the fastest pace in 13 years, excluding food and energy.
	The gauge rose 4.5%, the fastest acceleration in 30 years.
	Also, housing prices in the nation's largest cities climbed nearly 15% in the most recent measurements.
	Though consumer survey points to expectations of higher inflation ahead, Yellen said she is encouraged by market-based measures that suggest prices will cool over the long term.
	So now, did you watch her being grilled by Kennedy yesterday?
	I think it's Senator Kennedy.
	Did you see him grill on Arizona for like seven minutes and 20 seconds?
	Okay.
	So he kept saying, do you think inflation is going to be higher by the end of the year?
	She says, if you look at it as a 12-monther, I don't think it's going to be.
	I'm going to ask you one more.
	He asked five different times.
	She never answered it.
	Then he brought up the Federal Reserve and she said, I don't want to comment on that, but she did.
	He says, listen, the feds are kind of saying that they may, and the market reacted to it, meaning they're going to increase the rates and they're not going to wait until 2023.
	Well, no, it was a technical adjustment that they have to make.
	She kept saying, right?
	Technical adjustment that they have to make.
	Then I go and listen to Powell when Powell says, you don't come up with permanent responses to temporary situations, meaning this is just a temporary inflation that is here.
	We don't need to permanently, you know, temporarily raise the rates today to make up for inflation, right?
	I mean, that's kind of what they're talking about right now.
	But Yellen is definitely not saying that this is going to go down anytime soon.
	She's not sitting there fighting it.
	She's saying, no, it's going to be here, but it's going to taper off and go away, right?
	We're going to see what's going to happen.
	What are your thoughts on this?
	Well, I was on your podcast about a month ago, and I remember us talking about Janet Yellen said that inflation wasn't happening.
	And Joe Biden said, no, it's a 1% inflation month over month.
	It's 1%.
	And you're sitting here going, What world are they living in?
	What world are they living in?
	They've been lying to us the whole time.
	What would make you start thinking they're telling the truth now?
	Like, if somebody trusts anything the government's telling us at this point, I don't trust you.
	Like, I have more faith in conspiracy theorists than I have in the government at this point.
	I have more faith in those wet cardboard Japanese beds than I have in anything that comes out of somebody in our government's mouth.
	Doesn't it seem like it's like the perfect storm for high inflation?
	And there sure is a lot of talk about not being inflation or there's going to be inflation.
	And we're already starting to see it.
	And you said the market reflected it the other day, too.
	It's coming.
	There's no question about it.
	I mean, look at it.
	There's even a supply chain problem that's still affected.
	If you wanted to buy a new car right now, I don't know if you could.
	I mean, it is that difficult to find a new car right now.
	And they're selling them 20,000.
	I have a friend who owns multiple dealerships, 20K over asking price in California.
	People are paying for it.
	And people will pay for it for some of them.
	And they'll have literally no new car inventory.
	It's all the chips.
	It totally is.
	That's what it is.
	So, by the way, here's what look, there's certain things that you have to, you almost need side effects.
	Let me explain what I mean by this.
	If you eat 50 cheesecakes in a week and you don't gain weight, there's something wrong.
	Let me say that one more time.
	No, no, I can attest.
	Yeah.
	If you eat 50 cheesecakes, what's the side effect?
	The side effect is happiness.
	You're going to gain weight, right?
	If you eat 20 hot dogs in the span of an hour, what's probably going to happen?
	You're going to barf.
	You're going to go straight to the bathroom and barf.
	If you don't, something's wrong with your body.
	Let me say this one more time.
	Something is wrong with your body.
	I'm looking for Joey Chestnut with this.
	If you take 20 shots of vodka and you don't get drunk, your body's broken.
	David, that one's for you.
	Yeah.
	So here's the point.
	If you print six and a half trillion dollars of money, okay, you shut people down, you put 50 million restaurants out of business, 50 million employees out of business, 10,000 restaurants out of business, whatever the number is.
	If you do that and you give people free money to stay home while you're giving them stimulus, if it doesn't break, it's broken already.
	There's something wrong with the body.
	Meaning, when you print money, inflation goes up.
	When you keep rates low, you can manipulate the market, but eventually you have to increase the rates.
	The rates are going to go up or else something is broken.
	The math, if three times three is no longer nine, there is something wrong with the calculator.
	The calculator is the government system that we have today.
	Something has to go.
	It's going to happen.
	It's going to happen.
	When it happens, I don't know.
	But right now, they're trying to spin it on all this other stuff thinking, oh, it's not going to happen.
	It's not going to happen.
	It's about to come.
	So it's a bold-faced lie when they say that it's not going to happen, right?
	Because there's no way, logically, it couldn't.
	Yeah, but just like every other lie they tell us, Tom, it's for our own good.
	They don't want to run on the market, is what they don't want.
	So it's for your own good.
	By the way, they were lying.
	David, come on, grab the guitar.
	Three lines.
	David, three lines.
	Is that song public or no?
	No, no.
	It's not public.
	No, you can check out my Spotify.
	But is that song that you did last night public?
	No, it's not.
	Okay, for fair, the fact that you've never played that publicly, next week you have to play something for us.
	Sure, I got this.
	Okay, next time I got your song.
	By the way, it was a great song.
	It's on Instagram if you want to see it.
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