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00:00 - start
2:10 - Why people hate Jeff Bezos
12:00 - How ambitious is Jeff Bezos?
30:16 - Life Expectancy
45:28 - Rand Paul vs. Fauci
1:08:29 - Larry Elder running for Gov
1:18:00 - AOC on Joe Manchin
1:21:30 - NBA Finals
1:33:15 - Does money buy happiness?
And by the way, today, we're going to have a debut performance from our buddy right here, David.
You got your guitar ready or no?
I got Mario's guitar.
I mean, you sound nervous already, which is good.
I got a guitar.
That was a great Joe Biden in the person.
What an incredible speech last night, though.
So we have Adam here.
We have Ricky.
We have Gerard.
That's a great day to be able to do it.
We have Kai, and we have a friend of ours here, Erica.
I don't know if they can see her or not.
The anger cannot see her.
Right behind Ricky joining us for the podcast.
We got a lot of things to cover.
We got a lot of stories.
Apparently, I saw this this morning.
You guys don't even know about.
Dubai has been fabricating rain because it is 120 degrees over the day.
Wow.
They have made fake rain.
You'll see the video of how interesting it looks.
They figured it out.
Jack Dorsey says Bitcoin will bring world peace.
Jack Dorsey says Bitcoin will bring world peace.
We'll read his story.
NBA Finals, best viewing.
I don't know if you saw the viewership on what came back with NBA Finals.
Record-breaking viewership.
We'll see those numbers here.
Really?
Self-driving car.
An Israeli company got approval in New York City to have their car drive around where the guy just sits back there not touching a steering wheel.
They're testing to see if this is actually coming.
You got to see the video.
It can't be that much worse than the yellow cab drivers anyway.
It's a pretty interesting look.
Larry Elder was bumped out, but now he's back in.
He's back on the ballot.
He won the lawsuit, whatever it was.
He's on the ballot, which is good.
For California.
Rand Paul and Fauci went at it again.
I tell you, these guys are like best friends at this point.
Oh, my God.
We need to do some sort of Jake Paul Mayweather fight.
Fauci was shaking.
And as much as LeBron loves China, he got rejected by China with spaceship.
Space Shepherd 3.
I don't know what happened over there.
It couldn't happen to a better guy.
I thought there was a level of loyalty there, but that's exactly what just took place.
And then we got a bunch of other stories.
So having said that, for the sake of starting with a fun story, for the sake of starting with a fun story, let's start off with Jeff Bezos, why he's loved so much.
Is that okay with you?
Let's go to page three.
Jeff Bezos, we were watching it live last time.
He went into space, came back down.
When he landed, he did a couple different things.
One, he gave, Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin has sold nearly $100 million worth of tickets for future tourist trips to space, business insider.
Blue Origin officially opened ticket sales in a morning before Bezos' flight.
And in his post-flight press conference, Bezos said the company was approaching $100 million in private sales already.
If not clear, it's not clear if the company sold any private tickets before it officially opened sales on Tuesdays.
Tuesday, Bezos and Blue Origin didn't disclose seats prices for the journey, which travels 62 miles above the Earth's surface.
A seat next to Bezos on New Shepherd went for $28 million in the company's auction.
And the winner pulled out due to shifting scheduling conflicts.
And Oliver Damon, the 18-year-old, took the place instead of him.
So the tickets for Virgin Galactic on the edge of space is $250,000 and includes a spacesuit.
So now, a couple of things before we go through this.
Obviously, we saw the New York Times story with Bezos.
Bezos thanks Amazon workers and customers for his vast wealth prompting backlash from AOC and many others.
He came up there and says, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be able to travel out here.
I also want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this.
His comments prompted swift critical reactions, including from a member of the House Representative who serves on tax writing ways and means in committee.
Space travel isn't a tax-free holiday for the wealthy, says the representative Earl Blumnomer from Oregon.
We pay taxes on plane tickets.
Billionaires flying into space producing no scientific value should do the same and then some.
I think the opening question for all of you would be the following: Why does Bezos get as much hate as he?
He lands, he gives $100 million to Van Jones.
Okay, he gives $100 million to the Chef Jose Andres.
He does all this stuff.
He still gets a lot of hate.
Why do you think that is?
Because you have, because what ends up happening is that people are haters by nature, right?
They don't like people doing better than them, first of all.
And if they can't get a piece of the pie, then they even get more mad, right?
So, but I will tell you, I'm going to give you my point of view real quick on this, Pat.
I was having this conversation with a buddy of mine in Bakersfield not too long ago, and he was talking about Bezos, not in a bad way, but he was saying that he was excessively rich.
And I said, You know how much time Bezos gave back to your life?
And he says, What do you mean?
Explain it to me.
This is very simple.
You place an order right now, you get it tomorrow or the next day.
You're saving a trip to the store.
You could possibly get an accident.
You get to spend more time at home with your kids.
You can actually help them with their homework.
You don't have to do these, you don't have to do all these daily activities as much because you can literally buy everything on Amazon.
He facilitated your life at a cheap price.
If the man gets rich doing it, that's America.
It's home of the free, land of the brave, and opportunity for all, not opportunity until you think it was too much taken advantage of.
So the reality is, I don't care how rich the guy gets because at the end of the day, because of him, I'm able to order stuff that comes to my door.
It avoids me a trip, it avoids me time, it saves me time, it saves me money, and I can do things that are more important to me than going to Walmart to pick up some freaking toilet paper or whatever it is that I need milk or whatever the case that I need.
Anybody have a different great argument right there?
Any other reason why you think he gets as much hate as he gets?
That's actually, I mean, it's a legitimate question because you start to see like all this hate that's come towards Bezos.
And obviously.
And by the way, just so you know, it's left and the right.
It's not like the hate is only from one set.
He's getting it from both sides.
Why is that?
I think that's a good question.
Obviously, we all grew up watching Superman, and he's been compared to Lex Luthor, the bald guy.
You know, what's he up to?
He's evil.
Don't return from space.
We don't want you back here.
It's like, let me just say something.
I haven't had a car in 10 years.
If I don't have to leave my apartment, I won't.
I order Amazon for everything.
Like the other day, I wanted something for my cats.
Yeah, I said my cats.
I just ordered it.
Boom.
It came the next day.
You're absolutely right.
I think no matter you said people are haters by nature.
I'm wondering why that is.
Like, I think a lot of it has to do with ego, right?
Like, the ego is not the ego.
Why do you think?
But it was the beginning of time, though.
Why did Kane kill Abel?
He was jealous of him.
It's in our DNA as humans, regardless of race.
I mean, the first brothers in the world, one killed the other.
I think it's a little bit different because I really don't like Jeff Bezos.
And the reason why.
So yeah, let's hear it.
That's good.
So the reason why is the system that we keep talking about is broken, like, you know, the corporatist, which isn't capitalist, it's corporatist, right?
The system that we have.
He exploits every single loophole possible.
He does it publicly.
He does it at the end of the day.
He wants to explain that.
Okay.
So the fact that this guy is able to accumulate the wealth that he has, right?
Which nobody in the beginning is going to say, wow, don't accumulate wealth.
Nobody at this table.
And as a staunch free market guy myself, if you don't like Amazon, feel free to buy anything else.
There's a million other things that you can.
Absolutely.
But what he does, and he has a team, and it's smart to work within the system, but he exploits the system through and through.
He goes into new locations.
He makes sure that he gets the best tax situation possible in the system.
He has different locations.
So we're mad at him because he's good at negotiation?
No, no, no.
See, the thing is, I'm not mad at him.
No, no, I'm just saying.
So we're doing it.
I think what happens, this is what I'm trying to say.
I think what happens is that he publicly represents everything wrong with our government and our system.
But in what sense?
Because he exposes it, is what I'm saying.
I know, but right now.
But he's playing by the rate.
Is he doing anything illegal?
Perfect.
No, perfect.
Is he doing anything illegal?
He even says the people that have a problem with me are mostly right.
That was actually him.
What I'm specifically talking about, okay?
He got $10 billion during an economic recession after a pandemic to go play, you know, just a tip with the outer atmosphere.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, he got a big veiny space rocket and went to Alice.
There's Gerard.
Can't get the dick out of his mind.
Can't get that Johnson out of his mind.
I can't get it out of my mouth, Adam, but the thing is...
He's had it before.
The thing is, he gets $10 billion.
And the first thing that the government says when he goes to outer space, the first thing that they say is, where's our cut?
We tax you when you, we tax normal people.
Whoa, time out.
You shouldn't be taxing us either.
You don't get to give $13 billion to American Airlines for them to never take off on time.
So the fact that the government, the first thing that they did when they got back was, where's our cut?
Right?
It wasn't that we gave you $10 billion that should have been reallocated to people who really, really need it after being held political hostage for 18 months.
You see what I'm saying?
Now, I'm not mad at Bezos for taking the money.
I'm not mad at anybody.
We talked about this a couple weeks ago.
I'm not mad at anybody that takes government money right now.
Because if the government's going to hand it out to their boys, you get yours.
If you play by their rules that they refuse to play by, you're not noble.
You're a sexual.
Let me take this up for PBD.
Go for it.
Because it's something that comes to mind.
It's like, why are all these ultra-tech billionaires, the Jack Dorsey's of the world, the Bezos of the world, the Zuxelberg, why do they always lean left?
Why are they Democrats?
Is it fair to say that they mostly kind of vote, step in toes?
Because of regulation.
No, but progressive policies help them.
Higher minimum wage helps them.
Correct.
Open borders help them.
Exactly.
It doesn't have to be a problem.
It drops the wage.
Exactly.
We talk about taxes, right?
That's beneficial.
Pat says they're not worried about taxes, bro.
They're worried about regulation.
Let me play ball.
Is that right?
Darren, by the way, Anas just said he gave 20 bucks.
He said, it's because the workers, he treats workers like crap.
Amazon workers deserves 30 hours plus.
He's greedy, unionist to the TG answer, the answer.
It's the workers who did it.
That's him.
The other one is it's not ego.
This is from Little Panda Club.
He says it's not ego people project outwards because they are afraid to assess inwards.
Exploitation is not illegal.
It might be unethical and immoral.
Okay.
So just real quick on that.
Bezos has spoken about that.
And he says, look, he basically optimized the work hour, the work week within the current employment laws.
So he, again, is exploiting the rule of law.
People are saying it's unethical to have the people work that way.
And his thing is, okay, when the laws change, I'll change it.
But the laws don't change.
But is he wrong?
So it's the perfect thing.
It's like you said, it's the difference between being legal and unethical.
So, okay, but here's a question to you.
Okay, perfect.
And by the way, I'm not disagreeing with you.
Ben, my question to you is whose fault is it?
The government's or his?
Okay.
Well, it's a blurry line.
Who pays for the government?
Well, it's not a, but he didn't pay for the government before he got into, before he created Amazon.
So all those laws and rules and regulations were set before he became who he is today.
If he was truly the progressive that he says he is, if he was truly this for-the-people person, right?
I don't know if he planned out.
He's not progressive, though.
But so he's exploiting people's empathy.
You know who also does this?
This is eerily similar to someone who uses those exact same rhetoric.
Montgomery Burns.
No, Donald Trump would say, I just, the system is I donate to Republicans, Democrats, I play within the rules.
If you don't like it, only I can fix it.
It sounds like Trump.
You don't like Bezos and you don't like Trump.
I didn't say I like Bezos.
I like Amazon.
I like Amazon.
I don't care.
I like Amazon.
I don't care if it's not like I'm a Bezos fan.
I'm more like I respect what he's built.
Anas came back and he said it's because he pays zero on taxes.
He's greedy, et cetera, et cetera.
So he takes that angle, okay?
The fact that he's not paying any taxes with the money he makes.
And then, you know, somebody else said, no, it's the problem.
Intuned Knight said, no, that's not the problem.
It's because they can smell where the power is and is the one who has the power right off the FBI and the CIA is the Democrats.
That's what they said.
Here's my question for you.
Here's my question for you with Bezos.
How ambitious you think he is?
Meaning, do you think he has ambitious above being the richest man in the world?
Yes.
You think so?
Yes.
And what would that be?
What do you think his ambitions are?
You think he wants to run one day?
You think he wants to be a president one day?
I don't think so.
I think the ultra-tech wealthy now, I really honestly believe that their ambition is to try to live forever.
That's it.
I think that they want to live forever.
What does that have to do with imposing anything on you?
You need the resources.
You need as much money as possible.
No, I get that.
That's totally fine with me.
But what does that got to do with hurting somebody else if you want to live forever?
Let's just say that's your ambition.
Everybody has different ambitions and fantasies.
Listen, if we all found out everyone's fantasies, you'd probably unfriend 80% of your people that you're friends with, right?
Ricky Williams sit next to me.
Or high five.
If 80% of the time.
You got to dap up, Gerard.
That was high five in this guy.
But the point is, so what's wrong with his fantasy wanting to live forever?
If that's what it is.
What else do you think is his ambitions?
You think that's what it is?
You think he has aspirations of the new world order because I want to have so much money to have a family?
Well, it's scary.
It seems to me that all these ultra billionaires, the Elon Musk, now the Bezos, even Richard Branson, it's otherworldly stuff.
It's like you've already dominated on Earth.
Congratulations.
You're worth $100 billion, gazillion dollars.
What's up, Mars?
What's up, Moon?
What's up next?
He planted my flag of Amazon on the moon.
Have you guys heard about the $48 million, 10,000-year clock he built that he's building right now?
$40 million.
He built $48 million.
Kai, can you pull up the article here?
So this guy built a $48 million clock called the 10,000-hour, 10,000-year clock.
He's building it to bury it in a mountain.
I don't know if you guys have heard about this or not.
He's building it, $42 million.
Click on it.
10,000-year clock.
Okay, Jeff Bezos building a 10,000-year clock inside a mountain.
Go up so we can see the pictures.
What does that mean?
A 10,000-year clock?
Well, okay, so go a little lower so I can read this.
So, okay, engineers and contracts are building a massive multi-room clock inside a mountain in West Texas, a clock that will tell time for the next 10,000 years.
And despite an informal website with a whiff of block spot, this is Jeff Bezos' project.
There are a lot of surprises in the story of clock of long, number sounds of $10,000.
So who first imagined a 10,000-year clock in 1986?
He's visiting professor at MIT, et cetera, et cetera.
So if you go up a little bit, his idea with this clock, when they ask him, why are you doing this?
He says, long-term thinking.
I'm a long-term thinker.
So he's building a clock that's going to outlast how many generations, 10,000 years?
And he's going to bury it, apparently, in this mountain in Texas.
I don't even know which mountain because Texas doesn't have to be a terrible.
Texas has a mountain all of a sudden.
This is where he's going to plug in.
Spirit into the AI.
Here's the thing with a guy like this to me.
Okay.
A couple things with a guy like this to me.
Number one, you know, one, he's going to get targeted because you have a lot of money.
Two, I think he's a terrible communicator.
I think he's a terrible communicator.
Who the hell was his publicist or his PR rep that approved the script for him to say, I want to thank all my employees and customers for paying for this.
Dude, I told you.
Who the hell wrote that script for you?
Go hire a writer for you to teach you how to write a damn script to say, hey, employees, thank you so much for working so hard.
You paid for this.
I'd like to thank all the little ants down beneath me.
By the way, it's almost as if you are giving people the opportunity to trash you.
So number one, I think he's a terrible communicator.
Number one, he's a terrible communicator.
I don't think he's a good communicator.
Number two, I think he brings some of the stuff upon himself because, you know, a lot of these billionaires, like I remember one time I sat with Mike Ditka.
I'm in Chicago.
I'm interviewing him.
It's probably one of the least viewed interviews out there because it's not the Mike Ditka that you and I remember where he says, here's a coin, buddy.
Call somebody who cares, you know, and he goes back and forth with the media and all this stuff.
I sat down with the interview and it was so apologetic.
You know, I probably shouldn't have done it that way.
I probably shouldn't have done it this way.
I probably shouldn't have done it that way.
And I'm sitting, I'm like, why are you apologizing?
You killed it.
You're an all-time, you know, you created a position tight end.
You went out there and you won as a player.
You won as a coach.
Are you kidding me?
You're like an ultimate badass of a man.
Stay in your position with who you are, right?
You're getting so much pressure from media where some of these guys are constantly feeling like they have to apologize.
You're the richest man in the world.
You've created 1.2, 1.3 million jobs worldwide.
He is worth 200, let's just say he's worth $250 billion between him and his ex-wife and amount of money she gave away.
Put the two together.
He's worth about a quarter of a billion dollars.
He owns 16% of Amazon.
Let me say this one more time.
16%.
That's 51%, not 60%.
He's only a 16% owner of Amazon.
Amazon right now is worth what?
$1.8 trillion, right?
Say it's a $2 trillion company.
If he's worth 16%, it's what?
$320.
If you take $300 billion out of the $1.5 trillion, it's what?
$1.5 trillion.
You did this math before, right?
You're not doing this right now.
He, I just did it right now.
This is basic stuff, guys.
This is not complicated.
Here's the point.
The point is this.
This man has created $1.5 trillion for others.
Yes.
Let me say this one more time.
He's made $1.5 trillion for others.
You don't think he exploits his employees?
You don't think that's it?
Let me go to that argument.
Let me go to that argument there.
So let's talk about exploiting your employees.
I have a hard time understanding exploiting your employees.
Here's why.
Let me explain to you why.
So you're exploiting your employees.
In 2021, in 2021, with DEI, with all this stuff that's going on, you cannot do that today.
Exploiting your employees in 2021 with Instagram, with Snapchat, with TikTok, with Facebook, with Live is mathematically impossible.
And not only that.
You don't have your phone in that.
And not only that, it's absolutely dumb, okay, for you to be able to do something like that.
Let me continue a little bit more with this.
Why?
Here's why.
First of all, back in the days, you know, Ford got a lot of heat for people who work for him, right?
And they would say, you're making people, because if you look at the stats, Kai, I don't know if you have these stats or not.
You know, back in the days in 1889, the average amount of hours, the average worker in America worked 69 hours a week.
Yeah.
In 89.
In 1889.
Oh, 1889.
In the 1920s, 1930s, that number was still in the 60s.
It was like 63 to 65 hours a week.
The average employees working 63 to 65 hours a week in what year?
And we're talking 20s, 30s, right?
That's because of who?
Ford.
Ford was the biggest employer.
They just employed 16 years ago.
1830.
69 hours.
You're seeing the numbers.
And it's coming down to like, there he goes, like 50 hours, all this stuff, right?
And then if you look at when the 9 to 5 thing came about, everything dropped below 40.
You see that number right there around 1934?
39.2 hours, 38.7 hours.
So that was because of Ford.
They came out with this idea to say you cannot get people to work this many hours.
Union and Ford went back and forth and they negotiated.
And the guys are like, listen, if I'm going to give you 30 years of my life, you got to give me some kind of a pension.
Ford agreed.
Boom.
That's how pension plan came about.
I'll work for you.
You give me a pension plan, right?
This is during that time.
So, okay, great.
Today, you don't like how hard my Amazon's working?
Guess what?
Quit.
If it sucks, we have Vanessa right here.
She quit.
She didn't like it.
She's great.
More power to you.
What was it like working for Amazon, Vanessa?
Honestly, yeah, no, it sucked.
In my opinion, I feel like the pay shouldn't be 16.
It should be at least 20 for the amount of packages that we move around.
But other than that, yeah, if you have another option to leave, leave.
Is it true?
Is it true that you don't get bathroom breaks and stuff like that?
It's very hard.
You technically do, but you can feel the pressure for sure of like if you go, like all eyes from the managers are on you, and it's not comfortable.
And what you said about the phones, yeah, you cannot have your phone on you.
I know that's true.
Yeah, and by the way, here's the other part.
Like the question about that.
Okay, so you know how many people today, how many people today come out of college?
Like one of the things Reid Hastings talks about, the founder of a, not founder, he's one of the guys, Mark is the founder, but he's one of the guys at the beginning, Netflix, you're right.
He's the guy that helped the company be worth a couple hundred million.
By the way, they lost 423,000 subscribers last.
I don't know if you saw that or not, post-pandemic.
We'll talk about that.
Here's one of the things he said.
They had a meeting one time, Reid Hastings.
They're sitting there.
And I said, you know what was the best feeling about Netflix?
Everybody's like, what?
He says, it felt so good that people finally wanted to work that Netflix just to put it on their resume that I worked at Netflix.
He says, that's when we knew we made it.
You know how many people want to work on Amazon to put it on their resume and say, no, no, no, I disagree.
You think people want to put that on their resume?
Like, it's like some of them.
Yes, they do.
Yes, they do.
People want to put in their resume that they worked at J.P. Morgan, that they worked at Goldman, that they worked at Facebook, that they worked at these places because they're in that world.
With Amazon, him talking about how much he's making people work, similar stories with what Sam Walton went.
Don't work there.
Leave.
Don't work in an environment like that.
I'm not honest.
I'm shocked that you're taking this.
You're notorious for treating your employees well.
You go above and beyond for your employees.
No, you're not here on what I'm doing.
That's not what he's talking about.
What I'm saying to you is if I mistreat you, leave.
I don't deserve you.
Gerard, you were with us before.
Okay, you, because of a personal relationship, you went back to what?
New York.
And you and I had a conversation.
One of the most eloquent emails ever written was written by you.
Okay, when you left, you left.
I said, I like this guy.
You left.
Where are you right now?
Back here.
Why are you here?
Well, you.
But the point is, but how do I treat you?
Very, very well.
Would you be here if I treated you like shit?
No, no.
But you left.
You went and saw the market.
Then you're back.
If Bezos treats people so bad, then leave.
We are not forcing anybody to work over there.
Now, let me give you the negative side of why I think he gets a black guy.
Here's why I think he gets a black guy.
So I think the problem is the following.
I think if you play politics when it favors you on a party and you don't when it doesn't favor you, that's when you create enemies.
Meaning, hey, I'll go team up with these guys if this is going to favor my company, but I'm not going to team up with these guys if this doesn't favor my company.
So you become a flip-flopper or you become somebody that can't take a stand for certain positions that you got.
Fastest way to create enemies.
Take a stand.
Make a stand what you believe in.
If you do that, you ain't going to have a problem with that.
But Bezos right now, sometimes people don't know where he really stands.
Do you stand with the guys that say, hey, I'm not going to pay that much taxes?
Do you stand with the people that say, hey, let's take care of the employees?
Where are you standing with?
Who stands with Jeff Bezos?
Do you stand with Bernie Sanders?
Do you stand with Trump?
Do you stand with Biden?
Who do you stand with?
What's wrong with playing both sides, though?
You're a businessman.
I think as a businessman, no, no, it's nothing's wrong with that, but you're going to be a target.
That's all.
You're going to be a target if you pick one side anyway, though.
No, but you're actually.
If you're saying I'm all progressive, I'm like, let me put it to you this way.
I may not like AOC, but I respect AOC.
I may not like your policies.
I got a lot of respect for AOC.
You have no idea how much I respect Bernie Sanders.
I respect Sanders because he takes a stand.
Here's his position.
This is what he believes in.
To me, Sanders, Sanders, when he ran, I was flabbergasted when he threw in the towel and says, I'm just going to go support Biden.
I was flabbergasted because head-to-head debate, Sanders against Biden, Sanders will destroy Biden in a debate.
It's not even close because he believes in what he's talking about.
He was destroying Hillary and then they submarined him.
And they did that twice, by the way.
They did that twice, by the way.
Which means even Democrats don't want socialism to be in America.
Can you say that one more time?
Even Democrats don't want socialism to do that.
Just play that clip.
No, no, no.
Just play that clip, Butler.
By the way, no, no, no.
First of all, first of all, let's face it here.
Let me ask you a question.
You think Obama right now is a capitalist or socialist?
Capitalist.
Question for you.
When he started as a president, you think he was more a socialist or capitalist?
I think the woke left has made Democrats be like, what is going on?
Let me ask you the question one more time.
When Obama first ran, do you think he was more a socialist or capitalist?
More socialist.
Definitely more socialist.
I'm asking him.
I think there's a mixture of both.
I don't think he was full socialist.
It's a very basic.
I don't think he was full capitalist.
It's a basic question.
Do you think he was a little bit further left than he is now?
Tell me why.
I think, like anyone, you have to evolve and change.
I don't think that's what it is.
And what helps him evolve and change?
I think when you start realizing you're paying taxes and the money's being used for nothing, you start kind of questioning and saying, what the hell are you guys doing with my taxes?
I think that needs to be a little bit lower.
The more you create commerce and you're doing your part that's above and beyond your peers, you start questioning a little bit.
So you start off with this concept of socialism being noble until you compete in the marketplace and like, wait a minute, man, I'm doing a lot more than the other guy's doing.
Why is he?
No, that's not fair.
So eventually you become a capitalist.
So eventually you're like, yeah, I'm not a socialist.
I'm a capitalist.
Obama today is a capitalist.
He ain't no socialist.
He's a $10 million to speak at Goldman for an hour.
He ain't no.
He ain't no socialist.
So going back to it, look, I don't know.
I think some of these guys need to stop apologizing.
I think we need to realize that a guy like this, he has a playbook that he used.
He went and bought Washington Post to control his narrative.
That's his YouTube.
That's his Twitter.
That's his New York Times.
That's his LA Times.
That's his Time magazine that Mark Bennyhoff bought from Salesforce.
And he's delivering his message through that.
So let me circle this back to you and then we'll do this.
So he said that he thought that Bezos wants to live forever.
I said he wants to kind of take over space in the world.
What do you think Bezos' long-term plan is?
You showed the example of the clock.
Is it legacy?
Is it living forever?
What do you actually think it is?
Yeah, I don't know.
The only thing that I can think about is power.
It's the only thing I can think about is power.
And I think there's a part of him.
I think there's a part of him.
And this is going to be pretty difficult.
So go to certain people who grew up not getting a lot of attention.
Go to a certain group of people that didn't have girlfriends in high school or didn't get a lot of attention, didn't get a lot of play.
They were kind of boring.
And then later on, give them a lot of money and power.
What happened?
Silicon Valley.
They were in the past.
Exactly.
Silicon Valley.
Exactly.
They want to go back and make up for the 16, 17.
Make up for lost time.
What they didn't do because they didn't get the attention.
Now it's like coming like this from all over the place.
Let me make one quick point.
You brought up, who's helping him with his messaging?
Who's helping him with his messaging?
So let me just say one thing and then I'll turn it over.
He says, I want to thank all the Amazon employees and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all this.
All he needed to do was substitute one word, paid for all this.
When you're the richest man in the world, stop using the word fucking pay.
Just say, you guys enabled this.
You guys made this happen.
Whatever.
This is giving you credit rather than you paid for all this.
I'll take it.
So here's my point.
Jeff Bezos was a freaking nerd in high school.
Long time ago, though, man.
Okay, but still, you've seen the picture of him and Amazon.com, and he's just in his library and he's half bald and he hadn't shaved his head yet.
And he's like, I think I'm going to start with a bookstore.
Dude, the guy was a full-class nerd.
Now he's the richest man in the world.
He's a public figure.
Like you said, his message is.
He's pretty good looking guy today.
But wait a minute.
No, no, no.
I'm not talking with what he's got.
He's working with what he's got.
He's banging Lorenzo Sanchez.
He's just pretty good looking.
He's made it work.
He's doing his thing.
Respect.
But the point is, he's making up for lost time.
But you know how they say you give someone money and they don't change.
It exposes who they really are.
So, if you give a good man money, he'll do good things.
You give a bad man money, he'll still continue bad things.
I think he's just a full-on nerd who's now got $100 billion, and he's doing, you know, his thing.
His messaging is horrible, though.
Two points on that.
All right.
First point is, I agree with you.
I agree with Pat.
The repentant rich are the worst human beings on planet Earth.
Nobody wants to hear you complain, and nobody wants to hear I was a part in this.
I wasn't.
If he came out and he was like, and they were like, why did you go to outer space?
And he was like, cause I could, bitches.
I'd be like, this is the coolest dude on earth.
That's because I, cause it was there.
What do you mean?
Because it was there and I wanted to be there.
And I'd be like, yo, Bezos, this guy gets it, bro.
Like, stop complaining about everything when you're rich.
Buy a couple jet skis and be like, ah, this is dope.
You should try this.
It's awesome.
Like, you know what I'm saying?
Like, yo, go get another job.
This is wild.
That's what I want to see out of the rich because if the rich keep crying, what's the point of any of this, man?
Like, what is the point?
Jump off a bridge.
Like, if Prince Harry can't be happy, married to a freaking model, I'm a pretty shit.
Everything's hole.
Dude, come on, man.
Or you're talking about the pre-event Megan Marco.
It's insane, Prince.
Get a fast car and drive and be like, ooh, this is pretty fun after all.
They look being wealthy.
Dude, that's what I want to see.
Number two, the revenge of the nerds is a real thing.
Everybody in Silicon Valley is running the world right now.
They're running the narrative.
That wasn't a movie.
That was a documentary.
That's a documentary, bro.
It's all everybody that runs our life right now.
Looks like a bunch of people.
Can we put up a picture of Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds?
Ogre.
Gerard, you could star as Ogre in the next Revenge of the Nerds.
Yeah, I'm ready for it.
Let's get those nerds.
Yeah.
Painted.
By the way, that movie would be cancel cultured in a minute.
Can you imagine that or Porky's?
There's Gerard.
Let's get those nerds.
Ivy Leaguers have ruined everything I love.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay.
All right.
Ogre.
There it is.
Yeah, exactly.
Gerard, respect.
Okay.
All right.
Let's go to, we'll see.
By the way, if you're listening to this and you yourself, if you're listening to this, seriously, if you're listening to this, if you don't think he has any other major ambitions, like you're like, okay, I think he just wants to be, you know, whatever, comment below.
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Okay, let's continue.
Let's continue.
Next topic.
Let's go to U.S. life expectancy in 2020 saw the biggest drop since World War II.
Go to page five.
Let's take a look at this story here.
Okay.
All right.
So where are we at here with this?
All right.
So U.S. life expectancy in 2020 saw the biggest drop since World War II.
AP News, U.S. fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II.
Public health officials say Wednesday, the decrease for both black Americans and Hispanic Americans was even worse three years.
The drop spelled out by the CDC is due to mainly COVID-19, which is responsible for close to 70% of the overall life expectancy declined.
More than 3.3 million Americans died last year, far more than any other year in U.S. history with COVID-19 accounting for about 11%.
That killer, killers other than COVID-19, played a role.
Drug overdoses pushed life expectancy down, particularly for whites.
And rising homicides were a small but significant reason for the decline for black Americans.
For decades, U.S. life expectancy was on the upswing, but that trend stalled in 2015 for several years before hitting 78 and 10 months in 2019.
Last year, the CDC said it dropped to about 77 years and four months.
Thoughts?
It got up to 80 years, man.
We've doing pretty good for a long time.
Like when I was a kid, if you met somebody in the 70s, in their 70s, you were like, wow, this guy's doing pretty good.
Like nobody in my family.
Like, you know, this goes back to kind of we have to reevaluate the ageism and everything else where, you know, we used to think like, I remember when Tom Coughlin was being ousted by the Giants, we're like, he's 70 years old.
That's too old.
Like he didn't grow up 12 years old smoking Marlboro Reds.
He wasn't working in the mine since the time he was nine.
We're all, you know, we're all doing more later in life.
If we go, I think it was for the longest time, it was stagnant at 72 years.
Now it got up to basically 80 at 79 in 10 months, and then it retracted back to 77, which I have to imagine has to do with older people dying, right?
Yeah, well, you got to remember, we're living in the baby boom era, right?
The baby boomers are dying out.
So a lot of people are not, they're not, they're not, they're not understanding that the baby boomers are in that age and they're dying, right?
They were born in World War II.
They're in their 70s and 80s.
It makes sense why in 2020, there's a drop in life expectancy because they're dying out.
So we had a combination of COVID and baby boomers are passing away.
I mean, the math makes sense.
Seems scary if you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
You don't know history.
But this doesn't bother you at all.
There's no red flag about this or anything.
Why?
Why would there be high tech?
Or let me tell you why.
Because the three main points said, number one was, well, one of them was COVID.
Second of all was drug overdose.
So COVID didn't kill me.
It actually didn't do anything to me.
But Dick Pharma did.
Well, it didn't do anything to me.
I don't use drugs and I have a, I don't think that I'm going to get killed by a black guy.
So as long as I don't fall.
You have so many guns.
So I have a lot of guns.
So they're probably going to end up on the other side of it.
So the thing is, like I said, so I don't feel like I'm going to fall into these three categories anytime soon.
So I'm not worried about it.
You're good.
If it doesn't affect you, you shouldn't worry about it.
That's just the truth.
That's predictive analytics.
It's just math, bro.
Like three options?
Yep.
Pretty, probably not going to fall for any of them.
I'm good.
I'm good.
So what's your point with that?
Let me use this.
So you're saying what?
You didn't hear his question?
I didn't.
He said, does it worry you?
Is there any red flags?
Gotcha.
Are you at this podcast or the next one?
I don't know.
So space and Bezos.
He asked the question.
I just answered the question.
Ricky, let an expert weigh in right now.
Let me tell you something.
Oh, God.
There's a lot of things we can, you know, banter about, but there's actually.
You're waiting for an expert.
Yeah, exactly.
There's actually, Pat, what's my business?
Life settlement.
This is actually his business.
Okay, so my business is life settlement.
What's life expectancy?
You're in the life insurance business.
You recruit agents.
That's your specialty.
You're a producer, comedian, part-time nerd crusher.
PBD is a businessman, entrepreneur.
I deal with something called life settlements.
And the foundation of this business is life expectancy.
I buy people's life insurance policies off them for cash.
If you're ever familiar with structured settlements.
How is that?
Relax.
Real quick, real quick, real quick.
Real quick, just on that.
I understand that business model.
I just don't understand why people like you don't hire hitmen after you acquire somebody else.
Long question.
If you know Byron Udell, he's got a similar thought process to you.
However, we buy people's life insurance policies for cash today.
If you've ever seen structured, such JG Wentworth, 877 cash now, you can get a cash payment now for your assets.
Just like your house, just like your car, just like your jewelry, just like your art.
Your life insurance is an asset.
But the foundation of that is life expectancy.
How long are you going to live?
How long are you going to live?
How long?
So women live longer than men.
Yeah, of course.
Healthy men live longer than sick men.
Healthy women live longer than unhealthy women.
It's all about life expectancy.
So if you get someone's life medical records or APS, you're probably familiar with this in the life insurance world.
You get their medical records, their APS.
You can use analytics to predict life expectancy.
What's my point in all this?
I know how long people live.
The healthier you are, the longer you live, especially with females.
So in terms of life expectancy here, the number one killer by far is heart disease.
That's because everyone in America is fat and overweight and obese and they're eating like shit.
You're fat.
I'm sorry.
You're strong.
You're like strong fat.
You're not just like fat.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, he's not baby Huey.
He betches 500 freaking pounds.
It's not like he's just, you know, getting forklifted out of the house.
Is that how he got his seats?
And he sat on the other side.
These two were fighting over the seat.
And I was like, you know, that's his guy.
By the way, Ricky has lost, I don't know, maybe like 40 pounds to make.
She looked great.
20 pounds.
Shout out to you, Ricky.
You look great.
Appreciate it.
And shout out to your beautiful wife back there.
Number two is cancer.
Okay, so let me tell you something about cancer.
I've dealt with this.
I've had a girlfriend that had cancer.
You might think you're doing great.
Boom.
Next thing you know, you get fucking cancer.
Right.
Shit.
That came out of nowhere.
That's something you can't plan for.
Of course.
Number three this past year was COVID.
Okay.
That was a blip in the radar.
Obviously, life expectancy ain't going up during COVID.
Why?
Because people are catching COVID.
A lot of old people are dying.
Unhealthy people, fat people are dying.
Number three, beyond that are accidents.
People die because of accidents, okay?
Car accidents, you know, your whatever.
I mean, we can go on and on and on.
Number four is respiratory disease, COPD, lung, whatever.
Number five, stroke, Alzheimer's diabetes.
All right, what's my point in all this?
People are living longer.
Something that you always talk about, something Pat that actually just, I think you tweeted this the other day.
Pat's getting a little creative right here.
This is the greatest time to be alive.
As a human.
Okay.
Like 200 years ago, a guy named Gerard or a guy named Ricky could have just came and just beat you over the head with a shovel.
He would love that.
Or shoot you in the streets.
And where do you live again?
Would have been social cookies.
In Bakersfield.
And that's it.
That's it.
It's over.
Now, like, there'll be an investigation.
Okay, so people are living longer than ever.
Do you know the life expectancy in 1960 in America?
Had to be 62, 63 years old.
Correct.
It was 62 years old.
1980, do you know where it went to?
69.
73.
Okay.
By the way, do you know in 1960 when life expectancy was 62, you know where it was in India?
41.
41.
40.
40.
That's what they saw in India.
People suffer from a lot of heart disease.
I don't know.
They don't eat a lot of meat there from what I hear.
You know, in 2000, what the life expectancy was?
In America, 76.
In India, in 40 years, it went from 41 to 62.
Okay, that's a 21.
What a credit come up.
Well, what a credit.
Modern advancement in medicine.
People aren't smoking cigarettes.
Like, you remember the movie, the show, The Mad Men?
And just they're smoking.
Like, imagine imagine if we were all just sitting right here, just smoking cigs, smoking cigs, just having the time of our lives.
Point is now life expectancy is up to 78, 80.
I think as people, look, we all know people that live to 90, 100, no problem.
Warren fucking Buffett is 90, what?
How old is he these days?
90?
89?
Charlie Munger is 95 years old.
Bottom line is: if you take care of yourself and you don't smoke and you don't eat like crap, you could live to 90, 100, no problem.
Millennials in Gen Z are going to en masse live to age 100.
That's my prediction.
So let me ask you guys a question.
While you're doing this, by the way, that was very helpful with all the data you just gave.
Blacks, Hispanics, whites.
Who lives the longest?
Whites.
Yeah, whites.
Okay, who's second longest?
Hispanics.
Hispanics.
Who's third?
Blacks.
You ready?
Can you pull up this article?
Okay, so check this out.
So Browns have a little bit of white privilege.
Do control F, hit 70.
Coconut theory.
No, coconut.
Control F 72.
This is March 29th.
Okay, go down?
Okay, right there.
The report shows that while black Americans live to 72, whites live to 78.
Okay?
Whites live six years longer than blacks.
But you ready for the shocker?
Go to the next article I sent you.
White privilege.
In fairness, though, blacks look better.
Watch that.
Watch this.
They do.
Black Democrats.
However, the life expectancy at birth for U.S. Hispanic population, 81.8.
Hispanics live longer.
Rose Compolio is the secret.
Is the Rose Compolio?
Did you see that?
By the way, Hispanics live longer than whites and blacks.
Why is that?
Why do Hispanics live longer?
I mean, you got.
It's because their women are tranquil and calm and never fighting.
America, put away the knife.
That's what it is.
You know, I'm going to attribute something, Pat, just from my personal experience for being Hispanic, you know, in case some like white lady in Congress wants to talk for me.
No, I'm going to talk for our people because I know our people.
My experience is being my people.
We believe a lot in home remedies, right?
We believe a lot in that.
We don't like Hispanics won't go to the doctor.
Not much on taking away from doctors or medical advancements.
But a lot of things are solved at home.
They solve a lot of things at home.
And they know flowers and they know fruits and they know it's very, you got to remember a lot of Hispanics in Latin America and Central America, a lot of them live in rural areas, right?
So you're 30 minutes from hospital, spider bite, a scorpion bite will kill you, snake bite will kill you because by the time you reach the local hospital, you're dead.
So they had to learn a lot of natural remedies in a lot.
Like, for example, I'm going to give you an example.
If you have tooth pain, it's very popular in one, I know it's Colombia, but in Mexico as well, is to chew on cocoa leaf because it numbs it.
So like a lot of, like you would go here, you drink Adevil, right?
In South.
Drink Advil, yeah.
Yeah, drink Adevil.
I'm sorry.
Or drink tequila.
Yeah, drink tequila.
But over there, you can chew on cocoa leaf and it'll it'll actually bring down the pain.
Homeopathic.
Yes, exactly.
So there's a lot of natural remedies.
I just pulled up the article that I asked the question, why do Hispanics live longer?
Why do Latinos live longer?
So this article, this is a PRI.org article.
Number one, it says quarantena.
Quarantena is what it says.
It says one tradition seen in Latin cultures, but rarely in Western cultures, quarantena, meaning quarantine.
During this tradition, the new mother rests for up to 30 days, 40 days, and bonds with her child while relatives or friends handle all the cooking and household traditions.
Someone helps treat the mother how to breastfeed, etc.
And her book, Caucasus Organizer, this luxury is nearly impossible in the United States where there's no federally mandated pay.
Okay.
So number two, food.
Aguilar learned that the value of self-care through food when she worked at Cafe Mayapan, a Mexican restaurant in downtown El Paso.
It sort of ingredients from a community farm aiming eventually to source all.
Okay, so natural food.
Natural food, yep.
Because they do it themselves.
Family and community.
This same philosophy of looking inside translates into Raito del Sol, Daycare, a learning center, the daycare beneath Andrade's La Muir Obrerac umbrella.
Their female community members teach reading, math, Hispanic science to about 35 children, infants.
The woman helps each other.
Okay, so let's just say there's a community that sometimes sometimes our culture is narrowed down to just folk roica, folklorico.
Folkorico.
Yeah, what is that?
Folklorico.
What does that mean?
Folklore.
Yeah, it's a, well, Flor Corico is actually, to us, it's a dance.
It's where the women are doing with the, you ever seen that?
Yeah.
By the way, quick shout out to the role of your R's on your Hispanic accent.
I'm a Middle Eastern, but I mean, this guy's firing away, Pat.
You're Hispanic.
We need more than that.
We need the math and subject.
Okay, so that's that.
Anyways, but look, to be honest with you, if you think about that, okay?
If you think about that, if I were to tell you Hispanics live longer than whites and blacks, none of you guys said Hispanics first.
It's interesting if you think about it.
I don't know, man.
But I don't think it's Hispanics.
Let me narrow it down.
I don't think it's Hispanics in America.
No, this is America.
Latinos in America.
The thing is, also, it's funny.
We were just having this conversation with Erica.
Yeah, we travel a lot, right?
When we go to Mexico, we eat what we eat here, and you could eat double because the chicken actually looks like a chicken.
It doesn't look like a turkey, right?
So it's a kill of the day.
It's known as a kill of the day, right?
So you eat what you kill that day.
It doesn't go through all these processing things, you know?
There's definitely something to that.
My sister lived in Italy for six months, and she was eating bread, drinking wine, and she had lost like 30 pounds, man.
I was like, how is this possible?
Like, I'm watching my diet, nothing's happening.
I'm moving to Italy.
Literally, man.
And basically, she wasn't like doing it for weight loss, but she was, dude, she was partying and like eating whatever she wanted to eat.
And essentially, what we think about, what we think it is, is the preservatives.
Exactly what it is.
Something, I don't know if Kai can pull it up because I don't know the numbers exactly, but there's something like the average distance the food travels from the farm to your table in Europe is like 16 or 17 miles, where in America it's like a couple hundred miles.
So they have to add preservatives, otherwise, the food will go bad.
Yes.
So the food in America is literally made not to decompose.
Your body can't break it down.
By the way, check this out.
Jesse Jimenez just gave 20 bucks and he said the following: It's because it's rare for Hispanics to put out elders in nursing homes.
100%.
How many Latinos?
No, you know, you see Latinos living together every day.
Pat, you will get disowned if you do that.
So the power of family wall Japanese is the same way.
That guy is 100% correct.
You put your mom in a home or your dad, do you know?
You're never going to hear the end of it.
As a matter of fact, it won't happen.
Interesting.
We're so close, Pat, that if I have a couple of uncles that I know right now, they get older and their kids die.
I'm taking them in.
They're my uncles.
It's not even my parents.
Like, I don't know.
And that's culturally through us.
That's culture.
You just don't do that.
My grandma.
I'm Colombian.
I agree with that.
Yeah.
It's not even an option.
It's not even an option.
Hell no.
You white people are weird.
My grandma, 89 years old.
Fuck you, mom.
I'm out of here.
Let me down.
You guys have to go out at 50 years old.
Like, mom, you're 50.
You got to go to a home.
Like, what the hell, bro?
My grandmother.
You see great-grandparents.
Let me flip it.
Is the culture also when you turn 18 go and figure this out?
No, hell no.
They don't want you to ever move out.
They want you to move in.
Your kids move in.
Everybody don't.
So maybe that's what it is because in American culture, it's more 18.
Go figure yourself out.
So because the kids maybe are like, listen, you kick me out.
I'm kicking you out.
You've never seen a punter in the NFL kick a ball as far as my father kicked me when we were 18.
He's like, get out of here.
Go make something of yourself.
Interesting.
We just learned something right now with the life expectancy of Hispanics.
Okay, so there you go.
All right, next, let's go to Rand Paul and Fauci.
Okay, Kai, if I want to pull up the video, pull up the video.
Folks, how many of you guys have not seen the back and forth with Fauci and Rand Paul?
I'm curious, if you've not seen it, I want to get your reaction for those who have not seen it.
And you tell me who you're voting for made a better argument and comment.
I don't want us to say it.
I want to hear it from you.
I want us to just watch this while they go back and forth.
You want to watch the whole four minutes?
It's good.
It's good the whole time.
No, no, I think it's good the whole time.
Yeah, I think it's good the whole time.
They got to listen to it.
And Kai, is this, this is on what?
Is this on Twitter?
Where did you get this video from?
No, no, go show.
I want to see where, because that says newsbacks.
That's what newspaper.
Okay, they have it on Twitter, the whole thing.
Okay, good.
Make it bigger.
Okay, then press play.
Watch the end.
Watch.
Hang on, press pause, press pause, press pause.
Okay, go back a little bit.
If you're saying Rand Paul is winning and he's making a better argument and you believe him, put thumbs up.
If you think it's Fauci, put thumbs down.
By the way, shout out to one of our friends our kids went to school together and I'm at a gathering with him.
He collects baseball cards.
We start talking, says, I send you a special gift.
Like, what special gift did you send me?
We're at the house.
He sent me Anthony Fauci's rookie card graded PSA.
Is that the one that was on your counter?
I saw it yesterday.
Here was his rookie card.
It's a $200 card, man.
It's a Fauci rookie.
It's a Fauci.
Can you imagine it?
I love it.
All right, so go ahead and play.
So thumbs up.
Rand Paul's winning.
Thumbs down.
Fauci's winning.
Go ahead.
Of the research that the NIH said was subject to the pause in 2014 to 2017, a pause in funding on gain of function.
But the NIH failed to recognize this, defines it a way, and it never came under any scrutiny.
Dr. Richard E. Bright, a molecular biologist from Rutgers, described this research in Wuhan as the Wuhan lab used NIH funding to construct novel, chimeric, SARS-related coronaviruses able to infect human cells and laboratory animals.
This is high-risk research that creates new potential pandemic pathogens, potential pandemic pathogens that exist only in the lab, not in nature.
This research matches, these are Dr. Ebright's words, this research matches, indeed epitomizes the definition of gain of function research, done entirely in Wuhan, for which there was supposed to be a federal pause.
Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11th where you claimed that the NIH never funded gain of function research in Wuhan?
Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress.
Microphone, Doug.
Your microphone.
Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress.
Who believes that?
And I do not retract that statement.
This paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function.
What was you take an animal virus and you increase its transmissibility to humans?
Right.
You're saying that's not gain of function?
That is correct.
And Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly.
And I want to say that officially.
You do not know what you are talking about.
Oh, he gives you a title.
Okay, you get one person.
Let's read from the NIH definition of gain of function.
This is your definition that you guys wrote.
It says that scientific research that increases the transmissibility among animals is gain of function.
They took animal viruses that only occur in animals and they increased their transmissibility to humans.
How you can say that is not gain of function?
It is not.
It's a dance, and you're dancing around this because you're trying to obscure responsibility for 4 million people dying around the world from a pandemic.
And let's let's send Dr. Fauci.
I have to.
Well, now you're getting into something.
If the point that you are making is that the grant that was funded as a sub-award from EcoHealth to Wuhan created SARS-CoV-2, that's where you are getting.
Let me finish.
We don't know.
Wait a minute.
I came to the lab, but all the evidence is pointing that it came from the lab.
And there will be responsibility for those who funded the lab, including yourself.
I totally resented it.
This committee will allow the witness to respond.
I totally resent the lie that you are now propagating, Senator, because if you look at the viruses that were used in the experiments that were given in the annual reports that were published in the literature, It is molecularly impossible.
No one's saying those viruses caused it.
It is molecularly.
No one is alleging that those virus caused the pandemic.
What we're alleging is the gain of function research was going on in that lab and NIH funded it.
That is not away from it.
It meets your definition and you are obfuscating the truth.
I'm not obfuscating the truth.
You are the one who is.
Let me just finish.
I want everyone to understand that if you look at those viruses, and that's judged by qualified virologists and evolutionary biologists, those viruses are molecularly impossible to resolve.
They are.
No SAUSCO viruses caused the pandemic.
We're saying they are gain-of-function viruses because there were animal viruses that became more transmissible in human, and you funded it.
And you admit the truth.
And you imply.
Mr. Paul, your time has expired, and I will allow witnesses who come before this committee to respond.
And you are implying that what we did was responsible for the deaths of individual.
I totally resent that.
And if anybody is lying here, Senator, it is you.
Damn.
Okay, so who do you believe?
Rand Paul, all day.
Hang on.
Who do you believe?
I'm going to go to you first.
Oh, my God.
Here we go.
Stop.
Here we go.
You know who won that debate?
Who?
You know who won that debate?
Tell us.
The rest of us.
Tell us why.
I don't.
Look, and if you guys are going to pretend that your doctor's here, and I know Gerard's going to put on his gate of function.
Oh, you're assuming you know what I'm going to do?
I already know that you're going to.
I'm assuming I know what I'm going to do.
I guarantee you, I already know what route you're going.
Any day now, you could just answer that yes or no question Pat asked you.
Okay, some of us are actually willing to say, I'm not a freaking virologist.
I don't know what gain of function is.
He's winning the debate.
He's not asking what I'm saying.
I'm not going to describe what happened.
Who won the debate?
Who won the debate?
The fact that they're debating and having open discourse is what I like to see.
You know where they're not debating this?
And goddamn Wuhan.
Yeah, but what I'm saying.
Because they're not talking about this.
The fact that they're talking about it in a public hearing with open discourse.
Sure.
The American people.
I don't know who won that because I don't know what gain of function is.
No, no, no.
And half our audience doesn't either.
Adam.
So the expert panel here is going to teach us.
Let me ask the question one more time.
Adam.
Can we get some green teas that calm people down?
No, bro.
You fired up.
So I'm just asking you a simple question.
Here's the question.
Yes.
Okay.
We sit there, we watch Mike Pence debate, you know, Kamala Harris.
Okay, at the end of the debate, we said who won the debate?
The fly won the debate.
Okay, the fly won the debate, but we say Pence won the debate, right?
And then we say, okay, Biden.
Obama debates Romney.
Who won the debate?
Depends which one.
Okay, depends which one, but you know what?
At the end of it, Obama won the debate.
Yeah, right.
Okay, you sit there and you say, but there is no scientific proof to say he won it because he scored seven threes, had 19 rebounds, shot 17 for 19 from free throws, and he had 50 points, five blocks, that's what he did.
Is he honest?
Yeah.
So all I'm asking you is, from you, as a, let's just say you're a family man, you're sitting with your two kids, your wife, you're sitting there watching this together.
Your spirit, you go to bed by yourself.
You're not telling this to anybody.
You're thinking about it.
Energy when you saw the two talk.
Who are you sitting there saying that guy made sense?
All right, so here, let me give you a very specific answer.
This is not their first.
No, they've had many bad things.
They've had many bad things.
You're right.
In my opinion, Rand Paul has won the first few rounds.
Okay.
Like, he has made Fauci look like a complete moral.
Sure.
Right?
At least on this one, Fauci came back and fought back.
I don't think he won the debate.
With Candrisse.
But at least he came back and is like, it's on you, buddy.
I resent what you're saying.
Are you convinced?
Are you convinced that what he's saying is.
I do not have a clear answer on that.
And I'm not going to give you my Wuhan theory prediction.
I don't know the answer.
I like that it's an open discourse.
Guys, it's not a Wuhan.
So in this particular round, you give it to him.
I'll give a little bit to Fauci for fighting back.
That's all you have to say.
Although Rand Paul definitely has the upper hand.
Forget about truth.
He normally does.
Yeah, forget about the energy going back and forth.
He clamped, you know, he came back and he said what he said to him.
But based on some of the questions that were asked and the answers he gave, are you leaning towards Fauci or you're leaning towards.
So on scoring, energy, coming back, that?
The fact that he even fought back and he says, you don't know what you're talking about.
I'm the expert here.
I got to give him a little credit for that.
That's it.
So a little bit.
All right.
So to you, to you, our buddy.
And I'm not saying that Fauci's right.
I'm saying in this debate, he at least fought back.
Because in previous debates, he's just sitting there and taking it.
Okay, sounds good.
So, Ricky, where are you at?
Very simple.
Rand Paul read.
I've watched this and I've watched every single debate they've had.
Rand Paul read to him exactly the definition of gain of function.
He read it to him.
So he says, this is your definition of it.
And you're telling me that what you did was not gain of function.
He says, yes.
What do you mean, bro?
You wrote the rules.
And now you're saying that that doesn't apply to what you did when that's exactly what happened.
So, I mean, it's, and by the way, they've already caught his emails.
You got to look at, you got to look at a precedent.
They've caught his emails already, right?
They've seen his emails.
He's been back and forth with the whole mass thing.
He just danced around too much.
And then, by the way, there's been hearings he has not showed up to.
So he's like, why aren't you showing up?
If you're right, you have nothing to hide.
You know what happened is that because he hasn't been showing up to some hearings, he felt the pressure here and he needed to fight.
Not only did he have to show up, he needed to fight back because he was not there to defend himself.
He chose not to be there to defend himself two or three times already, three or four hearings he has not showed up to.
So, I mean, when you could look at, you got to know the history of what's going on with these two.
And by the way, real quick, before I get to you, before we go to your George, I want to encourage all the audience.
This is how you get your information.
I watch senators go back and forth.
I watch when they're like, for example, right now, there's all the nominees right now, right?
Biden's having all his nominees.
You got to don't stop watching univision telemundo, MSNB, C, and CNN.
You can go on, like we live in an era of smartphones and stupid people.
Go to YouTube and go look up Congress debates and you come up with your own conclusion.
This is the way you get your information.
You don't get it by listening to some anchor that works for a company that's paid off by somebody else in the government so that you can understand how things work because you really don't know what the hell you're talking about.
This is the best way to do your homework.
I actually watch the live debates between these two individuals.
But to answer your question in a nutshell, Pat, Rand Paul took his ass because I've been following this story very closely since it started.
See, I actually disagree with you, Adam.
I don't think that response was good.
I think that response was the political equivalent of, I know you are, but what am I?
It's all he did.
He said, I'm rubber, you're glue.
What you say bounces off of me and sticks on you.
I mean, that was a good idea.
He really tried to, because don't forget, unlike most politicians who are attorneys, Rand Paul is a doctor.
So he understands exactly what he's reading.
He understands exactly where to get the information from.
So he cited a study from Rutgers, Rutgers University, not exactly a conservative, a bachelor of conservative who says this is gain of function that's happening here.
And he used Fauci's own definition of to describe what gain of function is in the clip.
And then Fauci goes, that's, you don't know what you're talking about.
And he's like, but this is you.
You wrote this.
I may not know what I'm talking about, but if you know what you're talking about, this is what you said.
And he goes, no, I resent that.
Dude, it was very simple.
Did you do gain of function?
I did.
Did you pay for it?
I did.
Then you're responsible in part for what happened.
I resent that you would say that.
I resent that you would use my words to describe it in that manner.
Nonsensical.
Absolutely nonsensical.
Whoever gave him that, you know, that advice to come back like that and self-incriminate.
You know what really tells me more than anything else?
They have absolutely no fear of us in the public.
They have no fear of the common man.
They're up here.
We're down here.
And they know the Republicans are not going to have any sort of strength to follow through on this thing.
Mitch McConnell and Sean Hannity or Team Vaccine now.
I mean, it's, listen, if there's no consequences for bad behavior, why would bad behavior ever stop?
If heads don't roll, if people don't spend their lives behind bars, why would they ever stop doing what they're doing?
Pull up the hand of the clip.
Pull up the hand of the clip of him talking about the fact that, yeah, just play this real quick.
Make it bigger so people can see it.
Okay, six and a half million views on Twitter in 24 hours.
Our oligarchs aren't afraid of us, man.
Watch this.
Go ahead.
Just like we've been saying, please take COVID seriously.
I can't say it enough.
Enough people have died.
We don't need any more death.
Research like crazy.
Talk to your doctor, your doctors, medical professionals you trust based on your unique medical history, your current medical condition.
And you and your doctor make a very important decision for your own safety.
Take it seriously.
You also have a right to medical privacy.
Doctor-patient confidentiality is also important.
And it absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated.
I believe in science.
I believe in the science of vaccination.
Just like we've been.
I was with him up until he started with that bullshit.
With what?
I was with them.
Take it serious because you should, according to your health.
Absolutely.
Which bullshit do you have a problem with?
At the end when he said what?
What everybody should, or he said the whole thing with the vaccination.
Trust the science.
Trust the science.
What's science?
In two days, 45,000 people.
So I got a question for you guys.
I got a question for you.
That's a bunch of bullshit.
I got a question for you guys.
Why did he just change his position and go to this?
Because he wants a longer career.
That's all.
Okay, so here's a question for you.
He wants a longer career.
Is it because of Trump telling him you got to say that?
Is it because Fox is getting heat and Fox's boss has said for him to say that?
Is it because of an internal debate with his wife where his wife's like, babe, why don't you just go and say that?
No, he doesn't get to see it.
He doesn't get to do what he's doing.
So then tell me, why do you think a guy like Hannity, staunch conservative, staunch Trump supporter, Trump's never done anything wrong in his eyes?
Why is he all of a sudden saying?
Because if you can't beat him, join him.
I don't think that's what it is, believe it or not.
I don't think that's what it is.
You think that Trump's telling him?
No, I think if you can't beat him, join him.
He would have done that a long time ago.
He said 20 years to join him.
I don't think he's joining anything.
But you think the political atmosphere has been the same in the past 20 years as it is right now?
No, no, but I don't think Hannity is the kind of person that's just going to say, if you can't beat him, go join him.
I think there's got to be a bigger reason.
Somebody called him.
Of course.
Someone called him and said, hey, here's what you got to take.
What's your theory on it?
I don't know.
Either something's about to be announced.
Either something, like, let's just say 48 people at Fox headquarters have COVID.
You know, hey, vaccines.
So they're going to say, either something's about to be revealed that has to do with a data with vaccine that he knows about, that has to do with Fox News, that has to do with Trump, that's something like that.
So he wants to say, he wants to get ahead of it.
Either he is seeing that Florida right now, if you haven't seen the COVID numbers, by the way, COVID numbers have shot up in the last couple of days in Florida.
The Santa is on fire right now with the COVID-19.
Have you guys seen this or not?
United States specifically.
Yeah, unvaccinated.
In the last week.
Unvaccinated people who haven't had previous exposure.
Who haven't had previous exposure.
Very, very important.
It's not people who have had COVID getting COVID again.
No, no, no.
It's previous, who haven't had previous exposure.
Yeah, but again, so I'm putting all of that to see.
Why are you saying this now?
It's a very weird dynamic.
It's like Stephen A. Smith going from saying, listen, LeBron James will never pass Michael Jordan as the greatest player.
And then all of a sudden he says, folks, LeBron James is the greatest player of the world.
That's a very crazy thing.
He's saying someone called him.
Someone's in his ear.
Something happened.
There is no way Hannity is going to switch for no reason.
He wakes up one day in the morning.
You know what?
I just kind of want to give this announcement to everybody.
I think everybody should go take their vaccine.
Hasn't Hannity, I don't watch a lot of Hannity, but I mean, hasn't he been very positive on the vaccine from the beginning?
He was trying to say the vaccine was a Trump win.
So I think he might have been vaccined from the beginning, to be honest with you.
I think because he tried to posit it as a.
Not at this.
It wouldn't have gotten six and a half million views.
Not at this point.
If something like this goes, you think the media is going to let something like this go away?
By the way, CNN comes out and on MSNBC, they said, you know, why do you think he said this?
And then the lady says, well, first of all, the one thing that Sean Hannity needs to stop saying is the fact that Trump's the reason we got vaccined.
So because the operation warps meet, it's not because of Trump.
That's because of President Biden, the fact.
So he needs to stop giving credit to President Trump on that.
But as far as him not saying that, they're saying the fact that people need to get vaccinated, we should applaud him for that.
So it's, you know, they're all playing the cards right now.
And I don't know.
I don't know the story behind this, but I can guarantee you we don't know why the motive is from coming out.
So do you have a problem?
Forget about what he said in the past.
Do you have a problem with what he just said?
Hey, take it seriously.
Consult the doctor.
No, there's nothing wrong with that.
You have a problem with that.
No, there's nothing wrong with that.
Because it's true.
According to your health, you should take it seriously.
In my house, in my house, multiple people have taken the shot.
Have you taken a vaccine shot?
I have not.
Have you taken a vaccine?
Medical privacy.
You really are going to say medical privacy?
Medical privacy.
Joe Biden's watching everything that you do.
I don't see what you're saying.
But here's a question.
Has anybody in your family taken away your vaccine?
It's theoretically your family.
Yes.
It's Schrodinger.
It's Schrödinger's poison.
I could have taken it.
I could have taken it.
A lot of people.
A lot of people in your family have taken it.
When they tell you about it, what do you tell them?
No, they don't even bother because they already know where I stand with it.
No, no, but let's just say, has somebody called you?
Damn, bother talking to me about it.
Has somebody called you asking you for counsel?
What do you say to them?
I tell them, it's funny, and I'll be open about it.
I had this conversation with my dad many times before he took it.
I said, pops, your life is your responsibility, not mine.
You do what you want to do.
You do what you got to do because I'm not going to be responsible either way.
And that's, by the way, I encourage that.
If people that follow me, I have a lot of people here, obviously, that watch me follow me on Instagram.
I'm just exposing what's going on with a bad side effects because the news is not telling them.
So if the news is not going to give them the other side of the vaccine, I am.
And I respect, I have friends that I admire and I love and I respect they got vaccinated.
That is their choice.
I live in America.
Home of the free, land of the brave.
Do what you want to do.
I do not hold it against you.
Just don't force that shit on me.
It's that simple.
Like forcing the stuff goes down to what I really get sick to my stomach about are the people who are implementing the door-to-door vaccinations.
I get sick to my stomach that the state of New Jersey that I don't even live in calls me once a week to schedule my vaccination appointment.
So like the overreach on this, you don't have to go door-to-door and give people Viagra.
It works.
People seek it out themselves.
I'm not anti-vaccine.
I'm not anti-medication.
I'm definitely not anti-science.
Me neither.
The fact that they are trying so hard to peer pressure people into taking a foreign substance into the market.
That's what makes me skeptical.
That's exactly right.
I would say.
Like, if they didn't push it, I would be fine.
I would even probably take it, but you're pushing it down my throat.
Because if you really care about our health, you would get rid of alcohol.
You would get rid of cigarettes.
Health.
There's a million things you would get rid of that are killing people on a year.
You go door to door making people do 20 burpees.
Exactly.
So if you really care about me, no, I don't trust you.
Sorry.
Yeah.
So Jalen Rose, I don't know if you guys caught that or not in the finals.
One of the guys in somebody had COVID, and I don't know who it was.
They came out and said this person has COVID.
And even though they took a vaccine shot and this person's got COVID, and Jalen Rose opened it up and he's like, look, you know, I don't want people to think to not go get your vaccine.
You should go get your vaccine.
But here's the reality of it.
Just because you take the vaccine, it's like having a bulletproof vest.
You can still get shot in the face.
You can get something.
I'm like, the analogies he gave, I'm sitting there saying, okay, so the concern then becomes even the people that have taken it, if you do get COVID, it's not because of it.
It's way too many of these stories coming together where I have a very hard time thinking about the fact that this is being imposed on people, even though we don't yet have 100% proof and results on how these vaccines work.
It's too much of a imposing, which is a concern.
Anyway.
If I could just say one last thing on this, I know you want to move on to another subject.
They've made it very clear that even though you get vaccinated, let's say it does work and it's 100% proof.
Let's say you get vaccinated.
You can still carry the virus.
And people are saying, like Kamala Harris, right, said, she tried to quote the Bible.
That's why you should get vaccinated.
She says, love thy neighbor.
Hold on.
Slow down.
Back up.
She thinks the American people are stupid.
And the reality is a lot of them are.
Because if you understand the vaccine, they've made it very clear.
It is only to help your immune system.
You can still carry it.
So what the hell does love thy neighbor have to do with the vaccine when it's very clear that I can be vaccinated and still transfer the virus?
That is bullshit.
And you can't sue.
And you can't sue.
Can't sue.
So if you're telling me love thy neighbor, but the vaccine doesn't stop me from transmitting it, but it helps me be immune, then what are you talking about?
You guys all work in a liability business.
Yeah.
All the liability.
All the risk.
Is on you.
Is on one person.
not the other.
Yeah.
There's no shared risk.
There's no shared liability.
What deal would you enter into where you had all the risk, all the liability, and your partner in this, who's forcing you to do it, has none?
Sergeant Wilkie just gave 20 bucks and he said Fox owners are going to change and the kids promised to bring Fox into mainstream media, which means Sean Hannity won his job to worry about being the next Bill O'Reilly because at any point you can go from being the number one talk show host in the world, your name is Bill O'Reilly, to the next day losing your job for something you did 20, 30 years ago.
So at any point, could that be it?
I don't know what it is.
I'd love to see Bill O'Reilly at this table.
I don't know.
He just came out with a book having to do with the mob.
He should be over here if he wants to sell a few 100,000 copies of the ball.
Will you be good, sir?
There's a good seat for you right here.
So Larry Elder, Larry Elder, governor, state of California.
What are your thoughts on this?
I'm freaking excited.
Tell us why.
Tell us why.
Because Larry Elder's a no bullshit.
I think he's from South Central or Compton, conservative.
Pull up his project.
It's just this guy is just, he doesn't, he doesn't care to offend you.
If he offends you, he doesn't care.
He believes in American values.
He's pro-America.
He's pro-freedom.
He wants to, you know, he talks about.
And by the way, he's been on radio taco shows for like 20 or 30 years.
He's consistent.
He's not switched sides in the past 20 or 30 years.
He has a lot of credibility.
People know who he is.
By the way, he has a 62% approval rate in California right now.
62%.
62%.
Are you sure about that?
They did a poll.
They did.
They pulled up the 62%.
Larry Elder, it was a 62% approval rating.
California.
Yeah.
They did an approval.
Put the number 62 next to it.
Yeah, 62.
Keep going.
So you're excited about him because.
Let me see.
There was a poll that they did.
I wouldn't be surprised if they brought it down.
So what's happening in California?
I'm not paying as much attention as I should.
Is it going to be like a runoff?
Is it going to be ranked choice voting?
Go up.
Go up.
It's a recall.
So on September or September, the ballots go in.
So is it just, is it ranked choice?
Is it 30 people, whoever gets the most votes?
Yeah, it's the same thing like any other, like any other run.
So it's just whoever can generate the most.
Are there going to be mail-in ballots as well?
We don't know.
That's going to be the question.
Okay.
We don't know that.
But they did a poll on it.
I don't know if either brought it up.
Now, Newsom is still a little bit more.
By the way, you know, even though there's a recall.
So ready for this?
You know what Kaylin Jenner's approval rating was?
14%.
14%.
She was the second one in the rating in that poll that they did.
She was the second one.
Because if you take a Larry Elder out, according to the poll, obviously you can't always 100% go off of them.
She'd be the governor of California.
Wow.
And then number three was like 6%.
And then 2%.
It was insane.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
So I guess the question is California actually voting for a Republican.
Bro, well, people are tired.
I know a lot of Democrats that are tired, that are tired of the way things are going.
And they're speaking out.
If I showed you my DM right now, man, people are like, bro, you were right.
We need to get this idiot out of here.
We need to vote Republican.
There's even African Americans disciplined.
They're like, we need to vote Republican.
We need to take a break from the Democrats for a while.
Remember, I don't know if you ever watched that thing with Cat Williams?
He's like, you know, we're going to get a new president.
Can we take a break from Prince?
Can we date a president, right?
That's what California is right now.
Can we just date one?
Can we just see if it works out?
Can we take a break?
Can we be single for a while?
I have a comedy bit that I do.
It's a that.
I talk about, I'm just sick of debates.
I don't want any more debates.
I want to see these guys do like the aggro crag, like Legends of the Hidden Temple or something like that.
I want to see compete against each other like old school American gladiators.
Tell me it wouldn't be fun to watch around with Nightshot.
They might have done brought on that poll.
I would not be surprised if they brought it down.
No, what I'm trying to find out right now is who are the candidates?
Who do they have right now?
Kai, you can find this.
It's we got Major Williams.
We got Kalen Jenner.
Major Williams.
I like Major Williams, but that guy's not even going to be nowhere near governor for many, many moons to come.
Exactly.
That's the problem.
Oh, yeah.
Major Williams.
Major Williams.
Yeah, Major Williams.
So is Larry Elder the best chance right now?
Hell yeah.
Okay.
Oh, bro.
You got to follow him to know, like, it's not even a yes.
It's a hell yes.
Larry Elder is exactly what California needs right now.
And everybody.
But he's only going to have one year and then he's got to rerun again, right?
Good question, bro.
I have no idea.
Oh, you know what?
You're right.
You're right.
He just finished out the term.
Yes.
But yeah.
So could Gavin Newsom theoretically Kevin Newsome?
Yes, he could run, but ain't nobody going to vote for exactly.
This is real.
So I just decided, let me send you this.
I found a link that has Larry Elder leading everybody, including Democratic candidates for recall.
Yep.
Let me listen.
I told you, but I'm excited for this, man.
Boom, California.
Kai, follow the link.
While we have some dead air here, David, why don't you come and strum on the sixth string, brother?
We have.
We got some.
David's going to do it at the end.
David, brace yourself.
You'll be all the way at the end.
So once we have the biggest crowd, you'll come and perform.
Kai, if you want to pull this up, this is from a few hours ago.
This is from a few hours ago.
You found it, Pat?
You found one?
It's not the 62%, but you can kind of validate what you're saying.
Kai, if you can pull this up.
So this is from Fox San Diego, which is not Fox News.
It's not Fox San Diego.
People don't confuse.
Don't confuse the three deadlines.
Very big difference.
Larry Elder leads race to replace Newsom in recall election.
New poll reveals.
Go a little lower.
It's a dope looking shirt.
You just announced this how long ago?
A week, two weeks ago?
How long ago?
This is a week ago.
So go over here.
Okay, which candidate would you vote for to replace Gavin Newsome?
If he's recalled, Larry Elder, 16%.
John Cox, 6%.
Kevin Faulkner, 6%.
Kevin Kiley, 4%.
Caitly Jenner, 4%.
Meet Kevin, 2%.
Someone else, 8%.
Undecided, 53%.
16%.
Kevin is the third Kevin in the life.
He's doubling everybody, Pat.
It's a little bit of everybody pushing each other, and we're going to get him in office.
Telling you.
I'm campaigning for him.
Exactly.
This exclusive news statewide poll of more than 1,000 registered voters, which has a margin of error of 0.2%.
Wow.
It has a margin of error of plus, minus 2.9%.
He would still beat them.
He would still beat him.
Ask respondents who they would vote for with Governor Newsome.
Elder let the pack with 16% John Cox government from 6% majority learners.
Go a little lower.
Go a little lower to see what's on the bottom here.
There it is with the radio California ballot.
Earlier this week, he found suitable ballot, 300 pages, tax returns required for candidate, but Elder's not included.
You're talking about his approval ratings.
Go a little lower.
Go a little lower.
In another poll.
Is that California house relevant?
Wow.
I mean, there you go.
We're going to see what's going to happen in the state of California.
Well, they wide open.
Pat, when they did that poll that I'm telling you about, immediately after they took him off the ballot because when he submitted his taxes, there was a discrepancy.
Not in his taxes.
There was just a discrepancy in the way he submitted them.
And they didn't want to let him run.
They said, oh, no, no, no.
You did it wrong.
We're not going to let you.
Of course, no.
Well, no shit.
Look at the, well, they're scared of him.
They know what he's going to do.
Newsome makes it illegal for guys named Larry.
Scroll back down, Kai.
Scroll back down.
Here's actually the most interesting part of the poll.
Other than Larry Elder, there's more than 50% that are still undecided.
They're open.
We're going to flip them.
Okay, that's your job now.
They're just still, hey, I don't know what I want to do yet.
But listen, there are certain times where you have the perfect storm where anybody from the other side can come in and win.
Okay.
Meaning a red state can have a blue person win, and a blue state can have a red state win.
At any point, this can happen.
And it's typically after catastrophic resurrection.
That's when common sense wins.
Like, look at my friend Joe Manchin.
Democrat keeps winning in West Virginia because he just makes sense.
Even in the reddest state in the country, is he a little bit more tortured than he is?
He's like conservative.
How do you create that?
It just makes sense.
I know you love Joe Manchin, and we've all talked.
We all like Joe Manchin.
I think he's literally held this country together.
I think the reason we steal the United States is Joe Manchin and to a lesser degree, Saunders.
He's a constitutionalist.
Yep.
Now, what do you think about the nonsense?
As a Democrat, what do you think about the hard push from the left to get him out of the party, to get him pushed out?
You see it literally every day.
If you look at Joe Manchin, look at Slate.
Look at Mother Jones.
Look at all of the Democrats.
Look at what AOC says about him.
Look at what they say about him.
Look at from his own side.
I'm just going to use James Carville's words.
I mean, I'm not that far left.
So don't loot me in there.
But I'm just going to use James Carville's words.
And he basically said this woke left needs to go.
James Carville was Clinton's right-hand man.
Raging Cajun.
You know, the Raging Cajun.
He's married to a Republican.
I think I just got divorced.
Okay, well, sorry about that.
Good luck out.
Brilliant, brilliant political operator.
Yeah, brilliant political operator.
His most famous line is like, tell me what you didn't like about the 90s with Clinton, the peace or the prosperity?
Which one?
You don't like peace?
You don't like prosperity?
He basically said, Democrats are getting a bad name because, to use his numbers, 15% of the Democrats are this woke left cancel culture, yada, yada, yada, AOC, you know, progressive.
15%.
Again, these are his words.
He said, the majority of Democrats are suburban women, blacks, college-educated people that don't necessarily agree with that.
Now, I know you said, well, don't talk about both sides.
He basically said there's way more than 15% on the Republican side that are MAGA out, that are completely, they don't think January 6th.
The Democratic political operatives said this, yeah.
Okay, correct.
Exactly.
So to answer your original question, yes, there's going to be people on the left that want to get Manchin out of there, but common sense wins at the end of the day.
I think Pat always talks about the best ideas will always win.
Those are elected officials I'm talking about.
I'm not talking about the crazies that are out there.
You know, on the other hand, pull up what AOC just said about Manchin.
What I just sent him a list of videos.
Pull up the video.
Pull up the video on what she just said about Manchin.
Kai, I just emailed it to you.
It's with Chris Hayes.
I think, is it Chris Hayes?
Is that his name?
Chris Hayes on MSNBC.
Kai, did you get the email I sent you?
Another bastion of journalistic integrity.
But you know what?
I don't think that people that support Trump, I don't think they're Trump's Trumpsters.
As much as they're anti-establishment.
As much as Ranta.
Yeah, I mean, I agree.
I mean, bro, he's a braveheart.
He's a brave heart.
He's a bravehearted Republican.
Of course.
Well, when you've been governed by the left for so long and they're governed by the left for you.
You know what I'm saying?
Do you think they love Trump or do you think that they hate the political establishment?
Just look at his approval ratings, bro.
Just look at the numbers.
What's Trump's approval ratings within the Republican Party?
Oh, no, no.
90%.
Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
So, yeah, they love him.
Okay, here we go.
Look at this idiot.
Another aspect of this is that HR1 stands up against lobbyists and dark money.
And I would reckon to think that this is probably just as much a part of Joe Manchin's calculus as anything else.
Because when it comes to this bipartisan argument, I got to tell you, I don't buy it.
Because Joe Manchin has voted for bills that have not been bipartisan before.
Look at the American Rescue Plan.
So this is not just about bipartisanship.
This is, I think, because you look at the Koch brothers and you look at, you know, organizations like the Heritage Foundation and conservative lobby groups that are doing a victory lap, claiming victory over the fact that Mansion refuses to change on the filibuster.
And I think that these two things are very closely intertwined.
And I think that there's a desire to make this just about protecting the franchise, but protecting our democracy is also about making sure that we give lobbyists and dark money groups, which are funding these attacks, on the right to vote.
To boot.
Get rid of the filibuster to protect democracy.
Oh, my God.
And I think that that has part to do.
I think that has to be a lot of people.
I'm going to buy you a rookie card of AOC.
No, Pat, IOC.
If you're listening to this, I invite you to all of you.
Let's have a conversation.
You have gave me many gifts.
I promise you, this is going to be the only one that's going to go straight to the menu.
You should give it to Adam.
No, no, it would go straight into my fireplace.
You should give it to Adam.
She's a babe, though, right?
Bro, I don't.
I don't.
Bro, nobody's listening to her.
She's an idiot.
If she were ugly, nobody would be listening to her.
That's my opinion.
Of course, that's what she said.
If she lose any other message, she's Bernie Sanders.
It would take her 70 years.
She's not horrible.
There's another one that's even worse.
She's not attractive in the middle.
Look, we're going to see what's going to happen here.
But the whole story went from where it was at to mansion to AOC to where things are at right now with Larry Elder, California.
It's going to be interesting to see what happens.
Can a guy, conservative black man, win governor in the state of California?
We will find out very soon here.
And if he does, does he really have enough time to do anything about it?
I don't know.
Can he get re-elected and stay there for another four years?
We're going to see.
I think living in California, Pat, people are just tired, man.
We want to change so bad.
People don't, I don't want to leave California, but I really don't.
I love California.
And if things change, chances are I'm not going to leave.
But if it doesn't change, we're gone.
You got to convince Mitchell Robinson from North Carolina to go out to California and come out there with that big old 60-inch barrel chest of his, get sweaty on the microphone.
Mitchell Robinson's my man, dude.
I don't know if you guys know who he is, but that dude is where it's at, man.
Kai, pull up NBA Finals stats on what happened, the plus minus on viewership, on what happened here.
So first of all, we haven't even talked about it.
Giannis is a champion, which is a beautiful thing to see a guy be 50.
The Greek freak.
17 for 19, 13 rebounds, 500.
How Zenner called it.
NBA Final Series featuring Bucks and Sons attracts 9.9 million viewers, up 32% from 2020, but still down from previous year, go a little lower here.
That's LeBron, because LeBron's not on there.
The last game of the NBA final series featuring Milwaukee was on 12.5 million viewers on 50% compared to Game 6 of 2020, which was played in October because of COVID pandemic.
But overall, the series drew fewer viewers than the year before.
The Bucks have been finalized.
So here's what I liked about this series.
Here's what I liked about this series.
First of all, you know, for six games, I heard nothing about politics.
It was no BLM.
There was no people are bad.
There was no nothing.
It was just a great series, okay?
That you sat there and watched.
Fantastic series.
And this guy here, for whatever reason, the NBA is having a hard time helping him be the face of the NBA.
There's something about him that scares him.
He said, I had the opportunity to go to another super team.
I didn't want to do it.
Just not something what I wanted to do.
I wanted to stay here and win the championship.
I could have easily gone to another super team.
Shout out to everybody in that league, too.
Everybody in the league gets called out.
Stephen A. Smith says Chris Middleton should win MVP.
And he ends up winning MVP.
Absolutely showing everybody that this guy's the MVP.
A performance no one's ever seen before.
What does he do?
He takes every argument away.
By the way, they're asking Chris Paul, Chris, what are you going to be doing?
He's like, I'm not going to talk about it right now what I'm going to be doing in the offseason.
We just lost, man.
Leave us alone and I'll kind of let you know.
Chris Paul is leaving Phoenix.
Chris Paul is leaving Phoenix.
I'm willing to bet on it that Paul is leaving Phoenix.
L.A.
And he's going to go one of a couple places.
If he goes to L.A., it's not going to be just LeBron's call for him to go to L.A. Bus and some of the other guys have to agree for him to go to L.A. Paul's leaving Phoenix.
He's going to go to a different place.
Booker is going to win here.
I'm going to tell you right now, Booker's going to win here because everybody in the league is sitting there saying, who do I want as a teammate?
And people are saying, I want Booker as a teammate.
I don't know if I want Paul as a teammate.
He's going to get attention.
Either Booker's going to go somewhere or Booker's going to sit there and say, I'm more like Giannis than I'm like all these other guys.
What if I stay in Phoenix?
What if I attract a couple guys that come run with me?
What if we go out there and actually win a championship?
What if he attracts a couple players that want to go run with him?
But, anyways, one thing is for sure when it comes down to the NBA right now, especially with what's going on with LeBron not being in this thing.
He was playing the whole thing with Space Jam while he's in the finals.
It was going to be this big blockbuster deal.
Kind of didn't work out for him.
You're hearing behind closed doors guys talking about they should trade Stephen A. You know, Anthony Davis for Damian Lillard.
Chris Paul should come to the Lakers.
All these talks are being done.
I applaud Giannis.
Class act, humble, says all the right things, is still being himself, and it still respects LeBron, still respects Kobe, still respects all these guys.
They asked him a question.
They said, so in 2007, when LeBron got into the league, he says, Do you remember when this took place?
He says, I wasn't even playing basketball yet.
He started playing basketball the first time in 08.
First time he played basketball was in 08.
It's 13 years ago.
The guy's 26 years old.
First time he played basketball was at 13, 14 years old.
And now he is who he is today.
So it's great for the NBA.
I hope the NBA welcomes him.
I hope the NBA allows him to become the face.
I hope this guy wins back to back to back.
I hope he becomes the new face that attracts people from all walks of life to say, I can be an NBA fan again, and I'm not going to be judged for what I stand for.
Here's a question for you.
One crazy question for you.
Ready?
Which sport have you heard nothing about politics in that sport?
The NHL.
Nothing.
There is nothing with politics.
You hear it in football?
Kaepernick.
You hear it in the NBA?
Non-stop.
You hear it in the MLB?
Non-stop.
Got a question for you about the NBA.
Here's a question for you.
Question for all you guys.
Name me a Republican in the NFL, a player.
In the NFL?
NFL.
Tom Brady.
Tom Brady.
Okay, great.
Name me a Republican in the MLB.
90% of the league.
90% of the league.
Name me a Republican in the NBA.
The guy, Jonathan Isaac, that wouldn't heal anybody posted out his name.
I'm talking about name me a half-decent star in the NBA that's a Republican.
Outwardly?
That you even know that's a Republican.
Or a Libertarian or an Independent.
Anybody.
They're out there.
They're just not vocal.
Name me one.
You have friends?
Yeah, I have friends, though.
Do you have anybody that you know is?
That what?
That is Republican?
100%.
You do?
Yes.
Are they vocal?
Charles Barkley.
I don't know if Charles Barkley is.
Are they vocal?
Can they be vocal about it?
Yeah, we've got someone that can come in here and even come on the podcast.
Are they vocal about it?
Yeah.
They've talked about it while they're playing that they're supporting on the right.
They're retired now.
They're not playing.
I understand who you're talking about.
But outside of him, tell me somebody else who's a star, and he wasn't a star.
But I'm talking about somebody that was a star.
Is he a Republican?
I'm thinking if there's a star in the league right now that will come out and say that they're Republican.
I don't know if LeBron James would let them.
I don't know.
I don't think LeBron controls the league like he did at one point.
Can you today come out and say you're Republican in the NBA?
See, I think you can't.
Like, can you?
I don't know.
But should you?
Yes.
But if you do, will your career be negatively impacted?
Yeah, I think that's bullshit.
Yeah.
But I think you could say, hey, I'm a Republican.
This is what I agree with.
Good for you.
I believe in social justice.
Like, you can be a Republican and still believe in social justice.
Question for you.
Most people that work for Valutaine, are they Democrats or Republicans?
It's pretty split.
Pretty split.
Shocking number of communists.
What I'm trying to show the comments.
But what I'm saying to you is that.
I don't think there's any comments.
What I'm saying to you is it's a split.
It's a split here at the end.
So is America.
So is America.
But not the NBA.
But, Pat.
But not the NBA.
Well, but here's a percentage of the NBA.
Yeah, but we talked about this here, though.
We're in Florida.
Yeah.
And as Joe Biden said, me and Adam talked about, me and Adam talked about this already, this conversation.
Valutain has split, but you're talking about both, for the most part, Florida, Democrats, and Republican can coexist.
In California, they can't.
And neither can they in the NBA.
Right.
So what I'm getting at is that you have a split here, but everybody's like, yeah, we're cool.
You're Democrat and Republican.
We're cool.
You don't judge each other.
In California, there's a lot of judging because I know I sure as hell do it, and I'm not even going to deny it.
And I'm good with it.
I'm going to own the fact that, yes, yes.
California, there is no California like a Democrat Republic, like a Democrat California.
Democrat Californians are a whole different breed of their own.
They are not.
They're like super mutants.
They're not like a regular Democrat in Florida.
It's very cultish, man.
It's very cultish in California.
So yes, I do judge, and yes, I do tend to stay away because I just don't like their ideology.
I think what you're saying is depending on what state you're in, like, for instance, there's a difference between a New York Democrat versus a Alabama Democrat, okay?
Yes.
There's a difference between a New Jersey Republican versus a Mississippi Republican.
Like, there's a difference.
California is a different.
So I didn't understand all, like, in Florida, we coexist.
Yes.
My friends are Cuban.
They're Republicans, but they're socially liberal.
Or I went to school in Tallahassee where it's northern panhandle and there's a lot of more like rural Americans.
Not South Beach.
Like we kind of coexist.
California, there's a lot of arguing.
It's not as ugly in politics here as it's in Florida.
I'll be for real with you.
If you were up in Brooklyn, if you spent a lot of time in Brooklyn specifically, but New York and North Jersey in particular, they wouldn't let you claim that you're a Democrat.
They would ostracize you.
Either you would have to move further to the left or your social circles would restrict access to you.
I swear to God, because you're not far enough left.
They'd consider you a closet Republican or I'm okay with that.
I'm not because they would push you out.
Oh, you're a closet Republican?
No, no, I'm telling you right now, they would push you out of business opportunities.
You'd be pushed out.
You'd either have to go along.
And that explains why you're so angry.
So I am angry.
I know.
I get it.
But I've never had to deal with it.
I do want to be clear.
I've never had a Republican or a Democrat say you should do this or I have to do it.
I've never said it's not both sides, by the way.
I just want to be clear with this.
I've never said it's not both sides.
I said, look at the other side is the wrong argument for right now.
In this moment right now, it's not both.
Corporate America is not kowtowing to both sides.
They're kowtowing to one side.
The NBA isn't trying to win over the Republican vote.
They're putting up all progressive messaging.
They're going as far to the left.
China, China, China.
They've chosen and it's not.
Look at Ben and Jerry's.
Ben and Jerry's specific.
Exactly.
So in this moment, all I want from Democrats, all I want, and here comes hamburger 6969 in the comments going, this is a right-wing podcast.
All I want from Democrats is to just admit it.
Like, I love, love, love what Bill Maher is doing.
Yeah, Bill Maher.
I love, love, love what Russell Brand is doing.
These guys are Democrats.
I don't want everybody to think like me.
I just want you to live in the same reality that I live in.
Don't gaslight me into saying what I know to be true isn't.
Like Pat says, the best ideas will rise to the top.
The best ideas will win.
And if you're too far left and the rest of America is like, dude, what are you doing here, bro?
I don't want everyone going into the same bathroom.
I don't want a male competing in the women's softball or powerlifting.
This is a little too extreme.
Something that we all are guilty of is saying that the other side are idiots.
The easiest way to convince somebody is, let's say I'm a Democrat and I talk to my Democrat friends.
I'm like, guys, you got to understand.
I mean, you've got kids here.
You're actually good with the trans stuff going on in the bathroom.
Like, I'm not trying to pick on a specific issue.
And me talking, like, that's going to go a lot further.
And you're a fucking idiot and you don't understand.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
But understand, like, if you're on the right side and you're like, look, dude, you got to understand.
Like, man, like, maybe we shouldn't attack the Capitol.
Maybe we shouldn't follow Donald Trump.
I'll be very specific.
Hey, maybe you're right.
Maybe you're right.
Let me be very specific.
Megan Rapino, rapping on however you say, and the rest of the women's national team.
Representing us, soccer team.
Representing us taking a knee still during the national anthem.
Now, she had explained this four years ago that Trump was a fascist.
So she's standing up against, she's kneeling against fascism.
She's kneeling against something that, okay, fine.
Trump isn't the guy going door to door trying to jab people with foreign substances.
This isn't the guy who censors people's thoughts with big tech.
She's not the person like Jen Sackey saying we're working closely with private sectors to eliminate misinformation, which just happens to be information that goes against their narrative.
These are all very clearly pseudo-fascist ideas.
She's still taking the knee.
Trump's not in office.
What's the deal?
At some point here, you have to be held account.
If you're going to make these public declarations, you have to be held account for them.
All right.
And I'll be frank, man.
If I see the American soccer team, the national team kneeling during our national anthem, I don't want them in there, man.
Get it up.
Give it to somebody else.
You shouldn't be represented.
They lost 3-0, by the way, so you don't have to worry too much about it.
The U.S. women's...
They're not there?
They're not there?
They're not doing their thing.
3-0 to 20.
She said we didn't play good games.
Because of climate change.
You can't trust these Scandinavian countries, Kai.
We don't know what's going on over there.
Let me change it up.
Let me change it up.
I want to do a little bit of a light conversation here with you guys.
I want to see what you're going to say about this.
Okay, so question for you.
Mr. Adam, Ricky, Gerard, everybody here is participating.
PBP.
David, you're also participating.
Kai, you are too.
Does money buy happiness?
I'm serious.
Does money buy happiness?
Pat, you seem like a pretty jolly guy.
You know, this is a conversation we're actually just having with Erika.
Maybe a couple days ago, I've been...
And it makes things a lot easier, but no, you can't buy genuine happiness.
There's no such thing as buying happiness.
People make you happy.
Relationships make you happy.
Good health makes you happy.
You know, that's what makes you happy.
You could be a millionaire, billionaire, and you can 10 grand to make me really happy.
There was a study out a couple years ago.
You're going to make the ask.
You should have made the ask for $25,000.
There was a study out a couple years ago that they said that the number where happiness sort of levels off is $70,000.
$75,000.
Okay.
All right, is it $75,000?
So we're 11 level.
Let me pull up the article.
Okay, so look, let's just, you know, don't pull it up yet.
$75,000 goes a lot better in Alabama versus a New York City.
But I think, like we talked about, money just exposes who you really are, right?
So I don't think— Listen, you were broke in Denver.
You're sleeping on Friends' Couch versus you having a million dollars in a bank and you don't really care much about money.
You're not really stressing out about money.
No.
When were you happier?
Look, again, I think I'm just as happy as when I was broke.
I think I just have more options now.
Okay.
Okay.
So can money, does money buy happiness?
No.
Does it put a little smile on your face?
Yes.
So if you're going to have, you're going to have problems regardless.
No matter what, money doesn't eliminate problems.
You're going to have problems.
Money's a tool that gives you more options.
If you're going to have problems anyway, you might as well be rich.
I agree.
I agree.
Yes.
So I asked this question on Twitter and I got so many different responses.
One of the guys said it best.
He says, Money doesn't buy happiness, but I've never seen an unhappy person on a jet ski.
That's Daniel Tosh.
Daniel Tosh.
Excellent.
And then another guy put up and he says, money doesn't buy happiness, but the happiest place on earth will not let you in without money.
But do you have an honest answer?
Because you've been broke.
Now you're worth money.
Why'd you ask somebody who's got some money around here?
Kai, does money buy happiness?
Kai probably has more savings here than most people.
I can't say most people, but Kai's actually got more savings at 22 than almost all of us had.
I'm over.
I'm overleveraged in crypto, and I can tell you I was much happier six months ago.
Okay, let's go.
This guy's all in on Doge Kai.
Does money buy happiness?
What do you think Kai?
I mean, you know what?
Don't go based on a research.
I can't really ask you because we've talked about this.
We spent a couple hours on this topic.
David, money buys happiness, yes or no?
My aunt won $500 in the lottery yesterday, and she was the happiest woman in the house.
She showed me the video.
She was crying.
I'm going to go with $500.
I could get you a home and she's going to be like, yo, why you nork, bro?
IRS didn't even know about that.
So pull up the article by, is it Visual Capitalist or Virtual Capitalist?
Visual Capitalist.
Visual Capitalist.
Great place.
Great place.
These guys get 6 million visitors a month.
They do a great job.
Just go to Visual Capitalist, and they have the numbers right there.
Click on that.
Watch this here.
Click on the article, Kai.
Go up.
Okay, so watch this.
Right there.
Yeah.
So if you're making $15,000 a year, you are 34% less happier than a person that's look at the number at about $80,000.
It used to be $75,000, now it's 80, right?
At 85,000, 3% happier.
You see how the number goes.
And if you go to 625 income, 38% happier.
Yeah, I would agree with that.
Happy as shit.
I would agree with that.
These sons of bitches can't stop smiling.
So there is a part of it.
And by the way, the way these guys did it is well-being.
Evaluating on well-being, right?
A person's mood, how they feel throughout the day.
Because if you go back and call, go back to the person that's in Colorado.
If I go back to the person that just got out of the army, I'm at debt $49,000.
I'm on my way back from Vegas after maxing out my credit card and playing blackjack and I'm in a debt 49 place.
That drive back was a miserable drive back from Vegas.
I'm not sitting there saying, oh my gosh, what a great weekend, guys.
We crushed it.
No, no.
It's not on my mind.
So there is an element to it.
But I will tell you another guy from Harvard, they did this study.
Kai, can you pull up the other study?
Do you think poor people sit there and they're like, Am I happy?
I think that's a very rich thing to be there, like just sitting on a pile of money like Scrooge McDuck and be like, but am I really happy?
But do you know why this is such an important topic?
The reason why this is such an important topic, who tells you those who have money isn't happy?
And why do they tell you that?
They don't want to share it.
No, so think about the statement.
The statement about, you know, honesty, I'm a billionaire, but when you are, it's really not that good, bro.
Like, don't even sweat it.
Like, stay at the $42,000 of your income.
So I'll tell you.
To your point, all right.
My father wanted me to be a lawyer more than anything in the world.
So you would have made a decent lawyer.
Oh, my God.
Nobody would want to go against you.
Shut up.
What I did was I went and I talked with 10 lawyers.
My buddy's fathers and stuff like that.
And I was like, hey, look, you know, do you like your job?
What's going on?
And every one of them, all 10 of them, said, don't be a lawyer.
This is the worst job ever.
You're going to hate it.
And I went back and I told my dad, I was like, you know, because the plan was for me to go to law school in the offseason for baseball, right?
And he comes back and he looks at me.
He was like, yeah, did you look around the parking lot?
Did you see a lot of Mercedes?
Did you see a lot of BMWs?
Yeah, they might not like their job, but the job freaking works.
Nobody likes their job.
If you're going to have to have a job that you don't like, you might as well make a lot of money.
Nobody likes their job.
Dad said this.
Yeah.
He's like, I'm going to give you a tip here.
People like hobbies.
If you make your hobby into your job, you're not going to like your job.
Nobody likes responsibility.
They don't like waking up early.
They don't like doing what somebody else tells them to do.
It doesn't matter what it is.
There's a porn star out there.
Freaking stud.
Dude, he's just saying porn star.
There's a porn star out there.
There's a porn star out there that has to show up on set and then, you know, have sex with beautiful women.
And he's like, another Thursday.
God.
And he hates his job.
You know what I'm saying?
Once it's a job, you're going to hate it.
So make as much freaking money as possible so you don't have to.
Were you like saying like your aspirations in life?
Is that kind of what you want?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, but here's the thing, Pat.
I was going to the major leagues.
I don't need a job.
I was going to be a millionaire, bro.
I don't think that everyone hates their job.
I think there's levels of I enjoy my job, but yeah, I'd rather be on a freaking jet ski.
You know?
Or like, yo, I really responsibility.
Nothing about the word responsibility is sexy.
Correct.
You know, the idea of last night, okay, three times.
Wham, wham, wham, three times last night.
Listen, that's like, dude, somebody tell that damn baby to shut his mouth.
Okay.
But so, but at the same time, yesterday, we're out there looking at a project that we're working on right now.
And I got this kid in my arm.
She's crying.
The moment I pick it up, she falls asleep.
And this morning, I go by her and I'm looking at her and I'm talking to her.
And I'm, you know, just having a, you know, just doing my thing with the baby and I'm kissing her on the stomach.
She's asleep.
And she goes like this.
Body.
My knees buckled.
I'm like, I almost fell on the floor.
Responsibility comes with a lot of like pressure and things that you have to do.
And it drives you, though.
But what an incredible feeling with what it comes with it.
Your dad, honestly, I want to have your dad on the podcast.
That's it.
It's game over.
We want the real Gerard on the podcast here.
Richard Michaels.
What are we calling us?
He's throwing my government out there.
So let me give you the other side.
Let me give you the other side.
So Harvard does a study.
It's a 75-year study.
I don't know if you guys have heard about the study or not.
I told you about it yesterday.
Yeah, we were talking about last night.
So Harvard does a study and they followed a group of, it's like 100 people they followed for 75 years.
So the people that started the study and died, they had certain protocols that Next Generation continues it that works for Harvard.
Wow.
And every year they check with these people that they're talking to and ask them questions.
So listen, you're 45 now.
What do you value the most right now versus what it was at 44?
Hey, you're 46 now.
Hey, you're 55 now.
Hey, you're 65 now.
And they're following this, right?
And Kai, if you can pull up this article, I know there's a TED for it, but see if you can pull up the article.
Do you know what they said at the end of the day, what made them the most happiest in life?
Has to be family.
Has to be.
It wasn't family.
Really?
No, it wasn't family.
It was all relationships.
Yep.
100% it was relationships.
Meaning relationships with you.
Friends, family, who you're working with.
No, no, no, but because let's face it, some people have family you're okay being away from.
You know, some people don't have the family you want to be around all the time because they're miserable.
And one of the things he said, these people that they research and ask the questions of, yeah, it's an 80-year-old study.
It's a fascinating study.
One of the things they talked about is the fact that it's also important to be with people that are growing.
Yep.
So if you stay with relationships that are no longer growing, that doesn't serve, bring you happiness.
So if you're friends with the friend that you were in high school and the guy has no aspirations, you're trying to go teat up in life, this guy's not going to bring you happiness because it's going to make you feel like shit.
I had a friend of mine call me one time.
One of the most annoying phone calls of my life.
So this guy sends me a tape.
Kai, you remember this when I showed you the videos?
He showed me the video with soccer, all this stuff with this kid is killing.
This guy, I love this guy.
He's like a brother.
Till today, I love this guy.
Sends me this video and he's trying to get some money for this equipment for his kid, right?
And he's going to show me this stuff.
This is a guy I knew from 16 years old.
We go back when I was 16, 15 years old.
And he says, hey, I got this.
Can we get on the call?
I get on the call.
I'm like, listen, man, the video was the sickest video.
I freaking love it.
And I love the fact that you're spending time with your kid.
And how can I help?
He says, I want you to buy this machine.
I said, are you doing a GoFundMe?
He said, I want you to buy it.
It's $2,000.
I said, why are you, why don't you, I'll contribute, but why do you want me to buy it for $2,000 where you have the money?
Well, why don't you guys go to public and do GoFundMe?
I'll be the biggest contributor.
No, we don't want to do that with our friends and family, but we just wanted to come to you because we think you would help us out with this.
I said, first of all, I'll help you out, but why the pressure on me having to pay 100% of it?
Because you have the money.
You can afford it.
I'm like, I know I can afford it, but does that mean I have to go do this for everybody?
I said, why don't you do it?
I'm telling you, I'll support it.
Well, no, he says, and here's the other thing.
I think the reason why you want to do this, I said, what's that?
And this was it.
I was like this.
I'm like, I'm going to do it and surprise the kid.
And I'm not even going to tell him about it.
I'm going to send this machine to his house and I'm going to surprise him, right?
Until he made his last comment.
You know what the last comment was?
Here's the last comment.
He says, I was at Rafi's place the other day and I ran into a couple of the old friends that we had from 20 years ago and they weren't saying good things about you.
I said, really?
What were they saying?
He said, they were saying that ever since Patrick became successful and all this stuff, he doesn't come to LA anymore and all he cares about is success and money.
I said, entry.
He says, if you get this for me, I'm going to help recreate and improve your relationship in God.
Oh, hell no.
Do you realize what that did to me?
Well, check right now.
He said, I'm sorry.
What did you just say?
What did you just say?
And he says, yeah, this.
I said, did you really just say that to me?
I said, if you know me for 26 years and I've always been the only guy that's had your back, you mean this, and you allow people like that to talk to me, to you privately, and now you want to tell me you're going to help with my reputation?
He says, look, sometimes I say stuff I shouldn't say.
I said, I'm sorry, man.
That was probably the worst thing you can say to somebody.
Not only that.
There's no friendship.
Why did they feel comfortable enough around you to talk about me?
That's exactly what Jay-Z says.
Don't tell me what people said behind my back.
Tell me why they're so comfortable to say it to you, right?
What's the point?
Here's the idea.
That energy, that energy of a comment like that pulls you down.
Oh, my God.
Happiness is to get away with those relationships because you have no idea the control a comment like that has on a human being.
Oh, yeah.
How it can retract you from your dreams.
I would think about that non-stop all day long.
It would just ruin my whole dad.
Pat's friend, if you're listening to this, you're a freaking idiot.
Yeah.
You know, I came back and I said.
Come see me, bro.
Come see me.
I'm in Cali, my boy.
I'll see you.
Let me put it to you this way.
Let me put it to you this way.
This guy here, when we were coming up, and I'm thinking about, like, even when we were doing other things in life, no matter what he ever did, I had his back.
Comments like this.
Unbelievable.
But think about it for your own self.
Like, it's not even, this is not even with this friend.
I'm not even going to do it.
If you're listening, friend, comment, but pay $20 so we read it on air.
Yeah.
By the way, but here's the point, though.
For some of you guys that are listening, this has nothing to do with my friend.
Go to that one friend or family member that every time you're around them, they say, yeah, but, okay?
So you're around this person and you're like, hey, let me tell what just happened, dad.
Hey, let me tell what just happened here, bro.
Hey, let me tell you, Cause here's what we just did.
Yeah, but does it really even matter?
I bet the guy that you're even working with, he's the guy that probably doesn't even care about you.
Yeah, but does it really?
Yeah, but this.
Yeah, but Adam.
Yeah, but constantly.
They will drag you down.
So eventually, you know, you're making money.
You're succeeding.
Mario and I at the house were having this conversation to get him.
We were moving to Florida.
I had a very simple statement one night to Mario.
I announced the announcement that we're moving to Florida, and I said, we're going.
He says, Pat, how can we do this, man?
What if people don't come?
I said, Mario, I'm 41 years old, 42 years old right now.
Here's the conclusion I have with my life.
The only people I want to be around when I'm running and I want to make sure all their dreams become a reality is true believers.
You're true believers?
Let's go.
You're not, I don't care.
So, Mario, if it's just me and you moving to Florida, this is still going to be one of the biggest media companies in the world because we're going to fight till the very end.
We have a message.
We have an audience.
People resonate with us.
We're going to do our part.
Let's go.
Hey, here's what we're doing.
You and you're out.
That's cool.
But this is what we're doing.
This is our move.
So, you know, relationships, the value of good relationships.
If you value good relationships long term, last night I'm having a conversation with.
I'm so disappointed just hearing that story, Pennsylvania.
With what?
I just.
But you mean to tell me no one said things like that to you before?
No one's put that game on.
I have to give extra tissue.
And I'd drop it.
I'd like to.
You said you're crying over here.
I'd like to remind you.
I was crying.
You know what I'm saying?
You get emotional about this.
No, I'm just upset.
Do you not follow his Instagram?
The man has so many guns.
I know.
He let me borrow.
Two, bro.
You may need one, by the way.
I know.
But, you know, you know how bad I wanted to stay in Addison, Texas.
You know that.
I wanted to.
When you said, look, Adam, I've got some, this is going to make some tough decisions.
You were the one I was worried about.
Yeah, we're going to move back to Florida.
I know you've been in Miami your whole life, but you've kind of found this little home in Dallas.
And all your cats are here.
Four bars in Deep Lum.
Exactly.
But we're going to go back to South Florida.
Are you in or are you in?
I go, Pat, I need to sleep on this.
Do you remember that weekend?
You took like a whole weekend.
I said, Pat, I'm in because I'm a true believer.
But I was really finding my niche here in Addison, Texas.
But it's good to be home in Miami.
It feels good.
What did you like most about Addison, Texas?
Be honest.
Was it the quality of life?
Was it the beach life?
One of the best comedy clubs in America, by the way.
Yeah, seriously, the comedy club.
This is actually going to be ironic.
I liked walking into PHP every day, and I liked that vibe.
We had a good vibe there.
It was fun.
I know it's all in a sense.
Seriously, the energy was.
It was a good vibe.
It was a good vibe.
We were like the noisy, crazy people in the corner.
Seek ran all the time.
Yeah, exactly.
And then it was like underwriter row over there.
You know, the whole value Tami side is just disappearing right now.
I don't know if you heard or not.
The office doesn't even look the same.
The whole structure, what we're doing over there.
Morales leading the whole thing.
But night and day would elect.
I think what it, this goes back to your initial point here.
What I enjoyed about it, like you said, is relationships.
Like people, think about it.
In 2020, what's the one thing we all lost was relationships.
You would see like the drive-by birthdays and you couldn't go hug grandma because you thought you were going to kill grandma by giving her a hug and you lost those relationships.
And people just, like you always talk about, what did they keep open?
The goddamn liquor doors and the gun stores.
Didn't keep opening the gun stores.
Okay, well, they definitely closed those.
But like a lot of relationships were missing.
You're teeing this up for David.
David, please grab your guitar.
It's got last two minutes.
You got one minute.
Let's see what he's doing.
I like how you're talking about it.
You pass tense like they're going to be able to get to the end of the day.
Come on, put it in.
With a new haircut.
He's ready for the camera.
Come around.
I want you to be right between Gerard and I. Right between Gerard and I. Right here.
Come right here so the camera's right on you.
If you're ready, Vanessa.
Bye.
This would have been a good spot for Mrs. Aguilar the whole time, by the way.
It would have been good for ratings.
Here we go.
Come on.
You need a mic.
You need to sit?
Here, grab a...
Hop on out.
Sit with that.
No, I need a place to.
David's about to rock out.
Sit on the left.
David, here, do me a favor, sit over here, Gerard.
Just either get up or he's gonna sit in my seat.
Stand up.
Okay, go ahead, sit right there.
Charge, get out of that seat.
Let's see what we're gonna do.
Okay, the littlest guy got the biggest guy off his seat.
All right, you ready?
I gotta plug it in.
Let's see what you're gonna do.
Here, do you want the headphones?
Yeah, closer, guys.
Put the app closer to the microphone.
All right, David played the song a couple nights ago.
I like one so much.
You got a different one?
Yeah, I can do it.
You can do whatever you want to do.
Do your favorite one.
It'd be pretty cool if you put the microphone.
Oh, right.
A newer one.
Do it.
Fox part.
All right.
We've had a tense podcast today.
A lot of politics.
Yeah, seriously.
It's enough.
So it's windy.
All these Colombians, you know, all these Colombians, man.
Let's see what you got.
I tell you, I'm not a communist.
David, what's your Instagram?
Detective Dolight.
Put the mic a little closer to you.
See if it's good.
Is it good?
Okay, let's hear.
Hold on.
Let me get comfortable here.
How are we doing, everyone?
Okay.
He's actually doing this.
You hear the guitar?
Yes.
The audience, we're about to fall in love.
Go for it.
I notice every sigh.
I'll see you tomorrow.
I wanna stay out late.
Tell me how you felt.
You have to leave by eight.
Around you I melt like a chocolate in your palm.
You're a cherry-flavored bomb.
Like the ice within your drink.
We're perfectly in sync.
A subtle look towards me.
There's a sweet scent in the air.
A flirting, jabbing jest.
In my way you are the crest.
That was good.
That was really good.
I'm a fan.
I'm a fan.
I'm a fan of David, man.
He did this the other night.
We were here till like 10:30 at night.
He just comes and he starts playing the guitar.
And I said, we got to get this guy on here to play songs.
You got a Spotify, by the way, right?
So, can you put the link below if anybody wants to buy more of any of his songs?
And also put his Instagram account.
Go follow him.
Give him some love.
David, do you have anything to tell the audience?
No, I'm not a communist.
I just want to put that out there.
I thought everything he had to say that.
I'd have to clear that up.
It's a pleasure to be here.
And yeah, thanks.
You're the man, baby.
We like David a lot.
Okay, appreciate you, David.
Gang.
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