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00:00 -Start
3:45 - Hertz
5:44 - Let's go Brandon
12:08 -Alec Baldwin
23:42 - Babylon Bee/Trump
32:42 - Jack Dorsey hyperinflation
41:44 - Janet Yellen Americans Haven't Experienced Inflation like this in a long time
58:26 - String pullers hate rich people
1:01:35 - Janet Yellen Unrealized Capital Gains Tax
1:08:43 - DeSantis
1:20:20 - Trump vs. Biden
1:38:48 - Putin & Russia
1:47:10 - Dave Chapelle
He's like a closet conservative who's ready to break out, right?
Knock it off.
Knock it off.
But what's David doing back there, by the way?
David is just sitting there, you know, with his mustache.
There was a door open, a seat open.
I just let him sit there.
Let's just hope when we ask to type A, you actually type A, unlike Kai.
I think Kai intentionally wanted to fire himself from there to get hired here.
But anyways, we're on.
Okay, we've got a lot of stories to cover today.
Kai's ready to bring some value.
We don't know who made that shirt, by the way.
We have no idea what company it's about.
It's a great conversation to start.
That's what it is.
Yes.
I've never heard of branding.
I've never heard, like, can you imagine you make BMWs, you don't put the logo on it?
You ever heard of that before?
Kai's one big riddle, mystery, creative marketing.
Secret.
He doesn't like letting anything out.
What's it to you, though?
Hey, what's it about?
Yeah, don't worry about that.
It is what it is.
It is what it is.
It's like the old guard and the new books right here.
We started off and I asked you guys, what things do you have strong opinions on with all these stories?
George, can you bring me up a little bit, by the way?
Bring me up a little bit, a little bit, check.
Okay, that's good.
Much better.
Kai's first thing he said is Hurts buying 100,000 Teslas.
Okay, so Hurts not only files bankruptcy, but they decide to buy 100,000 Teslas in the largest electric vehicle purchase ever, which will cover that.
Yellen talks about inflation that it's not going away and that they want to tap into the unrealized, they want to tax unrealized gains in capital gains, which is something we've never heard of before.
She's the first to talk about it at that level.
Jack Dorsey comes out and tweets out that hyperinflation will be coming soon to U.S. End of World, which, by the way, this is not a regular guy saying that.
He not only runs Twitter and you got Square, which is a $100 billion company saying that.
Ricky Gervais said he wants to live to see the younger generation get called out for not being woke enough, which, you know, that guy's in a league of his own.
That'll happen.
Bill Maher defended Chappelle.
We got to talk about Alec Baldman, what happened there.
We got some stories with what happened at Denver Airport when they held the job fair, expecting 5,000 people to show up.
And folks, you're going to be surprised how many people showed up at this job fair.
That tells you how much people want to get a job.
Putin calls out cancel culture in a very interesting way.
And we'll talk about that.
Trump is hungry to go head-to-head against Biden.
Florida DeSantis, they're trying to cancel the hell out of him.
Fauci, this was not a good week for Fauci.
No.
And Biden claims he visited the border.
Then Sacchi had to clarify that he simply drove through the border once in 2000.
2021, 2008.
It's a fish.
58.
He's been to the border.
Okay, there's a border.
Let's go to the restaurant.
Let's address this number right here.
All right.
Anyways, what's this?
And that's right.
You were the first one to look at it.
So let us know.
We crossed 100,000 subs.
We're at 100,000.
We've been asking you guys to support us.
We wanted to get to 100,000 before.
We started 100, which is coming up next week.
We hit it.
It's a big deal.
You know, since we crossed 100,000, I've just been screaming out, let's go, Brandon, all week.
Yeah, I mean, it's a pretty expensive.
By the way, you know what 100 means, though?
What's that?
Three times a week.
But do you realize, like, imagine if you're at the hospital, okay?
Husband and wife, they just had a son.
The entire time, they know they want to name their kid Brandon.
As of four weeks ago, they were going to name the kid Brandon.
And then the Sultan goes right around and says, let's go, Brandon.
Wife and husband are sitting there.
Maybe Brett isn't so bad.
Hey, we can't name the kid Brandon, babe.
We got to change.
We can't name a Brandon.
We can't name him Karen.
We have to come up with a new name.
Karen, I think, has I think Karen's officially done.
Yeah, but you can't.
I think Brandon's competing, though.
I don't know.
Not as much.
Karen is far behind than each of our five.
Brandon has some hip-hop song.
We saw it in the morning.
This morning, number one in the country on iTunes.
Let's go, Brandon.
Get out of here.
Be quiet.
Beat Adele.
Be quiet.
I didn't know that.
Pull up this dress.
Wait, are you serious?
There's no way in the world.
Pull that up, bro.
This is insane.
I listened to it yesterday.
I don't know who sent it to me, by the way.
Somebody sent it to me yesterday on Instagram.
I listened to it.
It's actually pretty hilarious.
Let's go, Brandon rap song.
I already got it here.
I'm quicker than David.
There's no way in the world you're quicker than David, buddy.
Well, now the audience can't see Kai.
What's it say?
Is it really the number one?
Fox business reaches top spot on iTunes chart.
Get out of here.
Bryson Gray raps.
Look at Australia.
That's what's coming.
If we don't stand up, stop complying with them taking our rights.
It's time to man up.
Galore, the rapper's name is, who's the rapper, by the way?
What's that?
Bryson Gray?
It's a couple other people.
I think there's a couple people that have done this song because I saw some name was Loza Alexander.
I've never heard a song.
Karen getting viral.
But this Brandon looks like it's here to stay at him.
Hold my beer.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right, so let's get into the story.
I think we're going to go into the Tesla story first.
Go to page five.
Hurts is ordering 100,000 Tesla in the largest electric vehicle purchase ever.
Okay.
That's 100,000 Tesla.
This is right.
Didn't they just go bankrupt like a couple years ago?
Yes.
A year and a half ago?
Yes.
They did not have a good deal.
We talked about it on the podcast.
Sold their whole fleet of cars.
The whole fleet of Tesla.
No, no, no, not the whole fleet.
200,000 out of 650,000 cars.
Okay, 200,000 out of 650 they sold.
That was right when the pandemic hit.
This is an insider story.
Hurts has placed an order for 100,000 Teslas.
The car rental firm announced Monday the cars will be delivered over the next 14 months with Tesla Model 3 sedans set to be available for rental in the U.S. and Europe.
Hurts also said it will invest in charging infrastructure to support the fleet.
The order is a big boon for Tesla.
Although it has drastically accelerated output in recent years, the company still sells a tiny amount of vehicles compared with giants like Toyota and GM.
In 2020, Automaker shipped shy 500,000 vehicles worldwide.
As recently as 2017, Tesla delivered around 100,000 vehicles in total.
Tom Brady will start in an upcoming commercial touting the new cars, Hertz said.
So what are your thoughts?
I'm going to start off with you here since this is the story you wanted to talk about.
What are your thoughts on this?
All right, let's roll.
You remember back when the bankruptcy, when they first filed for the bankruptcy, they came out this big story.
They were giving their compensation package $16 million to the top 340 executives or something, right?
And everyone was like, what the hell is going on, right?
And we read that it said they were giving it so they would stay on in terms of the transition period and stuff like this.
I took a dive into this yesterday, and I got to say, I'm impressed.
This is a 104-year-old company.
The stock price was at 15 pre-pandemic.
The pandemic hits.
It sinks to two at the low.
It was at $2, right?
They sold 200,000 cars in the latter half of 2020.
What also happened to used cars at this time?
Prices skyrocketed up to 20% and beyond.
So here they're selling a large part of their fleet, liquidating and getting cash, restructuring the debt, and then they were delisted, and then they came back, and I think yesterday I saw their stock was at $27.
From $2 to $27.
Yes.
So 13.5.
Yes.
You've got to give them credit for that.
So smart room.
Exactly.
You're talking about pivoting.
Talk about leaning down the organization and really restructuring and stuff like that.
How much of this you think they knew the chip shortage was going to increase the car value?
How much of this was luck?
I think there's definitely luck.
But a big part of it also is who anticipated the pandemic.
So that's also bad luck the other way.
So I think it's just more.
No, I'm not disputing that.
All I'm asking for is all I'm asking about is the fact that there's nobody a year and a half ago that thought the chip shortage would help use cars to go up 25%.
That's insane.
That never happened.
So look, this is the great thing about business.
Sometimes you get lucky.
I think this is a combination of a good decision and some luck together.
No, for sure.
So now why are they doing 100,000 Tesla, though?
Well, but think about they're building the charging infrastructure too.
And the government is subsidizing EV infrastructure.
Are they not?
Yeah.
So Hertz is subsidized.
And this is also in Europe and in the U.S.
Well, and Elon Musk, Elon Musk is incredibly rich now because of this, right?
He's worth, what, $288 billion?
He's now fit.
He's well past Jeff Bezos as of yesterday.
He's swiped.
As of yesterday.
Elon Musk.
Yeah.
By far and away the richest man in the world.
It was neck and neck with Bezos.
Do you have an opinion about this?
Yeah, I think, look, I think you did a nice little case example on Hertz specifically, but I think overall, this is just a microcosm of basically what's going on in the world right now.
Everything is changing, and the car market is not immune to it, right?
Whether that's people quitting their jobs, everyone's out of the workplace right now.
The great reshuffle, right?
The great resignation.
Everything has happened with that.
I mean, Kai, I'm shocked you didn't cover what Norway's going on right now.
Every chance you get, you want to bring up Norway.
Norway's going all green by how long, right?
It's a couple years from now.
Okay, everything's going green.
Everything's changing.
But there's one constant.
There's one constant in the world for the last 20 years, and that's Tom Brady.
He's still out here doing Tesla commercials, apparently, or commercials for Hertz.
Well, Hertz Tesla.
I mean, this is what it is.
So everything is changing other than Tom Brady's greatness.
That's the message I got here.
So be prepared.
He's staying consistent.
So the gas, obviously.
The guy threw down the first half the other day.
And he's 43.
That's wild.
Four touchdowns in the first half.
Making it seem so easy.
Cam Newton's like, something's up with this guy with the whole Benjamin Button deal.
I tweeted out, I said, Benjamin Button, aka Tom Brady through for four touchdowns.
The guy's in a league of his own.
Well, he had a bone to pick with the Bears.
Is this the whole Aaron Rodgers who called him, I own you, I own you.
And he comes out of it.
That was last week with Aaron Rodgers.
He says, apparently Aaron Rodgers owns a few shares in the Chicago Bears.
I don't know if you heard him saying that.
Did you hear him saying that?
No, that's what Brady said?
That's what Brady said.
Well, I saw that Aaron Rodgers was owning the Bears, which he does.
Yeah, so what's the bone to pick?
No, very rarely does Tom Brady make boneheaded plays, but last year he threw some long pass on fourth down.
He goes, oh, shit, I thought it was third down.
But you're fucking Tom Brady.
What are you doing?
So before the game or pre-game, they were like, Tom, you lost to the Bears last year.
You guys ended up winning the Super Bowl.
You're good.
Bonehead play of the year on your half.
He's like, don't worry.
I got something for you this week.
He came out and just crushed him.
How do you not love the guys?
By the way, the Baton, the Manning Brothers, what they're doing.
And he says, you know, I love playing against your brother Peyton.
And then Eli says, you know, I actually love playing against you.
Exactly.
Beat you every time in the Super Bowl.
Peyton said, hey, Tom, don't you have a curfew?
Don't you need to go to sleep?
Tom's like, it's actually past my curfew.
I got to go to bed.
That banter going back and forth, man.
These Manning brothers, not only do they have talent, but they're also funny.
They're funny.
Peyton's funny.
Eli's got his own style of fun.
Funny there.
Yeah, yeah.
But the lead is Peyton.
Yes.
Payton's for sure.
Peyton's definitely the face of that first.
Dude, I missed the Peyton Manning commercials.
Those were great for Wiz Progressive, right?
He's still doing stuff.
Don't count him out, Tyler.
No, he's hustling.
Don't cancel Peyton Manning just yet, Tyler.
He is not going away.
Okay, so how about we talk about the Alec Baldwin controversy with what happened?
Oh, man.
Yesterday was so interesting seeing you and Mario go at it because for a minute we were thinking about having Mario on the podcast.
Yeah.
And you pissed him off so much that he said, I don't want to do it.
Well, he went to go find a gun.
Canceling that stuff on.
You're going to be canceled.
You're going to be a gun.
A green water gun.
Come on, Adam.
We all know that.
Okay, this first of all, this is not a funny story, but the joke is towards what you said with Mario.
So let's talk about what happened here with Alec Baldwin.
It's all over the news.
I don't even know which part of the story to read.
I guess I'm going to read what happened, then I'm going to go into Alan Dershowitz, how he defended it.
So director of photography killed.
Movie director injured after Alec Baldwin discharged prop firearm on movie sets, CNN story.
A film crew member has died.
Another one has been injured as he discharged a prop gun in New Mexico Thursday.
Director of photography, Halena Hutchins, 42, was transported to the hospital of Il Helcopter and pronounced dead by medical personnel at the University of New Mexico Hospital.
Tragic event.
Director Joel Sausa, 48 years old, was transported to Christis St. Vincent Regional Medical Center by ambulance for care.
Rust is a Western film set in 1880 that stars Baldwin, Travis Fimmel, and Jensen Accols.
Accoles is what the movie is about.
Now, I want to tell you about the story with what Alan Dershowitz said.
Is the Alec Baldwin shooting a homicide?
This is Alan Dershowitz for MSN.
The evidence is currently unclear as to how a real gun with real projectile was handed to Baldwin, allegedly with an assurance that it was a cold gun.
Such a verbal assurance does not come close to satisfying what should be the failed safe standards.
Regardless of what the investigation reveals, it seems clear that the preventable negligence contributed to the death based on prior cases.
It should have been crystal clear that no gun or projectable capable of being fired should have been on the set or anywhere near Baldwin and any other actors.
According to numerous newspapers, reported film productions still often use real guns loaded with blanks accordingly.
These involve actual gunpowder and a cartridge that can provide a realistic looking flame and spark.
Burns and other minor injuries are common, but serious injuries are death and death are unusual.
It is likely that the killing of Helena Hutchins could constitute a homicide.
That is a criminal killing.
The remaining questions are who might be criminal responsible for the killing and what degree homicide fits the evidence.
So having said that, I'm going to go to you first.
What are your thoughts about this?
Look, I think.
Obviously, the biggest question is: will Alec Baldwin go to jail for this?
Will he be charged with killing somebody?
Well, look, I think, number one, that's just what a sad situation.
Are you kidding me?
Just that you're on a movie set.
You don't think anything other than imagine just coming to work today and hey, everyone, get your set ready.
Bang.
Okay, so I think she was married.
She had a young son.
And Alec Baldwin gave a heartfelt response to the family.
There was the director apparently shot as well.
I don't know if it was the same bullet.
You asked the question, what's going to happen to Alec Baldwin?
I don't think anything whatsoever is going to happen to Alec Baldwin as far as being charged with anything, being sentenced to anything.
I think, you know, look, look at the evidence that's happened here.
He was, quote unquote, given a cold gun.
I think the biggest question here is: what the hell was going on on that set?
You know, they said that the assistant director had previously was fired because of uh multiple gun incidents on a set that he was on.
Um, why is there a real gun on set?
I mean, we're making movies here, we're making fake stories, but you have real guns on set.
So, I think they use real guns, but blanks.
They put blanks.
So, why are real bullets?
Sometimes they use real guns, though.
Do they really?
Absolutely.
Why?
Sometimes they use real guns.
And they were also saying that the gun had misfired earlier on the set.
Three times it misfired.
So, look, there's been, and I remember being a kid, this was probably in the early 90s.
I don't know, the year maybe like 95.
But I remember an incident like this happened, and I was in complete disbelief.
And who was that person?
Brandon Lee.
Brandon Lee.
Bruce Lee's son.
Where was it?
It was at YMCA where I was working out at 1995.
That's the YMCA I worked out at.
In what year?
95?
Yeah, that's the YMCA.
I would go to Glendale, California, right off of Harvard by Rafi's place.
It's a 30-second walk from Rafi's place.
It was all over the place.
Brandon Lee, when he got shot at you.
You literally weren't even born then.
No.
Okay, I think you were just born.
Yeah, 1995.
Just born.
But I remember that happened.
I'm thinking, is this a fake story?
Yeah.
This is pre-you know, fake news and theories behind it.
That story had a lot of fun.
Bruce Lee's son was filming.
I think the movie was called The Crow, and an accidental fire fire went off, and Brandon Lee was killed.
Like, holy shit, Bruce Lee's son.
So there is a case example of this.
I'd like to see what happened in that incident.
I have the answer.
He's ruled into XML death by prop gun on movie seven.
Okay, and then was anybody charged?
No, no, charges were filed.
No charge was filed.
I think that's going to be the same way.
Yeah, look, I don't think, look, do you think, look, I know that this is not to be funny or humorous, but where's Alec Baldwin made himself famous, re-famous again over the last few years, playing Trump?
And one of Trump's famous lines is: I could go shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue.
I won't lose any supporters.
So, look, the analogy there is I think he feels horrible.
Like, Alex, whether he's charged with something or not, which I don't think he will be, Alex Baldwin has killed someone, murdered someone, right?
And he's got to be filling the grave.
Alec Baldwin.
Yeah, Alec Baldwin.
And just a tragic situation, but I don't think he's going to be charged.
Your thoughts?
Well, everybody keeps bringing up the old tweet of his from 2017: quote, I wonder how it must feel to wrongfully kill someone.
And now he knows.
You know, it's sad, man.
It's really sad.
But at the same time, it's not.
So Baldwin was just an actor, right?
But he's also a producer for the film.
So he bears some responsibility in that.
The armorer for the film was not qualified.
She was like 24 years old.
And she said something all like, I don't know what I'm doing.
I've not done this before.
I'm not an actor.
You're talking about the young girl.
Yeah.
She had previously given a gun to a child on set.
She didn't know how to load the blanks.
I mean, there was not said this by the point.
By the way, I'm not lying.
You know who this is a nice opportunity for?
Our good friend Jarrett Hutchins.
She should get in there and start doing stuff with Hollywood.
That's a good point.
Well, and Alec Baldwin could have gone to Terran Tactical in Arizona or California.
It's where all the stars train.
What is it, John Berthaw from The Walking Dead, The Punisher?
He's out there all the time.
He could have trained with the weapons for a week.
You do a week's worth of gun safety, and this probably doesn't happen.
Or not to mention.
You mentioned the Will Smith clip yesterday about the fact that one guy points the gun and he says, Hey, gun safety is what's the first thing you do with a gun when you're handed it?
You watch somebody pull the mag out, run the chamber three or four times, make sure it's empty.
You watch them do that, and then you're given the gun and you do the same thing.
You pull the clip out and you run the chamber three, four times, make sure it's unloaded.
I mean, this is, it seems like it's common sense, but obviously it's hold on, Tyler.
You're a Texas guy.
I assume you've dealt with guns before, just the way you're talking.
I mean, just like once or twice.
Like, not that's it.
Yeah.
I mean, not as much as probably I would like to.
You know, I'd like to go shoot more, but I really haven't.
And it's everybody I know.
Every time I've seen a gun held, you give it to somebody, you watch them pull the clip out, run the chamber three, four times, and you do the exact same thing.
And there's two rules.
You don't point a gun at anything you're not ready to kill, and you don't put your finger on the trigger unless you're ready to shoot.
Now, they're saying he was doing, you know, the pull-out, the crossfire, I think is what it was called.
Baldwin was?
Baldwin was, yeah.
Because this is an old Western movie.
Okay.
You got your gun license from Jara.
Yeah.
Okay.
And no, I also think it's one of those trust but verify.
I mean, if I'm pointing something at someone, I'd want to make sure myself.
It's a matter of, especially when there's a lot of people, there's been misfires on the set earlier.
People are complaining about poor conditions, whatever.
The whole crew walked off.
Yeah, that's the part.
That's the part that people don't know.
The film crew complained of unsafe working conditions.
Prop gun misfired multiple times.
This is Daily Wiles Wire story.
A group of camera crew workers walked off the set of Rust to protest working conditions hours before.
This is literally hours before Alec Baldwin, who was starring in and producing the Western, fatally shot one crew member, six members of camera crew walked up the set Thursday morning after days of complaining about long hours and low-pay members of crew were driving to the set at Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico every morning from Albuquerque, a roughly 50-mile trip despite being promised hotel rooms in Santa Fe corners were being cut.
And they brought in non-union people so they could continue shooting.
One person with knowledge of the situation said they also added that the prop gun that Baldwin killed Hutchins with had already misfired several times during shooting.
So this isn't like this is the part where it gets a little bit tricky.
Yeah, because it's not just in one-time accident.
Like, if it's misfired multiple times, you kind of know, okay, this gun isn't as reliable.
This is the definition of...
Double, triple, quadruple verify here.
Definition of when there's smoke, there's fire.
Clearly, there was incidents in the middle.
I'll give you an off here.
I'll give you an idea.
We did Mafia States of America.
And we were on the set and we're shooting.
We're going through everything that we're doing.
You know, we hired a nurse.
You know, we spent $4,000 on the nurse that was there.
How many times did we use her?
Zero.
Not one time.
We had a nurse at the location because it was an undisclosed location to make sure people were safe.
She sat there and she said, you know, I have nothing to do.
I said, ma'am, you know, I appreciate you just being here because if something happens, we just want to make sure we're ready.
Exactly.
It could get ugly, the situation that we had with Michael Francis and Sammy.
We're just trying to be protected.
And this is not a big budget.
No, this is not a $10 million budget.
It's a Hollywood movie.
It's a half a million dollar budget we're talking about.
So the point with something like this, the point with something like this is, you know, here's, if I have a conversation with my son, Tico, okay, and he makes a mistake that a five-year-old makes, and he's done it seven times and he does it again, I say, you know better.
You can't use that excuse.
You could use it at five.
You can't use it at nine, right?
I had a conversation with one of our guys yesterday, and one of my favorite guys, favorite guys that I do business with, I said, listen, there's one thing you're not.
You're not stupid.
You're one of the smartest guys I know, okay?
So when you have a reputation of being very smart, guess what?
You can't ever play.
Mistakes.
No, you can't play dumb.
You can't play dumb.
You try to play dumb.
You like that out, but you can't play dumb.
Okay.
So what's the moral of the story?
The moral of the story is this.
We're not talking about a first-time actor.
We're not talking about a D, a C, or a B, or that guy.
You're talking about Alec Baldwin.
Exactly.
And you're talking about a guy that you said the whole Trump thing that was going on four years, he mocked everything that, you know, if this was the other way around, so let's flip this and let's just say this, because this is the best way to always find out how these things work.
If this happened to Clint Eastwood, what happens?
People are going to say, dude, yeah, you've been around for a while.
You're freaking dirty hairy.
But what I'm trying to say is I'm not putting it with that part.
Let me give you another one.
This happens to Mel Gibson.
What do people say if Mel Gibson did this?
If this happened to Mel Gibson, what happens to Mel Gibson?
He'd be trash.
What would happen to Mel Gibson today?
There'd be no better Mel Gibson.
Are you saying that?
Because like, listen, this is your rookie year.
You've been around the block for 40 years.
No, this is the part with politics that's stay consistent.
If somebody, I had the guy from Babylon be here yesterday, Seth Dylan, who's an absolute stud of a guy, and he's a Christian guy, right?
And one of the main, their biggest story they ever did is a story where one of their biggest story they did is they said Donald Trump, this is a satire website like The Onion, except for the conservative side, not the left.
Amina is on the left side.
So they got, you know, they got 35 million visitors on a monthly basis.
They got 34,000 monthly, they got subscribers that people pay.
One of their stories they do, this is a Christian-based satire website.
The article said, Donald Trump says, you know, I've done more for Christianity than Jesus himself.
Okay, this is the story.
And it goes viral.
It gets shared three and a half million times, not liked, not shared three and a half million times.
He texted me this morning.
He texted me this morning to share with me the article.
David, I'm going to try to text this to you for you to share this.
This story just came about.
He says, Pat, this is not a joke.
Donald Trump just said the following thing.
Okay.
This was two days ago, three days ago.
Donald Trump said this month, nobody has done more for Christianity or evangelicals or for religion itself than I.
So this satisfaction.
That's a true story.
This is a true quote from Trump, what he said, right?
Okay.
Well, he has.
But the point is, the point is, I want to share this with you.
David, do I have your number or no?
David, I just send it to you.
Just put it up so people can see it.
So here's the question where I'm going with the story.
Okay.
Stay consistent.
If this was Mel Gibson, would you have played the same position you played MSNBC CNN and all the late night shows that are defending Alec?
Because to me, if it was a Mel, if it was a Clint, if it was, even throw a Vince Vaughan or Libertarian in there, how would you have handled this?
Would you have come after him?
I don't know.
I'm not telling you yes or no.
All I'm saying is, I don't know.
Do you see them?
They're playing politics with this?
They're doing whatever they can to put the blame on the producer and the set, not on Alec.
What they don't realize is the fact that he is one of the producers.
So this is a responsibility on you being the producer.
So it's not a simple situation.
I just came here, I acted, and we left.
What happened before?
The complaints, unsafe environment, all of these things.
If the attorney on the other side is arguing, they're going to use this.
And then forget about the guys on the other side that are going to mock him for what he said in 2017.
Yeah, you know.
And use his words against him.
So I'm sorry.
This is karma catching up as well a little bit.
If you play that card, you have to be ready that this is going to catch up.
What's the biggest thing I say about Trump?
He keeps creating unnecessary enemies.
I'm sorry.
You did this to yourself, Alec, and now you're going to get some of it because you kept joking about this.
Now you did this.
You're going to be held accountable for it.
Now, the question, do I really think he's hurt?
Do I think this really messed with him for him killing a crew member?
What do you think?
Absolutely.
Emotionally.
Absolutely.
There is no question about it.
I fully believe the guy is devastated with the fact that this took place.
And I don't even think it's devastated from the standpoint, oh, babe, am I going to go to jail like you're talking to a girl?
I really think he's hurt.
I really think he's mourning.
I really think he's struggling with it.
But at the same time, we have law and order.
We have justice.
Okay.
In the point you made yesterday that I don't know if when you talk about a guy like this, an A-lister, nothing's going to happen to the guy with an A-lister.
I actually agree with you.
We're on the same page now.
I think, you know, this has happened three times.
There was another guy in the 80s that this happened to a 24-year-old stud actor that was coming up and they shot him as well.
I don't know the name.
He wasn't a big name.
It was before our era in the 80s when this happened.
We'll see what's going to happen here.
But if a Dershowitz is saying you're going to be held accountable for this, Dershowitz.
Well, he's saying someone's going to be held accountable.
But he's a producer.
Obviously.
He's a producer.
If you were being too cheap to bring somebody, like they were interviewing a guy that's a former FBI guy, and what he does today, he gets hired to sit in sets and making sure everything is safe.
You're supposed to do that on productions, okay?
So he said, every time before a gun goes, somebody looks and says, okay, boom, boom, boom, here you go.
Good.
That's their job.
Quality control.
If you don't have that guy, then the liability is on you for not wanting to have that guy.
So who is the person?
Who's the executive producer?
They're going to go to that.
So I think it's not going to be a pretty sight.
And I also think that when you have movie sets where you're cutting a little bit on costs here or there, like you kind of get away with it at the time.
But when shit like this happens or accidents happen, everything is going to be scrutinized.
And then it's just going to be blown up to the bigger ones.
Here's what sucks about this.
Here's what sucks about this for the creative that I just thought about.
So imagine the creative that can't afford to pay Alec the money that they want to pay him.
Let's just say they're trying to get a guy just to just come and do a cameo or just come and do something basic.
Here's a role I want you to play.
Dude, the standards for what's going to happen with movies going forward is going to go to a whole different level.
Here's the other thing that's probably going to happen as well.
Incidents like this with the current climate that we have, SAG is going to over-regulate like never before.
The cost of what it's going to be required to have on every single set just went to the roof with this.
So the small business owner creative is sitting there saying, freaking A, expenses probably just went up 10, 20%, and we can't even afford it, but we got to do it now.
It's a SAG play game at that point.
No, you can't.
It doesn't have to be a cost thing.
It's a competence thing.
You don't have to hire somebody that's expensive to have somebody that's competent.
You just have to vet them and do your research and put the proper systems in place.
You don't have to spend a ton of money to do this.
You're right.
But as this gets scrutinized, you realize that there were multiple failures at every angle.
The 911 call, the woman that called in said somebody's been shot and was talking to a colleague while she was on the phone and said that the assistant director had just yelled at her at lunch.
She was cursing, by the way.
Right.
This whole movie was just a cluster.
And as it gets scrutinized, you realize that it wasn't just the armor.
It was failures at multiple points.
And it could have been prevented, which is really what's happening.
Oscar just said something.
He gave five bucks.
Thank you, Oscar.
He said, if you handle a real firearm, you're 100% responsible to ensure that there's no round in the chamber capable of firing a projectile, involuntary or not.
That's involuntary manslaughter, is what Oscar calls it.
That's the firearm world fully complies by that.
That's the rule of the world.
Treat every gun as it's loaded.
Treat every gun as it's loaded.
But I mean, to circle back to your point, there was a case example of this exact situation, and there was nothing, there was no legal charges that no one was held accountable for that.
No, not at that point.
Look, you brought up a very good point with the SAG stuff.
Very good point.
And it says here on the Daily Wire: corners were being cut, and they brought in non-union people so they can continue shooting.
So I think you're spot on that they're going to.
Yeah, but this is going to hurt the creative.
I'm not supportive of it.
Especially small Andy folks.
I don't like that.
But unfortunately, it is.
Unfortunately, it is.
Like, you know, when I was a Hummer mechanic and you would work on the truck, and that's what I did.
And, you know, my boss, Sergeant Braxton, he was the motor pole sergeant.
Braxton, if you're out there and anybody knows him, I'd love to talk to you, man.
It's been 25 years.
I would love to have a conversation.
Never reach back out to him.
Never talk to him.
I don't know.
I've never said his name.
Let's have the value team.
Sergeant Braxton, if you know who he was an E6 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
We had a great time together.
We don't know where you are, but we do want to find you.
I would talk so much shit to him as an E4 and he would talk shit back.
The coolest cat on campus was him.
We had a good community.
Anyways, so I would go there and I'm like, dude, why are there so many warning signs?
Warning, warning, warning.
It says, because some idiot put his finger down and has cut his finger off.
So it was like 75 warning signs.
So the military is finally to protect ourselves.
They just warning themselves out by putting it all over the place, right?
To say, okay, we just don't want to deal with this.
I think something like this, what sometimes, like, you know, we would do video, we would edit, and somebody doesn't do a QC.
Obviously, it's never happened here before.
It's never happened here before where the QC doesn't get team flaws.
All this team, always.
Ever.
And it's just a very peaceful environment.
But I would always come back and I would say, who did the checklist?
Yeah.
What are you laughing?
Look at David's laugh right there.
Why are you laughing, David?
Huh?
Yeah, okay, got it.
Hey, I got to go QC something.
We would do the test to see, did you check this?
Did you check this?
I don't know.
I think this is not a rookie group that there, it looks like it's not a rookie group.
They could have checked it.
Anyways.
I think before we move on, I think the bottom line is this family is going to walk away with a civil lawsuit and they're going to get millions of dollars.
Listen, man.
The family.
Rightfully so.
At this point of the game, bro, they're just sitting there like they're missing a person to die this way.
I mean, come on.
You know, there's ways to go.
This is not a way you want to lose somebody you love.
And it's so unexpected.
It's not like the husband was married to a police officer.
She was a director, a cinematographer on a movie set.
It's like, goodness gracious.
Yeah.
Listen, condolences goes out to that entire family.
Nothing anybody says is going to replace the pain, but our prayers are with you.
So let's continue to the next story.
I'm going to go to the Jack Dorsey story here.
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey says hyperinflation will happen soon in the U.S. and the world.
Now, hyperinflation for people that don't know Kai, it's two months in or 50%.
It's 50% increase month over month.
Yeah, but that's what the scholars have put it.
That doesn't necessarily have to be the case.
No.
Hyperinflation could be 10%, 15%, but the scholars said categorically it's 50%.
So they just kind of came up with this number and we followed that guideline.
But here's what happened.
This is a CNBC story.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey weighed in on escalating inflation in the U.S., saying things are going to get considerably worse.
Hyperinflation is going to change everything.
Dorsey tweeted.
It's happening.
He added that he sees the inflation problem escalating around the globe.
It will happen in the U.S. soon and so the world.
The tweet comes with consumer price inflation running near a 30-year high in the U.S. and growing concern that the problem could be worse than policymakers have anticipated.
It's one thing to call for a faster inflation, but it may be surprising to some that Dorsey used the word hyperinflation, a condition of rapidly rising prices that can ruin currencies and bring down whole economies.
So I'm going to go to you first with this one before I go to Tyler and Kai.
Well, I think for sure, no matter what Jack Dorsey says on Twitter, I don't think he's going to get removed or canceled from Twitter.
That's a good point.
I think no matter what he says, he's going to be okay.
Adam, real quick, how did you get to that conclusion?
Yeah, I think, you know, he knows people are two of Twitter.
But I know you brushed over the numbers, but I actually thought you'd be a little bit more.
I'm reading the story first, and then we can.
No, meaning like you're a numbers guy.
Yeah.
And inflation typically runs at what, 2% to 3% year-over-year.
2% is a good level of inflation.
Okay.
Right?
So Social Security was just adjusted for our seniors.
We have a large senior community.
This is our podcast.
It was just adjusted.
Believe it or not, you're not joking.
We have actually a big senior community.
It's crazy as it sounds.
I got stopped by a 78-year-old at the beach saying, hey, you know, I listen to every single podcast you guys do.
And not only that, she's a 78-year-old Jewish grandma.
That's awesome.
She says, you're the only podcast I listen to.
It happens to be my grandma.
It ain't your grandma ever.
But the reality is they just got a, I don't even call it a pay raise, a retirement raise of 5.9%, right?
There's no secret that inflation's definitely gone up.
They're saying that if somewhere on 5%, 6%, they're saying that it's transitory.
Maybe it's not transitory.
But I think when you use the word hyperinflation, so if you're typically running at 2% to 3% and there was just an adjustment in cost of living at 5%, 6%, and now you're talking the definition of inflation is 50% a month or 1,000% a year.
Yeah, hyperinflation.
We're not hyperinflation.
It's not even close.
So is it hyperbolic?
Yes.
Is it accurate?
Maybe not.
I mean, and then who's been speaking against Jack Dorsey?
Economist David Rosenberg.
Kathy Wood from ARC came out and she said, look, you don't know what you're talking about, bro.
Jim Kramer even said something as well.
She can, so that's a religion, right?
Whether you're going to agree with her, because she talked about the fact that in 2008, she believed hyperinflation was coming because the whole Alan Greenspan quantitative easing that she did, she said, I ended up being wrong.
Yeah, she walked that back.
She's the opposite end of Michael Burry.
Just remember that.
She's the opposite of Burry.
She's whatever Burry believes, she's the complete opposite.
Burry shorts Tesla, she longs Tesla.
So you just got to know.
No very big on Tesla.
Somehow they're both very successful investors.
They're both very successful, but they're very opposite religions.
I want you to know.
So she's doing okay with Tesla right now.
I'm not saying it.
I'm just saying those are two opposites.
So if you're a Burry Kemp, she's the opposite.
The point that I'm ultimately getting at is, is inflation here?
Yes.
Is inflation real?
Yes.
Is hyperinflation here yet?
There's no indication that that's here yet.
This is all speculation.
This is him being hyperbolic.
And he's not going to get canceled for saying stuff like this.
When was the last time that in the United States we had hyperinflation?
Hyperinflation.
From what I understand, it hasn't happened since the freaking Civil War.
Right.
There's only been 62 certified cases in world history.
So it's very rare.
Okay.
I mean, look at what's going on in Venezuela right now.
You'd think that's hyperinflation.
Right.
You think that's happening here?
I don't think so.
But here's the question.
Are you saying it's not possible?
Anything's possible.
Okay.
Anything's possible.
But what you're saying is that it's not going to happen this time around.
I just, I just.
So why don't you unpack why you don't think it can happen this time around?
You seem very certain about it, and I like it.
I like your certainty because I don't want hyperinflation.
I want to lean on your confidence.
Educate the rest of us why you don't think it's not.
I don't want it either, to be clear.
But when you have economists weighing in, and they're basically saying, hey, Jack Dorsey, stick to your long beards and tweeting.
Go back to smoking a pipe and all that stuff.
I saw this.
We'll take it from here.
So as much as he does have a corner of the city.
I want you to go deeper, homeboy.
I want you to go deeper.
I want you to go deep and actually think about it.
Let's actually go there.
Let's actually talk about it.
So why don't we think it's possible?
Because half the battle with every, this is what I tweet.
Can you put that tweet I just texted you right now with Dorsey?
I said, this is Dorsey's tweet.
Hyperinflation is going to change everything.
It's happening.
I said, you have two groups here.
Number one, many entrepreneurs and operators who say hyperinflation is coming.
Number two, many scholars and professors who say it's not.
One is in the game, the other studies the game.
Who's right?
We're going to find out, okay?
Because you've got two guys.
One is the professors.
It'll never happen.
The economists, it'll never happen.
Dorsey's in it, runs square, gets every data, probably has more access to data than anybody else in the world to find out the transactions and the 10 different things that they offer there with their credit services, with their payments.
They can find out who's buying what, at what point.
They can see everything.
No one has more.
There's probably only a handful.
There's probably only 20 people that have access to that kind of data as he does.
It's probably going to be Jamie Dimon.
It's probably going to be Stripe.
It's going to be some of those guys.
He's not a guy that says something like this that woke up one day, smoked some hash, and is like, hey, hyperinflation is coming.
He doesn't also seem like somebody who has wild predictions and just throws things out there kind of about stuff like that normally anyways.
But don't forget, this is the same guy that also permanently banned Trump.
So you have to know that you can't say this guy.
So you have to know where his processing comes from.
But hyperinflation, I want us to go deeper.
Why don't we think it'll happen this time?
I'm not saying that I don't think it will happen.
I'm just giving some numbers out there.
What actual inflation is, where the adjusted cost of living is for seniors right now, and the benchmarks that you have to reach to reach hyperinflation.
Again, inflation is here.
No doubt.
We printed 40% of the world's United States money in the last 18 months.
He printed, what, $5 trillion?
That's no freaking joke.
I'm not downplaying that.
What?
So ever.
Right.
But have we hit 50% a month?
Have we hit 1,000% a year?
We haven't hit that yet.
What if we've hit a tipping point where that's where we're headed?
That's the question.
That's what I'm concerned about.
Hang on.
Hyperinflation by whose standards?
Does Jack Dorsey mean hyperinflation at 50% month over month, 1,000% a year?
Or is he just, is he being a little bit hyperbolic?
But 10% inflation.
It's not hyperinflation, but you definitely feel it.
It hurts.
It's going to hurt the economy.
It's going to blow.
So hyperinflation by whose standards?
Okay, yeah.
So then use the word high inflation.
But to use hyperinflation, like we're using definitions right here, right?
Right.
Hey, definitely, inflation's here, bro.
Brace yourself.
Okay, cool.
I got it.
By the way.
But to say hyperinflation.
You make a good point because the Morgan Stanley CIO came out yesterday.
I don't know if you guys saw this or not.
Morgan Stanley CIO came out and they asked him saying, hey, what do you think about the fact that Dorsey said, you know, hyperinflation or stack inflation?
He says, you can't use those words.
He says, we're not going to use those words.
What we do believe is inflation is here and it ain't going away anytime soon.
So he didn't say what Yellen said three months ago, which is just like temporary.
It's going to go away.
Or what Biden said at the CNN town hall when he said, you know, probably in the first or second quarter of 2022, it's going to go away.
You know, gas prices are going to go back down to what it is.
And then the guy asked and says, so some of the issues, and he went into border, which we'll get into that later on.
But Morgan Stanley CIO agrees with you.
They don't think hyperinflation is coming.
All I'm asking for is indicators to make us believe that that's not going to happen.
Because what is the cause of inflation?
What causes inflation?
Printing of money.
Okay, what else?
Money supply.
What else is it?
Too much.
It's a supply and demand thing.
It's a supply and demand thing.
What else is it?
Workforce.
Workforce, what else is it?
Well, I would say the fastest.
Cost of goods, obviously.
SPEAKERS is a big S ⁇ P and Dow hit all-time highs yesterday.
It's like, why did they do that?
There's no profits.
Access to goods, a bunch of stuff that are finance, fake success.
Yeah, credit, credits, debt.
All of that stuff, right?
That's causing hyperinflation.
Now, I'm going to read Janet Yellen before we continue with this.
Here's what Janet Yellen had to say about inflation just yesterday or two days ago.
Yellen says Americans have experienced current inflation rate in a long time, haven't experienced current inflation rates in a long time.
A CNBC story.
Many firms are experiencing a shortage of labor, Yellen says during an interview with CNN Sunday.
The COVID shock to the economy has caused disruptions that we'll be working through over the next year.
And of course, Americans haven't seen inflation like we've experienced in a long time.
Host Jake Tapper noted how inflation is growing at its fastest pace in 30 years and asked whether spending more money on Biden's build-back better agenda will be pouring gas on inflation fire, prompting Yellen to say the spending on the bipartisan infrastructure package and a massive social spending package would be spread out over the next decade.
Tapper later asked Yellen when she expects the inflation rate to return to 2% levels, which the Federal Reserve classifies as acceptable.
She replied, I expect improvement by the middle of next year, second half of next year is what she's saying.
Okay, that's her words.
Let me see if there's anything else.
That's it.
Okay.
I have two questions to you.
Go for it.
Question number one.
Do you believe her?
Do I believe her?
What she's saying?
Absolutely not.
And question number two, do you believe that she believes what she's saying?
I actually think she does.
Okay.
I actually think she does because, and this is a smart woman.
This is not a person that hasn't been around.
She's a smart woman.
She's been done.
I actually think she does.
And I actually think a part of it is what you're supposed to do to make the world not panic and overreact.
Because the last thing they want is for people to stop buying, for people to stop spending, for hoarding, going back into that mode.
No.
That is not a thing she wants for the economy because that's not her job.
Now, I called Goldman Sachs yesterday just to kind of find out what their thoughts are on what's going on.
I said, so what do you think is going to happen with rates?
He says, well, Powell's already said they're going up.
I said, okay, what do you think is going to happen with inflation?
It says, it's here.
It's not going away.
And to control inflation, the way you do it is by increasing the rates, right?
So hyperinflation goes.
Okay, you go study Jimmy Carter.
Today I did a video talking about is Joe Biden the next Jimmy Carter 2.0 or much worse, right?
And we compared, how many markers?
10 markers?
Yeah, something like that.
On how inflation was, how misery index was.
And we compared from the beginning of his administration to the time he ended, and we compared Biden from the day he got started to where it is today.
So it's a very interesting thing.
Inflation during Jimmy Carter.
Do you know how high he got?
Nearly 14%.
Yeah.
Okay.
During Jimmy Carter.
Interest rates were double digits at least.
CDs.
You could get a 16% CD.
Talk about save that money.
Yeah, 16% CD, but it means nothing if you're making 16% CD and inflation is 14%.
You're only going to means nothing.
So here's why hyperinflation may not show up.
This is when they say hyperinflation may not show up.
Here's how hyperinflation may not show up.
Hyperinflation may not show up, but 10, 15% interest rates may.
Before hyperinflation shows up, they will control it by making interest rates 10 to 15%.
Slamming the brakes.
Slamming the brakes at the highest level.
Listen, pump the brakes.
Don't go finance anymore.
If you can't afford a million-dollar home and you can't put 20% down, guess what?
This ain't for you.
Okay.
No more 5%, no more 10%, none of this stuff.
Just go back and buy a $500,000 house and come back three years later.
No more easy money.
No more free money.
The whole fake money, the easy money stuff.
Because money is so freaking cheap right now.
It's ridiculous.
There is a part of you.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Because with all the printing and the fake success, because you get worked up about this, there is a part of you that definitely wants to see some things crumble, some things crash.
Why would I want it, though?
Tell me why I would want it.
Because you actually made your success the right way.
Yeah.
So when you see fake success, you're like this.
But let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you a question.
So why would I want it?
Unpack why I would want it.
Why would you want that to happen?
Just so reality comes back to normal.
I think, I mean, you see a story out there that you put $100 into Shibu Inu, some crypto coin, and now you're worth a million bucks.
Some ridiculous.
It's just so far-fetched.
It's fake success.
It's fake money.
If you made it the real way, why would you want fake?
The only time where you would want something like this to happen is sometimes we have to be reminded by reality hitting us.
And it hasn't hit America yet.
I also think it's a restructuring of the people who can and know how to do it versus that's one area.
But to me, to me, sometimes, look, we can sit here and philosophically talk about 93 keys to success and how to do this with money and how to do that with money.
Sometimes it's simplicity, man.
It forces you to go back to simple concepts.
This is not about quantitative easing or QE, you know, Q of Es or it just goes back to basics.
So America needs to be humbled a little bit by the economy.
And the way we're going right now, people are thinking this is going to last forever.
We had a guy who we were working at Bally's.
We both leave Bally's.
I go to the insurance industry.
Within three years in the insurance industry, I'm barely making six figures a year.
Within three years in a mortgage industry, he's making 500K per month.
Wow.
We go to the per month.
I go to the bank and I'm fighting B of A on a fee.
He's two, what do you call it?
Tellers down.
He's saying, yeah, I'd like to deposit $1.3 million.
And I look at him.
I'm like, he looks at me and says, hey, Pat.
He just deposited $1.3 million.
Just give me the 0.30, you know, 30K.
What year is this?
This is 2004, 2000, 2000, 2005.
First year, he's in the mortgage industry.
He's in the mortgage industry.
He's making 500K a month.
You know what happened to that guy?
He had four Rolls-Royces parked outside.
He says, I need four different color for Rolls-Royce's living in all the everything was finance.
Guess what happened?
He lost it all.
Tax, every single thing wiped out because that was fake success.
And fake success gets filtered out very, very quickly.
And it's going to happen again.
But the direction we're going right now when a Jack Dorsey says something like this and people say that'll never happen.
The only reason I agree that hyperinflation will never happen is because before hyperinflation comes, you're going to experience 10%, 15% interest.
Oh, you'll see.
There'll be 10, 15% interest.
And there's also something to be said about there's so many people that are getting money or making money without working.
Right.
And here's my let me just finish this and I'll go to you.
There's what happened to just hard work in America.
I'm working my ass off.
I'm working hard.
I'm working smart.
And these are, I'm reaping the benefits of what I sow.
Now it's stimulus checks, right?
It's unemployment.
It's crypto.
It's NFT.
It's whatever.
Stock market.
It's my house just appreciated 35%.
It's cash, all cash buyers.
It seems a little too good to be true.
And when it is, it usually is.
But Adam, you know, that's what 80 million people voted for.
Oh, you're going to make this political now.
But that is what 80 million people voted for.
How so?
He explained his tax plan.
He explained to build it back better.
But this has none of that had to do with taxes, though.
None of that.
What I just said.
What doesn't have to do with taxes?
Unemployment, the stimulus.
Wait, Trump gave just as much money as Biden.
Stop.
This doesn't have to do with stimulus.
This doesn't have to do with no, it does, but not taxes.
Trump gave stimulus when the entire country was locked down.
You couldn't do shit.
Too stimulus.
You couldn't do anything.
Nobody could go to work.
I understand.
Do you remember in Dallas?
We'd walk, we'd drive the streets.
We're like, shit, are we going to say we're essential or non-essential?
Do you remember that?
I remember when I was worried I'd have to have like a pass basically.
So I'm going to work.
Don't arrest me.
Do you remember that?
Yes.
We would drive the streets worried because all of the freeways were empty.
Nothing.
I did a story one time.
I'm like, look at this.
This doesn't make any sense.
2:30 in the morning rush hour.
April or when this is when I came back.
But this lasted three, four, five months.
This isn't like it lasted a month.
We came every day to work.
We came seven days a week to work during that time.
But it was wild.
So the point is, that is a different era.
But if you continue like this, here's what will happen.
I'm with you.
Let me explain.
No, I know you're with me, but this is what people voted for.
The people that voted for Biden are getting exactly what they voted for.
This is what they wanted.
So you have to understand that when congressmen and senators get up and they say, I'm working for my constituents, you know, when they say things like that, like, you know, they give a mansion a hard time, and manchin says, listen, do you know where I live?
Do you know where my county is?
But you know, he just talked about the other day he's thinking about leaving the party.
I don't know if you read that article or not, that mansion is living in the party.
Can you pull out that article about the fact that manchin wants to leave the party?
But I'm going to give you the story here.
Denver's airport held a job fair to plug its huge labor shortage.
David, I think your mic is on.
To plug its huge labor shortage, an exec said he'd hoped 5,000 people would come, but only 100 people showed up to the job fair.
Okay?
100 people.
Let me read the story to you and we'll go to what you're trying to pull up here.
So 5,000 people they're expecting.
100 people show up to the job fair.
Dennis This long champ, the president of Denver Conisseries Association said that the organizers had hoped for 5,000 people to show up to the job for which he called a very lofty goal.
Organizers had wanted to fill out about 1,000 jobs at the airport, but only 100 people came to the four-hour fare.
The airport's labor shortage could be contributing to huge airport security lines as travel rebounds.
The airport also hasn't been able to fully reopen its shuttle bus that ferries travelers to the airport because of a shortage of drivers at its shuttle bus contractor.
So what's the point here?
Even if the jobs are out there, people are not wanting the job because I don't need to go back to work.
I'm chilling, getting unemployment.
What happens when the people you've talked about this a few times on the podcast?
When the people that are making $18 an hour to flip a burger, the restaurant workers, you know, the minimum wage jobs that are making $20 an hour, what happens when they're either replaced or their wages drop substantially, right?
And on top of that, when we pump the $2 million for the budget bill and the $3.5 million, excuse me, $2 trillion and the $1.5 trillion for the infrastructure bill, when that all comes through, what happens?
When the wages drop or they're replaced by kiosks, the McDonald's workers, the Burger King workers, you know, the people that are replaceable by machines and the truck drivers, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
What happens when they're all replaced?
Or the wages?
CBI, baby.
Are you asking us?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, what happens?
Or are you asking them?
We know what happened.
Does this attribute to the inflation and to, like Kai said, a point of no return where we could hit inflation that's unstoppable?
Maybe not hyperinflation, but maybe 25, 30, 35%.
Listen, there's a community in politics like Yellen who hate billionaires.
They passionately hate billionaires.
They hate the fact that these people have that much money.
They hate the fact that Basil, what's it called?
Musk is worth $200 and whatever billion dollars, nearly $300 billion.
They hate that a guy is that successful.
They cannot stand it.
So Yellen says, is the story here with Yellen and unrealized gains or no?
I thought that story was somewhere here.
Page nine.
Okay, where's Yellen saying what she's saying?
By the way, let me give you one little quick.
I don't see the page nine.
Go ahead.
I'm listening.
Just before we move on to the talking about talking about the job fair.
This is just a little quick case example.
You talked about minimum wage, $15, $18 an hour, $20.
You know, I went driving through Taco Bell the other day.
You remember I was out here eating my Taco Bell?
This is, I think, Friday.
There's, as I'm in line, I never go to Taco Bell, by the way.
There's a, there's a for a help wanted.
You know how much they were saying for, you know, employee X and for assistant manager X. You know how much they were offering?
Take a guess.
23.
Okay, go ahead.
Yeah, that's what I guess.
I'd say 45 grand or 50 grand a year for the for the lower end.
This is just workers at Taco Bell.
Workers.
20 bucks an hour.
Okay, how about I had to like do a double take?
$8 an hour for an employee and $10 for an assistant manager.
Those were the numbers.
I go, what?
This is in Florida in Boca Raton, Deerfield.
I go, who the hell is going to apply for?
Who wants his job?
You're hearing people that you can go to Taco Bell right now and take a picture of this sign.
It's right there.
So do you think they're worth more than that?
I'm just saying.
I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying, if you're the employee's perspective, we talked about this story being, you know, 100 people shout up to a 5,000 and we talk about expectations versus reality.
It's selecting 5,000 people, 100 people show up.
If those are actually numbers, we talked about the fight for $15, $15 minimum wage.
That was actually on the sign in front of ordering the Taco Bell.
I'm thinking, no freaking way is anyone taking this job at this point.
So now it's no wonder that they're not taking these jobs because you could sit home and make triple that unemployment.
Yeah, but at the same, I know what you're saying, but Taco Bell is owned by yum brands, yum brands, and you have to look at the EBITDA.
I mean, the EBITDA margins, where they are.
If the EBITDA margins are above 20% and they're only willing to pay $8 to $10, I mean, you've got to increase the hour you're paying.
It's a mathematical formula.
They're sitting there saying what they can afford to pay.
They're showing margins to the guy that's buying the Taco Bell.
So if you end up doing $15 an hour, you're not selling a $50 steak.
You're not selling a $20 steak.
You're selling a $2 taco is what you're selling.
How much margins do they have in there?
But the person that's going to take that job for $8, $10, $12 an hour, 16-year-old kid.
They can't spell EBITDA.
They're not worried about EBITDA.
They're like, should I take this job or not?
I'm not telling the kid to worry about EBITDA.
The kid doesn't need to worry about EBITDA.
But the guy running the business does, because the number one goal of a business is to what?
Be profitable.
To stay in business.
You have to stay in business.
If you don't stay in business, then what do you do?
You got to stay in business.
So what do you expect the guy to do, to go out of business?
No, but I agree with you where they have to restructure.
So to me, you're cornering me, the Taco Bell owner, to make the Tacos price from $199 to $2.49.
No problem, but watch this.
What's $199 to $2.49?
How big of an increase is it?
It's 50 cents.
It's 50 cents, which is what?
25%?
Yeah, 25%.
What's 25% increase on $8?
It's only $10.
So it's not like they're going to go $50.
So watch this.
To go from $8 to $15 is a 90% increase, right?
So that means my $1.99 taco has got to be $379.
I better get a chalupa for that price.
But $379 is a taco.
Chalupa is what?
How much is a chalupa?
I don't know.
But you look like you know what the price of the chalupa is.
I assume it's three bucks, four bucks.
Okay, if your $4 chalupa all of a sudden becomes $7.50.
No, I'm not getting a chalupa.
I save that money.
I don't know what a backend that looks like.
I'm off the chalupa market.
I'm going to go to McDonald's.
McDonald's 99 cents.
Folks, listen, if you want to get Adam something for his birthday, get him like a dozen chalupas.
I think it looks like you'd be happy to do that.
Adam, you stunned the whole office the other day, too, when you came in with Taco Bell.
Everybody did the double tank.
Did he really come in with Taco Bell?
Did you guys see him dancing last night, by the way?
For a 40-year-old man?
I was so impressed.
We've got a great teacher, Rob Walker.
Yeah, we definitely.
We're going to find out if he's a good teacher or not.
We're going to find out if Rob's a good teacher or not.
Anyways, okay.
I used to kill the bar mitzvah scene when I was 13.
Did you really, though?
Killed it.
You know, John Mason was one of those bar mitzvahs.
The difference between John Mason and I is the last time I went to a bar mitzvah was when I was going to bar mitzvahs at 13.
John Mason went as a 30-year-old man hosting bar mitzvah.
Big difference.
You just hurt his feelings.
That's fine.
You just hurt his feelings.
Just put it out there.
He's going to come and slash your tires.
Yeah, my car situation.
Did that get fixed, by the way, or no?
No, I still got to deal with that.
Have you told him yet?
No.
Even though he goes back to that he wants to podcast.
But John Mason can't get mad if it's true.
This is what his career was.
John Mason.
Now he's killing it.
Just got himself a G-Wagon and a white Hurricane is what he just got.
What is a Hurricane?
Hurricane?
Labor Games.
He's a Toyota Avalon model of a Hurricane is what it is.
It's going to be all right.
I saw him roll up in the R8, too.
Maybe, Adam, maybe you should go to more of Bar Mitzvah's as well.
When I met John, John was a professional bar mitzvah guy.
Okay, so we got a couple questions here.
So Paul Berez says, the good part of Kern nonsense is we don't need all the fast food.
It is essentially poison.
Imagine 20 to 5 to 50% of all these and other toxic businesses slowly disappeared.
Okay, that's Paul's position.
Next one is Smedley Butler III says, Pat, what if hyperinflation is their goal?
What if it is their final phase?
What if the people have to be brought to their knees before they'll accept the world digital ID system, Hegelian dialectic?
Listen, a lot of people agree with you and believe what you're saying, and we know what Hegelian dialectic is, and it's a strategy that's worked effectively by big governments for a long, long time.
So I'm not weighing that out.
I'm not telling you there's not a group of people that are not planning to do that at the top.
I'm just telling you, I don't think it's everybody.
I think there are certain people that want to do the right thing.
I think there are certain people that think are not coming from that standpoint.
But I do believe the people that are the puppet masters behind closed doors have some things like that in mind because they're driven by control.
They love control and they hate rich people.
They hate anybody that got rich under this system because they want it to be taken away from them because they can't stand the fact that these guys, independently not needing the government, ended up being successful.
I've said this before, I'll say it again.
A parent, when they lose the need of their kid saying, if you don't do this, I'm not going to buy that.
When the kid eventually gets to a point and says, Mom, I don't give a shit.
I'll buy it myself.
That control is gone.
And a mom and a dad is like, wait a minute, I feel like I just lost my child.
I feel like I just lost my child.
You didn't lose your child.
He became independent.
These politicians are thinking they're still the mother, the nanny state, to say, you need us.
You need us.
And the people are like, I don't need you.
I can independently take care of myself.
Just leave me alone.
Let's coexist and enjoy these every once in a while family gatherings that we have every four years when we got to vote for the next president.
But outside of that, leave me alone.
Well, and the people that are pushing these policies are phenomenally wealthy within themselves.
Pelosi is worth, what, $350 million?
I mean, she's worth a ton of money.
Joe Biden is worth it.
One of the best stock pickers of all time.
Oh, yeah, great.
Our husband, one of the best stock pickers of all time.
I wonder how when she has time.
It's very interesting.
She's a legendary son.
You got to budget your time like Elon Musk.
Seriously.
Five minutes at a time.
By the way, real quick, the gentleman who just made that comment.
Yeah.
Give me that name again.
Read it.
Smedley Butler, right?
That's it.
Smedley Butler III.
So there's multiple Smedley Butlers running out there.
Apparently, so.
Smedley Butler sounds like the type of person who believes in the conspiracy theory of the Hegelian dialectic or whatever that is.
Smedley Butler sounds like somebody that would never eat a chalupa.
That's what it sounds like.
He sounds like somebody that would never.
Smedley, you sound wonderful.
I don't know if you're my kind of guy.
Well, shout out to Smedley, man.
He's giving a few super chats.
If that's your buddy, if that's your buddy.
It's not you, it's Adam.
Yeah, no, I'm sure Smedley just gave 20, I think, what is that?
Do you see it?
Pounds.
Pounds and says, I think we need to give the left everything they want and step back.
Will the country decline and possibly worse?
Sure.
But the debate between capitalism and socialism will finally be settled.
Here's the problem with that, Josh.
No.
The debate's been settled in 150 different countries, and people still haven't learned because they think they can do it right.
So I don't think it is about winning the debate or not winning the debate.
That debate's been already done.
They just want to do it here because they want to be able to control it during their time.
FYI, Janet Dellen, let me read that story on page nine.
What she says she wants to do.
Them's plan billionaires' unrealized gains tax to help fund the $2 trillion spending delay.
New York Post story.
President Biden's $2 trillion spending package continues to stall as senior Democrats are hoping to finalize a proposal on a new annual tax on billionaires' unrealized capital gains.
Let me read that one more time.
Hoping to finalize a proposal on a new annual tax on billionaires' unrealized capital gains.
Do you know what that means?
They made money on an investment.
They haven't taken the money out.
The equities on that house, the equities in the company, the equities in the stock, they haven't taken the money out.
Janet Yellen and Biden want to tax unrealized gains that hasn't been taken out by the individual, which is absolutely ludicrous.
I mean, if somebody said this stuff 20 years ago, they would have said you've lost your mind, but it's becoming a reality today.
We probably will have a wealth tax, says Nancy Pelosi, confirmed Sunday.
The proposal, which is being reviewed by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, would impose an annual tax on unrealized capital gains on liquid assets held by billionaires.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the proposal will likely only affect less than a thousand of the nation's wealthiest citizens.
I don't care if it's $1,000, if it's $500, if it's $10,000.
Leave them alone.
They keep creating jobs.
I don't care what their net worth is.
Let them keep creating jobs and have an incentive to create jobs.
Because if they don't do what they do, you're going to take a hit.
And by the way, again, it goes back down to why $1,000?
Why are they the richest of the riches?
How about the person that's worth $40 million?
How rich is $40 million to a person making $15 an hour?
Very rich.
How rich is $10 million to someone that's making $15 an hour?
How rich is $1 million to a person that's making $15 million?
How rich is a half a million dollars cash and savings to a person that's making $15 an hour?
Rich.
So what's rich?
Rich is only any taxes that you will not pay.
So if Nancy Pelosi is worth $300 million, let's make sure we pet the taxes a billion so I don't have to pay any of it.
It's always, I don't want to experience the pain.
You covered this a couple podcasts.
Yeah, this was like a month ago.
It's always the person who's just a little bit richer than you, that that's where you want to start.
Yeah.
And the problem is it's a slippery slope.
You know what this reminds me of?
Because you'll appreciate this.
I think there was a lot, because obviously you're in the life insurance world.
There was a long, there was talks about, because obviously a life insurance, a death benefit is tax-free.
Oh, yeah, I see what you mean.
But at one point they were proposing taxing the cash value buildup within the policy.
Do you remember this?
Of course I do.
But that didn't pass.
It was Rule 7702 that they wanted to eliminate to tax the cash value and the separate value of a VUL or an IUL or all that stuff.
Yeah.
And it didn't pass, though.
It didn't pass, yeah.
And you know who was leading that?
Elizabeth Warren.
Was that DOL?
Was that all that?
Was that a war?
But by the way, the camp that's in right now is the camp that could do that.
That's the camp that's in right now.
Well, to our last friend, was it Josh?
I don't know, whoever he said, well, why don't we just let them have what they want?
Listen, that's the whole point of America is to have the debate, to have the ideas and find out which ideas are actually right.
Gerard likes to say that Democrats are the gas and Republicans are the breaks.
And there's two sides, the eagle, wherever you want to look at it.
But that's the whole point of, all right, this is the idea I want to go with.
Hell no, we're not doing the idea.
And then at some point, there needs to be a compromise.
And that's the problem in America right now is that everyone's entrenched on their sides.
Let's coalesce in the middle.
By the way, the Bitcoin community is thinking that if hyperinflation happens, Bitcoin is going to go to $100,000, $500,000, $1 million.
That's what we're going to do.
But that's why Jack Dorsey is probably saying hyperinflation.
He's very big in crypto.
Do you really think he needs another billion dollars?
No, but he's on Cash App Square.
He's very big.
Like when Bitcoin had their conference, he was the guest speaker.
Now, here's the other part.
You know, is it Peter Schiff, the gold guy?
Yeah.
He's thinking that gold's going to take off with this and gold's going to go to a whole different level.
Look, the idea is the following.
This is going to happen.
Own non-duplicatable assets.
Key word.
Own non-duplicatable assets.
Very simple.
Are NFTs non-duplicatable assets?
To that community, it is as non-duplicatable as it can be.
Let me answer your question, by the way.
You said, you think he cares about another billion dollars?
Jack Dorsey?
Do you think he's a little bit competitive?
Dorsey?
So when you look around and he sees the Zucks worth $100 billion, he sees.
Elon Musk worth $200-something billion.
The Bezos, $150 billion, and he's worth, what is he worth?
I don't know.
I'm guessing $10 billion?
I don't know.
Who?
He is 14.
14.
You don't think he's a little competitive saying, I got to get to 100 at some point.
But even in that case, he's not going to be the only one who's going to rock.
I'm not saying he's not going to.
By the way, I love what Rodolfo Ramirez just said.
You can vote your way into socialism, but you cannot vote your way out.
What a powerful thing to say.
You can vote your way into socialism.
You cannot vote your way out.
Rodolfo, that is extremely powerful quote you just posted right now.
But yeah, I don't think that's what he's driven by.
I just tell you, let me talk to the investor.
Let's talk to the investor.
The person that's listening to this right now.
Is this probably a good time to own a little bit of gold?
Maybe.
Is this a good time to own a little bit of crypto?
You know, maybe get a little bit of Ethereum, get a little bit of whatever you, maybe.
Is it time to consider getting a little bit of collectible cards or comic books that are limited edition?
Yeah, maybe.
This is not a bad time to set aside some of those things that are, again, non-duplicatable assets.
If you do that, and hyperinflation happens, it actually favors you if you do that.
I have two things on this, which is interesting.
First one, obviously, when they look at people and you look at Elon Musk, $280 billion, it's not like he's sitting on a pile of cash at $280 billion.
It's all invested in his company.
It's all going to be taxed once he takes it out, once he takes payment.
And if the Tesla stock crashes, so is his net worth.
So it's not like he's sitting on it and he's just kind of walking around with a checking account with $280 billion.
So it's a completely different way of how that would then function of just doing this.
And then the other part of it is: if it's just the thousand wealthiest, if they get it passed and approved, why not do 2,000?
Why not do the top 10%?
Catastrophic.
It'll just snowball from.
How many times do they not promise if you're making less than this, your taxes aren't going to be changed?
And then two weeks later, something comes out of $600 of taxes and that'll change it.
Exactly.
They have to change it.
Because people are like, this is pathetic if you're going to come after my $600 of taxes.
So they're going to find a way to just get it in the banks and then they're just going to build it up.
Like, we got to deal with all this crap now.
So then they just say, well, we'll meet you back at the 10,000 number.
Yeah, it's maybe not.
We're good where we're at.
What's that?
What do you mean?
No, with the 10,000, where they're trying to push for it, and then it's like.
So check this out.
Here's what's happened at the same time, right?
So I had a guy came over the other night, and we had a cigar till 1 o'clock in the morning.
Great conversations we had.
Great conversations we had till 1 o'clock in the morning.
And a conversation came about DeSantis.
He was a guy that worked closely with DeSantis, and he was an advisor to DeSantis when DeSantis was coming up.
Again, people don't realize this guy's a 43-year-old superstar right now.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
He's a 43-year-old superstar right now, and he's fighting.
But the left is trying to figure out any way possible to cancel this guy.
And DeSantis continues to fight back.
So here's what story just came about, okay?
Florida tries to lure ships waiting at backlog California ports.
This is a story I think from last week.
If you want to go to page eight.
And then DeSantis is not just backing down, and he starts recruiting nonstop.
But here's what he says.
Florida is encouraging ships to ditch backed up ports on the West Coast and head its way.
While dozens of ships remain moored off the coast of LA, waiting to be unloaded in a historic supply chain snarl, ports in Florida are humming along with little or no delays and are standing by if ships come, ship company, shipping companies decide to reroute freighters to the East Coast.
Florida Governor DeSantis recently invited ships to reroute and offload their shipments in Florida, which has several ports.
We're here.
We have capacity, says DeSantis.
In addition to rerouting ships, some recipients of goods that are being manufactured overseas are also re-evaluating their ability to ship using air freight.
That increased demand has caused air cargo rates to soar to record levels.
But DeSantis doesn't stop.
Let me go to the next one here, and then I'll open it up for dialogue.
DeSantis planning $5,000 bonus for unvaccinated police to relocate to Florida.
This is a newsweek story.
Republican Florida Governor DeSantis said on Sunday that he is hoping to sign legislation that would get unvaccinated police officers a $5,000 bonus to relocate to a state.
DeSantis commented about police officers in other states who are losing their jobs because they are not complying with COVID vaccine mandates on a scientific basis.
Most of those first responders have had COVID and have recovered, so they have strong protection.
And so I think that influences their decision, he said.
DeSantis called on police officers across the country, including those in New York, Minneapolis, and Seattle, to relocate to the Sunshine State if they are not being accommodated at their jobs.
When you play aggressive, so I'm sitting there and I'm talking to my sister, Paulette, and she says, don't you think this puts a target on him?
Okay.
And I said, absolutely.
I said, well, what's the alternative?
Just sitting there and not doing anything about this?
Because if you think about who the last guys that played this aggressive type of offense was a guy named Governor Perry.
And if you guys remember Governor Perry, where he's like, you know, those three organizations, you got the EPA and you got, I don't know what the shucks are.
He wanted to close the three organizations.
I couldn't remember the.
Anyways, but here's what Rick Perry did, governor of Texas.
He's who recruited us to Texas, by the way.
I went and had a sit-down with him, went to the Rangers again with him.
No, Ryan, Donnelly, yeah, prior to Abbott.
So Rick Perry comes to California and he goes, does a bunch of talk shows, radio shows, and he says, if you're a business owner in the state of California and you're sick and tired of being taxed and regulated, why don't you come to the great state of Texas?
We won't tax you.
We won't regulate it.
We'll let you build your business and do your thing.
But we want to welcome you to the state of Texas.
So he kept aggressively recruiting people from California, right?
Okay.
That's a bold move.
This guy's making a bold move.
He at this point of the game, I guarantee you, there are meetings, non-stop strategy sessions, not how to save America, not how to deal with China, not how to deal with the border, not how to deal with the taxes.
They're having our strategy sessions.
How the hell do we get rid of this guy here?
But that's why Biden doesn't have time to go to the borders.
It makes sense.
But he drove past it in 08.
You got to give him credit.
He's close enough.
So listen, DeSantis, apparently he's going to be rerunning.
The conversation right now, whether he's going to be running for office or not, has to do with his wife's health.
It's not, you know, she has breast cancer.
Yeah, it's tough.
They're dealing with it.
But you got to love his audacity to stand up and play off.
He is playing offense.
Big time.
I think another big thing for this as well is you see, how many of us were talking about DeSantis just two years ago?
He was in a conversation.
15 months ago.
Pre-COVID.
He almost lost to Andrew Gillam, the socialists.
I mean, it was a close race, man.
Florida would be in a totally different position right now had that race not gone in the favor of Ron DeSantis.
And I think it just goes to show that during crisis, certain people stand up and certain people push back.
Wartime leader.
Yep, big time, exactly.
Do you think they're going to be able to cancel him?
I mean, it depends on as long as he doesn't do is unless there's some dirt on him that that they're going to somehow pull up.
I think it's going to be hard unless he miss.
You tell me who you can't find dirt on.
I mean, nobody.
You tell me who you cannot find dirt on.
Nobody.
Okay, then.
So do you think their research team is working, and the research team for them is who?
24-7.
Here's their research team.
Folks working at the IRS.
Yep.
Forks working at social media sites, Facebook, Instagram, DMs, text, phones.
This is their research team.
It's a pretty qualified research team, by the way, that can get access to any information that they want.
Do you think they're going to figure out a way to cancel DeSantis?
Or do you think he'll make it?
I think they'll try, but I also think that he's not going to go down without a fight.
I see him as a guy who's going to go down swinging.
They're not going to find something where he's just going to flat out lay down and be like, all right, I'm done.
I see him more going down with the ship, if that's the case.
Well, and he's had a target on his back for the past two years, since COVID started, since Florida didn't.
I mean, they locked down for, what, two weeks, and that was it?
I mean, he's had a target on his back the whole time, and they've yet to cancel him.
Like you said, they're going to try, but he's not going to go down without a fight.
David, you look like you want to say something.
Go ahead, Columbia.
Well, I don't think he can be canceled.
I think he's in the same Trump situation where I think a lot of Trump supporters see DeSantis as the second coming of Trump.
So it's going to be the same situation where if he runs, they're going to try and find all the dirt.
Anytime he said anything slightly disagreeable, but he won't go down.
It's not even saying something disagreeable.
It's about strategy.
It's character assassination.
It's manipulation.
It's division.
It's going to be family, women, money, taxes, comments, high school, cancel.
They're going to go and find a way to get something on this guy.
Here's the question.
Do you think it's there?
Like, I don't think it's there with Ron DeSantis the way it was with Trump.
Trump had to access Hollywood tapes.
He has all, you know, I could shoot somebody on 50%.
Evidence like Pat said.
They'll find something.
Oh, he went to the University of Florida, I believe.
I'm sure.
He was drunk in the 90s, did something stupid.
Women will come out.
Things happen.
He's a young guy.
He's 43, 44.
What is he?
43, September 4th.
Look, I think at the end of the day, whether you're on the left or on the right, you got to hand it to the guy.
He's doing a great job here in Florida.
That's the key, right?
He's doing a good job.
A lot of people would disagree with that that are not in Florida.
Okay.
Well, you got to hand it to the guy.
And you brought up Rick Perry.
I think he's sharper, smarter, more aggressive, just has better positions.
I think Rick Perry was a good old Texas guy.
Come on down.
Like, I think this guy actually is sharper than Rick Perry.
Would you agree?
He's actually a great impersonation of Rick Perry.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I was just imitating your impression.
No wonder you were yours was small enough.
Exactly.
That was a Middle Eastern Rick Perry.
I think one thing that we need to account for is: yes, has he been on the national stage?
A little bit, but he hasn't been on the national, national front page news stage yet, like Trump.
I think the biggest person in DeSantis' way is not the IRS stuff, not social.
It's straight up Donald J. Trump.
It kind of reminds me of when Tom Brady was his rookie year, or even when Aaron Rodgers came and Brett Favre was there.
You can use a million different quarterback analogies.
DeSantis is Tom Brady.
No, meaning like you have this young talent.
You have this young talent who's clearly talented politically and is doing good things and is maybe destined for great things.
And then you have the old guard, the Brett Favre's of the world, the Drew Blatzos of the world, the Donald Trumps of the world, who aren't just going to get out of the way and give the young buck the shot.
So unless there's an injury, unless there's a trade, unless he doesn't run, I don't think DeSantis, as much as he might deserve the Republican nomination, obviously has to earn it.
Trump's not going anywhere.
Trump is not going anywhere.
Trump is going to be the nomination.
I'm going to run.
Just say it.
I mean, if you want him as your, just talk about it.
I've said this a million times.
I would vote for DeSantis in a heartbeat over Joe Biden.
I don't think the country, the country, wants another four years of Trump.
I don't think, other than the base, we've done the Trump thing again.
Let's get a young, like, I don't even want another 70-something-year-old on this.
It's like getting back with your ex-girlfriend.
Yeah, you know that that's going to be an abusive violation.
It doesn't work.
Yes.
David, are you dealing with something right now?
Yes.
Just take a second.
Would you rather have Trump or DeSantis be your president?
That question is an easy question.
That's not the question, though.
What's the answer?
The question is easy.
Whoever is going to create less unnecessary enemies.
And you think that's DeSantis?
That's DeSantis.
He's going to create less unnecessary enemies.
And I agree with you.
Unfortunately, the Republican base does not.
I think because they don't think he's going to get the nomination, which is what you're saying.
They don't think he's not going to be able to do that.
I just think they're all in on Trump.
That's it.
By the way, let me just go to the Trump story.
Hang on.
Because I don't think it's as clear-cut as you make it.
I think the Republican Party is fighting with whether or not they can even go through with electing Trump.
We know what happened.
We know what it did to the country culturally.
Yeah, it was Americans were better off than they had been before.
59% of Americans said they were better off at the end of his term than they were when it started.
But at the same time, we're well aware of what he did to the country and the way it collapsed and what has come because of it.
So I don't think it's as clear-cut as you make it that the whole right is behind Donald Trump because they're not.
I think it's going to be a battle.
I wish you were right.
I just don't think you are.
Well, you understand what I'm saying?
So let me say this.
Does your position change depending on who Trump's running mate is?
If it's a Trump DeSantis ticket, does your position change?
Or regardless, is it Trump is it?
I don't even know if that is a ticket.
We'll cross that bridge when we get there.
I don't even know if DeSantis wants to, like, if you're DeSantis, don't you want to do it yourself?
Yo, now you're just going to get swept in with Trump to know that a Trump tweet helped him win.
Yeah, exactly.
Don't forget that.
So a Trump tweet helped DeSantis win.
And it was very close.
You know this.
This is your state.
It was very close.
Trump tweeted it out.
Boom.
Done deal.
By the way, the arrows, it was very close.
It was neck and neck.
Since then, Ron DeSantis is now being considered potential next president in 2024.
Andrew Gimlin was literally found in a homosexual gangbang, drugged out.
Yeah, doing whatever.
Not even joking.
It was bad.
He was busting.
And didn't even invite me, bro.
Was he the one in, was he, did he join in the one in Hungary that we covered on the podcast that time?
That was a different one.
Okay.
Good memory.
All right.
Let me read this insider story about Trump since Adam is highly obsessed with this story.
Trump is hungry to go head-to-head against Biden for president and can only be stopped by a prison sentence, says former advisor.
The signs that he is increasingly interested, says David Gergen, a political commentator and former White House communications director who served under various administrations.
His interest intensifies when he sees Biden in trouble.
When Biden, for example, receives backlash for his decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, prompting a Swift Taliban takeover, Trump was really chomping at the bid, Gergen said.
Three sources said that the former president Trump came close to announcing the 2024 run in August at the height of the chaos in Afghanistan.
Advisors stepped in and convinced him not to do it due to a fear that his announcement would derail the Republican attempt to take back Congress in upcoming 2022 midterm elections.
Wow.
Wow.
What a story right there to think that.
By the way, Trump had a pretty good week with his SPAC when he introduced the truth.
The social media site that's coming out, he made very, very good money last week with the SPAC, and it's not slowing down.
But going back to the story you were talking about, he can't wait to get in the ring.
Trump just cannot wait to get back in.
He just doesn't want to say it.
He's holding back saying, we'll see if I'm going to run.
We'll see if I'm going to run.
Folks, if you're listening to this, I'm just curious.
I'm watching the comments.
If you would rather have Trump run on the Republican side, type in the word Trump.
If it's DeSantis, type in DeSantis.
I'm just curious between the two.
Can you do a poll in there or no?
Does the chat box allow you to do a poll?
All right, then if you can do a poll, do a poll.
I don't know if you can do a poll, but I'll leave it up to you.
So what do you think about this story with Trump and Gergen saying the fact that they prevented him from saying that because they didn't want the midterms to be affected by this?
Who prevented him from saying that?
Okay, so the three sources said that the former president came close to announcing the 2024 run in August at the height of the chaos in Afghanistan.
Advisors stepped in and convinced him not to due to a fear that his announcement would derail the Republican attempt to take back Congress in upcoming 2022 midterm elections.
Yeah, they're basically saying, Don, don't do anything to screw up that there are inevitable taking over of the House of the Senate.
You know what that means, though?
That means he's listening to people.
Which is new.
I literally wrote George.
That means he's listening to people, Mr. Adam.
He's listening to your advice.
I think he is chomping at the bit to get back out there.
He sees blood in the water.
I have a question.
Joe Biden sinking in the approval ratings, and he wants to get back out there.
But there's no benefit for him announcing anything until after the midterms.
Will they run Joe Biden again?
I don't think they will.
Right, that's the question: is who runs against Trump?
So there's three questions, right?
Because to piggyback real quick before this, what was the last president to be in office and not run for re-election when they could?
What I looked at this morning, there's one president in the line of 46 presidents that has not run for re-election.
There's a handful of them that haven't won, but there's one president who just flat out said, yeah, not for me.
Who's that?
And he guesses.
Hold on, hold on, hold on here.
It's LBJ.
Yeah, yeah.
Just said it.
Before I even saw it, I was like, it's got to be LBJ.
Was it LBJ?
Yeah, it's LBJ.
How'd you know?
He's the only president, but he was there for six years because he took over for Joe Biden for two years.
He ran for re-election, and then after that, he said, yeah, this is not for me.
He said they were pulling out of Vietnam and that he wouldn't run for re-election.
I just, I think, I hope that Joe Biden doesn't run again in 2024.
I hope he does a good job.
I hope he leaves the country the right way in the next few years.
He's obviously not doing the best job ever.
We need some new blood in there.
If I were to make a prediction.
Enough with the old freaking idiots.
If I were to make a prediction, I think Joe Biden might be the only Democrat that can't beat Trump.
But he already.
I think Kamala Harris can beat you again, again, by running again.
The only Democrat that can't?
I think if it's a Joe Biden versus a Trump, then there's odds that he can't.
I think if there's a new person coming in.
Well, so here's my question.
Where are we at in four years or three and a half years?
We've already got inflation.
We're only nine months through this term, 10 months through this term.
We've got inflation is high.
They're pushing through the $2.5 trillion bill or the $2 trillion bill.
That's why we can't win.
China's saber rattling.
Iran, Russia.
I mean, where are we at in four years?
That's going to determine it.
As much as we want to look into our crystal ball, I mean, whatever.
We could say anything right now, and it's like zero relevance.
The reality is we've got to get through midterms and then the election.
What people are failing to understand is, you know how hard the media railed against Trump when he ran the first time and when he ran against this time?
Now, you don't think they're going to take the January 6th insurrection, wherever you want to call it, and play that nonstop?
And you don't think the ads...
They already do it.
Yeah, they've already done that for months.
But now when he's running for a re-election, you don't think there's an ad that's just going to show everything and say, is this what you want from your leader?
You don't know how easy it is?
But people already know what they're getting with Trump.
That's the thing.
They already know who he is.
And they have to do it.
They had what he wasn't elected last time.
Exactly.
They already know what they're getting.
For the millionth time, can we get some freaking young blood?
I agree with you.
100% on you.
Give a name on the left.
Freaking the rock.
The rock?
Tulsi Gabbard and The Rock.
I'd vote for that ticket.
Yeah, seriously.
It's an extra podcast right now.
We're done.
Joe Manchin.
Thanks for joining me.
He's all over the news.
He's 74.
Yeah.
I want fresh blood.
He's got a great tens.
I don't know.
I think we have time over the next few years to see what leaders show up.
I want to make sure.
Here.
Was Ron DeSantis on anybody's list 18 months ago?
No.
But leaders show up in a time of crisis.
So who's going to step up from the Democratic Party?
We're seeing people like DeSantis show up.
You'll see.
Who's going to show up?
Hopefully it's not someone who's going to be able to do it.
I want to make sure you say your name, though.
Say your name.
Like a Newsom, like a superstar like Newsom for you?
Well, Newsome, no.
Someone.
If Manchin was younger, he's the kind of guy.
Pete Buttich.
No, not Prickly Pete.
Betto.
What if it's not the Democratic Party?
Betto does have support.
I'm not saying I'm a big Beto guy, but he's young.
He's well-spoken.
He's from Texas.
I know he's not a big Second Amendment guy, but someone like a Betto.
He's a big dirt.
Betto who eats dirt.
Betto?
Is that?
Yeah, he ate ceremonial Arizona dirt.
All right.
That's my kind of guy.
Kind of man right there.
I eat Taco Bell.
Same shit.
So what if it's not?
What if it's not the Democratic Board?
Just so everybody knows, listeners need to know this.
This is not sponsored by Taco Bell.
I just want to know.
This is just he's.
Maybe you got a side view.
Yeah.
We don't know about it.
Chaloop is 199 coming out the corner.
I just want to say there's a new Grand Slam burrito coming here, dude.
Drop the code name Adam to get 10% off the next video.
Anyways, fries are bad.
But do you not agree we need, like, take off your Republican hat, Democratic hat, just put on just your American hat.
Don't you think it's time for some fresh blood into politics at the head of tickets?
78-year-old Biden, 75-year-old Trump.
Like, don't you think we got some young 40, 50-year-olds?
Well, you got 40 and Ron DeSantis.
Okay.
And anyone younger on the left, like everyone just sees as communist socialists.
I mean, how old was Clinton when he got elected?
About the same time, 40s.
That's what we need.
You're looking for a Ron Dean.
I'm looking for a young, fresh, someone that they have.
Obama was young.
Clinton was young.
You know, those two were young.
Reagan was at the time the oldest president we had who got re-elected.
Yeah.
So, you know, but also at the same time, you can't force superstars, man.
They got to come up.
Like this DNC, they need a convention to have Obama come up and rise up and give a message.
People are like, who is this guy?
Right.
So they thought that the brothers from San Antonio, the guy from San Antonio, but they lost the momentum.
Who were the Joaquin, you know who I'm talking about.
Very well spoken, you know, but you know, they didn't get any support.
It wasn't like anything crazy that happened with them.
You know, who do you have on the left right now, though?
Actually, remember who was on the left when they were running.
You don't have a great bullpen.
I mean, you had Amy Klobuchar up there.
That's not happening, right?
You had Beto, that's not happening.
Lizzie Warren.
You had Elizabeth Warren.
That's not happening.
Obviously, you had Kamala.
That's not happening.
You had Bernie.
That's done with him.
Don't forget about Andrew.
Andrew started his own party.
Right.
And Joe Manchin's talking about leaving the Democratic Party to go to the United States.
Pull up the Joe Manchin article.
Pull up the Joe Manchin article.
I think we're at a tipping point where you could see a real change in American politics because people understand how divided they are.
And you could see a change from the two parts.
You know what I would want?
Whoever's elected, whoever it is, I would love to have a president who has 60% approval rating.
60%.
Who's the last president that has 60% approval rating?
Bill Clinton.
George W. Bush.
Not that he was a great person.
9-11 had a lot to do with that, too.
Well, no, when he came into office.
But that's what our country's lacking.
Steve Juarto.
There's a majority saying, all right, we can get a little bit of a money.
Jim Gorado just gave $50 and said the media creates the problem, stress, anxiety, anger, and fear with Trump.
It's not Trump.
Okay, that's Steve.
Let's take a look at this.
So this is what story.
This is an intelligencer story.
Is Manchin considering quitting the Democratic Party go a little lower as the drama with intra-Democratic negotiations over the build-back better budget and reconciliation intensifies even more?
Report involving one of the story, central figures in the bound to get a lot of attention.
Veteran Mother Jones reported, reporter David Corn is hearing talk from Joe Manchin's associates that he is mulling a party switch, which he will execute if and when he becomes definitely dissatisfied with his influence over his fellow Democrats.
The report was very specific.
He told associates that he has a two-step plan for exiting the party.
First, he would send a letter to Senator Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, removing himself from the Democratic leadership of the Senate.
He is vice chair of the Senate Democrat Policy and Communications Committee.
Manchin hopes that would send a signal.
He would then wait and see if that move had any impact on the negotiations.
After about a week, he said he would change his voter registration from Democrat to independent.
By the way, when was this story?
This was a week ago by the last.
This was literally last week.
And then Manu Rogers says what?
Manchin denies story.
He's considering leaving the Democratic Party.
It's bullshit.
He told me.
He added, I have no control over rumors.
And then Kelly Ferris said, new Joe Manchin on if he ever planned to switch parties, tells me he made an offer to switch to independent if him being a moderate centrist was causing the Dem Party any issues.
Says he would have still caucused with them.
Manchin says that offer was not accepted.
Interesting.
And let me ask you.
Yeah.
Where was Joe Manchin this weekend?
Was he at Miami with you?
He wasn't.
I wish he was in the club with me.
Kai was in the club this weekend.
Do you know where Manchin was this weekend?
Tell us.
Meeting with Biden.
Doing a little vacay together.
Okay.
Okay.
I wonder why, though.
I wonder why.
Well, Biden wants Manchin's vote.
That's pretty obvious.
And he's, and he's, look, do you know how long Manchin and Biden have known each other?
Sure.
Freaking 40 years.
Okay.
He's, and this is what I've compared.
How long ago did I tell you?
Keep your eye out for this guy, Joe Manchin.
Three years ago almost?
You've been saying it for a while.
Yeah, you introduced me to Manchin.
So I'm going to get you.
And just because I used to watch him on Morning Joe on MSNBC at the height of the Trump stuff when it was so easy for a Democrat to talk shit about Trump.
He goes, look, I'm not going to talk trash about the president.
He just held himself so honorably.
I said, this guy's, what's this guy's deal?
And I looked into him a little bit.
He's a Democrat in the reddest state in the country.
Understand his constituents versus his party and his allegiance.
He's a guy who does what he feels is right and takes care of his people.
He's been a Democrat for 40 plus years.
You think he's going to switch over a little hot water right now?
I don't think he's going anywhere.
I think even if he does go independent, he's going to caucus with the Democrats.
He understands how valuable his vote is at this point, and he's going to play his card and he's going to play it well.
You've seen that this $3.5 trillion infrastructure deal has now somehow gone to $1.5 trillion.
Just because he said that's what I'm going for.
Every sentence he says is worth like $100 million.
Well, don't forget Kristen Sinema as well.
That's true.
But she's a little more of a wild guard than him.
But he's a G. He's a G.
And I don't.
Is the whole point that you think he's going to leave the Democratic Party?
Do I think he's going to leave?
Yeah.
No, I think the meeting with Biden is.
Okay, so let's actually process this.
Yes.
What happens if he says I'm leaving and he goes independent?
Is it a black eye?
Is it a story?
Yes, of course it's a story.
Tell me why it's a black eye.
Well, he's the number one centered on the news right now.
I don't think that's saying, hey, look, I don't like a bad look for Biden.
Yes.
How is it a bad look for Biden?
Because it's somebody leaving the Democratic Party.
So let's go to.
What is the media going to spin it?
What's the media going to say?
They're going to say he's over it or he's trying to be like, because he is the roadblock now that's stopping all this.
So that would make it more sense now that Democrat's unified and he's now the rogue Democrats.
You know how some of these superstars, when they get a divorce with their husband, they'll have somebody on the media spill a story saying the fact that the husband was cheating, right?
And all along, maybe it was the other way.
He's just flying it.
Okay, I mean, this happens all the time, right?
So they're going to go to their PR guy.
And what is the story that they're all going to be on the same page with if Manchin leaves?
He's a traitor.
I don't think they're going to take that position.
I think they're going to take it more as, you know, this guy's never been a Democrat.
He's never, he's been a closet Republican.
Yeah.
This has been coming for a long time, and he has lost his touch with the people.
You know, he's getting old.
He's getting this.
They're going to make something about that part.
I don't think it's going to be that big of a deal if he leaves or not, by the way.
No.
I think it's a little bit of a black eye.
One week, two weeks, gone.
And it's done with.
I think for him, though, he wields more power within the Democratic Party.
I actually agree with you.
So if his whole thing is save America and I want to be able to influence my fellow Democrats.
It's way stronger to stay in.
No question about it.
And by the way, it's like how a lot of people, like every, like the birthday party when people were over, a lot of the friends that were here from Florida, guess what they're all saying when the conversation comes up about DeSantis and Trump?
Guess what they say?
I hope DeSantis doesn't run.
Nobody in Florida wants DeSantis.
Not nobody.
Let me restate.
Most of the people who live in Florida don't want this guy to run because they're worried who's going to replace him.
They want him to stay governor of Florida.
They want him to stay.
Who will replace him?
That's a good point.
That's the biggest concern.
So they do not want him to run for president.
By the way, the Democrats would be absolute fools to talk any trash about Joe Manchin.
Let's say they do something to piss him off and he doesn't want to run for re-election again.
You know who gets voted in right there?
100% a Republican senator.
They flipped the seat.
Okay, they flipped that.
Like, if I'm Joe Biden and if I'm the DNC, I'm doing everything to make sure Joe Manchin's having a wonderful freaking day today.
By the way, and I don't, even if he leaves the party and becomes an independent, do you know there's two senators that are independent that call because of the Democrats right now if he does it in the party?
Who are the two senators?
Freaking Bernie, independent.
He's a Democrat, though.
And then Angus King from Maine.
There's two independents already that call because of Democrats.
So I think this is just nonsense.
I don't think Manchin's going anywhere.
I think at the end of the day, they got to get a deal done.
And they're going to do the reconciliation package, whatever that is, where you have 50 votes and Kamala's going to bump it over.
And they just got to work on Manchin, which they're currently working on.
And then you get this girl's cinema.
I think it's a bigger deal than that.
I think it's exactly descriptive of the infighting within the party.
Are they going to go the AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Bernie route, or are they going to go the Joe Manchin, moderate, Kyrsten Sinema route?
I mean, I think it's – so what happens if – when the Joe Mansions are out and you've got the new blood, where does the Democratic Party go?
And I think this is illustrative of that.
And they're fighting for the fates of the party.
What percentage of the Democrats do you think are Rashida Tlaib type people, AOC?
I don't think it's a big percentage.
I think it's maybe 20%, but they're the loudest.
15%.
They're the loudest.
Correct.
You're right.
And they're going to just drag everything more that direction.
Right, exactly.
I mean, Kamala Harris was the farthest left senator in the Senate before she got elected.
She was even farther left than Bernie Sanders was.
And I think this is illustrative of the fighting within the party.
By the way, people are commenting all this stuff, you know, PBD for governor, all this stuff.
The one thing that I will say is, which I appreciate, but I will say the one that says Francis Suarez would replace DeSantis as a governor.
He would be very interested if he ran.
By the way, but I wouldn't run for president if I'm DeSantis if I'm not certain that Suarez is not going to run.
If Suarez is not running governor, I'm not sure if I want him to run for Sunday.
By the way, I mean, you've met Francis Suarez.
I interviewed him a few times.
Absolute stud.
Republican.
You know, he said he gave a speech.
He spoke in the form the other day.
He was like low taxes, low regulation.
He said, he goes, something to the effect of when you're a mayor, you know, it doesn't matter if you're a Republican or Democrat.
You just want to get shit done in your community.
And that's the power of being a mayor.
He said there's talked about just being independent, and he's killing it in Miami right now.
He's making national waves.
He's a young stud.
He's probably in his mid-40s at the oldest.
Just watch out for him.
He's going to make a million dollars.
Great.
Francis Suarez.
I mean, listen, if not him, maybe Jorge Masvedal.
Who knows?
They say something to me and knock their asses out.
Can you imagine?
What did you say?
Democrat governor knocked out by Jorge Masvedal.
Jorge Masvedal is asked to remove from the election.
However, he is by far the most popular candidate ever to run for the state of Florida.
I think Usman would have something to say to him about that.
I can see you reading that story, Pat.
All right, let's read this story.
That's a satire, by the way.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay, so do we want to give some love to Fauci?
Oh, no, let's go to Putin.
Let's go to Putin.
Listen, I have, I got to tell you guys this story.
I was telling you this yesterday, but I think it's important for people to know this.
Friends and family who are Russian, okay, who live in America, okay?
I don't know.
I'm telling you this right now, and I know a lot.
I don't know a single person will hit that.
I don't know a single person who's Russian, doesn't respect and love Putin.
It's such a weird dynamic.
Why do you think they love him?
They love the way he leads.
He's a man's man.
Better Putin than Perry says something about you.
Maybe you're watching too many of his videos.
Okay.
Putin rails against canceled culture and suggests teaching gender fluidity to kids is a crime against humanity.
This is an insider story.
He took aim at canceled culture and support is a transgender right, suggesting that teaching gender fluidity is a crime against humanity while stating that Russia should remain its spiritual values and historical traditions.
Putin said that some Westerners believe the aggressive deletion of whole pages of their own history, reverse discrimination against the majority in the interests of minorities, constitute movement toward public renewal.
Let me read that one more time.
What a technical statement.
Tongue twister.
Listen to this.
Putin said that some Westerners believe the aggressive deletion of whole pages of their own history, reverse discrimination against the majority in the interests of minorities, constitute movement towards public renewal.
Wow.
The Russian leader whose opponents have often ended up dead or imprisoned likened cancel culture to reverse racism.
He said the emphasizing of the racial topic divides people.
I'll go to you first and what you had to say about what Putin just said right now.
Well, you know, how Anthony Fauci was voted Time's sexiest man alive.
I think Putin's one sexiest man alive in Russia for like the last 20 years in a row.
Shirtless bear picture.
Yeah, so as much as I have, I'm not a fan of Putin, to put it in his language.
He does have a point here.
So look, he's talking about ultimate machismo.
Why do you think he's elected sexiest man alive in Russia?
It's not because he's actually that good looking, because he gives off that, I protect the country, I take care of you.
And there's a lot of people that actually empathize with that.
I assume that's why your family loves him so much.
But what's Putin's motivation?
Like, forget about this whole thing.
Putin wants to empower Russia and sow discord in the United States or in the EU or in NATO.
He's not a friend to America.
He's not a friend to us.
So anything that comes out of his mouth, I'm thinking, what's in it for him?
So I think he's just looking to sow discord in the United States.
He's not a friend to America.
I think we all know.
So wait, so you're saying he's saying this while indirectly supporting canceled culture, thinking it's a good thing?
Anything, like you're talking about former KGB, anything he does, I'm not just going to take on the surface.
Like, that's a good point.
Thanks, Vlad.
No, there's something else going on.
So please, please indulge us and let's go to your conspiracy land.
Is it conspiracy?
So let's play.
Vladimir Putin wants to be seven minutes.
We got seven minutes before Dream Team Call.
Let's talk about that.
So tell us, what could he be thinking to tell Americans to be very careful with this concept of destroying and deleting history that you had in the past to discriminate against minorities who are feeling offended today?
Towards public renewal.
Yeah.
What's his strategy?
Do you think Putin wants good things or bad things to happen in America?
I think for Putin, and I'm being serious with you, I think for Putin, He is a guy that's so confident in his abilities to lead that when he sits against anybody, he doesn't think anybody is at his level because the way their government is formatted, it's set up in a way that he doesn't have competition versus he looks at countries like America naive because they actually think the person you vote for president actually runs the country.
He thinks this system is ludicrous.
That's what I think of Putin.
He controls all the levers there.
That's what I'm trying to say.
So I don't think Putin's system wants to destroy America.
I just think he looks at Americans and he thinks you guys are so naive.
That's how he looks at America.
He definitely doesn't want good things to happen in America.
He doesn't want Americans to be involved in the USA.
He doesn't want us to all get along.
But I actually think, I actually think, at the same time, I don't think all advice he gives is manipulative.
I don't think all answers he gives is manipulative.
I don't.
Because go flip it.
Flip it and say, so go to Russia.
Imagine you were living in Russia.
Okay.
You officially became Russian overnight.
40 years you've lived in Russia.
Okay.
What do you think about Trump?
What do you think about Biden?
What do you think about America?
Do you think every word that comes out of Trump's mouth is to hurt Russia?
Do you think every word that comes out of Biden's mouth is to hurt Russia?
Do you think every word that comes out of Obama's mouth, Bush's mouth, Reagan's mouth is to hurt Russia?
Do you think that's what every president from America is thinking?
If you're Russian?
Yes.
Every word, no.
Okay, so I don't think this is one of those situations.
I think he's concerned that this, they may try to make this a normal thing in his state as well.
And he's like, listen, pump your brakes.
We don't have to play this.
You think he's just speaking on behalf of a man's man right now?
He's just trying to be a man's man.
This is what he's doing.
I think he's really giving good counsel that's not going to be taken.
And I think that he's saying this knowing that.
And in that way, he's kind of looking down at it, saying like, oh, these guys, what are they doing?
Like, look at them.
They're just playing this out, and it's not going to be good.
So no.
What do Norwegians think about Vladimir Putin?
I mean, he's your neighbor.
Norway is the only NATO country that borders to Russia.
Yes.
Interestingly enough.
No, I think there's with Russia, there's now I haven't been in Norway in a while, but from my understanding, it's an interesting relationship.
It's somewhat stable.
They do have, they've had like some military exercises, but then they typically do that whenever NATO has military exercises as well in Norway.
So it's kind of like an on the ice relationship kind of.
You used a really good analogy one time about Putin because, look, they're the largest country on earth, are they not?
Russia?
Landwise.
Landwise.
Exactly.
I don't think they're a top 10 economy.
I'm not even sure if they're a top 20 economy at this point.
It seems like Putin is playing with like a pair of sixes.
Well, you know, the United States has a full house and he's still trying to like figure out how to win that hand of poker.
And he's trying to stack the deck any way he can.
But I do think one last thing here, at least.
I do think that for him, he needs a somewhat stable America.
I don't think he's trying to strengthen America, but I don't think he wants America to crumble and be the next Afghanistan.
Because America, to some extent, brings law and order to the world, for better or worse.
And you think Putin wants that?
I think he wants chaos.
No, I don't think so.
I think it's just so unstable at that point.
I don't think that's what he's trying to go for.
I think he's got nukes.
He'll figure it out.
He's ready for war at any point.
I think he and G are in a bit of a relationship, and G is going to say the same thing that Vladimir Putin is.
And I would argue that a lot of the things that we're facing now have come from countries like Russia and China.
There's videos that go back several years of ex-KGB spies come out and say, you know, the greatest thing you can do to America is ideological subversion.
China's put almost a billion dollars into American universities.
I mean, they're trying to sow discord within the United States.
The way you win the war and never fire a shot, right?
So I think you're right.
I think they want chaos.
And I think he's trying to stand tall, put the brakes on, and say this isn't going to happen here in Russia.
I think G would say the same thing.
And I think.
Yeah, I agree.
I don't think he's going to let that happen in Russia.
But I think it's something that people in America ought to pay attention to because there's a lot of credence to what he's saying.
Unpack the statement.
What part of his statement is not actually true?
Unpack the statement, what he said.
On the surface.
History.
How do you believe history?
He has a good point.
On the surface, yes.
Yeah.
On the surface.
The statement.
I'm just judging the statement.
I agree.
Motives, of course, is to protect your country.
Can we do Chappelle in three minutes?
Sure.
Okay.
Bill Maher defends Dave Chappelle, knocks critics.
Everyone needs to Netflix and chill the F out.
Fox News story.
Netflix has stood behind the closer, which critics have decried as transphobic over remarks Chappelle made supporting J.K. Rowling and the gender is based in fact declaring himself on teen turf trans-exclusionary, exclusionary, radical, feminist.
The special has caused a steer among some Netflix employees who have slammed their employer for backing Chappelle.
What the F was that reaction?
Maher said, everyone needs to Netflix and chill out.
Really, Dave's special is offensive, but not the show where the Koreans murder each other for money.
Maher equipped referring to the hit Netflix series Squid Game.
Maher's audience still seemed timid to react to his remarks on the subject.
He warned them, well, get used to this because we're going to be talking about it a lot here.
We can't be afraid to speak in America, he added.
Freaking Bill Maher.
So give your thoughts, Patrick.
Frickin Bill Maher.
Are you kidding me?
Love what Bill Maher is doing.
More power to you, buddy.
This guy's one of the scariest people in America today is Bill Maher to the left.
Here's a guy that's been supportive of the left.
They're sitting there saying, Bill, aren't you supposed to be on our side?
He's like, no.
I'm going to talk about these things that he's talking about.
He said yesterday, he said this a couple months ago in August, I think.
He said, for the longest time, I would always make fun of conservative comedy.
I said, there's no place for conservative comedy.
You can't do conservative comedy.
He says, because Dennis Miller, who's a great comedian, tried to do comedy making fun of Nancy Pelosi for 10 minutes.
You can't make fun of Nancy Pelosi for 10 minutes.
He says, but Sarah Palin, I can't make of it because Nancy Pelosi is not dumb.
Sarah Palin is actually his words.
He called her a moron, which, you know, agree or disagree, that's his words.
But he said, today, liberals have gone so far to one side that if there's ever been a time to have comic and comedy making fun of the left today is the season because you're doing it to yourself.
This is one of them.
Your thoughts on this and you're in that world.
You know, as a former comedian, I've hung out with Joe Rogan before.
I've hung out with Dave Chappelle multiple times.
I've never hung out with Bill Maher, but he is definitely on my like top five people that I would love to hang with and learn from.
These are the people that I look at.
As someone who has identifies as a Democrat or whatever you want to call me, I love Bill Maher.
I love Dave Chappelle.
I love even a Rogan who's a liberal slash conservative, whatever he is.
Dave Chappelle cannot be canceled.
It's not going to happen.
I did a poll on my Instagram story and I said, can Dave Chappelle be canceled?
99% said no.
I mean, I'm going to put that on Twitter.
Okay.
It's not going to happen.
I mean, I think he's getting a lot, like the word transphobic, like phobia, phobic, it's a fear of something.
It's like a hate-mongering theme.
That's not what he's doing.
Even when I used to do stand-up, and what I love about Dave Chappelle, it's not racist if you make fun of everybody.
Equal opportunity.
Anybody can get it.
White people, black people, Latino people, trans people, gay people, Jewish people, Catholic people, Christian people.
Anyone can get it.
And that's the point that I think we're missing.
Just because he's talking.
Nothing's off limits.
Just because he's talking about your people doesn't mean he hates you.
No.
Okay?
If you've ever seen Chappelle's show, and when he does the player haters ball, he's done entire skits about just hating on people.
It's fucking funny.
It's humor.
You're not going to cancel Dave Chappelle.
And 99.9% of people agree with me.
Nothing in comedy is off limits.
And if you're a good comedian, you're a chronic button pusher.
You're always doing it.
And he's one of them.
You have any thoughts on this?
That's just the biggest thing that stood out to me was the last point.
Moz, Maher's been in Bill Maher.
Yeah, Bill Maher.
Sorry.
I do brain far.
Has been in the news every week for the past couple weeks on the statements he's made, right?
And every time you go watch his audience, they have no idea what to think.
He's on fire, right?
And they don't know what to do.
They don't know whether to support him, to go against him, to claim.
Right, they're completely lost.
This goes back to the Joe Manchin thing.
The Democratic Party has no idea what they're doing right now or where to go, what direction to go.
When you have vocal people like this saying, listen, these people on the left are getting a little too crazy.
And I'm a Democrat.
I've said it before.
You've got to call out your own side.
Right.
Vominos.
Okay.
Great.
Gank.
We had a great time.
Congrats to the rookies who got on.
Third time.
You're not a rookie.
This is fourth.
This is your third or fourth.
Fourth.
Or fourth.
Okay.
Good stuff, man.
I'm glad we did this.
And David, you crushed it, man.
Your searching abilities is on a whole different level back.
That's misspellings.
Yes.
Thank you.
Fantastic.
Any announcements you want to make leading up to the 100 pounds?
Thursday, Danielle DeMartino will be on the podcast.
The great Danielle DeMartino.
Put in your calendar.
She'll be on.
It's going to be fire.
And I think Zenner may be on as well this Thursday.
This episode 99.
99.
Next week, we're going to have the special 100.
We may do it on Tuesday.
We may do it on Thursday.
We have some friends coming in.
It's going to be fun.
There's going to be giveaways.
There's going to be.
Put it in your calendar next week.
We're going to do next week, but we don't have to do it.
One of the two days.
I'm going to announce it on Thursday, but it'll be Tuesday or Thursday for next week.
