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00:00 - Start
0:14 - Birth Weights
7:56 - Travis Scott Concert
31:05 - Warren Buffet Has $149.2 Billion Dollars Cash On Hand
48:38 - Vin Diesel Calling The Rock "Little Brother"
1:03:45 - Dating Apps Lead To More Divorce
1:16:48 - People Who Hate Their Ex
1:19:28 - NASCAR Won't Allow "Let's Go Brandon"
1:25:10 - Elon Musk Selling Stock Because Of A Twitter Poll
1:40:18 - Jeff Bezos Is Worried About Leo DiCaprio Stealing His Girl
1:43:03 - Joe Biden's Approval Ratings
We are officially live episode number 101 with Kai and Adam.
And Tyler's in the back and David and Jorge.
Actually, no.
Eric replaced Jorge.
Anyways, by the way, key question.
I think we got to, we were asking everybody here.
Let's ask the audience as well.
Folks, what did you weigh when you were born?
Okay.
Very, very important question because we're about to reveal what Adam weighed when he was born.
He just called his mom right now.
Okay.
And we're about to reveal what Kai was born, what weighed, and what I weighed.
Okay.
So I say we start off first with, let's go with you first on what you weighed when you were born.
Adam, your weight when you were born.
Your mom just said what?
My mom said, dear Adam, six pound, eight ounce.
Baby, Adam.
Six pounds, eight ounce.
Yeah, just like Ricky Bobby.
Were you born on time?
Were you a fully full-term 40 weeks?
Do you know or no?
No, I was a full, full-on baby.
Still haven't grown up yet.
There it is.
Check this out.
You guys ready?
That aspect, I have no idea.
Let me tell you a few people that just put two kilograms, eight pounds, eight pounds, nine pounds.
T-Nick, big boy.
Lloyd Gonzalez, 7.24, 7 pounds.
D28X was 10 pounds.
Aaron Kalindo was 50 pounds.
Okay.
So we have George, nine pounds.
We have a bunch of big babies here, by the way.
Okay, a bunch of 10 pounders, 11 pounders, 7 pounders, 6 pounders.
Kai, what was your weight?
I was 9.2 pounds.
9.2 pounds.
Yep.
And I was a 10.2 pound baby in Iran.
That's the biggest baby in Iran.
That's got to be the biggest baby.
That's one of the biggest babies in Iran, 10.2.
Well, I have a reason why.
You could be holding a Guinness World Record without knowing it.
There might be a reason why you're so big, Pat.
People don't know if you're 6'4.
You got about 1,500 vitamins in a case right here that you do every morning.
So one time I was given, a guy asked me a question recently that I had to tease him about it.
I was standing next to my dad.
The picture with me and the sons.
Did you see me and the kids?
I'm standing with my dad and my boys.
And, you know, I'm taller than my dad.
Yeah.
So this guy asked, how did you get so tall?
Okay.
It reminded me of a story when I was 25.
I was giving a speech to an audience of 30 or 40 people.
And this lady in her early 70s comes up to me afterwards.
She says, sir, I've met a lot of Middle Easterns and Armenians, but I've never met somebody with big features like you.
Big features.
She says, why are you so big?
And her husband was right next to her.
And I said, ma'am, in the Assyrian and Armenian culture, I was breastfed till 18.
So she looks at me.
Get out of here.
She says, really?
I did not know that.
Her husband says, honey, he's teasing you.
There's no way he was breastfed till 18.
Tell me you kept the joke.
I know, sir, I was.
The guys around me were cracking up.
She left.
That was the talk of town, the fact that Pat was breastfed till 18.
Anyways, but I was not breastfed till 18.
I was 16.
So, anyways, we got a lot of topics.
We got a lot of topics to get into today.
I feel today is going to be like a sneaky, good episode.
Yeah.
So, by the way, I heard you went to a wedding.
I did go to a wedding.
Did you have any kind of those moments when you're sitting there saying, I'm going to prove bad rogue?
Does the audience know that?
Almost married on here, though.
I don't think the audience knows what's going on.
First of all, we made a bet.
This is what the bet was.
I said, if Adam, who is right now 40 years old and nine months, is what you are right now, give or take.
I said, if he gets married before 43, I'm going to fund this whole wedding.
43.
But if he gets married after 43 in one day, he owes me a Stefano Ricci suit.
That's the deal.
Not a lot.
Seven grand.
So that's the deal.
You get married?
I want all y'all to be there.
Is there a two-year minimum?
First of all, this guy's got plenty of money to be able to buy this suit.
He just doesn't want to buy it for himself.
He's been wearing the same outfit for the last 17 years.
So you guys know that.
Save that money.
I've been breastfed for the last 17 years.
It's like that.
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
Okay, but not by the same mom.
So for you, it's a different system that you have.
I've got different moms out there that are willing to accommodate certain breastfeeding antics.
Okay.
All right.
So somebody just put it.
He's less healthcare workers.
Caleb gave you love.
Caleb, your buddy gave you love.
Okay.
Yeah, there we go.
I don't know if you told him to do this or not.
I didn't.
He said, I'll pay $10,000 if you put Kai as co-host for another 20 episodes straight.
Need a Viking on the show to keep his camera.
Caleb is a Norwegian, too?
No, he's not.
He's just straight.
He respects Americans.
He's white Americans.
He's going to be here today.
Whatever you did, whatever you did for Caleb this weekend, you know, say thank you.
Make sure you send him a text and tell him thank you.
Let him know.
Okay.
All right.
Pat, how was your weekend?
Anything special?
Anything interesting?
First of all, did you go certain places?
I don't know.
What did I go?
Tell him.
I don't know.
Oh, I see where you're going.
I don't know.
I was out of town.
You're a little bit of a slick rick, is what you're saying.
That's how you're trying to do it.
No, I was at any event.
It was an open-ended question.
I was at an event with some political people at Mar-a-Lago.
We had a good time.
We were at the American First Policy Institute.
I was around those guys, seeing how it was.
Met a lot of value tainers, a lot of interesting folks.
A guy named Donald was there.
I don't know if you heard of him.
He was there, Donald.
I heard Adam's a big fan.
Hardcore.
He asked about you.
Of course.
Good conversations with many different folks who were there.
It was a memorable moment for this from this moment.
You know, I spoke to the most memorable moment.
Spoke to Kelly and Conway.
Great conversation.
Few governors showed up and they said, hey, we follow all the content, what you're doing.
It's extremely necessary what you're doing.
One guy said something very interesting, probably a 70-year-old publicist, PR guy from Beverly Hills, pretty known guy.
He says, you know, he comes to me, Jen and I are standing next to each other.
He says, I got to tell you.
He said, I put guys like you in the influencer celebrity world.
I said, I'm not an influencer.
I'm not trying to be one of these social media.
He says, no, no, I know.
There's only about a handful of you guys because you're a guy that runs businesses and you have content.
He says, but there's something very unique about you.
I said, what's that?
He said, you got brass balls.
So that was the most memorable moment of the whole thing.
You got brass balls.
That's what he said in front of my wife.
And I said, babe, here we go.
And if you would have responded with, look, I'm unique because I was breastfed until I was 16.
He would have believed it.
He would have believed it.
But I don't want the truth to get out yet.
I don't want because there'll be stories written about it.
There's nobody listening to this.
No, no.
The woke mob is going to come after me and say, you should have been breastfed.
Cancel PBD.
Kai.
You're going to have to be way too long.
Are we ready?
Are we ready?
Can we get it?
Let's have some fun.
Okay, let's have some fun with this one here.
First of all, we got a lot of stories.
Travis Scott's story, we got to touch on.
What happened?
It's a travesty.
What happened?
I have a lot of thoughts on it.
I'm sure you do as well.
You've been to a lot of concerts, a lot of parties, so I'm curious to your take.
Jeff Bezos' response to the viral clip of Lauren Sanchez and Leo.
There was some flirting going on there, so he's got some comments on that.
Van Diesel is asking Dwayne Johnson to return to Fast and Furious franchise after feud they had.
And we'll read what his commentary was.
Tyler, maybe get the Van Diesel's post ready on Instagram so I can read it to everybody.
If it's in here, it's in here.
If it's not, we'll read it.
Elon Musk's asked Twitter followers whether he should sell $24 billion of Tesla stock.
Aaron Rodgers dropped by Privia Health Ametvax controversy.
American trucking industry over 72,000 drivers as Biden's supply chain crisis continues.
They're short $72,000.
We'll talk about how much cash Buffett has right now.
It's a lot of money.
What NASCAR just did, they want to cancel anybody and everybody that's using the phrase, let's go brand insane.
That's their slogan.
They have a trademark on that, which is insane.
You are more likely to divorce if you met your spouse this way.
New study finds.
We'll talk about the infrastructure bill.
What happened with Pentagon sharply raises estimate of China's nuclear expansion?
U.S. Air Force, three-star to Chinese Air Force.
Let's talk.
Biden Energy Secretary, we'll talk about that.
Biden's approval rating, we'll talk about that.
U.S. mandates, we'll talk about that.
And more than anything else, Bitcoin and Ethereum apparently hit record-breaking highs yesterday.
There's a lot of talk on what's going on there and what direction things are going.
But I said, let's get right into it.
And let's just go right into the Travis Scott story.
Yeah, is what we should do.
Okay.
All right.
So it's page one for Travis Scott.
Travis Scott sued over predictable and preventable Astral World tragedy, a spin story.
He's being sued by a concert goer who was injured during the Astral tragedy on Friday night, which left eight people dead and 300 more injured.
In the suit, Manuel Soza filed a lawsuit against Travis Scott himself as an organizer, score more, and concert behemoth Live Nation, claiming the deadly disaster was predictable and preventable, a motivation for profit at expensive concert gores, healthy and safety, and the encouragement of violence.
A second suit was filed by Christine Paredes.
The suit named Travis Scott and Drake as defendants and are accused of negligence.
It alleges that Drake came on stage alongside Travis Scott and helped inside the crowd.
And the crowd became chaotic and Stampede began, leaving eight dead and dozens injured.
Kristen Paredes severely injured.
The devastating incident occurred when a large portion of the festival, 50,000-person crowd, attempted to rush to the front of the stage during Scott's headlining set all at once, resulting in fans crushing each other.
And the story continues.
It's a lot more than that, by the way, on how a security guard was injected when he was trying to help somebody.
And he passed it.
They took him in.
Apparently, the needle had the authorities said that they watched a video interview witness and review concert protocols to determine that eight people died of as soon as he jumped off the stage.
It was like an energy took over and everything.
But there's a story.
It was Narcan, is what was in it, right?
It was revived by the opioid antidote, Narcan.
And then at the same time, Travis Scott performed for an additional 37 minutes after that took place.
So there's a lot of different things.
I have some numbers that I want to share, and then I'll get your thoughts on this because I'm curious to know what you guys think about this.
So here's the number one question: Who is held accountable for this?
Because this is another one of those similar situations as what happened with Alec Baldwin.
And he's the producer.
If you're the executive producer, you're in charge.
Astral World, that's his product.
So you're held accountable.
Now, a few things.
Number one, Rolling Stones experienced this when a fan died in 1969 at a concert.
And that became something that everybody kept bringing up.
The place where they did, a lot of people said that it didn't have capacity.
This place can fit 200,000 people, and there was only 50,000.
So it's not like it was a capacity problem.
When they say how many people were working there, there were 528 total officers, police officers, morning, day shift, and night shift, 528 total.
The day shift people were working overtime, and it had 755 security officers.
Whether that's high or low, that's a lot of people that they had working there, right?
Fans who were nurses were coming out and helping out because they didn't have enough.
You know, people were being dropped.
I don't know if you saw that video with people being dropped.
And then on top of that, 25 arrests.
You know, you see things like this happening at concerts, but not at this level.
The part that's very disturbing is the fact that after the crowd is screaming, you go for another 37 minutes.
Did they know?
Did they not know?
Who knows at this point of the game?
What are your thoughts about what happened?
No, obviously it's a travesty on that, and there's no doubt about it.
And we've all seen videos from the crowd, people screaming, people saying stop.
I think the interesting part is definitely the last part that you mentioned where they went on for the show after it was declared a mass casualty declaration.
And some say, like, obviously, his girlfriend, is it Kelly Jenner, came out and said, obviously, we didn't know.
We didn't know until afterwards, but somebody must have known.
And that's, I think, just a failure of communication or why they wouldn't let it go off the chain so that he can find out so they could stop.
And even when I heard there was an ambulance driving through the crowd as well, and like people were hopping on it.
Like, that's just insane.
Like, there's no sense of reasonable.
And obviously, at that point, you're seeing something's up.
Like, an ambulance just doesn't go through the crowd for no reason.
So, I definitely think that there's a lack of a lot of failure points there.
On the other side, though, I don't think that too much is going to come out of the lawsuits.
I'm sure they'll get some sort of compensation for it.
But beyond that, I don't see it being anything big.
I just hope this could be more of a lesson for anything like this in the future as well.
Well, I think there's going to be some big stuff that's going to happen here.
This isn't just one person done.
This is a mass casualty event.
So let me paint a picture for you.
When's the last time that you were at a concert, even remotely this insane?
Two years ago.
Oh, no, remotely this insane.
Yes, this wild.
Like, you haven't been to a concert like this probably in years, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
More than a decade.
You've never been to a Travis Scott concert or a hip-hop concert in years.
Rolling Loud, anything.
Have you been to anything like this recently?
No.
Okay.
So I've been to a bunch of these.
Again, live in downtown Miami.
Rolling Loud is here every year.
I know the co-founders of Rolling Loud, buddies of mine, lived in my building.
I know these people that put these events on.
There's a lot of work that goes on to these events.
I've seen Travis Scott in concert probably three or four times.
And one was in Okeechobee, Florida, which is sort of like a little more of a hipster.
You see the audience that the three or four you've been to is at all 50K, 25K, big numbers?
No, no, no.
One was at the Miami Heat Arena, which is now 15K.
15K, 17K.
Yeah, exactly.
It wasn't that crazy.
But I've been to one event at Rolling Loud where he performed that it gets wild.
I was just at Rolling Loud.
We filmed.
David, when did we film that?
June, July?
Yeah.
Okay.
So here's what you need to know about Travis Scott.
And for the record, he's probably one of my favorite rappers out there.
And the reason why this happened at an event like this and a performer like this is that he relishes getting the crowd hype or as he's literally coined, lit.
Like he's probably the one that has made It's Lit famous more than everybody.
Now everybody talks about It's Lit, It's Lit.
That was Travis Scott.
So the point is this.
He has music and songs and the way that he does his show that gets the people hype like no other.
So basically what happened was, you know, he's from Houston.
This was his event.
It's not like it was just a random pop-in.
Like Drake popped into this event to sing one song.
They have a song together called Sicko Mode that people literally go sicko mode on.
The mayor, the police chief, know him personally.
Again, he's from Houston.
Apparently they had a conversation with him before the event.
They were like, look, we know that crowds in your world go wild.
Just be mindful of that.
Before the event, did you see what happened prior to the event?
Like before.
Stampede?
People, have you ever seen anything like that?
That set the tone for this event.
Hundreds and hundreds of people not just sneaking in, crushing, stampeding through gates, stampeding through security.
It was insane.
Apparently, he tweeted before, like, let's get raided.
Let's get the, I want the ragers.
I want the wild people to be here.
Tiffany, our friend Tiffany, who does social media, she's, you know, how often does she get into these stories?
She's been so upset for the last, you know, days that I've seen her.
She's like, I'm so upset at this person because she's been to events like this.
And it's so easy to for this something to happen because here's the deal.
The person that holds the mic has the power.
The person that holds the mic has control.
If you want the crowd to get crazy, wild, lit rage, you can do that.
That's the power of the mic.
This is powerful what we're talking to.
On the flip side, if you want the crowd to chill out, back up, calm down, you can also do that.
There's been events like Rolling Loud where there's been a musical guest like ASAP Rocky that's trending right now, where they've given an example of there's mosh pits.
There are people going crazy.
They're, you know, getting hyped, getting lit.
And he goes, everybody, there's a girl on the floor.
Stop the show.
Stop the show.
The show pauses.
Give it five minutes.
Get things regrouped.
In the middle of all this, this is probably the saddest thing.
While people were literally dying, getting stamped, getting run over, he kept performing.
There's a viral video of a girl climbing onto the stage, yelling, stop the show.
There's a gentleman right after her.
Like, people were aware of this.
So you asked the initial question, who's liable here?
Number one, this is a Live Nation event.
That's iHeartMedia.
They're going to have some prices to pay, right?
Travis Scott, the person that this is Astral World.
This is his event.
There's going to be some prices to pay.
The promoters, the lack of security, the crowd control.
Eight plus people, we don't know people injured.
Eight people have died.
Okay, this is, I mean, the last event that I remember is something that I've got.
11 people cardiac arrest.
I mean, cardiac arrest at a concert.
Especially for young people, too.
People are getting hype, man.
And it's like, this is also, people probably don't want to address this.
This is also on the crowd.
This is also on the crowd.
You know, like, I've been in events like this when the crowd is getting crazy.
David, when we were filming at Rolling Loud, I said, let's get out of here, bro.
This is getting a little too wild.
We had camera equipment.
Remember, we said, let's stay towards the back.
Yeah, absolutely.
People are getting wild.
So when you have people on the floor, people are being stampeded, but people are wasted, drugged out, whatever they are.
That's at a festival.
Things like this happen.
You have to be aware of your fellow man and fellow woman.
And if there's someone on the ground, you can't just be like, oh, well, good luck, buddy.
So hopefully this is a wake-up call.
And when you're out there, you're partying.
You got to party responsibly.
But at the end of the day, the person with the mic is Travis Scott, and he's going to be held accountable.
You have something there?
I was trying to send you a file.
Here's what I did.
Okay, you can't get it.
I pulled up 11 of the deadliest concert disasters in recent history.
This is a November 8th article.
I don't know if you got that or not.
What is that background noise, by the way?
There's a little bit of static.
Okay, 11 of the deadliest.
Yeah, deadliest concerts.
Go to it.
The last concert that I remember that was this tragic was the Ariana Grande.
But that was a one.
That's the one.
Click on that one.
Click on that one.
So let's go down to this.
Okay.
Astral World, eight.
Dead out of 50K.
Rock Slide Festival in Denmark, nine.
This was in 2020.
Is that a shooter as well?
No.
Nine men were killed at Pro Jam concert.
Well, rushed to the stage and those in the front collapsed.
Okay.
Okay, number nine, the WHO at Cincinnati Riverfront in 1979, 11 deaths.
11 people died.
More than 18,000 tickets were sold at the Who's concert in Cincinnati Riverfront.
And there were only 25.
Oh my.
25 police officers allotted for the crowd control.
And they're set to begin at 8 p.m., but the doors were still closed at 7.45 when an anxious crowd hearing the Who's warm up and mistaking it for opening numbers surged towards the door.
General Mission seating made up 80% of the tickets.
Sold.
Okay, next one is the Mawazine Festival in Morocco.
11 died.
Nine Day Nefazaronto was meant to promote reputation of Morocco.
Next one is what?
Love Parade Germany in 2010-21.
Keep going.
Ghost Ship Fire, Oakland, California, 36.
This is in 2016.
Indiana State Fair College stage collapse.
So this is a collapse.
This is a different instance.
56.
Santika Nightclub Fire.
Okay, that's a fire in Thailand in 2009, 100.
Station Nightclub Fire, 100.
That's in Rhode Island, 03.
Beverly Hill Super Club Fire, 165.
That's Southgate, Kentucky, 1977.
And then Chrominone Fire, 194.
But these are different reasons on what happened.
So the first four are fires.
So let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this, Adam.
How many times have you gone to a club where you've seen guys passed out on the side and they're on G or they're drunk and they're just completely gone, right?
That's all the time.
Every time you go out, you're going to see someone who just is messed up.
Okay.
So for the people that go to parties a lot and they see that, to them, it's what?
Just another guy that's gone, right?
Right.
I don't think too many people overthink it.
Oh, that's right.
I wonder who saw that and is thinking, hey, that's what's going on.
The difference is nobody's sitting down.
There's not a couch.
There's not like you're sitting by a lounge area.
The guy's on the ground.
They're stomping over this guy.
One girl says I was holding him.
I was telling people to stop.
They couldn't hear me.
The place was so loud.
She's crying in tears, saying people couldn't stop.
And I remember when he died, he died in my arms.
It's a 20-year-old kid.
Girl is telling these stories.
So it's tragic what happens.
The only thing is, when you see something like this, what can you do to prevent this?
So go to preventative measures.
How do you prevent these things from happening again?
Is it more security?
The bigger claim was the fact that there was not enough nurses.
The biggest fact was that the CNN interviewed a girl that was there with her boyfriend who says, I wasn't drunk.
I was totally fine.
I was sober.
I felt like I was dying.
I felt like I was having a heart attack.
He says, I was in the middle.
I told my boyfriend, I want to get out of here.
I can't even breathe anymore.
I don't know if you saw that interview or not.
And then she says, I go to the back.
They're giving me a bottle of water.
Three people are passed out.
I go and check their pulse.
I said, I guess got to go to the hospital.
I think he's dead because he doesn't have a pulse.
And she says, I'm a nurse.
They were calling everybody because they didn't have enough people that were there.
So to me, everything is fine.
The lawsuits are going to come out.
It ain't going to stop.
This is not going to be pretty for Live Nation or himself.
I think Drake's probably going to be left alone because Sue and Drake, if Drake's not an Astral World, does he own the brand?
No.
That's not his brand, right?
They want to throw his name in there.
He's just a paid.
Totally fine.
He's just doing what he's doing.
He was a performer for one song.
Yeah.
But Travis Scott's going to be held accountable.
Live Nation is going to be held accountable.
They're trying to hold the cops accountable.
I think the chief came out and talked yesterday.
He says, I gave the numbers incorrectly.
He says we are very good at doing these things.
He said the media is saying that we were not prepared for it.
That is not true.
We were fully prepared for this.
These sorts of things is tragic.
The only people that are struggling right now the most are the parents or the family that lost.
So they're trying to mitigate the situation, but it's not a pretty sight.
The only thing I think about, what do you do to prevent this in the future?
Yeah, well, here, let me paint a picture for you because, again, I've been to multiple festivals like this.
Sometimes I cover them for value attainment.
Sometimes I just go.
There's more than one stage usually at these big events.
So there's the main stage, which I assume he was performing at his concert.
And then there's going to be maybe another one or two, you know, ancillary stages, right?
They're not the main stage.
So what happens is they'll have different events staggered throughout.
So at state, the main stage, the Astro World stage, Travis goes on at 9:30.
There's another artist over on that side of the event that goes on at 8:30.
There's another event that goes on over here.
He's on 8:20.
So there's these staggered events, right?
And basically, what happens is once the event that you're at, let's say you're listening to little Nasax over here.
I'm just throwing out, I'm not even sure he was there.
I'm just using an example.
His set ends at 8:55.
Travis Scott starts at 9.
Everyone's aware.
As soon as this is over, get your ass to Travis Scott.
Everyone's there to see that.
So the crowd moves from here and rushes over here.
And there's no assigned seating.
It's just get in where you fit in.
So if you have 50,000 people, if let's say you have 20,000 that are already at the Travis Scott stage, and you've got another 20,000 rushing over, it just becomes slammed, trampled, moving on.
So you ask preventative.
I don't know how you prevent 20,000 people from scrambling this way.
There needs to be a way of this.
There's people that this is their job, right?
Crowd control, systematic approach to these types of events.
But a lot of time it is chaos.
I've been there moving from crowd to crowd.
Remember we went from one stage to the this was we were at the event where the baby made those um at Rolling Loud those uh homophobic references.
We were there.
We said this is getting insane.
We actually left right before that, but I don't know how you control 20,000 mass.
Like, think about 20,000 people coming into a basketball game.
They got to go through turnstiles.
They got to go through security.
Yeah.
These are people that are already in there and just are free to move about.
It's it is controlled chaos.
And if you're not head on a swivel, awake, you know, completely understanding your surroundings, you full-on can get trampled on.
And then when everyone's moving towards the stage, because everyone wants to obviously get as close as possible to the stage, if you're at the front of the crowd near the stage, I don't know how you're going to get back out that way.
And that's so like you saw the video of the ambulance trying to get through.
How the hell does an ambulance get through there?
And then when you're in the middle of Travis Scott music, whether it's sicko mode or butterfly effect or goose bumps, like the guy's got some banging music.
People are getting wild.
And now you have an ambulance coming through.
You see that.
You're jumping on top of the ambulance.
You're not thinking clearly.
So there's going to need this.
This might reshape how concerts are.
Give me the order of responsibility.
Okay.
So you made a very good point.
Number one, whoever is in charge of the concert controls the point of contact.
Okay.
Live nation.
So number one.
I don't know if it's live nation.
Is number one Travis Scott to stop and say, guys, let's get help for this?
Is he number one?
Well, I don't know if he's number one.
I'd say also a big thing for me would be some sort of like the management team.
Like if we think of the vault, right?
You're at the vault.
You're kind of doing your thing and you're talking.
You're in your own headspace at that point, right?
You're doing your thing.
But it should be somebody behind the scenes who pulls and says, hey, Pat, like, here's a note or something.
Like, something's going on here.
That's, to me, pull the plug.
That's a good point for somebody to communicate.
So then the question becomes, did somebody communicate to him to say, hey, eight people are down?
That's someone communicate that.
Apparently they did.
So if they did.
Apparently they did.
If I may.
If Patrick sees an ambulance in the middle of the crowd, I mean, you stop it.
He clearly saw the ambulance.
There's no way you can't see it.
That's true.
So he chose to go out.
So that's to me.
Look, I've ran events as large as 10,000 people at MGM Grand, right?
Where you see what's going on.
You have to be aware of what's going on in a big way.
I remember we do events and guys would come the night before and sleep in front of 2,000 people would be lined up and planned.
Hotel would say, you guys can't do this anymore.
And it would be stampede.
So we have to slow everything down because a couple of times people would run and people fell.
One guy even bumped into my dad and my dad almost fell.
You know, security came and said, you know, your dad almost fell.
So people were running through.
They didn't know it was your dad.
So I think there's a part of that where crowd control running, man, that is very dangerous when you do that.
That's number one.
Protocol changing.
But number two would be, I don't know, man, if you're on the stage and you're seeing this is happening, if you pause and he said, guys, everybody, pause, stop, Boom.
Go there.
Okay.
Apparently, he did say he saw someone, I guess, to his left if he was on stage.
He said, somebody's passed out, get them up, whatever.
Unbeknownst to him, it was a lot worse than once someone passed out.
You got 37 minutes for somebody to say, dude, a person's not breathing.
No.
Chill out.
You mean 37 minutes?
Someone cannot communicate that to you?
That's where the huge failure is.
It's understanding.
I think here's the bottom line.
It's understanding the big picture ramifications of this event because this event is going to be here today, gone tomorrow.
But while you're in the moment, the crowd is hype.
You're on stage.
You're feeling the effect, the performance.
You got, you know, all the feels going on right now.
I mean, imagine if you're on stage, 50,000 people are chanting your name.
You're feeling some type of way, right?
You have to have the ability to say, guys, pause, give it five minutes, back up.
Again, the person with the mic has the power, and he had the power to stop this.
And unfortunately, he didn't.
Well, we'll see what's going to happen because these things are moving fairly quickly right now.
Every day you're hearing something new about it.
TMZ had the story about the guy getting poked in the neck, the security guard.
Yeah, we're going to see where this is going to go.
Somebody said they were spreading COVID shots and all this stuff.
You know, there was a lot of conspiracies that are coming out of it.
I don't get all that.
I mean, I've been to many festivals.
I think those are just like ancillary random stuff.
Let's not forget the main thing is that people died while trying to have a good time.
This wasn't like a stage that fell.
This wasn't a fire.
This was people.
This was pretty much.
The last thing we need is people fearing another reason to go to a live event to be around each other.
It's like the last thing you need to have another thing added to it.
Go ahead, Tyler.
Well, just real quick, you know, this reminds me a lot of Black Friday on a much bigger scale.
Like when everybody was rushing in the door at Black Friday, but that stopped because you can do online shopping now.
So there's been a lot of talk about the metaverse.
How long, and does this lead credence to the idea of people just slap on an Oculus and they go to a live event through their or not a live event, but a concert through their virtual reality in the metaverse where they can dress up as their character, this, that, and the other.
It's like, does this speed that up at all?
And how does this change live events going forward?
I think that's a good point.
But look, I think live events, people have been yearning to get the hell out there and have a good time.
I don't see that happening anytime soon, especially with the limited access we've had to live events.
People are probably craving it more now than ever.
But interestingly enough, there's a correlation here too, though, if you think about it, with all the aggression in sports.
And people have been watching going to live events and sports.
Fights and crowds, you mean?
Yes, yes.
Kind of like there might be some correlation here to crowds.
It's almost like people haven't been able to leave the house for the last year and a half and react.
Yeah, they don't know why.
On another note, the Kardashian Jenner Klan, they're going to get some hate on them.
No, I don't know about Distance.
They're going to get a lot of hate because they were there.
Kendall was there.
Kylie was there.
They were in the VIP section.
They were Snapchat and doing Insta stories.
She Kylie had a mask on or something.
I mean, look, that's where they should have been.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
See anything, but there's an ambulance in her Instagram story.
So she's like, I wasn't aware, but there's an ambulance in her story.
So it's like, well, yeah.
But there's a difference between getting criticism.
There's a difference between getting sued.
There's a difference between knowing somebody your love is no longer here anymore.
So there's levels to the kind of pain you're going to go through.
Believe me, they would gladly exchange their current struggles of being hated on versus somebody else.
I feel for the parents of the teenagers and 20-something-year-old kids that said, hey, mom, I'm going out to the concert.
All right, have fun.
Call me when you're done.
And there was no call.
I saw footage of a brother saying, my brother's no longer here with me.
That's amazing.
That way is ridiculous.
Listening to this kid crying was so painful.
Anyways, our condolences goes out to the entire family of those who lost their loved one at this concert.
Prayers goes out to your family.
Okay.
So next story.
Best life.
Let me see what story I want to go to next.
I want to go to this story next.
Let's go to Buffett's story next.
We'll do that very briefly.
So Buffett, Warren Buffett, page four.
Buffett's cash pal tops record with $149.2 billion on hand.
This is a Bloomberg story.
He's never had this kind of money in cash, surpassing a record set in early 2020.
The fresh high came even after Buffett ports more money into buying back its own stock at $7.6 billion or repurchases in that period.
The third highest tally since the board changed its policy to buybacks in 2018.
Buffett has struggled with a high-class problem of having too much money in Berkshire's pockets and not enough chances to put that to work in higher returns, returning assets with no major deal in recent quarters.
Berkshire Hathaway CEO has currently frequently turned to buybacks as one way to deploy the cash cash.
How do you pronounce that word, Adam?
D-E-L-U-G-E, Deluge.
But even with the heightened level of buybacks during the third quarter, it wasn't enough to keep Berkshire's coffers from swelling.
So there's criticism from both sides right now because there's one side that's saying, you know, the whole thing when you buy mutual funds, they said, if you would have missed the last 40 best days, market days, instead of having a 12.8% return, you would have been at 6.8.
If you would have missed the top 20 and then they keep giving you these numbers here.
If you missed the five best days of trading, your returns are down from 12 to 8.
He missed a lot of good days.
Especially with COVID.
He missed a lot of good days.
A lot of money was made every time these guys printed money.
He lost a lot of money.
There's a lot of people.
Again, we've talked about this before.
This is not the first time we're talking about this.
People that are saying Buffet is losing his touch.
He is no longer connected with what's going on today with crypto, Ethereum, Bitcoin, AI, technology, software, the direction things are going.
But at the same time, you can never underestimate a Buffett.
This guy's been around for a long, long time.
He's not been around for 10 years, not 20 years, not 30 years.
This guy's been doing this for 60 plus years, nearly 70 years he's been doing this.
Okay.
So does he know something the rest of the population doesn't know?
Is he expecting there to be a massive drop-off for him to go out there and buy things for sale?
I don't know.
Why would you sit on cash for this long?
And your name is Warren Buffett?
There's got to be a reason behind it.
So speculation.
Is he expecting a major drop-off?
We'll see what's going to happen.
Adam.
So how much of this has to do with stimulus being printed?
You did a post the other day about how the money will flow to the top.
It always does.
And, you know, because poor people, they just pay their rent or maybe they pay their bills out there.
They don't know what to do with the money.
So they just spend it.
So the money flows to the top.
I know you have strong feelings on this.
So I guess what's your why?
So how did he acquire?
You're saying that he's been on the sidelines this entire year.
He's been on the sidelines for quite a while, meaning he hasn't been he.
I know he was.
He shorted the.
He sold his AIR Airline stock.
He 10 10, 9.
He owned the top four airlines.
He sold it all.
If he would have stayed there, that cost him a lot of money.
Yeah, because it 10x when he sold it at the bottom.
It 10x since then, since he's just been in cash this entire time, in cash, and you know cash is accumulating, but he's just been in cash.
So why would you be in cash?
And, by the way, you know the whole thing, when cash is king, cash is not king.
Yeah okay, when you're broke and you have no money, cash is king.
Of course, when you're worth a hundred billion dollars, cash is not king.
That money's got to work for you.
So that cash has not worked the last 12 months.
Right is what it is, inflation.
But mathematically mathematically, the more you print money mathematically, everything flows to the The top.
It flows to you.
So, what he's doing, the only conclusion I have on why he would do such a thing is he fully believes something catastrophic is about to happen to the market.
I also think there's one other aspect to that.
I think that he has, he's such an old school investor.
Yeah.
And the way he does value investing, he doesn't buy anything that's overpriced.
It's like he like, kind of like you were saying with when you were trying to negotiate on a house, in today's market, you simply can't because there's like it's so chaotic.
So for him, it's like instead of negotiating, I'm going to wait until it's undervalued or I can get it at a good price.
And that opportunity just hasn't been around.
So I think between what's going on with the economy is such an anomaly in terms of it's just with printing the money and like it's so insane how it dived, dove and then went straight back up again.
I think that for him, he is more on trends and what's in the past.
And these trends don't match the past.
And therefore, he's not a gambler.
So he's going to take a step back.
I mean, he did close his first investment company during a time of turbulence where he was like, he basically told the shareholders, I'm giving you back your money.
You've received a X amount of return.
And for me, I don't understand the market.
And I don't want to gamble.
So here's your money.
And then he started back up again a couple of years later when it was more kind of returned to normalcy.
So I think there's an aspect of that too where he's playing and investing in what he knows and the market that's currently going on.
He simply doesn't know.
So what I'd like to see in a situation like this is where he then has some of the younger people there who are in the crypto market, who kind of are learning and understanding NFTs and giving them a certain number of the billions of dollars and like, here's 10 billion, here's 100 billion, go play ball, go do something, see what you can make with this, as opposed to just sitting on the cash and just waiting for it to catch up or let inflation catch up.
I think you bring up a good point with the value investing.
That's been his entire MO, his entire career is that he's going to sit and wait and wait for the right opportunity.
He's not eager to just pump money into the market for the sake of saying, hey, I'm investing.
So that's the whole concept of what he's doing.
He's kind of almost like an old school tiger that just sits there and waits to pounce.
Something that I think Warren Buffett, and I'm not here to critique Warren Buffett at all, but something that I think he's probably doing low-key, but for whatever reason, it's not in the tablets or the headlines, is he does need to empower some younger people to manifest what exactly Berkshire is going to look like when Charlie Monger, who's probably like 125 years old at this point, and Warren Buffett, who's in his mid-90s, I would assume, are no longer here calling the shots.
There's going to need to be some young, whether they're when I say younger people, we talk about people in their 60s.
They're going to start taking on a little bit more risk and putting this capital to work.
But that is the other thing that's interesting is that like 90% of his wealth was made in like 10 investments.
Coca-Cola, Apple.
Gecko.
So for him, it's nothing new that he has long periods of doing nothing and then short spurts of doing a lot of buys and stuff like that.
Look, the difference between the world he's in and an athlete, an athlete, eventually, father time comes and you say, I can no longer kick it with these young guys.
Is there father time as a investor?
Is there father time for that?
I don't know about that.
I don't know.
That's the beauty of it.
Dementia is the only thing, right?
What is father time when it comes down to the goat of investing if you think about it?
So, you know, he is known.
When you're at that level, you are known to trust your gut instinct.
But stuff is changing so quickly today.
It's not like it's changing.
If you were to look at what's changing quickly in the history of mankind, after the announcement that Zuck made last week, everybody's panicking about how quickly things are going to change, how quickly things are going to go.
But I want to show you this article.
Can you go to my Twitter account, please?
So just yesterday, MSNBC, I don't 318, tweets out a tweet, and they change it.
Immediately, they deleted it after the amount of hate they got.
They took it down and they changed it.
Go down a little bit further down.
Go, go.
You'll see it.
You'll see it.
Keep going.
Wait, did they take it down?
Okay, go to my Facebook account.
I don't think they took it down.
Maybe go to my Facebook profile.
I'll try to send this picture over to you if you.
Let me see this here.
Okay, matter of fact, let me just send it to you and a way for you to see.
You can airdrop it to the computer.
Which computer is it?
MacBook Pro.
MacBook here.
See which one you want to airdrop it to.
Just go to, not this one.
Here, we'll find it here for you.
Just airdrop it to his computer.
Why is it not popping up?
You want to just text it to him?
Anyways, yesterday, MSNBC comes out with a story.
Are you doing that or no?
Yeah, I'm trying to see.
Comes out with a story saying the fact that, okay, this is the article.
Keep this article.
They changed it to this.
Are you able to get it to him or no?
I don't think so.
Tyler, I'm going to email it to you.
How about this?
Okay, because this is not going to make sense if I don't email it to you and the audience doesn't see this.
Send it to info.
Inflat by Tammany.
Okay.
So this is the ultimate gaslighting type of stuff.
Okay, it's sent.
Let me know when you have it.
Okay.
Let me know when you have it if you go to your email.
Okay.
Click on that.
Open it up.
Open it up.
See if you can click on it for it to open up, like for people to see it.
Why the inflation we're seeing now is a good thing.
That's the title?
Just open it up.
Just click on it to...
No, what I'm trying to tell you is click on it for it to be an image.
You click on it twice.
It's not doing anything.
Okay, let me just read it then.
Let me just read it then.
This is go down to show what time this was.
Go down to show, okay, 318, November 8th, yesterday.
The article says the following, the tweet.
Go a little higher so they can see the logo at the top with MSNBC.
MSNBC tweets out.
Why the inflation we're seeing now is a good thing.
Okay?
Now you tell me how the hell that makes any sense.
Why the inflation we're seeing now is a good thing.
So don't worry about it, American people.
It's okay that we're having inflation.
They immediately change a title.
They delete this tweet.
This tweet is deleted.
Go to the article that I sent you.
Would you screenshot it?
Yeah, of course I did.
So they said, how COVID became the unlikely hero of our inflation crisis.
The case for not panic, not painting the inflation we're seeing now as mysterious, disastrous affliction that's descended on the economy.
Go a little lower for us to read the article in regards to inflation.
Inflation hawks have been telling scary stories about the impending inflation ever since the Federal Reserve slash interest rates to nearly zero during the financial crisis of 2008, 2000.
That's a message that much of the media has been happy to spread, epitomize by an odd segment about rising food prices that CNN ran last week.
That segment was supposed to show in the words of a much mocked tweet promoting it how badly inflation is hitting the middle class.
But instead of looking at a typical sized middle class American family, it focuses on a Texas family with nine kids, one that buys 12 gallons of milk a week in the process that the segments suck them to succumb to.
Anyways, they go into this whole thing.
The increase in food and gas prices that we've seen over the past eight months is real and meaningful.
Inflation hawks have been telling scary stories and impending inflation ever since.
For once, they're not making things up.
Inflation is now running a little more than 5%, driving largely by energy prices.
So they completely changed the article from what it was before, okay?
Because they realized people were saying, what the hell are you talking about in regards to inflation?
So here's the point.
The reality of it is, people are sitting on the sidelines today.
When they wake up, they watch three different channels for news.
What are the three channels they go to for news?
Fox, CNN, MSN.
You got Fox, CNN, and MSNBC.
Okay.
Maybe they go to CBS, maybe they go to NBC, maybe you go to ABC, maybe they go some of this stuff.
This is gaslighting at the highest level to convince people, listen, this is normal.
It's supposed to happen.
No, this is a byproduct of you constantly printing money.
And eventually, shit's going to hit the fan.
Historically, we've never had interest rates as low as we've had for 13 straight years.
You can't do this and fake it for this long.
Eventually, you have to get it back up to normal.
When they do, maybe this is why Buffett's sitting on that much cash.
I don't know.
Maybe Buffett's sitting there saying, hey, but my thing is when you're looking at dollar, anytime the government and the Fed's printing, you definitely don't stay cash.
That's the caveat.
Look, like, you know, one of the biggest fears with baseball cards is the following thing.
Here's what baseball car collectors will say.
They'll say things like, let's just say the Wayne Gretzky PSA 10 card, right?
The guy who sold me the Wayne Gretzky PSA 10 card, when he bought it, there was only one Wayne Gretzky PSA 10 card.
So watch this.
When he bought it, there was only one.
A year after he owned it, another Gretzky PSA, the OPG, got graded PSA 10.
So in his mind, he says this car is no longer worth $540,000.
It's now worth $300,000.
His worry was because there's now two PSA 10s.
So he sold me the card.
Anyways, I ended up selling the car for a couple million dollars.
But the point is, the sporting card market fears another card getting graded high.
The value goes lower.
Yeah, suddenly it's divided by more cards.
But the point is, the more they're printing, the more they're printing, yeah.
So it's kind of confusing what Buffett is doing.
There's a bit of it that's confusing, but we'll see what's going to happen with this.
Where's Buffett on your list of people you would want to interview?
Is he in the top 10?
I think very rarely do you find a guy that's that smart, that brilliant, that much of a genius, who's a comedian.
Very rarely do you find people like that.
He's that fascinating.
To be that smart and that funny and that charismatic and that great of a salesperson, you have to realize, like, look at Jeff Bezos.
How funny is he?
Not at all.
How charming is he?
Not too much.
How charismatic is he?
Not charismatic.
To some extent, within his vision, but he's outside of that.
You're just trying to be nice to the guy.
There's nothing about him that's charismatic.
Amazon account for free, bro.
Nothing about him that's charismatic, right?
Name me a person that that much of a genius, who's a great salesperson, who's charismatic, who's tough, who makes people laugh.
I think the only two people I would put in that category is him and Musk.
It's very random to find people like that.
Zach's not in that category.
These guys are anomalies.
What's my guy?
I'm a guy at Salesforce.
What's his name?
Benny Hoff.
Jack Benny Off.
Is that his first name?
Yeah, Mark Benny.
Many Hoff.
Marb Benny Hoff.
That guy's got some swag to him, I want to say.
At Buffett's level?
No.
I don't know if you would call Buffett swaggy, but he's certainly got humor.
There's no way you don't give Buffett swag.
You're giving him swag.
Buffett's got swag, man.
Well, here's what I'll say about Buffett, and this is maybe a lesson to all the grandparents out there.
You ask, like, what could bring him down to dementia, Alzheimer, or something like that?
There's something to be said about he's not retiring.
He's kept going.
He's not like he's 75, time to retire.
He's just keeping it going, keeping it moving, keeping the mind sharp.
And you know, they say that when you retire and you do nothing, that's when the mind starts to go.
Yeah.
The guy is as active as ever.
And it's not like he's some physical fitness guru.
The guy eats McDonald's every day for breakfast.
He's probably could use a few, lose a few pounds.
But the brain is so freaking sharp that that's probably explains why he's a lot of people.
That's what I'm saying.
Father time, there's certain games you play that father time doesn't come.
Challenging thing about sports, you have a lifespan.
Challenging part about anything that has to do with that, but the brain, something with this, this is 60 years.
Can you imagine if athletes could have a 60-year career lifespan?
Think about that.
He is essentially an athlete that's played for 60, 70 years.
I think the only thing with Brady is like he has such a good body, but also game awareness that he's been playing so long and he understands the way things move and stuff like that, which is possibly why he's having such an advantage.
He is, and to imagine to do that for another 20 years.
I mean, that's crazy.
Yeah, well, you know, we talked about this with Scotty Pippin.
Like, you need to have a second act if you're in sports, right?
As amazing as your career may go, it's going to be over by age 40, a lot of times earlier than that.
Like, the oldest is 40.
I mean, Brady, the fact that he's still doing it at 42.
He wants to go to 50, by the way.
We'll see about that.
But the point is, I think Warren Buffett made 90% of his money after age 60, something ridiculous like that.
So, whether you're using the athlete analogy, if you're an athlete, it's important to reinvent yourself.
But if you're going to be in the investment world and the business world, there's no end in sight.
Guy reads four hours a day.
This is not an arrogant, cocky billionaire.
You're talking about a guy that's so humble, so like, I'm always wanting to learn and get better.
This is not a schlep.
This is the goat.
You're talking about the goat.
There's only one goat in the space.
He's it today.
Okay, a lot of people that want to be the greatest, one of the best, the current, they're good for a decade, they're good for two decades.
I've never heard anybody have a number one hit in music seven decades.
I've never heard anybody.
The only thing is when you got the three names, right?
You got Sting, you got Ray Charles, and one other that had a number one hit in four different decades.
I think it's only two or three names that had a number one hit in four different decades.
Sting, Ray Charles, and one other name.
Gary Kasparov.
Gary Kasparov, and that's why.
The 251 months in a row, that's insane.
250 something marks in it.
That's the first set in that category, but you're not probably not talking about bands.
It doesn't matter, but they may be in that category.
But the point is to do it seven decades.
Yeah, it's insane.
That's insane.
Okay.
All right, let's talk about the story between Van Diesel and Dwayne Johnson.
Van Diesel, if you want to pull up his Instagram post, asks Dwayne Johnson to return to Fast and Furious franchise after feud.
He said, time has come.
He put this picture up, and I want to read this to you: exactly what he says.
Van Diesel has put out a public request for Dwayne Johnson to return to Fast and a Furious.
The two actors haven't hidden their ongoing feud after co-starring in multiple installments of the franchise together.
But Diesel, 54 years old, seemed to want to put their differences behind them in a Sunday Instagram post.
He asked Johnson49 to come back for Fast and Furious 10, one of the last two films planned in a much-loved series.
But this is how he asked for it.
My little brother Dwayne, okay?
My little brother Dwayne.
The time has come.
The world awaits the finale of Fast 10.
As you know, my children refer to as their Uncle Dwayne in my house.
There's not a holiday that goes by that they and you don't send well wishes, but the time has come.
Legacy awaits.
I told you years ago that I was going to fulfill my promise to Pablo.
I swear that we would reach and manifest the best fast in the finale, and that is 10.
I say this out of love, but you must show up.
Do not leave the franchise idle.
You have a very important role to play.
Hops can be played by no other.
I hope that you rise to the occasion, I believe, is what he says.
So, you know, the public first became aware of their different relationship in 2016 when Johnson called out his male co-stars from the Fate of the Furies on Instagram writing.
Some conduct themselves as stand-up men and true professionals, while others don't.
The one that don't are too chicken shit to do anything about it, anyways.
Candy asses.
The Jungle Crew star who added that.
He and Diesel are philosophically two different people, also shot down some of the co-stars' claims about the relationship, including the 2017 comment to USA Today, in which he told the outlet, I protected Dwayne more than he'll ever know, but he appreciates it.
He knows he only has one big brother in the film world, and that's me.
Okay.
Thoughts.
Ego is a hell of a thing, man.
Obviously, this has to do with ego and where you're at in the status sphere of Hollywood.
Clearly, The Rock is bigger than Vin Diesel these days.
And this would actually be a very heartfelt, nice message, with the exception of one word.
Little brother.
Little brother.
Listen.
One of those just the little.
Yeah.
Hey, little brother.
Like, if he would have just said, my brother Rock, it's the time has come.
People are like, hell yeah.
Right?
Obviously, he's appealing to emotion, appealing to legacy, appealing to just everything that rising to the occasion, even the rhetoric that the world awaits, right?
Rise to the occasion.
The destiny of Hobbes, like relax is a freaking movie.
I get there's going to be some Fasiferous people that aren't exactly on the same page with me here.
It's a movie.
Relax.
But what does he say here?
Speaking of ego, he only knows he has one big brother in the world.
I protected Dwayne more than he'll ever know.
But does he appreciate it?
I'd like to see what The Rock has to respond to this.
There's only one of two ways you can go here, right?
All in or all out?
Because he's pretty much drawn his line in the sand.
He's basically called him out before, basically saying, what, we're two philosophically different people.
This is not exactly who I want to be with.
You can either say, I hear you, brother.
I'll be right there.
I got your back.
Or, hey, I'm good.
This ain't for me.
I think I was looking into it and seeing kind of where it started and how the beats kind of came about.
And from what I was reading, it was essentially when he first came into the first movie that there was a lot of tough love because what he'd played earlier and what they were imagining for the character for The Rock of The Hobbs was so different from what he'd done that Vin Diesel was kind of wanted to have it be more real and be kind of more, because they were going against each other.
One was a bad guy and then Hobbs was like the cop.
Have you seen any of the Fast Africa movies?
I've seen the first few, yes.
I haven't seen the last one or two.
There's 10 of them.
I know.
Have you ever seen any of them?
I've seen all of them.
You have.
They just get crazy on your hands.
You've seen all of them.
I've seen every single one.
Because your kids want to see them or you want to see them?
I think it's a great franchise.
I think it's a great product.
They produce a great product.
I don't dispute the great product that they have.
Look, there's a few things you've got to keep in mind on how life works.
Okay.
When you're, say you're making a million bucks a year.
I'm making $100,000 a year.
Is there a big difference between the two of us?
Yes.
Dramatically.
You're making $100,000 a year.
I'm making minimum wage.
Is there a big difference between the two of us?
Absolutely.
Okay.
Say you're somebody that is Mr. Olympia, and I'm just the guy that's competing, and I'm not even a pro.
Is there a big difference between the two of us?
Dramatically.
Say you're a wrestler for WWE or whatever you want to call it with McMahon.
And I have already done 20 movies.
I've been in, what was that one movie with the broker JT Marlin?
What was that movie called?
The Stockbroker.
I've been in Boiler Room.
I've been in Save It Private Ryan.
I've been in a bunch of different things.
I got a bunch of shit going on.
And you come out and you do a movie where you're playing a gay, what do you call it?
Private security for Vince Vaughn.
That movie.
What was that?
Twinkle, Twinkle.
Remember that one movie?
Do you know what I'm talking about or no?
Vince Vaughn.
You're saying The Rock did that?
The Rock was in a movie with Vince Vaughn.
That's how his career got started.
I think Andre 3000 was in it.
No, no, no, no.
The movie, how do you guys not know this movie?
Folks, if you're listening to this, what was the name of that movie?
I can't believe you guys don't know this movie.
This is Vince Vaughn.
Vince Vaughn and Twinkle Twinkle Baby, too.
Twinkle, Twinkle.
No, but what's the name of the movie, though?
What's the name of the movie?
Vince Vaughan and The Rock.
Be cool.
Be cool.
That's the name of the movie.
You've never seen it?
Maybe.
I don't know.
Oh, you got to see it.
It's funny.
It's actually a real funny movie.
So, so, you know, at that point, The Rock was known as taking any job.
He just wanted to get in.
Okay.
And he meets with his camp and he says, I want to be like Will Smith, except bigger, is what I want to be.
Okay, The Rock.
So now, let's go back and see what happened the last 20 years.
You tell me in the last 20 years, if you were to measure the most charismatic, competitive, driven, ambitious, loved, high Q score, recreating himself, winning in different spaces, cartoon, movies, franchises, name, potential candidate, couple hundred million followers.
You tell me who else has grown the most in the last 20 years.
So here's how it happens: this is Vendiesel.
This is The Rock when they're competing, okay?
Or when they're starting out.
When they're starting out, Vendiesel is way ahead.
So to Vendiesel, it's like, hey, young man, I'll teach you.
Little bro.
Yeah, little bro.
Listen, now, here's Van Diesel.
Yeah.
Here's The Rock.
It's not even close.
It's not even close.
Okay.
It's not even close if you think about it.
Vendiesel's gotten to a point that he has one product, and that one product that he's banking on is what?
And good for him.
He's probably going to end up being a billionaire because the franchise that he's running, it's a solid franchise.
Good for him.
That's for sure.
The rock is multi-dimensional.
I'm sorry.
To be The Rock, have you ever seen a picture of Rock out of shape?
Tell me if you've ever seen a picture with Rock out of shape.
You've seen Vendiesel out of shape, though.
But have you ever seen The Rock out of shape?
No.
Do you know how hard that is?
Do you know how hard that is to stay in shape for 20, 30, 40 years?
Do you know how difficult that is?
Like, you got to have a season.
You got to be caught at a beach in Monaco where Paparazzi takes a picture of you and the gut is all the way out of here.
There is no picture like that with this guy.
He's been determined to go straight to the top and he's done it.
Especially considering how much he's doing.
So how many videos movies should hear?
So here's the point.
Here's the point.
Kids know The Rock, Moana.
Adults know The Rock.
Wrestling.
Young adults know The Rock.
Hip-hop, what he just did.
Everyone in the world knows The Rock.
Movies.
He is the most recognizable face worldwide.
56 or 57% of the world knows who The Rock is today.
That's the most recent.
He's got one of the highest Q score, if not the highest Q score today.
Ronaldo may be the only one that's got a higher Q score than he's got.
But this guy's actually got an opinion.
So to me, if I'm The Rock, I'm sitting there saying, Little, little brother?
Dude, like you think I'm the guy of 20 years ago?
What are you talking about?
In Rock's eyes, in a competitor's eyes, he's like, you ain't in my league.
If I don't want to do it, I don't do it.
If I choose to do it, I choose to do it.
If Rock does Fast 10, it's only for one reason and one reason only.
You know what is the only reason The Rock will do Fast 10?
Because he wants to do it.
He feels like he's there's only one reason he will do it.
Only one reason.
Legacy?
It is only one reason.
It's purely for the fans.
That's it.
Because The Rock is all about his fans.
If he does it, it's for one reason.
It's for the fans.
He ain't going to do it because of that letter.
Matter of fact, the way he wrote that actually would turn me off to want to do it.
I would actually be like, let's just say Rock and I are sitting here talking and he says, hey, PBD, what do you think about what he just said?
Dude, what a freaking, what is that?
All that's your approach?
Publicly?
What do you mean?
That's your approach.
That means if I do it, I have to call you out publicly if you put an approach like that.
That shouldn't be the approach.
Do you realize who I am now?
Do you realize what I've done my life?
But The Rock can go say that publicly because everyone's going to say he's what?
What an arrogant prick thinking he's above everybody else.
Now, of course.
I follow both of them on Instagram.
I follow Vendiesel.
I follow The Rock.
Completely different styles of branding themselves.
Very different style of branding themselves.
Okay.
You'll typically see Vendiesel's posts are one or two dimensional.
He's traveling.
He's with the cast.
He'll post Paul Walker stories.
That's Van Diesel.
His posts are very one-dimensional is what he does, right?
You see The Rock.
Rock puts products.
Rock puts what he's eating Sunday nights, how its cheap meals are.
Rock puts pictures of his kids.
Rock does shout-outs.
Rock will pull up the car and go to the fans.
Rock will have a new movie, a new business.
He'll put a picture of people in the wrestling world.
The rock is so multi-dimensional.
It's very, very hard to be the rock.
Very, very hard to be the rock.
So rock is not only past Van Diesel.
Rocks pass a lot of different people in different industries.
So it's not only a Van Diesel type of a product that we're talking about.
Anyways, so yeah, if he does it, it'll be for the fans.
I don't think it's going to be anything more than that.
And if somebody really wants to persuade somebody to come back and want to be part of a movie, it's not a way of doing that.
How should a Vin Diesel have approached this?
Knowing that they've had issues in the past, he's putting it out there into the universe, basically saying, little brother, you know, do you think in Van Diesel's eyes rocks past him?
No.
Oh, yeah.
He has to know.
You sure?
Whether he's aware of it or not.
No, no, but that's the problem.
I think he's acutely aware that The Rock is bigger than him.
Do you think he's not?
He's not in the Fast and Furious world specifically.
It doesn't stand alone.
It doesn't matter.
So here's the approach.
The approach is, brother, we've had a falling out multiple times.
Okay.
Some of it is real.
Some of it's exaggerated by the media.
Okay.
Because they need another story to talk about.
I get it.
You and I both know where the falling out was.
And we and I both know which one is fake, which one is real.
Having said that, from seeing you when I was at the top of the world and what movies I was making, whether it was X, whether it was this, whether it was that, and you were coming up trying to go from wrestling into movies, many people doubted, John, what you were going to do.
But let's face it, you proved everybody wrong, and you're bigger than everybody else today in Hollywood.
Everybody else in Hollywood.
So proud to have been in different projects with you.
I hope we can set aside all the challenges that we have and we do this last one together here for the legacy.
That's the approach.
If you do that approach, Rock's going to be like, okay, cool.
I'm coming.
There's ways you – look, half the challenge is when I deal with different personalities and I look at somebody and I'll say, that person keeps attracting problems everywhere they go.
Okay.
So for example, you date four girls.
We talked about this two podcasts ago.
You date four girls.
If the four girls are, all four are problematic, it's not the girl, buddy.
It's you.
Okay.
If you tell me your last nine friends all ripped you off, it ain't your nine friends.
It's you.
Okay.
If you tell me, you know, you're having lunch somewhere and all five of the guys you're having lunch with were assholes, no, you're the asshole.
It's not the other way around.
Okay.
If you go out there and you think all this stuff is going on, it's people are against you, it's really you.
It's not the other way around.
So a personality like that in a situation like this, you have to know how to deal with a personality like that.
Most people have no clue how to do it.
Most people cannot get their ego out to realize, listen, man, you're still relax, homie.
There's a lot more people that are doing much bigger things than you.
But The Rock, he's at the top of his game and he's humble and he's likable and he's charismatic and he's charming and he wants to give back.
Very hard.
Multidimensional.
Very, very hard to get a guy like that.
Not saying he's not demanding.
Not saying he's not going to be expecting.
Did this tweet or whatever this was help or hurt the chances that he'll become this movie?
The rock is most likely, whether he's going to do it or not, it's going to be 100% his choice.
But The Rock's most likely, if he ends up doing it, it's going to be because of his fan.
I don't think this helped.
I think this hurt.
I think there's better ways of doing that.
It's pretty obvious that Fast and Furious and Vin Diesel need The Rock more than he needs them.
Yeah, somebody just tweeted.
Wilberto Rodriguez said the best thing.
He said, I'd expect Kevin Hart to call him little brother, not Van Diesel.
He's right.
They have their relationship.
They have the relationships.
Kevin Hobbs called a rock club.
It's Kevin Hart to call him Little Brother because they always joke at each other.
Oh, gotcha.
You know that one picture that they have where Kevin is like, and then Rock is like real tiny?
They have that relationship.
They have the stories.
You can tell their friends.
You can tell they get along.
Nobody in the world would say Van Diesel and Rock are best friends.
Nobody in the world would say that.
Okay.
Anyways, we'll see what happens.
You know, you're doing okay, little brother.
I'd love to see it.
But look, I agree with Van Diesel.
I think Hobbs got to be played by him.
Can you imagine if John Cena comes and plays Hobbs?
Can you imagine they go bring another person to play Hobbs?
John Cena was actually in that.
I know he was.
I know he was.
Yeah, it's kind of like when I stopped watching, what was that one movie, Transformers, when Shia LaBeouf was no longer in it?
And what's the girl's name?
Megan Fox.
When Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf were no longer in the product, as much as I love Mark Wahlberg and I still watched it, Shia LaBeouf was that guy and Megan Fox was that girl.
Okay, now, whether Megan screwed it up or the director, whatever, that's not, you know, the story is you connect with those characters.
So I agree with Van Diesel in that area.
Anyways, let's go to the next story that we have here in New Garge to dating.
Adam really wanted us to share this.
It was his top story.
So we're going to come through for him.
You're more likely to divorce if you met your spouse.
This way, news study says.
It's a best life article.
It's hard to find love, especially in the middle of global pandemic.
But singles out there should be cautious if they want their relationship to last.
How you first cross paths with your partner may correlate to how long you stayed together.
New survey from UK's Marriage Foundation.
Ask people who are or have been married how they find their first spouse.
One increasingly popular method of dating seemed to predict a brief marriage.
About around 12% of couples who met online were divorced within three years of marriage, compared to within 8% who met through school, 6% met through work, 3% met at a bar or social outing, and 2% met through friends and family.
In the survey, 28% of respondents who got married for the first time in 2017 later said that they met their spouse online, tied with the other most popular answer, meeting through friends and family.
Interesting, the numbers right there.
12% who got a divorce met online, compared to 8% through school, 6% through work, 3% at a bar, social outing, and 2% through friends and family, which means the highest likelihood of a marriage working out is through friends and family.
Make notes.
Make notes.
I'm going to come only to you.
So tell us, what do you think about it?
I actually love this story.
I don't know.
Tell us why.
I think you would.
Because I'm looking for a good referral fee right over there.
So just to recap this, they list the top five best odds you have for your relationship working.
Number five, last on the list, is meeting online, right?
Because online, it's all a facade.
You're going to put your best pictures up there.
You're going to look your best.
How many times have people seen a girl online and then you meet them in real person?
You're like, yeezy yikes.
Let me get the hell out of here.
But behind that is school, or above that is school, work at a social venue, bar a club.
But the number one place to get business or a relationship is a referral.
Hey, I've got someone for you.
Someone that I think you'd be interested in.
It's amazing, but it's still the most popular.
Is that crazy right now?
The most popular way to meet right now is online, tied with a referral from your friends and family.
Is that crazy?
Why is that crazy?
I just.
What do you mean is that crazy?
Are you on any of these dating sites or no?
No comment.
However, the.
First of all, what are you talking about?
In his office, Adam has the five different dating sites.
He has a calendar set out on which one the biggest closing ratio.
Yes.
But so on all these dating sites.
Macking his numbers.
In today's world, you mean people are not going to use dating sites?
Of course they are.
It's just this.
I'm surprised that you're shocked.
No, I'm not shocked.
It's more, this is how far we've come since COVID.
We all remember a time where being on a dating site, it was kind of weird.
You're meeting up on the internet, but now it's number one.
Your longest relationship.
How did you meet her?
Not the name.
How did you meet her?
Pretty much any girl I've ever met has been in a bar at a club.
But I get it, but which one was it your friend's?
Longest relationship.
Like, have you had a girl that was your friend's girlfriend's friend or your friend's friend?
A referral.
Yeah, a referral.
Yeah, that happens from time to time.
Okay, but I'm asking you your longest.
No, I met her at a bar.
At Club Live.
Okay, so that's second.
How about the second one?
Online.
Online.
Yeah.
And that lasted how long?
Two years.
How about the third one?
College.
College.
Yeah.
And college was what?
You just met her in college.
Oh, yeah.
But was it friends?
Like, was she a friend of a crew?
It was a friend of a crew.
That's really through a friend, though.
But that's not college.
That's friend, right?
So yeah, so I, you know, this kind of makes sense, though.
This kind of makes sense.
And you meet somebody through the internet.
So what connections do you have to know the history of this individual?
And then eventually you date six, twelve, twenty-four, thirty, six months.
You're like, I really didn't know all this history.
Of course.
Now everything comes up out of nowhere.
I don't know if I was ready for this.
Versus if you're dating somebody through a referral and they ask, hey, what do you know about this girl?
What do you know about this guy?
You kind of now know a little bit more and you have to decide for yourself whether I'm willing to take that risk or not.
You know, this guy's been single for this long.
This guy's been this.
This guy's been that.
You bring up the word risk because it's all risk-reward.
It's all about odds.
You talked about this when you talked about the book that you recommend.
100 and 1 questions to 100 questions before you get engaged.
It's all about playing the odds.
And it's interesting.
This is why I think this is such a numbers game.
I mean, 50% of all relationships end in divorce.
Those are marriages.
How many relationships do people have before they get married?
10 on average, I would say.
So 90% of relationships don't work to begin with.
So if a relationship's and you want to have a successful relationship and stay married and be together with a person, it's all odds.
And basically, the odds are basically saying the more likely you are to meet online, the less likely your relationship is going to work.
So we'll see.
How long have been people meeting online for?
10 years, maybe?
Yeah.
Dating apps?
What's your experience with these dating apps, Kai?
You're a young boy.
I think there's two things on this, which, again, I'm more on Pat's camp.
It's not surprising.
I think that with the apps, where it's more gamification, where it's more like it's superficial and it's just, there's endless options in a sense.
I think that that kind of makes people have a more if it gets rough or if it's challenging and more like, ah, screw it up.
Let me see your thumbs, bro.
I'll go find something else.
Oh, this guy's swiping.
Hard big time.
And then the other one is in terms of with the apps, I think it can start more casual as opposed to like you're building a solid relationship or your friends and then you kind of refer someone or something like that where it's more in common and then you build on that.
I think here it's more, it starts casual and then it kind of just folks, if you're listening to this, let's talk to some people who are married.
So if you're listening to this, folks, how many of you, if you don't mind putting how you met your husband, okay, you have to be married or wife, how you met your husband or wife, and how long you guys have been together.
Let's see how many people have been married.
How they met.
Somebody put when we met online.
Yeah, I saw that.
No, not just somebody.
A few people put, but I'm curious to know how many people met online and how long they've been married.
Because that does kind of make sense when you're meeting somebody.
It's like quantity versus quality, right?
If you're playing the online game, you're playing the quantity game, if you think about it.
Because, you know, you don't really get 17 referrals from your friends.
Okay.
Hey, okay.
So listen, I got Excel spreadsheet.
Here's the 17 girls.
I got all their heights, their degrees, their parents, their hearts.
I'm the type of person that would deliver something.
I would deliver something like that for you with an Excel spreadsheet.
But the point is when you're playing this, okay, let's take a look at what people are saying.
I don't have a girlfriend.
What does it say?
Your sister.
Work, five years.
I met my wife when I was nine years old at church.
Okay, legit.
14 years.
She's a friend.
She is a friend's younger sister.
Okay.
Bar, 11 years in March.
Instagram, five and a half years.
Mildred Johnson.
Interesting.
So that worked.
I'm married for a year and been with her for four years.
Tinder?
Yeah.
App, two years.
Through friends, 10 years.
Online, Facebook, three years.
Friend of a friend, nine years married.
The beach.
Good for you, Michael Holland.
Five years.
Met wife in high school, been married 25 years.
J-Dog.
Met wife on MySpace.
Married 12 and a half years.
First of all, Willie says he met in the club.
Well, married for 26 years.
Holy moly.
What club was that?
I had arranged marriage.
Somebody said that?
Where are you saying arranged marriage?
The Seeker 2020.
I love that.
10 years, your conference.
What?
Danielle Daniel Daniuk met 10 years at my conference.
Okay.
Well, Daniel, I'm glad you met your wife at my conference.
My wife passed away December 19, 2019.
Someone would love you.
Okay.
Rest in peace.
Nightclub, 10 years.
Married.
Instagram, five and a half years.
So look at it.
Kindergarten.
It's a different story.
Everybody's got different stories on how they meet.
But I see the stats and it makes sense to me.
So does this kind of change your strategy, though, Adam?
Does this change your strategy?
Because, you know, maybe you're not asking for enough referrals.
Maybe you've got to ask.
I think you should consider asking your mom for some referrals here and family and friends.
I still think I'm not shocked that apps are at the top these days.
Not shocked at all.
I'm more just surprised like how far we've come these days that apps are the number one way to meet someone these days.
It's more, wow, I can't believe that, but it's very real.
I still do think the best opportunity you have is just meeting someone out.
How you doing?
You know, step to them and just spit your game.
Have some banter.
You think that's, tell me what your logic is behind it.
I just think when you meet someone in person, you're going to see how they act.
You're going to see how they carry themselves.
You're going to see how they dance.
You're going to see how they interact with others.
You're going to see how they treat the staff around them.
Again, the internet, you're only going to put your best pictures online.
You're only going to, like, there's been a time, I've actually never really met up with a guy.
I've been talking to girls online.
One time I met, wow, this girl's super cute, Brunette.
Okay.
We FaceTimed.
I go like this.
Oh, hey.
She goes, oh, oh, do I not look good?
I go, no, no, you look, you look, you look great.
I'm just did not look anything like the picture.
I was like, I got to go.
And for a couple of days, she's like, I'm sorry, I didn't have makeup on.
I was like, no, it's cool, baby.
You're great.
I'm just not feeling well, whatever, whatever, excuse.
But you're going to know.
She's listening right now.
It's fine.
You're going to know when you meet someone out in public, you're going to know exactly.
You're going to know what they smell like, how they look, how they interact, how they wear their outfits.
Eric's going to obviously judge if they got a booty or not.
You're going to see what's up online.
You're not going to know.
And you're going to maybe wasting a lot of time and lots of energy and something you're not going to be with.
You're going to know.
Like, a girl will know within five seconds of meeting a dude whether she sleep with the guy.
You've heard this before, right?
They're going to know.
And then obviously it's on you not to fuck it up.
But a guy is going to, like, a guy will not even go talk to a girl if he's not into her.
Like, they're not even going to waste their time.
Hey, what are you with that?
No.
So some guys are less picky than others, but still, I think the best way.
Referrals.
Okay.
I'll give you another.
I'm going off on a tangent here.
The worst referral, the worst referral is from a girl, like a girlfriend.
A girl you dated.
No, no, no, no.
Like a girl, a female friend?
Yeah.
Because they always hit you with, I've got the perfect girl for you.
She's so beautiful.
She's the best.
She's the funniest girl.
And then you meet the girl.
Like, yeah, why are you wasting my time here?
Girls always hype up their girlfriends.
Have you not noticed that?
They always think that their girlfriend is the hottest, the best, the sexiest.
And then you're like, What the hell was that?
They think their friends are hotter than they are.
Have you not experienced this?
No.
You haven't?
I haven't had that issue.
You got to get better referrals.
Listen, it makes sense why you're single.
So what I want you to do is I want you to stay committed to being single until 43 and one day old.
I'm going to get married after that.
The right age is 45.
I'm going to get married at 42 and 360.
The right age is 45, right?
45-ish, give or take.
I'd like to know from the crowd: is the best way to meet some person is just out and about and stepping to them and saying, hey, how you doing?
So, what, though?
What's the outcome?
No, the outcome is to find a person to share your time with a relationship.
So, share your time with you.
A relationship.
A potential wife.
Sure.
A potential wife.
Yeah, of course.
Whatever gives you more intel and data, and there's a connection.
Okay.
Meaning, if see, connection comes first.
But I don't disagree on the connection part, but connection long term, that doesn't keep the marriage together if it's just connection.
You need way more than just the connection part right off the bat.
So to me, it's the more people know what kind of girl you're looking for, the more people are working for you.
That's it.
The more people know what kind of girl you're looking for.
And then you choose.
I just don't feel her.
No problem.
All good because you have to feel.
But if it's coming from somebody that you've known the history and everyone's going to bring some kind of baggage that you're going to have to build, but it's going to be a lot less baggage than somebody you've never met before online.
That do you think they're going to tell you 80% they're bad?
Eventually, the baggage is all going to show up within five, ten years.
Then we're like, who the hell did I marry?
Five, ten years, five, ten dates.
Not five, ten dates.
No, no.
No, no.
The real baggage takes a few years to show up.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
The real baggage is not going to come right off the bat.
So no matter who you go with, it's going to show up.
Okay.
She's going to go to somewhere all of a sudden.
She's going to be like, freaking hey, I've been dating this guy.
I've already met seven exes of his.
Okay.
What the hell is this all about?
That may take two years.
Okay, she's out there with you.
And then she's going to have to find out, well, why has this guy been single all these years?
She needs to know that intel.
But if she knows it through Chris or somebody else, gonna be like, well, okay, that makes sense then on what happened with this guy.
Totally understand.
So the more people know what you're looking for, the more people are working for you.
Can I say something since we're on this relationship?
You know what I never understand?
Tell me.
Someone who always hates their ex you know what I'm talking about?
I totally agree.
I don't understand that.
I totally agree.
Okay, I've had girlfriends before.
I've had maybe three or four serious relationships, whatever.
They didn't work out.
I could text or call any of my exes and be like, how are you?
You know, totally good.
It didn't work out.
We're not together.
They would only say good things.
I don't understand the person.
I fucking hate my ex, the worst.
And like, that's every ex, like you said before.
You know, if you've been ripped off by the last 10 people you've done business, it's on you.
So I don't understand that.
Like always hating your ex, right?
I agree.
I totally agree.
I don't know what that is.
I don't understand to share your life with somebody else.
But let me tell you about these six exes I dated who were absolute freaking waste of time.
I want to tell you.
And that's how the story starts.
Yeah.
How was your last girl?
Oh, she was.
How was he last?
Oh, he was at this.
Now, some of them are problematic, but for the most part.
So, anyways, going back to this, if a guy is serious about getting married before 43 years old, whoever this guy is, make sure as many people that you respect know what you're looking for.
People that you respect, not just anybody that's just any Uber driver who drops you off, okay?
People that you respect know what you're looking for and let them go to work.
Well, good luck out there, everybody.
Everyone needs a little luck on their side.
Exactly.
I think we know who's going to get married before anyone else here over there.
Who Eric?
Yeah, he's dangerous.
You think so?
He's dude.
Well, he's good for him.
Good for him when we're at.
Okay, I'm going to go.
I was really hoping you would have a little honesty and open up the book a little bit.
You know what I mean?
You like to keep things close to the best.
I get it.
But this guy's done.
You've used Bumble.
You've used I've been on some of them.
Nothing serious has come out of it.
Okay.
Is there anything else?
You know, I think you've got some stories that you could share, but you're holding them back.
You're going to talk or you're going to be.
I mean, I don't know what stories he's digging for.
I think what he's talking about is your late-night yoga courses that you take.
Those are amazing.
Yeah.
Crazy.
Look how Red's starting right here.
Fantastic.
Okay, so let's go to the next story.
Kai's low-key got some internet game.
Kai does?
Low-key.
He won't admit it.
He won't say it.
Whoever plays the card of I don't care is attractive.
That's Kai's game.
I don't care is his game.
If you want to find out who can care less, Kai got you beat.
Yeah, Kai could care less, and that's attractive to a lot of people out there.
Okay, hopefully a lot of women out there for him.
But, you know, so let's get right into it.
Let's get right into it.
All right.
So, next, next one we got here.
Next one we got here.
Truckers.
Actually, no, let's go to the NASCAR story first.
After going woke, NASCAR condemns Let's Go Brandon Chant, threatens to sue use of slogan with its trademarks.
This is a Daily Wire story.
NASCAR president Steve Phelps has threatened to sue those who use the word Let's Go Brandon slogan on merchandise featuring a NASCAR trademark and has condemned the use of the slogan, claiming that NASCAR does not want to be associated with politics.
We will pursue whoever is using the slogan and get that stuff, Phelps said.
That's not okay.
It's not okay that you're using our trademarks illegally, regardless of whether we agree with that position is.
I feel for Brandon, Phelps said.
I think unfortunately speaks to the state of where we are as a country.
We do not want to associate ourselves with politics, left or right.
We obviously have, and we've always had as a sport, a tremendous respect for the office of the president, no matter who is sitting.
Okay, so can you imagine how ludicrous this is the president of NASCAR?
Are you kidding me to say we're going to sue those who use the phrase let's go Brandon?
I think the way I read it, the way I read it, it's different though.
If you, Tyler, if you look up Let's Go Brandon merch, you'll see merch with the NASCAR logo on it.
That I can get.
Let's go, Brandon.
That's not what he's saying, though.
No, no, that's not what he's saying.
Because you see, let me ask you the merch.
You mean to tell me NASCAR sells a shirt saying, let's go, Brandon?
They don't.
Okay.
But there's companies here.
You see all these shirts.
Yeah, okay, I get this part.
But that's not what he's talking about.
Stop, stop, stop.
That's not what he's talking about.
It's not what he's talking about.
He's not talking about the color of the NASCAR logo.
He's saying politics.
If you say the usage of the NASCAR logo, I get it.
He's saying, let's go, Brandon.
What are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
You can't use a phrase.
This to me has everything to do with corporate versus culture.
So what do I mean by that?
Culture-wise, this is let's go Brandon Central.
Good luck getting your fan base to stop saying let's go Brandon.
Like, you don't have to be the smartest, sharpest tool in the shed to understand that they are the let's go Brandon champions of the world.
Now, when you're a NASCAR audience, 100%.
What percentage of the NASCAR audience are lean right now?
Have you been to NASCAR races?
I've been to one.
What percentage of you think the NASCAR audience leans right?
90%?
75%.
I would say even higher than that.
Okay, fine.
Okay.
Point.
What number do you think?
Let's call it 80-20.
Let's call it 80-20.
They ain't stopping the Let's Go Brandon chant.
That ain't stopping anytime soon.
And you know what?
Good for them.
Free speech, baby.
America.
Root for Brandon all you want.
On the other hand, the corporate side of things, the sponsor side of things.
Hear me up.
Nobody, nobody is more beholden to their sponsors than NASCAR.
Every single car they have has 1,500 sponsors littered across the car.
Every single car has got corporate sponsor, corporate sponsor, corporate sponsor, corporate sponsors.
What's up?
You're going to say anybody that uses the word let's go Brandon were coming after you?
What a moral.
On there with their logo associated.
Again, this has everything to do with culture versus corporate.
Okay.
When you're talking trademarks, whether it was Let's Go Brandon or F. Joe Biden or F. Trump, if you're using NASCAR's logo, they're basically saying, uh-uh, not so fast.
I think that part, he's 1 million percent right to use NASCAR's logo.
That's right, it's portrayed in the wrong way, or it's communicated the wrong way.
No, but that's not what he's saying.
He's saying politics.
If you're using the NASCAR logo, you must stop.
If you're not using a NASCAR logo, then he can do whatever he wants.
Leave it alone.
I agree.
Do your thing.
But I think if you asked me which sport is least likely to go woke, least likely, I'd put NASCAR at the top of that list.
But it just shows that when you bring corporate percentage of guys on NASCAR being on the right is higher than the percentage of people in NBA that are on the left.
I think it's the same.
Are you saying players?
Or are you saying fans?
I think the NBA is 90-plus percent left.
Players.
I agree.
Okay, where drivers in NASCAR are probably going to be 75% right.
I think it's very even.
Yeah.
I think it's NASCAR tends to be a little more right, a lot more right, for sure.
I don't disagree.
For sure.
I don't disagree.
Whether that's 80 or 90, who knows?
I'm sure there's a poll out there.
But secretly, I think a lot of NBA guys are a little more middle than they would be portrayed.
I think during the whole social justice movement and the bubble and everything that was going out there, I think a lot of people, even if they didn't agree with it, were like, all right, I guess I got to be on board with this.
The one guy that didn't kneel or the one guy that he was in the t-shirts.
Exactly.
And then he broke his knee.
Yeah.
That's a rough go.
The one that what?
Jonathan Isaac and his t-shirt.
His jersey sales 100%.
Yeah.
But anyway, what's the bottom line here with this NASCAR thing?
Do you think that they're not going to embrace the Let's Go Brandon on their trading?
They shouldn't.
First of all, you should not.
They should not sell anything NASCAR saying Let's Go Brandon.
NASCAR shouldn't.
Number one, they're not.
Number two, you can't use somebody's logo.
So anybody that's selling or using NASCAR's logo, yeah, absolutely.
You can do whatever you want to do with it.
But people using the phrase, let's go, Brandon, they're going to use the phrase.
You can't do nothing about it.
Without a doubt.
Good luck getting them to stop doing that.
Let's talk about the story on Elon Musk says he will sell $24 billion of Tesla stock if Twitter votes for it.
While the world's richest people's net worth is reporting in the billions of dollars and can fluctuate by billions of dollars every month, that value is not liquid unless they were to sell stocks otherwise known as unrealized gains.
Currently, our tax code and financial systems are built around the notion that you haven't made any money until you sell those stocks and realize the gains.
This results in billionaires sometimes seeing their net worth increase by billions of dollars in a year and yet not having to pay any taxes that year.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has argued against taxing those unrealized gains, which makes sense, but he has now taken it to Twitter to offer an alternative.
He says that if Twitter votes for it, he will sell 10% of his stake in Tesla, which is going to have to pay taxes on because he owes a $15 billion tax bill right now, according to CNBC.
Combined the state and federal tax rate, it'll be 54.1%.
So the total tax on his options at the current price will be $15 billion.
If you want to go to his tweet, actually click on it, go to it.
But look at the results of the poll, though.
What did they say?
Yes.
Yes.
So 50% of the time.
What does this mean?
So he asked this question.
Yep.
Right?
Almost 60-40, almost 60%, 58% said, yes, I support you selling.
By the way, he said, I will abide by the results of this poll.
So, what does that mean now?
Is he going to stay true to his word and actually sell 10% of his stocks?
I think so.
You think he's going to do that?
That's why Tesla has been going down the last few days.
I mean, I think so.
But I had a question, though, on this because I was looking at it and they said that the options in the 2012 as a part of the compensation plan, because he doesn't take a bonus or salary, his wealth comes from stock prices.
And they said that the options would expire in August of next year.
Does that mean he wouldn't get those stock options?
Options that expire.
It was saying here, the options expire in August of next year.
Yet, in order to exercise them, Musk has to pay the income tax on the gain.
Does that mean that he wouldn't receive them if he doesn't, if they expire?
Would they go back to Tesla stockholders?
Yeah, but he would activate it.
He would exercise the stocks and he would buy them.
So he buys them.
So for him, he basically has to do this anyway.
So it's either do it now and be a meme king or do it next year.
But guess what the move is on doing it this way?
Guess what the move is on doing this?
Now people want him to do it.
So when that comes back, public sentiment.
So his strategy on doing it this way is to prevent the Tesla stock of dropping dramatically.
So he goes and asks.
So the audience says this, then he says, I will abide by it.
I'm doing what you asked me to do.
I didn't make the decision.
He must have known that the audience was going to vote for yes.
Of course he does.
There's a part of everyone that's like, do it, bro.
Do it.
Especially if it's like 15 million.
Exactly.
Everyone, 15 million.
How many votes?
3.5 million?
Yeah.
Something that people should understand.
Maybe people don't aren't familiar with this.
You could probably speak to this: is the realized versus unrealized gains.
He talks about, he says, look, I do not take a cash salary or bonus from anywhere.
I only have stock.
Thus, the only way for me to pay taxes personally is to sell stock.
You know, the billionaires became way richer this year.
Why?
Because of their stock in the stock market, right?
So anyway, thoughts on taxing.
That's a lot of talk about taxing unrealized gains.
That's crazy, right?
It's pathetic.
It's the dumbest thing they've ever talked about.
What do you mean, unrealized gains?
You know how tough of a situation you're going to put people into?
It's going to be insane if they do something like that.
Just the fact that they're talking about it makes zero sense.
Just the fact that they break that down.
Why does it make no sense?
Because you haven't made money.
You know how they say this guy's worth $2 billion?
He's worth $2 billion today pre-tax.
After tax, he's probably only worth $920 million.
No, no, the money is not going to come.
$2 billion is not going to come to the guy.
So, for example, Elon Musk says he's worth what?
$300 billion.
What is Elon Musk really worth?
Elon Musk is really, if he sold 100% of what he owns, let's just say the shares, most of it is in stock.
Let's just say out of $300 billion he's worth, say $280 is in stocks, $20 billion is something else.
Whatever.
I'm just guesstimating.
The $280 billion he sells, capital gains.
He's going to pay what on that?
20%.
The 20%.
So 28% on 280 is what?
56.
56 minus 280 is what?
234, 224?
He's worth 224.
That's assuming the stock doesn't drop another 20% tomorrow.
And then that's even way less.
So to say this guy's worth this much, he's not worth that much.
He is not.
He's not going to pay taxes.
Clearly.
It's paper.
There's a difference between cash rich and paper rich.
Paper rich is what that thing is worth on that day.
So then you sell, you still have to pay that taxes.
So it makes no sense to pay unrealized gains taxes.
The government, you know, everything that's going on with the well tax and the billionaires tax they're talking.
There's two people at the top of their list that they're looking at and they're getting, they're salivating.
They're looking at Bezos and they're looking at Musk and they're saying, we want a piece of that money.
These guys have become, dude, I did a wrong enemy, though.
You're going after the wrong person.
Well, because they can afford to fight you.
And they're going to hire all the best CPAs, lawyers, lobbyists, everything else.
It's not about that.
It's not about that.
What's it about?
So let me ask a question.
So for example, for example, let's just say, you know, you create an incentive program where you make certain things legal.
Whatever.
Take a drug that you make legal.
Okay.
I use the cocaine.
Okay.
I use cocaine and all of a sudden I get arrested, hypothetically, and I kill myself.
Okay.
I chose to do that, right?
Okay, great.
But you made it legal.
Okay.
You made it legal for me to get access to it.
Great.
So that's the law.
You made it legal.
I got access to it.
No problem.
Say I'm driving in an Autobahn and the speed limit is what?
There is no speed limit in Germany.
I go 180 miles an hour.
I hit somebody that's going 50.
Okay.
Now, you told me there's no restrictions on how fast I can go.
Maybe you ought to put some restrictions on that, right?
Okay.
So you talk about how rich a person got.
How did a person become rich?
Did he create the laws?
Is he the one that's creating the tax code?
Is he the one that created, what did he do wrong?
What did he do wrong?
He didn't do anything wrong.
He simply went out there, used the current tax code that everybody else uses, and he made money for himself.
That's doing something wrong.
Oh, but he's greedy.
Why don't you go create $300 billion in network?
Let's see if you can do it.
Since you make it look like it's so easy, I dare you to go do it.
Matter of fact, let's put a challenge for you.
We'll give you 20 years.
Go see if you can be worth $300 billion.
How many people have done that?
Making it seem like this is a sin on what these guys are doing.
Stop it.
Warren Buffett's worth $100 or some billion dollars.
Who do you know that stayed disciplined and won industry for 60 plus years, 70 plus years?
You should reward that.
There should be an incentive and rewarding of that.
So demonizing these guys is the dumbest thing to do out there by constantly demonizing what these guys are doing.
Speaking of Buffett, you know, he's been very vocal that he thinks he should pay more taxes.
Why do you think he says that?
I'm asking you.
Why do you think he says that, though?
Pandering?
Why do you think he says that?
A, maybe he does feel like he should pay more taxes.
Okay, then do.
Go ahead.
Nobody's forcing you not to do it.
Go do it.
Well, a lot of it is choosing to.
No, no, but when people say when people say stuff like that, nobody's stopping you from sending more tax money in.
Go send it.
He could write a check.
Go for it.
Iris is going to keep that money.
I keep saying that.
So, my God, you can't be that naive, Adam.
This is a part that sometimes I wonder and I sit there and I say, this guy's Adam's level of naivete goes.
Why does Buffett change it?
So why don't we unpack that?
Why don't we unpack that?
Have you ever read Buffett's books?
No, what is it called?
Snowballers.
Snowball isn't.
You ever read his book?
You ever read his materials?
Yeah, I've read some stuff that he's written to shareholder every year.
Have you read his relationship with politics over the years?
how close he realized he needed to get to political people and to understand the fact that politics are involved and what he wants to do.
Have you ever studied?
Okay, so...
So how valuable is it to an Obama to get a Buffett to say, I should pay more taxes?
How much does a Buffett saying that in an interview with CNBC or Fox Business or CNN or ABC or NBC a week after Obama announces raising of taxes for Buffett to say, I should pay more taxes?
How much does that get the average person to say exactly what you just said, which is what?
Well, Buffett said they should raise my taxes and maybe they should be okay.
Why are you not okay with you raising your taxes?
He's worth $50 billion at the time.
You're not.
You should be okay if he's okay.
That's not how this stuff works.
The way these things work is, hey, what would you like me to do?
Hey, listen, here's what I like to see.
I'm having a hard time with XYZ.
We'd like to be able to do this.
I'd like to see the administration follow and pass in the following whatever law, whatever policy, et cetera, et cetera.
Great.
Hey, can you do me a favor?
Yeah.
Do you mind going out there and supporting my tax bill and saying the fact that people like you should pay more taxes?
Yeah, I'll do that.
Okay.
How soon can you do that?
Do you mind doing it tomorrow?
Can you call one of the press conferences or can you call one of these guys and write that up?
Sure.
The next day, boom.
And then Obama goes up and says, listen, folks, a lot of people complain about taxes, but here's the thing.
How many guys are richer than Buffett?
If Warren Buffett says he should pay more taxes, maybe you ought to be okay with it as well.
Because this thing doesn't hurt anybody else more than it hurts Warren Buffett.
Boom.
You know what?
He's right.
Boom.
The bill gets passed.
Now, do I know 100% this happened or not?
Of course, I don't know 100% whether this happened or not.
But when you make it to that level of wealth, you don't give a shit about taxes.
You give a shit about regulation.
It ain't taxes.
It's regulation you care about.
You don't sit there and say, I'd love to save another 2% in capital gains.
No, no, no.
You'd love to create a new regulation or deregulate something to help you take your business to the next level or eliminate competition.
That's what you're more interested in at that level.
Again, this is speculation.
If I'm wrong, believe I'm wrong.
Which direction do you think Buffett votes?
I think Buffett has voted.
I know Buffett's voted left and right throughout his career.
He's not somebody that's voted only on the left or only on the right.
He's gone both sides.
But I think, again, Adam, I think it changes on how you vote at that time.
You're not just voting at that time based on the same thing that an average person votes with.
At that time, you're voting on who you think you can get the most things done with because you're Warren Buffett.
So if you vote for a person that wants to have nothing to do with you, you ain't going to get shit done with that person.
So you'd much rather get somebody to get elected that's willing to work with you during those four years to help pass stuff that's going to favor you.
You think he voted for Trump ever?
I don't think he voted for 2016 or 20.
I don't think he did.
You don't think he went with Trump.
Buffett?
I don't think he voted for Trump.
No.
I don't think he voted.
I'm not sure he endorsed Tilly.
I don't think a Buffett likes people like Trump because it's not his cup of tea.
I don't think Buffett is a Trump guy.
And I don't think Trump's a Buffett guy.
I don't think I don't see those two having dinner together saying hello.
The whole reason that I brought that up is because obviously you're talking about taxes and why in this case, Elon Musk was not willing to obviously want to pay more taxes.
But essentially, you have a Buffett saying, yes, we should pay more.
And you have a Musk saying that, no, I should pay less.
So here's my point.
They're both concerned about regulation, are they not?
Let me ask you a question.
They're both concerned about regulation.
Let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you a question between the two.
You ready?
Here's a question for you.
Okay.
Which one of the two does the current administration like and support?
The current administration does not, for whatever reason, get along with Elon Musk.
Why do you think they don't like Elon Musk?
I don't know, but he hasn't been invited to any of the things.
Why do you think, though?
Why do you think, though?
Why?
Because he's questioning their antics.
Why?
Because he's a guy.
He's what?
No, the people who have voted for Biden are also the people that are trying to get rid of him in terms of the car manufacturers, the other companies and stuff like that.
And they don't like that.
And Elon Musk, because he calls out on their shit.
They cannot stand a guy like Elon Musk.
They cannot stand a guy like that.
He's a troublemaker.
He shakes the system.
But he also gets results.
So listen, there's troublemakers that don't.
And I think with Trump, he can understand him and see him for what he is and be like, oh, he's Elon Musk.
He's innovation.
There's a risk.
There's the annoyance with the reward in terms of progress.
But with the people that are very structured and very proper in the bureaucracy.
Let me ask you, who's more scared?
Bezos or Elon Musk?
Scared?
Who's more scared?
Of what?
Of the administration.
Who was more scared?
I think Elon Musk.
No, I think Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos by far, but not even close.
Amazon, the way they're going after Amazon, the way that there's more of a monopoly there?
And I also think that Elon Musk is more kind of like, I don't give a shit type of guy.
Okay, let me ask a question in a completely different way from you.
Here's a different way of asking a question from you.
You ready?
You know the movie Gladiator where Russell Crowe goes up to his owner and he says, hey, you used to be a gladiator, right?
You win the crowd.
Okay.
You think Bezos has won the crowd?
No.
You think Elon Musk has won the crowd?
Absolutely.
Matter of fact, pull up Jeff Bezos' Twitter account.
I don't even know the number.
I want to say 6 million.
I'm going to say 7.
I don't know the number.
I'm going to say 6 or 7 million.
For a guy worth $200 billion, he's only got 6 or 7 million followers.
Shit, I was off.
3 million.
Okay.
Now go to Elon Musk.
Okay.
Net worth about the same.
Used to be six months ago, three months ago, unless things change until things change in the last two weeks.
Just click on Elon Musk right there.
Go back.
Click on Elon Musk on his account.
63 million.
That's 21 times 21 times more.
So you have to know Elon has won the crowd.
Bezos has not.
So Elon, if you go after Elon, you're going after 63 million people that are going to come after you.
They're going to rally behind you.
If you go after Bezos, no one's going to be.
They're going to be like, listen, it is what it is.
Bezos is scared.
Elon Musk is not scared.
Bezos, how often have you heard Bezos ruffle the feathers of people in politics and say stuff?
All the time.
No, Bezos.
Oh, never.
No, how long?
How often do you think?
The only time I think I've seen that is when he's, yeah, when he's like, everyone's agreeing with that.
But it's popular.
It's popular too.
It's more hopping on it because you know the odds are it's an easy win.
Anyways, this leads us into the next story, which is what happened between him and Leo at a, what was it, at an event when there was a picture of the way, if you want to pull up the picture of Leo and his girl, what page is this on?
Page two.
Okay, Jeff Bezos' response to a viral clip of Lauren Sanchez and Leo jokes, Leo, come over here.
Amazon co-founder, 57 Years On Monday, threw down a playful threat while poking fun at a video that went viral over the weekend.
The clip document on the moment that he and the partner Lauren Sanchez shared with DiCaprio at LA CMA Art and Film Gala in LA Saturday in the brief.
The Emmy Award-winning journalist 51 can be seen flashing a big smile at the 46-year-old actor, a longtime co-chair of the annual event, while Bezos stands by her side.
Leo is Mr. Steele, your girl.
Bar Steel Sports jokingly said about this.
And then he says, let's come over here.
I want to show you something, Leo.
And then he put that with a danger fatal drop sign.
So if you want to go back to the danger fatal drop sign, look at that.
Cliff.
Okay.
Which is funny.
Good for you for showing sense of humor.
And by the way, look at those traps.
Okay.
Guy's in shape.
Guys, yeah, guy's been working out.
Mr. Steele Yogurt.
Who is that?
What song is that?
Mr. Steel Yogurt?
That T-Pain?
T-Pain?
Yeah.
All right.
Thoughts.
Do you have any thoughts?
Yeah, here we go.
Could Leo steal Jeff Bezos' girl?
Absolutely.
I'm sure he could, bro.
Frickin' Leonardo DiCaprio.
Do you think Leo, who is...
She's too old for him.
There you go.
You think Leo, who is what, age 46, has any interest whatsoever in Lauren Sanchez, who's 51 years old or 50?
Yeah, 51?
No.
Zero interest.
If there's a number three in front of her.
In front of a guesser, she's attractive.
She's too old for him.
If there's a number three in front of a woman's age, Leo Haying got no interest.
Ricky Gervais said it best.
What did he say?
He said it best when he said, listen, you know, the movie, the mob movie that they created, the Irish, the Irishman.
I watched it.
Good movie.
Little too long, but I watched it.
As a matter of fact, the movie's so long that Leonardo DiCapri won with his date to watch the movie.
By the time the movie ended, his deal is too old.
Exactly.
Exactly.
The girl he's dating right now, Camila Maroney, is 24 years old.
Makes sense.
The last girl he dated.
There was actually a girl from Miami who I know hung out with her a million times.
Nina Agdahl.
She's been on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
She just turned 29.
So he saw the writing on the wall.
He's like, listen, a little too old for me.
You know, Leo, I think, abides by the half-year age plus seven.
So he's 46.
Half your age, 23 plus 7.
That's 30.
That's too old for him.
He's like half your age minus seven is basically where he's at.
I said, that's illegal right there.
I think he just follows the half-your age theory, is what he does.
He follows half-the-age theory.
Yeah, he has zero interesting brains.
If you go back to the video, I see one person wearing a mask in L.A.
And that's the waiter in the background there.
By the way, do you see James Goldstein in the back?
He's the old guy with the hat with the long hair.
He's at every single NBA game in the.
Yeah.
Yeah, that guy's a made man over there in the NBA.
Is there a more eligible bachelor on the planet than Leonardo DiCaprio?
Is there Adam Soznick?
Yeah, well, getting married is just, you know.
Look, look what happened to Clooney.
Do you think, you know, he basically he went, did his.
We got five minutes.
Pick a story.
You got five minutes.
You want to go to approval rating?
Because Adam always talks about approval rating.
How important?
Go to page nine.
Go to page nine, approval rating.
Okay, Biden's approval rating sinks public disapproval higher than ever before the supposed millennial story.
Results of a new poll released on Sunday show a further decline.
Tyler may want to pull up the poll.
And President Biden's approval rating, coupled with the likewise increase in his disapproval rating, the poll shows Biden now sits at a mere 38% approval rating while his disapproval rating shot up to 59%.
The poll was conducted at a joint effort of Sioux Falk University and USA Today, which wrote that it had found that Biden's support had centered at cratered among the independent voters who delivered his margin of victory over former President Donald Trump a year ago.
Vice President Kamala Harris had similar results from recent polls.
She is currently at 51% disapproval rating, and only 28% of those polled approved of the job she's doing.
Whoa, that's very low.
It's crushing it.
So first thing that I thought of when I was reading this is obviously we were talking about yesterday when we were preparing how reliable are polls.
What are this, what are that, what are the other.
So first thing I went to was where my head went was if do approval ratings matter and what do they say about the midterms?
If we read here, second and more importantly, the third paragraph here, presidential approving ratings in recent years have been a decent indicator of what happens in midterms.
In the last four, meaning 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, the incumbent president's disapproval rating was higher than his approval.
And in all four cases, the president's party lost a sizable block of the House seats.
And if you scroll down a little bit more, you'll see here just kind of where their ratings were at.
So obviously, I think that this is, does it matter on him and what he cares about?
I think there's probably an ego aspect of your approval rating, this, that, and the other when you're in the office.
But beyond that, for me, it's the bigger indicator of what is the country saying?
Like, where were things going?
And if the House flips in the midterm election next year, it's going to be very challenging for him to do anything as hard as it has been right now when he's had all three houses.
Moly, look at the change.
So for Clinton, it was minus 52 party seat change, House midterms, minus 52.
Damn.
Clinton plus five on the second term, plus eight Bush, minus 30 push.
Obama minus 63.
And on Obama, minus 13.
Both times he lost, and then Trump was minus 40.
So Trump's the third worst between Obama and Clinton, and Bush and Clinton are the only ones that had a positive on one of the midterms.
Wow.
Okay, so when does, so Bush was asking.
How bad do you think this is going to be with Biden?
How bad?
The thing with Bush.
What do you mean by how bad?
The flip.
Oh, the House?
Yeah.
Or the midterms?
Yes.
I think they're going to get crushed.
Like, like crushed, like worse than Obama crushed?
Minus 63, like that?
Look.
I can see that coming up.
Biden could be the goat if he does that.
I don't know about.
I don't know about that, but here's what I do know.
I think there might be people out there that are going to laugh, but that's fine.
I think we've seen the worst of Biden.
Like, he just had something.
He's going to make a comeback.
I think he just had something this week that's actually going to help him.
Think about what's happened over the last six months.
Number one, his not handling COVID has not been effective.
The way that they left Afghanistan, I think short-term that hurt him.
Long-term, that might help him long-term if he runs for re-election, which I don't even know if he will.
Afghanistan was a disaster short-term.
Everything that's happened with inflation, with the supply chain, not good.
Obviously, Joe Manchin, Christin Sinema getting in the way.
The let's go Brandon thing.
I think a lot of the bad stuff has happened, and he's sort of weathered the storm.
Sort of.
But he needed a win, and he just got to win with this infrastructure bill.
And I've been talking about the need for, they've been talking about the need for an infrastructure bill for how long?
40 freaking years.
And in my opinion, Trump really messed up when he went to tackle Obamacare and healthcare before the infrastructure.
But speaking of net approval, so there's a website called 538.
You familiar with this?
Yeah.
This is the one we're on right now.
Okay.
Is this 538?
Yep.
All right.
So net approval.
How unpopular is Joe Biden?
Net approval, currently he's minus nine.
Minus nine.
Trump, minus 18.
Obama, plus nine.
George W. Bush, plus 76.
For whatever reason, people love George W. Bush.
Plus 76.
Bill Clinton, plus 3.5.
George H.W. Bush, plus 37.
Ronald Reagan, plus 18.
Jimmy Carter, plus 24.
That's over the last 40 years.
All I'm saying is these things are important, and people didn't understand why Trump wouldn't get elected again.
His net approval rating was shockingly horrible.
So let me ask you this question one more time.
Do you think he's going to beat the president and become the goat of the most seats flipping?
You think he's going to beat Obama's record?
I don't think he's going to beat Obama's record.
That's a great record to hold, by the way, how many seats you lose.
Catastrophic.
So let's talk about it because it's about to happen.
Will it be more than Obama?
Will be less than Obama?
No, I don't think it will be more than Obama.
Will it be more than Trump?
I think it will be.
So what do you think the number is going to be?
50?
45?
In that 40 range.
In the 40 range.
Okay.
What do you think?
Do you think it's going to be 61, 63?
I'm thinking in the 50-60 range.
Okay, because 60 is a massive, massive number.
By the way, you said something about Afghanistan.
Did you see this speech Biden gave like 15 years ago or 10 years ago?
You got to hear what he said on the right way to leave Afghanistan.
Okay.
Stop, Okay, stop.
Okay, go.
There's one Twitter video up there that's audio.
Up, up.
Tyler, go up.
And then to the left, three times to the left.
There's a barstool video.
Kai, how does it feel to be on this side of the equation?
I love it.
I love it.
But you guys got to see this thing.
What is going on here, Kai?
Okay, go back to your while they're working on this.
Biden needs some victory in order to win the crowd.
You talked about winning the crowd.
We talked about Gladiator.
Biden needs some victory.
He hasn't had many.
Click on media.
Go to the top and click on media.
It's the fastest.
On the Twitter, go all the way to the top.
Go to media right there.
Okay.
Okay.
So then just go down.
Keep going down until you get to the video.
Go, go, go.
It's going to come up.
Here's what Biden said about the right way to leave Afghanistan 10 years ago.
Make it bigger.
About what our options are.
Listen.
If tomorrow the order goes out from the president, I'm president of the United States.
20 years ago.
The end of the war today began to withdraw all American troops.
It will take a year to get the American troops out.
Do you hear me now?
That's the truth.
It will take a year to get them physically out.
Now, if you leave all the equipment behind, you might be able to do it in seven months.
And you leave those billions of dollars of weapons behind, I promise they're going to be used against your grandchild and mine someday.
Pause it.
Adam, what do you think about that?
Do you agree with him?
This didn't age well is what you're saying.
But here's the thing.
But here's the thing.
In an honest, I want you to be.
Does he not sound presidential here?
He did.
He sounds presidential.
Well, that's when he was running in 08.
Yeah, but what I'm trying to say is he sounds like, listen, good for, he made sense.
But so for him to say what he said then, he did the complete opposite, leaving Afghanistan.
And you've seen this nowhere in the media being shared.
You've not seen this anywhere in the media being shared.
David Harris Jr. shared this, and then I posted on Twitter.
And, you know, you hear a plan that he knew what was the right thing to do, and they still didn't do what he knew was the right thing to do just 13 years ago.
I don't think he forgot about it.
I just think he's a very good person.
How much do you respect Joe Biden?
I don't think it's a respect thing.
I don't think he's a number one.
I've never said I don't respect the guy.
I don't think he's a number one.
It's that simple for me.
I respect you.
I don't know if you would do a better job running this place than Mario because I don't think you would want to do that.
And I think your position of strength is in a different place.
Just like when's the last time you saw Mario on the podcast?
Yamas was on for the 100th.
When have you seen Mario on the podcast?
Why not?
Why not?
So think about it.
So this isn't like, I'm not a favoritism guy.
I'm very much about knowing who's going to do good here, who's going to do good there, who's going to do good here.
And that's not his job.
Biden's not meant to be there, period.
This ain't got nothing to do whether I like him, respect him, or don't respect him.
It's just not his position.
You don't think he should be at the top, is what you're saying.
I don't think he should be at the top.
When he was running then.
That's an advisor.
That's a guy that you're like, hey, what do you think?
He was a great VP.
I think that's good.
Like, when he's speaking like that, he made everything he said, he made sense.
Who'd be a better number one, him or Hillary Clinton?
That's not a number question.
Hitler's a number one.
Hillary's a number one.
No question about it.
She's not a number one.
I agree with the values and principles.
But you think she is a number one?
She's an absolute number one.
She's an absolute number one.
Obama's a number one.
Obama's a number one.
Trump's a number one.
Trump's a number one.
Jimmy Carter?
Not a number one.
Not a number.
Not a number one.
And Adam is a number one to me.
And hopefully before 43, a number one for somebody.
Thank you.
Hopefully a number one for somebody.
How does a number?
I'd love to talk to you more.
I got to go because I got a drinking call.
Jank really enjoyed it.
I think we may do podcasts tomorrow instead of Thursday because I'm going to be in L.A. this week.
But we will let you know.
If we do do it tomorrow, you'll see it once we post it.
Having said that, have a great Tuesday, everybody.
