PBD Podcast | Ep.118 | Special Guests: John Stossel & Danielle DiMartino Booth
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PBD Podcast Episode 118. In this episode, Patrick Bet-David is joined by John Stossel, Danielle DiMartino Booth, and Adam Sosnick.
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John Frank Stossel is an American libertarian television presenter, author, consumer journalist, and pundit, known for his career on ABC News and Fox Business Network. Follow John Stossel on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3GE02GP
Danielle DiMartino Booth is a Founder & CEO of Quill Intelligence, DiMartino Booth set out to launch a Research Revolution, redefining how markets intelligence is conceived and delivered. Follow Danielle on Twitter: https://bit.ly/36nGzLn. Check out her series "Down The Middle With Danielle DiMartino Booth": https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw4s_zB_R7I28aPXM3OfTNbe4xy7dmVWr
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Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurship with more than 3 million subscribers. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller Your Next Five Moves (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
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0:00 - Start
5:52 - California wants to double its taxes
23:21 - Should Parents Care About Critical Race Theory?
35:33 - Is America Imperialist?
41:27 - What Happens if all the public schools begin teaching CRT
43:55 - Should we trust people to make their own decisions?
49:05 - Should the government micromanage people?
1:06:10 - People prioritize their pet's health over their own
1:26:25 - Should we be worried about population decline?
1:29:19 - Biden's Press Conference
1:39:40 - Will 5G Severely Impact Air Travel?
1:46:44 - Facebook Censors John Stossel
1:53:24 - Is It Time To Abolish The FDA?
1:55:45 - Will Ji Xinping Retain Power In China?
We are officially live episode number 118 with Michael Assidio right behind me here, Mickey Keith.
He made an appearance.
First time on the podcast.
No, I think this is the first time we're doing John Stossel and Daniel DeMartino Booth.
Now, have you guys met each other before?
Is this the first time?
This is the first.
Really?
Like three minutes ago.
Well, he was great so far.
He was telling a fantastic story about a friend of his back in the days on the trading floor that was famous for reading novels, great novels, right?
The American Stock Exchange.
Yes.
Yeah, the American Stock Exchange.
Anyway, great asset classes is what he was telling me.
No, He said it was not record-breaking.
Remember, he was-I said great, not the greatest.
Patrick, I was 25 years old.
I was staring down at the two-story-tall Solomon Brothers famous trading floor where Liars Poker was born, basically Michael Lewis's saga.
And I count like seven women, and like I stopped at like 100 men.
And I'm like, okay, if a woman can make it here, then a woman can make it anywhere.
That was the moment I decided I want to go to Wall Street.
But is it true, like what you hear about, once you read about, on how it is with the race shows as well as the treatment, or you just have to be tough to make your thing?
It was back in the day.
I mean, hearing that Wall Street's gone woke is like, excuse me?
Because it's an oxymoron.
It's not how it works there.
Is it still not like that, or has it just been a little bit different?
You know what?
I haven't been on a trading floor.
That's not true.
I have been on a trading floor recently.
There's not the same kind of grunting going on.
Well, nobody would grab your ass today on the trading floor.
No, but when I'm on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, sometimes I do see people behind me taking interesting photographs from interesting angles.
Yeah, I'm sorry about that.
I just thought that you were – I mean, Adam, what were you doing on the floor?
Photograph.
Was a cat company come in public?
Okay, I'm not going to start.
You want to go there, Danielle?
You want to start?
Not yet, not yet.
Let me get my question.
Just out of curiosity, are you part of the dog team or cats?
Which one are you more part of?
Cats.
Really?
It's my favorite.
Really over here.
So you got a cat?
Tell us why, John.
No, I have an allergic kid.
I want to have a cat.
I dream of having a cat.
Got it.
Have you ever had one?
I had a dog.
Yeah, I had cats until I gave life to a kid who was allergic.
Man, we've got some patios in the house this morning.
This is going to get into the city.
By the way, you too, though.
You're also allergic to cats.
I'm allergic to cats.
Yeah, and you are not allergic to cats.
I'm not in any way.
I don't love any kind of dogs, animals, any of that.
I mean, I'm just my dad on the other side.
My dad can't stand animals, period.
I got to tell you a story about Iran with my dad.
In Iran, we're living on this fourth story, and this cat used to come.
And he hated cats, especially because his mom, my grandma, had 12 cats, two dogs, two parrots, two snakes, and a bunch of partridge and a pear tree.
No, no, no joke.
My grandma loved animals, and my dad couldn't stand them.
So this cat would come, and finally he got furious.
He said, Why are you coming over here?
You're making a mess, right?
So one day he says, you know what we're going to do?
We're going to feed this cat.
So me, my mom, and my sister were like, wow, that's changed.
He took this martadella, meat, and he went out there, and he put hot sauce all over the martadella.
Catiness.
Is this a Drake story?
This is a true story.
This is a Drake story.
John doesn't know the Drake story, but he puts this hot sauce all over the martadella.
And we stand outside.
We're like, wow, that's actually giving him.
He says, no, I put hot sauce on that thing.
They'll never come back.
The cats eat the martadella.
They choked all the way down from the fort.
We never saw cats ever again.
That's my dad said, Dad's listening to this cracking up because he remembers when he did this.
Clearly Drake.
Anyways, we got out of here.
I'm trying to get your kids to stop biting their nails as well.
We just dressed tobacco.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
The logo.
I like it.
They finally put it up.
It's sick.
Robert, the team, John, everybody, phenomenal job with that logo.
We love it.
In the vault.
Yes, in the vault, in the bank vault.
John, just so you know, this is a bank vault that we turn into a podcast set.
Cool.
Except behind all this, there's about $17 million.
Okay.
And half of them are empty.
By the end, you're going to be able to open it up.
Whichever one has money in it, it's yours when you leave.
Okay.
You got one choice.
One second.
This is like a game show.
It is a game show.
Welcome to the game show with Patrick and Adam.
Anyways, topics.
Dubai Emirates suspends flights due to 5G concerns and it's all over the place.
Is it real?
Is it just something they're talking about?
Elon Musk laments the declining birth rate.
If there aren't enough people for Earth, then there definitely won't be enough for Mars.
Big concern for people who want to move to Mars one day.
Mr. Beast reportedly made $54 million in 2021, most ever on YouTube.
You're a YouTuber.
You're a YouTuber.
There's YouTubers here.
That's $54 million.
That's a lot of money.
Maybe we can talk about Mr. Beast.
Biden's press conference, who they claim it was the greatest press conference of all time.
I mean, historic, the way he handled himself.
But this article is a spelling error.
It says was an utter disaster.
So I think that title maybe needs a reason.
Yeah, it's a typo.
California wants to double its taxes.
And I want to know what Mr. Stassel has to say about that.
And then we got a bunch of other things that's going on.
One story specifically, Adam's favorite story that we have here is most of us prioritize our pets' physical and mental health over our own.
A study shows that seven out of ten pet owners have more concern about getting their pets acupuncture over them.
It's a very interesting study.
We'll get into that on how that works out.
And then Stassel, John, you've said some stuff about parents should care about CRT, Andrew Yang's new forward party, and a few other things here about the FDA.
Maybe we'll get into that as well.
But how about we start off with California wants to double its taxes?
You okay with that?
Let's talk with California wants to double its taxes.
And here we have two that live in Florida.
You right now live in New York.
So I double my taxes from you.
How awesome is that, though?
But you like to play volleyball in Del Rey.
I'd move here if my wife didn't hate Florida.
That's right.
We discussed this last time.
We definitely had to do this.
We definitely had this conversation.
Okay.
So let's see what's going on with California.
All right, here we go.
This is an article from National Review.
You can also find this article, I believe, on Washington Examiner and TaxFoundation.org.
But this one is national review.
Folks, if you're living in California or thinking about moving to California, I don't know a lot of people are thinking about moving to California, but you might want to listen to this.
California wants to double its taxes.
Jared Walzak of the Tax Foundation wrote a blog post yesterday with news that doesn't seem possible.
California, an already high tax rate, wants to double its tax revenue no matter how he broke it down.
The proposed constitutional amendment, the numbers are astounding.
It would increase the top marginal tax rate to 18.5%.
That's 7.05% higher than Hawaii, the next highest state, that 12.75% higher than a national medium.
It would increase taxes by an average of $12,250 per household.
All told, the new tax package is intended to raise an additional $163 billion a year, which is more than California raising total tax revenue any year prior to the pandemic.
It's not just income taxes, though.
The state wants to implement a payroll tax as well with the top tax rate applying to taxpayers, making only $49,990 in annual income.
Currently, only Massachusetts and Nevada have a payroll tax that do more than any fund unemployment insurance.
He continues.
The most insane part about the proposal, however, is the 2.3% gross receipt tax.
Only seven states levy gross receipt taxes, which are especially harmful to economic growth because they are based on business revenue, not profits.
Even if businesses lose money, they still pay the gross receipt taxes because they still made revenue, which is insane, if you ask me.
If this proposal adopted, California would essentially have 18 tax brackets and individuals making less than $50,000 per year would wind up paying double-digit marginal tax rates.
Thoughts, Mr. Sassel?
I think it's great because we need, we got 50 states.
It was a wonderful design so we could experiment and we need models of failure.
We need models of failure.
So you're saying this is a model of failure or potential failure?
I hope it will be, but it is amazing how Californians can say, I believe, I believe government will solve all the problems and will get the homeless off the street and will make everything nice.
And if I'm paying 18%, that's okay.
I made a lot of money on Silicon Valley.
I can afford it.
And it's a public service.
Now, here's a question, Danielle.
I want to ask both of you guys, curious to know what you say.
I think the question is the following.
Newsom, when he won the recall, he was going against Larry Elder.
And if we remember that, it was convincing victory, 64.
It came out of 67.
By the time they got everything, it was around 63%, 62%, but it was not even close, right?
So if 60% plus support Newsom, how likely is it that something like this could pass again?
Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Time out.
There was a fourth stimulus check mailed to Californians right before the recall vote.
So they're literally getting $1,500 of cash in their bank accounts right before they go to the polls.
How convenient is that?
And B, to John's point about a failed experiment, it failed last year.
Anybody guess when California was entered into the union year?
1850.
Since 1850, the population of California, net net, has grown every single year until 2021.
And 2021 was the first time that they had a net decline in their population.
So if they want to continue on this merry path, then they can fail even bigger.
Yay!
And lose even more companies.
But here's a question, Danielle, for you.
If 60% supported Newsom, what's the likelihood that this insane tax proposal will pass?
I mean, if it's only the crazy voters coming out and the other people who are like, screw that, or like leaving, and they were on the fence before, they were like, oh, if anything else crazy.
And I've actually spoken to people out there who have great companies.
They make good amounts of money.
And they were like, well, we thought the taxes were going to go up.
We've already bought places elsewhere in the country.
And then all the craziness stopped.
But they're like, if the taxes go up, I'm out of here.
I've already got my plan B. Actually, I already own the property outside of the state of California.
So a small exodus is going to become a mass exodus.
And do we really know that they supported Newsom?
Because the press portrayed Larry Elder as a crazy man.
And Larry talks so fast and puts out so many ideas in one quick sentence.
He turned off a lot of people.
I love him.
And he's right on all the issues.
Really?
So you were a fan of Larry Elder?
Totally.
Wow.
Except for his presentation.
And I think he scared people.
Fast talking salesman type of thing.
Is that okay?
But California's like New York as a state, right?
If you're conservative, you're ambivalent on voting day.
You're like, my vote's not going to count.
So you don't even bother.
You're like, I registered to vote against Hillary when I lived in New York.
You know what I got?
Jury duty.
I mean, that was it.
My vote didn't count.
It was just nonsensical.
My friends were like, why are you doing this?
Why are you giving your Texas driver lessons?
I've been here for seven years.
Fine.
And she's not even from New York.
I'm going to go out and vote against her to do my duty, my civic duty.
And all I got was jury duty.
But there's a level of ambivalence whether you're living in New York or Illinois or California and you're like, if I'm a conservative, my vote doesn't count, so why bother?
Yeah, but here's the part, though.
Number one, like, you know the whole theory about you put a frog in the water, you boil it one degree slowly, and then eventually at 212, he doesn't know it's getting hotter, so he dies.
Like, you've heard the story.
I'm not the first person telling you the story, right?
All the time.
It's not true.
Yeah, and it's not true.
No, the frog jumps out as it slowly warms.
You know what we're going to do?
We're going to do this on the podcast as an experiment.
Next time you're good at it.
Next time, just being serious.
David Tyler, make a note.
Next time Stassel is out here, we're going to bring a frog, we're going to put it in the water, we're going to boil it at 212 frog in a hot plate, and we'll go podcast so you see the frog jump out on John.
It would be hilarious.
So that's the next experiment.
Make a note of it.
But anyways, going back to this, at what point, at what point are people going to say, you know, there is no freaking way this makes any sense?
Or is it already happening?
Elon Musk originally moved personally to Texas, and now he's relocated to headquarters.
Yeah, but remember, top marginal tax rate.
So what is top marginal tax rate?
Because a person making $42,000, they're like, dude, please raise a top marginal tax rate.
I don't mind if you raise a top marginal tax rate.
So there's more people making less than $49,000 than those that are making top marginal tax rate.
So a lot of the people at the bottom, they're like, Silicon Valley ain't going nowhere.
They're going to stay here forever, right?
Like this whole thing about what happened in Detroit, that'll never happen to Silicon Valley.
New York is a financial capital.
You know, Hollywood is Hollywood, even though Atlanta and Austin's kind of competing, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley, Miami's becoming the crypto capital.
There's no way these billionaires will leave.
J.P. Morgan Chase has more employees in the state of Texas than J.P. Morgan Chase has in New York.
Pat, you used an analogy one time, and I think you were getting to it with the frog.
You got upset though.
How much are you willing to get pushed?
Meaning, like, if I do this to you, all right, it's a little annoying.
If I just, if I do that a little bit more, and if I keep pushing and pushing, at what point are you gonna be like, dude, if you push me again, I'm gonna knock you out?
And that's essentially what's happening here.
It's like, all right, we'll raise it a percentage.
No one's gonna get it.
Yeah, but you know what it is?
Here's the perspective here.
This is what I'm trying to ask the brains to my left because I'm a guy with a one-point AGPA from high school.
These guys got degrees on top of degrees, and they're educated in the world.
Journalists, legendary journalists, and Federal Reserve Finance.
Here's a question.
I'm doing it to you, right?
You're getting irritated.
But if those that are making 40 grand a year are watching me do this to the billionaire, guess what they're saying?
Do it again.
Oh, that's awesome.
do it again so it's yeah no no they're excited that i'm pushing you They're celebrating it.
And Newsom is like, oh, you like it?
Oh, you like it?
Oh, wow.
Okay, awesome.
Let me do some more.
I think that's the dynamic.
And by the way, you know who ends up paying the biggest price for this?
Not you.
Because who wants you?
Who wants you?
49 other states want to learn money.
Of course, yes, yes.
49 other states want you.
This guy.
Median income in California, 32,000.
But 2019.
Here's the question.
I love your analogy, Pat.
But why should the person making 40 grand who's watching and get pushed, watching the billionaires get pushed, watching the millionaires get pushed, why should they care?
Why should they, John?
Because life won't be as good if you push the producers out.
But why do you think that Silicon Valley won't go down like Detroit if the economics don't make sense and people are moving to Austin and Florida?
Nicer places.
I mean, California has mountains and an ocean and great weather, a lot going for it, and bizarrely a surplus because the stock market went up so much and these zillionaires are paying more in taxes.
But it could bust.
At what point?
I don't know.
At what point?
Last time I checked, the NASDAQ's incorrection.
No, no, I get that.
But I'm trying, like, if you have you studied the history of Detroit on what caused it to break down, when a mayor, you know, started playing games with Dearborn and they started raising local taxes and regulation and the union got involved and started making a life hell.
So eventually they're like we're out of here and the next thing you know, the population went from one and a half million to eight hundred thousand and all those jobs left to different places.
Do you really think if that happens to Silicon Valley, it could happen?
And number two is, what causes that?
I'm gonna push one of John's buttons.
Yeah, here we go.
And in Texas, which is like California Central, because the influx is insane and it's nonstop, a lot of parents have actually started to leave.
Talking about strong unions, because the LA Teachers Union mandated that when they shut the schools down, that they also had to have the private schools close as well.
And the private schools are like, wait a minute, we've got the protocol, we can stay open.
And eventually the parents just threw in the towel and they're like we could afford to have stayed in California.
They weren't bending on critical race theory.
So a taxes b.
I want my children to have an education that I want for them to have.
That not that's mandated and dictated.
So I'm getting the hell out of here.
So California is hurting itself in more ways than just economically.
Incentivizing people to leave is all I'm saying.
Because when your union is that strong, like it was in Detroit, and you have you you, a public union, gets the power to close private schools.
I mean, come on, that's not it's, it's.
There's nothing American about that.
People put up with a lot.
Most people don't really pay attention to the stuff we talk about.
They think about sex and music and movies and sports and raising their families.
There's the expression that 90% of the people, 1% of the people, make things happen and 10% watch, and the other 90% wake up and say what happened.
And people don't notice that their taxes go up a little bit, a little bit, a little bit.
They just take it.
Yeah but Patrick, if you're, I mean, if you're reading correctly, they're talking about doubling.
Yeah but, but but.
But John, if you yeah, if you double so.
So let's do the math.
Let's just say I'm paying five thousand dollars in taxes and I'm making fifty a year.
That goes to ten thousand dollars.
My car payment is 320.
I'm gonna feel that like I remember when I'm making 40 grand a year, what $100 was?
I looked at $100 raise in a month.
I'm like dude, my phone bill's covered next.
That's fantastic.
So I felt a hundred dollars at that level.
But you're contradicting yourself.
I know I am.
I know I am.
I'm trying to challenge to see at what point do people leave?
That's what I'm trying to find out.
At what point does Silicon Valley just become a city, a valley, you know, and all these guys are gone.
What will cause them to leave?
I don't know.
Yeah, I think it's the same thing that happens in a relationship.
It's that we've all, I'm sure we've been in like relationships that haven't worked out and you get in a fight and it's like all right cool whatever, it's a fight.
And then you get another fight or whatever, and you're getting a fight and you're arguing and it's fighting, and then at At what point you're thinking, I don't know if I want to be with this person.
I don't know.
I don't know.
It just kind of keeps happening.
And finally, boom, something happens.
And you're like, all right, that's it.
I'm getting the, so it's not a one and done thing.
We got in a fight.
We're done.
It's the cumulative effect.
You meet someone else.
You see a nicer, sexier state out there.
Something like Florida comes and winks at you.
To your point, Patrick, though, I mean, at some point, you're going to get so frustrated that you're waiting forever to get into a restaurant because the support staff is simply not going to be there anymore.
Because you've expanded the social safety net to such an extent, right?
The only fourth stimulus check in America was in California.
Otherwise, the rest of the nation just got three.
And that was way too many.
But that was a state federal.
It was a state.
A state.
Okay.
It was a state.
But at some point, you're going to get so frustrated if you're a zillionaire that you don't have the service that you want.
You can't go to Napa Valley and go to your favorite restaurants and go to your favorite resorts because there aren't enough workers because the social safety net's big enough to capture them to where they don't have to work.
At some point, things start to fall apart.
It's just like New York right now.
I mean, you wait a lot longer at a restaurant for service and either you want to be there or you don't.
You know what this makes me think about is this makes me think about in the following way.
How many people can handle domestic violence?
How many marriages do you know where people are like, you know what, shit, this sucks, but I'm not going anywhere.
How many people stay in a marriage with domestic victims?
That was kind of my point with the relationships.
That's Adam's point, but you also have women's shelters that are constantly full.
So clearly, human beings hit their breakpoints or the women's shelters wouldn't be full.
So what I'm saying is I think California is a form of domestic violence to its citizens.
I think California is the best example of domestic violence.
And unfortunately, some are going to take it and tolerate it.
And some are going to say, I'm getting the hell out of here.
Unfortunately, the logic behind the politician, what's the politician thinking about?
What is the policymaker thinking about?
What is the policymaker thinking long term?
Like, what's this $163 billion going to do?
Like, you're going to treat more people.
We're going to help.
We have problems here.
And if we have this money, we can get more social workers to help the neglected kids.
They believe it.
Clean up the homelessness, everything that's going on in San Francisco.
I mean, we've covered that to a I mean, at least de Blasio left before he was able to set up the shooting up heroin tents, the safe spots.
Pat.
LA's already gone there.
This is a question for you.
Go for it.
And so I think this is ultimately where we're going with this, is that physically, John touched on this with the mountains and the oceans.
Physically, California is the most beautiful state.
But tax-wise and politically, it is potentially the ugliest state.
See what I'm saying here?
Would you agree with that?
Sure.
So you're like, you moved out of California, but it's for you.
It's kind of like you're dating somebody who's dropped at gorgeous, who is ridiculously demanding, and nothing ever makes her or him happy.
How long are you going to stay in that role?
That's my point.
You can brag about her in front of everybody else, but she's horrible to my friends and she's horrible to my family.
And honestly, she's probably also horrible in bed.
I'm just putting it up because I'm making sex on finances.
That's all that's on stage.
Our next show.
Volleyball and sex.
Anyway, so last night we went to dinner with one of his friends.
Sex in the vault.
We went to dinner yesterday with our friend Keith, and he had some depressing words.
He says, guys, we're 40.
And Adam is 40, about to be 41 on February 4th, right?
Is it February 4th or so?
Yeah.
So we only have 25 good years left in us.
I'm like, oh, my God, we're at dinner than drinks.
He's like, what are you talking about?
Yasu, like, I got a lot of stuff.
What are your thoughts about that?
I don't believe it.
I'm over 65.
And you're playing volleyball in Del Rey.
I hope to have good years left.
I love that response of John Stossel.
You might as well just cart the coffins into the vault here.
Seriously.
Okay, so now let's go to a different topic.
So John Stossel, you did a story on CRT.
Parents should care about CRT, right?
Let's go to page five with John Stossel, CRT.
Parents should care about CRT.
This is a tribe-life story.
Glenn Youngkin recently was elected.
Virginia is governor, partly because he promised to ban teaching of CRT.
CRT stands for critical race theory, which argues that every American institution upholds white supremacy.
Journalist Asra Noamani reveals some rather creepy CRT lessons that are taught in schools.
Nomani filed Freedom of Information Act requests that force schools district to reveal how they pay consultants to spread CRT.
We found 300 plus contracts, say Naomi.
Every day I'm getting a new contract.
Some conservatives want to ban the teaching of CRT.
That's not a good idea.
Government shouldn't be banning ideas of taking choices away from teachers.
Bans shield students from important topics.
A better solution is legalizing school choice.
Let parents take our tax money to school we choose.
Can you unpack that?
Well, start with the end.
If there's a market, everything is made better by competition.
And you look at New York, where I'm from, and you used to work, they spend more than $20,000 per kid.
If you do the math, that's $400,000 per classroom.
How many good teachers could you hire for that?
You ought to be able to hire four good teachers.
And this was not capital costs.
This was just what they put in to teach the kids every year.
So where does the money go?
Nobody can find out.
It's not just the union.
It's the administration, all that.
The bureaucracy.
And the PTAs get caught up.
The people who like going into windowless conference rooms and trying to figure out how to run other people's lives.
Unless there's competition that forces them to make some cut somewhere and to spend more on the right things that the parents want, it'll never get better.
I don't think the critical race theory stuff is a giant threat, but they have books like Woke Baby.
I mean, critical theory is a law school theory, but it got down to the teachers, and many of them believe racism is everywhere, which I think is nonsense.
There's more intermarriage than ever before.
And isn't that a measure of racists getting along if you are eager to marry someone of a different race?
But some kids are being taught that they are, if you're white, you're a horrible person.
And you stole from non-white people.
You did it.
Well, your parents did it and passed it down to you.
But you have this huge advantage.
And that's evil.
Do you believe in the power of affirmations?
I'm not sure what.
Power of affirmations, like saying, hey, you know, I'm going to have a good day today.
You know, be careful what you joke about, but be sarcastic about it, because the spirit stops having faith in the words that comes out of your mouth.
I'm meant to do something special with my life.
Do you believe in affirmations?
Do you believe in affirmations, Danielle?
I do.
Do you believe in power of positive thinking?
Sure.
Can we say we all agree that Norman Vincent People say an affirmation every morning?
Okay, I know you do, right?
Norman Vincent Peale, the power of positive thinking, New York preach, you know, pastor, all this stuff, right?
So I'm giving a talk, and I'm speaking in front of a group of kids and parents, probably a thousand people in the room, and I'm up there talking about how great this country is, right?
America's the greatest country in the world.
Like, you know, American exceptionalism, this is the greatest place.
And next thing you know, I see a couple of the teachers go like this.
And I'm like, okay, my job is to read body language.
This is what you do when you're speaking from stage.
I'm like, okay, curious.
I want to really talk to these guys afterwards.
So I don't even need to go to them.
They come up to me.
Listen, first of all, thank you for coming up.
But can I give you some feedback?
Yes.
You have to be very careful telling young kids a lie, like America is the greatest country in the world.
Do you realize America is one of the most racist countries in the world?
And she went off, right?
All these things about how horrible America is.
I said, let me ask you a question.
She said, yes.
I said, do you believe in affirmations?
She said, what's affirmation?
And I told her, I said, do you think it serves kids to think positive thoughts about themselves, about their families, about their heritage, about their country?
I think that's a form of manipulation.
Oh, really?
That's a form of manipulation.
Interesting.
So I shouldn't tell my kids, son, you can do almost everything you put your mind to, except some things that have physical abilities.
If you can't jump 46 inches, you're probably not going to be LeBron James.
Outside of some of physical stuff, you can probably do anything you want to do, right?
Is that a bad thing to tell a kid?
No, no, but that's not the point.
We have to tell people the truth about the fact that racism exists.
I'm like, ma'am, I just came and spoke at a white school and I'm from Iran.
Like, do you realize how you invited me and I spoke and I said how great your country is?
This is an example of how great America is.
Well, no, you haven't seen all the other stuff.
I haven't seen all the other stuff.
I was in the military, went to Kentucky.
Have you lived in South Carolina or Kentucky?
I lived in South Carolina and I went to a waffle house, which I don't miss going to Waffle House, right?
So I go to Waffle House.
This guy's looking at me saying, where are you from?
I said, what do you mean?
He said, can I just be honest?
I said, yeah, sure.
He said, I've never seen a nose like that in my life before.
I said, this is a legendary Armenian nose.
You cannot make these types of things.
You have to have genetics.
The guy actually said that to your face.
I said, you realize your pretty boy nose that you got, it cost me $9,000 to make it look like yours.
I said, you need billions to make yours look like mine.
All the money in the world is not going to.
So he starts laughing.
We start laughing.
I said, I'm from Iran.
He said, you're from Iran?
I ran.
I said, yeah, I'm from Iran.
He said, what are you doing here?
You know, and we're at this waffle house.
I said, can I whisper to you?
So it's not, I don't want people to know about this.
Because I'm in the uniform.
I said, listen, just between us, I'm a spy here.
I'm trying to spy and study all your military tactics.
I'm going to take it back to Iran.
That's why I'm here.
Seriously?
No, man.
I'm kidding with you.
He's running for his gun right now.
So to me, the biggest thing that CRT doesn't get is affirmations work.
And if you want to put negative affirmations, they also work.
If you tell hundreds of thousands of kids they're racist, by the time they're 18, they're convinced they're racist.
And it continues for decades and decades and decades soon.
And I think that's a problem.
I think it's a different approach we can take.
I may be wrong.
On the other hand.
There's people fighting their way into this country.
Give me a break.
Yeah, people want to come here.
But when the kids are older, it's right to teach them about some of the horrible things that America has done.
And it was just not taught to any kid when I was in eighth grade.
I mean, I think we all went to school and we learned about the Civil War and slavery.
I don't think it wasn't called critical race theory, but we were all very well aware.
That was a part of the world.
I know white people civilized America and rescued people from the savages.
That stuff was in my courses.
Was that wrong?
So vastly older than you guys.
But what wrong?
Is that incorrect?
No.
America did some racist, nasty.
No, no, but your statement is that white people civilized.
He's asking, is that wrong?
Because Lincoln, I think, Lincoln's not black, right?
Is he white or black?
Last I checked, he's still a white.
I thought he was a white guy.
He's not with us anymore, by the way, Adam.
The enlightenment.
Some tweeted the other day.
Western values civilized the world.
Correct.
And you're not allowed to say that anymore.
But it's just true.
I don't know.
Maybe Glendale High School focused on it, but I remember.
I grew up.
I grew up.
Now, I'm not going to lie to you.
When I was in high school, I didn't like white people when I was in high school.
Because what was sold to me was white people take advantage of everybody else.
That's what was sold to me.
And my teacher was white when she's teaching history.
What they did to blacks, what they did to rape.
You know, till today, you're not going to find an office of mine or anything of mine without an MLK picture on the wall.
Till today.
MLK is a hero too.
And obviously he just had a celebration.
So I don't know if the histories, unless if it's inaccurate and Lincoln didn't play a big role, then we have to talk about it.
I mean, I grew up learning that, you know, the horrors that we inflicted upon Native Americans when we landed here.
I mean, took all that, I mean, they've got like 1.2% of their land left.
But I mean, these are things that I learned growing up in school.
But I think we're missing a major point here.
When you say we did this, we did this.
We're all immigrants.
My family came over from Russia in the early 1900s, okay?
His family came from Iran.
I don't know if you're Jewish.
Your family probably landed on Ellis Island.
Your family's in town.
I don't know.
I mean, unless you're like original OG Jamestown WASPI English from 1600s, we all immigrated from countries where we had to get the hell out of because we were getting persecuted, whether that was religiously or economically.
And we had to make a move.
So when we, white people, how many people are just straight white people that just landed on Plymouth Rock?
You know, like the old Malcolm X, I didn't land on Plymouth Rock.
Plymouth Rock landed on me.
So the old white people thing, I just think, is just a blanket statement that just actually doesn't hold water to most people.
Am I wrong on that, John Stossel?
No.
And also, slavery was ended by white people.
Most college students now think America created slavery, started it.
Now you're contradicting yourself, John.
I like to do that.
You do.
So why are you teasing me?
Keeping PBD on his toes.
Keep going.
Keep going.
It was the British more than we, but even people from Mexico who ended slavery.
But it began in the Middle East.
It was perpetuated all over Africa.
And somehow white people are the bad guys.
And it continues to this day in various parts of the world.
The world.
Six countries.
Let's not forget that we killed Gaddafi, and now there's a giant slave trade in Libya.
Let's not forget about that.
That's your point with that.
To his point, slave trading is still on today.
There are thousands of slaves being traded in Libya after we bombed and assassinated Gaddafi.
So we shouldn't have killed Gaddafi?
Are you advocating for us not to have killed Gaddafi?
It's a voice of God called Gabir.
You may have a good point.
I don't think we should have killed Gaddafi.
Tell us why.
Because we brought the country into chaos.
Gaddafi had backed off.
He understood that we had his number.
He had backed off.
He wasn't the terrorist he was 10 years ago before we assassinated.
And look what happened after he was gone.
The country has fallen into complete chaos.
And it's often justified by this idea of American exceptionalism.
We go into all these other countries and tell them how to run things, and we make it worse.
I mean, an even worse example than Gaddafi is what's happened in Iraq.
We prop up these Qaddafis, these Husseins, Saddam Husseins, as these boogeymen.
These are horrible people.
We got to get them out.
And next thing you know, it creates this vacuum.
Boom, ISIS, boom, slave trades in Libya.
So it's like, what are we trading?
One, you know, what is he, just a complete leader, totalitarian is the word I'm looking for, for basically a complete psychopath mindset that ISIL brings.
These are three different issues, by the way, that we just combined together.
And Tyler completely threw a little bomb in there and confused everybody.
Yeah.
No, but to the point of what is time with Libya, should we be involved?
Should we not be involved?
I would say, you know, that whole stat we did with how many military bases we have versus China around the world.
Do you know how many military bases U.S. has around the world versus how many China has?
I'm not a guest.
I don't want you to say that you know.
Do you know what the number is?
90.
How many U.S. has worldwide versus China?
How many do you think China has?
I don't think five?
How many do you think U.S. has?
Thousands.
Okay.
U.S. has 800 military bases worldwide.
China has one.
And it's by the, what do you call it?
Djibouti, baby.
Djibouti by what do they call that?
Suez Canal, but there's the oil, you know, that whole section is what they have.
They have one military base.
U.S. has 800.
We have 30,000.
No, that's the tip of Africa, the northern part of the world.
30,000 soldiers in Korea, 30,000 soldiers in the UK.
Cam Casey is one of them, yeah.
Japan, 40,000 in Germany.
Didn't we win those wars?
Why are we still there?
South Korea is rich.
It could defend itself from North Korea.
Well, we might find out this weekend why there are some in Europe.
But Native Americans play out.
We've mobilized a ton of the Navy there, but I don't think anything happens.
And there are massive amounts of the Navy headed straight there.
And we're going to go to war over Ukraine?
Doesn't sound like it.
Either somebody wasn't briefed or somebody gaffed at the podium.
So, John, what should we be involved in?
What should we not be involved in?
Should we be involved in anything?
Direct threats to the United States.
How about direct threats to allies of the United States?
Well, we have to because we signed the NATO treaty.
But these treaties, which sound wonderful, we're going to have a safer world.
It means we're obligated to go to war for people we may no longer like.
How do you mean by no longer like?
Maybe you sign the treaty when one government's in power and it totally changes.
But once government does something, it never undoes it.
Back to your original question about direct threats, or your point about direct threats of the United States.
Wholeheartedly agree.
Look what happened in 9-11.
That was a direct threat.
Next thing you know, we'd end up in Afghanistan for 20 years.
Longest war we've ever been in, and that's been a disaster when they pulled out a little premature.
But at what point is that direct threat just continue and continue and continue and continue to the point where it just makes no sense to be there?
Well, part of the threat continues because they hate having our troops walking down their street.
How would you feel if some Chinese soldier in uniform is patrolling your neighborhood?
Would hate it, of course.
We want to kill them.
But wait a minute.
That's not always true.
It's not always true.
I'm sorry.
I disagree.
That's not always true because there are many countries who feel safer with seeing our troops walking around than their own troops walking around because there is that abuse.
Tyler, had we maintained a presence in Libya, do you think that this would have degraded to the extent that it has?
No, I don't think it would have.
But, you know, to the point, I think when you're the largest superpower in the world and the number one superpower in the world, it is your job to play police officer, to keep people in check and to keep a sort of world order.
I mean, and let's not forget, that's what these military people sign up for, is to maintain peace and essentially save the world.
I mean, that's what they sign up for.
I agree with you and I agree with John.
This is the part.
We're going to call today's shows the contradictions.
The sea of contradictions.
There are contradictions.
And at what point does a non-direct threat become a direct threat?
So Russia moves into Ukraine.
All right, it's not a direct threat.
Well, what if they keep moving and advancing and eventually move into all of Europe?
Then does it become a direct threat?
At what point do these threats switch to where it's on our radar?
Yeah, I mean, back in 1938, they were like, 1939, they're like, okay, all right, Jeremy, you can have Czechoslovakia, but you better stop there.
No Poland for you.
And Britain had to go it alone, but they gave him, they were like, okay, we'll let you absorb one little country.
But when you give a little inch, you know, you never know how these things are going to progress.
And there's something to be said for China watching very closely.
I sent you an article last night.
There's something to be said for watching very closely to whether or not if Putin does something, is this going to be seen as an opportunity for Xi Jinping to do something with Taiwan?
And to have a coordinated effort.
Look, Putin and Xi Jinping don't like each other.
They're not like hanging out on the weekends.
Oh, you don't think that they're not buddy buddies.
No, they're two egomaniacs.
But that being said, you know, if you're talking about kicking a country when it's down or taking advantage of a point of vulnerability, then why wouldn't you do it at the same time?
Would you say that Putin and Xi or even China and Russia are more closer to allies or foes?
I would say that their interests are aligned.
Right.
You're saying who?
China and Russia?
China and Russia.
They have to get along.
Economically, they're interested in.
It's kind of like U.S. and Mexico.
U.S. and Canada.
Let me ask you, who do you think they hate more?
Do you think Russia hates America more or China more?
Oh, America.
Okay.
So China, you think China hates Russia more?
America more.
Okay, so that's the enemy of my enemies.
And most people on mainland China believe exactly what they've been told their entire lives.
And that's that Taiwan is legally part of China.
So let's finish this, folks.
Let's go through all this stuff, the sea of contradictions that we had.
Number one, CRT.
John says, let them teach it because it's a form of capitalism.
If some schools do too much of it, parents are going to take their kids to a different school.
That's CRT.
Now, the challenge with that is if my kids are going to public school and I can't afford it, I can't afford to take my kids to another public school because there's a zip code and all these other things you're dealing with.
I'm a little screwed there, John, if I can't afford to take my kids to private school.
No, it could be public school choice.
Think if you were assigned to your supermarket by your zip code, it would be the supermarket would have no interest in pleasing its customers.
Yeah, New York, but there are opportunities, I think, to revamp the public school system.
No, no, but are you okay if they say every public school in America is going to come and impose a CRT philosophies on the young kids, then what do you do?
You and I can take our kids to private school, but the average person making 52 is going to say, dude, I can't go to Delaware, it's still CRT.
I can't go to New York, it's still CRT.
I can't go anywhere.
I don't think you would ever see something like that nationwide.
I think that the Virginia gubernatorial election taught us that.
And if the parent was, if the money were attached to the back of the kid and you had a system where, oh, that school gets the 20,000 if I can lure those parents, this would never happen.
Yeah.
Regarding CRT, I don't think anything should be banned, right?
Nothing should be banned.
However, I do think there, like, for instance, I wouldn't want my elementary school kid learning about CRT.
I wouldn't probably even want a middle school kid.
But at some point, 11th, 12th grade, I think it's open it up.
Let's have open conversations.
You're about to get ready for the real world.
There's going to be a lot tougher things you're going to deal with than a CRT class or a as long as you're teaching both sides of every story.
That's true.
But if you don't want the government to just ban things, you're big fans of DeSantis, and I am in many ways.
But what about his saying, it's kind of like no one may teach critical race theory.
No one may say in this school, we demand you wear a mask.
That seems totalitarian.
To also not allow kids to wear masks at certain schools.
Yeah, not if the school chooses it.
Let them do it.
Well, since the Supreme Court ruled, since the Supreme Court ruled, look how many companies have abandoned their mask mandate.
Yeah, so by the way, while you're saying this, let's transition into what Boris Johnson just said yesterday.
If you want to pull up that video, we covered a lot of different topics here.
We found out Abraham Lincoln is white, which is breaking news important.
If you want to make that bigger, this is Boris Johnson.
He just said his three days ago.
Go ahead.
Mandate the wearing of money.
Rewind the litter.
The government will no longer mandate the wearing of face masks anyway.
Mr. Speaker.
Wait.
Mr. Speaker.
Are they bullying him?
Mr. Speaker, from tomorrow, we will no longer require face masks in classrooms and the Department for Education will shortly remove national guidance on their use in communal areas.
In the country at large, we will continue to suggest the use of face coverings in enclosed or crowded spaces, particularly when you come into contact with people you don't normally meet.
But we will trust the judgment of the British people and no longer criminalize anyone who chooses not to wear one.
The government will not.
He just saved his Heine.
What do you think about that, John?
I think British people just sound smarter because of their accent.
Yeah, trust people.
If you compare the states, and my last video is about that, how there's just no pattern.
States that don't require masks, like Florida, they get smeared.
Oh, more deaths in Florida than any other place.
And the slimy media does this by mentioning Florida when you have a bad month and ignoring Florida when the numbers are good.
Florida is number 19 in deaths, and Florida has more old people.
So Florida's doing pretty well despite having totally different rules.
And there's just no patterns.
It's the third largest population in the country.
New York, New Jersey did really badly, and they have tough rules.
So can you say, well, locking people up makes increase the problems from COVID?
No, because there were fewer deaths in California and they had horrible rules.
So there's no pattern.
And everybody acts like, oh, yes, if you only do this, you will solve it.
But we're never going to solve COVID.
It lives on in animals.
Are we going to require lions and tigers to wear masks?
We have to deal with it.
It's a bad look.
So bad look.
Lions look good.
They need their mouth.
What would you say, Danielle?
I think that we're learning that common sense, as Prime Minister Johnson said, that common sense should prevail.
I mean, if you're like in a really crowded subway car in New York and you don't have a mask on, then in the event that you've got me, minor lupus, and I get COVID and it takes my ass down.
Hi, I was in a crowded subway car with people breathing all over me.
If I'm walking down the street or if I'm in a store by myself and it's not crowded and I don't have my mask, fine.
How's it going?
Is it going to come up and jump and get me from someplace across the street?
No.
Where I live, they're wearing masks outside.
I know.
I'm in New York on Tuesday.
That's the freakiest thing about New York is that there's such a fear factor.
I was in Los Angeles recently and there are people walking on the streets, empty streets of Los Angeles, downtown Los Angeles, in masks.
And I'm like, what do you think is going to get you?
You're outdoors.
I mean, that's what I'm saying.
Government shouldn't brainwash people out of having any common sense.
And that's what we've seen in America.
And elsewhere.
Austria just mandated vaccinations.
But fear is such a powerful motivator.
And as a consumer reporter, I was eagerly covering every scare that came by.
Red dye number six, asbestos from hair dryers.
Tylenol.
Tylenol.
White 2K, it's going to crash all the planes.
That's kind of like the new thing, this G5 they're talking about.
One after the other, none of it happened.
You're going to get brain cancer from your cell phone.
The killer bees are coming up from Mexico and they're going to sting at you.
What they said about putting metal in microwaves, that was true.
Well, that's true.
You laughed.
I made you laugh.
Oh, my God.
That's the joke.
That's the one that made you laugh.
The metal and microwave jokes?
Oh, my gosh, Darling.
Tough crowd over here.
Don't put metal in the microwave.
So it's true.
But we fall for it again and again.
It's fear porn.
Fear porn.
I like that.
That's a huge hashtag on Twitter.
Yeah, fear porn.
I like that.
So it's no longer, what's the porn hub is going to be fear hop, right?
For all my Twitter followers, PBD is getting to be really active on Twitter.
So all my Twitter followers, you better be following us.
Wow.
Thank you.
So by the way, this is how I see it.
I see it from the element of should some people be micromanaged?
Yes.
Mentally ill, helpless people.
Who else?
Who else should be micromanaged?
I got four kids.
Who should be micromanaging?
Okay, good.
Girls who could fall into a swimming pool and die.
I totally agree.
How level of micromanagement should we treat toddlers?
At what level?
Is that 100?
The highest level possible.
I agree, right?
And once they're girls.
Boys should be micromanaged more than girls.
Once they're mobile?
Oh, gosh.
Tell me why, by the way, I'm packed up.
Why boys need to be micromanaged more than girls?
Because boys are stupider and crazier.
Their frontal lobe does not.
No, But you're not microphone.
We develop later.
You do.
Male's frontal lobe develops by the age of 25.
They're actually physiologically idiots until 25.
Some until 50.
Some until forever.
Just all depends.
Don't I know it, Danielle?
It's tough out here.
We're going to get you to procreate one of these days.
And when it happens, I want you to go full speed ahead and make up for the lost time.
I'd be very happy to know that I'm practicing every weekend, and then when it's ready for game time, I will let you know.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Here's one example.
When I finally refused to do the scare stories on 2020, somebody came in with big lighters are exploding in people's pockets and setting them on fire, and they've killed four people over the past four years.
And it was true.
And 2020 did the story.
When I refused, they got Bob Brown to do it.
But when I looked at the data, you see that 10 times as many are killed by plastic bags.
We don't do stories in plastic bags because they're too ordinary.
And 200 Americans are killed over that time by buckets, five-gallon buckets, mostly because two-year-old toddlers climb into them and manage to drown.
And most of those are boys.
Where were you going?
Let me tell you where we're going.
At what point should you micromanage less?
Like, what age should you micromanage kids less?
I tell every parent, the minute you don't have to have eyes in the back of your head and your kids can swim in the ocean, you're going to cross a Rubicon to a higher level of freedom.
Okay.
Will you ever be 100% not needing to watch what your kids are doing at any age?
Hopefully, if you've raised incorrectly, then they have independence.
But watch where I'm going with this.
Out of your four kids, five kids, three kids, could one need more management than the others?
Yeah, the three boys.
Okay, fine.
So here's where it goes.
Then the question becomes the following.
Should the president or the government trust what percentage of people to make the right choice for themselves and others?
Meaning, you're not going to commit suicide.
You're not going to hurt yourself.
That's going to hurt others.
Or you're not going to hurt other people.
What percentage of America should the president and the government trust?
And the rest we micromanage.
What percentage?
Do you understand the question I'm asking and where I'm going?
There's levels of line.
No, no, no, guys, I'm going to – I'm trying to make a point here.
So what do you think is a – But now you've crossed a constitutional line.
Now you've gone into a different vector.
So tell me what that means, because my question is fairly simple.
What percentage of America should we trust that's going to make the right decision that's not going to hurt them, their family, their peers, and the people around them?
And which ones should we micromanage?
Well, I think the word liberty is coming to mind.
Yeah, but it's in a great big document.
Well, listen, to me, prisons are a form of micromanaging.
Jails are a form of micromanaging.
Those people need to be micromanaged because you killed somebody, you committed murder, you stole.
Again, what percentage should we micromanage and what percentage should we trust?
According to New York's new attorney general, none.
That's the point.
What do you think that number needs to be?
John, I'm actually curious what somebody like you would say to that.
What do you think that is?
2%.
2%.
I don't like you saying that the president should micromanage them.
The president is.
Government, local, state.
Okay, let's stay there.
So let's take the president.
Government, state, local, you know, cities, all of that.
So you said 2% needs to be micromanaged.
Okay.
Okay.
Do you know what the answer to this question says?
The answer to this question will tell the world where you lean politically.
The answer to this question will tell you where you lean politically.
I'm convinced.
Because if somebody says what?
Ask this question today, folks.
If you're having lunch with your friends, forget about that.
Just ask them.
I heard on a podcast today that they were saying this.
What do you think that percentage is?
You will see.
If a person says 50% needs to be watched, well, you know where that person leans.
They want big government.
If a person says 1%, those people trust people.
To me, it eventually gets to a point where you ever heard of these kids or these girls or the boys that are raised in a family that's hardcore micromanaging.
What's the first thing they do when they go to college?
Like Catholic school girls.
They blow themselves up.
Are you kidding me?
Like, they run a, you know, it's like it's.
They last a whole semester before they're like, I was drunk the whole time.
What the hell just happened?
You actually had to go into the classroom?
I think this is a prime example.
Boris Johnson, they've been micromanaging their people.
And America right now is trying to micromanage its people.
And what Biden is telling and the administration is telling in some of these states like California, New York, what they're telling their people is we don't trust 99% of them.
I'm liking the new mayor of New York.
I mean, he's only been there for five minutes, but I'm liking Eric Adams saying we're not closing the city.
You got mayor, you got governor.
You got two different issues.
Pat, let me give you a different perspective.
All micromanaged in some capacity, meaning you can't just run red lights.
You got to stop at stop signs, you typically have to wear a seatbelt, you kind of got to pay your taxes.
You can't murder.
We're all like there's different levels of in some states.
It's not just one big free-for-all.
No, it's not.
No, it's not no no no, it's not.
No, it's not.
Here's how this works.
Hey son, here's the guidelines in this house.
Go versus.
What'd you do?
Where you at?
What are you doing?
What's this?
Why'd you do this?
No, go over here.
That's.
That's micromanaging, aren't micromanaging?
Those are guidelines you create.
Yeah, and then you hope the people live by those guidelines.
Aren't guidelines?
Laws are laws.
Yeah, but if you constantly keep creating new laws over and over and over again, what you're.
Trying to say is, I don't trust the people.
In a family with a lot of laws, things break.
Okay right, one or two or three, fine.
When you overregulate kids or overregulate people, you piss them off and they turn against you.
You gave the story of the Catholic schoolgirl.
I did the sascast yesterday.
We had the pretty girl Jen, on and she was.
She had older brothers and her brother.
I go, oh, you had older brothers.
Uh, good luck out there.
She goes.
Yeah, they gave me a list of guys that I couldn't date in high school.
Here's a list of 10 guys you cannot date.
She goes.
I dated every single one of them.
I go what goes.
You don't tell me what to do.
I mean, that's a form of micromanagement, your older brothers telling you who you can account.
So so Adam, I think I think Patrick, John and I are going to agree on something as parents.
What's the hardest thing to do as a parent when your kid does something wrong?
What do you tell them if you're a one percenter as opposed to a micromanager?
God, i'm sorry you made that choice.
That just sucks, sorry.
And you walk away and the consequences be what they may.
And that's how you teach guidelines right, Patrick?
I'm sorry you made that choice.
John, I always said wife, would you handle this?
Is Danny all right in the, in the, in the looseness that she governs her household, or is there a lesson, if there's a real consequence, meaning like hey, better luck next time, that's the approach?
I'm asking you.
But this, this is a problem now.
I mean, we're over micromanaging these kids and now what do we have?
Safe spaces, nobody can get hurt, nobody can put on their own.
I mean, this was um Trophic Culture, the coddling of the American Mind.
I forget who wrote it, but but he he, the author, started a movement called free range kids where he lets his kids at 10 12, 11 or 11 10 12 13, walk to the subway, walk to their friend's house he doesn't know where they're.
At 24, 7.
I mean miners getting on airplanes by themselves and flying like uh, Tom Zenner with Dash.
Remember the time?
The first time we met came out of nowhere.
He's like, where were you at?
I was surfing okay cool, 10 year old, 10 years old yeah, just running around southern Manhattan yeah so so okay, so.
But then you give them independence and then they're.
It doesn't matter what the government tells a kid who becomes independent.
When you raise their mind, you're like, sucks, you made that choice sorry, and whatever.
You turn off their phone you, they don't get to go out for a few days, whatever.
Whatever privilege they lose, they lose.
But you're like sorry, you made that choice And you walk away.
And then your kid can be surfing on Manhattan Beach and they're going to be okay because you've taught them how to be okay.
Yeah.
As opposed to constraining them to where they need a damn safety dog and safety space, all that.
I'm not going to use an ugly word, but you know.
Can we look at one more contradiction in that you talk about jailing people and where's the right level?
And now you've got places like San Francisco where they don't arrest anybody for stealing up to $900 and people are stealing all the time.
And even the mayor now has said, we're going to stop this bullshit.
We're going to have more aggressive policing.
And I agree they should.
On the other hand, America locks up more people than any other country by far.
We have 4% of the population of the world.
We have 25% of the people.
That's nuts.
But by the way, if you've been to Alcatraz, they got a wall with all the stats of the fact that here's how much money you spent, here this, here's that, here's that, and how America leads in incarceration.
And that becomes a training ground to turn a criminal that was a three into a six because you're going to go there and learn how to commit crime in many different ways.
And you get the playbook from the best of the best, right?
It's a total criminal.
It's like going to school to become a bigger criminal.
But the spring train.
But John, you know what you just did?
No.
You just even strengthened my argument.
And I love you for it.
You're so amazing.
Because my point is to try to micromanage more people is not effective.
My kid yesterday screwed up.
I got a call from his principal.
So I go in and I say, how you doing?
Hey, dad.
I'm like, you know what?
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I'm like, let's go in the other room.
I said, so what happened?
Just tell me the truth, buddy, because you know these guys are going to tell me what happened.
I know, here's what I did.
You're probably disappointed in me, huh?
I know you would be.
I'm like, this guy, I'm trying to say, no, I'm not, son.
I love you.
And I'm like, that's, you know, I mean, you know the decision.
That's not easy to do.
That's not the right move you just made, buddy.
You know that.
That's not the right thing.
He says, no, I know that, and I'm really disappointed in myself.
How are you going to fix this, right?
And he goes into this whole thing about how you're going to fix it.
What did he do?
Nothing.
But the principal called because he talked back and some of the, you know, he was talking while they're taking the test and he was talking to them.
Anyways, I mean, obviously, to me, that's nothing from a 1.8 GPA community.
But for the 4.2 to PGPA community, that's a big deal, apparently.
And it's fine.
We want them to have better grades.
And so I talked to him.
I'm like, okay, here you go.
You know, if you choose every opportunity to discipline your kids, that's going back to everything is a crime.
It's too much.
I don't think that's a good idea.
I think you made a mistake.
Let's train you.
Let's teach you better habits.
Let's give you different opportunities.
But, you know, I don't think our administration today and many states in America, I don't think they trust their citizens to make the right choice.
I think they want to try to be everyone's mommy and tell them what to do and what not to do.
And eventually people are going to burn out.
And leave.
Yeah.
And by the way, you know what's crazy?
A lot of people that are moving to Florida, they're Democrats.
And they're staying Democrats.
But they're Democrats who don't want to be told what to do.
They're Democrats who are like, just trust my decision-making process.
I've never committed a crime in my life.
Why do you treat me like I'm a criminal?
I mean, leave me alone.
Look at this absolute campaign against Joe Manchin.
I mean, how many ad dollars have been spent by the Democratic Party attacking this Democrat?
700, yeah, I saw it.
Jesus.
I mean, but he's speaking for the silent majority in the middle of the country.
Can I make one point about this?
We're going to move on.
So some of the three most powerful words in business or in anything in marketing are things have changed.
Someone taught me that when I was doing cold calling for my financial firm and I couldn't get through to people and they said, use these words.
Things have changed.
And it's like, oh, what's changed?
Well, you know, the comp structure, the marketing, the capabilities.
But things have changed with COVID.
You know, we're going to lock down for two to four weeks to control the curve.
We're going to implement these laws and mass mandates and all this.
But clearly, things have changed.
And we can't have the same exact rules that we operated in 6, 12, 18 months ago that are moving forward.
So when did Boris Johnson make this speech?
Two days ago.
Okay.
So clearly things have changed to the point where he's like, all right, we are no longer going to do the mandates, the requirements that have been done because things have changed.
We're starting to live with COVID.
The living in fear of COVID is now gone.
People are tired of wearing freaking masks.
Things have changed.
So you've got to adapt.
Adaptation is the key to life.
Things have changed.
Why are they laughing in Parliament?
I don't know if they were laughing per se.
I heard applause.
I heard relief.
No, no.
The first one was laughing.
The second one was applause.
Oh, those are the ones wearing the masks in the house.
I don't know if the first one was laughing.
The second one was applause.
I know what he's talking about.
At first, when he said, we're going to remove the mask mandate, they were laughing.
They're all laughing behind their masks.
So why it is, look, here's the other part I got to realize.
First of all, question becomes newsome.
Do you trust the judgment of Californians?
I'm curious.
Do you?
Do you trust the judgment of Californians to make the right decision for themselves?
Or do you trust that you make better choices for Californians than they do?
And Mr. President Biden and Kamala Harris, do you trust the judgment of the American people?
Or do you think you're better at making decisions for us than us?
That's the real question.
Do you think we can make the right decision for ourselves?
Because I think right now, here's the right move.
And I predict this is what's going to be happening in the next 30, 60 days.
I think 30, 60 days, you're going to hear the same exact thing.
You're going to hear a speech from Biden, and the media is going to run with it.
He's going to say, due to our policies and what things we did with COVID, boosters, all this other stuff, and the help of Anthony Fauci, we are now removing masks, and we are now this, this, this with kids, and we are now doing this with schools, and applause.
Oh, my gosh, because midterms is around the corner.
Do not be surprised if Joe Biden gives the same exact speech.
And by the way, I thought that's what's going to happen yesterday with his press conference, and it was going to be a victory.
And it became the complete opposite.
Yesterday was an opportunity for them to do the same thing.
You understand what I'm saying?
Like, he could have had the same kind of a situation.
Hey, let me tell you what we're doing.
Due to this, we're doing this.
But nope, they stuck to their guns.
And a UK is now making progress, and America is not making progress.
Oh, and the economy is slowing really fast.
So he can say whatever he wants in 30 to 60 days.
If some of the trends that are emerging continue, it's going to be irrelevant because his supporters are starting to get hit where it hurts.
But your key point in that, Pat, was that they're going to do it because of midterms.
That's it.
Not because they trust the people.
Not because they believe themselves.
Right.
They want a nanny state.
I mean, and this is the exact debate we're in, the elitist versus the Commonwealth.
With all due respect, both sides do it.
And that part, I'm not going to sit there and make it a Democratic thing.
I think Republicans do it, Democrats do it.
When they see all of a sudden midterms are coming and some policies are not working, they have to pivot quickly.
But here's the point.
What does a great coach do in the middle of a game?
Call an audible.
You make pivots.
That's good.
You should do that.
Hey, the people don't like your policies.
Pivot.
So the right thing they should do is they should pivot.
But will they pivot?
That's the question.
We don't know.
How do Republicans want a nanny state?
I didn't say Republicans want a nanny state.
You said both parties.
No, what I said is the fact that Republicans sometimes see a policy that they introduce that didn't work and they get backlash, then they pivot.
Okay.
And then the Democrats say they're only pivoting because they're scared of losing midterms.
You're right.
So that's a both sides thing, not the nanny state thing, the fact that they pivot on their policy.
Let's go to the next story.
Let's go to the next story.
So we talked about CRT, which led to all these other stories.
Let's go through a light story here that maybe there's, I don't know, this could get heated, folks.
So just brace for impact because this could get very, very emotional once I go through the story.
I'm hoping everybody can handle this in a civil way, but it's not up to me.
I can't control people.
I trust people.
That's my problem.
Okay.
All right.
So Living Magazine.
Most of us prioritize our pets' physical and mental health over our own.
A new study finds.
Can you put that link up so we can all see it?
New survey reveals that the lengths of people will go to care for their pets, including acupuncture therapy.
Three in five pet parents think the pandemic has increased their Fury PAL separation anxiety.
A survey of 2,000 cats and dog owners found that 59% have also gotten or have considered getting an additional animal companion for their existing pet.
Of those who bought, brought or considered to bring in a new furry friend home, roughly three in five did so to keep their first pet company 58%, to teach them how to interact with other pets or animals or to improve their socialization skills.
When it comes to emotional support, seven in 10 say that their pets actually rely on their own stuffed animals.
Conducted by one poll on behalf of the Spot Pet Insurance, the survey also found that it takes an average of five and a half months for a new pet to start acting odd.
The most reported odd behavior are making loud noises, hiding from avoiding others, and jumping.
Do you agree with this article?
Do you agree with this article, Adam?
How often do you take your cats to acupuncture?
I think this article is singling out dogs.
Cats getting acupuncture.
I think this article is singling out dogs.
I don't know.
I see dog owners.
They walk them in strollers.
They have backpacks for their dogs.
They're putting their dog.
Nancy spends $100 a month on dog outfits over here.
Like this is a, I don't rarely see cat owners like this.
I'm considering getting one.
Thank you.
But the reason that I like cats, I've been very open about this, and the reason I have two of them is so they can hang out and I can just peace out for the weekend.
I'll see you guys in three days.
You guys take care of yourself.
I'm not specialization.
I'm not going to micromanage you guys.
I trust the science.
I trust you guys to take care of yourselves.
I'll see you in three days and I'm out and I'll be back.
Now, if you're a dog owner, how many dog owners have to cut short whatever they're doing?
I got to go walk my dog.
I got to go feed my dog.
I literally bring my dog to the office.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, and you literally need to stop.
But I get it.
So how many people here bring their dog?
Nancy brings her dog.
David brings her dog.
Every time.
Cats are way more independent than dogs.
It's true.
It's true.
Just out of curiosity, do you have any pets?
You said you guys have a dog because your kid is allergic to cats, right?
Yes.
Okay.
Do you have one or two?
One.
How about yourself, Danielle?
Littermate, Bassett Hounds.
Dumb as rocks.
Great dogs.
How many dogs, Danielle?
Two.
Two Bassett Hounds.
Two dogs.
How about yourself, Tyler?
I got two dogs, and they're both.
We can't leave the house for five minutes.
They will lose their minds.
Seriously.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Maybe you should consider acupuncture.
Yes, I see that's where I'm headed.
I have two cats.
And you've got what?
I got two intimidating shihsu.
That's what I got.
And then you had one.
You had a third dog.
Yeah, which one.
That lasted how long?
One month because he was biting the other two.
And Melva and Tico and everybody couldn't handle it.
Hot sauce.
Eric is hot sauce.
Eric is favorite.
That's right.
Hot sauce.
But is this a waste of money?
By the way, a part of it, like I remember the way we got Jimbo is Jimbo came and jumped on my lap.
I said, I want to take this dog home.
I said, and I feel bad to separate the brothers.
I'll take the other brother as well.
I think they need company.
I think dogs need company, right?
Just like, here's a question.
Let me ask this question.
Not to make comparisons of human beings and dogs.
John, I hope you don't get offended by this.
Full disclaimer to everybody out there.
How many of you in here are an only child?
John, you're the only child?
Danielle, you're not Tyler.
You?
You're an only child?
Yeah, basically.
My siblings are 12 years older.
So yeah, I'm basically the only children.
You're not really.
You're not an only child.
Basically 12 years old.
David, are you an only child?
No, sir.
How about Adam?
You're not.
You got a sister general.
Yeah.
So what do you think about, you know, nowadays, the conversation, like, we're just going to have one kid.
Do any of you have an opinion of having only one kid and being an only child?
Do you have any stories, testimonies, any opinions on it?
I dated an only child once.
How sweet was he?
A little bit too sweet.
Clingy?
He was well taken care of his entire life.
And I hope that he married, I don't know, maybe a nurse.
Yeah.
Somebody very caring and giving with her time.
All of her time.
What does that mean, Danielle?
Unpack that a little bit.
I think she made her point, buddy.
You know?
He was a little clingy.
He was a stalker.
No, no, he needed attention.
He needed a mommy himself.
He needed a mom, not a wife, in other words, is what he needed.
John, how many kids do you have?
I have two kids.
And this is one thing that's researchable, unlike the so-called study from a company that sells pet insurance.
I don't believe that.
Nobody's a good person.
That's the consumer.
That's the consumer investigative journalist calling them out right there.
But we once tried to look at who does well in life: the only children, the large families, and there really was almost no difference except.
Except firstborns and lastborns did better in areas you could measure like school than the kids in the middle.
And who knows why?
You haven't met my middle.
The firstborns get more attention.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
And the lastborns get what?
More freedom?
Maybe.
I don't know.
They totally get more freedom.
The middle kids are just kind of stuck in the middle.
Clowns that left me jokes.
Let's overgeneralize.
You did it, John.
What do you mean?
You're forsaking your study.
There was a small difference.
Okay.
That's a fair criticism.
Yeah.
And you keep contradicting.
You're taking yourself.
They overgeneralize.
By the time the youngest comes around, you're just like, oh, whatever.
Eat it off the floor.
I'm sorry.
You're in the middle of the highway.
By the time the youngest comes around, if there were four of them, I mean, you're just like, whatever.
By the way, who's listening to this and it's an only child?
Like, if you're listening to this, and you know, as an only child growing up, as an adult, did you say, I wish I had a sibling?
Like, did you sit there and say, I wish I had a sibling?
Or did you say, no, I was good.
I had friends.
I had cousins.
I had, you know, people around me.
I didn't need another sibling.
Are you shocked to hear his because I think you were basically inferring that an only child would lead to lesser success in life?
Is that where you're going?
Because you're basically saying that's not true.
You look at Kennedy's, right?
You have Joseph, who was the most ambitious, who died in war as a pilot, right?
But the father was named his oldest son after him.
And he thought he was going to be the one that's the president.
And the kid that had back problems, health issues his entire life, the youngest, who wasn't ambitious, who never had aspirations of being a president, he ends up becoming a president.
So the dynamics are very weird when you look at it.
He wasn't the youngest.
He wasn't.
He was the second, but he was the number three, I think he was.
Because Robert was younger, I thought.
Yeah, no, I think he was the second youngest, but I think there's no.
But he wasn't the designated one.
No, nobody thought he was.
He wasn't chosen.
Even Robert, they thought Robert was more ambitious than John was.
Can you say how many presidents we've had that say a only child?
Have we had any only presidents only child?
Is Elon Musk only child?
He's not.
He's got a brother.
I've got a brother.
He's got a brother.
That's right.
That's right.
How many presidents were only children?
I'm actually curious now.
None.
No presidents have ever been the only child.
George Washington, Franklin, Roosevelt, George, Clinton, Barack Obama had half siblings, but no full siblings.
Okay, so maybe that's a form of only child, Washington, Franklin, FDR, Ford, and Bill Clinton and Obama.
But I don't know.
I don't know.
You know, my opinion would be for what it's worth.
I think there's competition in having more than a kid, more than one kid.
I think there is things you learn.
I think you have an edge.
It's only rivalry terms.
It teaches you how to deal with rivals in the world.
Yeah, I mean, Jordan became Jordan because his older brother, Adrian, would punk him and bully him.
and he says, I'm going to get better than you in basketball.
Rashad Evans yesterday said he became a fighter because his older brother would say go fight that guy.
So, I mean, I don't know.
I'd like to research this John Stossel study that he just claimed here.
Show your work, John.
Show your work.
It's a famous Thomas Sowell point.
You want to see my work?
You got to watch Stossel TV.
I do.
I do.
I'm a fan.
Go subscribe to his channel.
Go ahead, buddy.
Stossel TV.
I was just going to say, this is a Thomas Sowell point that he's been making for years when they talk about equity of outcome.
And it's all about your circumstances.
To John's point, a big thing is the first children usually do better.
They're smarter.
They're more taken care of.
More attention is given to them.
That's why you can't ever have equality of outcome, in a sense, because it's all about your circumstances.
I just did a famous only child.
Famous only.
Is that the right word?
I typed in famous only.
You typed in only fans, by accident.
No, I typed in.
10 famous only children is the proper English.
Isn't DuckDuck Go great that we can just get answers to questions on our little phone for free?
You're saying as opposed to Google?
Well, both of them, but I was plugging it because it's less evil than Google.
But it is.
We should stop and thank, I guess, the inventor of, we should thank the Apple creators because it's great.
I waste so much time on my thing.
Oh, you're saying DuckDucko or Google.
You didn't just, that was not a shout out just to DuckDuckGo.
By the way, list of only children.
Lancel Armstrong, only.
He's by himself biking.
Maybe that's not another team player.
Frank Sinhatra, only child.
The greatest.
Natalie Portman, only child.
Robin Williams, wow, only child.
Tiger Woods, only child.
Laura Bush, only child.
Teller of Penn and Teller, only child.
What is this proving?
This is a shit.
Why are you making this complicated, dude?
Tear show, you can see.
Robert De Niro.
Only child.
Only child.
What about Musk's point?
That if everybody just has one child, the world is kind of screwed because who's going to keep rudely living longer and demanding that the state pay all our health care bills?
You're on fire today.
You start off disagreeing and then you validate the state.
We've just had the birth rate in the United States.
We're going to have to have John move to Florida.
We're going to have to have a conversation with John's wife and figure out what it's going to take to move them to Florida.
Possibly a taste of the people.
You say when the Democrats move here, they resent, they stay Democrats.
They just don't like the nanny state.
Why don't they become libertarians then?
Yeah, not all of them.
Or independent.
But they are.
They are.
You have to realize.
First time I sat down with this guy and I met him and I started talking to him, you know, he was in a completely different place versus where he is today.
He says if DeSantis goes, he would consider voting for DeSantis, even though he's a diehard Trump fan.
No, you're not sarcasm, John.
Just in case your poker side didn't catch that.
But yeah, so let's go to the story with Elon Musk and what he's talking about.
I think that's just a perfect segue into it.
Elon Musk laments the declining birth rate.
If there aren't enough people for Earth, then there definitely won't be enough people for Mars.
This is an insider story.
Elon Musk says people should be concerned about the population collapse.
There's people that talk about depopulation.
This guy's talking about overpopulation.
He wants more kids, not less kids.
Musk shared his worries in a series of tweets on Wednesday following a general decline in birth rate amid the pandemic in the U.S.
The birth rate fell 4% from 2019 to 2020, marking the country's lowest number of births since 1979, which I thought they would have had more kids because you're spending more time with your spouse.
Musk is aiming to put humans in a settlement on Mars.
He said that SpaceX will land humans on the planet with its Starship rocket in five to ten years.
But if the demographic crisis doesn't let up, there won't be enough people for Mars.
He said last month, Musk, the father of six, said that unless people have more children, civilization is going to crumble.
Adam, your thoughts?
Because I know this is very personal to you.
Well, you said you thought that more that people would have more kids during the pandemic because they're home alone.
Didn't you?
Everybody was talking about people.
Maybe more sexually, but I'll tell you that there's nothing sexy about a pandemic.
There's nothing sexy about masks.
You literally had to social distance.
So I don't know if you weren't going to meet up people at bars.
You weren't going to.
It wasn't conducive to procreation.
But I don't know.
Okay, look, is Elon a visionary?
Yes.
Is he the richest guy in the world?
Yes.
Is he just a complete beast?
Amazing.
I don't get the Mars thing.
I'm just, I don't get the obsession with Mars.
I would rather him focus on improving Earth, the only planet we've ever known and probably will ever know.
I've done some reason.
You know how cold it is on average in Mars?
You know, let me throw some stats your ways.
Mars is further from the sun than the Earth, okay?
It's a very cold planet.
The average temperature on Earth, 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
The average temperature on Mars, minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
He's taking heaters, though.
He's taking heaters, though.
How long do you actually think it takes, assuming people get on rocket ships, to get to Mars?
How long do you think?
To get to Mars from Europe?
I have no idea.
Seven days.
Seven days?
I thought it took a half a year if you're lucky, and it takes a year on average.
That's what I thought it was.
People get upset about doing 16 hours from New York to Dubai.
You think you're going to enjoy your one-year flight, buddy?
Enjoy that.
I don't get it.
If the flight's going to land, nobody's going to be alive.
They'll have killed each other by then.
100%.
People are freaking out on planes these days because if you don't wear a mask, they're fist fighting right now.
What's going to happen on a year-long flight to Mars?
But I think they're supposed to cryogenically do something to where they knock your ass out for the first six months of the trip.
Okay.
Or he'll invent something like a fax machine.
We'll just be teleporter.
You're talking about teleporter.
Yeah.
Okay, now that's like an 80s reference.
Now teleport.
John's actually going back to Star Trek.
I assume that's a temperature.
You're talking about temperature.
You talk about six to 12 months.
What else do you have to do?
There's very little oxygen.
You can't really breathe.
It's basically mostly carbon dioxide.
Obviously, here we're oxygen.
I mean, that's what we breathe here.
And here's another little fact.
Plants can't even grow on Mars.
So this obsession with Mars sounds amazing.
And obviously, I've been very vocal that I think Elon Musk is literally trying to bang aliens.
Hence, why he made his girlfriend dress up as an alien and get alien tattoos, and then he broke up with her.
People have different fetishes.
I don't know.
That's his fetish.
He broke up with her, so he's a single dad of six kids.
Six kids.
Yeah.
Yes, they are no longer together.
Grimes, she was like nine years old anywhere, right?
She's younger than nine years younger or nine years old, John.
She was nine years younger.
She was 30 years younger.
Okay, she was much younger.
The point is, I wish that he would use his amazing knowledge and double down on green energy and Neuralink and everything that he's doing here.
And just, we're not moving to Mars.
Do you think he hasn't thought of this?
Like, do you think he's going to watch this podcast and be like, you know what?
I'm not going to go to Mars.
I don't think he just made a great point.
I hadn't realized that it's that long.
Yeah, I mean, that's a great point.
Maybe he's the wealthiest man in the world and he wants to keep his share price up.
I just, I think it's a distraction, the Mars thing.
But he's just trying to make sure that he maintains his mystique.
Exactly.
That's why his stock price is a good thing.
Thank you.
Wait, wait, wait.
Let me ask you guys a question.
Let me ask you guys: Do you think this Mars thing is just a troll like he's bullshitting?
No.
You think so, Patrick?
Partially, yes.
You think he's trying to elevate his stock price?
You guys are so funny.
I'll be damned.
You are so funny.
You think this guy's joking?
You think this guy's joking?
I actually don't think he's joking.
Okay, good.
I don't think he's joking.
Do you think people will be living in Mars by the time Elon Musk dies?
Let's say he lives to age 100.
I don't hold anything away from that guy.
So that's it.
You're believing that we're going to Mars.
Dude, I don't know.
Sorry, sorry.
Sorry.
I had a little extra coffee today.
What I'm saying to you.
What are you trying to say, Patrick?
What I'm saying to you is, I think that guy is determined to do that.
What seems very interesting to me, this was a story about not enough kids being born, and you were concerned about Mars.
That's a completely different thing.
That's the highlight.
But there aren't enough people on Earth.
How are we doing?
Adam, you can do so much more, though, yourself.
You just got to put your mind to it.
I would say the kids.
I would say this.
Actually, more than your mind.
I think Elon Musk is extremely aspirational.
I think Elon Musk, I fully believe what I'm about to tell you.
I think he believes he would come out with a better foundation than what America was founded on.
I fully believe that.
Like, I think he looks at the Constitution and says, I agree with 92%.
Here's 8% of what I would have changed.
Look at what's going on in America today.
And I think he'd love to run a country.
I think he'd love to run a community of millions of people.
Like, he'd love to be a president.
He can't do that in the U.S.
And he was born in South Africa.
And he would love to go to a different place to do it and prove that his case study works.
That look at the kind of an environment I created.
I think his ambition, he's that confident in his philosophies.
I think that's the angle.
And he's going to do that in Mars.
I don't know if he's going to do that.
All I'm saying to you is in his mind, if I'm speculating by a country if he wants.
I mean, if he really wants to put his mind to it, he can go.
He can buy an island.
He can go buy a country.
I didn't say an island.
No, I'm talking about a big old country.
John, what do you think?
He's going to buy a big country.
I think he was joking when he talked about Mars, but the math is just the math.
There aren't going to be enough young people to pay into the fund that pays Medicare and Social Security.
And it's getting worse the less we procreate.
So, your encouragement to the youngest to go procreate more?
Well, my daughter is procreating.
How many does she have?
It's a tough one.
She has just had one and she was going to have another, but she has the assets to make it possible.
And people have individually better lives when they're struggling if they don't have a whole bunch of kids.
People used to have a whole bunch of kids because half of them died.
And the others were working on the farm.
We're needed for that.
Now, it used to be 90% worked on the farm.
Now it's 2%.
That's why we have summer break, I believe.
And yet, when you see what's happened in the fields, you know, in a post-CARES Act world, a lot of the smallest businesses in America, why are they still open?
Because they were family-owned and family-run.
You know, but there is this whole thing about: do I really want to have kids?
Okay.
I talk to a lot of people who flat out say, I don't know if I want to have kids.
I don't know if I should have kids.
I don't know if I want that responsibility.
I don't know if I want to raise my kids in today's society.
I'm concerned on what it is to raise a kid in today's society.
You know, there are really a lot of people that are coming from a place of I don't want the responsibility, and I don't want to be able to raise kids in today's society.
Plus, the climate crisis is going to, the world will be unlivable.
12 years from now, the world's going to end, based on AOC, which is a factual statement she made that if we go at this pace, I don't know if you can see it.
Is she still here?
Sorry.
Yeah, she's still got 15 million followers on Twitter.
Her message is spreading.
She could have left with de Blasio.
I mean, that would be like a buy one, get one free.
No matter how much people say about her, she keeps getting bigger and bigger, and her audience keeps climbing in that youth.
She speaks well and she's good looking.
She is articulate and she is pretty, and I'll give you all that, but all of the legislation that's up on the hill seems to be failing.
Okay, so to you, is this really a concern to you, what Elon Musk is talking about?
Meaning, so do you think this is so serious where there should be a campaign to inspire folks to have more kids?
Or do you think this is a do you think this is a financial reason why people are not having more kids?
Do you think this is a responsibility?
I don't want to have more kids.
What do you think this is?
Well, there already is a campaign.
Just look at China.
China had a one-child policy for how many decades?
And now they're encouraging having more than, I think you're allowed to have up to three kids in China now.
India laptop them.
Their biggest.
Exactly.
So China has 1.3 billion people, and they've been limiting the supply of kids, supply and demand, economics.
And there's basically, what's the average age of people in China?
India's way younger than them.
So now they're basically approcreate, procreate, procreate.
And they can't get the people to do it because they're like, I want to make sure that I've got the financial wherewithal.
And I only think that I have that for one child.
And a lot of Americans who are of a younger age and see housing prices as being off the rails and the ability to, I mean, if you've got the means, if you've got the wherewithal, fine.
But a lot of people are like, you know what?
I can only really afford to bring up one kid.
Yeah.
I can't move to the kids.
Is there anything wrong with that?
Is there anything wrong with that?
With that thinking?
With that thinking?
No.
Okay.
Perfectly logical.
I'm with that as well because I don't think you ought to have more kids if you can't afford to have more kids.
Of course not.
But I also think if you have the money and the resources, I think you ought to consider having two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight kids.
I think you ought to think about that.
10, 12, 14, 60.
I also think there is going to be a millennial baby boom because, you know, millennials are waiting longer to have kids.
A generation ago, you would have kids at age 21, 22, 25.
All right.
Okay.
We're going to have to go.
Now millennials will wait till 30, 35.
Yeah, but by definition, that means that you can't have as many.
So, okay, let's go to the next.
You still have two, three.
I mean, it doesn't have to be limited by one.
But the economy has to be able to lift everybody up right now.
And the way that we've been forming economic policy in this country, you're going backwards.
You're basically saying it's the economy stupid.
It is the economy stupid.
There we go.
Danielle and I agree.
Okay.
I want to give a shout out to a couple people.
Betzina, Mosia Chivly said, Reason TV is the bomb.
John says it like it is.
I agree.
We should focus our efforts to fix Earth, but we do need everyone doing that.
But do we need everyone doing that?
I think not.
Next one, another super chat.
John, I wanted to pay my dues.
Thanks to you, I have found my love for Austrian economics.
I'm now operating my own blockchain startup thanks to you.
And after today's podcast, I plan on having seven kids.
The last part was me.
The last part was me.
He didn't say that.
I'm just joking.
I'm giving you a hard time.
By the way, Rodolfo Ramirez says something very interesting.
He said, if you can teach CRT in school, you should also be able to teach religion in school.
That's an interesting perspective.
If you want to let CRT in, why don't we let religion in and Bible in school if we're going to go that route?
Anyways, okay, let's go to the next topic here with President Biden on what happened with the press conference.
Did you watch the press conference?
Did you?
No.
And wasn't it two days ago?
Two days ago, yes.
Danielle, were you able to watch it?
I watched some of it.
I did watch some of it, the highlights, yes.
Okay, well, then let me read a little bit of it, and then you guys tell me if you caught any of it.
Oh, I've got a really special part of it that I want Tyler to pull.
Perfect.
So Biden's press conference was an utter disaster, says New York Post.
If President Midas press conference once it was supposed to inspire confidence, it failed horribly, even though he spent most of it clearly calling on reporters from a list of safe questionnaire provided by his staff.
He stumbled and bumbled and all too often made no sense at all.
Plus, he repeated his bizarre whisper-shout gimmick to emphasize certain points when what it actually emphasized is his age.
His answers on Ukraine were particularly confused.
The issue is pretty straightforward.
Vladimir Putin is threatening an invasion and will do it if he thinks he can get away with it.
At the least, he'll try to get the West to bribe him by promising him much of what he wants without any fighting.
But then, too, he ought to say Putin would win albeit at a heavy price.
The cost of going into Ukraine is a terms of physical loss of life for the Russians.
They'll be able to prevail over time, but it's going to be heavy.
Anyways, there was a bunch of different things that was discussed.
His own State Department during the press conference was sending out clarifications to what he was saying because he was contradicting the State Department's plans that were public.
And his own State Department was like, oh, sorry, he just made a boo-boo.
Yeah, they asked us, so, you know, he just said that he believes there's going to be meddling in the midterms for elections.
And Asaki's like, well, no, that's not what he said.
What he was trying to say is, no, no, his words.
Yeah.
He said there's going to be meddling in 2022 midterm elections.
That's not what he meant.
And then Kamala Harris was pushed on it as well.
She got really upset.
And even morning, Joe, your guy came out and said Putin and G see this and they see Biden as weak.
They don't see him as a strong leader of a country.
But what was your biggest takeaway watching the press conference?
Look, if this article was written by the Washington Post or something on CNN, I think it would have a lot more credence, and I understand that the – Hey, Bloomberg was reporting the same kinds of – I mean even the liberal media has gotten pushed to the point where they're like they've got to recognize some of these gaffes.
Yeah, there's no doubt that the guy is sort of a stumbling, bumbling, you know, gaffe machine.
But then again, so was Donald Trump.
And that's why Biden was elected.
Biden was elected not because he was going to be some superhuman hero to transform America.
It was because he was not Donald Trump.
What's a whisper shout?
When he's like, hey, listen, John Stossel, you come at me, buddy.
I'm going to challenge you to a push-up contest, buddy.
That's a whisper.
Yeah, and I'm yelling on the inside.
Stossel, me and you are playing volleyball, buddy.
That's the whisper shout.
Thank you.
Okay.
I also think that the media, Biden doesn't do much to get a lot of media attention like Trump did.
So the one thing that they will get the media attention is, look at him.
He's an old stumbling, bumbling fool.
Okay, cool.
They'll get some clicks.
I mean, you worked in media forever.
But Pat, I actually want to get your thoughts on this one comment that he made because he was talking about basically he's touting his infrastructure and basically no surprise medical bills.
And he basically said the words, we're not going back to lockdowns.
We're not going back to school closings.
He said these words.
Hey, look, man, I'm a capitalist.
But sometimes, but capitalism without competition is not capitalism.
It's exploitation.
So the fact that Joe Biden came out and basically called himself a capitalist.
Stop.
I think that's a what?
Stop.
Why am I stopping?
No, no, no.
Like, what I mean is stop.
You know, because, you know, I can be 400 pounds and tell you cheesecake's not good for you.
You know, you should stop eating cheesecake.
What provoked him to say that?
What was the question?
That was part of his speech.
I didn't see him answering any questions.
He's being attacked by the middle of his party for trying to promote socialism.
Yeah.
Well, look, the fact that he even came out and said that, you got to applaud him for saying, look, I'm a capitalist.
But even capitalism has some issues.
Well, then why don't you try and back some capitalist policies?
Hey.
I agree.
First of all, listen, let me simplify something for you.
Okay.
The other day we showed the Steve Harvey deal, right?
What does Steve Harvey show?
Steve Harvey showed that the difference between the reason why Dave Chappelle can get away with anything is because he's got what?
Subscription.
Subscription, not sponsors.
He says not sponsors.
When you're sponsors, you can't say everything, right?
Okay.
Is Biden a subscription model or a sponsorship model?
Sponsorship.
Okay, then he's not going to say what he's saying behind closed doors.
He's going to say, Pfizer, don't worry about it, bro.
I just have to say that so I can get the people's confidence.
But we got you.
I still need your $48 million on my campaign.
Don't worry about it.
So subscription model on who became a president or who had a shot of becoming a president is the following names, just so you know.
Not sponsorship.
Whether you like this or not, Sanders was a subscription model.
Obama's first term was a subscription model.
Trump's first term was a subscription model.
So don't give me this bullshit about AOC.
Yeah, AOC is a subscription model.
This ain't about left or right.
This is why I respect Sanders because he's a subscription model, okay?
This guy is not a subscription model.
This guy is a sponsorship model that has to say whatever the money people tell him behind closed doors.
And that's most of the presidents we've had in the last few days.
That's most politicians, to be honest.
Yeah, but this is why people liked Obama and they wanted Trump and they wanted Sanders.
That's a subscription model.
It couldn't be bought.
Guys, this is not about policies.
This is just telling you $5, $10, $20, $40.
88% of our donors are $5 donor.
88%, you know, those statistics that they say, these guys cannot say that.
Remember that one time?
Who was the person that was being interviewed?
Oh, you know what it was?
It was Tucker had Jim Jordan on.
And I don't know what's Jim Jordan, who it was.
Actually, I do think it was Jim Jordan when Tucker said, hey, can you, all this stuff that you say about Google and all this other guys, can you explain to us why you took a majority of your contribution is coming from Silicon Valley?
I don't know if you remember that or not.
Jim Jordan.
I thought it was Jim Jordan.
I'd like to verify this.
I don't want to put his name out there and defame his character if you can verify that.
But the point is, the moment you go that route, okay, and you take money from Silicon Valley, you can't sit there and say, this censorship bullshit that they're doing.
Yes, Facebook, I'll take your $100,000, but this sucks.
Stop it.
Stop it.
You're acting on what you're doing.
Yeah, I said it right.
Who is that?
Is it Jim Jordan?
I was right.
How long ago was that, by the way?
Can you pull that up and say that?
That's a year ago.
Yeah, a year ago.
I remember that.
So that to me, the moment that, and I'm a Jim Jordan guy, I'm like, wait a minute.
You're taking money from these guys, yet you're bashing censorship.
So that's what I mean by stop it.
I may be wrong.
No, I think it's a valid point.
I like the analogy that you did with the subscription versus sponsorship.
These are a lot of sponsorship presidents we got here.
Please, John.
I disagree that they're doing it for the money.
I think the main motivator is what will people like?
What will make me popular?
What will not piss people off?
The money is secondary.
Okay, I disagree.
Here's why.
You do that on camera.
You're right.
You're absolutely right on camera, for sure.
1 million percent you're right.
But camera is Hollywood.
Behind closed doors, sitting down doing deals, that's real life.
All right, but we were talking about this in the context of the news conference.
Sure, I get that.
But he was explaining it from a standpoint of saying, what do you think about the fact that he said this?
I'm a capitalist.
But at the same time, you know, sometimes capitalism without competition is exploitation.
You're right.
So every time you raise minimum wage, who in the behind closed doors goes like this?
Amazon says, do it again.
Walmart says, do it again.
We don't pay anybody $15 an hour.
People just want to trash us.
Do it again.
But the small guy that's sitting there running a restaurant says, I have no clue how the hell am I supposed to pay this waitress from $7.25 to $15 an hour and tips and restaurant.
My burgers are going to go from $8 to $19.
I can't afford to do that.
Yeah.
Big businesses love it when they raise minimum wage.
So yeah, that's what I mean by exploitation.
These are the guys, politicians are the guys with their policies that eliminate competition.
If you leave people alone, competition will typically take care of itself, minus the monopoly side, which has kind of happened lately.
I think we would have discovered this by now, that people would understand.
Look at Hong Kong.
They went from third world to first world because the government left them alone and people were free to compete.
15% flat tax.
And the British rulers sat around and drank tea.
Left people to pursue their own affairs.
And that took them from poor to our level of prosperity.
Our level of prosperity today or back then?
I'm talking 10, you know, now China's wrecking it.
Sorry, my former employer is about to pull the plug on this thing, so the Federal Reserve.
But to pull the plug on liquidity, on what makes markets go, hmm.
And they make you go, hmm.
What do you mean by that?
January the 1st, they increased the reduction of purchases into the market.
They doubled it, so now they're at $45 billion less that they're – They're reversing the quantitative easing.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And they'll be finished by mid-March, and it's fully anticipated.
And then what happens is that there's so much political Biden at his press conference said it's time for the Fed to take care of inflation.
Not mine.
It's not our worry.
That's the Fed's purview.
But your tone of voice says you like the quantitative easing.
No help.
No help.
You don't know, Danielle.
That's DDB right there.
No, I wrote a book called Fed Up Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America After Working There for Nine Years.
No, no, no, no.
Oops.
No, but it's, I mean, it's hysterical that the Biden administration is placing all of the blame on the supply chain disruption.
I mean, you can't even make this stuff bump.
By the way, like, you know, this whole thing with Dubai, right?
Dubai Emirates suspends flights to several U.S. destinations on 5G concerns.
This is a Reuters story.
The move is due to operational concerns associated with the planned development of 5G mobile network services in the U.S.
The company said that the destinations include Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Ward, Houston, Miami, Newark, Orlando, San Francisco, and Seattle.
We are working closely with aircraft manufacturers and their relevant authorities to alleviate operational concerns, and we hope to resume our U.S. services as soon as possible.
The carrier said the White House said earlier on Tuesday that it wants to reach a solution on 5G development that protects air safety while minimizing disruption to air travel.
How much of this really is 5G?
How much of it is protecting a different messaging that's happening behind closed doors with traveling, with vaccination cards?
How much of it is, you know, where do you think this story lies?
John, I'm going to go to you first.
I can't answer any of those questions.
It's fear porn again.
Again, it's Y2K.
The planes are going to crash.
But isn't 5G already in use?
Yeah.
And the airlines are.
The airlines aren't crashing.
Major U.S. airlines have already told the FAA no.
They've told him no about what?
About shutting down, right?
Exactly.
Meaning what, though?
They're going to shut down flights?
They're not going to.
No, big American airlines, the FAA was like, we've got to figure this 5G thing out.
And it's scrambling your, it's not safe for you to be in the sky.
And American Airlines were like, not American Airlines itself, but big American airline companies, right?
I got you.
No.
I got you.
Play this video because Tyler's got this video that he wants to show with 5G.
Again, folks, this is just a video.
I don't want you to lose your mind.
It's just a video title found.
Go ahead.
So, and then the caption here is the FAA published 1,400-plus notices to airmen about 5G and international airlines.
They were canceling flights.
They warned pilots not to use their radio altimeter at more than 80 airports in the U.S.
It just drives the gauges wild.
Yeah.
It scrambles him, but you're assuming the pilot can't fly the plane.
And that they won't adjust to this.
Well, he can't fly the plane if he doesn't have his gauges and he doesn't know where he's at and his altitude and whether he's not, if he's straight and level, if he's in a bank, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Then why haven't we seen planes come down?
Yeah, how do I know that's just not a faulty radar?
That's just something that, how do I know that's because?
Because you're right, David.
That's why I said, you know, this is just a video that Tyler found online that's showing that.
Let me throw some stats your way because 20 major airports have basically created a buffer zone.
The major airports in New York, LA, Miami, Orlando, DFW, in Dallas, Seattle, Philly.
I mean, there's 20 airports that said you cannot have 5G within two miles of our airport.
Okay.
And I'm not the 5G expert.
How are they going to stop it?
I don't know.
They can't have towers.
Yeah, you're restricting towers.
Exactly.
But basically, where it comes into play is not so much when they're flying around in the sky and they're 10 miles up in the air.
It's regarding the landings.
It's when they're closer within 1,000 feet of the tower is what they're worried about.
And then the airlines of the pilot unions, which are not exactly always seeing eye to eye, they're actually lockstep on this.
They're on the same page.
They're basically in 100% agreement that this is basically something that they need to be very weary of because essentially this comes down to safety over speed.
I mean, what's the point of 5G?
It's basically these cell phone companies are basically putting up 5G so you can download your porn even quicker or communicate even quicker.
Not you, John, obviously not you, but it's safety or speed.
And, you know, I think right now we're doing pretty good with the 4G, with the speed.
The 5G is going to make it 10 times, 100 times faster.
But look, we've got a pretty damn good record.
We've got a very happy medium of protecting the airspace in the immediate vicinity of the airport, then okay.
Yeah, well, we've got a very good record of safety on our airline.
I don't think any major U.S. airline has crashed in the last decade, even longer.
U.S. airlines, domestically, 100%.
So safety is a major concern.
I mean, people get scared if there's some turbulence on a plane.
Now, if there's a plane that flies off the runway, God forbid the Hudson type things happens again.
So it's a safety thing.
I'm not the 5G expert, but basically when you see the airlines and the pilot unions basically on the same page, that should be a telltale sign that they're very concerned about this.
And then we've found a solution.
What's the solution?
The buffer zone?
Yeah.
Okay.
I mean, I've had 5G on my phone all over the country for the past few months.
I looked at it and I'm like, I'm on 5G right now.
Do you have strong feelings about this 5G, Pat?
But I doubt.
I bet when I'm close to the airport this afternoon, when I'm headed back to DFW, that the 5G disappears.
I don't know.
You go to these doctors and they say, do you have a lot of headaches?
I do.
Do you wear the Apple? Earbuds?
I'm like, I do.
Well, we're getting a lot of people that are coming here saying they get a lot of headaches from wearing that.
You may want to stop wearing that because of whatever radiation they're talking about.
I'm like, okay.
Is there 100% there?
I don't know.
They've been talking about stuff like this for a long time.
They would talk about if you live near towers, cancer increases.
I mean, it never has proven true.
That's what you said earlier.
I think we got to get a good investigative journalist.
I think we know one that can go out there to these people.
He plays too much volleyball.
It's not going to happen.
He plays way too much volleyball.
It's problematic.
So let's go.
I got three other stories I'd like to get to if we can make the time.
So U.S. Senate Democrats fail in bid to pass voting rights bill.
Okay, another Reuters story.
Adam, I just want to make sure you're happy with that.
It's a Reuters story.
President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats suffered twin legislative defeats late on Wednesday in their push to toughen voting rights protections in the run-up to this November's midterm elections.
That will determine control of the Congress in 2023.
And back-to-back votes late on Wednesday, Senate Republicans, first block Democrats moved to advance the voting rights legislation toward passage.
It was the fifth time in less than a year that they did so.
They employed the decades-old filibuster rule to stop the legislation, which requires a cooperation of at least 60 to Senate, 100 members to keep bills alive.
The Senate currently is 50-50 split.
Enlighten speed, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, then moved to revamp the filibuster rule by lowering the 60 vote to 50.
By this time, it was not Republicans, but Schumer's own Democrats, conservatives, Joe Manchin, and Kristen Sinema, who put the final nail in the coffin by voting against the rule change.
They finally tally on limiting debate on the election reform bill for 951.
52 to 48 vote, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, so do you care even about this story?
No.
Okay.
So this story, the question I have is, what are Democrats trying to accomplish with this?
They're just trying to get a talking point out there.
This is nonsense.
To make people think Republicans are shutting voting down, which they really aren't.
They aren't.
So this is a non-story.
But speaking of shutting things down, can we talk about Facebook shutting me down and my suing them?
Facebook shut you down?
I did a piece on is global warming really a horrible crisis?
Got 24 million views on Facebook.
And now they won't show it to anybody because they hire these fact checkers from the Pointer Institute, this leftist group, which is, I think, run by the St. Petersburg paper here in Florida.
And they justify it by saying, well, our fact-checkers found your story incomplete.
Well, it's a five-minute TV piece.
Of course it's incomplete.
And the fact checkers say it's wrong because Stassel said this.
They put what they say I said in quotes.
And it's not what I said.
They took a quote from someone else or made it up.
And when we point this out, they don't change it.
They're lying about me and so far in the court case, that one headline that you just put up.
Uh, they said, well, our fact checkers are really just opinions so you can't sue us, but they call them fact checks.
Former FOX Business, UH host, John Stassel sue on Facebook, alleging that the social media company won that's controlled, contracted fact-checking organization, defaming him when it flagged two of his videos alerting viewers to missing context and partly false claims.
The lawsuit also claims that Staso's professional reputation has been significantly and irreparably damaged by the false labels and statements since Estaso left Fox business.
He's been releasing videos on various social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
And the endeavor has apparently been somewhat lucrative, has made around $10,000 a month from Facebook alone.
My news model is based on social media.
Our company's showing you videos.
He said on Facebook, but when Facebook fact-checking label appeared on two videos, Staso alleges that his ad revenue from the platform was cut by 45%.
Interesting.
So is this done with?
Is it still going?
Is it still pinning?
It's still going.
These cases take a while.
And I don't care about the revenue, but Facebook used to be my main outlet in reaching millions of people.
Now it's YouTube because once these idiot fact-checkers, Facebook just gives up the power to them.
We don't like this.
We think climate change is a bigger crisis than you implied, so you can't say it.
Are you friends with Dennis Prager?
I like what he does.
We're not personal friends.
You guys have never spoken?
Years back, we bought it.
No, only reason I ask, I'm not trying to find a conspiracy here between the two of you.
I'm just saying, like, he sued YouTube, and they had an issue that they went back and forth.
I don't know if you've spoken to him and his wife.
Yeah, but it was a lot of good information came out of him losing.
The rest of us learned a lot from it.
I don't know if it may not be a bad idea for the two of you guys to speak.
So their argument really was that you didn't necessarily misrepresent your, it was a quote and the whole story wasn't given.
So because of that, we got to take this 24 million view video down.
They basically three million is a real number, by the way, on Facebook.
On Facebook, of course.
24 million down to zero.
Who's the Facebook guy that you interviewed?
The Facebook fast-checker.
Yeah, yeah.
He was not a fact-checker.
He was not a fact-checker.
He was moderator.
Yeah, he looked at things that they would take down and things that they wouldn't take down.
And that revealed a lot.
He was a guy that worked for Facebook, telling us some of the systems.
And the guy got emotional in the interview.
I couldn't work at Facebook anymore because of what was going on.
But he wasn't working for Facebook.
He was a dependent, third-party organization that moderated.
So a lot of these guys are third-party people that are not necessarily Facebook.
Almost all of them.
Moderators are kind words for censors.
And it's a tough job because you want to keep child molestation off and direct threats of violence.
And so these poor guys have to view all this creepy stuff all day.
Minus this.
As the Supreme Court said, you know pornography when you see it.
That's what the Supreme Court said.
We're talking about the difference between censorship.
Well, again, you know it when you see it.
And I believe in the Supreme Court's ruling that censorship is a whole different matter.
But John, we've obviously seen a lot of censorship and things being taken down regarding regarding vaccines.
We've seen that.
Right.
And I think that's not regarding.
But they can do it legally.
But they can't lie about me.
They have every right to do what?
To take down anything they want.
It's their discretion.
Yeah.
Their company.
Yeah, they've got to be aware of that.
They've made it very clear that if they don't like what you're saying about vaccines, you're cut.
This is the first I've heard about global warming, though.
And you think that you're suing them, but at the same time, you actually agree that they can take it down?
Right.
But they can't lie about me.
They took it down and they say, I said this.
I didn't say this.
We contacted the reviewers for the censors.
He's familiar with the defamation of character position.
His position is not a, you can't take the video down.
That's the argument that he's making, okay?
That's hurting his reputation as somebody that's been doing this for decades.
And because I'm former real reporter, when this stuff came out, we called them and said, would you talk to me?
And two of them agreed to interviews.
We showed them the piece and they said, well, if you thought we criticized this because we saw it, no, we never watched it.
I mean, what the hell?
Did they make a public announcement?
Did they say anything?
Did they give you an email?
Did they give you words?
Did they write about it somewhere where we chose to take this down?
Was there anything that they came back with to protect your reputation?
I'm confused by who the they is.
Facebook.
No.
Facebook just doesn't respond.
They say we leave it to the fact checker, appeal to them.
And passing the buck.
And letting the people be their own judge.
Letting the fact-checkers just decide if they're right or wrong.
And of course they say, we're right.
This piece doesn't make people understand the climate crisis.
Well, listen, since you don't like to be controversial, I want to read one of your non-controversial stories here.
John Stossel, is it time to abolish the FDA?
Unethical to deny Americans of life-saving drugs.
This is a real clear politics story.
Thousands of people per week continue to die from COVID-19.
Yet America's FDA stops people from taking drugs that might save lives.
John Stossel weighs in.
Stossel, I'm surprised that we haven't heard more about new drugs that make COVID less of a threat.
One drug reduced the risk of health, death, or hospitalization by 89% in trials.
The media probably doesn't report on them much because you and I aren't permitted to take them.
The FDA makes everyone wait until the drugs meet the urgent agency's rigorous standards.
But while we wait, thousands die, abolish the FDA.
That's your position.
Yes.
They've justified having the right to ban drugs from thalidomide from many, many years ago when this bad drug got on the market and hurt people.
And that's happened sometimes.
But when they, and by the way, this drug now is available.
They did speed the process at least.
But when they say, this new drug will save 10,000 lives a year and it takes 10 years to get it approved, that means they killed 10,000 people last year and the year before.
But they don't count in the media reporting or in government thinking.
Yeah, this has been going on for generations.
I mean, multiple generations, where people have gone to Europe or other countries where their equivalent of the FDA is much more expeditious in getting these drugs to the pipeline.
So if you, again, if you have the means, then you go to another country and you get the drug that you know that you need that's going to save your life.
If you don't have the means in your America, you die.
And it's not like if you abolish the FDA, everybody's going to take bad drugs and die.
It's new things will appear.
Consumer reports underwriters' laboratories.
Some people will get suckered and will die and will learn from that.
And in the long run, more people will live.
So you are in the school of thought of trust 99% of people to make the decisions for themselves.
It goes back to that same thing.
It's our body.
And if I'm dying, shouldn't I get to try some new drug?
As opposed to waiting for a broken bureaucracy to deliver a decade later.
Current system doesn't trust you to make the right decision for yourself.
Right, in many areas.
Yeah, in many, many areas.
Okay, last one here we'll do.
China Xi threatens catastrophic consequences if China is confronted.
They just seem like the friendliest people out there.
This is American military news.
During the speech before the virtual only Davos World Economic Forum, Xi said that the world needs to move away from what he called the cold world mentality.
Xi also appeared to criticize Western nations which have been adopting economic policies and forming alliances around countering China.
For example, the U.S. has adopted the Uighur Forced Labor Act to bar imports from China's Xi Jiang region, which are suspected to being produced through the forced labor of Uighur population.
The U.S. has also stated that international efforts like the Clean Network, which seeks to build network infrastructure using only trusted technology companies while excluding companies like China's Huawei, in September, the U.S., Australia, and UK also formed a new defense of technology sharing agreement aimed at bolstering Australia's military capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region.
Danielle, thoughts?
Look, he's got until November, and he's going to do everything he can before the 20th People's Congress to bolster support for himself, not externally, but internally.
And I think we need to understand the difference between the two, because in 2015, 2016, there was a global industrial recession.
The manufacturing sector worldwide got slammed.
China pumped a ton of money into the global economy.
Xi Jinping's looking for an unprecedented third term, which he hopes to become a dictatorship when the 20th People's Congress convenes in November.
Now, he was born.
The actual date of the Congress is a very closely held secret.
It's announced very close to the date of it opening.
He was born in the year of the snake.
People born in the year of the snake.
October is a very unlucky month, and the Chinese believe in their lunar calendar deeply.
So I say that sometime around November or so, all this tough talk is going to go away.
All he wants to make sure is that he retains his dictatorship.
So the more he says about the West and the West being the bad guys, the more popular he is on the mainland, and that's what he cares about.
Does he stand the chance of losing?
There are enemies within.
And he has, there are some people who have criticized his attack of the billionaires and having gone too far in destroying wealth in China.
And there are indeed in his own party those who don't want to see this third on this is like FDR.
This is an FDR moment for China.
There's never been a third term.
So he's trying to exert himself within the party, within, by breaking through barriers that have never been broken through in the Communist Party.
John, do you have an opinion on this?
I will not bloviate about what I haven't researched, so no.
Okay, I like that word bloviate.
Go ahead.
I just want to follow up to Danielle.
You're saying, are there only, are they limited to two terms in China here?
It's the United States, or is this a private sector?
It is typically two terms.
This is the 20th Congress, but yes.
And they come together every six years, but this will effectively ensure the strong leader who he has become remains in this position.
And how long are they?
And he's been brutal with his enemies.
How long are those terms?
So there's six and not four years in the United States.
So he's been in power, you're saying, 12 years, and he's looking for another six.
So it'll be 18 years.
And the Chinese economy is at a 30-year low growth rate, 30-year low.
And that's because of COVID, or why?
It's because the country itself has reached its limits in terms of its capacity to be the marginal consumer of 50% of commodities on the planet.
It's got a demographic problem.
We talked about that earlier.
And the growth is simply slowing.
So any and all stimulus that's going to be put into the economy this year is going straight to the people.
Ray Dalio has been talking in his book lately.
And he's been saying, you know, it's common prosperity.
That's what they call it.
This common prosperity push, the campaign.
It's a great thing for the people of China.
Well, just wait and see what happens after he succeeds, if he succeeds in November.
And then all the time.
And the stimulus goes poof.
Look, layman terms over here, I don't think there's any chance that he does not succeed.
He's a complete strongman, and look at where China's at right now.
You seem to be skeptical of him actually winning, quote-unquote, re-election.
Again, he has made, there are people underneath him.
You have to, it is traditional right now in China for you to name your successor.
That is, even if he takes the unprecedented third term, he didn't name his successor last time around, meaning I plan on being here.
Yeah, I don't think it's going to be a good idea to get used to me.
And that's what, you know, critically, that's what he and Putin have in common, is that they're going to be around with their countries and with a common enemy of the United States.
Who's around longer?
Putin or she in power?
Who's around longer?
Putin's longer.
What are they?
Putin's not going anywhere.
It doesn't seem like she is either, no.
Well, we'll see come November.
Pat, do you have any feelings on whether she makes it this third term or not?
I mean, the way it's looking like what he's doing, but she's talking about a system.
So 6'2, it hasn't happened.
I don't know.
This guy seems like he is a true believer in what he believes in, and he is one that imposes himself amongst his people, and people are scared of this guy extremely.
By the way, the other day, you saw how Ines Cantor came out and called out China again on what they said about Uyghurs and all this other stuff.
Shama has a significant thing.
Not only what Shamat had to say.
No, not what Shamad had to say, because Ines was disappointed with what Shamat had to say on a podcast.
But Yao Meng came out and said, I don't know who this NS Cantor Freedom person is, but guess what?
If you want to come to China, we'd love to show you this country.
Stop it.
And show you the, yeah, there it is.
He says, but if he wants to see the real China, come on down.
By the way, here's what I'll say.
If Ennis decides to go to China, I would join him on that trip to go to China.
You and NS Cantor.
I would join him.
I would join him.
N.S. Freedom.
If, if, because to validate a point, let's go see how creative is.
Here's what I can guarantee.
There is a higher likelihood that N.S. Cantor Freedom goes to China than he goes to Turkey.
You're so funny.
You're so funny.
Okay, maybe we'll, you know what we'll do?
Here's an idea.
Because I know this guy that likes to travel.
Maybe we'll go check out the volleyball team in China with John Stas and we'll do some investigative journalism together.
I want to think about that.
Are you open to it?
No.
Okay, figure it out.
Have you ever been to China?
No.
No, but Hong Kong.
You have.
Does that count?
Somewhat.
It's like a cousin.
It's like a half-brother, like Bill Clinton's half-brother.
Well, listen, people love today's podcast.
Lots of positive commentary for John and Danielle.
And Adam, I think this was one of your best podcasts ever.
I think you crushed it today.
I'm being serious with you.
I think you crushed it today.
We're doing it again next week on, let me see, what do we have?
You got to tell me Tuesday, not Thursday.
Tuesday, we got to hold.
Christina Pouchard.
Oh, Christina Pusha.
Upshaw or Pusha?
Pusha.
Pusha is.
DeSantis' Secretary.
Press Secretary of DeSantis will be here Tuesday, folks.
Do not miss it.
It's going to be an interesting conversation, especially if you live in Florida or if you'd like to see DeSantis become the president of Florida.
