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PBD Podcast Episode 138. Patrick Bet-David is joined by Influencer/media personality Will Witt
Today's guest is a cultural commentator and media personality Will Witt. He is a national speaker, short film director, and host of the show Will Witt Live on PragerU.
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Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. 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.
0:00 - Start
9:37 - Discussing Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars
24:46 - Is masculinity disappearing?
32:38 - Discussing Disney proposing to indoctrinate young children into the LGBTQIA agenda
1:02:46 - Biden proposes largest tax hike in history
1:11:28 - 71% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction
1:18:47 - The younger generation is learning what it means to sacrifice
1:23:51 - Adam gets some love
1:25:36 - Batman/America's Hero making machine
1:41:32 - the benefits of a Prenup
John, you scared people doing it the way you just did it right now.
We're trying to have a friendly podcast and he jumps out of nowhere.
Anyways, today's podcast, Will Witt, wrote a book, How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies, which I love the title because the first business book I ever read was How to Win Friends and Influence People, but you have influence enemies.
I love that.
This man, he's got audacity.
He goes out there, talks to people in the streets.
He's got nearly a billion views online.
You've done a lot of work.
I see your work all the time, and I love your work.
I love how you are.
You're respectful.
You ask the questions.
You allow the individual to look dumb.
If they answer a dumb question, you know, their answer is bad, but you have fun with them anyways.
Will, it's good to have you in the house.
Hey, it's good to be here, guys.
Thank you so much.
Appreciate it a lot.
Yes.
A couple of things I want to let everybody know so you know what's happened with the podcast last few months.
This is just something I want to tell everybody.
We hired a ridiculous booker, okay?
And this guy that we have, Rob, shout out to him.
He's booked me with guests for six months out.
Now, what that did for us is the format of PBD podcast has kind of gone from the, you know, morning, day to day.
We would talk about current events.
It's gone to more interview style if you're listening to this.
What we are going to do is my schedule today, I'm trying to commit to doing one or two of them per week where no matter what Tuesdays and Thursdays, we cover current events.
So be patient with us because we still have a lot of different appointments, guest schedule.
But within the next two to four weeks, we're going to go into the model of Tuesdays, Thursdays, being the day today.
I think tomorrow we got Senk from Young Turks, which should be fiery, by the way.
I would have missed tomorrow's podcast.
Tomorrow live, right here, Senk is coming in, which I'm surprised he said yes, which is exciting because I think the audience is going to win with somebody like that coming here.
So Pat, I think it's important that you are letting people know what's going on.
Like, you know, we've got so many things moving and grooving.
And we've got the booker going on.
Things have changed.
Couple things I don't want you to.
No, I'm not going to put any stuff out there.
What are you going to say?
I'm not saying anything.
I'm just, I think it's important that you update the people.
That's all I'm saying.
No, no, I got you.
I got you.
Yeah, but there's some major things that's going on that we're in the back of the middle.
I'm thinking you know some stuff.
Okay, let's go.
Anyway, just letting you know.
Listen, we're updating.
The story of my life.
Here's the story of my life.
And then today's show is going to be about you.
But the story of my life is the following.
I love being underestimated.
I love being thinking like people are not planning with what's going on.
Patience, long-term, big thinking.
We got some major, major announcements coming very soon.
Super.
How's the meetings been the last couple of weeks that we're having?
Future looks bright.
Anyways, be patient.
Having said that, Will, for people who don't know your story, if you don't mind taking a moment and sharing with them your background.
Yeah, no problem.
So I grew up in Colorado, actually.
I live in Los Angeles now, working for Prague U, but grew up in Colorado.
I was a liberal atheist my entire life.
Basically, I would go around to everyone who I knew and tell them how stupid God was, how dumb religion was.
And that was a lot because my father growing up was actually my older brother.
My dad was in prison when I was growing up.
So my older brother kind of took that place.
He had a different dad, and his dad was very atheist and political in that sense.
And so that transferred to him.
And if anyone listening has an older brother, you know that, I mean, you do everything that your older brother does.
How much older is he than you?
Four years.
So a lot older and just a lot different life that we live.
And so growing up, liberal atheist.
And when I went to college, everything changed, though, because I went to see you Boulder.
If you guys know anything about this, the most hippied-out liberal college out there.
I've spent some time out there.
Yeah, you think that most people go to college and they become more liberal or they were raised conservative and become more liberal or leftist, especially in a place like Boulder.
But for me, I mean, when I saw the lunacy, it turned me the other way.
I said, wait, there's a lot of things here that are absolutely ridiculous.
It don't make any sense.
Being in a sociology class and political science course, them talking about how bad just mutual transactions as capitalism is, and about, you know, I'm not allowed to speak because of my race, all sorts of things like this.
And eventually I became the one to always raise my hand in class and tell my professor that they were wrong.
And all the other kids hated every single time that I was like, I was that guy.
I was the one who everyone hated, which was fine with me.
Without an agenda, you were more just questioning this because you had a certain set of beliefs and you get to college and you're like, this just doesn't jive with common sense.
Is that what happened?
I mean, that's exactly right.
It doesn't, none of it makes any sense.
When you, I grew up in an area in Colorado called Aurora, Colorado, which, if you guys know that, it's outside of Denver.
And it's kind of, it's not the best area.
You know, I was a minority as a white guy going through high school and middle school and all that.
And so I grew up around a lot of black and Hispanic kids.
And these types of things that this white TA at CU Boulder is telling me about, you know, white privilege and the way that races work together, it just wasn't true.
It just wasn't true.
And Will, you're how old now?
26.
25.
25.
So a lot of times when people talk about college, so like I'm 42, Pat's 43.
Yeah, 43.
Okay, so we talk about college.
I should pause on that one.
Right.
I'm 43.
You know, we talk about when we were in college, you know, 20 years ago, whatever it was, or when you were in the army, dude, you were in college like five years ago.
Yeah.
So this isn't like when I was back, like you were there.
Right.
During the Trump years.
Yep.
Yep.
Okay.
So dealing with all the drum and all the nonsense.
So if there's anybody who's literally lived, you know, you said the atheist, leftist sort of mentality, and now you're obviously a little more libertarian, right?
I don't know where you are at right now.
Yeah, I'd say more conservative than libertarian.
Okay, conservative.
But, you know, get back to your story, but I just wanted to address how old you are, 25 years old.
You're young for to have this kind of common sense.
Yeah, I mean, exactly what you're saying.
I remember in 2016 when Trump won the election, this was my sophomore year of college.
And all these kids were having these circles where they're all holding hands and locking arms, and kids are crying on campus.
And I show up on that day with my MAGA hat on.
No, you didn't.
Yeah, of course.
You know, he won the election.
And other people.
You showed up with the hat on to Boulder.
You must have known how you're getting yourself into.
Of course.
You're a poker.
You like to poke the bar.
You're just a girl.
There's a little bit of that.
A lot of bit of that, Will.
All right, there's a lot of that.
There's a lot of that.
But sometimes, you know, you got to show these people and say, look, I'm not scared because you're crying.
What was the reaction?
Oh, you know, people cursing at me and, you know, getting upset with me.
But no fights, nothing like that.
Nothing like that.
Nothing that could.
But what I would do, because I hated college for the classes and everything like that.
So I would go on my campus and I would set up a table and I would just go and debate kids on all sorts of different topics, whether that was socialism or feminism, minimum wage, whatever it was.
And then my professors, I was supposed to be in class, they'd pass by and they'd see me just out there and be like, why aren't you in class?
I'm like, well, I'm doing this.
This is what I like to do.
And so after two years of school, I dropped out of college.
And I was able to get a job with PragerU by making a video on my campus where I asked women what they thought about the wage gap.
And I taught myself how to edit the video, shoot the video, borrowed one of my buddies' GoPros, and Prager U ended up loving the video.
And they moved me out to Los Angeles after about six months after I dropped out of school my sophomore year.
And now I've been in LA for about four and a half years now.
Four and a half years.
How's LA right now?
You know, it sucks.
I'm actually spending, I actually just flew in from Amsterdam last night and I got engaged.
Get out of here.
Congratulations.
Wow, good for you.
In Amsterdam.
In Amsterdam.
My fiancé is Dutch.
Okay.
So she's a wonderful person.
Typically, when people get engaged in Amsterdam, it's a different reason.
But you got a valid reason.
That's good.
Yeah, exactly.
In the Red Light District.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I found a real good.
All the places.
I mean, the jokes are plenty.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
But I had to move, I had to go away from Los Angeles to find a woman.
So that can kind of tell you about what Los Angeles is like right now.
It's a terrible place.
So you met her in Amsterdam?
I actually met her through Dennis Prager.
So her and Dennis had met last fall at an event in Hungary, and she's this legal philosopher and speaker.
She's a big deal in Europe speaking about things.
Her name's Ava.
And they met, and then I got hooked up to Ava through them, and then it all kind of just came from there.
And so I'd never left the country before.
And now I've been going to Amsterdam and Hungary and all these different places with her, meeting her for the last four or five months, and we got engaged quite quickly.
You literally just met her four or five months ago.
Yeah, yeah.
Isn't that nuts?
And how old is she?
Our birthdays are actually two days apart.
We're both 25.
So both of you are Virgos.
Uh-huh.
That's cool.
Good for you.
Well, congratulations.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So here's, there's a lot of stories for us to get into.
Okay, a lot of stories for us to get into, especially with everything that's going on right now.
I want to just kind of preface.
One, Biden pitches largest tax hike in history.
Well, we're going to have to cover that.
$5.8 trillion.
Manchin shoots it down.
71% say Biden's America is headed in the wrong direction.
Nancy Pelosi voted the most unpopular Democratic politician in U.S. history, which is very surprising.
India and Russia working to launch a rupee-ruble trade agreement that circumvents Western sanctions.
You got BlackRock president saying entitle generation now learning about shortages.
Disney having his own issues.
5 million new jobs open.
We have to cover Will Smith and Jada and Chris Rada and Chris Rock.
Jim Carrey, what he said.
Thousands of people on Twitter went after the wrong Will Smith, which we'll have to show who that Will Smith is.
He just became a celebrity overnight, which is great.
Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan tops, richest athlete.
Tiger Woods been at Augusta the last couple of weeks.
Nobody knows why.
Maybe we know why.
The most and least stressed U.S. states, prenuptial agreements aren't just for the rich.
I left Mormon Church for OnlyFans, and I got a few things to say about the Batman movie, which we'll cover as well.
Did you see, well, I can't say did you see?
Have you had a chance to avoid seeing the fight between Chris Rock and Will Smith?
Well, I saw everything that happened.
I mean, how could you?
When you saw the word Will trending, you're like, what's up?
I know.
I'm like, I know about my engagement.
What's going on?
Exactly.
Exactly.
Everyone's on board about it.
Here's a question.
Here's a question I got for you.
And then, you know, I want to get your thoughts and then I'll get mine as well.
So was it your position for first time when you saw it?
Has it been the same from the first moment to now?
Or has it gone, I can't believe what he did?
Well, it kind of does make sense because of Jada.
Oh, but you know what?
I can't believe.
Where are you at with what happened with Will Smith and Jada?
My opinion has always kind of been the same on all these kind of things when I watch celebrities do stupid stuff at the Oscars or whatever it is.
And for me, I personally just don't care much.
I think that people blow a lot of these things out of proportion.
And to me, it's just not something that I'm ever super interested in.
I leave celebrities to other people.
But what it seems like in terms of the whole situation, I don't think Will Smith was justified in doing it.
But I can understand that as a husband, you get angry when someone says something, but you don't lash out in that type of way.
I mean, it just seems childish and immature to go up there and slap someone, especially like open-hand slap, like not even a punch.
That's a bitch slap, right?
That's what that's called.
It's not like a manly punch.
It's a slap, which makes it even worse.
Yeah, it makes it even more.
I mean, Diaz Brothers, they're famous for fighting guys, and you have seen saying, I bitch slap you.
So they like to do that.
Have you ever seen this or no?
There's videos of all they want to do is slap you in your face in the fight.
Okay, not a punch, to slap you because they get a kick out of it.
But what are your thoughts when you saw this?
By the way, just before I even say this, Jim Carrey, did you see what Jim Carrey said?
What did Jim have to say?
So Jim Carrey says a day ago, the video's got like 10 million views.
Jim Carrey says, I can't believe the Oscars did a standing ovation for Will Smith.
If it was me and you did that, I would sue you the next day for $200 million.
Did you hear that or no?
He said, I'm going to sue you for $200 million.
On top of that, he says, because that video is going to last a lifetime.
This is permanent.
You're going to get $200 million lawsuit from me the next day.
That's what Jim Carrey said, who's a comedian going after Will Smith.
What's your position?
Let me tell you something.
You would think, story, somebody slaps the shit out of somebody else, whoever it is.
You would assume, like the Nick Diaz, Nate Diaz, whoever did the slapping won, and whoever got their face bitch slapped would have lost.
Let me tell you who the big winner in this whole situation is, Chris Rock.
Let me tell you guys, I used to do stand-up comedy for many years, okay?
Before Dave Chappelle, there was Chris Rock.
People, like, I don't know if you're 25, I don't know if you really know how big Chris Rock was in the 90s, early 2000s.
Everyone knows about Dave Chappelle these days.
Now it's kind of moved from Chappelle to like Kevin Hard, and there's other people out there.
Chris Rock was the man, and he's gotten a little softer, a little older, a little more Hollywood, more acting.
When he did like his, was it Blacker?
Dude, you're talking about gangster-ass comedy, Chris Rock.
So this was the best possible thing for his career.
You can see the ticket sales have gone from like $45 minimum for a ticket to like $400.
Chris Rock is trending for all the right reasons.
And the guy took it like a G, like just, I thought this was fake.
I thought this was planned.
I thought this was stable.
Folks, if you're watching this, if you listen to this podcast, how many of you thought this was fake at first when you saw it?
When your friend texted to you, your reaction, I think Sam texted to me.
I'm like, this has got to be fake.
And he's like, no, it's not fake.
So Mario and I played a video on, you know how on YouTube you can go to 0.25 speed?
Of course.
You played on 0.25 speed.
And I'm like, no, I think it's a good idea.
I think we should bring our friend Paul in here, reenact the bitch slap.
Let Will do it.
I'll do it.
Bring him in.
Bring him in.
Here we have Paul.
So Chris Rock is the big winner here.
Notoriety.
Yeah.
Financial.
Headlines.
We just handled it like a man.
He's like, that's the greatest moment in Oscar's history.
He laughed.
But now let's talk about Will Smith.
Will Smith has been getting emasculated for the past year or two by his fucking wife that he's been married to for 25 years.
This whole entanglement, red table talk that they're doing.
Insanity.
Will Smith was the coolest, baddest dude on the planet for two decades.
From Fresh Prince.
You're right.
I don't know if there's an actor that was loved.
Loved is the word more than him.
Yeah.
From Fresh Prince to Men in Black to Independence Day to Ali, you know, to Bad Boys.
I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
Don't forget to do that.
And now Hancock.
I mean, all that.
I mean, the list goes on and on.
I'm sure there's going to be someone that's like, Adam forgot about this movie and I hate him.
Okay, I got it.
Pitch.
Pitch.
Right.
Dan Legend.
Like, he needs.
Thank you.
But happiness.
Okay, we got it.
We got it.
Chris Gardner, perceived what happened.
He needs to go back and watch the movie that he freaking started called Hitch.
Because he's lost his mojo.
That, like, the whole bitch slap with Chris Rock, this has been brewing for years.
You think he actually cares about this joke?
He laughed at first.
Yeah, he laughed.
She ended up laughing at first.
I feel like this was just boiling up, boiling up.
I mean, do you know about this whole red table talk entanglement, August Augustus, whatever?
His wife is literally having an affair, cheating on him with the son's friend.
And now you're like, it was August Alcina.
Thank you, John.
And now this is him.
Fix your eye, John.
Seriously.
But he's dad bod simp vibes.
It just, I feel so bad for him.
Think about even before this, years and years ago, the transition that Willow has been going through, that his son has been going through.
Like this, this family is strange.
Will was the only normal guy.
Is there a more Hollywood family out there?
The father, Hollywood star, Jada.
I know you have strong feelings on Jada.
The kids, Jaden and Willow.
Two of my favorite songs in the last five years have been from the Smith kids.
Yeah, the song Wait a Minute.
Exactly.
I love that song.
Icon from Jaden.
Like, they put out, they're great.
They're very talented.
No doubt.
I mean, you live in L.A., you know about, like, they're talented as hell.
But whatever is going on with this whole entanglement has just.
Joe's clearly been burying it down low, and it exploded at the Oscars.
And then he won the Oscar.
I have a different opinion about that.
Go ahead, sir.
So, first of all, like, okay, who won?
You're right.
Chris Rock won.
And I think Jada won.
I think feminist movement won.
I think women power won.
I think those who give that message, I think they won.
You have to give them credit.
They won.
Like, women are, you know, stronger than men.
And look at how Jada is very proud.
She's a face of feminism, if you think about it, because she's got him locked down, right?
You know who I am.
You know how I feel about Jada.
Three years ago, I don't know, it was two and a half years ago, Hector Del Toro and Jennifer teamed up together right after the event I had at the Trump Tower.
They had an event together.
They had a hooked up and they sent me the Jada Pinkett autograph picture.
And it was in my office.
You remember this or no?
Jada Pinkett autographed is sitting on my desk, right to the left.
And they come like, oh my God, Pat, you got, put this picture away.
I'm like, put this picture away.
Jennifer was up to this with Hector.
What do you mean, put this picture away?
So sitting on my desk because I grew up with Jason's lyric.
Okay.
And lyric is Jada Pinkett in the movie with one of the best soundtracks that I can go and tell you the songs in the soundtrack, but I'm not going to.
Tupac.
No, no, no.
You're thinking about with Poet Jana Jackson.
That's what it just says.
But Jason's lyric.
They used to date is what I'm saying.
Of course.
Jada and Tupac.
So I'm a Jada guy.
I grew up being a Jada guy.
I always loved Jada, right?
And I've always loved Will.
So the fact these guys hooked up was kind of a cool story.
Now, one of my friends 20 plus years ago, she would come to me and she would say, you know, I know the Will Smith and I know Jada's story and I know them very well.
I said, really, yeah.
And she would say stories.
And I'm in LA 20 some years.
She would say, well, let me tell you, you know, they have an open relationship.
They have this and they have that.
I'm like, it's none of my business.
But they do.
Like, everybody says stuff.
And the moment you become a celebrity, people say a lot of different things.
And you can't believe half the stuff.
No, but I know it personally.
How do you know it personally?
I'm just, I can't tell you.
But I know it.
And she kept being very adamant.
Like, you know, somebody's very adamant and they don't have a trend of being like that.
But this one time they're extremely adamant.
Like, okay.
And this is a friend of yours that's a lot of fun.
Oh, this is a friend, you know, 20 years ago.
And I'm listening to her.
I'm like, okay, he says, but you also realize they're like open with everything with their marriage.
It's just a very private thing.
Now, this is a time that there's no social media.
There's no Facebook.
There's no Twitter.
There's no Instagram.
So it's easier to have that kind of a relationship in Hollywood.
And they're not the only ones that's having a relationship.
So imagine this thing's going on.
All these years they have an open relationship.
All of a sudden, all the open relationships you've had, let's just say hypothetically, none of them have come out.
It's all been private.
But this one guy brings it out, August, you know.
And the next thing you know, oh my gosh, you know, Will is a simp.
Will is this, Will is that.
I believe Will is sitting there saying, I wish you guys knew how many people I've been with the last 25 years that none of you guys know about that.
I've been behind Jada and Jada took her career in the backseat for 12 years for me to go on my career.
And she was popping out at one point and she sacrificed it for the kids.
You guys don't know how much I've played around for the last 25 years, but I kind of can't tell you guys on TV because I will look like an idiot if I do.
And I'm going to make Jada look bad.
So I don't think we know the whole story.
And I think Will is sitting there saying, you idiots that are saying all this stuff you're saying about me, you don't notice.
It's starting to really piss me off.
And he reacted.
That reaction was very deep.
That's my opinion.
I may be wrong.
I may not be right with this.
By the way, I think you're very right.
But you know what I'm saying, right?
I think deep down inside, Will is a man's man.
But I think Will has also got that conservative side because his dad left.
You know, that one scene in the famous scene with Uncle Francisco.
Yeah, you know what scene I'm talking about.
You're like, oh my gosh, that was not acting.
And he's like, dude, I just got the chills.
This dude ain't acting.
He's that.
He's personally experiencing this, right?
Will is a guy that many men in America relate to.
I just think he, I think Hollywood life is a very different kind of a life to try to make marriage, personal life, conservative, all this stuff work.
It's so confusing to be in it.
You have to play certain cards to get certain jobs to stay relevant to get the $20 million per film.
You have to listen to your public says.
You can't use this word.
Be careful with this audience.
Those guys said this to you.
Now you're doing social media.
Now you're making your own YouTube.
Try not to touch this.
It's such a big mess that he's going.
He's trying to keep his marriage together.
But if I can give advice, if I'm in that situation, do you know what I think is the best thing for them to do?
What?
To get a divorce.
I think that's the best thing.
You actually think that's what you should do?
I think that's the right thing they should do.
I think they should get a divorce and move on.
I mean, if they're already sleeping around with other people, you practically have a divorce at this point.
I mean, that doesn't make a good marriage whatsoever.
Well, let's say they've been doing it for 25 years, dude.
Right.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, in my opinion, you shouldn't be getting together with someone in the first place for appearances or whatever.
I mean, as marriage, you know, to me as a Christian, is a holy thing, getting together with someone like that and then having affairs all the time with all sorts of other people.
I mean, especially what you were just talking about with, I think there's a difference between men versus women.
That if a man goes and sleeps around with other women, it isn't looked at as bad.
But a woman who does it despite her man makes a man look a lot worse just because of the differences between the two.
So that's why people would call Will Smith a simp.
Yeah, but I don't know if he, okay, a lot of people call him a simp.
It's easy to call him that right now.
I mean, you had Roll, you know, who, I don't know, you heard him.
Fresh and fit.
Yeah.
And they, oh, yeah, he's a simp, he's this.
Like, they may be right.
I don't know if they're right or not.
But, you know, like, everybody was trying to say who Tiger was, okay, and what Tiger did.
I was 16 this, and you know, he went through this.
And I don't, I don't, by his apology, it's not sincere enough.
First of all, before you judge Tiger, why don't you go become the best golfer in the world?
Okay.
I mean, I read this book, The Bible, that said what?
He says, before you throw stones, you know, kind of check yourself out a little bit.
And I subscribe to that.
I've never liked people who judge.
I grew up in an environment that was very judgmental.
I try to say, listen, to each his own.
I've been married 12 and a half years.
I take it one year at a time.
Love my wife.
We got a good marriage.
We got four healthy kids.
We've had a great life.
Some people want to live a different lifestyle.
I get it.
But I don't think the whole world knows the whole story.
I think everybody is speculating.
And in reality, I think Chris did win.
I think Will is looking extremely weak.
And I think Will's got to make a move.
You know how they used to say to J-Lo, hey, your Q score was higher when you were with Ben Afflack.
Okay.
Because you know, in the Hollywood marriages, it pays to be married to the right person.
Like, you better believe Kanye and what do you call it?
Yeah, that's like e-news.
Yeah, bro.
That's like a good Hollywood marriage.
You're married to Beyonce.
I'm not Kanye and Kim, but I'm not sure if I can behave.
Yeah, that's so.
I think, I don't know.
I think if they get a divorce, they're like, listen, guys, like Bezos, the husband and wife, the way they got a divorce was very clear.
We love each other.
We've been together for 25 years.
This just didn't work out.
We still love our family.
We still love our kids.
We have our own reasons, but we have decided to go a different way.
We still respect each other.
And everybody's like, and they tweeted it same second.
I don't know if you remember this.
It came out the same time.
You're like, everybody moved on.
Okay.
It was kind of like, move on.
I think they got to do something like that.
Well, let me red table whatever it is and say we have an announcement to make.
We love each other.
We love our kids.
Here's what we're doing.
Let me tell you why you're absolutely right.
And one thing that I think you're wrong about.
I think you're absolutely right that Will's been doing his thing for 20-something years.
Are you freaking kidding me?
If he wasn't playing around doing things like this, you think he's going to accept, if he's been faithful for 25 years and his wife has this entanglement, she used that word.
She was having a full-on relationship with this guy.
And he's embarrassed by this.
If you think he was just being acquired by this whole time and he's allowing this to happen, you're out of your mind.
So I 100% agree with you that he's been doing his own thing on the side, whatever.
Like, he's a G, bad boys for life type of thing.
Where I think you're wrong is a divorce thing.
I think if they were going to get a divorce, it would have been two years ago at this point.
I think they've been through hell and back, and this, whatever's happening right now, is just making their bond stronger because the world is against them.
I'm wrong, it won't happen.
or you're saying I'm wrong, it's not the right move.
I just don't think all that.
I don't think it's happening.
I don't think they will do it.
You don't think they're going to be able to do it.
I would have divorced her years ago.
But wait a minute.
You don't think it's the right move today for both of them mutually to agree to move on?
I don't.
Okay.
And why is that?
I just think at this point they're fixed in together.
Now, if I were Will, I would have divorced years ago.
No, it's like two screwed up people.
Exactly.
It's like two alcoholics.
They're just going to stay together.
They're like, drink and drink together.
Nobody would be surprised.
I think you'd be surprised when all of a sudden the world is not going to go crazy.
Raul just gave a super chat.
By the way, you put the super chats.
We'll ask some of the questions with Will and Adam myself.
Raul says, do you guys think masculinity and men respecting themselves is dying?
Oh, of course.
There's no doubt about that.
I mean, you can even just look at it from a scientific stance and see that testosterone levels in men are way below what they ever were before in history.
So there's tons of indicators that show that men are just not what they are.
I think a lot of it has to do with a lot of the food that we eat and just how feminism has creeped into the mainstream like this.
And just like you said, how that was a win for feminism and it makes men look bad and she's being the strong one and then Will looks bad.
It's demasculating men or emasculating men.
Men aren't supposed to be strong anymore.
Men are supposed to be on the back burner and the women are supposed to be the ones who are supposed to lead now.
Yeah, I think I agree with you, Will.
I've kind of indirectly dove headfirst into this topic with the show that I do, Sawscast, because we focus more on dating, relationships, lifestyle, and like kind of how money factors into all that.
And I've had the guests on like Rolo, Rolo Tomasi, shout out to him, shout out to Press and Fit.
And we've kind of covered this toxic masculinity that's going on.
Obviously, everything that's happening in like the news with transgender and this Leah Thomas, William Thomas, the 400th best male swimmer.
Now it's the number one female swimmer.
You know, things that are happening with Disney.
So we've been kind of covering this and Bill Maher hit it right on the head.
I'm a big Bill Maher guy.
He basically highlighted how every woman is in love with this guy, Voldemort Zelensky, these days.
And how convenient it is when a man needs to step up and be a freaking man because you're about to get killed by the invading herd of Russians that are coming to your country, you know, and everything, you know, to save your tribe.
But how convenient to use that masculinity at that point, but how inconvenient it is when it's just, you know, normal daily life.
And that's something that I think people are grappling with.
And the women's movement, shout out to women.
You know, they're getting better.
Pay gap, everything, like they're career women, awesome.
But let's not forget that men still need to be men is ultimately what it comes down to.
Men are doing much worse in society than ever before in a lot of ways too, killing themselves.
They die at work more.
They're more depressed.
Especially young men.
I mean, it's terrible for them.
They're doing a lot worse than they've ever done before.
It's because of this new education system that tells you that if your boy acts out in school, they need to be treated like a girl.
Boys should be taught to be like girls.
Being a girl is the right type of behavior.
And so they teach boys that way.
And then you suppress their creativity, you suppress their masculinity, and you get a generation of feminine men and women who want to act like men.
It's like they're flipping them both on their heads, which doesn't make for a good society.
You can't have a society like that.
By the way, this leads me to the go ahead.
Oh, no.
Did you see like the number one clip on the Value Tammy Short Clip channel for the last couple of days?
What was the clip again, Tyler?
It was repeating history.
Can't hear your audio.
Yeah, we're repeating history.
Civilizations fail when men become less masculine.
Yeah, so Torsha, shout out to Torsha, who was on with Rolo and I.
She basically explained how back in the, was it old Greece and Greek times that they studied history.
And when the sculptures and the artwork started changing from masculine men, you know, you know, whatever, you know, posing or whatever it was to like more like doing like more feminine poses.
That that is when um, that pose was alluded to natural.
Yeah, this isn't natural.
I don't know if you can guys, i'll do that again.
Yeah, but that's when um, history started declining, or the Greek civilization started declining, when men stopped being men, and I think that's just something that our audience will appreciate.
Is that just be a man, man up and uh, it's something that I think we more men need to talk about.
Yeah, I mean, it's too much Dionysius and not enough Apollo in terms of the, the Greek.
And it happened the same in ancient Rome, because you had this at the end of ancient Rome, you had this very decadent society where men were not responsible for anything, because it's not just about, you know, wearing skirts that makes you more feminine, it's about not being responsible.
Being a man means being a leader, and so when you have men that aren't leaders and live in some decadent, easy society where you never have any hardships, which we have in America today, you can watch porn.
Uh, whenever you want to get off, you can go on tinder instead of going to a bar or something to get a woman, you can order food, you can have someone pick you up.
You never have to struggle with with much right, and so when a man doesn't have anything to struggle or anything to overcome, I mean i'm not sure if you guys talk to many.
You know younger guys, but i'll talk to a lot of people who are my age, my friends and we'll be talking about like World War Ii or some medieval like the, the storming of uh, like 1066 battle of Hastings or something we're all just like we wish we could go to some war like that.
You know it's like men today crave something greater that they don't have, having a higher purpose.
I mean, what's the?
What's the famous quote, uh, hard times create strong men.
Strong uh, men create good times.
Good uh, good times create weak men.
Weak men create hard times, and that's, it's cyclical, right.
So we can.
All we have to do is study history and kind of realize what it is.
But he's right about that.
You know you, you you hear stories about Alexander and you know the privileges they had to see who were the real.
You know uh, man's men to survive.
You knew what it meant to be the survival of the fittest.
And if you didn't, you're gonna get exposed, period.
It's just kind of what it was.
And today we are recognizing victims more than we're recognizing doers.
We're recognizing complainers more than we're recognizing the guys that are quiet and getting the job done.
We're recognizing the loudmouth that gets up there and says this is not fair versus the guy that says listen, I get it, let me just go do my part and order my respect in the streets.
We're recognizing the wrong people.
Last night we had a, a friend over okay, a baseball coach here and a dean of one of the schools, and we're having a cigar uh in the backyard.
It's me him, Mario.
Great conversation uh with uh, my buddy Joel, and the conversation came about.
The team, he's got the best player, etc etc.
And I said, every great organization, if they have the wrong number one, that organization is screwed okay.
So, for example you, You give me a good family that's got three, four kids.
If the best kid in that family is the one that undermines parents all the time, values everything, the other three are kind of going to be like, dude, you know, I'm going to pick up some of the bad habits.
You give me a great company with a great number one, they're going to develop other great number ones.
You give me a company with a bad number one, they're going to duplicate the habits of a number one.
So you have to position your number one the best.
Today, whoever media points as a number one, you want to be that person.
Forbes magazine, the other day, announced the International Woman Award goes to Hillary Clinton.
That's their number one.
You got all these options to make your.
So imagine an average young girl is watching and saying, oh, wow, she's the international.
I want to one day be that.
Let me go read her Wikipedia.
This is what I got to do.
I'm going to be like her when I grow up.
I'm sorry.
You're a girl watching Better Hider emails.
Yeah, but the point being, we have to be very careful who we turn into a hero.
I think America has hero-making machine wrong today by a mile and they got to fix it ASAP and not apologize for it.
Okay.
You cannot apologize for it.
I read a quote the other day, posted it on Instagram.
What's the guy's name?
PJ O'Rourke.
Is that his name?
He's got the same last name as you, by the way.
And he said the following one.
If you want to put it up, well, you may not be able to put it up because it's on Instagram.
Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who escape poverty.
One more time.
Quote by PJ O'Rourke.
Poverty cannot be eliminated by punishing people who escaped poverty.
You cannot eliminate it.
Most people are like, oh, these rich people, they got their money from their parents.
You know what percentage of people got their money from their parents?
Less than 10%.
80% of people who are millionaires are first generation millionaires.
They had to figure out a way to make that money.
You had the best fund you ever had last month.
You were telling me about it.
I'm very happy for you.
Thank you.
How did you do it?
How did that happen?
How long have you been at it?
How many people tried your industry and they quit after three, four, five years?
It is not an easy business you're in, right?
For you to make that kind of money in a month.
He made the kind of money people don't make in two years he made in a month.
That's freaking awesome to your son like that.
Now he said he didn't buy any white shirts, so maybe we need to get him to go shop.
I said, I'm going to buy anything.
I promise you.
Let's talk about this because I think this is a good transition to going to Disney.
And I'm sure everybody is following this story.
It's all over the place and it's multi-dimensional, but I'll read the story here from Daily Mail.
Disney president, who is the mother of transgender and pansexual child, says she wants at least half of all future characters to be LGBTQIA.
I mean, I used to remember LGBT, now it's like QIA or racial minorities.
Theme parks are now banned from saying hello, boys and girls.
Okay.
A Disney executive in charge of content, Kerry Burke, vowed to up the ante on gender politics during that all-hands meeting, promising that at least half of the characters in its productions will be part of the LGBT community to go from racial minorities by the end of the year.
That's half, 50%, right?
Meanwhile, Disney's diversity and inclusion chief, Vivian Ware, said that they no longer address theme park visitors as ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, instead as dreamers and friends.
The Commons came after Governor DeSantis signed the don't say gay bill into law.
Disney partner Nadine Smith, co-founder of Equality Florida, said the goal of the Republican bill was to make children from, take children from their parents.
What are your thoughts on the story with Disney?
This is a whole can of worms that we could really get into.
I mean, first with the whole don't say gay bill, nowhere in the bill is even talking about saying gay and then you can't say gay and all these kind of things.
The word's not even in the bill.
Nowhere in the bill is the word gay.
I'm saying gay right now.
I'm in Florida with you guys right now.
Am I going to be arrested?
Have my bank account.
Can we bring them in, please?
Can we bring him in?
Authorities.
Yeah.
It's just ridiculous.
And the whole part, like, look at America's demographics.
I mean, you have like 1% of the population that's gay.
Maybe it's up to, I think, 3% now with the young people, which has also gone up in recent years.
20 years.
It's gone from 1 to 5%.
Yeah, we talked about this with Gat Sott.
Was surprised that the number went from one to five in the last 20 years.
Say those numbers again?
From 1% to 5% in the last 20 years.
People will say that the number of people identifying as the LGBTQ is so high in the younger generation.
And that's why this is so insidious, because at least to me, so much of this is being pushed on children.
You go on TikTok, you go on these places, and you see these teachers talking about transition closets where their students can go in and change their clothes and they don't have to tell their parents.
Teachers in schools are doing it behind parents' backs and pride flags everywhere.
I mean, kids don't really know this stuff.
The teachers and the education system and a lot of the mainstream media as well is pushing this on children.
I don't believe that those numbers are legit.
The left will say that, oh, these numbers are because people feel safer now to speak out about their sexuality.
But to me, I just don't believe it.
I think that so much of this is being pushed on children to influence them, and not all of it is real.
I have two points on this, and then I want to get Pat's thoughts on because he's the only one here that has kids.
So I want to hear what Pat specifically has to say on this.
But Pat hit the nail on the head.
As he was reading the story, he said, you know, the LGBTQIA.
I was like, hold on, what?
What?
There's more letters now?
I remember when they threw Q in there.
I was like, all right, what's the whole Q thing?
All right, that's like, was that whatever that now there's an I, and I literally have never seen the I and the A in there.
I've never seen that.
I've seen LGBTQ.
And this is going to sound like I'm a homophobe.
I'm not.
I live in South Beach.
I partied with gay guys and lesbians.
I have friends.
My ex-girl's best friends was a lesbian couple.
Like, I hang with these people.
But, you know, kind of like what Bill Maher said, I'll bring it back.
When you start to lose people that are actually on your team and they start to be like, hold on, what?
That's where you start to lose people.
I was an advocate for gay rights.
Sure, gays want to get married.
They want to be unhappy like the rest of the people.
How about it, guys?
But now you start to look at just common sense things.
You're like, what is happening here?
Now on to the kids.
I don't have kids.
I don't know what it's like to have to worry about sending your kids to school and then being indoctrinated by whoever, whoever teacher teaching them whatever, whatever, whatever.
I don't have these concerns.
Thankfully so.
But as a parent, I mean, is this something that like keeps you up at night?
Is it like, do you talk about this in the house?
How do you approach it?
So let me tell you, when I was 24 years old, a guy asked me, he says, why do you want to be rich?
You talk about you want to have money.
And I said, it's very simple for me.
If people ask like the real reason for me to want to have money, it's very basic.
One, I wanted to have a house that had all the toys and had the park and a backyard where every one of my kids' friends would say, let's go to Patrick's house.
Okay.
That's number one.
Okay.
Very important because I can control.
I'm a Middle Eastern.
I'm not comfortable with sleepovers.
You want to do that?
You do it at our house.
And we got a pretty great security system.
We're going to do our part, right?
That was one, a 24-25 result.
Okay.
That's what you were saying.
When I had this is how I was.
I said, when I have kids, I want them to go to the private school that I want them to go to.
None of it had to do with the Lambo Ferrari, whatever, whatever, right?
I said, I want the kids to go to the private school that I want to go to.
I want to control it, right?
Next, you know, all these things that I went through, service, respect, I want all these things.
Okay.
I don't want to be judged for being from Iran.
I don't want to be judged from being Armenian, Assyrian.
This is who I am.
Treat me as a regular guy that got some value, did his part, and then let me decide the life I want to live.
Okay.
That drive, I can't even describe to you for somebody that's born in Iran how much it matters to me for you not to force anything down my throat.
I can't tell you the emotion it generates when you try to force something down my throat.
I can't stand it.
A forced thought, a forced law, a forced position I must take with my kids.
We're one time at a mall, I don't know where we were at, and I'm talking to my kids.
And one lady's like, you know, you don't say that to your kids.
I said, I'm sorry, what?
This is how I raise my kids.
I said, do you have any kids?
No, I don't have any kids.
I said, ma'am, why don't you go find a partner and have kids and you raise your kids and let them be successful and write some books about it.
But till then, mind your own business.
These are my kids I'm raising, right?
I was at the whole art museum deal.
You know, the art deal.
I don't know what the art bazel was.
Art Basil.
Whatever you invited me to do.
It was great.
And I'm there before we go on.
I look at Dylan.
I look at the guy.
I said, look at me, guys.
I said, your brain's about to get a workout.
You're going to go in here.
Your brain's going to see art.
Some of this stuff's going to be weird, but it's getting a workout, okay?
This is how art is.
It works out your creative juices.
I love that.
A mom and a dad is looking at me and they're like, oh my God, I've never heard anybody tell this to their kids.
I don't know if I'm raising my kids the right way or not.
I'm going to find out in 40 years when I'm dying at 83 years old.
But it's my job.
I chose to have kids with my wife.
It's our decision on what we did.
And my wife and I dictate how we raise our kids.
And we are open to feedback and opinion and strategies that we may consider to do that, but it's our kids.
And I got 18 years with these guys.
Okay.
Outside of that, go be it.
Okay.
Let me do this part.
And I'm going to find out if I did it right or wrong.
We're going to do a lot of things wrong.
But what I'm concerned about is the following.
Here's what I'm concerned about.
Go back when you went to school.
I'm curious to know what yours was as well.
When was the first time in school, at what age, did they start talking to you in Colorado about what it meant to be gay, lesbian, and transgender?
How old were what grade was it then?
Well, let me just say one thing about what you just said about the kids, because that is exactly why Republicans won Virginia.
Because you have the exact same mindset that so many other parents have.
And it's because of that of why they want you to.
By the way, that's scary for midterms and 2024 for Democrats because they're realizing that's something you don't mess with.
You can mess with a lot of people.
You don't mess with people's kids.
You can call me out.
I can call you out.
But if I say something to your wife, or if I say something to your kid, I may get a different reaction from you.
Right.
Go ahead.
It was also the critical race theory and Terry McCullough, just the education system.
It was basically the phrase that the soccer mom is now turned into the COVID mom.
Right.
And basically, you know, the swing voters were talking about the soccer mom, the COVID mom is the reason that Trump lost.
And it's also the reason that Terry McCullough lost in Virginia.
Right.
That's the swing voter.
But here's my concern, though.
Let me tell you who I'm concerned for.
Let me tell you who I'm concerned for.
I'm concerned for the mom and dad who make $48,000 a year, okay, that can't afford private school, that can only go public school, and they're in a coding that they can't go to another public school that feel a little bit more comfortable about because the way they zone it with schools where you can only go to with Zipcolon, they come and investigate your ID, all this other stuff.
I am so concerned for that family because that mother is like, kids going to come home from school confused.
And what do you do?
So we are raised to tell our kids, hey, you better listen to your teacher.
I'm sorry.
I'm afraid to tell kids today.
You better listen to your teacher.
No, I don't want to tell them that.
You know what I'm saying?
What the public school system in America has done has turned children not into creative, passionate thinkers.
It's turned them obedient to authority.
And it doesn't puts them in a box.
Exactly what you're saying.
It doesn't make them into people who want to discover new ideas or make something very new.
It's you have this life.
You live this life exactly how you're supposed to and don't deviate from that.
And if you do deviate from that, if you're a boy and you chew your Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun, you know, you're evil and all these different types of things.
How old, what grade were you on when the teacher taught you about gays, lesbians, and transgender?
Not brother, but teacher.
Right.
That was elementary school.
What grade?
Do you remember?
Fifth grade?
What grade was it for you?
I can't remember a teacher teaching me about that.
I can't remember that.
I don't remember that.
That wasn't a thing.
Do you remember that?
Never, never.
I remember I had a gay teacher in junior year or high school, but they never taught us about it.
I had it in high school as well.
I don't remember anybody ever teaching me about gays, lesbians, and transgender.
Remember, there was a kid in seventh grade that you just knew he wasn't like part of the boys, he wasn't on the football team, is what I'm saying, right?
Um, and he was kind of gay, turned out to be gay, but we didn't understand.
We were kids.
I mean, the meanest kids in the world are eighth grade kids.
Like, like if I'm thinking of when I was my meanest self, it was eighth grade, right?
And I was a stand-up comedian.
Can you imagine?
I'm looking for laughs everywhere I go.
Yeah, I was not nice to that kid.
And years later, I saw him.
I'm like, hey, man, like, we're cool.
Is that great?
But I have a problem with that as well.
And I think in that example, I think somebody needs to come in and have the conversation with the kids on that part.
Okay.
Where, you know, the bullying part.
Because I agree.
I know.
Looking back at it.
Listen, I'm.
If there's anybody that doesn't like a bully, it's you.
No, I gotta say, it's different now, though.
Yeah.
This isn't like a 1980s jock movie, you know, where people are giving gay kids swirlies and stuff like that.
Exactly.
This isn't Revenge of the Nerds.
Right, exactly.
This is 2022, where now, no matter if you have more intersectional ideas about you, you're gay, lesbian, trans, black, whatever it is, the better off you are in these types of situations.
Correct.
So it's really, in a lot of ways, you see with young white men are doing worse academically, doing worse socially, and all these things.
Straight men.
With young white, straight men.
Exactly.
So now it's like flipped on.
They overcorrect it.
It ain't cool to be young and be a white, straight guy anymore.
No.
So the Florida's bill is what?
That you cannot talk about transgender and gay up until third grade.
Correct.
Because you're going to start fourth grade.
You can't bring it up in school.
By the way, when I read that, I'm like, I'm sorry.
You mean fourth grade?
It's okay?
How old is somebody at fourth grade?
How 10.
What do you mean you want to bring it up in fourth grade?
I don't even support fourth grade.
Well, what fourth grade?
What fifth grade?
What the hell?
Like, what are you talking about?
So when do you support having that?
No, first of all, like, what's health and guidance?
I remembered we learned health and guidance from Kim Sinclair, my teacher 10.
I remember her name.
Oh, she's my pen pal.
We write letters to till today.
Was this sex ed?
I remember taking sex ed.
Yeah, but by the way, she's the reason why I joined the army.
Shout out to Kim Sinclair.
She was my favorite teacher.
She is politically on the complete opposite side than I am.
Every guy she dated, we'd go out on a date and she would say, Do you like this guy?
Do you approve of him?
This lady is older than me, but I play a role of an older brother and I protect her.
She was very good to me.
I joined the army.
She had a very positive impact on my life.
She literally has there's a letter sitting on my desk, and I responded back to her on text, thanking her for the letter.
But I remember sitting, I'm like, okay, I learned about sex.
Cool.
I already knew about it, but I learned, you know, the whole banana and the economy and all this stuff.
And you're watching these videos.
Okay, cool.
Now, you're in what grade, by the way?
Health and guidance in Galena was at 10th grade.
That's what I was talking about.
At that point, I'm in favor of a 15-16-year-old learning about this.
I think that's the age.
What the hell are we talking about even being okay with fourth grade?
Elementary school should not be.
I am so confused.
You haven't even gone through puberty yet.
Here's the thing: like, go to the conservative folks that are like, well, it shouldn't be third, but fourth, it should.
I'm sorry, what?
Terrible.
What are you talking about?
This shouldn't even start till high school that you talk about.
This should not even be brought up till high school is when you start having these types of conversations.
Do you know how confused kids will be?
My kids and I were watching a movie the other day, and in the movie, you see, I don't know what it was, a girl kisses a girl, and my five-year-old daughter sitting there says my wife.
And I'm like, she's like, Daddy, is that okay?
So then I give my position on it, and then it's like, oh, okay.
All right.
Then I'm like, turn this down.
I'm like, I can't even watch some of the movies that I.
So now Disney wants to go 50%.
They were going to the park and asking people, like, I'm canceling my annual membership.
I'm canceling this.
I'm canceling that.
And this is not cool.
They shouldn't do this.
They can't even say boys and girls anymore.
They have to call them dreamers and friends.
So this is.
If we can't even say, hey, boys and girls, what are we talking about?
How often at any event?
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
I'd like to welcome all the time.
That's just normal.
Right.
You see, this is why these people are so mad about this Don't Say Gay Bill and not being able to teach it to children is because think about what you just said, saying boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen not being able to say that or thinking that Leah Thomas is a woman.
Any of these types of things.
The only people who have the brain capacity to believe these types of things are children.
Because otherwise it just sounds so ridiculous to just normal people.
Normal people just hear that and say, this is just crazy.
So they influence children.
They push it on them young so that when they get older, they believe this all their life and they know that they're not going to get out of it.
When I was in the army, we used to go to this gay bar, best club in Nashville, Tennessee.
It was called Connections.
They shut it down in 03.
Let me tell you, it was a ridiculous experience.
It was the Studio 54 of what do you call it, of Nashville.
Like, if you've ever seen a movie Studio 54, it's exactly what it was.
I mean, I'm surprised they took that long to shut this place down.
It was, a guy took me to this place.
We went into it.
Yeah, why are you going to a gay bar?
Oh, because.
Because the ratios are on your side.
It was great.
Oh, I actually totally agree with you.
It was just.
If you're a straight guy and there's always girls there, you're going to wait time that we would go there.
I have, when I left the last time I went to Connections, we have a picture.
Two years ago.
I have the picture until today, by the way.
I have the picture until today, and it's in my no joke.
I have the picture until today.
You should see the picture.
Everybody hugging me, six of them around me, they're all gay.
Okay?
And then two of the guys from the army, they're straight.
And they're like, they're crying.
We're going to miss you.
Greek God.
You know, we're going to have this everybody have their own name and all this stuff.
Yeah, you're the little boyjo.
I would tell them, I would say, you know, so what nationality?
What's Bet David?
I'm like, I'm a Syrian.
Sicilian?
After like 50 times trying to explain what the hell is a Syrian, I said, you know what?
Yes, I'm Sicilian.
So since 18 years old, I've had a side name of the Greek god.
Vinny DeLucci.
We'd go, I'm joke.
I'm not even kidding with you.
We had all these.
We had a free time.
But here's the point.
That didn't bother me.
But I was 18, 19, 20 years old.
I knew I'm comfortable.
I love women.
I like this.
I'm very comfortable in my own skin.
I'm good.
But to start that at third, fourth, fifth grade, I don't think you start this till 10th grade.
And I think there's a lot of people who are.
You shouldn't start it at all.
At what point in any education should you be talking about home?
Like, kids will figure it out amongst themselves.
This is not to be a teacher.
Only one reason.
Only one reason.
Look, you and I can teach the concept of stocks five different ways.
You and I can teach capitalism in five different ways.
You can tell capitalism and say, yeah, here's capitalism.
It's the rich taking advantage of the poor.
It's kind of like they have their employees looking at them as slaves.
That's your way of explaining capitalism.
Spot on.
He could say capitalism is the people that inherited all their wealth from their family and they had a head start and you don't.
So capitalism benefits those with a head start.
That's his explanation.
My explanation as a teacher of capitalism may be, listen, folks, there's many different political systems in the world, many different economical systems in the world, but the one that gives you the biggest fighting chance without a four-year degree, without a two-year degree, without an MBA, without needing a last name is capitalism.
It's hard.
It's a lot of work.
It's going to suck.
You're going to lose a lot.
But if you work your ass up, you read the right books, capitalism is for you.
We all explain capitalism, but we explain it in a different way.
The way you explain LGBTQIABZ, whatever the letters are, the way you explain it has to be very matter-of-fact.
Here's what you're going to see.
This is what this is.
Here's who that person is.
Here's your approach when you run into them.
Bullying is not okay no matter who the person is.
You cannot judge people.
It goes back to very basic fundamentals of conservative beliefs.
This whole concept of judging people needs to go more where we teach it, meaning we teach it more not to do it.
I think that's the approach.
But the other side that's like, if you don't, you're this, and maybe you have these thoughts.
And if you do, this is what to do.
No, no.
Stop right there, bro.
Chill out.
Relax.
Matter-of-fact style of teaching.
No judgment, no bullying.
This is not acceptable.
We move on.
Not the other in-depth type of a style teacher.
And I don't know if you understand what I'm saying.
But the problem is not, it's not matter-of-fact because look at all the people that are pushing this.
They're all college educated.
I mean, this is all coming from the colleges and universities.
I mean, it's indoctrination from kindergarten all the way through your graduating year of college.
It's straight indoctrination.
So I don't think it should be addressed at all because it can't be matter of fact.
Right.
That's exactly right.
I do think their sex ed is totally appropriate in 10th grade.
And, you know, call it ninth, tenth, whatever, high school, end of middle.
I'm cool with that.
I'm going to give you one little perspective here.
And I don't have kids.
I don't have an opportunity to say this story all that often.
I'm going to give you two stories real quick.
I came into your office one time and this was regarding my sister.
And my sister and I kind of got into an argument with her.
And I was like, you know what?
Because she's a big theater, Broadway, whatever.
And, you know, I'm really tight with my nephew.
That's my guy, Rory.
Love that kid.
Nine years old.
He's a boy.
He's a boy.
She's like, you know, I'm enrolling him in ballerina classes.
And, you know, I want him to kind of start doing what I do.
I go, I go, Jim, this is not what I know.
Like, I'm just, I know what she's used to in South Beach and dancing and Broadway.
And I'm just like, Rory, you want to play soccer, right?
He's like, yeah, I like soccer.
She's like, but he could also learn.
I'm like, I put my foot down.
Like, I'm like, this is not happening in my house.
She's like, you're not the dad.
I'm like, my masculine tendencies were like, this isn't happening.
And I was just like, because I was a sports guy.
I played football in college.
Like, this is the closest thing I have to having a kid, my nephew.
Like, don't even, the kid's nine years old, eight years old at the time.
Flip it on you.
The most emotional I've ever gotten.
I told Tigran this to me the other day.
When you were in the office.
I told Tigran this the other day.
He posted a video, Tigran Amoral.
He posted a video of Daniel scoring three goals.
This guy's a beast, Daniel.
Okay, he's like five years old.
And when I was in Dallas, that was my homie.
That was my guy.
Like, I would practice soccer with this kid.
And I was like, not even joking, like choking up watching the, I'm like, look at this guy go.
Look at him do his thing.
Five years old.
And I could just imagine if a teacher was trying to indoctrinate whatever it is to a five-year-old, to an eight-year-old, to a nine-year-old.
My fatherly instincts are like, this ain't happening, bro.
So the whole don't say gay thing, just like, I think if there's anything we're establishing here, what you used with like the 18-year-old, I'm sorry, when you're at the Greek God story, dude, you're grown up.
Do what the hell ever you want with your life.
Do not put your freaking hands on my kids' brain and start indoctrinating them to whatever you think they should be doing.
Hands off the kids.
When I figured out as an adult, do whatever you want.
Catherine Netts just said a super chat.
She says, isn't gay just part of society?
Why does it need to be taught?
Why are we treating gay people as different?
Interesting perspective, by the way, for to say that.
Here's another one.
This should be no surprise.
This is from Cove 12K X12.
This should be no surprise as parents have been outsourcing their responsibilities to schools.
What a freaking great one.
I wish it was a name to give you credit, brother.
You said the $48,000 household with the mom and the wife, and you're worried about them.
Even if you have to send your kids to public schools, there is going to be time where either the dad or the mom can sit down and actually have dinner with their kids, which a lot of parents won't do, read to them, talk to them about the issues of the day, maybe in the morning at breakfast, whatever it is, you have to find time as a parent to work around the schedule to undo some of the things that are happening at the public school.
You have to be a responsible parent.
That's phenomenal point.
If you don't do it, then that's your fault.
That is your fault, parent, if you don't do it.
You know what's crazy?
You know how this whole thing with Will Smith slapping him got Chris Hart.
Not Chris Hart.
Chris Rock.
We have a Chris Hart.
So Chris Hart, Kevin Hart, Chris Rock, totally threw me off.
So this whole Chris Rock situation for his ticket sales to go from what, $45 to $4 to $50?
Yeah.
Okay.
I think I saw someone going for $1,000.
Yeah, I'm not surprised.
Because everybody wants to see what he's going to say.
Everyone's going there for his reaction on that word.
And by the way, that Netflix special could sell for $60 million.
But what's it called?
So it pushed Will's reaction originally, oh my gosh, Chris didn't do anything.
Helped Chris out, right?
And Chris Wins.
I think if I'm running a church today, if there's ever been the right messaging to increase attendance, it's today.
If I'm a public school, if I'm a parent that $48,000 year parent, and I'm sitting there thinking about how do I equalize that and match it, because you need to match it, right?
And conservative is not Christianity, just conservative, right?
You know, stealing, marriage, biblical principles, all this stuff.
I think there's never been a more important time for parents who can't afford to send kids to private school, but you can afford to send your kids to church.
I think there's never been more important of a time to take your kids to church.
Like, you know, I gave a talk in Newport Beach to a group of pastors who were talking about how the donation and tithing has gone down and, you know, all this other stuff.
And I said, just look at what Mormonism is doing.
They're doing a great job.
Their YouTube channel rocks.
They're great at getting people and converting and baptizing.
And two years, you know, everybody leaves for two years when they go to their, what do they call it, mission trip that they go on.
I said, but today, if there's ever been a time where attendance can double, triple, and you can again start seeing these massive crusades of churches being packed with three, four, five, 10,000 people, I think it's today.
No, but you're, but those, I don't know exactly who those pastors were that you talked to in Newport Beach, but there are a lot of pastors in California, specifically ones that I work with, and I'm getting requests from all sorts of different churches that didn't shut down during COVID, that stayed open, and they have seen their numbers triple, quadruple, five-tuple, whatever it might be.
They've had so many more people come in.
Well, a lot of the churches that don't really speak the truth or speak this feel-good message of Christianity, whatever it is, they're faltering.
And their numbers are.
Where did you go to?
Where do you go to?
I go to Pastor Jack Hibbs Church.
He's the one who baptized me about a year ago.
This Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Riverside.
That's the one I go to.
But also, you know, Rob McCoy's church out there in Woodland Hills.
A lot of great churches that are just seeing explosions in numbers because they're actually standing up for truth.
Do you go to In His Presence?
Do you ever go to Shepherd of the Hills?
Do you go to Dudley Rutherford?
Do you know?
I haven't.
Okay, got it.
Dudley Rutherford is in Porta Ranch.
Okay.
And he's got a church, 20,000 members.
Incredible church.
Yeah, I think attendance got, I think as a parent today, if you can't afford to pay $1,500 a month to a private school, you can't afford to take your kids to church every Sunday.
Well, not just that.
Listen, if you're a parent and you're going to vote, pay attention to who you're voting for.
It's that simple.
Don't just check a box on a school board council member.
They did this in San Francisco.
They voted out three incredibly radical school board members because they were tired of what they were promoting.
If you're going to vote, fucking pay attention.
It's your responsibility to know who you're voting for.
It's a great point, but it's not a realistic point.
Because how many times do you go to a ballot and you check the ballot box and you vote for the president and the vice president and you know zero other names on the four pages?
I agree with you.
Then you shouldn't be voting.
A lot of times, like circuit county judge, I'll leave it blank.
If I don't know a name or have any affiliation, I will leave it blank.
But that's just not how it works, bro.
Like people are going to vote and they're going to check a box.
They're going to see an R next no name.
They're checking R. They're going to see a D next no name.
They're checking D.
No matter what the hell else they know they're just going R or D.
And if there's no political affiliation, they're just incumbent.
That's also the problem with the voting system.
That's the point.
Is that I consider myself to be pretty smart.
Not the smartest, but certainly smarter than most.
And if I can barely make out what the hell these voter ballots are basically saying, then I don't know what the hell most of Americans are even understanding.
They do that on purpose.
And I think you're exactly right of what that's going to happen.
But I think that, I mean, especially the left, the left will push people to vote so hard, even if they're uneducated.
And I say don't vote if you're not educated on what's going on.
You shouldn't.
Because if you're going to be an informed voter and actually care about what's going on, you should be informed.
You've got a pretty strong belief system on how the voting system should work.
I think your belief system on how to vote should be the same way companies and families are ran.
And how are families ran?
If your kid doesn't pay rent money, you don't have a voice on what we buy and don't buy and what we cook.
If you work for a company and you don't own a share, I'm sorry, you don't have a voice.
Only shareholders get on a shareholder call.
Berkshire Hathaway has a meeting with their A shareholders in Omaha, Nebraska, where you hear from him and Charlie Munger because you earned the right to go in there because you own one of their shares at whatever dollar amount, $300,000 a share it is.
I think we're allowing, like, think about if our voting system was the way families and businesses ran, that's kind of like me living in my house with my kids and my kid's six-year-old best friend can come in and vote for how we should run our households.
Tell me how the hell that makes any sense.
Somebody can come and tell Berkshire Hathaway how they should run their company, even though they have not contributed to organization.
They have not contributed to the company's growth.
They've not bought a share.
They don't risk the risk that Berkshire takes, but they want to tell them how to run things.
No, no, no.
Your vote doesn't really matter that much because you're not contributing to society.
I think the system needs to be a way to contribute to society.
So you think that certain people shouldn't have the ability to vote or certain people should have more votes than others?
I think the messaging needs to flip to be earned the right to vote.
I think that's the messaging.
You ought to earn the right to vote and the current system.
Do you see that changing at all as well?
Zero.
No, I don't see that changing at all.
I'm just telling you.
Well, they had that whole thing.
People have dreams.
People have dreams.
You know, I can dream.
So it's a very different thing.
No, they had that new voting thing that said, oh, Republicans want to take away voting rights from people.
I was like, no, we didn't.
We wanted it so that you had to vote on election day, so that you didn't use a mail-in ballot, so that you couldn't be an illegal immigrant to vote, and that you actually had to show an ID.
Apparently, that's restricting people's right to vote.
All that's doing is securing the vote and making it so that people, exactly like you're saying, who actually play some part in society, are actually voting.
But apparently that's taking away people's right to vote.
No, I think that you're right.
I think it's too easy to vote for a lot of people.
It should be harder.
I think, like, listen, you come, like, I came to America.
I'm like, I feel like I owe America something.
America doesn't owe me nothing.
Like, America gave me this life.
So, hey, I'll serve the military.
I owe you.
I'm in debt to you, America.
You ain't in debt to me.
I'm in debt to you.
You didn't tell me to come here.
I chose to come to America.
I had 200 other options and I came to you.
So I got to give to you.
I don't think that messaging is being given since this one president that we had that got assassinated years ago who said, don't ask what your country can do for you.
Instead, ask what you can do for the country.
When's the last time we heard that messaging?
It's no $5.8 trillion bill.
Let's get more money.
Well, why don't we talk about that?
And that's perfect with JFK because JFK was talking a lot about the Federal Reserve in his time.
They did not like him doing that kind of stuff.
They kind of wanted that to be left alone.
So Biden pitches the largest tax hike in history as part of the $5.8 trillion budget request.
He has laid out the tax hike as part of his $5.8 trillion budget blueprint for federal spending in fiscal 2023, which begins in October under his proposal.
Taxes will rise by $2.5 trillion, marking the largest increase in history in dollar terms.
The deficit would be $1.15 trillion.
The higher taxes would largely be borne by Wall Street and the top silver of U.S. households in the form of steeper corporate rate, a modified wealth tax, and a global minimum tax.
The taxes outlined include a minimum 20% tax on incomes of U.S. households worth $100 million or more.
The so-called billionaire minimum tax would raise $361 billion in revenue over 10 years and apply to the top 0.01% of households or about 20,000 Americans.
The White House said that roughly half the revenue stem from the country's 700 billionaires, which, by the way, Manchin comes out the next day and he shuts the bill down.
This is a Hill story.
Centrist Manchin on Tuesday shot down President's Biden plan to raise $360 billion from the imposing a 20% minimum tax on billionaires, which is insane.
Manchin says he doesn't support the president's plan to tax unrealized gains on billionaires, which would set a new president.
Nothing new we haven't heard from Manchin.
You can't tax something that's not earned.
Earned income is what we're based on, he said.
There's other ways to do it.
Everybody has to pay their fair share.
Manchin opposition means Biden's proposal is likely dead only a day after the White House unveiled it.
Can you imagine?
You write this bill, you put all this time, you market it.
The next day, Manchin says, no, there's nothing else you can do about it.
That's great.
Well, if I'm Biden, I don't do anything until I have a conversation with Joe Manchin.
So how long have I been talking about Joe Manchin?
Four years.
So that's who I am politically.
I'm not far left.
I'm not far right.
You should wear a shirt that says Team Joe Manchin.
I'm talking about Team Joe Manchin.
I should be in series.
Put him in Joe Manchin shirt.
I've been seeing Manchin for years, and I'm thinking for years because I didn't really start really getting into politics until about 2016.
And I'm not a Trump guy.
I'm not a MAGA guy.
Sorry, bro.
But I was a registered independent, and I was like, whatever this guy's doing, I'm not for.
But what?
This guy, Joe Manchin, doing something, man.
He's a Democrat in the reddest state in the country, freaking West Virginia.
And what his, it says here, centrist Joe Manchin.
That's what's so amazing about Joe Manchin.
That's what I think is what a synergist you talk about.
We're all Americans.
We might disagree on a little bit here, a little bit here, but like, what was the whole Rodney King?
Can't we all just get along?
And it's the fringes that are causing all these issues in America.
And I get it.
People have core beliefs.
But thank God for Joe Manchin, just basically, listen, you know, grown-ups are here.
Everyone just calm down.
We're not just going to be spending like drunk sailors.
You know, we're going, he said he's going to come out and vote for the new Supreme Court justice, the black lady.
Like, there's a lot of common sense going on with Joe Manchin.
And thank God there's at least a steady hand in Congress that, you know, in the Senate that we can kind of look towards and say, all right, that's how he kind of you got to conduct yourself.
So if I'm Biden to bring my point, I say, hey, Joe, this is what I'm pitching.
Before I spend days, weeks, months having putting shit together, this is something you would go for.
You know what he should hire you as his advisor?
Yeah, Joe, if you're watching, call Adam.
I have to strongly disagree with you for a second.
Go for it.
When you're talking about, you know, the fringe left and the fringe right, and then, you know, kind of have the center, which is, if it weren't for these fringe groups, then things would be a lot better.
But, you know, when you look at the Republicans and the Democrats in Congress, I mean, someone like Mitch McConnell is worse than Joe Manchin.
So many of the Republicans are worse than that.
I agree with you there, Joe.
Exactly.
And it's like these are the people in the middle.
These are the people who find common ground all the time, all this kind of stuff.
But there is more unity between right-wing populists and left-wing populists than there is between me and a rhino-Republican.
Is there really?
Definitely.
Oh, yeah.
Because a rhino-Republican is fine selling out our country.
Whereas someone who might be a left-wing populist doesn't want to sell out our country, even if we disagree on some of these things, right?
And so I think that a lot of the future of American politics is actually going to depend on this left-wing populist movement because the left historically has been this anti-big business, anti-war, that type of rhetoric, right?
And now you have people like Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, even Bernie Sanders, who is supposedly one of these guys, took $1.5 million from Big Pharma for his campaign for his presidential run, right?
And he talks badly about Big Pharma.
So you have these people who are all in the middle, these centrist types of people, the Rhinos and the regular Democrats, who are the ones that are actually driving everything up because they work together and they're basically one and the same.
So what I think is that for this 2022 midterm and hopefully for 2024, is that we get Republican candidates who are actually conservative, not like far-right extremist people, that's not what I'm saying, but people who actually aren't just going to be some walk-all-over-me type of Republican and actually get something done.
Give an example.
Give names.
Yeah, who's like, all right, that's my guy.
I like this.
Well, if we're talking about ideologically, then we have Tucker Carlson.
I mean, he is the one who is leading the charge on everything right now.
If Tucker Carlson were to run, he'd be amazing.
Then you have Ron DeSantis here in Florida.
Yes, Florida has a lot of people.
Who Congress do you actually look at and say, that guy's killing it?
Or lady?
Well, I think Marjorie Taylor Greene is one.
There's something.
That's who you, that's the lady?
Yes, QAnon lady dude?
No, not QAnon.
Well, listen, there are some.
Marjorie Taylor Greene of all people.
And then the Marjorie Green has some very good things when it comes to actually, like, think about the January 6th prisoners, right?
There are those people who are rotting in those D.C. jails.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of the only people to stand up and say something about it.
You know, there's things that I, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, when it came to some of this insider trading.
Brother, I asked you to say that.
So the main person that you identify with, you say Marjorie Taylor Green.
Well, see, that should show you how horrible I think the situation in Congress is if that if the person that I identify the most with is a Marjorie Taylor Greene, that should show you how screwed up things are.
In my opinion, I really have no faith in a lot of the politics that we have right now.
I think so much of this is going to come down to ideological ideas and that we put too much credence on as a people in America on political parties when both the Republicans and the Democrats are the same thing.
You know, if I was a Republican in Congress, I wouldn't be signing any of this stuff that other Republicans are signing for.
And also, none of these people even read the bills.
They have some 25-year-old guy who graduated from GW who's in the back room reading this bill and highlighting it the night before and then telling the congressman what it is and they're hungover doing it probably because they're on the hill partying.
And it's like that's what our political system is.
I mean you look at the spending bills and what some of that money is actually going to.
I mean like stuff billions of dollars to countries way far away, helping other countries build walls around their countries to keep them safe, but we can't fund our own border wall here in America.
I mean none of this makes any sense.
The politics is just let me ask you, Will, because you kind of highlighted something.
I don't want to just gloss over it.
You know, we talk about how on the Democratic side of things, there's the moderate Democrats and then there's the progressive AOC wing, what have you.
And there's that infighting.
But you just highlighted the Rhinos, the classic Republican, the Reagan Republican, McConnell's, however you want to classify them, and more the MAGA wing.
Where do you think there's a deeper divide in the current political atmosphere?
Is it on the left or is it on the right?
It's definitely on the right.
Yeah, there's no doubt about that.
Because even the moderate Democrats will go along with the SJW stuff when it comes to the left.
Even if people are still asking, like when it came to Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal, I mean, that got shot down by everyone in the Senate, right?
Like it didn't pass at all because still even moderate Democrats are asking who's going to pay for this.
But when it comes to the social justice stuff, the moderate Democrats are still on board with the left.
And when you go on Twitter, like you go on right-wing Twitter and you see a lot of these people who are, you know, more of the America First or not, like I personally don't align a lot with the MAGA stuff so much now, but more of just an America First agenda, I guess you could say, in a way that, you know, I'm tired of spending money in foreign wars and I want lower taxes and things to be able to have a single family income, provide for a family.
That's kind of where I'm at.
But you go on there and you will see Republicans and conservatives attacking Republicans more than they attack the left, a lot of people.
I think that the divide between the right right now is really, really stark.
Did you expect that answer, by the way?
Yes and no.
Yes and no.
But it was interesting you going back and forth in regards to the was it Marjorie Taylor Greene and your reaction to it.
But no, this is why we have these types of conversations to see where people stand with the different situations.
All I know is the direction we're going right now, this midterms that's coming up, it's not going to be pretty for these guys.
They have to sit down and re-strategize what the hell to do.
Numbers came back with polls for Biden.
71% is saying Biden's America is heading the wrong direction.
You know, this is a Sunday NBC news poll.
This is not a Fox poll.
This is not a Breibard poll.
This is not a NBC.
They are very far right wing, man.
Yeah, okay.
Andre Taylor Green's biggest.
Sunday NBC news poll, just 22% say the country's head in the right direction.
Biden's approval rating is historically low.
In fact, Sunday's poll found Biden's overall job performance approval rating has declined to 40%, the lowest of his presidency.
To make matters worse, seven in 10 Americans express no confidence in Biden's ability to deal with the war in Ukraine, which is exasperating gas prices and fuel inflation.
The average price of gas has increased by 70 cents since Russia invaded Ukraine, but gas prices had already risen by dollars since Biden assumed office and wage war in Americans and energy independence.
So, look, things are not looking pretty right now with the handling of businesses when it comes down to Biden.
The one that's starting to get very upset, I don't know if you saw what AOC said about Biden.
Like, listen, we need to kind of start doing some things because all the promises he made that we're going to do this and we're going to do that and we're going to do this and we're going to do that, literally nothing he promised is getting executed.
Yeah, because of Joe Manchin.
And to a certain extent, Chris and Cinema.
So he could have promised that if Joe Manchin give a thumbs up or thumbs down, she'd be the happiest camper alive on the world.
I totally get it.
But the point is, even Obama came in and he said affordable health, you know, whatever.
Obamacare that came out.
What did Obama care?
What did Obama do with Obamacare?
It got passed.
Oh, nine.
Executive decision.
Like, hey, here's what we're doing.
Okay.
Here's what we're doing.
Democrats are sitting there saying, dude, you ain't doing nothing.
So AOC is saying we got to be more progressive than we are today.
So the left is going after the left, and it's not looking good.
And the movement of Lincoln project is not as strong today as it was a year and a half ago.
If you follow Lincoln Project, they don't have the kind of height of the Trump presidency.
That's where they were, you know, that's where they were needed, so to speak.
Yeah, but tomorrow.
Bad gives a shit about them.
Yeah, today it's not.
If Trump runs again, they're going to rear their ugly head again in 2024.
They're targeting one guy right now, one guy only.
And the more and more they target this guy, you have to realize that's who they're fearing.
Is that Trump you're saying?
No, Governor of the state you live in right now.
That's who they're targeting the most, which means in their minds, that's their number one target.
They think that's going to be a guy that's going to give them a run for their money in 2024.
I'm just playing a game, throwing it out there.
If you could put someone as the president right now, you know, you have all the votes.
Who would you put in there right now?
You don't play this game, though.
Remember, we try to play this game.
Play the game.
I'll play the game.
Roger put DeSantis in.
DeSantis gets things done.
There are things about Trump that I liked, and Trump did get some things done, but Trump also cared too much what people thought about him, and so sacrificed things to not get them done.
Like, you know, we were complaining about social media censorship for four years, and nothing got done.
We wanted more of the wall to get done.
That didn't get done.
DeSantis has gotten so many things done as governor.
It's just been incredible.
I mean, really a great guy.
So I think that DeSantis knows how to work these people and he would get things done like no one else.
And he gets good things done.
I don't disagree with you.
Pat, do you have a answer?
I would go Manchin and then I would go DeSantis.
I would.
Yeah.
I'd be comfortable with both.
And you have Marjorie Taylor Greene as your VP, bro.
I don't think that's a good question.
I'd be comfortable with both.
Is that who you would put first, DeSantis, right there?
I think DeSantis is on that list.
What about our local Proud Boy?
Who are you voting for?
This Proud Boy thing.
You go to one Proud Boy rally and you get labeled a Proud Brigade.
You're going to start a bad rumor here, you build a thousand bridges.
You fuck one goat.
You know, now you're no longer a bridge builder.
Who's your vote, Tyler?
It's DeSantis.
It's DeSantis.
Okay.
Older Trump for you.
Absolutely.
100%.
DeSantis.
Obviously, that can't happen in 2024.
There's no way Ron DeSantis beats Donald Trump in 2024.
You're saying there's no way.
I don't think there's no way Trump beats DeSantis.
No, no, there's no way DeSantis beats Trump if Trump runs in 2024.
That's really tough to know.
It's really tough to know.
Right now, the polling numbers, I mean, you look at the CPAC straw poll and people are saying Trump, but again, you're also at CPAC, and that's kind of that type of crowd.
But it's not like 50 to 40.
It's like 85% and the closest person.
Once Trump starts doing his rallies and rallying the base and the build the wall chant and he finds someone to lock up and lock her up, whoever it is, he starts throwing out Hillary Clinton.
Lock him up.
Yeah, exactly.
He's going to swirl him up.
Yeah.
DeSantis scene thing, man.
It's a personality versus policy.
Policy-wise, I don't think there's much difference.
But DeSantis is kind of level-headed.
And I don't know if that's enough to get voted in.
People like showmanship is a big deal.
And I don't know if DeSantis is a showman.
There's a thing.
Trump is losing a lot because of, first of all, what he said about the vaccines.
I mean, talking about that without him, without his vaccines, 150 million people would have died.
I mean, and a lot of people on the right are unvaccinated more than the left, you know, myself included, unvaccinated.
And that makes him lose a lot of his base.
And then he's also made a lot of bad picks for endorsements, like the governor of Georgia, who he endorsed, and some of these other people.
It's just, I think that he's lost a little bit of his edge.
Well, the Georgia thing was a debacle.
Ryan Kemp.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Stacey Abrams and the senators who got listen, there's points and points and points you can make about Trump versus DeSantis.
Let's think about how much of the debt is due to Donald Trump because he expected to be running for another four years and flip it around and he'd reverse the things he had done.
But again, Trump started this movement.
He created the rift and exposed the Mitt Romney's, the George Bushes, the Dick Cheneys.
I mean, he put these people under a lamp.
This all comes because of what are the McConnells of the world and the Romneys of the world going to do if Trump is the nominee?
Are they going to try to sink that ship?
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Well, I think that if Trump wins, let's say he wins, they're going to want to get back in his good graces and say, oh, we're for you the whole time.
And if he loses, then they throw him under the bus.
But that's not these types of people.
Look at politics.
Look at Bill Ball.
I don't know why we didn't look up.
I feel like, and Pat, this I'll circle back to you.
Our country needs to do a better job of looking up to business people and not politicians.
Like the days of JFK and Reagan are so done.
Like politics is such an ugly game and you need to be so plain in the middle of the day.
You don't think Cannies grow up today.
Think a 12-year-old boy grows up today saying one day I want to be like Joe Biden.
I want to be a senile old man.
I hope my daughter grew up.
But I don't want them to do that to Biden or to Trump.
I want them to look at business people that say, I want to build a business.
I want to change the world.
Not I want to be a swampy Congress swamp creature out there.
I think that's something that we need to talk about.
Let me tell you a story, people.
Here's a BlackRock president says, entitled generation now learning about shortages.
Okay, this is a Bloomberg story.
Rob Capito warned that inflation is having dramatic effects on the economy, with an entire generation now learning what it means to suffer from shortages.
For the first time, this generation is going into a store and not be able to get what they want.
And we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice.
The economy is reckoning with the he bubbled, he dubbed scarcity inflation or to fall out from a shortage of workers, agriculture supplies, and housing and oil in some regions.
Capito co-ounded New York-based BlackRock, which is now the world's largest asset manager with about $10 trillion in client assets and investments across the global economy.
What an interesting thing to say the entitled generation is about to learn about shortages.
Well, it's like BlackRock are part of the ones who have screwed people over.
And they basically own 10% of the world's wealth, BlackRock.
It's insane how deep they go.
And this is why it's funny when we're talking about the politics stuff and people are arguing about Democrat versus Republican and all this.
It's like, do you know what's going on with some of these elites and the World Economic Forum people and these types of people who are in charge that own so much, the you will own nothing and be happy?
And we're talking about some things that just don't really seem to matter.
It's like, this is what matters.
It matters that some organization like BlackRock or VanguardCom screws you over and then tells you that it's your fault, you know, as they're the ones who are buying up all the single-family homes and turning them into rental properties so that housing prices skyrocket and you can't have any capital yourself.
Yeah, that story from four or five months ago, when you saw that, you're sitting there saying, okay, remember when Tom was on?
I don't know if you remember when Tom was on and Tom was like, okay, here's what's going on.
Here's what they're going to do.
They're going to increase rentals.
They're trying to convince you I need to buy now.
Yeah, exactly.
Buy now before these guys pick up a big market and then you don't have a choice.
You don't have another place to go.
They can charge you whatever the hell they want to charge you.
But this inflation thing, what he's explaining, the shortages, it's not just that.
Joe Biden just came out and said, oh, by the way, you can expect food shortages because of the sanctions on Russia, which to Will's point, Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the only people to have voted against sanctions on Russia because she saw these things coming.
She can see, she can look a few steps ahead and say, oh, food shortages are probably more of a problem to American people than Russia invading Ukraine.
Now, this is not to condone the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but on the flip side, like we're going to have food shortages on top of the supply chain issues we had during the pandemic, the fact that our transportation secretary blows, like there's a whole mess of things going on that maybe we don't need to be putting sanctions on Russia right now.
Can you share with us your true feelings, Tyler, next time?
Don't hold back.
I know you'd like him.
He'll be on the show with you later.
Tyler, pull up this guy, Rob Capito.
I just want to highlight this guy because we've all heard of Larry Fink.
He's the CEO of BlackRock.
You've heard that name.
I've never really heard of Rob Capito.
So just maybe go to Wikipedia.
So here's the hypocrisy that I think is just laughable with this guy right now.
New York City elite went to Harvard, went to Wharton, 65-year-old male, specializes in mortgage-backed securities.
Okay?
So which tell the history so people know where mortgage-backed securities is what brought down, that's the big short.
That's what brought down America to its almost knees in 2008 during the Great Recession.
So like the millennials are suffering because of everything that happened in 2008.
Gen Z millennials have been affected by 2008.
Now 2020, everything that happened with that.
And here's this multi-billionaire New York City elite Harvard Wharton grad who specializes in freaking mortgage-backed securities talking shit about millennials.
Like, have a little like understanding of the world.
And if you want to come to it from a financial angle, hey, you need to save more.
You need to invest more.
I get it.
But the whole, like, they've never had to sacrifice, Mother Effer, what have you ever sacrificed?
Right.
So, like, the hypocrisy is a little annoying to me.
That's my opinion.
But other than that, he's an awesome guy.
Yeah, exactly.
I love him.
Yeah, we go out for drinks.
He's a fantastic guy.
Yeah, no, the whole thing with BlackRock and those types of investment firms is really terrible.
The people have no idea what's actually going on.
But that goes to show you what he said.
I think he knows exactly what he's saying.
And I think it goes to show the level of arrogance that these people have, that they know that they can just get away with whatever they want.
Like, think about on Twitter right now, where just like, what was it, a year ago with the whole Hunter Biden laptop thing and all that, you couldn't say it.
New York Post got banned.
And now New York Times and Twitter, all these people are saying, oh, it actually was true.
And it's totally fine to say.
500 days later.
Yeah, 500 days later.
So it's like, oh, so you can say all these things and say whatever you want to people and just have this level of arrogance and they always just get away with it.
They know they're going to get away with it.
They know they can get away with saying this and doing whatever they want, basically.
By the way, I got to give a shout out to Adam.
Adam, you've been getting a lot of love today.
Super chat, Raul.
Adam is so underrated.
He is a man's man and my favorite Jewish person.
Oh, wow.
Thanks, guys.
Raul, you just made Adam's date.
Favorite Jewish.
By the way, this clip needs to be cut and shown to your mom.
Mom, you knew he was going to be a rabbi.
He's on his way.
He still thinks I'm going to be a rabbi.
I don't know about that.
Just wait till I show you some of the ones that haven't been signed.
No, no, no.
Can I read you one comment?
Can I read you one?
Yes, of course.
Here's one comment.
I got to give this guy a shout out.
He said this.
This is from Tyler Durden.
Tyler Durden.
That's from Fight Club.
All right.
So it's a three-sentence thing.
He goes, Adam, I owe you an internet troll apology.
I didn't like you for the longest time.
After watching a few of these and listening to you and your guests on your show, SOSCAST, in a non-political light, you're not a bad dude at all.
Turns out I'm just a judgmental prick.
Good luck to you and keep up the good work.
Thanks, Tyler.
There you go, buddy.
Is it your name, Tyler?
There you go.
Is that you, you pizza?
By the way, put out that story from Babylon B.
I don't know if you guys saw this or not.
It's very important for us to share this.
So did you see this?
Put this up so people can see it.
Adam, look at this.
The only Florida compliant pain-relieving claim under Florida law being gay forced to rebrand as well.
Shout out to Seth Dylan.
This guy.
Seth Dylan.
He doesn't hold back.
You know this guy?
Seth Illinois.
Yeah.
He's met him a couple times.
He's great.
He works with Batman.
They're not slowing down.
They're not slowing down.
So complete different topic here.
Complete different topic here.
Corrupting Garu, popular mascot, Disney mascot, roaming park, without any pants.
Whoever's coming up with these ideas, man, you got to give him credit.
Donald Duck?
I have no idea who it is.
But by the way, just a different question.
Different question.
Completely different topic.
I've been wanting to talk about this.
Kirsten know what you guys think.
Have you seen A New Batman?
Have you seen A New Batman?
Have you seen A N Batman?
You got to be kidding me.
I don't really watch anybody.
I don't watch movies either.
Have you seen The New Batman?
Have you seen A New Batman or no?
Unfortunately.
I've heard him.
You haven't seen The New Batman.
How many Batmans are there, by the way?
The new Batman is Batman 38.
When they did the one with Ben Affleck, I was like, ah, I'm kind of missing.
Present banner list.
Okay, have you guys seen Joker?
Did you watch The Joker?
Yeah, I watched The Joker.
You watch A Joker.
What'd you think about The Joker?
I thought Joker was well-made.
You thought it was a well-moved.
You liked the storyline?
Yeah.
What the story was.
Yeah, it was gritty.
I'm a big Joaquin Phoenix guy, and I think he crushed it.
I thought so.
So I watched Batman, whatever The Last Batman is with Robert Patterson.
Is it Patterson?
Robert Patterson.
Patterson.
Yeah, and the Vampire movie.
The Vampire, which, by the way, Penguin crushed it.
Penguin was Colin Farrell.
I couldn't believe that that was Colin Farrell until I MDB'd and I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
Colin Farrell played Penguin?
Can you pull up the picture Colin Farrell Penguin?
In the recent Batman?
You have to watch it just because of Colin Farrell.
He'll never be Danny DeVito, bro.
Look at this.
Look at this.
So he plays, that's not even a good picture.
Put the other one with Colin Farrell and write.
He plays the penguin, Colin Farrell, and absolutely.
Can I see what Colin Farrell looks like in real life these days, by the way?
Are we talking about the same Colin Farrell?
Same Colin Farrell guy that guy?
Yes, he played.
So anyway, so here's the part with the story.
I'm curious.
Were you a kid that grew up reading the comic books?
Did you read Batman stories or I didn't read comic stories?
I actually read animal books.
Tyler, did you or no?
No, I can't read.
Okay, so did you?
Did you read it?
I always can't read.
You guys did it.
I did.
I liked Archie and Betty and screwing up this entire thing.
I did like comics a little bit.
So let me tell you what bothers me with the story.
Do you know what they painted Thomas Wayne to be in the movie?
I can only imagine that a horrible white rich billionaire.
Yeah, so what they added to it is they added in the story that Thomas Wayne paid off Carmine, a mobster, to eliminate and silence a journalist who ends up killing the journalist.
So here, the original writer.
Is this an MBS?
No, But hear me out.
Hear me out what happens here with the story.
So I watch Batman.
I'm sitting there thinking.
I didn't take my kids.
I watch it before I decide to take my kids.
And my kids, I'm not going to watch it with them right now for a minute.
We watch movies like this.
They like Batman, but we're not watching it.
So here's the biggest thing that concerned me with it.
Number one, I mean, the whole thing is about rich people, privileges, all this other stuff, which, by the way, obviously some of that exists.
But think about who should be the only person to change the history of Thomas Wayne's character.
The only person I believe should have the right to change Thomas Wayne's character, history of his character, is the guy who created the character, Thomas Wayne.
I don't think you can go back.
I think you can go forward and change ways.
Every time you looked at Batman, what did you think about his father?
You thought he was a what?
Good guy.
You thought he was a guy that was a successful guy, you know, did good.
Wayne Enterprise.
Yeah, Wayne Enterprise says he was like a guy you looked at almost like Iron Man when you think about Robert Downey Jr. playing it.
I watched Batman and I got off.
I'm like, the average person watching this, how are you going to admire Thomas Wayne?
You're not.
And you see Batman being conflicted with his father and having hate for his father.
It's just very, very interesting what they're doing with some of these movies where it's all about division.
Everything's about division.
Everything's about how much hate and anger you can have for somebody that succeeded.
And look what they had to do something to get to the top.
I got into a debate with this one guy on Twitter who said he had like a couple hundred thousand followers and verified guy.
And he says, you know, I bet anybody that became rich got to the top hurting somebody.
Like, think about if that is something that people say over and over and over again, and people start believing it.
What do you start thinking about?
The only way I'm ever going to be rich is what?
I got to hurt others to get to the top.
If that becomes a consensus and you're talking about we need to make business people as heroes, people who are independent, you know, going out there winning for themselves, why would you?
How could you look up to somebody like that?
The media, the TV, the shows, the movies, everything is demonizing those guys where those guys cannot be heroes.
Can I give you a compliment?
It's just like a payback after the one I gave you.
Raul gave it to you.
Thank you, but I'm going to give you something.
Okay, let's hear you out.
I know why you're such a big advocate for America.
That's obvious.
Any immigrant who comes here and flees Iran or flees Venezuela or flees freaking North Korea, Naomi Park, understandable.
Anyone can digest that in a second.
The capitalism component and your love for capitalism, it takes a deeper understanding for the economic systems to understand why you love capitalism so much.
Let me go deeper.
I've seen firsthand how you run your business.
You know, when I met you, it was 2010.
You were just starting out.
You were just, you were a dude.
You had, I think, Tom or more with you.
You were, you were, prior to you starting PHP, you were kind of like me.
You were, you know, a guy doing his thing, making money, but you didn't have a whole team, team team behind you.
You know, you said something to me one time, you go, how many, what's the most amount of people you've ever let?
I'm like, I don't know, maybe like, you know, a dozen or so.
You're like, yeah, I've got 20,000 insurance agents that work for my company.
Okay.
And I've seen not only like the wealth that you've been able to create, but it's what you've been able to create for other people.
And I've seen the workers who are crushing it, the Ricky and Ericas, the Guy Tons, the Johnny Masons, the Sapolas, Matt Sheena.
And I've seen where they were and what they were doing and where they're at now.
Chris Hart, you mentioned all these guys.
Elvis, I mean, I can go down the list of what they would be doing if they hadn't met you.
Six figures would have been a dream.
And now seven figures is a reality.
But they need the capitalist with the idea to say, follow my lead, mothers.
I got you.
If you work hard and you buy into the system and you follow what I'm basically saying and you're free to run your business, you can make your dreams a reality.
And I've seen it time and time and time again.
And that was so amazing.
Part of the reason that I kind of wanted to tell you about the Erica thing, Erica Aguilar, shout out to Ricky and Erica.
She said that before she met you, she was like working at a, she was picking eggs and strawberries like in California, in Bakersfield.
She comes to you, she says, let me use my skill set.
I'm a networker.
And now they're making seven figures.
It's insane.
But unless there's a capitalist who says, follow my lead, but like there's so many people that probably want to vilify you.
Look at Pat.
He's rich.
His kids are, you know, get to go to private school.
It's like, you have no clue this guy came from from Iran.
It's going to the army to build a business with six people that you almost went out of business.
And now look at you now.
But like, nobody wants to hear that story.
They just want to say, ah, the freaking rich guy.
But you know who I relate to?
Here's who I relate to.
Shout out to the people in PHP.
Thank you for that.
You know who I relate to?
I'm having this comedy.
Hey, do you think I asked John?
Remember, you were in the room.
We were talking to John.
And I said, John, you think I relate more to billionaires?
You think I relate more to the guy making 20 bucks an hour?
And he says, oh, you relate more to billionaires.
I said, nope.
I relate to the other guy.
Why is that?
It's just a regular guy come.
There's nothing special about me.
There's thousands of people that have done also what I've done.
Tens of thousands of people that I've done.
There's nothing special about one guy doing this.
The idea is this system.
I trust this concept of a system that gives an average guy to go out there and change their lives.
That's the biggest thing.
So if we don't like it, growing up as a kid, whoever your dad viewed as a hero, you pretty much also viewed as a hero.
Some kids are like, oh, who you view?
Michael Jordan's the best.
Michael Jordan's the best.
You know, Micah Johnson, Magic Johnson's the best.
Greatest president of all time is JFK.
Greatest president of all time is JFK.
Like, I sat down with General McChrystal, and I'm like, why do you believe in the policies that you do?
You're a four-star.
Your dad was a two-star because I grew up in a liberal family, JFK, this is that.
Okay, now I get it.
But if we don't paint the picture of the right hero, America has a hero-making machine problem.
I'm telling you right now, America and the media has a hero-making machine problem.
They're making the wrong people into heroes, and kids growing up are confused.
We need to go back to turning the right people into heroes.
And at the same time, the people that we're building up into heroes, we can't say they're perfect.
Everybody's got flaws.
Everybody's got issues.
Everybody's got challenges.
But hey, if you give your best, one day you can also make an impact in the world.
I think that's the message.
Can you go deeper on who we're making heroes and who do you think should be?
Well, let me ask you this.
Does Hillary Clinton qualify to be an International Woman's Day hero for Forbes?
A business magazine?
100%.
Absolutely.
I mean, I know you believe that, Tyler, but the question becomes: does she qualify for that?
Tell me 100 people, women, specifically.
Let's take 10 of them right now.
Give me 10 women that would make for a better International Women's Day hero than a Hillary Clinton.
Oprah?
100%.
Who else?
Michelle Obama.
Entrepreneur, business.
Not Michelle Obama.
This is business.
Oprah for sure.
Cheryl Sandberg.
Yes?
I think absolutely Cheryl Sandberg.
The girl that did the Spanks.
What's her name?
The Spanks.
You know, when she started that company, right?
I like Laurie Grenier from Shark Tank, Barbara Corcoran.
Great, Barbara Corcoran.
She ran in the 2016.
Mary Prime Mary from IBM.
CEO of IBM.
She ran in 2016.
I can't remember her name.
Oh, the blonde lady.
By the way, she's awesome.
Even Meg Whitman.
I got a thousand names of women I can put ahead of Hillary.
You're confusing the kid who's reading Forbes saying, I got to grow up to be like her.
That's not a hero.
You got better people to put as heroes than that.
This is what I was saying: is that we need to build up the business people and the entrepreneurs and stop idolizing these politicians, left or right.
Yeah.
Okay.
What have they ever done?
What have they ever built?
Oh, Carly Florian.
Yeah.
Oh, Florina HB.
Oh, Carly.
She's actually, at one point, she was pretty good, but Trump went after her pretty ugly.
Trump called her ugly and horse face to her face.
To her face.
I can't believe something like something I would say.
He called Trent.
He made Ted Cruz, your wife is ugly as shit.
Do I have your vote?
Yes, sir.
What?
But to your point, they made Hillary Clinton International Woman of the Year, and all she's done is ruin several women's lives, right?
And get convicted rapists or potential convicted rapists off the hook.
And she's not provided any value for anybody.
But you know what?
That hurts the girl who was 12 years old with a dream of running a successful business.
That hurts her.
She paid the price.
We need to turn her into a hero.
It's hard running a business.
It's hard running a business and have a marriage that works and have kids.
Listen, it's already so hard to be a working mom than to be a working mom and running a business and you're the face and you have kids.
I'm sorry.
I'm a father who runs a business and I do a lot of different things and I'm, you know, the companies that I run.
But to do that and nurse and raise kids and do, and, and that's a hero.
So you have such a great opportunity to turn some of these folks into heroes.
We missed the mark.
It's like Amy Coney Barrett.
She's got six kids, seven kids.
Remember her Senate hearing?
And they said, what notes do you have?
And she pulled up a blank sheet of paper and knew everything by heart.
I mean, she's an exceptionally brilliant woman.
And what do they do?
They demonize her.
It's the handmaid's tale all over again.
But by the way, but this is not about Democrats and Republicans because Oprah Winfrey is a Democrat.
But Oprah Winfrey went from the story of her being raped as a girl to actress, what was the movie, Purple, I think.
To then you coming and winning, building a show.
You become like the ultimate podcaster in the world for two decades, three decades, whatever the timeline is.
And the next thing you know, you're a billionaire.
You have your own media company.
Yeah.
Now, by the way, there's a lot of people that can't stand her.
I salute a person that went from there.
Let's get another 10 more Oprah Winfreys in the world.
Let's inspire 50 more Oprah Winfreys.
So I think it's a hero-making machine that's broken.
What do you think?
Yeah, it depends on if Oprah Winfrey is going to come out and tell people to do what she did or if she's now, because she's had some interviews where she's focused on some of the race stuff and some of the social justice stuff.
So if she's inspiring young women or men even to pursue that same path and make something of themselves and go against the grain and be that type of strong person, then that's great.
But you have to understand these types of people who are heroes now, you know, they're the people who society wants to be the heroes.
Like think about the black community and some of the heroes that they have.
You know, some of these rappers and people who are in many of their songs are preaching horrible values, you know, things that are absolutely terrible for a lot of African-American communities when it comes to the drug use, when it comes to the way that they spend their money, not saving money and spending on jewelry and things and the way you treat women.
All of those kind of things.
But those are someone's hero, right?
So one of those rappers is some of these people's hero and for white people too.
And those are the people that society wants to be the heroes because they know that you can be controlled if you don't have any good role models.
But this is, again, why somewhere like Black Lives Matter says, we want to disband the Western nuclear family, which was on their website, because your dad should be your hero.
Your mom should be your hero.
Your family, those people are your heroes.
They're someone you look up to to get good values from.
But if you don't have that, then you get values from these types of people.
You get heroic qualities from these types of people that society puts in place to be that role model for you.
They want these bad people to be people's heroes.
I don't disagree.
But so somebody right now said, you know, Oprah pushed for Obama.
No good.
I don't care.
I don't care.
Hear me out.
I will take 100,000 Democrats who can't stand Trump and Republicans to choose to go and bust their ass like Oprah did and become successful.
I'll take that any day of the week.
And if she wants to get Oprah to the next Obama to become a president, go.
You earned the right to bust your ass for 30 years.
I don't have to agree with Obama's policy.
I respect the diligence it takes for 30 years for you to become as relevant as you are.
That is a hero.
It's not about policies.
That's a hero.
We can have a debate, Oprah and I and sit down and say, listen, man, we disagree in the following areas.
Let me tell you where I do agree.
I guarantee you are discipline.
Shows.
Imagine how many, for 30 years you're doing a show.
You getting flus, cold, your voice, someone died, crisis, negative ratings dropped for like a year.
Then, you know, you got this other guy that came and took over.
There's Robert Downey, not Robert Downey.
Morton Downey Jr. owns the show for two years.
Then Montel comes and this guy comes and that guy comes.
And you still stay relevant for 30 years?
There's a lot.
Everybody can learn from this.
All I'm saying is, sometimes we got to set aside politics and we got to recognize effort, diligence to get to the top.
Then we can have a political conversation as well.
Some I like.
Values are more important than politics.
There is no way you can.
By the way, you know, one time when Oprah Winfrey was like, dude, we're paying way too much taxes.
I don't know if you guys remember when this wasn't a story.
It's a little too much taxes.
Guess what typically happens to somebody that makes it to the top by working their asses off?
There's a little bit of them sitting back and realizing, I can't say that you worked as hard as I did.
There's no way in the world I should be paying taxes to take care of you.
That naturally, the conservative beliefs naturally also happens to someone like that.
So anyways, all I'm saying is I don't think we have the right heroes that we're building up.
Okay, prenuptial agreements.
You're about to get married.
You just propose to your girl.
In Amsterdam, that's fantastic.
Out of all the places in the world.
As Juice says Mazel Tough.
Yeah.
And thank you.
CNN has some advice for you.
Okay, CNN.
A lot of credits, but you don't want to listen to this one.
Prenuptial agreements aren't just for the rich.
Here's what you should know.
Few people get married thinking they're going to get divorced or about divvying up money or assets after marriage ends.
But more brides and grooms to be are considering that scenario, especially when it comes down to prenuptial agreements.
These agreements are not just for the wealthy and powerful.
62% of divorce attorneys said they saw an increase in clients requesting a prenup with a significant uptick in millennials signing them.
In general, prenups can be helpful for couples in which there's an existing wealth imbalance or there might be one later on.
Even if people aren't wealthy now, some clients have reasons to believe they will be.
For example, if they're in a medical school or expect an inheritance or other reasons.
What are your thoughts on what CNN is saying?
Which, by the way, I'm surprised CNN wrote this article.
What are your thoughts on CNN saying prenuptial agreements are good?
I think this is what happens when you take God out of marriage.
I think this is what you have when you have a secular society that doesn't value marriage as an institution between a man and a woman of God or people who are creating God's image.
It's when you have a society that is built totally just on, again, the politics and these types of worldly possessions and things.
It tells you that, oh, hey, you know, there's a pretty good chance that you're not going to stay together.
This agreement that you're making with your significant other isn't sacred.
It's nothing that's really that important.
You can end it at any time, and it's not a big deal.
And, you know, you should sign and make sure that you get your money.
So I think that it's telling people that you don't need to stay together.
You don't need to work out your problems.
You don't need to toughen up and get through it.
Just end it.
You know, who cares?
Just end it.
Screw your kids and the covenant you made with God, all this, just screw it and move on.
I think it's bad.
Would you get a prenup before you get married?
No.
You would not?
I don't think so, no.
You don't think so.
So he's considering.
The think so is like maybe a little bit.
100% chance.
Oh, man.
Look at that.
Look.
All of a sudden, he's going to watch this.
Well, yeah.
You're going to have to have this tough talk anyway.
We've got to cut the spark title.
We got to cut the spark title.
Exactly.
Can we focus right in our will right now?
Can you see the sweat going down my face?
Yeah, no, I think it's probably like a 90, 10% that I would.
What happens if she goes, I'd like to get a prenup?
I don't think that's going to happen.
If she does, we can have that discussion.
But, you know, again, in our point of view with how we are as a couple, it's like the man would lead on these kinds of things.
If you're going to discuss this, though, with her, I assume?
Yeah, I mean, sure, we'll discuss it and everything.
Hasn't even started yet.
I know.
Look, bro, these are uncomfortable.
Brother, if you think this is a comfortable conversation, you have it with your wife.
It's going to get worse.
So how about you?
I did have a prenup and my marriage didn't work.
And thank God I had the prenup because I had all the money.
And I told her, I'm not marrying you unless I get the prenup.
She goes, yeah, that's fine.
Do you think that having that prenup makes it, not just with you, but in general?
Yeah.
Makes it so that people feel more safe getting divorces.
I think that's an interesting perspective.
I think, you know, everyone needs an exit strategy.
So it's an exit strategy.
I think, because I think people get divorced too easily.
Well, maybe you're right.
I know you're in New York.
No, I got divorced very easily.
Don't worry about that.
I probably shouldn't have gotten married at the time.
I had a Will Smith thing going on.
But I will say, look, numbers don't lie.
50% of marriages end in divorce.
99% of relationships don't work out.
Meaning, like, how many relationships do you have before you end up getting married and then the marriage doesn't work?
So look, if you have money, you know, you want to throw God in the equation and the holy trinity system, whatever, rabbi, like, there's a chance something's going to go wrong.
And if you're worth a couple million bucks and your wife ain't worth nothing, and 10 years later, she's worth a couple million bucks and you're worth nothing, that doesn't sit well with you, bro.
Right.
Okay.
Well, that's definitely true.
But again, it goes back to, you know, if you are, it's about people being more dedicated to marriage.
You have to instill better values in people, which is very difficult to do.
Of course.
I love I'm getting best case scenarios on what I'm saying.
If you're 25, Will.
About like I respect him like as a man, but I also think like he's like a little brother.
Like, right, you're 25.
Like, I get it.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, right.
So, of course, I'm kind of like, do you have any advice?
As like, I think I look at Pat as like a mentor, big brother, friend.
Yeah, you know, so do you have advice for the kids out there?
I fully believe in prenups.
I fully believe in prenups because you have to, you can be held responsible for you changing, which you will, but you have to protect yourself against somebody else who chooses to change because you're not God.
So, for me, prenup is about you not acting like you're God.
It's actually more of a I'm not God to say, well, this is 100% going to work than you're saying you're God because you control the other person.
I'm not God.
I don't control my wife.
My wife gets to do whatever she wants to do.
But a prenup to me was protecting her.
She knew what was going to be taking care of the kids where she didn't have to worry about anything.
And we put it together and she's happy.
We're happy and it's good to go.
I think prenups actually eliminate arguments because sometimes people have thoughts about what the other person's motive is.
If you have a prenup in place, it's eliminated because that motive is on the paper.
What can you do?
Like a trust, a living trust, and estate planning, all these things that you got to do.
Every business deal I've done with a hand, dude, I love you, man.
It's awesome.
Two years later, that guy's no longer working and you're carrying the weight for the company.
And the guy goes to Costa Rica for nine months and I have to carry the weight for the office.
I'm like, shit, I never put that in the contract.
So I have to do my part and I got to pay this guy.
And I got, man, I wish I had that in the business agreement.
I didn't do it.
So, so, you know, and relationships, friendships, marriages, people change.
I believe people change.
And the biggest insurance policy of you not being God and knowing that if people change, you're protected.
She's protected as a prenup.
But to each his own, that's on you when you do that.
Anyways, I think he's got some callers that do we have any callers?
We got a few callers tonight.
By the way, you got 10 minutes max.
So when we get the callers in, they got 20 seconds to ask the question and we'll get right into it.
So, John, if you got a caller, let's go through it.
You got only 10 minutes, John.
All right, we have a lose.
You have Luz?
Hi.
Hi, Luz.
Hi, guys.
My question was concerning when we were talking about talking about sex education in school.
And I'm 47.
I went to school in Dade County.
And what we learned was health education, which basically was you just learning about biology, learning our reproductive system, being puberty.
That was it.
You didn't get into sexual orientation.
So, but my question that I had even concerning that was, how can you, as a mom raising boys, and you guys are men, what is your advice on helping them becoming better men?
I think that's a good question.
I will tell you, one of the best books I ever read was by James Dobson, Raising Up Boys.
If you got boys, you got to read the book, Raising Up Boys.
That book talks about how old's your son, by the way, just out of curiosity.
Your sons, how old are they?
They are nine and eight.
Okay, so they haven't yet gone through the phase of the uncomfortable you walking in on them and they want to be in the room by themselves and you're wondering if they're going through depression.
They're not.
They just figured out their favorite toy in the world that they not know how to use.
Where's the father in the situation?
Where's the man?
Oh, the father is in their lives and we are together.
Okay, fantastic.
That's good.
That's the biggest question.
We differ sometimes on certain things.
And of course, he tells me, okay, that's a situation that you need to stay out of.
I can't say anything.
And so I go to him.
I'm like, well, he's like, come to me.
What do I say?
Yeah.
By the way, it's a great concern.
This is where the man needs to step up.
If I may, we were educated in the same system, by the way, Louis.
I went to Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
Shout out 305.
But if my mom tried to have a conversation with me about masturbating when I was 12 years old, I would die.
Yeah.
Okay?
This is where the dad is.
What the movie is that?
What movie is that?
It's what movie is that when she walks in.
No, no, not American Pie.
It's Transformers.
Transformers don't show up.
Stop!
That is not comfortable.
You don't say that!
Stop it!
Get out!
And even if you're in the middle of the day, if you play with middle something, I don't know what she said.
By the way, she crushed it in that movie.
By the way, even it might be uncomfortable with the dad, but I think if you're raising boys, an uncle, like a family figure, father figure, you know, male person that you can trust can have those kind of conversations.
Nothing is more awkward than having sex talks with your mom.
Here's my biggest advice to you: is that so many parents want to be helicopter parents.
They want to watch over everything their kids are doing, make sure they're safe.
Little boys and young men are not going to be safe.
You need to let your kids make mistakes, especially young men, because early mistakes that young men make, learning that failure is okay and how to rebuild after failure, prepares them for life.
If you don't fail as a young man, you aren't doing it right.
And if you're a parent who doesn't let your kid fail and doesn't actually give them consequences for when they fail, they're going to be weak men.
So train them to fail.
Train them to learn the hard way, and they're going to be.
Great point by Will.
You can take that to the bank.
Thank you, Lou's.
How are you?
Who else we got, John?
Here we go.
And just real quick on that, man.
Be a good role model.
Like we talked about that with Fresh and Fit.
Like, I have a daughter, and I want to be a good role model to my daughter so that she marries somebody like me.
And I set the right example.
I love that.
Even with fathers, man.
Be a good role model.
I love your son.
I love that.
All right, we have Lisa.
Lisa, how are you?
KVD.
How are you doing, Lisa?
How awesome.
I'm doing well.
Thank you.
Very cool.
So what's on your mind, Lisa?
I just had a, you know, I was listening to the podcast and I heard a couple of comments on how the, I guess where you are, they're considering doing gender studies in schools.
Yeah.
How do you feel about that?
Well, I'm a little confused.
I, you know, wasn't really sure that teachers were equipped with this type of knowledge to start teaching the children on this stages of their life.
I know that they're very impressionable at this age, and I know that there's quite a bit going on mentally, physically, hormones and things going, you know, amongst children.
And so.
What do you think we should do about it?
What do you think we should do about it?
You know, for gender studies, I mean, don't get me wrong.
I'm certainly one of those people who believe that people should be who they are.
And if they're, you know, exuberating feelings towards that, you know, how much is it because they're impressionable?
Is it because their friends are?
And how much is it because they are truly having those feelings?
We agree.
Do you have any thoughts on that?
Do you remember that old Norm McDonald bit?
You might have seen it where he got heckled, where he said he's talking about the real heroes and that teachers were not the real heroes.
And if you wanted to be a second grade teacher, all you need is a third grade education.
And it's like, I think there's a lot that actually there's some truth to that, that these teachers are not equipped to teach a lot of this stuff.
I mean, I don't think they know.
I mean, I know people when I was going through college who became teachers.
They're drinking their way through college.
They get C's in a lot of their classes pass with a teaching degree.
And now they're going and teaching kids about sexual education and all this stuff.
It is very strange.
I think that, again, I always come back to this, but parents need to have a greater role in this type of stuff as well.
The parent can teach this stuff to the children.
You can make it not awkward.
There are resources about learning how to do it the right way.
But parents just, at the end of the day, if you take anything from this from me at all today, just parents need to have a bigger role in their kids' lives.
A lot of this stuff swaggers itself away.
I agree.
Lisa, thank you for calling in.
Have a great day, Lisa.
So, so, John, let's see.
It's either John is only picking women or we only have women.
Hey, I'm excited to see if we get a third.
Usually happens when I'm on show.
Usually, just women calling in.
The confidence.
Yeah.
You got to love it.
I think.
John, let's go.
One more.
Johnny, last one here.
Last one here, buddy.
All right, we got a member from the LGBTQ community.
Here we go.
Okay.
Let's go.
John, is that you or is that somebody else?
Is John the one that wants to ask the question, or did we lose somebody, John?
No, I think it's Rudy.
Oh, we lost them.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Do you have another one, John, or are you good?
We're good.
Okay, sounds good.
Well, that would have been exciting if we had some.
I had one question.
Are they the L, the G, the B, the T, the Q?
I wanted to know what the I or the A is.
So I can read part of what they said.
And absolutely, dude.
Oh, we got him.
Okay.
Oh, cool.
We got three minutes.
I think it's Rudy.
Hello, God.
Yes.
Is this, what's your name?
My name is Rudy.
I'm from Texas.
And I'm part of the LGBTQ community.
Okay.
And I do not, I disagree with all of that.
Okay, tell us why.
Children that day, at that age, it's dangerous for their mind.
They're all going through emotions because they're growing up.
And that's what causes people to commit suicide.
Because those threats are going to come to your mind regardless.
They will go into it.
If they have questions, when they're older, they'll go to their parent or somebody older than a couple of.
This is dangerous.
Very, very dangerous.
Rudy, you're part of.
So you're so let me let me because the audio is a little choppy.
I want to make sure the audience hears it.
So you're part of the LGBTQ community, and you think teaching that too early is dangerous.
Oh, yes.
Very, very, very, that's too young.
Well, then, Rudy, at what age did you know you're part of the LGBTQ community?
Growing up, I just thought different, but as I got older and I realized what's going on with my body, then I realized it was a choice that I made.
Do you remember how old you were?
How old were you when you made that choice?
How old were you when you made that choice?
15.
Okay, got it.
10th grade.
That's the age, 10th grade.
Got it.
Yes, because that's when your body starts to experience things.
There are questions.
You look it up or you read about it.
You figure it out.
But if you do that to a child when they're growing up, they're already going through so much emotions.
Most people in the community of LGBTQ have problems in their own family.
And adding that extra pressure at that young age is very dangerous.
Rudy, how old are you right now if you don't mind me asking?
Sir?
How old are you right now if you don't mind me asking?
Why not?
I'm 40 years old.
I grew up in the early 90s.
Got it.
You're 40 years old.
Back when it was just to want to be treated the same.
And Rudy, how do you identify as?
How do you identify?
I'm gay.
I don't believe in that.
I have binary stuff.
I don't believe in that.
You're a man who's gay.
Sir?
You're a man who's gay?
Yes, I'm a gay man.
I don't believe in none of this stuff.
That is just, that's how you feel.
So I know we're running out of time, but what does the LGBT community get wrong in your opinion?
In my opinion, I think that they have bastardized what people that are part of that community.
What we did back in the day was our gay rights was just to be treated the same.
We didn't even want to be married.
We wanted to be our own thing because that's the way we were separated.
I think they have taken it and they have just made it very nasty with this whole sexual, you know, end window they're doing after, you know, the gay pride.
They have just made it bastardizing.
It's sickling.
It's sickling.
It's not about sex.
Well, Rudy, first of all, a different perspective.
Thank you for coming on and sharing that with us.
We appreciate you.
Have a wonderful day.
Thanks for listening.
You said you are a Democrat?
No, God, no.
Oh, you're a gay Republican.
Let's go.
But actually, I pretend Republican after Hillary.
I would vote for her.
Got it.
Very interesting.
Very interesting perspective.
I'd love to learn more about your story.
I'm going to help parents fight that will.
I mean, that'll fight the bill.
Keep the way it is.
Not mess with the kids.
Leave the baby alone.
I agree.
Well said, Rudy.
Rudy, thank you.
Have a wonderful day, Rudy.
Appreciate you.
Thank you.
God bless.
God bless you as well.
Bye-bye, bye-bye.
Pretty interesting.
We should have started the calls a little bit earlier next time.
We'll go 20 minutes next time to have a few more callers.
Will, final thoughts here.
I'm going to leave it up to you.
By the way, folks, we're going to put the link.
Let's put the link below to the book, How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies, as well as the link to find him on Twitter.
We put the handle everywhere.
How are you feeling about the future of America?
Are you optimistic?
I'm going to quote Dennis Prager here.
He was my boss, so I kind of am legally obliged to.
He's a good guy.
We like him.
He is.
He is.
But, you know, he talks about being an optimist or a pessimist.
And for me, I'm either an optimist or a pessimist because an optimist thinks things are going to be good.
So why would I fight?
A pessimist thinks things are going to suck.
So why would I fight?
So all I really care about for anyone is that they fight because there are a lot of fights to be had, whether that's at your school board, whether that's in politics, whether that's at your church, whether that's in values of even within your own family, or maybe it's things that within yourself you know you want to change or do with your business.
Whatever it is, there are fights to be had.
And so don't think of it in terms of optimists or pessimist.
Just think of it in terms that you are going to fight anyway because you know what the truth is and you know what's morally right.
Gotta love it.
And I love, yeah, go ahead.
I was gonna say, if you like the conversation with Will today, we're doing another show in an hour from now on on VT Money.
Strictly about prenuptial agreements.
We're gonna talk dating, lifestyle, money, and we're gonna hear more of a relaxed Will.
You know, let your hair down a little bit.
You got the best hair in the conservative game.
So that's what they said.
We're gonna have some ladies on the show.
We're gonna have some dialogue.
So tune in one hour from now on Valutainment Money.
