The First PBD Podcast LIVE! w/ Home Team | PBD Podcast | Ep. 239
PBD Podcast Episode 239. The home team is ready and at it again with the latest news, interesting topics and trending conversations on topics that matter.Try our sponsor Aura for 14 days free - https://aura.com/pbd to see how many times your personal information was found on the dark web today. Host Patrick Bet-David is joined by Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick and Vincent Oshana.
0:00 - Start
7:26 - Could S&P Crash More Than 25% by Spring?
13:27 - Reaction To U.S. Housing Market Losing $2.3 Trillion In Value
31:03 - Reaction To The Top 5 Dirtiest Cities in America
45:50 - Reaction to East Palestine disaster
1:10:10 - Trump’s Next Criticism Of DeSantis Raising $211 Million
1:23:35 - Reaction To Biased Trump Jury
1:29:25 - Reaction To The Leading Cause Of Death In The US
1:45:07 - Reaction To Amazon’s Return To Office Policy
1:59:46 - Reaction To Putin's Alarming Speech About The US
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And now, coming to the stage for the very first time live!
Make some noise.
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Don't let nobody else.
First to the stage Came from the bottom.
I quite rich.
Cock it back, but they probably miss his dedication in my grind.
Never look.
Yeah, I fell.
Up next.
Comedian extraordinaire, Vincent.
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And last but certainly not least, The Sauce Man, ADAM SAUCENAY!
And now the moment that we've all been waiting for.
Your host, with the most, standing at 6'4", weighing in at 240 pounds, Patrick Ben David!
This is wild.
So it's crazy because we bought this building.
My dad said, you gotta buy this building.
You know, we bought this building for one year.
There was nothing going on here.
Literally, we have nothing going on here for about a year.
And a year later, we said, why don't we turn it into a comedy club?
And then from the comedy club, where's Rob at?
Rob, when do we decide on turning the back into a cigar lounge?
How long did it take us to build it out?
22 days.
Some of you guys are going to see it.
That back, there's a cigar.
Give it up to Robert, by the way.
Shout out to Robert and the team.
Okay.
What do you think about this structure, this idea?
You like this idea?
You like this whole concept of what we're doing?
We're going to see what's going to happen with this.
Quite frankly, one of the mottos we live by is we have no clue what the hell we're doing, but we know exactly why we're doing it.
Okay.
We have no clue what the hell we're doing, but we know why we're doing it.
We got a lot of crazy stories to go through today with you.
The team's been very prepared.
For the audience out there that's watching this on podcast, we wish you were here with us.
There's a couple hundred people in here by the end of the podcast.
We're going to turn off the camera.
We'll do some questions with the folks here.
I'm sure you're going to have some questions you want to ask.
We'll have some of that interaction.
By the way, can we have the ladies stand up?
I just want to get a ratio of men versus women.
The audience.
Okay.
All right.
We're increasing.
We're increasing.
This is good.
Thank you.
Grab seats.
Now, here's a question with the ladies that are here.
How many of you are here because your husband forced you to be here?
That's the real question.
Okay, that's what I'm talking about.
Good.
Fantastic.
How you guys feeling?
You doing good?
And how many of those women are single, though?
I think most of them are probably taking only one Peter Razor.
My mom's here for it.
Okay.
All right.
So we got a lot of things to cover.
We got a lot of stories.
A few things that we will go through.
Rob, you got to remind me to do the sponsorship in about 10 minutes.
Every time I forget, so if he forgets, can you guys remind me?
Make sure to do the sponsorship.
That's his job.
Rob, remind me here.
My wife is here as well.
Jen, can you please stand up so everybody can see?
Jen, you're out our first one.
Awesome.
Okay, so we got a few stories.
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter says the market's going to go down 26%.
$2.3 trillion of equity lost in homes the last 12 months.
$2.3 trillion of equity loss in the last 12 months.
We're going to talk about the five dirtiest cities in America.
Some statistics on the leading cause of death for kids today versus what it was 40 years ago.
The stats that came out, first of all, when you see the chart, were you shell-shocked when you saw that?
You will be shell-shocked when you see this chart on what the stats of kids dying today, the age they give as well.
Anybody heard about what happened with that, the five consultants flying in from Little Rock, Arkansas, out to Ohio, East Palestine?
Did you hear about the plane crash?
Or no, you haven't heard about that?
Wait till we show you this clip on what happened there.
There is a very deep concern I have that New York Times is about to be canceled because they're actually telling the true stories.
They talked about masks, so it's a very something maybe we'll talk about what they said about masks.
And then we're going to talk about Trump versus DeSantis.
Just out of curiosity, how many guys are Team Joe Biden?
Raise your hand, make some noise.
I saw two hands almost go up.
You can't do that.
You got to say something.
Make some noise for Team Joe Biden.
Nobody's willing to do it.
There's one.
Make some noise if you're Team DeSantis.
Really?
Make some noise if you're Team Trump.
50-50.
Would you say 50-50 or Trump slightly louder?
Trump 60.
Slightly louder.
How about Team Newsome?
Really?
It's pretty wild.
It's going to be an interesting poll.
We'll do here in a minute.
Okay, let me read the story to you, and then we'll get right into it.
So the first story we're going to do is Morgan Stanley.
If you want to go to page nine, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter.
Rob, if you want to put this up so the audience can also see it.
Morgan Stanley says SP could drop 26% in months.
Strategists are warning the U.S. equities are becoming too expensive, which could cause the SP 500 to slide by as much as 26% in the first half of 2023.
This is not the year.
This is first half, so June 23rd, June 30th.
Recent data suggests that the U.S. economy might avoid a recession.
However, it has also taken the possibility of a Federal Reserve pivot off the table, making it less optimistic for stocks.
The sharp rally this year has made stocks the most expensive since 2007, according to the equity risk premium metric, which has entered the death zone.
Morgan Stanley's Michael Wilson said that the risk-reward ratio for equities now is very poor.
The Fed is still far from ending its monetary tightening.
Interest rates are higher across the curve, and earnings expectations are still too high by 10 to 20%.
Tom, what are your thoughts on the story?
Well, I think what you're seeing here is I'll translate this into plain English.
Morgan Stanley doesn't think that the economy is getting better and it's going to be represented by a market drop.
In plain English, you can take a look at what happened just a day ago.
The market, everybody see about a day ago, the market dropped 600, 700 points, like in one afternoon.
It was triggered by Home Depot because Home Depot talks to home renovations.
Also, there's a large percent of Home Depot earnings that come from when you buy a home, you get rugs, windows, drapes, paints, you need a lot of stuff.
New lawnmower, all these things.
And Home Depot came out and said, yeah, fourth quarter wasn't that good, and we don't think 23 is going to be very good.
At that moment, is when the market dropped because they were really scared about what's happening in retail.
Morgan Stanley is looking at it and saying, hey, you know what?
This thing could, this thing is fragile.
How fragile?
Home Depot makes an announcement by noon, and by the afternoon, you've lost 600, 700 points.
So what Morgan Stanley is saying is that the economy is more fragile, and they think there could be a real drop.
And we just saw it live.
Walmart came out that afternoon, too, with some kind of bad news.
And there it is live for it.
It's a very fragile economy.
That's what they're saying.
And they see it could drop 26%.
Adam, what do you think?
So this is Morgan Stanley, right?
I'm going to use the, by the way, hi, everybody.
Great to see everyone.
Everyone, what a great looking audience we have here.
Holy moly.
Let's just give some credit to the audience.
Looking, our audience looks way better than I thought.
Even you Trump supporters out there look way better than I thought.
Oh, I think in the immortal words of Big Lebowski, Morgan Stanley, that's like just your opinion, man.
So it's, we see, we see, whether it's Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley or the big banks, the wirehouses or Credit Suisse or UBS, everyone has an opinion.
If there's anything I've learned about the economy and the financial markets, nobody has a effing clue what's going to happen.
I remember when COVID happened and what was that, March of 20, right?
And the economy tanked.
And I'm in a group chat with all my buddies and one works for Goldman Sachs.
And we're all like, dude, what do you think?
He's like, well, I actually sold all my equities a month prior.
And we're all like, what the fuck?
Tell us, dude, what happened?
And what happened six months after that?
The economy, the market bounced back tremendously.
So I think what we've seen as far as the, by the way, how many people invest in the stock market here?
Show of hands.
So like the majority of the room.
Who's like, no way, I don't mess with equities.
I'm all real estate commodities.
All right.
So a couple of Biden voters out there, like a couple.
But what we've consistently seen is anytime there's a bear market, which we just saw COVID exactly, a bull market follows right up after that, time after time after time.
So at the end of the day, you have to figure out what your age and your asset allocation is.
So the majority of this room, good-looking people, looks like in their 30s, 40s, 50s, maybe anybody retiring or like trying to pull out their 401k money anytime soon?
I doubt it.
So maybe you got to talk to your mom.
Shout out to Vinny's mom and that mom's right there.
Watch your 401k, mama.
But if you're not pulling out of the market, if you're not selling, if just like if your home equity goes down 20%, stock market goes down 20%, if you're not selling, it's called realized gains.
I wouldn't necessarily be a concern.
Maybe you have an asset allocation strategy to be a little bit more conservative, but this is not a major worry for me.
Well, how about we go into the next story, which kind of goes together with this?
$2.3 trillion in value lost and equity in homes.
How many of you have felt it?
Have you felt losing equity in your area or no?
Have you guys felt it?
No?
Yes.
Can you raise your hand if you are?
Some of you guys are in real estate.
You're not.
How many guys have lost money, equity in your home, but you don't want to admit that the fact that it's lower than what it was six months ago?
Okay, that's a different camp to be a part of, Rob.
I noticed a lot of head nodding, but not hand raising.
Housing market downturn wipes $2.3 trillion in value.
As experts predict, prices could still tumble another 10%.
The total value of U.S. homes has fallen a record high, $47 trillion.
I'm sorry.
A record high of $47 trillion in June, collective value to now $45.3 trillion, representing the largest June to December drop since the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008.
Though home prices are up 1.5% over the past year, the median price has fallen about 11.5% from a peak of $433 in May, $383 in January, as higher mortgage rates drive up.
Borrowing costs and sideline potential home buyers.
Last week, U.S. home purchase applications fell to a 28-year low.
That's a big number, Tom.
28-year low to U.S. home applications?
Huge.
28 is what?
That's 1995, 1990, 1995.
That's a long time ago, 28-year low.
Hardest risk area, hardest hit areas include regions adversely affected by waves of technology layoffs and skyrocketing prices during the pandemic include San Francisco, Oakland, New York.
San Fran is down 7%.
Oakland is down 4.5%.
New York is down a point.
Pantheon macro ultimately projects home prices will fall about 20% from their peak by the end of the year, suggesting the median price could tumble another 10% to 346.
Go ahead, Adam.
Well, I just, I kind of want to throw this back to you because you've taken a lot of heat for kind of calling this.
People would come up to me or you and say, does Pat want real estate prices to go down?
And I think that, raise your hand if you've heard Pat talk about this on the podcast.
So raise your hand and you're in real estate and you still should.
So every realtor is going to say, no, the market's fine.
It's all good.
Great time to buy.
It's like, really?
You just bought a house a year and a half ago.
Yeah.
Top of the market, some would say.
Yep.
So what's been your strategy?
And you're not anti-real estate.
You want the market to go up.
You don't want it to go down, but you're also a realist.
So what's been sort of your outlook strategy of why you've been, you did a whole wealth, generational wealth, real estate.
You've done a couple webinars on that.
What's been your mindset when it comes to real estate?
15 years is the last time we had a market crash.
That's a long time.
15 years.
Oh, wait.
We haven't had one for a long time.
We're overdue.
We've never had a season where more fake money has been pumped into the system like today.
We have a lot of fake equity.
We have a lot of fake success.
We have a lot of fake millionaires.
And too often fake success or fake millionaires is just like somebody winning the lotto.
You don't have the identity of it.
So you're overspending.
You're over-leveraged.
You have so many different things that you're paying on.
You're concerned.
You're afraid when a buyer comes in.
Like the other day, we were looking at this property, 6,500 federal.
It's down the street, a block away.
We went and looked at it.
They bought this property in 08 for $13.5 million, commercial real estate.
So we go look at the property, beautiful place, 54,000 square feet.
You and I went in there.
Rob, you and I kind of very much so went in there and looked at every single floor.
And we come in with a suit.
The lady's like, can I help you with anything?
I said, yeah, we're working with management.
We're just checking on this property to see.
Everything good?
Yes, everything good.
Fantastic.
Thank you so much.
We're just looking around, you know.
The buyer is asking for $8.5 million.
And he bought it at $13.5 million in 2008.
Okay.
This doesn't mean it's happening everywhere.
By the way, 2008 is not a peak.
06 was peak.
2008 market tanked 38%.
So again, the people who have cash and made the right choices and they're ready for this, they're going to skyrocket and kill it and make the kind of money they've never made before.
The people that had a lot of fake success in the last few years and they kept spending money, they're going to get exposed and they're going to get destroyed.
And I don't think this is the end of it.
Think about it this way.
Right now, who controls the most important knob?
Who controls the number?
Okay.
Jerome Powell controls the most important knob.
What number is he trying to lower inflation to?
2%.
Where are we at right now?
6.5%.
What is 6.4, 6.5%?
What is the only thing he can do to lower it?
According to Tom, he wants to go up to the attic and start banging out some interest rates.
Pounding.
Pounding is a better way.
So, Tom, how many more times do you think he's going to be increasing rates?
Right.
Well, I agree with what Adam says about analysts because a lot of analysts, you know, words are just words until they're numbers.
I like to look at numbers.
And there's a lot of people from the real estate industry.
He was calling you out honestly publicly, and I was offended by it.
And I would be upset if I were you.
I don't like it, but just notice what's happening.
Tom is starting to agree with Adam a little bit more.
Weird.
So we'll do something to maybe have a fight today for the audience that thinks we don't like each other, but we got a lot of people.
By the way, they really don't like each other.
Don't let them fall.
That's Mario.
Where's Mario?
Go ahead, Tom.
No problem, no problem.
Screw you very much.
Anyway, so the numbers that I'm looking at that we see in what you're talking about, real estate here, is a couple things.
The supply of homes is at the lowest that it's been in about, it's more than that.
It's like 20 years.
The supply for sale, that's a real number.
The number of buyers that are in the market is at a 28-year low.
That's a real number.
And you hear the real estate industry, they make their comments and everything.
And I kind of look at it this way, saying, I don't only ask the butcher whether the meat is fresh, right?
I confirm, I want to confirm it.
So when you look at this and you look at where the Fed is, I think the Fed's got three more rate increases.
And that's an estimate.
But the estimate is coming because we just had a really strong jobs report.
And we've had some false positives in certain earnings reports.
I mean, if you bought Tesla at early January, you doubled your money in the last 35 days, right?
Now it's settled at 200.
But there's a lot of those things that are in the market.
Meanwhile, it all comes back and it kind of hits kind of hard.
Folks were believing that the Fed was going to raise rates this year maybe two more times quarter points.
Well, just a week to two and a half weeks ago, they threw a quarter point at us and they're coming back out on March 15th.
And March 15th is a date where they will also make economic projections and make all those numbers reports.
And everybody now is looking at it and saying, you know what?
I think the Fed's going to raise a half a point.
And Powell is making comments like he's going to raise a half a point.
Right now, the Fed rate is 4.75.
A half point, that's 5.25.
The so-called experts, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, last November were saying, well, 5.25 is like the maximum we see, and then it's going to be dropping down at the end of the second quarter.
Well, right now with inflation, factual numbers, certainly doesn't look like it's going to drop.
And people believe that on May 3rd and June 14th, the Fed's going to put another quarter point based on what we're seeing in the hot job market, which means that the interest rate is probably going to hit five and three quarters, not just five and a quarter.
What does that mean for housing?
If it hits there, that means the interest rates, which right now they popped up.
Those have been real estate.
We saw a pop-up over the last three weeks, right?
And rates.
I think rates right now, I'm seeing some nods that if you kind of below average credit, you're probably looking at seven and a quarter right now, having popped up on the 30 and the 15, maybe 6.5.
And so those rates are going to be up close to 8.
I don't like this news.
So people that have said things to Pat or myself on Twitter, oh, you guys are bears.
You don't like the housing market.
No, the housing market is people.
It's us.
It's citizens.
It's buying a house.
It's getting into something.
And these are facts here, these numbers that are not pointing to a rebound in housing in the first half of this year.
Along with it looks like Jerome Powell is going to make three more trips to the attic to visit the cheerleader.
Bang.
What were you saying about the butcher?
What was the butcher analogy?
You said I like to say this is: I don't just ask the butcher whether the meat is fresh.
I also want to confirm.
All right.
And there's a famous quote from the philosopher, Tommy Boy.
You guys ever seen this?
He said, you can get a good look at a T-Bone steak by sticking your head up a cow's ass, but I'd rather take the butcher's word for it.
You know about this.
Yeah, 100%.
So what I do want to – you guys don't know about that one?
Thanks.
Shout out to Tommy Boyd.
He's like a weird moment.
I mean, he messes up.
You're talking about pounding up in the attic and Tommy Boy.
What I do want to do is share a story that Pat called me up one day and I live in Miami and he's like, what are you up to?
I'm like, I'm just in Miami.
He's like, come meet me at the Hadid building.
Remember that?
Which is the...
By the way, if you can put up the Hadid building, it's a beautiful building.
It's a...
It's a woman's body essentially building, right?
That's kind of like how the...
Put Thousand Biscayne, Miami.
When you Google it, you know, they go to a porn, Rob.
You guys should have seen what he put up here.
You guys go to images, Rob.
It's a beautiful building right there.
Beautiful building.
So there's an overhead shot of the world.
That looks like a woman.
There's What the hell kind of girl Are you dating Who are you dating I By the way, the designer is a woman.
She died.
Gigi, the Hadid family, you know Bella Hadiji.
This is their aunt.
She died while it was going on.
I actually lived at the building to the right of it and to the left of it.
So Pat goes, I could not afford to live in this building.
This is like David Beckham lives there and hedge fund guys.
It's like minimum, I want to say $10 million entry.
We're trying to get there.
But he goes, hey, come meet me at this building.
Are you familiar with it?
I go, yeah, I lived right next door for 10 years.
So we go there and we go to the penthouse, right?
Sick unit.
And it was listed at, I want to say $40 million, give or take.
And it was actually hilarious.
We're on a tour.
Mario's with us.
And the lady comes to me and she says, like, so what are you doing?
I go, well, you know, I'm here with my boyfriend, Mario.
But he says it with a straight look on his face.
And meanwhile, she goes to Mario and she's like, so what are you and your boyfriend looking for?
He's like, it's not my.
I like to mess with Mario a little bit.
But Pat says to decide.
You know, you've got to finish the story.
Mario's like, who's my boyfriend?
So it's like, well, you and Adams.
That's not my boyfriend.
He says, you know what?
I really didn't see you guys together.
I didn't see that.
I would get a way hotter guy than Mario for sure.
But he is.
Shout out to Mario getting married and having a baby.
Let's go, Mario.
I mean, amazing.
So we've got a brotherly love thing going on.
So we go to this building.
It's a $40 million unit, if not more.
And Pat has his realtor that you brought.
And the unit had their realtor.
And Pat says, listen, let me just cut to the chaser.
This is how Pat kind of negotiates.
He says, I'm going to make an offer.
They're like, great.
He goes, but it's going to be very disrespectful.
She goes, please don't disrespect.
Don't disrespect me.
He's like, it's going to be a disrespectful offer.
And it was listed for $40.
I think they bought it for $30, I want to say.
Pat says, I'm going to offer, would you offer $13?
$13?
I thought it's a fair offer.
$13 million cash, 24 hours.
Three.
Spit in your face disrespect.
They said no, but I think they countered at what number?
2023.
23.
Ended up selling at 19.
Ended up selling at 19.
Did it sell?
It sold for 19.
So here's my point.
We're talking about the market.
We're talking about real estate.
Here's a unit that was ridiculous unit, gorgeous.
Even teased me with like, what do you think?
Can you see yourself living here?
And I'm like, Pat, don't even play with me right now.
So that's just a poignant example of these luxury markets that have majorly taken a hit.
I mean, even your situation with your car that I don't know if you want to talk about that, but some of these asset prices have been inflated and it's coming down to reality.
And I think we should have bought that for $18.
But by the way, because you would have taken care of it.
He would have been a house sitter.
What a house.
What a generous house sitter you are, right?
There's rumors out there that women are doing more of the working and men are staying at home.
I would gladly stay at home.
By the way, that is a story we will cover here in a minute.
But no, you're right.
Here's the part that concerns me.
A car payment.
My dad wanted a car, okay?
So I said, my dad's like, just give me anything.
You know, my dad drives a, for I don't know how many years he drove that 1979 diesel until the day.
He said, when this engine dies, I'm going to die.
This is how strange my dad is.
The day the engine dies, he thinks he's dying.
Yes or no, babe?
He went to the hospital two weeks.
They said, sir, you're okay.
He says, no, the engine on my Mercedes died.
The doctor's like, that's a car.
You're a human being.
He says, but we're going to die same day.
No, you're not, sir.
You're still living.
Anyways, so I said, dad, let's just buy you a car.
You know, let's just buy you.
What kind of car do you want?
Do you want a, you know, do you want this car?
Do you want?
No, I just want a regular car.
I just want a regular car.
Finally, Jen's like, babe, do you know what the car payments are on a regular $40,000 car?
I said, how much, babe?
Like, I'm thinking 500 bucks or whatever, right?
No, babe.
$850.
I said, for what?
He says, if you want to lease a car or get a car today, here's the first thing I thought.
Do you know right now it's the highest car payment, average car payment in the history of America?
You know what the number is?
It went up 200 bucks in a year.
It went from like 540 to 770 in a year.
Middle America's income hasn't gone up 40% or 20%.
How the hell are people?
$700 right there.
The average car payment in the history of America is the highest it's ever been and it's climbing.
So why is it climbing?
Car prices are not climbing.
Car prices, used car prices are coming down.
Watch prices are coming down.
Collectible cards are coming down.
Bitcoin, you know where it's at.
Ethereum, you know where it's at.
So luxuries in every possible way are going down because people buy not saying this is a million dollar home.
People buy saying I can afford a $6,000 a month payment.
That million dollar home, $6,000 a month payment today is $8,000, $7,500.
How do you come up with that additional $1,500 if you didn't get the raise?
So what are people going to be doing with this?
It's automatic.
You have to either desperately, the people that bought a house that they couldn't afford, hoping they're going to make $200,000, $400,000 of equity, they're stuck right now.
So imagine if these guys, so right now, the only indicator that people ought to be watching closely, and by the way, thank you for the reminder to go to our sponsors here in a minute.
Adam, you're wonderful.
Yep.
Yes, sir.
Here's the biggest indicator that concerns me.
Unemployment today is 3.4%.
It's a 60-year low.
Unemployment is 3.4%, 60-year low.
When you think about unemployment and interest rates being high, unemployment is low.
If they lower interest rates, unemployment is going to go up.
If this 3.4 goes to 4.4, 5.4, if we're at 5.4, people don't have income to pay their car payment and their mortgage payment and their bills.
What are they going to do?
They're going to have to start dumping what they have and they're going to dump it for pennies on a dollar because they don't have a choice.
So that is my speculation of what's going to be happening if this goes on.
And so people.
I have to go to my sponsors.
And I know you want to talk about the five dirtiest cities in America.
We want to get to it.
And I know you want to talk about Trump and DeSantis.
But first, let's go to our sponsors.
Okay, so my sister the other day, I get a message on Instagram from her and she says, Patrick, I took this Bitcoin training program and it changed my life.
And I'm like, babe, what the hell is Paulette talking about?
She says, I got the message too.
I said, my sister's never, she sells insurance.
She's part of our company.
What do you mean she's doing Bitcoin change your life?
So I'm like, how did it change your life?
And so now I'm communicating with my sister.
And then she's saying what she's saying.
So, yeah, let me tell you this program with this girl named Linda.
I'm like, babe, who the hell is Linda, babe?
So finally, I'm like, she's, babe.
And then a picture is posted of a Tesla.
Without her, obviously, it's just a picture of Tesla.
It says, my life's been changed.
I just bought my dream car.
This, this, that.
Like, Paulette didn't buy a Tesla.
Okay.
So finally I said, babe, I called Paulette.
She's like, Pat, I've been hacked.
So I realized I'm not talking to Paulette.
So I said, hey, that's awesome.
I'd love to learn how you make this kind of money because I got a friend of mine here sitting right next to me.
Would you guys like me to read what I told this guy that's trying to hack my Bitcoin?
It's so entertaining.
You will love it.
So look what I told this guy.
He was so concerned.
This is when you troll the criminals out there.
Here's my response.
I said, I have my friend here who's also wanting to learn.
His name is Federal Agent Huntsman.
You've met him before at the house.
He right now works on Internet Bitcoin Fraud Unit and would like to know as well how it works.
Sometimes these things are frauds and he can look into it and make sure it's not a fraud.
They're able to identify IP address and Instagram accounts to identify level of credibility.
Just last month, his team identified 17 fake Instagram account fraud organizations and worked directly with the local agency in that country who has seen an increase in these frauds and arrested them.
They're pros at what they do, Paulette.
Be careful.
They typically hack and get access to their user ID and password and take advantage of innocent users who trust you.
To make sure this is you, please call my cell.
If I don't hear from you and suddenly I get blocked or don't get a response, it'll tell me this account has been hacked.
The FBI will do their part.
She got her password the next day, by the way, just so you guys know that response.
A good script to write down when you get a message like this.
Here's a point.
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So having said that.
Can your FBI friend agent is if real get the money that I sent your sister?
Listen, one of the best things, remember that one time that one guy called me and he says, yes, I want to teach you Patrick B. David's Bitcoin system.
So I called them.
Do you guys remember when they would make the comments?
By the way, sometimes people make these comments.
So I call him.
I said, so do you work directly with Patrick B. David's Bitcoin?
We recorded this.
It's on YouTube.
He says, I work directly with Patrick B. David.
I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
I said, how crazy is he?
And he says, well, you know, I can't tell you.
We can't disclose client information.
Anyways, eventually you have to know there's these people out there.
If you're not too careful, we went to Angelos the other day.
We're at Angelos having lunch.
This good-looking guy who's always good to us, he comes and he says, hey, I signed up for your program.
Adam's like, what program did you sign up for?
He says, I signed up for your Bitcoin program.
I give $200.
He says, I don't have a Bitcoin program.
As crazy as it is, you're getting a lot of these stories.
Can I say one thing about that guy?
He was the nicest waiter.
Shout out to Angelo's out there.
It's like the best Italian restaurant.
Patty said, he's the nicest waiter.
He's serving us all everything, hand and foot.
And at the end of the bill, he goes, hey, by the way, I just want you to know the Bitcoin program that I signed up for.
It's so good.
I said, you got the wrong guy.
But it's real.
This is like a real thing that we did.
Okay, so did you want to say something before we go to the 5D cities?
No, I'll just get my money back for you.
Okay, so let's do this with the five.
Let me do this with the five dirtiest cities.
So story comes out pretty wild.
Five dirtiest cities in America, if you want to put it up.
Okay.
Can anybody, who's read this article?
Raise it if you read this article.
Who has not read this article?
Who has not read this article?
Can you guess?
Well, he put it up already.
I was about to say it.
You screwed it up for me, you guy.
Okay?
A new study by Lawn Starter has found that the top five dirtiest cities in America are run by Democratic mayors.
I would have never guessed it.
Obviously, it's a surprise.
What?
It's not like we brought this up when we talked to Roland Martin, which was a fantastic, friendly conversation.
Sweet.
Shout out to him for being here.
I respect the fact that he showed up.
Houston ranked first for the dirtiest city.
Anybody here from Houston, by the way?
Anybody from, oh, we got a couple people from Houston.
We love you, Houston.
My wife's from Houston.
We got nothing against Houston.
If you got any complaints, write to this guy.
What's his name?
Let's see.
It's Jessica.
Jessica Chasmer is writing this article.
Houston is the dirtiest city, followed by Newark, San Bernardino, Detroit, and Jersey City.
These cities were measured across four categories, pollution, living conditions, infrastructure, and consumer satisfaction.
Houston was rated as the dirtiest city and ranked third on pollution, fourth on poor living conditions, and 12th on infrastructure, and 34th on consumer satisfaction.
Virginia Beach, the cleanest city in the country, is ran by Republican Mayor Robert Dyer.
The city ranked 149th on pollution and 132nd on consumer satisfaction.
Tom, why would this be a factor for cleanest and dirtiest cities ran by a Republican or Democrat?
What do they have to do with it?
I think when you go to a world of entitlement and you're not allowing, look, when business invests, what do they do?
They build a building, they build areas around the building, you're investing in it.
And when you take a look at all these things, this is the outcome of entitlement.
Houston, I think, and Rob, you could find this, is like number one in worst traffic in America, poor infrastructure investment.
They managed to pass Los Angeles, which has had like the World Cup of bad traffic.
Four or five freeway.
Oh my gosh.
It's incredible.
And what this is, if you fail to invest in the infrastructure and you're just running on tax of the rich and entitlement, you're not really improving the condition of the city.
And this is what you get.
This is the outcome.
And you go down all these lists that people say this, this, this, this, and this.
And they say, wow, you know, take a look at this.
And I don't think it's a coincidence that it's, you know, Democrat administrations doing this.
Do you think dirty has to do with politics?
You think dirty has to do with Democrat and Republican?
Like, crime, I understand when we're talking crime, 27 out of 30, because we talk about the fact that you're funding into...
So let me ask you a different question.
What can a mayor do to make their city cleaner?
What can a mayor do?
What policies can a mayor come up with to make their cities cleaner?
You know, when you enable entrepreneurship and you enable job creation, people have jobs and you're going to reduce homelessness.
So anybody that's been to San Francisco sees what the outcome of chronic homelessness looks like.
In LA, you get people off the streets and you have the ability to reinvest in schools and you have the opportunity to do this.
You know, it's very simple.
If you promote economic growth and tax it reasonably, you've got money to work with to improve your city.
It's that simple.
Well, Pat, it not being political, then how is it?
I mean, it's technically political because if the top five them dirtiest cities are Democrat and the top five were with Roland Maher and you said that for crime like Chicago, it is all Democratic.
But to me, the way I go is if it's crime, I say, okay, Chicago got it.
What do you do?
Well, you don't have guns.
You don't have, you know, license to carry, let's just say, or a certain way they handle structure for Second Amendment in Chicago versus another city that's maybe in Idaho or how they handle it here or how they handle it in Texas.
Then you can kind of say, fine, that makes sense.
And then, hey, let's defund the police.
Or let's, what's the word, the other word for defunding the police?
It's asset.
Realocation of money.
This is another definition for defunding the police.
Then you can directly say, there's a reason why this city's crime is so high, but dirty, dirty is what?
How do you, what policies cause a city to be cleaner?
What policies?
Yes, please.
We're the jails.
Use jails, the inmates to clean your city.
So use jails, inmates to help come and clean the cities, okay?
People that are getting out, people that are going to be on parole.
So leverage them to come in and help clean the cities.
That's the part, but I wonder if it's on the people, if it's on the mayor.
I mean, obviously, the leader of the city has to figure out a way to make it cleaner.
But what policies do you come up with?
Like, is it, you know, like the, how many guys have a city where if you get caught loitering, there's a ticket to it.
Literate loitering.
Literally, literally.
Littering.
When you're littering, there's a ticket to it.
Do you guys?
Yeah, 100%.
So what you're saying is, Pat, just like the meter mates, why not have people like on the street?
Like, I know Los Angeles has safety ambassadors.
They don't have guns or anything.
They just kind of like, if there is like a, somebody yelling or there's an argument, they come to kind of.
I was hoping to solve all the problems on today's podcast.
We're failing right now, guys.
Just so you know.
Well, I have an idea.
Well, why don't we get Mayor Pete, who's the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, now the Department of Transportation.
I think there's a new top dirtiest city in America right now, East Palestine, Ohio.
So I know they're dealing with a lot with that.
I don't think there's any simple fix.
Here's what I do know.
Like, what do you think the biggest city, the biggest city in the country that voted Republican in the last election, Trump?
What do you think the biggest city was?
Anyone?
200 people here?
Nobody's got a big city that you think voted?
Well, I'm not big.
So there's zero big cities that have voted Republican.
Zero.
The top 50.
So, you know, think about even the reddest states.
Alabama, okay?
What's the capital of Birmingham?
Democrat.
Texas, Dallas, Democrat.
Go down the list.
We all know the Republican states.
We know the red states, okay?
But the bigger the city, the more people, the more liberal they tend to be, the more open they are to new ideas.
Now, some of it is a little ridiculously far-fetched, but the more conservative the city is, the more that they're kind of like, let's just stay how things are.
So I think the bigger the city gets, the more likely it is to have a Democratic mayor.
So you just, well, that's a different conversation, though.
So let's finalize this topic and let's go to the next one.
Here's what I would say.
I think it is a cultural thing.
By the way, I don't have like the solution or the answer to it.
Did you guys see what happened at World Cup when Japan came and played what they did afterwards?
Did anybody see the clips right afterwards what happened?
Did you see this or no?
They cleaned all this bleach.
They cleaned everything.
Fans.
They cleaned everything after themselves.
And you're like, wow.
So then other countries who were playing, they were kind of like, let's do the same thing as well.
And it became like a cultural thing for us to clean up.
And you're like, wow, this is not what we do in Germany.
Or this is not what we do in the U.S. or this is not what we do in such and such.
And other people started picking it up.
I don't know.
I think if somebody from the top is speaking about it, you definitely can do something about it.
You know, the whole San Francisco story.
Have you guys been to San Francisco lately or not?
Who is part?
Who's from San Francisco, actually?
Anybody from San Francisco?
Have they started cleaning up San Francisco?
Can you say it louder to the people in the back that can't hear you?
And he's from San Francisco, right?
So just 10 years ago, babe, when was it you and I went to San Fran?
We'd go there regularly.
Was that eight years ago, 10 years ago, five years ago?
We went like when we first started being like 2004.
Yeah.
And then we went when we went to Napa.
We went when we went to Napa.
You're right.
Yes.
And AIG, I remember that.
And the place, well, by the way, great meeting you was there.
So the place was cleaned.
And you look forward to going to San Francisco versus today you go to it.
We were there.
I'm like, what the hell is going on?
Look at this.
This does not look like San Francisco.
It looks like a complete different city.
The responsibility is on the mayor.
I guess one of the things could be said is: what is the standard that you take with homelessness?
What is the standards that you take with fines?
What is the standard with cultural day where, hey, what if we had a one-day cleaning day?
Let's all get out there and clean the city.
What if we did something culturally that we can make this place a better place?
What if we did something like that?
You know, remember the day that in California to deal with gas, they did the one day you couldn't drive.
Who remembers that one day?
Who remembers anybody remembers the 405 was closed or the one-on-one, what was it called?
Carmedy.
How long ago was that?
Like 2013 when they did that.
Then it was one day everybody took a break, and it was one way of doing this.
Imagine you're the mayor of a city.
You're like, listen, guys, here's what we're doing.
We have gotten the top 20 CEOs of the top 20 companies in our city.
And here's what we got all the CEOs to agree to do.
One day, paid leave to go out there and all of us volunteer to clean our city.
Wouldn't that be a sick idea if somebody did that?
Who would vote for that, by the way?
How many guys would be like, yeah, I'm okay.
We're going out there doing supporting it.
I think it's something like that that they got to do to clean their cities.
Houston's not growing because it's a bad city.
They just went from number four four years ago.
They passed up Chicago as a number four city to now number three.
A book that was written 15 years ago called The Next 100 Million.
We spent time with this author at somebody's house in Malibu.
And he said, by the time the next 100 million people are born in America, Houston will be the number one city in America.
Wow.
This book is called, that's the book.
If you want to zoom in on the book, when did it come out?
2010, 13 years ago.
The day the next 100 million people are born in America by 2050, he predicts Houston will be the number one city in America.
It's a big city.
We just moved a couple of our guys to Houston.
It sounds like they're getting your message about having babies out there in Houston.
If there's any message I got, parents, raise your hand.
I'm just curious.
Let's do a quick survey.
Keep your hands up if you got more than one baby.
More than two.
Three or more.
Four or more.
Five or more with the same wife.
With the same wife.
His head went down.
Yeah.
There we go.
He's like, he's got like four wives.
By the way, funniest story: one of our agents, seven years ago, he comes and says, I want you to meet my kids.
I said, great.
Met the kids.
I said, how are your kids?
So they're both 19.
I said, oh, when's their birthday?
Well, he's June and she's July.
So I want to ask the question, but I don't want to ask the question because his wife is right there.
So I'm like, so then he says, I know what you're thinking.
I was a wild man, okay?
But my wife forgave me.
We're together.
I have two kids and they were pregnant at the same time.
I said, okay, so how's your insurance business doing for you, right?
I'm going to change the subject.
Keep your hands up if you had four.
Three of you guys raise your hand if you had four.
Raise your hand if it's five.
Anybody, five?
Really?
Five.
Five officially or LDS.
And I know, Joel, you're not LDS, right?
Six.
Six?
All the way.
Can you stand up, please, if you're at six?
They're telling me that.
Are you really at six?
He's tired.
Are you really at six?
Seven?
Seven kids.
Make some noise.
Your husband's here as well.
Your husband's at home.
Oh, first of all, I'm telling you, you don't look like a grandma, but seven kids.
I can't see you from here.
Freaking congratulations to you.
That's awesome.
Thank you for your granddaughter who's a Marine.
Thank you for her service.
I think we need to have more kids, guys.
And I know you don't want to hear this.
I'm on a campaign to talk to every man.
And by the way, specifically leaders.
Specifically, leaders.
If you're a husband and a wife, we had a couple people at the house over two days ago.
You remember these two guys that were over?
And one of them is a Jewish father.
He just came back from Israel.
He's got two kids.
And he says, well, you know, my wife wants me to have more.
I said, dude, there's no way you can't stop at two kids.
He says, why not?
We're making money.
We can put time into our two kids.
Why should we have more than two kids?
I said, 12 years ago, one of my advisors was a guy named John Morris.
Tom, you remember John Morris?
You introduced me to John Morris.
Incredible guy.
We're in a meeting one time.
One of the guys about to go out of business.
He needs a half a million dollars.
He says, if I don't get a half a million dollars by Friday, I'm going to have to shut it down.
He makes a phone call.
An hour later, the guy gets a half a million dollars, stays in business.
Like, that's the kind of a guy that John Morris is.
Anyways, I said, John, in our monthly meeting, how many kids do you have, John?
Two kids.
You're two kids.
Yeah.
You're 60 years old.
Two kids.
You're small.
Why two kids?
Biggest mistake of my life.
It's the biggest mistake of your life.
He says, biggest mistake of my life.
I said, tell me why.
He said, tell me what thing in our lives we stop doing the moment we get very good at it.
He says, I had two kids.
I barely learned how to be a parent.
And then I stopped having kids.
We should have had four.
Then I came home.
I started campaigning.
But David's for four.
Bet David's for now.
He said, Ben David's for five.
We ended up with four.
But to those who have money, you teach the right values and principles.
Please look up to that lady back there and go have seven kids.
Can you please do that?
Because others are having more kids and you need to be having more kids.
All right, let's go to the next story.
Let's go to the next story.
By the way, are you guys following this East Palestine story closely or no?
What's going on here?
So let me tell you what happened with our guy.
So I'll show you a video of, should we first read this article or just show the video so they know what's going on here?
Well, anyways, there's five consultants that are traveling from Clinton Airport.
No joke.
Little Rock.
They're flying to Ohio, East Palestine, to check to see what's going on.
Here's what happens to them.
If you want to play the video first, if we have it ready, Rob, let's watch this video together.
Go ahead and play it.
We have break news tonight of a plane crash in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Just minutes ago, we learned the people on board were actually headed here to Northeast Ohio to help clean up the Oakwood Village explosion from Monday.
All five people on board work for an environmental consulting firm.
The plane took off from the Clinton National Airport around noon and was headed for John Glenn Columbus International Airport.
Right now, we are digging into the story.
We will have much more on air and online as soon as we learn it.
I mean.
So we can obviously say it's appropriate to say what?
A strange coincidence.
Yes.
Fine.
What are they going there to look for?
So we have a new member of the Valutaine team.
We're testing something.
It's a guy named Dodge.
We have Dodge's video.
We flew out Dodge and Malik to East Palestine to see what's really going on because I believe a bunch of people visited there.
We know Pete hasn't been there.
He's got a very busy schedule.
He's a very busy schedule.
Pete hasn't been there yet.
It's been 18 days.
He still hasn't visited.
President Biden was in Ukraine on President's Day.
He hasn't visited there.
But we sent Trump was there yesterday, I believe.
He was there yesterday or two days ago.
I think he was there yesterday.
He was there.
He was at McDonald's dorm.
So this is our guy who is there.
Show called Dodge segment called Dodge This.
And he actually drinks the water.
Watch this video.
Drinks the water.
The same.
There has to be some semblance of a cover-up.
The residents have not been given the correct information in a timely and efficient manner.
Not enough people have been given enough funds to successfully relocate for a safe amount of time.
And the relocation payments of people for evacuation was only in a one-mile radius.
Meanwhile, you're seeing dead fish all the way out to Cincinnati.
You're seeing the water contaminating Youngstown.
This goes on for hundreds of miles beyond this one-mile radius contamination zone.
So there are a lot of residents, even in this town, that are not receiving the help that they need.
So that's why we're here at Value Tainment.
We're actually talking to residents.
We're telling people how they can help.
And we're getting the truth.
Because quite frankly, if you listen to any governmental entity, Republican or Democratic, doesn't matter, a lot has been left off the table in terms of what they're telling us.
So that's why we're here.
And a lot of people are too scared to do this.
Watch this.
Here's something interesting.
We've been asking to do it.
Watch this.
Oh, my God.
He actually does this.
This is the actual water.
Oh, my God.
Dude.
Well, it tastes like metal.
He died 20 minutes later.
He's not with Value Taint anymore.
They can actually taste the water for themselves.
That water right now tasted like somebody dropped about a million pennies into it.
What is that jewelry, almost blood-like taste?
Now, I'm not going to drink a whole glass.
But you saw with it as I caught my hands, the water that I did have.
And just in case you didn't see it before.
Watch this.
Are his hands getting redder?
This is an iridescent color.
Yo.
This is the water.
Terrible.
This is why we need to go here in the river and actually look at what's happening here.
Give it up to Dodge.
Dodge Dodge.
You can watch the whole clip.
We'll put it up.
He talks to all the people out there.
And Vinny, what do you think is going on?
What are your thoughts on this whole story?
Well, first of all, since you said the Clinton situation, I don't know if anybody's been following who Mark Middleton is, one of Bill Clinton's top aides last year in May.
I know Adam loves these type of stories.
I saw your body language.
I love spirits.
Hold on.
Hold on.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and I love people just brush off.
People have different opinions.
I'm a coincidence theorist, okay?
His name is Mark Middleton.
You guys could look it up.
Last year in May, this dude, he was a top Clinton official, worked in the White House.
He led Jeffrey Epstein into the White House to visit seven out of the seven times.
Put up the story.
Yeah, you put up there.
Tom, I mean, I texted Torb.
This dude at his house in Arkansas, speaking of our Lakala.
Oh, yeah.
Right here.
So he was Syrian for who speaks Assyrian?
No one does.
We have a very big Assyrian community by the time.
So this dude, top ape, ties with Jeffrey Epstein.
He was found hanging in a tree with an extension cord around his neck, gunshot to his chest, no gun found.
Apparently, a squirrel took it and sold it on the black market.
But they just ruled it yesterday that it was a suicide.
So wait, so this is, I'm a conspiracy theorist because he's tied to all this stuff.
Epstein, all this information is coming out.
There's no gun, but you can't even, I can't have another opinion because automatically they dismiss me as I'm a conspiracy theorist.
But it's true, Pat.
Think about Pete Buttiget.
Somebody just walked up to him the other day, a reporter from Daily Mail, and they're like, so Pete, where are you going?
He's like, I'll talk to you later.
Talk to my press court.
You saw this, Tom.
And then at the end, he goes, you know what?
Let me take a picture of you.
What is he going to do with that?
That was Pete.
He took a picture of the reporter.
Pete took a picture of the reporter.
Hold on.
Why?
Is that a threat?
Are you threatening this person?
Like, yo, we're going to come find you.
It's just, it's just, people say, oh, you're connecting dots.
The dots are right in front of your face.
If you don't connect them, then you're just like one of those, and you brush it off.
But is that weird, Pat?
Is that another weird thing?
These people died?
What were those people on the plane going to do in East Palestine?
You're a pretty reasonable guy.
What do you think is going on there?
You know, when too many coincidences line up, you start to wonder.
Not wonder about your own sanity, but you really start to wonder about it.
And you look at it when things are in plain sight.
You know, if it's a bunch, you know, long, drawn-out article by people with the tin hats, you say, okay, never mind, go away.
But, you know, like Mark Middleton, how do you shoot yourself and then hang yourself in an extension cord in a tree?
Very hard to do.
And there's no gun.
There's no gun.
You get some sort of award in the Suicide Hall of Fame for doing that.
That's how you got to do it, right?
It's almost like you hang, you shoot, and you got to chug it like hard.
Good, really good.
Yeah, Fido, grab the gun.
It's like.
It doesn't, bro.
And, you know, this whole plane crashing into a grassy knoll, and that, you know, the lady that noticed it was going down from the six-story window of the book repository.
You know, that's kind of odd to me.
I mean, it's like odd coincidences.
It just really, really bothers me.
It's like New York in the 80s, and you would see, you know, that a guy shot six times, was pulled out of the Hudson River.
It's like, well, if he was pulled out of the river, naturally he drowned, right?
Yeah, of course.
So, Adam, you have any reality theories for us to kind of balance the conspiracies?
Not that I'm not anti-Vinny's conspiracy theories.
I just like trying to get to the heart of the problem.
I think, you know, like we're unraveling this onion.
I think, first and foremost, there was a tragedy with this train situation in East Palestine, Ohio.
I think that's the core of it.
And everyone wants to make it political.
Well, if it's political, the governor is actually Republican.
So is it on Pete Budigej, who's the Secretary of Transportation, to address this?
To me, all these other stories kind of just try to build someone's narrative of what they think happened.
I think it's a freaking tragedy.
We talked about on the podcast.
How many train accidents happen a year?
It's insane.
Thousands.
I think this was a horrible one, a deadly one.
And now I think it's just a sheer coincidence.
These people are coming from Clinton Airport.
I think, you know, speaking of accidents, every day you turn on the news, a plane crashed today into a small building.
It's like, yeah, because it's fucking Tuesday.
That's what happened.
But Adam, what are the odds of them going?
They're going to get a lot of that.
I get it.
But I think we're trying to, without much information, trying to piece together a narrative.
I think it's a tragedy what happened in this situation.
I think they need to get to the bottom of it.
And the plane crash is just, I think, just a pure anomaly.
Planes crash all the time.
I'm not like, here's where I'm not going.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Here's where I'm not going.
The truth.
The reports call Clinton.
It's nothing.
It's just purely accidental.
It's never happened before.
74 people.
The train crash with the chemicals was actually done on purpose to hide the fact that they were basically was happening the same day that the Epstein report was coming out, and they're trying to take the news away from the people.
No, no, he brought Epstein from a different place.
His story doesn't go.
But Epstein's story has nothing to do with East Palestine.
No.
Epstein is not from East Palestine.
The island is not in Ohio.
Just so people know going around saying, have you been to the Epstein Island in Ohio?
I think ultimately what I'm trying to say is, let's address the issue.
There's something going on in Ohio right now, and our friend Dodge just died of drinking water.
Okay, so let me ask you a question then.
So conspiracy or coincidence theories aside, how do you feel that if the president of the United States is nowhere to be found, he's over there throwing our money away while we have people dying here.
Pete Buttigieg, and I know you're saying, I don't care if it's a Republican mayor, governor, whoever, the head guy of transportation hasn't even talked about it.
That doesn't piss you off, that doesn't bother you.
Listen, that guy should be the number one guy.
Trump going there, Trump going there, bro.
I don't care.
He was in McDonald's throwing Big Macs at people.
I don't somebody, one of my friends was like, who's kind of on the left?
He's like, what kind?
Why McDonald's?
Like, oh, bro, it's East Palestine.
There's nine people there.
There's no more in Steakhouse.
You know what I mean?
Can I tell you guys something very weird when I'm watching this?
By the way, strategically, think about this here for just let's just purely talk strategy, okay?
Let's set aside the emotions for a second.
All we're talking is strategy.
When you go to war, people get, you know, die.
And of course, nobody wants to see family innocent.
But as a general, a general has to be in the moment making tough decisions.
Let's talk purely strategy.
If it's pure strategy, how did DeSantis go from winning by only 34,000 votes to winning one and a half million votes in the great state of Florida?
How did he do it?
Did he do it because he only went to Republican counties?
Did he do it because he only went to Republican cities?
Or did he do it because he won Miami Day?
How did he do it?
He's the greatest governor we have right now in America because he went and won people over dinners being had.
We're having lunch at the house.
What did Mikey said?
He says they're having dinner with a guy who's a liberal, hardcore liberal.
He says, when they asked him the question about DeSantis, he says, what do you mean, DeSantis?
He says, the best governor.
He says he's a Republican.
He says, we don't look at our governor as a Republican.
He's just a great governor, and we want to keep him here.
And they'd love to vote for him as a liberal.
This guy converted people.
So watch this.
Strategically, strategically, not going help the Republicans strategically.
You mean to tell me you're not going?
Guess what, Pete?
Here's what's going to happen when foreign affair issues come up.
They're going to bring one question for you.
You're done.
All they're going to say is, hey, so how would you handle the issue there?
And then the opposition is going to say, what?
Yeah, if a war was to take place, it would take him four weeks to make a decision.
It would cost millions of people's lives.
Do you really want a president like that?
He couldn't handle a small city like East Palestine.
You want him to be the decision maker of a country of 330 million people?
He's not qualified to be a president.
Boom, you're fired five seconds later.
Get off the stage, right?
So Pete is done with what he did for 2024.
Now, let's go to the other part.
Here's what's weird.
Very weird.
So yesterday, who goes to East Palestine?
Trump.
Trump.
So if you go to YouTube, Rob, and just go to YouTube, go to Fox News's YouTube channel.
Go to Fox News's YouTube channel.
Okay.
So this, I watched the last, okay, go to videos, go to videos, click on that.
Can we put on the screen so everybody can see it?
Okay.
So Trump in 2015, 2016, if you go back and look at the videos on Fox News, literally every three videos was about Trump.
So Trump just went to East Palestine.
Of the last 50 videos that they just uploaded, how many of them should be about Trump?
Of the last 50.
What do you think it should be?
Of the last 50?
Five, ten should be about Trump.
Watch this.
Let's count.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Keep going.
Seven, eight, nine, keep going.
Ten, eleven, twelve.
Finest picture on the boom.
Former Trump donor reveals why he's supporting possible DeSantis run.
This is an anti-Trump story.
Keep going.
Ned Ryan, these Trump political witch hunts all end up as bad jokes.
Keep going.
Negative story.
Now it's negative story.
East Palestine residents praise Donald Trump.
Right now, keep going.
Hannity, Tucker, keep going.
Next, next, next.
Keep going.
Next, next, next.
I went and watched CNN.
CNN hosts praise Trump.
Really?
How confusing is that?
He says, listen, say what you say about Trump.
He showed up.
Wow.
And Pete Buttigieg should show up.
I don't know why he's not showing up.
He should.
They said, I understand why Biden didn't show up.
Both Republican Democrats are saying we understand why Biden was in Ukraine for the one-year anniversary.
If you're already committed, $50 billion, it's a total of $100 billion we've given to Ukraine, of which around $50, $60 billion is our money.
It's a total $100 billion.
We're the number one country with the most money being given to them.
You have to show up because that's checking on your investment, if that makes sense.
If you're investing into a company and you own 50% or 60% of the equity company, one-year anniversary, what do you got to do?
You got to go to it.
He still has to go to East Palestine.
But he's gone and done that.
No problem.
Pete Butichich has zero excuses.
CNN is giving a shout out to Trump.
Fox isn't giving a shout out to Trump, including Sean Hannity.
Sean Hannity discussion on East Palestine was only a few seconds.
CNN talked about him visiting East Palestine.
So what is this telling you?
Here's what it's telling you.
Fox today is Team DeSantis.
Fox is no longer Team Trump.
Just everybody knows this part here.
Fox is no longer Team Trump.
As of right now, it's purely DeSantis.
Whether you like it or not, go to your own research.
Listen to these guys.
So I'm willing to bet there's a conference call or a conversation saying, pump the brakes.
If we're going to go full team Trump, if we're going to go full Team DeSantis, we feel better with DeSantis right now.
The polls are coming out.
I got a couple polls here on popularity where DeSantis is showing ahead over Trump.
So Fox is taking that position.
CNN on the other side, they're also looking at this, saying, well, DeSantis just has the most impeccable resume today.
Okay.
It's hard to beat his resume.
Say what you want to say.
You have to explain 34,000 to 1.5 million.
You can't win that.
It doesn't matter what anybody says.
I went from having 34,000 subscribers and I've increased it by 1.5 million subscribers.
Go ahead and beat me.
What's your argument?
Say whatever you want, and more people are coming to my state.
And we're safer, and we're this, and we're that, and we're this.
That's a beautiful resume.
So that part that Trump, who had Fox News, Trump, who had Hannity, Trump who had everybody on Fox when he was on the shows, that's going to be missing today.
So I think this kind of leads me to the conversation about Trump and DeSantis with head-to-head matchup, what it's going to look like.
And Trump is still making the comments.
How many guys don't like it when Trump says, I would never call him meatball.
I would never call him meatball.
I would never call him.
Does that bother you?
Or do you kind of find that funny when he does that?
How do you take that, by the way?
You guys don't have an opinion on that?
Do you see when he says the meatball stuff?
Or do you like it or you don't care if he does it?
That's who he is.
You don't care about it.
Okay.
So some people made a comment about this, and I want to get your thoughts.
Some people said, like, here's a tweet from a couple of days ago.
I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious.
Meatball Ron as the fake news is insisting.
I will, even though Fox News killing Lightwell, Paul Ryan is revered by him.
Low energy Jet Bush is his hero and always had his side.
His beaches and states were closed for long periods of time.
His testing, testing, testing for the China virus didn't work out too well, and his loyalty skills are really weak.
It would be totally inappropriate to use the word meatball as a moniker for Ron.
A lot of people don't like this commentary on what Trump said.
I'm going to go to our friend first to see what he thinks about it, Adam.
Tell me, what do you think about the approach Trump has taken with Ron DeSantis?
You got to understand Trump's humor here.
It's like, I don't care what you tell me to do, I'll never call him meatball.
No, I'll never do it.
Never in a million years am I going to call him meatball ron.
I'm not going to do it.
No matter how hard you encourage me to call him meatball ron de sanctimonious.
I'm just not going to, I'm not, buddy.
I told you I'm not going to call him meatball ron.
It's like we've seen the shtick.
Unfortunately, for Trump and to my friends in the room here, the shtick's getting old, guys.
It was very new in 2015.
Very new.
Whether you like Trump, whether you didn't like Trump, it was fucking new.
It was like, what?
This guy's on stage calling out Republicans.
This is crazy.
Little hands, Marco Rubio.
I got bigger hands.
This is crazy.
It was so new.
It was so fresh that people just, it was must-see TV.
At this point, even Fox News is like, ugh, just fade away.
And they basically said, we'll take all your policies because I've been very clear, a lot of Trump's policies were good for the country.
But all the name-calling and the childishness and the divisiveness, it's like we can do away with all of that and just get the same policies with Meatball Ron.
And that's, I think, where the fervor of the country is at this point.
And here's my last point.
If you want to just win a Republican primary, nominate Trump.
If you want to lose the presidency again, go ahead, guys.
Trump 2024.
Good luck.
But Pat, can I say one thing, though?
Adam will be in the back for those I want to talk to him if you have issues with them.
You'll be right here.
But just to be clear, I will gladly, gladly vote for Meatball Ron DeSanctimonias.
Gladly.
And I'll just call him Governor DeSantis.
I will never call him Meatball Ron.
But here's my question, though, and this is for everybody.
Like, is anybody surprised that he's going to be this guy, Pat?
Is anybody like, oh my God, I understand the, oh, my God, here we go again.
But put yourself in, hold on, put yourself in Trump's shoes from the jump.
You don't think he has a vendetta?
From the beginning, he announced everybody and their mother from all the Republicans, all the Democrats, all the media, all the left, they all surrounded his ass and they went after him.
Bro, that guy and everything now that we're finding out with Twitter and just common sense, it was all bullshit.
You don't think he has a chip on his shoulder where he's like, yo, I'm coming in hot.
He's a winner, bro.
Say what you want.
He's orange or whatever the hell people say.
Bro, that guy is a winner.
He wins in real estate.
He's a freaking boss.
And with all the stuff culminating around what everybody was around him, bro, he is in attack mode.
And guess what?
He's a competitor.
Bro, when you know you have Ron DeSantis, the meatball coming up with you, bro, you got to talk smack.
He's the golden child.
So guess what?
I'm not surprised.
And guess what?
The gloves come off.
He's a fighter, bro.
And it's going to be interesting, but it's going to be a hardcore fight.
Let's talk to a very stable man who's a father of two girls, professor, you know, just took his kids.
They're rock star kids, 4.6 GPA, one of the best golfers in the country at 16 years old.
She is.
I've watched him as a father, as a businessman, as a advisor.
Tom, tell us, what do you think is really going on here?
And who do you think is going to have the edge when it comes down to winning this whole thing?
Well, there's two things that people need to understand about Trump.
You don't have to love him.
But go look at the videos like when he sat there with NATO telling him that they had to pay their fair share and how he defended America, defended America's economy.
Go look at how he stood up to China and said, this is the way I'm going to play this game.
And then when he gets out on the field to play, the field of play for politics has been set.
You do your sound bites and then all your proxies go out there and spin it to the media.
And then this guy comes out and says, I'm not playing your game the way you want me to play your game.
So you are a disaster.
And he goes out and he does it the way he wants.
This guy brings guns to knife fights and he does not go gentle into that good night the way the political realm goes in America.
Because the underlying current of running for office in America is I'm ultimately going to have to make a compromise with you, you, and you, and get legislation passed.
So I'm going to come hot on certain things, but I'm not going to come in really, really super low because ultimately we have to work together.
Now, the presidential race, we saw it that way.
We saw it that way with Romney and Obama.
That was the last time we saw it that way.
With Hillary, we didn't.
And DeSantis is taking a normal progression of people love me in Florida because I executed.
Hurricane, I executed solutions.
Economy, I executed solutions.
COVID, I executed solutions.
And then everywhere but Broward County, a little and a little part of Orlando said, you know, you're right.
And I like what you did to my state, and I'm voting for you.
And he gets one point, almost a million and a half vote differential there.
He crushed the opponent.
Well, that guy is taking his normal next political step.
And he's running into a buzzsaw with a guy that does not play by the normal set of rules in terms of the campaign.
And I'll tell you, you know, that's what you're seeing.
And you're seeing Trump beat Trump and you're seeing the political establishment in the media, they don't know how to deal with that.
Here's my so I'm by the way, it doesn't bother me at all.
You know, like when people ask and say, hey, how could you sit there with Antonio Brown?
And he says, you idiot, you idiot, what do you know about Liberty City?
And all I go, okay.
Cool.
I got you.
Okay.
I'm going to go to your city to learn about your city.
And I'm going to go be a Dixie, what do you call it?
When Dixie is a bagger and to learn what that city is all about because maybe I'm an idiot, okay, and I'll learn about your community.
But here's the part.
He tried to compare Liberty City to Iraq.
He's like, there's guns out here.
It's like, I'm from Iran.
From Iran, bro.
How about bombs?
Yeah.
It's a big difference.
You didn't really understand me, boy.
You didn't understand.
Yeah.
This is just a parodi.
You're funny.
This is a parotee.
But you know what it is?
Here's the part.
You have an opponent.
If you know your opponent's dirty and he's dirty and you're shocked, you're a fool.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
If your opponent plays the hardcore Christian, you know, Mike Pence do-gooder, you know, all this stuff, and then something comes out, he doesn't know how to handle it.
It's like, uh-oh, you can't use that card.
If a girl came out for Mike Pence, what would the world react with?
Yeah, right, buddy.
No, no.
Oh, you wouldn't even believe it.
He doesn't travel without his wife or something.
But hopefully what I'm saying is, but that is Trump's brand.
So for people to say, how could you say something like this?
You must not have been following this guy for decades.
That's who he is.
Here's my concern.
My concern is a different concern.
There's a reason why Joe Rogan is the goat of podcasting.
So hear me out.
Number one, he's super likable.
Super likable.
Like, it's unbelievable how likable he is.
He's sincere.
He's authentic.
He's straight up.
But here's also the other part: okay, he draws in the audience of UFC.
How many guys love it when Joe Rogan reacts when a guy gets knocked out?
Oh my God.
You know, that's like, dude, we can't wait to see that.
And then the meme, he's interviewing everybody with the mic in the face after whatever happens.
He's right.
It's awesome, right?
These Joe Rogan memes.
Yeah, that picture right there.
It's sick.
It's awesome.
So Joe can talk on the topics of UFC.
Now, watch this.
Can Joe talk on the topics of wheat?
Today, it's not a big deal.
10 years ago, a big deal.
Can Joe speak on basketball?
No.
Can Joe speak on football?
It's not especially.
Can he speak on guns?
Can he speak on hunting?
Can he speak on space?
Can he speak on ayahuasca?
Can he speak on comedy?
He can speak on comedy.
He can speak on acting.
He was in Hollywood.
He was an actor.
He was a working actor.
There are so many different genres that he can have the conversation with.
So he's multi-dimensional.
He's got range.
He's got a lot of range on where he can go to, and he knows where he can.
So if he can't, he brings a guy, and he's one of the best interviews in the world.
So guess what?
He knows how to get intel out of somebody.
That's not his space.
That's a strength.
Watch this.
2016, when Trump won, what did he have?
He had Twitter, he had Facebook, he had YouTube, he had Fox, he had CNN, he had mainstream, he had everybody.
Everybody wanted to give him the platform because they knew if he was there, they're going to get what?
Millions of eyeballs.
Okay.
He hasn't tweeted yet.
His first tweet will be the most liked tweet ever, but he hasn't tweeted yet.
He's still doing Truth Social because he's driving to value that company.
He can't do that strategy long.
Facebook is back.
Instagram is back.
He's going to have to use those things.
If Fox is not platforming him regularly, if he's not going after them, and Fox, quite frankly, doesn't care, doesn't act like they care right now, who else does he have?
Because you need someone from mainstream.
You need someone from social media.
You need someone from business.
Schwartzman is now saying they're going to support DeSantis.
And Schwartzman was able.
That's the part that he can't.
Yeah, you can't lose those things.
So, by the way, I'll give you guys another crazy number here.
Do you know how much since Trump announced his candidacy, he announced it in November, right?
When did he announce it?
He announced it late October that he's running for office.
When was it when he announced when he's running?
Right around that time, correct?
Was it late October?
In 2022, from the moment he announced that he's running for office, he raised $9.6 million in 2022 alone.
Now, to be fair, he didn't campaign at all.
So it's not like he was campaigning.
He just raised $9.6 million.
Do you know how much Ron raised just running for governor in 2022?
Do you guys know the number?
$211 million.
One state, governor.
That's real money.
Okay?
Say whatever you want to say.
This guy's getting $2.5 million checks right now to support him.
So.
Why do you think that is, though?
But what the point, all I'm saying to you is, you know, the art of raising money is something not a lot of people can do.
If you raise a million, mayor is what?
Mayor, you need like a, you know, depending on the city you are.
Congress, you know, some of the cities in Atlanta, Georgia that were fighting, the budgets were like $100 million, $50 million.
Remember that?
How big it got for some of these cities.
But if you're raising $210, Jeb Bush had the last name of Bush.
He was a two-term governor.
When he ran for president, he raised only $140 for president.
And his father's a president.
His grandfather's, I mean, his brother's a president.
His grandfather was Senator Prescott.
You started with $140.
Bro, DeSantis raised $210.9.
You have to pay attention to this part.
And people vote with their money.
Every time you want to know like how we vote, the way people go vote at Starbucks versus, what do you call it, Coffee Bean?
You're voting with your money.
If you go by Ford over Chrysler, that's a form of a vote that we're putting in place, right?
So now, this doesn't mean anything if Trump starts doing his rallies and he starts creating momentum and he goes on Twitter and he starts being active on Facebook and Instagram.
He's capable of raising the money.
Now, some will say what?
The difference is what?
Who needs the money?
Who doesn't need the money?
Who doesn't need the money?
Trump doesn't need the money.
DeSantis needs to raise the money.
So that's the part where he's like, well, unlike him, I don't need people's money.
He's bought.
That's what Trump's going to say.
Gotcha.
Trump's going to come and say, because that's his position.
He's going to say, well, yeah, of course he's raised that kind of money.
You know who's giving them the money?
This person, that person, this person, that person, this person.
He's the institution.
He's the establishment.
He has to do all these favors for them.
So you just have to know this is what we're going to be hearing the next 12, 18 months, them going back and forth.
And the votes, the American people are going to make a decision and they're going to say, I'm going to go this way or that way.
But I think if you think it's ugly right now, by the way, I'm telling you, this is less than 1% of ugly.
We're not even at 10% of ugly.
It's going to get ugly.
The moment DeSantis announces he's running, Trump's going to take out his torpedo.
He's going to take out his.
Let's go guns blazing.
Go ahead.
I think something to consider is you talked about establishment.
Is that so?
We all remember when Bernie and Hillary in 2016, was it 2016 in?
Yeah, it was 2016.
And then Bernie was in the lead, and then all of a sudden, the Democratic establishment, DNC, basically the DNC was like, Bernie, thanks for everything, but we're going to give it to Hillary.
I don't think that we're giving a lot of thought to what's happening behind the closed doors with the Republican establishment.
Whether it's Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy or all the big Whigs kind of behind the scenes, they are all on Team DeSantis.
No question.
So when you talk about establishment politics, you know, Trump's firebrand, much credit to him, was anti-establishment, drain the swamp.
And that was a great, great marketing tool for him in 2016.
But I think the overall temperature of the country is just like Trump, thanks, bro, but keep it moving.
And everybody in the establishment is going to do everything they can, from McConnell to McCarthy to Romney, all the way down to ensure that even if it's close, Meatball Round is going to be the nominee.
Any different thoughts you guys have before we go into a different story?
Just on that, they changed the rules on Bernie for debates and stuff because they didn't really, the mainstream Democrats and the DNC panicked.
They didn't think that the Bernie Elizabeth Warren message was central enough, and they really wanted to come back to central.
And they had Bill Clinton in their ear.
Yes, you know, pimping for Hillary, if you can use pimping and Bill Clinton in the same sentence.
And that's where he wanted it, right?
So they said, hey, you've got to be back on the center.
And Bernie and Elizabeth are too far out there.
And they changed the rules for some of the debate.
Oh, you don't qualify for this debate, Bernie.
What are you talking about?
And so there's that.
That was rules.
What's behind you?
Just kind of prove my point, though.
Prove your point about rules, but I don't think you need any rules.
Adam, one thing here, I don't think the RNC needs to bend any rules to put DeSantis at the center of the stage.
It's happening because he's getting there under his own power, and he's just there.
Bernie was the outlier candidate and was getting, there was too much over there, and they wanted the votes to come back to the center and to galvanize their support because they were really worried about the election.
And so they changed the rules.
I don't think the RNC is changing any rules in DeSantis' favor.
I think they're letting him roll and people are supporting him and he's raising the money.
So from an optics standpoint, one could argue that Trump is more like the Bernie back then and DeSantis is more like the Hillary Clinton.
Today, you can correct.
Today, there's a lot of establishment like Fox choosing to ignore him.
But I'm with Pat.
We haven't even seen this war start to start yet.
We have not seen it yet, and it's coming.
And just really fast.
Then this is the Republican fight.
I read an article on the New York Times I sent to Rob that Biden, for his run, his 2024 playbook is going to be the 2020 playbook.
Just, you know, kind of hide, let these guys go nuts.
And this was a statement on it, Pat said.
Whether ultimately he faces Donald Trump, this is Biden, or another Republican trying to be like Mr. Trump, Biden plans a campaign message that still boils down to three words.
Competent beats crazy.
That's going to be his side, no matter who goes.
Because if DeSantis plays that Trump card, which he kind of is, you know what I'm saying?
He blew up with that Trump attitude.
That's how that slogan won't work against DeSantis because he's not crazy.
He's competent.
And that's the ironic part is that, my last point, I think Biden, as inefficient and as weak as he's proven to be, would still beat Trump in 2024.
You really think that?
Well, he already did it.
He already did it.
And there's a chance he could do it.
Hold on.
That's how Turnus Trump's.
Hold on, boys.
Look at the polls, guys.
I feel what they're talking about.
Look at the polls.
I don't want to.
DeSantis, last point.
DeSantis would wipe out Biden.
I love how everybody's laughing.
I love how everybody's laughing.
I said this exact same thing about 2020.
There's a difference.
You're crazy.
You're crazy.
And I tell you what's different.
There's a difference.
I'm going to tell you.
Here's what's different.
Okay.
So, you know, the whole fraud election, whatever, whatever they talk.
I'm not even talking about ballots.
I'm not talking about the 2,000 mules.
I'm not talking any of that stuff.
Set that stuff aside.
You believe it happened.
You didn't believe it happened.
It is what it is.
That's been happening for a long time.
You guys got to get better at catching these things happening.
I'm not even going there.
Hunter Biden's story.
If that story stayed, he ain't getting re-elected.
When James Comey came out with the story about Hillary Clinton a week before election, Hillary lost.
Believe it or not, as much as James Comey is Hillary Clinton's best friend, he caused her to lose.
He could have waited a one and a half weeks more.
Trump ain't winning.
Tom and I are on the phone at 3:30 in the morning.
We're shell-shocked when they announced Trump won, and Hillary Clinton had to call and concede.
We're like, are you awake?
Is this a, like, what the hell is going on?
That was James Comey, okay?
Because it was a week out.
That New York Post story was a week out.
Fast forward to today.
The amount of content, this is the part about being the president.
You give your enemies a lot of content, okay?
Your enemies, you don't have any content on your enemies because he's been on the bench.
Trump's not been active.
He's been on the bench for the last four years, right?
Biden's been on the bench.
Trump has 15 different things he can bring up about Biden.
My concern, he goes against Biden, he beats Biden.
I don't think, I think the DeSantis part is a concern.
If the left picks somebody else, if it's a Michelle, if it's someone else, it's a different story.
But I think Biden's resume is not sitting pretty.
He's going to, okay, you ready?
All right.
$83 billion, Afghanistan.
Okay.
What do you call it?
Hunter Biden laptop.
You got Ukraine, World War III.
First time since 1970 that Russia has put nuclear weapons on their ships.
Do you want me to keep going?
What happens with China and Iran and Russia unifying, becoming a new world order in the other side that the new world order, you made the three enemies of America become united.
What the hell are you doing?
What kind of diplomacy is that?
He is destroyed in that area.
So Trump's going to play to that card, no problem.
I think Democrats truly have to figure out a way to get Biden to step aside and bring somebody else in.
They need somebody else.
I don't think Biden's going to win against him.
Anyways, okay.
Did you guys see the very pleasant-looking, friendly curl going around yesterday on the January, the Georgia election probe?
Did you guys see how friendly?
Go to the MSNBC.
Is this the one?
No, I sent you the last one that I just, no, no, not that one.
Did you guys see this or no?
Do the one I'm about to send you here.
I don't think as a 44-year-old man, I mean, I've watched Exorcist.
It freaked me out.
I've watched Stigmata, a very respectable, scary movie.
I've watched what else you want to put out there, Nightmare on Elm Street when I was eight years old in Iran.
But I tell you, the last time I was this scared was when I watched The Exorcist until I watched just Crony interview.
You know who she reminded me of?
Pause it real quick.
She reminded me.
How many guys have seen the movie Fallen?
You've seen the movie Fallen with Denzel Washington?
Of course.
It's on my side.
Yes, it is.
Do you remember when the guys making these faces?
You know what I'm talking about?
Of course.
Creepy guy behind the glass, who knows what I'm talking about?
He touches him, boom, Spirit goes, Watch this girl.
She's not acting.
This is the real life fallen character.
Okay?
Play this clip.
She usually just watched this.
I mean, you're into girls.
You're not.
After you watch this, you're going to be into men.
Just watch this for God.
Watch it.
Watch it.
What's your facial reaction?
Yes.
Look at that.
Well, thank you for having me, first of all.
And I'm hesitant to speak to something that the judge made a decision not to share.
He, I don't know if everyone's aware of this, but there was a hearing about what parts of the report should and should not be published in its various forms.
And the list, well, the sections that were removed were consciously chosen to be removed.
And I don't want to say I have better judgment than the judge.
That's totally understandable.
Is it, would you say, when it comes to there are indictments recommended?
Look at that.
Is it more than 12 people?
Is it more than 20 people?
I think if you look at the page numbers of the report, there's about six pages in the middle that got cut out.
Allow for spacing.
It's not a short list.
Not a short list.
Oh, my God.
When it comes to 75 witnesses, like, is it, it's not, I assume, of course, 75 people.
Pause it.
You know who she reminds me of?
How many guys have seen the movie Wedding Crashers?
Anyone seen Wedding Crashes?
Remember that one girl?
I'll find you.
Anyways, I'm into it.
Vinny, I'm into it.
I know you are.
Vinny, you see this with the story on what's going on.
And Tom, I know you watched the news, how they were reacting to it and what they said about this.
What are your reaction when you see this?
Well, and mind you, Tom, we talked about this in the back.
She's the four, so this is for the grand jury for Trump.
To just let them know who she is so they're basically in charge.
She's a four-person, four-woman for picking all the jurors and keeping everything in line.
She's the most biased.
There's another interview before this one where she's rubbing her hands and she goes, oh my, if Trump is going to come in there, she's like, I want to be the one to be like, you know, to give that brief that they do.
This is another prime example of the bias that they're using on the left, which is going to hurt them.
Because what'd they say, Tom?
What did I think it was CNN or somebody that said she's ruined?
She's ruined the whole, this whole, whole, the courtroom thing is all finished.
You have fair-minded legal analysts that are on the left that are just, they understand how it works when you go into a courtroom.
And they are looking at this and they are saying, she is the defense attorney's dream because they're going to walk in here and say, my client has been indicted on a grand jury that had so much bias and a violation of the confidential requirement on the jurists.
Which one of these interview tour?
And you saw Democrats that were saying, she's on this interview tour.
What the hell?
What the hell?
She doesn't have a publicist.
She doesn't have this.
They're calling her up and they're giving, she's paid to be on these programs.
They pay you to be on these things.
Whether it's five grand or 10 grand, you're normally paid.
And you've got these Democrats are out there going, she's on a freaking media tour.
You can't do that as a four-person.
We worked so hard to get this guy on the mat and to pin him down and get this grand jury to indict him.
And she just blew the whole thing up, right?
There it is.
It's like they're worried about it.
So you actually, the funny part of it, the same facial expressions are being made by Democrats yesterday going, I can't believe this.
You know, they were just shocked.
I've got a question for you.
You know what I think about?
Like, you know how sometimes we have somebody that like tomorrow I'm interviewing, we're trying to get this on the calendar to interview Tate's attorney, right?
That they reached out, and so I'll be interviewing Tate's attorney, and we'll put that out live.
And you'll see it's going to be all over the place when they talk about that.
So, we have conversations before that interview takes place.
So, imagine you're the producer working on that show, and you're checking her audio.
So, Mary, Emily, is everything good?
You're like, hey, bro, can you come and see this scroll to tell me?
How's the weather where you're at?
She's making these faces.
You're like, dude, I think this is like, you know what?
Can't hear you.
Click.
We can't have this person.
We got to change.
Bring somebody else into replace us.
Why would you even put this on air?
This is not helping you out.
These are just like, these are turnovers and interception that you just gave to this other guy named Donald Trump.
And he's going to run with this when he sees something like this.
So look at Emily Kors, the reporter.
Does that look like a woman that's reacting here?
It looks like she had bad sushi at lunch.
And she's about to just open her mouth, and here it comes.
She is in pain.
You see her sitting there asking questions as this was unfolding.
Emily Kors is not a dumb person.
She's an intelligent, good interviewer.
I'm not a mind reader, but I'll tell you, she's looking at this going, oh my gosh, Emily Korsha.
Emily Kors is the girl on the right.
The girl on the left.
That's Kate Baldwin.
Kate Baldwin.
Who looked alive.
But yeah, what you're saying is Kate Baldwin looks like she's getting sick.
So backwards.
So, so, okay, so we just kind of wanted to show you guys this to inspire you guys.
Shout out to Emily.
Give me a call if you're in my single time anytime soon.
Oh my.
Can somebody get a hold of her and introduce Emily to Adam?
There's a reason why he's 39 and single because he chases Emily's.
That's the problem.
So anyways.
Not so much things.
So here's the next thing I want to talk about.
Parents, you already, we talked about to you.
Don't show up the stuff on the thing.
I just want to first ask the question.
You can put it there so I can see it, but not for them to see it.
So right now, following leading cause of death for people ages 1 to 44, okay, they call this the youth, younger, ages one to 44.
Cancer, heart disease, homicide, motor vehicles, suicide, and drug overdose.
Historically, in 1980, up until 2000, drug overdose was last by a mile.
This data just came out by the CDC.
I want you to take a look at this.
Can you put this up?
Take a look at this here, guys, on what's happened.
Okay.
Look at HIV in 86.
It goes up, boom, flatline.
It's pretty much gone.
They're not even tracking the stats anymore like they did before.
Heart disease going slightly lower.
You got cancer is around.
Homicide is there.
Accidents is gone lower.
Look at these poisoning drug overdoses and the number.
50,000 and climbing.
50,000 and climbing.
Okay.
So when you see this, what do you think about Tom?
My mind goes to a couple different places.
Where do you go when you see a stat like this as a parent?
This scares the hell out of me.
And there is a story behind the story here that fentanyl is being intentionally shipped to this country in illegal drugs, and the nation's children are getting a hold of it.
And they're just, they're, you know, they're dropping a tab, partying, and it turns out that it's laced.
And that's what's going on here.
And it's horrifying.
And I don't think anybody wants to talk about it.
When I see like this, it just underlines just why I have been so proactive so early with my kids because of the internet and everything that's happened.
So much earlier in life, getting a hold of my girls before my parents got a hold of me because of what's out there and realizing it only takes one.
Man, we used to talk in the late 80s.
You look at HIV there.
And so I graduated high school, early 80s.
And so back then, take a look at the HIV line.
My parents used to say, you got to be careful.
It only takes one time and you can get HIV.
It only takes one time.
You get HIV.
And it was considered the death sentence back then before AZT, Proteus inhibitors, and all the things that build the cocktails so that people can live like Magic Johnson many, many, many decades.
This, it only takes one and you're out.
And it just scares the hell out of me.
And Pat, I actually lost, my mom knows this.
I lost two friends about a year ago.
My friend Fuquan and my boy Rico.
They were just hanging out.
They trusted this girl.
They were just at a house, you know, LA.
They're chilling.
One of them had his girlfriend with him.
Apparently, they all did just one little bit of cocaine.
All three dead.
The other girl OD, but she survived.
And this is, I think we talked about last podcast, Pat.
This is, and you said, Kassam, yeah, some of it's coming over the border.
But one of the main ones that fentanyl is coming in here is from China.
Okay.
So China's winning, bro.
I mean, we owe them all this money.
They're making, not the money that they owe us, but we owe them.
They're making money on the fentanyl, and they're killing Americans.
So it's a win-win for them.
And no, but that's not a big deal to people like you.
Adam, you spend your great uncle.
You spend a lot of time with your, not a great uncle, meaning he's got, you know, great uncle.
Very good.
Yeah, not an old uncle, great uncle.
And you have a nephew.
What do you think about this story?
Well, I think there's, I too have lost some friends in Miami that have overdosed.
Rob, can you pull up that graph?
I think there's a few things going on right here.
You could see that it really, boom, takes off around 2010, right?
which was right around the time when social media started blowing up.
So, you know, what's the term when you...
Can you put up the chart for the audience, Jorge?
Or Eric, go ahead.
What's the term when you, the fear of missing out, FOMO?
I think social media has been a major factor of this.
If you can just, you know, what do they say?
Like the most dangerous people in the world right now are lonely, sexless men sitting in their basement, so to speak.
And if you are just home on your phone and everyone out there is living their best life and you're just by yourself and you're a 16-year-old kid, 22-year-old kid, 24-year-old guy, whatever it is, and everyone's having a great time and you're home alone and you're doing some sort of drug by yourself.
I think social media has led to that.
And then I think what is even worse, as you can see, was trending upward.
And then since COVID, it has just skyrocketed.
And that's sad because what you don't hear people saying is get the hell out of your house, exercise, go hang out with friends, be a human, get out there, like thank you.
And you don't hear people talking about that.
You hear people saying, you know, take the pill, take the jab, get, you know, get surgery, quick fixes.
No, like, you know, one of the things that I give you major credit for, Lincoln on Leadership, is no, we're not all fucking working remote.
We're going to be around each other and we're going to be amongst each other.
We're going to create a culture.
We're going to have teamwork.
We're going to hold each other accountable.
And I think for young people out there, there's just this, you know, lack of friendship and a lack of togetherness.
And even if it's in school, that's fine.
But then you go home, you go on your iPad, and you're alone.
And you don't know what kind of thoughts are going through people's heads when they're home alone in front of a screen.
And I think it's incumbent on parents.
I think it's incumbent on teachers.
I think it's incumbent on friends.
I think it's incumbent on family to just check in on people that you think may have a problem and even kids that you don't have a problem.
And I think this is an American issue that we need to tackle.
I think that's a great point.
And Pat, I want to make one quick point, not to cut you off.
I like that they're using poisoning because I don't think your friends, Adam, like mine, they didn't OD.
They didn't sit there and shoot up.
My friends were poisoned because this girl got whatever.
They got the drugs from whoever.
That shit was poison because they weren't sitting there.
They did one bump of cocaine and they were all dead because fentanyl, the amount that fits on the top of this, can kill your ass.
So I don't think it's all you're saying.
You bring up a really good point.
I would like to know, because I've lost friends from overdoses, right?
We know that they had problems.
They were partying.
And we all, I mean, show of hands if you know somebody that has passed away from some sort of overdose.
This is an American problem that we're all dealing with.
So the poisoning, I think, is one small percentage of it.
I'd like to know the stats on that.
I don't know too many people that are like, I don't do any drugs.
Boom, I died.
I think a lot of it is like this collective drip, Boom.
Now you've just overdosed.
So it's a sad situation that we need to tackle.
What you bring up about social media, I think, is really important.
The irony of the election of Donald Trump happened at a time.
Remember when we were talking about Facebook?
We were worried about the addiction of kids.
And then as soon as the election happened, we were worried about Facebook, about Russian interference and everything like that.
There was a dialogue that was going on in the United States about how kids were being hyper-addicted to social media and how there were whistleblowers inside Facebook that said, you know, we've kind of programmed it this way to keep you in, to keep you chasing likes.
That your self-worth was connected to your social measurement measured by how many people like you.
You had to be crazier, more outrageous.
The makeup, whatever you were doing had to be more, more, and more to get the likes.
And that kind of stopped and went to the side.
And then we had hearings on, okay, you social media guys, how do we get the orange man elected?
What happened here?
And it moved to that.
And, you know, I went to a movie recently and both my wife and I, anybody see the Dove Soap commercial in the movie where the lady's talking to her daughter and they're talking about the risk of social media and everything like that?
I think this dialogue has to be considered because I could call that the Zuckerberg line.
Because why are you taking the drugs?
Why are you dropping these tabs?
What is so necessary about partying and doing it?
You're getting poisoned by the drug you're taking, but why is it that you're turning to do that?
And I happen to think social media is a big part of it.
So Social Dilemma is a documentary that, how many guys watch the documentary?
Social Dilemma got a lot of people think and talk and all this stuff.
But you know, I will tell you this.
Yesterday, we're doing an elite mastermind.
And one of my favorite guys, you guys know who he is, he's asking questions saying, you know, I'm afraid this happened to me.
I'm afraid of making this decision.
What if this goes wrong?
What if at 70 I work hard?
I build my company, but nothing happens.
And this, this, this, this, that.
I said, why is it for the last three years, every time I talk to you, you always come from a place of fear?
And he says, I don't know.
I said, do you believe in God?
He says, eh.
He says, I'm in, you know, I'm in this country where it's the number one country in the world for atheists.
I said, okay.
I said, do you go to church?
He says, I don't go to church.
I said, what do you think about faith?
He says, nah, not really.
I'm not big on it.
So I said, I'm going to recommend a book to you.
I don't know if you're going to read it or not, but I highly recommend you read it.
I said, let me tell you what I noticed that I want you to be thinking about.
He says, because when I watch you, I watch how hard you work and how many things you're doing.
But how come you don't seem stressed out and you're just kind of enjoying the process?
You got a wife, you got four kids, you're running these businesses, all this other stuff.
How come you don't seem like you're overwhelmed?
Like you're just kind of going with the flow?
I said, dude, it's only because I truly believe someone's got my back.
And by the way, I'm not here.
You will rarely ever hear me talk about my faith.
But I think there's a few different things.
Peer pressure is a good thing if it's the right peers.
Peer pressure is a bad thing if it's the right wrong peers.
We need better peer pressure.
The right peer pressure forces you to make better decisions because you don't want to let down to people in your community.
There was a form of a peer pressure this morning when we were having a meeting back there.
Between us, but you know exactly what I'm talking about.
Peer pressure is a good thing.
I think people need to start spending more time in churches.
I think whatever you practice, go do it.
This goes back to the clip we talked about with Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson the other day about the fact that, how many guys have seen the whole Robert Downey Jr. Mel Gibson, where he says the reason why I brought Mel Gibson here is because years ago when I had nothing going on and I was an alcoholic, Mel came up to me and, well, I couldn't pay the bills, I couldn't pay rent, I couldn't, we can't play this because the music I couldn't do this, I couldn't do that.
He gave me a job, and that job put a roof over my head.
And I asked him, I said, how can I ever pay you back?
Because, you know, Robert Downey Jr. is not blown up.
He says, he told me, go find your faith.
He says, Mel never told me which faith.
He just said, go find your faith, whatever that faith may be.
And it starts with responsibility.
Robert Downey Jr. is happily married, quiet, low-key.
You don't see him at the clubs, any of that stuff.
And to me, one of my favorite-I don't know if you guys like this guy.
I love Robert Downey Jr.'s acting, how he is, his story, underdog redemption, any of that stuff.
And he says, Later on, when you go through this, pass this down to somebody else.
So a lot of these drugs that you're seeing, we can blame social media, we can blame all of that stuff.
People are uncomfortable talking about taking people to go to church, going to a faith-based environment, and having the right people around you.
The better the peers you have around you, better community you're a part of, you're going to perform better.
When I was around other guys, and at one point I was a bodyguard, most people don't know this story.
If you really know this story, you really follow our contents.
I've only told the story one other time.
I was a bodyguard for a Colombian guy.
And he didn't sell baseball cards.
You know what I'm saying?
So one day we go out and I'm hanging out with these guys.
First of all, we're having a time of our lives, just saying, because Colombians, they know how to party.
But this Colombian guy was a very well-known Colombian guy in LA.
You don't need to know who he is, but he was a very well-known Colombian guy.
And I was a very well-known, you know, tough guy.
Tough guy.
Not a tough guy, but I would say I was a very well-known guy that I could handle myself in pressure-type situations, however way you want to define that, right?
So we meet, we go out.
All of a sudden, I'm on a yacht in Marino Del Rey, and there's a mountain of this white mountain, if you want to call whatever you want to call this white mountain.
And he says, We have to, this guy owes us $100,000.
I'm like, so that's why I'm here?
Yeah.
Great.
Okay, fantastic.
So obviously, we collect $100,000.
But here's the point.
While this whole thing is over with, I go back in the car and I know what I did that night, like with the people we're hanging out with.
I'm like, dude, this is the wrong crowd to be around.
Do you know if I stay in that community for two more weeks, three more weeks?
The guy goes to jail, by the way.
If I'm there for three more months, no value payment, I don't have my four kids.
I will never meet Patrick.
I will never meet Dylan.
I will never meet Senna.
I will never meet Brooklyn.
I will never meet this wonderful people in my life.
I will never meet Mario.
I would never meet Tom.
I would never.
You're one stupid decision away if you have the wrong pressure peers around you.
You get in the right environment where they're pressuring you to improve your marriage, pressuring you to be a better father, pressuring you to be a better friend, pressuring you to be a better person financially.
Then one day you wake up and you're like, okay, great.
This is fantastic.
We've done okay.
We're going to make mistakes.
You're going to screw up.
This doesn't mean just because you have faith, you're going to walk on water.
But I think we need more of that today.
That's all I'm talking about.
I just want to say something.
I just want to add one thing to what Pat says.
You know, you talked about this concept of peer pressure and whether you have good peers in your life or bad peer pressure.
Peer pressure can be a good thing if it leads you to the right thing.
I think you said the other day with this whole concept of like your network is your net worth.
And then, you know, if you add up the five people that are closest around you, you're the sum of those five people.
And then Pat goes, yeah, yeah.
But is it really five?
Or is it really one person that is sort of the biggest influence over you?
And I think we all know that it's not just five people, it's one person in your ear whose counsel you listen to the most, whether it's a business partner, whether it's a wife, whether it's a parent, whether it's a friend, whatever it may be.
And I think, you know, you're absolutely right with that.
And last point, I think we are so hungry in this country for leadership.
And I think that's kind of what you're talking about: is that whether it's a voice in your ear or whether it's the president of the United States or whether it's a friend, we all want some leaders to step up and put us in the right direction.
And this is what I think is so amazing about you.
And I know you're not big on like, you know, grandstanding, but we wouldn't be where we are without your leadership.
So it's not so much the five people that we're closest to.
Like we all look at you as the leader.
And to have someone the captain of the ship, so to speak, is so big to have in your life.
And if it's you, that it's the person that people look at in your life, just understand people are looking at you as the leader.
But if it's somebody that is the leader in your life, just keep them close, even if you screw up from time to time.
Right.
One great thing about Adam is never screws up.
There's one thing that never screws up.
Let's go to this next story because we're on this here.
By the way, this next story to me also has to do with the drug stuff because I think working from home is not a good business model because you're asking people to be alone by themselves.
We need to be around people.
Here's a story.
I know some of you guys don't agree with that.
I'm just telling you how I feel about it.
Amazon employees express dismay and anger about sudden return to office policy.
And Tom's got some stuff on this, especially what Bernie Sanders said recently.
But let me read this article and then Tom, I'm coming straight to you.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy will replace Jeff Bezos.
Announcements of a mandatory return to office policy for at least three days a week beginning May 1st has sparked opposition amongst Amazon employees.
God forbid you come to the office three days a week.
Group of tech workers have created a Slack channel and a petition against the mandate and about 5,000 employees have signed a petition so far.
A group of employees also spammed an internal website with messages conveying their opposition to the new policy.
Many expressed frustration that they'd have to find arrangements for child care, caregivers, for aging parents or potentially move to be within commuting distance to the office.
Additionally, the petition presents a number of data points and studies highlighting the benefits of remote work, such as improved productivity and the ability to attract and retain top talent.
Tom, what are your thoughts on this wonderful article?
Well, this article comes on the heels of Disney.
Everybody see Disney also got a petition about four days ago.
2,300 people, a couple of people nodding here.
So 2,300 people petitioned Disney because Robert Iger said two things.
Hey, we're a creative organization.
It's good when creative people are together, number one.
And number two, the rest of you that are not in creative jobs here at Disney, it's good to be collaborating with each other.
That's where we get mentorship.
That's how you get noticed to be promoted.
And so I'd like you to be in the office four days a week, four days a week.
That's all that Robert Iger asked at Disney.
2,300 people flipped out the same thing.
Oh, it's going to create hardships, hardships, hardships.
Then Disney comes out 72 hours later, doing an earnings report and says, Yeah, and we got to let you know the expenses are still a little high, so we probably have to lay off about 5,000 people.
If I was one of the 2,300 people that just signed a petition and then you hear him go, yo, oh crap, I'm in.
Now what?
The same thing is happening here.
And I think the employees aren't understanding.
They're being given opportunities to be recognized, get a raise.
Who doesn't want a raise unless you think you're entitled to it?
And by showing up, you get it.
How many business owners or business managers are here?
Look at this.
Look at this.
How do you recognize people?
How do you help people lift up?
How do you notice those little things, those little intangibles, somebody who's an encouraging force in the office?
And so now you have 5,000 people are signing this petition, and Amazon, oh, wait, they did a big layoff too.
In the middle of Amazon trying to find some costs and efficiencies, it's just amazing.
And also, I like the note here: move within commuting distance of the office.
Something funny, go look it up.
It happened with Yelp today.
Yelp discovered that people that were working from home actually had moved like to Texas or Florida or some way and were no longer near the office and hadn't told Yelp.
So when they say, okay, you have to be in the office for three days, they're like, oh, crap.
So this thing about moved within commuting distance of the office, you had a lot of people thinking, hey, guess what?
I can go ski and I can live in Mammoth, California, and I'll don't have to come to the office.
So when this comes back, there's a flip side to this employee flip out where some of them, and maybe it's for good reasons, have moved out of areas.
There it is.
Yelp's remote work reveals how a pandemic reshaped local economies and the way we work.
Yeah, local economies no longer had certain Yelp workers, but they had a Yelp office.
And now you have to go back to the office and they're like, whoops, I don't live here anymore.
And it's like, what are you talking about?
Adam, what do you think about this?
So I think this is part of a larger conversation of this concept of a work-life balance.
So there's no secret that Gen Z and even millennials are advocating wholeheartedly, like, dude, let me just live my best life a little bit more, right?
And I think there is some justification to some of these four-day work weeks.
Some countries have implemented that.
They've started to see some productivity go up during four days.
I mean, how much time is spent in the office just BSing, you know, networking, talking?
I mean, that's part of office culture.
I get it.
But what I thought is ironic here, he's requesting employees come back three days a week.
As the CEO, it's like you're now mandatory need to be in the office four days a week or five days a week, whatever it is.
But I think as a, raise your hand again if you're a business owner.
So, and raise your hand if you're just.
By the way, if the audience can't see it, can you get to turn the camera on to folks who look what percentage are business owners?
Raise your hands again if you're a business owner.
Look at this.
Wow.
Wow.
Did you say that's 90%?
80%?
80%.
Yeah.
So I think.
God bless the job creators, baby.
Yeah, respect.
I think, you know, at the end of the day, if I don't know who these people are at Amazon, but let's just say that they're $40,000, $50,000 a year employees.
They don't own the company.
They haven't taken the risk as an entrepreneur granted.
We can go down that path.
But, you know, that regular employee, they also want to have a life.
They want to have some vested interests in their life.
They don't want to just work to live, right?
They want to live to work.
And a lot of people say, well, like a job, J-O-B, stands for just overbroke.
So if you are not incentivizing your employees to say, no, this is part of an overall life plan that we can help you with so you can save money and really live.
What do you think about what Adam is saying?
What do you think about what Adam is saying?
I'm asking you, what do you think?
Tell me, tell me, what are your thoughts on what Adam said?
I actually want to cure.
By the way, what do you do real quick?
What business are you in?
So I'm a general contractor.
Okay.
As well as I own and operate properties.
Okay.
So what do you think?
So general contractor own and operate properties, right?
Okay, so what do you think about what Adam said about the fact that they need to have some work-life balance?
What do you think about that?
Businesses don't run that way.
And the thing is that, you know, you have to calculate, like if you are looking at an overall P ⁇ L, both on your debt, on your staffing, payroll costs, your utilities and overall expenses, if you were to break it down, you would go broke instantaneously to try to help create in that perspective.
Now, there is incentive to help grow.
And the thing is that it is my job to see whether all you do is housekeeping or you do just lobby.
But the thing is that when you see potential, you help that growth move forward.
Because I've created, with me and my family, we've created about five to seven people.
One works for corporate choice hotels.
One became a house builder, a premium house builder.
Another one joined a major company and she's doing fantastic with their life.
But it requires time from the ownership.
But at the same time, you can't put everybody in the same box.
And so if you were to put everybody into the same box, you would never get this thing moving forward.
And that's where your costs won't back.
It won't pencil out.
You will go under if you're trying to make a specific move just to help everybody because it doesn't work that way.
Because my family didn't have anything either when they first began.
By the way, it sounds like a very reasonable, make some noise for a great response here.
What's your name?
What's your say it again?
Kush Nathu.
Kush Kush.
Last name?
Nathu.
Nathu.
You know what I think about Kush who I think about?
You know what?
I think about Jerry Maguire.
How many of you think about Jerry Maguire?
Kush Kush.
The prospect.
But going back to what you're saying, so here's kind of how this thing works out.
When you're saying, you know, the employees also need a work-life balance, all this other stuff.
Fine, no problem.
I totally understand it.
You know, when it comes down to running a business, the goal is to stay in business.
He just talked about that.
A lot of times people are making the decision the way you're thinking, where let's try to please everybody.
But then if the company goes out of business, you just cost a few hundred thousand people jobs or thousands of people a job.
Bed Bath and Beyond going out of business to please a few employees.
They just shut down 436 something stores.
Who did that hurt?
So let's sit there and try to please everybody that, you know, want a little bit of work-life balance.
Guess what?
You want work-life balance?
Go be a laptop entrepreneur.
Figure out a way to make $50,000 and live in Thailand if that's what you want to do.
But if you want to run a company, shout out goes to the people that are creating jobs.
The job creators in America lower taxes.
Let me explain to you this.
There is nobody that lowers taxes in America more than job creators.
If a person is employed, that company is minimizing your taxes because you don't have to pay unemployment taxes.
You don't have to pay entitlement programs.
That company is taking the responsibility of doing that.
The more of these companies that are doing that, you and I are able to pay lower and lower taxes.
Shout out to them.
Now, I'm going to give you the other part as well.
50 Cent, we talked about this on Tuesday where he said too many people, the concept of being depressed, it's a luxury to be depressed.
Okay?
It's a luxury to be depressed.
For me, some of the most miserable, bitter people I've admitted of my life have way too much time on their hands.
Some of the most miserable, bitter people who do stupid shit have way too much time on their hands.
You know what I did when I had a lot of time on my hands?
My hair was orange.
Because I was bored.
So I'm kind of like, you know what?
I'm going to try this peroxide shit.
Who's done the peroxide thing before?
Who knows when I'm looking at you guys?
I'm not alone.
I'm like, let me see.
Let's go to the beach.
Hey, my hair is orange now.
Damn, that's pretty sick.
I don't have a job.
Okay, so no, we have a little too much time on our hands where people need to kind of get back to work and have a bigger purpose.
Life without a purpose is when you start doing stupid things, drugs, alcohol, dumb stuff, coloring your hair, all these other crazy activities that come in.
The more active you are, the more you're in the hunt for something big for you, for your family, for your kids, whatever it may be.
You're going to be a better productive citizen for all of us.
And the communities become safer if we do that.
I don't want to.
Give them a round.
Come on, guys.
I mean, not, but with that being said, not to put a damper on everything, but Dodger in the field report in Ohio.
He's dead.
And it just threw him in the river.
So he's dead now.
The water in Ohio.
Let me just give a quick response.
By the way, shout out to you, great dresser.
I mean, respect to you.
But you hit the nail on the head is that how many more entrepreneurs, business owners are there versus actual employees?
90, 10, let's say.
So I think what's important for you to do is those people with jobs, they need to understand that they are a part of a company that is doing something and is incumbent on you.
That's part I agree with.
Yeah, it is incumbent on you to validate their purpose.
Yes.
Because look, you're not talking to somebody that's some $50,000 employee.
I have a company like it is so true.
Like, I'm not that dude that you think I am.
Like, I'm just some employee guy.
So, but what I do is I talk to a lot of employees.
And what I've noticed is there's like, yeah, it's just a job.
And I'm like, what do you mean?
We're building something here, bro.
Like, this is what we're doing.
And they're like, no, just a job for me.
And there's a disconnect between the entrepreneur who's building something and has a vision and wants to do something and is putting in and sleeping, you know, four hours a night and is doing something versus the guy that's just, hey, this is just a job.
And if you can make that person feel important and make that person feel like he has a purpose and he's part of something that's actually building something, that's where you'll get someone to buy in.
And whether it's three days a week or five days a week, he's part of the vision.
You make a very good point.
Very, very important point.
Let me tell you what happened.
Remember how the whole thing, where it's some people shouldn't become fathers because you're not like, you need to just take your time before you become a father because you're not willing to do the job.
It takes two minutes to become a dad.
It takes years to become a father, that whole thing.
Amen.
Certain people are not meant to become employers.
So where's Leo at?
If Leo's in here or not, Leo, do you remember when we were in that one house in Bay Colony and one of the guy was talking about, well, two years ago, I made $10 million in profit.
Life was good.
I'm doing this.
I'm doing that.
But I'm having a hard time keeping employees.
You know, why do you think I'm having a hard time keeping employees?
I said, interesting.
I said, tell me your schedule.
How often are you at the office?
Are you working 60?
I said, when you made 10 million, how much were you working?
60 hours a week.
I said, how did you work last year?
Now, last year, I'm more like 10 to 20 hours a week.
I said, so the employee is sitting there asking themselves, why the hell am I working for you?
Exactly.
If the leader at the top is not driving the company, what the hell am I doing?
Because if you're growing, hey, I'll ride that train.
But if you're not, what am I doing with you?
I'm going to go and work for somebody else.
So I fully agree with the point you're making as well.
Some employers need to go become more in a supporting role and be an employee if you don't want that kind of pressure.
If you're the employer, if you're the CEO founder, you got to work, drive the company, and sell the vision of where they're going so other people are willing to go out there and join you.
If not, go join somebody else's team.
Very good point you made there as well.
So we got a couple things here before we wrap up.
I got one last story we can do.
Okay.
We can do one of the five and you pick and choose which one based on the noise you milk.
We'll pick one of them.
One of them is a masks story by New York Times.
Let me give you the list and you pick and choose.
The other one is Putin's speech about the family nucleus.
Anybody saw Putin's speech about family nucleus?
If you haven't seen it, I retweeted it yesterday, and you should go read the commentary.
It's awesome.
They were all very friendly towards me.
It was incredible.
You shouldn't read what people had to say.
Everybody else, you can go enjoy it.
We can talk World War III, or we can talk office landlord defaults or escalating as lenders brace more for distress.
Pick one of those four stories or chat GBT that asks the question, which one of these people's social score is the highest in America and to the world.
Which of those five you want to talk about?
You pick and choose the audience.
Really?
Okay, let's get to Putin's speech.
We've got a bunch of Russians in the house.
Here we go.
Zrasvitz.
Right?
Okay.
So Putin gives a speech, and, you know, he's talking to the, I mean, you'll see when he's going through it, but he gives a speech about the family nucleus and how America is making a big mistake right now and what's causing a fall.
And then we'll get some reaction here from everybody.
Go ahead and play the clip if you can.
Kate.
Oh, you can't read it, right?
If you guys can't read it, I gotta almost...
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
Go back, go back, turn off the audio.
I'll read it on what he's saying.
So go back and turn off the audio and put it on 1.5 speed.
I'll read it at a fast pace.
If you want to press play, I have one request.
What's that?
Please read it in a Russian accent.
We're not doing that.
I already have an accent, let alone a Russian accent.
Press play.
And here they lie constantly.
Perverts, historical facts do not stop attacks on our culture.
The Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional religious organizations of our country see what they do with their own peoples, the destruction of the family, cultural, and national identity.
Super slow talker.
Perversion, mockery of children, and pedophilia are declared the norm.
He's talking about America.
Pedophilia is the norm, the norm of their life.
And priests are forced to bless same-sex marriages.
Interesting.
God with them, let them do what they want to do.
What do I want to say here?
Adults have the right to live as they want.
We have always thought like this in Russia, and we always will.
No one will invade private life.
We are not going to do this.
So far sounds reasonable, but I want to tell them, look at the holy scriptures, the main books of all other religious world religions.
Everything is said there.
Including that the family is the union of a man and a woman.
So they're clapping right now.
I love that.
Great hat.
Great hat.
But these sacred texts are now in doubt.
As it became known, the Anglican church, for example, plans to consider the idea of gender-neutral God.
Oh my God.
What can we say?
Forgive us, Lord.
They do not know what they do.
Wow.
Everybody clap, clap.
Millions of people in the West understand that they are leading to a real spiritual disaster.
The elites directly, I must say, go crazy, and it seems that they can no longer be treated.
But these are their problems, as I said.
And we must protect our children.
And we will do this, protect our children from degradation and degeneration.
And the speech is over with.
So, what are your thoughts about that speech that he gives?
Okay?
What do you think about it?
Okay.
So now, Tom, Adam, I'll go to you first.
You hear a speech like that he's given, Putin.
The commentary is 50-50.
I just want to prepare you.
The commentary is 50-50.
What do you think when you hear him give a speech like that about America?
I think if any leader made a speech like that, we would all kind of be like, Yeah, like, let's return to normal and let's just respect religion and probably we're not going to invade your private lives.
I think when a thug like Putin gives that speech, you automatically are like, okay, if you disagree, you'll die.
So, again, a lot of what he said makes sense.
And by the way, show of hands if you're like a fan of Putin in this room.
Okay, so it's not like we have a, okay, we have a couple.
And just why are you a fan of Putin?
A fan?
I dislike Putin.
You like Putin.
I get what a fan is, but why are you a fan?
You like Russian history?
Okay.
You like the Russian history.
And are you a capitalist yourself?
Are you pro-America or no?
I named my boy Oba Pop.
You named your boy after Stalin, your son.
Can we get the KGB in here to take this guy out of here?
Where's the key?
By the way, Mono, you're being serious or you're trolling right now.
Straight up.
You know what I love about this?
Here's what I love.
How long have you been following our content?
2015.
2015, 2016, you've been following the content.
Okay, so why do you like Putin?
Just what I read about history.
Like Russia?
Yeah, so I read about all of his, like Russia, like Lenin, Stalin.
Very good.
What are your thoughts on Lenin and Stalin?
Fan?
Well, I read their books.
Yeah, I read all of them.
So you're a fan?
I'm not a fan.
I read all history.
I like history.
I like America history.
I've read Mein Kampf about Adolf Hitler, but I'm not a fan.
Yeah, I read Mein Kampf too.
Nice.
Are you a fan?
No, I'm not a fan.
I read a book.
Got it.
All right.
But you're a fan of Putin.
I like Russian, German history, every history, really.
History.
History.
Okay.
How do you view Putin as an individual?
Like, how he's doing as a leader of his country, and then who he is to us, America?
Is he a pro-West?
Is he a fan of what we're doing?
Or is he an enemy to state number one?
Well, if we had to go to war with them, I would.
Like, if it was between us and them.
I'll put it that way.
Meaning what?
You would.
Yeah, I would say I have to fight him.
Okay, interesting.
Where were you going with that, Adam?
What was your point?
Well, I just wanted to get to read the room because there seems to be this like fascination with Putin, and you can have respect for somebody and even what they stand for, but at the same time, understand that he's a bad dude.
He wants to bring down America.
He wants to bring down the West.
He's not on Team America whatsoever.
And I think part of our country right now is that whether you're on Team Red or Team Blue, just remember, you should be on Team Red, White, and Blue.
And I think that's just something that, you know, who'd we have on the other day?
Was it Jimmy Doer that was talking about what Tucker Carlson is saying about Putin?
I don't remember if it was him or not, but Tom, what do you think about this?
So I believe that that is a political speech, and he was preaching to the choir that was there.
That was his military-industrial front line there in the first two rows.
Mednadev, you can see him sitting right there.
And so number one, I think he's trolling us a little bit.
But number one, I think he's trolling us with the reflective truth of one side, because I think he's trying to divide.
But I'll have to tell you, if I close my eyes and didn't know who was speaking and I heard that, there's a lot of truth in it.
And there's a lot of stuff in that that I'm like, yeah, that's correct.
Yeah, that's true.
This is what we are doing to a generation of children.
So I see that part of it, but then I say, okay, why is this guy saying it and saying it now and saying it this way?
I think he's trolling and trying to create political division among us.
I agree.
And it's like, right, that's like you said, he's rallying the troops back because with everything that's happening right now, he's just reaffirming to all of them where he stands and where they are as a nation.
That's it.
That's it.
Okay.
And I think he believes.
And I think there's parts of it that he absolutely believes, but I think he's trolling.
So let me ask you, what is the likelihood in the next 20 years that a president from the right or the left or the middle tells that speech in his own or her own way?
Would it be more from the left, the right, or the middle?
Oh, it's coming from the right.
Oh, yeah.
A speech like that would come from the right.
Here in the U.S., you mean?
Here in the U.S. U.S. leader.
Yep.
So maybe, so what is the right turned on by that speech?
Like, what did he say?
Did he say low taxes?
Did he say pro-military?
What did he talk about?
He talked pro-marriage.
He talked family values.
He talked God.
He talked leave our kids alone.
And parents resonate with that story.
It would be great if an American president gave a message like that to protect parents to say, leave our kids the hell alone.
That's it.
And by the way, I'm willing to tell you, I'm willing to tell you, if that presidential candidate is left, right, or center, we would all applaud for that person.
It doesn't matter.
But somehow, some way, a basic message like that doesn't come from the left, period.
And what's going to happen is you're going to piss off moms who are sitting there saying, dude, listen, man, you can do whatever you want to me.
Go for it.
You cross the line when you mess with my baby.
You're going to see a different side of me.
You ever seen, like, my wife, if you ever talked to her, I didn't think she was naturally like this nice all the time.
She's like this all the time, by the way.
I thought it was like an act.
Like, I'm like, you can't be like this all the time.
There's got to be an act.
So, you know, when you date, you get into some fights and you're like, you see a different side.
I've seen some sides.
I'm like, okay, cool.
There you go.
So, you know, the breaking point?
You do something to any of her kids.
Jen goes from straight up playing with her hair like this.
Look what she's doing right now, playing with her hair.
She goes from that to straight up.
Mara Sava Trucha, like gangster coming out.
You know, a whole different person shows up.
She's ready to, you know, throw down.
But that's what's happening to moms.
Moms are resonating with a message like this.
If a strategist is there seeing a video like this I tweeted, I don't know how many millions of views it got just listed.
It got like 40, 30,000 likes, 7,000 retweets.
Hey, candidates, this is an important message for American people.
You may want to consider realizing how important this is to people.
Yeah, the message will not, will fall upon deaf ears because it is Putin giving this speech and everyone's like, okay, buddy, keep it moving.
But let's just go back three to six months.
There was the newly elected Italian prime minister.
What's her name again?
Georgia Maloney?
Maloney.
She gave a very similar speech.
And it went worldwide.
And I think that's what I think you're, I mean, that's kind of what Jen was going.
Parents are just saying, dude, leave us alone.
Let us raise our kids.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
When it comes from Putin, I don't know about all that, though.
Okay, over-under, Adam has a kid within two years.
Yes or no?
How many guys say he's going to have a kid within two years?
Raise your hand.
How many guys say there's no way in the world he's having a kid within two years?
Okay, ADC.
All right, we're going to see what's going to be about.
There's a certain girl that would probably have a say in this.
That girl, Emily, is your girl from CNN, CNN.
Emily.
Call.
Call SAS, Emily.
We're waiting for you.
Where are you?
Anyways, hey, appreciate you guys for coming out.
Live audience.
If you're watching this, we got, I'm going to do a podcast tomorrow.
Hang tight with the interview in case it does take place.
We'll let you know if we're going live with it.
Eric, do we have that clip to show them what are the next live ones going to be here?
Do we have that thumbnail to show?
I think it's in April.
It's going to be the first week of April or so, first or second week of April.
We'll be doing a next live.
If you weren't here, you missed it.
We can't wait for you guys to come in.
The problem was the moment we announced, within a couple hours, it sold out.
So we got a lot of complaints.
Well, how about this?
How about that?
If you want to be on the list next time, we're no longer announcing it publicly.
We just put it in a text and it sells out.
Text Award Podcast to 310-340-1132.
Once again, text award podcast 310-340-1132 to find out the next time we do a live like this.
With that being said, we will dismiss the audience out there, but we're going to spend a little bit more time with the folks here.
Take care, everybody.
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye.
Thank you.
This was awesome.
So, let's do a let's do a oh, I gotta get The community I respect a lot is the uh um the the big bladder community.
