Fox News Pays Almost $800M To Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit | PBD Podcast | Ep. 260
PBD Podcast Episode 260. In this episode, Patrick Bet-David is joined by Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana and Adam Sosnick. Skip the waitlist and invest in blue-chip art for the very first time by signing up for Masterworks: https://masterworks.art/pbdpodcast Purchase shares in great masterpieces from artists like Pablo Picasso, Banksy, Andy Warhol, and more. See important Masterworks disclosures: masterworks.com/cd
0:00 -Start
5:59 - Americans Are Getting $20B Less In Tax Refunds This Year
20:21 - Major U.S. Companies Are Making Cuts In 2023
37:22 - New York Ranked Wealthiest City On The Planet
42:30 - Why People Are Moving To Florida
52:02 - Can Joe Rogan and Elon Musk Change an Election
1.04.28 - Fox News Pays Almost $800M To Settle Dominion Defamation Lawsuit
1.29,05 - Border Crossing Surge 23% In a Month!
1.36.43 - Red States Have the Best Economies
1.45.18 - Megyn Kelly BLASTS The Trans Community
1.51.29 - Piers Morgan Destroys Katie Porter in Lia Thomas-Riley Gaines debate
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All right, here we go.
Episode 260, Home Team.
We haven't done one for a minute.
Tom, you've been out of town.
We've had a bunch of different things going on, but we're together here with the BizDoc.
Thanks for having me back.
Vinny O'Shana, Sauce, Rob, Malik.
We got everybody in the house today.
It's just a special one that we got.
We've got a lot of stories to go through.
One thing I know for a fact, everybody in the East Coast today who has an iPhone woke up at 4.45 a.m.
I know that.
I don't know if you guys had an Amber Alert or not.
Did that happen to you as well?
It was a test.
4.45.
I go on Twitter to think if it's like a thing on my phone.
It's like, no, everybody, did you just get an Amber Alert at 4.45?
Can you imagine a test you do?
Like, there's a time for tests.
Exactly.
I woke up, look at my phone here, and it says, this is a test, the emergency broad chasing system.
I'm like, I'm in favor of that.
But then I put my glasses on and said broadcasting.
It's pretty good at broadcasting.
Bill, don't.
The bigger question is, any of you guys sleep with your phone ringer on?
No, but I'm saying, like, still breakfast.
Go to bed.
Turn it off.
Do not disturb everything.
Okay.
I sleep with Do Not Disturb.
It's Amber Alert Still Ghost.
That's crack.
Oh, yeah.
My phone.
I don't care if there's a nuclear list.
I got four alarms in my house and two additional ones in the middle of the night when they want to lick themselves, these two dogs.
We got six alarms that wake us up, but at a seventh one yesterday with Amber Alert, which was exciting.
By the way, yesterday we went and we shut down a movie theater.
The whole value of Timmy team, 65 of us, we watched The Air.
What a freaking movie.
What a movie.
Amazing.
Yes or no?
I cried.
I got motivated.
It was amazing.
Maybe one of the best motivational scenes ever in a movie.
I think so.
When he's selling Michael and the Family on Going with Nike.
If you haven't seen this movie, if you run a business team, if you run a sales team, if you got an organization, if you're a leader of a pack, if you got kids that are competitive, go watch it with them.
Trust me, there's going to be a lot of value from this.
I've already watched it twice in four days.
And in two weeks, we're shutting down a theater in Dallas to watch it with 300 people to watch Air Again.
It's that epic of a movie.
The acting was phenomenal.
The lineup, the soundtrack, the music.
Oh, the best actor, though, by far, was the guy that played Michael Jordan.
The guy that played Michael Jordan.
Yeah, he had no lines.
He had no face.
He was a silhouette.
This epitome of entrepreneurial.
The guy that designed the shoe was by far the best actor.
He was hilarious.
He was by far the best actor.
Yeah, tip of the hat to Ben Afflack, because if you liked Argo, he took a real story, brought that to life, and he's done it again here.
And so I liked this outfit.
He reminded me of Adam, the way he wore running.
Can you go in?
Pink running out of America.
By the way, that is Phil Knight's persona, by the way.
That's Adam.
No, no, no.
The running outfit with the shorts.
He would wear purple leggings, bright purple shorts.
The pink one.
It was pink.
That's Adam.
That's Adam.
Looks like Adam comes in every one.
Just in South Africa.
Adam, just a way to spy roll.
That's a way.
That guy's worth $50 billion.
I'll take a cue from him.
Yeah, take it.
Not Ben.
The real guy is worth $50 billion.
You're right.
Okay, so what are they going to do?
What do they call him, by the way?
What do they call him?
Shoe Dog.
The shoe dog, right?
That's the book.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay, let's go through some stories.
We got a lot of stories today that we got to cover.
One, there's this thing about Dominion.
Fox had to pay $787 million.
We have to cover this today.
Whoopsie.
Next, less than half Americans are on track for comfortable retirement.
We may cover that.
Double public pessimism on the economy hits a new high.
Amazon is slashing another 9,000 more workers amid a layoff wave that has expanded past tech to include bellwethers like Dow and 3M.
Okay.
Musk says we need a normal person for president 2024.
If you know that person, let us know.
We're looking for him as well.
Trump posts on Instagram for the first time.
I don't know if you guys saw it or not.
There's a lot of why would that be the first post?
DeSantis try to buy her.
Now she's helping Trump to bury her.
Okay.
It's an interesting one.
Chris Christie, calling out everybody, tears into DeSantis and Trump as he eyes 2024.
Here are all the Republican candidates.
We'll cover that.
People are working in the office, spend 25% more time on their career development.
We got a bunch of different things.
Musk had something to say about Zuck.
Maybe we'll play that clip.
Florida is home of four out of the five largest metro areas with the lowest ready unemployment.
Okay.
New York's exodus of pro-business is not slowing down.
There's a Biden poll that just came out that's not good.
Joe Rogan just said, I would vote for Donald Trump.
He opposes Biden's cabinet running the world's most powerful country.
And we got AOC not happy with a couple of decisions the mayor made.
And then Megan Kelly lost her mind on Dylan Mulvaney.
You have to see this video.
It's something else.
Okay.
So Tom, let's go right into economy and some business stories.
Let's talk about public pessimism on the economy hits a new high.
This is a CNBC story, page four, if you want to go to it.
So the latest CNBC All-American economic survey revealed that 69% of Americans have negative views about the economy, both now and in the future, which is the highest percentage in the survey, 17-year history.
About two-thirds of Americans say their wages are falling behind inflation, and two-thirds say the nation is headed for a recession in already or an already one, already in one.
Joe Biden's handling of the economy has received a disapproval from 62% of Americans, a deterioration from 58%, 57% to 38% margin.
The last survey, which is the second worst reading of his presidency on the economy, his overall rating fell by two percentage points to 39, and his disapproval rating rose by a point to 55% compared to the November survey.
Biden lost support from several key groups, including Democrats and independents.
Tom, thoughts?
Well, there's a couple sides of the economy.
The market's doing well.
We'll talk about that a little bit later.
Oil is going to make a rebound.
We'll talk about that later.
But right now, we're talking about people.
And let's take it down to people.
I usually go macro and then Adam comes in and talks about consumer and people, but I'm going to talk about people.
What people are saying, individuals, is all of these layoffs and the long-term effect.
You mean 6% inflation doesn't sound big until it's been going on for 18 months and it's 6%, 6%, 6%.
It starts getting you.
The average Americans right now are saying that, wait, this is now really pinching me.
Layoffs have now touched somebody I know.
Layoffs have touched my nephew, my cousin.
You know what?
This economy is not helping me.
And all the spin that the White House was putting on it was keeping people aligned.
But now you even have Democrats and Independents saying to Biden, hey, wait a minute, man.
This isn't spin.
This isn't transitory.
And so things are shifting.
And so people are being impacted by layoffs.
Food prices, especially, have not retreated.
So gas price at the pump, you know, bounce around a lot.
Eggs don't do that.
They get there and they kind of stay there.
And the price of food products kinds of ends up staying there.
So the average American right now, PBD, is hurting.
And now they're voicing it.
And it's coming out in surveys that the administration and others cannot put the public spin on and say, oh, well, it's just transitory.
It's not that bad.
The average person is saying, wait a minute, I'm getting squeezed and I'm feeling it.
I'm feeling it worse.
I'm feeling it long term.
And now the real savings rate, I don't know if I can retire.
These are now high-level concerns.
It's not just it's tough right now.
It's like, do I have enough to retire and what's going on?
And by the way, my nephew has moved in with me and I can't get him off my couch.
Yeah.
I mean, sorry, Tom, do you think that's going to affect like voting when it comes down to the election?
Like, is that going to be one of the key things that they're going to talk about?
Whoever's going to be going against you?
This is not going away.
And to quote Bill Clinton, it's a comment.
You can't be stupid.
No, no, it's real.
I mean, when Bill did that, he was pointing something out amidst all of the Bush senior strategy that they missed.
And that went right to the heart of America.
And that same thing that Bill said is true right now and it's getting worse.
Great.
I think I always say this: there's things that matter and there's things you can't control.
I mean, it's the perfect juxtaposition just on this page.
If you're looking at it right now, public pessimism on the economy hits a new high.
Got it.
We just covered that story.
Larry Summers, former economist, Fed chair at one point, or he was Secretary of Treasury, Larry Summers, 70% chance of a recession.
Then you got BlackRock, Larry Fink, saying no big recession ahead for the economy.
Which one is it?
Do a coin flip?
I think we can all feel the writing on the wall that something is happening.
We understand something's happening, but what can you do about it?
This Monday was tax day, right?
Well, I think it got extended two days before.
I think it's Tuesday.
So Monday, you had to get in by midnight to post.
Exactly.
But it's tax season right now.
So when you do get your refund, two grand, five grand, 10 grand, maybe you don't go on vacation this summer.
Maybe you don't ball out at the mall this summer.
I don't know.
Maybe you understand, hey, let me save that money.
What is that?
Job loss?
No, it's 20 billion lessons.
20 billion less refunds.
Gotcha.
On your point.
Gotcha.
Thank you.
Yeah.
So during COVID, there was free money flying around.
You know, cash is trash.
NFTs were more popular than money in the bank.
I think at this point, we need to establish just let's get back to basic, save that money.
Understand if you do get that tax refund, be very prudent with it.
But do you guys, the question, though, do you guys think that they're just putting a band-aid on this right now?
Because, I mean, how long have we been talking about like this bubble that's going to burst?
Are they just waiting to see for the next administration, whoever it's going to be?
Well, they don't.
I'll use Pat's metaphor.
We've been on steroids in this economy for well over a decade.
Okay.
Very low interest rates, the stimulus checks.
At some point, if you just continue to do steroids, you're going to die.
Or once you get off the steroids.
Yeah, that too.
We all know Liver King, who was here a few months ago.
When you get off the steroids, just like when you get off heroin, there's going to be a really rough patch that you're going to have to deal with.
And I think that's essentially what's on the come up for the economy at some point.
But, you know, the sun will come out tomorrow.
So we might have to go through some shitty hard times in order to feel our best.
So, you know, Tom, you said something here about what happened with $20 billion less.
IRS says Americans are getting $20 billion less in tax refunds than the prior year.
They issued $69 million refunds at $198.9 billion, which is $23 billion lower than last year.
The average refund check is $28.78, about 9% lower than last year at $33.05.
This is because there was no extra tax credits or pandemic-related stimulus payments delivered by the federal government in 2022.
The decrease in refund size can be concerning for millions of Americans who depend on the influx of money from Uncle Sam to make major purchases, save on for retirement or payoff debt.
About 75% of adults who expect to receive a tax refund this year believe the money is about to is important to their overall financial situation, according to recent bank rate surveys.
So here's the thing: when you make money, you can't tell the difference between $1,000 here, $5,000 here, $200 here, $500 here, $1,800.
But when you're barely paying all your bills and you got your kids and school and car payment and debt and all this stuff combined, this $23 billion being a less, this directly impacts low- and middle-income families.
Tom?
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, I saw a chart a couple of years ago that showed that once a year, usually in the month of May and June, that credit card balances would drop and they were tied directly to tax refunds.
Everybody gets your taxes in and they would get two grand back or something, that average that you saw there.
And that was actually down 500 bucks year over year, the numbers Pat just shared.
And so they would drop that.
And then slowly over the course of the year, 100 here, 100 there, it would come back up.
Remember, we're talking about Americans, average American making $47,000 to $52,000.
And so they get their refund back, and then they slowly start using the credit card up again.
Then the refund would come back and do it.
And we had this illusion that Adam was just talking about that you had this, oh, stimulus check.
Remember what those stimulus checks were?
$1,400.
So two of those stimulus checks was like getting an extra tax refund that year.
And we saw that it dropped.
We saw it.
It dropped credit card balances a lot.
And then they bounced back up thanks to poor discipline and inflation.
Inflation hit hard.
And right now, the consumer is stinging.
And we'll talk a little bit later, but the stock market and oil prices are completely different.
But right now, consumers, man, they got to conserve.
And they're being conserved at gunpoint.
And the gunpoint is the inflation rate.
Well, you know, I love this chart, this fear-greed index.
I'm constantly referencing it.
Our friend Malik over there was gracious enough to pull it up.
Thanks, Malik.
30 days ago.
30 days ago, we did this.
Okay.
And it was almost extreme fear category.
32, I think.
32 days.
30.
It says a month ago of 30.
Yeah, okay.
And now we're back in greed territory.
And as Warren Buffett always says, be fearful when people are greedy, be greedy where people are fearful.
Again, going back to your stimulus to getting your tax refund, be very fearful.
Yeah, didn't Bitcoin just crack 30,000?
It did.
Bitcoin cracked 30,000.
The low it hit was what?
15, 16,000.
Right in the room, yes.
Right?
15, 16,000.
It's at 30 now.
So Michael Saylor apparently bought a bunch more Bitcoin, I think, about three weeks ago or five weeks ago.
He went on Bitcoin.
So, you know, the concept, the old principles of saving money right now applies.
This is not the season to be reckless with your savings.
You know, a lot of people are sitting there thinking, well, you know, the stocks are up, market's up, it's doing okay.
We're doing great.
This is not over yet.
This season of unpredictability, the other day, a statistic I saw by Charles Schwab that Charles Schwab's depositors are decreasing.
If you type in Charles Schwab depositors decreasing, deposits shrink.
There you go.
This is from what?
New York Times.
Charles Schwab's deposits shrink, but profits grow faster than expected.
Okay, as weird as it sounds, this is one of the names that was brought up by three different investment bankers I spoke to that one of the fears of a bank they're worried about is Schwab.
Now, don't get me wrong.
This is purely speculation that names are being thrown out.
This is one of them.
We may have another bank or two or three.
Buffett came out yesterday and he said something interesting.
He said, I'm willing to bet anybody a million dollars is what he said, that no depositor will lose any money.
That's what he said.
He says no depositor will lose any money because here you go.
Warren Buffett will bet you a million dollars that no one in the U.S. will lose a penny of money to a bank failure this year.
Now, depositor, keyword.
What does he say?
Depositor.
He didn't say no bank will lose money.
He didn't say no investor in the bank will lose money.
He said no depositor, right?
Recently sent an interview that there's no reason for anyone to worry about the safety, security, or availability of their deposits in the U.S. bank, and he's willing to bet his money on it.
In an interview with CNBC, Buffett said, I will gladly put a million dollars of my own money in the bank and have anybody else put a million dollars in.
And at the end of the year, if any American depositor had lost money from a bank failure, the other fellow gets the name, gets to name where the $2 million goes to to what charity.
Buffett himself typically keeps his money in the U.S. Treasury bills.
The vast amount of money held by billionaire and his investment from Berkshire Hathaway exceeds the FDI's coverage limit of $250,000, which I believe they have $100,000.
Can you find out how much Berkshire Hathaway has in cash right now?
I think the number is between $75,000 to $125 billion, unless if they just bought something.
How much does Berkshire Hathaway has in cash right now?
$129 billion is what they had four months ago.
Obviously, this is a March 10th story that's telling you what they had at the end of the year, but they have around $100 billion of cash they're sitting in themselves.
So, you know, there is the possibility that something could happen to banks.
Does that mean depositors are going to lose their money?
No one knows.
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So that's that part.
Tom, going back to what we're talking about here with the economy, going back to talking about the economy here, Amazon has been talking about all the people they're laying off.
Rob, we're laying off this paper.
Another 11,000, another this, another that.
Here's another 9,000 people that are getting ready to layoff amid a layoff wave that has expanded past tech to include Belfweathers now, like Dow 3M.
Here's a full list of major U.S. companies making cuts in 2023.
Rob, if you can pull up the story as well so people can see this, Amazon has announced it's cutting 9,000 roles on top of the 18,000 job cuts announced earlier this year, bringing a total to 27,000.
Amazon is a large group of major corporations that have made significant cuts in 2023.
Meta and Google and Finance Behemoth, Goldman Sachs, the layoffs have primarily affected the tech sector, which is now hemorrhaging employees at a faster rate than any other point during the pandemic.
According to the data cited by Wall Street Journal, a site tracking the layoff since the start of the pandemic, tech companies have slashed more than 150,000 jobs in 2022 alone, compared to 80 in 20 and 15,000 in 21.
Let me say that one more time.
In 2022 was 150,000.
In 2021, it was 15,000.
And at the peak of the pandemic, it was 80,000.
Okay, so here's some of the other companies that are laying off their people.
Rob, if you have this, Opendoor, 560 jobs.
McKinsey, 1,400 jobs.
David Bridal, 9,236 jobs.
I didn't even know they had that many employees.
Virgin Orbit, 85% of staffers.
EA, 78,780 employees.
Amazon, 9,000.
Walmart, about 200 employees.
Roku, 200 staffers.
Accentures, 19,000.
LinkedIn, 2,200.
SiriusXM, 475.
Meta, 10,000.
Citigroup, hundreds of jobs.
Waymo, 209 jobs.
GM, 500 salary jobs.
Twitter, 200.
Thoughtworks, 500.
Yahoo, 20% of their employees.
DocuSign, 10% of their employees.
GoDaddy, 8% of the workers.
Disney, 7,000 jobs.
Affirm, 19% of its workforce.
Zoom, 15% of its staff.
Return to office.
eBay, 500 jobs.
Pinterest, 150 jobs.
Dell, 5% of the workforce.
Rivian, 6% of the jobs.
BDG Media, 8%.
Intel, 343 jobs.
Splunk, 325 jobs.
FedEx, more than 10% of top managers.
PayPal, 7% of total workforce, 2,000 employees.
IBM, 4,000 jobs.
HubSpot, 500 jobs.
Dow, 2,000 global employees.
SAP, up to 3,000 employees.
3M, 2,500.
Spotify, 6% of its workforce, 600 employees.
Google, 12,000 employees.
Vox, 7% of their staff.
WeWork, 300 employees.
Capital One, 1,100 tech workers.
Wayfair, 1,000 employees.
Microsoft, 10,000 workers.
BlackRock, 3% of their global workforce or 500 employees.
Crypto.com, 20% of their staff.
Goldman Sachs, 6.5% of their global workforce, 3,200 employees.
BNY Mellon, 1,500 jobs.
I'm about to be done, folks.
Direct TV, 10% of management staff.
Verily, part of Alphabet, 15% of the workers.
Coinbase, 950 workers.
Amazon, 18,000.
Vimeo, 11% of the workers.
And last but not least, Salesforce, 10% of its staff, 7,000 jobs.
These are all the companies.
And so, Pat, quick question.
Amazon's laying off all these people.
I mean, people are still using Amazon like crazy.
Where are these layoffs coming from?
You know who's happy right now?
Who?
Guess who's happy right now?
Shareholders, because stocks went up.
This is one way of making money.
Tom, why don't you take the lead from here?
Okay, I'm going to make this very simple.
Why are layoffs good?
I'll make it in one very, very simple thing.
You and your wife have had a house that you've had for 20 years.
Your two children are now graduating college, and you're not sending checks to college, and those kids are no longer home eating.
They're no longer on your car insurance.
Guess what?
You've got extra money each month for the first time in a long time.
That is exactly on a massive scale what happens when companies lay this off.
The market loves it because they say if you can keep your sales even flat to where you are right now, flat, even if you stop growing a little bit during a recession, it's flat, but your costs are coming down, so you're going to have more profit.
It pops the stock price.
It moves the market index.
Right now, if you were just putting money into cash funds with any of the reputable organizations, I'm not going to list them, so it sounds like we're favoring one or the other, but any of the reputable brokerage firms that cater to consumers, you just put in a cash fund or in a market, if you look long-term, like an S ⁇ P ETF, because over the course of time, the S ⁇ P has always beat the market on an index basis.
But the market loves these layoffs and they love what's going on.
And I'll tell you how much they, look, if you're going to decide what to wear when you get up in the morning, you look at the temperature, you look at the weather report, right?
Rob, can you pull up the VIX and show this to America?
You see here, where's the VIX right now?
1753.
The VIX is a temperature gauge that the market uses of volatility.
Over 20, and it's stormy outside, and you will go and you could correlate the VIX being up almost at 35 to banking issues, SVB bank and stuff.
Right now, we've had a spike and all the layoff announcements.
You see there in March, Pat, the VIX has dropped down to $1,750.
So solidly under 20.
The market temperature says, hey, it's not too volatile out here.
It's actually a good time to invest.
That's what the market thinks.
And if I could add one more thing, IPOs have been kind of quiet, but IPOs may be coming back.
This week, SeatGeek just announced, actually this week, actually it was yesterday.
I caught this yesterday, as well as one of my favorite writers over at one of my daily newsletters caught this at the same time is SeatGeek just filed an S1, which is basically a letter they send the SEC, say, we're going public.
And they went out at, you know, at a billion-dollar valuation.
And so in the market, the market is going to feel and look different than the consumer news.
It's not out of sync.
What's happening now is the layoffs are helping companies' stock prices and even in the recession.
And the market is very open to investment.
And you're going to see IPOs this year.
Well, Pat, I'm sorry, I'm not going to tell you all, but when they lay off all those, I mean, it's good for the market, you're saying, but what about all the employees that are still working there?
They just have to work harder, correct?
Like those people, if Amazon's laying off all these people, that means somebody has to pick up that slack.
Same job has to be done.
Well, I think we had a couple stories that were on this, like about people that were investing in themselves, 25% more training that they were availing themselves to.
So why are somebody back in the office saying, you know, I'm going to definitely spend 25% more time on training?
Why?
They want to be valuable and they don't want to be the next guy on that long list that Pat just read.
Gotcha.
I think this classic case of supply and demand over COVID, who had all the leverage?
A lot of people would say that the employees had the leverage, right?
I'm not coming into the office.
I'm working via Zoom.
I'm working from anywhere.
Now at this point, employers have the leverage.
I know you're in favor of typically cutting the bottom 10% of a workforce anyway.
Things changed so dramatically during COVID.
So let me just kind of, let me just kind of give you a better metaphor.
Two years ago, we all remember that it was hot girl summer.
Hey, it's hot girl summer.
All right, girl, do your thing.
Last year, our boy Chet Hanks was on.
It was white boy summer.
Okay, this summer, it is tighten the F up.
Don't get fired summer.
Remember your menu?
The layoffs are coming.
Tighten up.
Remember your, I'm sorry, I just interrupted you, Adam.
Sorry about that.
Remember your man on the street interview with the girl that had come down for spring break with your stimulus check?
Oh, yeah.
No, did you get a stimulus check?
This is from South Beach.
How much did you get?
$1,400.
hell no, I got 5,600.
I go, oh, shit.
She's like, I got dependents.
I go, how much did you spend on this trip to South Beach?
5,600.
I said, I believe.
Let me say this, though, Bob.
The question you asked in the point Tom was making.
People working in the office spend 25% more time on career development.
This is a Bloomberg story.
Gotcha.
According to data from WFH research, which is working from home, people working in the office spend 25% more time on career development activities than those working remotely, including mentoring, formal training, and professional development.
You can't do that at the house.
The figures support the argument for hybrid work schedules as younger workers and particular benefits from an in-person mentorship on on-the-job training.
Research has shown that working in the same building has an outsize effect on workers' training and that face-to-face interactions with managers can be advantageous for career development.
Employees who have more face-to-face interactions with their managers are promoted to a higher rate.
And this could explain a third of the gender gap in promotions at the large financial firm studies.
Now, the last sentence there was a little bit of a politically correct statement they added in there.
But that should kind of tell you that.
If you're in there, you're being challenged.
You're being pushed.
You're being seen.
You're being held accountable.
You're being driven.
You're being asked, hey, how come you're not doing this?
Have you thought about things?
You may want to read this.
Did you see this article?
You're hearing other people having conversations with each other.
That's helping you grow.
You're sitting home.
Who are you listening to?
You're listening to your little dog right there barking at you.
Hey, can you walk me for five minutes and come back?
All these other distractions.
So in a season like this, as crazy the economy is, this is the season to recreate yourself.
Most, the people at the top recreate themselves very regularly.
And so the speed between three different people, let me kind of explain this part so this will make sense to you.
This has been my experience having studied, you know, coming up as a competitor, as a regular guy that was a 21-year-old army guy.
I'm like, who am I?
I watched all my peers and I asked myself, who's changing most often?
So you got three people.
You meet Johnny a year from now, two years from now, three years from now, four years from now, five years from now, he's the same person.
All right, okay, no problem.
Guess what?
Life's going to be the same.
If it's hard, it's going to be harder because you're getting older.
So your market value is also going lower, right?
Okay.
The middle one is maybe recreate themselves once a year, okay?
Or once every other year.
Typically, they recreate themselves because of a crisis.
They're forced to recreate themselves.
They're forced to change.
They got fired, you know, heartbreaks, something happened.
So they're forced.
I better change or else this.
But these guys typically, after they recreate themselves and they see immediate results, they go back to their shitty habits and then boom, they're forced again.
So every two to five years, they're forced to recreate themselves.
The third group, dude, every three to six months, you don't see them, you don't recognize them.
They're talking about a whole different thing.
Their mind's in a whole different thing.
They're working, developing on this, working on this, this project, that project, this one.
So you're like, man, I can't catch up to this guy anymore.
It's because they recreate themselves more often.
The best compliment you can get today from somebody you haven't seen for the longest time is, man, I don't recognize you.
What happened to you?
You've changed.
If everybody recognizes you all the time and you're the same, you ain't recreating yourself.
This is a season where many will be forced to recreate.
But those who choose to recreate and keep recreating yearly, if not even faster than that, future looks very bright for you.
Those who sit around blaming, upset at the economy, frustrated around the things that they have zero control over.
I just hate to say it to you.
2023 is going to be hard.
2024 is going to be harder.
2025 is going to be harder and harder.
And life's going to get harder and harder and harder and harder and harder if you don't recreate yourself.
Just in the last 30 days, how many grandmothers have died in the building here?
In the past 30 days.
Three.
What?
In this building here.
How many buildings, do how many people do we have here?
We don't have thousands.
We have 65, 64, whatever the number is.
Okay.
So as you age, first goes grandma, grandpa, then goes aunt, uncle, then goes parents, then goes peers, then goes siblings, then goes you.
And you age, you do more surgeries.
My dad's at the hospital again today.
You have more things you got to get checked out.
You got to go do a lot of different things.
Life gets harder as you age.
The worst thing you can do is knowing those seasons are coming is by adding even more hard things to it by not improving and being proactive.
This is the worst season to be reactive only.
The people that are suffering consequences today are those that have stayed in reactive mode for the last 10, 20 years.
All you've been doing is reacting to the economy, reacting to a war, reacting to inflation, reacting to gas prices, reacting to the economy, reacting to 129, reacting to Trump, reacting to Biden.
And a few people around are sitting there saying, man, when are you going to stop just reacting and being proactive?
When are you going to stop being freaking just reacting?
And you're wondering why life is getting harder.
Dude, my dad, craziest thing, Sunday we're talking and he's having a conversation.
I don't know who he's talking to.
I think he's talking to, there was two people there he's talking to.
At your house.
My house.
He says, I was 21 years old when I got out of the army.
He says, okay, shuluch lush, Azak, Atananuch, Azak, put your shoes on.
We're going somewhere.
Where are we going?
I'll tell you.
Let's go.
So we go to the Forest Lawn.
I said, why are we at the Forest Lawn?
He says, we're buying these six plots.
I said, Dad, what are you talking about?
You're 60 years old.
He says, we're buying these six plots.
And he bought it for like $1,600 a plot at Forest Lawn.
By the way, they're each $15,000.
Ridiculous.
Yeah.
So Michael Jackson is buried up there.
So he buys and he says, why?
He says, we're going to be ready.
When the day comes, you don't need to buy my plot.
I bought my plot already for you and you can be right next to me and blah, blah, blah, see, the man is all about anticipation, proactive preparation.
These boring principles makes people's lives around you better.
I love traveling with Tom.
You know why?
Say shit hits the fan on a flight that we're going.
So one time it happened with Hawaii.
Tom has already got seven plans.
He already knows what Delta's got, what this guy's got, what that guy.
You have no idea how safe I feel traveling with this guy, okay?
Because Tom is the epitome of being proactive and prepared, right?
Being around people that are reactive, stress level goes up, anxiety goes up, you're so worried, you have no idea what's going to happen.
Dude, people that give you peace around you, they're prepared, proactive people.
So today, listen, if you're listening to this and you're kind of stressing out because you're more on the reactive side, well, then change.
Let's roll.
No more reactive.
By the way, this doesn't mean proactive people are not reactive.
Proactive people are automatically reactive, but reactive people are not automatically proactive.
Be proactive and reactive instead of just reactive, and life's going to be fine for you for many, many years to come.
So the reactive folks are about to pay a price.
Hopefully they'll change.
The proactive people, trust me, are going to be fine.
That was awesome.
That was fantastic.
And talking about the point of the grave.
And since you already know this training is going to end at one point, what do you have to lose?
Go for it.
Do it.
Don't be lazy.
My mentality has changed recently because of that same fact.
We know we're all going to die.
What are you waiting for?
Do it.
You bought your plot?
Is what you said?
I bought a plot for $15,000.
But you know what?
But not because I'm lethargy.
Always remember.
Lethargy.
Leth.
It's very interesting.
On Bizarre Podcast on Monday, there was a guy that asked me, he says, hey, should I sell my house and use that to start my business?
Should I go rent with a friend?
And I sat there thinking about that.
And the answer I gave to him is: if you're thinking about doing that, you know, and setting the dollars aside, he was making a very informed choice about being prepared.
That if he wanted to step out and start a company and the things that he thought that he knew a lot about the industry and stuff, he was willing to sell his house right now with what he can with the peak.
There's a little bit of peak.
He's probably going to make more than it was worth in 2019, 18.
And then, and then do it.
And there's other people that talk to me and say, Hey, you know, I've got about $5,000 and I can put about $7,500 a credit card.
That's $10,500.
And I'm thinking of starting a company doing this and this.
I always tell those people, don't do that.
Don't do that because there's so much risk in starting a company.
Don't do that.
You got to go in and be prepared.
And I had this guy go, Well, then I'm going to save the money, but my lease is coming up and I'm living by myself.
I have a buddy.
I think I'm going to share a smaller townhouse with him because it's going to lower my monthly.
And I'll just start saving because I think I could stay ready for this.
I've added it up.
I could save about 20 grand over two years and maybe I'll start the business with that.
And I'm like, bingo.
Or maybe don't start the business.
And he's got 20,000 saved.
Now he's got the discipline of saving.
So the preparation that we're talking about, you can be preparing now.
You can look around at your expenses right now and you can make decisions right now about preparation.
You know, there's a city that you can be a millionaire and be broke.
Guess what that city is?
What?
New York City.
Let's go, baby.
Let me tell you.
New York City ranked the wealthiest city on the planet with 340,000 millionaires.
All competitive money.
Has the highest concentration of resident millionaires at 340.
Tokyo, San Francisco, Bay Area followed in second and third place, respectively.
London dropped to fourth place on the list with 258 and followed by Singapore to 240,000.
The report focused on people with net worths of million dollars or more.
The ultra-wealthy lost $10 trillion or 10% from their net worth of 2022, driven by global economic uncertainty, the energy crisis, and the war in Ukraine.
New York is also the home of the most centi millionaires, 100 million plus.
While San Francisco Bay Area is home to the most billionaires globally, China's Hangzhou, Hangzhou topped the list of the fastest-grown cities when it comes to resident millionaires over the past decade with millionaire growth of 105%.
So if in New York City, Rob, if you can pull it up, let's pick a city.
Okay, let's pick a city.
Go to realtor.com.
Okay.
Go to realtor.com and let's do New York City.
Just type in New York City.
Okay.
And yeah, New York City.
And go up and property.
Are you on rent or you're on buy?
Click on rent all the way at the top.
Go on rent.
Yeah.
So New York City, search that.
Let's see what rent is like in New York City.
All right.
Zoom in right there.
Let's see what that looks like.
$3,000 to $7,000.
$3,600 for a 427 square foot place.
A studio.
By the way, this is $427.
Nuts.
This is like $427 square feet.
So this in New York is $3,700.
The second one, you're paying $4,800 for a 494 square foot space.
Okay, keep going lower.
Let's just see what.
63rd Street is right up with Central Park.
Central Park starts at 59th.
Dude.
So let's look at the cheap one right there.
That one is what, $2,600?
$2,600.
You have to live in the kitchen, though.
You see that?
You have to live in the kitchen.
Keep going down.
Keep going down with rent to see what it looks like.
$5,000, $3,000 starters, $3,895 for 375-foot square foot place.
See that building to the left?
That looks like a that looks like a lot of different things.
That's a factory in Cleveland.
Yeah, built 352 square foot place, guys.
This is 352 square feet.
Let me say this one more time.
This room is 352 square feet.
So you're in the studio.
You live in that room.
This could be 400 square feet.
You would pay $4,200 for this in New York City.
So you have to be a millionaire in New York City to barely make it.
Make your studio.
If you're not, you got to live like an hour out, 30 minutes out, and that's including the traffic.
Or have roommates in that little room.
Like, hey, guys, poor people.
You got that corner.
You got this corner.
This corner.
Here we go.
I know people that literally do that.
Or you build a fake wall.
Wall.
It's $1,000 between two bedrooms.
I've seen it all.
I'll be wild with you.
I love New York City.
I already have roommates.
So visit.
Yeah.
Listen, I'm from Yonkers, New York.
I'm happy in Florida.
I'm about to go to New York.
But listen, here's what I like.
You know what I love about New York?
There's something about the Yankees, right?
There's something about, you know, when I think about baseball cards, I think about New York Yankees, Mickey Mantle.
I think about Steinburner.
That's an owner.
To me, when I think about owners, I think two names, him and Jerry Buss.
Those are the guys that just set the tone of what they did, right?
The city, the fight, the dog fight, the culture, that whole thing.
You would look forward to going.
I'm about to go to New York in a couple of weeks, by the way.
You know, the top restaurant there, 11 Madison, right?
The guy, Unreasonable Hospitality, that is there.
They're doing 18 million a year, one restaurant, okay?
Turning into the number one restaurant in the world, three Michelin star.
There's so many things you can sell about this place.
Here's the crazy part.
You realize if New York City got a governor that ran for eight years and he cleaned house with taxes, he cleaned the streets and made it safer.
He made it great for startups to go there.
He actually invested into police and encouraged the mayors to invest in police and he cleaned the place up.
You realize, good luck, everybody else.
That's how great of a place that place is.
But unfortunately, nobody is saying anything about the people of New York, the fight of New York, the DNA of New York.
Anytime I got a sales guy recruited in LA, in Texas, anywhere that was from New York, I preferred it because you can challenge him, you can push him, you can kick his ass.
He didn't give a shit.
Matter of fact, he did better the more you did that with him.
There's a certain energy about people from New York.
They negotiate in a more straight-up way.
They're just kind of like, hey, here's how we do this.
No problem.
It saves a lot of time versus, well, let me tell you.
It's a very easy way to do business.
But unfortunately, you know, what they're doing right now, it's not slowing down at FYI.
This whole concept with Florida that they're saying, well, you know, people are not going to be moving to Florida anymore.
Page 13, New York exodus to pro-business Florida is a hot trend that won't simmer down anytime soon.
Okay.
This is a Fox business story.
Thousands of Americans have moved from New York to Florida during the pandemic to escape high taxes and crime rates.
The trend has continued with 10,000 New Yorkers already leaving the state in the first quarter of 2023.
This year, folks, not last year.
Okay.
And this is written by Jenna, an associate at Sotheby's International Realty.
Florida's chief financial officer, Jimmy Petronas, said that 900 new residents move to the state every day from the states such as New York, Jersey, and Illinois.
900 a day.
That's 27,000 a month.
Florida is proving attractive to homebuyers because of its lower taxes and pro-business environment.
Democrat-led states, including California, Illinois, New York, saw the biggest decline in population while being home to some of the highest tax burdens in the U.S.
Yeah, I mean, the secret's out.
I've been experiencing this for two decades now about New Yorkers coming down for New Year's, coming down for vacation, coming down to have a great weekend here.
And I would always ask them, I'm like, what would it take for you to move to Florida?
They're like, oh, no, Florida's like, you know, vacation, come in the winter.
This ain't for me.
I don't know.
And now we're starting to see they're like, no, no, I'm here.
I'm here for good now.
Secrets out, whether that's because of COVID and all the lockdowns because of that, because of the low taxes, business friendly, DeSantis, Mayor Suarez down in Miami.
He's been a major element of this.
And here's what I always tell New Yorkers, kind of like what Pat was saying about their grit, their grind, their hustle, their stick-to-it-ness.
It's like, if you keep that attitude that you that led you to have success in New York, in freaking Miami with a running, a Cuban time, and they just like everything's going, like you're gonna run circles around the people here and they're doing it, so yeah, you'll own the city.
I mean listen, the DNA doesn't leave you the DNA of a fighter that goes to any place like.
I remember one time I came to Florida and I was speaking at this Deerfield office and they said, well Patrick, can all the half the salespeople showed up to the meeting late.
I said, guys, what the hell was this all about?
And they said, oh Patrick, we're on Florida time.
I said I don't give a shit what time you're on.
Okay, if you ain't on time, close the door and get out.
No no, that's not how it's ran in Florida.
If I'm running this meeting, get out.
So they're like, are you serious?
I said yes.
I said come here with me, open up the.
What do you call it?
The, not the blinds, the drape, whatever the drape says on the windows.
And I opened it up.
I said, look outside the window.
I said, how many buildings you see out there?
I said, count them.
They're like you seriously want us to count.
I said, you get the point.
How many buildings you see out there?
Hundreds okay, who built those buildings?
Did somebody build those buildings that came in late at 11 o'clock?
How long?
How much work did it take to build those?
I said so, don't give me the shit about there's Florida time.
No, those buildings were built by killers and somebody paid millions of dollars to buy those buildings.
Killers are in every city.
It's just you guys are not the killers right now and you're lazy and you're tired and you're buying this excuse.
You take a killer from LA to New York, to Iowa, to Boise, to Wyoming, even to Chas Washington outside of Portland that no longer exists.
They're going to whoop some ass and lead leaders, lead everywhere they go.
So the New York DNA, Florida saying, come on down here.
Wasn't DeSantis given $5,000 bonuses for cops to come down here?
Yeah yep, she was giving them out right yeah, and they were coming.
Good for you, of course, and this is not going to slow down, by the way tom, any thoughts on this?
I think if you don't have any thoughts, we can look at the next story.
I got like five thoughts on it and the first is, I think, what you're seeing in here.
I mean good grief unemployment, two and a half percent.
You know, in the two and a half or two point, six percent pick a city in Florida, major one's Jacksonville, or Jacksonville is actually the biggest city in Florida, by the way, not Miami, the Port City.
They had a Super Bowl there, they got an NFL team, there's a lot going on up there and you take a look, we got 2.5 unemployment.
And you put a playing field in place.
You put a canvas in place, like you know, the leaders in Florida, and there's a lot of credits given to DeSantis, well deserved.
But you know what?
There's also what Mayor Suarez is doing.
When leaders put a canvas in in place that attracts people, they come and paint beautiful pictures and that's what you're seeing here.
People are coming down here and you know what I like it, That you know why Florida is going to be safer.
Because I like a few New York cops down here.
I want New York cops to be on the police force down here.
I want them to be happy, and then I want their attitude.
I want their focus.
I don't want them to be laid back.
I love what's happening here.
That's why I came here.
We had a guy just gave a super chat, the crypto tainer.
I'm from New York, sister with fam.
And my mom moved to Florida last year.
PBD, get me a job.
I moved to Florida this summer, got banking sales, real estate, and crypto experience.
Send your resume to infoadvalutainment.com.
Once again, send your resume to infoadvalutainment.com.
We're always looking.
We have right now, I don't know how many job openings we got right now, but we're hiring left.
And we just brought an editor-in-chief that'll start, I think, a week from today or two weeks from today.
Former, anyways, you'll see the people we're bringing left and right right now when we're hiring.
We're looking for strong talent.
If you're one of them, send us your resume.
BizDoc is looking for a business analyst when I work at the BizDoc.
Send it in.
Yep.
And more, by the way, and more.
Okay, so the question about Dominion, when are we going to get to it?
We're going to get to in the second half when this thing is packed.
So once this thing hits 8,000, we'll hit the Dominion story because it is a story a lot of people want us to talk about.
Okay.
So Elon Musk says he wants a normal person for president in 2024 whose values are smack in the middle of the country.
Okay.
I mean, a lot of people, you know, the saying goes, we need another Ronald Reagan.
We need somebody that's a normal person.
We need a young person.
We need this.
We need that.
And a lot of people are there.
But in an interview with Fox, he said he preferred a normal person for president 2024, someone with common sense and whose values are smack in the middle of the country, adding that they would be great.
Musk, who voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, has praised and criticized both Donald Trump and Biden in recent years, calling for maximum age limit for lawmakers and saying politicians should be ideally within 10 or at least 20 years of the average of the population.
Musk's political stances have shifted to the right in recent years.
And last summer, he said he voted Republican for the first time, backing former Texas GOP, Representative Myra Flores, in a special election.
Here's a guy that voted for Biden who's saying something like this.
Okay, he's a guy that voted for Biden is saying we need somebody like this.
What do you think about his comments here, Adam?
I think he's spot on.
I think it's, you know, whether it's an Elon Musk, whether it's a Joe Rogan, whether it's a Bill Maher, in terms of political ideology, I kind of in that camp where it's like you're typically just more of a classic liberal and you're like, here's what I kind of stand for.
And this is kind of what I believe.
I'm not, I don't have any strong ideologies, super far left or super far right.
But I think as we've seen over the last few years, I think whether it was none of those guys were voting for Trump.
Zero.
Elon Musk was not voting for Trump.
Bill Maher certainly wasn't.
Rogan was definitely not.
And I think, you know, just putting myself in that type of camp, I was not.
I think all of them, including myself, are like kind of looking at this Trump character now.
I don't know.
It's Sleepy Joe.
It just ain't it.
You know, and I think that's why people are so attracted to DeSantis.
It's kind of like Trump Light.
But I think at this point, everyone have not been doing well lately.
That's true.
That's true.
Other than Coors Light is maximizing Bud Light Drama.
Because I think it's, if you're one of those people, what I would say 10% of the country who has an open mind, okay?
We already know that 45% is going right, 45% going left.
There's nothing that you're going to do to sway these people's opinions.
They are dug in.
Nothing.
So those 10%, those people who have voted for Bush, voted for Obama, voted for Trump, voted for Biden, they're swing voters.
I think they are the people that we need to continue to.
By the way, the other day we had Klay Travis and Buck Sexton here, okay?
And good guys.
We were having a great conversation with them.
They're more on the DeSantis camp.
They want DeSantis to become the president, which more power to them.
DeSantis, a strong leader, great guy.
That's the reason why we're in Florida, if you really think about it.
The reason why all of us are in Florida is because of Ron DeSantis, okay?
Well, me, mostly because my parents had sex here at 41.
No, you were in Dallas and Addison, and then you ended up moving from Addison back to Florida because we moved to Florida.
So you were out.
What I'm saying is we moved back because we said we're moving there because of policies because we were going to go to Greenwich.
And then Ron brought us back here.
And one of the questions I ask him is the following question.
I want you to think about this here.
And I want to hear what you're going to say.
I asked them the question you and I cannot answer because we know what they said.
They don't know it.
I said, what do you think is the amount of influence Rogan, I mean, I'm going to go to you first and I'm going to go to you.
And I want you guys to write the number down before you say it.
Okay.
What do you think is the influence Rogan and Musk have in flipping votes?
So just two, three, four years ago, Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders.
Okay.
Whatever the timeline was.
Elon Musk voted for Joe Biden just three years ago.
Now, both of them are saying to save the country, you have to vote Republican.
And not even that.
Joe went as far as saying, I would vote for Trump.
Okay.
I would vote for Trump.
Let me read the story and then you guys can give me your number.
And folks, if you're listening to this, I want you to put your answer as well.
Some of you guys watch the podcast so you know what they said, but I want to hear your answer.
I would vote for Donald Trump.
Joe Rogan opposes Joe Biden's cabinet, run the world's most powerful country.
I would vote for Trump before I would vote for Biden.
The thing with Biden is he's gone.
You know he's gone.
You're going to be relying on his cabinet.
And I knew his cabinet would be a sideshow of diversity.
You can't have those kinds of people running a Ben and Jerry's.
You certainly can't have those kinds of people running in effing the most powerful country in the world has ever known.
It's nuts, said Joe Rogan on his podcast.
Okay.
So now, Joe, the number one podcast in the world, Elon Musk runs Twitter, richest man in America, most powerful guy in America, the way he is doing what he's doing with social media and technology.
If they say vote Republican with Elon's 140 million followers, Joe Rogan's podcast, how many votes can they flip?
How many votes can they flip?
Actual influence.
Out of how many?
So all you have to do is you have to say, you know, 100,000 of their votes that they would follow their lead to go a, you know, a libertarian like Joe Jorgensen or a Democrat to now saying, I'm going to vote for Trump because Joe Rogan said vote for Trump because Elon Musk said vote for Trump.
If these guys smarter than me are saying something like this, I should consider it.
How many things will flip?
I'm going to go to you first.
I think like percentage-wise?
No, number.
Number?
Because remember, Trump lost 75 to 81 million.
Wow.
Okay.
Trump lost 75 to 81.
Am I saying it correctly?
75 to 81 million.
So how many of that will flip just because of Joe Rogan and Elon Musk?
Wow.
10 to 15 million.
What?
Is that bad?
Additive of people going, you know what, Joe Rogan's telling me that.
Let me see what Tom thinks.
What do you think?
It's a lot.
It's a lot.
You asked the number of votes last, and what I had done is of the 12% indies, I think Rogan can move two of those percentage points, and I think Elon can move four.
That's that's a big number.
So I'm saying how big is that?
No, no, I'm saying if you give each of them two and two, of the 12 indies in the middle, I think Rogan and Elon, if they were on the same side, they'd move two each.
I think you could move four percent.
So how many million?
Go to 2020 total independent voters, total independent voters in 2020 election.
You just take the total voters and do 43 and 43, and everybody else goes to the middle.
Total election.
So how many people voted?
It was like 156.
Yeah.
Is that correct?
150, 75 and 81.
So 75 and 81 is, yeah.
150.
156.
So the middle was probably 20 million right there in the middle.
15 and half of 15 is 7.
So, yeah.
I would say that's probably 20.
And when you say like, you're talking about Rogan and Elon going, hey, guys, listen, do not vote Democrat.
Oh, 100%.
They're going to be going aggressively.
Remember, they don't say once.
They go over and over and over.
They are super concerned about what's going to be happening.
These guys will be pushing this.
You know, I wouldn't be surprised if DeSantis is on Rogan's podcast in the next three to six months.
I wouldn't be surprised if possibly Trump meets with Musk and they have a meeting.
And I wouldn't be surprised if some of those things happen after they know who's on the right.
So if it's DeSantis, DeSantis has got to be on Rogan's podcast.
If they haven't already had the conversation, that is a must.
But here's a point.
Tom, 2 to 4%, think about that number.
2 to 4%.
Okay.
That's a real number.
It's not 15 million.
2 to 4% ends up becoming what?
10%, 15 million.
So you're saying really the 2 to 4% of the 12% is what you're saying.
So not 2% to 4% of the 15%.
24 points of those 14 points.
2 to 4 points of those 14 points.
Correct.
So 2 to 4 points of the, let's just use the number 3.
Okay.
3 of 14.
So let's do 156.
What's 156 times 14%?
Well, every 1% is 1.56.
So what is that times 14?
That's what I'm saying.
So if we do 1.56 times 21 is what you're doing?
Yeah, like 21 people that are honestly in the middle, and that's your swing that we all know about.
Which is 14% or 13%?
Right around there.
Okay, let's just say 13%.
So that's 20 million.
Okay.
20 million, you got 2% is 4 million.
That's not enough.
But 3%, it's game over.
Okay.
You know what Clay Travis and Buck Sexton said?
He said only 100,000.
No, he said 1 million.
No, no, they said 100,000.
Rob, do you remember if it was 100,000 or 1 million?
I don't remember.
Can you, while we're doing this, is there a way you can find to see what they said?
See if you can.
I remember them saying 100,000.
Let me give you a little different perspective.
What do they call it?
The general population or when you win the general election?
When you win the population, what is it called?
Not when you win the Electoral College, when you win the popular vote.
There you go.
That's the word I'm looking for.
That to me is irrelevant.
It's irrelevant because you're not going to swing 5 million voters or 10 million voters or even 2 million voters.
You need to swing 100,000 voters.
In Wisconsin.
Find me 11,000 votes in Georgia.
We all know what happened there.
Okay.
Find me 20,000 votes in Wisconsin.
Find me 10,000 votes in Pennsylvania.
They said 100,000.
Did they say that?
Okay.
So that's essentially what it comes down to.
Whatever the swing states are, we all know that it's 51.49.
It's 50.6 to 49.4.
It's so close.
It's so razor thin that you don't need to swing millions either side, by the way.
You need these swing states, these swing cities, these districts that can go either way.
That's who you need to flip.
And by the way, we saw in Florida in the gubernatorial election what happens when the independents break 72 percent.
The independents broke 72 for DeSantis.
And you go take a look at the map.
Everything was red except Broward and the small county on the south side of Orlando, correct?
Correct.
And it's the same thing that happened in 2016.
Those same independents broke for Trump because Hillary wasn't campaigning in the blue states or in the blue wall.
And the same thing happened in 2020 when all those same voters broke for Biden.
So the independents are where it's at.
We all know that preaching to the choir is losing.
The independents, the true independents follow what Rogan and Musk have to say.
The true independents follow what the Libertarians and the Independents follow what Rogan and Musk have to say.
Fully agree with that.
Fully agree.
So to me, when Clay Travis and Buck Sexton said 100,000, I'm like, yeah, I don't know.
I think it's a bigger number than that.
Tom, if it's 3%, I don't think it's 3%, but I don't think it's 100,000.
But if those two go and they support it the way they do, I don't know.
They could change the tide.
Here's what I was considering.
You want to know what I was considering there.
What I was considering was, I remember what happened with Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich.
I remember what happened.
And remember, remember that wave that came up and bit Clinton really hard?
That was like Rush demonstrating the power of the medium of the time.
Now I look at it and I see what happened with the Tea Party.
And so, Pat, it takes a few voices, but if the voices are a wave, it's not just Rogan.
It's Rogan's influence base and it's the people that are in that influence base that are influencing others as well.
Because, right?
Yeah, see, I doubt the GOP would have won the House in 94 without Rush Limbaugh.
And that was, what was Gingrich?
What did he call that contract with America?
Was that what it's called?
I think it was his new thing.
Anyway, regardless of what it was called, the point was there was a spark that pushed this thing over fast.
And the same thing happened with Tea Party.
So when things get tough and there's a real stark choice, America voters can be moved.
What a point you just made.
Listen to this.
Without Rush, I doubt if we would have won the control of his House in 1994 because he clarified the issues.
Gingrich explained.
He gave our candidates arguments to run on.
He created a huge number of people.
His impact was more than the 20 million listeners a week.
It was all the people they would go talk to.
My guess is that the ripple effect of Rush was more than 80 to 90 million.
Exactly.
That's exactly what I'm saying with Rogan and Musk.
That's exactly what I think this is going to be bigger.
I think this is going to be if Trump or DeSantis can win those two guys, which DeSantis, they've both won over.
I mean, he's won both of them over.
You know, both of them.
Their team DeSantis is where they are.
Obviously, Musk doesn't want somebody older than 70.
His number was 69, even younger than that.
69 is more because anything to be less than 70.
Anyways, okay, so we'll see.
I think it's going to be a bigger number.
I think I fully see that part where you're training the trainers to go out there and talk.
Like we're having a meeting in two weeks in Dallas.
25,000, 3,000 people are going to show up.
It's called Train the Trainers.
That meeting, when they leave, it turns into 50 to 100,000 insurance policies.
We didn't sell any policies that we trained the trainers to go and find them.
Now we have 350, nearly 400,000 policies we've written in the last 13 years, right?
So that is the effect of what they leave and what they do.
Okay.
Yeah.
And it's not just really fast.
But it's kind of weird that we would need those people in the middle need That influence from Musk or Rogan went, can't you can't they just open their eyes and see what's happening and how horrible this administration did?
But here's the difference.
Think about how much people go and say, I need a Oprah Winfrey endorsement.
But actually, think about how Oprah Winfrey endorsed Fetterman.
Here's how she endorsed him.
She says, Look, I know Oz is somebody that's worked with me for many years, and I know everybody's expecting me to support Oz, but I'm supporting Fetterman.
I think he's a good guy.
I think he's this.
Versus the difference between the way she endorses and Rush or Elon or Rogan endorses says the following.
Listen, I have a heart.
Look at Rogan.
What did Rogan say?
Rogan said what?
How did Rogan explain why he would vote for Trump?
Said the show.
He said the cabinet.
He said, I would vote for this because you're going to be relying on his cabinet.
And I knew his cabinet would be a sideshow of diversity.
You can't have those kinds of people running a Ben and Jerry's.
You certainly can't have those kinds of people running a country, the most powerful country in the world.
So that is an issue he's given to say it was so much about diversity that you didn't pick the best leaders for the job, right?
So the average person listens to that and says, that's kind of right.
You just chose diversity.
You can't have that.
So the way Oprah does it is, yes, I support.
It's great.
Versus the way these guys are going to do it is it's going to be issue driven.
If it's issue driven, kiss it goodbye.
Go to the newtingrich story with Rush Limbaugh, 80 to 90 million.
Anyways, let's go to Dominion.
You guys ready?
Let's go.
Let's talk Dominion.
Okay.
Fox to pay $787 million to settle election suits, Dominion says.
This is a Bloomberg story.
Fox News has agreed to pay $787 million to settle Dominion voting system defamation lawsuit when alleged that the network aired bogus claims that Dominion rigged the 2020 election against Donald Trump.
Evidence uncovered in the case showed that Fox News executives and top hosts like Tucker Carlson privately derived the conspiracy theory as loony, even as they promoted it.
The settlement ends the possibility of a trial in which Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corp, and his son, would have to testify about their oversight of the network's new presentations.
The settlement allows Fox News to avoid having to flatly apologize, which means neither Tucker and the other folks won't have to apologize.
Foxman, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity won't have to apologize on air about Dominion.
The host will avoid being grilled on the witness stand and won't have to issue restrictions or make any other statements on TV, even though the network acknowledged false statements were broadcasted.
The falsehood claims that Dominion made by then Trump lawyer Giuliani and Sidney Powell, who appeared as guests on several Fox shows, pushed a false conspiracy theory about Dominion flipping votes from Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
By the way, this is a very, very big news.
Okay.
So here's the problem with things like this.
I'll give you my feedback and then we can process it together.
My problem with something like this is: one, I love the fact that there is a form of accountability.
Okay.
The slippery slope is anytime a lawyer has a case that becomes a precedent and that's the standard, well, then guess what?
Everybody else is getting a phone call.
When these guys indicted Trump, what they don't realize they did for the next 300 years, if there's still a country here, Republicans will always be able to say the first president that was indicted was by the Democrats.
So if a future Democrat tries to say, this is not a good look for the country, we look divided to the enemy, hey, Democrats, you started it.
And forever, they're going to be able to say that.
You impeached the guy two times and nothing happened just because Nancy Pelosi celebrated the fact that they impeached him just to humiliate him is what they did.
Okay.
Now, they may say, well, what do you mean?
He humiliated us for calling us fake news.
He wasn't wrong.
You were fake news.
You said Russia, whatever.
Hey, is there a lawsuit with Russia for you?
So this may cause Trump to go sue CNN with Russia and MSNBC.
And then his lawyers may say, well, look, if you did Dominion, you did this to my career.
You cost me this much money with my businesses.
My numbers happen this, that.
There's a lot of things that this, if this is happening right now with Fox, guess who's worried?
CNN is sitting there saying, oh, NBC is sitting there.
ABC is sitting there.
Morning Joe is sitting there.
All of these guys are sitting there as much as they're so happy because this is such an in-your-face.
You know, this is kind of like, you know, how a sports team dominates everybody in a league and they hate them.
And then finally something comes out.
Deflate gate.
I told you I knew England Patriots couldn't win.
And then New England Patriots comes back and wins again and again.
I told you the Astros cheated.
And then they come back and they win.
I told you this.
So there's an element of that that's happening today where everybody on the mainstream media is celebrating this, having drinks, getting hammered.
This is the biggest party they're having to celebrate this.
But I think there's going to be more thing that's going to backfire with this, Tom.
I'll tell you who I didn't.
I actually believe that MSNBC and NBC and Brian Roberts at Comcast have been remarkably quiet on certain parts of this.
I think they're concerned, and I'll tell you why.
If you go take a look at the Steel dossier and what Rachel Maddow did on MSNBC, it's exactly what you said.
I would be on Trump's side lining up at her door because the Steel dossier and everything turns out also fake, also was wrong.
And so duck.
And I think MSNBC probably doesn't like this precedent because of the way that they played Russia and the Steel dossier.
To pick one, just one.
Yeah.
Well, I'll give you my little two cents right here.
Well, obviously, this is the number one story across every single cable news outlet, except for one.
Yeah.
Take a wild guess is not really covering this story.
CNN?
No, Fox.
How about that guy?
Well, as it turns out, you know, we can go down the list of CNN and MSNBC fake news.
Yeah.
Russia, scandal, Ukraine, impeachment, fake news.
Turns out it takes two to tango.
And it turns out Fox News is peddling fake news stories as well.
Or else they wouldn't settle for $787 billion.
No million, million dollars.
Polly dropped that.
Stole a lot.
The lawsuit was $1.
I think $6 billion.
They settled for half, $787 million.
By the way, guess how much cash they have on hand, Fox News.
How much?
Take a guess.
So we just established that, what, Berkshire Hathaway has $100 billion?
Yeah.
$2.1 billion.
My numbers show $4 billion.
Okay.
There you go.
Okay.
So what I'm saying is, what I'm saying is they've had to give up 20% of their cash on hand.
That's a lot.
This is no joke, guys.
Fox News, this is not a good look for Fox News.
The biggest question is, how will this affect 2024?
Fox just paid the price for this.
They avoided Tucker and Laura Ingram and Sean Hannity and all the cohorts having to basically be show ponies for a trial so that they avoided literally getting egg on their face.
They didn't have to apologize.
They didn't have to admit guilt.
They didn't have to, you know, give accountability.
They just had to pay $787 million.
I apologize for saying B earlier.
But this is not a good look for Fox News.
But this will go back to three things.
Again, the same things that the Democrats, I won't say one, why they didn't lose the midterms.
Same three things.
Election denial is not a winning message.
News flashed to Donald Trump.
Stop it.
It cost you in the midterms.
It just cost Fox News, you know, three quarters of a billion dollars.
This is not a winning message.
Drop it.
Win on your merits.
Win on your policies.
Win on the shit show that is Joe Biden.
Win on that.
Stop being a victim and say the truth and win on that again.
Because saying that I really want it and it's all fake news, well, it's not a winning message, clearly.
I mean, it just sucks for him because, and that sucks for him, but I mean, can you blame somebody like Trump not trusting the same people that did all these investigations and all this and dominion with the Democrats?
I totally understand that.
But Pat brought this up with Rudy Gianni, Rudy Giuliani on the podcast the other day.
It's like, okay, so let's say you can't trust the system.
Let's say you can't trust the voting machines.
Let's say you can't trust government.
What happens?
We saw what happened in Georgia.
You encourage people to do what?
Not vote.
Okay, and that's why Georgia picks up two Senate seats and you end up flipping the Senate because you're encouraging your base not to come out and vote because you can't trust the machines.
This is a losing message.
This is something we never got behind of.
I mean, we, we, listen, we interview everybody.
I don't care who you are.
Will have been, I'd love to have Robert Reich on.
He won't show up.
We'd love to have Bernie Sanders on.
I'm telling you, they won't show up.
Of course not.
We've had all the guys that people, you have no idea.
You would never have Jenkon.
Well, we had him on.
You'd never have David Patlin.
You'd never have Kyle Kolinsky.
You'd never have Sam Cedar on.
And then, you know, by the way, you know, on Twitter, they no longer say you would never have, because we have.
You would never have this.
Dude, we don't mind sitting down, having a conversation about this.
We even had Dinesh DeSouzon, I think, at one point.
We did have Dinesh DeSouza.
$2,000.
But to me, to me, this is concerning in a different way.
It's not at all a way of what people are thinking.
This is a completely different way.
I think when Alex Jones was sued for however much money the money was, I'd say that's a very, because what it makes people do, I mean, if you think about this, fine.
Dude, for how many years did CNN, MSNBC talk about Russia?
How many years was it?
They still talk about it.
For three years, they talked about it.
How come they're not sued over it?
That's a great question.
Why are they not being sued over that hoax that they held?
They should be.
If I'm Trump, if I'm Trump right now, I'm calling my lawyers and I'm saying, you know what?
No problem.
File a $4 billion defamation lawsuit against CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS for the Russian hoax with the Durham report coming out.
Sue them for $4 billion, $5 billion.
He may even do $10 billion because of those every freaking day they did for how long, right?
But I don't think that's the direction we should go to.
But I think we're going.
It's too late.
I'm telling you right now, if Trump is who I think he is and the types of people he has around him, why wouldn't he sue those guys as a defamation?
He's a counterpuncher, isn't he?
He's a New York counterpuncher.
This is a layup counterpuncher to Russia that needs to get done already because you, you know, he can say he hurt the reelection.
They did.
There's so many different things.
They hurt his company, his name, his family, the whole thing.
And Pat, blind you, though, I'm not, listen, we know that there's cheating in voting.
I don't care what anybody says.
I don't know about how grand the scale is, but there was always discrepancies.
Two things I want to ask: are they still going to use the Dominion?
Is Dominion still being used for the next coming elections?
Like, do they have being used all the time?
I believe so.
And there's also something to just keep tabs of, there's another lawsuit coming down the pike from the other vote counting machine, which is called SmartMatic.
You familiar with these guys?
Yeah.
Dominion was suing for what, 1.3 billion.
SmartMatic is suing.
2 billion.
Dominion was suing for 2.7 billion.
Okay.
No, SmartMatic is suing for 2.7 billion.
Dominion was, I think, 1.6, and they got half of it.
Yeah.
Something like that.
$1.
There's so many billions being flown around with this domain, so there's going to be settled right there.
So Fox might end up having to pay another billion dollars for endorsing these lies.
But I heard a lot of it was them bringing on people who were saying discrepancies, especially dude.
Anything computer, I don't care what anybody says.
I'm not saying they did, but can you really trust it?
The integrity of just voting and mailing ballots and all that, all that.
It's just I don't know, dude.
There's a difference we learned from Phil Mudd, CIA, who is here.
He says there's a big difference between what you think and what you can prove.
100%.
And with much respect to Rudy Giuliani, because we had a great time with him.
I thought he was, people thought, was he nuts?
Was he insane?
I was actually no.
No, it was impressive.
He was actually cool.
But he firmly, firmly, firmly thinks that the election was stolen.
But he hasn't done anything to prove it whatsoever.
I remember vividly PBD asking me, this would have been in November of 2020 when I'd never heard of Sidney Powell.
He's like, what do you think about this lady?
And I'm like, I don't, she's, she's, this is when she was like, Hugo Chavez came back from the dead, China, like she's saying all these wild, over-the-top claims.
It's like, holy shit.
She seems credible.
She seems like she has it going on.
He says, what do you think?
I'm like, I don't know.
This is very odd.
It turns out she ended up being a QAnon conspiracy theorist liar.
But it's again, a difference between what you think and what you can prove.
A lot of people genuinely think that the election was stolen.
I get it.
But you haven't proven anything.
But wait a minute.
Those are two different things.
A person, what this can't do, a person should have the right to think and speculate.
The problem with this is, no, this is, you know, well, you know, you have to go prove it is what you need to do.
Yes.
A lot of people that are speculating saying the videos of people doing this, the voting, the lady pulling this and doing it.
That stuff, no one's said a lot of that stuff hasn't been proven wrong.
Yeah, it just hasn't been like, you know, talked about.
Those are two different issues that you got to isolate.
The isolating here is they kept driving this over and over.
Yeah, okay, cool.
I mean, it is what it is.
You chose to settle.
By the way, I've been part of lawsuits, and sometimes you're like, no, I'm not going to settle.
I'm going to go with it.
Great.
It could take four or five years and then you may pay more.
Or you may just say, you know what?
I'll just settle right now, pay half a million dollars or $200,000 or a million dollars and move on.
What they're doing here is they're not saying, they're just saying, let's settle, let's move on, let's put this behind us.
You know, we probably don't have a chance of winning this.
There's a conversation that happens with the lawyer.
They sit there and you tell you, listen, what are the chances we can win something like this?
20%.
But it could cost us this, this, this, this, that.
Okay, if we settle, how much could we pay for right now?
If we win, it's going to be this.
But if we lose, they could get us for the whole thing.
If we settle right now, can you start talking about settling?
Yes.
And then they go start having the discussion.
No, this does not mean there was no possibility of any voter fraud.
This just means Dominion came in.
They fought to protect their name and their reputation.
Part where I would like to see take place, which is deeply concerning, is not needing 45 days to count or 30 days to count, however many days it was to count.
I want to get the results the same night.
So when you all of a sudden say, oh, people stop working, listen, everybody gets skeptical with that.
What do you mean you stop working?
There's one event that happens every four years.
You don't stop working on those days.
You know, when people don't sleep and you have a lot of tired people at work, when there's World Cup.
You know why?
Especially when it's another country and the game is at 2 a.m. and you're waking up to watch the freaking game.
That happens once every four years.
It's called the World Cup.
You don't say, you know what?
We're going to delay this thing because, and then we're tired.
No, no, it's an election.
Sit your ass down, count the votes.
If you don't want to do the job, don't be part of the counting the votes and let somebody else do it that they take this thing valuable.
But that's the area where we sit there and say, I'm sorry, that's a little weird.
So for the people that are skeptical about those types of things, I'm fully supportive of that because we should sit there on election night and go to sleep knowing who our president is for the next four years.
We shouldn't go to sleep and saying we're going to need 35 more days to count.
My six-year-old knows how to count up to pretty high number.
If they're looking for people to count, I can send four people on my kids.
Even Brooklyn is learning how to count.
She's 23 months old.
Okay.
So if they need help, we got some support here for that.
I'll say one thing.
I fully agree with you 1,000%.
There is a difference between being skeptical and questioning and being certain.
And to anybody, whether it's Donald Trump definitely colluded with Russia, 100%.
It's like, oh, you know that, Bob?
Yeah.
Who watches CNN for two hours a day?
You know that?
That's for sure.
Okay.
They definitely stole the election.
It's like, you know that, Bill, because you watched Newsmax after dinner.
Like, you can't be that certain.
You can be skeptical as hell.
No doubt.
I'll say one more thing about Fox News.
And I think one of the biggest reasons why they decided to settle, because the future of their brand hinges on their personalities, whether it's Tucker, whether it's Hannity, whether it's Laura Ingram, the Murdoch, the whole family, the last thing that Fox needs for their brand is Tucker on the hand on the oath, hand on the bubble, on the Bible, swearing under oath.
It's the last thing that they need for their brand.
Let's pay this fine.
It sucks.
Get it over with.
Live to fight another day.
The last thing they needed to do was drag on and on and on and have all their stars, all their executives on the trial.
I think there's something else here.
And what it is, is most folks probably don't understand the calculus of settlement.
The calculus of settlement is about time, is about reputation, and more than anything, discovery.
When you're on the stand, if you go all the way to court, goes on the stand, the other side can say, I want to ask about your HR policies.
And your lawyer says, wait, wait, wait, we object.
This is not related.
No, Your Honor, it goes to their willingness to allow people to do this or this.
And if you get Lachlan and you get Rupert on the stand and you get other people, what happens is you can do a tremendous amount of exploratory questioning that is actually not directly related to the suit.
If you can simply get the judge to agree with you that he'll allow the line of questioning.
And so there is not a media company anywhere in the known universe that wants any of their executives on the stand.
MSNBC doesn't want the producers for Rachel Maddow on there.
Have you ever been in contact?
Were you in contact with Hillary Clinton's campaign on a daily basis and talking about this?
They don't want that.
Well, these 10 emails say you were.
Great perspective.
This is great perspective.
Jim DePodesta says that he reached out to Rachel and Rachel covered.
And actually, in fact, we have the tape here.
Rachel said this, which comes right out of DePodesta's email to you that morning at 10.16 a.m.
That is not what anybody wants.
I do not believe that the media industry, although their news divisions are cheering what just happened to Fox, I don't think anybody in news actually thinks this is a good settlement.
And Pat, I showed this to Rob.
I sent this to you in Slack about what pisses me off about the double standard.
And the left is like, what?
Because it's all the left talking crap.
This is a video of all the Democrats during Trump's election when about how all these machines and all this voting thing is all suspect.
Can you play it, Rob?
Computer voting, because it's so vulnerable.
We need to look at all the voting machines.
Every Secretary of State needs to be assisted in making sure that they are not being hacked and attacked.
I continue to think that our voting machines are too vulnerable.
Researchers have repeatedly demonstrated that ballot recording machines and other voting systems are susceptible to tampering.
Even hackers with limited prior knowledge, tools, and resources are able to breach voting machines.
Isn't that weird?
Isn't this weird?
In 2018, electronic voting machines in Georgia and Texas deleted votes for certain candidates or switch votes from one candidate to another.
The biggest seller of voting machines is doing something that violates cybersecurity 101, directing that you install remote access software, which would make a machine like that a magnet for fraudsters and hackers.
These voting machines can be hacked quite easily.
Really?
Easily hack into them.
It makes it seem like all these states are doing different things, but in fact, three companies are controlling this.
It is the individual voting machines that some pose that pose some of the greatest risks.
There are a lot of states that are dealing with antiquated machines.
They're not able to being hacked.
Workers were able to easily hack into an electronic voting machine.
It was possible to switch votes.
43% of American voters use voting machines.
Thank you.
That researchers have serious security flaws.
But Pat, here's my point.
Stop it before these guys get sued.
Yeah, before they get sued.
So why is it that Dominion and in 2020, everything's going after Trump?
You're hearing them, why all of a sudden is it all good and you should believe in it?
And look at how they're still going, mother.
They're still talking about it.
But it's one side, it's okay, but the other side, it's not.
That was the law.
Let's put a pin in this and come back, Pat, in one year.
I believe this is the law of unintended consequences on parade.
I want to come back in a year.
I'm not trying to stop the conversation right now, but I'd love to come back in a year, replay the last 20 minutes of this podcast, and look at all the stuff that's come out since then.
Because, folks, this is the law of unintended consequences.
The water is coming down and it's going to go over the waterfall.
Can you like tell it to the average sixth grader on what you're trying to say to me?
Yeah.
A year from now, we are going to look back and we are going to see multiple lawsuits because I think Trump is going to come out and do things.
We're going to see other lawsuits against other media companies and other settlements.
And we are going to see just what has just happened here.
Like Portland, Oregon, and all the store closings and everything down there.
They allowed all this stuff during the woke time, Pat.
They defunded their police department.
And now, look, a year later, you look back and you say, that didn't work.
And so that's an unintended consequence.
By the way, it's like you ratted on your sister.
You got her in trouble with your dad.
And then four weeks later, you and your brother got home at 1 a.m.
And then your dad says, well, I grounded her for two weeks.
I'm grounding you for two weeks.
By the way, I would actually love to see that.
I would love to see CNN have to pay a half a billion dollars or whatever the amount is for the lies that they have told.
Of course.
I think if you're going to call out one side, you need to call out both.
Both sides have been peddling disinformation or fake news.
And right now, Fox is paying.
But I think at some point CNN should have to pay.
I mean, CNN is the way it works.
CNN is the king of fake news.
Trump put them on blast and just won.
But Pat, I think you nailed it.
Donald Trump should one, I don't know what he's waiting for, should 100% go after, not just CNN, MSMBC, all of them.
It was, bro, people still today I have people, Pat from Cali that are like, he colluded.
He's a Russian assistant.
How much did Stormy Daniels pay to Trump?
What was the money?
All around?
I think like $500,000.
She just paid to him?
Yeah, she just paid him another $120 million.
$100,000.
She had to pay Time.
She paid all of it, but what's her tab?
Rob, what's her tab?
Oh, yeah, Adam.
Her tab right now is pretty much ordered to pay Trump's attorney fees of $120,000.
This is a couple.
No, that's not all of it.
It's $500,000 plus this.
Yeah.
It's a lot.
So Stormy Daniels has to pay Trump quite a lot of money.
It's not a small amount.
Yeah, Hush Money's supposed to hush.
But here's the point.
The point is, the same way Stormy had to pay her, Stormy had to pay him for, you know, when's the last time you heard that story, though, for a girl that has as much, you know, she's a porn star, right?
That's what she did.
Yeah.
She's paying Trump.
When's the last time a porn star paid guys?
I know.
Dude, that's like bragging rights.
You're at a bar.
The guy says, let me tell you who I just hooked up with this porn star.
Trump says, let me tell you how much a porn star had to pay me for her to hook up with me.
And I gave her a terrible yoke review.
But here's the part.
If that's the case, he needs to play in the offensive.
He needs to play.
Knowing him, I wouldn't be surprised if he does.
He's already suing Michael Cohen for a billion dollars, whatever the number is.
He's one of the most litigious guys in New York.
Oh, wow.
And the number was 3,300 lawsuits.
I don't know the exact number.
He's been in a lot of lawsuits in New York the last 50 years.
If you can type how many lawsuits has Trump been a part of, I don't know why I remember the number 3,300.
It's a big number.
What is the number?
Total.
No, no, no.
Book of Revelation.
Go ahead, Brad.
Rob, I was going to say, a wise man once said at the beginning of the new year, this is the year of investigations.
It is not a lot of time.
Investigations.
It is not going to slow down.
It is not going to slow down.
Okay.
Border crossing searched 23% in March, nearly 200,000 people crossing a border.
Migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border increased by 23% in March compared to February with a total of 191,900 arrivals counted by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The agency stressed that the March figures were down compared to March of the previous year and that the majority, 69% of the encounters were single adults.
Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller noted that the agency continues to work around the clock to maintain border security.
They emphasize that the increase in immigrant and migrant encounters between February and March is typically as winter temperatures rise.
And the 23% increase was significantly less than the 34% surge of the same month last year.
By the way, how big of an issue, Tom, will this be for 2024 elections?
This is going to be huge because what's not being covered is the crime that Arizona and New Mexico and Texas are facing.
If you take a look, and by the way, Greg Abbott, regardless of what you feel about Texas, regardless of what you feel about Greg Abbott, he has been very accurately describing the statistics of crime that are happening in the border cities with all of these folks coming over looking for the jobs, looking for a place, or they're coming over here because they're on a mission because they're part of a drug cartel and they're part of a distribution expansion.
And so this is going to be a huge issue in Arizona and New Mexico.
And you're seeing it.
You're seeing it, Pat, in things moving.
Kerry Lake was just part of it.
Kerry Lake is not Kerry Lake without part of the immigration issue that was creating problems.
Not the racist anti-immigration, because we all came from somewhere.
My folks are from Canada.
Your folks at some point were from Israel.
I mean, look where you were from Iran.
You, wherever you were from.
From New York.
You know, it's like, wherever this guy's from.
No, but we're all here from somewhere.
Give us your tired.
You're poor.
We all come from somewhere.
But the problems that were happening in Arizona, that led to the emergence of Kerry Lake.
And so you take a look at, this is still a huge, huge issue.
And by the way, these folks need housing.
So to all of the people in Hollywood and the music industry, he kept threatening to move to Canada.
Will you please go?
We need room.
Yeah, exactly.
And mind you, let's not lie to ourselves.
These are, like we talked about it before, these are all votes for Democrats.
Because I don't know if you watched Majorkis has been on like the judicial house.
They've been on all these hearings where they're like the Republicans are grilling him.
They keep telling him about all these numbers, all these kids that are coming over.
Pat, they're making these 15-year-old kids work.
And he's like, what about the labor laws?
And no answers, no straight answer.
He always floats around it.
It's a crisis.
Like, look at dude, 23% surge in March.
They want to.
They systematize.
100%.
And they want these people here.
What about all the kids?
They're actually having kids work.
All these kids that are disappearing, that are coming over the border because they're unaccompanied children has skyrocketed.
And it's like the left doesn't care.
All they have to say is, oh, no, we love them.
We care.
They don't give a damn, bro.
Those are going to be votes.
Trust me.
Those are votes for the Democratic Party because they're going to remember those people who let them in.
Because you know what they're going to say?
The Republicans said, no, no, no.
But remember, Democrats, they wanted you to come in here.
Did you see the exchange between Hawley and Alejandro Mayorkas?
I love it.
Did you see that or no?
Let me send this to you, Rob.
I'm going to text with you if you can pull this up.
It's a very interesting exchange that these guys have.
Obviously, he gets pushed pretty hardcore.
Let me see if this is the one.
Yeah, I think this may be the one.
And Pat, he never answers one question, but he never answers one straight answer ever.
Mallorca, he has that smirk on his face because he knows what's going on, bro.
He was put there to just let everybody come in.
Play the second one I'm sending to you.
Not that one.
Play this one I'm about to send to you today.
And Holly's a pretty, you know, he's a gangster.
He doesn't back down.
He's so dumb.
I just sent you the second one.
Play the second one from C-SPAN.
He's OG.
On what these guys are doing.
It's just kind of like, well, you know, look, you know, you are misstating the facts so terribly.
You know, it's a sense of casualness with the issue that's going on at the border.
But I do believe this is also going to be another one of those top five issues that will be brought up in the election in 2024.
If you can make that bigger and this guy doesn't play games.
Holly goes out.
As shelters filled with children, the administration began loosening vetting restrictions and urging case managers to speed the process along.
You have at every stage facilitated this modern-day indentured servitude of minor children.
Yep.
Why should you not be impeached for this?
Senator, I look forward to discussing this issue further because you are misstating the facts so terribly.
I am reading you the facts from articles in the news, and your usual modus operandi is what you're doing again today, which is to deny, deny, deny.
Why have you permitted 345,000 children to come into this country unaccompanied?
Why have you permitted thousands of them to be abused and exploited?
Yep.
Senator.
What we do is we enforce the law.
But let me just say this.
Look, look, where and when?
Yeah, no answer.
Not one.
Pat, they got time.
Keep playing.
But guys, and mind you, for everybody that's watching this too, go and watch these in full length.
He doesn't answer one question.
The Republicans are the only ones holding his foot to the fire.
You know what the Democrats are saying?
When they ask him questions, they're like, so, you know, you're letting these people, you're helping these people.
What's your favorite video game?
Like, stuff like that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, it's like, it's insane.
And again, these are going to be one of those points where when it comes to voting time, people are going to say, listen, look at the border.
Look how many are coming over.
Look at the search.
But dude, by that time, it might be too late.
It is a real issue, though.
It is a real issue.
By the way, I saw the, if you have Megan Kelly's clip, Megan Kelly responds and she's furious with some of the stuff that's going on.
If you have a video, she did not hold back.
And man, I hope the Megan Kelly, who is a dog, she's a fighter.
When I say dog, I mean like a fighter fighter.
She's an attorney.
She is a beast.
I hope she, she, by the way, she goes after everybody.
So it's not, if you want Megan Kelly, you're going to get all of Megan Kelly.
And I don't mind it.
I think she's tough, and I think we need her voice.
And what does she say?
Check this out.
Look at what she says here.
Nike sponsoring Dylan Mulvaney now for the first time.
No, not this one.
This is not the one.
Nope, this is not the one.
It's what she talked about yesterday.
With the sports bras.
Not just the sports bras.
She says, I go to the gynecologist and I'm having my, and she says how frustrating it is to go through that.
And this girl is saying, you don't have a vagina.
You have a hole.
And she just went off.
She hasn't seen it.
No, I'm not.
Oh, man.
I hope.
I thought Rob had it.
No, we can go to the next story.
I'll look for it and I'll send it to you.
It's a very, very, okay, I'll promise to talk about it here today.
We got 15 more minutes.
We'll go to another story and we'll come back to this.
So 50 state report.
GOP-led states are in best economic conditions.
Okay, GOP-led states are in best.
That's not a, she didn't have that top on.
I can tell you exactly.
She had a Navy blue top on.
Okay.
So the American Legislative Exchange Council released a report ranking all 50 states best to worst for economic conditions based on 15 metrics, mostly related to state tax environment with Utah ranking as a number one state followed by North Carolina and Arizona.
Republican-led states largely filled the better parts of the ranking while Democrat-led states fell to the bottom with the top 10 states almost entirely being Republican-led and the bottom 10 states all Democratic-led.
The bottom of the ranking is occupied by Democrat, by New York, Vermont, Minnesota, Jersey, Illinois, while the top half of states offer more economic opportunity and a better quality of life as taxpayers continue to move towards states that have a lower cost of life and it can get it right with policy.
Can you pull up this ranking there, Rob, if you have the story?
If you can pull up this article, this is the Epoch Times story with the title.
If you just want to Google it, the title says 50 State Report GOP-led.
If you just type that, it'll come up.
50 State Report, GOP-led.
And it should be an Epoch Times.
Yeah, if you just put that, it should come up.
There you go, right there.
So if you can go to the ranking, I want them to see the ranking.
Keep going lower.
We can subscribe later to this.
Yeah, keep going lower, lower, lower, lower.
There you go.
Okay, the full ranking of the states.
Utah, Carolina, Arizona, Idaho, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Indiana, North Dakota, Florida, Nevada, top 10.
Okay.
Then Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, South Dakota, Arkansas.
Pretty much nine out of the top 10, I think the number was is all Republican-led.
Now go to the bottom 10.
Go to the bottom 10 is what you're looking at.
New York is the lowest, worse for best economic condition.
This right here states, if you want a fighting chance with your savings, with taxes, with growth, with you to have a shot at having a, you know, a retirement one day where you can retire with dignity and enjoy the times and have a fighting shot at saving money, having a decent weekend, doing all of that stuff.
Red states offer that more than blue states do.
Period.
And economy is something that is common sense, it's math, it's data.
It's not just ideas.
It's not lip service.
Nope.
There is economy.
There is data.
And that can be argued.
Tom, what are your thoughts about the story here?
Well, I look at it and I see, if I'm blue, what is the highest ranking state?
And, you know, I'm thinking of climate and stuff.
And it's the vast wasteland that is Nevada is number 10.
So I thought that was sort of amusing.
And then to get to another blue state, I think I had to get all the way down to number 16, Michigan.
So surprising that Michigan was like number 16.
But I look at this and it basically just says that when you favor three principles, liberty, free enterprise, and capitalism as your tenants of freedom, look what happens.
Look what happens economically in your state.
And you know what?
Strong economics lead to proper coffers full of properly taxed people, not excessively taxed.
And you can turn that into education.
You can turn it into infrastructure.
I look at this and it's more than just the economic condition.
It's also what that economic condition enables as a state that has so much else to offer.
It's shocking.
And I go say, what is the worst red state you could live in?
It's number 36, Nebraska, red state.
And so there's 14 blue states behind Nebraska.
I was just shocked looking at this at how stark it is when you make an objective assessment of what's the playing field to allow a great economy and the principles of freedom, liberty, free enterprise, entrepreneurship.
It's so clear.
Adam, how you process this?
Because typically when you see numbers like this, you come back and you say, show me the bottom 10 states.
No.
Who the hell wants to live at?
Why do I want to live at a place like that?
I fully agree.
Why would anybody want to live in a town bunch of problems and sit in return with Kansas?
And you say things like that, right?
I sound like a 1920s news reporter is what you're saying.
Why would you?
Oh, I'll show you, Kappa.
That's the ticket.
You know how it sounds.
So, but tell us, Sweetheart.
Well, let me tell you, Peevo.
What are you processing?
What are your shotguns here?
Tell us at this point.
Well, I think if you're going to look at your money, you kind of got to look at it holistically.
You know, one of the things I always say is that you have offense and you also have defense, right?
So you might be able to put the most points on the board in New York.
We just established they have the most millionaires of any other state in the country.
California, their GDP is greater than pretty much most countries.
But just because you make a ton of money, then there's the defense, which is your expenditures and how much money you're leaking in cost of living and taxes and over-regulation and being a non-friendly business climate, i.e. New York.
So if you look at the, it's not just making all the money because clearly you can make more money in states like New York, like in California, in Massachusetts, but you're going to be spending a lot more to live there.
So you're going to find that healthy balance.
And that's why I think a lot of people are moving to Florida.
Yeah.
And those other company country.
Why don't you do it with that voice, though?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think you should move to Florida.
Yeah.
I'm not here, T.
Yeah.
New York.
You make all the money in New York and then you move to Florida and you pay no taxes.
Yeah, that's escaping.
Then you go to Puerto Rico.
By the way, what's crazy is what people don't realize is Adam's voice on the podcast is not his real voice.
This is Adam's real voice when we leave the podcast.
That's how we talk.
You walking fool.
Yeah, see?
That's right.
Tom, go ahead.
So Tom actually sounds like a lot of people.
That looks like Bill Clinton in real life.
He just has this, you know, the BizDoc voice here.
Go ahead, Tom.
Jump what you got.
Can you tell us in your bill voice?
Send in the interns.
You know what?
When I look at this, to what you just said, New York has the most millionaires for now.
California is the number seven economy in the world for now because we're seeing it.
We're seeing the drainage.
There's a leak at the bottom of them.
And five years from now, what is that going to look like?
But that's very true.
A tremendous amount of wealth was made.
Without Silicon Valley, we don't have the iPhone and tons of other products that have made life better.
Without the venture capital industry, you don't have electric cars and a lot of things that have made life better.
California is not all bad.
This is talking about right now, what has the leadership of these states done to give an economic playing field now to keep it?
And these guys are deep into the second half of their game and they're losing it and they're fumbling the ball.
And that's why people are leaving.
Great sports now.
That's a great sports.
Now I'm saying, Tom, that's a tough.
Tom, you're not very good.
What's this guy going to do?
Can you talk like that on a date?
How do the girls say?
Oh my God.
I talk like this, Copper.
Dave Chappelle did amazing sketch.
Look at this guy.
He doesn't know the meaning of the word fair.
If you look at his report card, it doesn't mean any other words either.
Did you find our friend Megan Kelly?
Well, I'm trying to see if he found it or not.
If I text you something, but that's from two months ago.
There's another thing that just came up from a day ago, which I'll find here for you.
Did you see the one I just sent you?
Isn't it just Megan Kelly?
I love what she says here as well.
You can play this one.
I'll send the other one about a man will never be a woman, is what you say.
Man cannot become a woman.
Woman cannot become a man.
That's from a day ago.
But I want you to play this first.
So watch this one.
Watch this one.
It's 42 seconds.
If we don't find our voices and start speaking up against this nonsense, we can kiss every woman's face goodbye.
We can kiss women's rights goodbye.
No, no, Rob, that's not the thing.
Rob, did I not text it to you?
Last clip, last text I have is Joshua.
My bad.
I text it to myself, man.
It's my fault.
I just love to send it to you.
Come on, PBD.
Come on, PBD.
You stuck your game on.
Then do you have it?
You text it to yourself.
I just texted to him.
He has it now.
By the way, it's very fun to talk in that voice.
Oh, God.
PBD, give it a shot.
Why are you misleading people where we know that's your real voice?
That's just better than one.
Why are you doing that?
Hey, girl, come on.
You're acting like you have this flawless voice or whatever.
And it's like James Cagney in 1955.
Yeah, that's what you do.
That's what it is.
Okay, go ahead, Rob.
If you got it.
Why is it making my blood boil that Kristen claims to have a gynecologist?
Part of it is, I just actually went to the gynecologist.
It's never particularly pleasant.
The exam doesn't feel particularly good.
The pap smear is very uncomfortable.
No one looks forward to that.
We actually have things we need to worry about, like ovarian cancer, things that are particular to that exam and that relationship that no fucking man is ever going to have.
All right.
So that guy doesn't have a gynecologist.
That guy has a hole that a surgeon created at best.
There are things that make women special, and there are things that we've overcome and that we must overcome as women in order to thrive in this life, whether it's the threat of sexual violence or being attacked as we walk home from college bars to our dorms, the fears that you have when you go to the gynecologist, all those things, they're baked in.
And it's part of what makes women so incredible and strong.
And you can't just become one and take all of our things because you did or did not have a surgery or you put on a dress.
It doesn't work like that.
Spoken like a true woman.
I love this.
I love her.
Let me tell you how necessary a voice like Megan Kelly is right now in this insane situation.
You know who needs to speak more about this trans situation?
Women.
You know who needs to speak up more about this Chelsea handler boss, babe?
I don't need no man, no thing.
I don't need no kids.
Mothers.
Okay, you know who needs to speak about the feminization of men and these pussy boys that were creating this toxic masculinity?
Women that like real men.
And someone like Megan Kelly, I think, represents all of that and then some.
And her voice is very necessary.
I agree.
And maybe we get her on.
But Pak asked you a question.
Why is it that it's just, this is my opinion.
But as much as you know, as much as you say that, then why is it that more women like Chelsea Handler are turned on by you?
Yeah, they love Adam.
Why?
Because here's how I talk to Chelsea.
I say, come to my room, Chelsea.
That should be hanging out.
Knowing her, she would probably like that.
It is.
Go ahead.
My point is, I agree with you.
I 100% agree with her.
But is it just me or are we just seeing the voices that are sticking up for these people?
It's only from the right.
The left, they can't even define what a woman is.
They asked who's that?
The girl that went up for SCOTUS.
She couldn't even, they're like, what's a woman?
She goes, I'm not a biologist.
I can't.
Why is the left so one?
Is it just pandering because they...
Well, it is changing.
We've seen it.
You see what happened with Anna Kasparian, right?
Who's the co-host of the Young Turks?
I didn't see what she's basically saying, I'm a mother.
I'm not a birthing person.
I refuse to just kowtow to this ridiculous terminology that you want me to use.
I'm a mother.
And I'm not going to be ashamed for being a mother.
I'm not going to start using phrases like birthing person.
But it's starting to change.
Let me just discuss that.
That's one person.
I'm talking about the Biden administration.
Everybody in the what, none of them, they're worshiping these people.
They're going to start bringing a bunch of these stickers.
But here's what I think about that.
Let them do it.
Exactly.
I think you let them do it.
And I think election time, you're going to see some of the people that are going to say, look, common sense eventually catches up.
Okay.
When we're kids, we don't have a lot of common sense.
We think our parents are idiots.
We think they have no clue what the hell they're talking about.
And then the more and more you age, the more and more you realize, you know, these old people living there, they're kind of smarter than me.
Okay.
It's kind of annoying.
Common sense eventually prevails with parent-kid relations.
If you have good parents, I'm not telling everybody, you know, father ran away.
I'm talking about, you know, common sense prevails.
When it comes down to things like this, election, you're hoping that eventually this also prevails.
I want to play one more clip by Megan Kelly, then one more clip by Pierce Morgan debate, which is phenomenal.
And then we'll wrap up the podcast.
You guys got to see this.
Play this next clip with Megan Kelly.
Oh, Megan Key.
No, go Megan first.
I send that one to you as well.
Okay, go ahead.
Seeing people like Riley Gaines, the swimmer we discussed, chased into some room as a kidnapped victim because she tries to stand up for fairness in sports.
And they've had it.
They've seen kids who, instead of getting honest psychological care, only get affirmed.
You're right.
You are a boy.
You're not a girl.
You should go on cross hormones immediately.
They get sterilized.
They go right to puberty blockers, right to cross-sex hormones, and they are sterile.
Not only that, no orgasms for them in their future.
Nice.
Is that informed consent for a 14-year-old who's going through body issues and that's all?
What she really needed was a good, honest therapist.
No, we're standing up and we're fighting not because of some stupid group that decided to make a wedge issue out of it, but because the leftists have lost their mind and some of us still have it tethered to the truth.
Men cannot become women.
Women cannot become men.
Biological sex is real.
If you've got issues with respect to your gender, you can work them out on your own time and manifest them however you want.
Doesn't make you a woman.
Seeing beautiful kink.
I love her where she's at.
Man, make you wake up.
She's getting fired up.
I love it.
People think about her.
I want to remind you of something.
This is a lawyer.
She went to law school, and then she was working for Jones Day, and she was the one of her key clients was a company called Experian Credit Company.
And so what you see here is well-reasoned argument.
This is not a lunatic.
This is well-reasoned argument.
And this is exactly, if this is what you're thinking, this is what you're feeling, this is what you should be expressing with friends and family.
Maybe not with that tone, but expressing it with friends and family.
I am.
I'm talking to my daughters.
They're asking me questions.
I'm talking to people, not just at church where people think a lot the way I do, but other people I run into.
A reasoned thing.
I'm not hiding my opinion.
I'm not sitting behind anything.
And this is, she is the flag carrier for what we should be saying because there's truth in there.
This is not her lunatic opinion.
This is truth.
No, that's great.
And by the way, yesterday, this happened yesterday or two days ago in Bill Maher.
Katie Porter and Pierce Morgan went back and forth.
And if you haven't seen this, Pierce is her.
You got to see this.
So watch this.
Mike Shoulders.
Go ahead.
Play this.
You should be able to have a civil debate.
Nobody, including Riley Gates, who I disagree with strongly, should be supporting.
What do you disagree with out of intro?
I think that it should be up to sporting bodies to make the decisions about who would be aware of.
What has she said that's actually wrong?
I think that what she has done is try to turn this.
We talked about people becoming using things to kind of get likes and get clicks.
That's not what she's doing.
I've got no truck to ride against personally, but all I've seen her do is stand up for women's rights to fairness and equality.
She actually competed against Leah Thomas, and it was obviously unfair.
Leah Thomas won one of the races in the NCAA championships by 50 seconds against a bunch of biological females who simply couldn't keep up.
That cannot be right.
It cannot be fair.
That is something that's common sense is clapping.
Yeah, common sense is clapping.
Has the room isn't.
Sporting bodies should be dealing with.
And by the way, Riley is speaking up for herself, and that is her prerogative.
And I respect that.
No, she's speaking up for pretty much every female athlete in the world.
Yes.
Common sense claims that again.
They're Democrats, by the way, the audience.
Majority in the early 70s.
It was something that was a major event in feminism that we finally have this law that says at colleges, right?
And I think, but definitely colleges, women's sports have to be given equal to men's sports so that women aren't getting, you know, and this led to the WNBA and lots of other stuff.
This seems to be the opposite of that.
It seems to be so many instances, I think, where wokeness is the opposite of what I grew up as liberalism.
Liberalism was let's give the women an equal shot.
Let's put a male in the swimming pool with the women.
I don't get it.
It's crazy.
And meanwhile, trans people who genuinely want to compete at athletics and swimming or whatever it may be, they're the ones who are suffering here.
They need to be found a way to compete fairly and justly.
Well, what's your answer then?
I think there's one of two answers.
I think they either compete against their biological sex, as many of them did before, or you create an entirely new category for a transgender athlete.
Common sense collapsed again and she's silent.
She can't talk.
She doesn't hold you.
No argument.
What you want to do is continue to allow more and more trans athletes to start decimating women's records, in some cases, irrevocably.
It's just not fair.
Okay.
By the way, she has nothing to say.
Period.
Nothing to say.
That's the part about common sense.
There is nothing you can say about what he just said.
In that debate right there, two men defended biological women where a biological woman defended a biological male.
Yes.
Tell me that's not confusing.
Upside down clowns.
At the end of the day, a woman with no danger of having an abortion was silent.
That was perfect.
Two men are telling a woman what real women should be.
That is so freaking on point.
That is when confusion, people sit there and say, yeah, this doesn't make sense.
Yes.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
I watch Bill Maher every Friday night.
Well, usually I watch it Saturday morning because I'm out Friday night, but I always watch the show.
And this audience is 80, 90% liberal leftist.
I've been there.
I've been on that set.
They're not exactly MAGA.
Complete options.
Exactly.
But when they're clapping and giving rounds of applause for basically what he's standing up for, common sense, they're just like, look at me.
This is so far-fetched.
Enough's enough.
What are we doing here, guys?
You know what we need a value tame, Pat?
We need the common sense roundup.
And once a week, let's grab all these clips together that are all common sense and let's put them back to back to back and let value tainers everywhere go look at us and we'll curate it.
And I loved movie clips that do this too.
You go back to Jaws.
It says, Hoopa, you go in the water.
Cage goes in the water.
You go in the cage and the shock's in the water.
Okay.
And the speech from Scot of a Woman.
There are so many examples of common sense that we could put out here, both from film and from real life.
I think people need to allow themselves to be heard when they have an opinion of common sense and do not allow the woke life.
I love it.
Don't allow woke life to cause you to be silent.
Start with your friends and family.
Don't stand on a table at lunch and get fired at work, but start with your friends and family and put common sense back on the table.
Folks, we got to go in the water is what we got to do.
You guys have a great weekend.
Tomorrow, I will be in LA and Saturday.
And then I think we do have podcasts next Tuesday.
Are we doing podcasts next Tuesday?
We're not doing podcasts next Tuesday.
No, next Thursday.
So we don't have anything next week.
No, I don't see.
We have SLS.
That's right.
We got SLS at I Got You, which, by the way, at SLS, we're going to make the announcement of the guests at the vault and people are going to freaking flip out when we make that announcement.
