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0:00 Intro
8:00 CA & NY Exodus
20:00 American spending
27:00 CVS Strike
30:00 McDonalds
40:00 Scott Galloway
1:00:00 Fentanyl
1:08:00 Haley Popularity
1:17:00 Starlink in Gaza
1:30:00 Turkey / Strongest Military in the Middle East
1:37:00 Picking leaders who stays out of WW3
Why would you pet on Goliath when we got bet David?
Value tame is giving values contagious.
This world of entrepreneurs, we get no value to hate it.
I run, homie, look what I become.
I'm the one.
Okay.
Episode number 322.
Where is she?
Where is she, Vinny?
You look like somebody that we know.
Who's that?
Like, Bruce Bet David or somebody.
Very different character.
Who is this character here?
I don't even know.
Who are you?
We're just driving.
The BizDoc is here to race.
Can you still hear it, though, Tom?
That's what I want to know.
Yeah, are you even hearing anything?
Are you hearing anything through that helmet of yours?
Did you say something?
Yeah, exactly.
And then we got somebody here from.
Where are you from, by the way?
Listen, BBD.
I've been a big fan for you for a while now, brother.
What's your name?
What's your name?
Jimbo.
Jimbo.
Yeah.
No last name?
Go by one name, like share.
Oprah.
Or Bruce Jenner.
Who'd you vote for?
Come on, player.
Ron DeSantis.
If I have to wear this mask for one more second, let's just go to Rob first.
My cheeks are about to blow up.
Rob, can you focus on Rob, please?
Rob, you're giving, so it's free mammograms to everybody in the office?
Yes.
Or anybody here.
What a sweetheart.
What a nice night.
And your wife helped you make that?
Nice.
Here, I'll help you fill up some of these.
You gotta be careful, Vennie.
Fill a hole.
This is no joke, leather.
I'm gonna take this thing off.
From top to bottom.
This is what you got here.
Stand up real quick.
Let's go, boy.
see you i'm totally this is a real van You gotta look, come up here.
Alan, get your wild ass over here.
See what you look like, huh?
There we go.
Prisoner or president.
Yeah, look at that, though.
President.
My president.
Let's get this podcast started.
Let's get this started.
I got my fangs in.
Hope.
Oh, God.
I wore this mask.
Sam must have been pissed off.
Sam is laughing his ass off right now.
Extra small hat.
Oh, my gosh.
Ridiculous.
BBD, when you're as rich as Bruce Wayne and you own the building, you do the hell would you want?
No one knows a mask.
Tom, you keep your damn helmet on.
Adam, pull the zipper down a little bit on the back.
Excuse me?
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
He's used to it.
I beg your pardon.
Here we go.
Go a little bit more.
In about 10 minutes, taking this thing off.
BBD, I've been dreaming of this my whole life.
Okay.
I've been waiting for you to say help.
Show with my zipper.
We got a lot of stories to get into today.
We got a lot of stories to get into today.
Let's see what we got here.
Matthew Perry, obviously what happened with him being dead at 54 years old after parent drowning.
We'll talk about that.
Tragic.
Erdogan threatens to declare war on Israel and sends military to Gaza and chilling warning.
U.S. Marines assault ship sailing towards Israel over fears of regional conflict developing.
Musk offers Starlink internet for recognized aid organizations in Gaza.
Groups behind Israel bashing protests, backing Hamas.
Attacks got $50 million from the one and only Soros.
Nikki Haley continues her ascent.
Ties DeSantis for second in Iowa.
Gold standard poll.
Penn suspends campaign, unfortunately.
Larry Elder drops out of 2024.
Crazed man dragged from Hillary Clinton event.
Should have heard what he had to say.
Professor Galloway wants grace.
He wants forgiveness.
For people who pushed COVID lockdowns, we were doing our best.
We'll talk about that.
We got to play that clip for you because you got to see how much grace he had.
IRS chief hints at possibility of audits may rise for Americans earning under $400,000.
So folks, if you're listening to this, you make less than $400K.
They may be coming after you as well.
Americans can't stop spending money.
Five reasons why mapped where Americans are moving.
LA and other liberal cities amongst biggest targets as organized crime problems cost retailers billions.
California and New York lost a combined 1.4 million residents in 2022.
And then we got a couple other stories.
McDonald's, what's been happening with them?
Price hikes.
You ready for this?
At a McDonald's in Connecticut, the Big Mac combo bowl went for $18.
$18.
Is that just high for me?
Does that sound like an insane number?
Number one is like seven bucks.
That's insane.
$18 for a combo in Connecticut.
And it's not like it's in the high-end shot.
It's like, you know what?
It's not a Greenwich.
No, no.
What do you call them when trucks go through?
What do you call it?
Truck stop.
Truck stop.
Yeah, apparently.
That's right.
Truck stop.
I apologize.
Elon Musk declares X will be a fully fledged dating site within a year.
Oh, yeah.
And then last but not least, U.S. companies shy away from debt markets as Treasury route drives up costs.
By the way, here's what we're going to do by the end of the podcast.
If we can make it with this 200-degree temperature outfit that I got on.
We will be announcing our next guest on our live podcast.
And it is a presidential candidate.
And some of you guys will get a chance to meet him.
And tickets will sell out in no time, specifically the ones to get a chance to meet him in the cigar lounge in the back.
So if you want to be one of the first to get the link to get your tickets before it sells out, we will announce it at the end of the podcast.
Text the word podcast to 310-340-1132.
Again, text the word podcast to 310-340-1132.
It'll be at our club, 5990 live.
Okay, and Rob, put the link in details below as well for people to go through it.
Adam, or Jimbo.
So tell us about your outfit and why you dress like this.
Look, man, I think we all know for the past three, four years we've been doing the PBD podcast.
It's all been an act.
We all know that.
You know who I am on the inside.
This is really who I am.
Everyone thinks that I'm just like some leftist woke bullshit tranny banging, Bud Light drinking, wiener smoking type of guy.
It's not me.
We actually crash your wife.
Just robot.
But I got you guys a gift.
What you got us a gift?
Are you hot, Pat?
Yeah, 200 degrees.
You want something to cool down with you, bro?
I got you.
Tom, I got you too, buddy.
What'd you got?
See, Trump supporters are actually generous.
You see that, Tom?
Hang on.
What do you got?
I think there's something going on here.
America first.
I think there's something going on.
Here we go.
I'm not going to lie.
I'm a little drunk.
I want to make sure you can cool down with me, brother.
I just want to have a cup of beer with you.
Are you going to do one of these or no?
I don't drink, bro.
I'm just telling you.
Tom's not even touching this.
He won't even touch it.
He won't even touch it.
Wow.
Listen.
You know, UFC just signed a deal with Bud Light.
Yeah.
Dana White?
Bud Light, Vinny.
Now, listen, boy.
If Dana White approves Bud Light, it's all right.
It's got to be all right.
Listen, I'm trying to make Bud Light great again, Vinny.
You need your help.
You're doing that.
Anyway, I'm going to have a beer, Pat.
Go ahead, go for it.
None of you guys are going to join me on a beer.
After I have my protein in my vault, I may.
But then that mixture, I don't know what it's going to produce.
Can you imagine?
America got it.
All of a sudden, I turn into something.
I'm going to have one.
Okay, so let's go into which story do we want to get into first?
Do we want to get into Trump?
I say we get into California and New York lost a combined 1.4 million residents in 2022.
Let's go to this number here to see what the number looks like.
By the way, the thing with this is, Rob, can you also pull up the net migration number as well?
Because this may be the, okay, let's go through this and then we'll see it.
Okay, so California and New York lost, they combined 1.4 million residents in 2022.
Florida and Texas are the big winners in America, America's ongoing migration trend with Florida gaining 249,000 residents.
Texas welcoming 174,000 more newcomers than departures.
Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina saw more arrival coming than departures.
While California and New York combined for nearly 1.4 million lost.
Holy moly, 1.4 million.
Migration patterns are primarily driven by employment, housing affordability, lowering, lower living costs and tax consideration.
High taxes, elevated crime rates, and an influx of migrants are pushing people away from states like New York.
While housing costs and taxes are key drivers of California population laws, tough new environmental rules, such as the restrictions on non-zero emissions vehicles, are also contributing to California's exodus.
Can you imagine that?
Restrictions on non-zero emissions vehicles.
And then at the top, the next story is LA, other liberal cities among biggest targets as organized crime problems cost retailers billions.
Tom, when you see the story, what do you think about it?
Well, California, New York, I'm going to do some math for you.
1.4 million residents lost.
After the last census, each congressman and Rob, if you could pause the mammograms for a second, maybe look this up.
I believe an congressional district is now 750, a little over 750, which means that California and New York have lost each one congressman when we come up and we do the reassessment after the census.
So what that means is California, I'll translate it the other way, in election year, California, New York have probably each lost another electoral vote the next time that we adjust the playing field.
And there's going to be new congressmen, probably, probably one Texas, one Florida, the way it's going.
That's the first part.
I look at this and I say, people talk about the exodus.
We also have to remember this exodus is realigning our government.
Those are probably going to be bright red or at least purple if it happens to be in the Austin area, be more of a purple representative.
But that's the first thing that I see.
And then the second thing I see is that, you know, bad actors are just taking advantage of it.
Like what's happening with Los Angeles and the liberal cities, you know, defund the police to all this, and now the crime is up.
You know, I was reading that the Ox, excuse me, the Canoga Park Nordstrom that was in the San Fernando Valley that we all saw, this was about two months ago, the big looting.
And Pat and I were there.
Wait, we used to walk in that door with our time.
All the time from Topanga Canyon.
It was Topanga Canyon Victory, an area called Topanga Canyon, Topanga Mall.
Now it's, I guess, Westfield or something.
But we used to walk there and feel relatively safe shopping there.
Yet look at what was happening there.
Apparently, that was an organized crime group that did that massive smash and grab.
And so defund the police.
You know, California, wait, you know, if it's not $1,000, we won't even prosecute the theft.
You know, you break a window on a car, take a laptop.
If it's not more than a grand, they don't need you.
You can report it to insurance companies.
You know, it's crazy you're saying that they're pushing out and they're causing this and they're going to get a government restructuring.
But here's the question though.
Here's the question though.
It says organized retail crime is escalating across U.S. with retailers reporting.
Do you know how much inventory loss it is?
Does this seem like an insane number?
$112 billion in 2023.
Let me say that one more time.
$112 billion in losses.
Not million.
Billion.
Guys, Tom, does that sound like a big number?
That sounds like a massive number to me.
If we were to look at that, hey, do something real quick.
I think I have one here.
Tom, why are you yelling at Rob today?
Rob.
Hey, Rob.
Rob, can you look up Levi Strauss revenue last year?
Because to Pat's point.
I'm wearing Levi's right now.
Pat's point, we're going to see what Levi Strauss' revenue is and compare it to $112 billion.
Look at this.
Look at this.
$6 billion.
So what is this?
This is 20 Levi's.
Wow.
20 Levi's.
It's to Pat's point.
Do I think it's a big number?
That's a massive number.
You know about Levi Strauss, right?
Nazis.
You lose.
By the way, they make great jeans.
Let me tell you.
Don't be wearing them buttonfly 501s because it takes some hookers longer to open them.
Damn right.
But Pat, I have a statement and I have a question.
First of all, Vinny, talk like God.
You need vampire.
You need Velcro or zippers.
I mean, Vinny.
I can't.
Because the whole time you were talking, he's just like, damn, bastards breaking in Mantra.
I got something to say.
Here's my Vinny.
Go with Pat's question.
This is 20 Levi's.
No, but no, this is where I'm going.
Florida and Texas, they're saying Florida and Texas are the big winners.
I don't think it's big winners.
I don't think we're winning that everybody wants to come here because I don't think it's going to help us out.
But number one, number two, Pat, when you see something like that, $140, what, $101 billion?
$112 billion.
Defund the police.
I don't believe in anything like, oh, we just want to do because we cared about cops telling.
This seems like a concerted effort to make all those shops shut down, all those places shut down, where the government has to go in and the government opens up the businesses.
And then you have to, and obviously they're going to have their own security.
This isn't by accident, Pat.
That's not a defund the police and all these $1,000 at Tom, $1,000.
Wait, Are you saying like our government's going to, I got to ask.
I see where you're going.
I understand you.
God bless you.
I love you.
But I think you just said like the government's going to operate malls and got like.
Well, not my American.
Not in my America.
But Tom, my question is this.
They say defund the police.
All this smashing grab.
Wait, make it make sense to me.
Under $1,000, I think it was $1,800 in some places.
I thought California was misdemeanor and they won't even prosecute you.
So that's one thing.
So crime, we're not going to get you in trouble.
And then defund the police.
That's what's happening.
So you don't see a pattern where they're purposely doing it to make all these places shut down.
$115 billion?
You think that's just an accident that just happened, Tom?
I'm being genuine.
What's the main goal?
I don't look at it as face values.
Take a step back.
Do I think there are kick his ass, Vinny?
Do I think there are globalists that like what they're seeing here in terms of civil unrest?
Yes, I do.
But do I think our own government is somehow behind, you know, let's do this?
Well, the government is behind.
Tom, they're the ones that are saying defund the police.
And they're the ones that are saying, you know, crime under $2,000 at $1,800 isn't a crime.
It's like they want the chaos, Tom.
Why?
I'm asking why.
Yeah.
I think the globalists and the ones that, you know, supported BLM and things and a certain George Soros.
Yes.
Yeah.
And a certain governor from Michigan.
Gretchen.
Gretchy Baby.
And yeah, do I think they want the civil unrest?
Do I think they want to defund the police and that was their agenda?
Yes.
But government Big G, no, I don't think they want this.
There's people in government, the squad and everybody, that love the fact this is happening and think of it as a form of income redistribution.
Guys, this is called the PBD podcast.
Not the Tom and Vinny circle jerk.
Let you lived in Pat, let the boy.
You lived in California for how long?
Hang on, hang on.
Pat.
Sam, like 15, 20 years?
Pat.
24 years.
Vinny and I are going at it.
Yeah, okay.
Let the boy watch.
But do you think it's a concerted effort?
Because they're going to shut down all this stuff.
They obviously want us buying online with Amazon and stuff.
You guys see, did you guys see what the Disney guy who owns the most shares came out said?
Can you type in?
I don't even think we have that story here.
Type in Disney shareholder.
You know, he's a two and a half billion dollar guy, put two and a half billion, go to news and two and a half billion.
He says, This guy came out and said something.
Uh, go to news, zoom a little bit.
Yeah, right there, right there.
The first one right there at the top.
So, here's what you got to look at that has to do with the story in LA.
Activist Peltz wants multiple seats at Disney, owns two and a half billion dollars in stake in Mickey Mouse, okay, mouse house.
Then you go lower, and this guy says, But the Disney stock's down 30%.
The 82-year-old billionaire investor is now expected to ask the company for multiple board seats, including one for himself, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
And then, you know, he's asking for certain changes, what they got to do, what's going on with New York-based Trine has increased its ownership five-fold since then buying another 6.4 million shares of Disney.
That's a lot of shares of Disney you own, right?
And then, guess what's going on with these guys at the board?
They're sitting there saying, What the hell are we doing with Disney?
What are we doing with Disney?
Guys, we got to make money.
I'm not putting money into Disney because I'm running a non-profit.
I understand this liberal stuff you guys got that you want to do, and we're listening to all these people that are working at Disney that are telling us how many candidates or actors or stuff need to be part of the LGBTQ community.
If we start losing money, we're not happy, right?
Disney shareholders.
That makes it very honest.
Why?
Because you have to produce a product that works for people.
If malls are already getting destroyed, the mall business model is already not working.
The mall business model is already a thing of the past.
Malls today are more of a showroom.
Come here, see this, and then go buy online.
How many people you see go to the mall, do this?
How many of you have done this before?
You go, you're like, okay, let me see how this thing is.
Then you go straight on Amazon.
Yeah.
Discount boom.
Okay, this thing's at $2.99 here.
I can buy for $198 on such and such.
Okay, great.
Babe, order one of these.
It's at your house the next day.
Sometimes the same day.
The other day we ordered something for the kids.
At one o'clock, by six o'clock, it was on our front porch.
I'm like, wait, what do you, why would you even go to the mall?
Yeah, exactly.
Why would you now you order food comes to you?
Now you order shop comes to you.
So for me, there's a part of this, the $120 billion that these businesses that are moving to states like Florida, you know, Texas, Carolina, some of these places, it's because capitalism's eventually going to get the people who risked all their money, who spend hours, months, years working their businesses, risking all this stuff.
They're going to say, what are we doing with all this stuff?
I don't think this business model is going to work for too long, but they're destroying the mall model for allowing people to shoplift.
That's what I think.
Yep.
And I wonder who's going to take over those malls.
Let's go.
Can I give you my thoughts?
Go for it.
Yeah, let's hear it.
Look, Pat, where am I from?
What state?
I would say you're probably born and raised my whole life, Pat.
Lubbock, Texas.
Stop it.
Don't bullshit me now.
Come on.
Where are you from, bro?
You know where I'm from, Pat.
Florida.
I'm born and raised, Florida.
Yeah.
I went to school in Tallahassee, Florida.
I've been living in Tallahassee for half my life.
California, I've never lived there.
Never would.
Shit show.
No.
Like, I went to San Francisco.
They were literally giving shit maps.
Poop show.
So, like, the woke shit show that is California.
It's too far gone.
You had DeSantis on here yesterday.
He's going to debate what's that Pirty Boy or DeSantis Newsome.
This freaking guy.
You Hall employee of the year.
Three years running, Gavin.
But he goes on a Hannity and he's got his little stats and facts.
And he's, Hannity's lightweight.
You think he can't compete with me?
He's slick talking, fast talking, just paid, pay-for-play politician.
You know, it's probably going to happen.
You know, Joe Biden ain't making it.
It's probably this fucking Yahoo looking all plastic, looking like he's the main character in America.
He's like, you got to give him credit the way he plays basketball.
Do you have that trip of him playing basketball?
Ran over one of those commie kids in China and spanked him.
I don't know if you saw that.
Oh, my God.
That's what they do in Hollywood.
Jimbo, they spanked.
He spanked.
He not only did an offensive charge.
He might have inadvertently started World War III.
He charges him and then spanks this.
That's your governor.
But go a little bit prior.
Yeah, play that because he's got a little bit of game.
Okay, watch this go for it.
Now, hang on.
Hang on.
Look at that.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, yeah, where he was probably born, China.
Connie John is ECP.
Behind the back.
That's actually respect right there.
And then both of those hard things.
I don't want to get a lot of money.
Oh, there comes the Epstein move.
The Epstein move right there.
He'll spank.
And then let me tell you something.
If Trump was out there, he'd be run over all those kids and dunk on China.
Yeah, but he'd be in jail on China.
He'd be in jail.
I'm just saying, like, Gavin Newsom, he ain't the real deal.
We know that.
Okay, let's go to the next story.
That was very insightful.
I think it's a very helpful thing.
I mean, California's a shit show.
We know it.
It's too far gone.
Tom, America's Americans can't stop spending.
Five reasons why.
This is a Wall Street Journal story on five reasons why Americans can't stop spending.
Here we go.
Number one: job security and increased income.
The job market strength, marked by consistent employment growth and low unemployment rates, has boosted consumer confidence and provided more disposable income.
Number two, home equity and low mortgage rates, increasing home value and historically low mortgage rates have empowered homeowners to tap into their home equity, stimulating consumer spending and enhancing financial security.
Number three, pandemic era saving and government stimulus.
Government stimulus packages and reduced spending during lockdowns resulted in Americans accumulating over $2 trillion in savings.
Four, the buy-in mentality.
Consumers are adopting a proactive buy-in mentality to secure goods and services at current prices, driven by concerns about inflation and economic outlook.
Five, a new outlook on life and experiential spending.
A shift towards experiential spending over material possessions has emerged, driven by pandemic-induced reevaluations of priorities.
Tom, what's going on here?
So let's break this down.
They make some really good points, and some of them are very, very correct.
So job security, increased income.
Unemployment is down.
People are back to work.
So some of that is back in the economy.
So that's true.
So that's just a structural thing that's got nothing to do with American spending.
That's just more people that are working this year than last year.
Home equity and mortgage rates.
Brandon and I were digging into this and we're trying to find the home equity thing because right now I want to see what's going on with the HELOCs because home equity line of credits, I've seen two reports that show that they have come up this summer and not by a small amount.
Also, I saw that the credit cards, we talked about this about a month ago on the podcast, are up to a trillion dollars.
So if your credit card's up to a trillion dollars, but your house is up 30%, you know, credit card at 20%, but a HELOC at 8%, there's an opportunity to unlock some of that value and turn it into cash.
Panderic savings government stimulus, that is exactly the went down to $400 billion credit card rates and bounced back to a trillion.
So that is true.
And the buy now mentality, I think that's true up to a point.
My brother redid his kitchen and it was true.
He bought all the appliances like nine, 10 months ago and did save money on buying them, putting them in his garage while they were building out and doing the kitchen.
And he did save money because inflation, a couple of those appliances were more just six months later.
So maybe there's a little of that.
So I think the Wall Street Journal has built a story here around this.
But what we need to look at is, I think people are using their HELOCs, have maxed out their credit card and helped given the economy a great third quarter.
Let's see if it can continue on Black Friday and holiday spending.
Vinny, specific, I'm interested in your Transylvanian insight about this.
Do people spend on experiences with you?
People are, let me explain something to you.
I know people that spend money and they ain't got the money.
Yeah, save that money.
I get with the whole time he's looking at him, he's shaking his head.
I'm just like, I'm trying to simplify things.
I'm looking.
Go ahead.
What I like about Trump is he talks at a fifth grade level, literally.
Okay, go ahead.
You got two out there talking to 12th grade level DeSantis with his mumbo jumbo policy.
You know, he jumps all policies.
I thought I think underneath all this, Jim Bob, you have an opinion.
I do.
Because you're talking about all this shit about the economy.
Thanks, Biotonomics.
What the hell is even biotinomics?
What's Biden?
Build from the bottom up.
What?
No, just make us go broke.
That's what it is.
That's biotinomics.
Look, I just remember under Trump, this is real talk now.
Lowest unemployment we've had in 50 years.
Okay.
For everybody.
Pay raises for blacks, for Asians, for Chinese, for Japanese, for Latinos, for one of them Xi-Men people things.
Trans Japanese.
Yeah, they were doing good too.
Caitlin Jenner with the American stats in there.
Now what?
It's all DEI, ESG, OPP.
I don't even know what's going on.
You're down with OPP?
Oh, you know me, but here.
But listen, it's were you better now or better four years ago?
Just ask yourself.
Four years, 100%.
Yeah, I mean, they had that fucking Wuhan flu, whatever bullshit.
Shut down the country, shut down the world for what?
Fucking flu.
Jim Bob, can you just tell me?
I'm really, I'm genuinely asking a question.
Jim Bob, are you better now than you were for a beer?
I'm going to beer slap you if you keep talking over me.
I'm asking you, what is biotinomics?
Tell me what it is.
It's destroyed the what is it?
I have no idea what the hell it is.
It's not working.
I'm not working.
What's the basic premise of biotinomics?
If a person could even explain that, I would love to hear it.
I would love to hear it.
But in reality, like this, these five things explain exactly what's going on in America today.
By the way, you know what's weird?
You know what the market did yesterday?
Up 550.
Yeah.
Point.
Up 550.
And that's the part about a reverse market crash.
I mean, the reverse market crash is probably the one thing I'm most concerned about.
Economically.
Because if a reverse market crash happens, the concept of rich getting rich or poor getting poor, you know, goes at a level that you've never seen before.
Stirring.
And then, you know, people are still telling you.
Did you see the CVS and Walgreens not want to do a strike?
The three-day, whatever they got going on, CVS and Walgreens.
And the auto worker.
Who's the one that agreed on the price?
UAW.
Yeah, I know.
What's the number?
Is that in here, Rob?
Do we have the UAW store here that they finally agreed to UAW strike?
You know what I'm saying?
It was Ford caved in.
There it is.
And then Detroit is paying up to end the UAW strike.
Now car makers will live with the cost.
Now car makers will live with the cost.
Paid 16, Wall Street Journal story.
You know, the speed of which cost of living is increasing is insane.
Here, Detroit, six-week strike by UAW against Detroit's automakers, including GM, Ford, and Stellanis, ended with tentative labor deals, but these agreements are sent to increase labor costs beyond initial expectations.
Ford's CFO, John Lawler, noted that the UAW contract would add $850 to $900 per vehicle in additional cost.
The tentative agreements include a 25% general wage increase over four years with cost of full living adjustment, raising the top pay for production workers to approximately $42 an hour.
Shmieluch, $42 an hour.
The UAW are also secured.
The return of cost of living adjustment and other benefits, such as the right to strike over plant closures and higher pay for temporary employees.
So you hear a number like this.
What do you hear?
You say, okay, what's the word they use?
The cost of living adjustment.
Cost of living adjustment.
Cola.
Cost of living adjustment.
In the military, they do that too.
Because when you move to a different place.
Yeah, but this is real, though.
And what's causing this?
You put trillions of dollars in the economy.
The rich got richer.
The poor got poorer, and everything got more expensive.
By the way, even the next story here you go to, which makes zero sense.
It's right before that.
If you go to page 15.
And, Pat, add this.
How much is a new car these days?
Oh, forget it.
Compared to what it was three years ago, I'm bullshitting right now.
No, I know you're not bullshitting.
You're very rich.
Cars are as expensive as it's ever been.
Depreciating assets.
And now you know what they're going to do.
Tom.
I'll make this super quick.
Ladies and gentlemen, $850 in additional vehicle costs is going to translate to $1,500 in showroom price.
Of course, the board makes a profit.
The showroom makes a profit.
The dealer makes a profit.
That $900 in cost is probably $1,500 on the sticker.
And who ends up paying the burden for that, Tom?
We do.
The customer.
The guy looking at the consumer to buy the car.
It's like this minimum wage bullshit.
Fight for $15, $25.
They just raised something in California.
Some ridiculous number.
Minimum wage for a restaurant.
We all know that these businesses need to make a profit.
All they're going to do is end up passing it down to the consumer.
How much is a McDonald's these days?
It might be bullshit.
This story is wild.
Let me read this story to you.
McDonald's revenue soars as it hikes menu prices.
I wonder why they hike menu prices.
I mean, is it accidental?
Because they're paying 16-year-old kids $15 an hour.
Can you actually show that price all the way at the top to McDonald's Big Mac?
Look at this.
It's unbelievable.
$18 Big Macs.
What the hell are you talking about?
Thanks for watching.
And you get closer.
McDonald's reports a 14% increase in revenue.
Remember, revenue, revenue, not net revenue.
Revenue.
The revenue's different than net.
For the latest quarter, latest quarter contributor attributing the surge to strategic menu price increases.
The company generated $6.6 billion, $6.69 billion in revenue, surpassing analysts' expectations.
McDonald's did not disclose specific price increases, but mentioned that a branch in Darien, Connecticut charged as much as $18 a combo for a freaking Big Mac combo meal, which includes medium fries and medium soft drink.
No sushi, no rainbow roll, nothing.
We're talking just a Big Mac is what we're talking about here.
While the same combo cost $13.69 at McDonald's and Times Square.
So $13.69 for a Big Mac combo, $18 in Connecticut.
Net income rose $2.3 billion from $1.98 in the same period.
The same store sales in the U.S. increased 8.1%, largest driven by price hikes.
The company expects to raise menu prices by just over 10% for the full year, marking the second consecutive annual 10% increase.
By the way, I wonder why.
I wonder why.
This is the concept that, you know, it goes, it's almost like, you know, which one comes first, you know, the egg or the chicken, you know, that whole thing that you do.
Which one comes first?
Putting fake money into the economy, or is it, you know, increasing minimum wage or companies being forced to have to increase prices?
But regardless, this is going to keep feeding it more and more and more.
Cars, homes, apartments, food, you know, fast food, it doesn't matter.
Prices are going up.
10% increase two years in a row.
You know what that is?
If the food you're buying for your family, four kids, okay?
We don't go to McDonald's, but if we do go to McDonald's, say for four kids, you're going to buy something, a husband, wife, and four kids.
Let's just say you're spending $50, $60.
$60, $10 is what?
66, go 10% against 73.
I mean, 72, 60.
So you're going up $13 on $60 in two years.
And it's not like they're giving you more meat, more fries.
No.
Same shit.
Tyl.
So there's two things going on here.
The first thing is people don't seem to understand that McDonald's is getting a volume benefit out of inflation.
First of all, McDonald's raising the prices and they're going to make more profits.
And you've got a place in Darien, Connecticut.
Was this in Fairfield County?
Connecticut.
Very wealthy suburb of New York.
But here's the other side of the cell phone, here's the other side of it.
You know where these customers are?
These customers maybe would have gone to Chili's for lunch.
No, they're coming to McDonald's.
McDonald's is the beneficiary of some of the workforce that might have gone to an ultra-fast casual.
You go to TGI Fridays, you go to Chili's, things along that line.
A Chipotle, which is more than McDonald's.
And so basically, people are coming back down the restaurant food chain for lunch because of inflation because those other places are more expensive.
And McDonald's itself, along the way, is more expensive.
This is a net negative for the health of America because if my nephew would tell me he was eating lunch at McDonald's every day, I'd sit down with him and say, dude, man, you need to take a little lunchbox or a cooler to work with some healthy stuff because that is not healthy for you.
That's not good for you.
But it's all I can afford.
We used to go to Chipotle and stuff like that.
And I've kind of shifted a little bit because it's more expensive.
That's the net negative here is we have middle-sized businesses that are getting squeezed.
McDonald's is recipient of that.
And they've had to raise.
I do want you to say something, but check this out.
Here's the crazy thing.
Even though they increased it by 10% and they're going to do it again, the way the customers responded is by doing what?
Nothing.
They still went.
And they're up $6.69 billion over the quarter.
So you know what McDonald's is sitting there thinking about?
Maybe we can go another 10% and another 10% and another 10%.
Because, you know, the only way the consumer gets to vote is what?
With their pocketbook.
And they're not.
And they're not.
They're saying, yeah, we'll still keep coming back.
Go ahead.
And there's more of them, I believe, that are coming from other more expensive lunch choices.
I just want to keep it super simple.
There's two things I get at McDonald's.
Number one, the McRib when it comes out once a year.
You know that.
Do you know how bad that is, though, for you, Jimbo?
Fine.
It's not even on the menu all the time because they know it's poison.
It's fine.
I love that McRib.
But here's the real deal.
Yeah.
I love the dollar menu.
Let me ask you something, guys, fellas.
What's going to happen when the dollar menu is the $4 menu?
Well, it's over the dollar street.
I'm going to go in the dollar street.
That's what I'm saying.
The dollar street is inflation, Bidenomics.
Now you're paying $3.99 for a cheeseburger dollar menu?
It's like, how far do we have to go to realize we are going backwards?
Literally, just look at the dollar menu, Tom.
You got your charts.
You're comparing GDP.
You're doing the dollar, the yen.
I say, how much is the dollar menu at McDonald's?
And I compare that to the other currencies around there.
So if a dollar menu is now the $3 menu, just times everything by three.
That's what it is.
But you know, I want to ask the question, Jupiter.
Where's the outrage?
Besides everything else that's happening with all of our domestic international, everything that we're doing, where is the outrage of the American people that are seeing stuff like this that are just like, where's the outrage?
What do you mean?
Why aren't they upset?
They are.
No, we're upset.
There's people upset, Vinnie.
What do you mean?
No, I'm not seeing it.
I'm not seeing it.
I'm not seeing it.
Because you're probably watching mainstream legacy.
If Doc News throws a different president in.
Go out the favorite president was in.
What would be happening right now?
Listen, the dollar menu would probably go down to 50 cents.
But I'm saying, where's the freedom?
I'm just saying, like, things would go cheaper.
You know what I'm saying, though.
You know what I mean?
Where are the people furious?
I mean, listen, if we're talking serious.
I'm talking, that's it.
This does nothing for me.
I'm not affected by this because I don't go to McDonald's.
And I'm not affected.
It doesn't affect a guy like me because I'm not sitting there worrying about buying a Big Mac at $18 in freaking Connecticut.
But it's affecting the average person.
And the residual effect of it is the following.
It only comes back to the business owner.
And then the business owner has to raise prices.
And then the business owner has to ask more money from the customer.
So I can't believe you're increasing your prices.
Well, then stop forcing me to increase the pay.
Or if you want me to increase pay, be okay if I'm increasing the prices.
But can you imagine McDonald's comes out and says what we have to do because they force us to increase the minimum wage?
Well, I have to pay a 16-year-old kid at McDonald's $15 an hour.
Seriously?
You want to pay six?
I was getting paid $375 or $4.25.
I was just going to say that.
At Burger King is what I got paid at.
By the way, here's a fun fact for you.
You know what's the last time I had a Big Big?
When's the last time you had a Big Mac?
When's the last time you had a Big Mac?
Do you remember?
I can tell you the exact month and year.
Mine was three months ago.
Okay, Tom.
I loved it, though.
Maybe, maybe once or in the last two years.
Maybe.
Adam.
A couple weeks ago, but I take off all the bread and just eat them.
So the last time I had a Big Mac was September of 1997.
Do you want to know why?
1997?
Because you went to war.
Bloods and Crips is Burger King.
McDonald's worked at Burger King.
My first career, you were a chef.
Last time I went to McDonald's was at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
This is after boot camp.
I get to my unit.
I can't wait to have a Coke.
I've been on boot camp and AIT just watering that punch they put that reduces your testosterone level that everybody would talk about.
Whatever that was.
Yeah, whatever that was.
That's what's happening in America.
Man, we went to McDonald's.
I ate Big Mac.
I couldn't wait to have one.
I ate it and I drank Coke.
I started throwing up.
I felt bad and I never ate it again.
Wow.
Yeah.
Never ate it again.
You ever see that movie, that documentary?
Super Saxony?
He throws up.
30 days?
Yeah, but I mean, this guy at McDonald's 30 days.
Yeah, but that idiot was eating everything all day.
No, no, no.
That's what McDonald's does.
To be honest, I love, I love.
I love Big Mac.
But then after the Army, six months, I couldn't do it.
It just wouldn't let me do it.
Yeah, well, think about it.
Your body was eating just, I mean, regular stuff besides the saltpeter.
But listen, I tell people this all the time that Bash McDonald's, this guy's an idiot.
McDonald's isn't supposed to be everyday breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
It's like a cheating.
You're putting a little bit of poison in your.
And by the way, that helps you build your immune system because your immune system needs some practice of fighting.
That's why I never got COVID.
You know why?
Every day I had a Big Mac.
Listen, I don't know where you're from, Transylvania, Pennsylvania, whatever it is.
Whatever.
The average working man.
Yeah.
All right.
He ain't eating Whole Foods.
He ain't going to no fancy plays.
The PBD goes all the time.
He eats regular McDonald's.
I've heard of fancy parties like Jersey Mike's.
Right.
Jersey Mike's.
But I'm just saying, like, this type of thing.
Joy food, fried food, carbohydrates.
We can be hard to know in value, and I certainly will.
But I'll tell you, the McDonald's french fries should be in the French Fry Hall of Fame.
They are probably the best French fries.
Burger King's franchise sucks.
Wait, Adam, you're letting him call them French fries.
Aren't they freedom fries?
Benny?
Benny?
Aren't they freedom fries, brother?
Absolutely.
You have to be an American.
We're at least son.
I love that song.
The girl.
We have a professor that's looking for some grace.
Cows.
Okay, so please be respectful.
We have a professor.
If you can pull up the video, Rob, we have a professor that is looking for some grace from everybody.
Okay.
And professor wants forgiveness for people who pushed COVID lockdowns.
We were doing our best, is what he said on Bill Maher.
Okay.
Professor Scott Galloway of New York University, I wanted a harsher lockdown policy.
In retrospect, I was wrong.
We were all operating with imperfect information and we were doing our best.
But let's bring a little bit of grace.
Okay, we can play that clip in a minute here.
But Galloway is advocating for amnesty over individuals who supported COVID-19 lockdown policies, regretting for initially wanting stricter lockdowns and acknowledging the greater damage to children education.
Galloway highlighted the significant decline in test scores among students, particularly in Mathem Reading, stating math scores are dropping to levels not seen since the 1970s, with scores for black students falling more than twice as much as white students.
He emphasized that policymakers were operating with imperfect information and called for understanding and forgiveness in light of the challenges posed by the pandemic.
I think, Scott, you kind of knew what you were doing, brother.
You're a professor at NYU.
You were less worried about what it was going to do to education.
You were more worried about getting rid of somebody, which you succeeded.
Go ahead and play this clip.
Yeah.
I was on the board of my kids' school during COVID.
I wanted a harsher lockdown policy.
And in retrospect, I was wrong.
The damage to kids of keeping them out of school longer was greater than the risks.
But here's the bottom line: myself, our great people, the CDC, I'd like to thank the governor.
We were all operating with imperfect information, and we were doing our best.
Yeah, it's, it's, yeah, the applause, you're not going to pull from that, but let's learn from it.
Pause, pause, pause, pause, I don't think, uh.
I don't think Bill Maher was with him there.
You don't think?
I don't think Bill Maher was with him there.
I don't think Bill Maher is looking at that, saying, hey, you're right, all this other stuff.
Look, when I see something like this, you know what I think about?
Here's what I think about.
I think about, I asked the governor a question yesterday, Governor DeSantis.
I asked him, I said, what's more important to you, America, political party, or your own personal ambitions?
And he said, what?
The cause.
He says, the cause.
Which, by the way, I respect it.
Me too.
I respect the fact that you say that's what it is.
Now, I don't think to Democrats, it's the cause.
I think it's the party first.
100%.
I agree.
I think it's the party first before it is America.
And I know some people are not going to like this.
And FYI, some people may say, but I also think for MAGA, it's MAGA before it's America.
And they can make that argument for themselves.
We've got a MAGA guy here that can talk for himself on say what he's going to say about that.
But when you see that opportunity, anything and everything that was done, nothing was right at that time.
Now you want to apologize.
And now, you know what?
He's got look at the look on his face on that picture that Rob perfectly just paused.
You know what that look is?
You ever bought a car?
You ever bought something and you left the store?
Buyers remorse.
And buyer's remorse, and you're like, man, I shouldn't.
Have you ever had that happen to you?
What did you buy?
Can you remember one product?
What did you buy that you had buyer's remorse?
It was a car when I was in Great Falls, Montana.
It was a Chevrolet patent.
And that's all they do is that town made money just from all military people because we were young and stupid.
And it was the biggest mistake.
What was it for you, Tom?
Do you have buyers' remorse?
Yeah, I bought Alexis GS way back in 2005.
And, you know.
How long did it take you to have it?
Literally.
I don't need the whole detail.
Just how long did it take you to have it?
About three months when I realized that the kid's seat wouldn't fit in the back and the trunk was a little bit more.
And then you're like, what do I do with it?
I'm stuck with it for three years.
That's exactly right.
So why didn't I think of all this?
Why didn't I measure this?
You've had buyers' remorse, Bud Light.
Yeah, no, my first wife, Pat.
Okay.
All right.
Well, that makes sense.
That makes sense.
So, but here's the thing.
Look at his look on his face.
Her name is.
You know what the look is?
You know what his look is?
A buyer's remorse look.
Yep.
Buyer's remorse on policies during lockdown.
Buyer's remorse on the president they got stuck with.
Buyer's remorse on getting everybody on a Super Tuesday to drop out Amy, Elizabeth, Bernie, you know, everybody, Pete, everybody stepped out and they got behind Biden when he was behind in New Hampshire.
I think it was third or fourth place when they got behind him.
And he's looking there saying, man, I hate to say it, the other guy cannot stand the other guy.
And by the way, this is the same guy that trashed.
You know what he said about Elon Musk?
Do you know who this guy is?
This guy?
This guy when Elon Musk, because I'm going to buy 9.6% of Twitter, says he's lying.
Make him do it.
And then he says, Elon Musk is buying Twitter.
He's never going to do it.
He's just fooling all of you guys.
You guys are idiots for falling for Elon Musk.
And then when Elon Musk bought Twitter and he kept his commitment and bought it, and then he still trashed them.
So if there is a guy that's got zero grace and asking for grace, it's this guy.
This is the typical professor that's so smart above it.
And by the way, you know who else this guy is?
This is also the guy that took a million bucks, I think, give or take, from CNN Plus.
And no one's ever seen the content and the show that CNN Plus had with Scott Galloway.
By the way, to give him credit, I did an episode and I gave him a lot of love because he's got one episode he did on boys on what boys should do.
He said they should make more money.
They should have more sex.
They should work out something like that.
He talked about how boys need to go out there.
So he understands, like he has logic.
He's able to process issues.
But he was afraid.
He was afraid of standing up to the gang he was a part of to have some brass and say, guys, I disagree with what you all are doing.
Group thing when everybody all of a sudden is like, you know, agreeing with each other.
It's like, nah, I don't agree with you, bro.
Let's hash it out.
He joined that group.
And as a professor who claims to be this brilliant guy, you missed the mark because you could have gained so much respect during COVID and you would have had it back then.
Now you're asking for grace.
Did you give anybody else grace?
Does your reputation have anything to do with grace?
Were you one giving grace to anybody?
Did you?
Now you want it.
By the way, here's the crazy thing.
People are still going to give you grace.
America is going to give you grace.
God's going to give you grace.
You didn't give grace and you're still going to get grace because that's how this thing works.
That's how America works.
America will forgive you and move on.
But deep down inside, I got to give you credit, at least that you said you were wrong.
Salute to you.
I respect the fact that you're coming out saying I maybe was a part of the wrong side.
Totally fine.
But that decision four years ago is why America and why the world is in shambles today because of people like you.
And I'm going to take it up one more level because he said he was wrong, but I didn't hear an apology.
And I think we owe the people, the athletes that we fired, the servicemen that we fired, the teachers that we fired that lost their pensions on that day, lost their pension accumulation on that day.
Where's the apology to say, let's bring a little grace and forgiveness?
And can we apologize to these people and bring them back to their jobs and restore their pensions to the day that we kicked them out?
And I applaud him for bringing up the data of black students, but you have a voice, Scott Galloway.
You have a voice and you have a megaphone and you have a platform.
And that platform is based on education.
You're Section 4 and everything that you do.
Where are you calling for summer school and things that we can help these kids catch up after we took them out of school for two years?
I think there's another level that's deserved here.
And I think he should be calling for an apology and to bring back a you want to talk about, you know, reparations?
How about reparations just very simply putting people back in the place they were when we fired them during COVID?
Tom, I like that you're fired up and you deserve every right to be fired up.
Let me tell you something.
I actually know this guy, Scott Galloway.
I've been following Bill Maher.
I watch all this stuff.
You know this.
He ain't no lightweight.
The reason that we're upset with Scott Galloway, he ain't no just flyby CNN anchor talking head bullshit.
He's a guy.
He's written articles saying the most dangerous person in the world is a broke, lonely man with a cell phone.
He's done articles about this.
He ain't no lightweight.
But here's what he gets wrong.
And this is no bullshit.
He is the typical ivory tower, coastal elite, New York City NYU professor that thinks he knows more than anybody else just because he's been working to school for 50 years.
Who got mad and moved to England during COVID?
Thank you.
So, but I don't have beef with Galloway.
He actually does some really good work for young men out there, and I got to applaud him for that.
But, you know, who are you to tell people what to do during COVID?
I'm not even bullshitting right now, Benny.
I believe it.
Like, so the problem is California, we talk about California.
The Gavin Newsome, Nancy Pelosi stock situation, whatever.
I don't know what happened with her husband.
And then you have New York.
Hammertime.
Okay.
They think they run the country.
Wall Street and Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
There's a lot of states in between.
You know, they said back in the day in the 80s and 90s broadcast TV, they said, win the central time zone.
You in Chicago, you in Iowa, you in Minnesota, you in Missouri.
Not drunk, Pat.
That's what America is.
Google it, Rob.
Win the central time zone.
Problem is, we got the Hillary Clinton, New York Senator, bullshit that she's doing.
You got everything that's going on out there at Gavin Newsome.
They want to run the country, but there's a lot of states in between.
So someone like Galloway, smart guy, just misinformed.
And you know what?
And they canceled any conservative voice that wanted to talk about this.
There's no bullshit.
I just can't take you serious with the actors.
Nothing I'm saying is bullshit.
It's my good accent.
And I wrote a bunch, but how about screw an apology?
You know what I want?
I want accountability.
It's how fast people get.
Beautiful Adam, because now time has gone by, Pat.
There's so much stuff happening in the news.
How about the system is set up for them never to get in trouble?
Do you think Fauci would have bullshitted from everything from where it came from to masks everything if he didn't know Adam that he had a get out of jail free card?
You don't go out there and speak the shit that you spoke knowing it was a lie and without without a get out of jail free card.
And by the way, the whole industry had to get out of freeze.
Yeah, yeah.
Hold on, Adam, hold on.
Nobody has gone to jail for COVID for what they put this to.
Think about from forcing the lockdowns to destroying people's lives, livelihoods.
People are living in the streets and some people are freaking dead because of the lockdowns.
They force masks on children and then they force vaccinations.
They brainwash parents to shove needles in their kid to put this freaking poison in that I read a report, Pat, what, 50% of these kids are going to grow up to have myocarditis, okay?
And myocarditis is, you're done.
You're not going to, you don't recover from myocarditis.
And they knew about the Wuhan, the lab.
Bingo.
You know who did go to jail, Pat?
Parents went to jail, restaurant owners who serve food for the unvaccinated, hairstylists for doing people's hair, all right?
And priests who didn't want to shut down churches because they knew people needed God during those times.
Those people went to jail.
So I'm never going to forget them.
And I don't think anybody should forget them unless we hold them accountable through the law.
It's almost like once enough time goes by, Pat, people forget.
I don't forget.
All right.
And it's interesting to me how you see politicians on the left, like Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Corey Booker, they're on camera, always calling for people to get in Americans' faces.
You know, you see these politicians get in their faces.
Well, guess what?
Okay.
I'm going to give you guys a little shout out.
If you see people that ruined their lives because of the pandemic, like Fauci or all these pieces of trash, get in their faces.
You see any of these assholes get in their face and be like, you ruined our lives.
You ruin this country.
And Pat, remember Dr. McCullough, Peter McCullough?
Yeah, Peter McCullough.
During the pandemic, he was silenced during the pandemic.
Remember that?
He was crazy.
Get him off.
Get him off so we could sell this poison.
The CDC says that approximately 1.2 million Americans have died from COVID-19, but those numbers are inflated, says Peter McCullough.
He said, when there's an analysis of did they really primarily die of COVID, Pat?
The answer is it's 10% of that.
So it's roughly 120,000 Americans died directly of COVID.
So ready for this?
540,000 vaccine deaths versus 120,000 COVID deaths.
The cure was worse than the disease.
So my point is, and again, Pat, going back to why and what, when do we hold them more accountable?
I can give a shit about that weirdo and his apology.
And this is way deeper than him.
It's the government.
It's the FBI.
It's everything that they did to us, Pat, that they ruined us.
And all the stuff that we're talking about, money and inflation and putting trillions in the economy, it's because of them.
And it was all bullshit.
And they all knew it.
All of them.
Binny?
What?
Thank you.
I love how passionate you are about this.
You're absolutely right.
And we need to talk about this.
Let me say that.
I was just going to say, and to Vinny's point about the inflated numbers when it comes to COVID deaths, look at these numbers.
It seems like 2017, 18, we had 52,000 people that died of the flu.
Now you fast forward to 2021, 2022, post-COVID, only 5,000 people died from the flu.
So somehow in those three or four years, we managed to solve the influenza.
But what a great funding.
One-fifth of the amount of people died of the flu in 2021.
That's given Ma'am a great deal.
The point you're making is the comorbidity bullshit.
Excuse me.
No, it's all good.
And what they did was they wanted to count every death possible as a COVID death.
And so what he's showing here is that, you know what?
Elderly people, God bless them.
I'm watching over my mom at 82 years old.
They get the pneumonia as a result of the flu and that it unfortunately is a leading cause of death during flu season for a lot of elderly.
But did they suddenly develop better immune systems to counter the flu?
No, no, no.
They were recounted.
That was probably a COVID death.
That was a COVID death.
That was a COVID death.
And Pat, just very, very quick, I know a guy that's an admin in a hospital, and I'm not joking.
This is peak pandemic.
Peak pandemic.
And this is a Syrian guy.
I don't want to say his name because he's probably watching.
You know what he said?
Vinny, there's a motorcycle accident.
The guy comes in.
He's dead.
You know what?
They didn't count it as a motorcycle accident.
They were like, he had COVID.
We're going to put it in that and they incentivize the family.
I swear to God.
Federal government was giving money to hospitals, incentivizing them to reclassify.
Because my understanding, that was worth $3,500 more.
And so, Pat, and I know you wanted to make your point.
Do you feel, Pat, like people like Afauci, yeah, he's protected.
You don't want to see that guy pay for what he's done?
You don't want to see that guy in prison?
Oh, no.
Listen, there's a big difference between grace and a big difference between accountability.
Those are two different things.
100%.
The challenge with grace is the opposing side typically has way more grace than the left.
Right always has more grace than the left.
Always.
Always.
It's not even close.
Do you know if you flip the script?
Like, let's just say if Republicans wanted to pull a page out of the Democratic's mainstream media playbook, you know what they would do?
Look at the level of protesting they're doing right now.
They're not even worried about a breakout.
What if there's a flu breakout?
What if there's a they would have used that to play the dumbest things they would have used to the fastest way right now to stop these wars is say there's COVID.
Fastest way.
COVID's making a comeback.
You guys can't go.
You guys got to have a six-fifth.
Be shooting each other.
You cannot do this.
You cannot do that.
The gamification they used.
One day, we're going to be in a movie theater.
Okay.
And we're going to sit there.
Someone's going to make the movie.
Okay.
Maybe us.
And we're going to sit there in a movie theater and we're going to watch all of these stories of what happened, all of these stories of what happened.
And we're going to say, damn, man, I cannot believe that's all the shit we went through for three years.
We're going to watch it and people are going to relate to it.
Left, right, and center.
No one's going to care about politics because guess who got fired?
You think only Republicans got fired?
No.
Democrats got fired.
You think only Republicans lost businesses?
No.
The left also lost businesses.
You think only how many, if you were to ask, if you were to ask, actually think about the question.
By the way, this Batman outfit is so tight.
My voice is about to change.
But if you were to think about during COVID, did COVID cause more people to go from right to left or did COVID cause more people to go from left to right?
I think towards the end of it, once it was said left to right today, left to right.
Left to right.
If anybody knows it Adams knows this, right?
By the way, watch this.
Left-leaning moderates that were upset about losing their freedoms went right.
So the left, they moved out of California to Florida.
Here's what the left doesn't realize.
Here's what the left doesn't realize.
To them, these clowns that have these decrees from Berkeley who are smarter than everybody else and we're just regular people that don't know what we're talking about, right?
These guys are the same people who thought they're winning the battle.
Hey, look what we're going to do.
We're going to get rid of that guy.
Yeah, but what you did do is a lot of the people from your own party, they left.
You know, like who?
Rogan voted for Bernie Sanders.
And he's saying good things about Trump and, you know, DeSantis and Republican.
Elon Musk has been a liberal his entire life.
And now he's saying vote Republican.
Shamaat voted for Hillary Clinton and Biden.
Oh, God.
And now he's saying go the other side.
Kids are coming out saying, what are we talking about?
So short term, they may have won and got rid of the guy that they feared the most because he was the anti-establishment guy.
Long term, they're going to be the ones that gets the credit for the biggest exodus the left experienced in decades.
By the way, yesterday I asked a question from the governor about how Democrats owned the black vote since 1964.
And I gave the example about, you know, Netanyahu feeling like he has the America vote, 80%.
They're going to care, whatever we do, they're going to support us, et cetera, et cetera.
Democrats have thought, yeah, we got the black vote.
Every once in a while, go talk about reparations, make them feel good, but they're going to vote for us.
They're not voting Republican.
Trust me.
We've had them since Barry Goldwater.
Yeah, they're going to vote for us.
I don't want to vote.
They're not going to vote for us.
But that level of arrogance is about to pay a price.
And trust me when I tell you this, the right is always has more grace than the left.
Always.
I agree.
They always have.
They don't forget.
It's a different story.
They want accountability.
People are going to be held accountable.
But they're going to forgive because they're going to say, at least at the end of the day, God is in charge at the highest level.
They trust God to do his part.
Sometimes something happens to you where you feel it's unfair and you're helpless.
And you're like, dude, this just, what was this all about?
What did I do to deserve it?
And then all of a sudden, you're like, dude, just can you be a little bit patient?
God.
Can you just have a little bit of patience?
Amen.
Just have a little bit of patience.
If you really believe who I am, I love it.
Have a little bit of patience.
Take a year, three years, five years, just chill out, and you'll see, and all of a sudden, you're like, oh, my God.
That's the plan.
I was not expecting something like this, this kind of a revival.
What was this all about?
That's the patience that you got to have.
It's coming.
It's going to be a matter of time.
Pat is absolutely correct.
If you look over history, there's two truths.
People go slowly to the left, like the indoctrination of your kids in college, but they will go suddenly to the right.
Just look through the pages of history.
That's how it happens.
You talked about accountability.
I just want to give you one thing.
What the hell is the accountability for China?
A voucher?
Okay, fine.
Yeah.
China, I've said this, Adam.
Listen, let me say something to you.
China, we're not, we're in a war with China, but it's not bullets and bombs.
They have infiltrated our kids' minds with TikTok.
Hold on, they're buying land near military bases.
They're flying balloons.
Gavin Newsom is over there charging and spanking little kids.
It's as if they're winning on so many levels, bro.
But Devin Shannon, let me get a little bit of a drink.
Next.
Big pharma.
Obviously.
How much money did they make during COVID?
Trillion.
Pat, you did a whole episode on this.
At least a trillion bucks.
They made a lot of money.
We have to start the CEO of Five.
Can I guys a couple of questions?
Can I ask you guys a couple questions?
Crazy questions I want to ask you.
Okay, crazy questions I want to ask you.
And I just want to see your reaction to it.
Okay.
I want to see your reaction to it.
Fentanyl.
How much have you guys actually looked into fentanyl, what it does, the power of it, what it's capable of doing?
I've actually lost two friends in California before I moved here, Pat.
They went to a friend's house.
Two of my really close friends.
One of them had a girlfriend.
They were partying.
Everybody did, I guess they did a bump of cocaine.
Everybody dead.
You're a two-comedian buddy.
Two comedian friends.
Remember that was on TMC and everything.
So two of them dead.
The other girl that was there, she apparently, she almost, she almost went bye-bye.
But Pat, you can die from the, it could fit on the tip of this, a little bit of pencil.
Pencil.
A little bit of pencil.
Lead.
You're done.
Done.
You're Phenito.
By the way, have you seen the cops that are finding it in cars, passing out on the bottom?
They're ODing.
They're being from the one cop didn't want to give the at first.
She's like, I don't want this video to be viral, shown.
And then she puts it, gets 15 million views.
Narcan, they're right.
But they had to, because she was dying.
And one of them happened just two weeks ago.
When you see these clips, it's disturbing.
You know, it's the leading cause of death between 18 to 45 year olds.
Do you know how much more powerful it is than heroin?
Fentanyl.
Fentanyl.
How much more powerful is it than heroin?
Heroin.
Isn't it a bizarre number, like 2,000?
50 times more powerful than heroin.
Think about how powerful heroin is.
Okay.
This is 50 times more powerful.
And people keep dying and they keep selling it.
They keep selling it.
And people are like, no, it's not.
I'm going to be okay with it.
It's going to be disturbing.
It's not going to be that, but I'm going to be able to handle it.
I'm going to be able to.
Boom.
Right there.
If you can play this clip.
Oh, my.
So she just went in the car, Pat.
She's just charging her.
She's one in the car.
Look at this.
How's the driver now?
Oh, my God.
Yep, that's it.
Look, she's gone.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, Z.
That is insane.
She's a cop.
She's not using it.
She just walked in the vehicle.
Another one happened last week.
That is some scary crap.
Did they lose her?
No, she came back.
By the way, do you know the craziest thing about fentanyl?
It's FDA approved.
Yeah.
Yeah, because when you go under, they use it.
And you pull up a fentanyl.
Fentanyl is FDA for like when you when you're getting put under an anesthesiologist they use it is fentanyl FDA approved okay watch this fentanyl is a patent synthetic opioid drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use of analogistic pain relief and anesthetics.
It is approximately 100 times more important than morphine and 50 times more important than heroin.
But it's approved by the FDA.
Wow.
Approved by the FDA.
Wheat has killed one person that's been documented.
One person.
One person.
Only one person has ever died from marijuana.
Can you pull up how many people have died from marijuana?
How many people have died from marijuana?
Look at the number.
from marijuana.
It's one person undocumented.
That is insane.
It's the only, it was this girl.
She was 39 years old.
I think it was like five, six years ago.
What happened?
No, she just died from it.
And by the way, they don't even know if the full story was from it or not.
Probably her hypothesis.
I'm not even a guy endorsing smoking weed.
I'm not saying I don't smoke weed.
But the moral of the story is fentanyl is FDA approved because it's more effective than morphine or vicodin that they give you.
This is an issue because kids in schools nowadays, man, they're around this stuff.
You know, there's a bunch of clowns and people that are testing and are like, well, listen, how tough are you?
You know, no, all these people are trying to scare you.
People are not dying.
I know how to do it.
The high is amazing and all this other stuff, right?
We have so many issues right now.
Eight million people crossing the border.
And when you think about the kind of money that's being made with fentanyl right now and what it's doing to the point where even the cartel last week, we talked about saying, hey, you guys better stop producing this stuff.
100%.
So, Pat, so those deaths, the 112,000 in one year, one year, that falls on China because China's bringing it.
The number one producer.
The number one is China.
So remember I told you about this war?
They haven't shot one gun, but nobody gives a shit about this.
Do you know what your fentanyl production and sale increase?
Do you know what your, it's skyrocketing?
2016?
2015, 2016.
What an odd thing.
By the way, when I show you the data, Brandon, could you show me that chart?
Could you text me that chart so I can show it to, if you're listening, there's a chart that you look at on the production of, it's always been like this.
Okay.
It's always been like this.
It's always been flat.
And then all of a sudden, boom, goes like this.
And every year goes more and more and more and more and more.
When you think about the amount they're producing and the amount of people that are dying from it.
In 2016.
It was elected in 2016.
COVID and fentanyl, they're winning, bro.
They're winning.
Donald Trump 2016, greatest parent ever.
Of course.
Here's the deal.
Trump, build the wall.
Yep.
You know one of the most ironic things is right now?
What?
You know what Joe Biden wants to do?
He's already started.
Build the wall.
Yep.
Sometimes, you know, like how many Biden's building the wall with his build back better?
He said he wasn't, by the way.
But that's the point.
Build like this.
There's some people out there that maybe fail for the walls of racist bullshit.
What do you mean, did they?
I just say.
Fell for it.
Fail for it.
But at this point, when you have millions of illegal immigrants, and how many came from the Middle East?
A bunch.
Excuse me.
Is Iran near Mexico?
No.
How are they getting there?
Everybody's coming here.
Oh, yeah, Lebanese, Syrians.
Everybody.
Rob, I'm going to send this to you.
You got to show this.
You got to show this when we're on the fentanyl topic.
Build the wall.
I mean, it's a day-late dollar short, Adam.
The damage has been done.
I'm actually not even joking.
Obama and Biden built the cages.
Exactly.
Rob, pull up the one I just texted you.
Check this out, guys.
You got to see this.
Good point.
You got to see this.
Okay.
By the way, you know what you are starting to see, even though Adam's playing this jimbo guy.
I love it.
He's being straight up about what he's saying.
Everything I'm saying is accurate.
The point is, even the people that thought building a wall was stupid are now saying, guys, we need to build a damn wall to prevent this.
Think about how bad policies get exposed and how good policies eventually everybody, including those who disagreed with it, come around and say, no, I think this kind of makes sense.
Watch this.
Take a look at this, guys.
This is kind of disturbing.
And look at the data.
What year it spikes.
Oh, my God.
Fentanyl was responsible for nearly 70% of drug overdose deaths in 2022.
But look at the numbers over the years.
It's been FDA approved for a long time.
Of course.
Look at that.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
2015, 2016.
Trump goes off and then skyrocketed to where it's at today.
And this can be stopped, but it's going to take a lot of work.
So the border is an issue that go ahead.
And what happened with Joe Biden?
Did he just cut some deal with the Mexican cartel?
Right?
We covered that a week or two ago.
Yeah, well, but Pat, because he's basically, here's the deal.
He's basically acknowledging: look, I can't say out loud, build the wall or cut illegal immigration.
I can't say it because my party doesn't want that.
But he knows.
He sees what's going on.
And Pat, Pat, you nailed it.
Remember last, I think it was two weeks ago?
You said one year, shut it down.
I don't give a send the military, whoever, stop it.
Close the border for one year.
One year, and I'm sick and tired of people saying that there's no money in it.
We've given how much to Ukraine?
We could have easily, how much is the, did they say the border is going to cost?
50 billion?
We had the money.
We gave it to you.
I think he wanted 5 billion.
I don't give a damn.
We could have done it.
What I'm saying.
They did it on purpose.
What I'm saying is everything is done on purpose.
There's no, well, we love Mexican.
No, no, no.
You don't love shit.
You want to destroy the country with this.
Let's talk about what happened here.
Okay.
Larry Elder drops out, endorses Trump.
Pence suspends campaign for president because apparently, if you can pull up this picture, Rob, he couldn't get 15 people to show up to a pizza party.
And apparently, his campaign afterwards is like, we got to wrap this up.
Just Google it and you'll see it.
If we just type in, Rob, type in 15 pizza pence.
Just put 15 pizza pens and the story should come up.
He was once a favorite of the right.
Now Mike Pence can't get a crowd of 15 to a pizza ranch.
Oh my God.
15 to pizza ranch.
So he's out.
Nikki Haley continues her ascent, ties DeSantis for second in Iowa gold standard poll, which Tom, I think you call this.
Let me read this.
Yeah, two weeks ago I said next.
You said this.
That's right.
Nikki Haley, Republican presidential candidate, has surge in Iowa's gold standard poll tying with Florida governor Ron DeSantis for second place, both at 16%.
Marks a significant game for Haley, who increased her support by 10% since August, while DeSantis lost 3% of his support in March.
Donald Trump led in the nation's GOP primary polls with 45.9, followed by DeSantis, 30.1%.
Haley and Ford place at 4.3.
Currently, Trump enjoys 60%, while the gap between DeSantis, 12.6, Haley, 8.3, has steadily been closing.
In Iowa, DeSantis has the support of 28% of voters in mid-May to Haley's 5.5%.
Now, 17.3 to 11.3.
Tom, why do you think this is happening?
There's two reasons why it's happening.
To the average Republican voter, they know Nikki Haley as a war hawk and they trust her as a strong defense individual.
And so when we have these things going on, I know for fact that the Israel lobby trusts Nikki Haley.
And what's happening right now in times of uncertainty, people say, now, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Who's really going to be the guy there?
You can remember Jay Leno walking out after 9-11 and actually saying that he was glad that it was Bush and Cheney in the White House when, you know, okay, what are you really saying, Jay?
Well, you know, if it was Al Gore wringing his hands, what do we do?
What do we do?
Instead, it was W out there at the bullhorn saying at 9-11, to all you workers, all you rescuers, I can hear you.
And soon they will hear from us.
Remember that famous speech?
What's happening right now is people are reacting to the war in the Middle East, especially the Jewish people in America, which had been, and, you know, I've lived around lots of them all my life, and I can see their fear.
I can see their concern.
They don't like what they see on schools.
And it's all showing up in Nikki's polling.
Rob, do you have real clear politics?
And then go to Iowa and then break it down to the recent Iowa polls so we can see the hard numbers in here.
Go real quick politics, go to election, Iowa.
Hit the little Iowa box over there on the right.
It'll pop them up.
There you go.
Now go look at the most recent one.
Don't look at the chart.
Look up at the top.
Up, The most recent one right up there.
The one of the most recent dates, look at those numbers.
Look at those numbers.
It's been in the last.
Where are the numbers, Tom?
I don't see any of the numbers.
He bounced off right there.
See?
Trump is up one.
She went from 1711.
Take a look at DeSantis Haley.
1711 just in the 10-6 to 10-10 poll.
Now the 10-22, 10-26, it's 16-16.
She's actually inherited a little bit from Trump.
You see that, Pat?
Yeah.
So you don't look at the amalgam of polls.
You look at the most recent one that was the Des Moines register is deemed to be a very accurate barometer as they go campaigning.
People are turning to Haley because they see her as a strong right-wing war hawk.
By the way, if you look at this, it's so interesting.
CBS is definitely not a Trump place.
No.
And neither is the rest.
But Fox business has Trump lower than CBS does at the same time.
Yeah, very interesting on how Fox is definitely not a Trump side today.
Fox's crew, they're not pro-Trump, although they were four years ago.
They're not today.
At least it seems like it.
And I think in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley is, I'm waiting.
They haven't had a national poll release.
I mean, a local credible poll released nationally in New Hampshire in three weeks.
You don't need to go there, Rob, but if you went there, you would see we have a lot of stale polls up there.
And I personally think there's a little bit of gamesmanship going on in the polls because the core Republican establishment that wants DeSantis or Trump probably doesn't want to see the next New Hampshire poll pop up because Haley's coming up for the same reasons here.
Look, when's the third debate?
You tell me it's up to you.
Yeah, it's November 8th here in Miami.
Okay.
Rob, fat check that.
We're about to see these candidates start dropping like flies.
Four of us already, right?
The two.
Pence?
Come on, buddy.
Elder, governor, and governor.
Yeah.
I mean, Mike Pence, come on.
You can't even get 15 people to a pizza party.
You want people to come to your rally?
It's not happening, Mike Pence.
Then here's what's going to happen next.
Doug Bergham, you know, he's going to be out.
Tim Scott, thanks for playing, buddy.
This ain't your time.
Vivek, you smooth talking, smart, rich brown, smart dude.
Vivek and Skinny may be on stage.
Happening.
I'm just saying, they're going to start dropping.
Vivek and Scott.
They're going to be on the stage.
They're going to be stage, Tom, but it's the JV debate.
All right.
And then you got Nikki Haley.
All right.
You know, UN ambassador.
Okay.
Woman, president.
Stop it, Tom.
And then last but not least, DeSantis.
He was here yesterday.
Look, I don't want to say this about DeSantis.
Great guy.
Policy guy.
Love them.
I love them outside.
I love them in the one on 5-7.
We know he's 5'9.
We know it.
What's the big deal?
What's the big deal?
Just own it.
Say you like wearing boots.
I'm wearing boots, PBD.
It's fine.
But here's the deal.
You got to have some swag.
You got to have some Riz.
You got to have what these kids are talking about, you know, some, you know, kicking him with the boys type.
He don't got it.
Yeah, but he's smart as shit.
But do you think?
What he did for Florida was great, DeSantis.
Of course.
But this ain't his time.
And it was disloyal.
Well, here's my question too.
Do you think with all the stuff they're doing with Trump, is the effort of the left, the blatant using the law to go after Trump, make him unrunnable towards it.
It's election denial.
Okay?
It's election interference.
It's interference.
It's not denial.
Let me say this real quick.
By the way.
And it's bullshit.
Can I ask you guys a question?
Who prevented World War II?
Who was the one that was able to stand up to Hitler?
Mutant Churchill.
Okay.
Without looking, can you tell me how tall you think Churchill is?
Churchill was a short, fat, pressed guy, but he had balls.
5'6.
Google how tall.
Google how tall.
He was wise.
I would say 5'6.
5'6.
Winston Churchill.
It's Rob Garjolo.
If you're garbage, one of the greatest leaders of all time was 5'6.
But he didn't give a shit.
Just a part of the brand.
He didn't give a shit who was.
Mussolini was 5'7.
You can't be 5'4 ⁇ .
Napoleon was a midget.
But the point is, the point is, when it comes down to leading, if you can get the job done, nobody cares.
Nobody cares if you can get the job done.
Everybody wants to like, how tall is Tom Cruise, by the way?
Can you pull up how tall is Tom Cruise?
5'4?
5'8 ⁇ .
5'8.
5'8'5'7.
Who has he not dated in Hollywood?
5'7 ⁇ .
Just who has he not dated in Hollywood?
And by the way, type in my height.
Type in my height.
Patrick David.
Tom Cruise is banging some of the hottest girls in the world.
Yeah, and he's 5'7.
Patrick Bat Bat David.
Oh, I like that.
Patrick Bat David.
Thank you.
I'm 5'6'5'7 on some places I'm 5'4 on Hollywood.
You put Pat up there?
Patrick Bat David.
Let me see where Pat Pat were.
You 5's something on here?
No, you'll see there's 5'4.
There's 5'7.
There's all this stuff.
There's 5'7 right there.
5'7.
No, you're 5'57, Pat.
5'5'5'7.
And he weighs 154 pounds.
But here's the point.
Ladies and gentlemen, that was me standing on the right of him.
Pat was on the left.
The point is, the point is, when it comes down to leadership, nobody cares how tall you are.
You just gotta own up to it and be like, this is who I am.
Let me just go out there and do what I'm doing.
Hey, do the M ⁇ M from 8th Mile.
That's all you got to do.
Here's who I am.
Here's what I'm doing.
Here's my brand.
You like it, Grid?
You don't like it?
Let me get back and spend time with my wife and kids, man.
That's what I'm going to do.
You know, either I'm going to, you think, by the way, here's the thing.
How hard do you think the job is to be a president?
How tough of a job you think is?
Hardest job in the world.
Look at that.
Actually, think about it, though.
How hard is that job?
Remember when Obama went in?
He looked virile.
He looked two years later, he looked like white hand.
It took.
Actually, I've read about this.
They say you look at the before and after pictures from inauguration four years later, and you look at the stress in terms of like the wrinkles around the eyes.
They say it has got to be absolutely factually the most stressful job in the world.
Of course, bro.
You're the leader of the free world.
And everybody knows Joe Biden, if he gets elected on a second term, which obviously, if I have something to say about it, it ain't going to happen.
Nobody wants to see Kamala Harris.
Think about that.
Did you see her interview on 60 Minutes?
Horrible.
Uncomfortable.
Yeah, obviously.
It's not even about being horrible.
It's disturbing to watch.
Okay, let's go through a couple other stories.
What about Musk offers Starlink internet for recognizing organizations in Gaza?
Okay, this is from Times of Israel.
Musk is coming in here.
Okay.
So billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday said that Starlink satellite service would support internet access for internationally recognized eight organizations in Gaza, which have faced a telecommunication blackout since Friday.
Musk, who owns Starlink, operates SpaceX, was responding to a post by U.S. Democrat congressman AOC in which she called the communications blackout in Gaza unacceptable.
Israel's communications ministro.
By the way, eventually AOC and Musk are going to date.
Eventually, that's going to happen because he keeps listening to what she has to say.
And every once in a while, he gives her what she wants.
Kerry tweeted, Israel will use all means at its disposal to fight Hamas for terrorist activities.
There's no doubt about it.
We know it, and Musk knows it.
Hamas is ISIS.
Perhaps Musk would be willing to condition it with the release of our abducted babies, sons, daughters, elderly people, all of them.
By then, my office will cut any ties with Starlink.
Okay.
So what do you think about this move that Elon is doing, Tom or Vinny, or Tom, Adam?
Any opinions?
Well, I mean, Pat, at the end of the day, I get the war.
It's a war.
Israel's not playing games.
Netanyahu was it yesterday.
He was like, there's no ceasefire.
Basically saying, I don't give a shit, man, woman, child, innocent or not.
The goal is to kill Hamas, and we don't care who else gets it.
We're going to wipe out that entire place.
They cut off all electricity, all everything.
Elon Musk, because mind you, not everybody there is Hamas.
How many Hamas are inside of Gaza?
40%.
No, they're not.
It's 40,000.
Part of the government.
40,000 is Hamas.
Out of 2 million, it's 40,000.
So, and goes, so I think Pakistan people, obviously they need communication.
They need to communicate with their loved ones and let people know that they're alive.
Because guess what?
There's Palestinians that have family members here in the United States.
But I have a question, Pat.
And I know you know that I tweeted this.
Since the terrorist attack, how many Palestinians do you think have been killed since October 6th?
Palestinians?
How many people?
8,500?
It's gone up to almost 9,000 today.
All right.
The majority of those are women and children.
It's a fact.
You debate me all day.
My question is this.
How many Hamas have been killed in that 9,000 to 10,000?
How many?
I'm guessing, Tom.
Is there a number?
Is there a Hamas tracker that we know?
And my other question is, how many civilians, I get the attitude of just, what?
We don't care.
Well, Netanyahu's attitude was, did America stop Pear Pearl Harbor?
Did America stop during 9-11?
Okay, I get it.
You want to wipe out Hamas?
All of us do.
But A, how many Hamas have been killed?
And number two, what is the limit?
What's going to be the number, if there is one, of civilian casualties, the majority being the youth?
Is the number going to be enough for them to say, okay, now we're going to chill.
Now we're going to do a ceasefire?
Because the goal is to protect Israel.
Put your defenses up.
Don't let something like that happen again.
I want to know that because, Tom, there is no number of Hamas dead.
I haven't seen it yet.
I understand what you're saying, and your numbers are standing up.
What I haven't seen is I have not seen like UNICEF and Red Cross going in en masse trying to help the people there because they can't because this is a live war zone.
And so when Musk says, I'm going to do this for internationally recognized aid organizations, I don't think there are any internationally recognized aid organizations that are all the way in getting in.
It is a hot war zone.
Egypt has got the border closed, right?
Israel's got the border closed.
Israel's also got the blockade on the other side, you know, the southern side that faces basically the desert.
So basically, I don't know that there's international aid organizations in there that are going to be helped by communications at this hour because it's a hot war zone.
However, I support what he's doing at the earliest possible moment.
I understand Israel saying, hey, this is going to be used for terrorist activities because they're going to use the communication and intercept it.
I get that, and I think that there's some truth in that.
But I think this is a good gesture by Musk.
But I think it has to come at a time where we get a ceasefire or we get this thing to go from a hot theater at least to just a very warm theater.
But it's not going to, but Tom, it's not going to stop.
If when you hear the leader saying, we're not stopping, we don't care who, it's no ceasefire.
We're wiping it.
I don't know if, and mind you, you can support the innocent people and not be anti-Israel or be anti-Semitic or be a Hamas supporter.
I give a shit about the people.
The majority people there are innocent people.
Can we agree to that, Jimbo?
Look, I'm going to tell you what I agree with and what I disagree with.
I want to annihilate Hamas.
Okay.
How many lives?
How many million lives are worth it?
I don't want to see any zero innocent lives in this horrible tragedy.
I think what Bibi Netanyahu, Israel, look, the first week, two weeks, pure emotion, rage, retribution.
And I think they need to go back to the drawing board and they need to understand that in war, above all, you need to win the hearts and minds.
And they're up against Hamas, funded by Iran, BFF with Hezbollah, ISIS.
I think we can agree that Hezbollah, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, they are death cults, okay, that want to just kill people.
Americans, certainly Israelis.
And we need to name them for what they are, radical Islamic terrorists.
100%.
But that doesn't mean that everyone over there is one.
There may be some that are sympathizers, right?
There's also, there also needs to be an understanding that, look at the war in Ukraine.
Nobody's even talking about it right now.
Why?
It's not a point.
Why?
It's not on a radar.
You know how many wars are going on in the world right now?
Dozens?
Yep.
Armenia, Azerbaijan?
We're not going to talk about that.
There's other shit going on.
But Israel, you know, 0.2% of the world, all eyes are on them.
And they need to understand that you are playing an information campaign or a lot of times a disinformation campaign.
You got to win the PR war.
And you can't do that by bombing innocent people.
Now, here's the deal.
A lot of times, this information comes from Hamas.
The whole hospital, parking lot, fiasco, it's been proven, y'all.
Islamic Jihad shot the rocket, landed in the parking lot.
They pumped the story out to the fucking left-wing media, and they ran with it.
But Israel needs to win the hearts and minds of the people and then low-key, shut the fuck up and go in there.
You know how many miles of tunnels there are?
300 miles of tunnels.
That's where they are.
You're not going to get to the tunnel.
Do we have a video of them blowing up the tunnels?
Do you have that video?
You're not going to get to the tunnels by using air supply.
Well, yeah, air.
You see what Jacko Willick had to say?
Watch what he had to say.
So here's my thing, Pat.
He just said, we're in dozens of war.
Ukraine, Russia's fighting.
You know, China's, you know, trying to, you know, they have ships going.
Israel and Palestine are going on.
We're obviously fighting overseas as well.
Here's my question to you, Pat.
What constitutes World War III?
Is there a moment where you go, okay, is there an announcement?
Because everybody's fighting.
Everybody in the world is fighting right now.
This is what we need to see more of from Israel.
Certain tactical explosions from underground.
Yes, I get it.
Because who are they killing?
Vinny, let's not be bullshit.
Don't care.
Who are they killing?
Don't do that.
See those buildings?
Who are they killing on Hadan?
Hold on.
They're killing terrorists.
Yeah, you see those buildings, though, that are standing up still?
Those are still intact.
You're not wiping it out because apparently you got information that there was one Hamas terrorist in that apartment complex.
So you level it and you ruin the lives of God knows how many people in there.
And I'm happy that your attitude is less civilian casualties.
Nobody wants civilians.
Nobody wants it.
But when you have a leader saying, you know what?
I don't give a shit.
We're not ceasing any fire.
We're wiping the shit.
Everybody's going bye bye.
Well, look, you have the ceasefire video.
It's all over Twitter.
You can play the clip.
Yeah.
You know what's going to happen to Bibi Netanyahu?
What?
Do you know?
What?
This is fifth term, maybe even sixth term, longest-standing tenured prime minister in Israeli history.
Do you want to know what's going to happen with this man?
You know, you've said things like maybe he, you know, pulled a stand down order.
You know what's happened to his legacy?
I never said, hold on.
I never said that.
I'm just saying.
I said it was the oddest thing ever.
Do you know what's going to happen to his legacy?
What?
You understand that he's going to have to resign.
His whole mission is economic prowess and safety.
Okay?
That ain't happening.
My point is, that's what he ran on.
And that's why I was elected.
And the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust happened under his watch.
You think he feels good about that?
You think that's something that he wants?
You think that when it goes down for Bibi Detanyahu's legacy, he had to resign in disgrace?
So there's people to think that, you know, oh, he wanted this.
Get the fuck out of here.
He's going to have to resign.
Play this clip.
And his whole coalition, okay, the Lekud Party.
And unfortunately, they might even elect further right-wing people.
Great.
Play this clip.
I want to make clear Israel's position regarding the ceasefire.
Just as the United States would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9-11, Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas after the horrific attacks of October 7th.
Calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas.
No.
To surrender to terrorism.
To surrender to barbarism.
That will not happen.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war.
This is a time for war, a war for our common future.
Today we draw a line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism.
It is a time for everyone to decide where they stand.
Israel will stand against the forces of barbarism until victory.
I hope and pray that civilized nations everywhere will back this fight because Israel's fight is your fight.
Because if Hamas and Iran's axis of evil win, you will be their next target.
That's why Israel's victory will be your victory.
But make no mistake, regardless of who stands with Israel, Israel will fight until this battle is won and Israel will prevail.
May God bless Israel and may God bless all those who stand with Israel.
When you say something like that, okay, first of all, bringing in America obviously meant you like, well, if America did this, we have to do this.
And then you bring in the Bible, you're trying, like you said, you're winning the hearts and minds.
But at no point, what is the civilian casualty number that is sufficient for you to say Hamas is gone?
Because if the goal is to annihilate Hamas, you cannot do that.
That's not a feasible goal, Adam.
There's no Hamas tracker number.
And the word terrorism, it's always, terrorism is like the bell bottoms of propaganda and fear.
And it can always come back and come back into style.
Terrorism.
You're not going to win that battle.
And having the attitude of we're not going to stop, then 90, what would you say the percentage of civilians, men, women, and children, are going to die in that over Hamas?
What's the number if you have to guess, Tom?
Hamas soldiers dying because this ain't stopping.
The ground war is happening.
American ships are en route right now to go help.
What do you think, Tom?
I can't.
Take a guess.
I'm not telling you, you're not, you're not facts.
If you have any, and I'm not trying, I don't think you're trying to bet me into a corner.
Let's make a guess.
I can't make an estimate for you other than to say that the civilian loss of life of people who are Palestinians is horrifying.
Equally horrifying was what started this game.
Obviously, but what's the number?
I want to guesstimate, Adam, Pat, guys.
Let me ask you.
I'm going to say that.
I think 80% civilians are dying.
Let me ask you.
20% Hamas.
Let me ask you.
That's my opinion.
After the raping and pillaging and beheading of a couple thousand Israelis.
1,600.
Okay.
You seem to know that number.
Hold on.
What a horrible moment.
What's disgusting moment?
Thank you.
What's an appropriate reaction?
What's an appropriate amount of people that will have to die?
What's appropriate?
Just give me a number.
I'll put this.
Hold on.
I don't want any civilians dying, but the manner that is happening right now, Adam, because I was in the military.
I know these type of tactics.
It's just obliteration.
That's not the way to do it.
You nailed it with the caves, with the tunnels.
Blow them shits up.
Why hasn't that been happening more than just, have you, hold on?
Have you seen Gaza right now, what Gaza actually looks like?
It looks like ground zero, 9-11.
It's flattened, Adam.
I still, where's the Hamas number?
We're not hearing.
Let me ask you.
Why don't you have the same energy for the people of Ukraine?
What do you mean?
Why don't you have the same energy of the people of Armenia?
Why don't you have the same energy for the people, innocent people who are dying in the conflict?
Wait, I'm asking.
What do you mean?
I don't have the same energy.
Hold on.
You've never gone Ukraine like this.
Hold on a second.
How much?
So where's that energy?
Adam, first of all, any, I'm going to say this again.
Any civilian life that's lost, especially when I see kids, I got emotional last week, Adam, because I saw a child shaking with shell shock while his mother was dying on the floor.
I don't want any of it happening.
And the passion is happening right now, Adam, because it's happening right now, and they're using our name in it.
I'm not anti-Ukraine and us sending them money and doing all that shit.
I don't want none of that happening.
But this is in our face right now.
And the leader is saying, we don't give a shit.
We're wiping everybody out.
Come on, man.
You have to have some humility in this.
Here's my concern.
Let me tell you guys what my concern is.
And obviously all of this stuff that you're watching, seeing, it's pretty bad because we're getting more and more immune to it.
Like it's becoming a normal Tuesday, normal Monday.
Like gun violence in America.
Yeah.
So if you look at this, here's what you'll see.
Erdogan threatens to declare war on Israel and send military to Gaza in chilling warning.
Okay.
Recap.
No, Erdogan delivered a speech, if you can pull this up, to a rally in which he told attendees Israel was responsible for war crimes and framed Hamas as freedom fighters.
Obviously, we know Hamas is not freedom fighters.
In comments that have promoted, prompted Israeli outcry and led the country to withdraw its diplomatic presence.
President Erdogan suggested assault on Gaza constitute a massacre.
Erdogan reportedly said, from now on, we will continue on our path with the motto that we may suddenly knock on your door one night.
He said, in the past, they were massacring the Jewish people in the gas chambers, and they were indeed wiping out whole regions with bombs.
Then he added, a similar mentality is being shown in Gaza today.
Okay.
All right.
So Erdogan.
He's talking about a massacre.
That's exactly what he was okay with Azerbaijan doing to Armenia.
He wasn't saying that.
There's no moral authority to talk about genocide.
You want to talk about a guy that doesn't have.
Exactly.
He said, let me not remind Armenians of what we did to you many years ago that can happen again.
This is a.
You said that?
Oh, yeah.
This guy's a straight-up gangster.
Just what Erdogan is.
He's a straight-up gangster.
This guy's not a lightweight.
He's a true believer.
And he's one that you, you know, at the same time, Turkey's military.
Strong military.
If you type in one of the strongest militaries in the Middle East, type in strongest military in the Middle East.
Strongest military in the Middle East.
Yeah.
Okay, see what comes up.
10 strongest military.
Go to that one.
I think he's top, he may even be number one, but he's top three for sure.
He's top one.
Wow.
Ten is UAE.
Okay, keep going, which doesn't say much.
Then is Iraq.
Keep going.
Then it's Morocco.
Keep going.
Then it's Syria.
Keep going.
Algeria.
Keep going.
Saudi, fifth.
Iran, fourth.
Wow.
Israel, third.
Egypt, guess who's left?
Wow, Turkey.
Are you serious?
They have the strongest military in the Middle East.
Ground and air.
And by the way, those are our planes, weapons, and everything that are in Turkey and Israel.
So he is sitting there saying, you want to do something?
Okay, so look at that number right there.
You see 355,800?
That's 2017.
Hamas is 40K.
Hezbollah has 150K.
Israel, I think, is 300,000.
If they get their reserve, this is active personnel, active.
They got 355.
Israel doesn't have 355.
Active.
Okay.
So this is not, if you wake these guys up, so now watch this.
Let's say Turkey gets involved.
Say Iran gets involved.
Say Israel is obviously involved.
Hamas is obviously involved.
Iran gets involved.
Hezbollah is definitely involved.
And the next thing you know, Saudi's got to get involved.
And then from there, NATO's got to get involved.
U.S. has got to get involved.
Everybody's like, wait a minute, you're getting a little too close to Europe.
What are we doing with this?
Russia's got to get involved.
China's going to get involved in no time.
This is World War III.
And this is one of the reasons why I asked the question yesterday of the governor.
There's three things, very basic number.
World War I, 19 million people died.
90 million casualties.
World War II, 60 million casualties.
If we follow that trend, World War III will be 200 million casualties.
The entire thing is about finding a way to calm people's nerves down.
Get people to say, guys, relax.
Guys, let's figure this thing out.
But unfortunately, left, right, center, the buyer's remorse community doesn't believe in their president.
People who didn't vote for him, they already don't believe in him.
But people who did vote for him are having buyer's remorse, a big percentage of them.
They don't see him as somebody that's intimidating.
They don't see him as somebody that's going to go out and have the conversation with them.
That visual we saw on the plane on the Air Force One when Blinken is behind him.
He's like, oh my God, don't say anything.
Don't say anything.
Take your cameras off.
And his chin looked a little bit weird.
Everybody thought it was somebody else that was talking.
It's like, that can't be him.
That's got to be somebody else.
Moral of the story.
Even though with all this stuff that's going on, this is when you value somebody that knows how to bring the temperature down.
Biden doesn't have the ability to bring the temperature down.
You know, when you first start hiring people and you're running a company, you know how you look at somebody as an employee, you're like, oh, I like him.
He's going to be great.
Second time you hire, like, dude, that did not work out.
Okay.
Third time you hire.
By the time you're hiring people, you're 50, 100, 200, 500 times.
We've hired, I don't know, 1,000 employees or 15.
On the insurance side, I have 45,000 insurance agents.
Imagine how many people we've hired over the years.
You know what you start realizing?
You start realizing what qualities matter the most.
Yesterday we were having a leadership meeting, my Monday morning CO meeting that I do.
And one girl, I say, hey, the one guy that works, he seems like he's always happy.
We need more positive people here because there's nothing worse than having negative people in the office that always are petty.
It's not fair.
It's not this.
It's not that.
Oh my gosh.
You realize the value.
Even Elon Musk in his book talks about that talent is great.
Everything is great.
But nothing is above a positive attitude, a great attitude.
You can teach them skills.
You can teach them how to do things.
You can't teach them that stuff.
Where am I going with this?
The American voter has to get better at picking the employee that is doing the job for us.
And one of the things you have to judge the person you hire is: can they lower the temperature to prevent a World War III?
You don't prevent a World War III by going out there and killing people.
You prevent a World War III by everybody knowing if you do cross the line, it's going to be horrible.
Like, you know, what Trump said a couple days ago, if one ounce of blood, what did he say a couple days ago?
If they drop one ounce of blood, one ounce of American blood, I'm going after gallons from you.
Right, right.
I'll spill a dock of ours.
I'll spill a gallon of beer.
Yeah, oh, I love it.
But you know what?
America needs that.
America needs that.
America needs somebody like that right now.
So my entire, we can have this debate back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
What is going to prevent World War III is probably the most beneficial thing for everybody.
That's probably going to be the most beneficial thing for everybody.
We absolutely need strong leadership.
And I'll paint the picture for you a little worse.
Remember, you know, there's the NATO clause that says if you attack one, all will defend.
Yeah, that's actually.
And that, yep.
And that was why that, that was why Russia did not want an official joining of NATO by Ukraine, because it means everybody's there.
Which was a southern European country, controversial at the time, that joined NATO in 1952.
Turkey.
Turkey has been a member of NATO since 1952.
So if Turkey...
And by the way, he just said a couple months ago that they may step away from being a member of NATO.
I don't know if you saw it.
And by the way, they're stepping away with NATO arms and NATO training and American arms that have been provided to the NATO countries.
We don't give them all the tricks.
We don't give them the warplanes with everything, but they've got very serious armaments.
And so a Turkey saying, okay, I'm doing this.
I'm in.
That basically means we're at war with our own equipment.
We're at war with ourselves.
It is so horrible.
We need a leader to stand up.
And the world is never safer, never safer.
And the United States is never safer.
And the diverse people of the United States are never safer than when the guy in the White House is thought of to be the bully by the bad actors.
When Reagan was inaugurated, moments after he was inaugurated, it was hours later.
Iran had a deal.
Hey, you know, we figured out how we can get the hostages back.
Here we go.
Here's your boarding pass.
Remember that?
When the rest of the world says that the American leader is nuts, when you've got Al-Qaeda that says Reagan's nuts, when you have the Eastern European dustpots at the time saying that the American leader is nuts, the world is safe.
And when people were saying that Trump was nuts, and I know he wasn't nuts, he's not nuts.
He was out there standing for freedom, standing for the U.S.
But guess what?
The rest of the world was a little nervous around him.
And you know what?
That is not a bad thing when the bad guys become nervous.
And no wars under Trump.
You're exactly right.
And it takes a statesman who the rest of the world thinks is not a patsy or a pushover.
This guy's got no credibility, Erdogan.
Okay?
He's an absolute hypocrite.
Okay.
The Armenian genocide 1919.
Yep.
Okay.
What's going on?
1915.
What's going on in Azerbaijan today?
You know, Lindsey Graham calls him the Turkey, the squad of NATO.
You can't trust these guys right here.
So it's disappointing.
It's destabilizing for NATO with this guy, Erdogan.
But, you know, he calls it war crimes.
His muscles.
You don't think he's done war crimes?
You don't think he's got what's going on?
So, you know, be careful who you're getting your advice from, is all I'm saying.
No, it's not about be careful who you're getting your advice from.
This is, this is, this is, we're on the same page.
This is war crime on steroids that this guy's got.
But let me tell you.
He's got blood on his hands.
And to me, this isn't about positive energy preventing a war.
FYI, folks, if you're wondering where I stand with if we're already in it or not, we're in it.
I already said it's happening.
I mean, the way my strategy, what I said is to not have a person like Biden as your president.
Yep.
That's my strategy.
My strategy is from day one.
It's too late.
The moment somebody knows they can't fear you, it's over.
That took a second.
The way Afghanistan, we left from there.
This is happening.
Of course did this.
This, Russia, Ukraine, and Afghanistan happened under his watch.
Look at the scoreboard, y'all.
Buyer's remorse.
Yep.
I got it.
I have it.
Buyer's remorse at the highest level.
Buyers' remorse at the highest level.
Let me see if we got one more chance for one more story.
Do one more PBD.
All right, let's do one more.
I'm going to pick some pants.
Drink a beer.
I'll be back in 30 seconds.
Okay, go for it.
Ex-New York governor Andrew Cuomo says Joe Biden should face Democratic primary.
So Cuomo has, I think, $5 million left in his pack.
And I'm not sure he is going away, Andrew Cuomo.
And I'm not sure he's happy about the fact that everybody got rid of him out of nowhere at a time where everybody thought he was going to be the next president going up against Trump.
Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor, has called for a Democratic challenge against Biden in 2024.
And I think there should be a Democratic primary.
Cuomo criticized Biden for distancing himself from allegations against him, referring to the Tara Reed case and expressed doubts about Biden's strength as candidate, saying, I don't know that candidate Biden is the strongest candidate we can put up.
Frankly, I doubt it.
He urged the Democratic Party to engage with voters on a different level, emphasizing the need for an affirmative strategy to win elections.
Cuomo also criticized the slogan, Defund the Police, calling it the three dumbest words ever uttered by the Democratic Party.
Tom.
Andrew Cuomo says, if you're looking for somebody else, I'm right here.
That's basically what he just said.
And he did it by providing some facts and some basis and some foundation for his argument.
Why don't we have a Democratic process and have candidates and an open primary?
Do we think Biden is the best?
I don't think so.
Let's have a primary.
And by the way, he announces one of his campaign pledges, Pat.
I think defund the police is one of the three dumbest words ever uttered by the Democratic Party.
It sounds like a guy who wants to look like a moderate, doesn't it?
This is Andrew Cuomo saying, I think we need an open primary.
And ladies and gentlemen, I'm right here.
I will be in.
That's what he's saying.
You think he has the chance, though, Pat?
Like, in all honesty, I think the table is already set for, like, it's obvious in our faces, Pat.
Biden is not going to run.
There's absolutely no way that he's going to run.
And I definitely think Newsom, and I'm telling you, man, when Roger Stone said it, he said it a while ago, he goes, don't be surprised if Michelle Obama comes out of nowhere and he goes, take that to the bank.
He goes, remember, I'm the first one that said it.
I just, obviously, I don't trust them.
I think they have something up their sleeves that's going to be coming.
But Pat, there's no way.
They picked who they wanted.
The swamp knows who they want.
I mean, they wouldn't, Biden's the perfect.
Stay there.
We'll tell you what to say.
Your handlers will move you here.
And if, God forbid, he dies or he falls and breaks his neck, guess what?
Kamala's right there, and she's one of them.
Can I do a little, you know, I don't know.
Remember that idiot that used to be on late night TV, Miss Cleo?
You would call her and she would throw a fortune.
Oh, yeah.
Let me be a little fortune teller.
How does Governor, ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo feel about watching the semi-anointing of Gavin Newsom?
This guy comes from a family that was a pillar of the Democratic Party.
He led a blue state.
He led a policy that the Democrat Party felt was beloved.
Andrew Cuomo was a statesman and a leader in that party.
And now he's looking all the way across the United States to the anointing of a relative rookie in Gavin Newsom.
I got to believe, Pat, that there maybe is a little bit of athletic jealousy here going on because I happen to think Andrew Cuomo, if you is a Democrat.
I think he's formidable.
I think Newsom is formidable.
I think they I'd love to see Cuomo in there.
By the way, if you look at the resume of dirt, there's not a single person that's going to run at that level that's not going to have dirt.
If you compare dirt of Andrew Cuomo versus Biden, Biden's killing him.
The score is 71 to 1 touchdown, is what the score is.
Biden's against Andrew Cuomo.
So that's a whole different conversation.
Anyways, we're at the end of the podcast here, gang.
Adam is officially the first person ever to go pee.
Is this the third time or it was the second time?
Pat, I've been drinking beers all morning.
By the way, let's go.
I didn't even peek, Pat.
I love that.
Let's go, Adam.
Can I give a quick message to you?
Do we?
Because you got 30 seconds.
I got my accessory.
I got to say something too quick.
Quick, guys.
I love you.
I know.
I know you give me a hard time, but we're getting better.
We're improving.
Yeah, we're doing our thing.
I appreciate you bearing with me.
I was left.
I was moderate.
You've shown me.
You've seen the line, guys.
You've seen the line, guys.
Obviously.
Okay, guys, let me just ask you.
We got to wrap up, guys.
I said 30 seconds.
We're going, both of you guys.
Town hall, December 6th, RFK.
We'll be at the 5990 Live studio.
Come meet them, take pictures.
Some of you will be at the cigar lounge with them afterwards.
The link will be in the description.
Some of you guys, if you text the word podcast to 3103-401132, you already got the link.
I'm seeing tickets already being purchased left and right.
It was already text out.
Go to 5990 Live, 5990 Live to purchase tickets.
Vinny, Udu Letai.
No, okay.
5990live.com to purchase tickets for the town hall with RFK on December 6th at the club in Fort Lauderdale.