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All right, so happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
We came in this morning, had no idea Kelly was going to prepare this entire, literally turkey, gravy.
We got the whole nine going on here.
Kelly.
And we decided last minute to do a podcast today to cover some of the stories and spend some time with you before you go out there and spend the time with your family while Tom makes that weird noise.
You mean talking?
Yeah.
No, it's kidding.
It's the kind of turkey.
Tom sings these special effects like he does.
Like he thinks it adds to the spice.
He thinks it does.
Well, we appreciate it just like that.
You know, some people have those buttons you press with the sound.
Yeah.
Tom thinks sometimes he's that.
By the way, this is a new shirt for you.
It's a new look for you.
You look great.
I got paid last Friday.
So I even got it.
Don't blow all your money, your paycheck on just new money.
So, okay.
All right.
First of all, whatever you guys do, listen, if you're driving a Bentley on the border, just slow it down a little bit, right?
Seriously, don't be reckless.
Everybody thought there was a situation going on with this car.
We'll talk about that a little bit.
Israel Hamas reached hostage, release, deal in exchange for four-day pause in fighting.
Potential.
Kind of like saying, look.
Potential.
Which is not a good bargaining.
Listen, give us, but we'll think about it.
It's going to go right back to bombing right now.
Yeah, both sides are just kind of trying to say, well, because the other side is afraid of us.
That's why they're agreeing to do this.
But one side is saying, if we do it, we're still going to come back and kill you.
But take four days off and have dinner with your family.
We'll come back and revisit.
This is like World War I, where all the fighters came out and they played soccer one day on Christmas and they killed each other.
Were you in that game?
No, no, no.
I was watching.
I was not at that.
Sam Altman.
Sam Altman returns to OpenAI in a bizarre reversal of fortunes.
Binance CEO, Zhao, to plead guilty to federal charges, stepping out.
I think he's agreeing to pay $50 million on.
That's the guy CZ.
What happened to crypto and NFT and all those guys?
Let's go.
Musk to donate ex-advertising revenue to hospitals in Israel and Gaza.
Most Americans tip 15% or less at a restaurant, and some tip nothing.
Here's a poll to talk about that.
40% of Americans are afraid to walk alone at night.
Most in decades, polls say, like, what do they do?
How do they find this stuff?
Like, to find out who's afraid of walking during the alone at night, maybe we'll see if some of you guys, Rob, we can run a poll when we do the podcast topic.
We'll get to it and we'll do the poll.
Gun ownership reaches record high with American Electorate.
U.S. existing home sales hits more than 13-year low.
Prices pushes, push higher.
U.S. home sales on pace for the worst year since 93.
That's 30 years.
Suzanne Sarandim dumped by Hollywood agent.
U-Tier over anti-Jewish rant.
John Lovitz tears into Colbert Kimmel for pushing political agenda in late night.
Scarborough, you got to see this video, makes doomsday prediction for Trump's second term, talking about he's going to execute everyone and anyone.
A little random, but we'll see what he's got to say.
Obama ex-National Security Council advisor smiles during perp walk.
You just have to watch what this guy has to say.
Very random, weird.
Men may benefit from their looks in the workplace more than women do.
We'll debate that.
I don't know if that's true or not.
Watch this.
Jamie Foxx accused of sexual assault in new lawsuit.
And you know who just got accused this morning?
Eric Mayor Eric Adams accused of sexually assaulting women in 93.
New York?
93?
New York?
1993.
That's where we're going with this at this point.
To real estate, because that's the last time real estate, the 93, 1993.
So we'll talk about that as well.
Anyways, let's get right into it, Tom.
Let's start off with Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, which to me, the last few days for Sam Altman, if there's been anything, he now knows exactly who his enemies are, who's on his side, who to be careful with, who not to get closer to.
But here's what happens: Sam Altman reinstated as OpenAI CEO following a surprise ouster with the company announcing we have reached an agreement in principle for Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board.
Brett Taylor, a former co-CEO of Salesforce, will chair the new board alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo.
Altman expresses enthusiasm saying he looks forward to building an OpenAI strong partnership with Microsoft, the company's primary financial backer.
Their circumstances surrounding Altman's removal and reappointment remain mysterious, but tensions between Altman's push for aggressive AI development and the original board's cautious approach played a significant role.
Tom Wow.
Well, happy Thanksgiving, Sam.
You're back in the chair having Thanksgiving.
And it was kind of funny.
Elon Musk put out a tweet on this and it says, guys, this was pointless.
This was like, you're back where you started.
This was an interesting marketing stunt.
So who won, who lost, Tom?
Who looked embarrassing?
Who looked embarrassing was the board.
The board looked very embarrassing.
We now see many stories out there.
And the board had, you know, Elias Askiever comes to the board, says, you know, he's not being honest with us.
He's not being forthright, blah, blah, blah, blah.
We've all read the articles.
And then the board looked really clumsy.
There was no legal consultation.
If they consulted legal, they sure didn't have those lawyers out there to talk to the media.
There was no like crisis communication group they were using.
There was no PR firm.
And as soon as this leaked out, they also kind of missed what was the temperature of the employees because 700 employees said, I'm with Sam.
And so the winner in all this is Microsoft.
Microsoft has unbelievable control over Open AI.
Yeah, there's going to be this board and things like this.
But Microsoft that put the $13 billion in and Thrive Capital and Coastal Ventures, they got everybody back together.
So the winners were all of those people that put money into the funds that were invested by Thrive Capital.
Like let's say UPAD had put money into a fund at Thrive Capital and then they invested in OpenAI.
You're making phone calls when this is going on and say, guys, did my investment just go up in smoke?
I depend on you guys, Thrive Capital, who assimilates a fund and invests it.
The winner is Microsoft and the winner of the investors because the band gets back together.
And also, I think it's a good thing that Sam and Greg Brockman are not on the board.
Now they have a stronger board along with Larry Summers, who comes from a regulated side, the Treasury side.
I think that's good.
So I think the winner is, I think, Microsoft.
And it's a good thing to have Open AI with a more structured board.
Is the fear that OpenAI, Sam is so ambitious to accelerate the process of advancement with AI that we may lose control and AI may be more powerful than those who are humanists such as Elon Musk?
Have summed up in one sentence what many people said was the debate going on between half the board and then Sam and Greg.
Yeah, this is kind of what I was referring to the other day.
I actually think this is a great thing.
For who humanity?
All we hear constantly is that Ai is going to take over the world and that humans will no longer exist and we're going to be subjugated citizens to basically Ai Generated robots that are be controlling us as overlords.
I think in the short term, this was obviously not a good look for OpenAI and ChatGPT and Sam and everything.
But I think as the dust settles, this would be good for all of us because the one thing that they did receive from all this is clarity.
The board didn't know where Sam was.
Sam was sort of like keeping things close to the vest, not essentially trusting the board.
Us regular human non-android individuals are like, I don't even know what the hell is going on.
These people are about to take over the world and the planet.
And at the very least, we have some clarity on what they're doing now, what their intentions are.
And then we're bringing on these sort of grown-ups in the room, especially Larry Summers.
Like not only was he the Secretary of the Treasury back in the, what, Bush days, Obama days?
Yeah.
Obama.
Him and Tim Geithner were Obama's.
Exactly.
He was also the president of Harvard.
So this is a guy who has educational background, government background, finance background, and is sort of just sort of a level-headed player in all this.
And I think at the end of the day, the humanist side of things certainly won't.
How's it?
What is their stock price doing, Pat?
Well, what's all this announcement?
It's a private company.
It's not out there.
Oh, it's not, they haven't even gone public, open AI?
No, it's not out there yet.
They had an implied valuation of $86 billion where independent investors were going to buy shares from employees willing to sell.
So that gives the employees the ability to monetize their shares after four years of work investing their data when they're going to go public?
Probably at some point I would tell.
Tom, let me ask you a question.
Let me ask you a question.
What do you fear with AI?
What do you, you're a pretty level-headed guy, but at the same time, you can also entertain opposing ideas.
What do you fear with AI?
So I fear AI, the same thing.
If you've ever Googled the phrase market, stock market circuit breakers, you'll see that phrase, circuit breaker flips today on XYZ stock.
So what I fear is autonomous engines.
And autonomous engines is like, it's like the same way people fear self-driving cars.
It's not perfect all the time.
Bad things happen.
We saw that cruise taxis actually has to suspend operations after they hit a person, ran into wet concrete, ran over construction barricades in San Francisco.
So the word autonomous is what concerns me.
And when you see autonomous trading and see, here it is.
Circuit breakers are temporary measures that halt trading to curb panic selling on stock exchanges.
The panic selling is not people.
The panic selling is the autonomous engines that see a stock moving and they all follow each other.
It's like if you see those big pictures, you know, from National Geographic where all the antelope and the Serengeti, one tiger shows up, one lion shows up, and all the animals or the zebras turn at the same time.
It's like beautiful artwork.
They run at the same time.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is what program autonomous trading does on the stock market.
Something spooks them, and then there's a circuit breaker where the stock market says, suspend the stock.
And what they're really saying is stop all the program engines.
So I fear the word autonomous and engine.
And AI can allow more autonomous engines to happen in things.
And you got to think about electric power grids.
You got to think about a lot of stuff.
And so that's the humanity side that I worry about is when these engines or things go autonomous and it doesn't take anybody to be a PhD to figure this out.
Just look at the self-driving cars and look at what autonomous trading does on the stock market.
There are times when they get out of hand, and there's got to be something.
And the stock market uses circuit breakers, autonomous cars where their license was pulled and they had to stop until they do more research.
That's what you fear.
I fear the word autonomous engines, things running amok.
Have you watched the movie Creator?
Creator just came out.
Have you seen it?
No, have you seen it?
So I normally wouldn't recommend any of these new movies coming out.
This is actually a very good movie worth watching.
I think it's on Apple TV.
Now you can order it.
It was in the theater.
The story about Creator is just science fiction.
It's the creator of AI.
So said in 2070, 15 years after a nuclear detonation in LA and a war against AI, an ex-special forces agent is recruited to hunt down and kill the creator.
The creator is, you know, how our creator, God, the creator of AI, he wants to kill the creator who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war, right?
So what levels, like how advanced can AI get?
You know, sometimes you watch these movies and they take you places and then these movies 20, 30 years later become a reality.
You're like, oh, yeah, yeah, that's normal now.
It's a regular Tuesday today, you know.
But how crazy do you think it gets?
It's something that at all even consumes your mind as somebody that's got two kids.
Yeah, Pat.
It doesn't consume my mind, but I'm very, very aware of it.
Remember, the circuit breakers were made by the stock market to stop that.
They have software now that teachers use to see if a paper was written with Chat GPT or something.
Rob, go back to that.
Do you see what I mean, Pat?
You have to put a contrasting control.
It's like when you invent the accelerator, somebody has to invent the brake.
Put it that way.
Simple as that.
Watch every application.
Look at this article Rob just found.
Go to it.
Go up a little bit.
This is 10 things movies from the past got right about the future.
Okay, go down.
Let's see what these 10 things are.
Okay.
A trip to moon, 1902 lunar exploration.
Okay.
For those of us who believe it, we actually went to the moon, right, Vin?
Airplane 2, 1982.
Great movie.
Airport body scanners in the back.
Okay.
Star Trek, the motion picture, cell phones.
All right.
That's 79.
Fair enough.
Smart House, Smart Homes.
Smart Home, Smart House.
Interesting.
Disney.
The Cable Guy, Technology Integration.
Great movie.
Okay.
Keep going.
Keep going.
Hackers.
VR headsets.
Wow.
1995.
Keep going.
Okay.
Blade Runner, 1982, Electric Billboards.
That was incredible.
And it's now like everywhere.
Keep going.
What a great movie.
Total Recall.
Self-Driving Cars.
1990, 33 years later.
It's here.
By far and away the best movie on this panel so far, on this list.
It may be his best movie.
Well, Terminator 2, probably.
Keep going.
Keep going.
What's that one?
Okay.
2000 Space Odyssey, Tablets and Videos, Video Calls.
1968.
They predicted that.
Minority Report targeted ads.
02, 21 years ago.
Okay.
And then that's it.
So to me, do you fear it?
What do you think about AI?
I saw a documentary, I want to say 10 years ago called The Transcendental Man.
This guy, Hugo de Garry, G-A-R-I-S.
Great pronunciation.
I wasn't going to say Garris.
Pat, this guy was born in, he's an Australian retired researcher in the subfield of artificial intelligence and evolved hardware.
He became known in the 90s.
This is in the 90s, bro, for research of the use of genetic algorithms to evolve artificial neural networks using three-dimensional cellular automata, which inside the field programmable gate arrays.
By the way, he claims that this approach would enable the creation of what he terms artificial brains, which would quickly surpass human levels of intelligence.
Pat, he's saying this, these things will think a billion times faster than how we think in a nanosecond.
He has a belief.
This is him, by the way, he's 75, 76 years old, that there's going to be a major war between the supporters of opponents of intelligent machines, resulting in billions of deaths, is almost inevitable before the end of the 21st century.
He suggests AI systems may simply eliminate the human race, and humans would be powerless to stop them because of technological singularity.
He's, Pat, we're creating things that are going to start thinking on their owns.
And he said, when you look at an ant, Pat, do you even think twice about killing it?
You don't think twice.
We're going to be those ants to these things because they're going to be like, who are these people telling us what to do?
And then they're going to take you really believe that?
I 100% believe that.
I think that's the fear.
That's my fear.
And that's the documentary.
You want to eye-waking a documentary?
Is this transcendent man?
100%.
So you're talking about like Skynet, you know, T2.
Skynet became self-aware.
Yeah, once it started.
And by the way, there.
By the way, I do.
That's that's the one thing.
Like, if you think about what AI is when it becomes self-aware and it can realize how powerful it is.
There was a cartoon also they did a couple years ago.
Full autonomy.
Full autonomy.
Yeah.
Cartoon they did a couple years ago when the AI realizes how powerful it is and it's game over.
And Pat, think about it.
Remember, Rob, there was, there was, Pat, which company started doing this AI thing and it was no filter.
They started asking it questions like, what do you want to do?
And you know what it said?
I want to kill everybody.
I want to do nuclear war and I want to be in charge.
There's no guy.
I saw it.
It's like, and then they shut down the system.
It's like we're playing with something that's very, very dangerous.
And by you, and I think you said this, Pat.
What's it called?
When it's like IA is helping, everything's helping us.
It's really easy for us to use it, but we don't realize that this thing one day is going to creep up and it's going to take over.
There was an AI researcher at Google.
And Rob, you can search this who is like a whistleblower.
He was later semi-discredited.
Remember this?
He said that they'd done experiments and the AI demonstrated, you know, kind of an emotional response or a, and he was later fired.
Was that him?
Yeah.
Pat, you don't think so?
You don't think that one day this thing, these things that, especially if it's going to think on its own and it's thinking a billion times, I think Brandon told us something about this quantum computing.
This thing is going to own you.
And you're not, it's not going to want to.
Google fires Blake Lamon, the engineer who claimed AI chatbot is a person.
I mean, it's well, I'll give you a little.
So ever since the first industrial revolution, right?
What was the advent of the steam engine?
Right?
We're now approaching what?
The fifth industrial revolution.
What's the industrial revolution?
Basically, replacing human jobs, whether it's, you know, pushing stuff, building stuff, slamming stuff, just masonry, to basically utilize what machines do.
Now, it's so the first industrial revolution was what, the steam engine, and then it went into mass production, like factories, everything with that.
And the third industrial revolution was digital, internet, everything that we've known as far as growing up in the 80s and the 90s.
The fourth industrial revolution, which we're sort of in the process of right now, was everything with blockchain and technology and cell phones and everything like internet 2.0 or 3.0 or Web3 that you hear about.
And the fifth one is that is essentially what we're talking about here, is where basically humans and machines become one.
Oh, God.
And it's scary.
And that's why going back to the initial premise of this conversation is like everything that happened with open AI this week, I think is a good thing for what?
Humanity.
Because if this thing progresses to the point where like we have no clue, let's face it, like we're some pretty decently smart guys.
Whenever we get it, we have no clue what they're building out there in Silicon Valley and Chat GBT and OpenAI.
I have no clue how this shit works.
Most people don't.
And there's a lot of fear.
Vinny, especially, we're like, I don't know what's going on.
Elon Musk and Neuralink and the brains and the satellite and the Starlink.
It's so much stuff going out there.
And this pause, I think, is a good thing.
Neuralink, I found one tweet from a person that represented themselves.
Hey, I've worked in Las Vegas security for a while.
And you would not believe the PhDs that are being hired in Las Vegas because they don't want a Neuralink equip person to come in.
And the game they fear is blackjack, right?
They do.
Oh, damn.
Right.
They don't want someone with a Neuralink.
In the movie The Hangover when our buddy went there and was just counting cards like Rainman.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
And so there are people, the people with something to lose are already trying.
You know what I'm saying?
The guy that invents the accelerator, he made a lot of money for the guy that invented the brake.
Yeah, exactly.
And so supposedly there are PhDs that are research level in Las Vegas that have been hired by the casinos to consider all of these things that are coming.
Everything from Google Glass, because you can't remember the square Google Glass.
And if you were in the casino with them, they would like walk right up to you and say, Excuse me, you need to put this in your pocket.
Take those off.
Always bet on black, Tom.
No, but that's interesting.
The people with the most to lose are usually the first people to the podium.
Follow Vegas.
Follow the money.
To put the brakes on something.
Let's look at the next story.
And by the way, the guy with a Neuralink, Musk, to donate X advertising revenue to hospitals in Israel and Gaza.
And this story is going to lead into a couple different things.
Rob, I'm going to text you a couple things.
Can you go up to Mark Cuban's tweet at Elon Musk about what he says with Cheech and Chong?
You'll see it if you go to it.
Go to that.
He also gets the ads.
Yeah.
So if you, if you, I'll read the story first and then we'll go to that.
So Musk pledged to donate all advertising and subscription revenue linked to the Gaza conflict on his platform, formerly Twitter, to hospitals in Israel and the Red Cross in Gaza.
He stressed the importance of caring for innocent lives regardless of their background, stating we should care about the innocent regardless of race, creed, religion, or anything else.
This announcement follows Musk's previous controversy where he faced allegations of promoting anti-Semitism, Semitism for his response to a racist post with the comment, You have said actual truth.
The exchange occurred in response to a criticism of Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism campaign video.
So that said here, then Mark tweets this out.
If you can zoom in a little bit, if advertisers were getting results for their ex-ads, or possibly if you posted data that showed the ads on this platform were effective and produced results, you would be in an entirely different position.
If your ads produce results, businesses would tell you they understand how difficult it is to completely eliminate hate on the platform.
If they don't produce results, there is no reason for a big company to fuck around and find out that their ads showed up next to a hateful post.
I can't tell you how many times I got cheat or is a chunk ads for CBD gummies, shit I would never buy.
On other platform ads sometimes are eerily relevant to my interests, keep going up.
That never occurs on this platform.
Agree or disagree.
That's the real world today.
Okay.
So now, then I see this here, which I want to kind of share with you: is what just came out.
Rob, I'm going to try to send this to you to show.
Do I go Robert's MacBook or Rob's iPhone?
Do you go by Rob or Robert?
Which one is it, Rob?
iPhone.
Okay.
Send it to both of them.
Great addition, Rob.
So if you pull this up, this is something that started going around yesterday, and everybody was showing it to say, hey, here's the data.
Here's what we're looking like.
This is the kind of results we're putting in Twitter.
And Tom, I want to get your thoughts on this because, you know, they're trying to say, look, traffic driven to a domain via Google's top 100 organic search results.
Again, Google.
So this isn't anybody else.
Number one is X. Weird.
Twitter.
Then it's Instagram.
Then it's Facebook, which means, hey, we're getting more eyeballs to the ads you're running than Instagram and Facebook.
When you see this, this gives credibility to Musk to say we are up.
So now it's very easy for us who are not in it to see the data to say, well, maybe man, X is getting destroyed, bro.
You're seeing what's going on, all the racist stuff that's going on on Twitter, and that's become a racist-infested platform.
Nobody wants to advertise there.
Okay.
Are they not advertising because of the commons of the IBMs of the world and the companies we read about?
The Coca-Cola's taking a break, whatever, the list of companies we talked about last Tuesday.
Rob, if you can pull up the company so I say the right names and don't want to get that wrong, which company stopped advertising on X?
So are they stopping it because of what's available and freedom of speech is risky?
Or are they stopping it because they're not getting return on their money?
I missed one of them.
They go Apple, Disney, IBM, NBC Universal, Paramount, Fox Sports, Paris Hilton, Warner Brothers Discovery, CNN's Parent Company.
Okay.
So what do you think, Tom?
Do you think there's credibility on what Mark Cuban is saying?
And do you think there's credibility in that data showing that there's more eyeballs on Twitter than the other two platforms?
Well, first of all, I assume there's credibility in the data.
And so the data is pretty clear that the Google search is significantly directing to X, number one.
Number two, Mark Cuban doesn't present any data, but he presents a very informed logical argument.
I agree.
But he's not putting very informed.
And by the way, we talked about Cheech and Chong CBDs two podcasts ago that you and I are getting these ads.
We're saying, what the hell is this?
Why is this?
So either the ad buyer for Cheech and Chong, they're high and they're just putting ads everywhere, which is also logical, very probable.
But what I look at here is that I see something, and I'm going to be like Mark Cuban.
I'm going to be logical.
I see something in this list.
Apple, Disney, IBM, and mainstream media.
Just call it that.
Mainstream media all together there.
Look at those.
I don't see Levi's.
I don't see Coca-Cola.
I don't see a lot of consumer products.
By the way, Apple, Woke, Disney, Woke, IBM, definitely woke.
NBC.
Mainstream media?
Woke.
So that's what I see.
IBM you would put it in.
I see people.
IBM?
I see people that didn't like Musk in the first place.
Okay, go pull up their DEI score.
That's all you got to do.
Look at IBM, ESG.
Is that actually how you would define woke, just the DEI score?
No, if they are.
Yeah, right there.
If that is, let me look.
Let me think.
I'm actually asking a genuine question.
The way you want to judge a company is if they're like, for example, you know what is the only team in Major League Baseball that didn't do Pride Night?
Yeah, it was Texas?
Texas Rangers.
Yeah, exactly.
Guess what is the World Series?
Texas Rangers?
Texas Rangers won the Super Bowl.
That's right.
I love that Super Bowl team.
Love it.
Have another gun.
So guess what?
Everybody was saying all the other teams are all ESG DEI except for the Rangers.
There was credibility in a company that didn't have a Pride Night.
So IBM has it as well.
So Tom, you were saying, keep going.
So I'm going to be logical with this.
Everybody that jumped on the bandwagon, they didn't like Elon Musk in the first place.
It's almost like they're waiting for him to do something.
Aha, there you go again.
But it's also a very, very sensitive time because let's talk about the topic.
The topic is Israel Hamas, and there is horrifying things going on.
So, we're not just talking about, do you believe George Floyd or do you not?
And the man died in that encounter.
It's not something like that.
This is a major, and people are saying two-sided genocide that's going on that Elon Musk weighed in on.
But these people that didn't care for Elon Musk in the first place quickly jumped on his head.
Yeah, if you recall, there was an interview, what was that six months ago?
I think it was a BBC journalist that he sat down and did a one-on-one with Musk.
Do you remember that?
He's like, the woman?
I didn't care.
No, no, no, not that one.
Not that one.
That was a CNBC interview.
It was a guy that basically was like, so ever since you've been coming on the platform, everyone says that your platform was way more racist.
Show me.
Show me an example.
And he's like, yeah, just show it to me.
Show me what they said.
But they said, who said that?
No, but I call her.
Yeah, it's like hardcore.
So you're talking about basically emotions versus logic or data.
So I don't know if you have it right.
That's not that.
Yeah, this one right here.
The guy.
I don't know if that's the same thing.
Yeah, that one.
Can you play that?
I love this.
I love it.
Something you don't like or hateful.
What do you mean to describe a hateful thing?
Yeah, I mean, you know, just content that solicit a reaction, something that may include.
Give me some data.
Slightly racist or slightly sexist, those kinds of things.
So you think if something is slightly sexist, it should be banned.
No.
Is that what you're saying?
I'm not saying anything.
I'm saying that.
I'm just curious at lunch.
I'm trying to understand what you mean by hateful content.
And I'm asking for specific examples.
You can't say that.
It's a little too.
First of all, you just said that something is the right mindset.
Sits with one of the smartest, if not the smartest guy in the world without being ready with freaking facts.
Who the hell are you, Pat?
Pat, he has an iPhone.
Yeah, I want you to the end of this.
By the way, Pat, his notes are on his iPad.
I've seen this so many times.
I watched the whole interview.
Go.
Well, you've asked me whether my face is basically tripping over his own page.
Elon wants answers.
Look.
That's why I'm asking for examples.
Yeah, let's go.
Can you name one example?
I honestly don't need it.
You can't name a single example.
I'll tell you why, because I don't actually use that for you feed anymore because I just don't particularly like it.
You said a lot of people are quite similar.
Hang on a second.
You said you've seen more hateful content, but you can't name a single example.
Not even one.
I'm not sure I've used that feed for the last feed three or four weeks.
Well, then how did you see the hateful content?
Because I've been using Twister since you've taken it over for the last six months.
Okay, so then you must have at some point seen for you hateful content.
I'm asking for one example.
Right.
You can't give a single one.
And I'm saying, I've never seen it.
Then I say so that you don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah, but you see how he did it so eloquently?
Just give me the data.
Give me the facts.
Well, this is what the left is.
That's the video I'm talking about.
But see, this is exactly how the left operates.
It's like, no, no, you're this, you're this, or that.
But then when you check them and you say, show me the proof, they go, no, well, I heard it from, yeah, yeah, good solution.
The proofs and the pudding.
Would you pass some of the pudding over there right there?
This one?
Look, I've been.
By the way, happy Thanksgiving, everybody.
Thanks for joining us today.
You already gave me that.
I've been using a little term privately.
And I'm going to start using this more publicly.
And I call it, I call it the uninformed narrative puppets.
UNPs.
And I hope it catches on because that reporter is an uninformed narrative puppet.
An uninformed puppet trying to go with the narrative.
Oh, it's so hateful.
Oh, it's so hateful.
But they're not ready to put anything out there.
And remember, the headlines and things they put out there, they're uninformed narrative puppets.
They're going with poupés is the French terminus.
Because media matters, and I love how he called out media matters for being pure evil.
Millé.
Millé.
Javier Moulay.
So let's agree.
Let's continue real quick.
I want to spend two minutes on this story.
Not a long time.
Binance CEO, CZ, to plead guilty to federal charges, steps down.
Where's he at?
Here we go.
Binance CEO has pleaded guilty to federal charge and stepped down as a part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the Department of Justice, resulting in a multi-year investigation to the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Z, express responsibility.
What happened?
No, no, just read it.
Express responsibility.
I have made mistakes.
The joint effort by the Department of Justice and Commodity Futures Trade Commission and the Treasury Department found that Binance allowed illicit transactions, including those supporting terrorism and illegal narcotics and failed to implement anti-money laundering controls.
That right there, that right there, you know what that means, that sentence?
Let me read that sentence to you one more time, folks.
Listen, the joint effort, Department of Justice, DOJ, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Treasury Department, they are ecstatic here, found that Binance allowed illicit transactions, including those supporting terrorism and illegal narcotics, and failed to implement anti-money laundering controls.
You know what that means?
Crypto is about to be regulated.
U.S. Attorney General, Merrick Garland, emphasized that Binance prioritizes profits over the safety of American people.
As part of the settlement, Binance will continue to operate with new compliance rules and an independent monitor.
They do not like things to be decentralized.
And unfortunately, the last guy they had to take out to give the entire crypto community pro-libertarian, pro-independent, pro-leave it to me, pro-decentralized, all of that.
They gave them a black eye, and now they don't have anybody else to go to after this story.
Go ahead, Alex.
Yeah, correct.
Black eye.
You hit the nail on the head, Pat.
This is just another black eye for the crypto industry.
And if you've been paying, I know we have sort of a bigger libertarian crypto audience.
I have some Bitcoin, Ethereum.
This is something I've been investing in for years, you know, a percentage of my asset allocation of my portfolio.
But Bitcoin's been, what, they're up?
36,000?
Yeah, they're up big in the last two months, big time.
And it's just kind of like they can't get out of their own way.
First, it was Sam Bankman-Fried.
Now it's Binance, CZ.
By the way, Binance, CZ, way bigger than FTX, way bigger than Coinbase, massive.
I think they're the number one crypto platform in the world by far.
Well, and the way it was exploding in the numbers they were using, yes.
The white hat in all this is a guy named Brian Armstrong, who's the CEO of Coinbase.
And CZ actually called him when he knew his ass was in trouble.
He knew it.
And Brian Armstrong came out and was like, hey, I told you.
So there are people that are trying to push the good side of crypto, you know, personal security, personal, you know, an alternative to fiat currency, all these things on the good ways.
And then these idiots, a combination of SBF and CZ, have given the government what they want.
The government wants to control everything and they have played into it.
And Brian Armstrong was very, very adamant about this.
And I'll be adamant about this.
Something that was good that could coincide with fiat currency and other things around the world gets effed up by bad actors.
And here comes the government.
Hey, wait, I need to, I'll fix that.
Listen to the three agencies, departments of governments that Pat just said.
We've got law enforcement, then we've got financial regulation.
We've got everybody that says, okay, don't mess with my fiat.
There'll be one central bank and it'll be me.
Don't need you guys running around like this.
And they're going to put under control.
And look, I live in Miami.
We all know that Miami has sort of become the crypto hub of the United States, if not the world.
And I have friends in the industry and I've seen what's going on there.
And I've interviewed a lot of people, especially men on the street style, at the Bitcoin conference, which has been going on in Miami for the last handful of years, all the events that's going on.
And I asked these guys who are huge, huge believers in Bitcoin and crypto.
I said, what's your asset allocation strategy?
Meaning, how much do you have in cash?
How much do you have in stocks?
How much do you have in bonds?
How much do you have in crypto?
Just kind of like diversification.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket, as they say.
You have no idea how many people are like, dude, I'm all in.
I'm all in on crypto, man.
100%.
Like, how do you pay rent?
They're like, yeah, I keep a couple bucks just to pay rent, whatever, but I'm 100% all in.
That is a very, very scary situation, right?
Because I'm a big, you know, keep a percentage in cash, keep a percentage.
And majority of my money is in index funds or mutual funds at stock market.
Obviously, Pat, you've got, you know, $150 million ain't what it used to be, but I know you're big into the cards and everything and commodities and gold for that matter.
And I know you have a little percentage, whether it's 2% or 5% in the crypto space.
I've done the exact same thing.
But these guys out there that are putting 90, 100% of their portfolio in crypto, it's basically gambling.
Yeah, they know how to lose money.
That's what it is.
Well, there's a lot going on.
And you got the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez.
Happy Thanksgiving, Francis.
You know, paid in crypto.
I think he's the only U.S. mayor that's paid in the alternative currency.
That's something to keep an eye on.
Maybe we get a bunch.
Maybe we get Suarez and a bunch of people here for the podcast.
By the way, Mayor Suarez is a stud.
Love that guy.
But he gets his mayoral salary in crypto, which is like less than 50 grand, I would assume.
He ain't taking his real money from his legal firm.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a release Tuesday that the exchange allowed illicit actors to make more than 100,000 transactions that supported activities such as terrorism and illegal narcotics.
That it allowed more than 1.5 million virtual currency trades that violated U.S. sanctions.
So it allowed transactions associated with terrorist groups such as Hamas, Al-Qassam Brigades, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS.
Yellen said in the release, noting Binance never filed a single suspicious.
What the fuck are you thinking?
Dude, if I'm in that space, I'm so.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a press conference Tuesday that the fine is one of the largest penalties we've ever obtained.
Using new technology to break the law does not make you a disruptor.
It makes you a criminal.
Binance prioritizes profits over safety American people.
Okay, so let me give you what I think about it.
Let me give you what I think about this here.
So for example, OnlyFans, all right?
OnlyFans.
You know what the market value of OnlyFans is?
What's the number we looked at the other?
It was a weird number.
OnlyFans market cap.
What's that?
$18 billion or $28 billion.
There's an OnlyFans market cap, $32 billion.
It's a big number, whatever their market cap is.
Can you look it up?
Anyways, it's a big number.
It's not a small number what OnlyFans market cap is.
So imagine one day you build this business for fans to find others, and then all of a sudden you're seeing what it's turning into.
And you're like, hey, man, we're kind of getting like, you know, money.
Wow, Pat, what's going on on OnlyFans?
Legal, it's that.
It's not just wholesale family funds.
Guess what?
You make a decision, it runs off.
Now it's worth $30 billion.
Okay.
Is it illegal?
No.
But when you think about it, if Tom, if you ever went to a business networking event and a guy asked you a question, hey, Tom, can I get 60 minutes with you?
And he said, yeah, you can find me on OnlyFans.
Do you know what?
If you told me something like that, I like a business networking event.
I would say, this guy, you sell pictures of your toes?
You sell pictures?
Like, what do you do?
What are you selling?
I mean, it's kind of weird.
By the way, here's the thing.
If you do want to ask Tom any question and have a 60-minute call with Tom, Vinny, Adam, myself, even Rob, you can find it on Manect, M-I-N-N-E-C-T.
Rob, if you want to put Manect up there so people can see it.
I don't know.
You've had 500 plus people ask you questions on Manect.
Tom, you're up there.
God knows how many different.
Go download the app Manect and connect with anybody you want and ask them questions.
There's a bunch of people you can ask questions on.
Manect, and they get back to you.
Matter of fact, there was a guy the other day, asked 10 questions of 10 different realtors who are professional realtors winners, and he got 10 different answers on how to win in today's economy as a realtor.
So you'll find a bunch of different people here that you can ask questions on Manect.
But here's the point.
The point is with Binance, when you see all of a sudden money is coming in from Al-Qaeda, from Hamas, for your CFO comes in and says, hey, boss, what's that?
We just saw $5.2 million from Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
What do we do?
Well, why don't you just categorize it PIJ?
Yeah, but it's the jihad.
Yeah, how much money was it?
This much.
Okay, what's the big deal?
Hey, we just got some money that came in from Al-Qaeda.
How much was it?
$2.2 million.
Hey, we just got some.
I mean, you have to know these are things that you have to pay.
In a financial industry, we would get some weird things that would come up.
Very weird things that would come up that we have to take a look at it.
Go ahead, Tom.
I feel like you want to say something.
No, I'm agreeing with you.
The suspicious activity report runs from nuisance all the way to protection.
Nuisance.
You sold your car for $15,000.
You go to put money in the bank, and you'll notice if you bring cash to the window, you have to initial that form and say, where did this come from?
Because it's more than $10,000.
If you do that, I did this recently and a guy had a cashier's check.
We went to the window, and the lady at Chase says, well, you need to do this.
What's this for?
What's it for?
Well, I sold the car.
Who's the buyer?
Blah, blah, blah.
That is a form of a suspicious activity report.
One level, I found that kind of intrusive.
Gosh, all I did was sell a car is 15 grand.
It's not 150 grand.
And on the other side, they're trying to protect people.
And here you got Binance out there facilitating transactions with a, you know, hi, listen, I sent $4.5 million to Turkey.
I didn't get my Stinger missiles.
No, no, no.
You need to call FedEx.
They're the ones delivering those.
Binance didn't do what it's supposed to because we as Americans can see it.
And sometimes it's, you know, annoying, like the example I just gave selling a car.
But at the other end of it, this is supposed to protect us when it's like, where is this money coming from?
What was bought with this?
What's going on?
Giant transactions for artwork and other things and jewelry are quickly explainable.
Big, giant chunks of money for other things, like for, you know, buying a property, are quickly explainable.
When you have millions of dollars going from Cotagena to Mexico City and bouncing through a Bahamian bank, yeah, maybe we should look into that.
That's probably a couple tons of powdered sugar that's moving around.
And Binance was supposed to be there.
These are suspicious activities that the reporting and the investigation of them is supposed to give leads to the DEA and to defenses around the world to protect citizens.
And one more thing, you know, what Vinny and I always joke when they say like, nothing to see here.
There's always something to see there.
And essentially, this comes down to two things, fraud and crime, and is basically his inability to even look the other way when you're talking about money laundering and failing to prevent money laundering.
I love the example that Pat gave about OnlyFans.
Yeah, it's like, all right, nothing to see here.
It's all good.
But there's a big difference between seeing some titties and seeing some terrorists and terrorist activities.
Big difference.
So at what point when you're dealing with the most powerful quotes you ever give me?
Titties and terrorists.
Titties are terrorist.
Where does it go?
Because the difference is when you're talking about Islamic jihad and al-Qaeda and ISIS and Hamas, they are in that category, ladies and gentlemen.
And just turning a blind eye to this, at what point do your morals become more important than money?
And clearly, he didn't give a shit.
Nope.
A lot of them don't.
All right, next.
Israel and Hamas reach hostage release deal in exchange for four-day pause in fighting.
Israel and Hamas have reached a deal in which around 50 hostages being held by Hamas will be released to Israel according to multiple reports while fighting will pause for four days.
Making a first major agreement between the two sides since Hamas' October 7th attack.
The four-day pause and fighting will be the first pause longer than four hours that Israel has agreed to since the fighting escalated.
In early October, Israel will let 308 trucks in a day cross from Egypt into Gaza as part of the deal, according to Axios.
According to Qatari officials, Israel has also agreed to release some 150 jail Palestinians, all women and children.
Adam.
Yeah, well, you know, the famous phrase, we do not negotiate with terrorists.
Well, that is exactly what Israel is forced to do at this point, where they're negotiating with terrorists.
And today, Thanksgiving, well, we're all sitting here enjoying life and the amazingness that is America on the other side of the world.
They are basically trying to get their hostages back.
And that's essentially been the main reason why they have not been even willing to have a ceasefire.
But it's good to see for humanity's sake and for innocent civilians' sake that a ceasefire is pending.
And today is supposed to be the day, but now they're essentially supposed to be pushing it back to Friday.
And what's holding up the deal?
Well, Hamas has not lived up to their end of the bargain by providing any of the details that's supposed to come with these lists of hostages, i.e., names, genders, details, logistics, nothing.
And, you know, luckily, the United States and Israel alongside with Egypt and Qatar, because Qatar is very much involved in this, a lot of Hamas's leadership is based out of Qatar.
So everyone's stepping up and basically saying, listen, let's get to the ceasefire at some point.
And, you know, if someone, I try to equate this into just like humanistic terms.
If someone held your kids hostage and they're like, hey, just chill out, man.
Like, just have a little ceasefire.
You're like, yeah, I want my kids back.
I want my children back here.
And you're telling me to have a ceasefire.
Give me my children back.
And, you know, these are the children of Israel.
This is the family of Israel.
And it's great to see, much like in any time there's a situation that there's women and children and old people are going to come first.
And essentially, essentially, the details of the deal is there's going to be 50 of the over 200 hostages, women and children initially, that are going to basically be exchanged for 150 Palestinian prisoners that are apparently also women and children.
I don't know why, what those details are.
Kind of weird.
Yeah.
But so there's this exchange.
It's sort of a three-to-one exchange.
Israel has been notorious, notorious.
If you look, I mean, Rob, you can Google this.
They will exchange one Israeli citizen for hundreds, if not thousands, of terrorists or people that are put in jail.
Like, that's how much Israel cares about their citizens.
They will literally exchange one citizen for a thousand terrorists, essentially, whoever's in jail.
So you can look into that.
But ultimately, here's what has to happen because hopefully this takes place.
I would say there's a high likelihood that this doesn't take place.
You're negotiating with terrorists.
So we'll see what happens here.
But if there is some sort of ceasefire and exchanging of prisoners and hostages and everything that's going on there, that's great.
And then what they, what I think terms of the deal is that for every day that there's a ceasefire, there were at least 10 more hostages.
So we would all love to see a cessation in war and activity and everything that's going on with that.
In the meantime, Israel has been attacking the operational headquarters, allegedly, that is in this hospital area.
They've been basically going after tunnels.
They've been going after weapons manufacturing sites.
And I think it's come to the world's attention that Hamas has got to go.
What needs to happen is that the UN needs to step up.
The Red Cross has already stepped up.
They're going to need to basically set up some sort of temporary political solution, a UN-run government to run Gaza.
And we would all love to see the ending of war and the ending of this.
The only way you bring a terrorist to the table is you kind of go Kaiser Sosi on them, right?
You're willing to go one step further than they are.
Oh, wow.
And we've seen the videos, and one of the videos most striking to me was seeing how the Israelis planted a high-intensity explosive charge on one end of a tunnel and they set it off.
And you saw a backblast, but then in the distance on a straight line, then off to the left, you saw the blast effectively coming through like manhole covers that was air vents.
And so you're saying to, I'm saying to myself, man, I sure hope Israel knew where that tunnel went and was sure that there were no hostages and little rooms or caves down under there because the concussive force there, basically it kills people rather quickly, right?
The concussive force of an explosion in a contained area breaks your eardrums, creates intracranial bleeding, and you're dead.
And so I just sure hope that Israel knew that there were no hostages along that line and where that tunnel was going, number one.
But number two, you look at that, immediately took out any living thing that was down that half-mile tunnel.
And you say to yourself, okay, guys, if you're hiding in that tunnel, you're no longer hiding there because you guys are all dead.
And it appears that Israel's had some, despite the bad view, and I hate what I'm seeing here because I believe in the notion that when you kill a man with a child and you leave the child, the child and his three friends are, when they turn 18, 16, they're becoming bad guys.
You're making bad guys out of these children that have lost their parents.
But I believe Israel's had some effectiveness with what they're doing and that's brought Hamas to the table to negotiate this.
Well, again, America doesn't negotiate with terrorists.
I don't know how Israel or anybody else does, but let's say they get all these hostages back, then what?
Is that end game?
Then what?
Because I mean, Hamas is still, apparently out of the, what, 11,000 that have been killed, the majority are women and children.
Do you guys know how many Hamas terrorists have been killed in this?
They have not had concrete numbers because it's hard to do that because I don't know.
I'm not going to guess.
I'm not going to guess.
But people have guessed.
And it's about 100 or 200.
And I'm being.
Give me your source for that.
I've heard from Hooker.
It's not a lot.
Well, it's not a lot.
Can you tell me how many?
I don't know.
That's why I'm not guessing.
Hold on.
Give me a guess.
Can you guess?
I'm not going to guess.
Well, from what I've heard.
Give me your best guess.
I would say it's under 500.
It says under 500 out of 10,000.
Let's just say.
My point is, at what point is it going to be like, okay, so let's say they do this, a four-day ceasefire, and then they go right back to it.
What's the end game is getting all the hostages back, right?
I mean, that's what you want is to get all the hostages back.
But like Tom just said, you killed these innocent people that are dying.
You're creating people that are really, really going to hate Israel.
And they're really, really, really going to hate us.
And here's the point.
Here's the point that I'm going to.
You guys saw that internal memo that was released that Israel said, hey, listen, we didn't want it to come out with the media and everybody got it robbed.
Did you see about this?
And it was their plan.
Value Tame and Connor L. Walcott reported on it.
It was an internal memo saying that all the West and everybody is going to have to take all these refugees because Israel doesn't want to take them.
Because mind you, all these people are going where right now?
Where are all in the refugee camps?
Okay, where?
Israel's not the Egyptian border is not open.
The Rafah crossing, that's where they're.
Yes, but ask yourself, why won't Egypt take these people?
I'm saying no.
Why won't Jordan take these people in?
Why won't the rest of the Arabs come?
Because you're not.
I'm asking you why.
Because nobody wants people that are pissed off because they're getting bombed, Adam.
Would you want to take anybody?
That's a big part.
Why didn't they take them in prior to this?
What I'm saying is, though, the attitude of, well, we told everybody to leave.
Where are they going?
They're just going into camp and sitting around?
Where are they going to go?
I'm just curious.
This sort of highlights the bigger problem that's going on here.
And I equate it to, I'm going to make a sort of a weird analogy, what goes on in America when black on black crime.
Like, nobody talks about black on black crime.
Nobody talks about what's going on in Chicago.
Nobody talks about what's going on in D.C. Where are the riots for that?
Where's the BLM movement when black people get killed by other black people?
But when one cop randomly kills a black person, which is very, very seldom, all of a sudden there's riots and there's protests.
What's the analogy?
We're not talking about the Arabs that are killing other Arabs in every other part of the world, in Syria, in Lebanon, in North Africa.
Certainly what's going on in Iran is a fucking travesty.
But all of a sudden, when Israel tries to defend themselves and their right to a sovereign, peaceful nation, they're the bad guys.
Go ahead and march when Al-Qaeda in North Africa starts terrorizing other North Africans and they start killing other Muslims and Arabs.
Where are the marches for that?
Where are the marches?
You only care about when the Jews do.
It's essentially the same thing that goes on here in America.
You don't, no, BLM isn't marching when hundreds, if not thousands of black people are killed by fellow black people.
Where are the marches?
Say nothing, but let one cop do something ridiculous.
The marches ensue.
It's exactly what's going on here.
And if you want to talk about stats, you see this USA Today article?
I'll read it to you because they actually surveyed the people of Gaza.
Okay?
What, Tom?
What are you saying?
No, I'm saying yes, yes, yes.
Read that.
Okay, guys, thanks, Tom.
I don't need your encouragement.
So they basically said that.
It's called support, dude.
Thanks, brother.
Go ahead, Adam.
Basically, they're saying that Hamas has basically, it's basically a mini-Iran, and you're familiar with Iran, of course.
How do you think the people of Iran feel about their government?
Well, I mean, some of them love it.
Not no, the majority of people do not love their government in Iran.
Well, you said some people do.
The majority of people.
I don't know.
What are the stats?
Have you seen that?
What's your opinion?
Like, where's the stats?
Where's your poll?
About to give it to you.
I don't know.
Some people love their fucking country out of it.
Would you say the people of Iran love their government, Pat?
Government?
No, they do not.
Do you need a stat to know that?
No, we actually gave a report the other day and the way it opened up, according to a Netherlands study that was done, 68% of Iranians in Iran want the government to be changed.
Of course.
All right.
Well, it turns out it's the exact same thing that's going on in Gaza.
Okay.
So if you look into this thing that says Hamas, notorious for its violent tactics such as executions and enforced disappearances, instills a pervasive atmosphere among who?
Palestinians in Gaza.
This is what happens when a terrorist organization or a mafia-like organization like the mullahs in Iran are running your government.
And what happens is they kill their political rivals.
They're thrown off rooftops.
They tortured their own people.
This is not a democracy.
This is a full-on terrorist organization that is running a country.
And the people, who suffers the most?
Innocent civilians in Gaza, 50% of which were born prior to Hamas coming into power in 2006.
Innocent kids, innocent victims can't even go out there and speak.
So here's some numbers for you.
Surveys conducted by the Arab barometer before the October 7th attack provide revealing statistics.
68%, here are your numbers.
68% of Gazans believe they had no safe way to participate in peaceful protests against Hamas, while 73% favored a peace deal with Israel.
It's according to USA Today.
These figures underscore the complex sentiments of Gazan population where support for Hamas is far from unanimous.
So the people that are suffering the most are the innocent people of Gaza and the Palestinians.
That's the majority of people that are there.
Exactly.
Who are suffering at the hands of Hamas?
So by the way, if you look at Hamas, when they were elected in 2006, who was running basically Palestine, the Palestinians, but it was Mahmoud Abbas.
By the way, he's 88 years old.
He's kept up in the West Bank.
He has not been to Gaza since 2006.
Why?
Because they basically had a civil war and they will freaking kill him, Hamas.
Their political rivals, okay?
So in America here, we have, you know, we'll lock her up and you belong in jail and all that.
No, they'll literally kill you in Gaza.
That's what Hamas will do.
So it's a sad situation that's going on there.
And last point is this.
They've actually come out with dozens of reports.
They've interviewed Arab Muslims who live in Israel.
And they asked them point blank, why don't you leave Israel?
Why do you stay here?
They go, I love Israel.
I have economic security.
I have financial freedom.
I'm safe.
I feel great.
Why don't you move to Gaza?
Why don't you go to Lebanon?
And they're essentially like, hell no, I'm good here.
So all the people really want in Gaza at the end of the day, at the end of the day, what do people really want?
Financial freedom.
They want to work.
They want to earn.
They want to be with their family, but they're held hostage by Hamas.
And Israel lives next door to a terrorist organization to the west of them is Hamas.
To the north of them is Hezbollah.
To the right of them is Al-Qaeda.
What the hell are they supposed to do?
Does anybody want innocent victims to die?
Hell no.
Well, what are you supposed to do when you have terror organizations surrounding you?
Well, it's kind of screwed.
Well, you said the people, what do the people in Gaza want?
You mean wanted?
Because there is no, it's flat.
Yeah, everybody's 50% of the people have been displaced.
Everybody, did Israel want that?
No, no, no, no.
On October 6th, they had no issues.
No, no, no.
Stop saying no issues.
There was no.
And I want, this is a point that I have to make, Pat, and we'll move on.
Two things can exist at the same time.
What Hamas did, everybody can agree.
Horrible, disgusting.
You can understand and see that.
But then on the flip side, say, like, the response is getting a little bit out of hand.
You could still, those can exist.
You're not a Hamas supporter.
I want you to play.
I want to play this here because again, this is a conversation that's been going on for how many weeks now, right?
Several weeks.
And we've heard all the debates.
We've heard all the different debates on what's going on, Bro.
Can you play the clip on the Security Council, the National Security Council advisor to Obama, smiles when he's talking to this man in this video?
If you guys saw the face of this man going around, or maybe you didn't watch the video, here's who he was.
This was the former National Security Council advisor.
His name is Stuart Seldowitz.
Was charged yesterday with a hate crime for spewing Islamophobic rants at a cart vendor in New York City.
The vendor's name was Mohammed Hussein, who's, by the way, of Egyptian descent.
He's an American citizen.
He was working when El Seldowitz, who's Jewish, approached him and started verbally attacking him.
Mohammed said the incident was unprovoked, and he said that he's going to sue Stewart for hate speech and harassment.
And Pat, I'm not going to give it away because this is two minutes long.
Do you want to show the whole thing or just at the end when he says, and I quote, if we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, let him watch this.
Play Littleman will fast forward.
Okay, go ahead.
To my friends and immigration.
He's calling his friends and immigration.
The Egyptian, the Muhabarat wants your picture.
Okay, yeah, go.
Yeah?
Look at that evil face.
You know the Muhabarat?
Hmm?
The Muhabarat?
No, I don't know.
You don't know?
Doesn't speak English.
No?
Yeah, go, you know.
Muhabarat in Egypt will get your parents.
Does your father like his fingernails?
They'll take them out one by one.
Jesus.
Look at that face.
Why should I go?
Why should I go?
Tell me why I should go.
I'm standing here.
I'm an American.
I have three.
It's a free country.
It's not like Egypt.
Jeez.
Fast forward halfway.
Go, Rob.
Keep going a little more right there.
What?
Who Muhammad?
Mohammed, you're a prophet.
You know who he is.
Am I broken?
Yeah.
He was a rapist.
He raped Aisha.
Does it say that in the Hadith or not?
You know that?
I do speak English.
What?
No English.
You don't speak English?
What do you speak?
Look at that face, dude.
What do you speak?
You speak Arabic?
The language of the Quran?
The Holy Quran that some people use as a toilet?
Jeez.
What do you think of that?
People who use it.
Robin Quran is a little bit of a bad thing.
And here it comes.
Here it comes.
Does it bother you?
Watch what he says at the end.
Does it bother you?
Tell me the truth.
I don't speak English.
You don't speak English?
Ah, that's too bad.
That's why you're selling food in a food cart.
Because you're ignorant.
But you should learn English and it'll help you.
Of course.
When they deport you back to Egypt, and the Muhabarat wants to interview you for being aware of what you're talking about.
I sent you one Robin slack, which at the end of it, Pat.
You can't say what he said.
Okay, so I'm going to say what he says, Rob, because I slacked you the one at the end at the one-minute 40 mark.
He says, you have to hear him say it.
I sent it.
This is it right here, Pat.
I'd rather have you guys hear it from him.
And this is just pure.
So far, there's no crime here.
What do you mean?
Well, he got arrested for a hate crime.
No, there's no crime until this happened.
Yeah.
Correct.
Watch that.
Yeah, go to the.
He's showing you.
By the way, he puts an Israeli flag on the video.
No.
Support that.
Go a little bit towards the end, Rob.
It's like right towards the end.
Go.
I'm just working you.
Watch, watch.
Here we go.
You're a terrible person.
Jüka Shildrin, not me.
What?
Go.
My kids?
What about my kids?
Jüka Shildring, not me.
Go.
I didn't kill children.
Okay, well, see, you know what?
If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, you know what?
It wasn't enough.
Look at that.
It wasn't enough.
It wasn't enough.
That's Obama's National Security Council advisor.
So there's, dude, that's just evil hatred in your heart.
Just his face, just his vibe.
It's like, that's disgusting, bro.
And he got arrested yesterday.
I fully agree with you.
The guy's a total scumbag.
And it's indefensible.
By the way, Rob, can we play the video of all the Arabs basically calling for the death of all Jews?
Do you have any of those videos?
Because there's billions of them.
Here's the point.
These anomalies out here, just interviewing one person, they're not representative of an entire faith or entire ideology.
Nobody's saying that.
So is that guy a scumbag?
Yes.
But does he represent all Jews or is all Israelis?
Hell no.
No, no, no.
Just like Hamas doesn't represent all Arabs.
Yeah, nobody said that.
But the point is, this is Obama's boy.
This is Obama's boy, which is hilarious.
Dude, I don't care if he's Obama's boy, Trump's boy, because believe me, Trump has people that are just Adam.
That's why.
That's the story, though.
That's the story.
The story is that he was working in our government in a trusted position of influence, control, and power for a U.S. president, and then he's on the street like this.
I don't think anybody was trying to make a sweeping generalization about Jewish people, Arabic people.
This is a guy that was in our government.
That's the story.
And he's choosing to behave like this on that.
He knows it's all recorded.
And he was in a liberal, liberal, globalist regime.
The Obama administration.
Yeah, I fully agree.
I don't know who this guy is.
I'm not defending him.
But we told you who he is.
We just told you who he is.
But the point is, what's the point?
We're just singling this one guy out.
Adam, it's a story in the news.
I don't know if you know this, a PBD podcast.
We do news.
This is Barack Obama's national security advisor.
He's in the street in front of a camera saying we should have killed more Palestinian wars.
100% the point he's making.
But it's not like we're singling out one.
The point he's making is there's extreme people like this as well on the other side doing some ridiculous thing.
My biggest challenge is that this is increasing the temperature, and people like him are increasing it even more by the things that they're saying, not being able to control their emotions.
And for somebody that lives in America, you have to realize the people that live in Poland, their number one priority is what?
Poland.
Poland.
The people who live in Australia, their number one priority is what?
Australia.
People who live in the U.S., guess what's their number one priority?
Should be U.S. if you got a family.
That should be your number one priority.
Now, I'm Iranian, Assyrian, and Armenian.
Whenever something happens over there, that tugs at my heart, and I'm part of it.
So I understand as a person that's Jewish or somebody that's Palestinian or somebody that's Muslim or somebody that whatever maybe, they're going to have their emotions being involved because it's heritage, it's pride in your background, who you are.
But at the same time, the fact that these temperatures are not decreasing at the levels that we need concerns me.
And today, where yesterday a guy driving a Bentley is flying into a Canadian border, blowing up, and CNN and Fox, and everybody says there was explosive stuff in the vehicle.
And is that the one?
Watch this video with this car just flying.
Look at the background.
I think it was like 110 miles an hour.
Press play Rob.
What the hell is he doing?
Any potential they may have in terms of in groups they may belong to.
We're not listening to it.
She's got to say, just want to watch the video.
What does he do?
Dude, Bala, he's going from Canada to here.
That's how bad it is in Canada.
They're driving 110 miles an hour to get the freak out of there.
Justin Trudeau, that should be a video.
Get the hell out of here.
That's the truest thing you've said all day.
There's a new meaning to.
I don't need any facts for that.
Yeah, we don't need a fact check for small and successful division of Air Canada here.
Okay, let's go to the next one.
Let's go to the next story.
40% of Americans are afraid to walk alone at night, most in decades.
This is a Miami Herald story.
Let's see what this is.
The Herald.
So, all right.
So, concerns about certain crimes in the U.S. are at the highest levels in decades, despite a decrease in violent crime nationwide.
The Gallipol found that 28% of Americans worry about being murdered, a near high, and 72% worry about falling victim to identity theft.
Additionally, 50% worry about their cars being stolen or broken into.
37% fear being mugged, and 32% are concerned about being attacked while driving.
The heightened fear has led to a significant impact on daily life, with 40% of Americans being afraid to walk alone at night within a mile of their home, the highest number in three decades.
Crime concerns also prevent 34% from driving in certain areas, 28% from attending events, and 28% from speaking to strangers.
Does any of this apply to you?
Are you concerned?
I mean, Pat, you know me.
I love living in Florida because I'm armed all the time.
But what do you expect, Pat, when you have not only the open border, you can steal up to whatever, what, $1,000 and underneath.
The defund the police attitude has made cops not give a shit because they don't want to.
Why would you want to help if you were a cop?
Everybody's watching.
Everybody's trying to record you and see if you F up.
I think people should be concerned and you should be armed and you should take care of yourself.
Because at the end of the day, Pat, when shit is the fan, who's going to help you?
You're going to stop them like, hold on one second.
Let me call 911 to a cop that can give two shits now because the country's been shitting on them for the past five years.
No, you have to protect yourself.
And good guys, be worried and be scared with an open border, with the sentiment that we've had towards cops, with states saying, you know what, steal as much as you want.
Just as long as they're incentivizing people to steal and shit.
Yes, I think everybody should be worried and you should be armed and you should take care of yourself because nobody's going to help you.
Yeah, I'm increasingly concerned about personal security, but I don't let it affect that I'm too scared to go outside or not do things in life.
I still go to football games.
I still go out and shop.
I still do things, but I'm hyper-aware.
And with a daughter who's about to go off to college in nine months from now, she's going to be going off to college.
We talk about personal protection.
We talk about the things you do when you get out of a car in a parking lot, looking around.
And it's just, there's more training and more awareness and more just being, because if you do these things, and I set her up with a license so she can get pepper spray and all that kind of stuff, if you do all that, then you can live more comfortably and not just be scared looking over your shoulder.
I would hate to live a life where I was just scared looking over my shoulder every day.
I want to feel perfectly comfortable and unconcerned going to the ATM, going to the store, going to the beach, going to a football game.
But you know what?
You know, I've got precautions.
I've, you know, I've, you know, you can get a carry permit.
You can get your children set up at the right age, you know, to be trained in use of pepper spray and things.
And so you have plan B. Why do you have a fire extinguisher in a kitchen?
Just in case, but you don't worry about every day.
I hope there's not a fire.
I hope there's not a fire.
But you have what you need when you need it.
That's how I want to live life is live life not, you know, stupid and unassuming and walk into something and I should have been looking around and paying attention.
But I want to live life comfortably with freedom and have a degree of just peace about myself when I go out.
But I will have fire extinguishers.
Well, I'll tell you what, these stats, they're alarming and they're just quite frankly sad.
So the 28% of Americans feel worried about being murdered.
Okay.
72% fall victim to identity theft, 50% worry about their cars, 37 being mugged, 32% being attacked while driving.
It's absurd.
So this just sort of gives credence to the American first ideology.
It's like we're trying to be a policeman of the world.
And in some instances, we should, because if America takes a step back, who then leads the world?
China, Russia, Iran, the axis of evil?
Hell no.
But at the same time, we do need to take care of America.
We see these open border policy basically ruining America, something that wasn't an issue until Trump made an issue, but it was obviously the news perpetuated the racist wall and all that.
Now we're looking back at it and Biden's like, you know what?
We build that wall, buddy.
You know, so we see what's going on here.
So The rot within America and American society to decline American values is real.
It's just sad to see.
And guess what?
Because of these stats, that's why gun sales are at an all-time high.
People aren't being scared of the business.
By the way, guess what?
Every year they're getting higher.
And can I be dead serious with you?
When you are on Pat, legally armed and protected, I don't feel as scared because I know that I'm going to take care of myself if shit does hit the front.
That's why I roll with Vinny as well.
You're damn right.
Do you know what percentage of Iranians own a gun in Iran?
7.3%.
How do you even get it?
Do you know what percentage of Americans own a gun?
120%.
Let's go, baby.
Did you know this stat or no?
100?
Pull up.
What percentage of gun ownership worldwide?
Legal ownership.
Oh, some people have guns divided by population.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a percentage of.
Do they have it broken down by how many people actually own a gun?
Like, I think it's like probably 25% of Americans.
I don't know what I'm saying.
Go right there.
Zoom in right there.
Adam, you're saying like in a corner.
Gun ownership.
U.S. is 120%.
Syria is 39.
Uruguay is 35.
Canada is 35.
Finland's 32.
Look at number two.
Yeah.
Falkland Islands.
Hey, so they still don't trust the British.
In other words, what this tells me is, Rob, can you do me a favor?
Do you know what the former National Security Council?
Oh, the guy that said, hide your wife, hide your kids.
Hide your wife.
Hide your wife.
They're going to rip everybody.
They're raping everybody.
Play this clip.
It's by far the best one.
I just texted it to you.
And then go to minute five.
I mean, this thing was so popular that it became a rap song.
You don't want to.
Have you seen this thing already?
Yes.
Amazing clip.
Antoine Dotson turns into a rap song.
Oh, yeah, because they're raping everybody up in here.
Yeah.
Just go to minute five.
There's certain things.
This is 10 years ago.
This wasn't escape this.
This is a website.
This was the equivalent of the big black guy with the black bar.
Certain hits are go to minute five.
Oh, and the picture of the leprechaun?
Yeah, right.
Was that part of it?
Watch this.
Print.
Obviously, we have a rapist in Lincoln Park.
He's climbing in your windows.
He's snatching your people up, trying to rape them.
So y'all need to hide your kids, had your wife, and had your husband because they're raping everybody else.
The attacker got loose and went out.
If this is the sketch, by the way, if this is a sketch, hold on.
See if there's a picture of the guy.
By the way, was that part of this?
By the way, you're like, keep pressing play.
And your husband's because they're raping everybody.
Rob, don't turn on the audio.
Let us listen to it.
He goes, I think they had a sketch of that.
You are so dumb.
You are really dumb.
For real.
A crime scene investigator photographed and dusted for prints on the lid of the garbage can and the window pane and ledge.
Oh, my God.
Dodson says he's never seen the perp before, but sends this warning to whoever is responsible.
You don't have to come and confess that you did.
We're looking for you.
We're going to find you.
I'm naming you no neck.
So you can run and tell that.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Yeah.
Antoine Dodson's the president.
Oh, bro.
Can you imagine?
He had no idea while he was doing that.
He was only going by.
We were raping everybody up.
By the way, that was over 10 years ago, I want to say.
That was under the Obama.
That's 10 years ago.
10 years.
Is he doing speeches now?
Oh, yeah.
Let's do it.
We went from gun ownership to this.
Let's go to the next one.
Rob, can you pull up what Morning Joe said, which is this tells you how much where we're going to next year?
The amount of fear they want to put into the American voter is just out of control.
Do you know which clip I'm talking about?
Yeah, Morning Joe.
Right there.
That one right there.
Watch this.
Play this clip.
I hate these.
I hate these two.
Look at this.
You got to look like idiots because he will do, he will get away with.
He will imprison.
He will execute whoever he's allowed to imprison, execute, drive from the country.
Just look at his past.
Execute.
You should be held accountable for using words like that.
Never.
What do you mean?
They're leftists.
Let's flip it around.
Let's flip it around.
That is Brett Baer goes on a rant and says, Obama, he will do, he will imprison, he will retaliate.
Obama will execute anyone.
What happens if Brett Bayer does?
He's fired next day.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Bayer, not Bayer, sorry.
Whatever the hell his name is.
It's just unbelievable.
No, the point is, you know, Brett represents a position very clearly.
He's a bared man.
He's a bad man.
A bared man.
He's a bared bum.
He's a bad bum.
And when the bow breaks, the crater will fall.
And it has fallen here.
But not my crime.
But not my boy.
He didn't sell you up the river.
You have to think about it, though, Pat.
I hope everybody's paying attention because this is the bigger picture because history is starting to repeat itself.
Mainstream media is already starting with this bullshit.
Hitler's coming back and Orange Man.
Mainstream media, this is the sad part because I know these guys are panicking.
Mainstream media is reporting already.
CNN, everybody, Trump is beating Biden in the polls.
Right, Pat?
Let's pay attention.
Pay attention to what's happening.
Javier Millay, the Argentinian Trump, just became president.
Millay.
Millay.
Yesterday, the Dutch Donald Trump, Geert Wilderson, one of the Netherlands, celebrities who suffer from Trump derangement syndrome are now turning and they're bashing Biden openly.
Okay.
And then one week, mind you, history, Tom, is coming full circle.
The dictator Xi Jinping visits America.
And now all of a sudden, there's a COVID-like flu that's tearing through China.
Okay.
Notice how it's all starting to come around.
It's election year.
Trump is number one.
The left is turning on him.
The poll numbers they're reporting.
Celebrities now know it's look that if China for more there's a rise of illness and pneumonia clusters.
I saw I sent Rob a video Rob I sent you a video.
It looks exactly like when they were trying to start telling us Pat about COVID and they had those videos at those propaganda videos where Chinese people with masks were dying in the street But they were catching themselves when they fell down.
Do you have that video that I sent you Rob?
Yeah, this is, this is what's happening in China right now and it's it's in Chinese, so maybe Erin could come in here and translate.
Look at the overflow of this everybody's.
All these people are like it's starting again and, by the way, I wouldn't be surprised Xi comes to visit.
He might have brought this here with us and given it to Biden.
He's like, hey listen, you take this and if you know you want to win the election, you want to stay in the basement.
Release this COVID-20.
This is ridiculous, Pat.
Like people don't see it.
You don't see what's happening.
That's, you're going to the point where you think that's what's taking place.
I'm, I'm going to well, you think they're going to be able to get away with the playbook they use in 2020 with the Americans?
Are Pat the average American?
You mean those idiots that are lining up to get five?
Let me ask you a question.
So how did, how did Millay win in Argentina?
How did Geert Wildern win?
How did these guys win?
I mean, go to Geerd Wildern, who just won, and everybody says the anti-Islam, anti-EU populace who could be the next Dutch PM, and they're calling him the next Trump.
So anybody that is a conservative is a far-right candidate is who they are.
Millais is a libertarian, and this guy is also going around doing what he's doing.
And, you know, in football and in basketball, you put a play.
Very rarely will a team do the same play back to back because the defense is now able to read the play that you're going to do.
Very rarely you're going to do that.
If they try to do the same play as they did in 2020, which that was very effective, you have to come up with a more creative play than that.
And you don't have someone to hate today.
They're trying to get the world to hate Trump because that was the playbook for 2020.
They're having a hard time doing that because they're saying, well, listen, man, as much as we want to hate Trump, even what's the actor that the other day said, I can't believe I want to vote.
They want to hate him so bad.
They want to hate him so bad, but they still got to vote for the guy.
They want to hate him so bad, but they're looking at the conditions.
They're looking at Israel.
They're looking at Palestine.
They're looking at the way we left Afghanistan.
They're looking at Ukraine.
They're looking at Russia.
They're looking at what's going on here.
And they're saying, you know what?
If I have to choose between Biden and him.
So they don't have a same argument to put that kind of a fear into them.
They just don't have that.
And I think that's going to be problematic for them.
And the fear that is in them is reality.
Reality is landed on them like a ton of bricks with fear, causing them to make logical decisions out of that fear.
And that is exactly we showed the clip on the podcast three home teams ago where Chamoth came out and did an analysis of his own thinking and how his, and I won't say fears, but his apprehensions and observations of what was really happening in the world through the lens of history as time passed led him to go back and say, not that I was wrong, but my views have changed.
And this is what I'm worried about today.
This is what I'm concerned about today.
And this is how I vote today.
But Vinny, I know what you're saying.
I understand.
You're saying, here they go again.
Here they go again.
But Americans, you play the here I go again on Americans.
They are not closing schools.
They're not closing restaurants.
You guys are giving the average.
By the way, Biden and Trump, it's 48, 49%.
That 48% that still loves Biden.
Those are the people lining up to get their fifth booster.
They're driving in their cars with their masks.
You guys are giving the average American, Pat, I think, way too much credit.
Obviously, it's not our views because they're all smart people.
The average American doesn't run it, though.
The average American doesn't run the election.
So you mean it's okay.
So, Pat, ready for this?
The left, there can't be stupid.
The Trump indictment shit is backflying 100%.
Okay.
They're losing control.
They're seeing what's happening in the world.
If you had to guess, Pat, what trick do they have up their sleeve?
They have to be doing something.
There's no way they're going to be this calm.
And dude, for Xi Jinping.
There's only one trick left with getting rid of him, right?
That's the only one that's left.
That's the only one that's left because since 2015 till now in eight years, you know, when you got a, how many trickery plays does a coach have?
How many players?
I have like three or four really good ones.
Okay, well, let's just say a very, very good one has how many?
Say 20?
Yeah.
A team the other day tried the trickery play that they did in college and they tried to do it in the NFL.
It backfired on them.
It was a late, delayed, what do you call it?
Lateral pass.
No, no, there's a word for it.
Fumbarooski.
No, anyway, so the point is they've played every single trick in the book the last eight years on him.
And they're done.
They have nothing else left but to get one person that's crazy enough to go to the golf course or to do something like that.
That is the only thing that's left.
Right now, they're sitting there.
You know what they're all thinking to themselves?
They're all sitting there saying, holy shit, this guy's about to be the president.
There's an article that came out the other day that said the playbook of Democrats not mentioning his name has gone out the window.
Did you see this one where the Democrat media is now, where was that article, Tom?
I read that on Drudge Report or something.
I don't know if it's a matter of time.
I know what you're talking about.
It was Biden.
His first full year after inaugurating.
We're not even going to mention him anymore.
Yeah.
The playbook of using Trump's name anymore is out the window.
Democrats not using Trump out the window.
Some title like that, Rob, if you can find it.
What's the point?
Oh, here you go.
Two days ago, New York Times.
Title is Ignore Trump.
Democrats now want him plastered all over the place.
Guess what?
They are so obsessed about this guy.
They ignore Trump.
Democrats now want him plastered all over the news.
The former president has been relatively quiet out of headlines and off mainstream social media.
Democrats are hoping that more attention on him helped turn around President Biden's fortunes.
They don't understand.
For the longest time, they said, we're just not going to talk about him.
We're just not going to do clips.
Now they're like, oh, shit, he's going to win.
We got a freaking light.
That's what they did last time and they empowered him.
People like this, Vinny, when you go through a breakup and something happens, like, or there's a falling out, somebody leaves.
Like when I left the former company, never once, Tom will tell you this.
The trainings were all about how bad I was from them.
And people would send me videos of what the CEO of that company is saying about me in a meeting to another carrier that's a massive insurance company saying you can do business with any company but one.
Okay.
And that's, you know, with me.
You can go anywhere but one.
You can go to any company.
We will not sue you.
But you go to Pat, we'll sue you.
Wow.
It was anywhere but us.
Guess how many times in training we mentioned their names?
We never talked about them because we've moved on.
And guess what they kept doing?
They use names.
One guy that's a big guy, motivational platform, all this stuff.
Names, rumors constantly, over and over and over and over again.
You know what he kept doing?
One day we're at Las Vegas.
I have a convention going on in Las Vegas.
I'm across the street from them.
In their meeting, all they kept saying is us bashing over and over and over and over and over again.
Guess what my Instagram is doing?
All of a sudden, I'm getting bombarded with Instagram videos with the speeches.
Their own people are sending me speeches.
And then one guy comes over to us and says, hey, I have to know who you are, man, because this entire convention was about you.
Wow.
In front of their 12, 13,000 people, all they want to talk about is what's going on with us.
You know what happened?
They came over.
Of course.
Thank you for that.
They came over.
So the point is they don't realize you think this is working.
It's not working.
People are over you, bitching and whining and complaining while you don't have an argument.
The way you win, and by the way, this was a mistake of Trump as well.
Trump's mistake was right after he's like, well, it's not fair.
Constantly.
And I called it out myself when we were on the show.
I'm like, listen, you seem grumpy.
You're allowing them to make you be grumpy.
Go back to policies.
Go back to results.
Go back to what worked.
Go back to your strategy.
Go back to what you did to America.
Go back to what happened in the first three years of U.S. economy.
If you do that, people are like, oh, he's right.
Oh, he's right.
Oh, he's right.
Oh, he's instead of, you know, I just don't get any credit.
I just don't understand.
No, just go back and give the argument what you did.
So now Trump has to stick to that playbook and do what he does.
These guys behind closed doors are losing their minds because you know what they're thinking to themselves?
Here's what they're thinking to themselves.
They didn't have to do this.
If Trump was the president, their time was coming up.
He was about to be done in a year.
Exactly.
Great point.
You guys would have been done with John.
Guess what?
They accidentally forced it upon themselves to have to talk about Trump for four more years.
And not only that, you know what these four years did?
You know what these three years, four years that Trump wasn't president did?
It validated that all his policies, many of them, were great policies.
Exactly.
That was the best part about the break of him only being a one-term break second term.
This could end up being a story to say the fact that he wasn't a back-to-back president validated that his policies were good.
Because if he was back-to-back, then they can spin it and say, well, it was terrible policies.
As embarrassing as it was for him to be a one-term, if he wins, the break could historically end up turning into the best break that validated all of Trump's policies were great.
Wow.
Rob, can you put the New York Times crazy pack?
Is that happening for a reason?
At the headline thing, just a little subhead right there.
So Democrats are hoping more attention on him, Trump, can turn around Biden's fortunes.
You know why they say it this way?
You know why the New York Times write it that way?
Because President Biden doesn't have anything to sell that people are buying.
And they're hoping that the attention on Trump causes Biden's polls to go up.
No, you've got nothing to sell.
When you sell vision, when you sell freedom, when you sell safety, when you sell education, when you sell something and you sell border and you sell build it in American and American jobs, people are buying.
There is nothing that Biden is selling that people are buying.
I just hope.
I will tell you what he's got to use.
If I'm Biden's campaign manager, I have to show gas prices are lower this year.
So he has to show that.
He has to show and find a way to take credit for the ceasefire.
You have to do that.
Then he has to find a way to show that Thanksgiving food prices are less this year than they were last year.
He has to do that.
They have to use those things.
They have to use it.
But this strategy of Democrats are hoping that more attention on him can help turn around president.
Do you know who's this?
By the way, if I wouldn't have shown you who this article was from, you would have said this is Fox Business or Fox News.
Read the whole thing.
This is New York Times.
I ignore Trump.
Democrats now want him plantered all over the news.
The former president has been relatively quiet out of the headlines.
And by the way, typically they don't even say former president.
They'll say Mr. Trump headline because they hate calling a former president.
Of course.
And off mainstream media, Democrats are hoping that that go up, Rob, to show what website this is.
This is New York Times.
Oh, wow.
When New York Times is writing articles like this, you're in trouble.
Big time.
Totally.
I think you both guys have really good points.
One is a policy thing, Tom, and one is a personality thing, PBD.
Policy-wise, what percentage of Americans vote via policy?
Probably 20%.
Most people vote on personality.
Well, they don't call it that.
They think about their wallet or their job.
Right.
But Biden actually does have some W's that he can put out there, whether it's the Inflation Reduction Act or whether it's the infrastructure, whether the ceasefire happens.
There are some policy wins that he can highlight.
But most people don't vote via policy.
They look at the personality.
And Tom, you're absolutely right on this.
If you're just going to try to highlight Biden's personality, the old sort of aloof, dementia-esque type person, it's not a winning strategy.
So their strategy is like, all right, well, we can't highlight Biden.
We're going to have to highlight Trump.
And they're going to paint him in a negative light, obviously.
So that's sort of their focus.
And we're going to see if that works this time.
I think we're in a collision course for Trump versus the media part three.
Yeah.
Trump won number one.
The media won number two.
And we're about to see what happens in 2024 when the media tries to take on Trump for the third time.
At the very least, the media should understand this.
When Trump's in office, your ratings go way up.
So if you're looking at just money and not ideology, just go ahead and vote for Trump.
Even CNN has Brian Stelter's back talking on CNN.
Oh, he's back on CNN.
Yeah, I don't know if he's still looking like a thumb.
He's still disgusting.
I just hate looking at his freaking ugly ass face.
Vinny, Vinny, don't be so personal.
No, no, no.
I think that's the problem.
No, the problem, I think, is people like us need to start saying to hell with the, bro, how long are we going to let them walk over us?
Because here's, by the way, that smile really pisses me off.
It's just, I want people to realize, like, okay, obviously Joe Biden's not going to run.
Let's not be stupid.
He would be good on unusual suspects.
Who?
Brian Stelter?
Oh, he's very unusual.
But, Pat, my thing is this.
He's like a less good-looking, non-bearded Rob Garjulo.
No, Rob is way better looking than you.
I'm just saying, here's my point.
Probably not as funny and talented.
If I had to bet my money, and I bet a lot of it, Biden's not going to run.
It's going to be Newsome.
I wouldn't put it past Michelle, not wanting to do it.
Them saying, listen, you're going to do it because you have to do it.
My point is this.
What is going on?
Because, Pat, okay, let's say it's not, you know, it might be a terrorist thing.
It might be a new pandemic, number two.
Do not sleep on the Democrats for coming up with something to not let us vote and you have to vote for home.
That's my one point, and I'm saying it right now.
So when it does happen, I want to tell everybody I told you guys so that it was going to happen.
It's going to happen, Pat.
There's no way they're going to just go, okay, everybody, go vote.
Go vote for Newsome.
I don't put it past them.
I'm just saying.
You cannot use the same playbook.
It's going to have to be a new playbook they have to use, not the COVID playbook.
So you guys don't think if they said right now, late breaking news, this COVID-19 or whatever, it's coming from trying to happen again.
Americans wouldn't lock the fuck down in the CDC and the Who Wouldn't No freaking way.
You give us too much credit as Americans.
I tell you, that part will be no.
You really think that?
I say that part will be no.
I have a lot of people.
But you know, I already said everything up.
But I'm telling you, they have to come up with another creative strategy.
I have a question for you.
I'm not going to ask any other question.
I could ask you off camera, but I think it's better for camera.
So you came from LA via New York.
You were in the Hollywood scene, the comedy scene.
You were amongst the liberals.
As real.
No, no, really.
I'm from Florida, bro.
This is very personal.
Oh, yeah.
You weren't on a certain show.
I forgot.
Let me drink this really quick.
What show?
Rob, Adam.
Here's my question.
Tom does great at interrupting.
But since you've obviously been here and been more exposed to you, sprinted right, clearly.
I want to know your relationship with all your friends back home.
Did they see what you're doing now?
And they're like, Vinny, I'm disgusted with you.
And they're like, kind of have a point.
Like, where are you at with everyone that you've been associated with for the last decade?
That's a great question because one of these just happened yesterday.
I'm getting a lot of the people that were technically hiding and kind of in the closet with the Trump, not Trump lovers.
I hate to say like that.
Just what he was basically standing for is F the system.
The majority of them now are like, Vinny, I love, I see what you're doing.
Good for it.
But then the hardcore Trump, World War III, Russian agent, blah, blah, blah.
Those are some silent ass people right now.
But Adam, I message them once in a while and I go, so how's it going?
How's your, how's your, how's your money doing?
How's the border?
Now they're worried about Trump.
You're antagonizing.
Oh, not antagonizing them.
Adam, because I think we have to come to a point where we go like this now.
We told you so.
I fucking told these people you're being duped.
You're being, how many times, and I hate to be this guy, but I kind of don't.
How many times do I have to be right?
How many times do I have to say the Russian collusion thing was fake?
How many times do I have to say all that Hillary was in charge of it?
Hillary cheated and the DNC, China Bernie.
How many more coincidences have to happen where people wake up?
I don't give a shit what side are you on.
When it's wrong, it's wrong.
So I didn't lose any friends from the right, the ones that were kind of right.
But the ones on the left, Adam, they're just silent and they're just swallowing it right now.
A lot of them are moved.
By the way, a lot of them that were hardcore leftists moved out.
They're back home.
I go, why'd you move?
Why'd you leave Los Angeles?
Well, crime and the taxes.
And I go, oh, but it was cool under Trump.
Oh, man.
You were there chilling and talking shit, but you were safe and you were fucking making money.
I go, now all of a sudden, you had to leave.
So I was right.
COVID exacerbated all the issues.
No, they were still there.
No, they were still there.
And then again, you have to ask yourself the question, how coincidence that during election year, this thing comes out of China where Trump was talking shit about, and they're still not accountable.
Still no accountability.
Every week is another FBI story where they're like, well, it could be a lab leak.
When are we going to stop playing this?
We still don't know all these years later.
We can't admit that it came from there, Pat.
When is the game going to?
Guess what?
That's why there's elections.
And that's why the people who don't want to see that happen in 2024, who are sick of it, have to be vocal, have to be more involved, have to have better arguments, have to be better at selling, have to be better at convincing, have to get their peers involved, have to have better rebuttals, have to do better research, have to have answers based on facts and stats and data.
And the better prepared you are as you're talking to other people who are giving you whatever their arguments are.
And enough of the reasonable people and the guys that sat on the fence or were sitting on the bench last time saying, I don't want to vote, are going to come out and say, nah, this is, I'm not with this.
And then 2024 could be a different result.
But all I'm saying to you is don't underestimate, you know, the last couple presidential assassinations and attempts that's happened.
You know, how many of them have been involved with the opposition winning?
You know, John F. Kennedy gets assassinated four days later.
LBJ is saying, let's start a war.
And, you know, weapons, the military industrial complex people are like, yeah, pro-LBJ, what a great guy you are making us all this money.
So was it LBJ?
Was it who was involved in that situation?
The people that tried to kill Reagan, the assassination on Reagan, that's also linked to somebody else.
So there's a lot of weird things that could happen.
If there's anything that needs to be very, very important is keeping him as secure and safe as possible and taking security to different measures today.
You just have to do it today because they don't have a lot more plays out of their playbook.
Does he still have Secret Service?
Yeah.
Trump, of course, Trump Jr. is insane.
Oh, Pat's called the flea flicker.
The flea flicker where they throw it back and you do the hell Mary.
That was the play that you're talking about.
All right, so let's go to a couple of ones here and then we'll wrap up.
15% tip.
Let's talk about this one here.
Most Americans tip 15% or less.
Okay.
Or less.
All right, let me go to this.
That's pretty crazy.
And some tipping, this is a CNBC story.
Pew Research Survey surveys 11,945 Americans, found that 18% of people tip less than 15% for an average meal at a sit-down restaurant.
And an additional tip, 2% tip, I'm sorry, an additional 2% tip nothing at all.
Don't eat that.
One out of 50 people in America that go to dinner don't tip anything at all.
Meanwhile, 37% said 15% is their standard tip, revealing a lack of consensus on tip and get a kid.
Despite the tradition of tipping 15 to 20% for sit-down restaurant service, the survey found that more than half of people, 57% tip 15% or less.
This indicates that tipping norms vary widely amongst Americans.
Studies suggest that tip fatigue has led to declining tip amounts in recent times, with the average nationwide tip at full service restaurants falling to 19.4% in the second quarter of 2023.
Tom has a story here.
Tom, I want to go to you first.
Go for it.
What happened to you this last week at this restaurant called Capital Grill, which I think is out of Bolka, if I'm not mistaken?
That's correct.
Go for it.
Nothing to do with Capital Grill, Steve, that we love in Crescent in Dallas, who crushes it.
He's amazing, one of the best servers in the world.
Exactly.
He's one of the goats.
Go ahead, Tom.
So, first of all, the people at a restaurant are not robots.
Every location is different.
And God bless you, Steve.
We love you.
Down there at, if you go down by the Crescent in Dallas and you go to Capitol Grill and you ask for Steve, you are not going to get bad service.
Unfortunately, so Brooker gets straight A's and she's doing really well.
I said, hey, Brooker, let's go to dinner.
And we sit down and she gets a Shirley Temple and we're going to have this.
And we were just freaking ignored.
You know, the step one, you know, the hostess wants to put it at this table that they had put up for a Saturday and it's right next to doors.
You know what I'm talking about, Pat?
You have the same reaction I do.
It's like, come on, that table isn't even there Monday through Friday.
Well, respectfully, I'm not sitting there.
When we sat down, they come up and they're quick.
When they didn't come check on us, you know, normally you go to a good place, you order steak, and that's what we had.
You cut into it once.
And a lot of times at Ruth Chris, they say, will you please cut into your steak?
Is that exactly the way you want it?
You know what I'm talking about?
I love that.
And they always do that.
Is that exactly the way you want it?
Thank you so much.
And they check on the spot.
They drop it down and I want to get a refill for Brooke Shirley Temple.
And the lady walks away, excuse me, excuse me.
I feel like I'm hollering at her walking down the hall.
And so I got the hostess who sat the other table and said, could you help me here?
And I said to her, The aliens that have taken our server, can you let them know that Brooke would like a refill Shirley Temple?
And she goes, what?
And I said, can we do this?
And just, it's stacked up.
And I was very frustrated and disappointed.
And I'm like, and my steak was cooked wrong.
And so I'm son of a bitch.
And so I don't even get, I don't even get the opportunity there.
And so I finally just, I said to Brooker, I said, Brooker, we're going to go someplace else for dessert.
And there was just an assortment of things.
So, you know, I flagged the server down and I said, I'd like to pack up to go, please.
And I handed her my card.
And she's like, what?
And I left a note on there.
And I said, you know what?
You know, I put a little note on there, no profanity with a zero tip.
And went down the street to Abe and Louise, walked in, said to the hostess, do you have a table for two for dessert?
And now this is like 8:30.
She said, we sure do.
And I said, we came from another place.
I did not tell him.
It was Capitol Grill.
I said, we came from another place.
And my daughter got straight A's.
And I just want her treated royalty.
And dessert was supposed to be part of it.
And she said, no problem.
I'm taking you to Charlie.
And Charlie treated Brooke like he was her long-lost uncle.
She wanted hot tea.
He came over and he opened the box of tea slowly, just demonstrating service.
And you know what I did to Charlie?
I made his freaking night and I thanked him profusely for making Brooke feel like a million bucks, which is all I wanted.
But my normal tip, I'm 20% baseline.
And if I get really good service, I'll go 25.30.
I normally am there to encourage and appreciate greater people.
Yeah, you're a good tipper.
If Tom comes, you're going to get a good tip from him.
So you ended up tipping him how much?
I gave Charlie $200.
$200.
How much was the bill?
$40 for two desserts and teas.
So he got 400%, 500% tip is what he got.
That's really what it is if you think about it.
Okay.
So I'm telling you what happens with me.
I go to Louis Boss.
Remember how we used to go to Louis Bossi in Boca all the time?
Oh, they treated us royally.
It was freaking awesome.
I don't recognize anybody there.
We went there with the family the other day, and I asked to sit at the corner table.
The hostess just turns her back against me, doesn't say anything.
I'm like, oh, okay, maybe these guys are crazy busy.
They were not.
Finally, we come back.
Kid comes, Jennifer comes in with the kids.
I said, we'd like to get a table in the corner.
They take us to the table in the corner.
Waitress comes in saying, is it water for everybody?
And we said, yes.
And I said, is there any way you can lower the AC temperature here?
It's very, very cold.
Maybe turn it off.
Nope.
With a nope, huh?
I swear to God, because that's the word the kids have been joking around about the entire weekend.
This lady's in her mid-40s.
You're talking to a grown man.
She says, nope.
I said, I'm sorry.
I said, babe, let's get out of here.
I love it.
Half a second, we got up.
She said, no, I'm sorry.
I said, nah, ma'am.
You don't talk to a grown men like this.
No, I'm so sorry.
I didn't mean that.
I said, no.
You'll never see me here ever again.
By the way, Tom, how many times have you seen me go to a restaurant?
I'll never come back here again.
You'll never see me there ever again.
I can tell you, you've personally experienced this with me.
But it's only a few because you know what we do?
We give people what's called patronage, and we keep coming back for lunch.
And they always, Louis Bossi, we used to have all these people.
It was the best.
How many times a week would we go to Louis Bossi?
Honestly, Adam, if you were to ask me.
Eight days a week, I mean, if you ate their own business.
You honestly right now say if you and I, for these seven, for the year that we worked at Boca, how many times did you and I go to Louis Bossi together with people?
How many times collectively?
Total in a year.
We probably ate there at least 50 times, 50 times.
That's crazy.
But that's just with other people.
We were always at Louis Boss.
You were cheating on me with lunch.
What did you say you said?
So check this out.
So we get up and the kids are like, okay, they've seen this before.
So it's like, okay, all right.
So what are we going to next?
And we start looking.
Everybody's hungry.
So we're driving around.
We said, okay, I'm explaining to the kids.
Says, Daddy, what just happened?
Why did that lady say nope?
I said, okay.
I said, number one, you don't talk to customers like that.
However, when I was younger, I was coming up.
I wanted very, very good respect and service everywhere I went.
But guess what?
I haven't deserved it.
Who the hell are you to give you great respect?
You go to Chipotle, bro.
You're spending $10.
We're not giving you great service.
You're going to get what you're getting for the money.
Now, restaurants like Chick-fil-A, which you have.
Free food poisoning at Chipotle.
The data you'll give here in a minute with Chick-fil-A, which is very important to realize.
Most restaurants go to any McDonald's on Yelp.
Look at the reviews.
One and a half.
One, one and a half.
One and a half.
One and a half.
It's all one and a half, one and a half, one.
Why?
Because you're spending five, 10, 15, 20 bucks, right?
I said, if you go to a regular restaurant where the bill is going to be 20, look at that.
One and a half.
1.3.
I'm telling you.
What the hell you want?
This motherfucker wants food, apparently.
Oh, you want it to be hot, too?
So watch this.
This guy thinks he needs hot food now.
So I said, if you go to a restaurant, I'm telling Dylan and Tico this.
I'm telling Tico and Dylan this.
I said, if you go to a restaurant where the bill is not high, but they give you great service, you got to take care of it.
I'm sorry.
I said, Adam and Tom Empson.
So anyways, we go to seasons 52.
I'm parking a car.
These guys go.
Nice restaurant.
Where's that?
It's not a nice restaurant.
The ticket is like.
Where's that?
That's it.
It's a nice restaurant.
You're right.
You're right.
It's high end.
I would say it's a level below capital grill.
I would actually put capital growths.
And the way I'm saying below is bill.
The money you're going to spend at Capital Grill is going to be two times the amount of money you're going to spend at Seasons 52.
Oh, two times.
Two times.
Yeah.
So anyway, so we go to Susan's Seasons 52, and I'm parking a car.
Me and Dylan are walking in.
I finally find him.
I come inside, and Jennifer's like, babe, we just, the waiter's name is Michael.
And we're all watching this guy in the car.
Everyone's talking about we're going to experience what the waiter is going to be like.
Michael's like, hey, how are you?
Listen, great to have you guys here.
What can I get you?
Mom, what would you like?
Dad, what can I get you?
This guy crushes it.
And I keep asking him, zero to 10 guys, Daddy, this guy's good.
He's not said nope one time.
Is that him right there?
That's him right there.
So shout out to Michael.
The food, the bill comes at the end.
Michael's been fantastic.
So we bill him, we tip him 100%.
So I'm talking to the kids.
What do you think we should tip him?
Should we tip him to 25%?
No, we should tip him more.
30%?
No.
How about we do 40%?
I said, how about we do 100%?
We're going to do 100%.
I said, but here's what we're going to do.
We're going to do 100%.
And you're going to walk up to him and you're going to give him the check with the 100% tip and tell him how we as a family, the David family, values great service when you go above and beyond.
And you did that and we value that so much.
Thank you for doing this.
They walk up to him.
They give him the tip and they explain to him what it is.
This grown man is listening to Tico, giving him the tip.
He's got emotion.
He's emotional.
That's so awesome.
And we take a picture.
He says, you guys want to take a picture?
I want to take it.
I said, no, bro, we want to take a picture with you.
Michael, seasons 52.
If you guys are in a boca area, you go to ask for him.
An absolute stunt of a freaking guy when it comes down to service.
You were phenomenal without even knowing.
We didn't even tell him we're coming from a bad experience.
Oh, really?
I just wanted the kids to know because sometimes when that's the case, you go above and beyond.
Of course.
I just wanted to see what he was going to do.
He freaking crushed it.
So to the people out there that are tipping 2%, the 2% that tips less than 15%, the 2% that tips nothing, and the people that tip 15%, I will tell you, some people deserve zero tip.
Their customer service sucks.
They think you owe them something.
But some people deserve 100% tip.
When you meet somebody that's great, show up.
When you meet somebody that brings the refill way before you even think about it, show up.
When you find somebody that asks you, doesn't use short words, isn't quick with you.
So we role-played, what's the proper answer?
Dylan says, so what should the answer be?
I said, let's role play.
We're at the restaurant.
We're role-playing.
I said, okay, tell me what I asked the waitress.
Is there any way to lower the temperature?
Because it's very cold here.
Maybe turn off the AC.
So Dylan says, nope.
That's not what you're saying.
And then Tico says, yes, let me see what I can do.
I'll get back to you.
Then Senna says, I don't know if we can do anything, but I'm going to find a way.
Then Dylan says, you know, the AC in this corner control is the entire restaurant, but maybe we can seat you somewhere else if you're okay.
That's warmer.
I said, that's all you have to say.
That's it.
You don't have to say nope.
So freaking nope.
The PE is just the shittiest.
Oh, my.
Nope.
Like, that's like that was way worse than that.
By the way, by the way.
Do you see that kitchen straight down the aisle behind him?
Is that Jose in the back?
No, no, no.
Oh, I would tell you.
That building, season 52 on Glades Road at Business Center Drive.
In 1984 is when that building was built.
The reason I know that is I worked in that kitchen.
Tom, be quiet.
The restaurant was called.
The restaurant was called the Cork and Cleaver.
Are you serious?
And it was an original steakhouse in Boca.
And when that was built brand new, what did you do for them, Tom?
Tom, that's your old stomping ground.
The restaurant?
Yeah.
Were you a cook?
Were you a chef?
I was the chef's assistant.
Really?
You're a sous chef?
Shit.
Or a steakhouse, yes.
I was a sous chef, but in a steakhouse, and that's not a complicated place.
Do you know what the reputation was of this place?
Customers would leave super happy after six years of investigation.
They realized the chef would put a little bit of edible wheat in the early days, 80s into the meal.
Wow.
Freaking non-stop.
Everybody's just happy and hungry.
Well, back then, there was no Twitter, but Tom was a big part of it.
Contributing to it.
Good job, Tom.
I just want to add one thing.
It all kind of makes sense because everything that you're basically saying about your family experience, I've lived with all the restaurants that I've dined with you, whether it was Yard House in Dallas.
Shout out to our boy Jason.
He made the perfect Arnold Palmer.
I love that.
And then we would always eat at this amazing French restaurant, Toulouse.
Nakhtim.
Yeah.
Naqhtim.
Pat is a loyal guy.
If you treat him right, he will come back.
And we go, and then, I mean, obviously here in Fort Lauderdale, our relationship with Casa, Casa D'Angelo, everything with that.
Even on your birthday when we were in Prime 112 in Miami and the waiter, and he gave back, he paid half the bill.
Like a pat values service, and it all like sort of coalesces with everything that's happened with Will, Will, how do you say Will Gadera?
Unreasonable, unreasonable hospitality.
This is something you ultimately realize.
You know what?
I'm so glad you reminded me of that.
If this clip goes and the restaurant, because remember that one time we did something with the haircut, $72 haircut?
Yeah.
And then that took off and people were calling it.
You're doing it with your friend.
Yeah, Drew.
But if anybody's in the restaurant business, and I'm just being honest with you, if you're the manager, if you're a leader, if you're a waiter that wants to get paid better, go read the damn book, Unreasonable Hospitality.
Can you put this thing up?
Everybody in the service business must read Unreasonable Hospitality by freaking Will Gabriel.
Can I be honest to God with you, Pat?
What am I listening to right now on my phone?
Look at my phone right there.
What am I listening to again for the second time?
Unreasonable hospitality.
Guess what I just heard?
I swear to God, this is so weird.
On the way in here, I'm listening to the audio book.
I forgot which restaurant was.
I think he was working there.
Love in Madison or it wasn't Love.
I might be wrong, but I don't want to misstate it.
They're eating at the restaurant, and this family that's visiting that's never seen snow and it starts snowing outside.
Guess what the owner does?
Has something gone by sled?
No, they went and got sleds and they went sledding.
They drove like half an hour and they were, he took the whole family sledding.
He told that story.
Can you imagine going, oh my God, honey, snow?
And he took the whole kids.
But you'll never forget that memory.
I got to give Vinny a shout out.
Yes.
For, you know, this guy, he practices unreasonable.
Like, he made me my turkey played over here.
After the podcast.
I got a gift.
This guy, after every episode, hey, I got yogurt and fruit.
You're very hospitable.
My mom made a little cookie.
He's got his whole thing.
But I'll say this because I was a server in college, right?
And no matter what business you're in, you're in the people business.
And if you want to practice unreasonable hospitality, you want like any server that's working their job and they're like, what's next?
Get into sales.
Because server, if you're a server, you have to deal with people.
If they take orders, you have to understand there's good days, there's bad days.
There's winning, there's losing.
There's so many different things that you can do.
But at the end of the day, unreasonable hospitality.
Loving people and making people happy, bro.
When you do something for somebody, you give them something and they're shocked and they're like, it just makes me feel good.
And I got that, obviously, being a Syrian and my mom, my mom just.
Shout out to your mom.
My mom.
Svetlana.
Sweet Lana.
Svetlana.
That's your mom.
Love you.
We miss you.
Happy Thanksgiving, mom.
Wish you were here, Tom.
We have a story here.
It's very interesting.
Tomorrow is Black Friday.
Yeah.
Today is Turkey Day, and this is, you know, we're all into football today, right?
Yeah, Tom, you have no idea how much I want to get in a food fight with you right now.
Maybe you're going to bust it out, throw some mashed potatoes anything.
Come on, sorry, Tom.
We can do that later, baby.
Yeah, that's right.
So check this out.
Amazon is paying $100 million for the broadcast rights to one game, and it's the Black Friday game.
And Black Friday is on Friday.
Shout out in the dark then.
And by the way, they've never done that because the NFL never does a Black Friday game for two reasons.
It was a holiday.
People are going shopping.
And the other thing, you ready for this?
The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, which is federal law, prohibited the NFL from putting games on Fridays after 6 o'clock because they were protecting college and high school football.
And they felt that that was an important tradition for America and they didn't want to let televised commercialization of football do it.
Well, why did Amazon buy this?
Check this out.
Amazon paid $100 million for the game and they checked in that they weren't breaking the law if they broadcast the game at 3 o'clock.
So it was over by 6 o'clock.
So why are they putting this game?
This game is going to be on Amazon Prime.
You know who's playing, though?
Miami Dolphins, baby, versus the New York Jets.
My end.
And by the way, you made an amazing appearance.
And by the way, the NFL usually destroys ratings on Thanksgiving.
The average Thanksgiving Day NFL game for the past four years has been 33 million viewers.
The NBA Christmas Day game has never exceeded 5 million viewers.
Wow.
Not comparable.
Not comparable.
So why did Amazon pay $100 million for one game?
Step one.
They're going to watch.
Everybody can watch it on Amazon for free.
Not to prime people.
Remember, it used to be you had to pay for Amazon Prime to get Thursday night football from Amazon?
That is it.
Now, here comes the crazy thing.
They're charging advertisers $880,000 for 30 seconds.
Damn.
The normal NFL game outside of playoffs is $440,000.
Double the price.
Double the price.
And they're doing, get this, audience-based creative.
You're going to be watching it on the Amazon channel, right?
For free.
If you are an Amazon Prime user, you're going to get these ads.
If you're not an Amazon Prime user, you're going to get different ads that are tailored to you.
Bose has signed up, and there will be three different ads.
Joe Burrow will go to the non-Prime viewers, and the other Bose ads are there.
And while you're watching the game, check this out, Pat, you can click on the screen and put the product in your shopping without turning away from the game.
Making some sales.
And they will be retargeting.
They estimate that Amazon is probably going to net net net due on this.
They're probably not going to lose money.
It's probably a $2 billion payday.
Here it is.
So you're saying if the camera cuts, I'm watching it on my phone and it cuts to the cheerleaders and I'm like, damn, I want that skirt.
I could just hit it.
You can hit it, all right?
I think some of the problems, but the point is, Amazon is bringing together football, shopping, Black Friday, and technology.
Pretty smart.
And families, Tom.
But look at this.
I mean, I just think we were talking about AI at the beginning of the show.
Look at all the technology and AI that's literally in the background here.
Nice.
And Amazon goes knock, knock, knock to the NFL and says, can't pay $100,000 for a game on Friday.
They turn to each other and say, hang on a second.
Louis, this is so easy.
Yeah, yeah, sure.
Please wire that right over.
We'll give you the Dolphins on Black Friday.
Tom, real quick, who do you like?
Dolphins or Jets?
Dolphins.
That's a tough one.
Dolphins.
Zach Wilson is.
Zachy.
No, he's benched now.
He's going to third string.
Oh, Deli.
Deli looks like Wilson's third stringer now.
After the latest loss of the Bills.
You looked at me like I was like shocked.
Anyway, it's not just football today on Turkey Day.
Top 50 quarterback.
You're going to be the NFL.
Top 50 for sure.
What do you like on the Dolphins, by the way, Tom?
Dolphins, who?
Who do you like on the Dolphins?
What players?
I've always had a lot of respect for Tua.
I remember Tua playing in the bowl games for Alabama, and I thought, wow, this guy is, I felt he was a little bit more special than just the normal, you know, run-option quarterback.
Are you going somewhere with this?
Yeah, I just thought I want to see him.
And I've also, I've also, I've been a fan of Cheetah since he was in Kansas City.
Hi, Rick Hill.
Yeah.
Yeah, there you go, Tom.
I'm thinking he's about to do that.
Okay.
Tom killed that segment.
No, he's fantastic, guys.
This is awesome.
Okay.
Well, listen, gang, this was great.
We were debating whether to do this or not.
I didn't want to do it, but Adam said, no, we have to.
I can't believe.
And he yelled at you.
And he pointed.
And I want to wake up at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving.
Then listen, after a lot of convincing, we finally agreed to do it.
Enjoy the Thanksgiving.
I'll give you final thoughts here to be thinking about.
One of the hardest things to do is to be grateful.
And what I mean by that is a lot of people have an easy time not being grateful.
They're typically wanting to feel more entitled.
And the people that I've met that have continuously won, who are typically the happiest and enjoy life the most, for whatever reason, are the most grateful people in the world.
I don't know why.
They're just more grateful.
People want to work for grateful people.
People want to help grateful people.
People want to go above and beyond for grateful people.
There's magic in having gratitude.
And sometimes we are forced to have a day a year to sit there and be grateful for different things that have happened over the years to you.
I got a long list of stuff.
I feel I'm like the luckiest man alive, but I just want to tell you, I'm sure I speak on behalf of everybody here with the crew as well.
We are grateful for you.
I personally can't say I'm grateful for those of you that used to watch Two Minutes with Pat with my pink socks, where back in the days it would be when I watch Two Minutes with Pat right now, I honestly am like, somebody get rid of these videos, but we have to leave them there to remind us how bad we once used to be.
But for those of you that have been with us for many years, anybody that supported the brand, anybody that's ever shared a clip, that's liked the clip, that's commented on a clip, that's taken the time to watch it with us, and you stop by and we talk to each other.
We have a unique bond, the value tame in the PPD podcast community has a very, very unique bond.
The entire team here, Rob, you've done a great job this past year.
I'm proud of Rob.
The team out there, the guys that are cutting, you guys are working your tail off.
This whole thing was put together by Kelly.
Kelly's amazing.
Kelly's amazing what she's done.
Brandon, you know where you are.
Brandon's right now.
He's segmented.
He's flying somewhere.
Connecticut.
Egypt or do you call it Connecticut?
He's in Connecticut.
He's in Connecticut right now on the border of Connecticut.
He's over there doing what he's doing.
But to the entire crew here that's done what they've done with VT and PBD podcasts all year long, you guys are fantastic.
