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Michelle Obama for President, Elon Musk's Alleged Drug Use | PBD Podcast | Ep. 347

Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth, and Vincent Oshana discuss the Wall Street Journal report that Elon Musk's drug abuse is concerning Tesla shareholders, Pat McAfee calls out an ESPN executive for sabotaging his show, and JP Morgan's Michael Cembalest predicting that Joe Biden will drop out of the 2024 Presidential election. 9:07 - Offices around America hit a new vacancy record. 17:59 - Americans are racking up more "phantom debt" using Buy Now Pay Later loans 30:02 - Lululemon hits back at founder's anti-DEI comments, says they "do not reflect our company views" 38:38 - Elon Musk accused of drug use that worries boards of Space X and Tesla. 55:24 - Alaska Airlines plane has door blown off during flight. 1:05:42 - Pat McAfee claims ESPN executive is trying to sabotage his The Pat McAfee Show. 1:29:19 - Watchdog group finds 81% of all political late-night show jokes in 2023 targeted conservatives. 1:35:13 - Jo Koy bombs as the host of the Golden Globes ceremony. 1:38:24 - Rumors that Ron DeSantis will drop out of the 2024 Presidential Race following a loss at the Iowa Caucuses. 1:46:30 - JP Morgan predicts Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 Presidential race. Protect yourself against Central Bank control with - American Hartford Gold: https://bit.ly/3QzMjHd Purchase Patrick's new book "Choose Your Enemies Wisely": https://bit.ly/41bTtGD Register to win a Valuetainment Boss Set (valued at over $350): https://bit.ly/41PrSLW Get a free "Future Looks Bright" Hat & T-Shirt: Purchase two "Future Looks Bright" Hats and one "Future Looks Bright" T-Shirt & use the promo code "pbdpodcast2024" at checkout! Connect one-on-one with the right expert to get the answers you need with Minnect: https://bit.ly/3MC9IXE Get best-in-class business advice with Bet-David Consulting: https://bit.ly/40oUafz Visit VT.com for the latest news and insights from the world of politics, business and entertainment: https://bit.ly/472R3Mz Visit Valuetainment University for the best courses online for entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/47gKVA0 Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time! SUBSCRIBE TO: @VALUETAINMENT @vtsoscast @ValuetainmentComedy @bizdocpodcast @theunusualsuspectspodcast Want to be clear on your next 5 business moves? https://bit.ly/3Qzrj3m Join the channel to get exclusive access to perks: https://bit.ly/3Q9rSQL Download the podcasts on all your favorite platforms https://bit.ly/3sFAW4N Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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	Okay, episode 347 to we haven't we haven't done an episode since last Thursday or Friday.
	It's been a long time.
	It feels like it's been a couple months.
	Feels like we made it.
	Maybe because we're trying to eventually get to a point to see if we can do this thing four or five times a week.
	Who knows?
	Maybe that day, one day, will come in 2024.
	I'll run out of shirts and ties.
	So I have a dream shopping.
	So we got a lot of stories, a lot of crazy stories.
	A lot of people claiming that Musk has got drug issues that's going on.
	We'll talk about that.
	And he's responding to it.
	Boeing, what is going on with this Boeing plan?
	Everybody's sitting there saying, I thought the exit seat was the best one.
	Extra legroom.
	I got to worry about it.
	Can you imagine?
	Everybody around the nation is now worried about the exit seat.
	By the way, the craziest thing with this Boeing situation is they haven't been following the FAA guideline for quality control for the longest time.
	And eventually whistleblowers at Boeing told others that Boeing doesn't do the FAA quality control guidelines.
	Did you know this?
	That's pretty crazy.
	So they lost $13 billion just yesterday.
	Wow.
	That's what happens when you do something like that.
	We got a clip from Josh Hawley going after FBI director Ray.
	It's awesome.
	You got to see it.
	We got another clip with the door on the plane going.
	We got a couple of Haley clips.
	Haley's very popular right now.
	And on her views on parents and then her views on partnering Hunter Biden.
	You know, it's an interesting way she answered it.
	And then you got a clip that you want to show from our friend.
	And then Jewish folks underground New York.
	Very interesting what they're doing in New York.
	Adams, you have to answer for your people there.
	Underground parties.
	Aside from that, offices around America hit a new vacancy record.
	New vacancy record.
	Barely a third of Americans expect economic improvement in 2024.
	Lululemon hits back.
	Chip Wilson, I interviewed this guy seven, eight years ago.
	Freaking phenomenal guy.
	Do you know this guy, the CEO of Lululemons?
	Worth nearly five, six billion dollars.
	Do you know he would go to work on a daily basis in a speedo?
	That's it.
	Wait.
	And he would walk around, literally, this is a true story, in a speedo stud of a guy.
	He was a former swimmer.
	We'll talk about him.
	Okay.
	I can't wait.
	Remind me to bring up American Peril CEO when we do that.
	So then Biden, apparently, according to JP Morgan, they're predicting Biden will pull out of the presidential race.
	This is not Fox News.
	This is not CNN.
	This is not a podcast saying it.
	This is JP Morgan predicting that Biden's going to pull out the race.
	It doesn't get bigger than JP Morgan.
	$7 trillion nearly of money circulates through JPMorgan on a daily basis.
	U.S. Supreme Court to hear Donald Trump's ballot ban.
	We'll talk about that.
	MSNBC host gets emotional, folks.
	If you haven't seen it, get some of the tissue ready for you because it's.
	You're not going to show it because I don't think I could deal with it.
	It's worse than, you know, I'm trying to think about like most emotional moments in movies.
	notebook, you know, it's more emotional.
	Like when Gladiator, when Maximus sees his wife, is it worse than, it's bad.
	Bambi.
	It's like Bambi.
	So when we do that, just skip that part of any.
	It's not good for you.
	It's like the funny part at the end of Full Metal Dragon.
	Got it.
	Democrats question whether Biden should agree to debate Trump.
	Watchdog.
	Watch this one, folks.
	Finds 81% of all political late-night show jokes in 2023 targeted conservatives.
	Anyone surprised?
	Weird.
	Many college grads struggle to land jobs due to a lack of preparedness.
	By the way, kids are showing up after college.
	They got their four-year degree.
	They've shown up to job interviews with their parents.
	Can you imagine?
	Larry, who are these people?
	Hello, Mr. Mom.
	Hello, Mr. Black.
	So how good are you going to take care of my boy?
	How can my little Joey?
	How are you going to do it?
	We all know that's how I got this job.
	My mom showed up.
	She's like, listen, Mr. Bet David.
	He's a good boy.
	Truth be told, his mom did show up.
	But it wasn't.
	But that was an afternoon hire.
	Kind of like when she used to drop you off for summer.
	And then my dad showed up.
	Tom the Biz Doc Ellsworth, my stepdad over here.
	By the way, McAfee stood up to ESPN and flat out called them out.
	Good for you.
	Because the week prior to that, he got shot for apologizing.
	So the week later.
	He named names.
	Yeah, Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots are about to get divorced.
	Will they?
	We'll see.
	Tiger Woods ends a 27-year partnership with Nike.
	Kind of wild.
	We'll talk about that.
	Joe Coy.
	I don't know if you watched the monologue.
	I know Joe Coy.
	Did you watch the monologue?
	Kybi 100, would you?
	No, I did not.
	I was working.
	You know Joe Coyle.
	I've already known Joe Coy.
	It's the worst monologue I've ever heard.
	Let me say that.
	Okay.
	It was so bad that I had to go watch Ricky Gervais just for me equilibrium for me to be leveled off.
	You sent us a clip.
	It was terrible.
	Not only did Taylor Swift not find it funny, I don't think anybody found it funny.
	But it is what it is.
	And Ricky's monologue could have been done this year.
	Yeah.
	DeSantis, is he going to drop out of the race on January 15th?
	A lot of people are saying this.
	This is The Hill, by the way.
	I want to talk about it.
	And The Hill likes DeSantis, some of those guys there.
	And then we have AOC gives away the game on America's Southern Border Crisis in a video.
	And then we got Michelle Obama did a podcast with Mr. Jay Shetty.
	And she claimed she is terrified.
	Oh, no.
	About not the movie FNAF or it.
	Or Leave the World Behind.
	Silence of the Lambs.
	But she's terrified about the 2024 election Vinny.
	Exactly.
	When Pat does that voice, I just get intimidated.
	I don't know.
	I do, too.
	I'm so nervous.
	No.
	By the way, before we get started, yesterday we had the sickest strategy session.
	We were away for the last two days.
	We stayed in Miami.
	We had a meeting at the One Hotel.
	We had a 14-hour meeting yesterday.
	Absolutely freaking insane.
	Phone set aside.
	I am so excited about the future.
	By the way, just last week when we announced the Future Looks Bright initiative with the hats, I don't know how many thousands of hats were picked up last week.
	Some of them are going to be on back order.
	We're getting some new ones here.
	The entire premise of this year, I want everybody to confuse the living crap out of everybody in your life to sport the Future Looks Bright gear.
	When you go to work, when you go to your family, they say, how are you so optimistic?
	I'm telling you, the future looks bright.
	You're going to see why, because there's going to be a certain waking up of certain leaders in America and the world we've never seen before.
	There's a whole initiative on what we're going to be doing with that brand with the Future Looks Bright being all over the place.
	I'm excited about that.
	But anyways, before we get into the podcast with all these stories, let's first go to our sponsors.
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	All right, let's get right into it.
	First of all, let's give a quick shout out to Michigan.
	Yes.
	The National For you.
	Look, my dad went to Michigan.
	My family's from Michigan.
	My family's from Detroit.
	I remember growing up, 1997, Charles Woodson, everything was going on there.
	This has been a long time coming.
	Everything, all the disarray that was going on with Jim Harrible this year and the allegations.
	15-0.
	They beat Ohio State this year.
	They beat Alabama.
	They beat the Pac-12 Championship, Washington.
	Tom Brady, our boy.
	Tom Brady's very happy right now.
	So is Dave Portnight, by the way.
	But shout out to Michigan Wolverines College.
	It was a sick game.
	It was great seeing that.
	It was very good seeing that.
	Okay, so let's get right into the stories.
	Okay.
	Let's start off with a little bit of economy.
	Offices around America hit a new vacancy record according to Wall Street Journal.
	And this number is not a number that's something to be bragging about.
	Here we go.
	Office vacancies in major U.S. cities have surged to a record high with 19.6% of office space unleased in the fourth quarter, up from 18.8 from previous year.
	This marks the highest vacancy rate since 1979.
	That's 44 years ago, 40, yeah, 44 years ago, 45 years ago.
	According to Moody's Analytics, the overbuilding trend in the 80s and the early 90s resulted in a glut of office buildings, many of which were constructed in the 50s and the 50s through the 80s.
	Currently, the three major U.S. cities with the highest vacancy rate are Houston, Dallas, Austin.
	This is all Texas, shifting work habits including the move towards working, open floor plans and remote work have contributed to the rise in office vacancies.
	The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift, leading companies to realize they need less space per employee, Tom.
	Wow, Look at this.
	Well, first of all, 19.6 is a national average.
	And so you need to step back from that.
	Like here in Miami, I think the office vacancy rate in Miami is under 6% right now.
	It's very low.
	A lot of companies and people have moved down here.
	So if you're in commercial real estate in Miami, you probably, the issue you got is probably finding homes for your clients.
	Texas, the issue, I know for a fact is overbuilding.
	They didn't think they were overbuilding because no private equity company or a large community bank is going to say, okay, here's a billion dollars to build this massive office, parking garage, and everything that goes with it and have no one there.
	They just got caught out by the amount of inventory they built, which means if you're thinking of moving to Texas where there's no state income tax and there's a lot of other lifestyle things, guess what?
	You probably get a very cost-effective building for your team there.
	But the other side of it is San Francisco, which is horribly vacant.
	So when you see these averages, folks, always remember these are national averages.
	And what is the reality is that for you as a business is whatever the reality is in the town where you are or you're trying to do it.
	And San Francisco, everything's vacant.
	Miami, everything's full.
	Cool.
	Here's a question, Tom.
	Beautiful new buildings in Texas if you're moving there.
	Here's a question.
	Is this a permanent thing?
	Is this a seasonal thing?
	Is this something that's going to change?
	What will change it?
	Are we at a point where a lot of these guys are starting to realize, look, maybe the real answer is the following, Tom.
	20% of America is overbuilt with office buildings for current population size that we have.
	Is that the right way of looking at it?
	Meaning at 350 million people in America, 20% of office buildings are too much, one too many, which means the next time we're going to need this much office space, maybe will be when that 350 becomes 420.
	So Rob, can you see if there's a map to say when will U.S. population hit 420 million?
	But the opposite argument to that may be by the time we get to 420 million, we're going to have such great technology and AI that that 20% may go to 30%, may go to 40%.
	What do you think is going to be happening?
	So I think they've built the wrong stuff.
	Right now, we've got too much commercial space on a national basis, and especially in Texas.
	And we don't have enough apartments, condos, and things that people could rent.
	And so I look at it and the question I ask, and I'm not going to plug anybody, but there are venture capitalists out there and there are startups out there that are converting two and three floors at a time of an office building into basically studio plus apartments.
	They get a bathroom in there, they get a kitchenette in there, and suddenly for $1,500, a person with a job downtown, you know, has everything they need.
	So a lot of that space needs to be repurposed.
	And the venture capital community and a lot of startups are out there saying, hey, give me three floors of this building.
	You lease it to me.
	I will convert it to 20 efficiency apartments per floor.
	And they're really nice apartments.
	I toured one.
	I didn't invest, but I got involved with a startup that's in the Dallas area.
	And they pulled it off.
	And they got three floors of an office building down there that is now like 60 apartments.
	Very interesting.
	So office and apartment combined.
	I mean, they got some of the buildings here.
	Like we were going to buy those buildings on the water, on the inner coast.
	And remember what they told us?
	They said some 60% has to be office, 40% has to be tenants.
	Exactly right.
	It's similar.
	Now, not everybody stays at the four season, but if you've ever driven by or seen some of the four seasons, a lot of times in major cities, the top five floor of the four seasons are residences.
	And it'll say that.
	That's the four season residences up here or Mandarin residences.
	That is an example of the hotel people, half of it's hotel and then half of it's, and then one third to me, two thirds is hotel and one third is permanent.
	So PBD, you asked the question, is this just seasonal?
	Is this sort of temporary?
	Let me tell you something.
	This ain't going, this ain't changing.
	The game has changed dramatically.
	What do I mean?
	Well, just like Uber did to the car industry, just like Airbnb did to the hotel industry, just like Bitcoin did to just normal financial products and fungible tokens and all that fun stuff, just like podcasts did to media.
	Same thing's going on here with commercial real estate.
	Tom hit the nail on the head.
	Damn right.
	You know it, but I hit it.
	Supply and demand.
	We've got too much office space and not enough homes.
	So what do we mean?
	We all see what happened during COVID.
	We started using acronyms like WFA, work from anywhere, WFH, work from home.
	COVID basically was the catalyst to what was already going to happen.
	People were already working remote.
	These things were already occurring.
	And then boom, COVID, Zoom meetings just smack you right in the face.
	Next thing you know, you're working.
	You got your, you know, your mullet outfit going on.
	You got, you know, business up top, party down below.
	You're in your boxer brief downstairs.
	And if you're tubing, you're masturbating.
	Exactly.
	I'll let folks baby.
	Hello.
	Go ahead.
	But, you know, what's happening, and Tom sort of alluded to it, you're going to have these basically work where you live type buildings where people are having less kids.
	We know that.
	You don't need to be running around to the office anymore.
	You know, there's this hybrid work things.
	We obviously know that you're a big advocate of getting your ass in the office.
	So am I.
	But most companies are totally cool with you working remote, especially if you can find the best talent.
	But it comes down to supply and demand.
	There's not enough homes out there.
	People want to work from home.
	There's way too much commercial office space.
	So rents are going to be a little bit lowered.
	And that's going to be good for a little company based in Fort Lauderdale called Valutainment because we're looking for a HOMA office campus.
	And some of these guys that are looking to sell their property are going to need to basically allow you to do it.
	They're aggressively, aggressively recruiting us to move to Miami.
	So we're going to see what's going to happen with that.
	That sounds horrible, Pat.
	We don't want to be living in Miami.
	I know you don't want to aggressively recruit us to move the building to Miami.
	Do you want to make sense of this, Pat, on your end?
	Yeah, I think that's the question.
	I'm purely asking data.
	Like when you pulled up the population, we're not going to get to 370 million people, but God knows when, you know, like 366, most likely by 2100.
	That's what, 76 years from now to get to 360.
	Where are we right now, Rob?
	335, 340?
	I mean, population means that what's the U.S. population right now?
	So if we're going to go, okay, 331, that's 2021.
	So let's just say 2024, we're at 340, give or take.
	I don't know.
	I don't know if this, yeah, 335 in the U.S.
	I don't know if this applies to all industries.
	I don't know if this applies to industries.
	I think it's going to be pocket.
	I think it's going to be cities.
	I think it's going to be regulation.
	I think it's going to be overbuild.
	I think it's going to be a lot of that stuff.
	And by the way, you know, BlackRock right now is laying off 3% of their employees.
	That's 600 employees that'll be laying off.
	Even though their numbers are back up, they're doing okay.
	But, you know, it's going to be predicated based on, Tom, go ahead.
	You're trying to say something.
	He's itch.
	No, I know it when he's moving.
	I was waiting for you because those three lines over there on the left are pretty interesting.
	Got it.
	So one birth every nine seconds, one death every nine seconds, and one international migrant every 28 seconds.
	Then a question you have to ask on top of all this is where does AI fit into all this?
	That's the part.
	Where does UBI fit into this universal basic income?
	What's going to happen with all that stuff?
	Yeah.
	So again, we'll see what's going to happen there.
	Now, next one here is Americans are racking up more phantom debt.
	And if you know what phantom debt is, this whole buy now, pay later type of stuff.
	And that's a problem when you see how this thing actually works.
	So, Rob, run another poll.
	Again, I'm curious.
	I know we ran it last time.
	How many people have used a buy now, pay later system ever?
	Buy now, pay later.
	Yeah, see what people will tell you there.
	So buy now, pay later loans, which can be challenging to track, have surge in popularity with a 14% year-over-year increase during the holidays.
	According to Adobe data, this type of debt, often not reported to credit agencies, is referred to as phantom debt.
	And it could indicate that total household debt levels are higher than traditional measures suggest.
	Warns Tim Quinlan, senior economist at Wells Fargo, managing multiple buyout pay later loans with different payments, dates is a challenge, potentially leading to increased consumer debt.
	BNPL, again, buying out pay later could lead to an increase in consumer debt as consumers may be more likely to take additional debt if they know they can spread out payments.
	A survey revealed that 42% of buying out pay later borrowers made late payments toward those loans.
	Tom.
	Well, guess what?
	We remember what happened to credit card debt.
	It smashed the $1 trillion ceiling right at the end of September.
	Remember?
	Went right back up.
	We talked about this at length.
	It got down a little under half a billion during COVID.
	And also, it's over a trillion.
	But we also saw that wages weren't really up and the workforce really didn't grow dramatically.
	So that means those folks put them in debt for $1 trillion.
	And along comes BNPL, companies saying, hey, click here, buy now, pay later.
	Pat talked about this on a podcast and he explained the difference between a hard inquiry and a soft inquiry.
	So it was a soft inquiry on people's credit.
	So it doesn't show up on the credit report yet.
	So they got to find a way to buy whatever it is they want to buy.
	So they use BNPL where they break something into like three, four payments.
	And suddenly they're in more debt than actually their credit report reveals.
	So wait, just on my brain, when you guys talk about money and BNP, all that crap.
	So you're saying that consumers are putting themselves deeper in the hole.
	So like, let's say I want to max out my credit card, but I still want to buy more stuff I can do and they let me do it, right?
	Yeah, BNPL.
	So it's BNPL.
	So it's buy now poor later.
	That's one view.
	I'm going to be broken shit.
	By the way, you know what?
	I hit that nail on the head.
	You know the layaway concept?
	The layaway concept was you didn't get the product.
	Yeah, you have to keep paying until you get to the bottom.
	You have to keep paying until you get the product, which, by the way, that's great.
	I have to have a layaway product.
	This is like layaway product, but you get what you want up front.
	Why would you do that?
	This is like saying you're going to college, but we're going to give you the four-year degree up front, even though it's going to take four years for you to really get it.
	But guess what?
	For the sake of helping to get a better job, take this four-year degree up front.
	We know later on you're going to get it.
	What a stupid system, right?
	But you're hurting people hardcore, getting into more debt, as if we're not already in too much debt.
	You're adding even more to it.
	And people are using it.
	So they're hoping because they're like, okay, we'll give it to you.
	They're hoping you start missing those payments because once you miss a payment, what does it jump up to?
	No, no, it skyrockets.
	It's ridiculous.
	By the way, no surprise.
	America's got a trillion dollar credit card debt and 42% of the buy now pay later that started on Black Friday has been late.
	Oh, weird.
	Rob, what's the poll look like?
	What a surprise.
	Yeah, weird, ladies and gentlemen.
	Okay, let's go to the next story here.
	Can I just add one thing?
	Excited to get a chance to weigh in on this.
	We're not going to go to everybody.
	I don't go to Vinny every time, but if you have something real quick, go for it.
	Well, I just, what we realized is that since COVID, this K-shaped economy is a real thing.
	You know, they talk about the difference between Wall Street and Main Street.
	For those of us lucky enough to know how finances work and you've saved that money, you've invested.
	Life's great.
	You know, everyone thinks, like, Vinny, we had this conversation the other day.
	What do you think the current inflation rate is the other day?
	Everyone's like 8%, 12, 15.
	Current inflation rate is 3%, but there's a COVID hangover.
	So people don't realize that the economy has gotten better.
	But for people at the top, if you're at the bottom and you're the two-thirds of America that's living paycheck to paycheck, you're struggling.
	Unemployment.
	People think that unemployment is at 20%.
	Sorry.
	It's at 3.5%.
	So people think the economy is a lot worse than it is because those are the people on Main Street.
	People on Wall Street, they're doing great.
	Everyone wants to know, hey, there's a recession this year that's going to happen in 2024.
	No, it turns out the stock market went up 25 freaking percent.
	Meanwhile, you have the people living paycheck to paycheck.
	I just did a video across the street at this Amscott.
	You familiar with that?
	Yeah.
	Where it's the payday loans.
	Oh, that's the worst.
	Where are the money people?
	I went in there.
	I'm like, hey, if you want to get your money absolutely wrecked, come visit here at Amscott.
	They show you on the signs in the building that they charge 400%, 500%, 300% limited.
	And people are doing it.
	There's a line out the door.
	I'm like, you guys are getting your ass kicked by Amscott.
	Shout out to Amscott right now.
	By the way, check this out.
	240 branches, 2,000 plus employees has been around since 1989.
	Yeah.
	So it's not like there's not a business forward.
	There's a business model for the poor just getting poor.
	And that's the unfortunate thing.
	And Pat, you touched on this a million times during COVID.
	Where do you think the money flows when you give out free money and you give out stimulus checks?
	It's going to flow to the top.
	We saw who became the richest man in the world during COVID.
	It wasn't Elon Musk.
	It was Bernard Arlneau, who basically owns, who doesn't basically own LVMH, which stands for Louis Vuitton, Moet Hennessy.
	They own everything.
	Gucci, Prada, Moet, this, that.
	They own every store in the mall.
	And this guy became the richest guy in the world because everyone got their stimulus checks.
	They didn't bump it into a Roth IRA.
	They pumped it into a new bag from Balenciaga.
	And that's exactly what happened.
	He looks like Joe Biden's cousin.
	Look at him.
	You know, it's a very interesting.
	We'll get on the next thing here.
	My parting shot, Pat, is there's a very interesting rule of thumb that says, take all the stimulus that's given to every household that's under 100 grand.
	That's two people making 50.
	Just take 12% of it.
	And that's what's, and that's the net gain for the stock market.
	Why?
	It's EBITDA.
	Because they spend it all.
	And it ends up on the bottom line profit for all the companies on the stock market that made all the stuff that they just bought.
	Listen, let me talk to certain people here right now.
	So I have a few people that I'm talking to this year.
	And to the people whose income grows, but you're constantly broke, you don't have an income problem.
	To the people that, you know, if you were broke making 50K a year and you said, if I only make more money, I'm going to be better.
	Then you're broke at 100K.
	Then you're broke at a quarter million.
	Then you're broke at a half a million.
	Then you're broke at a million.
	You're going to be broke no matter how much money you ever make.
	Now, I'm not talking about the power of broke.
	Like, hey, you know, always when you get money, let it go out and all that.
	Not Chris Garden.
	David John.
	That's like a bad moment you just had right there.
	That's okay.
	In the pursuit of having a money.
	You know what?
	That interview is like, hey, Samuel Jackson.
	I'm not Samuel Jackson.
	You think just because I'm black, I'm Samuel Jackson Lawrence Fisherman.
	Anyways, so if you're constantly making that, increasing your income, but you don't have savings, there's a problem.
	At whatever level, I posted something on Twitter just a minute ago.
	Rob, if you want to go pull this up, I literally posted this morning and I said, everyone has a reputation.
	If you just click on that and zoom in a little bit, because, yeah, there you go.
	Go a little bit.
	I said, everyone has a reputation, some good, some bad.
	Your actions determine your reputation in the marketplace.
	New Year's Eve, 2002, I'm at In-N-Out Burger in Universal Studios, literally in the backside with another guy that we split the In-N-Out burger and we got water with lemon and sweetened loaf.
	You know why?
	Because that's called lemonade.
	And we split it, split the double-double.
	He gets one.
	He gets half.
	I get half.
	And what's the Ryan Secress is doing the 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
	Then I'm sitting there saying, what a freaking shitty way to go into a new year.
	Okay.
	Going through a bad breakup.
	I got not a penny to my name.
	I'm $49,000 in debt.
	Life sucks.
	I'm asking God, I'm talking to myself.
	Do I go back and join the army?
	Is that what I do?
	Do I just go back and do 20 years?
	Because I've already done two and a half years with a little bit of reserve, which means I got probably five years.
	I only need to do 15 more years.
	What do I do there?
	And then I made, in my mind, I'm like, what's your reputation?
	Because my dad would say, you're this, your dad, you're, I made a list of reputation that I had in the marketplace.
	Out of everything I wrote down, I wanted my new reputation to be, and it came down to one thing.
	I wanted the new reputation to be whatever Pat says he's going to do, it's going to get done.
	I wanted my word to cash my big, many big checks, and it was going to take a bold new reputation.
	I wanted to bring confidence in the people who believed in me and put the fear of God in those who didn't.
	I know it sounds a bit dark, but that's me.
	It was the hardest reputation to build because the pressure that it comes with.
	But just like shooting free throws, the percentage of things getting done kept increasing higher and higher and higher.
	We have a big vision with a ton of work to do, but the reputation of getting things done got started back in 2002.
	If you allow a reputation to linger around, it eventually becomes a permanent reputation.
	You know your reputation.
	You know who you are.
	No matter how much you make yourself feel good about your reputation, your actions have caused you the reputation that you currently have today, but you can choose to change that now.
	Never let the world dictate your reputation.
	If you do, they'll own you forever.
	Future looks bright.
	What's the point here?
	I don't care how much money you make.
	Start saving money.
	You going out to the party?
	I'm not coming.
	We're going out to the club Saturday night.
	Dude, I'm not coming.
	We're going to go over Indians, dude.
	I'm not coming.
	We're going to go do this.
	I'm not coming.
	Save, save, invest, save, save, save.
	Your income goes up, don't change your lifestyle.
	Let your income increase two, three, four, five times before you dramatically change your lifestyle.
	If you can afford to live in a million dollar home, live in a half a million dollar home.
	If you can afford to live in a $3 million home, live in a million dollar home.
	If you can afford to live in a $10 million home, live in a $2 million home.
	And then all of a sudden, boom, you're like, man, this pillow got softer.
	I sleep better right now.
	I feel better.
	What the hell just happened all of a sudden?
	Because you made better decisions.
	So some people have an income problem.
	Fine, but most people don't have an income problem.
	Most people have a saving and a spending problem that's haunting them.
	And when you are in debt and you're owing everybody money, you just, you are just not in a good, you know, weak place.
	You don't do husband better.
	You don't do friend better.
	You don't do business better.
	You don't do any of that stuff better.
	So that's my biggest thing when we're talking about buying out pay later.
	Don't fall for all these bullshit gimmick traps that all these other guys are selling you just because everybody else is doing BMPL, whatever it's called.
	You don't need to fall for that trap.
	You go increase your market value.
	Think about your vision long term, what you want your life to look like, what you want your dreams to look like, and then make better decisions.
	One day you'll wake up and everyone's going to say, wait a minute, what happened to you, bro?
	How are you living this life?
	Bro, because all those 97 times you invited me to go smoke weed and party and do all that shit, I said no to you.
	That's what happened.
	And you went, okay?
	It's that simple.
	So we just have to make better decisions and not fall for this crowd.
	When I see this number here, 3,400 people voted.
	28% did a buy now, pay later.
	What's 28% on 3,400?
	That's about 1,000 people, right?
	Give or take, have done BMPL.
	Make a decision, guys.
	Don't do it.
	Do not fall for it.
	Anyways, let's go to the next story.
	Lululemon hits back at founder anti-DEI comments.
	Lululemon hits back at the founders anti-DEI comments.
	They do not reflect our company's views.
	Look at this company.
	They do not reflect our company's views.
	You are your founder's company.
	What do you mean they do not reflect our company's views?
	Your founder started your company.
	Can you imagine how dumb it is for you to say what you just, do you understand what they're saying?
	Of course.
	Lululemon hits back at the founder.
	If it wasn't for the founder, there is no Lululemon.
	You, you know.
	It's basically what's happening in here, America Today.
	We don't endorse what our founding fathers of America are.
	They basically tried to make America.
	They were here way before you and I were here.
	America matters way more than you and I do.
	They start this great country.
	Lululemon distanced itself from its founder, Chip Wilson's recent criticism of the company's diversity and inclusion efforts.
	Wilson has stated they're trying to become like the gap, everything to everybody.
	You've got to be clear that you don't want certain customers coming in.
	What a powerful statement.
	The company issued a statement clarifying that Wilson's comments do not represent Lululemon's views or beliefs.
	They highlighted that Wilson had no involvement with the company since his resignation from the board in 2015.
	Wilson, known for previous controversial remarks, also criticized some of the models used in Lululemon's advertising campaigns as sickly, unhealthy, and not inspirational, according to Forbes.
	Look, as they always say, you try to please everybody, you please nobody.
	And this is exactly what's happening, Garrett.
	It's so upsetting.
	You're a founder of multiple companies, PBD.
	It must be so upsetting for the founder of a company, the vision that they have, the vision that they cast, the belief that they have, the company they found, and then a decade or two later, completely see it crumble.
	Totally endorse what Chip Wilson is saying on this one.
	And he brings up the gap.
	He brings up companies that have just basically tried to basically make it the what, body positivity movement.
	We see what's going on at Victoria's Secret.
	It used to be known as if you're the most gorgeous, beautiful, fit, like cream of the crop woman out there, you'll get some angels on your back, right?
	Now it's like, yeah, if you're looking like Amy Schumer and you do your thing out there, you know, about this vendor, it's like, yeah, we'll throw some mud-colored angels wings on you and we'll just you roll around like a little pig out there.
	If you're Lizzo out there, hey, looking good, you can endorse our product.
	I'm assuming the whole premise of Lululemon was basically look good, feel good, be fit, be athletic, get your ass out there, work out, be comfortable, do your thing.
	But now it's turned into basically a DEI prerequisite where if you're fat, you know, you're going to make it in this company.
	Yeah, exactly.
	This is not the first founder that looks back on a company he made and watches them deteriorate and has something to say about it.
	I seem to recall that Steve Jobs returned to Apple after they had their 40 years in the desert and Howard Schultz returned to Starbucks.
	You know, maybe Chip needs to return.
	And by the way, the things, the comments he made about models was, you have to remember, fashion is incredibly woke industry and it's an incredibly drug-addled industry.
	Yes, I said it, but it's true.
	And they're talking about these size one models that are on the cocaine and Diet Coke diet.
	And he was saying they look sickly.
	They don't look healthy.
	This is not good.
	But somewhere between that and all this body positivity stuff.
	And so he's out there talking.
	Would they rather have the CEO of American apparel, that CEO who would use drugs in the office and it was just a free-for-all sort of an orgy of wokeness?
	And he would walk across the office stark naked except for a sock covering Mr. Johnson and friends.
	And so, Tom, I have no clue where this place is going.
	Would you like that?
	Can I tell you who this guy is?
	Let me tell you who this guy is.
	First of all, Chip Wilson is a badass.
	He's a BMF.
	I interviewed this guy many years ago and I intentionally wrote, I think I wore ripped jeans, like literally ripped black jeans, because in his book that had just come out, we met in Zuma.
	I don't know where we met.
	It was a great conversation we had because apparently he used to go to work in Speedos.
	Okay.
	And the way he started Lululemon, very, very, what, what am I wearing in this interview?
	Yeah, yeah, there you go.
	Because I was telling him a joke.
	When would you ever see me wear something like that?
	That is not your look.
	But I tell you, I don't know where that came from.
	He and I were, and you have to watch an interview to know what I'm doing.
	But this guy, when we sat down and we spoke, so he, do you know how he starts the company?
	He goes to all the local yoga stores in Santa Monica and L.A., and he listens to girls' complaints after yoga.
	Okay.
	So he realizes the biggest complaint girls had after yoga is they couldn't go from yoga to the mall.
	They had to go yoga, coffee, home to change because they were embarrassed.
	And he talks about the fact that he was worried it's going to show their, what's the word?
	No, no, no, there's a word that they camel toe.
	No, literally, he talks about that in the book.
	Okay.
	So he's like, well, that's a problem.
	And he says, I noticed everybody was saying this.
	Okay.
	So he said, I'm going to be able to fix this.
	He says, so I went back and I designed them and I kept looking at the girls putting it on and said, boom, you can't see it anymore.
	Would you be comfortable going in a mall?
	Perfect.
	He creates that product.
	Okay.
	At the time, 100% of his customers were women.
	Then he goes to 88% of his customers being women.
	The name he comes up with, he says, The reason why I chose the name L, because I noticed Japanese people couldn't pronounce the word L, and it was a joke to him.
	This guy's a little bit of a joke prankster type of a guy, just so you know that.
	He said, So, here's a story by him: if you go to eight outrageous remarks by Lululemon, founder Chip Wilson, this is our kind of a guy, by the way.
	Where's he from?
	I don't know where he's from, but dude, I was with him, his family, his family was there, they were all laughing, having a good time.
	Well, you could tell this guy enjoys his life, fun guy.
	Okay, so let me read this to you.
	Wilson once claimed that smoking and birth control pills led to high divorce rates.
	Okay, so that pissed a lot of people off.
	Two, he once said he chose to call his company Lululemon because he thought it was funny that Japanese people couldn't pronounce the letter L.
	He said it was so funny to watch them try to say it.
	He says, Because of that, I named my company Lululemon.
	Wilson is an avid fan of Ayn Rand and stated printing the phrase, Who is John Galt? on the company's bags in November of 2011 without his CEO knowing about it.
	Like, this is that guy, okay?
	So then he takes the company, realizes most of them are women.
	You know what he ends up doing?
	Can you type in right now, Lululemon?
	What percentage of Lululemon customers are women versus men?
	Okay, I want to say the number he brought down from 100% to 88% to today's like one-third, two-thirds.
	Yeah, check that out.
	A third of the customer are men.
	Would you have ever thought about it?
	No.
	Think about when you think about Lululemon, you don't think about women, right?
	You don't think about men, you think about women.
	A third of his customers in 2020, let alone today.
	So these guys were able to get both men and women.
	There's a reason why he's worth $7 billion.
	This guy is a badass guy.
	Respect to Chip.
	We need more chips in America to create jobs.
	A behemoth of a company he built, and he's worth $7 billion.
	And these clowns are saying our founders' comments don't reflect what we stand for as a company.
	Let me get this straight.
	He gave the company the name.
	He came up with the ideas for women for yoga.
	He did all that stuff.
	And you don't value what the founder said.
	You know how comical and foolish this sounds?
	This is the same exact thing where these magazines like Forbes that were once the best magazine for every capitalist in America, now the writers are a Columbia grad journalist, bullshit, liberal left, can't stand capitalist, can't stand business people is not telling business people how bad capitalists is, how bad these money people are.
	That's what happens to the brand eventually and loses its control.
	Hopefully that doesn't happen to Lululemon.
	But all I'm saying right now, if you've never met this man, if you've never spent time with this man, go study his book, study him.
	He's an absolute stud of a guy on how he built this incredible brand.
	And I hope they don't ruin this incredible brand Chip Wilson built out there.
	Anyways, let's go to the next story.
	Good for Chip, by the way.
	We need more chips in the world.
	Okay, next.
	Which one do you want to go?
	Let's go to Elon Musk and drugs.
	Here we go.
	I don't know what that transition is, but that's what we're going to say.
	That's what people want to talk about.
	Here we go.
	Elon Musk has used illegal drugs, worrying leaders at Tesla and SpaceX.
	This is a Wall Street Journal story.
	Elon Musk, Musk's alleged illegal drug use includes what is it, LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, and ketamine, often at private parties with non-disclosure agreements.
	He has even taken illegal drugs with current SpaceX and former Tesla board member Steve Gervestin.
	Musk's drug use raises concerns about violating federal policies, potentially jeopardizing SpaceX's government contracts and breaking company policies at both SpaceX and Tesla.
	Some Tesla board members have discussed their worries about his drug consumption informally and his actions have previously led to an SEC investigation.
	While some speculate that Musk's unusual behavior could be linked to drug use, others attribute it to factors like his consistent lack of sleep and mental health challenges.
	Vinny.
	Okay, let's just take a step back.
	Okay, always look at those words allegedly, okay?
	And this is another hit piece, just like they tried with him being anti-Semitic, just about him back in the day with all women.
	It's long story short, they're trying to destroy him because he bought the only forum that we could have free speech.
	And you know what?
	Let's be honest.
	You know why he's a huge threat?
	What year is this year?
	This is election.
	Election year.
	So guess what?
	Think about it.
	Last presidential election, who owned Twitter?
	Who was it?
	Jack Dorsey.
	Right.
	Right?
	And what happened?
	80 FBI agents were at Twitter stopping every story that you guys were supposed to hear.
	The Hunter Biden, all that Twitter.
	Twitter files.
	Twitter files.
	So, and they stopped all these negative stories.
	Now you have Elon Musk, who's really concerned about the open border situation.
	I don't know if you guys have been paying attention.
	That's the majority of Elon Musk's tweets.
	And besides calling Mark Cuban racist, he said yesterday in this tweet, this is Elon.
	In the USA, you don't need a government-issued ID to vote, and you can mail in your ballot.
	That's insane, okay?
	Think about his reach, Patrick.
	I don't know how many millions and millions.
	Yesterday was at 12 million, but he just posted it.
	If that word gets out that they're cheating, okay?
	They're concerned because he's giving us the platform so we can talk shit and point out that the border is completely wide open.
	Okay.
	There's 12, I think by the end of Biden's run, it's going to be over 12 million people.
	Did you know that?
	And he's saying that's more than the last three presidencies combined of immigration.
	So you think about it.
	And mind you, it's not like, oh, where's it at?
	38 million, but almost 39 million people are seeing this.
	Okay.
	Then think about how this goes down.
	Then you see people like AOC, okay, that complete moron.
	She's on the daily show, which is basically unwatchable, unfunny.
	It's the worst show.
	You know what she's saying with the solving to this whole immigration?
	Document them.
	Yeah, she goes, not the wall.
	Just let everybody in, but document them.
	Do you have that clip, Rob?
	Because I want to show you two things.
	Listen to what she says.
	Ready for this?
	Listen to this.
	This is who this is.
	This is AOC talking about the border.
	Back up a little bit.
	Go ahead.
	Here we go.
	From all parts of the political spectrum, one of the biggest issues that we have when it comes to immigration is the fact that we have an undocumented population.
	Now, you can fix that by trying to build a wall.
	Yeah.
	Or you can fix that by trying to document people and create a path to citizenship.
	And you'll have folks that might say, look at these systems.
	You know that our shelter system has weight and things like that.
	But one of the reasons that our public systems experience weight is because people don't have a lot of people.
	You know what two scary things I want everybody out there to be concerned about?
	She's the future.
	She's the future of the Democratic Party because people will vote for her to be president.
	The second thing that really scares me, did you hear that audience response?
	That audience clapped.
	Yeah, but it's the daily show.
	No, 100%.
	100%.
	But you know what I think?
	You know, the FBI went after everybody at January 6th to put them in jail.
	We should find out everybody in the audience that was applauding this and make sure that they don't procreate, including her, because we don't need that crap, bro.
	And Pat, this goes way back.
	Adams, I know you want to say something.
	This goes way back.
	This has been their plan forever.
	Rob, I slacked you this clip of Joe Biden on the Congress floor.
	This has been a plan with Majorkis next to him, that little rat.
	And this is their goal of making us non-white.
	Watch, play this clip.
	Listen.
	An unrelenting stream of immigration.
	Unrelenting.
	Non-stop.
	Yeah, it's happening, you piece of shit.
	Look, folks like me who are Caucasian of European descent, for the first time in 2017, will be in an absolute minority.
	Look at my orchestra.
	Look at that rat.
	Absolute minority.
	Fewer than 50% of the people in America from then and on will be white European stock.
	That's not a bad thing.
	That's a source of our strength.
	Well, yeah.
	So think about this.
	Elon, he does this with women.
	He's allegedly doing drugs.
	He hates Jewish people.
	Anything to knock him down to get rid of him because he's letting us see shit like this on expat.
	1,000%.
	He's the threat.
	Tom, what do you think?
	I mean, guys, I get what you're saying.
	And by the way, for AOC, it's a brilliant strategy for the left, what they're doing.
	You got to give them credit on how awesome of a strategy it is to let this many people come in more in one administration than the last three combined.
	And then you convert them and give them a path to citizenship.
	And you know, 65% of them are voting to the left.
	So if you're a gambling man, the house is on, you are the house.
	You're winning.
	You know, your odds of winning that bet is on you than the other side, right?
	But go back to the Elon Musk story.
	On the Elon Musk story, this isn't some Daily Mail or this isn't some media matters.
	This is a Wall Street Journal.
	And by the way, when they interview the person, they're like, you can't write something and says, listen, our sources are very credible that this is actually happening.
	This is not like we're winging it here.
	And then they asked the lady from Wall Street Journal and they said, so, you know, what does this mean when it comes down to Tesla, guidelines, drugs?
	He says, well, Tesla has guidelines that you can't be using drugs.
	A lot of these companies that he works for, do the same things apply to him?
	It does.
	And then how about the contracts that you're getting from, you know, NASA and the government contracts, all this stuff?
	Same exact thing.
	So now, Elon's, to Elon's defense, he's coming out saying, I've been drug tested every single time since, you know, what do you call it?
	The Rogan podcast when he did.
	And, you know, they've been drug testing him, drug testing, I'm drug testing him.
	So, you know, is it true or not, Tom?
	What do you think when you hear a story like this?
	You've spent some time with some of these folks, you know, creative folks in Silicon Valley that, you know, they feel maybe there's an edge when you're taking this.
	You know, Steve Jobs has made certain comments about LSD.
	What are your thoughts about the credibility of this story?
	Yeah, first of all, I think the story is credible.
	Has Elon Musk used, yeah, we saw him smoke dope on Rogan.
	And there's a lot of people, including Elon, who from time to time have made comments about magic mushrooms or micro-dosing.
	That is all over Silicon Valley, micro-dosing and mushrooms.
	Very, it's not used by everyone, but it's widely used.
	So that doesn't surprise me there.
	And it doesn't surprise me that he's there and that he's part of it.
	Now, some of these other stories here, these comments from people go back several years because it does appear that what Elon's drawing a line in the sand on is, hey, I just now got tested.
	I've been tested regularly since 2018.
	So you know he's drawing a line there.
	And so I think that, yeah, do I think he's micro-dosing and using magic mushrooms?
	Yeah.
	Yes, I do.
	You know, and I think the story is credible.
	Do I think he's still, you know, binging on the weekend doing 10 rails of white magic?
	No.
	No.
	Tom, I want to party back with you back in the 80s when you were doing your thing.
	But Tom, here's my thing.
	Here's my thing.
	He could micro.
	I don't give two shits if he's giving us a platform to talk, if he's putting shit into outer space, if he's doing Neuralink and trying to help people, if he's speaking about the voice.
	I get what you're saying.
	No, I get what you're saying.
	Is the timing though weird to you?
	No, bro.
	But you have to know that when you're doing that and you're, for example, like, you know, the profile of an Elon Musk, okay, is anti-authority.
	Don't tell me what to do.
	I'm going to, you can't tell the profile of an Elon Musk of what to do.
	You can't do it.
	However, the good and the bad and the ugly comes with it because if he says he's going to do something, he's going to do it.
	If he's got a real enemy, you don't need to worry about him destroying his enemy.
	He's going to destroy his enemy because no one's more obsessed about it than him.
	But at the same time, even a guy at that level, you need to have certain people behind closed doors that you trust 100% that nothing even you tell them leaks to their wife, leaks to their husbands, leaks to their friends, nothing to say, hey man, what do you think about this?
	Here's what I'm thinking about.
	What are your thoughts on this?
	And it's like, look, bro, just pump the brakes.
	You're a target now.
	And here's what could happen to you.
	And this is what you got to be thinking about.
	And your enemy, the state, number one now.
	He is number one.
	I think so.
	No, I don't think there's anybody.
	And by the way, I'm telling you, today he's above Trump.
	And why do you say that?
	Because he has more power today than Trump does.
	Today, today, he's ahead of Trump.
	When we did our top media ranking for Vietnam, Rob, if you can pull it up, we put a top 50 most influential media names in media, right?
	Yeah, if you type in, you'll see Vayatayman, this one right here.
	If you guys haven't gone through this list and we went from, and by the way, it was some of the names we had on the list.
	People are like, wow, what media to me doesn't mean you're going to like him or disagree with him.
	I think we start off with number 50b and keep going through it.
	I think it's Cuomo 50 and then it goes all the way down.
	And you can see all these names that we have.
	Look at the names we got.
	Left, right, center.
	It doesn't matter.
	You hate, you love, it's going to be there, right?
	But go all the way down to number one.
	Go all the way.
	If somebody wants to see it, Rod, you can put the link in the comment section and chat for them to see it.
	Yeah, Elon Musk is number one.
	Yeah.
	Ahead of Trump today.
	Okay.
	So when you are enemy of the state number one, you have targets, you have threats, you have more cameras, all eyes on you, and they're just looking at something.
	So imagine if a judge is able to use this and go to SEC and say, you are no longer capable of being the CEO and the chairman of the board of X.
	Now who loses?
	You lose.
	You.
	You don't want that.
	And so the same guidelines that apply to an employee at X, at Tesla, at SpaceX applies to the founder because you're an employee.
	I may be the founder.
	I'm still an employee.
	So those guidelines don't get somebody to say, well, you can't get away with it because it doesn't do that.
	So I'm just talking like a board member is what I'm talking about and the mindset of a founder that doesn't like authority telling them what to do.
	I'm just saying you have to be a little bit careful because you're extra, extra targeting.
	I understand that.
	But my point is, though, I understand, I agree 100%.
	What I'm saying is, look at all the stories that are coming out and the timing of it.
	But it's going to get more.
	100% it's going to be worse.
	But I'm saying, oh, I go back to the why and the why is, and you nailed it, it's because he's such a threat because he's letting us speak.
	He's letting us see the stories and you nailed it.
	He is a freedom.
	He is a lot of people.
	Don't give them, don't give them another.
	They're going to already make a bunch of shit up about you.
	They're already going to defame you.
	They're already going to do character assassination.
	They already hate you.
	Don't give them additional ammunition.
	But where'd they get the drug thing from?
	That's an alleged story.
	But just because it's credible, because it's Washington Post, they're all owned by the same crew.
	Look, here's the reality.
	I think you're spot on.
	He is public enemy number one.
	Why?
	Good.
	Above Trump?
	Why?
	Trump's got maybe four to eight more years of really doing his thing.
	Yeah, really.
	Maybe four.
	This guy's got four more decades of doing his thing, especially if we end up on Mars doing our thing.
	So, no doubt that I think Elon should be number one.
	And just think how weird we are in America right now.
	Four years ago, he voted for Biden.
	Yeah.
	Fact.
	Okay.
	Or if not, he definitely endorsed that message.
	It just shows how far left the left has gone.
	Whereas the right, with the exception of a few people, has kind of maintained their position.
	So just to show where Elon Musk is, where Rogan is, where even Bill Maher is these days, they're just basically, dude, I might not be a maggot extremist, but I certainly ate this woke mind virus that's going on here on the left.
	Back to the drug thing.
	So they're accusing him of doing drugs.
	They're saying he's doing illegal drugs, whether it's ketamine, whether it's LSD, whether it's cocaine, ecstasy.
	You know what?
	He probably did a little bit of that.
	I'm sure.
	You know, so is that the biggest deal in the world?
	The under the influence, trace amounts of this.
	Listen, everyone that goes to Art Basil, they're handing out magic mushrooms like it's basically hotcakes going on over there.
	Is it concerning?
	Not to me, because there's a difference between recreational drugs and actually being an addict.
	Okay.
	To be clear, if doing drugs recreationally made you the richest man in the world, sign me up for Elon's plan.
	And you know who agrees?
	I did polls over the week on this exact same story.
	You know how hard it is to get anything 60-40.
	Everything's so divisive these days.
	I said, What are your thoughts on Elon Musk doing drugs?
	And I give two options: let Elon be Elon or shame on you, Elon.
	What do you think the results were?
	93% of people said, Let Elon do Elon.
	I also asked, What are your thoughts on the whole woke mind virus that he's basically going in on?
	93% of people, it was on Instagram.
	93% of people said it's a woke mind virus.
	That's what's going on there.
	So listen, sometimes when you want to dream big and you want to go to Mars, you might need a little DMT in your life.
	Okay.
	I mean, Drogan talks about it.
	The Auvon talks about it.
	If Elon Musk wants to smoke a joint or take a magic mushroom to relax, I'd rather him do that than just start binge drinking alcohol.
	And I think the left needs to decide which way do you guys want it?
	You want to decriminalize all drugs.
	You want to make them legal.
	You know, Portland, Oregon, all the things that they accused him of using is legal.
	So he could have said, well, I was in Portland for the weekend, you know, and it's legal.
	And or, you know, you, you know, marijuana should be legal everywhere, and cocaine should be decriminalized everywhere.
	And mushrooms and LSD should be legal everywhere.
	Which way do you want it?
	Do you want it for a convenient attack on a guy who's going to enable the greatest platform for free speech that we still have?
	Used to be the U.S. Constitution.
	Now it's X. Or do you want to pick on the guy and say, oh, oh, drug use, drug bad, drug bad?
	Which way do you want it?
	The way that they categorize drugs is actually very weird.
	Okay.
	There's a big difference to taking like a micro dose of mushrooms than full-on going balls deep in some heroin or some meth.
	I don't believe it.
	There's a big difference.
	I don't believe none of it.
	You made me see.
	I'm not going to front.
	You made me see.
	He is the number one threat.
	And it's because, dude, buying Twitter and making it X is the worst thing.
	Because now we get to talk and see their bullshit.
	And think about what's bigger.
	Twitter, X, Truth, Social.
	Final.
	Final point.
	Option one: Elon Musk.
	Microdosing, doing a few things, successfully running a bunch of companies.
	Yeah.
	Improving free speech.
	Doing a lot for mankind.
	Okay.
	Recreational drug user.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Very creative.
	Okay.
	Whatever.
	Fine.
	This is just option one.
	Option number two: Hunter Biden.
	Yes.
	Cocaine.
	Untoable addict.
	Untreatable addict with his second set of teeth.
	Pictures of unmentionables.
	This is an uncontrolled person who's an addict.
	We've got cocaine in the White House.
	Great point, Tom.
	There's a big difference between the type of drug that you're doing, no doubt.
	All right, let's go to the next one.
	Crack ain't it?
	Let's go to the next one here.
	Boeing.
	Imagine, folks, you're on a flight and this happens to you.
	Rob, if you want to pull up this video, you're on a flight minding your own business.
	Maybe you're watching a movie.
	Maybe you're chilling.
	Maybe you're doing what you're doing.
	You're reading the book.
	And then all of a sudden, go ahead and play this clip.
	Boom.
	This is what happens.
	Oh, we're on a flight, guys.
	Look how calm everybody's gone.
	That's a full-on flight.
	Oh.
	An Alaska Airlines flight.
	And that door is gone.
	It ripped.
	And nobody.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	Let me read.
	I got to hear this.
	Let me read this.
	Let me read this story and then I'm sure we'll get into it.
	So, Boeing 737 Airliner grounded by FAA after window blown out in mid-air horror.
	The Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, has ordered a temporary grounding of the 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft after a window has ripped from a plane mid-flight with some planes requiring immediate inspections before they can return to flights.
	And Alaska Airlines flight experienced a horrifying incident as a portion of the plane's fuselage blew out mid-air, leading to an emergency landing.
	Stunned passengers described seeing a large section of the plane blown out with photos showing a gapping hole in the aircraft side.
	Boeing 737 MAX planes, once grounded due to safety concerns in 2019, are now facing renewed scrutiny.
	The recent incident and grounding comes after the planes were allowed to resume commercial service in 2020 following software upgrades and fixes to address previous safety.
	By the way, just so you know, when you look at the story, they lost $13 billion yesterday.
	Rumors came out from whistleblowers that Boeing no longer does the same quality control that they used to.
	And they went hiring lobbyists to say we are not, we don't need to be held to the same standards of quality control as other companies are.
	Whistleblowers came out talking about the fact that they no longer check the whistleblowing.
	They no longer check the stuff on Boeing planes that they did before.
	The other day, a man is minding his own business.
	He notices a big-ass bolt from a plane falls into his house.
	Did you see this clip?
	This video?
	They talked about it.
	Today killed somebody.
	That's not the bullet coming down, right?
	So I think FAA is investigating because they're producing so many planes and it's just like, look, get it out, get it out, get it out, get it out quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly.
	And when you're forced to hit the planes fast and you're not QCing, one, two bowls not being there.
	That's, by the way, look at that.
	That came through.
	I don't know if that's the one or not.
	I'll find it and I'll send it to you.
	But a bolt purity, boom, came and fell on a plane.
	But go ahead.
	Look, Adam.
	Yeah, everyone's trying to figure out what, you know, since he wrote the book, what their enemies are.
	I'm still trying to figure out mine.
	The top of my list is just sloppiness and cutting corners and trying to think you can get rich quick and all that nonsense that doesn't actually mean putting in the work.
	Okay.
	This is just sloppy.
	This is scary.
	And I'm going to take a different angle with this.
	You know what I blame this on?
	This is weird, DEI.
	Because everyone talked about, all right, look, you know, United Airlines, they're at the forefront of this story right here.
	We're going to hire all 50% of all pilots are going to be men.
	50% of pilots are going to be all women.
	Not so fast, guys.
	Turns out that 90% of pilots are men.
	Are you just going to start casually giving women jobs in the cockpit?
	There's other things they could be doing with the cockpit, but that ain't the job.
	That's not the job.
	That ain't the job, Vinny.
	But this to me is a trickle-down effect of DEI.
	I say, I hired this person.
	We talked about in the SP 100 that America is 60% white, yet they only hired 6% of white people for the top positions.
	This ain't a race thing.
	This is a meritocracy thing.
	Get the best people for the job.
	Get the best people to fly the plane, get the best people to build the plane, get the people, best people to work the plane.
	Enough with the DEI nonsense.
	We've seen how the basic sham that that is.
	And this to me is just a small story about not doing the best and just kind of doing some patchwork.
	Yes.
	And could you imagine?
	So apparently, my brother's wife, Bianca, was like, Vinny, the flight was completely full.
	That seat was the only seat that nobody was sitting in.
	Super sick.
	And what if, God forbid, because, bro, when it's up there, it reached maximum altitude.
	I don't got my seatbelt on.
	The moment we reach, you know, like 2,000 feet, my seatbelt's off.
	Could you imagine, God forbid, you get sucked out or your chip's on your lap and you're like, just because some guy's like, nah, no, you know, you saw the kid that was sitting there, his shirt got sucked off.
	And then my God, he had his seatbelt on.
	And shout out to everybody on that flight.
	Did you see how calm they were?
	I would have been screaming like a child if the door, I would have been like the whole flight.
	I would have been losing my shit.
	They escaped.
	Great point, Vin.
	An absolute disaster.
	Could you imagine if just one person fell out of the one?
	You should be counting your lucking blessings.
	It was a kid's shirt.
	Oh, imagine on a flight because I think it was from like Oregon to California or Vancouver to the Hawaiian Airlines flight where it had a structural failure like that.
	And the flight attendant was standing in the aisle and she went right out.
	That's a separate story from this.
	Separate story as well.
	When was that saying there was a midair goes back years and years and years ago?
	I'm talking about this story.
	Well, imagine falling out and landing on your house.
	Tom.
	It's wild, man.
	They escaped an unmitigated disaster.
	Oh, my God.
	Never found her.
	Never found her.
	Yeah.
	Good time.
	What were you going to say?
	No, it's an unmitigated.
	You know, this is just shame on Boeing.
	I mean, the reason they were grounded in 2019, because the Bowen 737 Boeing 737 MAX had AI and highly automated air flight control systems, also known as autopilot.
	Well, the sensors that they built into the plane and the software they built actually started fighting with each other.
	And in Africa, the plane is saying, I think I'm in the wrong position.
	Adjust.
	And then the plane senses it.
	No, go the other way.
	No, go the other way.
	And it created literally an argument between the actual physical sensors and the software.
	And it started porpoising and it fell out of the sky.
	One was in Africa, I believe, but that's the two 737 MAXs that they had all the sophisticated software.
	And there were whistleblowers at that time that said, here it comes.
	We didn't test properly.
	Yeah, Ethiopian Airlines, brand new 737 MAX, 157 people.
	The thing starts porpoising.
	And the whistleblower said, we did not test this fully.
	This software is not tested, number one.
	Number two, we didn't do the full pilot training on this because you can turn it off and you can do workarounds if the plane's in trouble or heavy weather.
	And the Ethiopian pilots didn't know.
	They didn't know the workaround.
	These aren't dumb.
	These are highly skilled, fully educated, licensed pilots.
	Boeing, so they said, didn't have training systems, didn't have workaround systems.
	And they rushed the thing out to market.
	And then two weeks later, either this was the first one or second one, but there was two of them.
	Two of them crashed for the same reason within two weeks until globally everyone said, okay, stop, All 737 MAXs stay where you are.
	Nothing's taken off anymore.
	And you know what they guess what?
	It was the same thing.
	Quality control, lobbying the FAA, cutting the corners, and then whistleblowers coming out.
	We knew it.
	We were just rushing to market.
	We knew it.
	It's the same thing they're saying.
	How about the fact that nobody's talking about there was a flight in 2014, I believe, in Malaysia, Flight 370 missing, disappeared.
	Just disappears.
	Nothing to see here.
	No blockbots.
	Where did it go?
	Nobody knows.
	Any answers?
	We haven't solved it.
	Who made that plane?
	Can we pull that up, Rob?
	We found one piece.
	Aircraft type?
	Oh, that was a Boeing.
	Yeah, they found it.
	Dude, what the hell's going on at Boeing?
	Yeah, they're not.
	Now, if you tell me that Boeing built the plane that accidentally fell out of the sky from the Wagner group, Pragosian, I'm never flying to Boeing again.
	Well, we all know that was Putin, so we won't go there.
	Yeah, whatever.
	But guys, this is scary stuff, man, because the number one thing, because I know how much you love heights, Pat.
	It's your favorite thing ever.
	You love being up there.
	It's your thing.
	This is scary stuff because you have zero control.
	Like, Jesus take the wheel, literally.
	And you have no control of what's going on up there.
	And we're relying on you, Boeing, on you, the airlines, to have your shit together.
	But we're starting to see cracks in the armor of what you're doing out there.
	And it's scary as hell.
	Or in the fuselage.
	Yes.
	Cracks and fuselage.
	Yeah, well, look.
	I never want to hear that word fuselage because anytime you hear the word fuselage, there's some shit happening.
	You're going to think twice on the story of the world.
	I'll go tell the next story.
	To all of you sitting in the sudden exit row.
	Here we go.
	Pat McAfee accuses ESPN.
	By the way, you know the whole DEI thing with Mark Cuban and Elon Musk going through yesterday.
	Elon Musk called Mark Cuban a racist yesterday.
	Yeah.
	Did you see that?
	I saw that in between all the whole going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
	And I proposed, I said, Mark, you're not letting go of this.
	Mark and I had a very friendly Twitter exchange on DM each other.
	I would say probably 100 messages over a span of two hours, back and forth.
	It was a debate.
	It was a very friendly debate, but it was a fiery one that we had.
	I said, listen, I said, here's a suggestion for you, Mark Cuban.
	Since you're so confident in your DEI argument, why don't you do an X space with Elon Musk and others?
	You bring three to five influencers who agree with you, including bring Tony Fauci if you want.
	Bring whoever you want.
	So you won't feel like it's one-sided.
	Who would like to see this?
	I would love, and then I posted a picture below of The Guardian just to remind him, go a little lower.
	The Dallas Mavericks are consistently the whitest team in a black league, 15 out of 21 years.
	Did he respond to that?
	No, he hasn't responded to that.
	He responded to that in DM, but he didn't respond to that on public.
	And he and I spoke about it.
	So I'd love to see a Twitter space with Mark Cuban on DEI.
	And I'll talk about that later.
	I feel like PVD has got something to say.
	Pat McAfee accuses ESPN executive of sabotaging his show.
	Here we go, Pat.
	This is what happens when you go to a company like Disney, aka ESPN, you are dealing with DEI scores that you got to be careful with.
	Pat McAfee to Sports Talk sensation known for his YouTube show has accused ESPN executive Norby Williamson of purposefully undermining his show by leaking false information to the media.
	McAfee specifically pointed to Williamson as the one trying to sabotage the program, stating more specifically, I believe Norby Williamson is the guy who is attempting to sabotage.
	Do you have this clip, Rob?
	Is attempting to sabotage our program.
	McAfee was known for his outspoken and sometimes controversial style, recently faced backlash with a guest, Aaron Rodgers, made controversial comments related to Jimmy Kimmel and Jeffrey Epstein.
	McAfee later apologized for the incident.
	Additionally, concerns arose about McAfee's TV ratings being lower than his lead in raising questions about the reported $85 million contract ESPN has with him.
	So think about the games they're playing there, Rob.
	If you have that clip, go ahead and play it.
	I don't know if this is it.
	We're very appreciative.
	And we understand that more people are watching the show than ever before.
	We're very thankful for the ESPN folks being very hospitable.
	Now, there are some people actively trying to sabotage us from within ESPN.
	More specifically, I believe Norby Williamson is the guy who is attempting to sabotage our program.
	I'm not 100% sure that he's just seemingly the only human that has information.
	And then somehow that information gets leaked and it's wrong.
	And then it sets a narrative of what our show is.
	And then are we just going to combat that from a rat every single time?
	I don't know.
	But like, somebody tried to get ahead of our actual ratings release with wrong numbers 12 hours beforehand.
	That's a sabotage attempt.
	And it's been happening basically this entire season from some people who didn't necessarily love the old edition of the Pat McAfee show to the ESPN family.
	Sure.
	There's a lot of those.
	You've heard them anonymously quoted in the Washington Post, in the New York Post, in the New York Times, in the LA Times, in Wall Street Journal.
	And it never like, yeah, love the show.
	It's always like little things to try to tear us down.
	So even with the enemy within our own camp, somebody that we don't, I don't like that guy.
	That guy left me in his office for 45 minutes, no-showed me in 2018.
	So this guy has had zero respect for me.
	And in return, same thing back to him for a long time.
	So even with that taking place and potential beyond, like there's, we're still growing somehow.
	Yep.
	Positive.
	So we're very thankful.
	I love it, Pat McAfee.
	100%.
	I love it.
	My question to you is, though, as a business guy, so you think, because I don't know, you think it's smart for him to air out one.
	Is that guy a producer?
	The guy he's talking about?
	He's an executive.
	Is that smart to do that to him about a family?
	Here's what I'll say today.
	No, it's not about.
	It's a great question you're asking.
	It's not smart for him to air out.
	But remember, he's the guy that doesn't want him here.
	So imagine I want you at Valutaine.
	You're here because I want you.
	You know I believe in you.
	You know I'm a fan of yours.
	Matter of fact, yesterday while we're doing our meeting during lunch, I showed a video of you when you were the protest stripper.
	Protest stripper.
	I showed that clip and I'm sitting there saying, we're cracking up, laughing.
	We're watching clips of you.
	Okay.
	My kids watch clips of you.
	Not that one.
	No, not that one.
	But imagine if all of a sudden one guy within the organization hates you.
	Okay.
	And is sabotaging and bringing me stuff to say that you suck.
	And you had a meeting with him five years ago and he's you for 45 minutes, you're standing there, absolute disrespect, insult, straight up doing that.
	So the company knows McAfee's a stud.
	The company knows McAfee can bring numbers in, but this guy doesn't and he wants to sabotage your success.
	You have beef with him.
	So for Pat McAfee, though, here's the issue.
	Guess what, Pat?
	Why are you surprised?
	You chose to go to a DEI organization.
	You chose to go to an ESG organization.
	You chose to go to Disney.
	You chose to go to ESPN.
	You knew you were going to get this, right?
	You knew this was going to happen to you.
	This is not going to happen at Barstool.
	This is not going to happen at Spotify.
	This is not going to happen if you're independently kicking some ass.
	But it is going to happen if you choose to go to an organization like that.
	And by the way, this will be just the beginning.
	It's not going to get any less, okay?
	Do not think for a moment they're not calling him from the top saying, well, listen, you can't ever make a comment like that about Jimmy Kimmel and you better call and apologize.
	Publicly.
	You think Pat McAfee did that because they didn't call him and tell him, you better apologize to Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Kimmel coming back and, you know, the most viral tweet of that week with 100 million views.
	Of course, you better believe.
	But you chose to go to, it's like you right now choosing to take your talent and going to SNL, not SNL.
	No.
	You choosing to take your talent and go to, I'm trying to see, pick one, man.
	Fox News.
	Not Fox News.
	You're choosing to go to MSNBC.
	Okay.
	Me.
	And you're surprised that people are back.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Why are you surprised?
	You're calling me saying, You won't believe how they're treating me.
	Vinny, why are you surprised?
	Yeah, you went to NSNBC.
	You went to a place that they know.
	There's only one way of thinking.
	There can be debate.
	There can be discourse.
	It's only their way of thinking, Tom.
	Look, ESPN is dying.
	I'll say it again.
	ESPN is dying.
	They're not in a growth mode.
	They're in an adjustment mode.
	Bob Iger was walking around at the Allen and Company conference, you know, earlier, I mean, last year, where they all get together, media confab, and he was unable to have any strategic.
	We're looking at strategic alternatives.
	Translated, will somebody please buy this bitch off me?
	Right?
	That's what it's all about.
	And the same thing, by the way, the same thing happened for Zaz, who was walking around, you know, saying, Hey, do you want to buy a copy watch or CNN?
	You know, opening up his lapel to display it.
	Yeah, come on.
	So here's what's happening: bureaucrats like this guy, you know, are getting points for saving money at ESPN.
	So everybody's going to be trying to do it a different way.
	Everybody's trying to cut costs.
	Somewhere, someone thought it was a good idea to bring him on and to bring ratings and everything.
	But guess what?
	Inside corporate America, these aren't founders.
	These are people with positions.
	And they're freaking bureaucrats and they're backstabbers.
	And they have individual tribes based on departments.
	And so you've got people that want to save money for ESPN and get brownie points with Uncle Bob Iger for doing so.
	And so they want to cut stuff and they want to cut stuff that doesn't resonate with their political viewpoint.
	That's what's going on here.
	You're seeing this parlor game go on at ESPN.
	That's all it is.
	And that's what's happening.
	And guess what, Norby and all the rest of your exes?
	Your boss is trying to sell you.
	Well, here's the deal.
	What I know about Pat McAfee, if that guy's wearing sleeves on TV, he means business.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Because that guy has never worn a sleeve on TV in the history of his show.
	All he wears is cut off t-shirts or wife eaters.
	Okay.
	That's all he wears.
	So I think he's trying to step his game up.
	I think he gave a shout out to our buddy who was at the Soho House party for dressing him up in suits.
	You know that guy?
	But Pat, you played in the NFL.
	You were a sick punter.
	Welcome to the big leagues, buddy.
	You know, it's a different level.
	You're dealing with a lot of different accountability and a lot of different personalities when you go from being just an independent podcast type of place to going to ESPN, right?
	Who owns ESPN?
	Not the Disney League, though, but that's not the big leagues.
	You don't think ESPN's the big league?
	No, it's not the big leagues.
	Not anymore.
	No, no, not today.
	What's bigger than ESPN?
	Wait, I don't know what the hell you're saying.
	You're saying he wasn't big leagues and then he goes to ESPN and ESPN is big league?
	Bro, they paid him $85 million because he was the number one sports show in the world.
	Correct.
	He is the big league.
	Okay.
	He chose to go to the little league that's dying.
	What are you talking about?
	The last thing he needed, FYI.
	Here's a question for you.
	We fully disagree.
	Here's a question for you.
	Here's a question for you.
	Who needs who?
	Who needs to?
	Oh, ESPN needs him.
	Okay, then.
	So who's the big league?
	ESPN is.
	No, it's not.
	That's still the number one place for sports.
	That's still where Stephen A. Smith hosts his show.
	That is still the big league.
	It might not be there long term.
	So who laid off 25 of their top talent last year?
	But wait a minute.
	You have to realize, like, when you think about it.
	Most people in America have never heard of Pat McAfee before he came to ESPN.
	No, that's a sports fan, you did.
	The no shit because most Americans never watched Pat McNamara.
	No, you were the nobody.
	How are you going to convince me that ESPN is not the big leagues?
	I'm all ears.
	Go ahead, Tom.
	No, no, no, no.
	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
	This is not.
	You think you've made it when you're at ESPN?
	You think that's what it is?
	Is that the interpretation you have in your mind?
	That you've made it when you're at ESPN?
	This guy made it way before he was at ESPN.
	This guy made it at Barstool.
	This guy made it with his show, with his podcast.
	ESPN didn't validate who Pat McAfee is.
	Zero.
	This is not the big leaks.
	This is called you chose to make take money from people that will control you.
	That's all that is.
	But you know that when you go into the door.
	You know that.
	No, but you don't need them.
	You don't need ESPN.
	So, for example, when you're somebody, this is not a teleprompter guy.
	This is not a guy that...
	I agree.
	This is not a guy that is going up to ESPN because he went to the right journalist school and all this kind of freaking punter tackling people, loudmouth, entertaining, fun party guy goes and plays.
	Peyton Manning.
	Exactly.
	He played with a lot of studs.
	And then all of a sudden, what does he do?
	He builds a show.
	He gets big.
	ESPN is begging for him to go there because they desperately need him.
	It is not the other way around.
	You're not joining an organization that's coming off of back-to-back to back-to-back-to-back championships.
	And you're going on the ride like, hey, I'm going to ride Tom Brady's coattail to win a championship.
	Uh-uh.
	ESPN is not that organization.
	You're going to a place that's been coming off of losses after losses after losses in the recent years and you're joining them.
	When, when you join an organization that's dying, you're going there because they're hoping you save them.
	You're not going because they're hoping to save you.
	It's the other way around.
	This guy's not going there.
	This isn't like a guy that had a 20-year career running the sports and then he's going to an organization because they're going to be like, well, come and play the last two years.
	You're going to be a great locker room guy and you're going to develop these younger guys.
	That's what we need from you right now.
	No, bro, I'm on my prime.
	I'm killing it.
	I'm number one in the world is who I am.
	That's Pat McAfee.
	You want me, pay up.
	But the mistake he made, Pat, which I think is a big mistake he made, he made the mistake thinking whoever sold him that there's not going to be, you cannot have a Aaron Rodgers calling out a guy that forced the entire country to take the vaccine or else and the late night host taking shots at him.
	That's the mistake he made.
	He teamed up with the wrong guy.
	I want you to respond.
	So if that's the case, which I agree, somebody has to go.
	It ain't going to be Pat McAfee.
	Who's that other guy?
	Who's that other guy that he just called out?
	That guy has to leave.
	He can't be Williamson.
	He has to pay for Randy since 2010.
	That's what I'm saying, though.
	How does that guy stay on?
	Guys, what are you guys?
	What did you guys smoke this morning?
	I'm saying, we were hanging out with Elon, Pat.
	This guy's not going to, he's not going to be at ESPN for too long.
	The guy.
	No, no, McAfee.
	McAfee's contract, whatever it is, he'll write it out.
	How long is it for?
	Because here's what you have to ask yourself.
	Okay.
	All right.
	So you ready?
	I'm ready.
	All right.
	You're in a marriage.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	You're married to somebody.
	Matter of fact, let's just say you're dating a girl.
	Forgot him.
	You've been together with her for three years.
	You love her.
	Okay.
	However, she does cocaine every day.
	Shit.
	But you love her.
	Okay.
	You ask her, babe, I love you.
	I want to marry you.
	But you got to stop with this cocaine thing.
	She says, if you love me, love me with the cocaine.
	What are you going to do?
	One of two people have to change.
	Okay?
	Either you have to change and accept the fact that it's okay with her doing cocaine for the rest of your life or being with her because you're crazy about her, or she's got to stop doing cocaine.
	Do you think she's going to stop doing cocaine?
	No.
	She just told you no.
	No.
	Okay.
	In this situation, you know who's the cocaine girl?
	ESPN.
	Yeah.
	ESPN is not going to stop doing cocaine.
	I understand the analogy and the reference I'm making.
	I love it.
	So either McAfee is going to change or ESPN is going to change.
	Who do you think is going to change in this situation?
	I have an answer.
	You know what my answer is?
	Neither.
	Neither is going to change.
	So what does that leave you?
	McAfee's going to be out.
	Because ESPN's culture is not going to change.
	What are we talking about?
	Sage Steel.
	Do you want me to go through a list of names?
	Where is Chris Broussard?
	When's the last time you saw Chris Broussard?
	He wasn't one of my favorite.
	Where is Chris Broussard?
	Where's the hell is he?
	Where's all these guys?
	Where are a lot of these guys?
	So how many of these guys all of a sudden disappeared?
	Why did they disappear?
	What do they all have in common?
	Just because politically, they were not willing to just sit there and apologize and kiss some ass and be BLM, be part of this, be part of it.
	Like, dude, I don't want to do that.
	You better take the vaccine.
	I don't want to do that.
	Get the hell out.
	McAfee's not going to need it.
	This environment, unfortunately, is not conducive for a guy like Pat McAfee.
	You know why Joe Rogan was happy with Spotify?
	They had his back.
	Because they're like, we don't give a shit.
	Yeah, do say what you want.
	We don't give a shit.
	We don't give a shit.
	But ESPN and Disney gives a shit.
	Yeah, they give way too many shit.
	They give a shit.
	So there you have it.
	And when you see what they do, Pat, and you see what they say publicly and you see what they leak, remember, they're trying to save costs.
	They may regret doing it for his point of view and for the fact that it's an $85 million albatross.
	How many times have we seen a professional sports like a bad deal is done?
	And two years after the bad deal, Exhibit A, Denver Broncos and Russell Wilson, they are trying to do anything they can to get that albatross off their books.
	This is the way it works.
	They may be looking at this and saying, look, he hasn't blown up and doubled his ratings.
	He's not a super duper cash cow, but he's doing really well.
	Let's get him out of here.
	And what Norby may be doing is leaking things because there may be a ratings-based performance clause that's in the contract.
	And if you could turn down McAfee or you could actually cripple him a little bit, you might be able to get the contract off your books.
	There may be escape clauses in there.
	Trust me, neither one of these guys are going to want to be there long term.
	It's like a relationship you're in that you know it's not going to work out long term.
	Well, this is what happens when you take the money.
	And with all due respect to Pat, awesome guy, awesome talent.
	You know, you talk about ESPN being the sinking ship.
	They're still the biggest ship on the ocean.
	That's without a doubt.
	Like if you think of sports, name the first broadcast company.
	When it's something sinking, it's sinking.
	Okay, but there's still the Titanic, right?
	We all know that.
	That's sunk.
	Correct.
	And they died.
	Yes, but we all acknowledge that that was the biggest ship ever.
	And they died.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	And this is why they gave him an easy.
	Sinking size doesn't matter.
	Okay.
	Well, can I make my points?
	No, because you're going to die.
	But this is what happens when you follow the money.
	Do you know how much money Pat McAfee made between 2009 and 2012 for being a fucking punter for the Indianapolis Colts?
	$1.8 million.
	$450 over four years.
	All right.
	What's he making from ESPN?
	$85 million.
	Over five years.
	Over five years.
	He's making what, $15, $17 million.
	He made his show.
	The guy made his show.
	His show.
	The sickest show out there.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	But then he said, okay, this sick show that I made.
	Let me go cash it in on ESPN.
	If these Huckleberries want to pay me $85 million, you know what?
	Sign me up.
	So you must know when you go to ESPN, who's owned by ABC, who's owned by Walt Disney Corporation, you're going to have some accountability right there.
	And of course, we bring up the Jimmy Kimmel situation, which we can talk about with the comedians.
	Where does Jimmy Kimmel do his show?
	ABC?
	You know what you're getting into when you walk in the door.
	I'm sorry.
	Now, granted, I'll take the freaking money, the 85 million.
	But save me the crocodile tears about, oh my God, I can't believe I can't say what I want to say.
	You know that when you sign your $85 million deal, homie.
	But you would take the money.
	I don't think Pat is the guy that would take the money.
	He took the money.
	Pat, what do you mean?
	But hear me out what I'm saying to you.
	No, let me make my point.
	What I mean by Pat, Pat took the money, but Pat is sitting there regretting saying it's not worth the money.
	It's not worth the money for you to have to change yourself to, what do you call it, to all of a self.
	For example, conform to this and that.
	Watch what's happening with Forbes, okay?
	A liberal company buys Forbes and starts flipping the content that fed capitalists and doers and executives to now some virtue signaling DEI bullshit.
	Do I buy Forbes today?
	No.
	So what happens to them?
	They're losing customers because they're not talking to them.
	So if Pat McAfee goes to Disney, he has a big following that likes his style.
	And then now he has to change his way that garnered him all this following.
	And then his viewership drops.
	He's like, oh, shit, as a competitor, what happened?
	Nothing happened.
	You just changed.
	And your audience doesn't like the new you because now you're the ESPN you.
	The audience liked the old you.
	And ESPN and Disney is not going to let McAfee just be McAfee.
	They're not going to do it.
	Can you imagine if they tell him, hey, man, moving forward, you cannot have any more Aaron Rodgers on your show.
	He'll say, fuck you.
	Go for it.
	Go ahead and say it to ESPN.
	Say it to ESPN.
	Then resign.
	Exactly.
	And then you know what?
	If it takes you going from $450 a year to $17 million a year, you're going to have to make some concessions.
	But most people are going to make those concessions.
	I'm sorry.
	No, no.
	What I'm saying is, no, no, no, no.
	Again, we're going to find out.
	Meaning, we're going to find out if he's going to make those concessions or not.
	We're going to see if Pat is going to be somebody that's going to be like, okay, I'll become this woke liberal person as long as you're not.
	I don't think that he's going to go that extreme.
	Not whatsoever.
	And that's why he's naming names.
	It's not like he's calling out ESPN.
	It's not like he's calling out his executive producer.
	He's calling out one person, Norby Williamson.
	Like in Seinfeld said, no, He named names.
	No, he didn't just say Norby.
	Okay, go back to the clip, Rob.
	Go back to the clip.
	He said one person undermining myself.
	Nope, nope, nope.
	Go back to the clip you played.
	Go back to the clip you played.
	He did not say one person.
	He named one name.
	Nope.
	He did not just mention one name.
	Listen to words.
	Okay.
	English is not my first language, but listen to what he says.
	Fast forward 30 seconds into it.
	Go 30.
	Keep going.
	Try it from right there.
	Let's see if it's right there.
	Of what our show is?
	And then are we just going to combat that from a rat every single time?
	I don't know.
	Wait.
	But like, somebody tried to get ahead of our actual ratings release with wrong numbers 12 hours beforehand.
	That's a sabotage attempt.
	And it's been happening basically this entire season from some people who didn't necessarily love the old edition of the Pat McAfee show to the ESPN family.
	Sure.
	There's a lot of those.
	There's a lot of dope.
	That's English to me.
	There's a lot of dope.
	Not one.
	No, no, it's not.
	But he only said one name.
	He said there is a lot of those.
	But he said one name.
	He said, he said.
	No, no, no.
	We played the clip.
	He said one name.
	He's not Adam.
	He's not talking about one person.
	What he's saying is there's a lot of those at ESPN.
	I don't doubt it, but he only said one name.
	Of course he's going to not get 50 names because the other names you don't give a shit about.
	That's the biggest thing.
	But he named one.
	No, but he said there is a lot of those.
	English property.
	Say their names.
	He didn't say their names.
	We winded five seconds for this guy that had a 4.0 GPN high school.
	Play the clip, Mr. 4.0.
	You're going to hear one name.
	And I hate arguing with you with this PVD.
	ESPN.
	I don't have any job.
	Hang on.
	Be quiet.
	Listen.
	There's a lot of those.
	There's a lot of it.
	Play it again, Rob.
	Can we play the beginning of the goddamn clip?
	Play 4.
	Can we play the beginning of the goddamn clip, please?
	I think we have to hear it one more time.
	Go for it.
	Go ahead, buddy.
	This is what they do on mainstream media.
	Sure.
	There's a lot of those.
	There is a lot of clips.
	Oh, my God.
	It's plural.
	It's plural.
	Sorry, Pat.
	I got to hijack the show.
	Play the clip from the beginning, Rob.
	Stop it.
	He said one name, PVN.
	Can we move on?
	You think I'm going to know, Tom?
	Shut your picture.
	One thing move on.
	One thing.
	Let's continue.
	ESPN had 98 million subscribers.
	Now it's 73 and dropping.
	Unbelievable.
	Time a year from now, the subscriber number will start with a six.
	This is sensory.
	And it's so good.
	It's great.
	ESPN is doing so well.
	Disney's trying to sell it to the first person that'll buy it.
	Tom, stop brown-nosing PBD, okay?
	I'm not brown nosing.
	He's giving you facts, buddies.
	That's facts.
	Okay, I'm going to read the article.
	I have to.
	Because you won't play the clip.
	Because you don't want to prove me right.
	No, no, wait a minute.
	Prove you right what?
	You said he's only talking about one person.
	I said he only said one name.
	The entire organization.
	Do you realize?
	What's your point, though?
	Are you saying like one name versus plural?
	Yes.
	You're saying only one person doesn't like him there?
	I'm saying there's probably more, but why did he single out there?
	One person's not saying that.
	Why do I even know this name, Norby Williamson, right now?
	You're right.
	A guy who I've never heard of.
	Adam, are you saying there is, he didn't say that there's more people at the organization that don't like him?
	I'm saying he did say that.
	You're correcting himself.
	Okay.
	There's a reason he said Norby Williams.
	He's the biggest head executive he's calling out.
	Okay.
	But there's a lot of people who don't like him there.
	And it's not a good feeling when you go to work and you know a lot of people don't like you and what you stand for.
	And that's not sustainable long term.
	For a person who is a free-for-all guy that has proven to the market that he's the best at what he does, okay, ahead of Stephen A.
	They paid him more than they pay Stephen A. Straight.
	Yes, Stephen A. does what they pay.
	They're about to give Stephen A his contract.
	Stephen A. still only makes six, eight million dollars per year, okay?
	$12 million per year.
	They pay McAfee more than they pay Stephen A. Think about that.
	So the market is saying McAfee is better than Stephen A. getting eyeballs.
	Okay.
	Stephen A is going to get paid, though.
	Stephen A should get paid, but I mean, I have a whole different opinion with that.
	We're not going to get into that.
	Okay.
	Let's go next here.
	Do we want to go?
	The Jimmy Kimmel story since we were already discussing it.
	You're talking about the late night.
	We only have 20 minutes, and I don't want to go.
	I will give three minutes to the story, and that's it.
	And you got only 30 seconds on this story.
	I'm going to come to your last.
	I'm going to the bathroom.
	I'm in trouble right now because I'm arguing about it.
	No, no, no, because you're ranting for five minutes and we can't get to the next story.
	Because no one else does that.
	Watchdog finds 81% of all political late night show jokes in 2023 targeted conservatives.
	A study by Media Research Center found that 81% of all political jokes on major late night comedy shows in 2023 targeted conservatives.
	The study analyzed 9,500 jokes, political jokes, from six major late night shows, revealing a significant bias against right-leaning subjects amongst the analyzed shows.
	Jimmy Kim Alive, the highest rate of anti-conservative jokes, 88% of its 2,215 political jokes.
	Damn.
	Targeting conservatives.
	Stephen Colbert's show came in second with 86% out of its 1,918 jokes, followed by Seth Meyers at 84% from his 2,445 jokes, all anti-conservative.
	The Daily Show was at 78% of its 1,277 political jokes, targeting conservatives.
	Jimmy Fallon's show had a more even split with 66% of its 1,416 political jokes directed at conservatives.
	James Cordon's shows, which ran for only four months in the year, had 54% of 245 jokes.
	Go ahead.
	What are your thoughts on this wonderful story?
	Nobody's shocked.
	I haven't listened to late night comedy in forever.
	There's a reason that Greg Gutfeld's show, who's the least funniest comedian on TV, is the number one late night show.
	There's a reason because when you pander to half the country, it's not a smart business move.
	Vinny, you know this.
	The whole point of comedy is misdirection.
	You don't see it coming, okay?
	When you're predictable and everyone's like, did you hear what Trump did the other day to threaten democracy?
	Ha ha ha.
	It's like, we know it's coming.
	The whole point of misdirection, how many people come up to you and say, Vinny, that fight you and Adam almost got you, bro?
	You got me.
	Because they actually thought we were going to fight.
	Next thing you know, we walk in with a birthday cake for PBD.
	But if you're just fighting Trump every night and you're predictable, you're no longer funny.
	They haven't been.
	But my thing is, they haven't been funny to begin with.
	At least like David Letterman, you know, it was back and it was Force.
	It was Jay Leno.
	Everybody was fun.
	They're obviously bought and paid for.
	It's a political activist move.
	Although, if you think about it, would you ever have thought that these pieces of scum would be having vaccine dances where they're like, hey, shove this experimental drug in you and your kids and your family?
	And it's an agenda, bro.
	It's an agenda.
	It's not funny.
	It's unwatchable.
	And we're seeing it.
	Like you said, when you sign up for this, these guys all hang out with these same elites.
	They're all hanging out with I saw him in New York with Chuck Schumer and all these guys.
	Look how embarrassing, bro.
	Look how these are not comedians.
	By the way, I'm tired of people using that word loosely.
	He's not a stand-up comedian.
	He's a personality.
	And look at that shitty personality, bro.
	Bought and sold them soulless, soulless people that are trying to make America laugh.
	And by the way, that audience, they pick up applause signs and they go, Hey, laugh at this.
	You have to laugh at this.
	What do you think about this, Tom?
	I think it's completely unsurprising.
	And regardless of how these comedians feel, they are playing to the narrative of the network that employs them.
	And so that's what I think.
	This is completely unsurprising.
	America needs equal time.
	America wants equal time.
	Love or hate Fox News.
	It was providing equal time.
	Rush Limbaugh, one of the greatest monologues of his program, I remember when he gave similar stats.
	They're saying this on this radio station.
	They're saying that on this radio station, saying this on this radio station.
	And now they want the Hush Rush Act on Capitol Hill.
	I am equal time.
	And it was a bold statement, but he was right.
	He says, I am equal time.
	You want equal time because you don't like people listening to me?
	I'm outnumbered.
	I am equal time.
	And I just, it's just unsurprising to me.
	And you know what?
	I got you, Tom.
	So here's what I would say just to wrap up and transition: is this is why you got to love data.
	How awesome is it that data reveals everything?
	You can get angry as much as you want, Mark Cuban, at data with DEI, but out of 21 seasons when Guardian wrote the paper, 15 of those 21 seasons, you led the whitest team in the NBA.
	And then the last two years you owned the team until you sold it.
	So that means, you know, whatever numbers you want to give it, 75% of the time, you had the whitest team in the NBA.
	Mr. Mark Cuban claims DEI, then goes and hires a female black president for the Dallas Mavericks just to kind of virtue signal to the marketplace.
	Numbers don't favor you.
	I went into what is that, Gloria Already?
	You know, that lawyer that's the goat of a sexual harassment lawsuit.
	Yeah, she's the girl.
	I went and interviewed her in her office, and she starts saying, Are you a bigot?
	Are you this?
	Are you that?
	I said, How many of your employees here are women?
	Well, did you see my front desk clerk?
	Did you see?
	I said, I looked at all your partners on the wall.
	They were all men.
	Do you have any female partners?
	She changes the subject.
	Data sucks.
	Yeah.
	Data sucks.
	Data reveals everything.
	Data shows.
	Good, bad, ugly.
	Okay.
	When we sit there and we're like, dude, I'm like, Mario, we've had a this two or three times we've done this.
	Mario, the last hundred videos we've done, we're not getting eyeballs.
	Okay, we got to change.
	The show sucks right now.
	This was, you know, three times we went through when we took a break at, you know, 80,000 subs and at 450,000 subs.
	And we took a break out a month at a million subs.
	I'm like, dude, I'm doing so many different things.
	I'm running so many different things.
	I just don't have the bandwidth right now.
	Let's take a three-month break.
	We come back, we improve the show.
	Data never ever lies.
	Data tells you the late night is all 50% of America can't stand the late night shows, and they're just pandering to their audience.
	It's what they're doing.
	And that's why you got to love data.
	So that's the best part about what I said.
	Whatever these guys did, good for them for taking the time to pull up the stats to see what's going on.
	Let's go to the next one.
	By the way, within that space with comedy, Joe Coy, his monologue flops.
	You know what he says?
	It was a tough crowd.
	No, Joe, it's not a tough crowd.
	You tried to please them.
	You weren't a comedian.
	You were trying to kiss some ass and you were afraid of giving jokes.
	And you know what happens when comedians are owned by the audience and you show fear.
	It's over.
	You lose.
	And it was felt by everybody.
	Exactly.
	We have a couple guys.
	We wanted this guy to come and perform at the event a couple years ago.
	Eventually, it didn't work out.
	We ended up having a Sasha Manascalco, you know, and what do you call it?
	And we had Kevin Hart.
	We've had a bunch of different people that have come.
	But Matt Sopollo is a big fan of Joe Coy.
	Okay.
	And he says he likes Joe Coy.
	Great.
	Because he's Filipino.
	Because it's Filipino.
	No problem.
	But you know what you saw when you saw the monologue?
	You were trying to pander to them.
	You were trying to make sure everybody liked you.
	And you walked on eggshells.
	Ricky Gervais came in and said, I don't give a shit if you want to be my friend or not.
	And he got hundreds of millions of views, the most viral monologue ever.
	So if you're a comedian and you want to know why the most viewed interview of all year on YouTube, maybe of the last 12 months, is a guy named Kat Williams because Kat came and dropped the bomb on Shay Shay, Club Shay Shea podcast with Shannon Sharp.
	Can you go to the podcast to see how many views Kat Williams got?
	Go to Kat Williams.
	35 million.
	I don't know how many views.
	It's a two-hour and 46-minute podcast of which you watch twice, right?
	Twice.
	Just go to YouTube and see how many views.
	No, I just want to see how many views it's got.
	What's the number right now?
	Wait.
	That's a short.
	No, that's a short.
	Go to the photos.
	I'm telling you, it's like over 30 million.
	37 million.
	I'm telling you, that's insane.
	37 million views in five days.
	You know why?
	By the way, you know why, though?
	Because Kat didn't give a shit.
	And if you're at it, you're a comedian, you're going up there trying to please the world.
	Yeah.
	You get the kind of ratings that you get.
	And Joe, first of all, I mean, Joe Coy, amazing human being, a really good friend.
	I'm curious, do you think it because of what Ricky Gervais did, Pat, like shit on everybody?
	Now they have to see everything that you do.
	They want to know all your jokes and all your stuff.
	If they did that to him, if they did that to him, you're not a comedian.
	I got you.
	So you're saying he should have just been like, oh, I'm not going to do it.
	If they did that to him, you're not a comedian.
	Wow.
	If they did to you, I don't see you as a comedian.
	I see you as a host, not a comedian.
	You're a host.
	If you're worried, like when what's his name got up there and Peyton Manning is a better comedian at Espes than Joe Coi.
	Peyton Manning's monologue was 10 times better than Joe Coi's monologue.
	Peyton Manning got up and said, you know, the women's swim team or soccer team is doing so good right now that Kevin Durant is asking for a trade.
	Yeah, he doesn't give a shit.
	And you're like, oh, shit.
	And then he goes on to the next person and the next person and the next person.
	That's a comedian.
	But Joe Coy was afraid to make people feel uncomfortable.
	Even the joke he took, the shot he took at Taylor Swift, he was hesitant about it.
	You just don't do that as a comedian.
	Go, go for it and light it up.
	Next story.
	All right.
	So here's what we're going to next.
	DeSantis, some politics story here for you.
	Is DeSantis going to drop out of the race on January 15th?
	Okay.
	This is the Hill.
	Page 10.
	All right, let's see what's going to happen here.
	So two well-informed sources within the DeSantis campaign suggest that the governor, if the governor loses Iowa caucus to former President Donald Trump on January 15, he might drop out of the race that night or make his announcement the next morning despite campaign denials.
	Furthermore, these sources speculate that DeSantis may very begrudgingly endorse Trump for president, following a trend of Republican politicians supporting the clear frontrunner, as evidenced by recent endorsement from House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and Speaker Mike Johnson, DeSantis' declining poll numbers, coupled with the potential for more endorsements and financial support for Trump after Iowa could significantly impact his decision, Adam.
	Well, look, here's my message to Ron DeSantis.
	Look, I think it's time for a reboot.
	You got to get out there and, you know, you got to get some boots on the ground.
	You got to get out there and you got to get your people out there.
	I know that he sort of bootstrapped his campaign and he basically got lobbyists out there doing his thing.
	But at this point, Trump is not shaking in his boots.
	And unless he gives some sort of uplifting message and gets Trump back on his heels, nothing's going to change here for Ron DeSantis.
	So unfortunately, I think Trump is going to take his boots and he's going to walk right all over you.
	So that's my message for Ron DeSantis.
	I detect a theme here from Adam.
	You know, it's boots are made for walking, Tom.
	I shot a sketch to say about him on the table.
	Look, there's two things happening in every election.
	The closer you get to the real election, those who are unable to step up, stand taller, and mount a challenge back off and usually break along party lines and support the frontrunner.
	That's usually what happens.
	And it appears to be that the leaks are coming out.
	We've tried.
	We've done all this.
	But if we really get a whooping and there's no path to go forward, maybe win the next state, which is New Hampshire and South Carolina and all that and getting to Super Tuesday.
	Then the question comes from everybody, including the RNC.
	Good friend Rana.
	What are we doing with this money?
	Are we just going to burn this money trying to fight each other?
	Are we going to get behind somebody and go win a main election?
	I think that's what's happening.
	And also, isn't it interesting that after standing on the sidelines, Washington's major groups are breaking for Trump?
	Because these aren't just random guys.
	House majority whip, Tom Emmer.
	Majority leader, Steve Scalese.
	Speaker, Mike Johnson.
	This isn't like three guys from Colorado said, hey, Trump, we've always been with you.
	We're always here.
	The major sections of the party and its leadership are moving toward the reality of the polls and Trump.
	And this is swinging.
	This is swinging on a Supreme Court decision with the arguments February 8th.
	And you're going to get a decision out of that probably two weeks later.
	Things are, obviously, things are starting to heat up.
	Tom, what's that word right there?
	Begrudgingly, what does that mean?
	DeSantis may very begrudgingly admit that.
	I'm not happy to do so.
	It goes like this.
	If you want the Carkeys to go out on your date this weekend, you will walk in and apologize to your sister.
	So you begrudgingly go into your sister and say, I'm sorry.
	Yeah.
	So, which would be interesting because, I mean, we talked about this way back when, when this all started, would, if he drops out, would Trump consider having this guy as a vice president, which I think he should have done from the beginning, not run.
	But then this all leads into everything that's heating up, everything that's happening right now, Tom, like especially with Barack Obama.
	Did you guys see this?
	He's starting to panic as well.
	The article, Washington Post, said that he grew animated.
	We all know that that means he's probably cussing and throwing a tantrum in discussing the 2024 election with former president Donald Trump's potential return to power.
	He raised questions about the structure of Biden's reelection campaign.
	He discussed the matter directly with Biden and told him that his aides and allies of the campaign need to be empowered to make decisions without clearing them with the White House.
	This is a Washington Post.
	Did you translate that?
	Did you translate that?
	Does Obama talk to Biden?
	Yep.
	Biden didn't want to take his vice.
	And then Obama's proxies leaked the story.
	A thousand percent.
	And then apparently they had a private lunch, which I'm pretty sure, you know, Joe Biden had no idea where the hell they were, what they were eating.
	He goes, I'm pretty sure the lunch was, hey, this is Obama.
	Hey, Biden, you're done.
	You're going to have to move over, eat some of your ice cream.
	And guess what?
	We're going to have to make a change.
	And I think you know what that change is going to be?
	Roger Stone predicted it with us almost two years ago.
	Michelle Obama.
	Michelle Obama was on Jay Shetty's podcast.
	Do you have that clip on that yesterday?
	And you know what?
	Just to give you guys a little thing, she said she is, Patrick, this is really scary and sad.
	She is kept awake at night.
	Yeah, take it easy.
	But the upcoming election, and she said, I am terrified at what could happen.
	So, and guess what?
	She's going to run to save democracy.
	Guys, everybody, this is the warning.
	This is her pre-presidential, I'm going to have to save America run.
	Go ahead, Rob.
	Things that keep me up because you don't have control over them.
	And you wonder, where are people?
	Where are we in this?
	You know, where are our hearts?
	What's going to happen in this next election?
	I am terrified about what could possibly happen.
	Her hands are because our leaders matter who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit.
	Bully.
	It affects us in ways that sometimes I think people take for granted.
	So notice the timing.
	Notice the timing, right?
	Biden having a meeting with Obama.
	Obama's panicking.
	And then she does this.
	It's all a set plan.
	And because I'm telling you, I'm warning you guys: the Gavin Newsom, Michelle Obama presidency is scary as shit.
	And by the way, good old guy.
	What did you hear from Gavin in two?
	No, guess where he is?
	You guys don't know him?
	He's with Bill Clinton in Mexico.
	They were just spotted together in Mexico.
	Guys, we're heating up.
	What are the chances you think she runs?
	Now, great question.
	I want to know what are the Vegas odds right now?
	I want to know your odds.
	My odds of her running, 75%.
	Okay.
	What do you think, Adam?
	And I'm being genuine.
	Who do you think the left will have?
	How about us?
	You want to have a little fun?
	We already have a bet.
	Let's see if she moved up.
	Michelle.
	Michelle moved to 25 and 1.
	Kennedy, I don't believe.
	By the way, of him winning, this is not a great bet against odds.
	We already have a bet.
	What's our bet?
	We have a bet whether Trump is going to go on real podcast.
	How much is the bet?
	500?
	My bad before the election.
	So you want to put another 500 that Michelle Obama runs?
	I won't do, I'm at 75%.
	What do you mean?
	That means I'm at 25%.
	You have the odds.
	I say, I don't think she's running.
	Are you going to give me odds?
	Are you going to give me like three to one?
	It's a $500 bet, bro.
	What are you doing?
	You can't even do the math.
	You got to take four to one number.
	Yeah, four to one I'll take.
	Why am I going to go straight up?
	I'm going to go to his four.
	Yeah, well, Pat, look at this.
	Look at this.
	25 to 1.
	Why am I going to just bet straight up when the Vegas odds give me 4 to 1?
	You just said 25%.
	No, if you give me 4 to 5.
	How about this?
	Robot.
	We'll do a $500 bet.
	Okay.
	If Michelle runs, I give you $1,000.
	If she does not run, you just give me $500.
	By the way, this is the 25th.
	I'm not going to.
	By the way, while you guys are going back, you guys can talk about this afterwards.
	What I can tell you is Michelle's 25 to 1, Newsome's 10-1.
	So what this is telling you right now, if they do anything, Newsom's the one that they have on this list, okay?
	If they do anything, Newsom's the one that they have as a favorite to do that.
	And by the way, while you're going through the story, let me kind of go into this next story.
	Yes, sir.
	Biden will pull out of the presidential race, according to J.P. Morgan.
	Not anybody.
	This is JP Morgan saying strategist Michael Sembalist predicts, he's a strategist at JPMorgan, that President Joe Biden will withdraw from 2024 presidential election race between Super Tuesday and November due to his low approval rating of 37% compared to Donald Trump's 59% in terms of handling the economy,
	as well as concerns about his age with 71% of pollsters considering him too old.
	Michael, the strategist, foresees a significant boycott of driverless cars, especially following safety issues.
	Rob, what does that story have to do with this, the second part?
	He's making predictions.
	And I have the list of people.
	He's got a couple of people.
	He's saying that the presidency is a driverless car.
	No, but by the way, this number is not a small number here.
	And this is not like a regular guy saying that.
	JP Morgan's.
	JP Morgan Chase.
	And I have, and he compiled the list.
	They're called the 10 surprises of 2024.
	And one of them is our dollar and the war in Ukraine.
	So he theorized Biden would drop out, like you said, Pat, Super Tuesday.
	And then this is all Helsinki said.
	He said the U.S. dollar remains stable.
	The DOJ and FTC win a big antitrust case.
	President Biden withdraws from November.
	The driverless car backlash is coming.
	Broadly syndicated loan losses rise above private credit losses for the first time, Tom.
	Argentine dollarization.
	Yeah.
	Argentine dollarization will fail if implemented.
	Russia invasion of Ukraine drags on with no ceasefire in 2024.
	That's a prediction.
	Yeah, yeah, no shit.
	Despite storm clouds over U.S. regional banks, their stocks will do well.
	Due to retirement of dispatchable power, here we go.
	This is leave the world behind shit.
	Major cities will face electricity outages and or natural gas outages.
	Oh, and last thing, are you ready for this?
	Rob, I know you're going to love this one because you're probably waiting in line.
	You're on back order.
	Researchers will complete work on an inhaled COVID vaccine.
	So now if you want poison, you could just, the hell with getting a needle.
	Now you can just suck it in your face.
	Going back to it, all J.P. Morgan is saying is what is the obvious.
	And I'm on the same page as Roger Stone and many other people.
	It's not like Roger and I are on an island together in this opinion.
	Uh-oh.
	The delicate rules.
	Uh-oh.
	Hopefully not that island.
	Exactly.
	Just, I don't know.
	I would not even refer to that.
	He's never used the word island again.
	He says, Go on broke a book by, who did you say?
	No, I don't know what you're talking about, Pat.
	And then you see censorship.
	So it's anyway.
	Go ahead, Tom.
	So it's anyway, back to that island you're hanging out with Roger Stone.
	Go ahead, Tom.
	The super delegate rules are very clear.
	The Democrats can change their allegiance at the convention.
	They will do so.
	Thank you for playing.
	Here's your Lifetime Achievement Award.
	And we are voting in someone else, which is also why they're not doing a primary.
	That's when I'm going to be able to do that.
	I'll give you a 10 second.
	I'll give you 10 seconds.
	Wait, wait, when is July?
	July is six months.
	Yeah, but Super Tuesday is in March.
	Yeah, but Super Tuesday doesn't matter.
	There's not going to be a Super Tuesday in the Democrat Party.
	They're not doing primary.
	Look, I asked you guys before.
	So we are six months, six months from we should cover it live, PBD.
	We should have a live coverage of the first night of voting of the DNC because what's going to happen, the super delegates are going to come out.
	They're going to do this.
	And there it is.
	And then we're going to see who they vote for.
	Right now, 10 to 1 says Newsom.
	What percentage do you give Michelle Obama, you and Patrick?
	Just a percentage right now.
	If you just had to guess, I think Newsom's their guy, and they've been trying to make him look good for foreign policy and a lot of other things.
	What about Michelle?
	Maybe, but I think Newsom's her guy.
	No percentage?
	You don't have a guess.
	Give me a second.
	Super percent.
	I think I would say it's probably 70, maybe 30 Newsom Michelle.
	I'm at 10%.
	10% that she does run.
	Yeah.
	She takes a bet, Vinny.
	She has to save democracy.
	She can't sleep at night.
	You don't care about an interview.
	It's just an interview with Jay Sheffield.
	Look at the time.
	It's not a campaign announcement.
	Look at the time.
	We're giving a little too much credibility to this guy.
	I know he's smart.
	Michael Sembelest.
	You've never heard of him.
	I don't know.
	No, I'm saying, I'm talking about you've never heard about this guy before today.
	The title of this article should have been Smart Guy Makes Predictions.
	This ain't JP Morgan.
	This ain't no strategist.
	It's just a smart guy making 10 predictions.
	Now, do I think he could be right on some stuff?
	I think he could be wrong on some stuff.
	Sure.
	But let's not like the other guy that just, the other guy, I forget his name, but Pat, you remember his name?
	He's like, the economy 90% recession.
	Harry Dent.
	Yeah, fuck you, Harry Dent.
	Jimmy.
	Tommy.
	Yeah.
	What if you are there?
	Fuck you.
	Exactly.
	Sounds like a bad guy and a Pat Man.
	Sorry, I cussed.
	Anyway, I got to go do an appearance on the Pat Mac if you show guys after this.
	Talk to you guys later, man.
	Oh, man.
	All right.
	So there you have it, guys.
	Lots of crazy stuff that we just talked about here.
	By the way, one last thing here, Rob, if you want to pull it up.
	Manek's been on fire last week.
	I am responding 100% of audio on Manect.
	We have a contest that we're running, and I want to publicly announce this contest.
	And you get to support whoever you want to help win first.
	I told Tom, Vinny, and Adam.
	This was about what, two weeks ago?
	When was this contest?
	Two or three weeks ago?
	Right, right.
	Yeah.
	I ran a contest for them.
	I said, whoever gets 500 Manects from that day that we had.
	Tom, can you pull up the number to see where I think, Tom, you have the lead.
	Then I think it's Adam.
	Then it's Vinny.
	It's still there, I think.
	I said, whoever gets 500 Manects from that day wins a $2,000 suit, custom, whatever you want.
	We'll go to the store.
	I'm going to pick up a brand spanking new suit for you.
	So if you love Adam, if you love Vinny, if you love Tom, whoever you love the most, Manect with us.
	Please manect him.
	Download the app.
	Please.
	Send a message to Vinny.
	He will respond back in audio or video.
	Or you can have a 15-minute call with him.
	Or you can ask Tom questions about business and other things you want to do.
	Tom's blowing up with Manek a lot.
	I think Tom's only $23 a Manek.
	Where are you at right now for Manek?
	For a text?
	For text.
	He's like $15.
	And then, Adam, where are you at?
	You're also at...
	I don't know, 25 bucks.
	$25.
	Not the cheapest.
	Come to me.
	FYI, just so everybody knows, no one's gotten more Manects than Adam so far.
	Adam's the only one above 600 Manex.
	So whoever you want to talk to.
	He's the goat, man, right?
	Send a message to them.
	And Tom actually just passed Top G.
	I told Andrew Tate this.
	And just so you know, Tom just passed you up.
	And we called Tom the top T yesterday.
	But more than anything, Pat, I know that this is a little contest between us.
	How rewarding is it talking to all these guys out there?
	And gals.
	It's so cool.
	We really enjoy talking to you.
	Whether you're starting conversations, whether you're starting a business, whether you're having relationship problems, whether you're literally having depression, whether you're trying to figure out what you're trying to do in your career.
	I know that we have a little contest of who can help the most people, but let's not forget that we're actually helping people probably.
	It's like business therapy and it's actually at the same time.
	Whoever you want to see when the suit support them the most.
	Maneck.
	Tom or Adam.
	Take care.
	Everybody will do the.
	Tomorrow we're doing Thursday, right?
	Thursday, we got podcasts again.
	Take care, everybody.

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