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3:44 - Nearly 40% of workers like their jobs enough to turn down a promotion, a new report says.
11:53 - Most Gen Z and millennials are financially dependent on their parents.=
20:56 - Bank of America sends letters threatening "disciplinary action" to employees who aren't coming into the office.
27:54 - Billionaires were unsuccessful in attempts to save print media in a digital age.
42:33 - The reason why people who have kids care more about the future than people without.
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55:38 - Donald Trump ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in defamation trial.
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1:18:57 - 70% of Nikki Haley's New Hampshire voters are not registered Republicans.
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So nearly 40% of workers like their jobs enough to turn down a promotion.
Okay, think about the logic there that 40% of people are willing to turn down their promotions.
Most Gen Zs and millennials are financially dependent on their parents.
New report that came out.
Bank of America sends letters threatening disciplinary action to employees who aren't coming to the office.
Train wreck earning call for Tesla.
Tom's going to process that with you.
The media is melting down to the point where neither billionaires nor journalists can seem to stop it.
This is a New York Times and Hollywood reporter story.
We'll cover that.
By the bunch of people getting fired, a bunch of companies.
LA Times having a hard time.
Business Insider, eBay just announced their fires.
Chaos, fury and golf.
LA Times in cuts to newsroom.
And then again, we'll talk about some of that stuff.
And a business story, how bosses can stop meeting after the meeting.
Nikki Haley, this is a very, very interesting story, this one.
70% of Nikki Haley's New Hampshire voters are not registered Republicans.
Think about that.
70% of Nikki Haley's New Hampshire voters were not Republicans.
She's a Democrat.
And I even, you know, I tweeted about this the other day on X about that, you know, she may have a better chance running as a Democrat than a Republican.
Billionaire LinkedIn, co-founder Reid Hoffman, stops donating to Haley.
A bunch of things.
Haley campaign lashes out at RNC.
Ronna McDaniel over resolution to declare Trump presumptive GOP nominee.
She's just not, she's having a hard time making friends with anybody right now.
Left, right, center establishment.
The only ones that are loving her are Democrats, which may be a strategy for her long term.
We'll talk about Michelle Obama.
Rumors.
And these rumors are not just any rumors.
Wait, you hear what some people are saying, the fact that she may be running because they're running a poll to see if they can raise money or not.
Gen Z Americans are more likely.
Watch this.
Gen Z Americans are more likely to be LGBTQ than Republican.
They're more likely to be LGBTQ than Republican.
Kamala Harris's show is the worst on TV, apparently.
Greg Gabbin in Texas, we got a bunch of things to talk about that.
Oregon County dismantles a million-dollar diversity office to focus on merit.
Stephen A. Smith says he wants to debate Trump.
I had dinner with him two nights ago.
I asked him about that.
Maybe I'll give you some insight on what he said when we spoke.
Jon Stewart to return to The Daily Show as part-time host.
Lince McMahon accused of sex trafficking by WWE Stafford.
He paid to keep it.
That was a very, very weird story that I read about.
This next one I like because I agree with it.
The danger of relying on anti-anxiety drugs and then El Salvador's murder rate.
Watch this.
Dropped 70% after arresting 1% of the population.
It dropped 70% after arresting 1% of the population.
Question is, is that a good thing or not a good thing?
We'll talk about that.
So let's get into some business stories here with the first one.
I'll give you guys the announcement here in a minute, but let's go into some business stories first.
Nearly 40% of workers like their jobs enough to turn down a promotion.
New report says.
Where are we at here?
Here we go.
Recent Randstad work monitor report reveals that 39% of workers prefer not to be promoted.
They're waiting for you.
What was that?
Is that you?
What's going on here today, guys?
I think that was on me.
Oh, my apologies.
No worries.
Okay.
So obsessed with the idea.
Where am I now with the story?
Let me do from the top.
Nearly 40% of workers like their jobs enough to turn down a promotion.
New reports is from Inside.
A recent Randstad work monitor report reveals that 40% of workers prefer not to be promoted because they generally enjoy their current jobs.
Additionally, 34% have no desire to become managers, indicating a shift in career priorities.
CEO Sander suggests that motivation at work is evolving beyond promotions with a focus on work-life balance, flexibility, equity, and skill development, playing a, oh my gosh, a significant role in career decisions.
This reflects change in attitudes towards career advancement.
The study, which surveyed 27,000 individuals across 34 markets, aligns with emerging careers, trends such as prioritizing personal over personal life over work and hesitancy among young workers like Gen Z and millennials to assume managerial roles due to trust issues and senior leadership and concerns about work-life balance and the value of extra responsibility.
Tom, thoughts on the story?
I'm going to go off real hot with it real quick.
Gen Z and millennials don't want to assume managerial roles due to trust issues and senior leaders.
Gen Z and millennials are not interested in accountability.
They are not interested in that level of responsibility.
And all of that generation, oh, what a surprise, has this tendency to want to work only three days a week or work from home.
None of that, none of the above lines up with what a company is going to want in a manager or a supervisor.
Hey, we like you to manage this department.
We like to keep track of everything.
Monday through Wednesday, half day, Thursday, no, all week, actually all month, because it's your department now.
We like you to keep track of it.
And the Gen Zs and the millennials, not all of them.
So don't hit the comments saying I'm slaughtering an entire, you know, broad swath of America's population.
I'm not.
There is just a tendency among them.
They aren't looking for responsibility.
And so guess what?
They'd rather not do it.
They'd rather not be the supervisor.
They'd rather be three, four days a week and they'd rather not have it.
Well, there's something that when I do my show on the SOSCAS, I always ask ladies, like, what do you look for in a man?
What do you look for in a guy?
What's going on out there?
And one of the biggest terms that I always hear from ladies is ambition.
And there's something attractive about being ambitious.
And this is more of a message to the men out there.
But if you're just content and you're comfortable in your job, that might be okay for a little while.
But, you know, they say your comfort zone will kill you.
And if you're just comfortable and you're just like, yeah, I like my job.
It's fine.
I'm just kind of doing my work-life balance thing.
No big deal.
That's fine for now.
That's fine for next year.
But what's going to happen is it's going to come around the time where the company's not doing as good and they're going to have some job cuts.
And they're going to say, oh, you know, Bill over here, he's fine.
He's okay.
But is he killing it?
Does he have ambition?
Is he really trying to lead the team?
Is he doing all right?
And what's going to happen is your comfort job, your comfort zone will kill you because you're going to be first on the chopping block when it's time to have downsizes.
While people are hiring, it's easy to not be exposed for doing your job.
But when all of a sudden your company has 100 people and they're like, cut 25% of the staff, okay?
And we got to keep the 75 best people.
If you're just comfortable and everything's kind of going okay, you know what's going to happen to you?
Boom, cut.
You're on the unemployment line.
You're collecting unemployment.
And now you're looking for another job to appease your work-life balance.
I completely agree.
And Adam, who are they going to ask to give them recommendations for the cuts?
Managers.
Yeah, of course.
Hey, Adam, in your department, you got five people reporting to the accounting department.
Can you find us one headcount?
We just, sales have been down a little bit.
And what does that manager do?
Yeah, he just, clearly he's picking the thing.
But here's what I will say.
Yes, I'll give you a case example.
He picks the three-day a work guy who brings his dog to work.
He's got to go.
Yesterday, so, you know, not to put our business out there into the thing, but we always have some people that are excelling and see people that aren't excelling.
Some people get promotions and some people are asked to leave.
You know, Vinny, because we are dealing with like being on screen, doing the shows that we do.
We say things like, who's in charge over here?
Yeah.
Who's running the show over here?
Who's running the show?
Who's it like?
All right, cool.
Like, we're the producers or executive producers.
PBD's the executive producer of his own show.
I'm the producer of my own show.
But then we have people that are running the show.
And I'll say, who's in charge?
I said, by the way, who's the, and I'm not going to even try to put out things.
I said, who's in charge of this department?
Yeah.
They're like, well, there's nobody in charge.
I go, who would you say is the team captain?
Shit, it's the fan.
Who are we talking?
I said, who are we talking to?
Like, well, we don't really have a team captain.
You know what I said?
Find a freaking team captain.
We have to.
Because someone's going to have to step and be like, this is on me.
And the captain is going to steer the ship.
And if you're not the captain or if you're not listening to the captain or you're not following orders, what's happening is when the ship starts basically having a hole in it and you're that guy that is so the exact opposite of the captain, they're going to say, yeah, go put him in a rowboat.
He's done.
Yeah.
And Rob, what was the, Rob, can you go to the top of this?
What was it?
What was the title of this one?
Was it the million 40% workers that the jobs are not?
So it catches a question to have.
Where is this coming from?
Where is this attitude of this generation that is switching?
Is it social media?
Is it culture?
What is happening, Tom?
I'll ask you, and then I want to ask him, like, what made this shift happen?
And why did it happen?
It happened fast.
I'll tell you in my opinion.
Okay.
So I get this question all the time, by the way, on Manect.
You can connect with us on Manect.
Yes, we can connect on Manect.
But here's what I will say.
The question that I always get asked from people and I'm always consulting with people is the following.
Should I focus on the money or focus on the passion?
The passion or the money?
Okay.
Now, what direction do you recommend that people go?
Now, the easiest thing to do is picking the place where they intersect.
So for instance, you knew you were going to be a comedian.
You went all in.
That was your passion.
100%.
I know what I'm saying.
But you'd made no money for many years.
A long time.
Tom, you're focused on the money, right?
But your money just so happens to be fundraising, helping people, business strategy, scaling.
That's what your passion is.
But early in my career, I was still doing motorsports photography and I had a basic marketing job.
So I had to make a decision to walk into a line of responsibility.
What was this motor sports photography thing?
It's the first time I'm hearing about this.
That was your passion?
When I was in college, I was a motorsports photographer in Long Beach Grand Prix and a lot of West Coast racetracks.
I did that to make extra money and I kept doing that.
And I said, maybe I'll do this.
But I quickly discovered as I was about to get my marketing degree, yeah, you know, I think I better get serious about what I really do for a living.
And then I found out that they wanted a team captain.
Back then, we called it, hey, could you be a team lead for the operations group?
So I wasn't like a manager manager, but I made little reports.
I did this, and this is what happened, and this is what I got.
And, you know, this story is talking about Gen Zs and millennials.
And there's a story right next to it.
The one right after.
Right after it.
About these same people are dependent on their parents.
Yeah, where are they?
Well, I'll say what I came through with the purpose and the money is here's what I'll tell you.
If you follow the money and you work on the money, you can always double back and working on your passion, always.
But if you follow your passion and you make no money, you're going to be 35, 40 years old, broke, but I followed my passion.
It's a lot easier to make money and then come back and do your passion.
Like Pat always says, the first 20 years of your life, don't fuck it up.
The second 20 years of your life, make your money.
Third 20 years of your life, work on your passion.
Fourth, 20 years of your life, give back.
So I think that's a great strategy to make money and then fulfill your purpose and your passion.
Okay, which stories have you guys covered?
So we just got home.
We hit the nearly the 40% of the workers.
And then right under that, Pat, was the most Gen Z and millennials are financially dependent on their parents.
That is insane.
Vinny, you want to read that?
Yeah.
So a Pew Research Center study revealed that 54% of adults 18 to 34, primarily Gen Z and millennials, rely on their financial support from their parents.
Geez.
In the 18 to 24 age group, over half of them are dependent on parental help for basic household expensive.
A Harris poll commissioned by Daily Pay shows that only 25% of Gen Zers in the 18 to 24 age group can pay all their bills on time, prompting many to opt out living with their parents and said rising levels of debt, particularly from student loans, weird, contribute to the financial dependence of Gen Z and millennials.
Among those age 18 to 34, approximately 45% are financially independent from their parents.
Factors such as delayed in milestones and increasing costs of education and housing exacerbate these financial challenges.
Bro, I have a major problem with this.
PBD, go for it.
Please, guys, stop grouping in millennials with Gen Z. They're totally different.
Millennials are hitting 40 years old now.
I'm the oldest millennial.
Vinny, you're not even millennial.
45.
You're Gen X. I'm the absolute youngest boomer statistically.
Tom, I believe you.
PBD, you're Gen X. There's actually something called Zennio, but please stop saying, oh, these young millennials and these Gen Z, they're totally different.
Anyone who's a millennial is in their late 20s, early 30s, almost 40 now.
If you don't have it figured out, that's a lot different from a 22-year-old Gen Z trying to figure it out.
If a 22-year-old is still living with his parents, still working on their first job, still graduating college, not exactly having their shit figured out, that's okay.
I didn't have my stuff figured out until I was 26 years old.
But stop it with the 36-year-old still having their parents still pay their bills.
What are you doing?
Bro, what are you doing?
You're not a kid anymore.
Yeah.
Major issue with lumping in the millennials and the Gen Z. 100%.
I agree.
Well, you can very much lump them in because you say, ladies and gentlemen, the tax base of tomorrow's America.
Yeah.
I get a Manect the other day, and let me tell you what this Manect is.
Guy asked a question.
He says, I'm married.
He's 31.
I got three kids.
My wife makes three times the amount of income I make.
He's probably listening.
Nice guy.
And, you know, he's making 40.
His wife makes 120.
And he says, you know, I'm being encouraged to get into insurance.
But do you think there's a way I can make a lot of money working nine to five selling insurance?
I said, first of all, nobody is home nine to five.
People have a job.
They go to work and they have a job.
If you want to sell insurance, the time where people are home to sell insurance is when?
After six o'clock.
That's why the average insurance salesperson works from what time to one time?
Six to midnight when people are home.
It is a very, very hard job.
And then another person asked and says, well, but I want to be, what can I do to have the balance of my life?
And I want to make a half a million dollar income.
I said, bro, like, what did teachers teach you guys in high school?
When you go to college or teacher, what are these people telling you?
Are they telling you like you can make a half a million dollar income working nine to five and just going out there and someone's going to pay you that kind of income?
Like, what do you think happens with life?
Yesterday, I'm having dinner with Dana.
Dana said one of the best things.
He says, you know, all these people that are like, yeah, I want to go be a business owner because I want to have control of my time and I want to have quality of life and balance.
Bullshit.
When you work for yourself, dude, you don't have a life when you work for yourself.
You're working seven days a week, taking calls on Sundays, Saturday nights, you're at dinner.
You have to step away and get away.
Well, that's why I don't want that kind of a life.
That's why you don't have that kind of a life.
So what you have to do is for some of these guys, when you're looking at what direction we're going with Gen Z and millennials and some of them say, well, I don't want to have any kids.
You know, what matters more to me is work-life balance.
Perfect.
I had a girl I hired 20 years ago, 15 years ago.
It was all about work-life balance and all this stuff.
And she ends up getting married with this one guy, loves the guy.
You know what happens 15 years later?
The guy's like, I don't want to have any kids.
Oh, God.
I don't want to have any kids.
And she's like, wait, all these years we've been together, you didn't want, I never wanted to have kids.
Now she's 33, 34, 35.
Now she wants to have kids.
Now she has to go out there and get started.
You know what happens for these guys that are going through this?
All of this bullshit stuff that people are saying, because the next generation values work-life balance more.
No, every generation, when they're younger, they don't want to work their asses off.
They want to club on Friday nights.
They want to party on Saturday.
They want to go out.
They want to have their blast.
They want to do their things.
And then they get that out of their system.
They're like, now I want to focus on my career.
Very few people early on in their lives want to light it up and go win at the highest level.
Why do I say this?
We, as consumers of this content, are delusional to believe the majority of Gen Zs are ambitious enough to go through something big.
You know what typically happens with life?
There's two words.
Intentioned, intentional, accidental, and by force.
Let me explain it to you.
Intentional is the obvious one.
Accidental is the one we'll talk about.
And then there's force.
Intentional.
You know what?
Yeah, I'd like to lose some weight.
But you know, it is what it is.
It's cool.
I'd like to stop drinking soda.
I kind of know I don't need to eat sugar.
I eat too much sugar.
If I drop the sugar, I'm going to lose 20 pounds.
But you know, it's like, it's whatever.
You know, I'll get to it.
Accidental is you accidentally land in an environment that everyone around you focuses on their health.
So what do you do?
You're like, dude, this is, I'm focused on my health.
Why?
Because accidentally you got lucky and you're in a great environment.
We've all been there before.
We're like, dude, I just picked two, three good friends.
I'm in a great circle.
These guys are killers.
Accidentally, you get lucky.
But you know what force is?
Here's what force is.
Force is you all of a sudden go to the doctor.
Your blood pressure is high.
Doctor says we have to go into the emergency room.
They realize it's pretty bad.
You have a major issue happens with your health.
Something bad happens in your life.
You lose a loved one.
Mom dies.
Dad dies.
Sibling dies.
Uncle dies.
Your best friend dies.
Then reality checks in.
Then you're forced to change.
These Gen Z's that are in this category, they're eventually going to be forced to change.
They're going to be forced to change.
They're not going to be intentionally changing.
They're not going to be accidentally changing.
Life will eventually force you to change.
When you have kids, I remember a lot of times we would be like, yeah, there's no way in the world I can get away with.
I know my health.
Vinny, I need at least nine hours of sleep because I know my body.
Really?
Go have a kid.
Go ahead, bro.
Go have a kid.
Go have a kid and see what you'll realize.
How many of you guys are listening to this, folks?
If you listen to this, you got kids.
How many of you have gone to work?
Be honest.
How many of you have gone to work on two hours of sleep?
How many of you?
How many of you have gone to work with no sleep?
Your kid has got snot all over your face.
You're sick as a dog.
You don't have a choice.
You don't have somebody to take care of you.
Everybody in the house is sick.
You still got to get to work to make the money, to pay your bills, and you still have to take care of your kids.
And you didn't get any sleep.
You know what the body tells you?
You're capable of more.
But that's because of force.
Your kids are not forcing you to change.
Life is forcing you to change.
These Gen Z guys, they're going to go through this process that they're going to go through.
And all of a sudden, they're going to be like, holy shit.
Now I have to change.
You can either choose to change and have to change.
Unfortunately, 90%, maybe 95% of the world is going to be part of the force to change.
Only 5% is going to be part of the choosing to change.
And that's how the market works, period.
We can talk about these generations, all they want about how much they're bitching.
They want work-life balance.
Wait till they're 35.
They'll make better choices.
And you know what I don't like about that?
And in that title too, where it says millennials, they're financially dependent on their parents.
What's up with those parents?
What kind of parent, I know yours wouldn't.
I know yours wouldn't.
I know yours didn't.
What type of parent is sitting there paying for their kid at 36 years old, being dependent on this kid?
And they're probably struggling themselves.
That parent needs, bro, at 18, my mom and dad were like, guys, all three of us, buy military, buy all three, because you all graduated one year at a time.
36 years old, you're chilling over there and your mommy and daddy are paying your bills.
It falls on you ultimately.
But what kind of parent lets their kid just keep giving them money until 36?
And then they're like, okay, now you have to go and face the real world.
They're not going to be ready for it, bro.
The parent has some type of role in this as well.
Yeah, they do.
It's called entitlement.
The parents set them up in entitlement.
I don't need to go any deeper into this topic.
I love Pat's summation.
Intentional, accidental, by force.
I see examples of it in my family, my extended family.
And that's what it is.
They're all going to have to be by force.
You know, oh, I'm out of a job.
My parents have passed away.
There is no couch at your parents' house because your parents' house has been sold because they passed away.
Now what, dude?
Yeah, I mean, by the way, check this out.
This goes to the next story.
Bank of America sends letters threatening disciplinary action to employees who aren't coming to the office.
Why are you sending those letters, BAVA?
Why are you doing that?
I thought you were about people working from home.
Why are you upset now?
This was your choice at one point, wasn't it?
Why are you all of a sudden frustrated with these guys?
Wall Street continues to crack down on workers who are reluctant to return to the office in its latest effort to hurt its employees back to the office.
Bank of America has been sending out warning letters.
It's calling letters of education to those who haven't been turning up for work.
Failure to follow the workplace excellence expectation applicable to your role within two weeks of the date of this notification may result in further disciplinary action.
What does that mean?
Why can't you just say getting fired, right?
It's done.
Read one letter of education that was sent to Financial Times.
Since October of 2022, Bank of America has been requiring majority of its employees to come into the office at least three days a week.
Those in more client-facing roles, such as investment banking and sales and trading, have been asked to come to the office five days a week.
So here's the problem with this, and then I'll come to you, Tom.
The moment, this is kind of how life works.
One of the hardest things to do is after you lower the standards to the people you're leading to choose to raise it all of a sudden.
You lower the standards on a group of people you're leading, and then all of a sudden you're like, no, no, now we want to raise it.
No, no, listen, we missed the low standards.
Let us chill.
Let us kick back.
Let us stay home.
Let us work from home and not have to come over here.
What are you doing?
Why are you doing this to us now?
The moment you drop the standards later on to raise the standards, the people are not going to respond well to it because they're accustomed to low standards.
They knew you were capable of low standards.
They knew you were capable of being okay with them working from home.
And some of these guys are like, well, what did you want me to do?
COVID had us shut down.
They forced us to do this.
They forced us to do that.
Yes, COVID and working from home lowered the standards for many, many, many companies and industries, but a lot of companies didn't break and didn't bend.
And they said, no, you're working from the office.
Those who do either lost to those people to the companies like this that they're working or they kept the culture.
It's not an easy thing to do to bring people back from low standards to high standards.
Tom.
Yeah, it looks like marketing has invaded the HR group at Bank of America.
Failure to follow the, here it comes, workplace excellence expectations.
What the hell?
To Pat's point, they're not even speaking clearly.
That's called return to office.
Return to office so we can work together.
We can have culture here and we can serve our clients.
Those in more client-facing roles, such as investment banking, have been asked to come in five days a week.
Of course they are because the customers are there.
So when you lower your expectations on your employees, then you come back and now you're trying to put it all in this flowery type.
You need to just come back and say this.
Look, guys, the government forced us to do it and we made some choices.
All of that is behind us now.
We are back to five days in the office.
You are going to be around your coworkers.
You're going to build culture.
We're going to serve our customers.
And that's where we're going.
You have to be brutally honest and handle it that way.
All these things that we worry about, feelings and everything like this.
Look at it this way.
You have a heart attack.
Your doctor's looking at you.
You have pretty big feelings about this.
Do you want him to say, well, it's a little of this, it's a little of that.
Or do you want him to say this?
You dodged a bullet, but I think you're going to be okay.
Drop 50 pounds, get the cholesterol down, and you've got a shot of living long enough to see your grandkids get married.
That's the brutal honesty you want.
But we go into the workplace and we don't speak like that.
We fluff it up and everything like that while we're trying to raise a standard.
You're going to have a hell of a hard time raising a standard when you're trying to talk in this fluffy language.
I mostly agree with you guys, but you know, I have to point out maybe some leaks in the argument, Tom.
So the Bank of America warns return to office laggards with return to education.
So laggards, we've seen the stocks that are lagging, you know, not fulfilling their expectations.
But a lot of this is nuance.
Why?
Because there is a difference between salaried employees and commissioned employees and the sales guys.
So salaried people, you know, have very little leverage.
So if you're not bringing in commissions and making money for the company, so what's it who are the people that they said that they are encouraging to come to the office, Tom?
The investment, banking, and sales and trading guys.
Listen, let me tell you, those guys are the money makers.
So if they're saying, listen, I'm coming in the office three days a week.
I generate $10 million a year for the company.
Yeah, I have leverage here.
I'm just going to stay in my house in the Hamptons a couple of days a week while you guys do your thing in the city.
The bigger you are, obviously they know that they're on Wall Street.
A lot of these guys who are working in the city every day for years and years and years have places in the Hamptons and the Wall Street world.
They have what is known as leverage.
So some of the guys have more leverage than others.
So the blanket statement of like, you have to come in and you have to come in.
I'm sure these situations are unique and individual because some of them have more leverage and ultimately more pull than others.
That's the only nuance that I would add to.
You're talking from your point of view.
You're assuming most of these guys are bankers that they're talking about.
These are not, like, for example, the reason why I said, like yourself, you've been with the same company for how long?
15 years now?
17 years.
17 years.
You perform, you do your part, but you're a wholesaler.
A wholesaler is never required to be in any office.
Any wholesaler for AIG, nationwide, any insurance company, none of them work out of the office.
They all work from home because they're always on the road.
This is employees.
Come to the office.
Come get to work.
Come do your thing.
And we've realized the last three years, four years, companies who went to work from home, it didn't work.
Very simple.
I know a lot of people want to say, yes, it does.
Yes, it does with engineers and coders.
Yes, it does maybe for a few different things.
But whoever's working from home will always be less effective than somebody that's working from the office.
For those of you that fully disagree with me, there's 30% of you that do.
Okay, and you're like, Pat, this is the part I disagree with you.
Do.
I'm very comfortable with you disagreeing with me.
I'm telling you, you have way more distractions.
And people will say things like, well, I have more distractions at work.
People are always talking to me.
You know, you have your fridge.
You have your bed.
You have Netflix.
You have TV.
You have friends coming over.
You have your dogs.
You have your kids.
You have your cats.
You have your neighbors.
You have people knocking on your doors.
You have way more distractions than anybody else at the office.
And thank God for companies promoting people more who are at the office than working from home.
Keep working from home.
You won't get promotions.
Work from the office.
You get a promotion.
If you're a Gen Z, you don't want a promotion anyway.
So don't worry about it.
Do your thing.
You know, work from Starbucks if you want to.
But the market wants you to come back to the office and work.
Okay, let's go to the next story.
What story we got here?
Which one do we want to go to?
Let's go to the, if we're on Gen Z, do we want to keep going, Gen Z, or do we want to change it up?
Why don't we change it up?
Gen Z has been getting knocked around a little bit.
Let's change it up to somebody else.
You want to go into our friend?
No, let's first go to a little bit of business, the media meltdown.
Check this out.
Media meltdown, and neither billionaires nor journalists can stop it.
This is Hollywood Reporter, page five, if you want to go to it.
The media business is facing a crisis unlike anything since 2008 financial mess with layoffs and cost cutting at every turn impacting major publishers like WAPO, LA Times, Time, Condé Nest, Sports Illustrated.
Oh my God, Sports Illustrated is going through a mess right now.
Business Insider, New York Daily News, National Geographic, Baltimore Sun, billionaire acquisitions included Bezos buying $250 million purchase at the WAPO in 2013, Chris Hughes' ownership of the News Republic, and Pierre Omidiar's First Look Media Venture have largely flattered with many of them shedding staff or experiencing financial difficulties.
Even private equity ownership has not been successful in rescuing media companies as evidenced by staff walkouts at New York Daily News, layoffs at Forbes, and layoffs at Business Insider, which is owned by KKR-backed Axel Springer.
And by the way, I can give you a couple other stories here with what's going on with these other guys.
But Tom, I'll pause there.
Tom, is there any saving with these media brands?
Is it done done?
Are we at a phase right now where some of these guys are sitting there saying, dude, I don't want to be a journalist for you.
My name is Barry Weiss.
I'm going to go start a sub stack and I'm going to write myself and I'm going to make a half a million dollars as a writer.
My name is Glenn Greenwald.
I don't need to be a writer for you.
I'm going to go do it myself.
Is it that ugly where the only writers left at WAPO, at New York Times, at these companies are the ones that need the job because they're not good writers?
What do you think?
I think there's some of that, absolutely for sure.
And I think you also look between the lines here.
I don't like necessarily their ethos or what they stand for, but the New York Times has done the best job and the Wall Street Journal have done the best job going back 10 years managing the digital conversion.
We've gone from print to digital.
And the stories you put out on digital have to be interesting enough that someone is willing to pay a small subscription for it.
The New York Times has figured it out and the Wall Street Journal has figured it out.
Everyone else that waited or didn't figure it out or put up a paywall late or doesn't have anything interesting behind the paywall, they're dying.
We just saw the walkouts that happened.
And by the way, it cracks me up.
We're about to lay off people.
Well, then we're staging a walkout.
And I'll say, Fred, can you look out the window and tell me who exactly walked out?
Why?
Well, it's just going to make it easier to choose who's laid off because ones that are still inside here that are actually working, we're going to keep them.
But I think it's exactly what you said.
Glenn Greenwald saw the writing on the wall.
He went out the sub stack.
And look what he's got going now.
There are writers like that that are great and gifted and good investigators and they found a way to put themselves out there, their own byline.
And then you've got the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times getting it right.
Everybody else has screwed this thing.
This is a digital conversion what they're facing along with the price of ads and they've screwed it up and they're suffering the consequences and this is what's happening.
Let me ask you.
This is the fallout.
Question.
Question that I asked last night during dinner.
I'm sure you remember this question is.
So if we're able to buy, Rob, can you pull up Sports Illustrated was bought for how much?
If you just pull up Sports Illustrated was purchased for how much?
Sports Illustrated was purchased for $110 million.
What year?
Five years ago.
Five years ago for $110 million.
By the way, you know what it's probably worth today?
$40 million.
Yeah, the other way around.
If that.
And that was an overpay.
And do you know why?
Go type in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover.
Go type in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover.
What year?
This year?
Just type in that and go to images and see what comes up.
By the way, Victoria's advised.
No, go.
You got to see the recent covers because they've changed exponentially.
They were a few years ago.
What do you want?
What's the right word to put?
Big girl.
23.
2324.
Volumptuous?
What's the Ashley Graham size?
Menti plus size.
Mete plus size.
Pat.
I have some commentary.
I mean, first, they put a guy on it on the cover.
Okay.
Look at that.
That's not sexy, guys.
I mean, listen, we can sit here.
And listen, I have friends.
I had a guy back in the day, Speedy Espinoza, my roommate.
He only liked girls over 250 pounds.
But he was the only one that liked them over 250 pounds.
Now, you may have a couple of friends yourself as well.
Great.
Look, Claude, Claude.
Let me put it to you this way.
Let me put it to you this way.
Watch this.
My body right now got it to be on any magazine.
I don't belong on a cover of a magazine if you want to show off my body.
Don't feel bad for me.
I'm not in the best shape of my life.
Your body, you can be on a cover of magazine.
And by the way, I'm not saying this because Vinny is a guy I love and his family.
It's because you're the best in shape guy in this entire building.
Other than Tom, no one is in better shape than you.
You deserve to be on a cover magazine, not me.
My feelings doesn't need to get hurt.
I eat more sugar than you do.
You don't eat sugar as much as I do.
You're more disciplined than I am when it comes down to working out.
You deserve to be on a cover like this, right?
We have come into this mode that people are worried about my feelings or other people's feelings.
So let's make everybody happy.
No, a brand that was known as the brand that we would buy where Michael Jordan was on the cover.
And you're like, oh my God, Kobe's on, who's going to make it on the cover?
Who's LeBron James coming out of high school?
He's going to be the next king.
Sportsman of the Year was a huge artist.
Are you kidding me now?
It's like, you know, everything changed with Sports Illustrated, right?
Rob, go type in LA Times.
I'm still going to my question with you.
What was LA Times sold for?
I think it was $550 million.
Wow.
It may be less than that, but $500 million.
Okay.
To Peter Seung Jiang, something like that, I think his name is.
Chinese company.
Yeah.
So watch this, $500 million.
When, what year was this sold?
Can you click on that article, see when it was sold for $500 million?
Oh, they're laying it off now.
You won't find it out there.
This was probably six years ago.
You know what LA Times is probably worth today?
Less.
$250 million.
Half?
So, Tom's, here's a question.
If we can buy LA Times today for $200 million, should we do it?
I don't think so.
I think you're trying to catch a falling knife at that price.
I think that there's great.
So the question is, are there great publications in here or are there great brands in here?
And I think there's some great brands that are still in here that might have some residual value.
But the LA Times, man, you know, you'd have to take that and do digital as well as the New York Times did.
And I think it would be tough.
I think it would be tough.
I'll give you a little insight here.
So there's three terms that come to mind with everything that's going on here.
And those words are trust, truth, and credibility.
What do I mean?
There's something that's constant.
There's something that's changing.
What has changed in the media industry over the last decade or two?
Everything's gone from paper to digital.
That was the whole rush.
Oh, we got to get to digital.
We got to get to digital.
Who gets the paper anymore?
I read the Wall Street Journal every day on my phone.
I mean, how many, like you occasionally get the paper?
A lot harder to deal with that.
How many times are we just forwarding articles, digital?
The way of the world has gone digital.
But what has not changed is the trust factor.
What has not changed is the trust factor.
What we just saw the other day, your friend posted this, Bill Maher.
He said, who are the most trusted media personalities in the world?
Look where they're located.
Media personalities.
They didn't say journalists.
Callie?
Number one, not physically located, but number one was Bill Maher.
Right behind him was Joe Rogan.
Right behind him was Tucker.
And right behind him was Jake Tapper.
What does that mean?
Three out of the four are not on typical legacy media.
Bill Maher's on HBO, and he kind of has a little thing with CNN, his overtime thing that he's got him, but he does the Club Random, which you're familiar with.
He does that.
He's online.
He's on YouTube.
He's not exactly establishment per se.
Joe Rogan is 0% establishment.
He's the biggest podcaster in the world.
Second most trusted.
Third, Tucker.
That was establishment.
Is anybody that's been more at war with the establishment in the news media game than Tucker over the last 12 months?
Nobody.
And then fourth, Jake Tapper, because he's pretty much the one guy on CNN.
People are like, all right, he's got some credibility here.
He's not as biased as everybody.
So what's happened is the game has changed.
It's gone from print to digital.
That's not breaking news.
But what is changing is who people trust and who they're willing to have credibility.
It's the reason why disruptive podcasts are getting so many views these days because people are saying, look, I don't know if these guys are right or wrong, but at least trust them to try to find out the truth.
Veritas is what people are going for.
So legacy media, a lot of these institutions we talked about were actual papers.
Do you think the right person can buy an LA Times and win digital and make it valuable later on?
Do you think somebody can buy a Sports Illustrated, a WAPO, a LA Times, and a Forbes, a Fortune, and still make it win?
Not if they're doing the exact same business models they've always done.
They have to change and evolve.
Meaning, if the LA Times, and I know nothing about the LA Times because I'm a Miami Herald guy, but I listen to the Herald, I watch the Herald, but they're almost like a dying newspaper.
And I love the Herald.
They have to evolve.
All these L.
I don't want to give these guys any ideas, but the LA Times needs to have a badass podcast associated with it.
Just like the Miami Herald should have a badass podcast and disruptive and videos and like that.
That's what's going on.
If you just still print your paper from your typical journalist thing, you're dead.
I think if somebody bought IPAT, they'd have to literally come out the gate with something strong and say, listen, we're not the old.
This is the brand new.
Like we're talking about the Miss Universe thing.
Somebody has to come out and punch them in the face to get all those people that have lost the trust because of the credibility because all these, they're all like, they're not reporters.
They're not journalists anymore.
They're shills for activists.
They're activists for a political party.
Both sides.
I get it.
I just want somebody to give me the facts.
We'll spill it out.
You guys make your own decisions.
I don't want somebody going, this is good.
This is bad.
And if you don't believe in it, then you're the bad person.
That's why I don't like it.
But it had to be something monumental for me to purchase something like that.
My short answer is yes.
The right person could buy it with strategy, clean up what they've got and move it forward.
Now, there are case studies in American history.
Harley-Davidson went through a great brand.
We can all agree.
There are people that buy Harley-Davidson apparel that have never sat on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Harley-Davidson has gone through two cycles where the right owner and the right strategy revitalize the company.
And I think somebody could buy these at the right price and take advantage.
There's a lot of people like me that still have a lot of, not nostalgia, but a lot of trust in some of these media brands if they were being led.
So my short answer is yes.
Somebody could do it and focus on it and lead through it.
You've seen it happen.
Well, LA Times, I know I've driven by the LA Times with you.
And every time we drive by, you're like, see this thing over here?
We could have bought this.
This is something.
It was Chinese bought this, whatever.
New York Times, Washington Post, New York Post, even.
This is me, not an LA guy.
I don't know.
I feel like those, especially Wall Street Journal, have way more credibility than the LA Times.
I don't know anybody, especially on the East Coast, that's like, you see what they said in the LA Times?
Zero.
I don't know.
Maybe it's just a lack of credibility.
Who's the group that said Bill Maher is the most trusted?
Let's find that.
He posted it.
Oh, Bill Maher posted it.
Yeah.
He's in the top three most trusted in news.
There it is right there.
That poll is, where'd he get that poll?
WPA intelligence.
What the hell is that?
That's mopping.
Well, he's on the top.
That's my point.
There's no.
But who is WPA intelligence, though?
Who are those guys?
Associated?
What the hell is that?
He posted it, guys.
So I'm going on what Bill Maher posted.
No, I'm asking you, what is WPA intelligence?
I don't know.
Let's find out.
That's the question I got.
It says, in God we trust.
Well, that might be a fake thing because there's no way he's number one.
Trust.
So that means you don't believe that Joe Rogan's number two?
I think there's no way.
Two of Tucker way in front of Bill Maher.
Bill Maher wouldn't even be in my top five for trust people to trust about the news.
The same guy that told us Russia, Russia, Russia, the same guy that tried to make everybody believe that Trump was a Hitler badman.
Get out of it, bro.
You know what is a thing to realize who to trust and who not to trust?
This was, again, a conversation we had yesterday.
But this is a very, very interesting point to think.
So who do you think wants the world to be a better place?
A person who's got kids or a person that doesn't have kids?
100% of the people that have kids.
Okay.
So who do you think wants the cares more about future looks bright and making sure security military is good, you know, so no one can attack us and we have a stronger military.
People who have kids or people who don't have kids.
Family kids, for sure.
Okay, this continues, right?
You have to, out of those three names, one of them doesn't have any kids, has never been married, doesn't believe in God, and just kind of like about himself.
He's made all these choices he's made is about himself.
Now, don't get me wrong.
I've retweeted Bill Maher's stuff a lot, and I think he's been one of the most necessary voices the last three years because he was another guy that was forced to take the vaccine and he took one for the team and he didn't want to take it.
He did not want to take the jab.
But whenever we're looking at how people support a position or not, and whatever they're screaming off the top of their lungs, always ask them how this hurts them or how this helps them.
When I was coming up and I'm building my insurance practice, I always had an easier time working with people that were married with kids more than working with single guys.
Because single guys almost always made the selfish decision, almost always.
But the married guys made fewer selfish decisions.
The married guys had to get to work and keep their word because they're not doing it for you.
They're doing it for their wife and their three kids.
There was a certain level of stability there.
Now, I don't mean to offend you guys.
You guys are single.
I'm not talking about you guys.
I don't want you to be heartbroken.
Rob, can you give some tissue to the camera?
I'm crying out of you.
Yeah, you actually have a great question.
Don't put the camera on Adam.
He's getting emotional.
But the point is, do you think we're ready as America to have a single president?
Would you want your president to be single with no kids not married?
No, no.
Why not?
I don't think they have a full life perspective.
That's the point, right?
So we have to also know when some people are like, I don't care about this and I don't care about that and I don't care about kids and I don't care about that.
Yeah, of course you don't.
95% of the world and 90% of the world has kids and cares about their family in the future.
Whoever this creator was, I know who mine is, who I'm betting on.
If I'm going to be right or wrong, I'll know when I die.
But whoever this creator was, whatever way they created it, there's a reason why we can procreate.
Why?
You become a better person to society when you have kids.
You literally overnight become better for society by having a kid.
When I tell you overnight, overnight.
Because instantly, the day before your kid is born, you're willing to make 80 decisions that you don't really give a shit about because it's only going to impact you.
And you're like, I don't care what happens to the other person.
The moment you have kids, you're in two different places for the rest of your life.
You will never be in one place.
I'm never in one place.
I am always in five different places.
Always.
If you're a parent, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
I'm in five different places.
I'm wondering why Tico is, where Dylan is, where Sinna is, where Brooklyn is.
What are they doing?
Where's this person?
Who's with them?
All this stuff.
And I know Jen is an adult, so she's doing her thing, but she's probably with one of the kids.
But I'm always with four different places with these kids.
Your brain works that way.
You become better for company, better for business, better for community, better for safety, better for crime, better for finances, better for every single thing.
Everything becomes better, right?
Everything.
So when we're sitting there looking at the list on Bill Maher and Rogan and all these other guys, you know, you have to kind of put some context there to realize that what not everybody who is, I understand the part about liking what Bill Maher does.
I think Bill Maher is coming from a place of calling out the left and the right, which is awesome.
Got to love that.
You also have to realize there's a lot of policies in America that have nothing to do with him that he literally doesn't give a shit about those policies because it doesn't directly impact him.
And you as the listener has to know that what you have as a concern, he does not have as your concern.
So he's going to be like, that's not something I really care too much about.
I'm going to go a different direction.
You bring up a great point there.
And by the way, this wasn't even my point.
This was a point that was brought up by somebody else that we talked about last night.
I'm bringing it up.
I just don't want to mention the name because I don't want that person to know that others know he said it.
But go ahead, Tom.
Totally, totally understand.
And I was not going to name.
That's why.
Of course.
I'm sorry.
There's a saying when it comes to shipwrecks and tragedies, and it's women and children first.
And the saying, I'm sure people have heard it, women and children first.
Why do they say that?
Because it means that the men on that ship are willing to sacrifice themselves today so that the generation can live tomorrow.
And that's exactly where it comes from, women and children first.
And so you can't have that perspective until you have kids.
The day you have a kid, you are willing to die for that person.
It's an amazing feeling.
And it's a stronger feeling than you have for your spouse.
But once you're married, you're willing to really take one for the team for her, for your spouse.
But once you have a child, it is an elevated sense.
And you say, I will sacrifice today for this generation tomorrow.
So I fully agree with you, PBD.
I fully agree with you.
And I'm a single guy, no kids.
And I will be fully transparent that you have the ability to be way more selfish when you don't have kids.
I see the sacrifice you put in just before the podcast.
More than anything, you're talking to Jen about, all right, cool.
Where's Tico going?
Where's Dylan going?
Santa's going to go play tennis.
Is that we got going on?
Tom, every night he's talking about his girls.
1 million percent.
1 million percent.
And just to verify this, I probably listen to Bill Maher more than anyone on the list.
I listen to Rogan, no doubt.
I listen to Tucker for sure.
Sometimes I listen to Tapper.
But every Saturday I watch Bill Maher's episode because he's got great takes.
But if you ask me right now, if I would change places in life with any of those four people for the rest of my life, Bill Maher's last on my list.
He's 68 years old.
He's a known commodity.
He's worth $200 million.
To me, I'd rather be worth $1 million and have a family and love my life and be with my kids than have $200 million and have nothing.
And in terms of leadership, I fully agree.
And some people are going to be like, well, why do you even have kids?
How can you say this?
But I want to have kids.
I know what my plan is.
I know what my purpose is.
The reason that I'm working my ass off right now is that when I do have a family and do have kids, I have money and I have success.
And I'm not doing that on the way up.
You know, the last, you talk about leadership and accountability.
You know, the last U.S. president that was never married, no kids?
James Buchanan in 1857 to 1861, right before the Civil War.
I'm not saying that that's a reason or anything like that, but homeboy was not married, didn't have any kids.
We saw what just happened with our good friend, Andrew Cuomo in New York, not married, just single, bachelor, governor.
He kids, though, has dogs.
Okay, he has got kids.
I'm just saying, but like, if you're just a single dude and you can be selfish, there's going to be opportunities for you to make the wrong decisions.
That's all I'm saying.
So I fully agree that if someone that has kids, PBD, you're way more selfless and you're going to be thinking about a million different things in a different lens than someone without kids.
Wow.
It's why you choose.
And by the way, one of the other things that also kids and marriage does is it keeps you occupied.
When you have sometimes way, way, way, way too much time on your hands, you're also making the people around you a little bit too going crazy.
I don't know if that makes sense.
Sometimes you need to be preoccupied with other things as well.
So you're kind of doing your own thing.
If you don't say, hey, my wonder, what does a mom do when she has nothing to do with grandkids, no kids, nobody around?
Always calling kids all the time.
Oh, yeah.
Why is that?
Because you're not preoccupied with a man, with kids, with grandkids to kind of have some purpose that you got in your life.
Married people with kids are better for society than single people with no kids.
It's a fact.
To advance the society.
Again, my opinion.
You can be upset and disagree with me.
This is 100% what I believe in.
Anyways, let me tell you guys a quick thing we're doing here today that I wasn't going to do, but now I'm going to do it anyways for you guys to know about.
Do you know what happened four years ago today?
Does anybody know what happened four years ago today?
Four years ago today, Kobe Bryant passed away.
Okay.
When Kobe Bryan passed away, I remember when I did an interview with him, everybody remembers where they were at.
And everybody remembers where they were at.
I was at Seasons 52 when that took place.
I was with family and Dylan sitting next to me.
CNN reports.
You know, Kobe Bryant pounded.
I'm like, wait, what?
And so, well, you got to be kidding me.
No, is this serious?
This can't be real.
This is like the guy from Fast and the Fears.
This can't be real.
This is a spook.
They're playing a joke.
No, it's real.
And it happened.
Fast forward to today.
The world stopped when that happened four years ago.
I mean, I sat down with him doing an interview with him the way he was with Tico, Dylan, you know, the kids, Jen talking to Jen for 15 minutes, talking to Dylan for 15 minutes.
So here's what we're doing today.
This is the edition that just came out today, limited edition.
This is a signature series, Future Looks Bright, purple and gold.
And we are dedicating this to the man, the myth, the legend, Mamba Mentality, Future Looks Bright hat that was just released.
There'll be a limited amount of these for you, but here's what we're doing.
That's the QR code for you to go buy.
If you buy the hat, the Future Looks Bright hat that we just dropped with the shirt, Future Looks Bright, and you add another hat of your choice that you want.
Any of those other colors, you see they're white, black, red, and the military camouflage one.
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PBD I have known each other since 2012, right?
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We spent $10,000, $20,000, flew out a camera crew, rented a helicopter, went all over the place in Miami to produce those videos.
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I'm getting goosebumps as I tell this story.
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You never saw him.
He's the guy that interviewed Kobe because it just came out a few months prior to that.
I want to say August, September?
Yep.
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I thought, oh, cool.
Yeah, PBD, the helicopter.
Breaking news.
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I'm supposed to follow PBD like the next week, like, hey, all right.
Yeah.
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I couldn't even text PBD because I knew what this meant.
You remember being in this helicopter?
Of course I did.
Rob, can you show the picture of that helicopter?
I'll just send it to you.
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It's crazy.
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I don't know why.
I just felt like this is not the time to like push PBD.
Next thing you know, COVID happens.
Right?
Wow.
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I said, Mamba mentality, bro.
Like, I want to work with PBD.
What happened happened?
Long story short, these are all the videos the helicopter.
I have so many videos on my phone.
I never did these ads.
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I'm in Fort Lauderdale.
Look at that.
Yes.
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I'm sick of doing this by myself at my house in Miami.
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Let's get right into it.
Breaking news just happened literally five minutes ago.
Okay.
Jury finds Trump must pay $83.3 million to E. What?
Gene Carl.
The crazy girl?
Yeah.
That is that's ugly.
Which one was E.G. Carol?
The one with Anderson Cooper.
That's right.
That's that weird lady raped me.
Can you pull up that clip?
No way.
Let's read the story first, Rob, and then we'll go and pull up the clip.
hell is going so can you go closer to the story so we can actually okay so trump last verdict Absolutely ridiculous.
President Trump on Friday blasted the verdict reached by a jury ordering him to pay her $83.3 million in defamation damages and said he would appeal the decision.
Trump posted this on Truth Social.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I fully disagree with both verdicts and will be appealing this whole Biden-directed witch hunt focused on me and the Republican Party.
Our legal system is out of control and is being used as a political weapon.
They have taken away all First Amendment rights.
This is not America.
Is there anything else below it, Rob, or that's it?
That's it for right now.
Go back to a different story.
Let's see if a different story is saying something else.
Zoom in on some of those.
Let's do that.
Okay, that's what?
That's WAPO.
Federal Court of Dormitor in 2000.
Character that kicked off years of threats and harassment from the former president supporters.
Most of the award involved $65 million in punitive damages after juror concluded that Trump acted spitefully and want only towards Carol after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1990s.
Jurors also awarded a combined $18.3 million in compensatory damages.
Trump won the Republican presidential primary in New Hampshire earlier this week.
He also already won the Iowa caucus.
Pull up the clip with her and Anderson Cooper.
You're probably going to find it easier on Twitter if you have it.
You mean to tell me this woman that said this to Anderson Cooper, which Anderson Cooper himself didn't believe what she had to say.
They just paid her 80 play this clip.
Oh, my.
I think most people think of rape as a violent assault.
It is not a problem.
I think most people think of rape as being sexy.
What?
Let's take a short break.
Think of the fantasies.
We're just going to take a quick break.
If you can stick around, we'll talk more on the other side.
You're fascinating to talk to.
Crazy bitch.
Look at the lady from 40-year-old verdict.
$80 million.
Tom, what are you thinking right now with this?
Well, we only have a couple things in the headline here, but it says 18.3 in compensatory damages, 65 in punitive.
So the punitive is like the bonus on top, which means extreme that the jury found that it was done with extreme intent.
And the compensatory damages, it says what she said is Trump said bad things about me, and then all of his people jumped on the bandwagon, which were ignited by Trump, and they have been hammering my character.
I deserve compensation.
And the jury said, yep, you're going to get 18.3 in compensation.
And on top of it, we think that it was so bad that the president, the ex-president, should be also hit with an extra punitive.
Now, punitive is, you know, punished.
So it's not just compensation.
It's punitive.
You add them together.
It's 83.
So when you hear Trump saying we will appeal both decisions, that's what he's talking about.
There's two decisions and one here.
However, the operative phrase here is he will appeal both.
Most things like this go forward to at least two rounds of appeal and it takes years.
But it is nonetheless not a good thing that the verdict came out like this.
Here's some insight from The Guardian.
So nobody's writing a check today.
Yeah.
Here's the details.
The Manhattan federal court decision comes less than one year after Eugene Carroll won $5 million already in her sexual abuse and defamation trial against the ex-president Trump.
The sum sells from Carol's rape claim against the president in a June 2019 New York magazine article.
The publication ran an excerpt for her then forthcoming book.
Here's the name of the book, What Do We Need Men For?
A Modest Proposal.
Interesting.
What do we need men for?
Okay.
In that excerpt, Carol said that Trump raped her inside a dressing room in a Manhattan department store around 1996.
We're going back to the 90s, guys.
A dressing room in 1996.
The tenor of Trump's now saying that, for example, that she lied and was a political operative became the subject of her 2019 defamation suit against him.
Here's the details.
At the time, Carol could not sue Trump over the alleged assault.
It would have taken place outside the civil statute of limitations, 1996.
And that's what's going on here.
So for me, we've seen many of these similar playbooks, whether it's Trump, whether it's Tate, whether it's Russell Brand, this is their playbook.
And when you write a book like, What Do We Need Men For?
And that's not a fiction book.
It goes to like, what is her motive here?
What is her absolute motivation?
That's exactly what her motive is.
And it's, by the way, notice how it's believe all women, as long as it's coming from like it's a Democrat and the person's a Republican.
Because by the way, what about all the, because if this could happen here, notice how it doesn't happen for the other side.
Bill Clinton, Juanita Broderick, lie detector test, testimony, raped me, almost bit my lip off, Dodges raindrops.
But this, every single thing with Trump, bro, is all political.
And by the way, all you have to do is accusations.
That's all you need.
Exactly.
I like the, I don't like this.
I find great irony in the reviews.
A work of comic genius, says the New Yorker.
It says, darkly humorous and deadly serious, says the Washington Post.
And my favorite, somehow hilarious in a way that only EGE could have written.
Oprah magazine.
So this individual, apparently in the courtroom to a certain jurors here, has come across credible enough that this decision could come down.
But no checks are being written today, and this has got to go to appeal.
It's a great news story for the left.
That's exactly what it is.
And that's why they're pushing it.
And they're having her do this.
To me, this is deeply concerning to think that somebody can accuse you of doing something from 1996 and get $83.3 million.
Do you know how many women are sitting around saying, ching, chin, Fantastic.
Perfect opportunity for me to do something.
Let me go accuse XYZ.
How many people are going to be targeted?
Now what do you do?
Yeah.
And here's the thing.
1996, where's the proof?
Can you prove it?
Or it's just, no, no, I just said it and it happened.
Is there footage?
Are there cameras?
1996, I'm almost positive there's no footage.
It's her word against his word and they're going towards her.
That's ridiculous.
That's absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah, well, you don't think there's going to be a sign?
I mean, we saw the thing with Johnny Depp and what's her face, Amber Heard.
That's one win for the guys.
This is the majority is going to be as women because all she has to do is say that he did it.
But the fact that you have money, it's over.
Rob, can you roll back to the top of right here, what you got here?
So I believe, hang on here.
She is a serial accuser because remember, she also accused Les Moonvis of sexually assaulting her in the mid-90s.
Former producer of CBS, the former executive.
Yeah, so let's, so two, at the time she's going after this, two very wealthy media executives.
Do you see some breadcrumbs?
Yeah, by the way, who don't.
Happened in that Les Moonvez uh trial?
I'm searching yeah, what happened with that?
That's i'm really curious.
Les Moonvez is was the biggest name in media in the yeah, 80s and 90s.
About that.
Like listen, i'm not saying that, guys.
He went to court and was also guys, don't.
I'm not saying guys, don't rape.
But Donald Trump and him, like they, with all the money and all the stature, they're out there raping women.
I don't believe it.
Sorry, I don't believe all women, that's just me.
I don't believe it either.
Yeah, by the way, here was Trump's statement.
Um, they asked the court asked, did you, did you ever instruct anyone to hurt miss Carol in your statements?
He said, no, I just want to defend myself, my family and frankly, the presidency.
Donald Trump uh, Carol's team objected again.
Kaplan, who was the lawyer, deemed that everything after no be stricken from the statement, so jurors were ordered to disregard the statement.
In total, Trump's direct and cross testimony lasted about two or three minutes, so Trump took the stand.
Yeah, today you got the.
Of course he got, and I heard his.
Any clip rap or no, no clips.
Here it is Les Moonvis.
She has a habit of claiming that she's been accosted in um uh, very random places, random places.
Les Moonvis was in a hotel elevator.
Oh, give me a break, dude.
That's what it says.
That's what she accused.
Look at her.
Look at her.
You mean to tell me that some of the most richest and most powerful men in the world are just rolling up on you in an elevator and just doing all sorts of weird department stores or department store changing rooms?
Scream, right where you could scream, and anyone who's ever been to a changing room knows that there's four feet away there's somebody that says yes, you have four articles of clothing, five articles of clothing, two articles, it doesn't add up to me and five people standing in the hall saying, honey, how does this look?
Yeah, exactly correct, unbelievable.
I want to know more details here.
So we're seeing, we're seeing this as breaking news.
This happened five minutes ago bbd, but on the surface it just seems what's very interesting about the settlement?
It's not about the rape itself.
It's about him defaming her and ruining her credibility as an advice columnist.
Yeah, you're telling me this woman.
So if you're suffering damages from uh, being defamed right, you have to prove that you are going to lose that money in the future.
You're telling me this woman as a 70 year old advice journalist who's going to make 83.3 million dollars over the course of her 18.3.
Not even that, by the way, that is probably the most important point, because he's not even convicted of rape.
He's convicted of denying the rape and then saying, don't believe this bitch.
And now, because she's been called a liar and a witch, she deserves 65 million dollars in what punitive damages?
So if he, if he, actually was guilty of the rape charges okay, that's one thing, but he didn't do it.
That's not what he is exactly being accused of.
So they're basically accusing him of defending himself, saying, no uh, this bitch lying yep, didn't Vince Mcmahon just getting.
Well, that's a whole other story buddy, why would you bring that?
I mean, it's what, it's the same.
I don't know, was that bad?
No no no, no.
I'm looking at this.
I'm not talking to you.
Which story are you on, Tom I?
I, I hear I go back there and what I was?
Just look at the judge and I was reading that and i'm going, no no, no.
Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled even before the trial.
The Trump benefact defamed Carol.
I'm like I, I really want to see what happens under appeal, because who is judge Lewis Kaplan?
Go to judge Lewis Kaplan.
He's the judge in this court case.
I know, I want to know who he is.
Oh yeah, who's judge Lewis Kaplan?
What's his background?
Yeah oh, his first picture.
No, go back, go back, go back, go back, zoom in, look at that.
You trust that guy.
Yeah, he looks happy.
Holy shit, that's, that's like a.
I trust him.
You know the who that looks like.
That looks like the Penguin from uh, the last Batman played for Colin Farrell yes, but uh maybe, maybe it's not really him, maybe it's a guy that's playing him.
So who is he?
Let's look at his track record.
Go to his uh uh Wikipedia, Leuce Kaplan Harvard, over on the right, and scroll up a little tiny bit.
He's in Southern District of New York, University of Rochester, and then Harvard University law degree.
And he's appointed by Bill Clinton.
Really?
Yeah, right there, too.
There's a little irony.
Imagine that.
Appointed by Bill Clinton.
Weird.
The judge.
Now, if I appoint you, you're just going to go easily.
Are you kidding me?
So Trump gets accused and is paying 83.3.
How much has Clinton sold?
Zero.
Wow.
Wow.
Great find, PBD.
What a fine.
What a nugget.
What a nugget.
Wow.
How much of this do you think Trump's going to end up having to pay?
I think this is going to go to appeal, and we're going to see things about the court case.
We're going to see things about suppressed statements and testimony, how they parse it all down.
And I think we're going to see things about the size of the.
Can this end up at the Supreme Court?
No.
If you study this, this is what you're going to find.
A lot of very big, big awards happen at the episode.
Oh, my God.
Check this out.
Watch this here, Tom.
Watch this here, Tom.
I'm so sorry to interrupt.
Okay, go to other cases he's worked on.
Go to Go Lower, up a little bit.
Right there, Hang on, hang on, right there.
You will not even believe what I just found.
Look at the case you worked on.
Look for all the way in the bottom of miscellaneous, second line.
Miscellaneous.
2021, 2022.
He was, Kaplan was presiding judge on matter relating towards Virginia Guerfray and Prince Andrew.
Click on that on sexual.
Watch what happens here and what happens to the case.
Click on the, just click on, that's the one.
Click right there.
Zoom in and just go to the top.
Yeah, papa.
Jeffrey Andrew reached, and I was in terms of case was dismissed by the party stipulation in March 2022 without going to trial.
Prince Andrew.
So let me get this straight.
This case, read the top.
Federal court, Virginia, you know who Virginia George, I mean, we just talked about Epstein Island, second son of for sexual assault under court, several sexual encounters with Andrew in the early 2000s at the age of 17 after being sex trafficked by American financier and convicted by sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein, dismissed without going to trial.
Yet Trump's $83.3 million.
Wow.
Wow.
What a freaking fine.
Great find.
That is insane.
All you got to do is dig.
They got some splendid to do.
$83 million.
The big ones you hear about is when asbestos kept getting worse and they ran out of appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court.
And all of a sudden, they're settling and they're writing checks.
And the same thing happened with cigarettes.
You can appeal this and you got to go all the way through the appeals before checks get written.
Trump's going to appeal this.
And you're going to have like multiple angles.
Under appeal, just you have the original case, but guess what also you have?
Was the punitive damages fair or excessive?
Was the actual compensatory damages fair or excessive?
Was the plaintiff correct in the procedurals that they were granted by the court?
Was the defendant correctly handled in the procedurals by the report?
Appeals on this usually end up, by the way, they can settle.
They can settle going forward.
But guess what?
But let me tell you, that's not even the point, Tom.
The point here, what we just found, just by the way, by simply checking who he is, what cases he worked on, you dismiss a case of a guy accused of raping a 17-year-old girl multiple times, but you believe a girl who thinks rape is viewed as sexy and Anderson Cooper goes to commercial because he thinks she's delusional, but you say yes to that.
And then you're appointed by Clinton.
I'm sorry, man.
And this is American Gangster Connect the Dots, and you see where the motive is.
And there is that famous line in the movie, what is that movie with a great actor who I love, who played in, who played in American History X. What's his name?
Edward Norton.
He's playing that movie, Primal Fear, with Richard Gere, and you hear that video when they play the video and they're sitting that VHS drop off.
And they play the clip and it's the pastor, them having sex.
And the other lawyer says, motive, there's motive.
Motive.
The motive is linked. to Clinton, to Epstein, protecting the enemy, protecting the bad guy, and going after the good guy.
This is why America doesn't trust you.
By the way, Kamala Harris said something the other day.
She says she's worried.
You found this video.
Have you given it to him or not yet?
I gave it to him.
The video.
Watch what she says.
She says this, folks.
This is how weird this is.
This is a great find by Vinny.
If you can find this clip, Rob, that Vinny sent Vinny, tell us what the context of the end of it is.
And this is when you need to listen to Kamala because she's not cackling.
Okay.
These are watch it first.
Let's watch it first.
She's not cackling like a hyena.
Listen.
Make it bigger.
There you go.
Go for it.
November of 2024, binary.
And on the other side, you've got someone who has said that if he were back in office, he would weaponize the Department of Justice.
Someone with a straight look on her face.
Openly insurrectionists as patriots.
Someone who has said that will probably go after their political enemies.
Look at the four points.
Applauds dictators, indicating that he would be one.
So let's be really clear about what's at stake.
And then, yes, of course.
There is then a desire that let's get out there because we can't lose sight of democracy.
Use the DOJ against him.
But say that he's going to do it to us.
She said literally every single thing that the Biden administration is doing for the past four years.
And the fact you got to always pay attention when she's not laughing like a freaking moron.
She's like really trying to hit it home.
It's like, are people dumb?
Are you guys believing this absolute cackling hyena with zero zero?
She is the worst, one of the worst vice presidents, along with the worst presidents in the history of this country.
And nobody says anything.
It's unbelievable, bro.
Unbelievable.
Rob, what's Kamala Harris' approval ratings at this point?
I think it's even worse than Biden's.
And Biden's is, I think, hovering below 5% at this point.
Moron.
Rob, can you find that?
Yeah, her approval rating is 37%.
Worse than Trump's.
And you know, you know what I mean?
Biden pisses me off, Adam.
That 37%.
Who the hell are they?
Who are you?
They're just BI Dems.
Vinny, it ceases to amaze me how you still don't understand that half the country is Democrat and half the country is Republican either way.
That's not the point.
You're missing the point.
What I'm saying is, I get that point.
My point is, how dumb do you have to be like, no, she's doing a great job.
At what point?
I wouldn't say dumb.
I would just say fixed to your side and not willing to change.
I think it's cool.
But here's what I will say.
They're dumb.
And I took some heat over this from the first time around.
I said, I'm not really worried about Biden not making it through his first term.
Byron, your Dell, you buddy, by the way, you're going to owe me some money when he finishes his first time.
But I am genuinely worried about Biden finishing his second term.
And, you know, the whole fear of, oh, Kamala Harris is going to be president.
That wasn't something that concerned me in 2020.
That is a major concern in 2024.
Major concerns.
Why is it a concern to you if right now you're seeing that Joe Biden, this isn't a joke.
I'm not being funny.
I'm being dead serious.
He makes zero decisions.
If you could look at Joe Biden right now and say that he actually goes, all right, guys, come in.
You're like Trump, like a boss.
Absolutely not.
So, what would it change?
Because whoever they are, every time he says, They, Rob, they told me this, it's going to be the same they telling her dumbass to say the same shit.
He can't even speak English anymore.
Well, let's just hope that it's not her.
No, but what does it matter to you?
Adam, at least you could, at least she could laugh and talk.
Bingo, Adam Bingo.
It's not her writing these cards.
It's not her making the decision.
Yeah, it's they.
It's they.
She, no, it's, it's not they.
It is the Biden administration that are carrying the party line.
And we've seen it over and over again.
If you really need to get out from under something, what do you do?
You accuse the other side of what you're already doing.
And she's reading off three by five cards or other notes stating he wants to weaponize the Department of Justice.
That is exactly what they've done.
We have evidence of that.
We can see it.
And so this to me is not surprising.
And she, I don't find her to be a capable vice president by performance or by you know qualifications.
But I step aside from like, you know, picking on any of her personality traits.
I don't need to.
Can we for a moment like take a break from all this divisiveness and appreciate one of the greatest quotes of all time that will forever be written about and quoted by some of the greatest philosophers and leaders forever.
Okay.
Right here.
Listen to what the president says.
Life-changing quote.
Guys, whatever you do, put everything down because you're going to recite this quote to your kids tonight.
Probably to your wife, to your friend.
Maybe this week when you're preparing for your Monday speech at your employees and you're trying to say something to move them, you're going to use this quote.
Go ahead and play this, Rob.
We'll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson.
Don't mess with the men in America unless you want to get the benefit.
No, Listen, for even my Democratic friends out there, he did not speak English on that.
If it's okay with you, can we please?
Because I listen that he said.
You want to listen that and slow money?
I understood fully what he said.
Can we do that in a half speed?
For me, I have a dream.
Just wanted to say that.
Can I say one thing?
Could we hear it one more time?
And then understand this.
Nobody knows what he said, but the audience.
Look at how brainwashed it is.
We love it.
Play that again.
But can we please do it at 0.5 or 0.75?
Yeah, Rob, slow it down a little bit.
Yeah, it's perfect.
We'll teach Donald Trump a valuable lesson.
Don't mess with the men in America unless you want to get the benefit.
Yeah!
By the way, don't mess with the women in America unless you want to get the benefit.
We have one that might even be better.
Rob, where you find Biden at the brewery yesterday.
Oh, you're already.
Oh, you already have this?
30-hour final.
Oh, Earth Rider.
Thanks for the Great Lakes.
I wonder why you're saying that.
What are you laughing at, bro?
I want that audience when I do stand-up.
You laugh at anything.
Any idea what he just said?
And by the way, all of his advisors are on the right, and he walks to the left and starts milling around the brewing equipment.
What's wrong with that?
Maybe he's going for a walk by himself to kind of reflect and reminisce of what it used to be.
You know what it is?
He's that drunk grandfather that you have that you never know what he's going to say.
You're always like on eggshells, like with Blinken.
Remember when Blinken was in the audience?
And they're like, she is a genius.
He's a dictator.
Well, he is.
Blinken was like, oh, shit.
I told you not.
Oh, Grandpa Joe.
I mean, look, he's a gaff machine.
There's no denying that.
He's the one who's going to go.
He's the goat, though, guys.
One day you're going to be quoting him and you'll see.
He's the goat.
We have to give him the proper respect that he deserves.
Let's go to the next story.
Watch this one here.
So, kind of weird.
Nikki Haley, a Republican, poll comes out.
70% of Nikki Haley's New Hampshire voters are not registered Republicans.
Okay.
Weird.
Very weird.
So her policies are so powerful and amazing that Democrats are in love with her.
Think about how amazing you are.
You got to be that former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley can attribute her competitive performance in Tuesday night's New Hampshire primary almost entirely to voters outside her own party.
Exit independent to vote for Haley.
Exit poll suggests the state opens primary model allowed record number of Democrats and independents to vote for Haley, an illomen for future performance with their own party.
Former President Trump Handley won New Hampshire on Tuesday night, 54-something percent.
According to CNN's exit poll, seven in 10 Granite State residents who backed Haley were registered undeclared prior to Tuesday.
Only 27% of her supporters were registered Republicans.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump's base was exactly the opposite, 70% Republicans, 27% undeclared.
What do you think happened here, Tom?
You think Dems are just saying that they wanted to come out because they like her policies or anything to beat Trump?
Well, I think it was anything to beat Trump.
And I think that there's a couple of stories we'll get to in here in due time about who is supporting her and what they're trying to do.
This is an effort here to basically use her as a wedge to ensure maybe Trump didn't win or to cast out.
And what it all made sense to me if I just change the story a little bit, 70% of establishment candidate Nikki Haley's voters are not registered Republicans.
Then suddenly it all makes sense.
When I just add the words establishment candidate, then it all comes home to roost.
And I think the people that are behind her are trying to use her as a divisive wedge candidate.
This isn't Nikki Haley.
This is Ross Perot and Heels being propped up by people who want to wreak havoc with the Republican primary and Donald Trump himself.
Look, she's the classic corporate neocon, you know, independent who's Republican in name only, rhino situation.
She's definitely not a Democrat, and she's definitely not MAGA at this point.
Yet she plays the Democratic card pretty well, obviously, with everything that she talked about with the race baiting and stuff like that, identity politics, gender politics.
Vivek has torn her a new one.
We've seen what happened with that.
She's the anti-Vivek.
Vivek is a disruptor.
He's going to call it like he sees it.
He's not bought and paid for.
The one thing that we know about Nikki Haley is that she's establishment, she's elitist, and she's bought and paid for.
We know that before that she, after she got out of the governorship or before she was the UN, was it Boeing that paid her millions of dollars?
Who was it?
There's a couple of defense contractors defensively Boeing, and she got rid of it.
So yeah, I mean, this is a classic scenario of you don't have money, you don't have money to fund your campaign.
You're not the type of person that's going to get the grassroots support like a Bernie Sanders or an Obama or even a Trump.
So you're going to go to the corporate donors and you're going to say, hey, whatever you need me to do, I'll do whatever you need me to say, I'll say.
Sure, I'll take your 100, 200 million bucks.
And then she's bought and paid for.
This is why her and Vivek, of all candidates, feuded because they're the exact opposite people.
Even on Andrew Schultz's podcast, Vivek went on there and he tore a new one again.
He said, this is what Nikki is.
She's Dick Cheney in Heels.
And I think all the stats are there that she became the director of Boeing in 2019 and stepped down the next year, collecting over 300 grand in cash and stock.
I'm sure she made her that.
But then Trump, I think before that, Trump put her at what, to the head of the UN?
What was her role for Trump campaign?
United Nations.
For Trump administration.
Yeah, she was a United Nations.
She was United Nations.
Okay.
And again, Bobo, what a shout out to the Democrats, Bob.
These guys do not, they stop at nothing, right?
First, Russia, then two impeachments, which were all BS.
COVID comes from China.
This rape defamation cycle, uh, blonde sharing stone-looking chick.
Then, the insurrection, which wasn't an insurrection, wasn't accused for insurrection, 91 counts of whatever, and now the now Nikki Haley.
They don't stop, bro.
What does the Democrats have to do with Nikki Haley?
I'm saying they're backing her, you know, they're behind her.
Well, and specifically, you know, they say in their vote, you know, they say in Iowa, you have to win the evangelical vote, that's how you win it.
Trump just had the best uh results of any primary, maybe ever.
He had 50% of the evangelical, 50% of the uh, of the Iowa caucus vote, which is largely um evangelicals.
In New Hampshire, it's a different crowd, it's the it's the independent, they can go either way crowd, Republican, Democrat.
It's not the Democratic Party that voted for Nikki Haley, it's the vast majority are independents, and no doubt she's this is her last state that she had a chance in.
All right, New Hampshire.
After this, in South Carolina, in her home state, Trump's up big, and Vegas Trump's up big.
She's got a couple more weeks of being involved in the campaign, and then she's done.
She's holding out that Trump gets convicted of something and can't be the president, and she's the last man or woman left standing.
But there's no real push to see her become the president.
I don't know.
Let me read the next stories about Nikki Haley.
So, billionaire LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman stops donating to Haley, okay, and he was big on her, and he's out, okay, so he's not going to be contributing the way he was.
Hoffman had contributed $250,000 to Super PAC, backing Haley, while Sabin had donated $1.7 million to GOP campaigns over three cycles.
Saban emphasized that Haley's candidacy was losing momentum, stating her money is going to dry up.
And these guys are sitting there saying they're probably going to go to Trump or other places.
But Haley campaign lashes out at RNC Ronna McDaniel over a resolution to declare Trump presumptive GOP nominee nominee.
Haley's campaign pushback against Republican National Committee and Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel regarding a draft resolution to declare Donald Trump the presumptive GOP nominee.
Haley spokeswoman, Olio Perez Cubas, firmly stated, who cares what the RNC says?
We'll let millions of Republican voters across the country decide who should be our party nominee, not a bunch of Washington insiders.
She also challenged McDaniel to organize a debate between Trump and Haley.
RNC spokesperson Keith Shippard clarified that such resolutions are initiated by RNC members and will be subject to resolutions committee decisions.
Trump later withdrew his support for her, the resolution emphasizing the importance of winning the nomination through the traditional voting process and promoting party unity.
So, Tom, the issue with her, obviously, we were there when Vive came out and flat out called Ronna McDaniel out and says, you can come out here and resign in front of everybody.
And Nikki Haley is now following his lead.
What happened here, Tom?
Well, it's very simple.
The presumptive nominee, it's kind of like saying you see a woman who's obviously eight-month pregnant, and you say, wow.
Nikki Haley's eight months pregnant.
No, no, no.
Tom.
No, you see a woman.
Can you Google that?
No.
But you'd be in serious.
That's what I'm saying right now.
Let's say you're walking down the street.
You're in the mall and you see a woman who's eight months pregnant.
Two things come to mind.
First, where's Adam?
Second, second, you say, oh, look, unexpected mother.
So what they're saying is, hey, guys, this primary is eight months pregnant, and the baby is Donald Trump.
This thing is done.
So, by the way, and it wasn't just Ronna McDaniel, initiated by RNC members.
What do the members want?
They want to win.
So they want to consolidate what's going on.
They want to put the money behind one force and get after Joe Biden or whoever gets propped up when he falls down the stairs.
That's what they're ready to do.
That's where they're headed.
So, and now Haley wants to go further and further.
Usually, in times like these, we've all said it, and you can go look this up through history.
This is negotiation time.
We are in the middle of negotiation right now.
And this is where candidates who have campaign debts or maybe out over their seas or would like a fee to kind of wrap things up are behind the scenes negotiating saying, hey, look, I got about $3,000 in campaign ad spending I need taken care of.
And we need this.
And this is where those backroom deals are cut to get somebody to roll off.
But what's happening right now is Rhona McDaniel is actually doing her job.
Whether you're part of the people that like her or don't like her, have had very real criticism of her, which is well deserved because they have not been a winning party.
And Vivek is right.
But whether you agree with her right now or not, she is actually doing the right thing, saying, hey, look, the RNC members are voting.
He's the nominee.
We're an eight-month pregnant here.
It's time to get on to the next stage, which is winning this thing.
Who's pregnant?
Who's eight months pregnant?
By the way, you drop rumors like that.
Tomorrow you see inquiries saying Nikki Haley is eight months pregnant and pregnant by Adam Seid.
I think very well.
No, that was a girl at the mall.
But this is, no, I mean, eight-month pregnant is a bad metaphor on my part, and it's clumsy talk.
Tom, it's fine.
You'll make up for it later.
But here's the bottom line, by the way.
But it's about over, and they want to focus their energies at winning.
Look at the numbers, guys.
Who's ahead in South Carolina?
That's the next primary.
Trump's at what?
62%.
And she's at where?
20%.
If you scroll down a little bit, you'll see the number, Rob.
She's at 30.
She's at 30 in South Carolina?
29.3.
29.
Okay.
That's just in South Carolina.
Guys, that's her state.
There's one state where she's like, yo, what up, Nikki in the house?
It's her state.
It's kind of like Ron DeSantis fumbling Florida.
So if you go to the national polls, if you could just scroll back out here.
I miss Ron.
62 to 29.
What was it?
69 to what?
29?
Yeah.
Still a 30-plus point lead.
How about this one?
National polls.
Trump's at 70.
70.
And surging.
Before Ron DeSantis dropped out, he was at like 60.
Now he's at 70.
She's where?
She's never broken 15.
What number is she at, Rob?
14.
She's at 14.
Exactly.
So listen, guys, this is game's over.
There's Hail Mary stuff going on.
Nikki's trying to be eight-month pregnant, trying to be the president.
Whatever Tom's analogy was, I don't get it.
But Trump's the nominee.
Everybody pregnant up in Birmingham.
Everybody's pregnant.
Trump's everybody's daddy.
Where's Ron?
I miss Ron.
Trump's everybody's daddy is the bottom line.
All right, so let's go to the next story here with Texas.
Greg Abbott urged to fully militarize Texas State Guard to counter Biden, a newsweek story.
Okay, this is not looking good.
Rob, if you can pull up the tweet with what letter he put that went viral, he wrote it himself because it's pretty strange what the White House is doing, and they're not helping Abbott out here.
So Daniel Miller, president of Texas National Movement, the TNM, has urged Governor Greg Abbott to significantly expand and fully militarize the Texas State Guard if President Biden federalizes the Texas National Guard amid the border crisis.
Miller stated if Biden federalizes the Texas National Guard, Greg Abbott should immediately throw enlistment in Texas State Guard wide open, fully militarize them and deploy them as border protection force along the entire border.
The Texas State Guard, which currently comprises around 1,900 personnel, could potentially serve as an alternative border protection force as it cannot be federalized by law and remains under the sole authority of the government of Texas.
In contrast, the Texas National Guard with roughly 23,000 personnel could be federalized.
So this is Abbott responding.
Rob, if you can't zoom in a little bit.
So federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the states, the executive branch of the United States has constitutionally duty to enforce federal laws protecting states, including immigration laws, on the books right now.
Biden has refused to enclose those laws and has even violated them.
Result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration despite having put a notice on a series of letters, one of which I delivered to him by hand.
President Biden has ignored Texas's demand that he has performed his constitutional duties.
President Biden has violated his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress instead of prosecuting immigrants for federal crime or of illegal entry.
President Biden has sent his lawyers into federal courts to sue Texas for taking action to secure the border.
Number two, President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants.
The effect is illegal, illegally allowed their en masse parole into the United States by wasting taxpayer dollars to tear open Texas border security infrastructure.
President Biden has enticed illegal immigrants away from the 28 legally entry points along the state's southern border bridges where nobody drowns.
And by the way, if you watch this video, and before we play this video, Vinny, can you give us a little bit of context on who this person is in the video that's crossing a border?
Okay, and Peka, just really fast, like shout out to the governor of Texas.
Finally, steps up.
It's about time.
It is a little bit too late.
But yo, if you got a problem about that, yo, you're the problem.
Okay, because think about it.
Texas is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't.
All right.
First of all, they've been wanting to open border for this past four years, right?
Then the governor's like, you know what?
We have too much of an influx.
I'm going to start shipping these people to the sanctuary cities, to Martha's Vineyard, to New York, all these places.
And what the people now, we're looking at what's happening.
Now, when he's trying to put up a barbed wire, think about this.
The president's administration, the government, is saying, how dare you try to protect yourself?
We want this influx of people to keep coming in.
All right.
And Pat, if you don't mind, can I just say that the study?
The Yale University released a study by three researchers saying that the number of illegals isn't 10.
It ain't 12.
It's 22 million illegals are here.
Okay.
And now the Democrats are pushing for them to become citizens to vote.
Remember last week with AOC, she said, why don't we just, you know, how you solve it?
Just give them all citizenship.
Give them a path to citizenship.
That was on the Daily Show.
Right.
That would add to our voter roll 22 million permanent electoral majority voters.
Okay.
And that would, that's what this entire thing is about.
I want everybody to know this.
It's not about humanitarianism.
It's not about AOC next to the fence and bullshitting you, trying to lie like they care about these people.
It's votes.
That's all it is.
Okay.
And now, just to give you guys a heads up, remember I said this that all these terrorists that we caught 165.
Here's a video that Rob's going to play of a Middle Eastern guy.
And I could tell he's Middle Eastern because I'm Middle Eastern.
I could tell from the accent.
Look what he's saying.
His name is Movzam.
This is what they're saying.
Movzam Samadov.
He's the leader of the Islamic terrorist group from Azerbaijan Islamic Party.
He's a convicted terrorist and arms dealer.
People are saying this is him.
They put a picture next to him.
It looks exactly like him.
And look at what he says coming into our border in Texas about what he's going to do to America.
Go ahead, Rob.
Are you going to take where I'm from by force?
No?
So these are the people that, these are the people that, these are the people that are breaking into your country folks.
Ready for his attitude?
Ready for this.
That's amazing.
These are the people right here.
That kind of attitude.
Let me see you.
I need to protect my family.
So you see, there you go.
Watch.
So there you go.
These are the people that are in the midst of the ones laughing.
You didn't know why.
Very easy to find my face, by the way.
If you are smart enough, you will know who I am.
Look, but you are really not smart enough to know who I am.
But soon you're going to know who I am.
What?
Wow.
Who is this guy?
Google his name and put it right next to the video.
Okay.
And can we see his face?
Mavzam Samadov.
And here's the thing, guys.
Regardless, that's the guy.
That's him.
Now, let me say something to everybody up there.
When somebody is saying to you, dude, I got goosebumps.
Soon you will know who I am and who the hell my name is.
Do you think the FBI is looking for this guy?
Absolutely not.
And that's another layer on top of this.
They want all these votes and they let these people in.
God knows because they know.
They give them cell phones.
They give them money.
What if, God forbid?
This is all a plan where they go, okay, we want you to do this.
Let me ask you a couple questions.
Where is this guy from?
Allegedly.
He's Azerbaijan.
Yeah.
He's from East.
And that's in.
They call them crossing the border, right?
The Texas border that our government, yes, is fighting to...
So let me ask, leave Azerbaijan when you're crossing the border.
Where is Azerbaijan in Latin America?
Is that near Colombia?
Is that near?
Actually, Adam, it's in Guatemala?
Where is Azerbaijan again?
That's on the other side of the world currently.
It's security in Armenia.
Benny, where's Azerbaijan?
The border is Armenia.
And Azerbaijan is fighting Armenia and they're doing a genocide.
Hold on, can you pull that?
Yeah.
So it's not even in Latin America.
No, God.
No, no, Adam.
So Azerbaijan is in the Middle East, in Europe, everywhere.
100%.
So why would a guy from Azerbaijan be crossing through the Mexican border, Vinny?
And I'll tell you why, Adam.
Please explain it.
I'll tell you why, especially with that attitude, because he wants to cause harm and death to this effing country.
And that's why I am so pro what Governor Abbott is doing.
God bless him.
And bro, finally, the people are stepping up, bro.
Remember, I said this.
There's no left.
There's no right.
It's them against us.
And shame on the government for stopping them from protecting their border.
Like, bitch, this isn't happening in Washington.
Correct.
The people of Texas, dude, they're fed up with the bullshit.
What are we talking about?
Benny, obviously I was being sarcastic.
I know you were.
I know.
But here's where I want to back you up on, all right, bro?
I think it was being serious.
Yeah.
There's one thing for AOC to see, oh, these migrants, they're coming through, you know, as kids.
You know, they're looking for a better life.
Why the hell are Middle Eastern literal terrorists crossing the freaking border?
Explain this to me.
Explain it to me.
The people at the border.
And mind you, we caught 160 people.
Explain that.
No, there is no explanation.
Exactly.
And so, and here's my thing.
If God forbid this piece of shit does something and kills Americans, I'm telling you right now, Majorkis and all these guys, they're not going to be, but the American people, we have to hold these pieces of trust.
Aren't they trying to impeach Majorkis?
Adam, trying, just like Fauci, just like Fauci, who right now is retired, but guess what he has?
Secret Service protection.
Diplomatic immunity.
Our tax dollars are protecting that little rat because he knows he did his birth.
This guy was the head of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan who served 12 years in prison and was released January of 2023.
Go to his Wikipedia, Rob.
Let's learn about him a little bit.
What are the chances that this was the guy at the moment?
I think it is highly likely.
Very close.
Very close.
Can you show them?
Let's go let the audience see what they're saying.
And Adam, this is very concerned.
These aren't just innocent Guatemalan guys just trying to escape poverty here.
And Adam, why the hell are people from Azerbaijan crossing the Mexican border?
And Adam, even get ready to go.
Robin, even the one I just sent you.
And even if it's not him, guess what?
That threat?
That's a threat from a guy from the Middle East.
Are you effing kidding me?
And guess what we're going to say if he does something?
There's a failure of intelligence.
Again, they're going to say failure of intelligence.
Bullshit.
That's the intelligence.
How have they not tracked his ass down and be like, who the hell are you?
Why are you in the country right now?
Adam, you know why?
Because they're going after nanas that were at January 6th still.
The FBI is too busy to worry about this.
Zoom in this thing.
Does that look like him?
Pretty cool.
Going to the left.
That's, to me, that's it.
I mean, that's pretty damn similar.
But obviously on the right, he looks more tanned because he's been crossing the border.
Yeah.
In the sun.
And again, regardless of if it's this guy, the threat, the threat of soon you will know who I am means he's going to do something that's going to give him notoriety.
And what do you think it's going to be?
He's going to open up a Starbucks?
No, he wants to blow shit.
He's not that guy.
Why is this guy crossing the border anyway?
Because it's wide open.
Azerbaijan isn't right below Texas.
Exactly.
Adam, because Adam, guess what?
Because if you're a terrorist, you want to do harm, guess what?
All you have to do is turn on the news, wide open border, wide open.
It's disgusting.
I mean, shout out to Texas.
I love it.
The border is so complicated, but it does.
I would always wonder, why don't the states do something about it if the federal government wouldn't do something about it?
Like, oh, it's federal territory.
It's like, but the states also.
Hey, we got one last story to do.
We want to do the Charlemagne story.
Let's go ahead and do that.
Okay, so you want to play the clip first?
It's going to come and I'll show it right now.
So Leonard McKelvey, you guys all know him as Charlemagne, and I refuse to call him or any other man God for that reason.
His name is Leonard.
He was recently on Piers Morgan and the Breakfast Club and they were talking about Trump and his odds.
You could already tell his attitude because say what you want.
Leonard, Charlemagne, you guys can call him that.
He has Trump derangement syndrome 100%.
Piers is talking about Trump.
And then I sent you the link, Rob, on Slack.
This is what Charlemagne the God says about our amazing United States of America.
Back he's making.
Nobody thought he could do that.
Talk about Trump.
After the stolen election bullshit, after the January 6th riots, all that stuff, after the 91 criminal charges, did anyone really think we'd be in a position where Trump had a landslide win in Iowa and is now in most polls I'm looking at, likely to beat Biden if he does end up as candidate?
I mean, it's an incredible comeback.
Well, it's something we say all the time, right?
We know that America systemically, structurally, is a racist country.
And I think we know.
Hold on, we know.
I'm not going to ask you about in Trump 2016 after you win.
I can understand the case for optimism, right?
Nobody wants to see this country fall.
But it's 2024 now.
Based on everything we've seen Trump do, all of the things you just said, the attempted court of the country, the nice temporary charges.
You still think he should be president?
You can pause that.
By the way, listen to what he said.
Leonard said, we all know, not I think, not my opinion.
We all know, you, me, everybody here, that this country is systemically and what else is structurally racist.
Now, here's my question.
What can't you do, okay, that a white person can't do?
Doctor, astronaut, president of the United States, two terms.
I hate this attitude.
And this is going back to what you always say.
What he's doing is not only divisive, but he's instilling victimhood mentality into the young black youth, youth, minority in general, saying, you know what?
You can't do something because something is holding you back, which I think is bullshit.
And by the way, how he's a walking, talking contradiction.
He wrote a book, his book, guess what the book is actually called?
Black Privilege, Opportunity to Come to Those Who Create It.
So wait, if there's black privilege, an opportunity comes to those who create it, and yet everything's structurally racist.
And how did you make it?
How did you, did you slip through the cracks?
I don't get it.
These people are making all, they're killing and they're making money because everybody, it's a victimhood mentality and that's how they make their money.
But then Rob, I think he should write a different book.
And I actually wrote it, Pat.
You actually, I think he should write it.
It should be called A Word from the God, How to Become Filthy Rich in the Most Racist Place in History.
That's what I think that he should have his book.
But it's like, what do you think?
I think it's ridiculous that this attitude of we're racist.
And guys, at the end of the day, there's racist people in this country, just like there's pedophiles over here, and there's bad people over here, and there's crooks over here.
It's not what they say it is and how bad it is.
And I think it's ridiculous and it's not helping the youth if you're setting into their brains that everybody's racist, the system is against you, and you can't do anything.
Do you think percentage-wise, percentage-wise, Tom?
And this goes to everybody, I want you to think about this before you answer it.
You put all the total, put total amount of white people in America, total white population in America.
What is the number?
Total white population in America.
And then look at the total black population in America.
Is there like a number what that number is?
White population?
Is that what it is?
That's the white population.
Let's just say it is 251.
Okay, and then go to black population America.
Total black population in America.
Total black population in America.
Okay.
What is that?
What number do you?
I see 41.6 million.
14% is what it's hovered around.
13.14%.
41.6 million black.
251 million.
26.
Yeah.
What do you call it?
251 million white.
Okay.
What percentage of which one has more races towards the other color?
Are there more white racists towards black or more blacks racist towards white?
Let me ask the question one more time.
Are there more white people who hate blacks or are there more black people who hate whites?
Percentage-wise.
I think right now it's more black people racist towards whites because the numbers of the white is way more.
I think right now, black people really, really hate white people.
Okay.
So, I mean, listen, you can answer that whatever way you want, right?
A person watching this, you're like, there's no way in the world there's going to be more.
There's probably going to be physically more whites towards black because America is a white.
It's a 60% white.
It's like saying, is there more Middle Easterns than white?
No, this is America.
It's more whites than there's going to be blacks.
But the argument he's making, the way he's saying it, is why America has the problem that he has.
He's successful.
The best ever clip I ever saw was Don Lemon and Morgan Freeman.
Rob, if you can pull this clip up if you have it or not, it's by far the best clip ever.
What America needs more today is way more of what Morgan Freeman said and way less that America is a racist nation from blacks that are multi-multi-millionaires.
And by the way, we all had a past.
This guy used to sell cocaine and wheat in a past.
You can look at his Wikipedia.
That's what his background says.
No judgment towards you.
I have also a past.
We all have a pass.
But America forgave you and you got an incredible life now.
Play this clip real quick and you tell me which one is going to bring us more together and which one's going to divide us more.
Go ahead, Rob.
Because you called it bull when you said people can't, you know, pull themselves up.
Do you think that race plays a part in wealth distribution or either a mindset that you can't or cannot?
Yeah.
No.
You don't.
No, I don't.
I don't.
Look at us.
You and I. We're proof.
Why would race have anything to do with it?
Stick it, put your mind to what you want to do and go for that.
It's kind of like religion to me.
It's a good excuse for not getting there.
Yeah.
You know, I said, it's probably getting me in trouble, but I said to some of my colleagues recently, so I know that it's an issue, but I've been, it seems like every single day on television I'm talking about race and it's because of the news cycle.
It's in the news.
But sometimes I get so tired of talking about it.
I want to watch.
I want to just go, this is over.
Can we move on?
And if you talk about it, it exists.
Right.
Yeah.
It's not like it exists and we refuse to talk about it.
But making it a bigger issue than it needs to be is a problem we have.
And it's the same.
It's almost the same one that he had, Rob.
Who's the other interviewer?
The Jewish guy that was interviewing him?
And he's like, I don't want a Black History Month.
This is Morgan Freeman.
He goes, I don't want a Black History Month.
And he goes, he goes, then the guy goes, well, I'm Jewish.
He goes, then when's Jewish History Month?
He goes, there isn't one.
He goes, okay, then I'll stop calling you.
You know what?
This is it right here.
You find ridiculous.
What?
You're going to relegate my history to a month?
Oh, come on.
What do you do with yours?
Which month is life history month?
Come on.
I'm Jewish.
Okay.
Which month is Jewish history month?
There isn't one.
Oh, oh, why not?
Do you want one?
No, no, no.
I don't either.
Beautiful.
I don't want a Black History month.
Black History is American history.
Bingo.
How are we going to get rid of racism and stop talking about it?
How long ago is this?
I'm going to stop calling you a white man.
Yeah.
And I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
I know you as Mike Wallace.
You know me.
How beautiful.
How amazing.
You see, but here's all it is.
There's AI technology that you can take different speeches and put it there and see which one has a higher level of consciousness.
Okay.
This one's going to get such a higher level of consciousness of a score than Charlemagne's.
Of course.
Because Charlemagne is continuing the problem, and Morgan Freeman is trying to move away from the problem.
Exactly.
Making progress.
Tom, how do you process this yourself?
I process this, you know, every now and then, great writers get it right.
And Cameron Crowe wrote a movie called Almost Famous.
And in the movie, there's this clear scene that depicts the real need to have something to leverage your argument about.
And something had happened to the band, and he said, no, no, no.
You need this situation.
This situation gives you permission to say everything you want to say.
And without this situation, we just have to talk.
And that's what Morgan Freeman is saying here.
He's saying, you need this.
It lets you say everything you want to say.
It gives you permission to stay mad.
It gives you permission to not accept a solution that may be good for you because by the situation, if you refuse the solution, you get to stay mad.
And if you stay mad, you get stuff.
And so I think there's a lot of core human truth in what Morgan Freeman said.
And I respect the hell out of him for saying it.
Yeah.
To me, common sense, unity is what we need today, not divisiveness, division.
When Bill Maher and I, I was on the show two days ago, and he said, I believe Newsom is a winner.
And by the way, when you guys watch this, when it comes out, you're going to think two people who have a hard time being in the same room together.
It was very awkward.
You'll see it.
What's the name of it?
What's the name of that?
I don't know what's going on.
Claude Randall.
Claude Randall.
And by the way, he does a lot of good stuff.
But he was smoking weed.
He smoked a couple.
He's doing his thing.
And I'm sitting there and we're having a conversation.
His team was world-class.
Actually, people were very, very, very good people, nice, respectful.
When we spoke, it was kind of weird.
And the audience would make a decision for themselves.
But he said, I think Newsom's a winner.
And I said, based on what?
He says, I don't know.
He's just a good politician.
He gives me vibes of winner.
And I said, based on what, though?
Give me data.
He says, I don't know.
Meaning, we need data.
We need facts.
We need results.
You know, who is doing a good job with numbers, who's not, who's losing people, who's gaining people, why?
Who has more crime?
Who has more homelessness?
Why?
Who's losing more businesses?
Why?
Who's ruining Hollywood?
Why?
All these questions are why.
And then let's stop being divisive and dividing each other against each other constantly.
If we can get more reasonable people, and by the way, I wish Morgan Freeman would do more interviews.
Yeah, he's getting I wish Morgan Freeman would be out there talking more.
But we're coming to the end of the podcast here.
I think you wanted to say something.
I just want to, I mean, look, the key word that we've learned with influencers is influence.
And I love my black friends out there.
This is, you know, I'm not taking shots, but when you, when you, it really depends on the influencers that you listen to.
If you're in the, I'm listening to the Charlemagne camp or the LeBron camp or even the Kanye camp, you're going to have a different mindset.
I wish that more of our friends out there would listen to the Candace Owens of the world, the Larry Elders of the world, the Thomas Soules of the world, because it's a different perspective.
You know, identity politics is real.
They expect all people to vote a certain way.
Charlemagne the God, is there any one thing more antithetical to the American dream as you, as a black man who made it multi-millionaire?
You should be praising America and say, only in America, like James Brown used to say, instead, you want to perpetuate the victim culture and say, how I made it in the most racist country in the world.
In my opinion, go fuck yourself, Charlemagne the God.
Holy moly.
Sounds good.
All right.
So let's wrap this up, guys, with where we're at.
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